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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Me? I was on a business trip overseas many years ago when the city I was in was being targeted by Saddam Husseins Scud missiles

But you can do much better than that Fabsters, can’t you?

Maybe you escaped death by seconds / inches?

Maybe a ghost put the willies up you?

Who knows?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When working in a bookies in London in the late 80s, was unfortunately involved in an armed robbery in the shop.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Giving birth, your insides feel like they're being ripped out and it goes on for hours

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Meeting my ex

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"When working in a bookies in London in the late 80s, was unfortunately involved in an armed robbery in the shop. "

Oh gawd yeah, that happened to me too, when I worked in a bank in my early 20’s.. forgot about that!

Did you have the counselling sessions afterwards? Different people in the branch were affected in different ways, as a young lad at the time I was a bit nonchalant at the time and it didn’t really bother me (the folly of youth!)

I hope it didn’t scar you too much!

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By *edeWoman
over a year ago

the abyss

Catching feelings

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When working in a bookies in London in the late 80s, was unfortunately involved in an armed robbery in the shop.

Oh gawd yeah, that happened to me too, when I worked in a bank in my early 20’s.. forgot about that!

I hope it didn’t scar you too much!"

I had been working in a different shop and just got back. Dealt with a customer and next minute there was a gun in my face (thankfully there was a screen). Don't know if it was real or not and didn't want to find out.

No counselling, Dr's offered sleeping pills but for other reasons did not want to take.

Funny thing is in the three hours we were open afterwards we took in three times what they had taken.

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

I took my 13 year old daughter to Morocco and lost her. Even thinking about it now gives me a feeling in my stomach I can’t ever forget , it’s worse than any kind of physical pain or break up, just the feeling of complete despair.

Luckily I found her. She loves telling the story and thinks it’s funny!

I got kind of held in Nigeria once and had to be rescued and hung upside down by my ankles out a 3rd story window as a teenager and had a gun pointed at me twice in my life but none of these was as scary

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By *KloganMan
over a year ago

Ramsbottom

"I took my 13 year old daughter to Morocco and lost her. Even thinking about it now gives me a feeling in my stomach I can’t ever forget , it’s worse than any kind of physical pain or break up, just the feeling of complete despair.

Luckily I found her. She loves telling the story and thinks it’s funny!

This is one of those threads where I’d love tell everyone about my scary experiences about playing my first football league game, but compared to having scud missiles rain down on you, being held at gunpoint or losing my child (even briefly)… no way, you guys are heroes…

Hope the memories are less harsh as the time fades.

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Travelling

I don't really want to talk about it

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

Having bullets whizzing past my head whilst playing on a basketball court in New York…. One of the reasons I left!

Being told when I had my pneumonia episode that if my condition didn’t improve within the next 6hrs I was being transferred to ICU

Or the most innocuous thing causing a major blood vessel bleed on the back of my head and having to have an emergency diathermy at 10pm for a few hours literally the night before I was going to be released from hospital

Which story would you like…..

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By *aGaGagging for itCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

As a kid, doing something for the fist time (going to school, etc). I wasn't at all confident.

As an adult, trekking in the mountains in Peru when a lightning bolt hit the ground about 10 feet away.

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

I've witnessed carbombs a few hundred yards away and buildings in the next street being blown up.

I've been hijacked while going about my job 10 times and had a gun put to my head on 6 of those occasions by Republican paramilitaries, Loyalist paramilitaries and also by British paras.

The common link was that on every occasion they were stealing the contents of my vehicle or the vehicle itself.

The scariest part is that it was all the norm so no time off or counselling and it didn't have any longterm effects.

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By *ittlemiss Hal O weenCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

I think almost being wiped out by an articulated lorry changing lanes as I was trying to overtake him n my motorbike and then nearly being wiped out by a bmw as I was trying to avoid said lorry is pretty high up there!

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By *ookie46Woman
over a year ago

Deepest darkest Peru

Watching my daughter give birth to my grandson at 24 weeks gestation, not knowing if he’d live or die. The feeling of helplessness and fear was overwhelming

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Getting shot !

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By *ittlemiss Hal O weenCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

"Getting shot !"

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

My mother dying in front of me..but in a way it wasn't really scary at the time as I was too busy doing CPR and on the phone to the ambulance.. it's just when you look back..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"I've witnessed carbombs a few hundred yards away and buildings in the next street being blown up.

