Have you ever NEARLY been killed?

Shinjuku

A few years ago some scumbag fired a stone straight at me with a galabandy (culchie word for catapult/black widow). It whizzed past my head, pretty close to my eye. It was going so fast I could hear a little "zzzip". If it hit my eye, I definitely would have been killed. It would have gone through my eye, through the eye socket and then lodged in my brain and caused general havoc. Tis a wierd thought. Kinda makes me nervous every time I remember it.

Anyone else nearly been killed? Or savagely injured at least?

galwayrush

Managed to catch hair in a spinning Lathe,( guess i shouldn't have long hair at my age) don't know how i survived that, it was an incredibly fast and hard bang.
got electric shocks twice.
Overturned a car after skidding on an oil spill, surreal experience, everything went into what appeared slow motion.

Shacklebolt

I was once starting an illegal bonfire when the tin of petrol ignited in my hand... Had it exploded I would certainly have been killed.

SV

Shinjuku wrote: »

A few years ago some scumbag fired a stone straight at me with a galabandy (culchie word for catapult/black widow). It whizzed past my head, pretty close to my eye. It was going so fast I could hear a little "zzzip". If it hit my eye, I definitely would have been killed. It would have gone through my eye, through the eye socket and then lodged in my brain and caused general havoc. Tis a wierd thought. Kinda makes me nervous every time I remember it.

Anyone else nearly been killed? Or savagely injured at least?

jesus. over react much?

You probably would have been blind in one eye..
Killed?
Did you think it was a bullet or something?

Big Knox

Shinjuku wrote: »

A few years ago some scumbag fired a stone straight at me with a galabandy (culchie word for catapult/black widow). It whizzed past my head, pretty close to my eye. It was going so fast I could hear a little "zzzip". If it hit my eye, I definitely would have been killed. It would have gone through my eye, through the eye socket and then lodged in my brain and caused general havoc. Tis a wierd thought. Kinda makes me nervous every time I remember it.

Anyone else nearly been killed? Or savagely injured at least?

You were not even remotly close to being killed. It wasn't a gun, jesus get over it.

SoWatchaWant

I slipped on the wet bathroom floor and cracked my head off of the toilet when I was about 3. But miraculously I wasn't hurt, and the toilet started to leak and had to be replaced

Big Knox

Shinjuku wrote: »

A few years ago some scumbag fired a stone straight at me with a galabandy (culchie word for catapult/black widow). It whizzed past my head, pretty close to my eye. It was going so fast I could hear a little "zzzip". If it hit my eye, I definitely would have been killed. It would have gone through my eye, through the eye socket and then lodged in my brain and caused general havoc. Tis a wierd thought. Kinda makes me nervous every time I remember it.

Anyone else nearly been killed? Or savagely injured at least?

You were not even remotely close to being killed. It wasn't a gun, jesus get over it.

emeraldstar

No, never.

Big Knox

Sorry double post :pac:

arybvtcw0eolkf

Yes, a few times in South Lebanon.

Shinjuku

ClioV6 wrote: »

jesus. over react much?

You probably would have been blind in one eye..
Killed?
Did you think it was a bullet or something?

What are you on about? You can kill rats rabbits crows etc. with those things. You obviously have never used a black widow. The good ones are as powerful as FCUK.

SV

Shinjuku wrote: »

What are you on about? You can kill rats rabbits crows etc. with those things. You obviously have never used a black widow. The good ones are as powerful as FCUK.

You're not a ****ing rat, rabbit or a crow!

I have, and it's not a gun, and it wouldn't kill you.
Get over yourself.

ottostreet

about four years ago, crossing the road at a roundabout near my old secondary school, forgot how roundabouts work, and didnt check one of the exits, as a lorry came around the bend. didnt see it, walked out in front of it, head a horn blare, looked, and saw the front of it bearing down on me, far too fast to stop. if i tried going forward, he'd hit me hard since i was only about a quarter across. i just jumped backwards as far as i could, and the lorry cleared me by a pretty small gap. closest ive probably come apart from a near crash when i misread traffic completely once.

Biggins

Yep,

Shot at
Blown up by a bomb
plane crash
House collapse on me
Run over by a motorbike
Car crash
Bus crash
Caught a deadly rare viral bone infection
and a few others.

As they say, you can't kill a bad thing!
Just look at Mugabe!

mike65

Rollover on a country lane into a field was the nearest to death. Cut my right ear as a result!

Shinjuku

Biggins wrote: »

Yep,

Shot at
Blown up by a bomb
plane crash
House collapse on me
Run over by a motorbike
Car crash
Bus crash
Caught a deadly rare viral bone infection
and a few others.

As they say, you can't kill a bad thing!
Just look at Mugabe!

Who the **** are you? James Bond?

Shinjuku

Shinjuku wrote: »

Who the **** are you? James Bond?

He's Jack Bauer.

