What's the closest you have come to kicking the bucket?

gent9662

For me it was when I was 5 years old and got out on the other side of the railing on the B&I ferry on the way to Holyhead.

Another time I was sitting on the edge of the cliff at the cliffs of Moher (aged 5).

Both times my parents each thought the other one had me.

Lucky to be alive!

chin_grin

In the womb I had the umbilical wrapped around my neck from doing cartwheels.

It still hasn't affected.............OH LOOK A KITTEN!

Kiera

Come on dclane, use the search option.

Coriolanus

Hiking near home. In the snow, off the beaten track with a mobile but no battery charge, after being sick with pneumonia.

Sat down in the snow for a rest and when I realised I was feeling warm and sleepy, I knew I was in a bit of trouble.

chin_grin

Nevore wrote: »

Hiking near home. In the snow, off the beaten track with a mobile but no battery charge, after being sick with pneumonia.

Sat down in the snow for a rest and when I realised I was feeling warm and sleepy, I knew I was in a bit of trouble.

So is that when Han Solo finally arrived and rescued you?

mikemac

5 years old and playing on the farm.
Dog ran across the slurry pit and sure I followed. There is a crust on top so can be walkable....if you're light and stupid

Sank to the chest, would have been under in another few minutes

Grandad is his 70's laid pallets across to make a walkway and pulled me out

Death by drowning in a slurry pit, a nasty way to go

Biggins

Bomb, bullet, being attacked, car crash, plane crash, rare African bone infection, fire, house collapse upon me, bus turnover, knocked down by motorbike to name a few instances.

(Had a girlfriend who for the whole of our relationship, would never get on a plane with me. Needless to say, the relationship didn't last.)

mikom

Biggins wrote: »

Bomb, bullet, being attacked, car crash, plane crash, rare African bone infection, fire, house collapse upon me, bus turnover, knocked down by motorbike to name a few instances.

And that was just the first 24 hours.

mikemac

Biggins wrote: »

Bomb, bullet, being attacked, car crash, plane crash, rare African bone infection, fire, house collapse upon me, bus turnover, knocked down by motorbike to name a few instances.

McGuyver?

Biggins

mikom wrote: »

And that was just the first 24 hours.

First 36+ years more like.
Thankfully things have calmed down a bit since then.

feelingstressed wrote: »

McGuyver?

No, just one lucky sod called Biggins who by luck managed to live and laugh now at some mad situations I got into.

danniemcq

me driving a quad off a pier into 4 foot of water from 25 ft up during a snow storm.

not fun but i learned a very important lesson that day. Quads will float but they float upside down with just the tips of the tyres poking through the water




oh and damn nut allergys nearly killed me when an ex gave me some cake. sad thing is still went out with her for another 6 weeks or so after this

walshb

dclane wrote: »

For me it was when I was 5 years old and got out on the other side of the railing on the B&I ferry on the way to Holyhead.

Another time I was sitting on the edge of the cliff at the cliffs of Moher (aged 5).

Both times my parents each thought the other one had me.

Lucky to be alive!

Social Services case!

Micilin Muc

I was out in the back garden and the bucket was right there in front of me. I couldn't bring myself to kick it.

Azureus

Split my head open when I was three. Apparently it was touch and go for awhile.

Was still dying to get out on my bike a week later-ah the resilience of youth!

BBDBB

fell out of my bedroom window when I was 4, one flight up.

several near misses in the car as I used to do a lot of driving, the caravan swaying and then turning over in front of me as I was on the phone was probably the most memorable

Asphyxia

When I was 7 I had to stay in hospital for a few weeks as my kidneys were failing it was horrible

A car crash two years ago brought me back to hospital!

