Whats your most unique experience

danniemcq · 03-04-2014 6:44pm #1

Just seen the video on here

http://www.nrk.no/viten/skydiver-nearly-struck-by-meteorite-1.11646757

and well the title pretty much gives it away. (if you wanna see the event skip to just after 2 mins)

Anyway it got me thinking what's the rarest or most unlikely event that has ever happened you. If you have pics or footage even better!

Me? Probably seeing the Eurofighter when it was still in development when it flew over me in Spain. Pretty lame but best I can think of right now.

03-04-2014 6:51pm

My first solo flight when I got my private pilots license aged 23.

Scared/Exhilarated/Proud

dodderangler · 03-04-2014 6:52pm

Candie wrote: »

My first solo flight when I got my private pilots license aged 23.

Scared/Exhilarated/Proud

Thinly veiled : I'm a pilot ladies

MS.ing · 03-04-2014 6:54pm

and they bought it was a meteor

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 03-04-2014 6:54pm

I was at Anfield the day Javier Mascherano actually scored a goal for Liverpool.

03-04-2014 6:57pm

dodderangler wrote: »

Thinly veiled : I'm a pilot ladies

No, I'm a lady pilot.

MS.ing · 03-04-2014 6:58pm

I threw a shoe at george bush in iraq but the ducker ****ed

Vito Corleone · 03-04-2014 6:58pm

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

I was at Anfield the day Javier Mascherano actually scored a goal for Liverpool.

I was at Anfield the day David Ngog scored a goal! :P

dodderangler · 03-04-2014 6:59pm

Candie wrote: »

No, I'm a lady pilot.

I retract my statement and sit in this pretty hole I just dug myself

Aphex · 03-04-2014 6:59pm

Drove down (passenger) the full length of runway 16 at Dublin airport while towing a DHL A300. No big deal for most, but I loved it

MS.ing · 03-04-2014 7:01pm

Aphex wrote: »

Drove down (passenger) the full length of runway 16 in Dublin airport while towing a DHL A300. No big deal for most, but I loved it

DA has 16 runways

dodderangler · 03-04-2014 7:03pm

I suppose my most unique experience was gettin a 14 week old female Harris hawk and bonding with it enough that on the day I flew her with nothing attached to her that she followed me through the fields and flew back to my hand on command

Aphex · 03-04-2014 7:04pm

MS.ing wrote: »

DA has 16 runways

No, it's called 16 because the heading of the runway is 160 degrees give or take 1 degree.

mikom · 03-04-2014 7:05pm

Bought one of those leather jackets all the Polish lads do wear.
Looked like it was the last one in the shop.
"Any more coming in", I inquired.
The reply I got was...... "when they are gone, they are gone".

Banjo String · 03-04-2014 7:05pm

I threw up in 3 different countries in the space of 2 hrs before.

Stag weekend in Belgium, started throwing up in Belgium, puked the whole way on the taxi to Eindhoven airport (Holland) and puked the whole way home on Ryanair until we landed in Dublin.

Good weekend though.

Call Me Jimmy · 03-04-2014 7:06pm

My Mom named me Uniqua so everything I do is naturally unique... uuah

ElChe32 · 03-04-2014 7:07pm

Randomly hanging out with Calle 13 (Multi Latin Grammy Award winners) in their studio while discussing traditional Irish music.

MS.ing · 03-04-2014 7:11pm

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

My Mom named me Uniqua so everything I do is naturally unique... uuah

lies jimmy, lies!

stefan idiot jones · 03-04-2014 7:12pm

A few weeks ago whilst snorkelling down the Gold Coast I saw a poisonous banded sea snake. They are as rare as rocking horse poo in these waters so I dont know if I'll ever sea one again.

Stavros Murphy · 03-04-2014 7:21pm

I was in Narnia for a weekend and shot a unicorn. Exhilerating.

MS.ing · 03-04-2014 7:24pm

this one time at bandcamp...

MonstaMash · 03-04-2014 7:26pm

Sitting beside Eugène Terre'Blanche on a flight.

scudzilla · 03-04-2014 7:28pm

Was around 1990, won a competition on Radio 1 to play paintball with Iron Maiden and Thunder, what a class day, the bands, me mates, beer.

