unexpected events that you escaped

bitslice said:
He was great in those documentaries and on Time Commander,
I didn't expect him to turn into a girl though, she's quite passable too.
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Hell not. She was on telly at the time hence my post. I thought, sounds and looks like that bloke on the.....nooooooooooooooo
 
Stuck under a capsized sailing dinghy, Main sheet (rope) wrapped round my neck holding me down, bouncy aid pulling me up. I felt panic starting to happen. Closed my eyes had the life flash back thing, had a moment of clarity, un-clipped myself out of the bouncy aid reached down to untangle the sheet from the mast giving me some slack. Pulled it over my head and kicked for the surface. Fresh air had never felt so good. I was 14 at the time.
 
I nearly lost my left eye on 3 seperate occasions as a child.

First time as a toddler chasing a ball around the living room I put my head through a glass internal door. Got awy with a couple a scars that are still very faintly visible.

Second time at primary school there was a small circular incinerator that I was running around with a friend 'driving' toy cars around the wall. Unfortunately the incinerator had a square mesh grid on top of it and I basically ran into the corner, and cut my eyelid open. Stitches, another scar etc...

Third time I was on a school trip at high school and some other kids were mucking about throwing stones as kids do and one hit me squarely in the middle of the lens of my sunglasses, got away without injury that time but it could have been messy.
 
I've had 3 phase. Twice. One was my fault, one wasn't. Both times off to hospital, most painful experience I've ever had. It feels like every atom of your existence is on fire.
 
I did a full looping (after being thrown in the air from a swing) at the age of 5. Landed with my head on a rock but I did not suffer a bone fracture and the scar is still visible. Interestingly, I clearly recall yelling 'Faster! Faster!' at the kid who was pushing the swing just before the impact. I also recall crying soon afterwards and blood pouring into my eyes and imparing my vision.
 
Pressure testing a diesel tank for a slung over generator/canopy.

Most of the ports were locked in with threaded cast plugs, one or two were hose tubes with no threads to tie in to. Anyhow story short, the clips we used to cover the holes decided to fail and fly off after holding for all of 30 minutes.

I had my head over one... just drawing it away about a second before it blew.

It would have ripped through my head like it were butter... aka dead.
 
Almost blew myself and a mate up messing around with sodium chlorate weedkiller (back before they changed the formula).

Much pyrotechnic fun was had until we stuffed some into an old pair of handlebars. We failed to notice one end was already blocked and ended up with fairly effective pipe bomb.

We were just smart enough to take cover and avoided most of the blast and all of the shrapnel. When the smoke cleared, the shed roof and the nearest wall had 5 or 6 50p piece sized holes in them.

Being partially deaf turned out to be a bonus during the epic dressing down we received from my mate's dad. Watering and totally bloodshot eyes turned out not to be as useful...
 
In 2010 I went snorkelling in Hurghada and went the opposite way to everybody else.
When I looked up I was about 5 miles from the boat (probably 100 yards) and panicked a bit, swallowed loads of sea water and couldn't control myself.
I kept going under and thought this is it, I'm drowning and I was losing strength quite quickly.
I then realised I can win a gold medal by floating on my back and after I regained my senses I slowly made the 5 miles back to the boat where Mrs Dimple knew something had happened by how white I was.
 
I tripped off the back of a lorry that was delivering fence panels when I was very young and when falling my belt got caught on one of the hooks on the side that was used to tie the sides to. If that had not caught me it would have been nasty. As it was my dad just lifted me off as I lay there hanging like a bit of meat.
 
itchy said:
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.
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That reminds me: Aged around 11 or 12, I got knocked off my bike by a Porsche driver. He was speeding down from his cul-de-sac and I was stationary outside my house with just the front bike wheel off the kerb as I looked left and right. I escaped with minor injuries, and he just drove off, didn't stop the car!

The police came round and took statements. The irony was that the charges for careless driving were dropped, but in the investigation, he got done for an unrelated crime of drug dealing (police found a fairly ample supply in his house).
 
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robfosters said:
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?
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10 kilos worth sure, if it shatters as it hits your head probably not due to distribution of force over time.

Not myself but one I heard similar was giant icicles dropping from the roofs of old universities. Years ago before any H&S was just a case of careful as you go, randomly gets blown off/melt so many near misses from 6 foot of ice shard :o


Used to go walking along the train tracks when I was about 4 (by myself), the train would whizz past the driver blowing the horn and I would wave, so friendly :o

When i was 2 I had a nanny who lived on the same road, she moved away to the other side of town. So I set off to visit on my tricycle, down the culdesac, down the side roads, through the shopping centres and across the main road dividing town centre.
I dont remember all of it just how slow my tricycle was and when i crossed the main road, someone in a Ford cortina (think it was) leaning out the window to shout at me crossing because I was taking so long. Got to nanny, said hello and had some cake, navigational skills of a prodigy. Journey was about 2 miles I think, still impressed i did that now

Later adventures, taking apart a mains socket, etc

Zefan said:
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 :\
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Is that recently ? I have a relative who works in Egypt as a diving instructor but apparently its always a peaceful area
 
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Housey said:
Not 5 minutes ago!!!!

This bloke who does loads of military documentaries


But he is now this woman


So this escaped me :eek:
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I'm guessing he makes a more attractive woman than he did a man :D

cool guy though seen him in loads of documentaries and didn't he do that show where they re-enacted battles in rome total war or whatever variant of the game it was
 
To be clear I misread the title as "what escaped you" not "you escaped". I never tried to bum him, I just missed he'd gone guy to girl. :D
 
Adult one!

Went over the hill with a 45 year old women, without a balaclava when I was 25, she never got pregnant ! Phew! :p
 
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