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now that was a close call!
Scary moments in your life when you have come close to death and it wasnt your fault
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Nah, you have both been DRT if the biker had hit the driver's door.
Chewitts????
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lmfao
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I've span my car on the motorway before. I aqua-plained across a series of puddles last one caused my rear-end to spin out - complete lost control of the car. As the car span I remember looking down the motorway at oncoming traffic thinking: "yeah, this could be serious". The back of my car hit the central reservation which I bounced off a few times - luckily I didn't have anyone immediately behind/on my ass so the traffic had time to avoid me. Highway Agency got involved and all that. It changed the way I look at the road.
Every time I walk to work. Pavements don't really happen here, in any useful way, so I have to walk down the road instead, and regularly get nearly caught by cars and scooters. I feel relieved when I make it in to work. Then I realise I'm at work. Ugh.
Actually, I got beeped out of the way yesterday by an 8 year old kid on a quad bike. Even here, that was a new one.
Actually, I got beeped out of the way yesterday by an 8 year old kid on a quad bike. Even here, that was a new one.
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Dead Right There
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Once took a 415V shock through my right hand, whilst poking about the works' dishwasher. Luckily, half a second earlier, I had been balancing myself by holding a metal worktop with my left hand, but let go...
I consider myself very lucky that all it did was knock me over backwards and made me feel very odd for half an hour or so.
EDIT Ok didn't read that properly- it was kinda my fault!
Only other "Phew, that was lucky!" experience, was hurtling down a hill at 35mph on me bike (not motor), during rush hour on a wet morning. Hit a pothole, and blew the back tyre out instantly. I was on a left hand bend at the time, how the hell I didn't fly straight into the oncoming traffic still amazes me today.
I consider myself very lucky that all it did was knock me over backwards and made me feel very odd for half an hour or so.
EDIT Ok didn't read that properly- it was kinda my fault!
Only other "Phew, that was lucky!" experience, was hurtling down a hill at 35mph on me bike (not motor), during rush hour on a wet morning. Hit a pothole, and blew the back tyre out instantly. I was on a left hand bend at the time, how the hell I didn't fly straight into the oncoming traffic still amazes me today.
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Soldato
For the win!!!!
415 dishwasher? Industrial size im assuming. Got lucky it didn't go through arm-arm.. you would be dead or badly burned/hurt
Taken 5000v off a mega afew times :') Wouldn't say its death defying but it certainly makes u chase the idiot who did it with an offcut of steel wired
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415 dishwasher? Industrial size im assuming. Got lucky it didn't go through arm-arm.. you would be dead or badly burned/hurt
Yeh, big commercial jobbie.
My thoughts exactly- arm to arm shocks are a recipe for trouble. Especially as there was nobody else in the building at the time, it could've been a lot worse!
Think yourself very lucky. Could end as bad as this guy if u get real unlucky
http://youtu.be/NWO9x-2EFc8 - Warning probably NSFW, Contains scene some may not like. (Sure im allowed to post this though)
Once skiing nearly got barged off over a sheer 150ft+ drop. One ski flailing over the edge and at this time I was a relative beginner, absolutely terrified.
Later the same holiday my friend went over one and was holding on with his hands dangling over (although it was a smaller drop, probably only a leg breaker
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Later the same holiday my friend went over one and was holding on with his hands dangling over (although it was a smaller drop, probably only a leg breaker
).
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Once nearly died of diabetes after my doctor prescribed me antibiotics for it instead of insulin.
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