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whats the most embarassing fright you ever got

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  • #32
    spankmaster2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭spankmaster2000


    When I was about 22 or so I was in Disneyland or something with my family. None of the others were brave enough to go into this "Van Helsing" ghost-house thing, except myself and my older bro.

    Barely 20 feet inside the door, a "statue" of a mummy in a wall alcove jumped out and although he probably shouted "boo" or something; my scream (Ned Flanders style) drowned out all other noise in the whole place.

    The "mummy" was nearly bent over double with laughter...

    :(


  • #33
    Pandora2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    I checked and this is AH and I thought I would provide an Artist's Impression ;)


  • #34
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    I was walking home through Dublin late one night when I passed a load of lads who were just standing around. As I passed them, they started walking after me - I was suddenly on full alert. I was keeping track of where they were by looking at their shadows on the ground - I suddenly saw one of the shadows dart towards me and reflexively kinda curled up into a ball on the street. When I turned around the lads were about 50 feet away with expressions of :confused:

    yeah that was pretty embarrassing.


  • #35
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    tbh wrote: »
    I suddenly saw one of the shadows dart towards me and reflexively kinda curled up into a ball on the street.

    Are you a hedgehog?


  • #36
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Are you a hedgehog?

    no, a chicken


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  • #37
    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    When younger I got hung over a bridge dangling by my feet by a bunch of older kids, I wet myself with the fright.


  • #38
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    Worked as a waiter in a pizzeria many years ago, when I first came to Dublin from Belfast. One evening, I heard a loud bang and dropped the plates in my hand and dived under the nearest table, fearing a bomb had gone off nearby.

    Actually something had blown up in the kitchen, but I felt like a fecking moron clambering out from between some oul one's legs when it became evident that the roof and windows weren't coming in around me. The fact that the entire restaurant was staring at me baffled didn't help either.

    Very traumatic grown up in Belfast at that time I'd say.

    I have a friend whose mother, as a young girl, saw people shot down from a car in front of her while she was walking to school.:(


  • #39
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    tbh wrote: »
    I was walking home through Dublin late one night when I passed a load of lads who were just standing around. As I passed them, they started walking after me - I was suddenly on full alert. I was keeping track of where they were by looking at their shadows on the ground - I suddenly saw one of the shadows dart towards me and reflexively kinda curled up into a ball on the street. When I turned around the lads were about 50 feet away with expressions of :confused:

    yeah that was pretty embarrassing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQS1WzmCeIw


  • #40
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Sindri wrote: »
    Very traumatic grown up in Belfast at that time I'd say.

    I have a friend whose mother, as a young girl, saw people shot down from a car in front of her while she was walking to school.:(

    Yeah, I can relate to that.


  • #41
    Dan133269
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Dan133269


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    :confused:

    I'm joking about you being between an old woman's legs ;)


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  • #42
    u_c_thesecond
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭u_c_thesecond


    Sykk wrote: »
    .... :o

    yep thats pretty much what i looked like


  • #43
    BO-JANGLES
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭BO-JANGLES


    Was in a water park on holiday once and was carrying a tray of food and drinks to the my family's table. A large hornet landed on my wrist and I panicked at the sight of it. I threw the tray one way and ran off screaming like a demented madman in the other direction. Everybody stared at me in disbelief, really embarrassing....


  • #44
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    posted earlier, jesus this one covers a lot of bases actually! i was fairly shít shocked, but embarrassed about the whole thing at the same time. i just wanted to get on my way.
    xsiborg wrote: »
    myself i was involved in an accident years ago while out cycling my bike, i attempted to cross a four lane road on a dark night wearing no visibility gear, and failing to look left before i attempted to cross- my own fault basically.

    i got hit by an oncoming car in the first lane. i wasnt badly injured but the driver was badly shook up. i made sure she was ok before retrieving my bicycle from underneath her car. she continued on her way.