Poor Craythur

Was very close to developing septacaemia a few years ago, due to complications from Crohn's disease. And once you get septacaemia, it moves very fast. When I into hospital I had a temperature of 104. The one thing I had going for me was that I had age on my side. :eek:

NTMK

When i was about 4 i nearly ran out in front of a flock() of stampeding ostriches in fota

EDIT oh i forgot about the incident where i knicked an artery spining a cement mixer on a tripod (also around 4-5) and getting attacked by swans while fishing(8y.o i think)

Im going die in some brutally stupid way:o

gozzers08

dclane wrote: »

For me it was when I was 5 years old and got out on the other side of the railing on the B&I ferry on the way to Holyhead.

Another time I was sitting on the edge of the cliff at the cliffs of Moher (aged 5).

Both times my parents each thought the other one had me.

Lucky to be alive!

Jesus, sounds like you have a deathwish!

flowerchild

I founf myself in the middle of a train line during a very bad time in my primary school years. I only realised it when a train came whizzing past me and I swayed in the rush of air. Then everything stopped and men in uniform walked down the line to find and get me.

I told them that my school hat had dropped off onto the line and that I had gone to get it.

FatherLen

fell off my motorbike and ended up under a car but had no injuries i was very lucky. when i was a child i put a cable tie around my neck and nearly choked(i know its stupid).

kfallon

Once ran out after a ball on the road, car screeched to a halt in front of me, I swear it was inches away from hitting me!

I can still see the tears in me Mammy's eyes as she tore strips off me, she nearly bate me with the relief

iamstop

Got knocked down. Broke yer man's windscreen with the back of my head. A week later was on the phone scratching where the staples were and picked out a lump of glass.

KamiKazi

feelingstressed wrote: »

5 years old and playing on the farm.
Dog ran across the slurry pit and sure I followed. There is a crust on top so can be walkable....if you're light and stupid

Sank to the chest, would have been under in another few minutes

Grandad is his 70's laid pallets across to make a walkway and pulled me out

Death by drowning in a slurry pit, a nasty way to go

Biggins wrote: »

Bomb, bullet, being attacked, car crash, plane crash, rare African bone infection, fire, house collapse upon me, bus turnover, knocked down by motorbike to name a few instances.

(Had a girlfriend who for the whole of our relationship, would never get on a plane with me. Needless to say, the relationship didn't last.)

You're more full of sh1t than the slurry pit feelingstressed was talking about :rolleyes:

Biggins

KamiKazi wrote: »

You're more full of sh1t than the slurry pit feelingstressed was talking about :rolleyes:

I don't expect you to believe me but every word is true. Honestly.
When you get around this crazy world and sometimes (stupidly) get yourself in to some daft situations, these things happen.
(Have some scars to prove it!)

Some day in my rocking chair I'll laugh about some of the mad schite I've done.
Hell, I've started to smile about it already! I must have been nuts, the present wife still thinks I am! :pac:

holystungun9

kicking the can??

holystungun9

FatherLen wrote: »

fell off my motorbike and ended up under a car but had no injuries i was very lucky. when i was a child i put a cable tie around my neck and nearly choked(i know its stupid).

Cable ties are a parent's best friend.

pragmatic1

Car slided sideways and a big lorry was headed straight for us. Scary stuff.

Run_to_da_hills

Broke 6 ribs in a head car crash when a large cylinder of gas came in from the folded down back seats like a torpedo, had it being a few inches to the right it would have snapped my spine. The top of the bottle ended up burried in the dash.

Funny thing about the above, my old man was twisting my arm to give up bikes for the previous 15 years, I never broke a bone or received any serious injuries coming off a motorbike.

spoofilyj

The year 2009 tried to kill me loads of times...either through my own stupidity or just bad luck.

Jan 25th flipped my car over three times and 18 stitches to my scalp and a concussion, walked away from it but was damn lucky night in the CUH in case of brain swelling and a funny looking head for a month or too...

May 19th free climbing a cliff in Nohoval in Cork (stupid thing to do I know!) and missed a hand hold and nearly tumpled 200 feet took me about 10 mins to stop the shaking in my arms and get safely to the top, only to realise I had climbed a stack and not the mainland and had to jump across a 4 foot gap, doesent sound like much but when your nerves are already shot its a big ask...

