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Have you ever saved a life?

  • 17-06-2013 11:42PM
    #1
    Prodigious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭


    When I was younger, the family were over in America visiting the relatives. We were eating dinner in the back garden, where there was a swimming pool, and my 2 year old sister decided to make a dart for the deep end, and try and jump on the inflatable couch. The mother started screaming, so selflessly (Kitted out in my brand new meath kit - it was my birthday) I dived into the pool and pulled her over to the edge where my uncle picked her out :cool:

    Anyone here ever save someone's life?


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  • #2
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    No.
    I cant swim and I would be in a hape at the first sight of a bit of blood so id be no good to anyone in that sort of situation


  • #3
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Does taking a life counooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no.


  • #4
    KeithM89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    I revive a lot of people in Battlefield 3 so..... Yes.


  • #5
    ppshay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭ppshay


    Pulled a sausage from the throat of my 4-year old nephew. He was just sitting there all quiet on the fireplace surround with his mouth open and eyes bulging.


  • #6
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    One and a half times. First time was a girl who walked into the sea after a nightclub. She'd had a fight with her brother and for some unknown reason headed into the sea. Everyone just seemed to stand around looking at her, so i jumped in, swam out to her, dragged her to a boat, pulled her into it and pulled us both ashore using the rope that had it tied off. Was horrible becaue i hate the water.

    Second time (the half), was walking home after a night out, heard a lot of screaming so ran towards it, seen a house on fire. There was a girl stuck in the front upstairs bedroom, people were trying to kick the door in, i saw that this wasn't working so i started going from house to house until i found one that had a ladder and brought it out to the fire. No-one else seemed to think of it. One of the neighbours climbed it and saved the girl, carried her down the ladder.


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  • #7
    BNMC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭BNMC


    ppshay wrote: »
    Pulled a sausage from the throat of my 4-year old nephew. He was just sitting there all quiet on the fireplace surround with his mouth open and eyes bulging.
    Feckin' priests.


  • #8
    Dr_Brian_Cocks
    Site Banned Posts: 280 ✭✭Dr_Brian_Cocks


    There was this time a lad kicked a ball at the head of a lad lying on the ground. I blocked it, coulda kill the boy.


  • #9
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    used to work with kids with disabilities. part of the job was to supervise them during lunch, most of them had no problem feeding but was always a case of keeping an eye around the canteen anyway. Was with my charge (who was autistic) when I noticed one of the girls across from us who was normally talkative had gone very quiet so I stuck my ear to her face and realised she wasn't breathing. The lunchroom was fairly noisy at any rate so no one really noticed me picking her up and trying to hack the thing out of her. Gave her a sharp slap between her blades and still no breathing, gave it another go and I must have done it with a fair bit of might as everything went quiet and a half a sausage went flying across the table.

    Don't know if you would call it saving a life though, they tended to do that a lot in there, I was just glad my colleagues didn't think I was trying to flog a child over dinner for the crack. I just remember feeling calm and knowing exactly what to do though. No one ever said a word about it after.


  • #10
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    I did something similar. It was ages ago, I only remember it vaguely. There were like 20 of us in the pool (all 9/10 year olds) and this guy couldn't swim and people made fun of him a little bit. And the ejit for some reason felt the need to go into the deep when they dared him. And well needless to say he almost drowned and I had to pull him to the edge and drag him out and which point the instructor saw us and came over.

    Also pulled a woman away from a car moving 40-50kmh. She might not have died but still..


  • #11
    SicklySweet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭SicklySweet


    My life was saved once. Was in a friends house and was sucking on a lollipop (TK lemonade one. Remember them?!) when the pop fell away from the stick and into my throat. Luckily, was only a few doors away from my own house. And luckily the front door was open, so ran in, started vomiting. Dad took me out into the back and started the heimlik (sp?)
    He later admitted he thought i was dead because i was so limp and stopped throwing up.

    Back to the original question. In Spain, my 6 year old brother decided he wanted to be a big kid and jumped into the deep end of the pool. He was getting lessons and i suppose got a bit big headed about it all. He splashed, i dived, saved and the lifeguard named Jesus gave him mouth to mouth.


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  • #12
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I've saved people from choking a couple of times.
    Also had someone die from choking that I wasn't able to save. :(

    There are no such thing as heroes, just people that do their best.


  • #13
    Brego888
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭Brego888


    Well I'm a nurse and work in a hospital here in Dublin.

    So no


  • #14
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Brego888 wrote: »
    Well I'm a nurse and work in a hospital here in Dublin.

    So no

    Leave it to the care assistants, eh? :D


  • #15
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Yes

    I thought he was dead until the following day.. I have a nice framed card from the man too.


  • #16
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Several years ago i talked a you lady down off a bridge in cork city ,
    Apparently she wanted to end her life because she couldn't figure out why she didnt fit in with her fellow college friends and class mate's ,

    Never actually got her name or anything walked her back to her rented house near the maradyke parade area of cork city

    Odd thinking about it now
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  • #17
    nikkibikki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭nikkibikki


    Yep pulled my brother who was about 2 at the time out of the river across the road from our house, some of the bank gave way and he slipped in. I must have been 10 ish I think.


