Scariest experience?

Stompbox

So,any scary experiences among the clan? Recently got spear-tackled onto my neck during a rugby match and you could say I got slightly scared when I couldn't see at all for 10 seconds. How about anyone else??

Gaspode

Got my hand trapped in a cutting machine some years ago when I worked in a factory. It was my fretting hand so I thought my guitar hero career was over! When I got it released it was just one finger that was crushed, but it wasnt too bad. Seemed like hours before I got my hand out of there, but it was only about 8-10 seconds as the machine was in auto mode so it just lifted at the appointed time. Amazing how many things come into your head when you're bricking yourself. And yet, the strongest emotion I felt even above the fear was the embarrasment that I had been dumb enough to try to clear the thing when it was operating!

Max_Damage

I nearly lost my leg on a PTO shaft on a tractor a few years ago. I can't remember rightly what I was doing on the back of the tractor, but my trousers got caught in on the spinning shaft, and ripped the entire leg of the trousers of me. Luckly they were cheap light quality trousers and they ripped easily, if I was wearing stronger trousers like jeans, I'd reckon my leg would have been lost.

arseagon

the moment you discover that she is in fact a he...... Not that it ever happened to me....
That's a real crying game moment.

nesf

Nearly electrocuted myself when I crossed two multimeter probes over 220v and was blinded by the flash and the smoke. Melted the two probes, blew up the fuse in the plug and melted holes in the circuit board of the TV that I was repairing.

I was in shock for a minute or two afterwards.

afatbollix

60 mph into a tree while rallying.... my first thought was my back is broke.... then about 20 seconds later i opened my eyes to see the other fellow jumping out so thought it mustent be too bad a crash.... so i got the OK board.... took me 15 mins to move anything elce... got out after a while and slowly crawed away...... anyho got up an dwalked away then... went to the doctor 2 days later who gave me loads of painkillers so i could go to my debs... that was a fun night

Heyes

The call you recieve telling you that your dad has collapsed and has been rushed to hospital. While on the phone you can hear the ambulance driving off, but dont have a clue whats going on. Get to the hospital and all your hearing is surgery...brain... amongst other things. cant even touch him to see if he s okay as he s so sensitive to touch.
Thankfully he was VERY lucky as he has recovered fully now, and it was a freak thing (touch wood), but a moment i will never forget and dont want to go through any time soon again.

JohnCleary

Wakin up next to yer ma! :eek:

On a serious note, breaking my spine and being told I might never walk again.
Apart from that, car crashes etc. are pretty frightening at times

Thrill

Nearly crushed against the side of a tunnel by a truck while cycling.

If i hadnt pulled the brakes when i did i would have been mince meat.

CathyMoran

Cancer

Font22

car crash i was involved in about a year ago. old man on my side of the road headed straight for me. he drove off too which was fab!!!!

Thrill

zippy28 wrote:

the moment you discover that she is in fact a he...... Not that it ever happened to me....
That's a real crying game moment.

That happened to someone i know in a night club in London. He was chatting this one up and then he dropped the hand and found himself holding a hairy pair of nuts. He started to beat the guy up but got grabbed by a few bouncers and got thrown out.

Time Magazine

Very, very stupidly taking a quick walk along train-tracks and hearing the horn behind you. It was a good few years ago now.

The sound of a train moving goes to either side of it, you will not hear one coming up behind you.

Soby

well off the top of my head mine which is no where near as bad as you guys but falling out of a bunk bed..kinda just a bit where u realise ur not in your bed..lol i was tryin to go up against the wall but i had switched ends of the bed that night so instead of wall being on me right its was left so >>>>>
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chubba1984

Fell head-first 20-25 feet out of a tree as a young fella and landed in a briar hedge bout 6 inches from a jagged stone wall. If I landed on it I was finished. The helpless feeling while I fell, knowin what was beneath me, won't ever be forgotten.

Car Mad

ya car crash especially when you realise you have no control over the car and everything just goes into slow motion ah im goin to die.the a few seconds later im ok oh wait my legs broken

Plug

I nearly hung myself when i was about 9 or 10. Not an emo suicidal thing, basicaly I was making a tree house(a few planks:rolleyes:) when I sliped out of the tree and my hood got caught on a large nail. I couldn't breath for like 30 seconds then my brother came out and lifted my legs up so i lived to tell the tale.

WallysWorld

nesf wrote:

Nearly electrocuted myself when I crossed two multimeter probes over 220v and was blinded by the flash and the smoke. Melted the two probes, blew up the fuse in the plug and melted holes in the circuit board of the TV that I was repairing.

I was in shock for a minute or two afterwards.

Got a bad shock myself, working with a 3 phase powered machine. I put my hand into a stream of water leaking over an electricity wire that had a split in it, the shock knocked me on my arse but was ok after a minute.

