Are you, "Lucky to be alive"?
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pingu393 said:
Crack, whizz, thump. There's enough on here to know what it means. If you've heard those three, every day's a blessing.
Also had the usual near-death things kids get up to, but I didn't have a serious injury until I was 38, and that was only a snapped knee.
Better to be born luck than rich
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I'm not in the know but I know. Whats it honestly like? sAlso had the usual near-death things kids get up to, but I didn't have a serious injury until I was 38, and that was only a snapped knee.
Better to be born luck than rich
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t your pants or fight mode?Knocked down by Drunk driving Nurse at 14years old
flew over the car luckily rather than under it and dragged myself to the kerb with broken leg, worried about my Addidas Sambas before the next car arrived, Southbury Road Enfield.
the daft cow had driven across the junction from nags head road and failed to follow the correct lanes crossing to the wrong side hitting me.
I was hit where the black Mercedes is she came from the right in the picture
the wrong side of the road.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.648473,-0.046746...
she did however give me a lift home to my Nans before driving off,
parents take on the subject:
my fault for being out late.....
and two instances of Choking
saved once by Mrs V40TC and the second time by a stranger in the pub,
the second time leaving me with busted ribs from the event but still breathing.
flew over the car luckily rather than under it and dragged myself to the kerb with broken leg, worried about my Addidas Sambas before the next car arrived, Southbury Road Enfield.
the daft cow had driven across the junction from nags head road and failed to follow the correct lanes crossing to the wrong side hitting me.
I was hit where the black Mercedes is she came from the right in the picture
the wrong side of the road.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.648473,-0.046746...
she did however give me a lift home to my Nans before driving off,
parents take on the subject:
my fault for being out late.....
and two instances of Choking
saved once by Mrs V40TC and the second time by a stranger in the pub,
the second time leaving me with busted ribs from the event but still breathing.
Edited by V40TC on Saturday 20th December 06:59
sc0tt said:
I'm not in the know but I know. Whats it honestly like? st your pants or fight mode?
I wasn't in a firefight. I was on top of a wagon in a small compound. It was a case of "what the ft your pants or fight mode?k was that?", then what seemed like a minute before anyone reacted, but it was more like a second or two. Then "Stand To", and your training kicks in. After it's all over there's the the cold sweats, just the same as after a car crash. The hardest bit is suppressing (or rationalising) the "what ifs". Over ten years ago now. I still get a slight niggle once in a while (getting it now, so need to get on with something else 
), nothing like some have.The only difference between a close call in the real world is that a close call in civvyland is usually by mistake, being shot at by a single shot is deliberate. It's personal.
That's my take on it, everybody's different.
E36GUY said:
Feel lucky tonight having just used mother in law's iron to do a shirt and the sodding main cable has worn though to the cores. 240v up my arm!
I did that to my missus once, I shut the core of the iron in the door of the car and damaged it through to the core then put it back into the cupboard meaning to do something about it when I finished work for the week, she used it and got a shock off it!- touch wood* never had anything that serious, but plenty of moments that could have been much worse.
2 - Nearly going over the bulwark on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic. Ship rolled just as I leaned over and I came off my feet. If I hadn't managed to clamp myself to the railing I would have been over and no-one would have known about it for 2 hours or until an alarm in the engine room went off.
3 - 13th birthday, had braces and those rubber band things connecting them. Woke up on my birthday very early morning choking on one of the rubber bands. I got light headed so quickly that I was struggling to walk to go wake my dad up, but in falling to the floor dislodged the band.
4 - About 7 years old. Was waiting to get picked up from school, but was such a chubster I thought I would quickly run and get some sweets. Ran across the road without looking in front of a car. The woman stopped and I was only lightly knocked to the ground, but she actually stopped on my left foot and I was trapped. She was panicking so much that it took a bystander to come reverse her car back off my foot and I was absolutely unharmed.
5 - close calls include stupidly climbing up an icy cliff face on a Munroe because I couldn't be arsed trudging through the snow. Even slipped at one point and knew how bad a decision it'd been, but had no choice but to keep climbing.
And getting a wobble on, at silly speeds, on a demo bike of all things. Only because i thought "s
t, I'm done for" and did nothing did the bike sort itself out10/11 years on a school trip to black rocks in the peaks. Climbing one of the mountains, lost my footing and promptly slipped right off the edge. Two friends grabbed me just in time before i fell down an 80ft drop. Don't really like heights now 
12/13 years old in secondary school, using a soldering iron plugged into the mains. My friend isn't looking what he is doing and while he is using wire cutters to cut some lengths of mains cable he forgets which one to cut and goes through mine. Massive white flash and a huge bang!
12/13 years old in secondary school, using a soldering iron plugged into the mains. My friend isn't looking what he is doing and while he is using wire cutters to cut some lengths of mains cable he forgets which one to cut and goes through mine. Massive white flash and a huge bang!
