Close calls with death

xelasnave · #1 22-10-2007, 03:35 PM

After thinking about my blow out in the car which lead me to think of the many close calls with death and also the spat earlier today I thought how short life really is.

And yet we seem to get involved in the odd spat I an more guilty of provocation than most ..what with my claims that NASA have dark matter all wrong and that sort of thing.

But in the interests of geting our minds off the unpleasentness of our day let creep in ...lets think and post our close calls with death.

Does anyone have something they will share... a change of plan that saved your life ...a near miss..that sort of thing.

Maybe by thinking about these sorts of iccidences we can all appreciate life just a little more than we sometimes do.

alex

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #2 22-10-2007, 03:43 PM

Geez Alex, which one?

I've been at deaths door so many times!!!

Severe Motorcycle accidents, gun at my head for 5 hours straight, bashed senseless and left to die, death threats in jail, Outlaw motorcyle club war, car accident . . .

It has certainly been eventful

casstony · #3 22-10-2007, 04:01 PM

I think Ken's stolen the show, but my close calls have been numerous, involving cars, motorbikes, hang gliders, alcohol(idiocy), disease, near drowning and others I can't remember. I'm under the impression this is all pretty normal though. What really worries me is how to steer the kids clear of such things.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #4 22-10-2007, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by casstony

I think Ken's stolen the show, but my close calls have been numerous, involving cars, motorbikes, hang gliders, alcohol(idiocy), disease, near drowning and others I can't remember. I'm under the impression this is all pretty normal though. What really worries me is how to steer the kids clear of such things.

Nope, I didn't steal any show, your post proves that.

Actually people who cross city roads face death every day

(I hate trying to cross roads in cities)

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #5 22-10-2007, 04:07 PM

Jeez Ken - we all had something to add, but after your lot what's the point?

I was taken by aliens and forced to watch I love Lucy re-runs. I was only a boy.

(no-one ever believes me though.... )

erick (Eric) · #6 22-10-2007, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

....gun at my head for 5 hours straight, bashed senseless and left to die......

Rough bunch up at Snake Valley Astronomical Association!

xelasnave · #7 22-10-2007, 04:19 PM

Ok lets start again..the most memorable incident.

I will start.
I had a hot dog once and it was off..

Now seing I started the thread may I suggest some guiide lines.
One incident at a time... so maybe if one mentions a near miss on a bike then someone else call recall these... or something entirely different.

So who has had crook food, or something that springs to mind as a result.

If you dont play along I will share my ideas on gravity

alex

Campus Dweller · #8 22-10-2007, 04:19 PM

Can't remember ever having a close brush with death. Obviously I haven't lived.
Perhaps a close encounter of the fatal kind will make my life complete - hopefully without actaully ending it.

mcross · #9 22-10-2007, 04:29 PM

Had a close call weekend before last...
Driving my brother and mum home (after a night of star gazing actually!) when another driver came flying through a stop sign into the intersection in front of us... Had just enough time to brake and swerve before impact. We hit and did a near 360 degree spin! Car written off. We all walked away from it with a few aches and bruises! Feeling quite lucky to be still on the planet. Yes, it does make you think - life really does hang by a thread! .. but the good thing is that we are all human and the occasional spat (myself included!) is all part of the rich smorgasboard of life!!
Cheers,
Mark

erick (Eric) · #10 22-10-2007, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by xelasnave

.... So who has had crook food, or something that springs to mind as a result.........

Interesting you should mention it. Two Mondays ago, I reckon I was going to die - a violent stomach upset - you don't want to know the details. And then the following Friday, almost again, but I fought it off. Lost 3 kg in the week. Still don't know what it was - something I ate or drank or a bug?

However, I wonder about all the close calls that I have unknowingly avoided - eg. all those 240 Volt exposed connections I nearly touched as a kid when I fiddled with electricity over many years. Now have safety switches on everything in the house and garage - light and power! And I "fiddle" a lot more safely than before!

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Originally Posted by xelasnave

If you don't play along I will share my ideas on gravity

Noooooooooo!

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #11 22-10-2007, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

....gun at my head for 5 hours straight, bashed senseless and left to die......

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Originally Posted by erick

Rough bunch up at Snake Valley Astronomical Association!

and all that was just at the last meeting trying to vote for who has to put the rubbish bin out!

anthony2302749 · #12 22-10-2007, 05:07 PM

I suppose being shot at the age of 12 with a 22, having the bullet, a hollow point, passing through the large and small intestines just missing the kiddney by a fraction of an inch and the left hip bone by twice that distants. Taking a three hour ambulance trip from Mouya on the south coast to Canberra, six hours on the operating table and a lenght stay in hospital would be a close call with death.

xelasnave · #13 22-10-2007, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by anthony2302749

I suppose being shot at the age of 12 with a 22, having the bullet, a hollow point, passing through the large and small intestines just missing the kiddney by a fraction of an inch and the left hip bone by twice that distants. Taking a three hour ambulance trip from Mouya on the south coast to Canberra, six hours on the operating table and a lenght stay in hospital would be a close call with death.

mmm ok I think we can take that one....but only because you were 12 at the time.
Nasty experience.

That was close... how did that happen if you are prepared to confide.

alex

Ric · #14 22-10-2007, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

RESPONSE

and all that was just at the last meeting trying to vote for who has to put the rubbish bin out!

I've just put a post-it note on my computer monitor which reads "Don't pick on Kens Toucam"

I had quite a few motorcycle related brush's both on and off the track that make you sit back and think "what if". But I'll keep riding as it's one of my great loves, after my darling wife Kee of course.

I also think riding on the race track is way way safer than the road.

Cheers

h0ughy (David) · #15 22-10-2007, 05:43 PM

mmmm let me see, I wonder if buying my first SCT telescope the day of my daughters birth and then her mother telling my wife about it....... no not that one

Umm , well when I was 20 I wrote off my second car I owned, and managed to get out of it after it rolled twice to see that the other vehicle who hit me at speed was worse off. All I can say is lucky I didnt have any passengers

xelasnave · #16 22-10-2007, 05:59 PM

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mmmm let me see, I wonder if buying my first SCT telescope the day of my daughters birth and then her mother telling my wife about it....... no not that one

Gee I thought I was a bad man... I hope your excuse was one arrived early or late???

alex

xelasnave · #17 22-10-2007, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Ric

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I also think riding on the race track is way way safer than the road.

Cheers

Aint that the truth ... had some big ones on the track and never broke my body... lost some bark but was always on the line the following week.

alex

Ric · #18 22-10-2007, 06:12 PM

My theory is that everyone is going the same way and they know what they are doing. On the road there are just to many drivers that shouldn't be there.

Cheers

xelasnave · #19 22-10-2007, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Ric

My theory is that everyone is going the same way and they know what they are doing. On the road there are just to many drivers that shouldn't be there.

Cheers

Again very true... the few times I rode on the rode, and that was after my race days were past, I was nearly cleaned up a few times..never my fault always someone doing something very silly.

I gave it away after a few scares.

alex

noelo · #20 22-10-2007, 06:31 PM

Not really a close call but definately proof that someone was looking out for me....

My wife and myself got engaged on a beach in Malaysia a couple of years ago. The same day and roughly the same time that a certain tsunami was making a mess of other parts of south Asia.
The close call was that we had booked flights to Phuket in Thailand for the same period but something came up at work and we had to cancel. The work thing passed and we booked again this time Phuket was full so Malaysia it was....

We went celebrating getting engaged (a beer or two), missing all the calls from relatives and friends trying to figure out if we had been hit.
Only for grace of God we would have been on the beaches of Phuket on that morning.