[Tishabet]

I accidentally shot myself in the lower calf with a pellet gun when I was 22 years old. We're not talking a Crossman K-mart special, I'm talking a .22 airgun made for small game.
I was trying to clear out a colony of chipmunks from under a porch, and the only access to the area under the porch was through a hatch through which you had to lower yourself about 4 feet. I had just winged a chipmunk who had subsequently run under the porch, and I had reloaded before descending through the hatch to find him and finish him off. I put the airgun down on the porch decking to lower myself down, and slipped a little bit and subsequently pulled the trigger.
My first thought was that I was awfully lucky to be wearing old WWII vintage jump boots with full leather uppers which surely had stopped the pellet. Then I started bleeding through the hole in the boots.
I drove myself to the hospital, and the xrays revealed that the projectile had not only gone through the boots, it had gone all the way down to my bone. With the aid of novicaine, what appeared to be needle nose pliers, and some gross sound effects the ER doc fished it out.