I dunno, it's missing someone coming in and telling us we don't know anything about injuries and that other people have better ones.

This has taken "hijack" to a new level. I have to say that my injuries pale in comparison to most of these. There was the time when I was going to teach my dog a "lesson". He got away from me in the back yard - infuriating me because he would not mind. I made a dive for the leash and snapped the bone that holds by thumb to the rest of my hand. My wife almost laughed at me. Then there was the time that I was going to stick my Scout Pocketknife into a tree like Daniel Boone. It just folded up on impact and sliced my index finger wide open. In the same vein, I was in Scouts one day and one of the other guys brought in a 13 blade Swiss Knife. I had never seen one and thought it was so cool that I would open all 13 blades at once. The 5th blade that I opened was the main blade. The sixth blade that I opened caused me to slice my middle finger wide open on the 5th blade.

So no terrible injuries - just kinda comical.

Scars make better stories than tattoos, or so I've heard. Though, I've got a few scars that I wouldn't mind trading for a tat.

Scott

How about a scar tattoo?

Self inflicted scars don't count. They're like press-on tattoos.

Well, it wasn't precisely self-inflicted. The tattoo artist did the damage. Partial credit?

Let's say it was "willfull" so it lacks a "real story". Kinda hard to say...."I got run over by a combine on the farm and ended up with a scar that looks like birds and bamboo chutes".

Gotta say, I just don't get it.

Maybe that makes me old, but where will it end? Next generation: Limb removal to show you're cool?

To be fair, some nasty "real" scars are the result of drinking, and enough people blame their tattoos on the same thing.