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

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  • #32
    CD.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭CD.


    car crash, slammed into the barrier and flipped. walked away with literally only a scratch.
    i saw walk, but really it was carried. wasnt allowed move in case of spinal injuries


  • #33
    Noo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,989 ✭✭✭Noo


    Johnnio13 wrote: »
    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.

    How considerate, who says theres no good in the world.


  • #34
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    I woke up one night as a kid to my dad carrying me out of my room, my smoke alarm was going off and the room was full of smoke, I'd fallen asleep with my lamp on, pillow had fallen in such a way as to land right in front of the bulb...if that's not an advertisement for the necessity of smoke alarms I don't know what is.


  • #35
    deirdre_dub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭deirdre_dub


    In my mid 20s, hiking in Connemara National Park, walking through a steep gulley, on wet grass, some 50ft above the bottom of the gulley, when I slipped.

    I landed in a pool of water at the bottom of a small waterfall - if I had slipped a few seconds earlier, I'd be dead or incapacitated.

    Life-changing experience.


  • #36
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Ive lost count but most of them involve flying down mountains on my bike going 60-80km/hr, so many close calls, and other days just around urban areas, fckin cars :mad:


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  • #37
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    a lump of fatty beef got stuck in my throat a few years ago. i was on the ground and went purple before it was literally pulled out


  • #38
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    working as a motorcycle courier in dublin for 13 years , all weathers
    cant count the amount of times i was nearly killed - a charmed life indeed
    most memorable was driving around a corner , hit oil/diesel and the front wheel went from under me , coming around the corner from the opposite direction was a 40 foot truck , me and the bike slid past the front of said truck , i was on my back looking up , front of truck inches from me , bounced off the kerb as the truck skidded 2 a halt , inches from me
    poor truck driver was white and shaking - he thought he got me


    also 3 heart attacks in the last 2 years :eek:

    only the good die young and all that !!


  • #39
    marketty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭marketty


    Almost drowned in a local pool aged about ten, came out of the changing room and turned right instead of left and jumped straight into the deep end, sank like a stone and rescued by a lifeguard. Nearly killed my poor granny who brought me too!
    Last year on my first solo cross country flight in a small plane i hit a bird on final approach to land, serious brown trouser moment...


  • #40
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    I hate buckets and never miss a chance to have a kick at them. No depth perception though, so haven't connected yet. Someday. Stupid buckets.


  • #41
    kwalshe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 959 ✭✭✭kwalshe


    doing chin ups locked outta me brain on the railings outside of the Salmon leap bridge on the way into Leixlip, bleedin' dope....


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  • #42
    Storminateacup
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭Storminateacup


    A stupid decision i made when i was a wild careless fearless 15 year old, thinking nothing could touch me.

    Other than that, I've never almost nearly died. There were a couple of careless moments, carcrashes, racing trains, flipping over on quads, bad trips, having a machine drop down on both my legs, falling through a glass door and pretty much slitting my wrist... Nothing more than a couple of bruises, a short stay in the hospital or at the very most, an op to straighten out any broken bones.

    F*ck it. If your numbers up, its up. No point in worrying about it.


  • #43
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,300 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Doing slightly* over the speed limit on a totally empty piece of motorway and a bird flew straight into the windscreen, lets just say I was probably going faster than the light aircraft (presuming C172 or same type on short final 65 knots = 120km/h). That was a shock.

    Fell off a chair when I was a kid and landed on my head, cue blood everywhere and six stitches. Not the most near death experience but not fun either!

    Very nearly got hit by a bus mirror once too, he was pulling in a fairly high speed and it would have fairly lamped me if I'd come into contact with it.


  • #44
    Poor Craythur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭Poor Craythur


    sdonn wrote: »
    Very nearly got hit by a bus mirror once too, he was pulling in a fairly high speed and it would have fairly lamped me if I'd come into contact with it.

    That nearly happened to me too. Was walking at the edge of a footpath. A bus sped by and its mirror JUST cleared the top of my head. :eek:


  • #45
    im...LOST
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭im...LOST


    iamstop wrote: »
    A week later was on the phone scratching where the staples were and picked out a lump of glass.

    ****!


  • #46
    tallus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭tallus


    Deep Vein Thrombosis (blood clot) ... discovered by accident while having my leg X-Rayed after having an operation to repair my femur.
    It's hard to kill a bad thing :)


  • #47
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Went surfing when I was 12 and a rip current started pulling me out towards the sea, ended up about half a mile out in under a minute. I was debating whether or not to let the surf-board (Strapped on to my wrist) go but thought I would have got in trouble if I did, so I started swimming to my hearts content. Eventually got back to shore but was scary ****.