I've been hijacked while going about my job 10 times and had a gun put to my head on 6 of those occasions by Republican paramilitaries, Loyalist paramilitaries and also by British paras.

The common link was that on every occasion they were stealing the contents of my vehicle or the vehicle itself.

The scariest part is that it was all the norm so no time off or counselling and it didn't have any longterm effects.

Holy…. You have reminded me the time I got caught up in the Manchester bomb at the arndale.. day of the euro 96 England vs Scotland game, was going to watch the game at Piccadilly gardens , police in a panic and we got evacuated to Manchester Victoria station…

With hindsight someone must have forgotten that Victoria had a big old glass roof! So when the bomb exploded parts of the glass roof came down

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Got d*unk at one of my old teacher’s houses, don’t remember anything but was apparently uncxnscious, bathroom door kicked in, taken to hospital.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

Seen a slow motion train crash….

I am just realising I am not really a force for good!!

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

Luckily I found her. She loves telling the story and thinks it’s funny!

Hope the memories are less harsh as the time fades."

Yes, it's threads like this when I know I've had a pretty sheltered life. I don't actually remember being physically scared. There's a deeper emotional answer, but that's not for a Fab forum.

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By *imply DeeWoman
over a year ago

Wherever

I’d say something my childhood but it’s too early for this shit.

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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago

Chesterfield

I’ve had a few scrapes, but tend to hold it together then panic about it later.

I think the time I was trapped underwater with my leg impaled. That wasn’t ideal.

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By *imply DeeWoman
over a year ago

Wherever

"I’d say something my childhood but it’s too early for this shit. "

*about my childhood

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A few related to my old job, being held hostage, trapped in various locations, having knives and guns pulled on me.

I grew up in the Middle East I still remember gas mask practice, watching missiles light up the sky and my dad accidentally selling me to a Bedouin tribe (he thought they were joking till they brought over 6 camels)

The scariest thing that is burned into my memory was in Texas. I was in a pool, watching the sun set, having a G&T with a friend when I saw something move on the other side of the pool. In a nanosecond I registered it as a tarantula just as it started running across the water directly at us.

I did not know that tarantula could walk on water or that they attack their prey. I have never moved so fast in my life. I still have nightmares about this huge evil hairy spider running across the pool at me.

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By *ootyfruityCouple
over a year ago

andover

About a week ago, I ran out of coffee

That was a hard morning I had to drag my sorry ass through

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

Hit a Land Rover defender at 75mph

That put the shits up me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I missed the bottom step and my life flashed before my eyes

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Market Harborough / Kettering

Driving down the M11 in very thick fog doing about 40mph (that was too fast for the conditions!) but having over cars coming past me doing about 90mph !

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Turbulence on the last ever flight I took. Never again.

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By *valanche1001Man
over a year ago

Leeds

Half an hour into a scuba dive at about 20m my regulator started to take in water and I was only getting about half the air I needed, switched to my backup but it’s diaphragm was faulty so instead of a breath I got a mouthful of sea water. So no air in my lungs and a mouthful of water and too deep to safely ascend.

Still give me the willies when I think about it.

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

These are all major compared to mine but it wasn’t nice.

Being told that I had to go straight to hospital or I would die within hours. Had to have quad bypass as stents weren’t possible.

Being told I had broken my neck ( I imagined it meant paralysis,it didn’t)

Being held at gunpoint in Saudi Arabia at a road block.

A bush standing up on the central reservation in Northern Ireland and telling me to stop at gun point.

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

So much, my life has been one scary shit show.

Mrs

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By *coobyABCMan
over a year ago

Aberdeen

"Got d*unk at one of my old teacher’s houses, don’t remember anything but was apparently uncxnscious, bathroom door kicked in, taken to hospital. "

Did you wake up with a sore bum

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By *immyinreadingMan
over a year ago

henley on thames

Being chased by knife-wielding fans of a London football club who wanted to “slice” me because I am Irish.

Felt like I didn’t breathe the that my feet were barely touching the ground as I legged it.

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

This horrible sensation of being ripped away from somewhere beautiful, and arriving in grey dingy place, overwhelmed with this sinking feeling that everything is going wrong and I am completely fucked.

Turned out I was just waking up again.

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

I forgot!

