Incredibly dangerous stuff you survived

Most recently was probably managing to knock myself out - tried to get a spider off my nan's hallway ceiling (she hates the critters) by using a glass and paper. When I thought I had it, I pulled the glass down and the little beggar fell straight for my face - instant reflex action to throw my head forward to get it out of my hair - SMACK. My face was only 4 inches from the wall in the first place. Woke up about 5 minutes later with my mum half laughing with a camera and half trying to wake me up, nan on the phone to the emergency services haha.

When I was younger it was discovered that I was allergic to penicillin the hard way - ended up being quarantined in hospital for a while. Basically was given some medicine for some sort of ailment (forget which now), which contained penicillin. Took the tablet, and pretty much instantly I was choking / gasping for air. Mum thought I had choked on the tablet and it was stuck in my throat, but I really couldn't breathe. Luckily we lived (at the time) 200m from a doctors surgery, so she rushed me over there and a doctor done the old "movie trick" where they cut a slit in your throat and insert a tube to help you breathe - still wasn't helping much. Ended up in hospital after about 20 minutes of trying to clear my airway, by which point I was rather blue so I'm told.
When I got there, had these big "wheels" appearing all over my chest (part of the reaction to the penicillin) and the folks there thought it was meningitis - cue spending the next 5 nights completely alone and quarantined in a hospital ward. :(

Have numerous funny incidents, although not really life-threatening; like thinking it would be "fun" to roll down the stairs, cracked my head on the banister at the bottom, got up, blood pouring down my face, laughing hysterically.

Big painful one was falling out of a tree onto one of those old trampolines with the handles? Snapped my arm clean over the metal handle-bar - pain was completely :eek:

Haha ben I remember you telling me about the arm thing, didnt your aunt try to fix up a splint, ended up doing more damage?
Oh and I can remember year 9 biology, you had to leave the room because we were using penicillin.
And who could forget the time when you somehow randomly managed to do some bad damage to your arm while driving me and Cat home :)

As for me, when I was young I had one of those huge train set things, the proper hornby stuff :)
My dad built me a huge set in the loft, absolutely epic stuff. Only problem is, we used to go up through the loft hatch in my room, leaving the one on the landing closed. The very thin sheet of wood that it was.
I'm one end of the loft, dad is the other, I run over to him.
Cue me waking up 5 mins later on the landing floor with my mum sobbing hysterically on the phone to the ambulance. Apparently I went right through without my dad realising, landed flat on my back and knocked myself out. 1 hospital trip and some cookies later I was absolutely fine :)
 
I fell of my mountain bike on a track in North Wales. I managed to land on the saddle on my chest. Completely smashed my sternum and a few ribs, broke and arm and my collar bone and managed to pop both my lungs. Oh and a nasty gash on my knee which was the main concern after I had walked up the hill to get off the track.

After a while (thinking I had winded myself) I started swelling a bit and we decided to call an ambulance. The ambulance couldn't get too close as I was in the middle of the forest so had to walk to the cycle centre's 4x4 then bump over forest track to the ambulance. By the time I arrived at the hospital my wife had been there for over half an hour!

Anyway they managed to drain my lungs and after two days in intensive care I was pretty much OK again.

If they had known how bad I was I would have had a good ride in the air ambulance but I said I had probably cracked a rib and winded myself!
 
40 ton truck coming through the central reservation of the M6 straight towards us.

240v electrocution when i was 12.

So not too much really *touch wood.
 
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I'd say I was pretty lucky
 
I've had some near misses in my time. Once I was driving a bit too fast on a canyon road and misjudged an off-camber turn. Drifted round the corner on the edge of a cliff. I still remember looking into the corner and seeing my friend still casually leaning against the window and feeling completely calm as I turned into the drift. Only after we stopped did we panic, especially after seeing the 20 foot trench my back tires had dug in the dirt 2 feet from the edge.

Other than that, a few stupid drunken mishaps and a couple ODs, one stopping my heart for a whole minute in the ambulance. Took me a good few years before I figured out drink and drugs weren't for me.
 
Living with the in-laws :o

But seriously, I jumped through a glass window when I was 4, I have a sort of harry potter scar from that.
 
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I got away with a few scratches and not being able to remember the whole day that the crash occured.
 
I was on a small tricycle I had got from the tip (no brakes!), going down my road (its a big hill) on the pavement, and was getting up quite a speed.

A chap pullled into the side of the road a few yards infront of me, opened his door, and I hit it. Now, for some unknown reason the chap decided to leave his window open (not sure if this was a good or bad thing) and I flew through the window and landed on my knees. I still have the scars :D
 
Oh and i have electroncuted myself a few times. As a kid you think will a glove protect me when i stick a fork in the plug socket (yep) tho was heavy duty grandmas glove, the fuse blown.

Also sticking one of ur sisters barbies into a light socket doesnt protect u :p

Ah youth eh. :D
 
Played Russian Roulette

Passed around the table, i was fine... next turn was my mate, blam... no brains.

Sad day looking back

You serious? Might sound a bit disrespectful to ask if you're not just taking the **** but i have to, because that's probably the most insane thing in this thread!

Why on earth were you playing russian roulette?
 
My god, natural selection is reading this thread and thinking "I AM DISAPPOINT!!" :eek:

I honestly can't think of any anything to rival most of these stories :(
 
I can remember when I was around 7 or 8 finding a piece of lego which had fallen down the side of the fake logs on an electric fire, reached down and got blown across the room - parents never found out

And on the beach when I was even younger I can remember playing in a rockpool and stepping into a large hole and the water coming over my head so that I could see a sea horse. Someone saw me and pulled me out.
 
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