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What's the most dangerous situation you've ever been in?

  • 10-06-2011 11:57PM
    #1
    Karamoja
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭


    This is influenced by the other thread about historic things people have witnessed, which has now turned into "What's the most awesome thing you've seen on the telly?"

    So what's the most dangerous situation you've ever been in? Or maybe there are a few things on your list? I'm sure some military feckers will be posting here like flies on shiat.

    The most dangerous situation I've been in is a riot Uganda. There were already riots for the past week or so but this day was the most serious and had made it's way to the neighbourhood I was staying in. I wasn't exactly in the middle of the riot, but I woke up to explosions, tear gas, bonfires and automatic gunfire outside my campsite. A two year old kid had been shot in the head (twice) by police the day before. I couldn't leave the place all day so I just drank myself into a stupor. Luckily we were protected by Ak47 wielding policemen. So it really wasn't that dangerous...

    Any dangerous situations folk? Fell off a cliff or anything?

    btw - Bullshit-o-meters on folks.


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Comments

  • #2
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    I drove through Limerick


  • #3
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    Tiger-Kidknapping:(


  • #4
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Went to visit the missus on Christmas eve at her work party, but the whole building got taken over by terrorists. Managed to get out ok. Sore feet though....


  • #5
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Went to visit the missus on Christmas eve at her work party, but the whole building got taken over by terrorists. Managed to get out ok. Sore feet though....

    I hope your trip to the airport was less eventful.


  • #6
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    I hope your trip to the airport was less eventful.

    Now that you mention it actually...


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  • #7
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Nearly drowned in bath there last week.


  • #8
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    I had to meet a known murderer in Limerick and ask for my friends phone back...


  • #9
    !MAVERICK!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 449 ✭✭!MAVERICK!


    Almost crashed a two seater light aircraft into an oak tree on takeoff a couple of years ago. Torments me still.


  • #10
    Karamoja
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Karamoja


    Cill Dara Abu wrote: »
    Tiger-Kidknapping:(

    I'm guessing you can't give us any more information for legal reasons or something?


  • #11
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    I once got in the way of Mary Harney and the buffet table...


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  • #12
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    Karamoja wrote: »
    I'm guessing you can't give us any more information for legal reasons or something?
    No not for legal reasons, I just do'nt want to.


  • #13
    rockmongrel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭rockmongrel


    Had a knife pulled on me a few months back, but sure, it's Dublin like.


  • #14
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    losthorizon wrote: »
    I drove through Limerick

    I live in Limerick.

    check.
    mate.


  • #15
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Cill Dara Abu wrote: »
    No not for legal reasons, I just do'nt want to.
    Ah go on tell us who you kidnapped :D


  • #16
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Car crash/getting jumped by travellers.


  • #17
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    probably whenever I'm on the 78a, the worst one being when some little scummers threw a rock through the window which just narrowly avoided my head.


  • #18
    Karamoja
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Karamoja


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    I once got in the way of Mary Harney and the buffet table...

    That's like getting between a hippo and the river... bejaysus.


  • #19
    54kroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭54kroc


    I ran in to a nice bunch of chaps with a hurley who used my head as a sliotar.


  • #20
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Motorbike crash. Some bloody long walk home :(


  • #21
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    Ah go on tell us who you kidnapped :D

    A tiger - read properly next time?

    Given the name 'Cill Dara', I just assumed it was the recent PO one, no?


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  • #22
    Pandora2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    I'm a civilian and I found a real bomb!! Not ashamed to say I peed myself a lil bit!!:cool:


  • #23
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    A burglar broke into my house and I chased him back out.


  • #24
    Karamoja
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Karamoja


    Somebody mentioned a car crash, just reminded me that I was also in a car crash... I totally forgot! That was quite dangerous, two cars written off, it was really one of those "if he was just a bit further to right" moments.


  • #25
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    flutterflye wrote: »
    A tiger - read properly next time?

    Given the name 'Cill Dara', I just assumed it was the recent PO one, no?
    OH, I thought he organised it :D:D


  • #26
    Karamoja
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Karamoja


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    I'm a civilian and I found a real bomb!! Not ashamed to say I peed myself a lil bit!!:cool:

    Where??!!


  • #27
    Cupcake_Crisis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    I was walking home from the pub one night with a guy i know through friends, he was very very handsy , but i brushed it off as drunk messing. All of a sudden the ****er grabbed me, bit me, and refused to let me go. Practically wrestled me, left bruises on my arms and wrists and arms. I was rescued by a taxi driver :cool:

    but yea.... What a freak. I can laugh about it now but i was genuinely terrified.


  • #28
    Crackle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Crackle


    "Just" a car crash for me.


  • #29
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    Armed robbery in a place I was working in. Had a shotgun rammed up against the side of my head :(


  • #30
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    wife asked me if "her bum looked big in these jeans" the other day and I hesitated. It was touch and go there for a minute.


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  • #31
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,521 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Crossing at traffic lights when some pillock in a van with a newspaper across the steering wheel pulls off while it's still red for him, van hits me in the side quite hard, nearly shat myself as I was daydreaming at the time:pac:


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