I went from Birmingham to Belfast City and return with live ammunition in my bag. I had forgotten it was there. I actually still wake up in a sweat and it was 10 years ago

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Spinning around on a motorway was rather scary.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was in a cafe in Balham in the

80s when there was an explosion in the basement of the shop next door and it collapsed into the market outside. Two people were killed.

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

I technically died once....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Got d*unk at one of my old teacher’s houses, don’t remember anything but was apparently uncxnscious, bathroom door kicked in, taken to hospital.

Did you wake up with a sore bum

I don’t think so but who knows what I was used for

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By *ndy58Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

On my first freefall parachute jump (I'd done 14 static line jumps previously) it was a warm day and the ripcord handle slipped out of my sweaty hand. Had I done nothing I'd have hit the ground at 120mph 15 seconds later, but fortunately the training kicked in and I deployed my reserve canopy and landed safely. To be honest, I think the jumpmaster in the plane was more scared than I was!

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

When our daughter ran away aged 15

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Covent Garden

Waking up at 4am in the midst of a severe earthquake, about 250 miles from the epicenter. 6.3 magnitude, approx. 10,000 fatalities, 30,000 injured. An absolutely terrifying experience.

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

I was in a car accident in Dec 2000.

Head on collision with a car coming the other way.

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By *edeWoman
over a year ago

the abyss

Ok I'll actually put a serious comment. I'd say the scariest was getting a phone call saying my son had been in a motorbike accident and not knowing how serious it was. Then knowing how serious it is - having to wait over 5 hours to come out of surgery which shouldn't have taken so long. Some of the scariest hours of my life

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"I've witnessed carbombs a few hundred yards away and buildings in the next street being blown up.

I've been hijacked while going about my job 10 times and had a gun put to my head on 6 of those occasions by Republican paramilitaries, Loyalist paramilitaries and also by British paras.

The common link was that on every occasion they were stealing the contents of my vehicle or the vehicle itself.

The scariest part is that it was all the norm so no time off or counselling and it didn't have any longterm effects.

With hindsight someone must have forgotten that Victoria had a big old glass roof! So when the bomb exploded parts of the glass roof came down "

We avoided the 1996 bomb by chance. It was near Father's Day and Dad was going to take us for lunch at a bar he liked, called Grinch (no longer there). It was near St Ann's Square/King Street, so very close by. However, for reasons I don't recall, he suddenly felt that we shouldn't go into Manchester and we went to a restaurant near his house instead. So, we weren't there, but very nearly was.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Hmmmm. Possibly the feeling of rolling around and around in my car, after being hit by a 40t lorry. I didn't give a shit about myself, I just wanted to pick my son up from school.

The day I knew Mr KC was travelling offshore from a particular heliport and hearing a chopper had crashed with all assumed dead. Took 2 days to get in touch with him because the rig had poor phones and no internet.

The realisation I wasn't going to recover.

Everything else was just meh.

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By *ehindHerEyesCouple
over a year ago

SomewhereOnlyWeKnow

Delivering my youngest so quickly at home, with no assistance just me and the ex and a 999 operator telling him what to do, no paramedics nearby or midwife (they arrived 15 mins after)

The seconds waiting to hear her cry felt like hours

Tinder

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By *aith SkynbyrdWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere else

Gunshots at a movie theatre complex in the Bronx. We were in the car park. Dude I was with pushed me down on the ground and then threw his body over mine to shield me. We were on the ground for a few minutes. I was scared to breathe. When we didn’t hear any more, we got up and ran into a stairwell where about 20 other people were also hiding. At which point I started crying and couldn’t stop.

Found out later that while nobody died in that shooting, several non gang members had been caught in the crossfire and injured.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

On the day of my best friends funeral, at 19, as I had just put his coffin into the hearse, I was ambushed by 4 CID police, thrown to the floor, dislocated both my wrists, and put under arrest for attempted murder.

I was young and ignorant at the time to what CID were so I thought I was genuinely being smuggled away by unknown people. Suffice to say I was held at the police station for six hours and missed my friends cremation and reception, who is known since I was 5. Thank you, police.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being shot at

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

Nearly blew a ladies head off when she walked in front of me as I squeezed the trigger.

Had a bit of a shoot out with some poachers.

Experienced a 6.9 earthquake and several hundred aftershocks.

Been on a plane that de compressed.

As others have said it's only afterwards you realise what's happened.

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Transsexual Transylvania

As a student I nearly drowned after being seperated from my kayak while trying to shoot some pretty big rapids on the Umgeni River during a flood.

