Crazy day at the gym!

[diesel101]

I go to the gym yesterday late afternoon to do my chest workout just like any other day.
I come into the weight room see two young skinny guys (17ish) screwing around like a lot of young guys do but hey none of my business (so I thought). I put in my ear buds, put on my I hate the world face, started lifting and blocked out the world like normal.

I just started to do warm up on incline dumbbell press as I am doing my third rep suddenly someone walks straight into my bench and hits my arm, Hard enough that I let go of the DB (75lb) it comes down and lands on one of the young guys foot. The kid hits the floor screaming I jump up pissed and wondering WTF is going on as I ask the young kid on the floor if he is OK (yea I know stupid question) his buddy decides to get involved and that is where it gets more interesting. His buddy gets in my face and proceeds to yell something at me I don't really give him a chance I tell him to back off and push him away. I must of pushed a little too hard because he goes back trips over the bench and lands on the floor of course this all happens as the owner and one of the employees come in because they heard the other kid scream. So there I stand looking extremely angry with two punks laying in front of me on the floor as the owner looks at me with the "WTF do I do now" look on his face.

Long story short we get the kid up with the sore foot (Hopefully not broken) his buddy is still shooting his mouth off the owner tells him to shut up I tell him what happened they go to the office and I go back to my workout. About 20 minutes later both young guys come to the weight room and apologize for everything that happened I tell him I hope his foot is Ok and they leave.

Come to find out after I spoke with the owner later, they went back to the security tape and looked it over with the young guys and found the kid was talking and not paying attention when he walked into me while I was on the bench.

Some days at the gym I just shake my head and think WTF! I cant wait for the new years resolutioners to show up.

[BG]

That's insane. Lucky for the video.

On another note I bet it would be funny to watch when the gym is packed, I bet people do so much more dumb shit then we realize.

[Igifuno]

That's pretty funny, and I'm glad it wasn't worse. You could've easily gotten injured from that

[diesel101]

That's pretty funny, and I'm glad it wasn't worse. You could've easily gotten injured from that

I thought about that later it could have been real ugly.

[diesel101]

I think everytime I see the kid with the big mouth I'm going to make him flinch when I walk by.

[InternalFire]

well turd like that happens everywhere I guess, injuring self aint that bad, worse could have been the second fellow fell over the bench backward and hit his head in to the plates or even worse. Yanno you can heal yourself and you wont sue yourself for injuring self like, but some people just turn up in a wrong place at the wrong time and sht really hits the fan in a wrong direction... lucky all went and ended up alright, as things like that are damn domino where the outcome almost anything is possible...

[Hartosh1]

Wow, at least nobody jumped to conclusions with you standing over the 2 kids rolling about the floor lol!.

I remember one lad was taking the weight off the bar after doing some squats but he decided to take all the weight off 1 side first you can only image what happened to the weighted side, lucky I noticed and stopped it before it picked up any speed could of been carnage though!

[73rr]

Wow, at least nobody jumped to conclusions with you standing over the 2 kids rolling about the floor lol!.

I remember one lad was taking the weight off the bar after doing some squats but he decided to take all the weight off 1 side first you can only image what happened to the weighted side, lucky I noticed and stopped it before it picked up any speed could of been carnage though!

Haha, I actually did that ones! I caught the bar mid air. I was really in the zone and wasn't thinking at all! Was maybe 2 years ago and will never happen again.

[BG]

Wow, at least nobody jumped to conclusions with you standing over the 2 kids rolling about the floor lol!.

I remember one lad was taking the weight off the bar after doing some squats but he decided to take all the weight off 1 side first you can only image what happened to the weighted side, lucky I noticed and stopped it before it picked up any speed could of been carnage though!

Funny......I've seen that but my best was a young kid sat next to my tp and myself. We were killing dumbbells, so he grabbed 75's, his dad said it was to much but he yelled at his dad he was fine. As he came down with the first rep his arm gave out and the dumbbell hit him right square in the face. Everybody was dying laughing.......even his dad. Kid just ran off. Still makes me laugh.

[DCI]

I had two similar situations happen to me there only a couple of months ago.

First was me and my training partners where doing incline db pressing warm ups. Like you I had 75lb dbs. There was an empty bench next to us with this I wear lycra pants and stringer tops thinking I'm a real bber cos of the clothes I wear.

Now bear in mind we were there first and the gym was busy so it was tight on space he still uses the bench next to us and starts doing shoulder db press with not a really heavy weight but still has to arch his back and stick his legs out wider than a woman giving birth.

