True, but ridiculously hard to believe.

pikachucheeks · 06-07-2009 11:54am #1

What are your true stories of things that have happened to you, that people find ridiculous and refuse to believe?

One of mine is being crushed by a bouncing castle.

A few friends and I decided it would be a good idea to take the pegs out of it, and try and get it to raise off the ground.

Plan was, some people would stay on and run to the back of it, while some of us would stay off and push it further into the air.

However, the bouncing castle didn't stay up in the air for long, my friends managed to escape from underneath it, but I got trapped.

Looked up to find this massive bouncing castle waiting to attack me! :eek:

Got completely flattened by the thing, with around 10 full-grown people on it.

Took about a minute for them to get me out, couldn't breathe!

Came out covered in mud, from being squished into the ground.

No one believes it happened, bar the people who were there!

Fink Goddie · 06-07-2009 11:56am

Yeh right that happened.

:D

stovelid · 06-07-2009 11:59am

pikachucheeks wrote: »

What are your true stories of things that have happened to you, that people find ridiculous and refuse to believe?

One of mine is being crushed by a bouncing castle.

A few friends and I decided it would be a good idea to take the pegs out of it, and try and get it to raise off the ground.

Plan was, some people would stay on and run to the back of it, while some of us would stay off and push it further into the air.

However, the bouncing castle didn't stay up in the air for long, my friends managed to escape from underneath it, but I got trapped.

Looked up to find this massive bouncing castle waiting to attack me! :eek:

Got completely flattened by the thing, with around 10 full-grown people on it.

Took about a minute for them to get me out, couldn't breathe!

Came out covered in mud, from being squished into the ground.

No one believes it happened, bar the people who were there!

...

StopNotWorking · 06-07-2009 12:00pm

I managed to jump on top of a moving car a few years back. I jumped off a wall into a car park chasing a friend(stupid I know). The car pretty much connected with my hips, I went head first over the bonnet and travelled a suprising distance in the air.

Got up and said sorry to them etc. Being the stupid young teenager I was I didn't stay for long, she was more suprised that I got up and walked over to her then she was about the actual hit.

What ever way I tell people the story they find it hard to believe that I accidentally jumped onto a moving car.

devereaux17 · 06-07-2009 12:01pm

when i say i support an irish team, people seem perplexed(irish people that is) even though its true these idiots find it ridiculously hard to believe.

connundrum · 06-07-2009 12:19pm

devereaux17 wrote: »

when i say i support an irish team, people seem perplexed(irish people that is) even though its true these idiots find it ridiculously hard to believe.

I thought loads of people support Celtic?

:pac:

Wazdakka · 06-07-2009 12:36pm

Whenever I start feeling sick,
I just stop being sick and be awesome instead. True story..

chin_grin · 06-07-2009 12:49pm

This thread gave me a massive throbbing boner.

True story.

Degsy · 06-07-2009 12:54pm

I was on a beach in turkey and there were some local lads kicking a football around.
The ball landed near me and they asked me to kick it back to them,i'm no footballer so i kicked the thing as hard as i could and it went flying into the air,came down several seconds later and scored a direct hit on some bloke basking on a lilo maybe 100 yards out.
The ball hit him in the belly and he just sort of folded into the water..i couldnt do that if i wanted to!!

4zn76tysfajdxp · 06-07-2009 12:56pm

Does anyone remember that kids show "News2day" that was on RTE2 about five years ago? Well, when I was sixteen I emailed that show pretending to be an avid five-year-old viewer named "Mike Hunt." You couldn't imagine my glee when the female presenter of the show read it out a couple of days afterwards.

When I went into school the next day, nobody had seen the show in question (probably because they had lives) and when I told my friends what happened, they didn't believe me.

It was quite frustrating.

ChocolateSauce · 06-07-2009 1:02pm

When I was 3 and a half I fell off a 2.5 metre high wall and landed on my head on concrete. I ran in screaming to my mother but she insisted it hadn't happened because I'd be dead. I remember it though, and today I can only put it down to children being bouncy.

niclos · 06-07-2009 1:04pm

feel unbelievable

cosmic · 06-07-2009 1:12pm

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Monkey_Dust_Thumbnail.png

The_Minister · 06-07-2009 1:15pm

Where the hell is Biggins when you need him?

