Most scared youve ever been?

[Detectingfreak]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

Hey guys. My fear is falling off a cliff when im snowboarding! It would suck to fall off a cliff when your snowboarding and almost falling 100ft down. And dieing!

 

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[Peg Leg]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

I went diving in the Florida Keys in 1965.
The water was very clear. I was checking out a German submarine along with 3 friends.
All of a sudden a shadow went over me but I did not hear its engines. I looked up and saw one hell of a big shark. When I started up he started down. The closer I got to the surface the dcloser he got to me. I took off my tank and held it in front of me.
I had a 12 gauge bang stick that was only 6 feet long. When he got within 6 feet I popped him and got out of the water. Well it seems that my friends had already gotten into the boat ahead of me and were watching everything that was going on. One of the guys took the anchor rope and dove back into the water and tired the rope around the sharks head and tried to pull him on board. There was no way so we flagged down a Sports Fishing boat and he took the rope and tried to pull the shark up but the shard was to big even for him to handle. We headed to the docks. The Sports boat must have called ahead because there was a crowd waiting on the docks.
I never once got scrared until the pulled the shark up. It was a 14.5 foot Hammerhead and measured 37" between his eyes. He weighted over 1100 pounds and was 6' from belly to dorsel fin and that was laying on the dock. This is when the fear hit me. In fact it hit me so hard that I sold all my diving equipment including wet suit for $50.00 and swore to never go in the water over my head. It took me almost 9 years to get back into the water again. But I was and still am nevous about what I can not see what is around me.
Peg Leg

 

[DigEmAll]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

While in the Marine Corp at Kaneohe Bay, I had a similar expierence with a Humped Back Whale. Diving at about sixty feet and had the shadow eclipse of the sunlight. I cursed to myself about some boater not watching the dive bouys. Rolled over and there was this whale about eight or ten feet above me. That is a scary feeling until you realize what it is that is buddying up to you.

Speaking of Kaneohe Bay and hammers... K-Bay is the worlds largest breeding ground for hammers.... It is also some GREAT diving. Nice thing about hammers is that they do not eat in their breeding ground nor do they breed in their eating grounds. Makes the bay a very safe diving area as the hammers keep most others ran off.

 

[grizzly bare]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

When I was younger and Dumber (if you can believe such a time) I tried skydiving for a while. (beautiful girl talked me into it) Don't mind the altitude, don't mind that first chute jerk. Did mind the day that the chute didn't open. I calmly pulled the safety chute which gave me a pretty nasty landing. That night I woke up crying and when we next headed out to the plane, I couldn't force myself on.
No longer a problem but I don't skydive any more. And I don't have that girlfriend any more.

grizzly bare

 

[Huntin' 59er]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

Thanks Cyn for your remarks of my service. It means a lot to me, considering how Vietnam vets have been treated in the past.

Huntin' 59er

 

[cryptodave]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

I've had a few scary moments, and a several that are still classified to this day... lol

The scariest thing I am willing to talk about....

I was driving home from Huntington, WV in a pretty bad storm. This was in like 98~99, and I had a 94 Eagle Talon. I went across a bridge, and while on the bridge, my car started to hydroplane. Luckily, there were no other cars around me, because I started spinning, and I lost count of how many spins, but I believe it was 7. During the last spin, the front end clipped the guard rail on the right, which bounced me off back to the left. When my car started into the median, the front drivers tire caught a concrete drainage block thing, which popped the car up in the air, and spun it upside down. It landed on the roof, with my neck firmly planted on the ceiling... I remember this very vividly, because thats about the time everything seemed to go into slow motion. The car smacked the ground, the front windshield busted, then the top came out, and mud was pouring through, into my mouth and nostrils and I couldn't breath... All the while my car was still moving in the direction of the other two lanes.... The car came to a stop with the front end sticking out into oncoming traffic, just in time for me to see the semi plow the front end, which spun the car back into the ditch, the back end smacking the semi while it went by, the loud noise of the air brakes being slammed and tires burning... the car came to rest in the middle of the median, both doors so badly buckled I couldn't open them, so I busted out what was left of the back window and jumped out running because I was afraid that it was going to blow.
I ran up the highway in the pouring rain to this guy in a pickup truck that had stopped. He told me I was bleeding, which I didn't know. It was a small nick at the top of my ear that was bleeding like a stuck pig... That was ALL the injuries I had at that time! After standing there trying to settle my brain, the guy says "I think you need to go back down there", I turn around and there is at least twenty people surrounding my car! I ran back down, and people were trying to lift it because they thought I was trapped underneath!
I sat on the back of a doctors truck while he cleaned my ear up, then about 5 state trooper cars showed up, three EMT vans, and 3 fire trucks. The EMT guy was asking all kinds of questions to very I was ok, asked me what day of the week it was, and I told him I don't know what day it is normally, what makes him think I would know now?
One of the state troopers put me in the back of his car while they looked at my car, and that was the one and only time I have ever been in the back of a cruiser! Afterwards, he told me to climb in and get my registration out of the car... I proceeeded to climb in, and ended up getting my neck and arm cut up very badly, just in time for the TV van to pull in. I saw myself that night, and I looked like I had just came back from war, blood all down the side of my neck and face, muddy as hell, shirt ripped halfway off. That sucked.

