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Most on here will know what mine is RE: my Tsunami experience. And I have also witnessed some very humbling siuations RE: poverty Ect.

But surely a few others on here have been face to face with some serious shit.

Tan's for example must have seen some serious shit in his career, and I suspect that the currently absent Johnno has some stories to tell.

Has anybody else had some seriously intense life experiences to tell?

Nope. I once thought i saw a ghost, but looking back it probably wasn't. Thats the most other-worldly i've ever been.

nearly got ran over as a child at coate water on a bike ride with some mates.

Only the time I was in a car and really honestly thought I was going to die.

I posted it after it happened, might see if I can find it

I was around the corner from Tavistock Square in July 2005 - heard the bomb etc. To be in London with very little to do because everything is closed or closing for the day was very odd.

Went for a routine knee op, was knocked out ready for the slice and my lung collapsed! Died on the bed numerous times and was brought back around!  Woke up in IC attached to a machine that was breathing for me.  Went home that night and played footie that weekend!

Immense!

Oh, and I don't remember a thing about it accept for waking up to find my wife, mum, dad and boss :shock: standing around my bed in tears!

Total head fuck that was!

Bloody hell Berniman!!!

I found a body back in 2003, young boy who had been dead for a few weeks, worse smell,image I have ever seen.

A tenant also waving a needle at me a few years back fucked me up for a while too.

Bloody hell Berniman!!!

I found a body back in 2003, young boy who had been dead for a few weeks, worse smell,image I have ever seen.

A tenant also waving a needle at me a few years back fucked me up for a while too.

I have seen some shit yes (numerous dead bodies, hangings, given CPR to an 18 month old baby etc) , but not really keen on chatting about it to be honest.

Oh and rolled a car, that was quite scary i tell thee!

have you ever rescued a cat out of a tree ?

You are not a proper fireman til you done that mate

I have indeed old pal, well it was off a roof actually.

Also a sheep from out of a sewer pipe. The ungrateful fucker shat and pissed all over me.  :evil:

then you are indeed a true fireman and I doff my cap to you Sir !

I know good one ain't it!  Great one to get everyone's attention at a party!

You've played footy against me and apart from being too old for it now , you could hopefully see that no real harm was done......

apart from the head fuck of course!

 8)

incase you were't sure who berniman is bushy, he's the one that was more likley to take your head off with a football.

 :P  :P

I've had one but i don't want to talk about it tbh.

i nearly walked infront of a bus once, was in my homeland and obviously they drive on the other side of the road that we do so my instict was to look to the right, didnt see anything comming so put one foot out into the road and then whoooosh, a bus came flying past from the other side, scared the shit out of me, its times like this its good to be and unfit loaf, coz that 5 seconds stop for breath a few minutes prior saved my life.  :P

I can't do serious life/death stuff but I had one of those "out of body" experiences when at school during a history lesson. I was "floating" above myself looking down and when I came back into my body, so to speak, I was midway though answering some teacher's question. Very odd indeed. Think I was about 12 at the time so too young to blame booze etc.

Never happened since, but there are plenty of work meetings where I wish it had...

Arguably the most pointless post of the year so far ? (or a good wind-up)

I once saw a one legged tramp

Im not sure who benjimen is to be fair?!?!

Me?

I took to many drugs and was found sitting on the edge of Blackfrairs Bridge trying to jump off. I was sectioned under the mental health act but was reasled after 2days in a sercure ward!

I also saw someone OD on herion and a paramedic injected something into his heart and he woke up screaming about meeting the devil funny enough he was sectioned as well and never recovered last I heard he was still in a mental ward.

when I was 10 or so I saw one of my dads workers cut of their hand whilst trying to restart a law mower something was caught inthe baldes the chap stuck his hand in the working then the mover started again thus blades spinning cut off his hand.

I have seen far to much pain and suffering in my short live. Hopefully all that sort of thing is over and I hope never to have to deal with any shit again.

Fucking hell mate, I knew youd seen stuff but not in detail.  Explains why your a bit nutty still :D

Someone died in our pool - we gt him out and did mouth to mouth but he had had a massive heart attack - the paramedics said we couldnt have done any more - The left his body on poolside for ages till the morg people came - it really wasnt nice

I saw a bloke have a heart attack in the concourse of the Arkell's a good few years back. Not sure what happened to him.

the most scariest thing that happened to me was when i was at a party in london, and when i was leaving i was shot at, well i think i was shot at, a bullet went through a window behind me and i was closest to it, so i assumed it was me they wanted, although i didnt hang around to find out, i was out of there in a flash!

