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What near misses have you had in your life?

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charliecat · 21/04/2006 21:30

Prompted by \link{ www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=9&threadid=166161&stamp=060421182155\another thread}I started this morning ive been thinking about the near misses in my life.
Firstly I ran out in front of a motor bike when I was 9/10 and had a motorbike tyre up my leg...good job it wasnt a car.
Has numerous run ins with the canal down the road on my mountain bike as a child/teenager.
Met many dodgy fellow in the woods playing.
I thought one friends X was going to rape me after going with him to get his dad from workAngry
Another x boyfriend turned into a nutter a few years later and I thought he was going to kill me. Oh yes, another talked out of rape there too....
Theres lots more, there the ones I dont even need to think about :(
Do I attract danger/trouble? What near misses have you had?

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charliecat · 21/04/2006 21:30

\link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=9&threadid=166161&stamp=060421182155\another thread}

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nutcracker · 21/04/2006 21:32

Erm dunno really.

A bloke planned to abduct me when i was about 10, had it all planned etc etc but then for some reason he didn't actually take me but just pretended to my mum and dad that he had and was going to do XYZ to me.

I didn't know anything about it until i was about 15.

foundintranslation · 21/04/2006 21:32

Not me but dh was a passenger in a car which hit a tree doing about 80 km/h driven by a drunk driver. He wasn't wearing a seatbelt. He still has a dent in the back of his head from it but otherwise was completely fine - so was the driver Shock

CHICagoMUM · 21/04/2006 21:33

Housemate at uni (who was into body building and hence taking steroids and other stuff but we didn't know it at the time) went mental at my 21st birthday party and threatened us all with a large knife from the kitchen before slitting his own wrists (a very frightening experience).

Ledodgy · 21/04/2006 21:35

When I was 9 my parents dragged me to an antiques fair in the university hall they were walking slightly ahead of me and as I passed just under the roof a big iron bar fell and missed me by inches.

tortoise · 21/04/2006 21:35

i had a burst appendix(sp!)

Posey · 21/04/2006 21:37

Me and friend were driving in the dark, on country lanes, patchy fog and ice. Car skidded. and turned over several times and ended up in a ditch upside down. We walked out of it because of wearing seatbelts (they weren't compulsory then). Still feel that my guardian angel was watching me that day.

dinny · 21/04/2006 21:38

tyre burst doing about 80mph in outside lane, skidded across three lanes of traffic, hit embankment, rolled 3 times, landed upside-down on hard shoulder. all four of us in car walked away. we were being looked after that day. shudder.

mazzystar · 21/04/2006 21:38

appendicitis twice (inoperable)

housefire in the block of flats i was living in caused by stoner berk in flats downstairs falling asleep in candlelit plastic bath.

CHICagoMUM · 21/04/2006 21:38

oh and another one. A couple of years ago I was sitting in my living room (thankfully dd was in bed) when half of the ceiling fell down straight onto dd's toy box. Left me shaking for hours.

dinny · 21/04/2006 21:39

Posey - crossed posts!

That's why we walked away - all in seatbelts. Thank you, thank you, thank you (whoever/whatever)!

Wallace · 21/04/2006 21:39

I almost died of cerebral malaria when I was 18 months. I was having convulsions and even stopped breathing. I should have suffered brain damage, but I'm fine (I think!)

NannyL · 21/04/2006 21:41

I ran out in front of a car travelling at 50mph when i was 16 (oh and was hit by it, smashed the windscreen with my head, and rolled off the bonnet into a thorny bush.... thorns were emerging from my skin for up to a year later)

I survived with no long term injuries.... although spent a long time in hospital and it was a combination of luck and an extreamly skill ful surgeon that managed to save my leg from being amputated!

Also lots of luck that i even survived!

anyway 10 years down the line apart from a scarred leg, and scar under my eyebrow that you can hardly see (and an odd shaped sholder where i broke that too) in fine Grin

lucykate · 21/04/2006 21:45

i swallowed a 1p coin when i was 4. it got stuck and completley blocked my wind pipe. my mum grabbed my ankles and held me upside down slapping my back to get me breathing again. apparently, my lips turned blue and my eyes had rolled back and at the hospital, they told her she'd saved my life.

Posey · 21/04/2006 21:45

Dinny - glad you were okay too! Our car was a right off, was yours?

