An 8-year-old male presents to the ED following a small explosion in his backyard. He has a known history of pyromania and has been getting a bit creative with his projects. This time, left unsupervised, he ignited his experiment which exploded sending him flying backward about 2 meters to land primarily on his buttocks and elbows. Miraculously, he sustained no life-threatening injuries and he is hemodynamically stable in the ED; vitals are HR 110, BP 100/70, and RR 16. His physician father ran out to the back yard and was about to spank him (still legal in about 35 states) when he noticed the pained and stunned expression on his son’s face and the child is trying to point to his mangled limb.

An Olympic level archer is practicing in his yard that backs up to wooded area when he notices a white-tailed deer in a clearing. He decides to give chase and begins to move stealthily towards the woods. The deer jumps away and the archer increases his pace to track the deer until eventually he spots the deer and three fawns in a clearing. The archer slowly raises his bow and arrow taking aim to shoot when a wild turkey rushes at him from a nearby bush.

A teenage older brother is teaching his 5-year old sister how to do tricks on her skateboard. After mastering air, he begins to teach her a Caballerial, a 360-degree ollie (where the skater uses her feet to pull the skateboard up into the air) performed on a ramp while riding fakie (riding the board backwards and without grabbing). Indeed, this is recognized as quite a gnarly trick by boarders.

A candidate for Top Gun Pilot goes up in his airplane during the first day of training and decides to mimic Tom Cruise’s famous scene by flying the airplane upside down. Unfortunately, he has forgotten to fasten his seat belt properly and feels gravity pulling him out of the airplane. At the last moment he ejects with sufficient elevation to deploy his parachute 70-80%.

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young played at the original Woodstock in 1968, and later wrote a song about a hitchhiker of the galaxies on his way to Yasgur’s Farm (the site for Woodstock). The hitchhiker had a difficult time being picked up by fellow travelers because, although he could partially extend his arm, he was unable to make the universal sign for being collected by a VW van, extending the thumb. Ultimately, a friendly co-traveler did stop and asked the hitchhiker where he was going and the response was, “I don’t know who I am, but life is for learning and we got to get ourselves back to the garden.”