July 20th (I think ) Got tangled in a load of kelp while snorkeling and nearly drowned. Thankfully I had brough my knife and cut free but scary.

October 2009 was kayak surfing in Inch by Aghada in Cork and went to help a person in distress, managed to get them up to the rocks before being upended loosing the kayak and being dragged into the surf (9 ten foot foamers) couldidnt fight the current and was getting really tired and could'nt really breath, Luckily some brilliant surfers rescued me and helped me get into shore it took about 25 mins but felt like an hour, then i promptly chucked my guts up and started shaking all over. Havent been back surfing in inch since as the rips there are too much for me and I'm mildly terrified of a repeat...

Thankfully for every bad thing that has happened to me an equally nice/awesome thing seemed to come along soon after so now I'm a big believer in Karma...

Johnnio13

both drunken instances

1st was in Munich for the summer and got hammered one day and headed back to the apartment. Lads had locked me out, so decided to climb out a landing window and jump onto the balcony of our apt. 6 flights up and about 6-8ft across. Made it, just, got in to the apt..had a whiskey to calm the nerves and went out to meet the lads. Never told them.
2nd drink related. locked on the way to another boozer.Fell off a curb in NYC on Broadway and 45th under a passing taxi. He swerved just in time. Went back to hotel. And stayed put for the night.

on a separate note one of the lads was working in Venezula as a doc with MSF and a guy walked up to him in a bar and asked him and his friends to step out side for a moment. Then turned around a f££ked a grenade into the bar, killing two guys that he had a beef with. So Biggin's tale might not be too far fetched.

CD.

car crash, slammed into the barrier and flipped. walked away with literally only a scratch.
i saw walk, but really it was carried. wasnt allowed move in case of spinal injuries

Noo

Johnnio13 wrote: »

on a separate note one of the lads was working in Venezula as a doc with MSF and a guy walked up to him in a bar and asked him and his friends to step out side for a moment. Then turned around a f££ked a grenade into the bar, killing two guys that he had a beef with. So Biggin's tale might not be too far fetched.

How considerate, who says theres no good in the world.

TerrorFirmer

I woke up one night as a kid to my dad carrying me out of my room, my smoke alarm was going off and the room was full of smoke, I'd fallen asleep with my lamp on, pillow had fallen in such a way as to land right in front of the bulb...if that's not an advertisement for the necessity of smoke alarms I don't know what is.

deirdre_dub

In my mid 20s, hiking in Connemara National Park, walking through a steep gulley, on wet grass, some 50ft above the bottom of the gulley, when I slipped.

I landed in a pool of water at the bottom of a small waterfall - if I had slipped a few seconds earlier, I'd be dead or incapacitated.

Life-changing experience.

Saila

Ive lost count but most of them involve flying down mountains on my bike going 60-80km/hr, so many close calls, and other days just around urban areas, fckin cars :mad:

admiralofthefleet

a lump of fatty beef got stuck in my throat a few years ago. i was on the ground and went purple before it was literally pulled out

dj jarvis

working as a motorcycle courier in dublin for 13 years , all weathers
cant count the amount of times i was nearly killed - a charmed life indeed
most memorable was driving around a corner , hit oil/diesel and the front wheel went from under me , coming around the corner from the opposite direction was a 40 foot truck , me and the bike slid past the front of said truck , i was on my back looking up , front of truck inches from me , bounced off the kerb as the truck skidded 2 a halt , inches from me
poor truck driver was white and shaking - he thought he got me


also 3 heart attacks in the last 2 years :eek:

only the good die young and all that !!

marketty

Almost drowned in a local pool aged about ten, came out of the changing room and turned right instead of left and jumped straight into the deep end, sank like a stone and rescued by a lifeguard. Nearly killed my poor granny who brought me too!
Last year on my first solo cross country flight in a small plane i hit a bird on final approach to land, serious brown trouser moment...

