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Whats the most frightened you've ever been?

  • 08-05-2010 9:19pm
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭


    I was out walking in howth years ago when i literally slipped off the edge of a cliff..one minute i was on dry land the next thing i was dangling 200 ft above the sea,holding onto tussocks of grass.
    I actually thought "this is it,this is how it all ends"..i was utterly shiiting myself.
    Somehow i managed to get a foothold on the cliff underneath me and hauled myself up by the hands..if i'd fallen it wouldve been curtains..no doubt about it.
    I'm not a religious man but i did some powerfull praying in those couple of minutes and i still get shivers thinking about it today.
    Anybody actually been in fear of their lives?
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    When my i was around 12 i was at my friends house and while his aunt was visiting. His mother and the aunt went out for a while and she'd had left the window open on her car which was in the front driveway. As a joke we decided to release the handbrake and freewheel the car a few metres down the driveway.

    My friend told me he did the same thing the last time she visited and she had laughed at it. But when she got back and saw the car she went ballistic. We had to run up to his room and barricade the door while she banged on the door and screamed and roared and threatened to beat the ****e out of us. This went on for about an hour before my friends mother was able to calm the aunt down.

    I remember both of us being absolutely terrified mostly out of shcok at how she had reacted. We were able to laugh about it afterwards though.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    Degsy wrote: »
    I was out walking in howth years ago when i literally slipped off the edge of a cliff..one minute i was on dry land the next thing i was dangling 200 ft above the sea,holding onto tussocks of grass.

    Has the literary intensity and style of one of Trent's adventures!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    When I was 13 my cousin (same age) had a seizure on Grafton St. and cracked her head off the ground. Luckily our other cousin was remarkably together (for a fellow 13 yr old) and we got her into the recovery position while we waited for an ambulance. I still remember screaming her name and watching her lips turn blue:(

    Luckily she was grand after suffering a minor concussion!Honestly thought she was a goner!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    I remember being in my friend's mam's car when I was about 7 or 8. It was a bit of an old banger, and there were 6 kids in it...4 in the back and me and another one in the front (these were the days when you could get away with that!) I was sitting nearest the passenger door and the car went flying around a corner and suddenly my door opened and I was hanging out! My head was as low as the bottom of the car and I could just see the ground rushing below me :eek: My terrified friend beside me was just pulling me by the arm and everyone else in the car was screaming! We laughed about it afterwards but I can't imagine what my friend's mam was thinking. I'd say she was dreading telling my mother!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    The other day, as I rolled over in bed to be greeted by a giant fúcking spider on my pillow! Superman wouldn't have moved as fast as I did!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭Closed ac


    Degsy wrote: »
    I was out walking in howth years ago when i literally slipped off the edge of a cliff..one minute i was on dry land the next thing i was dangling 200 ft above the sea,holding onto tussocks of grass.
    I actually thought "this is it,this is how it all ends"..i was utterly shiiting myself.
    Somehow i managed to get a foothold on the cliff underneath me and hauled myself up by the hands..if i'd fallen it wouldve been curtains..no doubt about it.
    I'm not a religious man but i did some powerfull praying in those couple of minutes and i still get shivers thinking about it today.
    Anybody actually been in fear of their lives?

    That would be like my worst nightmare. Sounds absolutely terrifying.. :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    The other day, as I rolled over in bed to be greeted by a giant fúcking spider on my pillow! Superman wouldn't have moved as fast as I did!

    Man Up! :P


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Man Up! :P
    Shut your pie hole!! :mad: :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43 Eldel


    I don't want this thread to drift into phobias, but anything to do with heights frightens the life out of me. Being mugged on O'Connell St. Anytime I walk past the lads hanging around the shops. Most Haunted. House creaking in the middle of the night.:eek: Being the last one out of work locking up (very old building). Interviews. Being driven at speed is definitely up there too. General heebie jeebies!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    Degsy wrote: »
    I was out walking in howth years ago when i literally slipped off the edge of a cliff..one minute i was on dry land the next thing i was dangling 200 ft above the sea,holding onto tussocks of grass.
    I actually thought "this is it,this is how it all ends"..i was utterly shiiting myself.
    Somehow i managed to get a foothold on the cliff underneath me and hauled myself up by the hands..if i'd fallen it wouldve been curtains..no doubt about it.
    I'm not a religious man but i did some powerfull praying in those couple of minutes and i still get shivers thinking about it today.
    Anybody actually been in fear of their lives?

