Maggie Tate Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 Got ran over when I was 20, uninjured but as I flew majestically through the air I was picking my records Ah yes and the suicide bomber who killed 11 fifty yards from where I was stood Quote
onefinfrandsen Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 3 years ago me,the kids and the wife had been out for the day and had just stopped off at a chippy on the way home. the wife nipped in and me and my 2 lads waited outside in the car,without warning we were hit from behind by a speeding motorist [ the police estimated he was doing 50mph ] sending the car sprawling down the road. it must have been a few seconds for the car to finaly come to a standstill , but it felt ages, and it seemed to happen in slow motion. as luck would have it we had kept our seat belts on and i think this saved us from severe injury or even worse, what i didnt mention was that between the wife going into the chippy and the car hitting us my youngest had decided to follow her in, i still think some times what if he had got out a few seconds later. i got away with a broken nose 2 black eyes and a few cuts and bruises and my son nothing worse than wiplash Quote
anewman Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 I rolled a car 8 times and was flung through the side window with the car carrying on to fly over my head, dunno how I survived that. Fell 2 floors down a lift shaft, got a damaged coxic. Got crushed by a lift, luckily my ankle snapped and my body fell sideways to safety. I was in a car jacking in south africa twice, first time I fought off an african with a machete and ended up with a broken toe through kicking fuck out of him, the second they shot at me with bullets whizzing past as I sped off. I once got electrocuted with 415 volts, lucky there was no current being pulled or I would of been brown bread. I was jumped by 8 lads and had a brick smashed on my head as well as being kicked in the head, had concussion for 2 months. Stood at the edge of a shaft 22 floors up and nearly jumped due to a bad case of depression, luckily I snapped out of it. Been a few other incidents where I have been lucky. oh after reading maggie tates brush, I remembered I missed one of nelson mandelas bombs in pretoria city centre by 5 minutes which killed 80 odd Quote
Mona Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 Ran out of air 17 metres underwater. That was fun Know the feeling, ain't ever doing that again, I was scuba diving off the barrier reef But still scratched it off the 'bucket list'. Quote
Guest Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 and you were advocating diving on the other thread? Got to live a little before you go. Not even my worst near-watery-end When I was 2 I was rescued from a pond near Briggs Fold, Egerton The worst was when we went for a big night in Cawsand from Plymouth on a boat/yacht. After 10 or so pints, I really didn't fancy the dinghy to the boat so elected to swm the 200 yards or so. Kept on going under.and thought that was it. Pity the poor folks who had to drag me out! I fully expect that I'll go in or around water. Quote
no balls Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 Got to live a little before you go. Indeed, but I'd sooner not rush nature, ta Quote
Andydee Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 ... Been a few other incidents where I have been lucky. oh after reading maggie tates brush, I remembered I missed one of nelson mandelas bombs in pretoria city centre by 5 minutes which killed 80 odd Do you carry a rabbits foot, heather and a four leaf clover round with you? When I was 2 I was rescued from a pond near Briggs Fold, Egerton Daughter pulled son out of a pond at a party we were attending, he was four and she was six. First we knew about it was when he came walking up to us dripping wet through with tadpoles in his pockets. Asked what had happened and she said 'all I could see was his hair under water so I grabbed it and pulled' Quote
leigh white Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 We all meet our maker sometime down the line. i wont dwell, i nearly drowned, i nearly got killed in three motor accidents. and nearly got stabbed off a Millwall nutter on Manny Rd. Quote
bolty58 Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Gun pulled on me and the barrel pressed against my forehead by a Camorra in Salerno. Innocent misunderstanding caused by a little cnut from Little Hulton which came close to me losing my head Certainly improved my Italian conversation skills in a millisecond. Legs turned to jelly when I walked around the corner mind. Not an experience I would like to repeat. Loved the way the missus, brother and sister in law scarpered! Quote
