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Haven't done it yet personally but watched it happen when I was a kid. Contractor was converting an upstairs room into a bathroom in an old farm house. I just got home from school and was raiding the refrigerator when a leg came through the ceiling right above me. The ceiling was lath and plaster so it was fairly time consuming for the contractor to repair. I can still see the spot in the ceiling when I visit the house.... . | |||
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Casualties of War... You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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Did it just three weeks ago. Doing a Master Bathroom remodel down to studs and floor joists. Stood up too quickly and got a little light headed and down I went. Ended up straddling a floor joist. Took one look at my ring finger and it was bent 90 degrees at the first knuckle. Looked at it and thought "that's going to hurt like hell in a minute or two. Grabbed my finger and straightened it out and off to the doctor. Ended up dislocating it and tearing a tendon  My ass hurt for a week after that too. Glad I didn't land on my sack if you know what I mean. | |||
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Flipflops. Southwest portion of the living room ceiling. Argh. None of the above has happened since. | |||
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Oh yeah, I've done it. We were renting a house and while I was looking around the attic my foot slipped off the rafter and my leg went right through the ceiling. It was just like that picture. No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain | |||
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Not me, but my better half did. I was working in the yard when she came outside with her jeans covered in sheetrock dust and limping. After I made sure she was not seriously injured, I came very close to becoming seriously injured myself when I started laughing. Lesson learned: Your wife falling halfway through the ceiling is NOT a laughing matter! I tried to fix the hole in the kitchen ceiling but she said it looked like ass. (Okay, maybe it did.) A year or so later we hired a handyman who only made it look less bad. We finally hired professional painters to come out to repair the area correctly and paint the entire kitchen and dining area to make it disappear. "The Truth, when first uttered, is always considered heresy." | |||
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Those were not rafters between which you crashed, but joists  Specifically: Ceiling joists. Rafters are the structural members holding up your roof.(No, I've never done that. Yet. Thought I would a couple times.) "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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I semi did it at work once. There were boards up in the attic across the joists to walk on. What I learned, much to my surprise, was that they weren’t nailed down. I stepped on one and like a Three Stooges gag, it sprang up and tried to hit me in the face. So rather than letting it hit me in the face, I jumped out of the way! Crunch! My partner was down in the apartment with the woman who lived there, a nice older Chinese woman who at the sight of her ceiling starting to come down, simply said “Oooooh!” _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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My wife stepped one leg through the garage when she was seven months pregnant. | |||
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If you are going to get all technical, actually most likely they are trusses, not joists unless the house was built pre 1950. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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I thought this kinda thing only happened in movies. Yes, you should have worked on the culvert in your back yard today..  . Glad you didnt get hurt. | |||
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My wife did. Landed on the hood of my truck which broke the fail thank god. We both fixed it. Ouch! "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." FBLM LGB! | |||
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Have not done it. Have had two close calls, which was two too many. Glad you got away with no injuries! Sorry cruiser68 wasn’t so luck. Sometimes stuff happens really fast. It is amazing how quickly things can go spectacularly wrong. | |||
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I did it a few times when I was a firefighter searching an attic for extension. Real easy to do in full gear, SCBA, tools, 1-3/4" line, etc. It's a surprise to be sure. However nothing compares to a small fire on a stove where we sent our female FF about 5'2 120lbs (solid muscle) up to check the attic around the vent hood. As we were standing in the kitchen talking, BAM.... she dropped through the ceiling landing on the kitchen table. From the "damn it...." followed by the laughter we assumed she was ok, and just kept looking between her, and the hole, and her, and the hole. Finally someone said "do we shove her back up there or what?" and that was it... the giggle fit commenced . She was banged up a bit but not injured.Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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My dad laid plywood across his rafters a few weeks after they moved in 50 years ago to prevent this. Also made storage easier up there. My house doesn’t have access to that area so I wouldn’t know. That doesn’t look cheap to to fix properly. Glad your not hurt | |||
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I hope that story ended with the mom getting arrested too. | |||
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Already had the dry wall, mud, and tape so it is already patched. Couple more coats of mud and a bit of sanding she’ll be ready for paint. Need to pick up a gallon of ceiling white but that should be the only expense so not too bad. The wife may end up painting the room a different color as the boys have talked about swapping rooms and they were likely going to get painted different colors any way. All in all not a huge deal. I had just planned to finish removing the rails and screen from my deck so I could strip it today and it be ready for stain next week. But looks like I’ll only get to pull the rails and screen today. Since yesterday was spent dealing with the hole instead. ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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Scrotebag !! I haven't heard that word used in ages !! Haha | |||
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I did it, once, but just a foot through, not the whole leg. Attic is insulated with blown in cellulose, and it was directly above the sink in the guest bathroom, so 95% of the cellulose fell in the sink. My dear wife, (not looking up to see the hole), called out "Henry, there's something really weird coming out of the faucet in the bathroom sink". When in doubt, mumble | |||
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