Certainly was a prize money couldn't buy, well, unless ya were a gazillionaire

shamrock55 · 03-04-2014 7:32pm

I was in anfield!!

Stavros Murphy · 03-04-2014 9:51pm

MonstaMash wrote: »

Sitting beside Eugène Terre'Blanche on a flight.

I'm guessing BO, beard and lack of space would be the summation of that experience. You could have leaned over and gone "So, them ANC boys, great bunch of lads Eug, eh?". Could have been an interesting flight.

efb · 03-04-2014 9:52pm

Shopping in Liffey Street

beano345 · 03-04-2014 9:56pm

Living in a bamboo hut in Vietnam,weaving baskets and skinning drums.

bodice ripper · 03-04-2014 10:04pm

Once, in college, I pierced myself with 60 needles and then stitched myself to a wall.

spunkymunky · 03-04-2014 10:49pm

I was in band years ago and we won a radio comp and got to open for Bon Jovi in punchestown in front of about 15000 people. Never forget looking out over the crowd and seeing a ferris wheel and reverse bungy thing going off!
Met razorlight's drummer, kid rock and Bon Jovi (watch them arrive at punchestown by helicopter) and watch the show side Stage.
Unreal day!

orangesoda · 03-04-2014 10:56pm

oral sex in a forest

bodice ripper · 03-04-2014 10:58pm

orangesoda wrote: »

oral sex in a forest

Isn't that where everyone first does that? I was assured...

rainbowdrop · 03-04-2014 11:07pm

bodice ripper wrote: »

Once, in college, I pierced myself with 60 needles and then stitched myself to a wall.

That's fairly impressive, I'd have trouble sewing a button onto a shirt, never mind stiching myself to a wall. And I'm afraid of needles also!

Mind me asking what was the reason for this act of lunacy?

Agent Smith · 03-04-2014 11:12pm

I was in cork.

Fox_In_Socks · 03-04-2014 11:15pm

Agent Smith wrote: »

I was in cork.

I was in some oak once.

strobe · 03-04-2014 11:22pm

bodice ripper wrote: »

Once, in college, I pierced myself with 60 needles and then stitched myself to a wall.

Truthishly? But why?

bodice ripper · 03-04-2014 11:27pm

It's true. I went to art college.

donegal__road · 03-04-2014 11:34pm

a famous American singer songwriter borrowed my guitar one night to play an impromptu session in a local pub back in the 90's. I got him to sign it with permanent marker when he was finished. I still have the guitar.

mfceiling · 03-04-2014 11:39pm

Went on a small 2 seater plane in South Africa years ago and saw an albino whale.

The pilot had been flying for over 30 years in that region and had never seen one...he was over the moon...I was hoping he was watching the controls a bit more carefully...

Davarus Walrus · 03-04-2014 11:39pm

After drinking 12 pints of Galway Hooker and devouring a doner kebab I woke up to a surprisingly mild hangover. I 'drew an ace' in the jacks, with a 'winner, all white' on the first pass to clean up, then went outside for a good long walk. Later that evening I won €63 on the Lotto.

Ihatecuddles · 03-04-2014 11:40pm

donegal__road wrote: »

a famous American singer songwriter borrowed my guitar one night to play an impromptu session in a local pub back in the 90's. I got him to sign it with permanent marker when he was finished. I still have the guitar.

And now we guess?

Greyfox · 03-04-2014 11:42pm

Stood on the Old trafford pitch all on my own and even took some grass as a solvenier

sammyjo90 · 03-04-2014 11:50pm

When I was in primary school..my mum, sister and I drew this mahoosively long banner full of cartoon characters from tv..must have been about five foot long. And we got it shown on the den!
Had to do a camera panning on cause of the size. That was pretty cool back in the day

jonnny68 · 03-04-2014 11:51pm

Greyfox wrote: »

Stood on the Old trafford pitch all on my own and even took some grass as a solvenier

*souvenir

;-)

mardybumbum · 03-04-2014 11:53pm

Was shadowing a Trauma surgeon in Philly a few summers ago.

Young gang member comes into the trauma bay at midnight after being shot multiple times in the abdomen.

He starts to deteriorate quite rapidly while in the bay and decision is made to bring him to OR for an emergency laparotomy.

During the operation he drops his blood pressure and goes into cardiac arrest.