Edited by JDMDrifter on Wednesday 21st January 11:06
uncinqsix said:
Was struck by lightning a few years back. No idea how close to death I was, but I sometimes wonder what the outcome might have been if I'd been standing slightly differently so the current went across my body rather than in and out on the same side as it did...
Ooh.. spooky (in view of username ). I was struck by lightning too, when I was a teenager. Not a direct hit (obviously) but obliquely via a tree I was holding and the skateboard in one hand and the metal watch strap on the other. Basically got thrown a few metres from tree and felt a large double impact. Just read your response to question further on - sounds exactly like my experience. It would appear that there is a strong correlation between a huge electric shock and liking Alfas....
Maybe the electrics on Italian cars are fine but the owners....
Edited by uncinquesei on Wednesday 21st January 11:40
E24man said:
For my daughter, following on from the wifes low blood pressure, she was delivered not breathing with the cord tightly wrapped around her neck; the consultant cut the cord while only the head and one shoulder were delivered and my daughter had to be resuscitated upon full delivery. I stood and watched the whole event knowing exactly what was going on and how close I was to losing them all the while silently praying everyone would do their best and save them. They did, but it was the most terrified I have ever been.
That is a horrific experience, we didn't have any birthing complications as such, but I know that feeling of helplessness and the huge dependency on others to do their jobs. Terrifying.uncinquesei said:
Ooh.. spooky (in view of username ). I was struck by lightning too, when I was a teenager. Not a direct hit (obviously) but obliquely via a tree I was holding and the skateboard in one hand and the metal watch strap on the other. Basically got thrown a few metres from tree and felt a large double impact.
Just read your response to question further on - sounds exactly like my experience. It would appear that there is a strong correlation between a huge electric shock and liking Alfas....
Maybe the electrics on Italian cars are fine but the owners....
That is indeed a little odd ). I was struck by lightning too, when I was a teenager. Not a direct hit (obviously) but obliquely via a tree I was holding and the skateboard in one hand and the metal watch strap on the other. Basically got thrown a few metres from tree and felt a large double impact. Just read your response to question further on - sounds exactly like my experience. It would appear that there is a strong correlation between a huge electric shock and liking Alfas....
Maybe the electrics on Italian cars are fine but the owners....
Edited by uncinquesei on Wednesday 21st January 11:40
Looks like the correlation extends to cycling as well...
(I wonder what the odds are of there being two Alfa 156-owning cyclists who were hit by lightning, on PH?
) Had a couple of nights in my late teens where I was lucky not to go the same way as Bon Scott, after vomiting during my sleep thanks to way too much to drink - woke up one morning with the remainder of last nights chow mein next to me, when I didn't know where I was.
The luckiest one was probably on the A1 just south of Leeming, again in student days. A few of us had piled into a mates old Talbot Solara to go from Edinburgh to London to see a gig at the Marquee, driving straight back afterwards. I was asleep in the middle of the back seat, as I was due to do a stint behind the wheel from around Newcastle. At around 8am, I woke up when there was a load bang and saw things spinning round while we were still travelling forwards at about 80 - the rear suspension had collapsed on the passenger side and the car spun about three and a half times before coming to a standstill. All the time before the car came to a rest I was thinking "F*ck I'm gonna die"' then the car stopped, and the sense of relief was massive, then looking back down the A1, there was a truck coming straight towards us so it was "f*ck were still gonna die". The truck managed to stop, but one memory would be the road workers who saw this, and stopped to help started pushing us off the road - one was calling us lazy bds for not being able to get out the car and push it off the road, which was pretty much due to the shock. We were just lucky due to the time as there was nothing close enough to hit, and turn the car over - an hour later would have been a very different story.. My mate actually had the car fixed after that, and getting back in to it a few weeks later wasn't a good experience.
The luckiest one was probably on the A1 just south of Leeming, again in student days. A few of us had piled into a mates old Talbot Solara to go from Edinburgh to London to see a gig at the Marquee, driving straight back afterwards. I was asleep in the middle of the back seat, as I was due to do a stint behind the wheel from around Newcastle. At around 8am, I woke up when there was a load bang and saw things spinning round while we were still travelling forwards at about 80 - the rear suspension had collapsed on the passenger side and the car spun about three and a half times before coming to a standstill. All the time before the car came to a rest I was thinking "F*ck I'm gonna die"' then the car stopped, and the sense of relief was massive, then looking back down the A1, there was a truck coming straight towards us so it was "f*ck were still gonna die". The truck managed to stop, but one memory would be the road workers who saw this, and stopped to help started pushing us off the road - one was calling us lazy b
ds for not being able to get out the car and push it off the road, which was pretty much due to the shock. We were just lucky due to the time as there was nothing close enough to hit, and turn the car over - an hour later would have been a very different story.. My mate actually had the car fixed after that, and getting back in to it a few weeks later wasn't a good experience.uncinqsix said:
uncinquesei said:
Ooh.. spooky (in view of username ). I was struck by lightning too, when I was a teenager. Not a direct hit (obviously) but obliquely via a tree I was holding and the skateboard in one hand and the metal watch strap on the other. Basically got thrown a few metres from tree and felt a large double impact.
