Has anyone ever been rescued?

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I know this is super weird and probably, one of those things that is not at all nice IRL.

But. I have never been in a position where I have had to be rescued. Partially because I am boring, sensible, and generally the one in charge - but also, sheer dumb luck.

I am really curious to know what it feels like though. Emergency services, mountain rescue, random man in the street....

Have you ever been rescued and what was it like?

Oh my gosh that is so moving . God bless him.

At Glastonbury in 2008 at the Pyramid Stage, Amy Winehouse had finished her set and the crowd started swelling ready for Jay-Z. A lot of people pushing to the front. Myself and my twin sister are only 5ft1, we found ourselves swept along and too close to the stage. We quickly became overwhelmed and were getting to the point where we literally couldn’t move amongst all the taller people, pushing and shoving. It was fucking awful. Couldn’t move our arms, had to look upwards to breath, couldn’t see anything except people’s back right against our faces and we were genuinely thought we were going to get crushed once Jay-Z came on and the crowd would start bouncing. It was one of the most terrifying experiences of both our lives. We just didn’t know what to do.

Luckily, some lads around us noticed and offered to pick us up and pass us over the top to the front! God knows how they did it. We went up & out one after the other, were met by security over the barrier who rushed us to the side. Jay-Z came on shortly after and the place went mental! We were so glad to watch safely from the side.

So yeah, that’s how we went crowdsurfing at Glastonbury 😅

I’d like to say lesson learned but it happened again at another festival a few years later…

1. Hired a Canadian canoe and got it about 20m from the hire hut before my DH decided he absolutely definitely was going to fall into the perfectly calm lake unless we got rescued. Felt so stupid blowing the orange whistle on my life jacket so close!

1. Had half a panic attack at a supermarket and had the rest of it by the car. Couldn't put my shopping away or do anything but lean on the car and cry. Lovely lady approached me, put my shopping in the boot, got me into the passenger side and got me water. Eventually calm enough to drive home.

1. Not me but DH was crashed into by a distracted driver on her phone. The car was bent up and he got rescued out the window by a stranger just before the car burst into flames.

Also DH 3 other medical emergencies requiring ambulance since we've been married. Honestly a liability this one.

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff yes I do, she’s one of the regulars. Similarly to me though, she changes her username frequently. We share a similar approach that it’s best not to build a massive history on MN.

When I was at school as an exercise I was picked up by a Fleet Air Arm helicopter & I rescued a small child in a Topper (?) Dinghy who had lost his rudder using one of the school boats.

In 1983 I was in the engine room of the 1965 Ben My Cree* when someone went overboard on a Douglas to Ardrossan sailing, the telegraphs went, the main engines were slowed, EOOW picked up the phone, slammed it down, rang through to the boiler room & then rushed to put steam on the bow thruster while my friend and I made ourselves scarce. Someone had gone overboard but he was successfully picked up.

A few years later I was in another engine room this time on PS Waverley when an unexpected engine order came down off Weston. I went up on deck to see two heads next to an overturned dinghy. The Couple had sailed from Clevedon to Lynmouth but on the way back the boat had capsized and they were to cold and tired to right it. The lifeboat came to pick up the boat and they were taken back to Clevedon on Waverley. My photo made the front page of several local papers and the Company Manager moaned that Waverleys visit to the Bristol Channel was almost over, now had it been a few weeks before that would have been great.

*Ben my Cree and her sister ship Manx Maid were the last British steam turbine powered cross channel ferries and I was always warmly welcomed into her engine room in her last few seasons - as one is........... But the machinery was controlled from the engine room bu engineers and firemen, not remotely from the bridge. Oh and you could start her with a starting handle!

I’m not the person who helped you, but I remember your thread and I remember the posts from the lady you’re referring to. I’m so very glad to hear you’re ok now.

@CalliopeFosterBeauchamp oh wow. It’s been so many years!!! DS is now over 6ft tall. I wonder if it really is the same thread you’re thinking of. The username of the helpful poster at the time started with H. Are we thinking of the same thread?

I rolled my car onto its side in a freak accident. Trapped inside and no idea how the hell i would get out. Luckily 2 chaps were right across the road and saw it happen. They opened the hatchback and i was able to scramble out.
My heroes 🥰😇

Ah no, it’s not, sorry. The one I’m thinking of was about 4-5 years ago. I can’t remember the username of the person who helped that poster - perhaps there’s more than one wonderful mumsnet fairy :)

(apologies for derailing the thread!)

Just from a stuck life. And by the RAC a couple of times.

Every dog seems to be..! 😉

Crowd surges can be incredibly dangerous.

