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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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jamsam · 21/04/2006 22:33

i cant even bring myself to post on this thread...i think im entitled to credit on the 9 lives thing..i must be at negative 10

BadHair · 21/04/2006 22:34

I had a big temper tantrum when I was 2, ran off and nearly went over a cliff. My mum only just managed to grab me.
Bad car accident 10 years ago but otherwise I seem to have quite a charmed life. And hopefully it'll stay that way.

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waterfalls · 22/04/2006 00:41

I dont think I have had any near misses, never been seriously ill, not even broken any bones yet, I do worry that I am due some bad luck though.

My sister and her friend were abducted when she was 6, scooped up into a blokes car, and drove off, no-one knows why, but he let them go a couple of miles from home, did'nt harm a hair on their heads.

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gift · 22/04/2006 01:52

When i was in the Hungarian countryside very late night. The only light was coming from a farm house where we were to eat that night.
Our friends dog had obviously got lost on the way to the farm house and was not familiar with the area.They were distraught.So i started to look for their dog with them.I left the boundaries of the farm stepped over a small electric fence (stupid or what).I knew it was electric by the small jolt it gave me!
Then i heard panting.And saw two shinning eyes.Thinking it was their dog I called her name. But instinct kicked in and told me to start running the other way.I have never ran so fast.I could hear the animal behind me breathing and growling and getting closer. Then suddenly the chained farmed dogs lurched forward barking madly.And scared off whatever was chasing me.It was definately not a red setter!
Later i read that there are wolves and wild dogs in that part of the countryside.Which one, who knows. All i know is i still have my ears and a new respect for nasty chained up guard dogs.And no trust in small,easily jumped electric fences.

Alipiggie · 22/04/2006 02:25

Was booked on the Herald of Free Enterprise to return to UK - decided to go skiing instead but they wouldn't refund my money. Imagine my face the morning after it rolled hearing it on the radio in a hotel in Zurich

suzywong · 22/04/2006 02:34

me and dh survived a ferry capsizing in the South China Sea

fairyjay · 22/04/2006 04:02

Five men broke into our home last year, when I was at home with my mum (nearly 80) and 12 yr. old dd.

Fortunately they just wanted cash, and thank God I had some, and they disappeared with £600 and some bits of jewellery. I heard them trying to kick in the front door - which fortunately held -and it gave me time to phone the police. As they came into the kitchen, they heard me giving the police our address. Too scary to think about what might have happened.....

These things certainly make you appreciate the important things in life, don't they.....

essbee · 22/04/2006 04:23

I was up in town around 84??? and my friend and I were choosing between selfridges and harrods, we ended up in selfridges and te bomb went off in haorrds at that time.

I was in Northen Ireland around 93?? and I was going to get the train back to the airport and I overslept and got a lift, the train got blown up.

The biggest for me is when I literally dropped my cooking and just had to go and check on ds sleeping (he was 6m) to discover him blue and not breathing....... luckily all was well in the end but it makes me shudder what could have been.

Probably loads of others i'm sure.

LadyTophamHatt · 22/04/2006 08:10

When I was about 14 I went on a school holiday.
One of the planned activities was caving.
The group was split into 2 so the 1st group drove to the caves and walked home, the 2nd group walked there and drove back.

I was in the second group.

We arrived at lunchtime, both groups had lunch and the 1st group set off walking back to the camp.

A mile or so from the caves we had to cross a riverbed. It was totally dry.
We (the 2nd group) changed into our caving gear and set off for the caves.

There had been a flash flood while we were eating/getting ready and the river was a raging torrent. The middle was about 5' deep.

If we'd been in caves an hour earlier the water would have drowned us all.

It still scares the life out of me now.....

spacecadet · 22/04/2006 12:14

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hovely · 22/04/2006 16:19

a man tried to push me into a car when I was 16. his mate stopped and asked me for directions, I foolishly leant into the open (back) door to tell him and the other guy pushed me in. I rolled out and ran. Didn't get reg number and couldn't describe them properly.

Elf1981 · 22/04/2006 20:31

When I was seven, I was around the corner from my house when somebody tried to get them in their car. Mum believes it was my biological father but doesnt know for sure as I never spoke about it til years later.

When I was eight / nine I fell off a slide in the back garden and the arm of the slide broke off too and zigzagged in and out of my leg as I was falling. I had five gaping holes in my legs, down to the bones. Luckily it wasn't higher up.

I almost died a couple of times from asthma attacks.

My DH... when he was three, he was in the backgarden with his older bro. DH was hiding in a big box, BIL decided it needed airholes so stabbed the box a couple of times with garden clippers. DH still has a scar and bald patch on his head from where he got hit, luckily not too deep.

DH used to ride a motorbike he always used to call me when he got home from mine (before we moved in) and one day he phoned earlier than I expected. He'd been hit by a drunken driver (who didnt stop), the car had squashed the side of my DH's leg, trapping him between the car and bike. He was very very lucky, a second earlier or later then the car would have hit the bike wheels and he probably wouldn't have been able to keep control. No broken bones, despite the fact he got hit and then fell off and skidded down the road. V V lucky.

Elf1981 · 22/04/2006 20:33

oh and I knocked myself out in a swimming pool too. Had the perfect cross on my forehead from where my head hit the tiles. Mum and dad still say "remember when Elf was christened in the swimming pool in Wales?"

Cam · 23/04/2006 13:59

Never understood the concept of caving LTH Shock
Being underground in enclosed space which can suddenly fill with water ? No, ta.

Apart from my mother running me over when I was 9 and a car being driven by friends as a teenager crashing into a brick wall, the man to avoid hanging out with is my Dad.

He drove through Lockerbie minutes before the TWA plane came down (having never been there before or since in his whole life); had been in that spot in Egypt a few hours before a bunch of tourists were shot by terrorists; had part of his bedroom bombed during World War 2 when he was 5 years old, having moved his bed only the day before.

Greensleeves · 23/04/2006 14:04

Had similar experience caving. Very scary.

Also climbed a mountain against weather warnings and nearly got blown off - had one arm in a cast at the time (broken) so couldn't hold onto rocks properly - got picked up by wind and dumped about six feet away at one point.

Did tandem bungee jump with dh and got separated in mid-air - we were lucky that we collided fairly gently and clung on, but could apparently have killed each other.

Hired a boat of Kefalonia under instructions to take it round the coast 5 km and bring it straight back - got drunk, decided to sail it to Ithaca instead, got stuck in a shipping lane and nearly capsized in the wake of a big ferry, then ran out of petrol and had to be rescued

I am an idiot, obviously Grin

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