Are you, "Lucky to be alive"?
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Me and a mate took a lift from a club by a pair of skanks, didnt occur to us that they had been drinking as we were steaming anyway.
Anyway, sat in the back of their manky old capri, she drives from the club, the wrong way, goes up a hill, there was a bend at the top that she didnt steer for so we went up the embankment and over onto the roof, coming to rest in the middle of the road, blocking it, a BMW came at speed round the bend but managed to stop (ABS save us there), next thing is we can hear and smell the fuel coming out as the crash had caused the fuel cap to pop off, my mate was sat next to me and had been smoking a fag, which he had managed to drop during the crash, he mentions this when we realised what was happening and I find it on the headlining and put it out by pressing my hand on it.
We manage to kick the back windows in and crawl out, the guys in the BMW were helping the drunken skanks out.
Anyway, said skanks tried to hand us the keys before the Police arrived, my mate realised what was going on and made sure neither of us touched them, then they tried to create a story involving another car hitting us but to no avail, its up in court, we turn up, they dont though.
Thinking about it, didnt seem so bad at the time but potentially we could have been imolated in the back of a Blue 2.0 GL Capri, not even a 2.8 i
Anyway, sat in the back of their manky old capri, she drives from the club, the wrong way, goes up a hill, there was a bend at the top that she didnt steer for so we went up the embankment and over onto the roof, coming to rest in the middle of the road, blocking it, a BMW came at speed round the bend but managed to stop (ABS save us there), next thing is we can hear and smell the fuel coming out as the crash had caused the fuel cap to pop off, my mate was sat next to me and had been smoking a fag, which he had managed to drop during the crash, he mentions this when we realised what was happening and I find it on the headlining and put it out by pressing my hand on it.
We manage to kick the back windows in and crawl out, the guys in the BMW were helping the drunken skanks out.
Anyway, said skanks tried to hand us the keys before the Police arrived, my mate realised what was going on and made sure neither of us touched them, then they tried to create a story involving another car hitting us but to no avail, its up in court, we turn up, they dont though.
Thinking about it, didnt seem so bad at the time but potentially we could have been imolated in the back of a Blue 2.0 GL Capri, not even a 2.8 i
Adenauer said:
I think we might have a winner 
i can't compete with that, but i have been in a&e a lot, nothing life threatening though.there have been 3 occasions over the years that i have been lucky in the extreme, the 1st to survive the other 2 not to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
1. fell in a frozen river in scotland and managed to hold onto the edge of the ice against the flow, till i could work out how to pull myself out, i was 7 or 8 at the time. never went to hospital just had a warm bath back at the hotel, my parents were quite calm about it, i was frozen.
2. was going to do network stuff in the natwest tower, wednesday the overtime was cancelled, saturday the ira blew the s
t out of it.3. working for an american bank, was meant to go to NY to do IT stuff with the lads over there, 2 weeks before i went our trip was cancelled, on septemeber the 11th planes crashed into the towers and the offices i would have been in were obliterated.
my only other real time of peril was in the womb when my dad was asked whether to save me or my mum, somehow we both survived, i cannot fault my dad for saying save my mum, what a s
t thing to have to decide!Major Fallout said:
Yes!
Nearly fell off the white cliffs of Dover when I was about 5.
Fell off a boat into the sea when I was about 6.
Boat sank 7.
Go-cart into a wire fence 8-9.
Stood next to someone that got stabbed 10.
1 ton of sand fell on me 11.
Fell off roof 12.
Run over 14.
Nearly runner again 15.
Hit on head by firework 15.
Electrocuted by hot tub 16.
Nearly did an Amy Winehouse in my sleep 18.
Caught by father of very religious girl in the act 19 (only thought he was going to kill me, so doesn't count)
Amazing arse over tit ski crash at over 50mph.
Diff seized and totaled my car 27.
Tank slapper on an irish motorway in a 1916 racing car 28.
Live hand grenade on stone beach 29.
Tree landed on my car 30.
Inhaling some radium by accident hence Major Fallout.
Plus:
3 Range Rovers
2 X5
1 Discovery
1 Jaguar
1 Corsa
1 Punto
1 model t ford
1 motorbike
1 double-decker bus
1 Hotel
1 Channel tunnel train
1 HSS ferry
1 house
2 Forrest fires
1 pub
Have all caught fire while I have been in them them.
I'm sure I have missed some.
Not a lot lately after meeting my other half, she keeps me quite safe.
Bet I get a kicking from one of her horses tonight after that.
i was going to say don't ever bother doing the lottery, but as you are still here to post, perhaps you should Nearly fell off the white cliffs of Dover when I was about 5.
Fell off a boat into the sea when I was about 6.
Boat sank 7.
Go-cart into a wire fence 8-9.
Stood next to someone that got stabbed 10.
1 ton of sand fell on me 11.
Fell off roof 12.
Run over 14.
Nearly runner again 15.