SnoopJohnnyJohn Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 I had quite a few on a previous job where I covered 1,500 miles or so per week on the Great British motorways. I remember a ladder falling off the top of a van right in front of me, and barely missing my car. I nodded off on the M25 (and it wasn't even jammed) in the fast lane, woke up in the slow lane by hitting the rumble strip. Driving in the depths of winter and a lorry going the other way had a sheet of ice on top of it which got lifted by the wind, flew onto my side of the motorway and shattered 30 feet in front of my car (would have crushed me had I been a little further forwards). Driving clockwise on the M60 (just past the Walkden exit where it goes right quite sharply) and it was standstill traffic just round the corner - had to slam on and swerve onto the shoulder to avoid the cars. Good job I left that job really... Quote
MickyD Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 On our way down to milton keynes to see Bowie, late 70s or early 80s the lad in the front passenger seat decided it was butty time. Unfortunately someone had locked the glove box. At 70 mph the driver took the keys out and decided he could coast. Fucking steering lock came on! One time I was taking burnt timbers from a roof when the beam I was leaning on gave way. I managed to grab hold of the next roof truss before I fell 40 feet. I was once in a fire on manchester road when the roof collapsed into the room I was just about to walk into. The lad I was partnering had said something at the door so I stopped to ask what he'd said. Just then a couple of tons of slate came rattling past my head. Quote
DazBob Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 On our way down to milton keynes to see Bowie, late 70s or early 80s the lad in the front passenger seat decided it was butty time. Unfortunately someone had locked the glove box. At 70 mph the driver took the keys out and decided he could coast. Fucking steering lock came on! Fcuk me, that must've been scary. Reminds me of a time a few of us were in a car with a mate. He'd tampered wuith his steering wheel so that he could simply take it off, F1 style, and put it in his boot whenever he parked up. He said it pissed all over steerling locks and the like, after all, who'd want to nick a car with no steering wheel? Anyway, we only found out about this AFTER we were driving down the motorway and someone cut him up. He then floored it, got level with the guy and then removed his steering wheel and showed it to the other driver. Not sure what reaction he was trying to get, but the other driver's face was priceless ... probably almost as priceless as ours. Quote
HuffyTheCampfireSlayer Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Drove under a parked up flatbed wagon on ladybridge estate. Winter morning, low sun, bit icy all the tell tale signs that an accident could happen. Came round the bend, got blinded by sun and the truck had stopped literally 2m round a blind bend. Don't know how but i still had my head even though the back of the wagon had come through the windscreen, got out of it with a bit of bruising and some major whiplash. Ironically he had stopped as it was the first day that the ban on mobile phones had come in so he was being "safe", had it been the week before he wouldn't have stopped. Bloody safety laws my arse! Quote
Judge Fudge Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Had a couple of near misses...1st one was when I was 8 attempting to walk across a pipe spanning the Middlebrook behind Thornbank tower blocks. Ended up slipping and getting impaled on the anti vandal spikes..... One in my thigh and one missing my heart by a few cm. Other one, ended up at Nibblers one Friday night, lad we was with told us about kebab house facing it which did hottest chilli sauce in Bolton according to him. Pissed up I obviously went for it. Next morning me and another lad were working in Rochdale fitting some roller shutters on a blokes garage. We ran out of fixings or summat like that, so with me still pissed,my mate said he'd drive and pick some up. Soon as he left, the chilli sauce kicked in and my guts started turning. Doubled over I shuffled up to the house to ask if I could use his bog but no answer. Only option was to empty my guts in the back of the garage. My obvious relief was soon overtaken by a sense of fear as the eye watering fuckin stench hit me. How could I mask it before the bloke came back? I know, I'll turn the gennie on. Cranked it up and petrol fumes soon filled the garage and masked the foul stink. My mate came back, played holy fuck with me, then decided to get the shutters up quick style before the owner got back.. Woke up 24 hours later in North Manchester general after being blue lighted to the nearest place with an oxygen tank. Luckily it had only just been vacated as the next nearest one was North Wales, which the doctors told us we wouldn't have made it. Also got told we both had the highest carbon monoxide readings of anyone they'd known to have survived. It was awkward as fuck giving my statement to the HSE and company directors.... Quote
bolty58 Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Fcuking hell - this is one scary thread. Half of us shouldn't even be here! Makes you think about folk who try to wrap their kids in cotton wool. Facing lifes dangers and surviving is what it's all about. Character building. Quote
SatanGreavsie Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Cyanide plus detonation - at the very least one of them should have done for me Quote
