Oh yeah, I threw my bike down a couple years ago. For some reason this little town was having a halloween parade downtown and I avoided it going around through the alleys.
Came up on a street and was going a bit fast, had no line of sight of cross traffic and hit the brake hard..gravel...history. No car was comming and I could have blasted across the street unscathed. No major damage, but I forgot what happened to the side cover. I must have left a broken badge there because I couldn't find it looking the other day. I just remember picking the bike up and going before I had to talk to any sort of authority that might be doing traffic for the stupid parade.