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ZRX61 wrote: Sat Aug 02, 2025 1:08 am Couple more:

4mm square scar on forehead from when I was 7. Another kid yelled my name, I turned around & got hit with half a house brick.. Oddly enough right outside his front door as his mum walked out the flat & witnessed it.

1in scar top left of forehead after stopping the propeller on a B25 with my head...

Later that day at Addenbrookes...

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Trinity765 wrote: Sat Aug 02, 2025 8:11 am I've seen my kneecap. It's white. I've a large scar across my left knee following a car crash in Normandy, 1994. I was tottering around after the crash (in somewhat of a dazed state) and someone said "Look at your knee!". I lifted my leg, looked at my knee and said to myself "Do not look at that again" and I didn't.

I've a couple of scars from operations but don't think they count.

Count Steer wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 5:54 pm Can't compete with a monkey bite.

Sunny wrote: Sat Aug 02, 2025 11:49 am I've got a circular scar in the middle of my right shin where it made contact with the metal bar support running around the base of a bus seat.

I was 17 and drunk and the bus stopped unexpectedly just as I'd stood up. I went flying.
The bone underneath has a dent in it

I did have a good one on my elbow from my first bike crash, but it's faded and blurred into the surrounding skin over the years.

millemille wrote: Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:02 pm Oooh, it's the internet version of this...



Where to start?

Scar across the full width of my nose, about 10mm up from the bottom, from a machete attack when I refused a drunk Asian bloke (who turned out to be "someone") entry to a nightclub in Birmingham I was working the door at. 24 stitches to reattach it. That happened in 1993 and put an end to my door work.

Scar under my left eye when I was hit in the face with a baseball bat, which shattered the eye socket, in similar circumstances to above. 1992.

A number of small scars around my left eye from a Stanley knife attack from a bunch of Zulu's who got a flash of my West ham top under my jacket, when I was on the way to West Ham match at Villa Park, and thought I was a Villa fan. Not that I think it would have made any difference if they'd have known it was a West ham top as there was no love lost there either. 1994.

Small puncture wound on my left flank where I was stabbed with a screwdriver by a gang of kids when I was mugged for my mountain bike in FiveWays in Birmingham. Punctured lung as a result. 1996.

A scar across my left index finger 1st knuckle from when I was a Cengar saw (an air powered hack saw) to trim a train interior panel and managed to try and trim my finger at the same time. 1995.

Tip of the same finger is twisted and the nail is deformed from a BSB test session at Brands Hatch when I was working for Enzo DeClimente/Dienza Performance, running Dean Thomas on a Ducati 998, and I managed to trap said finger in the mechanism of the front paddock stand as the bike was got ready to go out. Claret pissing everywhere. Track was closed as an ambulance took me to the medical centre to see Dr Branfoot, BSB's resident doctor (and who later turned out to be a bit of wrong 'un, professionally speaking). Turned out I was his only customer of the day. Broken bits were realigned and a wire put down the bone. That was 2004.

One of my balls is significantly larger than the other because while I was unconscious, having been knocked out in a punch up in a pub in Northern Ireland while in the army, I was drop kicked in the plums and one of my balls was ruptured. That was 1989.

Numerous scars from many, many motorbike crashes.