Scariest moment of your life

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While on lunch today one of the guys brought up the topic the scariest moment of your life. It got us all to thinking and we gave ours. Mine really doesn't seem so scary but at the time it was and the fact it was so long ago makes me think it must have had some impact.

Basically when I was 4 I had to get my tonsils out. Just before I went in my older Brother told me that they were going to put a scissors down my throat and cut them right out and I'd wake up half way through the procedure. I was petrified and remember lying there after getting the gas terrified (being a naive 4 year old).

Anybody any stories to tell???

Kiera

I nearly died 3 times when i was a kid due to Asthma attacks so they were scary moments for me.

Dr. Zeus

Ok I'll admit it I am afraid of flying!

One too many bumpy flights, emergency landings etc.

Scares the hell out of me!

Sykk

Having a man in a balaclava hold a 10 inch knife to my mothers throat when I was 12 was probably the worst (He was looking for money).

In the end she was fine, he ran off after being bitten by the dog and got caught 2 weeks later. 7 years in jail, cúnt.

Birneybau

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Deus Ex Machina

When I realised the folly of it all.

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Birneybau wrote: »

To paraphrase George Harrison in The Simpsons...

"This thread. Its been done"

To paraphrase a boardsie from yesterday. Sorrrrry for not going through every thread for the past 3 years to see if a topic has previously appeared

And yes they included the too!

Muckie

Losing control of a car(my own fault) stopped a foot from a stone wall.

Back wheel came loose at 70 on the dual carriage way, managed to
pull over with one nut holding the wheel.

Driving a Towercrane and the banksman for got to release the load
from a big mobile compressor, truck starts to drive off, nearly
pulled the crane down.

Then another time crane was hit by lightin with me in the cab.
sureal moment, flash, brightest light ever then a bang.

greenmachine88

the time I had to bury that dead body

cherryghost

When my appendix almost exploded, the doctor misdiagnosed me. Badly. I suffered for 2 weeks before I was given a 2nd opinion.

User Friendly

when i was in a car crash.i was in so much pain,i wanted to die at the time,sad,sad time for me through no fault of my own:(

Barna77

Bumpy flights as well, and nearly drowned twice.

Worst might be once I woke up and couldn't move or breathe, felt like someone was crushing me on the bed I wouldn't complain if I wasn't alone in bed, not the case then

easyeason3

When I saw Jedward for the first time.

Twin-go

Dr. Zeus wrote: »

Ok I'll admit it I am afraid of flying!

One too many bumpy flights, emergency landings etc.

Scares the hell out of me!

You shouldn't be afraid of the flying Dr. Zeus, it's the crashing you should be afraid of!!:D

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Nothing overly scary, tbh.

Thought my testicle was gonna implode one night, the worst pain I have ever felt in my life, 30 times worse than getting kicked in the sack,

As one poster already said, being awake but basically paralysed.

Yakult

Mates were climbing a ladder up the side of a 2 story house that was being built, I was at the bottom of it and I looked up only to see a massive brick falling down towards me, I moved my head back and it just skint my nose and landed on my foot.
To think if I had not moved those few inches it would have landed on my head more than likely killing me. One of them grabbed the wall to climb over but pulled it off the cnuts lol.

Funkfield

The first time I fully realised that there is nothing before you and nothing after you.

That this is it.

I was about 8.

Obsessed with mortality ever since.

thebigbiffo

Muckie wrote: »

Losing control of a car(my own fault) stopped a foot from a stone wall.

Back wheel came loose at 70 on the dual carriage way, managed to
pull over with one nut holding the wheel.

Driving a Towercrane and the banksman for got to release the load
from a big mobile compressor, truck starts to drive off, nearly
pulled the crane down.

Then another time crane was hit by lightin with me in the cab.
sureal moment, flash, brightest light ever then a bang.

time to give up operating vehicles of differing uses? some day you'll be too dead to be terrified if your luck here keeps going the way it is

Gillington

Nearly drowned when I was a teenager down in Brittas Bay,wasnt a strong swimmer and hit a shelf couldnt get back up,the last thing I remember from being in the water was the lad who was with me trying to grab my arm but he couldnt and I just went deeper.Before I blacked out I remember a complete moment of calmness thinking this is it,I'll remember that horrible feeling for the rest of my life but whenever I do I just think how lucky I am.