    Sure you werent pushed!:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    Used to work as a helper in an abbatoir when i was younger. One day I was helping slaughter lambs, all I was doing was bringing them from a pen to the slaughter house,holding them while the butcher used the stun gun on the crown of their heads.
    So I bring in another lamb,holding him between my knees and 2 hands under the chin, when I feels the stun gun on the back of my neck and hear the bang of the cartridge. Next thing I know I'm waking up in a pool of lamb offal covered in warm blood and gunk.
    Obviously the bastard'n butcher had put his finger on my neck while shooting the gun with his otherhand.I had passed out.
    I can still feel that cold finger on my neck 17 years later.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    In hospital I seen a bubble in the drip and said "I thought it was bad for bubbles to be in a drip", with that the nurse panicked, "Bubble? Where? What bubble?" I nearly fainted...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Saganist


    Degsy wrote: »
    I was out walking in howth years ago when i literally slipped off the edge of a cliff..one minute i was on dry land the next thing i was dangling 200 ft above the sea,holding onto tussocks of grass.
    I actually thought "this is it,this is how it all ends"..i was utterly shiiting myself.
    Somehow i managed to get a foothold on the cliff underneath me and hauled myself up by the hands..if i'd fallen it wouldve been curtains..no doubt about it.
    I'm not a religious man but i did some powerfull praying in those couple of minutes and i still get shivers thinking about it today.
    Anybody actually been in fear of their lives?

    Kind of similar experience here.

    Was in greystones I think when we where round 15 and we where behind the barrier trying to jump up over a small inlet/cave. The jump was only about 2 or 3 feet, but there was a drop of about 50feet down to some rocks.

    My two mates made it no problem, then when I jumped I slipped on landing and only managed to prevent a fall by grabbing a bit of the ledge.

    I SHAT MYSELF.

    I couldnt hold on or pull myself up. Thought, "this is it", until my mate who seen my slip rushed over and pulled me up.. Ah.... Friends :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    When i openend a letter with a harp on it with the opening words"you have been selected for a revenue audit"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    I remember round about 1982 or 83 when I was 11 I saw a documentary about what would happen if a nuclear warhead hit London. It described all the effects, the blast, the firestorm and the fallout, all in the minutest detail, what would happen to the people and everything around us, both during and after the bomb, what things would be like for the survivors and how those survivors would die... It scared the living crap out of me. I really was in fear of my life, and for everybody!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    staker wrote: »
    Used to work as a helper in an abbatoir when i was younger. One day I was helping slaughter lambs, all I was doing was bringing them from a pen to the slaughter house,holding them while the butcher used the stun gun on the crown of their heads.
    So I bring in another lamb,holding him between my knees and 2 hands under the chin, when I feels the stun gun on the back of my neck and hear the bang of the cartridge. Next thing I know I'm waking up in a pool of lamb offal covered in warm blood and gunk.
    Obviously the bastard'n butcher had put his finger on my neck while shooting the gun with his otherhand.
    I can still feel that cold finger on my neck 17 years later.

    The bastard!
    Reminds me of a time i was out shooting rabbits with a friend and this other guy who i didnt know very well at all.
    I was standing at the end of the field beside a hedge when a bullet literally buzzed past me at head height,i would say it was within two feet of me.
    The clown had fired at a rabbit with the hedge in the background and missed,with the result that the bullet travelled through the hedge and nearly got me in the head.
    I wasnt so much terrified as bloody angry and my first instinct (somewhat heroicly) was to go to ground and prepare to fire back,i mean i didnt know this guy and he might have done it on purpose!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    when i was on my last year in primary school
    my brother was on his first
    we lived in a very isolated area, our farmhouse was about half a mile in from main road,
    we went to school by bus
    one evening after getting off bus, there was this car at end of our road, a rough looking man about forty yrs got out with a ball which looked to have spikes on it swinging from a chain, this person started following us swinging this ball, we ran for our lives through bushes ditches fields, till we got to our father and calling out him, if we had not been so thin and quick on our feet to this day i dont know what would have happened, i was twelve or thirteen my brother was six. we were torn bleeding from thorns and bushes blood gushing from us.
    today i still see it clearly as an adult, my brother has nightmares about it, some time ago we were discussing it, and i realise that it had a bigger impact on him than me
    we also wondered about those missing, and could this person have anything to do with it,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Saw a bull running at full speed towards me as a child. Jumped over a while but I still needed a new pair of pants after.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭MojoMaker


    When my i was around 12 i was at my friends house and while his aunt was visiting. His mother and the aunt went out for a while and she'd had left the window open on her car which was in the front driveway. As a joke we decided to release the handbrake and freewheel the car a few metres down the driveway.

