never and im thankful... i dont know anyone who has actually.

Ouch. No, thankfully.

At the end of the year last year, I had a cold that developed into bronchitis. It lasted for a few weeks and I was out of work for a while. I was coughing up a storm. I finally got better and about a week later I started to have this gigantic pain in my rib...my left rib. It hurt so bad I cried. It felt like someone punched me really hard in the rib and cracked them. So I had to go back to the doctor and she Xrayed...no cracks. But I apparantly pulled some of the muscles from my ribcage or something like that. She said that the pain is the same as cracked ribs. It took about a month to get over the immense pain. And even now they occasionally hurt. It sucks.

No, but I heard it hurts like hell.

Both yes, I fell out of a tree onto a concrete curbing and broke my ribs. I'm a martial arts instructor so I've been kicked in the ribs numerous times and had them bruised on a few.

I've broken someones ribs before. Long story from many years back. Never had mine broken though.

no, thankfully. i imagine it hurts like hell.

I bruised mine once, it hurt every breath I took. I fell off the top bunk at summer camp and landed IN my suitcase, on top of my dryer. The nozzle went right in my ribs. They didn't break though thankfully.

I've never harmed any of my bones in any way.