Lifeguard saved me and I woke up on the shore after CPR,then the next week got lessons and learned how to swim properly!

easyeason3

Funkfield wrote: »

The first time I fully realised that there is nothing before you and nothing after you.

That this is it.

I was about 8.

Obsessed with mortality ever since.

So you're saying you had a fun filled childhood?

Funkfield

easyeason3 wrote: »

So you're saying you had a fun filled childhood?

I'm saying it was either that, or the first time I played Silent Hill.

50:50

:pac:

HalloweenJack

I was very closed to being arrested for buying drugs before. It scared the **** out of me, especially once I realised how close it was.

Me and my friends were outside a pub waiting for another. A guy came up to us and offered us some drugs. We were trying to get a price off him and find out how much he had. Next thing, he starts talking about football. I was thinking "WTF?" then two undercover police come over and start asking us where we're from. The guy who approached us was dragged off and searched in the middle of the street. Me and my friends had our passports taken off us and had our names checked over the radio before we were told to leave. Now that I think of it, I'm sure the dealer was a plant.

I've also been beaten up pretty badly before. I was really drunk and got into a fight. Next thing, I was being held down by three or four guys and someone was kicking my head. I got away somehow, went home and straight to bed. When I woke up the next day and realised what had happened, I was really scared and depressed about it.

biko

Had a few close calls but the last one was in Westport 5 years ago, walking along the coast on a very slanted hillside. Suddenly I tripped and fell over. Because the hillside was so steep I started sliding down it, towards the drop-off and 20 meters below that the freezing waters of Clew Bay.
Slid maybe 50 meters in the grass/mud on my back and managed to get a grip of some strong grass roots about 10 meters away from falling off the hillside into the water.
Phew.

Your Airbag

Almost drowned once. I was swimming between a group a rocks (don't ask) that a friend of mine had just safely negotiated, hassle free in about 20 seconds and as I'm a good swimmer and have safely swam this exact location hundreds of times I followed suit. It should have been a cakewalk but the ocean had other ideas.

A big swell came out of nowhere when I followed, about eight powerful crashing waves in a row, the drawback was pulling me from the exit of the cluster of rocks back right back into the middle of them. The current was too strong; I panicked and fought against it, really bad move. The roaring thunder of waves crashing all around me was deafening. I was getting bounced off the rocks, the whitewater getting kicked up by the swell was a foot high so even though I was treading water ok I couldn’t breathe but only take on the whitewater. This went on for about a minute and by the end I had no energy or oxygen left to fight the current and the rocks. I was ready to drown. Then it ended, the sea returned to its calm state. It had had its fun with me.

I floated on the surface for a few minutes near the exit of the cluster of rocks whilst I got a little energy back and then returned to shore exhausted and in shock. I wouldn’t mind but I'm a regular strong swimmer, fit too and can swim for lengthy distances and times but that day I realised exactly how powerful the ocean is and how quickly it can go from bad to desperate.

No matter how strong a swimmer you are a wave contains hundreds if not thousands of liters of water and you just won’t win. I know not to panic too when in a swell, you just let it move you about until it resides then you swim to shore but the strength, noise level and close proximity to the rocks caught me off guard and all of a sudden I had gone from enjoying a hobby to living moment by moment. I also have a greater appreciation of how easy it is to drown after that, I used to hear and read stories of people drowning close to the shore and could never understand it. I always thought why didn’t you just get to shore. Now I know better.

The sea really is a cruel mistress.

Azureus

Most scary-waking up with flames two inches from my face in a burning room. Electrical fire, terrifying!!!!!!!!! Was washing smoke and ash out of my hair for a week but luckily I was fine apart from a lil smoke inhalation. Had passed out due to the smoke so thank god I wasnt alone when it happened. Fire brigade were amazing too

Second to that was a flight home from Gran Canaria once. Had a really strange feeling that we were gonna crash (not remotely afraid of flying, was just this one time) and they put us right beside the emergency door (bf was delighted, loads of leg room) but I saw it as a sign as was close to tears for the 4 hour flight. Even the air hostess had to keep reassuring me. Most irrational thing ever but was so relieved when we landed!