    My friend told me he did the same thing the last time she visited and she had laughed at it. But when she got back and saw the car she went ballistic. We had to run up to his room and barricade the door while she banged on the door and screamed and roared and threatened to beat the ****e out of us. This went on for about an hour 1 minute 30 seconds before my friends mother was able to calm the aunt down.

    I remember both of us being absolutely terrified mostly out of shcok at how she had reacted. We were able to laugh about it afterwards though.:D

    Corrected there for you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭Liber8or


    Someone pointed a gun at me while they proceeded to empty the contents of my till...

    For the ladies reading, I was all cool n' shít and said "Yeah man, you take that money - can you leave me some?"









    ....realistically though, I was like "I'm gonna be on TV!"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    When i was studying for my Leaving,i went down to my auntys house in the country one weekend as i knew they were all going away so i'd get a bit of peace and quiet.
    The house is isolated enough and all the locals knew that the house was empty. Anyway i was studying away when i heard a car coming up the drive and start driving round and round the house really slowly. Then eventually it drove off. It was pitch black outside so i couldn't see a thing out the window. I literally didn't sleep a wink that night,expecting that someone was hiding out in the garden and going to come breaking into the house and attack me.
    Turns out it was only my cousins mate trying to see if he was home for the weekend :rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭midlandsmissus


    goat2 wrote: »
    when i was on my last year in primary school
    my brother was on his first
    we lived in a very isolated area, our farmhouse was about half a mile in from main road,
    we went to school by bus
    one evening after getting off bus, there was this car at end of our road, a rough looking man about forty yrs got out with a ball which looked to have spikes on it swinging from a chain, this person started following us swinging this ball, we ran for our lives through bushes ditches fields, till we got to our father and calling out him, if we had not been so thin and quick on our feet to this day i dont know what would have happened, i was twelve or thirteen my brother was six. we were torn bleeding from thorns and bushes blood gushing from us.
    today i still see it clearly as an adult, my brother has nightmares about it, some time ago we were discussing it, and i realise that it had a bigger impact on him than me
    we also wondered about those missing, and could this person have anything to do with it,

    It's weird as that seems to strike a memory with me. Where was this?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭MardiB


    The other day, as I rolled over in bed to be greeted by a giant fúcking spider on my pillow! Superman wouldn't have moved as fast as I did!

    That is my worst fear, I would have had a heartattack:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    goat2 wrote: »
    when i was on my last year in primary school
    my brother was on his first
    we lived in a very isolated area, our farmhouse was about half a mile in from main road,
    we went to school by bus
    one evening after getting off bus, there was this car at end of our road, a rough looking man about forty yrs got out with a ball which looked to have spikes on it swinging from a chain, this person started following us swinging this ball, we ran for our lives through bushes ditches fields, till we got to our father and calling out him, if we had not been so thin and quick on our feet to this day i dont know what would have happened, i was twelve or thirteen my brother was six. we were torn bleeding from thorns and bushes blood gushing from us.
    today i still see it clearly as an adult, my brother has nightmares about it, some time ago we were discussing it, and i realise that it had a bigger impact on him than me
    we also wondered about those missing, and could this person have anything to do with it,


    :eek:

    Fucking hell


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Was on the way up to Joey Dunlops Funeral with a group of bikers, Ex on the back of mine. Some idiot in a cage decided to T bone me on a straigt just outside of Bundoran, almost lost bike, the weight of my ex kept the bike on the road..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    .. and our healthy, walking & talking, buy & sell all of us, third son, aged 18 months, was dead. That wasn't really frightening. It was lots of other things - but to get back on thread....

    What turned out to be frightening was, 4 years later, we had another baby boy. We thought we had got over our loss, but for the first 2 years of his life my wife & I were terrified - waking up in the middle of the night with panic attacks etc. Neither of us had anticipated that we would have felt that way. This boy is now 8 years old. We are not afraid any more, we,and his older brothers, are delighted.

