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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2009 9:16:57 GMT -5
so i know a few people on here live in or around Liverpool, so they might understand better but still. something happened last night that really has me thinking, i work in the ticket offices on the railway and last night i was working in broad green station, anyway not all train stop here so some go through at up wards of 60mph, but last night a train derailed just down the line (about 300 yards) from me, luckily no one was hurt but the train basically fell apart while it was moving and crashed, big accident really and totally destroyed 100 yard of the track. anyway, iv just been talking to the guys who are out there now fixing it and they said that if it had derailed 15 seconds earlier then it would have smashed right through the office that i was working in, i cant stop thinking about it, what if? shocked really, cause the mess is unbelievable, and there haven't been any trains all day.
so to get the ball rolling thats my experience of a close call, have any of you ever come close to biting the big one?
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Post by John™ on Jun 12, 2009 9:19:48 GMT -5
Once I was on the underground and this Asian guy comes on the carridge with a massive bag, I was so scared.
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Post by Gazza on Jun 12, 2009 9:28:50 GMT -5
Once I was on the underground and this Asian guy comes on the carridge with a massive bag, I was so scared.  |
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Jun 12, 2009 10:03:48 GMT -5
Once I was on the underground and this Asian guy comes on the carridge with a massive bag, I was so scared.  |
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Post by Ste on Jun 12, 2009 10:10:40 GMT -5
Once I was on the underground and this Asian guy comes on the carridge with a massive bag, I was so scared.  |
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Post by The L.F.C Fan on Jun 12, 2009 10:53:03 GMT -5
Once I was on the underground and this Asian guy comes on the carridge with a massive bag, I was so scared. On topic seems you got a bit lucky?  haven't actually got a train their before but yeh |
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Post by Legends Collector on Jun 12, 2009 14:01:44 GMT -5
so i know a few people on here live in or around Liverpool, so they might understand better but still. something happened last night that really has me thinking, i work in the ticket offices on the railway and last night i was working in broad green station, anyway not all train stop here so some go through at up wards of 60mph, but last night a train derailed just down the line (about 300 yards) from me, luckily no one was hurt but the train basically fell apart while it was moving and crashed, big accident really and totally destroyed 100 yard of the track. anyway, iv just been talking to the guys who are out there now fixing it and they said that if it had derailed 15 seconds earlier then it would have smashed right through the office that i was working in, i cant stop thinking about it, what if? shocked really, cause the mess is unbelievable, and there haven't been any trains all day. so to get the ball rolling thats my experience of a close call, have any of you ever come close to biting the big one? Scary stuff. I only live 5 minutes walking distance from Broad Green station. Hope you are ok now though? |
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Post by y2jsucks on Jun 12, 2009 15:30:02 GMT -5
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Post by Albus Voldemort on Jun 12, 2009 18:21:27 GMT -5
Once I was on the underground and this Asian guy comes on the carridge with a massive bag, I was so scared. Lol, sigged |
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Post by CMC on Jun 12, 2009 20:22:20 GMT -5
Be careful, death will come back and get you in the order you should have died, I'd watch it.
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Post by Sam on Jun 12, 2009 20:35:51 GMT -5
Once I was on the underground and this Asian guy comes on the carridge with a massive bag, I was so scared. LMAO. On topic, that is scary man. I'd piss and sh*t myself if I saw that. |
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Jun 13, 2009 4:44:01 GMT -5
Tbh. Still haven't got around to watching that. Looks good. |
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Post by bencw on Jun 13, 2009 5:13:48 GMT -5
Tbh. Still haven't got around to watching that. Looks good. apparantly thats the least successful film in british history |
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Post by lancewiget on Jun 13, 2009 6:47:33 GMT -5
I was on holiday in Egypt a couple years back, in Sharm-El-Sheik, possibly the biggest sh*thole in Egypt. We flagged this taxi down (big f*cking mistake) and ended up sharing a taxi with some dude, and a burkha-clad woman. So when they get dropped off, guess what the  happens? They start arguing with the driver. My only thought is "please don't blow, please don't f*cking blow" and eventually they leave, and we get back to driving. This dumb-ass taxi driver, is driving in the middle of a dual-carriageway at 120mph. Weaving in and out of cars, each lane, not slowing. So he misses our turn, yet doesn't slow. So I think we're getting f*cking 'napped. Speed hits 140, and he almost kills this guy walking his fruit cart across the road, weaving around him at 110mph. He eventually U-turns and takes us to where we wanna go, I'm sat in the front, no seat-belt the entire time (I thought I'd leave that out until the end), absolutely sh*tting myself. So when we pay him the price we agreed, he shorts us some change, about 10 egyptian pounds (£1 ffs). So my wife has a go at him, saying "give us the damn change" while I'm saying "Look... it's only a quid, lets just go!" She keeps arguing, and eventually we just leave without the £1... which I'd rather have left without other than die. We get a taxi to get back to the hotel, and this second one was personally the best driver I've ever encountered. The fastest he went was 60mph when there was literally nothing else in sight. He was chatting to us the whole time and made us feel incredibly comfortable. And that, WF, was the closest I've personally been to dying, and closest I ever wanna go until I actually do flatline. I couldn't take anything closer to the grave than that. |
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Post by y2jsucks on Jun 13, 2009 10:36:54 GMT -5
Still haven't got around to watching that. Looks good. apparantly thats the least successful film in british history Wow. I don't belive that. Thought it was actually a brilliant film. |
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Post by s☠e on Jun 13, 2009 16:22:37 GMT -5
On Monday, if this dipcrapof a kid would have been one second faster in attempting to do a wheelie across the main road at full speed, without looking anywhere...he would have died. Under my car.
Luckily for him, I only crippled his bike. And hurt him.
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Post by Rated R on Jun 13, 2009 17:27:20 GMT -5
Three years back I was involved in a horrible car accident. A speeding car skipped the lights on a crossroad, smashed into my side of the car at such a speed that the car I was in was sent flying off the edge of a hill. I blacked out as the car was rolling down the hill, and woke up in the hospital. Apparently they'd done surgery to remove several pieces of glass shards imbedded in my neck, one of which if an inch deeper would have cut into a main blood vessel and killed me.
And that is the closest I will hopefully ever come to death without actually dying.
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Post by Hervine on Jun 15, 2009 7:17:13 GMT -5
so i know a few people on here live in or around Liverpool, so they might understand better but still. something happened last night that really has me thinking, i work in the ticket offices on the railway and last night i was working in broad green station, anyway not all train stop here so some go through at up wards of 60mph, but last night a train derailed just down the line (about 300 yards) from me, luckily no one was hurt but the train basically fell apart while it was moving and crashed, big accident really and totally destroyed 100 yard of the track. anyway, iv just been talking to the guys who are out there now fixing it and they said that if it had derailed 15 seconds earlier then it would have smashed right through the office that i was working in, i cant stop thinking about it, what if? shocked really, cause the mess is unbelievable, and there haven't been any trains all day. so to get the ball rolling thats my experience of a close call, have any of you ever come close to biting the big one? Scary stuff. I only live 5 minutes walking distance from Broad Green station. Hope you are ok now though? Where is Broad Green again  |
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Post by Legends Collector on Jun 15, 2009 10:20:35 GMT -5
Scary stuff. I only live 5 minutes walking distance from Broad Green station. Hope you are ok now though? Where is Broad Green again Not far from the five-ways/Childwall and the Old Swan and what used to be the Jaguar show room. I can't explain it very well because it's not near anything well known. |
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Post by Hervine on Jun 15, 2009 12:32:45 GMT -5
I know where about you mean now  |
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