The surgeon opened the guys chest, grabs his heart between his two hands and starts contracting the heart with his hands in order to try and retain some blood flow to the rest of the body.

My job was to try and squeeze the bags of blood into him as fast as I could. Never squeezed as hard in my life.

The resuscitation lasted about 30 mins before we called it quits. Poor guy really didn't stand much of a chance from such injuries.

That was definitely the most amazing, exhilarating and subsequently disappointing experience of my life.

It's the reason I will be starting my hopefully fruitful career as an ED doc this July.

Can't wait.

donegal__road · 03-04-2014 11:59pm

mardybumbum wrote: »

Was shadowing a Trauma surgeon in Philly a few summers ago.

Young gang member comes into the trauma bay at midnight after being shot multiple times in the abdomen.

He starts to deteriorate quite rapidly while in the bay and decision is made to bring him to OR for an emergency laparotomy.

During the operation he drops his blood pressure and goes into cardiac arrest.

The surgeon opened the guys chest, grabs his heart between his two hands and starts contracting the heart with his hands in order to try and retain some blood flow to the rest of the body.

My job was to try and squeeze the bags of blood into him as fast as I could. Never squeezed as hard in my life.

The resuscitation lasted about 30 mins before we called it quits. Poor guy really didn't stand much of a chance from such injuries.

That was definitely the most amazing, exhilarating and subsequently disappointing experience of my life.

It's the reason I will be starting my hopefully fruitful career as an ED doc this July.

Can't wait.

jesus christ..

may you have a very long, and successful career.

jane82 · 04-04-2014 12:03am

Was on trial for gbh and robbery. Found rightfully innocent. I was just trying to break up a fight but was arrested with the gang of scummers because Id had a few beers. Gaurds didnt want to know. Scary stuff.

Rachiee · 04-04-2014 12:04am

Performed as a back up dancer in the alternative miss Ireland contest to a packed out Olympia. The standing area at the front seemed so small at the time. Really cool experience.

Carry · 04-04-2014 12:08am

Was in November 1989 in Berlin in a café at Checkpoint Charlie (the border station between East and West Berlin) drinking red wine with colleagues after work when it was announced that the Berlin Wall was open.

Then unbelievingly watching (slightly drunk and absolutely stunned) how the people from East Berlin came first reluctantly than enthusiastically across the border, then the very physical reunification (never hugged and kissed that many people in my life) and finally all the pubs and cafés around gave out free drinks. All of Berlin actually.

T'was the biggest party I've ever experienced - and it lasted for several days.

Came home staggering in the morning about 6am to wake up and tell my flatmate that the Wall fell down. She dismissed me as being drunk.

Sure I was, as was all of Berlin, apart from her

.

onrail · 04-04-2014 12:54am

In November 2011, I (a harmless country chap) found myself in the middle of a field in Guinea/Sierra Leone educating a Russian project manager, in French, on the political situation in Northern Ireland.
Didn't see that on the college prospectus.

kumate_champ07 · 04-04-2014 1:00am

donegal__road wrote: »

a famous American singer songwriter borrowed my guitar one night to play an impromptu session in a local pub back in the 90's. I got him to sign it with permanent marker when he was finished. I still have the guitar.

Bono?

Joe Doe · 04-04-2014 1:21am

Saw that asteroid impact on the moon a few months ago maybe think it was (from earth btw), was about 10pm at night and though the rock was small it made a big aul flash and shockwave (not much gravity there) maybe 1/10 of total moon size, heard about it on news next day.

Also seen that big asteroid land off NW coast via car on the M1 back in around '10, lots of green and breaking up in the sky 10 secs duration looked like it was really nearby but +500miles land zone.Seen a few ufos too over the years, pair of those black silent triangle ones in '89 and recently time x3 wee silver ones heading different altitudes/directions at dusk.

AND I don't even look up the sky much nor smoke nor drink the whisky etc...!

~~~

+ met Chris Eubanks once downtown he kept asking where to buy 'cuffinks' (with a lisp) so just for the laugh we kept repeating 'cufflinks? cufflinks?' (with a similar lispy style). He proceeded to march off down the road (on the lines of the road and thus commanding cars to stop/swerve). Heard he drives a tank or something these days so best to 'give way'.

Whats your most unique experience

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