scarier than Halloween

[hal parker]

I was driving down the freeway when a semi blew a tire right beside me showering my truck with rubber debris. Immediateli I was back in country, 1966. Had to pull off the road for half an hour or so. Still a little shook up 2 days later. Anyone else out there have similar problem? Delayed stress maybe. Scared the hell out of me.

[bootlen]

Man! That would have sent most people for psychiatric treatment. It's a wonder you even kept it 'tween the ditches!

[midhvac]

Many years ago I was driving down the freeway in the center lane and noticed an old 1/2 ton pickup hauling about 2 tons of bricks, in the right lane a couple of car lengths ahead of me. The rear bumper was almost touching the ground. All of a sudden something told me to stomp on the gas pedal. As soon as I got up even with him, his rear axle broke and all hell broke loose. He just barely missed me :(

[wolfdog]

I once worked with a guy that was a Vietnam vet and real jumpy.

If you walked up behind him, and startled him, you stood a good chance of getting a screwdriver in your forehead.

[swat]

Had a semi have a blow out right beside my van once running down the free way. Had to pull over to clean myself up as well as catch my breath. Scary as hell. I screamed like a little girl. Just like the first time I got electricuted.

[sfry]

had it happen a few monthes ago, not a whole tire though. driving along about 80, and see a peice of tire coming right at the drivers side of the windshield, about eye high. was only maybe a 8in long and a few inches wide. cars on both sides couldn't change lanes, ducted down in the seat a bit and but my hand over my face, only left a little scuff mark, but scared the crap out of be, but not as bad as the sleeping passenger and the one in the back seat.

[frozensolid]

Originally posted by wolfdog
I once worked with a guy that was a Vietnam vet and real jumpy.

If you walked up behind him, and startled him, you stood a good chance of getting a screwdriver in your forehead.




You should have thanked him everyday, for being a patriot.

[midhvac]

Had a friend who came back from Nam with a bad stomach wound. Took him over a year to halfway recover. On the 4th of July, he would shake uncontrollably every time a firecracker went off.

[mattm]

Here's a good one. I was turning on a cv unit a few years back at the mcc. These are the old Square D's that have the plug in buckets. Well these mcc's have aluminum bars running vertical that the buckets plug into and these vertical bars then tie into the buss. Well apparently this particular bucket was loose and it shorted somehow and blew the entire side of the mcc out the side and tripped one of the ground faults on the main switch gear. I about **** my pants and the guy that was with me.

That bothered me for a while. Stuff like that really makes you respect electricity.

[Diceman]

Originally posted by mattm
I about **** my pants and the guy that was with me.


How did you **** HIS pants???
Nevermind.

[wolfdog]

Originally posted by frozensolid

Originally posted by wolfdog
I once worked with a guy that was a Vietnam vet and real jumpy.

If you walked up behind him, and startled him, you stood a good chance of getting a screwdriver in your forehead.




You should have thanked him everyday, for being a patriot.

All of our conversations took place face to face. :D

[mattm]

Originally posted by Diceman

Originally posted by mattm
I about **** my pants and the guy that was with me.


How did you **** HIS pants???
Nevermind.

You're wrong man :D

We both about **** our own pants. There hows that.

[spotts]

Originally posted by mattm
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I about **** my pants and the guy that was with me.





Man, thats really scared!

[Dowadudda]

You did what in the other guys pants?

[mattm]

I guess I'm gonna have to change my signature back to "I can't win."

[midhvac]

Originally posted by mattm
I guess I'm gonna have to change my signature back to "I can't win."

Yeah, or add "Do farts have lumps?"

[ricm]

Delayed reaction? Yep... this april working on an RTU... black clouds rolling in. lightning not that far off... So I gather up tools to evac. off the roof. Job still unfinished. Last screwdriver placed into the tool bag... and BZZZZZZZZZZZZAP!! the next building took a lightning strike. I felt the hairs on my arms and neck immediately stand up! (I only crapped in MY pants though)

The storm socked in... so had to abandon the job for that day... it was near the end of the day anyways... and about two hours later... I started shakin' like a bear crappin' pinecones... and felt like I was dying of thirst. I'm told it's a delayed reaction. Strange.

[DeltaT]

Odd cause in the past 60 days I was directly behind dump trucks in two occasions that blew the tire and blew the rim off. I could feel the blast all the way back in my van. I don't follow or get near big trucks with rims anymore.

My service buddy returned from Vietnam and we started working together when he got discharged. Everytime a loud bang or siren was heard he either started running (for the bunker) or hit the deck. It was really sad to see him this way and even today he still will react some times.

Odd thing was I got those orders but only had 11 months active duty left. Personnel said I would have to extend active duty one month to go and I said no thanks but would be almost happy to go. So they red lined my orders and sent my buddy about 5 months later. We are still best friends even though he knows this.

[hospitalacguy]

Driving up highway 170 towards Beaufort SC. Running about 60, I came around a blind corner and to my surprise was the biggest turkey buzzard I've ever seen right in the middle of the road eating dinner. I slammed on brakes just as he jumped into the air. At about 35mph he hit the front of the van and slide up onto the window. He then preceeded to lay one of his wings over the window blocking both our views. At this point me and my helper started screaming like school kids. I continued trying to stop, screaming and swerving at the same time. The bird rolled up onto the roof into the ladder rack and then landed back first onto the road. As I finally came to a stop, I looked back with the side view mirror and to my amazement the darn thing stood up grabbed his dinner and flew off. Go figure..

[Edited by hospitalacguy on 11-10-2004 at 03:47 PM]

[ozone drone]

I remember reading this in the news about 10 years ago.
A couple from Germany were driving on the interstate near Elko Nevada. They hit a handyman jack that was on the highway and it came up through the floor of the car right through the driver's seat, caught the guy in the groin, severed his femural artery and he bled to death before they could get him to the hospital...not a preferred way to go..
the extreme jack-off.

[Edited by ozone drone on 11-11-2004 at 06:46 AM]

[ricm]

Oh, even non-work related bits too? Ok, five years ago, around fall (early September) Riding the Old Harley to work, I lived about 20 miles outta town) Shifted the old -hand shift-foot clutch - beast into fourth gear. Just out of the ditch came a grey flash... BAM!! Nearly got knocked off the bike! Face felt like a flippin' Jack-o-lantern. I pulled over, and found a feather covered patch of meat stuck on the side of my helmet (Yep, Canadian law rules out the skull as adequete protection on a motorcycle) I later discovered that said dead bird was in fact a goose. A fat a$$ed Canadian goose. I'm surprised it didn't spin my head completely off... Cracked my cheek bone even. No fun.

[brian in mass]

Had a friend growing up, big kid..not the kind you want to meet in a dark alley. We were young, maybe late teens. We were driving down a highway on our way up north in New Hampshire to go camping. We pulled up next to a logging truck making a pass, and we noticed the kid turn bleach white. He looked about as scared as a human being could look before passing out from fear. We were a bit freaked out by this and asked him what happened a moment later.
He told us about how when he was a young kid, he was driving with his parents in Maine down some highway. There was about 2 or 3 logging trucks with BIG trees on them. They were behind a bit and he seen the trailor fail and the loggs roll off the side onto the two cars that were next to it. I guess it was horrific, 'cause he was shaking just telling us the story. Seems it killed a bunch of people and he seen it all.
So, like the "jerks" we all are at teens, everytime we saw a logging truck on the highway with him, we obviously had to drive along side of it !