Closest you have been to death?

Walking home one night pissed I kicked a football over a metal spiked fence. Went to retrieve it and slipped putting the spike through my throat and another through my chin. Managed to get off and to a phone box across the road. Phoned an ambulance and my dad. Told my dad I think I’m done in. Spent the night in surgery and had a blood transfusion. Remember seeing blood just pumping out of me and thinking there’s no way this can last. Weird experience.
 


Was loading a load of cast iron water main pipes onto a wagon directing a navvy crane driver. Finished the load and the wagon started to move off but the stupid navvy driver had left his chains hanging down in the back of the wagon. One of the hoooks caught on the edge of one of the pipes and lashed out under tension like a whip. Took a big piece of brickwork out of a wall about six inches from my head. Would have definitely killed me.
 
Skandhaless said:
Was loading a load of cast iron water main pipes onto a wagon directing a navvy crane driver. Finished the load and the wagon started to move off but the stupid navvy driver had left his chains hanging down in the back of the wagon. One of the hoooks caught on the edge of one of the pipes and lashed out under tension like a whip. Took a big piece of brickwork out of a wall about six inches from my head. Would have definitely killed me.
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Jesus that's a bit close !!
 
Slow joe said:
Got beaten up from a random attack on Xmas Eve 2003. It's had a devestating effect on my life and the main reason for my depression and anxiety. I won't post details of the attack but the nurse told me when I eventually came round that it's the worst injuries she's ever seen from someone beaten up and surviving. The lad who done it got 6 months and served 3 🙄
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That’s dreadful. Really sorry to hear that. In Whitley Bay?
 
Crushed by a fork lift truck, driver had jumped off it continued on its way at a slow speed. I had my back to it, and felt the load it was carrying push into my back. Things were getting serious I yelled just before things were going black, the driver stopped the truck at the last moment. Suffered spinal injuries and crushed knees, life changing.
 
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Fell off a sheer drop of about 80ft at around 10, only for my foot to get stuck in bushes / vines and my dad had to drag me back up (my life flashed before my eyes). The next time was just after having my son - thought I had either onset of appendicitis or sepsis, high temperature, chills and really severe abdominal pain (remember the porter pushing me on the trolley and every crease in the floor made me scream out in pain as I went over it), thankfully a quick thinking person stuck me on intravenous antibiotics on admittance - I think that probably saved my life as I was sure I was on my way out (ended up being in hospital from the Monday night until the Friday afternoon).
 
Hit some aluminium ladders that had come off a van ahead on the A19. Car went in to a spin & was hit by a cement truck while it was spinning & clipped the kerb then somersaulted end over end until it came to a stop upside down in a field then burst into flames. Van driver got 3 points & a fine for having an unsecured load.
 
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chunkylover53 said:
Know a few people who have been done there randomly. Disgusting
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I used to go to school with the lad. I'm 5ft 5 and he's about 6ft 4, he was high on drugs and claimed he couldn't remember any of it. Basically he knew he could chin me so he just did for the hell of it. I've still got 5 metal plates in my jaw and you can physically feel 2 of them.
 
In Majorca, late at night and absolutely pissing down. Left a bar and was trying to shelter from the rain by being close against an 8' high wall on the way to the hotel. Suddenly there was a massive rumble and 10 yards in front of us a 30 yard section of the wall collapsed. Complete devastation. Went back the next day to take photos of our near death experience. Still have them somewhere.
 
look out piano said:
Fell off a sheer drop of about 80ft at around 10, only for my foot to get stuck in bushes / vines and my dad had to drag me back up (my life flashed before my eyes). The next time was just after having my son - thought I had either onset of appendicitis or sepsis, high temperature, chills and really severe abdominal pain (remember the porter pushing me on the trolley and every crease in the floor made me scream out in pain as I went over it), thankfully a quick thinking person stuck me on intravenous antibiotics on admittance - I think that probably saved my life as I was sure I was on my way out (ended up being in hospital from the Monday night until the Friday afternoon).
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:eek:
 
Slow joe said:
I used to go to school with the lad. I'm 5ft 5 and he's about 6ft 4, he was high on drugs and claimed he couldn't remember any of it. Basically he knew he could chin me so he just did for the hell of it. I've still got 5 metal plates in my jaw and you can physically feel 2 of them.
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Horrific that fella, hopefully the evil bastard gets his comeuppance one day the horrible bastard.
 

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