What.

[TWR]

Has been your most frighening experience?

[bookbinder]

Falling off a ladder, about 2 or 3 years ago. I fell about 6 feet, and landed on my side, but I fell in a narrow gap between my house and a fence made of concrete posts and wooden panels. I was aware, as I fell, that I might crack my head on the top of a fence post (about 4 feet high) and that frightened me. As it turned out, I slid down a fence post, ripped my shirt and vest and grazed my back, so I got off relatively lightly. The experience is fixed in my memory, like a video, and I don't think that I shall ever forget it.

[daffy654]

Arriving at A&E in 1996 via ambulance to find a full resus team waiting for me, up until that point I didn't realise how ill I actually was, mostly due to an excellent paramedic who knew full well I was close to death but didn't let on and kept me calm.

[Zacs-Master]

Seeing a knife weilding loony appear out of some bushes and threaten me and my girlfriend when I was about 16 whilst waiting at a bus stop to see she got on safely to go home!

[Mamyalynne]

Arriving in A&E and hearing the nurse pick up the phone and say , 'I have a lady here with no pulse'.

[doctordb]

'do you take ? ? To be your wedded wife'

[viv38]

Suddenly seeing flashing lights at the corner of my eye and an increase in floaters - thought I had a detached retina, but luckily it wasn't.

[murraymints]

When a drug crazed client Pulled gun out on me !!! All the men disappeared....managed to calm him got gun off him...he came back some time later to apologise....

[Frank97]

Pulling out to overtake two cars on a motorbike just as the second car pulled out to overtake the first, forcing me into the middle of the right hand lane with a car coming straight at me, I missed it by inches. To this day I can still remember the adrenalin rush I got after that.

[4getmenot]

When i walked to a train station once with my mate down an alleyway at night. Two blokes behind us started stepping up the pace, my mate shouted run!, i chucked myself in a hedge, the blokes ran past and my mate stopped, looked at me hiding in the hedge and said 'our trains just arrived'

[ChillDoubt]

Being shot at whilst on patrol and mortared whilst in an RUC station.

[josaphine32]

Sat in the car, with my learner daughter driving, I needed vallium after that, I still hate getting in the car with her driving even though she has now past her test, we always fall out big time, I know get told to get out. : -(

[josaphine32]

Christ, mine was a breeze in the park compared to some of the posts, x

[Baldric]

Tumbledown.........June '82

[vulcan42]

Due to a language misunderstanding, having an American marine holding a knife to my throat.

[Boto]

Being able to see only a small area at the top - diagnosed as a detached retina and I had to wait 5 days for the op. A long 5 days!

[Peter Pedant]

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There you are Baldric I said you were in the Falklands and you didnt even reply ! Scary - my contemporaries were having their arses bombed off in Camp Hairy-scary - no, the ? red and green life machine ?
Amazing how time dims the memory. Life changing I think for all of them of course in different ways.

Being on ITU whilst my brother commented I think we had better call the undertaker - just made me think - that's odd I dont think I am dying.


taking a knife off a fella in the street - I was too busy erm taking it off him and trying not get stabbed to let any frighteny thoughts in.


I suppose a balloon ride in Luxor. Yes they're baaaaaack !
£100 to have the c+ap scared out of you for 35 mins.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah Boto agreed.

I had a TIA - retinal artery thrombosis in one eye and had a panic stricken twenty minutes waiting for the return of sight - wondering if the other eye would go as well in which case I would have compleetely blind in the space of thirty minutes.
with s+d-all to be done about it.

[ummmm]

-A bloke followed me home from the pub and got in my house.

-Being stranded on a desert island because of a storm.

[humbersloop]

ten hours with snapped rigging in a storm across the Wash

((balders)), did you hear the piper play afterwards?

[Prudie]

Hitting clear air turbulence on a flight to New York and passengers started screaming. An illogical fear maybe but I went grey with terror.