What's the worst possible thing that could happen to a person?

Internet Hero

I am thinking about it. Maybe your family could get attack by a psycho and only you survive except you are paralysed and blinded. Then you are emotionally messed up and depressed so you become an alcoholic and a drug addict and you rot away in emotional and physical agony for the rest of your life until another killer finds you and tortures you to death over a month with just a pin.

What do you think the worst POSSIBLE thing is that could ever happen to a person?

Kidchameleon

Rape or having you child abducted

TheBody

Locked in syndrome is pretty awful imo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome

smash

Marriage!

Washington Irving

What a delightful thread

M cebee

work

anncoates

A Madeline McCann situation where your kid is taken and you don't knowvif they're alive or dead.

PirateShampoo

Being accused of a crime you didn't commite and having your life destroyed over it or being jailed for it?

anhedonia

well hello my little ray of sunshine!

Internet Hero

anhedonia wrote: »

well hello my little ray of sunshine!

Says you, anhedonia!

Greentopia

I'm stuck in a room with a teenager (or one who acts like it) with an over active imagination who's been watching too many slasher films with his mates.

im invisible

anncoates wrote: »

A Madeline McCann situation where your kid is taken and you don't knowvif they're alive or dead.

well now...

Standard Toaster

Being an 8-year-old boy, who is accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas and has to defend his home against idiotic burglars

Chavways

They step on Lego.

Where To

Your best mate wins the lotto, changes his first name to Marquis, buys a heap of classic performance cars, and erects a massive tent to house them.

Beside your house.

And in front of your house a sixty foot flashing neon sign;

MARQUIS'
MARQUEE
0F
MARQUES

3ndahalfof6

being born.

newmug

Goin to hell.

anhedonia

having your @sshole sewn closed and then being force fed eddie rockets cheese-taco fries for weeks on end. Fun-filled fecal impaction.

Ahava

Yeah, losing a child or being paralysed and unable to communicate.

Halloran springs

Human centipede

Mint Sauce

Opening this thread has been pretty close

marketty

knock a fiver off the dole and put a fiver on a pack of fags
#budget2013

Jay D

I think locked in syndrome or there abouts. Is that worse than being murdered?

Question of ethics and personal views of course but I think anything else mentioned here can be recovered from, apart from going to hell of course...

ejmaztec

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Being an 8-year-old boy, who is accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas and has to defend his home against idiotic burglars

... and then to turn to a life of substance abuse after the trauma and be unemployable.

Mardy Bum

Lavinia in Titus Andronicus.

I don't think anything else could be much worse.

galwayrush

Sitting in a Judas chair listening to Jedward....

boiledsweets

getting eaten by a great white shark,a tiger shark or a mako japanese shark..****ing hell on earth i would say for any victim of it..

wyndham

Scaphism has got to be up there:

From wiki:

Scaphism, also known as the boats, was an ancient Persian method of execution designed to inflict torturous death. The name comes from the Greek word σκάφη, skaphe, meaning "anything scooped (or hollowed) out".

The intended victim was stripped naked and then firmly fastened within the interior spaces of two narrow rowing boats (or hollowed-out tree trunks) joined together one on top of the other with the head, hands and feet protruding. The condemned was forced to ingest milk and honey to the point of developing severe bowel movement and diarrhoea, and more honey would be rubbed on his body to attract insects to the exposed appendages. He would then be left to float on a stagnant pond or be exposed to the sun. The defenceless individual's faeces accumulated within the container, attracting more insects, which would eat and breed within his exposed flesh, which—pursuant to interruption of the blood supply by burrowing insects—became increasingly gangrenous. The feeding would be repeated each day in some cases to prolong the torture, so that dehydration or starvation did not kill him. Death, when it eventually occurred, was probably due to a combination of dehydration, starvation and septic shock. Delirium would typically set in after a few days.

In other recorded versions, the insects did not eat the person; biting and stinging insects such as wasps, which were attracted by honey on the body, acted as the torture.

Death by scaphism was incredibly painful, humiliating and protracted. Plutarch writes in his biography of Artaxerxes II that Mithridates, sentenced to die in this manner in 401 BC for boasting about killing Cyrus the Younger, survived 17 days before dying.

coleria

The story about a girl being horrifically tortured, and ending up being cast in concrete alive, over in the nope thread. Why, why, why did I go near that thread, or more importantly, why in the name of god do I go back:mad:

Internet Hero

irish-stew wrote: »

Opening this thread has been pretty close

Hardly worse than being tortured to death with just a pin...

