Scariest moment of your life

Unique User Name · 01-07-2010 02:37PM #1

While on lunch today one of the guys brought up the topic the scariest moment of your life. It got us all to thinking and we gave ours. Mine really doesn't seem so scary but at the time it was and the fact it was so long ago makes me think it must have had some impact.

Basically when I was 4 I had to get my tonsils out. Just before I went in my older Brother told me that they were going to put a scissors down my throat and cut them right out and I'd wake up half way through the procedure. I was petrified and remember lying there after getting the gas terrified (being a naive 4 year old).

Anybody any stories to tell???

Kiera · 01-07-2010 02:39PM

I nearly died 3 times when i was a kid due to Asthma attacks so they were scary moments for me.

Dr. Zeus · 01-07-2010 02:40PM

Ok I'll admit it I am afraid of flying!

One too many bumpy flights, emergency landings etc.

Scares the hell out of me!

Sykk · 01-07-2010 02:42PM

Having a man in a balaclava hold a 10 inch knife to my mothers throat when I was 12 was probably the worst (He was looking for money).

In the end she was fine, he ran off after being bitten by the dog and got caught 2 weeks later. 7 years in jail, cúnt.

Birneybau · 01-07-2010 02:43PM

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Deus Ex Machina · 01-07-2010 02:44PM

When I realised the folly of it all.

Unique User Name · 01-07-2010 02:45PM

Birneybau wrote: »

To paraphrase George Harrison in The Simpsons...

"This thread. Its been done"

To paraphrase a boardsie from yesterday. Sorrrrry for not going through every thread for the past 3 years to see if a topic has previously appeared

And yes they included the

too!

Muckie · 01-07-2010 02:46PM

Losing control of a car(my own fault) stopped a foot from a stone wall.

Back wheel came loose at 70 on the dual carriage way, managed to
pull over with one nut holding the wheel.

Driving a Towercrane and the banksman for got to release the load
from a big mobile compressor, truck starts to drive off, nearly
pulled the crane down.

Then another time crane was hit by lightin with me in the cab.
sureal moment, flash, brightest light ever then a bang.

greenmachine88 · 01-07-2010 02:46PM

the time I had to bury that dead body

cherryghost · 01-07-2010 02:48PM

When my appendix almost exploded, the doctor misdiagnosed me. Badly. I suffered for 2 weeks before I was given a 2nd opinion.

User Friendly · 01-07-2010 02:51PM

when i was in a car crash.i was in so much pain,i wanted to die at the time,sad,sad time for me through no fault of my own:(

Barna77 · 01-07-2010 02:51PM

Bumpy flights as well, and nearly drowned twice.

Worst might be once I woke up and couldn't move or breathe, felt like someone was crushing me on the bed I wouldn't complain if I wasn't alone in bed, not the case then

easyeason3 · 01-07-2010 02:53PM

When I saw Jedward for the first time.

Twin-go · 01-07-2010 02:55PM

Dr. Zeus wrote: »

Ok I'll admit it I am afraid of flying!

One too many bumpy flights, emergency landings etc.

Scares the hell out of me!

You shouldn't be afraid of the flying Dr. Zeus, it's the crashing you should be afraid of!!:D

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 01-07-2010 02:58PM

Nothing overly scary, tbh.

Thought my testicle was gonna implode one night, the worst pain I have ever felt in my life, 30 times worse than getting kicked in the sack,

As one poster already said, being awake but basically paralysed.

Yakult · 01-07-2010 02:58PM

Mates were climbing a ladder up the side of a 2 story house that was being built, I was at the bottom of it and I looked up only to see a massive brick falling down towards me, I moved my head back and it just skint my nose and landed on my foot.
To think if I had not moved those few inches it would have landed on my head more than likely killing me. One of them grabbed the wall to climb over but pulled it off the cnuts lol.

Funkfield · 01-07-2010 03:02PM

The first time I fully realised that there is nothing before you and nothing after you.

That this is it.

I was about 8.

Obsessed with mortality ever since.

thebigbiffo · 01-07-2010 03:06PM

Muckie wrote: »

Losing control of a car(my own fault) stopped a foot from a stone wall.

