What's the most dangerous situation you've ever been in?

Karamoja

This is influenced by the other thread about historic things people have witnessed, which has now turned into "What's the most awesome thing you've seen on the telly?"

So what's the most dangerous situation you've ever been in? Or maybe there are a few things on your list? I'm sure some military feckers will be posting here like flies on shiat.

The most dangerous situation I've been in is a riot Uganda. There were already riots for the past week or so but this day was the most serious and had made it's way to the neighbourhood I was staying in. I wasn't exactly in the middle of the riot, but I woke up to explosions, tear gas, bonfires and automatic gunfire outside my campsite. A two year old kid had been shot in the head (twice) by police the day before. I couldn't leave the place all day so I just drank myself into a stupor. Luckily we were protected by Ak47 wielding policemen. So it really wasn't that dangerous...

Any dangerous situations folk? Fell off a cliff or anything?

btw - Bullshit-o-meters on folks.

losthorizon

I drove through Limerick

Cill Dara Abu

Tiger-Kidknapping:(

KeithM89_old

Went to visit the missus on Christmas eve at her work party, but the whole building got taken over by terrorists. Managed to get out ok. Sore feet though....

Rented Mule

KeithM89 wrote: »

Went to visit the missus on Christmas eve at her work party, but the whole building got taken over by terrorists. Managed to get out ok. Sore feet though....

I hope your trip to the airport was less eventful.

KeithM89_old

Rented Mule wrote: »

I hope your trip to the airport was less eventful.

Now that you mention it actually...

Chuck Stone

Nearly drowned in bath there last week.

Doom

I had to meet a known murderer in Limerick and ask for my friends phone back...

!MAVERICK!

Almost crashed a two seater light aircraft into an oak tree on takeoff a couple of years ago. Torments me still.

Karamoja

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Tiger-Kidknapping:(

I'm guessing you can't give us any more information for legal reasons or something?

Voodoomelon

I once got in the way of Mary Harney and the buffet table...

Cill Dara Abu

Karamoja wrote: »

I'm guessing you can't give us any more information for legal reasons or something?

No not for legal reasons, I just do'nt want to.

rockmongrel

Had a knife pulled on me a few months back, but sure, it's Dublin like.

krudler

losthorizon wrote: »

I drove through Limerick

I live in Limerick.

check.
mate.

Lady Chatterton

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

No not for legal reasons, I just do'nt want to.

Ah go on tell us who you kidnapped

pragmatic1

Car crash/getting jumped by travellers.

phasers

probably whenever I'm on the 78a, the worst one being when some little scummers threw a rock through the window which just narrowly avoided my head.

Karamoja

Voodoomelon wrote: »

I once got in the way of Mary Harney and the buffet table...

That's like getting between a hippo and the river... bejaysus.

54kroc

I ran in to a nice bunch of chaps with a hurley who used my head as a sliotar.

seanybiker

Motorbike crash. Some bloody long walk home

flutterflye

MrsD007 wrote: »

Ah go on tell us who you kidnapped

A tiger - read properly next time?

Given the name 'Cill Dara', I just assumed it was the recent PO one, no?

Pandora2

I'm a civilian and I found a real bomb!! Not ashamed to say I peed myself a lil bit!!:cool:

jill_valentine

A burglar broke into my house and I chased him back out.

Karamoja

Somebody mentioned a car crash, just reminded me that I was also in a car crash... I totally forgot! That was quite dangerous, two cars written off, it was really one of those "if he was just a bit further to right" moments.

Lady Chatterton

flutterflye wrote: »

A tiger - read properly next time?

Given the name 'Cill Dara', I just assumed it was the recent PO one, no?

OH, I thought he organised it

Karamoja

Pandora2 wrote: »

I'm a civilian and I found a real bomb!! Not ashamed to say I peed myself a lil bit!!:cool:

Where??!!

Cupcake_Crisis

I was walking home from the pub one night with a guy i know through friends, he was very very handsy , but i brushed it off as drunk messing. All of a sudden the ****er grabbed me, bit me, and refused to let me go. Practically wrestled me, left bruises on my arms and wrists and arms. I was rescued by a taxi driver :cool:

but yea.... What a freak. I can laugh about it now but i was genuinely terrified.

Crackle

"Just" a car crash for me.

mud

Armed robbery in a place I was working in. Had a shotgun rammed up against the side of my head

Solnskaya

wife asked me if "her bum looked big in these jeans" the other day and I hesitated. It was touch and go there for a minute.

Witcher

Crossing at traffic lights when some pillock in a van with a newspaper across the steering wheel pulls off while it's still red for him, van hits me in the side quite hard, nearly shat myself as I was daydreaming at the time:pac:

Pandora2

Karamoja wrote: »

Where??!!

Europa Hotel Belfast 1985....I knew what I had found, was searching for it!! Tasted my first Brandy that day ;-) Ordinary people, extraordinary events;-) Still freaks me out when I think about it:eek:

mjcom4d

Was on holidays in clonea idk if I was even 10 I was canoeing with a beach club Thingy long story short went out to far didn't mind at the time lookin back on it now I was a long time out there group leader and someone else had to come and get me lookin back I think I'm lucky I'm still here scary stuff

Greentopia

Many years ago my ex's mate had a new 1000cc motorbike and he asked me if I'd like a spin on the back. This was at night after we'd had a few, and he tore down the Cork road in Waterford doing over 130 mph (I clocked it over his shoulder)

My legs nearly went from under me when I go off the bike they were so wobbly and I gave out to him for showing off and going so fast but I must admit I loved it, never felt so alive

Wouldn't chance doing it again though!

