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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: esp on March 04, 2009, 02:20:50 pm
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So today on the rig I work on, I was testing some stuff in the workshop when I said to my colleague I was gonna go for a smoke.
I walked out the door, started walking towards the bridge to the other side along an alleyway they call "Seagull Alley".
Anyway I got about halfway when suddenly a massive (must be like 6ft long) lump of steel becomes dislodged from the roof above and falls to the ground like 2ft in front of me. I picked up (it was really fuckin heavy) and went and told our safety/integrity guys and the manager. I almost shit my pants when it happened
If I'd have been like a meter in front, that lump of steel could have killed me, if not left me seriously injured.
Anyone else encountered a "near miss"? I was pretty shocked afterwards and I'm still thinking about it now which I guess is why I made this topic.
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I almost fell off a parking deck the other day
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not quite a near miss since I actually got hit but I was about to cross the road and a van sped round the corner (definitely going too fast) and ran into my leg. it hurt like fuckery but probably not as much as if it had just flattened me!
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Even though I was the one controlling all factors involved in this, I almost flipped an ATV over once while I was on it. I was a young teenager at the time who had never driven an ATV before and I had been pressured by my father (quite aggressively) to try it, so yeah.. Didn't want to look like a wimp in front of the old man.
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One time I was walking on the sidewalk with a couple of friends and a dog tried to jump over the fence and bite me. His jaws were like an inch from my face when the chain he was tied with stopped him. It all happened so fast that I didn't even have time to even flinch, so I just kept walking like nothing had happened. One of the other guys almost jumped off the sidewalk though. That would've probably been a more appropriate response, considering if the dog hadn't been chained I could be missing an ear right now.
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When I was working on Coast Guard ships in the summer, I almost got hurt/died multiple times. To almost going over in severe winds, to having a steel wire snap and flay violently around us when we were pulling up a giant anchor with a water reader attached to it, to the time a sediment trap fell on me, to the time a giant water jug full of acid popped open on top of me at 3 in the morning (It was luckily diluted by the water, but was still highly concentrated so I needed to take an acid wash and such).
It was a fun summer.
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topic over moriason trumps everybody.
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i once made direct eye contact with victoria gotti what now
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i once made direct eye contact with victoria gotti what now
(http://www.foxnews.com/images/377319/0_61_gotti_victoria.jpg)
you... you poor man.
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hahaha nah I'm pretty sure I would win this topic.
hmm? oh this is the brain tumor they almost didn't catch. yep. size of a peach.
oh because I was on a blood thinner, that's how they caught it. the blood thinner? I had a clot in my neck that would have killed me.
how'd they find the clot? I had a bout of pretty dangerous pneumonia that had me hospitalized and they found it in the CT scan.
oh that came about from my stage four cancer. I wasn't breathing much before the chemo.
seriously w00t.
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this one time i was ejaculating while leaning forward i almost got some semen in my eye.
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I almost flew into a tree when I was snowboarding not too long ago. Luckily for me I got stuck in the snow
right before and got a giant bruise just above my shin (dunno what that part is called). Would be cool though
if it was like broken in half in a hit-a-stick-against-a-tree-kind-of-way cause I've never broken anything in my body.
I'm like rubber; going woink woink.
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ok lets see if I can remember them all.
- When hurricane Ivan came through it sent the top of a tree through our roof and right into the spot we were standing and looking out the window five seconds before it happened. (me, brother, uncle)
- was thrown down a stairwell when the ship lurched and smashed my head on a coaming adjacent to the stairs because dumbass mate didn't fill the ballast tanks up right.
- Almost got jerked overboard while I was hanging onto a line attached to the gangway ladder because dumbass mate wasn't paying attention.
- dumbass mate would forget to guide the crane and the crane operator would almost drop shit on me and my buddy quite a few times.
Most of my accidents have happened while I was driving though I've almost been merged into, ran into, run myself into countless countless cars, trucks and semis and its a miracle I'm still alive (all sober).