Here’s a clip of the one from the Oasis gig in Manchester in 2005 (it was shown during my event safety management course). Nobody reported as hurt, but it pushed the front barriers forward a couple of feet.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=aue6OD17NPo&ra=m

Driving to the ferry port near Belfast we hit some debris on the road causing the tire of our motorhome to blow out. Unfortunately the damage destroyed the cupboard the gas canister sits in which dropped into the wheel. When whole thing filled with smoke we though the gas was going to blow up. Quickly pulled over and got kids out etc. A local man saw it happen and pulled over to help. He was amazing and calmed DH down, sorted someone to come fit a new wheel and waited until DFIL was able to get to us and they safely recovered the motorhome to services. He stayed and had a cuppa with us. We honestly couldn't thank him enough. The kindness of strangers is a wonderful thing.
Obviously no one was injured but it was an incredibly scary incident when we thought of just how bad it could have been.
Motorhome was a right off 🙈

Sadly yes, 1992 on one of those silly "team building ' events my office arranged. I had only started the week before but had to be rescued by helicopter from an inlet on a cliff and I was wearing a dress and when we flew over my team I mooned at them. I resigned the next day and never when back but sometimes I wake up thinking about it and actually had therapy with it being the focus

Wow that’s terrifying

You were lucky. I once got locked in an office building the night before I was due to go on holiday - and I was due to drive 250 miles.. I couldn't raise the other person with a key (it was a small office) and when I phoned the police they were most sympathetic but said they couldn't do anything about it. I left a series of increasingly frantic messages on my colleague's phone, and eventually he turned up after his nice evening out after 11 pm. He thought it was hysterically funny, I had a total sense of humour failure as it was his fault I was locked in in the first place.

As a young child, at a caravan park , went swimming alone - in the rain, pool was empty, I got a cramp. A family walking past saw me, husband jumped in and rescued me

As a singleton, living alone, I went sleep walking and got locked out of my flat - on the ( flat , where the washing lines were ) roof when I woke . Luckily there was a pub next door and they heard my shouts for help and the fire brigade were very helpful in getting me off the roof and back in flat

@CaesarAugusta I was fortunate they rescued me yes. If there had been a fire I'd have been in trouble. No mobile phone to reach any key holders (& I wasn't aware if a landline either). Took me a while before I popped to the loo after 5pm again!

One place I worked had a big walk in store cupboard that was used daily - this was a remote location where it was usually lone working. The door had a code lock and a door handle on the outside and no door handle on the inside - if you got stuck inside you weren’t getting yourself out again. The place had gone through numerous H&S audits and nobody had flagged it.

I've been in a bad car crash. I did manage to extricate myself but once I had crawled out of the car I realised I was quite badly injured and I'm really grateful to the couple who stopped and called the emergency services. I never got to say thank you properly.
DH and I have been involved in about half a dozen rescues when we've been sailing though. Nothing super dramatic but all the people were grateful. The most recent was a rather poorly equipped family in a broken down power boat that we gave a tow to They had been bobbing around for quite a while and had two quite young children who were very cold and frightened so it was good to be able to help even though it curtailed our day's sail.

I had to be fished out of a small swimming pool with a net when I was a kid. Went down a water slide and landed in a shallow bit so nothing scary at all even for a non-swimmer. I guess I didn’t surface quick enough as I got netted and the lifeguard gave me a right bollocking and then yelled at my dad too. It was super embarrassing.

My DH is in the emergency services and I’d love to witness him giving out orders and being in control of a dangerous situation 😄

Not exactly a rescue, but my neighbours of only a few months saved the day recently. I locked myself out of the house and the only unlocked access was my en suite window. I grabbed a chair, neighbour grabbed his teenage daughter and we boosted her through the window. She had the agility and poise of an Olympic gymnast and was smiling like a beautiful cat the whole time. Didn’t even disturb the trinkets on the window sill! All done and dusted in ten minutes, so I wasn’t even late to retrieve my mate from the train station (who didn’t have a phone, so would himself have been stranded and confused)! Thank you, lovely neighbours!

Remembered another one - when I was at college I regularly drank in the local pub (no one cared I was underage and looked about 12 😄). One day a random weirdo came to chat to me so I politely made conversation. Next thing I knew, the fit barman came flying over and manhandled the bloke out of the pub. Apparently the bloke had a knife in his hand behind his back 🤯

Deserted beach in Mexico
Was in the sea, all of a sudden a storm come over and i was under the sea before i knew it.

Partner at time, managed to get me up and above water level, how, i have no idea...
But thats my boring story

Yes, my car broke down on a busy city centre road on the Thursday after I had given birth at home on the Monday. Caused absolute traffic mayhem, and was on the traffic news. Had a three day old baby in the car, rescued by police and driven off in a police car.