jazza Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 Had a few, worst was probably falling asleep pissed on the Northbound carriageway of the A76 just outside Dumfries for 4 or 5 hours, I awoke to an Artic jack knifing to miss me. The lad wasn't happy. how the police didn't pick me up I don't know. I fancy myself as a Colin Macrae in a car too, had more than I care to remember "game over" moments. When your time's up it's up Quote
Traf Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 I used to run pubs for a living, many years ago. I had a shotgun put in my face during an armed robbery in Hulme and I was running a pub in Warrington just 200 yards from the bombs back in 1993. Quote
Pablo Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 (edited) Fcuking hell - this is one scary thread. Half of us shouldn't even be here! Makes you think about folk who try to wrap their kids in cotton wool. Facing lifes dangers and surviving is what it's all about. Character building. I'm really starting to anoy my wife with this now, always thinking what if this and what if that. Terrifies me to think what could happen to them. Think it comes back to when my daughter was about 18 months old, we had just got back from a day out, parked up outside the house (ON Chorley old road), I took my lad out of the car and he ran towards mum about 5 yards away outside the house, he was 4. I then left daugter in the car and went to get things from the boot.....next I hear is a car slam on, and a horn beep....my daughter had got out of the car, and walked into the middle of the road, son had taken her seatbelt of for her, trying to help. Never forget the sight, my baby girl holding her dolly, thumb in her mouth, just looking at me as if nothing was wrong, while this car was about 12 inches from her head. I was in tears, horrible horrible moment! Edited February 22, 2012 by Pablo Quote
bolty58 Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 I'm really starting to anoy my wife with this now, always thinking what if this and what if that. Terrifies me to think what could happen to them. Think it comes back to when my daughter was about 18 months old, we had just got back from a day out, parked up outside the house (ON Chorley old road), I took my lad out of the car and he ran towards mum about 5 yards away outside the house, he was 4. I then left daugter in the car and went to get things from the boot.....next I hear is a car slam on, and a horn beep....my daughter had got out of the car, and walked into the middle of the road, son had taken her seatbelt of for her, trying to help. Never forget the sight, my baby girl holding her dolly, thumb in her mouth, just looking at me as if nothing was wrong, while this car was about 12 inches from her head. I was in tears, horrible horrible moment! I feel your pain mate. My daughter did something very similar but wasn't as lucky. Knocked 10 feet in the air and was lucky enough to only sustain a broken thigh bone. Traction for 6 weeks in Wollongong General and right as rain. Fcuking horrible moment. You go into survival mode and don't feel for a while whilst you rush them to hospital. I only went to pieces once she was there in good hands but screaming with pain. Still chills me now even thinking about it. Quote
Pablo Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 I feel your pain mate. My daughter did something very similar but wasn't as lucky. Knocked 10 feet in the air and was lucky enough to only sustain a broken thigh bone. Traction for 6 weeks in Wollongong General and right as rain. Fcuking horrible moment. You go into survival mode and don't feel for a while whilst you rush them to hospital. I only went to pieces once she was there in good hands but screaming with pain. Still chills me now even thinking about it. Jesus, she all ok now though ?? We protect them best we can I suppose mate. My mum thinks im over-protective, but I make no apologies for it. Quote
bolty58 Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 Jesus, she all ok now though ?? We protect them best we can I suppose mate. My mum thinks im over-protective, but I make no apologies for it. A number off here have met her mate. Grown up tall, fit and beautiful but after a previous nasty encounter in another forum, I am loathe to post a photo of us both on Scotts doorstep or under the North Stand with Zoz, Bogsy and a few more off here. Some disrespectful bags of shit out there in cyberland who think nothing of typing something they wouldn't have the bollocks to say to your face. A natural fatherly reaction to be a little over protective of daughters mate - just as I am being here. Let's be honest. We know what we are like! Quote
Pablo Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 Indeed we do mate ! And its ok about the photo......i have plenty....! Quote
bolty58 Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 Indeed we do mate ! And its ok about the photo......i have plenty....! Haha................no doubt. Quote
Pablo Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 Had to lighten the mood made, my mood took a big drop after posting the incident! Quote
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