What's the most dangerous situation you've ever put yourself in?

[Magicra84]

I've had a few...

Got involved with a few unsavoury men through online dating. Luckily sussed them out and binned them off before things got too serious.

I once walked home over four miles at 2am through one of the roughest areas round here. A man out walking a dog stopped me to talk. It shit me up but he was nice, he just couldn't sleep so took rover out.

OneMomentInHistory has just reminded me that I also had a hideously scary taxi ride in the middle of the night in India. No unexpected stops, it was just terrifying being on the roads and the driver was a maniac. Also, following a couple of blokes down an alleyway in Hong Kong to buy a fake Gucci watch probably wasn't the smartest of moves either. Fortunately they proved to be perfectly honest counterfeiters. The watch still works, 25 years later so it was a real bargain, but I hate to think what could have happened. I wasn't even young then either - no excuse for the stupidity.

Bloody hell @Baluchistan95, I mean this nicely but glad you're not my daughter with that lot, I would've been demented! 😂

Drawing my bedroom curtains to watch the coup attempt going on outside. Tracer, rifle and MG fire, the works.

In my defence I was only about eight at the time. My father bellowed from the doorway and dragged me away.

Going home with random men I met that night, probably. Used to tell friends usually but not give addresses because I didn't know them.

I've always walked alone at night wherever I wanted to go. I hate the idea that I shouldn't because I'm a woman. I suppose it was risky at times but I have a real chip on my shoulder about it and don't regret it at all. I still do walk where I please (in normal times) but I'm never out alone late at night any more so it's not the same.

Hitched to the south of France (and back again) when I was a student 30 years ago. No insurance, took £25, a map (no Mobile phones in those days!) and hoped for the best.

My mother went ballistic when I told her (after I got back). But I'm also so pleased I did it. But somewhat reckless in hindsight...

GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman. Where was that?

So many! Sex with complete strangers outside ... getting into cars with strangers ... walking home for miles on a country road at night ...

Bungee jumped off a crane on a Mediterranean party island

White water rafting in the Dominican Republic

Both make me shudder... I doubt either had the most stringent health and safety codes

At uni my friends and I spent an evening chatting to some guys in a bar. They were in town visiting. We ended up having a post pub party at their hotel. Then a month later we flew to their city to stay in their house for a weekend. We didn't tell anyone where we were going. Thankfully they were really lovely guys and I'm still in irregular email contact with one of them.

There are times when I wonder how I’m still alive...

The worst one was when I was a teenager on a train. Me and my friend were standing by the doors and she dared me to stick my head out the window. I did it. The train was going at full speed and I pulled the window down and stuck the whole top half of my body out as far as I could. About 4 seconds later a train came whizzing past in the opposite direction. Never did I ever do that again.
I met a guy online and by met I mean we sent a few explicit messages to each other. I agreed to meet him for a hook up. He lived quite far away so we agreed to meet each other half way. He was a bit of a hippie with a camper van and he would come and pick me up. I met this guy and literally got in his camper van and let him drive to god knows where. He was a practical stranger. I could have got murdered! I didn’t thankfully but the sex was shit.
Got blind drunk and wandered away from my friends and decided to explore a building site on an industrial estate. I got very very lost.
Took for too much mdma on various occasions. There was one horrific time where I was convinced I’d overdosed and I was going to die.

Christ! I’m thankfully not as much of a bloody idiot anymore!

Many in my younger days, often with alcohol involved. Too trusting of people, and thought I was invincible..thought nothing of walking home alone at night, going to peoples houses I had just met, and accepting lifts from people I didn't know..I'm sure there was someone looking out for me, I would be terrified if my child did the same..

I walked from the bus stop in Headingley to Beckett Park campus on a dark autumn evening on my own in 1980, completely unaware that the evening news had just announced another murder of a student by the Yorkshire Ripper, just yards from where I was walking.

@SallyLovesCheese that's up to the PP to decide, two consenting adults who have great sex, what's the actual problem? You may say not worth the risk but the PP may say it's well worth the risk 🙅‍♀️

Scariest situation you've been in actually put yourself in? Cause they are fairly different.

Not trying to be rude or difficult, genuine question

Chilean military dockyard alone, 2am, aged 18

I went outside when there were snipers on the roof. I went back in immediately. It was during a coup in another country and I was half the age I am now

I had a few shockers, going home to random people's houses without telling anyone.

I think the worst one was when I was the assistant manager, I saw someone shoplift a calculator I ran out after them, they pulled a knife, if it hadn't been for the fact the manager of the shop next door was out for a smoke I dread to think what could have happened.

Reminds of the time in the same store. A guy was in a fowl mood saw me and decided to complain, when I said I couldn't do anything for me, shoved me fairly hard, main problem was that I was at the top of the stairs, my manager was running up the stairs when he heard the swearing not from me although very tempting and caught me.

I probably have a lot more from when I worked in retail

foul not fowl

bellinisurge. Which country was that?

A long, long time ago, when I had an interest in geology and fossils, I lowered myself over the side of a quarry in Wales. Having found the fossil I was looking for it was time to return to the top, except I couldn't find the way back up and kept slipping. A couple of hours passed and I was getting desperate until I saw a plant I had noticed on the way down and found my way to the top. Very, very stupid.

I don't know if you put yourself in a situation you are still in it aren't you?

RainMustFall. Ha ha. Great story and you lived to tell the tale. Like it!!

I was very drunk in London age 21 and the station was shut (I'd just moved there) and I couldn't get home and my phone was dead.

I got a lift home from a random bouncer. He drive me 45 minutes home and dropped me off safely.

Thank god he was a good person. I still think about it sometimes and shudder.

Many I’ve been in, but few I put myself in.

Probably Being about 15 and trapped inside a 40 odd mans house because I wanted to ‘carry on the party’ at the house of a complete stranger who’s front garden I’d ended up on. He got very touchy and pushy and had locked all of the doors, was trying to feed us all sorts of drugs. Luckily my amazing friend sobered up a lot quicker than me and managed to get us out.

I feel sick thinking back to it.