Sarky

Settling for less.

angeline

For me it would have to be locked in syndrome.

Internet Hero

Sarky wrote: »

Settling for less.

Less than what? Zero?

Stavro Mueller

TheBody wrote: »

Locked in syndrome is pretty awful imo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome

This... One of the most upsetting things I've seen in a long time was the sheer grief of locked-in suffererTony Nicklinson when he was told that he didn't have the right to die. Thank heavens he got pneuomonia and died shortly afterwards :(

Banjaxed82

There was a couple a few years back, who were abducted and taken up the dublin mountains. The guy was locked in the boot, while they raped his girlfriend on the car. Think they set the car on fire then...not sure. Horrendous anyway.

say_who_now?

The scene in "Quantum of Solace" where Daniel Craig as James Bond is strapped naked to a chair with a hole in the seat with his balls trapped under his thighs, and the villain then uses some sort of weight on a rope to deliver a right whack to his undercarriage! :eek:

ItAintMeBabe

Banjaxed82 wrote: »

There was a couple a few years back, who were abducted and taken up the dublin mountains. The guy was locked in the boot, while they raped his girlfriend on the car. Think they set the car on fire then...not sure. Horrendous anyway.

That wasn't in Dublin, it was in Cratloe woods in Clare. They didn't set the car on fire and but both were beaten horrendously. There was at least three guys involved and they were all very young. I remember reading in the paper not so long ago that one on the guys who raped the poor woman was getting boxing lessons in jail as a form of therapy to help him deal with his anger :mad:

Internet Hero

say_who_now? wrote: »

The scene in "Quantum of Solace" where Daniel Craig as James Bond is strapped naked to a chair with a hole in the seat with his balls trapped under his thighs, and the villain then uses some sort of weight on a rope to deliver a right whack to his undercarriage! :eek:

Surely it would be worse to just have your balls ripped off with rusty brillo pads?

Dave!

This is my nightmare, anyway...

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/jail-for-teens-who-locked-man-in-boot-before-raping-his-girlfriend-165490.html

Jail for teens who locked man in boot before raping his girlfriend

By Michael Doyle
Saturday July 31 2004
FOUR teenagers who locked a man in the boot of a car and then took turns raping his girlfriend have received sentences ranging from four to 10 years at the Central Criminal Court.

Thomas O'Neill, Dean Barry and Darragh Ryan, who are all 16; and 15-year-old Jason Ring, launched the savage attack on the couple after they found them together in Cratloe Woods, Co Clare, in the early hours of January 23. Ring was just 14 at the time.

Armed with a golf club, a screw driver, a wheel brace and a shovel, the four ordered the couple out of the car and the woman was struck on the shoulder with the club when she refused to give one of them a kiss.

The man was in possession of an extendable baton which he used in his job as a bouncer and when the youths found it they assumed he was a garda and started shouting "do him".

They forced him into the boot of the car and the woman was pushed on to the bonnet and her shorts were pulled down. She was dragged into the car and the four youths took turns raping her while they threatened to burn the car with her boyfriend in the boot if she resisted. At one point, they opened the booth and began to hit the man a number of times with the golf club.

Superintendent John Kerin told the court that the ordeal lasted for more than an hour and only ended when the man managed to escape from the boot and summon help from a passing motorist.

O'Neill and Ryan, both from Lenihan Avenue; Barry, from Garrglass, Ballinacurra, Weston; and Ring, from Crecora Avenue, Ballinacurra, all Limerick City, pleaded guilty to raping the 35-year-old woman on January 23, 2004.

They also pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning the man, who was 36, and assault causing harm on both victims on the same date.

Mr Justice Paul Carney jailed O'Neill for 10 years because he was described in court as the "ringleader" and "director of operations" and jailed Barry for nine years because the probation report said he represented a continuing danger to others.

He sentenced Ryan to eight years and jailed Ring for the maximum four years for a person under the age of 16. He suspended the final year of O'Neill, Ryan and Barry's sentence because of their age and guilty pleas but said he had no jurisdiction to suspend a portion of Ring's sentence because it was to be served at Trinity House. The other three will go to St Patrick's Institution.