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I've got the one from last august where during tropical storm conditions was sitting at the dining room table messing with a battery powered radio when for no reason I dove out of the chair right into a roll. Mid roll, the whole house shook. Turned around and saw a tree limb had speared down through the ceiling aimed right at where my head had been.
I also had a nail go through my skull when I was younger. Sometimes I wonder if this might account for some of my impulse control issues.
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Man, a lot of us have had close calls with trees...
The first truck I drove was destroyed by a tree. I stopped at a truck stop because it was raining so hard I couldn't see (and I was a chicken shit). I was eating when the tree got hit by lightening. It split in two and creamed a couple of trucks. No one was hurt (fortunately).
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I got hit by a car and was in a coma for 3 days when I was 4. My family was living in Switzerland then and I was crossing the street between our house and the playground. The guy was apparently speeding and drunk, and one of his car's side view mirrors hit me in the cheek and knocked me unconcious. Despite coming with us to the hospital, the guy took off and we never saw him again once I was admitted to the hospital.
I still have a scar on my upper left check down to this day, but I don't think that I've been cognitively impaired as a result (At least I hope not!).
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I got hit by a car and was in a coma for 3 days when I was 4. My family was living in Switzerland then and I was crossing the street between our house and the playground. The guy was apparently speeding and drunk, and one of his car's side view mirrors hit me in the cheek and knocked me unconcious. Despite coming with us to the hospital, the guy took off and we never saw him again once I was admitted to the hospital.
I still have a scar on my upper left check down to this day, but I don't think that I've been cognitively impaired as a result (At least I hope not!).
Did you notice that after the accident that for some reason the idea of people surviving on an island in a contest became unfathomably exciting for you?
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Most Recent:
I was on a double date with a friend of mine, her boyfriend, and her friend. We came to an intersection to turn left and a minivan runs a red light going roughly 60mph (in a 35mph zone)and nearly plows into us. (the cars were literally 3 inches away from touching). She has the nerve to call the cops and than gets cited for wreckless op and running the light (Yay for it being a busy intersection; about a dozen witnesses). So while my friend was hyperventilating, i was laughing at the fact that the bitch that almost hit us almost lost her license.
Other than that:
Almost drowned about 6 times
Several Car accidents
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what the hell? don't you mean "near hits"?
OH MAN, THAT PIECE OF METAL ALMOST MISSED ME... thank god it hit me and... NOW I'M DEAD!? what!?
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the expression is somewhat archaic, yes. neat hit doesnt mean anything though. near collision is used with cars. or close call is good for other things.
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I was driving one night, almost no natural lighting. These two dumbass kids on bikes with no reflectors were in the middle of the road, one on the center lines, one on my side line. I didn't see them until I was right on top of them and somehow swerved right between them. I don't understand how my Jeep fit between their stupid asses. I hope they crapped their pants.
And before anyone says "watch out for pedestrians", PEDESTRIANS are supposed to be on the LEFT SIDE so they can see oncoming traffic, not just obliviously weaving the streets.
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Did you notice that after the accident that for some reason the idea of people surviving on an island in a contest became unfathomably exciting for you?
No, I didn't realize that until 9 years later in May of 2000.
:welp:
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i tripped up and almost hurt my knee once
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my bro almost got killed by a rock that was thrown at our house, it hit him in the head, but if it'd had hit him in the neck it would have been goodnight.
the same guys broke my dad's leg.
fuck nottingham.
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do you live in the meadows jmickle?
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Well once we were golfing in the gym and I let go of the club, it flew into the rafters and nearly fell and hit a friend of mine.
Other than that, when I was 6 my friends say I almost always nearly got hit by a van every day, the same red van too.
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what the hell? don't you mean "near hits"?
OH MAN, THAT PIECE OF METAL ALMOST MISSED ME... thank god it hit me and... NOW I'M DEAD!? what!?
it means "two things missing each other by a very small margin".
i guess you could say they were very "near" each other.
