Scariest thing you've ever witnessed or experienced?
I was just wondering what's the scariest thing you remember seeing or experiencing?
The only one I can remember off the top of my head is the time I saw two cows running towards me from across the field, forcing me to run to the fence and climb over. I was lucky I was fairly close to the fence.
The only one I can remember off the top of my head is the time I saw two cows running towards me from across the field, forcing me to run to the fence and climb over. I was lucky I was fairly close to the fence.
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drowning at sea is near the top.
Having an angry elephant charge at me and my family once whilst on Safari. That sounds very middle class but I don't give a ****.
A plane that nearly crashed due to turbulence. Had to make an emergency landing. Every time we were thrown about a foot in the air, half the plane yelled out "Jesus", "lord" or some combination thereof.
That and the time I was hospitalised in the third world and thought I was gonna die from a ruptured spleen.
I think the scariest moments are when you are genuinely close to death. Nothing like that to make you evaluate where your life is going, even if you are at the tender age of 13.
That and the time I was hospitalised in the third world and thought I was gonna die from a ruptured spleen.
I think the scariest moments are when you are genuinely close to death. Nothing like that to make you evaluate where your life is going, even if you are at the tender age of 13.
Results day.
Man City winning the league... again.
It's a cross between sleep paralysis and having my life threatened. Sleep paralysis turned me into an insomniac for a little while, having my life threatened turned me into an agoraphobe. It's been almost 2 years since the latter happened and still I get paranoid when leaving my house alone.
I think having my life threatened wins this round. Sleep paralysis was ****ing terrifying and I was too scared to even blink for a good while after I forced myself to wake up but what happened in my sleep stayed in my sleep. Having my life threatened wasn't just a bad dream, it was real life. The guy who threatened me knew something about me which I couldn't afford to have people know. He knew the area that I lived in but didn't know exactly where I live so for about 2 months between July and September/October I just could not bring myself to leave my house. When I did eventually leave it was Fresher's week. I went as far as to make some plans (new identity, hiding places, etc.) in case I needed to leave home to protect my family from finding out the thing. I still remember the phone calls of him threatening to "beat [my] little ass" and rape me and "expose" me and do all this other **** to me.
Really, I should be thanking the guy. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have pushed my boyfriend (who was a sort of "acquaintance" or "associate" at the time) away and he wouldn't have come back over a year later and we wouldn't be together now.
(I pushed boyfriend away because after the stuff with that guy happened I became suspicious of anyone I met during that summer. Boyfriend was one of those people and he knew more about me than I was comfortable with so in order to protect myself he had to go.)
I think having my life threatened wins this round. Sleep paralysis was ****ing terrifying and I was too scared to even blink for a good while after I forced myself to wake up but what happened in my sleep stayed in my sleep. Having my life threatened wasn't just a bad dream, it was real life. The guy who threatened me knew something about me which I couldn't afford to have people know. He knew the area that I lived in but didn't know exactly where I live so for about 2 months between July and September/October I just could not bring myself to leave my house. When I did eventually leave it was Fresher's week. I went as far as to make some plans (new identity, hiding places, etc.) in case I needed to leave home to protect my family from finding out the thing. I still remember the phone calls of him threatening to "beat [my] little ass" and rape me and "expose" me and do all this other **** to me.
Really, I should be thanking the guy. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have pushed my boyfriend (who was a sort of "acquaintance" or "associate" at the time) away and he wouldn't have come back over a year later and we wouldn't be together now.
(I pushed boyfriend away because after the stuff with that guy happened I became suspicious of anyone I met during that summer. Boyfriend was one of those people and he knew more about me than I was comfortable with so in order to protect myself he had to go.)
Almost getting ran over by a bus.
That I've witnessed, seeing a guy getting tasered. From what I could tell, his wife was trying to take his children out of the country (I guess he was abusive or something because the wife had a police escort and I guess had a restraining order against him). Anyway we were in the airport and she was getting rushed into the building by the police, but 30 seconds later this guy turned up sprinting after her, and one of the children (he was about 2 or 3 years old) starting running towards him. More police arrived and stopped him, but he was Polish and clearly didn't speak a word of English, so their attempts to calm him down just made him panic, and he took a swing at one of the policemen, and then another policeman came out of nowhere and tasered him right in the chest, and just stood there, meanwhile the child was next to him screaming, the guy was rolling around on the ground getting electrocuted, and the police were shouting at everyone to put away their phones... total chaos, I was worried they were going to kill him (there was actually a very similar case a few years back where a Polish guy who didn't speak English was detained in an airport, and lashed out, and he was so panicked that they kept tasering him until he passed out and he never woke up.)
Scary stuff, made me lose a lot of respect for the police because whatever he had done they clearly had made no attempt to handle the situation properly, they didn't have a translator or anything. (although its also a good argument for making sure immigrants learn the language, when something extreme like that happens I think we'd all resort to violence if we had no other way of communicating and the police were effectively stealing our children).