Nikkinoo · 21/04/2006 21:49

Not me but a wardrobe fell on my son yesterday, I have been reliving the whole thing, if he was positioned a little more different and if my daughters were in the room at the time playing by the babies activity centre where it came crashing down. it was near death for me when i heard the clatter and ran upstairs to find him trapped! God so scary my son is brave though bless him, the only thing that hurt was his foot. Thank God

Actually sorry if it sounds like a bit of a hijack I havent really seen anyone today and I dont know just had to 'let it out' Smile

Charliecat I dont think that you attract danger, blimey its the idiots that are out there who are the ones who want to bring you trouble, as a youngster i lived by the park and in those days it was uncommon not to see a bloke with his nob out in the park on a sunday morning. As kids we all thought it was a laugh, nothing funny about it looking back as an adult. Also remember when I was about five a man asked me to get in his car and I said no and cycled back home i told my mum and she freaked out - getting a knife out the kitchen etc. so i told her that i was lying.

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mazzystar · 21/04/2006 22:01

WharfRat - how did you get trapped under a gravestone?

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spacecadet · 21/04/2006 22:11

i had meningitis at 7
dad lost control of his yamaha 1100 when i was on the back ay age 6, we tumbled down an embankment, the bike just missed me.
i was sitting in a relatives garden at 10 months old on a rug when their jack russell attacked me, mum managed to wrestle me free unscathed.
turned down an invite to go to hillsborough to watch the football with a boyfriend and a gang of his work mates, 2 of his mates were killed.
had a faulty gas fire in the house i lived in when dd1 was a baby, we felt ill all the time and sleepy, mum and step dad came down to stay and step dad said it was so fumey he was nearly sick, but i couldnt smell it, he disconnected the fire immediately and said another day and dd and i would have been dead.
i had a blood clot pass through my heart into my lung after dd was born, i was out shopping and felt faint, then after an hour felt better, didnt go to the hospital for a week, doctor said if it had been bigger i would have dropped dead on the spot.
i dont think i will be so lucky next time!
reckon i used up a few lives!

spacecadet · 21/04/2006 22:11

WR-how did you get run over by your own car???

expatinscotland · 21/04/2006 22:16

Does my ex-boyfriend count?

No, seriously, I used to climb rocks and was green and stupid when I started.

I once fell 20 feet and had a piece of protection pull out of a crack - it was dodgy anyways - instead of dying I just dislocated my shoulder

Have gotten stuck in lightning storms more times than I should have for living in Colorado

Once skiied to the side of a wet snow avalanche.

I slipped on some lichen whilst learning how to abseil w/o a device and fractured my skull and broke my tailbone

Whilst training for an XC ski race, I turned onto a hill that turned out to be a sheet of ice - w/a tree at the bottom. I had to plow w/i an inch of my life to avoid hitting that tree. I trashed my knees in the process, but I'm alive.

A drunk bastard hit me broadside after running a red light. Luckily he hit my passenger side and no one was in it, but I was all jacked up w/lacerations.

edam · 21/04/2006 22:21

Dh managed to write off his car the night before our wedding. He was in the fast lane of the M1 just before Leicester, raining, heavy traffic, and just started to skid - police reckoned must have been oil on the road surface. Car ended up facing the wrong way in the central reservation. Dh walked away with a sprained wrist. I was soooo glad to see him at the registry office... and then during the speeches he handed his father a carrier bag with what was left of the car in it. Grin

Ds ran away from me down a steep, frost-covered slope towards a frozen pond a few months ago. Got within inches of the ice before I managed to grab him. Deserted park so if he had gone under there would have been no-one around to help.

petunia · 21/04/2006 22:25

About 13 years ago, I was driving to a college placement down a country road (the sort that is 2 cars width, high banks and hedges either side) and had just driven through a village, when a car coming in the opposite direction came up the hill towards me on my side of the road, swerved back on to his side, the front of his car then hit the bank (at which point we passed each other, he missed my car by inches, and my car got hit by mud/grass/glass), the force of this then turned his car over on to its roof, then back on to its wheels and then back on its roof (I was watching his car do this in my side mirror at this point). I got out of my car while people from the village came running to help him out of his car. He came walking towards me and he said, "You weren't involved, were you?" and I told him that we'd passed each other while his car was rolling over! He hadn't actually seen me, it was only luck and timing that had stopped him going headlong in to me, and his seatbelt that had saved his life.