Just read your response to question further on - sounds exactly like my experience. It would appear that there is a strong correlation between a huge electric shock and liking Alfas....
Maybe the electrics on Italian cars are fine but the owners....
That is indeed a little odd ). I was struck by lightning too, when I was a teenager. Not a direct hit (obviously) but obliquely via a tree I was holding and the skateboard in one hand and the metal watch strap on the other. Basically got thrown a few metres from tree and felt a large double impact. Just read your response to question further on - sounds exactly like my experience. It would appear that there is a strong correlation between a huge electric shock and liking Alfas....
Maybe the electrics on Italian cars are fine but the owners....
Edited by uncinquesei on Wednesday 21st January 11:40
Looks like the correlation extends to cycling as well...
(I wonder what the odds are of there being two Alfa 156-owning cyclists who were hit by lightning, on PH?
) (I don't think the cycling and Alfa driving are entirely unrelated...
)Had a few close calls but an incident with a friend last night frightened me to death.
We were on our way to a snooker match and stopped at a shop for a cash machine, my mate was passenger and getting out onto the road when his foot caught on the sill, in his stumble out he grabbed the rear door handle at which point the rear door flung open and nearly threw him under a passing car. As he staggered onto the curb his face was white!
Proper Final Destination moment!
Reminder of just how quickly and easily it can all go wrong.
We were on our way to a snooker match and stopped at a shop for a cash machine, my mate was passenger and getting out onto the road when his foot caught on the sill, in his stumble out he grabbed the rear door handle at which point the rear door flung open and nearly threw him under a passing car. As he staggered onto the curb his face was white!
Proper Final Destination moment!
Reminder of just how quickly and easily it can all go wrong.
Most recent was in February of last year, Ill set the scene, 19 years old, Astra 240BHP VXR, Winding road. It was only a matter of time.
Hit a tree at circa 60mph (After braking, allegedly) Car was wrecked beyond belief, airbags didnt deploy, managed to get away with 2 facial fractures, Clean break in left arm, (Radius and Ulna) and fractured 5 ribs. Dont remember a thing.
Lesson learned. Looking back, I really did think I was Jenson Button, and invincible on top of that. How wrong I was.
The main lesson I learned that night was that there is a time and a place for everything.
Hit a tree at circa 60mph (After braking, allegedly) Car was wrecked beyond belief, airbags didnt deploy, managed to get away with 2 facial fractures, Clean break in left arm, (Radius and Ulna) and fractured 5 ribs. Dont remember a thing.
Lesson learned. Looking back, I really did think I was Jenson Button, and invincible on top of that. How wrong I was.
The main lesson I learned that night was that there is a time and a place for everything.
LukeR94 said:
Most recent was in February of last year, Ill set the scene, 19 years old, Astra 240BHP VXR, Winding road. It was only a matter of time.
Hit a tree at circa 60mph (After braking, allegedly) Car was wrecked beyond belief, airbags didnt deploy, managed to get away with 2 facial fractures, Clean break in left arm, (Radius and Ulna) and fractured 5 ribs. Dont remember a thing.
Lesson learned. Looking back, I really did think I was Jenson Button, and invincible on top of that. How wrong I was.
The main lesson I learned that night was that there is a time and a place for everything.
Takes a bigger man to admit his mistakes so well done luke.Hit a tree at circa 60mph (After braking, allegedly) Car was wrecked beyond belief, airbags didnt deploy, managed to get away with 2 facial fractures, Clean break in left arm, (Radius and Ulna) and fractured 5 ribs. Dont remember a thing.
Lesson learned. Looking back, I really did think I was Jenson Button, and invincible on top of that. How wrong I was.
The main lesson I learned that night was that there is a time and a place for everything.
and dont worry mate....we've all done it at some time or another. Says the man who succesfully landed an 205gti in the middle of the 'welcome to doncaster' roundabout in 1989. No boken bones just a bad case of gladioli.....
Yep, another car crash here. There was a thread on it a while back as it was at Le Mans in 2006 and people wanted to know about the crash where the guy died. Well I didn't...but very nearly! My wife got the call telling her I had about 3 hours left.
Smashed hip, compound fracture left arm, 3 ribs, face in 3 pieces (42 screws now!), nose flat, teeth gone, tracheotomy, both lungs punctured, 3 stomach injuries, eventually 12 pints of your finest French blood. Oh yeh, 9 days in a coma too.
Spent some weeks in traction and was on life support for a while. The French were brilliant.
It didn't change my view of life but did confirm that I was happy about the way I'd always treated other people.
Smashed hip, compound fracture left arm, 3 ribs, face in 3 pieces (42 screws now!), nose flat, teeth gone, tracheotomy, both lungs punctured, 3 stomach injuries, eventually 12 pints of your finest French blood. Oh yeh, 9 days in a coma too.
Spent some weeks in traction and was on life support for a while. The French were brilliant.
It didn't change my view of life but did confirm that I was happy about the way I'd always treated other people.
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