Cullen82

While travelling through Africa a couple of years ago, I met some Welsh lads and we did an arranged trip into the Serengetti. On our first night there we sat up around a small camp fire and after a few beers were singing songs. By this stage we had enough beer on board to forget where we were despite the noise of Hyenas and whatever else howling (I've no idea how close but in the moment it did'nt sound far at all) - Eventually everyone went into their tents except for me and one of the welsh lads but as soon as they did we began to take notice of the noise surrounding us in the darkness...This now had us a little on edge and we ended up going into our tent, thanks to the beers it was'nt all that worrying but what was to happen next was.

So we went to sleep remembering our guides advice for going to the toilet in the middle of the night "wake up your tent mate, look outside - if you see green eyes it's only a Hyena!!!, Red eyes means stay in your tent being a Lion" - I presume the usual spin they put on it to enhance the experience.

In the middle of the night it happened, I woke up to mental commotion - a struggle in the tent. I froze forgetting where I was, still half drunk & asleep, I lay there in sheer horror realising there was something in the tent ,One of us had left the tent open going to the toilet during the night....everything went silent and I lay there wrapped in my sleeping bag, i felt paralysed, trying not to breath too loudly...Then it started again and suddenly my tent mate Varney began shouting, falling all over me and screaming "there's a f~@£$£ Hyena in the tent - I completely lost it, began kicking & swinging in the pitch dark the two of us accidently hitting each other in the process...Now he was shouting "my f%$&^£ arm", I tried to kick him away to the other side of the tent!!.. ..What seemed like an eternity passed until the guides came to our rescue, ripping open our tent they shone the light in and everyone froze in disbelief of what they were looking at.............2 half drunk, scared ****less, tourists, with bloody noses in their sleeping bags fighting each other convinced there was a wild animal in their tent.


Nothing had bitten his arm, The tent door was'nt open, There was NO Hyena in the tent - Its was this welsh gob****es night terrors and nothing more but for those three minutes we fought for our lives, we almost killed each other in the process....and we lived to tell the tale !!

Blazer

On a banana boat in Turkey..after the driver does the usual turn where everyone falls off, one of the lads who couldn't swim grabbed me and wrapped his arms around mine and my chest so I couldn't push him back..
I was screaming at him to let go and that his lifejacket would hold him (they were crap by the way) but no joy...about 15 feet under I ended up having to headbutt him (not too hard) so both of us wouldn't drown.
I was shaking afterwards and he had a bloody nose really really scary :eek:

Barna77

Forgot to mention a fire back home about 10 years ago. 7am and we all had to get to the roof (fire was beside the door). I think I can still hear the power cables burning

For a while after that I wouldn't leave home as I thought anything could happen again.

deepsouthtalla

Being in a FAS course and seeing a ex-gf who u had a very bad back up with walk in, for ten mins i was waiting for her to start..................was sweating very badly

Mint Sauce

black run, austrain alps, only my 3rd or 4th day on a snow board

:eek:

Flojo

Hmm thinking that the IRA were going to kill us up the Kinnitty mountains and another was a really really bad salvia trip.

AnonoBoy

I honestly can't think of one really scary moment in my life.

Hank_Jones

When I was told I had cancer. Turned out a few months later that they misdiagnosed and I didn't actually. Scary time.

Also when my dad found out he had cancer.

Or when I fell from a moving bus and was nearly run over.

Never a dull moment....

danniemcq

Driving a quad off a pier (accident btw!) was scary enough

But it'll take more than a twenty foot drop off a pier into 5 fot of water with a quad following me in February when it was snowing to get the better of me

Danbo!

Getting held at knifepoint during an armed robbery in a shop I worked in.

Getting hit by car while cycling, scary because I could see it coming and couldnt stop it. Managed to utter "what the ****, stupid bitch" before ending up spread across the bonnet.