The whole time the wreck was happening, I had Green Day in the CD player, and that song "Hope you had the time of your life" was playing. I thought I was going to die.

 

[Mighty AP]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

Let this be a lesson everybody.............NEVER listen to Green Day! lol Wild story Dave, glad you came out of it OK, could've been much worse!

 

[PBK]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

Many years ago, when I was a kid, my dad took me frogging in the Arkansas River bottoms. We were hunting on a series of ponds created when dirt was removed for building the levees. When you're frogging, you shine a light and watch for it to illuminate the frog's eyes. While Dad was checking out one of the ponds, I wandered off over to another one, ran my light down the bank, and saw a long row of bright eyes— not frogs... wolves! (Actually, they were probably wild dogs or coyotes, but back then we called them all "wolves.") They didn't move, and for a long time I didn't either. Finally, I turned off my flashlight, slowly retreated until I thought I was safe, and then ran like mad to tell Dad what I'd seen. Dad said we'd better leave because they might attack my dog, who'd come along for the big adventure. I didn't care why we were leaving... I just wanted out of there!

 

[DigEmAll]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

LOL.... Frog gigging.

I've done my share too!

Story about my Granddad... Back in the fifties, he took a friend of his that had never been before.  They got there about an hour before dark to get the boat in the water and cruise up the river to float back down for the first pass.  Well, they put the boat in and granddad went to park the car.  He told     Bob      to tie the boat off to the side of the boatramp so as to not block the ramp.  As he was returnig from parking the car he hears "BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!"  So he goes running back to the ramp... gets there and finds his friend standing in the boat, water squirting in from six directions, from six well spaced .38 caliber holes, and his friend is using the boat paddle to try to finish off... a little bitty, non-venomious, water snake that had dropped into the boat after the current pushed it under a tree.  Apparently that was the most scared that guy had been!  Grandad said he ended up with a brand new, expensive, aluminum boat that never would keep the water out after that, and a broken paddle.... and if I remember correctly the guy never did get the snake.

 

[MesaBuddy]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

When I was 16 and I climbed on the back of a bull,That was back when everyone wanted to be a "Bullrider" needless to say I only lasted a couple of seconds and I will never forget it

 

[RatRacer]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

Thursday, September 13, 2001. Near the corner of Church and Vesey streets, New York City. We were passing orange Home Depot buckets filled with what used to be two 110 story buildings down the line, when the sirens went off. The laser motion detector pointed at 1 Liberty Plaza had trembled, and they thought it was going to come down. Everyone ran for cover. My crew dodged thru a broken window into World Financial Center 2, and scrambled to the back of the building. They called all clear a few minutes later, and as we were walking out, I realized we were in an exercise room. EVERYTHING had 8 inches of dirt, broken glass, and water on it. There was this tiny, neatly engraved sign on the wall that read "Please wipe off machines after using." Sometimes laughing is the only way to keep from screaming.

 

[Mighty AP]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

Cyn said.............
Hey Ratracer! I was there on the 13th! Nice to see you!