Back wheel came loose at 70 on the dual carriage way, managed to
pull over with one nut holding the wheel.

Driving a Towercrane and the banksman for got to release the load
from a big mobile compressor, truck starts to drive off, nearly
pulled the crane down.

Then another time crane was hit by lightin with me in the cab.
sureal moment, flash, brightest light ever then a bang.

time to give up operating vehicles of differing uses? some day you'll be too dead to be terrified if your luck here keeps going the way it is

Gillington · 01-07-2010 03:07PM

Nearly drowned when I was a teenager down in Brittas Bay,wasnt a strong swimmer and hit a shelf couldnt get back up,the last thing I remember from being in the water was the lad who was with me trying to grab my arm but he couldnt and I just went deeper.Before I blacked out I remember a complete moment of calmness thinking this is it,I'll remember that horrible feeling for the rest of my life but whenever I do I just think how lucky I am.

Lifeguard saved me and I woke up on the shore after CPR,then the next week got lessons and learned how to swim properly!

easyeason3 · 01-07-2010 03:07PM

Funkfield wrote: »

The first time I fully realised that there is nothing before you and nothing after you.

That this is it.

I was about 8.

Obsessed with mortality ever since.

So you're saying you had a fun filled childhood?

Funkfield · 01-07-2010 03:09PM

easyeason3 wrote: »

So you're saying you had a fun filled childhood?

I'm saying it was either that, or the first time I played Silent Hill.

50:50

:pac:

HalloweenJack · 01-07-2010 03:12PM

I was very closed to being arrested for buying drugs before. It scared the **** out of me, especially once I realised how close it was.

Me and my friends were outside a pub waiting for another. A guy came up to us and offered us some drugs. We were trying to get a price off him and find out how much he had. Next thing, he starts talking about football. I was thinking "WTF?" then two undercover police come over and start asking us where we're from. The guy who approached us was dragged off and searched in the middle of the street. Me and my friends had our passports taken off us and had our names checked over the radio before we were told to leave. Now that I think of it, I'm sure the dealer was a plant.

I've also been beaten up pretty badly before. I was really drunk and got into a fight. Next thing, I was being held down by three or four guys and someone was kicking my head. I got away somehow, went home and straight to bed. When I woke up the next day and realised what had happened, I was really scared and depressed about it.

biko · 01-07-2010 03:13PM

Had a few close calls but the last one was in Westport 5 years ago, walking along the coast on a very slanted hillside. Suddenly I tripped and fell over. Because the hillside was so steep I started sliding down it, towards the drop-off and 20 meters below that the freezing waters of Clew Bay.
Slid maybe 50 meters in the grass/mud on my back and managed to get a grip of some strong grass roots about 10 meters away from falling off the hillside into the water.
Phew.

Your Airbag · 01-07-2010 03:15PM

Almost drowned once. I was swimming between a group a rocks (don't ask) that a friend of mine had just safely negotiated, hassle free in about 20 seconds and as I'm a good swimmer and have safely swam this exact location hundreds of times I followed suit. It should have been a cakewalk but the ocean had other ideas.

A big swell came out of nowhere when I followed, about eight powerful crashing waves in a row, the drawback was pulling me from the exit of the cluster of rocks back right back into the middle of them. The current was too strong; I panicked and fought against it, really bad move. The roaring thunder of waves crashing all around me was deafening. I was getting bounced off the rocks, the whitewater getting kicked up by the swell was a foot high so even though I was treading water ok I couldn’t breathe but only take on the whitewater. This went on for about a minute and by the end I had no energy or oxygen left to fight the current and the rocks. I was ready to drown. Then it ended, the sea returned to its calm state. It had had its fun with me.

I floated on the surface for a few minutes near the exit of the cluster of rocks whilst I got a little energy back and then returned to shore exhausted and in shock. I wouldn’t mind but I'm a regular strong swimmer, fit too and can swim for lengthy distances and times but that day I realised exactly how powerful the ocean is and how quickly it can go from bad to desperate.