Shinjuku

ClioV6 wrote: »

You're not a ****ing rat, rabbit or a crow!

I have, and it's not a gun, and it wouldn't kill you.
Get over yourself.

I'll get over yore ma before I get over my awesome close to death experience. I think I'll have to send this question into Mythbusters. "Can a stone fired full force from a galabandy into the human eye get lodged in the brain."

Fajitas!

Had a few close misses with cars and whatnot.

The closest I've seen was a mate of mine - We were at pretty big party, and there was a big courtyard. Someone put decks, an amp, and a few other electronic bits on the window sill above it. Anyways, we were chatting away, and decided to pop inside. One step later, all the electronics came through the window and landed exactly where my mate was standing... It left a fair aul dent in the slab it landed on - Not a hope of my friend suriviving if it landed on him.

Mad. We got sh*tfaced after that.

Plug

Nearly drowned and I hung myself but my brother saw me through the window. It was an accident. Building a tree house, didn't really work out in the end:D

overexcitedaj

does eating all that so called contaminated pork count ?

spinandscribble

nearly drown once. i panicked and struggled but eventually gave up. it was a weird sort of calm feeling. i must have been blacking out. then someone came and pulled me out.

been shocked b a fence but i doubt that coud have killed me.

Proxy

Biggins wrote: »

Yep,

Shot at
Blown up by a bomb
plane crash
House collapse on me
Run over by a motorbike
Car crash
Bus crash
Caught a deadly rare viral bone infection
and a few others.

As they say, you can't kill a bad thing!
Just look at Mugabe!

Wha?!

Are you legally allowed to have children?

poisonated

I was in Italy years ago... was about 8 years old and just messing around with some heavy bored in the sea,anyway somehow I got stuck under the board and couldnt breath.It felt like I was down there for a life time but realisticaly was probably only there for a minute or something.Still pretty scary when your 8,I survived though:p

patrickSTARR

as on holiday in greece at the pool (sober i might add)when my friend who could not swim decided to get in the pool to cool down and stupidly thought it was a good idea to get in the deep end. needless to say he started going under and struggling fast. jumped in to grab him and because he was in such a panic he started to pull me under. i was under the water for bout 2 mins before i managed to grab on to a lilo. everyone at the pool thought it was a mess, but it wasnt. really scared the crap outta me. funny looking back tho

Latchy

Yes, sone Ejit left the safety off on his cocked FN rifle when we were on the firing range in Kilworth Co Cork .We hadnt being told to cock the wepon yet so it should have being safe. He squeezed trigger and round flew inches past me and another solidier .It was a genuine error but he got a right bollocking from officer and rest of the lads.

It wasnt my time to go .

SantryRed

Shinjuku wrote: »

A few years ago some scumbag fired a stone straight at me with a galabandy (culchie word for catapult/black widow). It whizzed past my head, pretty close to my eye. It was going so fast I could hear a little "zzzip". If it hit my eye, I definitely would have been killed. It would have gone through my eye, through the eye socket and then lodged in my brain and caused general havoc. Tis a wierd thought. Kinda makes me nervous every time I remember it.

Anyone else nearly been killed? Or savagely injured at least?

Wow. You're an idiot:eek:

Mossy Monk

Yes. Twice.

When I was a baby I had an illness which very nearly killed me.

When I was nine I spent a week and a half in intensive care after a road accident. Doctors say I should have been killed

Mr. CooL ICE

I once fainted while sitting on a wall. I managed to land on my head from a 7-8ft drop onto concrete and broken glass, but survived. I reckon that if I was conscious for it, I would have tensed up and broken my neck

galwayrush

I've pissed off my wife many times.:pac:

~Marky~

I was nearly killed last year when I was comming home from a night a out with a few friends.Me and a girl I know where standing at the lane just beside my house chatting when a car came around the corner way to fast and smashed into the wall just beside us.
The scumbags in the car just reversed and drove off :mad: The rest of my friends came running down the lane thinking we both had been killed it was horrible.

procstar

closets i ever came to being killed was when i was a child and my parents threatened to kill me if i didnt shut up.

ottostreet

LordChessington wrote: »

I once fainted while sitting on a wall. I managed to land on my head from a 7-8ft drop onto concrete and broken glass, but survived. I reckon that if I was conscious for it, I would have tensed up and broken my neck

yes, but if you had been conscious, would you have fallen off the wall?

JimmyCrackCorn!

Lost count.
Good to get the blood pumping though.:D


Its getting harder to live your life on the edge these days. If your a PC health and safety nutter please shag off I do not need a lid for a coffee cup.

Terry

SantryRed wrote: »

Wow. You're an idiot:eek:

Banned.

Biggins

Biggins wrote: »

Yep,

Shot at
Blown up by a bomb
plane crash
House collapse on me
Run over by a motorbike
Car crash
Bus crash
Caught a deadly rare viral bone infection
and a few others.

