Scariest moment of your life

Flojo · 01-07-2010 03:30PM

Hmm thinking that the IRA were going to kill us up the Kinnitty mountains and another was a really really bad salvia trip.

AnonoBoy · 01-07-2010 03:33PM

I honestly can't think of one really scary moment in my life.

Hank_Jones · 01-07-2010 03:35PM

When I was told I had cancer. Turned out a few months later that they misdiagnosed and I didn't actually. Scary time.

Also when my dad found out he had cancer.

Or when I fell from a moving bus and was nearly run over.

Never a dull moment....

danniemcq · 01-07-2010 03:36PM

Driving a quad off a pier (accident btw!) was scary enough

But it'll take more than a twenty foot drop off a pier into 5 fot of water with a quad following me in February when it was snowing to get the better of me

Danbo! · 01-07-2010 03:37PM

Getting held at knifepoint during an armed robbery in a shop I worked in.

Getting hit by car while cycling, scary because I could see it coming and couldnt stop it. Managed to utter "what the ****, stupid bitch" before ending up spread across the bonnet.

Cutting the tip of my finger off with an electric tin opener when I was about 6. Dont know if I was more scared about the finger or my mam about to bate the head off me for getting blood on the tin opener.

Phonecall from a relative while in work saying "get in a ****ing taxi now and come home". Long story short, everyone was ok eventually, but that semed like the longest journey ever.

Brady · 01-07-2010 03:44PM

Mine had to be when i was in the Bahamas, there was a hotel that was getting a new walkway or something built on the beach and a digger had spent the day digging up sand and laying on the beach..... that evening i decided to go for a walk down the beach (which was empty) only to sink into the freshly laid sand upto my neck, not being able to move my arms / hands (quick sand) with no-one to help because no one was on the beach.... after much panic and more sinking i realised if i moved slowly i could get out.. and did.

needed a new pair of pants after that

Nulty · 01-07-2010 03:46PM

Punching through a glass panel in a door @ about 15yo. Massive gash across my wrist and half way up my lower arm...blood pumping out everywhere - thought I was going to die.

AAAAAAAHHH · 01-07-2010 03:50PM

deepsouthtalla wrote: »

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

Mine is reading this post. I think I'm illiterate now.

GavRedKing · 01-07-2010 03:52PM

Driving to Dublin in seriously bad weather and doing 80kmh ona 120kmh strecth of road I lost control of the car, it aqua plained and hit one of the metal central divide barriers and spun back out on to the road and narrowly avoided getting smashed by a lorry.

Scary as hell.

kylith · 01-07-2010 04:17PM

Learning to drive a moped. At night. On the Stillorgan dual carriageway. During a thunderstorm. I couldn't see and I thought I was going to die.

Opening a letter from the doctor and seeing a referral to the Coombe because my smear was abnormal. Get yerselves checked girls; you're better off catching it early.

Flojo · 01-07-2010 04:22PM

kylith wrote: »

Learning to drive a moped. At night. On the Stillorgan dual carriageway. During a thunderstorm. I couldn't see and I thought I was going to die.

Opening a letter from the doctor and seeing a referral to the Coombe because my smear was abnormal. Get yerselves checked girls; you're better off catching it early.

I was in the same boat.. opened up another to find they're still abnormal.. scary sh!t! You're dead right everyone should be getting checked at least every 6months.

ldxo15wus6fpgm · 01-07-2010 04:28PM

I was 17. Driving my bike down to the site where we were building our house. Great visibility, nice weather, bone dry roads. Come to the last stretch in the road, it's quite bendy and has fairly high hedges which I couldn't see over on the bike. But I was going fairly slowly to compensate.

Next thing some ****er driving a milk tanker-truck comes round a bend doing about 50 or 60 (this is practically a bothairin at this stage). Nearly jumped out of my skin when I saw him and barely had enough time to react. Nearly ripped the throttle off the handlebar too. I managed to get the bike into a little dirt track coming off the bend, but he clipped my tail and back tyre. The jolt threw me forward, I got my nuts squashed against the petrol tank and then came off and felt like I had broken my arm but I was fine, and tbh I was more worried about the bike than myself :rolleyes:.

But then to top it all off, as if nearly being flattened by a 15 ton truck isn't scary enough, I'm lying on the ground f*cking shaking with the shock and yer man jumps out of the cab of the truck roaring that it was my fault and I should watch where I'm going. He starts calling me every name under the sun switching between english and some slavic language or other, and then he started getting aggressive and clenching his fists and stuff. I kept telling him that he was driving too fast and he couldn't blame me for that, and then he started pushing me back towards my bike. He was getting really aggressive at this stage and I probably shouldn't have but I pushed him back and he tripped me up. "Well f*ck this" I said :mad:. I got up and he started pushing me again so I took off my helmet and cracked him straight over the head with it. He went down roaring and I went over and picked up the bike and drove off (thank god it started

). Nothing came of it so I assume he either didn't do anything about it or didn't get my reg.

gazzer · 01-07-2010 04:29PM

I have had a few scary moments in my 38 years.

