Have you ever NEARLY been killed?

Shinjuku · 21-12-2008 02:56PM #1

A few years ago some scumbag fired a stone straight at me with a galabandy (culchie word for catapult/black widow). It whizzed past my head, pretty close to my eye. It was going so fast I could hear a little "zzzip". If it hit my eye, I definitely would have been killed. It would have gone through my eye, through the eye socket and then lodged in my brain and caused general havoc. Tis a wierd thought. Kinda makes me nervous every time I remember it.

Anyone else nearly been killed? Or savagely injured at least?

galwayrush · 21-12-2008 03:00PM

Managed to catch hair in a spinning Lathe,( guess i shouldn't have long hair at my age) don't know how i survived that, it was an incredibly fast and hard bang.
got electric shocks twice.
Overturned a car after skidding on an oil spill, surreal experience, everything went into what appeared slow motion.

Shacklebolt · 21-12-2008 03:03PM

I was once starting an illegal bonfire when the tin of petrol ignited in my hand... Had it exploded I would certainly have been killed.

SV · 21-12-2008 03:04PM

Shinjuku wrote: »

A few years ago some scumbag fired a stone straight at me with a galabandy (culchie word for catapult/black widow). It whizzed past my head, pretty close to my eye. It was going so fast I could hear a little "zzzip". If it hit my eye, I definitely would have been killed. It would have gone through my eye, through the eye socket and then lodged in my brain and caused general havoc. Tis a wierd thought. Kinda makes me nervous every time I remember it.

Anyone else nearly been killed? Or savagely injured at least?

jesus. over react much?

You probably would have been blind in one eye..
Killed?
Did you think it was a bullet or something?

Big Knox · 21-12-2008 03:05PM

Shinjuku wrote: »

A few years ago some scumbag fired a stone straight at me with a galabandy (culchie word for catapult/black widow). It whizzed past my head, pretty close to my eye. It was going so fast I could hear a little "zzzip". If it hit my eye, I definitely would have been killed. It would have gone through my eye, through the eye socket and then lodged in my brain and caused general havoc. Tis a wierd thought. Kinda makes me nervous every time I remember it.

Anyone else nearly been killed? Or savagely injured at least?

You were not even remotly close to being killed. It wasn't a gun, jesus get over it.

SoWatchaWant · 21-12-2008 03:05PM

I slipped on the wet bathroom floor and cracked my head off of the toilet when I was about 3. But miraculously I wasn't hurt, and the toilet started to leak and had to be replaced

Big Knox · 21-12-2008 03:06PM

Shinjuku wrote: »

A few years ago some scumbag fired a stone straight at me with a galabandy (culchie word for catapult/black widow). It whizzed past my head, pretty close to my eye. It was going so fast I could hear a little "zzzip". If it hit my eye, I definitely would have been killed. It would have gone through my eye, through the eye socket and then lodged in my brain and caused general havoc. Tis a wierd thought. Kinda makes me nervous every time I remember it.

Anyone else nearly been killed? Or savagely injured at least?

You were not even remotely close to being killed. It wasn't a gun, jesus get over it.

emeraldstar · 21-12-2008 03:07PM

No, never.

Big Knox · 21-12-2008 03:08PM

Sorry double post :pac:

arybvtcw0eolkf · 21-12-2008 03:10PM

Yes, a few times in South Lebanon.

Shinjuku · 21-12-2008 03:10PM

ClioV6 wrote: »

jesus. over react much?

You probably would have been blind in one eye..
Killed?
Did you think it was a bullet or something?

What are you on about? You can kill rats rabbits crows etc. with those things. You obviously have never used a black widow. The good ones are as powerful as FCUK.

SV · 21-12-2008 03:11PM

Shinjuku wrote: »

What are you on about? You can kill rats rabbits crows etc. with those things. You obviously have never used a black widow. The good ones are as powerful as FCUK.

You're not a ****ing rat, rabbit or a crow!

I have, and it's not a gun, and it wouldn't kill you.
Get over yourself.

ottostreet · 21-12-2008 03:13PM

about four years ago, crossing the road at a roundabout near my old secondary school, forgot how roundabouts work, and didnt check one of the exits, as a lorry came around the bend. didnt see it, walked out in front of it, head a horn blare, looked, and saw the front of it bearing down on me, far too fast to stop. if i tried going forward, he'd hit me hard since i was only about a quarter across. i just jumped backwards as far as i could, and the lorry cleared me by a pretty small gap. closest ive probably come apart from a near crash when i misread traffic completely once.

Biggins · 21-12-2008 03:14PM

Yep,

Shot at
Blown up by a bomb
plane crash
House collapse on me
Run over by a motorbike
Car crash
Bus crash
Caught a deadly rare viral bone infection
and a few others.

As they say, you can't kill a bad thing!
Just look at Mugabe!

mike65 · 21-12-2008 03:16PM

Rollover on a country lane into a field was the nearest to death. Cut my right ear as a result!