No matter how strong a swimmer you are a wave contains hundreds if not thousands of liters of water and you just won’t win. I know not to panic too when in a swell, you just let it move you about until it resides then you swim to shore but the strength, noise level and close proximity to the rocks caught me off guard and all of a sudden I had gone from enjoying a hobby to living moment by moment. I also have a greater appreciation of how easy it is to drown after that, I used to hear and read stories of people drowning close to the shore and could never understand it. I always thought why didn’t you just get to shore. Now I know better.

The sea really is a cruel mistress.

Azureus · 01-07-2010 03:17PM

Most scary-waking up with flames two inches from my face in a burning room. Electrical fire, terrifying!!!!!!!!! Was washing smoke and ash out of my hair for a week but luckily I was fine apart from a lil smoke inhalation. Had passed out due to the smoke so thank god I wasnt alone when it happened. Fire brigade were amazing too

Second to that was a flight home from Gran Canaria once. Had a really strange feeling that we were gonna crash (not remotely afraid of flying, was just this one time) and they put us right beside the emergency door (bf was delighted, loads of leg room) but I saw it as a sign as was close to tears for the 4 hour flight. Even the air hostess had to keep reassuring me. Most irrational thing ever but was so relieved when we landed!

Cullen82 · 01-07-2010 03:20PM

While travelling through Africa a couple of years ago, I met some Welsh lads and we did an arranged trip into the Serengetti. On our first night there we sat up around a small camp fire and after a few beers were singing songs. By this stage we had enough beer on board to forget where we were despite the noise of Hyenas and whatever else howling (I've no idea how close but in the moment it did'nt sound far at all) - Eventually everyone went into their tents except for me and one of the welsh lads but as soon as they did we began to take notice of the noise surrounding us in the darkness...This now had us a little on edge and we ended up going into our tent, thanks to the beers it was'nt all that worrying but what was to happen next was.

So we went to sleep remembering our guides advice for going to the toilet in the middle of the night "wake up your tent mate, look outside - if you see green eyes it's only a Hyena!!!, Red eyes means stay in your tent being a Lion" - I presume the usual spin they put on it to enhance the experience.

In the middle of the night it happened, I woke up to mental commotion - a struggle in the tent. I froze forgetting where I was, still half drunk & asleep, I lay there in sheer horror realising there was something in the tent ,One of us had left the tent open going to the toilet during the night....everything went silent and I lay there wrapped in my sleeping bag, i felt paralysed, trying not to breath too loudly...Then it started again and suddenly my tent mate Varney began shouting, falling all over me and screaming "there's a f~@£$£ Hyena in the tent - I completely lost it, began kicking & swinging in the pitch dark the two of us accidently hitting each other in the process...Now he was shouting "my f%$&^£ arm", I tried to kick him away to the other side of the tent!!.. ..What seemed like an eternity passed until the guides came to our rescue, ripping open our tent they shone the light in and everyone froze in disbelief of what they were looking at.............2 half drunk, scared ****less, tourists, with bloody noses in their sleeping bags fighting each other convinced there was a wild animal in their tent.

Nothing had bitten his arm, The tent door was'nt open, There was NO Hyena in the tent - Its was this welsh gob****es night terrors and nothing more but for those three minutes we fought for our lives, we almost killed each other in the process....and we lived to tell the tale !!

Blazer · 01-07-2010 03:21PM

On a banana boat in Turkey..after the driver does the usual turn where everyone falls off, one of the lads who couldn't swim grabbed me and wrapped his arms around mine and my chest so I couldn't push him back..
I was screaming at him to let go and that his lifejacket would hold him (they were crap by the way) but no joy...about 15 feet under I ended up having to headbutt him (not too hard) so both of us wouldn't drown.
I was shaking afterwards and he had a bloody nose

really really scary :eek:

Barna77 · 01-07-2010 03:23PM

Forgot to mention a fire back home about 10 years ago. 7am and we all had to get to the roof (fire was beside the door). I think I can still hear the power cables burning

For a while after that I wouldn't leave home as I thought anything could happen again.

deepsouthtalla · 01-07-2010 03:26PM

Being in a FAS course and seeing a ex-gf who u had a very bad back up with walk in, for ten mins i was waiting for her to start..................was sweating very badly

Mint Sauce · 01-07-2010 03:30PM

black run, austrain alps, only my 3rd or 4th day on a snow board

:eek:

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