1. Nearly falling down a lift shaft in Ballymun when I was 3 (the lift opened but there was no floor. My mum had to grap me by the scruff of my top as I walked into nothingness

2. Choking on a gobstopper when I was 5.

3. Getting caught up in a load of barbed wire when I was 6 and convinced I was going to be chopped into little pieces.

4. Getting mugged of my bob a job money when I was 10

5. Having the bathe my 'little fella' in warm water and Savalon after being circumcised. I was ****ting myself as I was convinced it was going to fall off

6. Various near incidents with nearly getting hit by cars when crossing the road

7. Getting lost in a forest in Victoria on Xmas Eve about 15 years ago.

8. Nearly drowned twice

The most scariest moment of my life though was when I had a panic attack. Jesus christ I thought I was a goner. I have never been so terrified.

7.

Hank_Jones · 01-07-2010 04:31PM

Nulty wrote: »

Punching through a glass panel in a door @ about 15yo. Massive gash across my wrist and half way up my lower arm...blood pumping out everywhere - thought I was going to die.

Did that as well, when I was about 10.

Was knocking on my front door and must have been messing,
panel went through and my hand was gushing blood.
Didn't hurt at the time, was really strange.

Might have just been in shock.

Busi_Girl08 · 01-07-2010 04:35PM

In no particular order...

- When I was flying home from Milan, on my own,age 15, in a HUGE lightening storm. The flight was delayed an hour so we were sitting in the plane ringing our families, etc to let them know it was late. My brother answered, and I immediately started freaking out, telling him I was scared, and I don't want to go

The take-off was particularly terrifying, *very* shakey, and seeing the lightening going off, loads of turbulance, and we had to circle 3 times before we could land in Shannon. I was convinced that we were going to crash.
I HATE night flights

- When I was on holiday in Turkey about 10 years ago (I was 9), I was hanging round with this group of kids (2 girls and a guy) who were staying in the hotel.
In the resort there was a shop that sold a load of ceramics, musical instruments, general bric-a-brac.
2 of the people were a bit stupid. The guy and the younger girl started messing around with the drums in the shop, and were basically acting the maggot. I was pretty quiet and reserved, but I did tap the drums a little.
The younger girl, for some stupid reason, decided to mess about with the till, and realised that if she pressed the button on the underside, she could open it.
When she pressed the release button and opened the till, the owners of the shop went mental thinking she was trying to steal from the till and one of them grabbed her arm.
The older girl (age 14) was outside with another guy from the shop, who had been feeling her up.

There was a bit of over and back between the younger girl and the owners, and then they eventually let us go.

The next night, we were passing the shop, and they called us in. For some reason, we went in. The Turkish police were there :eek: guns and everything.
The owners told them that the young girl tried to steal from the till, and some jewellery, and that the guy, younger girl and I were vandalising merchandise and broke some stuff.
I was sure that we were going to be arrested. It was about 1am at this point, and my parents were back at the hotel, I had no idea what I would say to them.

In the end, the police let us go, but did arrest the guy who was feeling up the 14 year old.

I eventually got back to my room at 3am to my very worried parents. I was in hysterics and told them everything that happened. I don't think they really knew how to react.

Bob the Seducer · 01-07-2010 04:36PM

On one of these fairground rides when I was about 10 or 11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1rt1mwXGs

Just as it kicked in I realised that the bar to keep you in your seat wasn't locked down, not fun...not fun at all.

El Horseboxo · 01-07-2010 04:49PM

Capsizing in a boat between Panama and Colombia in really rough seas. Had been listing for over 2 hours in a big storm after leaving San Blas the day before and then we eventually went over. Had to wait almost an hour in stormy shark infested waters before a helicopter made it out to us. Even with the life jackets each wave pulled us under. Miracle that none of the 8 of us didn't die.

Snowie · 01-07-2010 04:54PM

Having to listen to a preast talk......about how we should live our lives.

01-07-2010 04:59PM

Watching my friend throw herself down a flight of stairs & not being able to do anything.

Superbus · 01-07-2010 05:03PM

When I was 10, my piano teacher had a serious 'grand mal' seizure during the lesson. I had no idea what was going on, I ran out of the room and they had to call an ambulance. She was in hospital for about 3 days because she hit her head. I was horribly shaken, though obviously not as much as she was.