06-07-2009 6:19pm

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

When I was 3 and a half I fell off a 2.5 metre high wall and landed on my head on concrete. I ran in screaming to my mother but she insisted it hadn't happened because I'd be dead. I remember it though, and today I can only put it down to children being bouncy.

that's crazy.. do you feel slightly stupid or anythin?

brummytom · 06-07-2009 6:32pm

Went on the London Eye a few years back with a band who were massive at the time, Liberty X.. stayed in a 5star hotel, met a load of famous people.

No one believed me

*cries*

Armin_Tamzarian · 06-07-2009 6:46pm

I was with a girl a couple of years ago, she was a failed glamour model wannabe.
Anywho, some time ago I spotted her posing naked in Nuts magazine.

So of course I had to strategically place the magazine (open on that page) on the coffee table in the rec area at work.
Setting myself up nicely for some shameless bragging.

Obviously nobody believed me and I just ended up looking like an idiot.

Poor Uncle Tom · 06-07-2009 6:46pm

When I was just a nephew, I got accidently locked into a compound with some geese and a gander. The second I realised I had locked myself in I swung around with my back to the fence I could see the gander running full speed at me, wings flapping low, neck outsetrtched, beak opened wide and the screeching was piercing. His head was at the same level as mine so I knew I had one hell of a fight ahead. It was two hours before my uncle came home, he said I had cuts all over, a bruised eye and feathers sticking out of my mouth. I'm afraid the gander was no more, well it was him or me, he was flapping his wings so hard I had to catch both with my hands, which only left my mouth to choke him with. I can still smell his grey neck feathers.

Armin_Tamzarian · 06-07-2009 6:48pm

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

When I was just a nephew

What did you evolve into?

bleg · 06-07-2009 6:49pm

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Obviously nobody believed me and I just ended up looking like an idiot.

is that because they realised you read nuts?

lil'bluestar · 06-07-2009 6:53pm

Few people seem to believe me when I first tell them this story but they usually do after a while.
Soon after the luas red line had been built, I wasn't quite used to them. I was crossing the line at a particular stop, they were two luas' coming at the same time but I didn't realise I could just hear the bells.
I looked one way as the luas was coming up towards and totally missed the one coming down in the opposite direction.
I stepped straight out in front of it, the front edge of it hit me and knocked me back onto the pavement. I wasn't seriously injured just some bumps, bruises and a bit of a dodgy shoulder. It was more the embarassment really but alot of people think I'm just making it up!
True story

even a luas couldn't beat me! :pac:

Poor Uncle Tom · 06-07-2009 6:56pm

lil'bluestar wrote: »

True story even a luas couldn't be me! :pac:

Was it on the Blue Star Line...?:D

I'll get my coat.....

Armin_Tamzarian · 06-07-2009 6:57pm

bleg wrote: »

is that because they realised you read nuts?

I don't think read is the right word.
In my defence it was an out of date copy that was lying around at work.

lil'bluestar · 06-07-2009 6:57pm

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Was it on the Blue Star Line...?:D

I'll get my coat.....

Yes the blue star line of my imagination or so some people think!

seanybiker · 06-07-2009 6:59pm

I used to be black. Then I decided I would try white out and see what I thought of it. I used to have a few very well known songs and danced alot. I got bored with that and rubbed up a few kids. I died a while back but still post on some sites pretending to be 7 and looking for love.

Armin_Tamzarian · 06-07-2009 7:00pm

lil'bluestar wrote: »

Soon after the luas red line had been built, I wasn't quite used to them.

What's to get used to?
It's a feckin train.
If it's moving towards you, you get the hell out of it's way.

captainautumn · 06-07-2009 7:38pm

About a year ago I was in the local playground in Portarlington with my children. There were some older kids messing around with a rugby ball on the basketball court. I was standing about ten meters off the court when the rugby ball was thrown in my direction. I was about to kick it back when I got this moment of clarity. Wouldn't it be cool, I thought, If I drop-kicked this rugby ball straight through the hoop.

I eyed up the target, a good 15 meters away, the kids paused, I guess they knew what I was attempting to do. I connected sweetly, everything went strangely quite and time seemed to stand still as the ball rose gently and dropped sweetly in the hoop without even touching the rim of the basket. The kids stared at me gobsmacked.:eek: I really wanted to run around the park like I'd just scored the winning goal for Ireland in the World Cup but I'm nearly forty now, with three young children and I can't be doing things like that anymore. So I just turned and walked slowly away like I knew this was going to happen. Secretly I felt like Keith Barry the evening he scared the knickers off Kathryn Thomas when he pulled the 'driving whilst blindfolded trick', as he walked noncholantly away. :cool:

I have never played rugby in my life.

lil'bluestar · 06-07-2009 7:54pm

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

What's to get used to?
It's a feckin train.
If it's moving towards you, you get the hell out of it's way.

