Whats The Scariest Thing Thats ever Happened to you...

[amesbien]

Being just turned 18, ive been being to get a bit brave, especially behind the wheel of a car. Nothing crazy mind you, just brave.

Last night was my school winter formal dance. My girlfriend and I met up with our good friends Gov and Ashley at the dance. After some dancing we decided to leave a bit early, to beat out the rush, cant forget to mention the rain. Our dates both live in the same neighborhood about 10-15 minutes from the school. So i decide to follow Gov. there are 2 ways to get home both take about the same time, Gov was leading and he decided to the right instead of going straight. I followed. i was a good distance behind him 9at least 6 seconds), when all of a sudden his car swerves into the left lane and starts spinning. It spins once and he then he goes off the road and does another 180 before his car finally stops after mowing over a sign and his tires digging a foot deep trench on the bank probably came within 3 inches of a tree. I pull into the driveway that his car pretty much flew over and came running out, me yelling Gov's name and My girlfriend yelling for ashley. We open the doors of the car and i see ashley is ok, but Gov is motionless his head on the steering wheel. i shake him and hear him sob. We get them both out and call 911. I know for a fact that i hadnt even hit the speed limit yet but Gov says he hit 50 (the speed limit).

The scariest moment of my life. My best friend's car with him in it spinning and going off the road, running to his car and opening the door to find him motionless with his head against the wheel.

I am done driving irresponibly, i will never forget that. The same image playing over and over in my head. Nothing is so important that i have to speed or pass or anything like that. I encourage you all to do the same.

R.i.P. shiny black camaro with the shiny 18 inch rims and the v8 corvette engine.

Just curious but does anyone have any other moments they would like to share of the scariest moment of their lives.

 

[rallysman]

Wurm came to visit.

 

[Oddball]

There have been more than I like. I've been on several combat tours and counter-narcotics ops while I was on active duty. However, a personal incident overshadows those events, I think, because I had lots of time to dwell over my predicament.
When I was 20, I fell off a cliff while digging out a dinosaur bone. I landed in a dry wash and a rock in the sand broke my back at the L4-L5 disk (HNP). Thankfully, I wasn't alone and my friends fashioned a back board out of the spare tire cover and the rear bench seat of the car. By the time we reached civilization, I lost all feeling and movement from the waist down. At the hospital, the Drs didn't give me any good prognosis. I was transferred to a military hospital where a former combat physician suggested an experimental procedure to try to fix me. At this point, I'd been paralysed for 4 months. I agreed to the procedure. First, I was placed in a medievel rack setup with 80lbs of weight on each leg held onto bone pins in my femurs. I also had 45lbs of counterweight to eyebolts in my skull. After 2 weeks of stretching, I had enough separation in the affected area for the surgery. The surgeons used bone from my hips to rebuild the damaged area and installed 2 platinum rods to stabilize the entire surgical site for the bone replacements to anchor in. After a couple of weeks of physical therapy, I was able to stand for a bit. A year later, I was walking OK and the military decided to give it a little more time before boarding me out. I hooked up with a sports surgeon who got me into shape with exercise and a great chiropractor. After 6 months, I passed the PT test and was allowed to return to full active duty. Today, I just have a few scars as reminders and absolutely no percussive reflexes in my knees or ankles.

 

[davo]

Wurm came to visit.

would scare anyone
I dunno i fell down a small cliff face once. And was held underwater by the current for a prolonged period of time while surfing. Other than that particularly the surfing incident, never had that many bad moments, but have a bit of a thing about heights.

 

[fishnutham]

Not the scariest but it just happened tonight walking back from the corner store had a severe
car accident happen 10ft away from me at the pedestrian crosswalk where i was headed,scared the crap out of me..
Thankfully no one was seriously hurt including me.

 

[guppy]

Fell off a cliff.
had a chute not open.
got shot.
got married.
got snake bit
got diagnosed with terminal cancer.
got stabbed
got arrested for shooting someone in the head,
Take your pick.

 

[fishnutham]

Fell off a cliff.
had a chute not open.
got shot.
got married.
got snake bit
got diagnosed with terminal cancer.
got stabbed
got arrested for shooting someone in the head,
Take your pick.

what was worse for you getting married or all of the above

 

[RadleyMiller]

Josh, I am sorry to hear about your father, even though it has been a while, I know it has been tough. Guppy, I hope you are doing well and we all wish you well. Phil, that story was amazing but glad to hear you recovered.

As for me, the scariest thing in my life happened last year at this time. I was driving my Mom's car to Taco Bell when someone did not see me coming through the intersection and started crossing my lane as I enter the intersection. I was going 50 at the time and slammed right into him. Luckily, there was no car in the right lane (I was in the left) because the impact from the accident spun us both 90 degrees. He ended up getting spun to the left and stopped in the road. I spun 90 degrees to the left, went off the road, and hit a lamp post at a funeral home. Here are the pics of both cars. Mine was the Mustang, his was the Malibu. He broke four ribs, his passenger broke her nose and his other passenger hurt her shoulder. This was the first accident we both were ever in, but he had been driving for over 50 years, and I have been driving for less than a year.

 

[guppy]

The cancer diagnosis, (intestinal), turned out to be wrong but I let stuff go too crap before I found that out, so far no cancer and at 50 I an now older than any of the males of my famiily's last generation.
As far as getting married, very scary, but even though it did not work out, I had a great wife, who is a great person, we just could not share the same house.
You can't define the scariest moment, terror is not a relative event.
The two worst terror (short term) of my life were probably falling through the ice in the heart river at age 10, or going down a cliff (cliff and all) at age 37. Long term was getting shot and shooting the bastard, then spending some time in jail before they decided not to proscecute, that( all of it,) still haunts me.
I have worse memories, but as far as scary, I think those are it.

Remember, fear is natures way of saying kill it now, or else DUCK!!!
Pain is naturesa way of saying "don't do that again"
Everybody experiences both , and they are only subjectively relative.
As a kid I had met an old man with lock jaw, when I stepped on a rusty nail I was terrified, even though my fear of tetanus had no basis in reality, and by that time the disease was easioly cured, my terror was just as real as when tracers went zipping past my head, or when a gun went off in my face so close it set fireto my hair.

This thrill seeker thing is okay as long as you realise iust is either false thrills, as in a roller coaster that can hurt you, or real risks, as in something that can kill you.
Life can be scary enough, don't make your parents clean up the mess, the deal is, they are supposed to out live you, that way you get a closde look at whatdeath actually means.
Been there, done that, the next dead guy I want to see is me, preferably a century or two from now.

 

[missyme06]

was a camp counselor once at a girl scout summer camp.

there is this thing called a buddy board and how it works is at the water front when you go in to the water you take the little tag that has your name on it and you put it in the water section on the board, when your on the beach your tag goes on the beach section and when you leave the water front, you take your tag off the board.

soo my group of girls had been at the water front and were walking away up the hill from the water front when the siren went off signaling that signaled that a girl was unaccounted for at the water front, when this happens all the scouts run to the lodge to be accounted for and all the counselor's go to the water front to search for the girl that is supposedly drowning. so i ran as fast as i can a long with a bunch of other counselors down to the front. when i get down there i saw that it was one of my girls and i was sooo panicked i couldn't remember if she was with me up the hill. so everyone was doing water sweeps for her and i was freaking out, until they radioed from the lodge that she was up there. she had just left her tag on the in the water section.

scariest **** ever.