Also when I was 10 (it was a busy year), I was playing football on an indoor court, and while I was retrieving the ball from the net, I somehow got my foot caught in it. I brought the whole contraption down on my arm. As it happened, and in the immediate aftermath, it was pretty terrifying, and after that only the physical pain remained.

Kazooie · 01-07-2010 05:10PM

Being followed by a bum while wandering the streets of San Diego a bit drunk.

I turned around a few times asking what the hell he wanted. He didn't say a word just kept following me. Eventually I decided to run but heard him running too. As I turned a corner he caught up and landed me a slap in the jaw. I didn't have time to throw one back as he dissapeared straight away. First thing I did was check for stab wounds but thankfully other than a fat lip for a day or two after, I was grand. That was pretty scary alright..

I didn't go wandering off on my own after that!

Numina · 01-07-2010 05:20PM

Nulty wrote: »

Punching through a glass panel in a door @ about 15yo. Massive gash across my wrist and half way up my lower arm...blood pumping out everywhere - thought I was going to die.

That's weird, when my brother was 15 he did the exact same thing, except he just got it in the lower arm, not the wrist.

Gang of Gin · 01-07-2010 05:41PM

Lucille Skinny Paper wrote: »

I was 17. Driving my bike down to the site where we were building our house. Great visibility, nice weather, bone dry roads. Come to the last stretch in the road, it's quite bendy and has fairly high hedges which I couldn't see over on the bike. But I was going fairly slowly to compensate.

Next thing some ****er driving a milk tanker-truck comes round a bend doing about 50 or 60 (this is practically a bothairin at this stage). Nearly jumped out of my skin when I saw him and barely had enough time to react. Nearly ripped the throttle off the handlebar too. I managed to get the bike into a little dirt track coming off the bend, but he clipped my tail and back tyre. The jolt threw me forward, I got my nuts squashed against the petrol tank and then came off and felt like I had broken my arm but I was fine, and tbh I was more worried about the bike than myself :rolleyes:.

But then to top it all off, as if nearly being flattened by a 15 ton truck isn't scary enough, I'm lying on the ground f*cking shaking with the shock and yer man jumps out of the cab of the truck roaring that it was my fault and I should watch where I'm going. He starts calling me every name under the sun switching between english and some slavic language or other, and then he started getting aggressive and clenching his fists and stuff. I kept telling him that he was driving too fast and he couldn't blame me for that, and then he started pushing me back towards my bike. He was getting really aggressive at this stage and I probably shouldn't have but I pushed him back and he tripped me up. "Well f*ck this" I said :mad:. I got up and he started pushing me again so I took off my helmet and cracked him straight over the head with it. He went down roaring and I went over and picked up the bike and drove off (thank god it started ). Nothing came of it so I assume he either didn't do anything about it or didn't get my reg.

Got me roaring laughing, that expression..[would that be tautological, the roaring, and the laughing?]

Gang of Gin · 01-07-2010 05:48PM

I had an experience not too dissimilar to this:

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

Happened early enough into it...so the scare was prolonged. Oh, and I can still laugh my head off at that video, so it didn't affect me greatly.

bambera · 01-07-2010 06:30PM

Gang of Gin wrote: »

I had an experience not too dissimilar to this:

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

Happened early enough into it...so the scare was prolonged. Oh, and I can still laugh my head off at that video, so it didn't affect me greatly.

First thing to make me laugh all day

BeeJazizWafuls · 01-07-2010 07:45PM

Superbus wrote: »

When I was 10, my piano teacher had a serious 'grand mal' seizure during the lesson. I had no idea what was going on, I ran out of the room and they had to call an ambulance. She was in hospital for about 3 days because she hit her head. I was horribly shaken, though obviously not as much as she was.

Also when I was 10 (it was a busy year), I was playing football on an indoor court, and while I was retrieving the ball from the net, I somehow got my foot caught in it. I brought the whole contraption down on my arm. As it happened, and in the immediate aftermath, it was pretty terrifying, and after that only the physical pain remained.

Pun?

Scariest moment of my life was when my friend drowned. To this day I always wonder what her last thoughts were and if she knew she was going to die.

Superbus · 01-07-2010 07:54PM

BeeJazizWafuls wrote: »

Pun?

Bit of both.

Poor Uncle Tom · 01-07-2010 08:04PM

Twin-go wrote: »

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

I'd have to agree, if it's flying they're doing something right...:pac:

mardybumbum · 01-07-2010 08:07PM

Moving to Mayo was the scariest moment in my life.

Ben Hadad · 01-07-2010 08:38PM

When I relaised that the people who I had been kinda ripping the piss out of for the previous two hours were a bunch of Nazi bikers, and that they had woken up a nut job Kiwi guy to come and ass rape me and my two friends.

Scariest moment of your life

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