    slightly dazed and confused by the experience, i didnt have my wits about me when i hopped back up on my bike and went to carry on into the second lane. whereupon i was hit by a second oncoming car that didnt see me. this time the driver reversed back a bit off my bicycle, put the car in gear, and sped off in haste. i got up off the road and retrieved my bicycle, yet again, only this time it was in bits.

    this time rather than attempt to get up on my mangled at this stage bicycle, i checked the next two lanes before i crossed the road safely, whereupon there were two young girls who had witnessed what had just happened, only one of them was lying on the ground, whereas her friend was frozen with shock. i asked the girl was her friend ok, her friend was unable to speak so i checked the unconscious girl's vital signs and deduced she must have just fainted.

    i called 999 for an ambulance for the girl (back then i had a solid brick of an 088 phone that hadnt been damaged in either collision) and waited til they arrived. the paramedic didnt know where to look as i wasnt looking in great shape myself, yet trying to explain to him that it was for the girl that had fainted (who was by now sitting up, as i had told her not to try standing) that i called the ambulance.

    i was quite embarrassed by the whole incident.



    for those who are wondering- in Portlaoise there is a four laneway road called James Fintan Lawlor Avenue, which is quite a steep hill, you can go in along by the wall inside the shopping centre that leads down to the car park, and then come out onto the road through a small gap in the wall, to cross the road near the blue overhead bridge, to the street across from that to get to the main street in Portlaoise. that is where this incident happened.


  • #45
    rgmmg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭rgmmg


    xsiborg wrote: »
    posted earlier, jesus this one covers a lot of bases actually! i was fairly shít shocked, but embarrassed about the whole thing at the same time. i just wanted to get on my way.


    Yeah - Every post I go into this has been posted. A good one tho :)


  • #46
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Was at a gig with a friend a few years back (Cake in Vicar St :D). He went off to the loo, and was gone longer than I expected so I thought I'd have a wee look around for him. The fecker was standing, and had been for about 5 minutes, silently, about half an inch behind my right ear. Gave me some jump, he did.


  • #47
    sgb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭sgb


    I was watching the movie The Crying Game, got quiet aroused watching 'her' turned out to be a him


  • #48
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,251 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Last summer I walked into our front living room to play my guitar. Was greeted by a bird that obviously flew in through the open window and was trapped inside. It scared the bajesus outta me and I ran out of the room screaming like a girl. Proud moment for my father having to get rid of it himself.


  • #49
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Brought a girl to Fota Wildlife Park and while we were walking around it I spotted a large Ostrich egg about 30 meters from where the Ostrich was standing and about 20 meters from the fence - it looked like it had been rejected by the bird. I decided I wanted this interesting egg and it would have the added effect of impressing my date.

    So I deftly leap the fence and scarper up the incline to poach the prize. As I was bending over to pick up the egg I heard my fair female cry 'WATCH OUT!'. I looked up to see what the danger was and there was a bloody great Ostrich staring angrily at me as if to say 'you touch that egg and I smash your skull with my beak'.

    So I let out a little scream and turn tail and legged it back towards the fence not knowing if the angry bird was chasing me. When I got to the fence it was much higher from my side seeing as a dry moat was dug around the inside of the fence. I leap onto the fence and manage to get myself tangled in it eventually wriggling out of it and landing on my arse on the other side. My date was laughing her head off at what happened. I was glad that only my pride was injured as opposed to my skull.


  • #50
    Kitty-kitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭Kitty-kitty


    ... in the bad snow in Dublin last winter I was standing in a small snow drift next to a traffic light, waiting for the green man. There was maybe three or four people around me waiting to cross the road, when, SUDDENLY, there's this CRACK and THE GROUND FALLS OUT FROM UNDER ME.

    I let out a HUGE scream and everyone turned around.

    ... to see me standing upright, perfectly still, and somewhere between awkward and still terrified.

    Under the snow had been a very shallow frozen over puddle, and the ice had cracked under my weight. My feet had fallen about an inch.