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My mum is probably the worst, she's had heart failure twice and was clinically dead for a few minutes, been run over whilst on her bike, fell out of a car (kinda funny), fell off a cliff and nearly drowned/hit rocks and been in two head on car crash collisions. no shit
I've had two serious near death drowning experiences when I was younger and I remember once when I was drunk off my face I walked into the road and my friend pulled me back by the scruff of my shirt and a speeding truck literally passed an inch from my face. But that's about it, can't really compare to my mother on that one.
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Other than that, when I was 6 my friends say I almost always nearly got hit by a van every day, the same red van too.
I was driving, that was a really great van.
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I was driving, that was a really great van.
I knew someone wanted me dead.
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do you live in the meadows jmickle?
no, thank god :P you from notts aswell then?
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aren't we all?
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aren't we all?
uh probably not
though it would be pretty badass
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*was born there
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*was born there
wow, small world eh?
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Nah not anymore, I lived there for a few years though. city centre and out in clifton
also esp that's pretty crazy but tbh it probably wouldn't have broken wotlk 3k ice barrier and you could have IB'd it if you were quick anyway lol just a lil wow joke thrown in up in this topic
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our bus almost took out a smartcar.
(we were left-turning on a left turn signal, and they were turning right during a red light (coming from the other side) into the same lane.
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A while ago a rock hit my friend's cars windshield, and 2 of my friends had glass shards in their eyes, one of them had severe injuries. Fortunately, I only had a bunch of cuts in my face, and my tongue was cut cause i was talking :(
I ned to stop talking so much :|
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Almost drowned when I was a kid. I can actually attest to the fact that everything kinda slooooooows dooooown when your ass is on the line. While bobbing up and down out of the water I actually saw my father sorta hanging in mid-air for what seemed like 30 seconds as he dove into the pond for the assist.
Other than that I've got nothin' but a montage of reckless assholes in big rigs almost sideswiping me on the interstate, but I guess that happens to everyone.
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i was going about 70 in a 55 and was behind a truck pulling a pretty large boat on a two-lane road. i looked down at my phone for something and when i looked up i saw that he had completely stopped to make a turn. i only had time to swerve around him and i'm just lucky that no one else was in the other lane.
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My mum likes to pull out to overtake without looking. There was this one time where she damn nearly killed us all as she just did that and cut back in when the car in the fast lane went past at about 120. Since actually learning to drive I am pretty bad at being a passenger since there are so many near misses on the road and I just sit there and CRINGE REPEATEDLY wishing I had control over my fate since I drive defensively just like my dad and its the way everyone should.
Remember the topic i posted about it way back where she wouldn't be told that she needs to drive more carefully and flipped out about it. She's still the same. I get on the train when I want to go home.
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A necklace when I was a teenager got caught in the metals shop once, luckily it was a clip on kinda string, otherwise I wouldn't be here right now.
Btw, your mom shouldn't be allowed to drive. Rat her out to the police man, for you and your mom.
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Some guy at school were fighting over a claw hammer in an engineering class. I was walking past them and one of them decided to let go of it, causing the hammer to go full speed in my direction. I pretty much got hit square on the eye with the flat head of it, bizarrely only giving me minor scratches on my eye and little to no permenant damage (keep in mind this is a METAL HAMMER going full speed into my EYE). If the hammer had been the other way around the claw would've cleaved straight through my eye and I would only have one eye, if it didn't outright kill me.
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I don't know if this counts as a near miss but about 4 years ago I was almost blown up. I was in Bangladesh at the time, and my uncle had a court date for some property issues and I was tagging along to see how the courts are over there. We get to the court and we just open the door when we hear an explosion and realize that several bombs just went off and in the court. The funny part (or not so funny part) is that we were actually running late because of traffic, so if we had actually gone there on time, we would've been dead or really badly injured.
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Almost saw someone in a wheelchair get run over this morning. I can't really remember anything that's happened to me, but my brain has a habit of erasing shitty memories sometimes.
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My mum is probably the worst, she's had heart failure twice and was clinically dead for a few minutes, been run over whilst on her bike, fell out of a car (kinda funny), fell off a cliff and nearly drowned/hit rocks and been in two head on car crash collisions. no shit
Wasn't it you that made a topic a while back about how your mom is a crazy driver and you're afraid to say anything to her about it? If so, were either of the two head on collisions recent and is she still driving like a moron?
