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Ever thought 'Oh no, this is it, I'm dead' and really thought you were going to die?
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On the job one day and a t**t with no sense decides to tip a load of wet sand off the embankment i standing at. I'm 6 feet away and 5 feet under the height of his machine. The sand starts to fall out then it stops. The weight tiips the machine forward and all i see is the skip, driver and engine compartment of one of these ...................
............. coming down on me. I try to turn and run but the loose soil i'm on keeps falling under my feet. Luckily the machine has a pivot joint and it "twists" and falls to the side missing me by a couple of meters instead of coming down on me.
You know all that "my life flashed before me" talk. Well i call bullsh*t on that one. All that flashed before me was a big fecking yellow dumper. Nearly poked my eye out trying to smoke a cig after it happened. Felt like puking, and my heart was beating out of my chest.Forum Charter - Useful Information - Photo thread: Hardware - Ranges by County - Hunting Laws/Important threads - Upcoming Events - RFDs by County
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When I was about 4 I went to my very first swimming lesson. There was me and a load of other little kids lined up on the side of the pool and the teacher told us to get in. Now for some reason all the other kids had armbands and I didn't, so all the other kids were getting in and kinda bobbing around in the shallow end, and it never occurred to me that the only reason their heads were above water was that the armbands were keeping them afloat.
So I get about halfway down the ladder and then let go, and sank like a stone. I started sorta flailing my arms and legs, but I didn't panic, in fact I was quite proud of myself, I thought I was swimming and doing great. I was extra chuffed with myself when I realised that I could breathe under water, and I was all delighted thinking I was the best in the class. The next thing I remember is being kinda thrown over the swimming teacher's shoulder and there was just torrents of water coming out of my nose and mouth. She'd had to jump into the pool in her clothes to save me
I found myself some armbands and then got back in and finished the class, totally unaware that I'd nearly died. My poor mother, who was watching from the seats on the side, was definitely not the better for it though. 0 -
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I didn't sleep for about 3 days straight after playing internet poker. I was so mentally tired but I wasn't 'sleepy', I must of been on my third wind at this point.
My brain felt like it was shutting down and leaving my body and floating away. I honestly felt like this is what its like when people say they see the light after an near death experience.
I did think it was the end of TK 0 -
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Quoted from another thread, pics of the car at the bottom.
happened just over a year agolast august, was on the M50 early morning, car starts swerving, think wtf?? i asked my sister what she was doing, she told me that she lost control of the car (she was holding the steering wheel straight/trying to right the car, the wheels just weren't responding to it or anythign), it swerved slightly, went straight, slightly, straight then wildly. car spun, saw the barrier coming at me, thought "oh ****, this is gonna hurt" put my hands up to protect my head/closed my eyes. car slammed into barrier, flipped and landed rightside up on the grass strip.
if the car was going slower it would have hit into the cars behind us, faster and we would have missed the barrier (hit the very end) and gone straight across the meridian.
window smashed in/covered in glass/stones which were also on the dashboard, there was glass in my mouth.
my only injuries was a bruise from the seatbelt and a small cut on my leg. my sister had a bit of back pain for a few months and is fine now.
had i tried to brace myself, my arm would have been torn to shreds by the glass. was told i could have lost my arm.
the weirdest part was the doctors and nurses when they checked on us, went oh...i heard about you guys.
scariest part was getting the xray on my spine and heard the words "disc, exploded" and "fluid" told a few minutes later i was fine, did i want to try sitting up?
also, those body boards they put you on? hurt like a mother****er. started getting back pain in it, didnt know if it was from the board or the accident (the board)
later, going through the car wreck at where the car was taken to, i reached in teh window of the car, my sister opened the back door and the roof fell down, (we had to be cut out) was going to kill her. first she tried to kill me, then tried to sever my goddamned arm. my side of the car was pretty ****ed up, random holes from teh barrier piercing it, giant chunks just missing completely.