Solnskaya

mjcom4d wrote: »

Was on holidays in clonea idk if I was even 10 I was canoeing with a beach club Thingy long story short went out to far didn't mind at the time lookin back on it now I was a long time out there group leader and someone else had to come and get me lookin back I think I'm lucky I'm still here scary stuff

hang in there mj, I'm dialling the coastguard as we speak, they'll get ya little fellow, don't you worry. Hang on a minute, how do you have internet out there??? (guess you must be on your blackberry). You'll be back on terra firma in no time, you poor sod.

7sr2z3fely84g5

Negotiating a bank loan..

CrazyRabbit

As a young teen I was attacked and beaten to a pulp by a group of drunk, stoned teens. Left me in hospital for weeks, including a long stay in intensive care. Brought one of the attackers to court, but he walked free despite being convicted for the 7th time. That's the day I lost fate in Irish justice.

And during some Halloween riots in Ballyfermot years ago, I was shot at. One of the shotgun pellets got way too close for comfort.

Don Juan DeMagoo

Having a drunken off duty cop in new york pull a gun on my friends and I in a bar after we beat him and his mates in a game of pool. Then having to watch as his mates wrestled with him on the ground to get the gun off him.
Some experience for a few 18 year olds first week in the states for the summer. On the plus side we got free drinks for the rest of the night and a lift to our house in a cop car and yes they let us turn the sirens on...... yes we were easily bought off but they were cool sirens

Greentopia

mud wrote: »

Armed robbery in a place I was working in. Had a shotgun rammed up against the side of my head

Bloody hell...
Hardly dangerous but I was outside an AIB bank in Waterford getting my wages out when the biggest bank robbery in the history of the state up til that time ('92) was going on inside.

IRA guys. They got over 3 million. Money was never recovered and no one was ever caught AFAIK.

North_West_Art

mid 80's in Fermanagh, was in the family car coming back from Dublin late one night, we were stopped by 4 men who were armed, and who didn't appear to be in uniform. We were asked where we were going and who we were, didn't seem too scary until we realised they weren't the security forces after they waved us on.

Ken.

Few years back coming home from a celtic match. About 7pm coming down the m7 near the first petrol station you meet there was a jeep stopped in the fast lane. My brother jammed on and stopped in time. Stupid bitch behind talking on phone never even hit the brakes. Hit us at about 70mph.
Remember clearly sitting in the car dazed and it was like the scene from Cool Runnings,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFDu1FuvlLE

Lady Chatterton

1. Car Crash
2. Followed home from work (as a teenager) by a convicted rapist who was out on temporary release. Thankfully, a member of the public recognised him and frightened him off.

D1stant

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

As a young teen I was attacked and beaten to a pulp by a group of drunk, stoned teens. Left me in hospital for weeks, including a long stay in intensive care. Brought one of the attackers to court, but he walked free despite being convicted for the 7th time. That's the day I lost fate in Irish justice.
.

After that my family sent me to the mountains with my Afghan uncle. We ate goat tail stew, fought the Taliban and learned how to make a car from AK47s. After a while a lonely stranger called Chuck N appeared and we began to train together. We started with basics just throwing badgers, the usual stuff and progressed into exploding Elephant brains 3000 miles away with PURE BRAIN POWER!!!!!

Then I went back to Ireland and confronted those misfits. One by one. And got the **** kicked out of me again

I knit now. Mostly

Greentopia

D1stant wrote: »

After that my family sent me to the mountains with my Afghan uncle. We ate goat tail stew, fought the Taliban and learned how to make a car from AK47s. After a while a lonely stranger called Chuck N appeared and we began to train together. We started with basics just throwing badgers, the usual stuff and progressed into exploding Elephant brains 3000 miles away with PURE BRAIN POWER!!!!!

Then I went back to Ireland and confronted those misfits. One by one. And got the **** kicked out of me again

I knit now. Mostly

Hey don't mess with us knitters, we've got pointy sticks and we're not afraid to use them. :cool:

DanTheMan91

I remember I was in Rome in Italy a couple of years ago, and on the same day Manchester United were playing Roma in the champions league in Rome. There was fighting between the supporters all day, I was unaware of this at the time, and I decided it would be smart to wear my Manchester United jersey as we got a tour around the city.
I then got chased by some angry skinheads who were obviously not too happy with my choice of jersey :eek:

MadsL

40 ft fall off a cliff (rock climbing accident, sprained ankle and the whiplash cracked my C6 vertebrae)
Gun pulled on me by Czech policeman as I was spinning a firestaff!
Driving 80 mph in the fast lane of the UK's M40 as I slowly realise that the car in front is not moving :eek:

Karamoja

mjcom4d wrote: »

Was on holidays in clonea idk if I was even 10 I was canoeing with a beach club Thingy long story short went out to far didn't mind at the time lookin back on it now I was a long time out there group leader and someone else had to come and get me lookin back I think I'm lucky I'm still here scary stuff

wat?

Karamoja

D1stant wrote: »

After that my family sent me to the mountains with my Afghan uncle. We ate goat tail

I stopped reading there. Not funny.

54kroc

mjcom4d wrote: »

Was on holidays in clonea idk if I was even 10 I was canoeing with a beach club Thingy long story short went out to far didn't mind at the time lookin back on it now I was a long time out there group leader and someone else had to come and get me lookin back I think I'm lucky I'm still here scary stuff

Scary stuff man, Lucky you eh.

Princess Peach

Unreal drunk. Hotel room. Stranger. Vegas.

Can't say it was that dangerous cause I left, but who knows what could have happened. Such a silly girl.

Oh! Another! Unreal drunk. Alone. Lost. Hollywood Boulevard!

Stupid, stupid girl.

fee fi fo fum

One time , black ice. Car crash. Very lucky.

Few other times as i wasn't always a civilian. It's like someone elses life now.