KdjaCL

1,Stabbed in the face by crazed wino/junkie 1 inch scar 10mm under
my eye. Thankfully wearing glasses it doesnt get noticed.

2.Attemped stab in face blocked by my hand 12" bowie knife stuck in my hand went right tru , went to hospital and sorta said "dude theres a knife stuck in my hand" , why do we block sharp things with our hands.

3. 1st driving lesson , stolen car on wrong side of road overtaking a car and heading straight for me, swerved off road and hit wall nearly killing myself and whitefaced instructor, "would i pass"

4. Stabbed in stomach by dumbass kid, small scar.

5. Missing part of rib , no idea how but on my rib theres a huge gap, Dr said bone is in me somewhere no clue how or why but it could kill me.

6. being told i have hereidtary bowel cancer which will kill me as it has everyone in my family, groovy no need to diet so, brekkie rolls FTW.



theres more that i cnt recall now.

kdjac

humanji

Few years ago, coming home from college a little kid (maybe 5 or 6) ran into the middle of the road as a car was coming. I ran out and grabbed him, tuning m back to the car. It hit me and I bounced off it and onto the ground. I was paralysed with shock for a few moments afterwards, just terrified that the kid (who wasn't moving) was dead.

This was followed by my most painfull moment, when the little bastard got up and stood on my nuts!

Black Swan

thrill wrote:

That happened to someone i know in a night club in London. He was chatting this one up and then he dropped the hand and found himself holding a hairy pair of nuts. He started to beat the guy up but got grabbed by a few bouncers and got thrown out.

Also a scene in the film Crockadile Dundee.

humanji

KdjaCL wrote:

1,Stabbed in the face by crazed wino/junkie 1 inch scar 10mm under
my eye. Thankfully wearing glasses it doesnt get noticed.

2.Attemped stab in face blocked by my hand 12" bowie knife stuck in my hand went right tru , went to hospital and sorta said "dude theres a knife stuck in my hand" , why do we block sharp things with our hands.

3. 1st driving lesson , stolen car on wrong side of road overtaking a car and heading straight for me, swerved off road and hit wall nearly killing myself and whitefaced instructor, "would i pass"

4. Stabbed in stomach by dumbass kid, small scar.

5. Missing part of rib , no idea how but on my rib theres a huge gap, Dr said bone is in me somewhere no clue how or why but it could kill me.

6. being told i have hereidtary bowel cancer which will kill me as it has everyone in my family, groovy no need to diet so, brekkie rolls FTW.



theres more that i cnt recall now.

kdjac

Where the hell do you live! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Oh, and don't worry about the cancer. My doc told me I had terminal lung cancer. No cure, no hope. Yet, one year later, there's not a sign of it! Human body is an amazing thing!

KdjaCL

KdjaCL wrote:

1,Stabbed in the face by crazed wino/junkie 1 inch scar 10mm under
my eye. Thankfully wearing glasses it doesnt get noticed.

2.Attemped stab in face blocked by my hand 12" bowie knife stuck in my hand went right tru , went to hospital and sorta said "dude theres a knife stuck in my hand" , why do we block sharp things with our hands.

3. 1st driving lesson , stolen car on wrong side of road overtaking a car and heading straight for me, swerved off road and hit wall nearly killing myself and whitefaced instructor, "would i pass"

4. Stabbed in stomach by dumbass kid, small scar.

5. Missing part of rib , no idea how but on my rib theres a huge gap, Dr said bone is in me somewhere no clue how or why but it could kill me.

6. being told i have hereidtary bowel cancer which will kill me as it has everyone in my family, groovy no need to diet so, brekkie rolls FTW.



theres more that i cnt recall now.

kdjac

You serious?

Ruu_Old

I think you need a long vacation, KdjaCL.

Nothing major here, our car nearly went under the front of a lorry when I was about 12.

CathyMoran

humanji wrote:

Where the hell do you live! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Oh, and don't worry about the cancer. My doc told me I had terminal lung cancer. No cure, no hope. Yet, one year later, there's not a sign of it! Human body is an amazing thing!

Great to see someone with a positive attitude to cancer, too often people see the negative and refuse to be upbeat and determined to beat it. I said that cancer was my scariest experience but it has also brought a lot of positive things into my life such as the way I appreciate everyday things, do not get me wrong, I am not glad that I have it but I am making the most of this time. My cancer is a very bad one too (very low survival rates of between 8-10%) but I am determined to beat it. I love Shane and am determined to have a long and healthy life with him, also if I died it would destroy my father and I could not do that, I love him. Well done to you.

Other scary things - when my mum got seriously ill.

KdjaCL

Deleted User wrote:

You serious?