I know that now

I'm just a bit of a slow learner!

gourgette · 06-07-2009 7:57pm

I was gobsmacked on the DART by a businessman at about 8 in the evening.

pikachucheeks · 06-07-2009 7:58pm

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

What did you evolve into?

A Snorlax.

stovelid · 06-07-2009 8:00pm

brummytom wrote: »

Liberty X

No one believed me *cries*

They were just embarrassed for you

Nolanger · 06-07-2009 8:05pm

Told boards this one before. Went to an interview in the Burlington for AIB ten years ago. Walked into the room full of people giving me dirty looks. One minute later got called in for interview. Thought it was strange that the others weren't brought in first. The interview consisted of being asked very personal questions about my lifestyle and family. Got asked was I on medication. Then left the interview and it suddenly dawned on me that they all looked like guards! Still waiting to hear back from that interview.

zuroph · 06-07-2009 8:17pm

i bit my tongue almost entirely off when i was about 2. jumped off a couch and bit right through it, it was hanging on by a thread.

galwayrush · 06-07-2009 8:23pm

I saw Rush live 7 times in 07, believe it or not.

xOxSinéadxOx · 06-07-2009 8:37pm

zuroph wrote: »

i bit my tongue almost entirely off when i was about 2. jumped off a couch and bit right through it, it was hanging on by a thread.

eewwww

Poor Uncle Tom · 06-07-2009 8:43pm

zuroph wrote: »

i bit my tongue almost entirely off when i was about 2. jumped off a couch and bit right through it, it was hanging on by a thread.

Are you stuffed or something..?

bandybanter · 06-07-2009 8:44pm

Myself and two mates dancing in a nightclub in vegas on our last nite. A group of a bout 10 girls and one gay guy started dancing with us. Had lots of fun even though we had no money left(damn u hooters blackjack!). Anyway the girls say to us that they were leaving to go to a STRIP CLUB! We were like "What?" "sorry got no money!". So they offered to pay for us!! The girls took us out to the main entrance of the casino and into a pimped out coaster bus with a bar and poles for dancing on! Took us to strip club where one of the girls who had a thing for me gimme a dollar to put down the strippers knickers! We then watched as 3 of the girls paid for stripper to dance for them, while at the same time they made out!!! Scored one of the girls too! Best nite eva. Ah could tell ya a load more "unbelievable" stories tha thappened but meh......

Euro_Kraut · 06-07-2009 8:45pm

captainautumn wrote: »

I eyed up the target, a good 15 meters away, the kids paused, I guess they knew what I was attempting to do. I connected sweetly, everything went strangely quite and time seemed to stand still as the ball rose gently and dropped sweetly in the hoop without even touching the rim of the basket. The kids stared at me gobsmacked.:eek: I really wanted to run around the park like I'd just scored the winning goal for Ireland in the World Cup but I'm nearly forty now, with three young children and I can't be doing things like that anymore. So I just turned and walked slowly away like I knew this was going to happen. Secretly I felt like Keith Barry the evening he scared the knickers off Kathryn Thomas when he pulled the 'driving whilst blindfolded trick', as he walked noncholantly away. :cool:

Man I hope I live to see the day Ireland win the drop kicking a rugby ball into a basketball hoop World Cup...

Poor Uncle Tom · 06-07-2009 8:47pm

pikachucheeks wrote: »

A Snorlax.

Hehe, It WAS you..!:D

FruitLover · 06-07-2009 8:51pm

The_Minister wrote: »

Where the hell is Biggins when you need him?

Well, it's Monday, so he's probably on a secret mission with Elvis on the moon.

Poor Uncle Tom · 06-07-2009 8:53pm

FruitLover wrote: »

Well, it's Monday, so he's probably on a secret mission with Elvis on the moon.

That's Tuesdays

Monday's it's Michael Jackson on the boogy.....:)

bleg · 06-07-2009 8:55pm

nope, mondays he debates astrophysics with his cousin!

rattlenhum · 06-07-2009 8:57pm

Niall Quinn used to have a show on RTE called "Start Me Up". True Story.

