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Amazing stories of survival,have you any of your own?

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  • #2
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    Most amazing survival story I've ever head: Joe Simpson's ill fated attempt at climbing the mountain Siula Grande in Peru. The book, Touching the Void, and the film of the same name, are both excellent too.


  • #3
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Ah Jaysus this one time it was Friday evening and I was sitting around the house just watching DVDs. I finish Schindler's List and decided to lighten it up so I stick on Supertroopers, walk to the fridge with a plan to crack open a few beers.

    But when I got there, the cupboard fridge was bare. Not a can in sight!

    I glanced at my totally rad 80's retro Casio digital watch and saw the time was 3 minutes to ten.

    Three minutes to 10????? :eek:

    And me living 5 minutes from the nearest off-licence!!!!! :eek::eek::eek:

    Out the door with me, no shoes on my feet but the threat of broken glass and dog excrement was no deterrent. This was a mission that was more important than foot safety, more important than personal dignity (I was also only wearing boxer shorts and a t-shirt).

    I sprinted, I ran, I pelted it down the road. Children out playing late in the street were knocked backward by the wind caused by my speed as I hurtled down the hill towards the Spar. I gave my all, I vaulted over buggies, dogs and illegally parked Nissan Micras. I was bettering my all time best time, the time I had to leg it down for last pints on Holy Thursday 2007.

    I was faster than Mercury, the messenger of the Roman Gods. I was speedier than Lucy Kennedy in pursuit of a new energy-related advertising campaign. I was faster than Twink, after a small bit of exposure on a third rate RTE talk show.

    But still, despite all of this, despite giving my all and pushing myself beyond limits that mere mortals would have crumbled long before, despite being all I could be, I was not there in time.

    The shutters around the small fridge section of Spar were down.

    The look of regret on the cashier's face was heart-breaking as he realised that here was a man who had given his all for a few cans of Dutch Gold and had been denied.

    It was the night of the dry.

    The night of no beer.

    The cold, lonely dark night of the soul.

    AnonoBoy had no beer but yet somehow I managed to survive.

    F*ck that cannibal rugby team in Argentina.

    I am the embodiment of survival.

    Where's my true-life movie?

    Where's my medal?



    I thank you,

    AnonoBoy


  • #4
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    It was my mate Dave's birthday last week, the amount of Jack Daniels we pumped into him, I'm surprised he's alive at all. Amazing story of survival right there!


  • #5
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    It was touch and go for me last sat afternoon.I walked along the liffey boardwalk from O'Connell bridge to Liberty hall.Had to run the last 20 meters dodgeing junkies Zombies,but i made it.Jumped on my bus before any of them could react,
    Another time i was on the beer in limerick when.........................


  • #6
    Fukuyama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    I was on the LUAS at half eleven last night ....


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  • #7
    punchdrunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    I'm from Coolock.


  • #8
    UrbanSea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    Once nearly went a day with a ****. Nearly.


  • #9
    Kiwi_knock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,463 ✭✭✭Kiwi_knock


    Was in town with my family when I was 7, one of the wooden boards that is used to cordon off building sites collasped on me and another man. It landed straight on my head but caused no damage to me, the other man could barely move his arms or legs when he was taken away in an ambulance. I was so lucky that day


  • #10
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I finish Schindler's List you,

    Speaking of stories of survival...


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This guy gets it from me.. Cutting off your own arm like..

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2XLoQ1xYB0


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  • #12
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I once watched "Titanic" from start to finish. Three years later, I came out of the coma & have been healthy ever since.

    True story.


  • #13
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,239 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I finish Schindler's List
    This sounds ominously like you were trying to finish the list...


  • #14
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    caseyann wrote: »
    The 15-year-old plunged more than 160ft from a balcony of the high-rise Proximity Apartments in Auckland's Manukau district, and landed on a concrete floor.

    The alarm was raised by another resident of the apartment block, who was out on his balcony smoking a cigarette when the boy fell past him.





    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/7909794/New-Zealand-teenager-survives-falling-16-storeys.html

    Wish the poor lad a speedy recovery.

    You see kid, smoking can kill.


  • #15
    Misael Hot Widow
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Misael Hot Widow


    greetings wrote: »
    Once nearly went a day with a ****. Nearly.
    didnt you mean without ? or are you a monk?


