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What's the closest you have come to kicking the bucket?

  • 18-04-2011 10:12AM
    #1
    gent9662
    Closed Accounts Posts: 697 ✭✭✭


    For me it was when I was 5 years old and got out on the other side of the railing on the B&I ferry on the way to Holyhead.

    Another time I was sitting on the edge of the cliff at the cliffs of Moher (aged 5).

    Both times my parents each thought the other one had me.

    Lucky to be alive!


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  • #2
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    In the womb I had the umbilical wrapped around my neck from doing cartwheels.

    It still hasn't affected.............OH LOOK A KITTEN!


  • #3
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Come on dclane, use the search option.


  • #4
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Hiking near home. In the snow, off the beaten track with a mobile but no battery charge, after being sick with pneumonia.

    Sat down in the snow for a rest and when I realised I was feeling warm and sleepy, I knew I was in a bit of trouble.


  • #5
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Nevore wrote: »
    Hiking near home. In the snow, off the beaten track with a mobile but no battery charge, after being sick with pneumonia.

    Sat down in the snow for a rest and when I realised I was feeling warm and sleepy, I knew I was in a bit of trouble.

    So is that when Han Solo finally arrived and rescued you? :p


  • #6
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    5 years old and playing on the farm.
    Dog ran across the slurry pit and sure I followed. There is a crust on top so can be walkable....if you're light and stupid

    Sank to the chest, would have been under in another few minutes

    Grandad is his 70's laid pallets across to make a walkway and pulled me out

    Death by drowning in a slurry pit, a nasty way to go :(


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  • #7
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Bomb, bullet, being attacked, car crash, plane crash, rare African bone infection, fire, house collapse upon me, bus turnover, knocked down by motorbike to name a few instances.

    (Had a girlfriend who for the whole of our relationship, would never get on a plane with me. Needless to say, the relationship didn't last.)


  • #8
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Biggins wrote: »
    Bomb, bullet, being attacked, car crash, plane crash, rare African bone infection, fire, house collapse upon me, bus turnover, knocked down by motorbike to name a few instances.

    And that was just the first 24 hours.


  • #9
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Biggins wrote: »
    Bomb, bullet, being attacked, car crash, plane crash, rare African bone infection, fire, house collapse upon me, bus turnover, knocked down by motorbike to name a few instances.

    McGuyver?


  • #10
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    mikom wrote: »
    And that was just the first 24 hours.
    First 36+ years more like. :o
    Thankfully things have calmed down a bit since then.
    feelingstressed wrote: »
    McGuyver?
    No, just one lucky sod called Biggins who by luck managed to live and laugh now at some mad situations I got into. :D


  • #11
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    me driving a quad off a pier into 4 foot of water from 25 ft up during a snow storm.

    not fun but i learned a very important lesson that day. Quads will float but they float upside down with just the tips of the tyres poking through the water




    oh and damn nut allergys nearly killed me when an ex gave me some cake. sad thing is still went out with her for another 6 weeks or so after this


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  • #12
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,101 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    dclane wrote: »
    For me it was when I was 5 years old and got out on the other side of the railing on the B&I ferry on the way to Holyhead.

    Another time I was sitting on the edge of the cliff at the cliffs of Moher (aged 5).

    Both times my parents each thought the other one had me.

    Lucky to be alive!

    Social Services case!


  • #13
    Micilin Muc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    I was out in the back garden and the bucket was right there in front of me. I couldn't bring myself to kick it.


  • #14
    Azureus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭Azureus


    Split my head open when I was three. Apparently it was touch and go for awhile.

    Was still dying to get out on my bike a week later-ah the resilience of youth!


  • #15
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    fell out of my bedroom window when I was 4, one flight up.

    several near misses in the car as I used to do a lot of driving, the caravan swaying and then turning over in front of me as I was on the phone was probably the most memorable


  • #16
    Asphyxia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Asphyxia


    When I was 7 I had to stay in hospital for a few weeks as my kidneys were failing it was horrible :(

    A car crash two years ago brought me back to hospital!


  • #17
    Poor Craythur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭Poor Craythur


    Was very close to developing septacaemia a few years ago, due to complications from Crohn's disease. And once you get septacaemia, it moves very fast. When I into hospital I had a temperature of 104. The one thing I had going for me was that I had age on my side. :eek:


  • #18
    NTMK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,575 ✭✭✭NTMK


    When i was about 4 i nearly ran out in front of a flock(:confused:) of stampeding ostriches in fota

    EDIT oh i forgot about the incident where i knicked an artery spining a cement mixer on a tripod (also around 4-5) and getting attacked by swans while fishing(8y.o i think)

    Im going die in some brutally stupid way:o


  • #19
    gozzers08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭gozzers08


    dclane wrote: »
    For me it was when I was 5 years old and got out on the other side of the railing on the B&I ferry on the way to Holyhead.

    Another time I was sitting on the edge of the cliff at the cliffs of Moher (aged 5).

    Both times my parents each thought the other one had me.

    Lucky to be alive!

    Jesus, sounds like you have a deathwish!


