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Did you ever save a life?

  • 02-11-2007 03:24PM
    #1
    mkdon05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭


    I was crossing the road today and an old lady was crossing too, we got half way across and i naturally looked the opposite direction to see if anything was coming and noticed a van flying up the road so i stopped in the middle but when i looked in front of me the old lady never checked the other side and kept on walking. :eek:
    I just about managed to grab her back to the middle before she got mangled by the van that was not gonna be able to stop. It all happened in a matter of seconds but makes you think about being here today and gone tommorow.

    Anyone else ever save someone, or get saved by someone?


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  • #2
    moco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭moco


    Nope


  • #3
    mkdon05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭mkdon05


    good Lad, run along now.


  • #4
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Yes I have.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055080021&highlight=cpr

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055112195&highlight=cpr


  • #5
    Wez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Wez


    My 'arch nemesis' (spelling?) was about to get a serious boot to the face after some randomer started on all of us, he'd already been bounced off a shop window, and the randomer had his leg cocked back, so I dove into him, knocking him back, I was waiting for a bang to the face when he decided to back off and resume his ranting before leaving the area.. Was damn lucky!!

    The arsehole never even thanked me.. Kinda thinking should I have done it, he's a wanna be scumbag!


  • #6
    Elessar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,260 ✭✭✭Elessar


    A few I would say, maybe not life threatening, but without help they could have been disabled. I work with a volunteer ambulance corps.


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  • #7
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    I once saved a puppy dogs life. True story.


  • #8
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,554 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    I pulled a kid out of the barrow in carlow a couple of years ago, idiot was playing in the boats that were tied up to the fence..and when I heard a splash followed by screaming and crying, Iput my slippers on and almost fell down the stairs. Got him out easy enough, and I had planned to yell at him about the stupidness of playing with boats in a big river when you're 2 feet high..but he was completely soaked and was just shaking with fear and cold, so I told him to **** off back to his parents.

    I saved his life, I don't have to make him feel good about it.


  • #9
    mkdon05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭mkdon05


    Mairt wrote: »
    Yes I have.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055080021&highlight=cpr

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055112195&highlight=cpr

    WOW, now thats a real lifesaving story!!!

    Bravo Mairt:)


  • #10
    tallus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭tallus


    Nopers, never, well done mairt ;) I once saw a member of the defence forces rescue a guy from drowning in blessington lakes. was scary heh. Kudos to anybody who has saved a life, there's nothing better you can do for a person.


  • #11
    blah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭blah


    mkdon05 wrote: »
    WOW, now thats a real lifesaving story!!!

    Bravo Mairt:)

    Now I've got a picture in my head of Mairt strutting around to the praise of everyone, while mkdon05 sits in the corner trying to get someone to listen to his old lady story. "But it was a really big scary van...:("

    Seriously though, fair play lads.


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  • #12
    mkdon05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭mkdon05


    blah wrote: »
    Now I've got a picture in my head of Mairt strutting around to the praise of everyone, while mkdon05 sits in the corner trying to get someone to listen to his old lady story. "But it was a really big scary van...:("

    Seriously though, fair play lads.

    :D:):D

    A REALLY REALLY big van:D


  • #13
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    A friend and I were doing some driving through the outback in Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory. The sun was beating down on us and we were exhausted, so we thought we were hallucinating when we saw a young man crawling along the ground, clearly distraught and suffering from severe dehydration. We asked him how long he had been there. "Thank god you found me! I've been here 3 days!", he said. "Me cahh's broken down a few miles back there, and I've run out of water... could I please get a bit of yours?" Eager to help in any way we could, my friend and I duely obliged. "Of course!", I said, and threw him one of our bottles of water. The man gulped it down in just a few seconds, and let out an emotional cry of euphoria. As we were on our way back to Sydney, an overwhelming sense of achievement came over me. I had just saved a life. That man would live at least another 5 or 6 hours, and it was all because of me.

    It's quite the feeling. I wonder if he ever did get his car started up...


  • #14
    Binomate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭Binomate


    Nope, I'd probably watch them die if the opportunity arose, because it's funnier that way.


  • #15
    Goat Mouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 260 ✭✭Goat Mouth


    yeah, when i was a little lad (roughly 6 or 7) i was in a swimming pool and some man near me started having heart failure and he grabbed hold of me and pulled me under, i could barely swim as it was and i didnt have the strenght to pull myself away. then some other guy jumped into the pool, lifted me to the side whilst his wife helped me cough up A LOT of water then he went back for the guy and got him out of the pool. i think the guy was taken away by ambulance i dont really remember much after that i was in shock.

    Recently, I pulled a youngster up from a ledge (I doubt he would have died, it was roughly a 25 foot drop, but still save him from ****ing himself up something serios!) We were teaching Parkour and he decided he had a bit of bollox about him so he went to the ledge and tried to impress others then slipped. After i pulled him up i nearly kicked the head of him and told him never to come back!
    might be a bit harsh but still...


  • #16
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,554 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    Binomate wrote: »
    Nope, I'd probably watch them die if the opportunity arose, because it's funnier that way.

    you're just untalented and crass :(


  • #17
    cance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    yes,

    2 people i can think of. oh and a drunk in dunlaoghaire who split his head open after falling down the stairs to the dart platform.

    have been saved once.


  • #18
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    No, but I ate a baby once.


  • #19
    The Queen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 492 ✭✭The Queen


    Similar to OPs story, was crossing the road with the bf. He didn't look right when crossing, and there was a car coming ridiculously fast and I had to pull him back. Was quite frightening that he was that close to being seriously injured!