was shaken up for a few days, worst part was trying to explain to the emergency operator what had happened because i didnt know where we were other than m50 (i'm **** with directions) and she kept asking what we needed. like not if we were hurt or anything, just "what do you need" i'm sorry, i dont have this expeirence often enough to know off hand what we require? i ended up thrusting the phone at my sister because i started shaking/couldnt talk, took a few seconds to calm myself.
i think the firemen/police/other people were unnerved by how calm my sister and i were.
though my memory of it is slightly fragmented i cannot remember hearing any sound, i know my hearing was off afterward, but during the accident i remember no sound whats so ever. apparently the sound would have been horrific
my only thoughts through it all were that it was going to hurt and i wondered why the hell i could feel my hair while we were flipping.
pretty pissed off i didnt get any epiphany or anything. i want my flash of insperation/total understanding in return for potentially dying!
still get kinda nervous on the M50, not suprisingly.0 -
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I was hillwalking in Connemara National Park maybe 15 years ago with a bunch of friends.
We came across this valley. It was narrow (2 or 3 metres?), and the sides of it were quite steep. At the bottom of the valley there was a shallow stream flowing over rock. The stream started at an elevation, then part of the way down it there was a waterfall where this stream lost a lot of elevation (maybe 15 metres), and hence the sides of the valley gained elevation. Then, the stream continued to the end of the valley.
We started walking along the side of this valley well above the stream. It was wet, and the grass was long and slippery. Most of my friends were faster than me - I was the penultimate person in the line of people in the group. We came to a fork in the "track" - there was one "track" that went up, and another that continued on the same elevation. Everyone took the "upper" track - I decided to take the other track, so that I could pick up my pace and re-join the group somewhere other than at the back! The person behind me followed me.
Then, I came across a tiny gap in the "track". I stepped over it, but next thing I knew, I was in mid-air, looking at the sky. I had slipped, and I was falling.
First thing - what is below me?! OK - if we have gone past the waterfall, I'm going to have a short fall, and I should be OK. So I braced myself and waited for the landing. It didn't come. OK - we haven't yet reached the waterfall, and I have a fall of about 15 or so metres ahead of me, and I'm going to hit rock when I land.
Time slowed. Even though the fall took about 2 seconds, it felt like 20. The first thing that crossed my mind, I'm sorry to say, was suicide. At the time, I was terribly depressed, and I realised that all I had to do was to crane my neck backwards, and it would snap when I hit the rock, and everyone would think that I had died in a terrible mountaineering accident - no-one would know the truth. So I craned my neck backwards.
Then, I realised that I wasn't actually sure I wanted to die. It was actually a pivotal moment in my life - I had a decision to make. Either I take this golden opportunity to kill myself, or I never ever ever again entertain ideas of suicide. This was my golden opportunity - a gift I would never ever again see - and either I take it, or I reject it forever.
I uncraned my neck, and I curled up into the foetal position.
Then, I realised what I was actually afraid of. It wasn't death that I feared - it was becoming paralysed. But there was nothing I could do - all that I knew was that in the next very few moments, I would either die, or I would find myself waking up in hospital.
People ask you if your life flashes before your eyes. Well, mine did, though in a very strange way. A word formed - it is as if it was spoken into the top of my head, and then permeated my consciousness. The word was "lie". I was being told that my life was a lie. Within a year, I had some understanding of what that meant, but it has taken me 20 years to fully appreciate the meaning of that message.
SPLASH!
I scrambled for the surface - surprisingly, I hadn't lost consciousness. I was wet, and I wasn't in any real pain that I could point to. After gaining my bearings, I realised what had happened.
I had landed in the pool of water carved by the stream at the bottom of the waterfall. The depth of the water in this pool (about 1.3 metres) coupled with the pack on my back was enough to break my fall. I scanned my body for damage. My attention was drawn to my left wrist.
There were tiny beads of blood on my wrist. I wiped them off. Slowly, they re-formed. It was the only injury I sustained. I still have the scar, and I still look at it from time to time, in memory.