  • #20
    flowerchild
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭flowerchild


    I founf myself in the middle of a train line during a very bad time in my primary school years. I only realised it when a train came whizzing past me and I swayed in the rush of air. Then everything stopped and men in uniform walked down the line to find and get me.

    I told them that my school hat had dropped off onto the line and that I had gone to get it.


  • #21
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    fell off my motorbike and ended up under a car but had no injuries i was very lucky. when i was a child i put a cable tie around my neck and nearly choked(i know its stupid).


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  • #22
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Once ran out after a ball on the road, car screeched to a halt in front of me, I swear it was inches away from hitting me!

    I can still see the tears in me Mammy's eyes as she tore strips off me, she nearly bate me with the relief :p


  • #23
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Got knocked down. Broke yer man's windscreen with the back of my head. A week later was on the phone scratching where the staples were and picked out a lump of glass.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #24
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,194 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    5 years old and playing on the farm.
    Dog ran across the slurry pit and sure I followed. There is a crust on top so can be walkable....if you're light and stupid

    Sank to the chest, would have been under in another few minutes

    Grandad is his 70's laid pallets across to make a walkway and pulled me out

    Death by drowning in a slurry pit, a nasty way to go :(
    Biggins wrote: »
    Bomb, bullet, being attacked, car crash, plane crash, rare African bone infection, fire, house collapse upon me, bus turnover, knocked down by motorbike to name a few instances.

    (Had a girlfriend who for the whole of our relationship, would never get on a plane with me. Needless to say, the relationship didn't last.)

    You're more full of sh1t than the slurry pit feelingstressed was talking about :rolleyes:


  • #25
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    You're more full of sh1t than the slurry pit feelingstressed was talking about :rolleyes:
    I don't expect you to believe me but every word is true. Honestly.
    When you get around this crazy world and sometimes (stupidly) get yourself in to some daft situations, these things happen.
    (Have some scars to prove it!)

    Some day in my rocking chair I'll laugh about some of the mad schite I've done.
    Hell, I've started to smile about it already! I must have been nuts, the present wife still thinks I am! :pac:


  • #26
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    kicking the can??


  • #27
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    FatherLen wrote: »
    fell off my motorbike and ended up under a car but had no injuries i was very lucky. when i was a child i put a cable tie around my neck and nearly choked(i know its stupid).

    Cable ties are a parent's best friend.


  • #28
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Car slided sideways and a big lorry was headed straight for us. Scary stuff.


  • #29
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Broke 6 ribs in a head car crash when a large cylinder of gas came in from the folded down back seats like a torpedo, had it being a few inches to the right it would have snapped my spine. The top of the bottle ended up burried in the dash.

    Funny thing about the above, my old man was twisting my arm to give up bikes for the previous 15 years, I never broke a bone or received any serious injuries coming off a motorbike.


  • #30
    spoofilyj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭spoofilyj


    The year 2009 tried to kill me loads of times...either through my own stupidity or just bad luck.

    Jan 25th flipped my car over three times and 18 stitches to my scalp and a concussion, walked away from it but was damn lucky night in the CUH in case of brain swelling and a funny looking head for a month or too...

    May 19th free climbing a cliff in Nohoval in Cork (stupid thing to do I know!) and missed a hand hold and nearly tumpled 200 feet took me about 10 mins to stop the shaking in my arms and get safely to the top, only to realise I had climbed a stack and not the mainland and had to jump across a 4 foot gap, doesent sound like much but when your nerves are already shot its a big ask...

    July 20th (I think ) Got tangled in a load of kelp while snorkeling and nearly drowned. Thankfully I had brough my knife and cut free but scary.

    October 2009 was kayak surfing in Inch by Aghada in Cork and went to help a person in distress, managed to get them up to the rocks before being upended loosing the kayak and being dragged into the surf (9 ten foot foamers) couldidnt fight the current and was getting really tired and could'nt really breath, Luckily some brilliant surfers rescued me and helped me get into shore it took about 25 mins but felt like an hour, then i promptly chucked my guts up and started shaking all over. Havent been back surfing in inch since as the rips there are too much for me and I'm mildly terrified of a repeat...

    Thankfully for every bad thing that has happened to me an equally nice/awesome thing seemed to come along soon after so now I'm a big believer in Karma...


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  • #31
    Johnnio13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Johnnio13


    both drunken instances

    1st was in Munich for the summer and got hammered one day and headed back to the apartment. Lads had locked me out, so decided to climb out a landing window and jump onto the balcony of our apt. 6 flights up and about 6-8ft across. Made it, just, got in to the apt..had a whiskey to calm the nerves and went out to meet the lads. Never told them.
    2nd drink related. locked on the way to another boozer.Fell off a curb in NYC on Broadway and 45th under a passing taxi. He swerved just in time. Went back to hotel. And stayed put for the night.

    on a separate note one of the lads was working in Venezula as a doc with MSF and a guy walked up to him in a bar and asked him and his friends to step out side for a moment. Then turned around a f££ked a grenade into the bar, killing two guys that he had a beef with. So Biggin's tale might not be too far fetched.


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