  • #20
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,392 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    mkdon05 wrote: »
    :D:):D

    A REALLY REALLY big van:D

    Well you say 'van' but we all know you mean an 18-wheeled supertruck with lasers for headlights and a roof-mounted cannon firing explosive tipped rounds. Stop being so modest! :D

    Kudos to you.

    /tips hat.

    To answer the question, yeah, I've saved lives before...approximately 30,000 lives a year as a direct result of biological research and diagnostic development done by me and my team.


  • #21
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I've saved countless lives by not acting on my impulses to kill people.


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  • #22
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    r3nu4l wrote: »
    To answer the question, yeah, I've saved lives before...approximately 30,000 lives a year as a direct result of biological research and diagnostic development done by me and my team.

    When will you realise that biological weapons take lives, not save them!


    I once saved a toddler who ran out in front of a merc. I ran out and picked him up, assuming my incredible speed and agility would save him. I didn't realise that I was that unfit and the merc ploughed into me. The little **** was ok, and I'm left with a metal rod holding my leg together and permanent pain in my back (although that could be posture related, but I get more pity when it's from an act of heroism).


  • #23
    Goat Mouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 260 ✭✭Goat Mouth


    humanji wrote: »
    I'm left with a metal rod holding my leg together and permanent pain in my back (although that could be posture related...


    I've no idea why, but this has sparked a curiosity nerve in me to ask 'how old are you?'


  • #24
    squire1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 730 ✭✭✭squire1


    During the summer I was driving up the mountains from Lagos to Montchique in the Algarve. Long steep winding road with loads of u turns, you know the type. Anyway, came around a bend and spotted a car that had obviously just come off the road and plunged 40 or 50Ft down a sheer cliff edge.

    The wife got on the phone to call emergency services while I scrambled down the cliff to check the occupants of the car. Two people obviously dead when I got down there but a third (the female driver) was alive, but only just.

    We were a good 15/20 minutes from the nearest town so I knew I was on my own until then. The girl was bleeding out through a badly broken leg and God knows what internal injuries she had. She was in shock but conscious. I managed to get my belt around her leg to stem the bleeding and tried to keep her conscious by talking to her. She was trapped in the car but I don’t think I would have moved her even if I could.

    Anyway, after what seemed like hours, first an ambulance and then a fire brigade turned up and I was able to let the professionals take over.

    I had to go for a few beers to settle the nerves a bit.

    I rang the local cops the next day and they were able to tell me that she was a local girl and was still alive. It was nice to think that I had done my bit.

    Edit: If by any chance she is reading this, could I have my belt back?


  • #25
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,392 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    humanji wrote: »
    When will you realise that biological weapons take lives, not save them!

    Huh? :confused: Are you mad? Where did I mention biological weapons? Is that supposed to be a joke? Where's the smile emoticon? Explain yourself my misguided friend!

    We developed a test for a certain disease that used to be almost impossible to identify. It's easily treated with anti-fungal agents if diagnosed on time. Our test means that it is simple to diagnose and hence treat, thus saving lives...now where the fcuk did you get 'biological weapons' from that?


  • #26
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Terry wrote: »
    I've saved countless lives by not acting on my impulses to kill people.

    We all owe a lot to your power of restraint!

    I was out climbing with school when I was about 15 and I was above a guy in my class (i.e. higher up the cliff face), when he got stuck and became panicked. He wouldn't move to try and put himself in a more comfortable position, and slowly started losing grip. I leaned down and grabbed his arm and held him till the instructor dude came up and basically carried the chap down.

    I dunno if I saved his life, but I definitely saved his t-shirt from getting dirty should he have fallen down the cliff face.

    In saving his life, I ruined my first ever pair of Nike Air Max runners. Never got a thanks either :(


  • #27
    digitally-yours
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭digitally-yours


    Yes i have saved my own life

    Many many times :D


  • #28
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    r3nu4l wrote: »
    Huh? :confused: Are you mad? Where did I mention biological weapons? Is that supposed to be a joke? Where's the smile emoticon? Explain yourself my misguided friend!

    We developed a test for a certain disease that used to be almost impossible to identify. It's easily treated with anti-fungal agents if diagnosed on time. Our test means that it is simple to diagnose and hence treat, thus saving lives...now where the fcuk did you get 'biological weapons' from that?

    Is the crabs a disease now?


  • #29
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Goat Mouth wrote: »
    I've no idea why, but this has sparked a curiosity nerve in me to ask 'how old are you?'

    I'm 28.
    r3nu4l wrote: »
    Huh? :confused: Are you mad? Where did I mention biological weapons? Is that supposed to be a joke? Where's the smile emoticon? Explain yourself my misguided friend!

    Ah come on, it's AH, of course it's a joke :P Wait, you're not really making biological weapons and I've rumbled you? :eek:


  • #30
    l3LoWnA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭l3LoWnA


    I saved my daughters life - she was about to drown! I left the b*tch who was holding her when they fell into the lake where she was though! :D

    Would you believe the stupid STUPID c*nt was actually trying to stop a DOG (a very very strong and furious dog) which was coming thundering at about 30mph with her leg from attacking a fkn DUCK and that's what caused her to fall off a pier whilst holding my 12 mth old baby girl :eek:

    Stupid blonde b*tch!!!! :rolleyes:

    She got out....eventually, cuts and bruises but she nearly died as she couldn't swim!!!

    Shame......

    [Edit - Jesus, I must check for typos more often, I type way to fast and way too badly]


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  • #31
    TheDriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,220 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    DId CPR and defibbrilator on a guy who's heart stopped, brought him around but unfortunately, he passed away that night anyways


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