Hal1 · 06-07-2009 9:18pm

pikachucheeks wrote: »

What are your true stories of things that have happened to you, that people find ridiculous and refuse to believe?

One of mine is being crushed by a bouncing castle.

A few friends and I decided it would be a good idea to take the pegs out of it, and try and get it to raise off the ground.

Plan was, some people would stay on and run to the back of it, while some of us would stay off and push it further into the air.

However, the bouncing castle didn't stay up in the air for long, my friends managed to escape from underneath it, but I got trapped.

Looked up to find this massive bouncing castle waiting to attack me! :eek:

Got completely flattened by the thing, with around 10 full-grown people on it.

Took about a minute for them to get me out, couldn't breathe!

Came out covered in mud, from being squished into the ground.

No one believes it happened, bar the people who were there!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-397242/Two-killed-giant-bouncy-castle-lifts-off.html

Lone Stone · 06-07-2009 9:38pm

Making a birthday cake for myself with an ounce of hash in it and then going completely numb and when i closed my eyes it was like one of those kalidascope things with the color's , freaked me out thought i was going to die and rang 999 and said "Can i order an ambulance" :P . If i even get a whiff of hash now i just feel really really ill.

Armin_Tamzarian · 06-07-2009 9:44pm

FruitLover wrote: »

Well, it's Monday, so he's probably on a secret mission with Elvis on the moon.

Haven't you heard? it's all over for poor old Biggins.

He gave interviews to numerous TV, radio and newspaper reporters.
Then he made the classic mistake that so many secret agents have made before.
Yep, he posted links to all the interviews on boards.
Well needless to say, Spectre had been hot on old Biggins tail for quite some time and this was just the break they'd been waiting for.
Needless to say 'the agency' acted swiftly and immediately pulled him in from the field.
Now that he's spent he will have to see out the rest of his professional life from behind a desk.
What a waste, they say he was the best in the business too...

galwayrush · 06-07-2009 9:46pm

A few years ago, my wife ( girlfriend then) used to use her family birthdays to do the Lottery, one saturday she decided not to bother doing it,coz it's a waste of money. 1.6 million , her numbers came up and no winner that weekend.

Adamcp898 · 06-07-2009 9:49pm

The world will end in 2012 :pac:

PeterLT · 06-07-2009 10:07pm

I have one story there.

Once my friend asked me for help, one lad owned him some money and he was very reluctant to give it back. Friend found out where he was (it was in some forest, celebrating something with his friends). So we arrived at the party, couple of other people joined us. There were no intentions to hurt someone or act criminal, but everything sliped out...

Friend start to talk and eventually it evolved into fight. Debtors friends fled and he was left outnumbered. He was beaten until I intervened and stoped everything, but he didn't want to give up. He went to his car and grabed an axe and contra attacked. Now my friend's help were giving legs, so I decided to stop that nonsence. I pulled up my gun (I was carying it legally with permission) and asked him to drop the axe. He didn't comply and attacked me, so I had to use my gun. Unfortunatelly semi-automatics have a huge disadvantage - they usually jam... This what happened that time. When I saw what happened I had to run vey fast. He threw the axe, missed (I was running REALLY fast), I fixed the gun, turned to him and asked to stop this nonsence again. I remember him coming closer to me with axe in his hand and blood over his face. I was pointing the gun at him and asking to comply. Eventually he listened to me, droped the axe I lowered the gun and this crap was finally over. I don't know did he give money back to my friend I was trying not to help him any more

Back to the point.

After some time I have decided to tell that to me GF. After repeating the story few times, she just laughed and said to stop watching the action movies. After that I didn't bother to convince her and never mentioned that again. Is it really hard to believe that?

P.S. The action was taking place outside Republic of Ireland, it was in other country.

Snowie · 06-07-2009 10:16pm

Im a secret agent and have more gadgets then inspector gadget....

pebbles21 · 06-07-2009 10:33pm

I used to play for a some football team, and one day before playing my bird started to act up, and she rang and told me she wanted me home now like!

So i went up to me gaffer like and told him my granny was dead but the langer found out she wasn't dead ,so i told him sorry like ,it was the wrong granny that was dead, and that it was the other one like

But nobody still believes me :mad::mad:like!

True, but ridiculously hard to believe.

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