Umm theres a good few more to add to that


7. Mother fell down stairs drunk and for 2 days said she had headache, Sis in law dragged her to talaght hospital where they found a blood clot inpounding on her brain and sent her to Beaumonut for emergency brain surgery , doc in beuamont reckoned she had about 20 minutes to live until tallaght doc spotted it.

8. Kid fell down stairs and was lifeless when i picked her up, ambulance crew said she was sleeping and brought her to hospital where they confirmed she was sleeping and had not got a single makr on her due to sleepwalking and falling down stairs.

kdjac

smallpaws

I was out hauling lobster traps with my dad when I was about sixteen, and I was preoccupied with pulling the trap up over the side without throwing my back out and unbeknownst to me, while I worked, the rope from the up-coming trap was coiling down from the pothauler (technical word we use) on the deck and around my left boot. I remember I emptied the trap, baited it back up and gave it a shove back over the side and then felt something like a hot whip flying up and around my ankle and jumping WAY up, trying to get out of the way. I couldn't believe how FAST it went, the damn thing pulled my boot off.

My dad laughed at me, "You won't forget what I told you about minding the rope again, will you?" I was pretty shook up, more than a few people have been hauled overboard and drowned that way. I learned how easy it was and how fast it can happen.

smallpaws

doc told me I had terminal lung cancer. No cure, no hope. Yet, one year later, there's not a sign of it! Human body is an amazing thing!

It is, really. I used to work for the Cancer Society, and you'd be suprised at how often people given little to no hope beat the odds. I have met one man who had a spontaneous remission of lung cancer, another of pancreatic cancer and God knows how many people given no real chance to live (like in less than 8 or 5 %) beyond five years kick cancer's ass, including the big killers, lung, liver, colon and pancreatic.

abetarrush

Sleep Paralysis

nuff said

nesf

CathyMoran wrote:

Great to see someone with a positive attitude to cancer, too often people see the negative and refuse to be upbeat and determined to beat it. I said that cancer was my scariest experience but it has also brought a lot of positive things into my life such as the way I appreciate everyday things, do not get me wrong, I am not glad that I have it but I am making the most of this time. My cancer is a very bad one too (very low survival rates of between 8-10%) but I am determined to beat it. I love Shane and am determined to have a long and healthy life with him, also if I died it would destroy my father and I could not do that, I love him. Well done to you.

Other scary things - when my mum got seriously ill.

Yeah, spontaneous remissions can, and do, happen. Never give up hope.

CathyMoran

smallpaws wrote:

doc told me I had terminal lung cancer. No cure, no hope. Yet, one year later, there's not a sign of it! Human body is an amazing thing!

It is, really. I used to work for the Cancer Society, and you'd be suprised at how often people given little to no hope beat the odds. I have met one man who had a spontaneous remission of lung cancer, another of pancreatic cancer and God knows how many people given no real chance to live (like in less than 8 or 5 %) beyond five years kick cancer's ass, including the big killers, lung, liver, colon and pancreatic.

Good post, am in that group and I am determined to beat it too (I quoted the most optimistic stats), sure isn't my fiancee the most wonderful man, I could not leave him. Fair dues to you for working with the Cancer Society, they are of great help to me at the moment.

Another scary thing was being there when my gran died but it was also a wonderful experience as she was 100 when she died so it really was her time.

nesf

WallysWorld wrote:

Got a bad shock myself, working with a 3 phase powered machine. I put my hand into a stream of water leaking over an electricity wire that had a split in it, the shock knocked me on my arse but was ok after a minute.

Yeah fortunately that incident in the TV repair shop happened when I was 14. It gave me a good healthy respect for electricity, which was good considering I ended up overhauling and repairing large motors for a couple of summers later on and still do work in the area. When you're working with high tension AC (5000 volt plus) and large DC motors (which are far scarier, we got the current to arc 7 feet in the workshop one day!) you really don't want to be ****ing around or forgetting things like a wrench left in a junction box before you turn the current on...

nesf

CathyMoran wrote:

Another scary thing was being there when my gran died but it was also a wonderful experience as she was 100 when she died so it really was her time.

Yeah we're kind of in the same boat at the moment, my gran is turning 90 on Christmas day but she's been on deaths door for the past 3 years on and off. She's got no vision now and honestly I've never seen someone as unafraid of death. She is simply looking forward to oblivion (she's an atheist which is odd for someone of her age) but then she's buried a husband, a daughter and 2 grandchildren, so she's seen enough tbh.

tuxy

abetarrush wrote:

Sleep Paralysis

nuff said

Only scary the first time it happens

Thrill

When my dad got a heart attack.

When my brother was killed in traffic accident.

Another brother almost beaten to death on Patrick street.

