Bedridden 'Guitar Hero' to make full recovery
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ Aug 21st 2006 at 6:25PM }
An Omaha man, known simply as Jimmy, reports he will soon be walking again after a botched guitar toss during his "Texas Flood" solo on July 3 left him with a broken knee. To clarify, Jimmy isn't in a Stevie Ray Vaughan cover band, he's just a Guitar Hero addict.Catch up on his freakish accident (read: ogle gruesome surgical pics) on his website, guitarherobrokemyknee.com, where Jimmy writes, "Against the urging of my mother I plan to practice and return to Guitar Hero as the champion of my neighborhood."
Anyone got a video game scar that tops this?
[Thanks, Dan]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Imadogg @ Aug 21st 2006 6:29PM
"Anyone got a video game scar that tops this?"
No.
I once got angry at The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time though, and hurt myself dishing out the pain onto the floor.
otakucode @ Aug 21st 2006 6:42PM
Hehe, I have a picture of a guy with a very large kitchen knife through his neck. It was caused shortly after the release of Final Fantasy X because a 19 year olds step-dad forced him to stop playing so that the dad could have a go at it. I don't think I should post the graphic online as it was acquired from a relative who treated the man in the emergency room. Amazingly, it was one of those cases where no arteries were nicked or anything, there was very little blood, and the guy left the hospital after only a few hours. The step-son went to jail, of course.
Dr.Swiss @ Aug 21st 2006 6:44PM
@ 2.
I'm glad the idiot went to jail.
TC @ Aug 21st 2006 6:49PM
@2
When he plunged the knife into his step-dad's neck did he get the "Da da da daah dah da da dah!" Final Fantasy victory music to play?
starkdesign @ Aug 21st 2006 6:56PM
nice expletive above the blonde's strumming switch...
BIKEAGE @ Aug 21st 2006 7:01PM
I've got a scar on my eyebrow, my friend tried to spin the guitar behind his back. It hit me in the face.
weamdabest @ Aug 21st 2006 7:02PM
In the beginning of July, I awoke in my cottage, and wanted to head out to the deck to play some Metroid Prime Hunters, and as I was walking through the doorway to my room to get the good ol' DS, I tripped, broke my ankle, and have been on crutches since then.
Tim @ Aug 21st 2006 7:06PM
@4
You are awesome. It's comments like this that keep me reading the comment section.
cringer8 @ Aug 21st 2006 7:36PM
I have scars on my hands from third degree burns I got when I tried to move my 360 after playing for an hour.
I also lost a finger to an ejecting UMD.
Oh, and my latest scar came at E3 when I hit myself in the forehead with a Wii-mote.
hoop @ Aug 21st 2006 7:36PM
When I was eight my family had just moved to the States from England, and my parents had bought me a Nintendo to dull the sting of relocation (and, I assume, to assuage their guilt in uprooting me).
My sister, wanting to explore our new bailiwick, told me to get off my duff and head out with her. Entranced and ensconced by the sights and sounds of my little machine, I refused.
She kicked me in the chest and broke my rib.
I cried for ten minutes, finished playing River City Ransom ("BARF!"), and had my dad take me to the hospital.
I got Punch Out! the following week. Oh, the irony.
Joe @ Aug 21st 2006 7:47PM
No scars... but I finally beat Bark at the Moon on Hard today! It took 7 tries where I stopped at 13%, but I just hit a streak and managed to make it.
Matt @ Aug 21st 2006 7:59PM
"I also lost a finger to an ejecting UMD."
If that's not a joke, then that really is horrible...and we'd have a winner!(If that guy with the knife in his neck was worse than he'd be the winner). I can't believe we're having a contest to see the person with the worst injury. I feel like a bad man...a very bad man.
Grindstone @ Aug 21st 2006 8:06PM
I don't have a scar from gaming, but I can add to this story.