Cutting the tip of my finger off with an electric tin opener when I was about 6. Dont know if I was more scared about the finger or my mam about to bate the head off me for getting blood on the tin opener.

Phonecall from a relative while in work saying "get in a ****ing taxi now and come home". Long story short, everyone was ok eventually, but that semed like the longest journey ever.

Brady

Mine had to be when i was in the Bahamas, there was a hotel that was getting a new walkway or something built on the beach and a digger had spent the day digging up sand and laying on the beach..... that evening i decided to go for a walk down the beach (which was empty) only to sink into the freshly laid sand upto my neck, not being able to move my arms / hands (quick sand) with no-one to help because no one was on the beach.... after much panic and more sinking i realised if i moved slowly i could get out.. and did.

needed a new pair of pants after that

Nulty

Punching through a glass panel in a door @ about 15yo. Massive gash across my wrist and half way up my lower arm...blood pumping out everywhere - thought I was going to die.

AAAAAAAHHH

deepsouthtalla wrote: »

Being in a FAS course and seeing a ex-gf who u had a very bad back up with walk in, for ten mins i was waiting for her to start..................was sweating very badly

Mine is reading this post. I think I'm illiterate now.

GavRedKing

Driving to Dublin in seriously bad weather and doing 80kmh ona 120kmh strecth of road I lost control of the car, it aqua plained and hit one of the metal central divide barriers and spun back out on to the road and narrowly avoided getting smashed by a lorry.

Scary as hell.

kylith

Learning to drive a moped. At night. On the Stillorgan dual carriageway. During a thunderstorm. I couldn't see and I thought I was going to die.

Opening a letter from the doctor and seeing a referral to the Coombe because my smear was abnormal. Get yerselves checked girls; you're better off catching it early.

Flojo

kylith wrote: »

Learning to drive a moped. At night. On the Stillorgan dual carriageway. During a thunderstorm. I couldn't see and I thought I was going to die.

Opening a letter from the doctor and seeing a referral to the Coombe because my smear was abnormal. Get yerselves checked girls; you're better off catching it early.

I was in the same boat.. opened up another to find they're still abnormal.. scary sh!t! You're dead right everyone should be getting checked at least every 6months.

ldxo15wus6fpgm

I was 17. Driving my bike down to the site where we were building our house. Great visibility, nice weather, bone dry roads. Come to the last stretch in the road, it's quite bendy and has fairly high hedges which I couldn't see over on the bike. But I was going fairly slowly to compensate.

Next thing some ****er driving a milk tanker-truck comes round a bend doing about 50 or 60 (this is practically a bothairin at this stage). Nearly jumped out of my skin when I saw him and barely had enough time to react. Nearly ripped the throttle off the handlebar too. I managed to get the bike into a little dirt track coming off the bend, but he clipped my tail and back tyre. The jolt threw me forward, I got my nuts squashed against the petrol tank and then came off and felt like I had broken my arm but I was fine, and tbh I was more worried about the bike than myself :rolleyes:.

But then to top it all off, as if nearly being flattened by a 15 ton truck isn't scary enough, I'm lying on the ground f*cking shaking with the shock and yer man jumps out of the cab of the truck roaring that it was my fault and I should watch where I'm going. He starts calling me every name under the sun switching between english and some slavic language or other, and then he started getting aggressive and clenching his fists and stuff. I kept telling him that he was driving too fast and he couldn't blame me for that, and then he started pushing me back towards my bike. He was getting really aggressive at this stage and I probably shouldn't have but I pushed him back and he tripped me up. "Well f*ck this" I said :mad:. I got up and he started pushing me again so I took off my helmet and cracked him straight over the head with it. He went down roaring and I went over and picked up the bike and drove off (thank god it started ). Nothing came of it so I assume he either didn't do anything about it or didn't get my reg.

gazzer

I have had a few scary moments in my 38 years.

