Brush with death...

[Karlos]

X-ray wrote:

I didn't like being made to fall over, but once I got up and realised I was okay I felt pretty good the rest of the day.
I wonder if that is the mechanism for 'shock therapy?'

Or even 'sock therapy', if you happen to live in Chiswick?

[CannonFodder]

X-ray wrote:
Well, I learned from that day onwards that going down can save you a whole lot of trouble  :-P

Quite so. In fact "going down" will make your life immeasurably better if one is betrothed. ;-)

[CannonFodder]

X-ray wrote:
I've been thinking about these brushes with death and my conclusion may surprise many of you.
I believe these brushes with death are a good thing (provided no permanent injury is sustained). I have had a few of these and I can only tell you that it makes you appreciate life and makes you feel alive after you realise your chips were almost cashed in. I thought I would list my memorable encounters:

1) Almost drowned in rough seas in Port Alfred. I was swimming alone late one afternoon and got caught by an undercurrent. It was like being in a washing machine. I just couldn't surface. Only by going further down and crawling along the sand could I escape the undertow. By the time I surfaced I was breathing in water. That's my closest brush with death. If I hadn't gone down, there would have been no X-ray today. That was when I was 16.

2) I failed to see a black mamba snake while peering into a bush in Tzaneen. I thought it was a plastic bag rustling in the wind. When I finally resolved the source of the noise (like when you finally 'see' the shape in those random stereodot images) I realised that the fukka was not more than 15cm away from my face and he was tasting the air, his eyes fixed on me. My heart skipped a beat while I made myself scarce. That was when I was 14 or 15.

3) Lightning hit my car (as mentioned above). In my 20s.

4) Several incidents involving armed individuals.

Blimey!

[CannonFodder]

@adz

Hope you have recovered nicely mate.  Though if you were a couch potato, none of this would have happened! ;-)

[JaXanim]

X-ray wrote:
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3) Lightning hit my car (as mentioned above). - - -

That's the safest place to be in a lightning storm - unless the petrol gets ignited....then you have a choice.

JaX

[Andy]

Hey glad to hear that your ok.

[adz]

@CannonFodder

Well I've been a couch potato since :-P Thanks mate :-)


@Andy

Thanks mate :-)



<---- Argh, 2000 bloody posts, one more and I loose my "Defender of the Faith" title :-(

[Vincent]

adz wrote:
<---- Argh, 2000 bloody posts, one more and I loose my "Defender of the Faith" title :-(

Is it quite tight at the moment? :-P

[Andy]

@ adz

I was watching the news on Thursday and some German bird who was paragliding in Austrailia got caught in a storm and was whisked up to about 30,000 ft. According to ITV news. Was wondering if it was the same storm you got caught up in.

[adz]

Vincent wrote:

adz wrote:
<---- Argh, 2000 bloody posts, one more and I loose my "Defender of the Faith" title :-(

Is it quite tight at the moment? :-P

Ya, muscles still haven't fully relaxed :lol:


<---- There...You pushed me over the edge, are you happy :-P

[adz]

Andy wrote:
@ adz

I was watching the news on Thursday and some German bird who was paragliding in Austrailia got caught in a storm and was whisked up to about 30,000 ft. According to ITV news. Was wondering if it was the same storm you got caught up in.

May very well have been part of the same band of cloud, but I doubt it was the same storm as that happened a good 800+kms North.

[Vincent]

adz wrote:
<---- There...You pushed me over the edge, are you happy :-P

Glad I could help :-D

[CannonFodder]

adz wrote:

Vincent wrote:

adz wrote:
<---- Argh, 2000 bloody posts, one more and I loose my "Defender of the Faith" title :-(

Is it quite tight at the moment? :-P

Ya, muscles still haven't fully relaxed :lol:

Eat plenty of Weetabix! ;-)

[mel_zoom]

adz:

:-o That sounded far too close for comfort! Im glad you read you are ok.

When I was younger I almost got swept out to sea by a strong under current. It was all I could manage to swim diagonally through the current - so that I was effectively moving at right angles to it - to get to safety. It took almost all my stamina to get across a relatively short distance.

[NoFastMem]

adz wrote:

It izzniiice, I liiike! Do you have a Flickr a/c dude?

Glad you're okay... What an adventure!

[adz]

@mel_zoom

Yah, feeling really good now, thank you. Sounds like you yourself are quite lucky to be here, glad you got out alright too :-)


@NFM

Thanks and thanks, I've actually had quite a lot of good feedback on this shot, so I've entered it into a photo comp, might have made it all worth it :lol: BTW, no Flickr, but I have accounts on PBase and deviantART.