In the late summer of `93, I was at the top of my game with SFII on the SNES. Until a mouthy 9 year old decided to take me on, or visa versa. To this day, I still hate Chun Li, because he used her repeated to thwart my tactics. Plus, he was a loud mouth braggart. So naturally, at the end of the umpteenth match, his mouth was getting so loud and atrocious, that I did what any God-fearing moralistic man would do, I inserted my controller into his mouth. "Inserted" maybe a little weak for what I did, but my attorney says it is the best word to use in this circumstance.
Anyway, I guess it didn't fit too well as I managed to knock out his front tooth in the process. Needless to say, as he ran for his mommy, I felt a sincere calm come over me. But, I never had a problem with him mouthing off ever again.
In some regards, XBL is a God-send to many underage players, as the dental industry would have a considerable boon in their market share if we still played games face-to-face. But if we ever meet in person, you had better be already emotionally detached from your incisors. YOU FEEL ME YOU LITTLE SONSABITCHES!!?!?!?!1!
Damn, I'd better call my psych doc again.
Player1 @ Aug 21st 2006 8:13PM
I stuck my finger in a router (the powertool) once but I didn't make a website about it and write letters to Black & Decker. I'm starting to miss the N64 kid.
Dr.Swiss @ Aug 21st 2006 9:30PM
He is nothing like the N64 kid.
There will not be an ebay site selling his guitar.
There will not be countless *igga stole my guitar on ytmnd.
There will not be any internet spoofs about this kid what-so-ever anywhere.
There will be no one talking about him a month from now, only archived along with the other countless "look at me a-lol a-lol" sites at the very back of the information warehouse known as the internet.
In a month from now he will only start to feel the emotion known as regret for paying a years subscription for his domain name.
Satt @ Aug 21st 2006 9:31PM
Wait, Texas Flood made him do it!?! I beat the first try it is nothing compared to bark at the moon.
pockyninja @ Aug 21st 2006 10:12PM
Mario Party 64 Stigmata.
Bryan @ Aug 21st 2006 10:22PM
I have a big (still) mental, horrible, emotional scar from when (spoiler) Sephiroth killed Aeris...
(I Kid...kinda), but, my worst accident probably came around the ole' SNES era.
The Game: Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball (one of my all-time favs).
I hit a walk-off homerun against my dad (I was probably 7 or 8 this year), and got some happy, I jumped on my bed, hit the roof, and then woke up several hours later...I got a "mild" concussion.
Oh, it was worth it though.
Grimm @ Aug 21st 2006 10:24PM
I once tossed a dreamcast copy of Tony Hawk 2 at the wall. It snapped into several pieces and when I picked them up I stabbed my hand with a jagged edge. CDs can be used as weapons kids!
ThrashinGreco @ Aug 21st 2006 10:30PM
So we're talkin scars are we? well heres one.
Back in the day, my cousin got a SNES. One of the games he got with it was Mortal Kombat 3 Ultimate. He challenged me, I gladly accepted and continued to massacre him round after round after round. See, my cousin, hes a thrower. In his rage, he turned around and threw the control at the wall. He threw it with enough force for the control to pull the SNES of the dresser, which then landed on his head. It opened him up, and he was bleedin for a while.
... But you know what, he has never thrown a video game control since.
cringer8 @ Aug 21st 2006 10:50PM
I hope Guitar Hero inspires people to learn how to play a *real* guitar. It's much more work than playing a video game, but it can be much more rewarding (just look at the legends they emulate playing the game).
HotShotX @ Aug 21st 2006 10:52PM
So, why isn't Jack Thompson all over this kid?
OMFG VIDEO GAME DO BAD! HURT KID! LAWSUIT GIVEMEMONEYS OKTHXBAI!
~HotShotX
Rare Hare @ Aug 21st 2006 10:52PM
I was recently playing a game of Smackdown vs. Raw with a couple of friends. One friend was sitting in a rolling computer chair.
