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AIBU?

To think this can't have been a prank?

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Babyleopard23 · 01/11/2014 00:04

So I went to my friends with a few others for a Halloween takeaway/film night. Had a good time and set off home at 12:15am dropping off another friend on the way.
Pull down my road and turn in to my car port (which is a blind corner with a huge bush in the way) to find a 13/14 year old girls body unconscious face down covered in what I can only assume was fake blood and almost ran her over!
This gets a lot stranger so please keep reading.

I live on a military base abroad so usually very safe nothing dramatic ever happens. Anyway, I shout to her several times as I am so scared I am shaking and crying by this point and I'm heavily pregnant which doesn't help my crazy emotions. I say I'm going to ring an ambulance in case she was just messing around but I hadn't seen her move at this point. So I'm on the phone for 5 minutes and they are on their way and I notice next doors lights are on so I waddle round to get them which took 2 minutes max. Take them round and the girl has vanished!!! I'm not even joking.
She had no shoes on and wasn't moving and she did a runner! The ambulance comes flying round the corner and I have to explain she's gone (husband is a medic so I know them but he's currently away so not around to help) and I feel like an actual crazy person!

They went out to search for her and the police came round to take a description etc but I don't know if they found her! I can't get the image out my head of this body on my drive and my mum mentioned it could be a prank but seriously no one would go that far??

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KatieKaye · 01/11/2014 22:39

Glad you've found out what really happened!

And yes, I bet she is mortified and he is fizzing - very embarrassing for them both

Itsfab · 01/11/2014 22:16

If you baby doesn't move normally don't wait so long to get checked. Take care of yourself.

ChippingInAutumnLover · 01/11/2014 22:08

At least you know now and can stop your and my mind going into overdrive.

Also, it was an accident, she didn't do it to scare you, so nothing to be angry about - tell DH.

Glad your baby is kicking and making its presence know :)

cassie1051 · 01/11/2014 22:05

Well done for stopping the car in time and glad you're OK!

This reminds me of a story my friend told me - when she was at Uni her and her housemates came home from a night out to find a girl passed out on their front lawn! They took her in and put her in one of the girls beds. In the morning the drunk girl had scarpered, leaving a pool of puke on the floor. God knows what that girl must have thought, waking up in a strange house!

waithorse · 01/11/2014 22:00

Should have read the thread.

waithorse · 01/11/2014 21:58

It was a prank. What a stupid thing to do. So horrible for you though.

Gruntfuttock · 01/11/2014 21:05

Yes, thank goodness you saw her. Hopefully she will never get that drunk again. Sorry you had such a nasty shock Babyleopard23 and glad that you've found out who it was.

Babyleopard23 · 01/11/2014 20:24

Yes she had been at a party she wasn't injured!

It was our bonfire night here tonight and I saw them and was going to apologise for disturbing their baby sitters last night but they were busy talking then shortly after she came to me and said she had a confession to make and that it was in fact her asleep on my drive and she got upset as she felt awful. I was so relieved just to know it was nothing too bad and no one was hurt although I still can't stop thinking about how horrific it could have been if I hadn't stopped the car!

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Gruntfuttock · 01/11/2014 20:05

How did you find out who it was btw?

Gruntfuttock · 01/11/2014 20:04

Did she have a blood covered Halloween costume on then?

Lilicat1013 · 01/11/2014 18:46

Mine was an easier situation as I was in a well lit place, in the day time and felt safe. Plus she wasn't blood covered or creepy or anything.

Glad baby is moving ok, my eldest was terrible taking long periods of quiet time. He always moved at the hospital though because he hated the heart rate monitor and would move away from the sound when ever they managed to get it on him.

Babyleopard23 · 01/11/2014 18:23

Gosh Lillicat that sounds awful. I am definitely not great in emergencies as I have discovered!
I did tell her I thought I was literally going to give birth!