    All of us still miss our son, but my wife, our older children, and myself , have all agreed that the joy he brought to us in his short life, outweighed the horror & grief that we, and his brothers suffered. We still talk about him, but these days it is in a fond, happy way.

    I hope this is not OT... And I hope that,maybe, it may help someone. This is why I wrote it.

    -FoxT


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    goat2 wrote: »
    when i was on my last year in primary school
    my brother was on his first
    we lived in a very isolated area, our farmhouse was about half a mile in from main road,
    we went to school by bus
    one evening after getting off bus, there was this car at end of our road, a rough looking man about forty yrs got out with a ball which looked to have spikes on it swinging from a chain, this person started following us swinging this ball, we ran for our lives through bushes ditches fields, till we got to our father and calling out him, if we had not been so thin and quick on our feet to this day i dont know what would have happened, i was twelve or thirteen my brother was six. we were torn bleeding from thorns and bushes blood gushing from us.
    today i still see it clearly as an adult, my brother has nightmares about it, some time ago we were discussing it, and i realise that it had a bigger impact on him than me
    we also wondered about those missing, and could this person have anything to do with it,

    Jaysus, what did your father say? What year was this?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    :eek:

    Fucking hell


    Slightly Ot but i was staying with a friend in waterford about 15 years ago when two female friends of his called up in a state of sheer panic..turns out some guy in car had tried to abduct the two of them in broad daylight..there had been a spate of dissapearances of girls at that time,including JoJo Dollard.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    In hospital I seen a bubble in the drip and said "I thought it was bad for bubbles to be in a drip", with that the nurse panicked, "Bubble? Where? What bubble?" I nearly fainted...

    makes no difference, would need to be a LOT of air for you to be affected.

    I was on a Heprin infusion for a month and it always had little bubbles in the line.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I made that stupid error of jumping into a deep part of the pool when I was a kid!

    I couldn't swim at the time so as soon as I was in the water and my feet couldn't feel anything my brain started shouting: "GET TO THE SIDE!! GET TO THE SIDE!!". I barely, and I mean barely, got to the side after manicaly thrashing about, coughing up loads of water. I just about had enough strength to pull myself outta the water before I passed out.

    I came to a few seconds later, looked around and saw that the lifeguards were busy chatting to each other and nobody noticed me struggling or fainting. A bit good in a way cuz I'm sure I left a floater in the pool after that scenario that day :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭MardiB


    I'm so sorry for your loss FoxT


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    Jaysus, what did your father say? What year was this?
    it scared him rotton, he was there for us after that, and this was the quiet contryside, it has stayed with me.
    i have reared my own and never let them out of my sight until they each had their first cars, i carried them everywhere, even it it was only half a mile, even when they were eighteen, as i knew too well what could happen,
    god was at our sides that day


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Myself and a few mates were in a strip club in Toronto (it was on the way home :p) and we were at a table having a few beers enjoying the view. Then this scots fella comes up and asks us if we were blue or green, we said green we suppose and he said that was a good thing and sat with us.
    He seemed to be pretty coked up and asking us our story, we told him how we were backpacking. He then took $2000 out of his pocket and threw it on the table and asked us to enjoy our trip.
    We couldnt take it though and told him that we wouldnt and he ended up spending it on us anyway (private rooms, champage and tequila :D).
    At the end of the night we saw him having some words with an asian fella at the door and when we came out he was roaring in the window of this merc and kicked the car which then tore off.
    He said that we better wait where we are outside the club but wouldnt tell us what happened. He just kept asking us if we could fight! We said well we can handle ourselves but whats happening? He then said those boys and me dont get on because of business, they'll be back soon and they could have guns but stand your ground, remember that ye're green.
    Well we said thanks for the night but cheerio we're fcuking out of here! This was in a particualrly seedy part of town, our hostel a ten minute walk away and we shat ourselves the who way home, thought every car was a potential drive by


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    It's weird as that seems to strike a memory with me. Where was this?
    kerry

    also my brother was asking me if i would go to psychic with him see would they bring back to us
    the number of the car, it was a black poplar as far as i know