If I remember correctly, the one in the rolling chair eliminated my other friend in some crappy, cheap manner. The defeated friend reahced out and shoved the victor in the chest, and he fell backwards in the chair and toppled onto the floor.
No one was hurt, but it was damn funny.
Narhan @ Aug 22nd 2006 2:01AM
When I was lad the age of 9 in the cold winter of 98' I decided to stroll down to Toys R' Us to pick up the new Zelda Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64. When I returned home I immidiatetly shoved the cartridge in and began my adventure.
Then once I reached King Dodongo in the hell that is Death Mountain I got excited and stood up on my chair.
Then I leaned over to my right which caused the chair fall over which tossed me into my closet (Full of vacuum cleaners and other swag)and since my hands were still wrapped around the controller I launched the N64 into my mouth.
My head was practically soaked in blood and since I hit the wall hard there was some dried plaster on my face
My dad then rushed upstairs after hearing me scream threw me into his car and we floored it all the way to the ER room.
When I left the hospital I had beaten Pokemon Red, had mouth full of false teeth, bandages across my head, and a broken N64.
I healed eventually. The N64 still held a warranty since we only recently bought it, and since my adult teeth hadn't grown in completely my mouth still has a full set of teeth.
weel @ Aug 22nd 2006 4:06AM
My brother and I were playing Mario Kart: Double Dash at about 3 in the morning, playing the donkey kong race where you jump to the top of the mountain. We're in first and it's the final stretch, I'm riding co-pilot and my brother is driving. We're less than a second from the finish line and bowser flies by us, winning the race and having us start the tourney over again. My brother gets so mad that he stands up and kicks the air really hard, so hard that his entier body thought it was a good idea and decided to join the foot. There was a moment when everything stopped, and my brother floated horizontally in midair for a second before gracefully falling to the hard basement floor, the landing inciting a loud boom echoing throughout the house and waking mother, who appropriately scolded us and sent us to bed. Funny as hell though.
Ross @ Aug 22nd 2006 6:44AM
Nearly breaking my Foot while playing DDR. I didn't step down normally I stepped down and my foot tilted to its side.
Marty @ Aug 22nd 2006 8:08AM
Mario Party!!! There is a reason they released those gloves!!!
qtahbrown @ Aug 22nd 2006 9:39AM
YES DANCE CUTLOOSE FOOTLOOSE
KIKK OFF THOSE ACHEN SHOES!
OOOWEEEE SHow them what u could do
+ don't hurt ya self
Eric @ Aug 22nd 2006 10:43AM
How about the huge disgusting calice on the bottom side of my wrist from dragging it along my desk/mousepad from playing over 1000 hours of Counter-Strike? the thing is the size of a quarter!
Eric @ Aug 22nd 2006 10:44AM
Or how about the time my brother shot an NES cartrige at me and it hit me in the nuts.
Tim @ Aug 22nd 2006 12:57PM
Gotta admit, Mario Party 1 injured me as well. Although I was a bit sad when the following games didn't have mini games where you rotate the stick as fast as possible. It was kind of like a pain tolerance test. And they included warnings in MP2 saying not to rotate your stick too fast in MP1. Yeah right...
Matt @ Aug 22nd 2006 1:40PM
I'd done a crap-ton of level building before going to face Sephiroth one night, back in college. Like, hours. I got to the area before you go to face him and some gamebug kept me from leaving a certain area or saving the game.
I was so pissed I hauled off and slugged the metal closet door in my dorm room AS HARD AS I COULD. Luckily, the thing had enough bounce to save me from breaking any bones, but I had kind of a pathetic story to tell as I despondently made my way back from the ice machine that night.
jason @ Aug 24th 2006 2:15PM
i was playing some ps2 game with my brother, i think red faction or something, but he lost or died or something, and threw his controller back, at the time i was sitting behind him, and not the controller, but the plug part that goes into the system flew back, and gave me a black eye.