  • #16
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    [quote=[Deleted User];67132043]didnt you mean without ? or are you a monk?[/QUOTE]

    I think we should start to discuss the masturbation habits of clergy.
    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #17
    df1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    When I was younger about 7 or 8, my mother was going to Galway to visit relations, I would always go with her. The morning we were meant to be going something told me not to get in the car, she thought I was just acting up being a brat, but I point blank refused to go, I just had a feeling.....

    Driving back a bull came out on the road and smashed into the passenger side where i would have been sitting. completely took out the passenger side, horns in through the window swinging around as the bull was in a panic. The car was wrecked.

    Dunno if its a tale of survival but i avoided potentially serious injuries anyway. My mother thought i was some kind of psychic after that!


  • #18
    Misael Hot Widow
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Misael Hot Widow


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    I think we should start to discuss the masturbation habits of clergy.
    i think you will be on your own there but work away


  • #19
    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    My friend passed out on a railway track in Australia. He was hit by a train which hooked him by the chest and dragged him for 60 yards leaving him opened up like a can of sardines, fractured skull, broken ribs, punctured lung, broken leg, shattered ankle and multiple lacerations. He was in a coma for 6 weeks and the doctors had all but written him off. When he came round, his first words were - "Get these ****ing tubes out of me!"

    Today he is fine apart from short term memory problems and a vicious scar like a zip up his chest.

    Legend.


  • #20
    Sticky_Fingers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    Reminds me of Biggins post on how much the world wants him dead

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=58341630&postcount=14

    Considering this was a few years ago I wonder what life has thrown at him since then


  • #21
    we'llallhavetea_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    Sticky_Fingers wrote: »
    Reminds me of Biggins post on how much the world wants him dead

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=58341630&postcount=14

    Considering this was a few years ago I wonder what life has thrown at him since then



    is there anything that man hasn't been through? :eek:


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  • #22
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    is there anything that man hasn't been through? :eek:

    Transgender surgery.

    That we know of!


  • #23
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    Hmm i tried to run away from the north side gang in an armed robbery that was kinda funny i guess having guy with a sawn off chase me while all i could think of was gotta put lunch in the canteen, odd day.


  • #24
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,424 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Jesus,

    He rose from the dead


  • #25
    Doc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    adrian280582 wrote: »
    Jesus,

    He rose from the dead

    Then he didn’t survive did he? ;)


  • #26
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    adrian280582 wrote: »
    Jesus,

    He rose from the dead
    no


  • #27
    aDeener
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭aDeener


    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    is there anything that man hasn't been through? :eek:

    by the looks of that post he's been wading through a lot of bs


  • #28
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    greetings wrote: »
    Once nearly went a day with a ****. Nearly.

    I think you might have made a spelling error here.

    Surely you are not telling us that you've never cracked one off before.


  • #29
    fakearms123
    Registered Users Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭fakearms123


    I moved from dublin to kerry.


  • #30
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    RonMexico wrote: »
    My friend passed out on a railway track in Australia. He was hit by a train which hooked him by the chest and dragged him for 60 yards leaving him opened up like a can of sardines, fractured skull, broken ribs, punctured lung, broken leg, shattered ankle and multiple lacerations. He was in a coma for 6 weeks and the doctors had all but written him off. When he came round, his first words were - "Get these ****ing tubes out of me!"

    Today he is fine apart from short term memory problems and a vicious scar like a zip up his chest.

    Legend.

    I'm glad he's alive and all that, but there is nothing legendary about that, your friend is an idiot, pure and simple.


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  • #31
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    I'm glad he's alive and all that, but there is nothing legendary about that, your friend is an idiot, pure and simple.


    Me; I'd like to know how he passed out before calling him an idiot.


  • #32
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    i survived the deadliest disease of all and that is of course man flu


  • #33
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    Insurgent wrote: »
    Me; I'd like to know how he passed out before calling him an idiot.

    I can't think of a single case where you'd pass out on a train track apart from being paraletically drunk or high.


  • #34
    Scuid Mhór
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Scuid Mhór


    i have a story of survival

    it started at midnight when i was called into the office. back at home, my daughter had sneaked out of the house with people who wanted to abduct her.

    my name is federal agent jack bauer

    and that was the longest day of my life


  • #35
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭caseyann


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    I can't think of a single case where you'd pass out on a train track apart from being paraletically drunk or high.