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Nah nah, that was crumply:
My mum likes to pull out to overtake without looking. There was this one time where she damn nearly killed us all as she just did that and cut back in when the car in the fast lane went past at about 120. Since actually learning to drive I am pretty bad at being a passenger since there are so many near misses on the road and I just sit there and CRINGE REPEATEDLY wishing I had control over my fate since I drive defensively just like my dad and its the way everyone should.
Remember the topic i posted about it way back where she wouldn't be told that she needs to drive more carefully and flipped out about it. She's still the same. I get on the train when I want to go home.
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Oh right shit.
Crumply your mom deserves Afura's mom's accidents.
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Um when I was like ten I almost drowned in a creek, whilst trying to fetch tennis balls and rackets out.
About five years ago I got trapped inside a couch and almost suffocated. I will elaborate on this story if someone requests me to.
Three years ago whilst crossing the road at a crossing, this guy ran a red light and absolutely owned me. I had the skin on my left shin completely stripped off and I have a tarmac burn on my ankle that is still there today (starting to disappear though) luckily I smashed their windscreen as I got owned. All I can remember is the screeching of tires and then the world pretty much spinning. Freaky stuff.
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elaborate.
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I'm guessing this involves one of those fold-out couches and some oblivious asshole who didn't realize he was sleeping sideways on it. I mean, how else does one manage to get trapped in a couch?
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I crossed the road without looking and missed gettin plastered by a big van by a few cm.
I tried to play limbo with one of those revolving barricades they have at the enterance of stores only to nearly choke to death with my head caught inside it. The only thing I remember is watching store guys frantically disassemble the thing while i lost consciousness.
when I was a kid I was one of those types that didn't give a shit about the mandatory gym classes and just stood around during whatever game was being played. I was talkin to somebody off to the side during a soccer game in grade 5 when the guy with the ball kicked it extremely fast right towards me. I didn't even notice it until the image of my friend in front of me blurred into a black and white mess for a moment. I looked around a bit and said "was that a soccer ball?" It was apparently going fast enough that had it just been a bit to the right it would've smashed my nose in or cranked my jaw around and snapped my neck.
My boss has had a bunch of em though. He's nailgun'd his hand to a wall and shot himself in the foot with a rifle (nearly bleeding out in both cases only to avoid both death and likely permanant damage/disability), gotten hit by a train while in a truck and coming out without a scratch, forgetting to put his truck in park and walking in front of it only to have it roll over him, etc. THere's literally 20 or 30 instances where he's narrowly avoided death.
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I'm guessing this involves one of those fold-out couches and some oblivious asshole who didn't realize he was sleeping sideways on it. I mean, how else does one manage to get trapped in a couch?
You're half right.
It was a fold out couch, but I was lying on it and then someone decided to roll it halfway back, right, and then the springs reacted to my weight and pulled me in. They had to break the couch to get me out.
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Also had an arrow miss my neck by a couple inches.
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i would like you to elaborate on your car crash (what i hope is an) accident, doctor ears.
~~disclaimter@~
i'm quite drunk atm so disregard anything i dais unless it made sense
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okay so
how did you nearly suffocate? idk but i would assume a fold-out sofabed cavity would have air inside it!
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okay so
how did you nearly suffocate? idk but i would assume a fold-out sofabed cavity would have air inside it!
maybe his face got pressed against a cushion?
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If I'd have been like a meter in front, that lump of steel could have killed me
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I was stabbed right below the eye with a screwdriver a few years ago. Right where the bone curves into the socket. Any higher would have taken out my eye.
Good times.
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I was working at a grain elevator, and We were loading rail cars and My idiot supervisor was bringing some more rail cars and he didnt stop in time and crashed into the cars that were already there, pushing them all forward a good couple meters.
In the meantime, I just climbed out from beneath the cars (closing the bottoms) a second or two before this happend and was like holy shit, I was just about ran over my rail cars!!!!!
I quit shortly after that. Deathtrap dude, deathtrap.