The person who was behind me was the only one to see me fall. He ran over the top of the waterfall, and down the other side. He later joked that he saw me "splashing in the pool like a kid on holidays", though I could see in his face that he got a bigger fright than I.
Everyone was really really nice to me for the rest of the day.
And it was a pivotal 2 seconds of my life in more ways than one. 0 -
deirdre_dub wrote: »I was hillwalking in Connemara National Park maybe 15 years ago with a bunch of friends.
We came across this valley. It was narrow (2 or 3 metres?), and the sides of it were quite steep. At the bottom of the valley there was a shallow stream flowing over rock. The stream started at an elevation, then part of the way down it there was a waterfall where this stream lost a lot of elevation (maybe 15 metres), and hence the sides of the valley gained elevation. Then, the stream continued to the end of the valley.
We started walking along the side of this valley well above the stream. It was wet, and the grass was long and slippery. Most of my friends were faster than me - I was the penultimate person in the line of people in the group. We came to a fork in the "track" - there was one "track" that went up, and another that continued on the same elevation. Everyone took the "upper" track - I decided to take the other track, so that I could pick up my pace and re-join the group somewhere other than at the back! The person behind me followed me.
Then, I came across a tiny gap in the "track". I stepped over it, but next thing I knew, I was in mid-air, looking at the sky. I had slipped, and I was falling.
First thing - what is below me?! OK - if we have gone past the waterfall, I'm going to have a short fall, and I should be OK. So I braced myself and waited for the landing. It didn't come. OK - we haven't yet reached the waterfall, and I have a fall of about 15 or so metres ahead of me, and I'm going to hit rock when I land.
Time slowed. Even though the fall took about 2 seconds, it felt like 20. The first thing that crossed my mind, I'm sorry to say, was suicide. At the time, I was terribly depressed, and I realised that all I had to do was to crane my neck backwards, and it would snap when I hit the rock, and everyone would think that I had died in a terrible mountaineering accident - no-one would know the truth. So I craned my neck backwards.
Then, I realised that I wasn't actually sure I wanted to die. It was actually a pivotal moment in my life - I had a decision to make. Either I take this golden opportunity to kill myself, or I never ever ever again entertain ideas of suicide. This was my golden opportunity - a gift I would never ever again see - and either I take it, or I reject it forever.
I uncraned my neck, and I curled up into the foetal position.
Then, I realised what I was actually afraid of. It wasn't death that I feared - it was becoming paralysed. But there was nothing I could do - all that I knew was that in the next very few moments, I would either die, or I would find myself waking up in hospital.
People ask you if your life flashes before your eyes. Well, mine did, though in a very strange way. A word formed - it is as if it was spoken into the top of my head, and then permeated my consciousness. The word was "lie". I was being told that my life was a lie. Within a year, I had some understanding of what that meant, but it has taken me 20 years to fully appreciate the meaning of that message.
SPLASH!
I scrambled for the surface - surprisingly, I hadn't lost consciousness. I was wet, and I wasn't in any real pain that I could point to. After gaining my bearings, I realised what had happened.
I had landed in the pool of water carved by the stream at the bottom of the waterfall. The depth of the water in this pool (about 1.3 metres) coupled with the pack on my back was enough to break my fall. I scanned my body for damage. My attention was drawn to my left wrist.
There were tiny beads of blood on my wrist. I wiped them off. Slowly, they re-formed. It was the only injury I sustained. I still have the scar, and I still look at it from time to time, in memory.
The person who was behind me was the only one to see me fall. He ran over the top of the waterfall, and down the other side. He later joked that he saw me "splashing in the pool like a kid on holidays", though I could see in his face that he got a bigger fright than I.
Everyone was really really nice to me for the rest of the day. And it was a pivotal 2 seconds of my life in more ways than one.
It's actually amazing how many thoughts can fly through your mind in two seconds...if even that.0 -
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