In the army my driver and I got jumped by half a dozen guys, armed to the teeth, claiming they were Kwazulu Police after we pulled over to question a random guy carrying a shotgun. In retrospect it was silly of us, considering only I had a 9mil. We talked our way out and got the hell out of there.

My wife and I were staked out by 4 thugs outside our cottage when we were first living together. She spotted them and we kept going, but we're sure they were the guys who stole her car the previous week. We also think they're the guys who later cut off a local woman's fingers to get her rings, one of them being shot dead by a neighbour who came to her aid.

My wife and I drove into the middle of a shootout outside our housing complex in Joburg on our way to the shops midmorning on a Sunday!

Fun living in South Africa. You wonder why I'm here?

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By *nplainsight200Man
over a year ago

portsmotuh

Being shot at in Ireland

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Flying in South America, during a storm. The pilot informed us that he felt it unlikely that we'd survive. There was already use of sickbags and I don't think his advice reduced it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Getting shot !

Yes I got shot when I was serving... not badly

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

I don't even like to think about it!

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By *addad99Man
over a year ago

Rotherham /newquay

Something I can't remember I died they yelled me was in a car crash coma for 2 month hospital for 6 months took 54 yr to rehab and walk.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Being shot in the eye with an air pistol. A mate was fucking about with it, thinking it was unloaded and pulled the trigger.

Going over the bonnet of a car, that pulled out in front of me. She was taking her dad to crank hospital, pulled across my lane and only saw me after I hit her car. Landed on the back of my neck and rolled for a while.

Coming round from having a testicle removed, realising that I had cancer. Up till then I knew it was cancer, but the reality never fully sunk in.

Walking under the fuselage of a 757 towards the nosewheel, after disconnecting the air start pipes. Crossing everything, that I didn't go through the engines.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having a 747 show up at my house one night

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

Jesus

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

"Jesus

What did Jesus do?

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

when i saw a ghost true,,

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

"Jesus

What did Jesus do?

Some stuff, I forget now.

It was more a reaction to reading what you and the others wrote.

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By *oofy321Man
over a year ago

moon base zero

Attacked by a ghost

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

"Jesus

What did Jesus do?

Some stuff, I forget now.

It was more a reaction to reading what you and the others wrote."

I was going for a lighthearted moment to break the distress...

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

I was once a passenger in a car being driven by a woman, I still get flashbacks , the trauma is indescribable

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

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By *asterR and slut mayaMan
over a year ago

Bradford

I was 5 in those day we had cold fires and no bathrooms so we had tin bath in front of the fire had the bath got put put my dressing gown on wind blew down the chimney and a spark came out of the fire and set my dressing gown alight and burning me severely .

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By *oofy321Man
over a year ago

moon base zero

Driving a car in Paris....I dont drive and I was in passenger seat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have had a lot of scary work related incidents but my scariest time was being at work when I was told my 8yr old son had been knocked down by a car, it’s not looking good and I’d better get to the hospital fast.

I made the mistake of listening to the police radio en route and heard the coroner being requested. Fortunately not for my lad. He was in an induced coma when I got there but as soon as I saw him I knew he would be fine.

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By *otSoPetiteMortWoman
over a year ago

Hertfordshire

When my Son was born and we nearly lost him and myself thanks to medical negligence. And then he developed multiple infections and complications whilst in NICU and we spent weeks not knowing whether he would live or die.

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

Climbing a mountain and nearly fell

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By *ittle Miss TinkerbellWoman
over a year ago

your head

Being evacuated from a London train station because of a bomb scare. Thankfully no bomb but I was shitting myself.

My entire pregnancy with my youngest, history said he wouldn't survive. Not helped when they told hours before he was born they couldn't find a heartbeat.

Losing my eldest in the science museum when she wandered off, it wasn't more than 10mins but I felt like the world had ended until I saw her again.

A couple of near misses on the roads, artic trying to side swipe the astra I was a passenger in. X5 cutting me up and nearly running me in to a ditch, I was in a corsa. Car driving the wrong way up a duel carriage way coming straight for us.

More than one run in with a psycho dr*g addict, unfortunately he was married into the family and caused more than a few problems.

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By *inballs99Man
over a year ago

Blackheath

I was 15 when I found my dad dead,he had been dead for 3 days ! He swallowed his tongue and his whole head was as black as coal !