    Em Australia heat exhaustion!


  • #36
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    caseyann wrote: »
    Em Australia heat exhaustion!
    You can't get heat exhaustion in the parts of Australia that Irish fúckwits go to.


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  • #37
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    I can't think of a single case where you'd pass out on a train track apart from being paraletically drunk or high.

    Depends on what he meant by passed out. Friend of a friend "passed out" ie simply fainted as a train pulled in. Woke up 'sans' one arm. **** happens.


  • #38
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Dean0088 wrote: »
    I was on the LUAS at half eleven last night ....
    Was it the red line?


  • #39
    I_AmThe_Walrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭I_AmThe_Walrus


    Have I ever told you of my backpacking excursions of self-discovery in east Africa? Well, then.....


  • #40
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭caseyann


    recylingbin wrote: »
    You can't get heat exhaustion in the parts of Australia that Irish fúckwits go to.


    Irish ****wits,whats that in aid of?


  • #41
    RachPie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 244 ✭✭RachPie


    Mine's not so amazing, but still I survived!
    Was go - karting in Italy, what seems to be a fairly safe thing to do, but crashed into some tyres at high speed because of some messing around going on on the tracks, knocked into the steering wheel and lacerated three major internal organs. Got to the hospital in time, gave me all the scans, said I'd basically have a 50/50 chance of survival and have to undergo an extensive bout of major surgery, cutting from my breastbone to groin. Went along, came out the other side, had severe complications. (No gory detail, lets just say I was pretty f*d up inside.) Came back to Ireland, no idea how they let me on the plane. Came to Limerick where I had to undergo similar major surgery, came out fine, got MRSA. At the end, I was a tiny 6 stone (I'm 5"10), severely scarred but alive. It was two years ago, but I'm well recovered today. Just glad of such a brilliant medical team and my friends and family who looked after me.


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  • #42
    mcgrath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭mcgrath


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Ah Jaysus this one time it was Friday evening and I was sitting around the house just watching DVDs. I finish Schindler's List and decided to lighten it up so I stick on Supertroopers, walk to the fridge with a plan to crack open a few beers.

    But when I got there, the cupboard fridge was bare. Not a can in sight!

    I glanced at my totally rad 80's retro Casio digital watch and saw the time was 3 minutes to ten.

    Three minutes to 10????? :eek:

    And me living 5 minutes from the nearest off-licence!!!!! :eek::eek::eek:

    Out the door with me, no shoes on my feet but the threat of broken glass and dog excrement was no deterrent. This was a mission that was more important than foot safety, more important than personal dignity (I was also only wearing boxer shorts and a t-shirt).

    I sprinted, I ran, I pelted it down the road. Children out playing late in the street were knocked backward by the wind caused by my speed as I hurtled down the hill towards the Spar. I gave my all, I vaulted over buggies, dogs and illegally parked Nissan Micras. I was bettering my all time best time, the time I had to leg it down for last pints on Holy Thursday 2007.

    I was faster than Mercury, the messenger of the Roman Gods. I was speedier than Lucy Kennedy in pursuit of a new energy-related advertising campaign. I was faster than Twink, after a small bit of exposure on a third rate RTE talk show.

    But still, despite all of this, despite giving my all and pushing myself beyond limits that mere mortals would have crumbled long before, despite being all I could be, I was not there in time.

    The shutters around the small fridge section of Spar were down.

    The look of regret on the cashier's face was heart-breaking as he realised that here was a man who had given his all for a few cans of Dutch Gold and had been denied.

    It was the night of the dry.

    The night of no beer.

    The cold, lonely dark night of the soul.

    AnonoBoy had no beer but yet somehow I managed to survive.

    F*ck that cannibal rugby team in Argentina.

    I am the embodiment of survival.

    Where's my true-life movie?

    Where's my medal?



    I thank you,

    AnonoBoy
    brilliantly told


  • #43
    we'llallhavetea_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Transgender surgery.

    That we know of!

    i'm sure he's dabbled in some way :pac:


  • #44
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    I can't think of a single case where you'd pass out on a train track apart from being paraletically drunk or high.
    Narcolepsy.


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