The scariest thing that ever happened to you?
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I have had a couple of scary moments in the past and of the two I don't know which would be considered the scariest. The first was when I was out in the country with my dad driving down a dirt road. It had gotten dark and I got out of the truck and suddenly headlights came on behind us. We first thought a farmer or even game warden looking for poachers possibly. I got in the truck and we drove off and the lights went out again. My dad then knew they were up to no good so he turned the truck around real fast and they were following us again with their lights off. My dad pulled out his shotgun and fired a blast into the air and that was enough to make them turn around and leave us alone then. The second, I was living with my girlfriend when around 2 AM there was a banging at her door. She got up and rushed in and told me to stay there and not say anything as her ex-boyfriend was at the door. Not only that but he had a temper and was like a special forces man for the Turkish government! Told me he was always armed with knife or gun and didn't know what he might do if she caught her with someone. I have held my own but never thought I would be able to take someone down trained to kill without thought! Luckily, I am here today to look back and thank my lucky stars that I had common sense at least once in my life!
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Raising two daughters0
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I went to elementary school in a bad part of town. There was a lot of poverty and crime. One day during recess, a man leapt over the fence into the playground area with a MACHINE GUN and ran across the soccer field. Luckily he didn't open fire on us, he was running from the cops. I will never forget the teachers screaming for us to "run for our lives". All the adults basically took off running, not even looking back or trying to round us up. I was only 8-9 at the time, and ever since then I have hated those teachers for abandoning us out there.0
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My mum being diagnosed with cancer was pretty scary.....0
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I got married0
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The first would be when I realized my 3 yr old daughter was drowning in a lake we had gone to for a family reunion. My cousin was standing right next to her, but it was so loud with the water and all the kids that he couldn't hear her. I couldn't even speak, I just ran, jumped off a 4' boulder wall and ran into the water. I could hear his wife yelling "BABY! BABY!" behind me. He realized what was happening and grabbed her. The bottom had dropped right where she was trying to reach for her blow-up donut. She actually wanted to get back in the water!
Second was when I was walking to my car, in front of my house, and a car was sliding down the icy street, popped up onto the sidewalk and was headed right for me. It was like in the movies where you're in shock and you can't move. My mom was at the front door and about had a heart attack. Luckily the car veered away from me and ended up hitting the dogwood in the front yard instead. The driver was fine.0 -
Received the balance of my college loan.0
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I was making Kool-Aid and I realized we were out of sugar...
Turns out it was in the other cabinet, crisis averted. Still scary though.0 -
A few years back i was in a club in Tijuana Mexico and it got shot up by cartel people. We were sitting in a booth and all of a sudden i see sparks and loud noise which were the gunshots coming in. At first i had no idea what happened while everyone else was ducking for cover then i ducked. I was fairly certain thats how i was going to die. Thankfully the shooter did not go inside the club but one of the security guards out front got shot and later after we were allowed to leave the club my moms car had a gun shot hole. The whole thing was so surreal though i wasnt really scared at the time and thinking back it still feels like it was a dream. A friend who was with me though is scarred for life and will never go back to anywhere in Tijuana ever again.
This is some Breaking Bad *kitten* right here.0 -
I have 4 and they all involve my son lol smh.
1. When he was about 7 months old, he had this pimple in his diaper area, kind of looked like a white head. I guess he scratch it and it got infected. It was hard and looked like a whole in his skin, like a bullet hole. We went to the doctors and stuck him a bunch of times to get blood test but because he was so young it was hard to get a vein. FINALLY, they got it in and the results said he had MRSA. He was transferred, by ambulance, to the children’s hospital and was there for 4 days before he was better. Come to find out, the doctor said he probrably got it when we went to the hospital to visit my mother a little while back!!
2. When he was 2, I left him on our bed to grab his diaper form his room, when I came back in the room, I caught him climbing the dresser drawers and the whole dresser fell on him. I called the doctor and he said bring him to the ER now, a little girl his age died last year for the same thing, but the mother didn’t bring her to the hospital and she died of internal bleeding, I rushed there and he had all these test and scans done, but everything ended being ok, thank god
3. He was about 2 ½, he had a strange lump growing on his side under his skin. It started out as a grape size and got as big as a golf ball. We went to the ER and they couldn’t figure out what it was. They made an appointment for us for Yale and they check it out a still could figure it out. They wanted to remove it. So he had to get surgery and get put under! I think the putting under part scared me the most! It ended up being a benign tumor/Fatty tissue. To this day they don’t know how or why this appeared. It was in such a weird place!! He has about a 2-3 inch scare on his side, but it doesn’t bother him, which i'm happy about!!!
