How close to death have you been?

spongtastic

After reading about Splottboy and his bomb sorting antics, I remembered that thanks to the usually carp service from Network Rail my train was late and I didn't get to the platform in time to jump on the circle line train to Aldgate that was bombed on 7th July.

Apart from my own stupidity this is the closest I've come to being a memory, so how close have you lot come?

VWsurfbum

many years ago i was meant to go on a thames cruise with my old dear. cant remember why but we couldnt make it?
later that night we find out that was the party boat that sank!

Splottboy

In the 90's I walked past a point in London, to get to a ride etc.
EXACTLY 1 week later, the 2nd IRA bomb went off near Bishopsgate Police Station, where I worked at the time.

Remember going into Liverpool St Stn on the Monday.
Deathly silence, except for the loud flapping of blinds in hundreds of thousands of broken windows.

Think at least one person was unfortunately killed.

El Capitano

August 18th, 1988, I died. Seriously...

schmako

Falling off a tree (well the branch snapping) and nearly impaling myself and getting ran over were the worst two for me.

cat_with_no_tail

We came back from Holiday in Sri-Lanka about a month before the Tsunami hit.

The resort we were staying at was on a peninsula (sp) which was completely destroyed.

phase

parachute malfunction at 1000ft, was under the reserve very low!! needed new pants after that!

Mynameisdann

I Walked into a pool when i was 3 so needless to say i couldnt swim, fireservice and paramedics had to give me a helping hand :roll:

SPIRO

How close to death - Twice

Both with work, once in Iraq, once in Afghanistan - occupational hazard i guess.

They do say 3rd time lucky though

TheNorthernTrain

Several years ago, got home in a thunderstorm, just as i opened the car door and a bolt of lightening flew right down beside me, terrified the crap out of me (possibly quite literally). I closed the car door and just sat there whimpering before being carried inside by my dad. - i was very young!

bails87

On the bike, overtaken by a skip lorry doing about 60, don't think he saw me. The wheels were inches from me and the wing mirror must have gone over my head.

Not my fault, would have been a pretty rubbish way to go!

supersonic

I thought I was dieing a few years ago. Had lost a lot of weight, was feeling terrible: specialist at hospital rushed me in because of extreme hypertenson, and was subsequently diagnosed with a adrenal tumour (pheochromocytoma).

Anonymous

I've nearly been run over a few times, Nearly drowned twice. I got kicked in the temple with a steel toe cap boot during a fight once. Nearly OD'd accidentally. Knocked myself completely unconscious in a bike crash, waking up with my head partially submerged in a stream.
Which one was closest? Who knows.

Makes life exciting though.

stubs

Working on a refrigeration plant at a factory that used Ammonia as the working gas. We were getting ready to dump all the gas to atmosphere prior to working on a pump. When a pillock who shouldnt have been anywhere near the controls decides to give us a hand and open the dump valve. Muggins here suddenly finds himself trying to breathe Ammonia luckily for me there was a breathing set not too far away. Made my heart go bumpty bump for a minute whilst I struggled to get the BA mask on. Makes your eyes sting like buggery as well as choking you so I had to put the BA mask on blind.

blister pus

El Capitano wrote:

August 18th, 1988, I died. Seriously...

you didn't have a 'near death experience' did you?

supersonic

My Dad 'died' near that time too - heart stopped on operating table. But they electrified him and the will was safe.

Splottboy

Guy pulled a flick knife on in me a car park.

He said I was shagging his girlfriend.

I said I wasn't - but I was!

She talked him outta stabbing me and came round to see me the next day to apologise.

So, obviously, I shagged her again!

( Two concusions, broken femur, many bad crashes one with 10ft drop onto my back...
Any more required?)

jrduquemin

Motorcycle crash when I was 19, ran into the side of a taxi pulling out of a sidestreet. Survived with a badly broken leg, unfortunately my brother didn't make it...

Anonymous

jrduquemin wrote:

Motorcycle crash when I was 19, ran into the side of a taxi pulling out of a sidestreet. Survived with a badly broken leg, unfortunately my brother didn't make it...

Sorry to hear that.
I know how hard it is, I lost my own brother in a motorcycle crash.