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Babyleopard23 · 01/11/2014 18:21

It was very awkward as her DH is very highly ranked and as I said is actually my DH boss. I think he is mortified he couldn't even look at me.

I almost felt embarrassed I called her a 13/14 year old girl but yes she is tiny!

I had to take a trip to hospital this afternoon as I hadn't felt baby move since last night but he was just fine and as soon as the straps went on he danced for a whole hour non stop so all is good I think I just got a bit worked up over the whole thing!

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Lilicat1013 · 01/11/2014 18:19

I am glad it is solved and you don't need to worry about it. I am also glad there was no malicious intent.

I had a weird situation when I was a student. I got up early for work on morning and came out of the lift in to the entrance area of my halls of residence to find what looked like a body.

She was a young teenager, secondary school age laying face down on the floor with her skirt up round her waist. She looked like she had been sexually assaulted.

I went to see if she had a pulse and she moved and started to sit up. I heard another voice and she had a similar aged friend I hadn't seen initially in another part of the entrance.

They were basically just drunk, had been let or managed to get in the security doors the night before and collapsed where I found them. As I was dressed smartly for work they assumed I was some sort of authority figure kicking them out. I asked if they were ok and offered the use of my phone but they said they were fine. They kept offering to leave convinced they were in trouble but I told them to stay as long as they needed it was safer and warmer than outside.

If it had been now I would have phoned the non emergency police line or something but I was only a teenager myself then. They were just so very young and put themselves at such risk. I don't know where their parents thought they were.

Lottiedoubtie · 01/11/2014 18:06

Awkward!

Is she a small woman?

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CinnabarRed · 01/11/2014 18:02

Wow! I wasn't expecting that. How awkward.

Babyleopard23 · 01/11/2014 17:57

Ok the mystery is solved for anyone wanting to know!

It turned out it was my neighbour (DHs boss' wife!).
I still can't believe it! They are lovely lovely people honestly and she was so upset about what she did to me. She basically had too much to drink and went to look for her husband but just fell asleep! I didn't ask where she went but at least I know Im not going crazy.
DH is really angry mainly because he's away but I can rest now it is all resolved and she is fine!

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Ohmygrood · 01/11/2014 15:51

That sounds terrifying for you. What a dangerous thing to do if it was a prank.
There was a horrifying ( but quite funny to watch from your couch) prank shown on Russell Howard this week. If seems that this type of prank is all the rage.

Thumbscrewswitch · 01/11/2014 15:42

Vile - it depends - I've gone from passed out cold (knocked my head and fainted) to legging it away from the crowd I'd attracted in Twickenham on rugby day in about that. But I wasn't passed out from being drunk, which might make the difference.

Baby - IF it was a prank and there was another idiot lurking somewhere nearby filming, then the "body" girl would have joined the idiot wherever they were hiding and waited for you to go inside before leaving. Unless there was absolutely nowhere like that for them to hide?

Hurr1cane · 01/11/2014 15:09

Oh what a horrible thing to happen

Are you ok now? Less shaken?

Babyleopard23 · 01/11/2014 14:02

What I don't understand though is they would have had to have run past me to get out the square iyswim. So I would have seen/heard them.

Just seems odd they would wait on a random hidden drive way when they had no idea if I would be coming home or not that late at night!

I will solve this no matter how long it takes!

I think it bothers me more the fact I was so close to running over her having not seen her and imagining if I had injured her or worse.

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roses2 · 01/11/2014 13:56

Definitely a prank. You don't get many murders / assaults in Cyprus!

VileStatistyx · 01/11/2014 13:51

I am not sure someone could go from passed out cold to legging it in a minute.

I think it is far more likely to have been a prank and when she (they-people hiding too?) saw what you were doing, they scarpered.

AlpacaYourThings · 01/11/2014 12:25

If it was a prank that is a ridiculously cruel and childish prank to play on someone. If she had been ran over my the car she could have been seriously injured. Who risks their health (or life, for that matter) for a joke?!

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