4. We were in my apartment complex, he was riding his bike and took off on me and was going through two cars while another car (dodge charger) was zooming into the parking lot. I had to be about 15 feet away from him. Till this day, I don’t know how I did it, but I got to him just in time and yank him off his bike right before the car hit him!!! I lost it!!
So, as you can see, my son a damn handful lol0 -
This thread was a good read! Some scary stories.. :ohwell:0
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I almost got hit by a car last week, barely jumped out of the way. Didn't stop the car from hitting my hand and the bag in said hand tossing my stuff everywhere. lol.
Or the time I was mugged by three kids in ski masks and a gun...
Or the time a guy tried to force me in his car as I was walking home...
I think I need to move.0 -
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almost drown when I was 6.0
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When I was 22, I woke up with a man standing over my bed. It turned out that it was a co-worker that had been stalking me.0
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Skydiving. My chute partially opened but was tangled. I had to cut it away and use the reserve chute or untangle it.
Oh, did I mention this was my very first time?
I couldn't bring myself to release the first chute, so I kind of got on my side and bicycle kicked. Trying to spin around and untangle it. Don't know how long it took, but when I heard that pop and looked up to see my canopy open, I was very relieved. I was also very close to the ground and just had time to miss a tree, a barb wire fence and ended up in some farmer's pasture. Pretty far away from the targeted landing area.0 -
Walked into the bathroom, and my reflection in the mirror turned toward me before I started turning toward it to face it.
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Some of these stories send chills down my spine.
I was driving on a lonely mountain highway in Colorado all by myself when I got caught in a blizzard. I couldn't see at all and the road was icing up and the snow was getting deeper and deeper. I couldn't even tell where the road was anymore. I was just about ready to give up and pull off the road when a snow plow came up behind me. I let him pass and followed him to safety. I was never so happy to see the ground in my life.0 -
Walked into the bathroom, and my reflection in the mirror turned toward me before I started turning toward it to face it.
Yes.
I used to have nightmares about that when I was a kid. To this day, I get anxious around mirrors.0 -
Another one in my teens - was rudely awakened at 4am by 6.0 earthquake. I hate earthquakes!!!!0
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civilian area
Unless you are talking about a military police station, then the entire building is a civilian area, as it's not military.
I hate it when people get that wrong.
A guy tried to stab me in the heart once, my bp vest stopped the knife luckily, so I disarmed him and started beating his *kitten* until the civilian sheriff deputies showed up to help out.
Poor guy fell down a lot while he was being arrested.
A lot.0 -
The first time my lung collapsed I had no idea what had happened. All I knew was that it felt like someone had shot me in the chest. Oy. Oh and this was midway through my senior prom. Nothing says sexy like your date thinking you're dying
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Toss up really. In short was once being shot at in a high speed chase ran into 6 parked cars, the car went through someones house. Then the owner got a baseball bat and help me until the cops came I was bleeding.
second I was in the military and the 4 start general bodyguard. We are instructed to warn and then shoot to kill. So at dusk some man got over a concertina wired fence with roving guards, two guard shacks. Well he was making his way towards the general's house. I saw the man instructed him to stop moving, he kept moving so I cocked my firearm and he immediately stopped. My hands were shaking....
hell I have lots more stories, getting jumped by a gang of Samoans, a gang with machetes jumping out of the bushes for walking on their street, guns being pulled on me, etc.0 -
When my daughter was little--probably about 2 because she was still in her crib, there was probably a full week where I would go to get her up in the morning & she would ask me where the old man went. It was so weird. We had an alarm system so I know there was never anyone in the room with her, but her window did face the street. A little while later, an old man did just walk into our house. It turned out he lived in the neighborhood & was alone & was definitely suffering from some kind of senility. He was very nice & I took him home & called the city Elder Services about him. I don't know if he had been looking in her window through the crack in the curtains or what, but it was creepy.
Another time was when I was pregnant with my 4th baby. I was on bed rest & my mom had taken my other boys outside to play. My youngest (at the time) was probably around 2 & he wandered (or ran) away from her & she didn't notice right away. She came in to check & see if he had walked back into the house, but he hadn't. We ran around the neighborhood yelling for him for about 10 minutes before I happened to see him out of the corner of my eye before he disappeared into one of my neighbor's backyard. He has Asperger's & would not respond to his name when he was called. It was the scariest thing that has ever happened to me. My immediate neighbor had a pond in her yard & there was a creek back behind all of our houses. I was so panicked. I will never forget it. My other son was definitely traumatized by it as well.0 -
While living in Taiwan last year (I'm British) I ended up having to have life saving surgery for an ectopic pregnancy.
