This is the page for holders of the DIAABTCOD# - this stands for Daft Injuries Above And Beyond The Call Of Duty, or those who've hurt themselves in truly imaginative, unusual and downright stupid ways. Where possible, the manner in which the injury was sustained is listed. The holders of this prestigious award are:
- #1 - Chris Shallcross (electrocuted himself with two AA batteries)
- #2 - Platypus
- #3 - Salad Dodger (had a wardrobe fall on him, twice)
- #4 - Alex Ferrier (blew himself up with a home-made bolt bomb)
- #5 - Bear
- #6 - Chris de Clayes
- #7 - Roger Tattershall (stuck his fingers in a rotating car radiator fan)
- #8 - Gonz0
- #9 - Vacant
- #10 - Zymurgy (I *think* he licked the rails of an electric train set. Might have been Platypus, though)
- #11 - Ben Sales
- #12 - Dan Nitschke
- #13 - Kira (set hair on fire while trying to light an oven)
- #14 - Lozzo (stuck his arm in a hot tub of Waxoyl)
- #15 - Pip (knocked himself out, twice, on his wedding night)
- #16 - Grimly Curmudgeon (put his tongue to car battery terminals to see what would happen)
- #17 - Adie (caught hair in electric drill)
- #18 - Beelzebub (caught feet in imaginary skipping rope and bust ankle)
- #19 - Ginge (lacerations incurred while using an angle grinder to remove roof tiles)
- #20 - Alan Gower (cut himself with an electric plane, and no, not a model aircraft)
- #21 - Col. Tupperware (broke wrist while using a socket extension as a car cranking handle)
- #22 - Vacant
- #23 - Nick Davies (lacerated while trying to open a booze flagon)
- #24 - Simes (3rd degree burns on an arm already in plaster)
- #25 - (Honorary only) - Owen, for injuries sustained while blowing up a rabbit with a hand grenade
To get hold of one of these, see me - the kotl - on the newsgroup or by email to here