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Myself and a few mates were in a strip club in Toronto (it was on the way home :p) and we were at a table having a few beers enjoying the view. Then this scots fella comes up and asks us if we were blue or green, we said green we suppose and he said that was a good thing and sat with us.
    He seemed to be pretty coked up and asking us our story, we told him how we were backpacking. He then took $2000 out of his pocket and threw it on the table and asked us to enjoy our trip.
    We couldnt take it though and told him that we wouldnt and he ended up spending it on us anyway (private rooms, champage and tequila :D).
    At the end of the night we saw him having some words with an asian fella at the door and when we came out he was roaring in the window of this merc and kicked the car which then tore off.
    He said that we better wait where we are outside the club but wouldnt tell us what happened. He just kept asking us if we could fight! We said well we can handle ourselves but whats happening? He then said those boys and me dont get on because of business, they'll be back soon and they could have guns but stand your ground, remember that ye're green.
    Well we said thanks for the night but cheerio we're fcuking out of here! This was in a particualrly seedy part of town, our hostel a ten minute walk away and we shat ourselves the who way home, thought every car was a potential drive by
    good ol' toronto for ya


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭merengueca


    Woke up in the middle of the night after hearing my front door get kicked in.
    I clearly heard more than one person crashing around downstairs and had enough sense about to realise that as a woman on her own it was probably best to let them steal what they wanted and leave.
    The 4 scum bags decided differently and slammed into my bedroom, tore my bedclothes off and screamed at me. I was lying there in my pyjamas while they stood over me with crow bars and hoodies!
    They left, due to my neighbours shouting that the police were coming.

    I can honestly say the sound of them coming up the stairs was the scariest moment of my life!

    I now have 6 hurls stashed around the house, I doubt I'd ever be brave enough - but I do entertain the fanatasy that if such scum came near my house again they'd get a quick intruduction to Camogie, minus the slither


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭SugarHigh


    Thomas828 wrote: »
    I remember round about 1982 or 83 when I was 11 I saw a documentary about what would happen if a nuclear warhead hit London. It described all the effects, the blast, the firestorm and the fallout, all in the minutest detail, what would happen to the people and everything around us, both during and after the bomb, what things would be like for the survivors and how those survivors would die... It scared the living crap out of me. I really was in fear of my life, and for everybody!
    I downloaded that off some torrent site a few years ago it's called Threads. It was seriously graphic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭yoshytoshy


    When I was a young ,around 12 or so ,the mates and I use to play a game where you press against each others chests and faint.
    It didn't happen for anyone ,but come my turn ,I became dead for a minute or so and I had a huge bump on my head to prove it. The lads let me go when I passed out thinking I was faking it ,but I fell head first to the ground with a crack!

    It was fun at the time ,but by jaysus it's scary thinking about it now.:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭SugarHigh


    goat2 wrote: »
    kerry

    also my brother was asking me if i would go to psychic with him see would they bring back to us
    the number of the car, it was a black poplar as far as i know
    When brother was 5 he was out on a drive with my aunty in Kerry and some nut case started smashing the side of the car with a sledge hammer. Nothing was done about it though as he was never found by the Guards.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Jaysus Kerry must be Bandit country.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    Was walking home late one night years ago when I became aware that there was a bloke walking behind me. Got freaked out a bit by it so I crossed the road and seconds later he crossed the road too,
    I waited a few more mins and crossed back the road again which he did too:eek:
    At this point I was well fcuking freaked out and just ran like mad. He didn't run after me but jesus was I scared.....

    I think the fcuker was only messing with me but what a ****ty thing to do to a woman walking on her own:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    SugarHigh wrote: »
    When brother was 5 he was out on a drive with my aunty in Kerry and some nut case started smashing the side of the car with a sledge hammer. Nothing was done about it though as he was never found by the Guards.
    the car was one thing
    but i still dread to think what this dangerous person would have done to our skulls if he got to us, still wonder what he had in mind to do to us if he caught up with us,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭heavyballs


    easy 1 this,my first experiment with the privates on the top bunk.i thought i was goin to take off,
    and yes there were other people in the house at the time but once i reached the point of no return i didn't give a toss,made more than the required amount of noise for sure