So I was finishing up my warm up set set and left the dbs down by my side but the landed awkwardly and the floor is uneven in the gym also so the weight rolled into the side of his foot. He completely freaked out I just up off the bench apologising he just started shouting some shit telling me to lift weights that I can lift lol.

When he said that I just ignored him and left him off. Next set banged out a set of 110lb dbs he still stares me outta it everything time I see him in the gym the sad bastard.

The next incident is similar to yours. Two young guys next to me not paying attention when I was again flat db pressing jad a heavy weight also bumped into me as I was pressing heavy nearly broke my arm as I was on the power up motion luckily I managed to drop the weight fast enough without doing any damage my face must have been proper pissed off cos they left instantly lol.

[Sfla80]

I go to the gym yesterday late afternoon to do my chest workout just like any other day.
I come into the weight room see two young skinny guys (17ish) screwing around like a lot of young guys do but hey none of my business (so I thought). I put in my ear buds, put on my I hate the world face, started lifting and blocked out the world like normal.

I just started to do warm up on incline dumbbell press as I am doing my third rep suddenly someone walks straight into my bench and hits my arm, Hard enough that I let go of the DB (75lb) it comes down and lands on one of the young guys foot. The kid hits the floor screaming I jump up pissed and wondering WTF is going on as I ask the young kid on the floor if he is OK (yea I know stupid question) his buddy decides to get involved and that is where it gets more interesting. His buddy gets in my face and proceeds to yell something at me I don't really give him a chance I tell him to back off and push him away. I must of pushed a little too hard because he goes back trips over the bench and lands on the floor of course this all happens as the owner and one of the employees come in because they heard the other kid scream. So there I stand looking extremely angry with two punks laying in front of me on the floor as the owner looks at me with the "WTF do I do now" look on his face.

Long story short we get the kid up with the sore foot (Hopefully not broken) his buddy is still shooting his mouth off the owner tells him to shut up I tell him what happened they go to the office and I go back to my workout. About 20 minutes later both young guys come to the weight room and apologize for everything that happened I tell him I hope his foot is Ok and they leave.

Come to find out after I spoke with the owner later, they went back to the security tape and looked it over with the young guys and found the kid was talking and not paying attention when he walked into me while I was on the bench.

Some days at the gym I just shake my head and think WTF! I cant wait for the new years resolutioners to show up.

Well could have been worse like igi said that u could have been injured.

Or completely the other way...where it got too heated and u guys actually got into altercation and u get battery on a minor.

[GirlyGymRat]

Wow. That's crazy. Cameras are everywhere. Keep the honest honest.

[diesel101]

After my workout tonight on my way out the owner asked if I had a minute to talk I said sure so we went to his office and we had a little chat about yesterday.
He said the parents of both kids had stopped in and wanted to know what happened so he showed them the recording of yesterday. The kids foot wasn't broken just bruised the father said he realized it was just an accident after seeing the tape and was really cool about it.
The father and mother of the big mouth kid told him that their kid was out of line and apologized for him acting that way in his place of business. He then proceeded to tell him that his kid was lucky he only got pushed and he should know better than to get in someone's face that is twice his size and said to thank me for not giving him the whooping that he probably deserved.
We had a little laugh and the owner told me to quit picking on the little guys.

[Igifuno]

After my workout tonight on my way out the owner asked if I had a minute to talk I said sure so we went to his office and we had a little chat about yesterday. He said the parents of both kids had stopped in and wanted to know what happened so he showed them the recording of yesterday. The kids foot wasn't broken just bruised the father said he realized it was just an accident after seeing the tape and was really cool about it. The father and mother of the big mouth kid told him that their kid was out of line and apologized for him acting that way in his place of business. He then proceeded to tell him that his kid was lucky he only got pushed and he should know better than to get in someone's face that is twice his size and said to thank me for not giving him the whooping that he probably deserved. We had a little laugh and the owner told me to quit picking on the little guys.

That's awesome. Great story and hopefully a great lesson for the youngster.. Even though a nice swift kick in the hind side might have taught him better. Might have cost you your membership and more in this day and age.. So this was the best ending.

[diesel101]

That's awesome. Great story and hopefully a great lesson for the youngster.. Even though a nice swift kick in the hind side might have taught him better. Might have cost you your membership and more in this day and age.. So this was the best ending.

Yea I probably shouldn't have pushed him but always have had a problem when someone gets in my face.
But it was a good ending to a bad situation.

[GirlyGymRat]

2 new workout partners. LoL

[Stove]

I hate it when I end up training with the guys that had steamed broccoli and boiled eggs for lunch.