Shinjuku · 21-12-2008 03:16PM

Biggins wrote: »

Yep,

Shot at
Blown up by a bomb
plane crash
House collapse on me
Run over by a motorbike
Car crash
Bus crash
Caught a deadly rare viral bone infection
and a few others.

As they say, you can't kill a bad thing!
Just look at Mugabe!

Who the **** are you? James Bond?

21-12-2008 03:19PM

Shinjuku wrote: »

Who the **** are you? James Bond?

He's Jack Bauer.

Shinjuku · 21-12-2008 03:21PM

ClioV6 wrote: »

You're not a ****ing rat, rabbit or a crow!

I have, and it's not a gun, and it wouldn't kill you.
Get over yourself.

I'll get over yore ma before I get over my awesome close to death experience. I think I'll have to send this question into Mythbusters. "Can a stone fired full force from a galabandy into the human eye get lodged in the brain."

Fajitas! · 21-12-2008 03:26PM

Had a few close misses with cars and whatnot.

The closest I've seen was a mate of mine - We were at pretty big party, and there was a big courtyard. Someone put decks, an amp, and a few other electronic bits on the window sill above it. Anyways, we were chatting away, and decided to pop inside. One step later, all the electronics came through the window and landed exactly where my mate was standing... It left a fair aul dent in the slab it landed on - Not a hope of my friend suriviving if it landed on him.

Mad. We got sh*tfaced after that.

Plug · 21-12-2008 03:28PM

Nearly drowned and I hung myself but my brother saw me through the window. It was an accident. Building a tree house, didn't really work out in the end:D

overexcitedaj · 21-12-2008 03:32PM

does eating all that so called contaminated pork count ?

spinandscribble · 21-12-2008 03:36PM

nearly drown once. i panicked and struggled but eventually gave up. it was a weird sort of calm feeling. i must have been blacking out. then someone came and pulled me out.

been shocked b a fence but i doubt that coud have killed me.

Proxy · 21-12-2008 03:38PM

Biggins wrote: »

Yep,

Shot at
Blown up by a bomb
plane crash
House collapse on me
Run over by a motorbike
Car crash
Bus crash
Caught a deadly rare viral bone infection
and a few others.

As they say, you can't kill a bad thing!
Just look at Mugabe!

Wha?!

Are you legally allowed to have children?

poisonated · 21-12-2008 03:41PM

I was in Italy years ago... was about 8 years old and just messing around with some heavy bored in the sea,anyway somehow I got stuck under the board and couldnt breath.It felt like I was down there for a life time but realisticaly was probably only there for a minute or something.Still pretty scary when your 8,I survived though:p

patrickSTARR · 21-12-2008 03:42PM

as on holiday in greece at the pool (sober i might add)when my friend who could not swim decided to get in the pool to cool down and stupidly thought it was a good idea to get in the deep end. needless to say he started going under and struggling fast. jumped in to grab him and because he was in such a panic he started to pull me under. i was under the water for bout 2 mins before i managed to grab on to a lilo. everyone at the pool thought it was a mess, but it wasnt. really scared the crap outta me. funny looking back tho

Latchy · 21-12-2008 03:45PM

Yes, sone Ejit left the safety off on his cocked FN rifle when we were on the firing range in Kilworth Co Cork .We hadnt being told to cock the wepon yet so it should have being safe. He squeezed trigger and round flew inches past me and another solidier .It was a genuine error but he got a right bollocking from officer and rest of the lads.

It wasnt my time to go .

SantryRed · 21-12-2008 03:46PM

Shinjuku wrote: »

A few years ago some scumbag fired a stone straight at me with a galabandy (culchie word for catapult/black widow). It whizzed past my head, pretty close to my eye. It was going so fast I could hear a little "zzzip". If it hit my eye, I definitely would have been killed. It would have gone through my eye, through the eye socket and then lodged in my brain and caused general havoc. Tis a wierd thought. Kinda makes me nervous every time I remember it.

Anyone else nearly been killed? Or savagely injured at least?

Wow. You're an idiot:eek:

Mossy Monk · 21-12-2008 03:48PM

Yes. Twice.

When I was a baby I had an illness which very nearly killed me.

When I was nine I spent a week and a half in intensive care after a road accident. Doctors say I should have been killed

Mr. CooL ICE · 21-12-2008 03:52PM

I once fainted while sitting on a wall. I managed to land on my head from a 7-8ft drop onto concrete and broken glass, but survived. I reckon that if I was conscious for it, I would have tensed up and broken my neck

galwayrush · 21-12-2008 03:56PM

I've pissed off my wife many times.:pac:

~Marky~ · 21-12-2008 03:57PM

I was nearly killed last year when I was comming home from a night a out with a few friends.Me and a girl I know where standing at the lane just beside my house chatting when a car came around the corner way to fast and smashed into the wall just beside us.
The scumbags in the car just reversed and drove off :mad: The rest of my friends came running down the lane thinking we both had been killed it was horrible.

Have you ever NEARLY been killed?

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