  • #18
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    My friend was standing on the edge of a cliff. A quite high cliff. Suddenly he felt someone grab his arms and push from behind. I managed to reverse the direction of the push, turning a push into a pull, telling him clearly "Saved yer life".

    Oddly, he was not grateful for my efforts.


  • #19
    AK333
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭AK333


    Pulled an elderly man out of the sea at Tramore about 30 years ago. He had walked off the old sewerage pipe and the depth of the sea increased dramatically. I pulled him in and a young man helped him out of the water.


  • #20
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    MadsL wrote: »
    My friend was standing on the edge of a cliff. A quite high cliff. Suddenly he felt someone grab his arms and push from behind. I managed to reverse the direction of the push, turning a push into a pull, telling him clearly "Saved yer life".

    Oddly, he was not grateful for my efforts.

    Seriously amazing what some people find funny
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  • #21
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Yup. Talked a friend down from suicide. She's still alive, seems to be happy about it. Suspect I did good there.


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  • #22
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Gatling wrote: »
    Seriously amazing what some people find funny

    I recall I was about 10 at the time.


  • #23
    Tomohawk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭Tomohawk


    About 15 years ago I stopped my old man from deliberately overdosing on tablets by assessing the situation, quickly acting and calling an ambulance. After spending 2 days in Loughlinstown Hospital, Dad spent a month in John of Gods, Stillorgan getting treatment for depression. He's in his 80s now and still going strong...


  • #24
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Outside Pennies in Newbridge in 1997 while walking down the town i grabbed an 18 month old child off the road that had wandered out into the traffic. Close call so it was and the mother nearly strangled me she hugged me so tight.


  • #25
    ringadingding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭ringadingding


    We were fishing off the far side of dingle pier one dark rainy winter afternoon , a boat dropped off a scuba diver into some really choppy water, we watched it unravel as the current dragged the diver under and he resurfaced into a little rip tide about 300m behind the unwitting boat.

    The diver clearly in huge trouble, we started screaming at the boat , couldn't hear, we threw our fishing ledgers at the boat and waved etc, until yer man realised, pulled a 180 and went and hauled the diver in.

    Left me in no doubt about 2 things.
    We saved his life.
    People are thick as fûck


  • #26
    Sprouts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Sprouts


    June bank holiday monday 2006, ladies marathon day outside the Barge pub on the canal. Hot day everyone out drinking, a homeless man fell into the canal, nobody was doing anything so I jumped in and got him to the side where a good guy was able to pull him out, the most shocking thing about that day was the idiots with their camera phones getting a video of the thing instead of helping.


  • #27
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    There was a kid messing about on the fence that keeps people from falling into the Niagara Falls and the little fecker fell over to the sounds of screaming bystanders. So I run in behind a hotdog stand and change into my Superman costume and zip down and catch the wee scamp before he hits the bottom.

    Hang on... no... that was a movie. My mistake.


  • #28
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    During my time at university in Maynooth, i probably saved a friend's life. If anybody went to university in Maynooth, they'll know the road between the train station and the canal. There's a gate pretty much right outside the station (or used to be) that closes off that road at night.

    My friend had been out celebrating his birthday and was wrecked. I was reasonably sober (fortunately, as it turns out) because I'd only arrived later after some class or exam or something. Anyway we were heading home from the glenroyal (still around?) along that station/canal road when we came to the locked gate. We decided to go around it, which means going off the road and on to / over the steep grassy bank leading down into the canal water. We'd done this before, but my friend was so wrecked he lost his footing and slipped. I grabbed on to him around the shoulder/upper arm, and grabbed onto some part of the gate, or the base of the gate, and just held on. He was in water up to his knees/thighs, but was basically too drunk to climb out, and there was no way I could pull him out, so I just kept holding on, hoping somebody would turn up soon. I was in the most uncomfortable squatting position, with both arms stretched out, one upwards to the game, the other down to his arm. The most frustrating thing was knowing that some other friends who lived near us had gone home just a couple of minutes ahead, but i couldn't get to my pocket for my phone because neither hand was free.

    Anyway, eventually being in the cold water kind of woke him up, and he make an effort to scramble up the bank, but kept slipping back down little by little. It took about 20 minutes to get him out, and we headed home.

    The next morning he didn't remember anything, and wouldn't believe a word I'd said, until i pointed out his wet and canal-water-stinky clothes.

    Good times brought to you by Dutch Gold.


  • #29
    scudzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,065 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Saved a dogs life, was in work last year during winter in Google, behind us is the docks next to DART station, a guy from the Dart station came running out and behind our building, was out having a smoke myself so wandered round to see what was going on.

    A dog was in the water and had been for some while, he looked like he was about to give up, took my jacket off and leaned over as far as i could, just about managed to grab him and pull him out. If i hadn't got close i reckon i'd have gone in cos i like dogs.

    Little fcuker just ran off and didn't say thanks!!

    Wierdest part was the next night, more or less at exactly the same time was out havin a smoke, across the road was the dog walking along, he ran over, got all excited and happy wit me and ran off, never seen him before that night and never seen him since


  • #30
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Nope. My life is very uneventful...


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  • #31
    Naid23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭Naid23


    Saved my little cousin from drowning in a pool in the canaries when i was 16. Little fcker nearly drowned me in the process and now I have a fear of deep water. Nice eh!?


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