tragedy/shocker
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- mattyd0
on my god scarabin. thats fucking nuts. i wouldnt know what to do if i woke up to that.
- anzelina0
inspiration, i've seen that airshow in eastbourne, i think it was 2003?
- brandelec0
scarabin :S
- caulfield0
Biggest thing I've ever been ivolved in? It was when I jumped off the rocks into the surf to save a woman in the surf at Coogee.
Lifesavers got to her first on their ski's, and paddled her back to shore.
So I climbed out, alone and wet...and caught the bus home.
Bastards.
- scarabin0
let's see...
the most traumatic thing in my life happened only last year. a drug binge on halloween left me pretty much dying alone on my bathroom floor for six days starving, hallucinating, and suffering from a nonstop migraine headache which caused pain i don't think a normal person can even fathom. my girlfriend found me and nursed me back to health the following six months. i lost 35 pounds and nearly died from an affliction it apparently aggravated my neurosurgical team later diagnosed as 'ideopathic intercranial hypertension' which causes these headaches.
some of you may remember my posts before halloween about me suffering from 4 or 5 day attacks in which the pain was so incredible and intense all i could do is scream and vomit blood.
these attacks lasted up to a record 16 day long one in december.
i couldn't move or get out of bed or feed myself for like 6 months, and eventually accepted the fact that i was going to die. i started giving my things away once i was able to speak enough to do so... preparing for my death.
- PonyBoy0
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caulfield.. if it's any consolation - I think you're a hero... anyway who does something like that is a hero.
that reminds of the time when I used to live in New Hampshire. I'm sitting in a Burger King on Lake Winnepasaukee. Kinda cool - in the summer - boats pull right up to Burger King's private docks...
... but in the winter - it's all about the ice-fishing in the harbour area. So i'm enjoying a chicken sandwich staring out at the frozen tundra freckled with bob houses for fishing when some lady screams - SOMEONE FELL THROUGH THE ICE! LOOK LOOK!! so everyone goes running to the windows... and about a mile out we see what looks like flayling arms try desperately to get on the ice.
so some dudes run out onto the ice.. .sliding all over the place trying to get out to where we think we see the person...
... 10 mins later the FD shows up with a hovercraft and cruises out on the ice to rescue a plastic garbabe bag that had frozen into the ice next a bob house and was tossing about in the wind.
false alarm... but fuck if it wasn't a circus for a while. :)
- scarabin0
not a day goes by that i'm not amazed i got through it, and that my gf stuck by me and was able to cope with my screams and crying and taking care of me.
- scarabin0
interesting that all of these posts involve death
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
scarabin - have you starting writing 'the book' yet?
jeeeeezus.
Oh - I also had a brother run away - haven't heard from him since. He was 16 then and would be 34 now.
- foreign0
when i was about 4 a guy ran over me in the main road of cape town. i let go of my mom's hand and ran across the street, as you do.
a guy in a mercedes hit me... i fell down, he went on going and i came out the back unscathed. all i had was a bruise on my hip where the bumper hit me.
the guy did a runner.
- foreign0
not really a tragedy. but it could've been.
- kitson0
I wish i could share mine but I can't.
But about a year ago, my cousin was getting divorced and he wasn't handling it very well. He called his mom and shot himself in the head over the phone. She later hung herself.
- toe_knee0
cool stories.
- Fariska0
Some months ago, there was a small but powerful quake. I ever lived in non sismic areas. And, now living at the 4th level, the bulding had a sort of "whiplash".
I felt totally harmless.
Just gone down the stairs and waited outside, cool blood but terrified.
- |oo|0
maybe not so 'harmless', you could've falling through the floor and landed on someone else : 0
- inspiration0
this is a very interesting but tragic thread.
the weirdest thing i've seen was at an airshow in eastbourne. we were sitting on top of the cliffs watching the planes flying/looping over the sea.
one plane did a really high backwards loop and as it came down towards the sea it just stopped turning and flew into the water. there was a delay (we were a little way off), a weird bang then complete silence.
freaky shit to watch.
- lnu0
Horrible stories, but they make mine seem petty in comparison, and I guess I'm lucky for that. Here's a l_o_n_g list:
• Biggest tragedy is watching my mother slowly withering away with cancer. The flipside is, I've discovered that she has superpowers I never knew of.
• Biggest shocker... probably watching two guys down a hill on a bike way too fast. They yawed of the road out in the ditch and the guy at the front flew over the handlebars and cracked his skull against a tree just a couple of feets away from me. He survived. I remember the sound and running around to nearby houses, ringing doorbells frantically and watching elderly people look out the window like I was some sort of burglar.
• When I was about 6yo a guy at a playground started strangling me for no apparent reason. My sister and her friend saved me somehow. I later learned he had some issues.
• At about the same age I was playing in a heap of snow and a delivery truck passed by slowly. I slided down and in between the trucks front and rear axles and then out between the left and right rear wheel. It happened to fast for me to get scared but I didn't play there anymore.
• At the last day of our last period in camp in the army, we were all happy to be going home soon, although noboby of us had been aloud to sleep enough the last week. 1hr before we were to drive home we learned that four of our colleagues had crashed into a truck and the two up in front had died instantly. The driver fell asleep at the wheel. The commanding officers had totally disrespected the ammount of sleep us drivers needed (even according to the law) and these two soldiers died because of it. (And our country hasn't been at war in over a hundered years.)
• A part tragedy, part shocker was watching my girlfriends father, who had been a father figure and role model to me, turn in to a complete childish idiot a-hole after the end of my girlfriends parents perfect marriage - which he ended.
(•) I also had a mini-shock this morning as I woke up really early to the doorbell ringing, the sound of someone peeping through the mail slot and then checking if the door was locked. Still don't know what that was about, a burglar maybe.
- Mojo0
My granddad had a heart attack a week today and is still in a coma, not looking good. and last night someone spiked a friend's drink (I'm not local to her) with E's, she blacked out, and had her stomach pumped at the hospital.. she actually nearly died.. thank god for paramedics who are on time.
Death is a consequence of life is something I am becoming more and more familiar with!
Sorry im not trying to be depressing, my heart goes out to all the people who have loved ones unaccounted for or have passed away.
- Crouwel0
sick. i have had multiple experiences.
one of the scariest was when i woke up (when i lived in the center of my hometown when i was about 12 or so) and there was police all over the place. the blocked the road crossing my street and there was military police and all kinds of special cars turning up. Turned out that just a few hundred feet away from where i live they found the head of a woman in apublic trashcan..
my father was a press photographer and he was right on the scene... weeks later when the man was caught they reconstructed the killing (it turned out to be his wife) at his home with him there. no press was allowed but my dad bribed someone in the house on the other side to take pics from there.
the most shocking thing was, he lived just two streets away from where i lived before. so i had this crazy feeling this man was always close to me in a way. really scared the fuck out of me in hindsight.
he chopped his wife in pieces and had hidden the other bodyparts right under the stairs with some cement in his home.
sick story huh?
- sherman0
It would be a tragedy to receive a shocker.
