Brush with death

bert was held up at gunpoint twice ... and ... he almost came off his chopper on a tight right hander ...

I was the passenger in three car crashes on the same stretch of road in the space of 18 months.

When I was a wee thing just recently learnt to crawl and we lived in Saudi Arabia, my mother moved a chair to vacum under it and exposed a small scorpion, with probably just enough venom to finish off a tiny baby. Young Dan immediately went 'Oooh' and crawled as fast as a small crawling baby can crawl towards the scorpion. Knowing I would reach the creature before she could stop me, my mother, with a quickness of mind she is still proud of to this day, sucked it up with the vacum cleaner extension. On a particuarly windy day last summer we decided not to go out in the north sea but instead pootle about in the dutch inland waterways (the Veerse Meere), this proved to be an extraordinarily prescient descision when the forestay snapped about lunchtime. We saved the mast and even had the whole thing repaired by that night, but had we been bouncing about in gale force winds on the open sea, things would have been very different. The funny thing was, as we were tied up fixing it another british yacht with only a jagged aluminium cup where their mast had been pulled up beside us. Exactly the same thing had happened to them ten miles off shore. They were just relieved nobody was hurt. Our tale of good fortune didn't seem to cheer them up at all.

was the driver trying to tell you something, flash?

Aged 10, I nearly choked to death on a chicken nuggett (not McDonalds). I just kept trying to breth and sucking it further down my trachea. I don't actually remember how it came unstuck...some pasing angel must have given me the Heimlich Manouver.

Well he didn't give me a lift anymore after thr third crash Martin.

when i was about 3, i was on holiday at my gran parents place in mayo, ireland, i was minding my own business, strolling around the farm year when i saw a bull jump through the window of the nearby barn, he landed a few feet from me, i was watched it as it landed, and then turned, and ran off towards the fields, he was more interested in servicing the cows than in trampling a toddler

that should read farm yard...

I've had several near-miss situations in airplanes, including a corporate jet being forced down in White Plains NY and hitting the runway so hard it blew out the tires. Once when trying to leave Warsaw on a Delta flight, the nose lifted off the ground, there was a loud grinding noise, and we slapped back onto the ground and taxied back to the gate. A flock of birds got sucked into one of the engines and it blew. Good thing we weren't quite airborne yet.

well .............. when i was 7 my school got set on fire when i was 21 i got drunk some one raped me and tryed to murder me and my both of my marridegs ended with violents.

when I was about 3 months old my mother placed me on top of a chest of drawers to change my nappy...she left the room for a moment to get something and when she returned she found me lying in the top drawer. Oooops!

lol!!

Hi Radio, My that was a close encounter. Glad you are safe, you must be understandably shook up though. I had a near death experience a few years ago, tried to overtake a bus load of old people in a Renault 25 gtx on a hill. I had misjudged the road ahead where there was a BMW hidden in a slight bend. It was coming at me fast, the gap was closing ahead of the bus, I was going too slowly and had to either drop back or go for it. I dropped a gear and put my foot to the floor! I made the gap just as it closed, but I saw the whites of the BMW drivers horrified eyes too. Too close for comfort. I spontaneously burst into tears for two weeks afterwards. You will be in shock my friend, just take it easy! ok? Certainly makes you appreciate your loved ones more for a while though.lol All the best Tai

Emma, I've always thought of you as top drawer. Perhaps your post explains why. [%sig%]

Tai, Thank you for the sentiments, however, I'm just fine. I've been in other "more" serious situations and found the shiny side. I found the airplane situation a bit disturbing though. In hind-sight, I think I had a premonition thing or something when I wrote my winters tale competition story. I've a knack for doing that for some reason. I had another event in Oahu, riding a horse in the valley where they filmed Jurassic Park and parts of Peal Harbor. My arm got the worst of it though. haha. I'll save it for another day. Emma, there's a wonderful joke in your story. I'll save you from it also.