What's the most interesting thing you've avoided?

Rroff said:
When I worked at Screwfix they took forklifts very seriously - slightest minor accident and that person lost (internal) qualification for driving them for 6 weeks IIRC don't think it was as long as 6 months and had to re-qualify and any kind of messing about with them of any kind was a year suspension from driving them. Think it was there that used to have a hilariously bad health and safety video for them as well in which apparently the slightest thing going wrong resulted in the driver flying through the air like a ragdoll and the forklift blowing up.
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This is the one we got shown.

 
hux said:
This is the one we got shown.
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I've seen clips from it mixed into other health and safety videos but not the full thing before IIRC.

EDIT: Actually think the full video has been linked on here or another forum awhile back but not seen it shown in full in a workplace environment.
 
I avoided a parking ticket once, thats as about as exciting my life is.

Years ago when I was at college, the car park was full so I parked on the road to the car park, it was a quiet road which only led to the car parks, there were 3 cars, and 2 traffic wardens, 1 traffic warden ticketing the 1st car, 1 traffic warden ticketing the 3rd car, and mine was the 2nd car in the middle, quickly got in my car and got out the way.
 
I just about avoided hitting the floor while out rock climbing once.

I was on a sports route and was struggling to clip the rope in, I pulled more and more slack up and then my grip on the wall slipped I fell long enough to think "uh oh.....this isn't going to be good" I suddenly hit something then bounced into the rock face. I span round and it was the guy belaying me that I'd hit, I then just stood up! I'd fallen as far as possible without actually hitting the floor! yikes!
 
On the theme of vehicle mishaps, I once leant into the cab of our long wheelbase van and nearly had my arm pinched off. Our workshop was up a dogleg in an alley and my colleague was struggling to maneuver round it. I opened the door and stuck my head in to tell her she needed to back out a bit and she reversed immediately! Upper arm trapped between edge of door and the metal gate support. Left a nasty bruise but that's all.
 
I nearly died as a teenager.

We used to build massive dens and bases in the woods/shrubland nearby - these were surrounded by large gravel pits and lakes, so inaccessible to anybody unless you knew a way through. A large canal also ran along one edge, where big cranes used to drop boats in. So there were lots of old used crane cables left lying around. One of the bases we made had a zip line strung between two big oak trees, a few hundred feet apart and about 30 feet off the ground, using one of the old cables. But remember, we're in a wooded shrubland, so there were lots of annoying small trees between the two, which we decided to cut down as much as we could. This inevitably left many spiky, foot-tall stumps of varying danger between the two oak trees. I had the honour of the maiden voyage on the zip line, which promptly snapped as I was half way along. I plummeted the 30 feet to the floor, towards the impaling spiky tree stumps, only to land starfished, with tree spikes impaling through the clothing on both my arms, my groin and my waist - but narrowly avoiding even scratching myself. If I'd have landed 1 foot to the left, right, in front of backwards, id have been a human skewer. We didn't make a zip line again.
 
Related to the OP I was once on my way to the shops on an evening, travelling down a perfectly straight 60 road and see a car in front pulled over with its hazards on.

Being as the road was wide enough and completely clear I moved into the opposite lane but didn't bother slowing, this was a good few hundred feet away. Next thing I know I see kids around the car so decide to slow down a bit.

Keeping an eye on them all of a sudden I notice a duck and about 6 ducklings crossing the road right where the car was. I lock up and come to a halt about 30 feet short of the family of ducks and a bloke with his 3 young kids who had stopped on a main road to watch them crossing.

To this day I still wonder how he would have explained it to the kids if I hadn't noticed and they watched a battered old saxo plough through the miracles of nature going about its business at 60mph. Also he made zero effort to wave me down at all.
 
Avoiding a car that was overtaking a lorry.

I was going downhill on a long road coming from the hillside and coming up the hill was a lorry. I was going around 60mph. As I was approaching the lorry a bmw pulled out from behind it and was trying to overtake it (going uphill) on my side of the road.

Luckily there was one a short gravel section at the side of the road. So hitting the brake multiple times I turned on to the gravel just as the bmw passed me. He beeped his horn as though to say sorry. Could have been really bad.
 
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