Kevin Duffy

I hate buckets and never miss a chance to have a kick at them. No depth perception though, so haven't connected yet. Someday. Stupid buckets.

kwalshe

doing chin ups locked outta me brain on the railings outside of the Salmon leap bridge on the way into Leixlip, bleedin' dope....

Storminateacup

A stupid decision i made when i was a wild careless fearless 15 year old, thinking nothing could touch me.

Other than that, I've never almost nearly died. There were a couple of careless moments, carcrashes, racing trains, flipping over on quads, bad trips, having a machine drop down on both my legs, falling through a glass door and pretty much slitting my wrist... Nothing more than a couple of bruises, a short stay in the hospital or at the very most, an op to straighten out any broken bones.

F*ck it. If your numbers up, its up. No point in worrying about it.

sdanseo

Doing slightly* over the speed limit on a totally empty piece of motorway and a bird flew straight into the windscreen, lets just say I was probably going faster than the light aircraft (presuming C172 or same type on short final 65 knots = 120km/h). That was a shock.

Fell off a chair when I was a kid and landed on my head, cue blood everywhere and six stitches. Not the most near death experience but not fun either!

Very nearly got hit by a bus mirror once too, he was pulling in a fairly high speed and it would have fairly lamped me if I'd come into contact with it.

Poor Craythur

sdonn wrote: »

Very nearly got hit by a bus mirror once too, he was pulling in a fairly high speed and it would have fairly lamped me if I'd come into contact with it.

That nearly happened to me too. Was walking at the edge of a footpath. A bus sped by and its mirror JUST cleared the top of my head. :eek:

im...LOST

iamstop wrote: »

A week later was on the phone scratching where the staples were and picked out a lump of glass.

****!

tallus

Deep Vein Thrombosis (blood clot) ... discovered by accident while having my leg X-Rayed after having an operation to repair my femur.
It's hard to kill a bad thing

Yakult

Went surfing when I was 12 and a rip current started pulling me out towards the sea, ended up about half a mile out in under a minute. I was debating whether or not to let the surf-board (Strapped on to my wrist) go but thought I would have got in trouble if I did, so I started swimming to my hearts content. Eventually got back to shore but was scary ****.

Nearly choked to death on a mentos. That will teach me to lie down eating one.

Bout 20 horses were in the field next to my house, me and the friends would always go in and run at them to scare the crap outta them. They went into another field just above it and their a little channel where they could go in and out. Walking up the channel, we see them all running us.
Luckily their was a gap in the ditch where we could jump on but of course who falls before we got there? I do. Horses running full speed and my friend grabs me and pulled me up right before the horses passed. Lucky not to be trampled.

barbiegirl

As a baby went into anaphylactic shock when i got my immunisations. Had multiple fits for years later and very high temperatures.

Cut an artery when i fell on a bottle.

Nothing big since then.

MIRMIR82

My near-death experience was when i was 13. I had an absess the size of a grapefruit on my appendix. was sent home from portlaois hosp 3 times - i couldnt even stand up straight. eventually they opened me up not knowing what was wrong wit me going in!!

My brother is the luckiest person i know. He was in Phuket the day of the tsunami - himself and his friends were meant to go deep-sea diving that day, but they were too hung-over.
He was on the exact same Air-France flight exactly a week before it crashed and tragically killed all aboard.
He had a flight booked to Haiti the day before the earthquake.
He has a fear of flying now!!

tallus

MIRMIR82 wrote: »

My near-death experience was when i was 13. I had an absess the size of a grapefruit on my appendix. was sent home from portlaois hosp 3 times - i couldnt even stand up straight. eventually they opened me up not knowing what was wrong wit me going in!!

My brother is the luckiest person i know. He was in Phuket the day of the tsunami - himself and his friends were meant to go deep-sea diving that day, but they were too hung-over.
He was on the exact same Air-France flight exactly a week before it crashed and tragically killed all aboard.
He had a flight booked to Haiti the day before the earthquake.
He has a fear of flying now!!

He should play the lotto.

theboss80