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By *otoBlue69Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Many years ago I was sat in the last seat of the last carriage on a train coming into Dublin. I had earlier walked down the train to the bar where 3 men were sat drinking whisky. They were holding receipts in their hands like they were playing cards.

As the train reached the Dublin outskirts, the line was surrounded by multistory flats. There was an almighty bang just behind my head and every one except me because I had a nun sat next to me blocking my movement were under the tables.

The door at the bar end of the carriage burst open and the 3 whisky drinkers appeared guns raised looking for the shooter. The d*unken plain clothes policemen looked down the carriage to see everyone sheltering under tables except me. I was now staring down the barrels of 3 guns which weren't being held steadily. I whimpered and pointed over my shoulder behind me. One of the policemen opened the corridor door and looked behind me. He just said it's ok boys and they returned to the bar.

When we arrived in Dublin I let everyone leave before getting up and looking for what was on the other side of that corridor door. About 3 inches from my head was a big round bullet hole in the door. Apparantly loyalists had a habit of driving down from Belfast, taking over a flat, shooting at a train and returning to Belfast before anyone from the train could report it.

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By *apxxxWoman
over a year ago

North Shropshire not Wales!!!ffs & Manchester

I got stuck in a lift when I was 15 alone!!... scared shitless

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By *otoBlue69Man
over a year ago

Stockport

My girlfriend (now wife) was working in London near the Admiralty Arch. Her office had a view down the length of The Mall. Every Wednesday afternoon the Queen Mum had a tea party at Clarence House and my wife would have a well dressed visitor with a golf bag and a small bag. The golf bag contained his snipers rifle and the small bag contained his radio and a china cup and saucer. My wife would make him a pot of tea whilst he waited for and watched the Queen mum's visitors arriving and leaving.

One lunchtime she was walking back to work when there was an almighty explosion. She had just walked past and turned the corner from a car bomb.

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By *ormalfornorfolkMan
over a year ago

Norwich

"My girlfriend (now wife) was working in London near the Admiralty Arch. Her office had a view down the length of The Mall. Every Wednesday afternoon the Queen Mum had a tea party at Clarence House and my wife would have a well dressed visitor with a golf bag and a small bag. The golf bag contained his snipers rifle and the small bag contained his radio and a china cup and saucer. My wife would make him a pot of tea whilst he waited for and watched the Queen mum's visitors arriving and leaving.

One lunchtime she was walking back to work when there was an almighty explosion. She had just walked past and turned the corner from a car bomb."

Ici chacal…

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By *ormalfornorfolkMan
over a year ago

Norwich

Unbeknownst to me I was using a toilet with a loose seat. Mid action, the seat slipped slightly off the rim of the pan. That was quite a shock.

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over a year ago

I was a 68w mos in the US military. I went on a dustoff in a UH -60. When I returned to Bahgram the were bullet holes near my seat.

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By *abluesbabyMan
over a year ago

Gibraltar/Cheshire/London

In hindsight the scariest thing is I, like at least one other Fabber in this list, was hit by the blast from the IRA's bomb detonating at the Arndale Centre in Manchester in 1996.

Like so many others we were in town to watch the Eng v Scot match but doing some shopping first. Both me and my best mate were hit by shrapnel but we only had very minor cuts.

But I have to be honest, and I guess the way the mind works is so weird, but I found scuba diving with an airtank off the island of Rhodes a million times more scary and traumatic than being blown up.

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

"I've witnessed carbombs a few hundred yards away and buildings in the next street being blown up.

I've been hijacked while going about my job 10 times and had a gun put to my head on 6 of those occasions by Republican paramilitaries, Loyalist paramilitaries and also by British paras.

The common link was that on every occasion they were stealing the contents of my vehicle or the vehicle itself.

The scariest part is that it was all the norm so no time off or counselling and it didn't have any longterm effects.

With hindsight someone must have forgotten that Victoria had a big old glass roof! So when the bomb exploded parts of the glass roof came down "
was working one of the signal boxes at victoria when this happend was told to stay put in what was effectivley a greenhouse was sat on the floor against the only wall when it went off and shattered or cracked every window .you can still see the huge cracks in the masonry of the station building at Victoria

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By *ames-77Man
over a year ago

milton keynes

"Me? I was on a business trip overseas many years ago when the city I was in was being targeted by Saddam Husseins Scud missiles

But you can do much better than that Fabsters, can’t you?

