unexpected events that you escaped

Dickyb0b

Dickyb0b

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I was just remembering an event in my life when i was young and outside playing football on the field, some idiots who live on the same road as me decided to shoot at me with some type of pellot gun, anyway all i remember as i was making posts/goals with wood , i remember catching this bullet in the piece of wood i was holding, it was really strange as i didnt even know it was gonna happen

I was working in a factory on a production line checking the conveyor belt for rapped and unwrapped sweets, anyway i had this urge to pull my head back from the belt and i closed my eyes as i did it or something, anyway once i opened my eyes i see this metal object with a screw sticking out on the belt , i think where the heck did that come from , i look up and see a tired looking engineer above me that had dropped that thing on the belt,

Instincts like this scares me but has anyone any stoires to tell, where you had no idea it was gonna happen and that you avoided it, to live another day..
 
I was once in a morrisons and the bell rang (the one at the bakery bit) signalling that the fresh batch came out. I almost got flattened in a stampede of fatties and oldies.
 
When I was about 14 my friends and I would walk to the chipshop on a Friday and then cut down an alley on the way back that was slightly wider than a car. Well, just before we got there we randomly decided to be rascals and go into the local spa next to the alleyway to... look at some porno mags. Turns out this venture saved us from injury as a police chase was happening and a car headed down the alley we would have been down at 60+mph. Porn saved us.
 
Tried to hold down a sheet of plywood instead of using the clamp on a large industrial saw. Soon as the blade touched the sheet it pulled me towards it. Pure luck that I missed it.
 
I'm a cyclist, happens all the time. A few months back some dozy bint decided to let her son get out of the car whilst in traffic (not at a red light or another logical stopping point, just a break in the tailback moving), I was inches away from flying over the car door at speed.
 
I'm surprised I made it past the age of 10, almost drowned, got electrocuted, accidentally poisoned by the grandmother and had a few near misses with cars as I was very enthusiastic with my bicycle as a child. This is not counting falling off trees, getting beat up by a national kickboxing champion, almost falling on a pitchfork head on with my chest, fireworks exploding in my hands and and that one time I hit a wire with my neck that someone decided to put up between two trees while again on my bicycle.

Come to think of it my life got really boring when my family moved to the UK.
 
Stuck my finger in a power socket as a toddler repeatedly, fortunately there were lots of power cuts in Nigeria.

During some heavy duty gardening with some hedge trimmers, I slipped and the machine swung towards my torso. Fortunately the safety feature kicked in just as my skin was entering the blades, did leave a permanent scar though.
 
Once I was walking across the local field, someone launched a firework from the other side, which I didn't see until it pretty much slid past me.

From that day, I look for those pesky little things.
 
Was on a ferry that got into difficulties in the North Sea. Storm induced stress collapsed the roof in the duty free shop. People were getting hit by items not bolted down like chairs. Broken glass everywhere. Flooding in the lower haulage decks with vehicles tipped and coke machines ripped off the wall.
 
Visited Cairo market on the morning of our flight out of Egypt - at the airport later that day, heard a bomb had gone off killing tourists :\
 
Man at work covered my early shift so that I could get a day off, ended up being assaulted rather badly, had to take 4 months off work.

Still owe him that favour.
 
Once had someone shoot me in the face from about 5ft with a pellet gun and it hit my forehead and left a small indentation that lasted a few days.

guess I was lucky not to be blinded in one eye.

I think the nearest I've been to death is when dreaming about being stabbed.
pain hurt like hell even though it was just a dream really shook me up and made me paranoid of being stabbed
 
Have had had loads of near misses...... :p

First one I was about 6 getting dry in front of the fire after a bath, I was leaning forward
drying my legs then. I stood up just as a solid glass and brass lamp shade plunged 14 foot, to
were me head had been a fraction of a second earlier.

Second I was about 8 put a metal knife in 3kw electric fire, it didn't end well. :eek:

Third Hit in the eye full belt from the back swing from a cricket bat when I was 9 or 10. :rolleyes:

Forth Messing with my mates ran into the road, school bag went about 20 yards down the
road out of my hand from the impact of the car.

Fifth French banger in glass milk bottle, I felt the wind of the glass shard flying past my eye.

All that was before I turned 16, some of the adult stuff is even worst.
The list is endless! :p
 
driving on an open country road [a road] round a sweeping left hander at 60, get the urge to slow down so i do, when i've slowed to 40 there's a dog jumps out of the hedge, runs to the middle of the road stops, sits down and stares at me, stamp on the brakes and narrowly avoid killing it.

last airsofting trip in the killhouse, mouth open heavy breathing from all the running, poke my head round the corner and would have taken a hit point blank to the tonsils if it hadnt been for my half-mask.
 
When I was about 21, I came home after a night out. It was pretty windy. As I was opening the front door, a huge tile came crashing down from the roof to the left of me. A foot or so to the right and it could have killed me.

Could a roof tile kill you dropping from a semi detached roof?
 
Messing around at Hernhill Velodrome as a kid on 125's and nearly breaking my neck, and nearly falling to my death at a HUGE chalkpit quarry, many other things as a child but those are the ones that stand out.
 
I once had to use a narrow ice/snow covered track which ran alongside a river in my car with the wife and kids in with me. Anyway this track was not good to drive on and I couldn't turn around or reverse once we had gone so far down it. I ended up sliding down part of it, and only came to a stop about two feet from the edge of the embankment before the car came to a stop, and that was scary as this was a deep river. I couldn't get out of my side of the car as I had nowhere to step on. I ended up having to have my car winched to safety. My wife and kids were crying, as we all thought that we were going in the river. That day will always haunt us.
 
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