Thankfully the hospital was amazing, everyone spoke English (I'm not fluent in mandarin) and I recovered well :drinker:0 -
It is a tie.
While in the Army, I had the pleasure of being deployed to Somolia.
To cut to the chase, I kicked in a door and the guy on the other side fired two rounds at me with an AK-47. He was about 10 feet away and missed. That was scary.
Fast forward 8 years. Married and (this is important), I became a Jehovahs Witness.
The religion is important because we don't take blood.
Anyway, my wife is in labor with our first Son. As he came out, I heard the Doctor say "Uh oh". Now, if there is ONE place you don't want to hear that, it is in a delivery room.
I look at him and say "Uh oh what?"
He looks at me and said "You guys are Jehovah's Witnesses, right?"
For what it's worth, that is probably the ONLY time you DON'T want to hear that question.
I nonned my head and he said something or made a signal. The room suddenly filled up with people.
My wife was bleeding to death from "up there". The baby, as he came out, had torn some arteries inside of her.
They rushed her into the OR and, for a solid hour, I had no idea if she was dead or alive.
(spoiler alert.. she lived)
That was the most terrifying hour of my life.0 -
i havent had too many scares myself, however, my sister was due to fly out of new york back to australia when 9/11 happened.
i remember it clearly, i was watching the west wing when my housemate came out of his room and said "Someone has flown a plane into the world trade center" my first thought was "what an idiot" cos i thought it had been an accident.
then i remember seeing the 2nd plane hit live and you could tell he was aiming for it. i rang my folks and thats when they told me it was the day my sis was due to fly out.
turns out she was on the last plane to take off before all the airports were closed. Infact that had tried to prevent hers from taking off but they were already on the runway.
they had been at the WTC the day before on a tour too.0 -
It is a tie.
While in the Army, I had the pleasure of being deployed to Somolia.
To cut to the chase, I kicked in a door and the guy on the other side fired two rounds at me with an AK-47. He was about 10 feet away and missed. That was scary.
Fast forward 8 years. Married and (this is important), I became a Jehovahs Witness.
The religion is important because we don't take blood.
Anyway, my wife is in labor with our first Son. As he came out, I heard the Doctor say "Uh oh". Now, if there is ONE place you don't want to hear that, it is in a delivery room.
I look at him and say "Uh oh what?"
He looks at me and said "You guys are Jehovah's Witnesses, right?"
For what it's worth, that is probably the ONLY time you DON'T want to hear that question.
I nonned my head and he said something or made a signal. The room suddenly filled up with people.
My wife was bleeding to death from "up there". The baby, as he came out, had torn some arteries inside of her.
They rushed her into the OR and, for a solid hour, I had no idea if she was dead or alive.
(spoiler alert.. she lived)
That was the most terrifying hour of my life.
So I guess you took blood?0 -
No.. They pumped her full of saline solution. I would imagine it is different then the one we use for our contact lenses but, they gave her a LOT of it.It is a tie.
While in the Army, I had the pleasure of being deployed to Somolia.
To cut to the chase, I kicked in a door and the guy on the other side fired two rounds at me with an AK-47. He was about 10 feet away and missed. That was scary.
Fast forward 8 years. Married and (this is important), I became a Jehovahs Witness.
The religion is important because we don't take blood.
Anyway, my wife is in labor with our first Son. As he came out, I heard the Doctor say "Uh oh". Now, if there is ONE place you don't want to hear that, it is in a delivery room.
I look at him and say "Uh oh what?"
He looks at me and said "You guys are Jehovah's Witnesses, right?"
For what it's worth, that is probably the ONLY time you DON'T want to hear that question.
I nonned my head and he said something or made a signal. The room suddenly filled up with people.
My wife was bleeding to death from "up there". The baby, as he came out, had torn some arteries inside of her.
They rushed her into the OR and, for a solid hour, I had no idea if she was dead or alive.
(spoiler alert.. she lived)
That was the most terrifying hour of my life.
So I guess you took blood?
When talking to the doctor a few weeks later, he told me that as soon as they would clamp one tear, they would find the other one further up.
I can't remember how many stitches it took but, I do remember a LOT of blood.
My poor wife had "Fred Flinstone" feet for about two weeks.
The doctor explained how close she actually came to bleeding out and he was very proud (as he should have been) of the fact that he was able to save her without the use of blood.
Our next child was a C section.
And for the record, MUCH less drama.0 -
Almost fell while rock climbing, and because of a long series of events that I won't go into, I had no safety gear at all. Had to jump off this ledge and grab a rock, and it was about a hundred foot drop if I missed it.
I didn't miss, obviously, but gah... my leg wouldn't stop shaking for about 10 minutes afterward.0
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