  • #51
    Raditub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭Raditub


    once got a fright in university library ..a gentle feather fell on the book infront of me ...i fekkin screamed so loud! Dunno what was wrong with me that day...slightly agitated i guess...hilarious tho hahaha


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  • #52
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Davey Devil wrote: »
    Any excuse to post this clip.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OQT1psCoAc

    Goddamn you!


  • #53
    Diamond_Ninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭Diamond_Ninja


    My friend was chucked out of a Bressie gig last year for sleeping in the corner, she had a little too much to drink so I put her there to sleep it off and thought she would be grand :P She got such a fright when they woke her I could hear her scream over him singing! She's still embarassed about that one!


  • #54
    whitewave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭whitewave


    had a stand-off with my own shadow before cos i thought it was a rat...thought i saw it coming towards me so stood still for a bit...so did the rat...then backed away slowly...and it stalked closer just at exactly the same speed as me...


  • #55
    _feedback_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    Not the winter just gone, but the winter before (the really cold one), I went out early on a cold, dark morning to turn on the car to defrost it. It was frosty and deathly quiet in the housing estate. I was half asleep too.

    Just as I was getting to the car, I hear a loud WOOF WOOF WOOF. I have no fear of dogs at all, but for some reason, it frightened the bejaysus out of me, and I screamed at the very top of my voice. It was a massive AAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!! Really really loud.

    With that, I opened the car door and jumped in for protection. All of this was in the space of a couple of seconds.

    When I looked out the window, I was greeted by a little fella like this, and looking over the wall to the neighbours, I saw the dogs owner, bent over laughing. You know that look when someone is in pain laughing.

    Embarassing just skims the surface of what I was feeling. :o


  • #56
    ncmc
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    A few years back, myself and the hubby were at the cinema watching Harry Potter. It was the one where Harry and Dumbledore are in the boat and all the dead bodies rise up out of the water to attack them. Now having read the book, I knew this bit was coming and whispered to my husband to warn him. But when the first dead body rose out of the water, the guy on the other side of me let out a massive scream, It was so loud, it scared the crap out of me, and I let out a belter of a scream and spilled my water all over myself. Cue the whole cinema turning to look at the wuss. :o


    Another time, I was at a play and the final scene entailed a gun going off. It was so loud and took me so much by surprise, I actually burst out crying!


  • #57
    ImpossibleDuck
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    Not me but my dad:

    Driving out a country road at night when suddenly he hears a voice behind him: "Pull the car over to the side of the road and get out". Assuming the man was armed he slammed on the breaks and legged it. Not hearing the car drive away however, he turned and looked back. The car was still sitting there taking over. He stood there, in the middle of nowhere, staring at his Ford Capri. After about 5 minutes he nervously began approaching the car. He looked in the window and couldn't see anyone. After a couple of minutes he opened the door and looked in the back seat. No one. So he got back into the car again before again hearing "Pull the car over to the side of the road and get out". He looked in the back seat and there lay a overturned toy police car. He pressed the button on top and sure enough it said "Pull the car over to the side of the road and get out".

    :pac:


  • #58
    IcedOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭IcedOut


    One time back in secondary school we had a new teacher, I sat down and turned to my friend and said '' Awww shes some ride''. I then noticed the class went very quiet and i turned around to see the teacher right behind me. I went scarlet :P.


  • #59
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 43,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    I was in a Uni lecture three years back. My phone was on silent and started to go off. It was a boring lecture so I was in a daydream. I heard the buzzing and for whatever reason, I thought it was a wasp buzzing round my head. Started waving my arms madly around my head and nearly smacked the girl sitting beside me. I'm sure I looked crazy cause my eyes were wide open in shock and fear as well :pac:


  • #60
    danslevent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭danslevent


    When I was moving into student accomodation for my first year of college I arrived and the five other apartments weren't occupied yet and no one was in the apartment. Later when I was in my room I heard noise in the hallway, I opened the door and and looked left down the hallway, but when I turned around one of my new roommates was standing there. My greeting was literally a full pitched scream right in their face. I don't know why I was so shocked!


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