Ever fall off a treadmill? (Good story)

When I was 12 I wiped out on a treadmill bad. It was a really nice one and it could go up to 15mph and in my stupidity I turned it up to that. Was doing ok for a short bit (10 seconds maybe) then started to rig up, I tripped but I managed to grab the handles. So there I am having my legs skinned to shit by the belt as I hold on to dear life. Managed to hit the emergency stop, my legs were a bloody mess. Terrible, terrible experience but what I deserved for being so stupid.

in undergrad there was a wall about 2 feet behind a row of treadmills. this guy was on it and fell off the back, legs against the wall and the belt was beating up his face. i felt bad for a minute but it was so funny.

I think we caught your man on the surveillance video:

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-slow-motion-treadmill-toss.html

I did it once when I was really young. Set it up really fast and hung on to the handles, but my knees were skinned bad. Little flaps of skin with red underneath. It was one of the ugliest things I've ever seen on my body.

haha YO wrote:

So there I am having my legs skinned to shit by the belt as I hold on to dear life. Managed to hit the emergency stop, my legs were a bloody mess. Terrible, terrible experience but what I deserved for being so stupid.

^^^I would pay good money to see a video of that.

You guys could only go 8.8 mph?

Mojo, after a couple of weeks of thread hijacking, useless postings, etc., THANK YOU for the best post here in months. this may not quite be the fanny pack post, but it's darn close. GREAT STORY SIR!!!!

I mean this sincerely: cool story, bro.

someone else wrote:

I did it once when I was really young. Set it up really fast and hung on to the handles, but my knees were skinned bad. Little flaps of skin with red underneath. It was one of the ugliest things I've ever seen on my body.

I had a similar incident. My treadmill was set-up so that the back was up against a wall though, so I wouldn't have been able to fling off the back had I let go. Instead, I would have been stuck at the end of the tread being continuously bounced off the wall and back onto the tread. Luckily I was strong enough to pull myself back up by my arms before this could happen.

I fell off and scraped up my leg, but the embarrassing thing was that I wasn't going at more than a jog. I had just started the treadmill probably around 12 min/mile while I was getting things adjusted - and apparently I just forgot that I was on it at all. I tripped over the side and went off the back.

While I hate to laugh at the misfortune of others, I have to admit that was a pretty funny story.

As for the Mythbusters video that someone posted, I wonder how they talked the guy into doing that?

OldXCguy wrote:

While I hate to laugh at the misfortune of others, I have to admit that was a pretty funny story.

As for the Mythbusters video that someone posted, I wonder how they talked the guy into doing that?

That was their own guy. He works there.

OldXCguy wrote:

As for the Mythbusters video that someone posted, I wonder how they talked the guy into doing that?

Apparently you have never watched Mythbusters.

I was on a treadmill once time at my local rec. center when a very young kid (about 8 or 9 years old) jumped on the treadmill next to me and immediatley got it cranked up to some super fast speed. He last about 20 seconds before getting thrown off the back of the treadmill. However, he immediately got back on, cranked up the speed again and promptly got thrown off again. This went on for about 5 or 6 tries before his father showed up and took him away! What a brave little man!!! Pure guts and determination. No jogging for him!!!

Nice story but...

The bonehead move of the year would be you not capitalizing on Joe Cool's stumble in front of the hot chick.

You did score didn't you Mr. Jerkin? oh wait...

I was on the treadmill today, thinking about this thread...then all of a sudden I have a heart attack as I flirt with disaster.

F*** all you, I blame you guys! The best part about it was that I had just turned it wayyyyy down in order to have some sort of a cool down relaxation...evidently I did indeed become quite relaxed.

My roommate in college actually picked up a guy when he fell off the treadmill and she pressed "stop". He was pretty embarrassed and said "uhh, thanks for pushing stop."

They went out a few times later.

OldXCguy wrote:

While I hate to laugh at the misfortune of others, I have to admit that was a pretty funny story.

As for the Mythbusters video that someone posted, I wonder how they talked the guy into doing that?

The Myth in question involved testing sobering up techniques, more specifically whether exercise is one so the guy on the treadmill was drunk when it happened and not trying to fall off of it.

Slightly OT, but: Does anyone else notice when the guy (yes, it's pretty much always the guy) gets on the machine next to you, and starts running REALLY loudly? Like, without even looking over to diagnose problems with form, you just know that something there isn't right, because no one's footfalls should make that much noise? I'll be the first to admit that my form isn't perfect... but I don't sound like an elephant, either.

Also, great story (seriously). Thanks.