The Grim Reaper

Beetlebum · 16-02-2007 04:27PM #1

I had a really scary experience this morning and it's only hitting me now how serious it could've been.

I was walking to work this morning in a bit of a daze. I was last night so my head was kinda fuzzy. So I came to the light where I always cross and without even looking (or thinking ) I just proceeded to walk across the road. I got snapped right out of my daze when a man grabbed my arm and pulled me back just as a car flew past angrily beeping the horn. The man who pulled me back was pretty angry too and shouted at me that I could've got myself killed. I thanked him for grabbing me and hurried off to work, bit of a close call really....

So, whats the closest any of you guys have come to death...

Does your life really flash before your eyes...hmmm...I wonder...

muppetkiller · 16-02-2007 04:30PM

Drunk in San Francisco I got knocked down twice in the same night...:D
not even a scratch on me haha ..think the Grim Reaper was on Holidays that day..(thankfully)

Ruu_Old · 16-02-2007 04:34PM

Car crash when I was 5, I got away from the wreck with a busted lip. I was lucky.

16-02-2007 04:43PM

Ruu wrote:

Car crash when I was 5, I got away from the wreck with a busted lip. I was lucky.

Shouldn't have been driving TBH. Hah.

Few years ago I was down at the pier where I used to live. I was really young, say only 11. Was leaning over the pier when I suddenly fell. Tide was out and it was at least a 12 foot drop (if not more). I was just lucky enough to grab on to a rope on the way down. There was a boat directly under me and I had just missed it by an inch.

At the time I grabbed the rope I was falling head first, so had I not grabbed it I would've fallen head first into a boat. So I survived but had a heckuva rope burn all over both palms of my hands

Ruu_Old · 16-02-2007 04:45PM

Deleted User wrote:

Shouldn't have been driving TBH. Hah.

Few years ago I was down at the pier where I used to live. I was really young, say only 11. Was leaning over the pier when I suddenly fell. Tide was out and it was at least a 12 foot drop (if not more). I was just lucky enough to grab on to a rope on the way down. There was a boat directly under me and I had just missed it by an inch.

At the time I grabbed the rope I was falling head first, so had I not grabbed it I would've fallen head first into a boat. So I survived but had a heckuva rope burn all over both palms of my hands

Hey! I only had two cups of warm milk, I was fine!:)

Femelade · 16-02-2007 04:47PM

yesterday morning i was driving to work. very narrow windy road and the wind was very strond along with buckets of rain. the side of the road is falling apart so its like a big gutter full with watch all along the ditch. The wind pushed my car into this gutter and i tried to come out of it, but my car swung right over to the other side of the road just as i was passing a big jeep, nearly ran straight into him...pulled back in just in time, right into the bloody gutter..my heart was racing though, and i wasnt even going fast cos visability was terrible.

soma · 16-02-2007 04:53PM

Beetlebum wrote:

So, whats the closest any of you guys have come to death...

- Avoided a high speed head-on collision in NY by a matter of inches. My father just calmly said "this is it", as the other car flew towards us.

- I was approaching a late night car crash on foot from the front of the vehicle. (it's hard to explain why, but I was trying to determine the height of a drop the car was facing). As I got to the front bumper, the driver snapped awake and (instinctively I guess?) slammed his foot on the accelerator. Thankfully the rear wheels were suspended so they just spun harmlessly, but it was a bit of a shock..

- Got trapped in a serious house fire when I was about 7, the front door was locked and the fire was in the kitchen. Thankfully a neighbour smashed the front window which allowed me to escape.

swingking · 16-02-2007 04:55PM

When I was away in Portugal last year, I decided to go on a banana boat. I usually not the one to chicken out of these things.

During the ride, we got knocked off as you might imagine.

A wave hit the banana boat right against me and the rope of the boat got tangled around my neck.

I yelled for help as I was choking and after a narrow struggle, I eventually was set free by the lifeguard who cut the rope and saved me.

A few minutes more, I would have been drowned.

Plug · 16-02-2007 05:13PM

Nearly drowned when I was a baby, stupid pond.
Nearly hung my self out of a tree when i was 10. lucky to be alive with that one.

Pirbright · 16-02-2007 05:38PM

had complications from an operation in the summer. Developed a massive blood clot. I thought I'd torn my calf muscle the way it felt. Was going to take a few painkillers and put ice on it. Mum and Sister made me go to hospital. Quick scan of the leg showed a clot from my ankle to about an inch from the femoral atery in my groin. Doc told me if I hadn't of come in when I did I was 12 hours from losing the leg and probably 24 hours from the clot getting into the artery and causing a fatal heart attack, lung embelism or stroke.....

Dragan · 16-02-2007 06:02PM

- Had a dude attack me with a knife….he was a tad loony and definitely out for some blood. Only seeing him out of the corner of my eye meant I wasn't cut. I'm assuming he was trying to kill me as it was a 12 inch hunting knife.