    Nearly choked to death on a mentos. That will teach me to lie down eating one.

    Bout 20 horses were in the field next to my house, me and the friends would always go in and run at them to scare the crap outta them. They went into another field just above it and their a little channel where they could go in and out. Walking up the channel, we see them all running us.
    Luckily their was a gap in the ditch where we could jump on but of course who falls before we got there? I do. Horses running full speed and my friend grabs me and pulled me up right before the horses passed. Lucky not to be trampled.


  • #48
    barbiegirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭barbiegirl


    As a baby went into anaphylactic shock when i got my immunisations. Had multiple fits for years later and very high temperatures.

    Cut an artery when i fell on a bottle.

    Nothing big since then.


  • #49
    MIRMIR82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 658 ✭✭✭MIRMIR82


    My near-death experience was when i was 13. I had an absess the size of a grapefruit on my appendix. was sent home from portlaois hosp 3 times - i couldnt even stand up straight. eventually they opened me up not knowing what was wrong wit me going in!!

    My brother is the luckiest person i know. He was in Phuket the day of the tsunami - himself and his friends were meant to go deep-sea diving that day, but they were too hung-over.
    He was on the exact same Air-France flight exactly a week before it crashed and tragically killed all aboard.
    He had a flight booked to Haiti the day before the earthquake.
    He has a fear of flying now!!


  • #50
    tallus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭tallus


    MIRMIR82 wrote: »
    My near-death experience was when i was 13. I had an absess the size of a grapefruit on my appendix. was sent home from portlaois hosp 3 times - i couldnt even stand up straight. eventually they opened me up not knowing what was wrong wit me going in!!

    My brother is the luckiest person i know. He was in Phuket the day of the tsunami - himself and his friends were meant to go deep-sea diving that day, but they were too hung-over.
    He was on the exact same Air-France flight exactly a week before it crashed and tragically killed all aboard.
    He had a flight booked to Haiti the day before the earthquake.
    He has a fear of flying now!!

    He should play the lotto.


  • #51
    theboss80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,838 ✭✭✭theboss80


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  • #52
    cbyrd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭cbyrd


    I almost choked on an apple drop when i was 8 . . .
    I went into heart failure when i had an anaphylactic reaction to a spice . . .
    if my airways swelled up i'd be dead now cos it took 25 mins for the ambulance to get to me . . .:)


  • #53
    Doublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭Doublin


    There have been 100's of times I've been close to kicking the bucket. I was basically a lunatic as a teen, never expected to reach 30 & didn't care. But I'm a lucky git and made it out the other side of anything put in front of me. If I was called up on 10% of the stuff I've been involved in I'd be well gone.

    I reckon I inherited it from my uncle. Some of his near misses include falling off the Cliffs of Moher on a school trip, landed on a ledge & came away with a twisted ankle. Involved in a car crash that resulted in a number of fatalities, he walked away with cut's & bruises. Beat cancer twice, I remember collecting him from the hospital the last time, the doctor was telling him the date for his next check up & that he couldn't eat/drink 12 hours before the visit. The uncle told him straight away to change the date, as Utd were playing in the Champions League the night before & he would be in the pub. He walked the walk & never gave a ****. A heart attack got him in the end.

    One of my friends has Crohn's Disease so she lives close to the edge all of the time. Amazingly brave, in and out of hospital constantly but when ok she just wants to enjoy life, she has the ability to see the positive in everything.


  • #54
    Poor Craythur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭Poor Craythur


    Doublin wrote: »
    One of my friends has Crohn's Disease so she lives close to the edge all of the time. Amazingly brave, in and out of hospital constantly but when ok she just wants to enjoy life, she has the ability to see the positive in everything.

    I have Crohn's disease, it varies for everyone but I wouldn't exactly call it living on the edge. There's are some nasty complications that can be dangerous but they are treatable and rarely does someone die from it these days.

    There are far worse diseases one could be afflicted with.


  • #55
    Doublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭Doublin


    Poor Craythur wrote: »
    I have Crohn's disease, it varies for everyone but I wouldn't exactly call it living on the edge. There's are some nasty complications that can be dangerous but they are treatable and rarely does someone die from it these days.

    There are far worse diseases one could be afflicted with.

    I don't know, I'm not a medical person. I just know she has surgery a few times a year & has it hanging over her all the time. So, she is brave in my book.


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