Scariest experience?

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…

Oriel

anto-t wrote:

60 mph into a tree while rallying....

Ah the joys of Ballymun!

Pirbright

The first time you realise they're shooting at you/trying to blow you up.....by the end of 6 months, you're thankful to be going home in one piece.

coyote6

Amen brotha'!

ClareBear

Nothing that's actually happened to me personally. It was my brother. Another freak thing, he collapsed and was in a coma for a while. I was away at a festival at the time, that journey back was the longest few hours of my life. He's grand now, was out of hospital after a month but 3 and a half years on I still think about it every day. Strange thing is it didn't change him a bit, just everyone around him. He's still a narky focker

Also was chasing after my little nephew a few weeks ago and he banged his head off the door and was out cold for about 10 seconds. I thought he was dead. His lips went blue. Horrible, horrible experience.

Thankfully that's as bad as it's gotten for me I think. Things like that, no matter how small have a positive though, as long as everything works out okay it can really give you the kick up the arse you might have needed sometimes.

ClareBear

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.

Well done you! What an amazing attitude.

Splinter

some horrible experiences here and my heart goes out to you all. my scariest was watching a close friend die in front of me knowing there was nothing i could do (sledding accident in Swords a few years ago that some of you may remember) that really hit home. or when my mam told me she spent all day in the hospital with my dad cause he had a stroke that morning!!

exCrumlinBoyo

Have a few…

1. When I was a kid, maybe 11 or 12 myself and a mate were messing on top of the extension at the back of my mam’s house. There was this big cavity block holding up the gutter on the edge of the extension. My mate was messing at it when we heard my mam shout “I hope you’re not on that bleeding extension”? We jumped down from the extension and stood with our backs to the wall. All of a sudden to my left I felt something fall by my head and smash on the ground. My mate never put the cavity block back correct and it fell missing my head by less than an Inch… I nearly **** my self.


2. Went on a school trip when I was 13 to the Aran Islands. On the train trip out there we were all messing and I had my head out the window spitting, stupid I know. I was doing this for a while. This time I had my head out facing the right when I pulled my head in and a train coming in the other direction sped passed. If my head had of been out a second longer I would have been decapitated.


3. In Amsterdam when I was 18, drunk and full of drugs I was on a tram going someplace. My stop was coming up and I opened the door to the wrong side of the tram and I jumped of the train into the middle of on coming traffic. A taxi went over my toes and one inch further I was a dead man.

All my own fault, but I am meant to be on this planet for some reason because I have had 3 real close calls which sacred the s hit out of me big time.

Gizzle

I once asked a gay stranger in a swimming pool if he ever fisted (the swimming drill) before, and I said it was hards on the arms. Just as the "other" meaning came to mind, I hopped out of the pool and never set foot there again.

More embarassing than scary I suppose.

blahhh

Some of those are scary....I feel lucky in comparison

-Nearly drowned twice, first time I was 7 or so and went down some water slide in a water park, banged my head off the side and knocked myself out, I was under for about a minute as no one else noticed but my 9 year old sister.

Second time I was 10 and me and my friend decided to dive off a pier....I couldn't swim at the time....my friend who was also in difficulty managed to grab on to a ladder thingy....while I bobbed up and down for about 2 mins or so.....worst feeling ever...eventually she grabbed me. Seemed like it took ages though

-Falling off my bike....numerous times....but the worst time had to be when I was 11. I was speeding down this hill and a small dog jumped out and I swerved to avoid him and skidded, going head first over the handle-bars, landing on my face. Amazing I didn't break any bones but I had 2 black eyes, two fat lips, chipped teeth and grazes all down my face.....I looked funny....but oh the pain.

-At 12 I got a horribly painful headache along with blurred vision and vomiting, my hyperchondriac of a mother and numerous neighbours were all convinced I had meningitis and drove me to several GPs until they could find an open office, where loads of tests etc. were carried out. It was only a severe migraine...scary none the less.

kevmy

Some extra freaky ones here mine aren't that bad in comparison really. My family been very lucky really.

1) When I was about 4 I wanted to plug something into the electrical socket. But we had those covers that areshoved into the sockets to stop kids getting at the plug socket. Anyway I went into the kitchen and got a knife to remove the safety cover and slid it between the cover and the socket. I then tried to lever the cover off when I got a massive shock. I got thrown back against the couch and was knocked out for a few seconds. Luckily the knife I'd used was a plastic handled one (which completely melted) if I had picked up a steel one I'd have been fcuked.

2) A couple of years later my younger sister nearly choked on a Frostie and my mother was whacking her to get it out. I was really scared for her but she spat it out after a couple of mins but they were a scary couple of mins for me as a kid.

3) When I was about 12 we were putting cattle in the cattle crush and I was standing in the pen with them driving them in. The biggest bullock suddenly kicked out, he was massive and broke the big stick I had in my hand clean in two. I had it held down beside my leg and felt the wind of the kick. If it had hit me, leg broken no doubt.