I think you will understand this--I haven't laughed so hard since.

Cyn

I think we all understand Cyn.

 

[stefen]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

Laying on the bottom of a narrow, but deep ravine, with a 1200 pound thrashing horse on top of me, some 15 years ago. Scared the living crap out of me...and my horse.

Displaced a hip that was corrected 6 months after the accident...now, as a result, cannot walk for any great distance.

At times when it's acting up, I tend to walk like Fester on Gun Smoke

When anyone asks why I'm walking that way, I just tell them its the Viagra...it gives me a stiff leg

 

[RatRacer]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

Hey Ratracer! I was there on the 13th! Nice to see you!

I think you will understand this--I haven't laughed so hard since.

Cyn

Those who have been in combat, or a horrible accident, or some other situation that could have been the end of their life, are forever a little more aware of how fragile life is. My 3 days on The Pile can't compare to the months spent by others, but I'm grateful for the chance to help a little. The evening of the 14th, after 2 days of labor, fear, sweat, very little sleep, and 7 Red Bulls in a row, I sat in the bed of our Squad truck and laughed harder than I ever had, before or since.

 

[RatRacer]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

I'm from a little town 20 miles east of Pittsburgh. On 9/12, one of my fellow firefighters called the New York FEMA office and offered our help. They said to come on in, so we left that evening, expecting to be put in one of FDNY's stations, cleaning equipment. We were in the city about an hour, and got sent into the middle of it all.
I was on the other side of the fallen walkway during that speech, and didn't even know he was there until we got sent to Shea Stadium for food and showers.

 

[madfranks]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

My wife and I were eating dinner one evening and I looked in the kitchen and saw a DEMON FACE staring back at me!! Of course, it was all an optical illusion made from the chance folding of the dish cloth reflected on the face of the stove. I took a few shots with my camera phone. Not really that scary but a little shocking when I saw it.

 

[madfranks]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

Ok I have another one, this one's not mine, but was given to me by a friend who was camping. We've read so far of a few people outside camping and they hear stuff late at night, well this friend of mine was out camping and, you guessed it, heard rustling and noises outside. He used his camera phone (these things are so handy!), stuck it outside and snapped a few photos, and this came out!! Not joking, this photo is authentic!

 

[RatRacer]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

OK, MadFrank, now I'm creeped out...

 

[coolcash2004]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

2 stories. 1. On time me, my dad, and my brother were all canooing down a strong river. There were rapids and a large roch 100 feet ahead. We couldnt turn in time. We hit the rock dead on going a good 20 MPH, i flew onto the rock and the canoe rolled over me. I thought i would die. The canoe drifted down stream and me, my dad and my brother had to drive down the road to find it. I escaped with only a few scratches.

2. Me and my family were staying in a small, old, wooden hotel. In was mid january in vermont and was 10 degress out, snowing, and blistering winds. We all went to bed at 10 and fell asleep quikely. Before i knew it i heard the fire alarm blaring. It was 1:00 am in the morning. I thought i would have a heart attak. We quikely went donwstairs and out side whear people were gathering. It turned out to be a false alarm.

Also i have a lot of dreams about being in tornadoes. They scare me every time.

-CC

 

[Pimp Lenin]

Re: Most scared you've ever been?

My brother-in-law's family owns quite a bit of land in southwest Mississippi that they built a hunting camp on. On the back part of their property is an old barn that looks like a hard fart could knock over. Being a dumb teenager at the time I still went inside to have a look around. My brother-in-law and his friend came over about ten minutes later with a couple of rifles. Being the goofy rednecks that they are, they were going to have a couple of shots at the "shootin' barn." They didn't know I was in there, and bang! he fired off a round. That damn bullet smashed through the wall about two feet in front of my face and I almost shat myself. I hit the ground just as two or three more shots passed through that old wall at different places. I started yelling "Stop shooting!" (it could have been "Stop shooting you @#$%&*!" but I don't remember). Anyway, they heard me and did stop. After the shock passed, I was pretty pissed off. Later that night when my sister found out what her husband had done, she started whacking him on the back of the head with a rolled up magazine, telling him how dumb he could be. I felt better after that.