Hit on head by firework 15.
Electrocuted by hot tub 16.
Nearly did an Amy Winehouse in my sleep 18.
Caught by father of very religious girl in the act 19 (only thought he was going to kill me, so doesn't count)
Amazing arse over tit ski crash at over 50mph.
Diff seized and totaled my car 27.
Tank slapper on an irish motorway in a 1916 racing car 28.
Live hand grenade on stone beach 29.
Tree landed on my car 30.
Inhaling some radium by accident hence Major Fallout.
Plus:
3 Range Rovers
2 X5
1 Discovery
1 Jaguar
1 Corsa
1 Punto
1 model t ford
1 motorbike
1 double-decker bus
1 Hotel
1 Channel tunnel train
1 HSS ferry
1 house
2 Forrest fires
1 pub
Have all caught fire while I have been in them them.
I'm sure I have missed some.
Not a lot lately after meeting my other half, she keeps me quite safe.
Bet I get a kicking from one of her horses tonight after that.
In the late eighties I was a passenger in a Maestro van being driven by a man who wasn't the greatest driver but was trying to catch up with another car that had left a few minutes ahead of us. On a bend he got one wheel off the edge of the road, overcorrected and next thing I know we were barrel rolling down the road. I remember seeing the tarmac in front of the windscreen a couple of times and hitting a sapling upside down as we went over a ditch. We ended up in a field facing the opposite way to the way we were driving, luckily the right way up. Once we both got out, somehow completely unhurt, we realised the only thing that had saved us was a flexible drain rod on a big metal stand which we had wedged behind the seats, this had acted as a rollover hoop as the van was triangular around that point. The driver went on to write off at least three other vans in the next year.
The only other time I thought I was about to die was when a full grown male lion walked straight up to me sat in the back of a 4x4, with the two nearside doors removed, I had both legs hanging out of the car and he looked me straight in the eye and then carried on walking. Luckily I have the video of that one to remind me.
The only other time I thought I was about to die was when a full grown male lion walked straight up to me sat in the back of a 4x4, with the two nearside doors removed, I had both legs hanging out of the car and he looked me straight in the eye and then carried on walking. Luckily I have the video of that one to remind me.
carreauchompeur said:
Major Fallout said:
Plus:
3 Range Rovers
2 X5
1 Discovery
1 Jaguar
1 Corsa
1 Punto
1 model t ford
1 motorbike
1 double-decker bus
1 Hotel
1 Channel tunnel train
1 HSS ferry
1 house
2 Forrest fires
1 pub
Have all caught fire while I have been in them them.
3 Range Rovers
2 X5
1 Discovery
1 Jaguar
1 Corsa
1 Punto
1 model t ford
1 motorbike
1 double-decker bus
1 Hotel
1 Channel tunnel train
1 HSS ferry
1 house
2 Forrest fires
1 pub
Have all caught fire while I have been in them them.
STOP SMOKING THEN! 
e21Mark said:
Fractured skull
Broken neck in 2 places
Broken back in 2 places
Open book fracture of pelvis
Compound fracture to femur
Severed bllod vessel in groin
In coma for a month
Bedridden 6 months
A year in hospital.
Forever grateful to Cornwall Air Ambulance, Treliske Hospital etc.
polo? golf?Broken neck in 2 places
Broken back in 2 places
Open book fracture of pelvis
Compound fracture to femur
Severed bllod vessel in groin
In coma for a month
Bedridden 6 months
A year in hospital.
Forever grateful to Cornwall Air Ambulance, Treliske Hospital etc.
Alpacaman said:
The only other time I thought I was about to die was when a full grown male lion walked straight up to me sat in the back of a 4x4, with the two nearside doors removed, I had both legs hanging out of the car and he looked me straight in the eye and then carried on walking. Luckily I have the video of that one to remind me.
I'd like to see that!knitware said:
Alpacaman said:
The only other time I thought I was about to die was when a full grown male lion walked straight up to me sat in the back of a 4x4, with the two nearside doors removed, I had both legs hanging out of the car and he looked me straight in the eye and then carried on walking. Luckily I have the video of that one to remind me.
I'd like to see that!Pothole said:
jesta1865 said:
2. was going to do network stuff in the natwest tower, wednesday the overtime was cancelled, saturday the ira blew the st out of it.
I was sitting on the bog 3 miles away when that happened...knew exactly what it was somehow.t out of it.
Survived the Tsunami in phukett the boxing day one. was meant to go out on a glass bottom boat but her indoors forgot the ticket when we were boarding. We had to go back to the hotel to get them for a later sailing. Luckily our Hotel was up a steep hillside and was not touched when it hit about a half hour later. The boat we were supposed to be on never came back 
the following devastation and loss of life and to watch it happen was very very sobering. I will never moan at the missus for being forgetful ever again.
the following devastation and loss of life and to watch it happen was very very sobering. I will never moan at the missus for being forgetful ever again.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff