What is the most scared you have ever been?

PrideInBattle · 31-10-2009 05:55AM #1

I have a lot but the one that stands out was last year in Austrailia.

We were all on a beach (pitch black and we were drinking) and Cassowary bird comes along, me underestimating nature and using no common sense (Was also fairly drunk) attempted to chase it, it went straight for me, I ran for my ****ing life, I slipped and it was on me like a flame to gasoline, thrashed me to pieces, I really thought I was going to die.

I managed to get up but I was in bits, I just put my arms across me and backed up, the bird was having none of it, the thing lunged for me, hops up for my face and manages to stab me just above my goolies.

My friends said that a local who was with us raised his arms up (I think it intimidates them) and it went away.

31 stiches and a read through wiki I found out the things are related to dinasouars!?

I'm a strong beleive that everything in Austrailia wants you dead.

Things are vicious!

SRFC90 · 31-10-2009 06:03AM

I got really baked and watched Saving Private Ryan once. Most scared I've been in my life. Had the sweats n all.

PrideInBattle · 31-10-2009 06:10AM

SRFC90 wrote: »

I got really baked and watched Saving Private Ryan once. Most scared I've been in my life. Had the sweats n all.

Lmao, I can't take the knife scene. x[

TomCo · 31-10-2009 06:21AM

SRFC90 wrote: »

I got really baked and watched Saving Private Ryan once. Most scared I've been in my life. Had the sweats n all.

Must try that.

When I was a kid on holidays in Cyprus, I swam out into the ocean with a snorkel. Scariest thing ever seeing the ground disappear into a bottomless chasm, looking up, and not being able to see the land.
Luckly I was able to judge the general direction and swim back.

CHD · 31-10-2009 06:27AM

I'd like to have a fight with that bird.

Tar.Aldarion · 31-10-2009 06:56AM

Don't really know of any times I've been scared for myself, if I die, I die.
It's usually scared for other people.
Ex having operation on her throat, couldn't talk all day with the lump in mine.
Mother getting sick in sleep and so I sat up with her/by her all night.
Things like that.

Odysseus · 31-10-2009 07:16AM

Severe bike crash about 18yrs ago,
parachute malfunction only manage to deploy the reserve at abot 700ft,
A few scary assualts including weapons,
and a few things I wouldn't go public with on the net.

I believe that I have had a interesting life but some times the effects of certain choices can stick you for the rest of your life. I'm posting at this hour because I'm going through another peroid of severe dreams I have been up twice so far to night. Its not PTSD as I'm a psychtherapist so I know enough about that but things come back every so often. You just live with the choices you made, being scared is one thing not allowing it to control or stop you form egagaing in life is another.

spylon · 31-10-2009 08:12AM

Woke up, turned on the radio, got ready to go to college, was ready to leave, so I switched off the radio, but it was still on, or I could still hear it. Panicked, thought it must have been some kind of electromagnetic radio-wave freak occurence, so I plugged the machine out of the wall but the radio was still on!! Freaked out for about 10 seconds before realising that I had a second radio in the room which had turned on automatically as alarm after I had switched on the first one.

The Big Red Button · 31-10-2009 10:50AM

It was probably when my little sister, aged about one at the time, stood up on top of her trike thingy and fell off it onto the tiled kitchen floor, she bashed her head so hard, this big purple lump appeared almost straight away that was literally about the size of an egg, no exaggertion! And I think the scariest thing is that she got such a shock that she didn't even cry for a couple of minutes after. My mum didn't want to bring her to hospital at first, but I insisted, she got the xrays etc and of course she was completely fine and I'd totally overreacted! :rolleyes:

She's like my baby, probably because there's such a big age difference between us (16 years) and I did most of the motherly stuff like feeding and nappies etc since she was born, I'm really over-protective of her. So if there's ever any danger of anything being wrong with her, that's the most scared I get. I think I could cope with bad things happening myself or anyone else in my life, but not her.

Terry · 31-10-2009 10:58AM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Mother getting sick in sleep and so I sat up with her/by her all night.
Things like that.

That happens me sometimes. Usually when I haven't been drinking. It's quite scary waking up and not being able to breathe.
If I should die from asphyxiation, please note that it was caused by stomach problems and not alcohol, drugs or David Carradine.

I'd say the most frightened I have ever been was either my first panic attack or the one I had in a friend's house in Edenderry about 5 years ago. The pills wouldn't work and my stomach was too knotted to drink. I was fine by the time we hit Celbridge though.

OP, all birds are related to dinosaurs.

31-10-2009 11:02AM

Got robbed in 3rd year college.. Opened bedroom door drunk to a knacker who put a knife to my throat. His other friend had a hurl and piece of wood wit nails in it.

That 5 seconds where I realized what was goin on was very very scary...

mikom · 31-10-2009 11:16AM

PrideInBattle wrote: »

What is the most scared you have ever been?

That time I swallowed some Lego ......... I was sh1tting bricks for weeks.

Odysseus · 31-10-2009 11:16AM

Terry wrote: »

That happens me sometimes. Usually when I haven't been drinking. It's quite scary waking up and not being able to breathe.
If I should die from asphyxiation, please note that it was caused by stomach problems and not alcohol, drugs or David Carradine.

I'd say the most frightened I have ever been was either my first panic attack or the one I had in a friend's house in Edenderry about 5 years ago. The pills wouldn't work and my stomach was too knotted to drink. I was fine by the time we hit Celbridge though.

OP, all birds are related to dinosaurs.

Terry if its not too much of a personal question, what type of stomach disorder is causing your panic attacks?

wudangclan · 31-10-2009 11:29AM

riding my motorbike from balbriggan back to dublin,i had to be somewhere and i had no other transport,with a hurricane blowing in from the irish sea,blowing me all over the motorway.
not a lot phases me but that was absolutely terrifying.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 31-10-2009 11:59AM

The only thing which really scare's me is flying, or rather the take off.

I'm convinced I'm on the very plane thats going to crash on that day, it petrifies me.

Nothing else I've ever been through has come close.

FunkZ · 31-10-2009 12:07PM

I'm still scarred from watching the Last Samurai and realising that Tom Cruise is so small that the Japanese women in the film tower over him

harsea8 · 31-10-2009 12:13PM

On the beach on holiday in Spain back when I was about 13/14. I was left to look after a couple of family friends who were only 4 or 5 years old and couldn't swim. Anyways, I take them out into the sea on a lilo and, being a stupid little teenage boy, I decide it will be funny to swim under water and pop up next to the lilo to give them a fright. Needless to say, I mis-judged my approach, whacked into the lilo and sent both kids tumbling into the Mediterranean! Anyway, the next 10-20 seconds, while I struggled to get both kids (both of whom who had for some reason sunk like stones) back onto the lilo, and the following 5 minutes, while I tried to get them to stop crying and to promise not to tell my/their parents, were the most frightening times of my life.

OutlawPete · 31-10-2009 12:14PM

Horrible nightmares scare me. Dreamt that all human's souls end up deep in the earth as worms and stuff. I could feel myself being a slug or something and millions of other slugs and we were all in emotional pain but couldn't express it. Woke with a jolt, panting.

Cheese :rolleyes:

sunnyjim · 31-10-2009 01:29PM

Mine was watching my brother get hit by a car in Beaumount while crossing at the lights. The noise of the bump made me freeze, then he cartwheeled through the air for a fair distance, and just missed a lamppost. The 1 second between the bump and the near miss was the scariest moment of my life.

OutlawPete · 31-10-2009 01:31PM

sunnyjim wrote: »

Mine was watching my brother get hit by a car in Beaumount while crossing at the lights. The noise of the bump made me freeze, then he cartwheeled through the air for a fair distance, and just missed a lamppost. The 1 second between the bump and the near miss was the scariest moment of my life.

I'm sorry, but whenever someone uses the word 'cartwheeled' to decribe another person's involuntary movements - it cracks me up

cherryghost · 31-10-2009 01:37PM

nearly drowning coz some drunk old fart kept pushing me under the water

*shudders*

StopNotWorking · 31-10-2009 01:39PM

I'm normally more scared for other people than myself. Like my OH worried she had a brain tumour. That scared the crap out of me. The most worried I've been about myself was one night I went temporarily blind. I worked in a steel workshop and their moto wasn't exactly safety first. I was working on a plasma cutter all day(A good 6 hours of it straight) with no goggles and that night I got a case of flash so bad I was nearly sent to hospital.

Basically my eyes got very sore very quick, it felt like there was nothing between my eyes and the socket but sand. I went blind and started getting sick from the pain. I thought my eyes were completely wrecked, I couldn't move my eyelids for some reason so when I pulled them open with my fingers everything was white, in a pitch black room! Was very frightening, The pain of it alone was just unbarable and it lasted for a good 6 hours up to about 5am.

I probably should have gone to A&E for it but my dad is one of those old fasioned types and insisted I was being a pussy about it :mad:

krudler · 31-10-2009 01:47PM

When i was a kid at the beach I had one of those rubber ring things for playing with in the water, had it around me and I got flipped upside down by a wave and couldnt get myself the right way up again,being upside down in the sea while waves were battering me around is the closest I've ever come to my own mortality, thats a lot for a 7 year old to deal with

Whispered · 31-10-2009 02:16PM

Sariah Purple Washboard wrote: »

I'm convinced I'm on the very plane thats going to crash on that day, it petrifies me.

I'm the same, isn't it funny the way you have yourself convinced that it's going to happen. Like there is no doubt in your mind, you're going to die on this plane. Every noise, change in pressure or slight bank is it. Everytime an airhostess passes you try to see if she is smiling, or worried looking.

It's all very irrational, but even thinking about it has me in a cold sweat. I've passed out on planes before with fear. Loose all ability to think straight and speak as if my tongue is swollen. Or a day after landing safely I tend to burst into tears thinking about it.