As they say, you can't kill a bad thing!
Just look at Mugabe!

Shinjuku wrote: »

Who the **** are you? James Bond?

LOL I wish - do I get the lassies?

Shot at (various places, home and away)
Blown up by a bomb (Abroad)
plane crash (England)
House collapse on me (Louth)
Run over by a motorbike (Louth)
Car crash (Israel)
Bus crash (Dublin)
Caught a deadly rare viral bone infection (Africa - Osteomyelitis )

I'm just one lucky son of a gun!

Hogzy

I touched a peanut and nearly died:D

Oh and i stopped breathing when i was a few months old... happened twice! Strange due to the length of time i was not breathing doctors say i would have grown up to be a dwarf and pigeon chested, Im 6"3 and iv a posture like a pencil!

m83

I once watched the sex in the city movie. Twice. In a row. Not on purpose.

How I escaped with my life, i'll never know.

Ruu_Old

How much is your life insurance policy, Biggins, and who in their right minds issued you one? :eek:

Car crash when I was a wee 5 year old, I know I shouldn't have been behind the wheel.

galwayrush

m83 wrote: »

I once watched the sex in the city movie. Twice. In a row. Not on purpose.

How I escaped with my life, i'll never know.

I avoided seeing mamma Mia.:cool:

Nolanger

Walked through Rathmines late one night back in the '90s. Turned the corner and there was a group of guys standing in silence looking at me. One of them had a machine gun poking out of their coat. Kept my mouth shut and kept walking - not sure what they were up to but I was the only person in the area.

Biggins

Ruu wrote: »

How much is your life insurance policy, Biggins? :eek:

Let me put it this way, lol, the parents had an insurance policy out in my name as well as my first wife who had one on me.

The wife wife didn't last but I did. Go figure!

SV

Shinjuku wrote: »

I'll get over yore ma before I get over my awesome close to death experience. I think I'll have to send this question into Mythbusters. "Can a stone fired full force from a galabandy into the human eye get lodged in the brain."

oh hey..another crap 'yore ma' reference..
how'd ya manage that one?


I could tell ya what they'd reply with but I'd be banned

Odysseus

Yeah I have a few life experiences that nearly brought it to an end, but that's what makes life so much more interesting. Each experience I would classify as a life defining moment, you look at life a tad difference after being close to death.

Caliden

Car crash when I was 6. Was in the backseat and there were no seatbelts.
If I wasnt sleeping across the seat I would have gone out the window. Smashed my face off one of the front seats and got a wicked battle scar for my troubles

HouseHippo

A T.V fell on me when I was 5 crushed my entire body,I escaped unharmed

Shot at

Almost fell of the side of a really high ledge.

Oh and not to forget I almost drank myself to death on what we call a reverse Jagerbomb, which is a Pint,yes a pint of Jager and a shot of redbull which we replaced with Mickey Finns.

Lots of times.

Sat on top of a 3 storey apartment block during a lightning storm. At one point it was a mile away. But damn, it was the best view.

Fell headfirst off a pier that was a 20foot drop when the tied was out. Only managed to grab on to a rope 5foot from the bottom, ripping the **** out of my hands as I slid down it

Narrowly missed getting my head chopped off by a passing truck. I was wearing cycling shoes that clicked into the peddle and hadn't gotten the hang of taking them out so instead of trying to balance, i fell sidewards.

Skidded off a bike on a wet road, crossing through 2 lanes on my back before banging into a kerb. Luckily there were no cars as the road was quiet then.

Had a few fireworks explode beside me because whoever planted them put them in too deep, so instead of going up, just stayed there and went BOOM.

Probably a lot more.

Cianos

Biggins wrote: »

LOL I wish - do I get the lassies?

Shot at (various places, home and away)
Blown up by a bomb (Abroad)
plane crash (England)
House collapse on me (Louth)
Run over by a motorbike (Louth)
Car crash (Israel)
Bus crash (Dublin)
Caught a deadly rare viral bone infection (Africa - Osteomyelitis )

I'm just one lucky son of a gun!

Can you tell at least one of these stories? :pac:

antodeco

Nearly got decapitated by a Dublin Bus mirror.
Electrocuted in Lanzarote.
Nearly fell off the roof in Hume House when I was working for fm104.
Skidded the car sideways towards an oncoing truck. Managed to get it back!

oztots

HouseHippo wrote: »

A T.V fell on me when I was 5 crushed my entire body,I escaped unharmed

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Woman pulled out in front of me on my motorbike and i smacked straight into her. Got the 3rd circle on the audi sign. Luckily went over the car rather than into it.

Was onlz told this recently. Fell off scaffolding when i was about 6, went backwards onto my head. I can remember falling, cant remember the fact that i was out for the next 8 hours. I thought id never been knocked out until my father corrected me!

Man, I thought I was hardcore