- Nearly got crushed by a massive truck when I was about 14. The father was driving back home from Dublin and we were passing a articulated truck on the motorway…..it's wheel blew out and it came swerving across at us. The auld lad just hit the brake, dropped back behind it, switched lanes and hammer up past it on the other side. The only thing that stopped me being a smear on the motorway was the fact that my Da used to rally cars and is a fantastic driver.

- Fell off a 17 foot wall onto my head when I was kid. Apparently it should have broken my neck.

- Several other things I don't really want to go into.

- Went to see "The Missing" the first night it came out…..now that’s about as close as I have ever come to dying.

- Oh yeah, was born with no heart beat.....not sure if that counts though?

Johnny Bitte · 16-02-2007 06:14PM

Was walking to Heuston one sunny afternoon and just walked straight out acrooss a side street as the lights turn green, Half way across and only saw the two lanes of traffic baring down on me when one beeped its horn. ran and leaped to the other side just as the car passed.

Freaked me out but what I cant get over is the guy didnt even slow down, in fact he seemed to speed up??!?!?!?!

Weirded out for 3 days after

Terry · 16-02-2007 07:15PM

Lots of cars crashes, Gun held to my head twice when I was a teenger (one guy was a junkie and the other was a 'ra member), countless cycling accidents including one where I almost slid under an artic. I had an interest few years during my teens.

Overheal · 16-02-2007 07:18PM

I timed my Jaywalk across the road so that by begining to cross immediately behind an approaching van I would have enough time; else sit for a few cos of more traffic. Started to step behind it........

......it was trailing lawn equipment. very poorly arranged lawn equipment; and I was about 5 inches from getting my face hedge-trimmed.
Screw it anyway says I and continues walking afterward.

Then that one time I got so stoned of some crazy floridian stuff.....hoh, I thought a stroke may have been in order after my nerves became overstimulated with buzz.......

Car Mad · 16-02-2007 08:07PM

Was out with the father on the farm one day opening silage bales.Father had 2 down on the ground for me to open he was in the tractor waiting for them to be opened when I heard him shouting.I couldnt hear him over the noise of the tractor so I ran up to the door screaming what do you want and as i turned around i saw a big huge silage bale fall from about 15 foot in the air to where I was standing.If I didnt run to the tractor I would of been squashed. The strange thing is I never really take any notice if the father shouts something from the tractor I usually just stand there trying to make out what he is saying

I_and_I · 16-02-2007 08:59PM

When I was about 7 my family and I were living in New York, I was around out the front of my house (we lived on a very steep hill close to the foot of a semi-mountain), anyway I ran across the street to call to one of my friends when I heard all this shouting and screaming coming from behind me. I turned around (to the right) and all the old ladys that lived next door were screaming at me, at the time I had no clue why. I just turned and kept running up to my friends house when I heard a screeching noise and to my left a runaway jeep just zipped by me and screeched into the garden of my friends nextdoor neighbour. I was in shock for about 2 hours after, everyone on the street was out and all the old ladys were almost crying and telling me how lucky I was. I had my fill of ice-cream cake that night I can tell you. I don't think I will ever live on or near a hill in the future.

Zapho · 16-02-2007 09:12PM

Pirbright wrote:

had complications from an operation in the summer. Developed a massive blood clot. I thought I'd torn my calf muscle the way it felt. Was going to take a few painkillers and put ice on it. Mum and Sister made me go to hospital. Quick scan of the leg showed a clot from my ankle to about an inch from the femoral atery in my groin. Doc told me if I hadn't of come in when I did I was 12 hours from losing the leg and probably 24 hours from the clot getting into the artery and causing a fatal heart attack, lung embelism or stroke.....

F*ck me man, that was one huge clot, how the hell did you develope that? You were definately lucky with that one. Its very hard to tell by symtoms alone that you have clot.

As for me, got a shock from a old broken stereo when I was about 10 (never knew it was plugged in) it threw me across the room. Hurt like hell, but I guess I was slightly insulated from the ground by my shoes. I'm only glad it threw me and I didn't end up getting stuck to it

JC 2K3 · 16-02-2007 10:03PM

Walking home from Metallica/Alice in Chains gig in the summer I got off the bus at my usual stop and proceeded to cross the road. It was a red man and it was dark, but I looked before I crossed and there were only a couple of cars stopped at the lights to turn right, nothing oncoming - or so I thought.

I was wearing headphones, slightly tipsy, it was dark and my eyesight isn't amazing and I didn't see the motorbike coming. It was mere centimetres from me. I could feel the force of it going past me. Extremely scary....