I don't enjoy holidays, worrying about the flight back. If I could get away with it, I would happily never get on a plane again. I don't think my OH would be happy staying in Ireland for our hineymoon though.

OutlawPete · 31-10-2009 02:24PM

helena.ryan wrote: »

I don't enjoy holidays, worrying about the flight back. If I could get away with it, I would happily never get on a plane again.

I hear ya.

With me it's a claustrophobia thing. I gladly sit on the wing of the plane I get so freaked. It's when the hostess slams that FAT door closed and you know you can't get out. The panic just starts in my toes and engulfs me.

Lifts are the same.

Last week I was late for a film in Screen 17 in Cineworld and I decided shag it, I'll take the lift for once. I was kinda okay till loads squeezed in after me and in my mind i'm thinking 'Dear God help, please help, oh no, oh no .. no, oh god.

Panic pumping through me as I pretend to be sane knowing any moment I could crack and grab one by the neck and sceam "I CAN'T GET OUT!!!"

Then the lift stopped and Harry Potter wasn't that bad actually

arybvtcw0eolkf · 31-10-2009 02:28PM

helena.ryan wrote: »

I'm the same, isn't it funny the way you have yourself convinced that it's going to happen. Like there is no doubt in your mind, you're going to die on this plane. Every noise, change in pressure or slight bank is it. Everytime an airhostess passes you try to see if she is smiling, or worried looking.

It's all very irrational, but even thinking about it has me in a cold sweat. I've passed out on planes before with fear. Loose all ability to think straight and speak as if my tongue is swollen. Or a day after landing safely I tend to burst into tears thinking about it.

I don't enjoy holidays, worrying about the flight back. If I could get away with it, I would happily never get on a plane again. I don't think my OH would be happy staying in Ireland for our hineymoon though.

Damn, thats freaky .. It describes EXACTLY what I go through!.

Do you find yourself inspecting the plane just before you walk through the door?.. I try look down long the body, looking for loose rivets & panels!.

It takes me a day or two to get over the fright, but the few days before coming home the stress starts again.

I know its irrational mostly, but it doesn't make the fear any less real.

netwhizkid · 31-10-2009 03:08PM

One of the biggest frights I even got was on the NY subway (shortly after the madrid attacks), alot of people were on edge as there had been something on the news about a possible terror attack.

Anyways this arab looking fellow came into the car I was on and then loudly announced "Ladies and Gentlemen, I want your attention", he was was wearing a long coat and strapped all along inside the coat were bars of chocolate, I had my eye on him as he came into the car and as soon as he opened the coat and I saw the chocolate my brain had no time to react only bang I was ontop of him in a classic rugby tackle, I was in such a rage I almost knocked him unconscious and had hit him once or twice into the face in sheer fight or flight mode.

An ex detective who was a passenger on the train helped me restrain him, when we got to the next stop after 2 or 3 mins myself and the detective took him off the train and he was going mental about racism and civil liberties. It turns out he was trying to sell candy bars for some kids baseball team but when he opened that coat my brain saw dynamite and not chocolate and kicked into action. The NYPD thanked me and the detective, and your man wanted assault charges to be filed against me, the cops escorted him out of the Subway and told him he could be charged for selling on the subway without a licence.

I got a fright that day but I am sure he got a bigger fright, having the people in the subway carriage applauding us for catching a "terrorist" was cool though.

Susannahmia · 31-10-2009 03:42PM

PrideInBattle wrote: »

Things are vicious!

Hehe lol you ain't kidding :eek:.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA58sS3x2Oo

partyatmygaff · 31-10-2009 03:55PM

Sariah Purple Washboard wrote: »

Damn, thats freaky .. It describes EXACTLY what I go through!.

Do you find yourself inspecting the plane just before you walk through the door?.. I try look down long the body, looking for loose rivets & panels!.

It takes me a day or two to get over the fright, but the few days before coming home the stress starts again.

I know its irrational mostly, but it doesn't make the fear any less real.

Of all the people on boards I would of never expected you to be afraid of planes of all things, thats like being afraid of spiders on the level of how irrational it can be.

Take a flying lesson and when you understand what some of the noises are and understand "Why the hell did that part of the wing just drop lower???!!" it eases your mind alot.
That said I've loved flying since I was a child.

SEPT 23 1989 · 31-10-2009 03:59PM

Sariah Purple Washboard wrote: »

Damn, thats freaky .. It describes EXACTLY what I go through!.

Do you find yourself inspecting the plane just before you walk through the door?.. I try look down long the body, looking for loose rivets & panels!.

It takes me a day or two to get over the fright, but the few days before coming home the stress starts again.

I know its irrational mostly, but it doesn't make the fear any less real.

my logic is so fcuked up with fear that i think that because Aer Lingus and ryanair's safety record is so good that they are overdue a major accident and that major accident will be on that plane with me on board

i loathe flying

OutlawPete · 31-10-2009 04:02PM

Does nobody get the claustrophobic element to it? It's the closed in bit that gets me. I sometimes even get it on the Luas at rush hour when it's packed and people are still trying to push in.

What is the most scared you have ever been?

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