1. Nearly falling down a lift shaft in Ballymun when I was 3 (the lift opened but there was no floor. My mum had to grap me by the scruff of my top as I walked into nothingness

2. Choking on a gobstopper when I was 5.

3. Getting caught up in a load of barbed wire when I was 6 and convinced I was going to be chopped into little pieces.

4. Getting mugged of my bob a job money when I was 10

5. Having the bathe my 'little fella' in warm water and Savalon after being circumcised. I was ****ting myself as I was convinced it was going to fall off

6. Various near incidents with nearly getting hit by cars when crossing the road

7. Getting lost in a forest in Victoria on Xmas Eve about 15 years ago.

8. Nearly drowned twice

The most scariest moment of my life though was when I had a panic attack. Jesus christ I thought I was a goner. I have never been so terrified.

7.

Hank_Jones

Nulty wrote: »

Punching through a glass panel in a door @ about 15yo. Massive gash across my wrist and half way up my lower arm...blood pumping out everywhere - thought I was going to die.

Did that as well, when I was about 10.

Was knocking on my front door and must have been messing,
panel went through and my hand was gushing blood.
Didn't hurt at the time, was really strange.

Might have just been in shock.

Busi_Girl08

In no particular order...

- When I was flying home from Milan, on my own,age 15, in a HUGE lightening storm. The flight was delayed an hour so we were sitting in the plane ringing our families, etc to let them know it was late. My brother answered, and I immediately started freaking out, telling him I was scared, and I don't want to go
The take-off was particularly terrifying, *very* shakey, and seeing the lightening going off, loads of turbulance, and we had to circle 3 times before we could land in Shannon. I was convinced that we were going to crash.
I HATE night flights

- When I was on holiday in Turkey about 10 years ago (I was 9), I was hanging round with this group of kids (2 girls and a guy) who were staying in the hotel.
In the resort there was a shop that sold a load of ceramics, musical instruments, general bric-a-brac.
2 of the people were a bit stupid. The guy and the younger girl started messing around with the drums in the shop, and were basically acting the maggot. I was pretty quiet and reserved, but I did tap the drums a little.
The younger girl, for some stupid reason, decided to mess about with the till, and realised that if she pressed the button on the underside, she could open it.
When she pressed the release button and opened the till, the owners of the shop went mental thinking she was trying to steal from the till and one of them grabbed her arm.
The older girl (age 14) was outside with another guy from the shop, who had been feeling her up.

There was a bit of over and back between the younger girl and the owners, and then they eventually let us go.

The next night, we were passing the shop, and they called us in. For some reason, we went in. The Turkish police were there :eek: guns and everything.
The owners told them that the young girl tried to steal from the till, and some jewellery, and that the guy, younger girl and I were vandalising merchandise and broke some stuff.
I was sure that we were going to be arrested. It was about 1am at this point, and my parents were back at the hotel, I had no idea what I would say to them.

In the end, the police let us go, but did arrest the guy who was feeling up the 14 year old.

I eventually got back to my room at 3am to my very worried parents. I was in hysterics and told them everything that happened. I don't think they really knew how to react.

Bob the Seducer

On one of these fairground rides when I was about 10 or 11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1rt1mwXGs

Just as it kicked in I realised that the bar to keep you in your seat wasn't locked down, not fun...not fun at all.

El Horseboxo

Capsizing in a boat between Panama and Colombia in really rough seas. Had been listing for over 2 hours in a big storm after leaving San Blas the day before and then we eventually went over. Had to wait almost an hour in stormy shark infested waters before a helicopter made it out to us. Even with the life jackets each wave pulled us under. Miracle that none of the 8 of us didn't die.

Snowie

Having to listen to a preast talk......about how we should live our lives.

Watching my friend throw herself down a flight of stairs & not being able to do anything.

Superbus

When I was 10, my piano teacher had a serious 'grand mal' seizure during the lesson. I had no idea what was going on, I ran out of the room and they had to call an ambulance. She was in hospital for about 3 days because she hit her head. I was horribly shaken, though obviously not as much as she was.

Also when I was 10 (it was a busy year), I was playing football on an indoor court, and while I was retrieving the ball from the net, I somehow got my foot caught in it. I brought the whole contraption down on my arm. As it happened, and in the immediate aftermath, it was pretty terrifying, and after that only the physical pain remained.