He issued certificates for leave to appeal because he described it as "a serious and unique case and I am not taking personal responsibility for how it is dealt with. Three minds in the Court of Criminal Appeal are more superior than mine."

He added: "I am fully aware that I am dealing with children and they have to be rehabilitated. However, the protection of society is at the forefront of my mind and people can not be exposed to danger by them in a short period of time.

"Because I am treating them as children does not mean I have to deal with them with short sentences and the community will have to be protected from their criminal propensities."

After imposing sentence, Mr Justice Carney heard submissions from various parties on identifying the four accused because they were children. He said he was concerned about them being demonised in the tabloids but added that he couldn't differentiate between different types of media or the four accused and made no order in relation to that.

The woman earlier told the court: "My life and the lives of my family were devastated with what happened. A lot of pieces have to be picked up and a lot of pain has to be dealt with. I'm trying to get on and not let it destroy the rest of my life."

The man said their lives were totally destroyed and that they went from being ordinary people into a living nightmare.

Supt Kerin told Michael O'Higgins, SC, prosecuting, that on the night in question, the youths had stolen a car and proceeded to burgle two national schools in the Limerick and Cratloe area. They had also stolen a bottle of tequila from an off-licence and had drank some wine.

The couple they attacked worked in the same bar in Limerick and had gone to Cratloe Woods in separate cars at about 3.05am after finishing work. The youths arrived soon after and began to subject the couple to their ordeal. They were arrested soon afterwards.

The man was locked in the boot and had to listen to those animals shouting "We're riding your missus" as he was powerless to do anything to stop it... Obviously the woman's ordeal was much worse, but I've lost sleep over thoughts of being the bloke in that incident.

nbar12

scratching your balls and then being disappointed with the smell

Princess Peach

Your skin turning inside out but your still alive and have to live a normal life but the only job you can get is working on a salt mine.

Internet Hero

In fairness I still think my first post is the worst thing suggested so far...

Sunnyisland

My grandmother went totally blind at the age of 43, Always have a fear of going blind.

Internet Hero

realies wrote: »

My grandmother went totally blind at the age of 43, Always have a fear of going blind.

Ahhhh! I've always been scared of that too.

**Timbuk2**

Motor neuron disease - wouldn't wish it on my very worst enemy.

Mint Sauce

Seen a few replying with locked in syndrome. The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' is a very good account of someone suffering from it. Based on the memoirs of French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby who developed the condition after suffering a massive stroke.

lukesmom

Being buried alive. Wide awake in a coffin 6 feet under with cement over the coffin. Nobody can see or hear you, they all think your dead so you have no chance of getting out alive. You panic and sweat, can't breathe etc.

I have a nightmare when I sleep sometimes. I wake up and the ceiling is about an inch or 2 from my nose and it's extremely hot and I can't breathe. Then I wake up thankfully. I'm claustrophobic if u hadn't guessed.

say_who_now?

Internet Hero wrote: »

Surely it would be worse to just have your balls ripped off with rusty brillo pads?

Worse again if you were a one-armed man, hanging off the edge of a cliff, with an itchy hole!

Internet Hero

lukesmom wrote: »

Being buried alive. Wide awake in a coffin 6 feet under with cement over the coffin. Nobody can see or hear you, they all think your dead so you have no chance of getting out alive. You panic and sweat, can't breathe etc.

I have a nightmare when I sleep sometimes. I wake up and the ceiling is about an inch or 2 from my nose and it's extremely hot and I can't breathe. Then I wake up thankfully. I'm claustrophobic if u hadn't guessed.

That would be bad, being buried alive, but then you realise that there's a rat in there with you and it slowly eats you away from the feet up :eek:

PizzamanIRL

Why would you even start a thread wanting to know this?

lukesmom

Internet Hero wrote: »

lukesmom wrote: »

Being buried alive. Wide awake in a coffin 6 feet under with cement over the coffin. Nobody can see or hear you, they all think your dead so you have no chance of getting out alive. You panic and sweat, can't breathe etc.

I have a nightmare when I sleep sometimes. I wake up and the ceiling is about an inch or 2 from my nose and it's extremely hot and I can't breathe. Then I wake up thankfully. I'm claustrophobic if u hadn't guessed.

That would be bad, being buried alive, but then you realise that there's a rat in there with you and it slowly eats you away from the feet up :eek:

Or worse still a female and male rat and you have to watch them go at it and reproduce baby rats which you are forced to eat in order to stay alive.