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    The biggest fright I ever got though was walking home from a friends house about 3am about 7yrs ago. I'd had a few beers and was quite merry. As I was walking home there is a dark alley known for older teenagers hanging around drinking and smoking as it's very dark. I'd often take the long way home due to this as they can be trouble makers but this time I went on ahead as it was so late they were unlikely to be there. I walked down the dark lane.......only to come face to face with a Rottweiler the size of a small horse. Well I've never been more scared in my life. I froze trying to think of what to do. My mind was racing and my stomach felt like I had swallowed a building block, I honestly thought I was going to be lucky to get away with my life. I looked around for a stick or a brick, anything to help me defend myself.......then the dog made a "Hurrrrr" sound similar to Scooby Doo, He walked towards me and nuzzled it's head into my hand. The relief!!! He had no collar so I walked him home in my merry state. Cooked him a stake and put him to sleep in my kitchen. The fright my cousin I was living with at the time got when he came down for his breakfast was probably just as bad as mine. LOL. Brought him to the vet that day and he had no Microchip, We put posters up around town but nobody claimed him. I called him Samson and he became my best friend for the next 4 years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Sauron


    Thomas828 wrote: »
    I remember round about 1982 or 83 when I was 11 I saw a documentary about what would happen if a nuclear warhead hit London. It described all the effects, the blast, the firestorm and the fallout, all in the minutest detail, what would happen to the people and everything around us, both during and after the bomb, what things would be like for the survivors and how those survivors would die... It scared the living crap out of me. I really was in fear of my life, and for everybody!

    That's Threads. I watched it a few years ago; I can honestly say it's the scariest film I've ever seen; really disturbing stuff. I can only imagine what it must have been like for an eleven year-old :S

    As for myself, I was inter railing with a friend and we had just arrived in Vienna. I had just woken up so I was tired, dazed and confused. We arrived at a pedestrian crossing and I noticed that my shoelaces were untied. We were standing right at the edge of the road and for some reason I decided to bend over and tie them. My friend immediately pulled me back, and at that moment, a van flew by inches in front of me. If my friend hadn't been so quick my head would most definitely have been hit.

    For the next hour or so I kept reliving it and as I grew more lucid I grew more terrified. Still shudder when I remember it; all you need is one senseless moment like that to make a crucial mistake.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43 Eldel


    yoshytoshy wrote: »
    When I was a young ,around 12 or so ,the mates and I use to play a game where you press against each others chests and faint.
    It didn't happen for anyone ,but come my turn ,I became dead for a minute or so and I had a huge bump on my head to prove it. The lads let me go when I passed out thinking I was faking it ,but I fell head first to the ground with a crack!

    It was fun at the time ,but by jaysus it's scary thinking about it now.:eek:


    Christ, we used to do that too. How on earth did we get away with it? It was a craze at my school. Wonder if they still do that, doesn't bear thinking about.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 xxlily87xx


    Was walking home late one night years ago when I became aware that there was a bloke walking behind me. Got freaked out a bit by it so I crossed the road and seconds later he crossed the road too,
    I waited a few more mins and crossed back the road again which he did too:eek:
    At this point I was well fcuking freaked out and just ran like mad. He didn't run after me but jesus was I scared.....

    I think the fcuker was only messing with me but what a ****ty thing to do to a woman walking on her own:mad:
    I know how ya feel same thing happened me a few years ago except there was two men that seemed to be following me, only thing was when i ran they ran after me and one caught up wit me and assaulted me, ended up wit bruises and a big bite mark on my neck. That was a truly terrifying experience for me and i wouldn wish it on anyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 806 ✭✭✭AssaultedPeanut


    When I was about 7, I was in West Cork on my uncle's farm.
    My Dad and me went out to one of the fields by the house to see a new calf that'd been born recently. We walked around a bit til we found the little calf dozing under some gorse bushes, next thing I remember hearing a dull thudding sound getting louder and louder. We both turned around to see the calf's very angry mother barrelling through a gateway from the next field and heading straight for us.

    I remember feeling like I wanted to run but instead started scrambling up my Dad like a squirrel up a tree, and then she just came to a screeching halt right in front of us and just stood there staring at my Dad with a 7 year old girl perched on his head.

    I'll never forget the fright I got


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭yoshytoshy


    Eldel wrote: »
    Christ, we used to do that too. How on earth did we get away with it? It was a craze at my school. Wonder if they still do that, doesn't bear thinking about.

    Yep indeed ,all done in innocence ,which is hard to come by these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    xxlily87xx wrote: »
    I know how ya feel same thing happened me a few years ago except there was two men that seemed to be following me, only thing was when i ran they ran after me and one caught up wit me and assaulted me, ended up wit bruises and a big bite mark on my neck. That was a truly terrifying experience for me and i wouldn wish it on anyone.
    did you ever find out who they were
    how are you now


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