It's a pity I'm a crap shot  :x

maybe just maybe??????????? Still like you always say I'm like marmite you either love me or hate me.

I saw a lad commit suicide from the top of Abingdon Town Hall

I saw a lad commit suicide from the top of Abingdon Town Hall

Stopped in Compton by a gang of about 10...just asked for a light but still scared the crap out of me haha.

Compton as in Los Angeles ?

WTF were you doing walking around there?? !  :shock:

Or Compton as in Bassett ?

Straight Outta Bassett doesn't seem quite as menacing.

Drive by tractor shootings are common place.

In LA yeah..we had to wait for the Metro there.

compton bagpuize?

I have a friend who's heart stopped/been resuscitated 3 times and have been in the vicinity of a death. I was also once on life support for 4 days, but didn't die or anything scary. Can't say anything changed me in anyway though. C'est la vie.

All of mine involve the police trying to kill me. Or at least trying to kill anyone in the crowd I was part of in a bit of an arbitary fashion. In ascending order of scariness they are:

3rd - Wapping during the printers dispute with Murdoch's News International - Arthur Scargill is down to speak at the biggest rally and march so far in the dispute. Whilst he's still on the platform there's an attempt to move some truks out of the plant and Scargill starts directing the crowd to block them off. There's a stalemate between pickets and the riot police for a good half an hour as the crowd is too big and too close for them to really smack people about. Then the horses arrive. And they literally gallop down Wapping highroad and smack into the crowd with long batons. Scariest scenes were:

What at the time I though of as a little old lady (but was probably 50ish) being battened round the head by a mounted copper as he rode past.

One of my friends being amongst several dozen pulled up onto the balconys of the flats opposite the green after being chased there by half a dozen horses.

A bunch of complete psycho riot coppers kicking in the door of the "Ivories" piano bar down the road, (where a strange mix of protesters and Kev and Sharons in their weekend best were drinking), and smashing the place to shit, leathering anyone in baton reach.

2nd - The march on the BNP headquarters organised by Youth against Racism shortly after the Stephen Lawrence murder .

OK we always knew that at a certain point of the march, (at the junction where a right hand turn took you to the HQ itself, and the left hand fork took you along the "official route") there would be some trouble. However, I was a steward that day and I still expected the majority of the marchers to continue along the official route.

That wasn't an option however, as when the march arrived at this point there were lines of police blocking both the turning towards the BNP "bookshop" AND the official route, blocking the marchers progress altogether. Again they kicked the crap out of anyone they could get hold of. A lot of stewards at the front had batons themselves and held the line for about an hour to allow marchers to retreat, but some nutters still kept pushing forwards. Eventually the crowd being forced back knocked a small cemetery wall over which fell on a bunch of protesters and the ambulances arriving kind of allowed some form of peaceful withdrawal.

1st - The so called Poll Tax Riots. I won't try to pretend that there wasn't a bunch of anarchists determined for a ruck on that day. But there were over a hundred thousand people there, many elderly or with kids. All of them, that didn't manage to fight a way out were forced into Trafalgar Square and subject to horse and baton charges. Loads of innocent people got smacked around. Loads of others that had no intention of being involved in violence when they set off that morning got drawn into it trying to protect themselves and their friends from the police. Horrible day.

I was at a swimming gala once which we one and the trainer got thrown in the pool, he had a heart attack and died right there.

I also saw my dad die in front of me but not in a sudden way or anything.

Luckily I've never been to hospital for myself in my life other than being born. *frantically looks around for some wood*

You played against me in the 1st TEF vs L&P 6 aside game when we whooped your asses!  :wink:

Real Madrid shirt  :?  I think?

in 1979 no one died
in 1980 no one died
in 1981 no one died
in 1982 no one died
in 1983 no one died
in 1984 someone died
in 1985 no one died.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I miss good comedy.

i was at wapping and the poll tax riots,they werent a giggle were they, have had a couple of hairy moments with zapatista freedom fighters in chiapas, mexico, thought we were being kidnapped  and taken up to the mountains. i have also woken up a couple of times having operations on my kidneys, held at gun point a couple of times once in hungary and once in guatemala. got stabbed in birmingham in a mugging. once took 22 e's in 2 days and was comatosed and paralysed for 72 hours after, that werent nice, erm thers bound to be more.

Genius!

Im glad you all think someone dying in my pool is funny!  :-))(  :wink:

Quiet Barrymore.

 :mrgreen:

Top work sir

Awright ?

"which driving board, top, middle or bottom?"

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Good work GFM, although surely that should be "diving" board

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  Ben I must say you are are form this week!

You've never told me that...I think that's what happens when you don't eat cheese.