Maybe you escaped death by seconds / inches?

Maybe a ghost put the willies up you?

Who knows?

He was a good man

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was swimming well dived off boat on holiday the boat ppl ppl start ringing a bell I thought it was because it was a boat party something to do with dj. Only to find out there was a 15ft mako shark circling me haha

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By *uckmonkeyMan
over a year ago

devon

Sitting at the table with a couple of Brussel sprouts on the plate and my mum saying you will eat them…..

No I fucking won’t……….

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having my dads works van taken with my child inside, we literally got out it went round the other side to open the door to let my son out and a scumbag jumped in and drove off, scariest 15 mins of my life, the guy realised about 5 mins down the road he had a 12 year old sitting in the back and stopped let my son out and drove off.. my son managed to run back over a busy dual carriageway and along a road to where we were, luckily he was ok but the scumbag or van were never found

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

2 Tours of Iraq and Afghanistan...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sitting at the table with a couple of Brussel sprouts on the plate and my mum saying you will eat them…..

No I fucking won’t………."

Brussels are amazing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When my youngest was diagnosed with meningitis.

*He pulled through.

It was horrible, I feel sick even typing this. I wanted to drive the ambulance myself, I’d have got there quicker.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was about an inch away from being stabbed over a mistaken identity. That was pretty scary.

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By *igforfun100Man
over a year ago

Magherafelt

Gored by a bull in the middle of a big field. The end was close

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By *olf and RedCouple
over a year ago

Nr Cardiff or at Chams Darlaston

My youngest was born totally unexpectedly over 7 weeks prematurely. She had to be blue lighted within 24 hours of being born to a major hospital and bagged on the way. Then she was in the NICU for a while, they couldn’t work out why her stomach was swelling up. It was a long time ago but I’m sure I had a type of PTSD from that whole experience. She’s now at Uni and you’d never know her start in life was so precarious.

Red

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By *ammerandthongsCouple
over a year ago

Limerick

Woke up during surgery still have nightmares from it.

Amy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh god. Being held captive in Britain of all places by the government and home office!! Bunch of wank stains they are.

It's actually been very traumatic, I've had counselling, take antidepressants and sleeping tablets. I know once I get to travel, it will always be in the back of my mind that they won't let me back in the country..

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By *ayna20Couple
over a year ago

Kent

"When working in a bookies in London in the late 80s, was unfortunately involved in an armed robbery in the shop. "

As someone with a similar experience (mine was in an off licence) can I ask if you still get flashbacks?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh god. Being held captive in Britain of all places by the government and home office!! Bunch of wank stains they are.

Marrying this^

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

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By *ruceyyMan
over a year ago

London

"Woke up during surgery still have nightmares from it.

Amy "

Jesus Christ!

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By *ruceyyMan
over a year ago

London

"Oh god. Being held captive in Britain of all places by the government and home office!! Bunch of wank stains they are.

Marrying this^"

Once having this ^ try and get sexy with me.

I like scary...

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

31st July last year.

We had been out for a meal to celebrate my birthday (Mr).

Got home, went to bed and 3 hours later I started getting severe chest pains.

By 5.00 A.M I was in agony and finally woke the wife who after calling 999 and being told "we don't know how long the ambulance will be", promptly put me in her car and took me into A & E.

8 hours later I was finally released after numerous tests, ECG etc, turns out I an severely allergic to Jalapeños.

Something that I will never go near too ever again.

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By *ammerandthongsCouple
over a year ago

Limerick

"Woke up during surgery still have nightmares from it.

Amy

Jesus Christ!"

Was an emergency surgery after an accident and a slight mistake was made with anaesthetic af if I wasn't traumatised enough from the crash. Just got chills even thinking about it now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I've witnessed carbombs a few hundred yards away and buildings in the next street being blown up.

I've been hijacked while going about my job 10 times and had a gun put to my head on 6 of those occasions by Republican paramilitaries, Loyalist paramilitaries and also by British paras.

The common link was that on every occasion they were stealing the contents of my vehicle or the vehicle itself.

The scariest part is that it was all the norm so no time off or counselling and it didn't have any longterm effects.

With hindsight someone must have forgotten that Victoria had a big old glass roof! So when the bomb exploded parts of the glass roof came down "

I was talking about this just last night. Still remember the sound of the explosion in Prestwich.

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