And when yet another brother was fighting for his life after taking drugs.

coyote6

I've worked as a cop in the USA for the past nine years. Some of the worst things:

1) Having a guy blow his brains out in front of me.
2) An idiot trying to run me over with a large truck
3) Dead children or babies
4) Telling people their loved ones have died
5) Fighting for your life with crazy and drunk people
6) Breaking or twisting nearly every joint and bone in my body
7) Aging in cop years
8) PTSD
9) Burying too many buddies

Not to worry I'm going into a new line of work in 07' or '08 and possibly moving to Dublin.

Hal1

Ahh the walter mitteys are out in force again

coyote6

Hal1 wrote:

Ahh the walter mitteys are out in force again

I wish it was a fantasy then I wouldn't have ruptured discs, a crooked nose and ankles that pop everytime I walk!

DilbertPartII

when part of my shirt which was tucked out got strangled on the conveyor and nearly rolled me up. i was glad those beside me were adept in pulling me in. couldn't speak for minutes!:eek:

standing in a windowless room, in the middle of a tall building during an earthquake. This was the day after seeing the engineers report that stated that the building was in such a poor state that it would collapse in an eathquake.:eek:

Lots of dust but it stayed up.

admiralofthefleet

getting a fone call from vincents hospital to go up to my father who had passed away literally a few moments before my fone had rang. the words the nurse spoke to me 'can you come to the hospital please, frank has passed away' really scared me because i knew it was true but didnt want to hear it

darkflower

receiving a text message after an hour telling that HE was being operated for a stab in the chest after i've cursed HIM to die. guilt feeling scared me to death.HE pissed me off i knew but it was mean of me to utter those words.

rugbug86

1) being told that i had a cracked vertabre in my neck, being completely immobilised and transferred to hospital on a spinal board.

more xrays and specialists looking them showed it was just an abnormal vertabre and concluded i just had bad whiplash, a strained ligament in my back and a compression injury.

still scary tho...

2) not being able to stand up after i cracked a rib in a rugby match. couldn't breath and couldn't understand why

3) getting a needle in my eye

4) the first time i had an asthma attack

5) the time when i was younger that i had a whopper nosebleed and needed blood transfusion

swingking

1. Our car skidding on the ice on the way down to cork and ending up going on the opposite side of the motorway, only to be lucky that there was no cars coming in our direction.

2. Getting myself trapped underneath a banana boat, only to miraculously escape without being choked to death.

is_that_so

1. Landing on the third attempt in winds not unlike today. Plane skidded sideways.
2. A bit of Mars bar going down the wrong way and every breath making it worse. A thump on the back freed it.
3. As a child being in Dublin after one of the bombs in the early seventies.

Thrill

Hal1 wrote:

Ahh the walter mitteys are out in force again

Making fun of peoples tragedies is sick.:mad:

You must be one of the incredibly lucky people nothing bad has ever happened to.

OliviaM

waked up forcefully by my OBGYNE after sedating me for a painless delivery telling my baby's heartbeat is abnormal and they've to give me a CS. I wasn't prepared for a surgery.

uniquechic

probably when a horse i was riding took off up the road with me.He had no saddle and I physicallly couldnt stop him so I had to sit there and hope he'd stop!Then when i finally ended up falling I was sure he was going to step on me altho he didnt so I was very lucky

Apart from that it would probably be my first panic attack.

Catari Jaguar

When I was about 11 my mam got a clot on her brain, I was visiting her in hospital and my Dad left for a min, my mam started having a fit and i was never more scared in my life, ran for my dad in a panic calling all the nurses, she nearly choked to death too, loads of nurses came in and pulled the curtain around her... I was in bits. freaks me out thinking about it. She was grand in the end though. More lives than a cat that one..

I nearly drowned as a kid, that was traumatic. Failing college and having a breakdown was scary too... I also have a heart condition and sometimes my heart stops and then beats real fast and I can't breathe and nearly pass out and think I'm going to die. That always scares me.

c - 13

Mild compared to some on here but two near fatal car crashes within the space of two years. The crashes themselves werent frightening really but after a few days when it actually comes to you that there is an 80% chance you should be dead it really hits home.

xzanti

My God.. Some scary stories there.. The only one I can think of was one time in the Blanchardstown Centre.. 1 week before Xmas so the place was jammers, I had my then 1 yr old niece in her buggy and my friend was with me who was 8 months pregnant, going up the travelator and some genius up ahead had decided to put his shopping trolly full of food sideways getting on and it got wedged at the top and of course the thing was still moving so everyone was being mashed together and people were still piling on at the bottom unaware of what had happened, it was horrible, my nieces little legs were being crushed by some woman’s trolly and she was screaming and my pregnant friend was being mashed between 2 people, everyone was screaming and there was no security guard at the top to help pull the guys trolly out.. it must have been a good minute or so before a security guard came to help, it seemed much longer though… The guy with the trolly never even apologised he just got the hell out of there ASAP.. Idiot, my niece was in convulsions, thankfully nobody was hurt.. Quite scary though…