Scary stuff, made me lose a lot of respect for the police because whatever he had done they clearly had made no attempt to handle the situation properly, they didn't have a translator or anything. (although its also a good argument for making sure immigrants learn the language, when something extreme like that happens I think we'd all resort to violence if we had no other way of communicating and the police were effectively stealing our children).
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I'm epileptic, so when I have a seizure I have a sinking 10 second "you're gonna seize" moment.
Once I seized and woke up with my head covered in blood. Thought a good bit since then about how feasible it was that I would have died then.
Once I seized and woke up with my head covered in blood. Thought a good bit since then about how feasible it was that I would have died then.
Original post by Copperknickers
That I've witnessed, seeing a guy getting tasered. From what I could tell, his wife was trying to take his children out of the country (I guess he was abusive or something because the wife had a police escort and I guess had a restraining order against him). Anyway we were in the airport and she was getting rushed into the building by the police, but 30 seconds later this guy turned up sprinting after her, and one of the children (he was about 2 or 3 years old) starting running towards him. More police arrived and stopped him, but he was Polish and clearly didn't speak a word of English, so their attempts to calm him down just made him panic, and he took a swing at one of the policemen, and then another policeman came out of nowhere and tasered him right in the chest, and just stood there, meanwhile the child was next to him screaming, the guy was rolling around on the ground getting electrocuted, and the police were shouting at everyone to put away their phones... total chaos, I was worried they were going to kill him (there was actually a very similar case a few years back where a Polish guy who didn't speak English was detained in an airport, and lashed out, and he was so panicked that they kept tasering him until he passed out and he never woke up.)
Scary stuff, made me lose a lot of respect for the police because whatever he had done they clearly had made no attempt to handle the situation properly, they didn't have a translator or anything. (although its also a good argument for making sure immigrants learn the language, when something extreme like that happens I think we'd all resort to violence if we had no other way of communicating and the police were effectively stealing our children).
Scary stuff, made me lose a lot of respect for the police because whatever he had done they clearly had made no attempt to handle the situation properly, they didn't have a translator or anything. (although its also a good argument for making sure immigrants learn the language, when something extreme like that happens I think we'd all resort to violence if we had no other way of communicating and the police were effectively stealing our children).
It's incredibly hard to just "get" a translator.
Getting sexually assaulted in a taxi wasn't one of my better moments.
Original post by RFowler
I was just wondering what's the scariest thing you remember seeing or experiencing?
The only one I can remember off the top of my head is the time I saw two cows running towards me from across the field, forcing me to run to the fence and climb over. I was lucky I was fairly close to the fence.
The only one I can remember off the top of my head is the time I saw two cows running towards me from across the field, forcing me to run to the fence and climb over. I was lucky I was fairly close to the fence.
I had a similar experience once. Only it was a herd of cows and there was no fence but the River Severn. Thankfully a couple of dogs chased them off. I must have been about 5-7 years old at the time and have never felt comfortable around cows since.
Original post by RFowler
I was just wondering what's the scariest thing you remember seeing or experiencing?
The only one I can remember off the top of my head is the time I saw two cows running towards me from across the field, forcing me to run to the fence and climb over. I was lucky I was fairly close to the fence.
The only one I can remember off the top of my head is the time I saw two cows running towards me from across the field, forcing me to run to the fence and climb over. I was lucky I was fairly close to the fence.
Had nothing much thankfully
nearly choked a few times but nothing else springs to mind
Well just now I had screeching in my back garden. As though an animal was either being raped or murdered. Now I can't sleep.
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If not including personal attacks or situations, then probably when a guy stood next to me to cross the road crosses before safe to do so. A bike smacked right into him about 5 feet from me and the two went flying. Was a bit scary being the first one on scene as such and having to suddenly drop everything to make sure the two were okay to the best of my ability with basic first aid knowledge and waiting for an ambulance.
A few years ago I was out cycling with one of my mates, we were right out in the country and having a really good time. We started a pretty fast descent with me in the lead, but I chickened out at 40mph and he overtook me. There was a bit of a corner at the bottom of the hill, and as we went round it we came face to face with a white van speeding right down the middle of the road (straddling the centreline). The closing speed was probably close to 100mph. Somehow my mate managed to swerve inside the van just enough to not get hit, but it was a matter of inches between him making it and not making it. The look on the van drivers face as he passed me was one of utter terror, he was as white as a sheet. I think it's the closest I've come to seeing someone die.
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Well just now I had screeching in my back garden. As though an animal was either being raped or murdered. Now I can't sleep.
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Lol probably cats fighting or just foxes roaming.
I lived in Brixton when I was younger, and someone pulled a gun out on me, because I was friends with someone from a rival gang, he was about to pull the trigger but I convinced him that I had no affiliation with any gang, and he let me go.
That was a close call, and in retrospect one of my friends got stabbed outside a music studio, I was still in the studio but if I had exited instead of him, I would most likely had been the victim, so I count my blessing everday.
That was a close call, and in retrospect one of my friends got stabbed outside a music studio, I was still in the studio but if I had exited instead of him, I would most likely had been the victim, so I count my blessing everday.
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