Jello · 16-02-2007 10:11PM

When I was about 3 I leaned over a third or fourth floor balcony in Spain to look at the pool below and fell forward.... luckily my dad grabbed me by the leg before I was a gonner.

Another incident when I was younger my skateboard rolled under a big truck and I went to get it back... I was right beneath the truck bending down to pick up the board when it started to pull off, I barely made it out.

I feel so stupid looking back on them

Giblet · 16-02-2007 10:11PM

Had the bucket of a JCB fall on me and pin me down across my chest, 2 lads had to lift it off me.

walked out in front of a car when I thought the light had changed. Someone grabbed me.

Capt'n Midnight · 17-02-2007 12:33AM

Got a nose full of ammonia, couldn't breath for about a minute, like being winded. Worst part was I couldn't call out to anyone nearby.

faceman · 17-02-2007 12:45AM

I was camping with some friends in kenya. Woke up about 7am with this loud crash. Got out of tent and an elephant had been stripping the bark of the tree we were camped under. Fortunatley the tree missed us by about 2 foot.

Rhyme · 17-02-2007 12:52AM

Beetlebum wrote:

I just proceeded to walk across the road. I got snapped right out of my daze when a man grabbed my arm and pulled me back just as a car flew past angrily beeping the horn.

Same here on Baggot Street except it was me doing the grabbing and a blind guy doing the walking.

Nearly fell off a cliff when i was about 10, saved by a hanging branch and a friend.

cournioni · 17-02-2007 01:38AM

I saw the grim reaper out in the fields one day, cutting the fields with his scythe... Looked a bit pissed off tbh.

Max_Damage · 17-02-2007 01:40AM

Nearly lost my leg on the PTO shaft on a tractor. Luckly I was wearing cheap light material trousers at the time, and so it ripped the leg of the trousers of me, and luckly not my leg itself.

Mossy Monk · 17-02-2007 01:42AM

Beetlebum wrote:

So, whats the closest any of you guys have come to death...

knocked down by a van, week and a bit in intensive care further 2 and a half in regular hospital, couple of months off school at home

Alter-Ego · 17-02-2007 02:26AM

Sledge hammer dropped off a scaffolding missed my head my inches.

Walking across O' Connell street without looking wasn't my brightest idea either!

admiralofthefleet · 17-02-2007 02:35AM

i almost gave my very young cousin an early meeting with the reaper. years ago on holiday i spun him around beside the swimming pool and let go to throw him in. my hands were wet so i didnt have a good grip of him...let him go and he flew into the water and smashed his nose off the side, 1 or 2 inches closer to the side and he would have smashed his chin off the side and broke his neck, such was the force i threw him

bluto63 · 17-02-2007 10:54AM

When I was a kid, don't know what age, I was playing in a river. The current was strong and it pulled me away to the opposite, stronger side. I managed to grab a rope and pull myself back onto the bank. When I got out I looked down and saw that there was nowhere I could've gotten out to save myself if I didn't grab the rope. Probably would've drowned

Odysseus · 17-02-2007 11:22AM

Made a bad exit during a parachute jump once. The result was I ended up with my right leg caught in the lines, my foot was over my head. I proceeded with the cut-away drill and nothing happened. I still had a messed up chute about the size of a ball over my head. I was spinning towards the ground trying to figure out what happened. When I pulled the cut-away pad it had deflected off my leg, so it hadn't being pulled correctly. Realising this I gave it another pull, and managed to deploy at about 700ft. My reserve deployed with such force my ribs were brusied for weeks, I had a bit of a hard landing but was still about to walk away from it.

Takeshi_Kovacs · 17-02-2007 01:32PM

Odysseus wrote:

Made a bad exit during a parachute jump once. The result was I ended up with my right leg caught in the lines, my foot was over my head. I proceeded with the cut-away drill and nothing happened. I still had a messed up chute about the size of a ball over my head. I was spinning towards the ground trying to figure out what happened. When I pulled the cut-away pad it had deflected off my leg, so it hadn't being pulled correctly. Realising this I gave it another pull, and managed to deploy at about 700ft. My reserve deployed with such force my ribs were brusied for weeks, I had a bit of a hard landing but was still about to walk away from it.

Scary stuff.. at least you had the self awareness to sort yourself out..

Closest one i ever had was on a windy day heading up Carrauntuohil with a few others. We were at one section with a bit of scrambling, and i was at the top helping the rest of the gang up. All of a sudden a very strong gust of wind knocked me back and i was actually leaning over the cliff face before i got my balance and grabbed hold of few rocks. At the time, i didn't think much of it, it was only when i walked up to the others and saw how shocked they were that i didn't fall off, that i realised that, that was 'a close one'.

Also had the back loader of a tractor roll over me as it was reversing. Luckily the ground was very soft, and the loader just pressed me into the soft earth. The driver just saw me before it reversed over my head thank God.

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