Anonymous

i fell about 10 foot off an obstacle head first, luckilly got my arms out in time to slow my descent by braking both arms, dislocating one shoulder and just getting a bit of a concussion.
im led to believe that if i hadnt managed to get my arms out i could have been killed.


i had e-coli poisoning real bad in kenya which also very nearly killed me. mainly because i let the infection it caused in the small of my back/arsecheeks get bad for a week hoping it would go away until it formed a massive puss filled swelling (ended up containing about 300ml of ecoli gravy)which was literally ready to burst.

i let it get so bad because i was worried about getting a finger up my ar5e and assumed this would be necessary if i went for treatment.

ironically, i ended up getting fingered up the obvious twice a week whilst my mate (the medic) had to hold my arsecheeks open. one time the doctor did it whilst his mate watched and then he had a go too.

typically, after administering anaesthetic, the Dr would buy me a coffee* then take me upstairs to finger me in my ar5e.


*to give the anaesthetic time to take effect

Anonymous

sheepsteeth wrote:

typically, after administering anaesthetic, the Dr would buy me a coffee* then take me upstairs to finger me in my ar5e.

Sounds like quite a friendship. So, he didn't try to dump you in a ditch with your head pointing backwards then?

Splottboy

I feel very queasy now...

chedabob

sheepsteeth wrote:

i fell about 10 foot off an obstacle head first, luckilly got my arms out in time to slow my descent by braking both arms, dislocating one shoulder and just getting a bit of a concussion.
im led to believe that if i hadnt managed to get my arms out i could have been killed.


i had e-coli poisoning real bad in kenya which also very nearly killed me. mainly because i let the infection it caused in the small of my back/arsecheeks get bad for a week hoping it would go away until it formed a massive puss filled swelling (ended up containing about 300ml of ecoli gravy)which was literally ready to burst.

i let it get so bad because i was worried about getting a finger up my ar5e and assumed this would be necessary if i went for treatment.

ironically, i ended up getting fingered up the obvious twice a week whilst my mate (the medic) had to hold my arsecheeks open. one time the doctor did it whilst his mate watched and then he had a go too.

typically, after administering anaesthetic, the Dr would buy me a coffee* then take me upstairs to finger me in my ar5e.


*to give the anaesthetic time to take effect

Now the lime and string thing makes sense....

Anonymous

me and mr singh became quite close, i used to really look forward to that coffee, it was well nice!

RupertCommunicator

Aside from nearly being run over a few times and being in an 80 mph crash, nearly got hit by a 105mm rocket in Afghanistan, have been shot at whilst in a chinook and went through Gereskh in an unarmoured vehicle the day after five Riflemen got killed on the road I was going down. Was pretty brown trousers passing all the culverts in the road.

Other than that I had appendicitis a couple of weeks ago. That CAN kill you if untreated!

Splottboy

If you thinks that's tuff, try having a night out in Caernarfon, lol !!!

You've been around a bit, kiddo.

Well done...

mrfmilo

Nearest near death experience was probably no where near death, but the nearest to near death was a very dodgy over the bars landing onto my neck.

angry_bird

I was climbing mount mulanje in malawi, a few days earlier some argentinian bloke had died trying to reach the summit, anyways, the route up went around a massive rock face, the route itself was a small ledge that sloped away to a drop of a couple of hundred feet onto some big rocks

anyways, guess who slipped on a patch of ice :oops: thankfully i was saved by grass, managed to grab enough of it to hold my weight until the guide grabbed my arm, the guide then slipped and we both found ourselves being held onto the mountain by one of my hands and a lot of this long grass stuff :roll: fortunately someone had the sense to grab the guide and we sort of shuffled around onto a not so icey bit of rock

Kitty

Never really had a near death experience, closest most likely are a few periods when I was seriously ill, I'm more of a person who has constant minor injuries and accidents.

CraigXXL

I got off the Clapham Junction train that had the accident because it was too packed.

Drunk driver on the wrong side of the road hit our car head on. Police estimated his speed at over 70 in a 30 zone. Despite going through the windscreen, even though I had a seat belt on, all I got was whiplash and cut fingers trying to wash the splinters of glass out of my hair.

Worst and most scary was 5 operations in 2 weeks that ended up with me having an emergency operation due to an artery in my abdomen accidently getting cut in surgery. I'd lost that much blood that I couldn't raise my hands when they tilted my legs up to get blood to my body. I started to be sick after they put the mask on me and thought I was going to drown on my own vomit. They ended up putting 8 pints back into me which gives you an indication of how close I was to going, just as well Im a big lad. I'd only gone in for keyhole surgery to remove my gall bladder.

carbonfiend

My lifestyle durin my teens and up to my thirties left a lot to be desired I call it the faze where I decided to do some 'research' needless to say 999 was called on more than one occasion on my behalf and almost all my mates didnt actually make it. I have on one occasion stared it right in the face, it wasnt a pleasant experience. Survived it all though then got knocked off bike by p**sed driver broken pelvis and collar bone. :?