Walking home from school with a bunch of friends (I was about 15 years old) - chattering away, nineteen to the dozen (as always) and stepped out into the road. A van screeched to a halt inches away from me. It was a police mobile accident prevention unit. The policeman driving gave me a very stern telling off. D'oh!
Walking home from school with a bunch of friends (I was about 15 years old) - chattering away, nineteen to the dozen (as always) and stepped out into the road. A van screeched to a halt inches away from me. It was a police mobile accident prevention unit. The policeman driving gave me a very stern telling off. D'oh!
Don't remember it entirely, since I was 5, but it involves a Big Wheel and a bus.
Came flying down Lake Sundance Place on my bigwheel, right into the path of a city bus on Lake Bonavista Drive. Our neighbour who had been jogging, saw the impending disaster, and ran at the bus waving his hands screaming. The bus came screaching to a halt and hit me hard enough to wedge the bigwheel under the tire, and knock me off of it, but not kill me. He literally dropped my pants at the side of the road, spanked me till I peed myself, and walked me home carrying me under his arm like a football. This was the late 70's and adults were allowed to discipline children. My parents never felt the need to sue him or anything, and my old man probably asked why he didn't hit me harder...lol. I never understood why he was all teared up and crying at the time, that is pretty much what I remembered the most, but my mom told me many years later, " He thought for a second he witnessed his neighbours kid killed being run over by a bus."
Had it not been for Mr. Churkas, I would have had a grave stone at the tender age of 5.
RIP Mr. Churkas.
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For me, there was one May long weekend that my friends and I spent at a buddy's cabin on the lake. Naturally we drank for 3 days straight, and on the third day we all had pretty vicious hangovers. Nevertheless, we decided a good idea would be to take the canoe out on the lake before we left. The lake was super choppy that day, and our canoe had holes big enough to let fish in. This was naturally not enough to stop us. We managed to float long enough to get it out towards the middle of the lake, when we figured we'd gone way too far and had to turn around. When we started to try, we turned sideways to oncoming waves, and eventually our canoe capsized. Because we were groggy after 3 days of hard drinking, we decided to swim for shore and not float in with the canoe. It was the longest, most grueling swim I've ever endured, and all 3 of us were pretty shaken up on shore. My one friend still carries a lifejacket in the trunk of his car, just in case. Why weren't we wearing life jackets on the canoe, you may wonder? Because we thought it was funny the night before to throw them all on the roof of the cabin
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Me and a bunch of buddies were in Banff doing a guys weekend. We were at the Aurora trying to pick up some tail. Eventually the bar shutdown and some of us went off with the tail we picked up while some decided to keep drinking. I was in the drinking group. We took a cab back to the hotel and picked up the flat of beer that we left there and decided to hop in my buddy's 1976 Honda Civic (like a Mr. Bean car). We proceeded to drink said beer and thought it would be a great idea to break into the hot springs and go for a swim. So we scaled down this rocky slope to get there and went for our swim into the springs. It was probably about 4 in the morning at this point. We heard some security guards coming so we proceeded to throw our clothes back on and run up the slope. We all made it up to the car just as the security guards found us. We hoped into the car and took off. We ripped through Banff and up some mountain as we were sure the cops would be out looking for us after that. So we stayed up on the mountain for a few minutes. My buddy Kasey who was driving decided it would be a good idea to rally race down the mountain while on our way back to the hotel. So we proceed to fly down the road and he's going about 70kmph when we hit this thing that we later found out is called suicide corner. We were drifting like something feirce. The only thing is we ran out of road and fell off the edge of a cliff. Thankfully we got caught about 10 feet down the embankment on two tiny trees. These trees held us up while we all bolted out of the car. We all climbed to the top of the cliff (about an 75 degree incline) and got back onto the road. If it wasn't for those two tiny trees we would have had a 200 foot free fall into some trees then into the bow river. I still thank my lucky stars that I didn't die that day. Since then I won't get into the car with a drunk driver.
Oh yeah it took 4 tow trucks to get the car back up onto the road. We got a call at like 10 in the morning from my buddy's dad who said the RCMP had called him wondering about a car that was off the edge of a cliff (they ran his tags and called his parents house phone).
Not very likely to actually kill me, but pretty dumb anyway.
I was a teenager, coming home pretty late with everybody else asleep (pretty normal, I was a well-behaved kid and we live in a safe country so it was no big deal). I thought I'd make myself some toast before hitting the bed. I'm pretty comfortable doing stuff in the dark, so I didn't bother to put the lights on, partly because I didn't want to wake anybody up.
Didn't have toast, so used some other bread, which got stuck in the toaster. I tried to fish it out with a knife. Except without the lights I couldn't see inside the toaster. So I put the toaster back on before sticking the knife back in again.
Me and a bunch of buddies were in Banff doing a guys weekend. We were at the Aurora trying to pick up some tail. Eventually the bar shutdown and some of us went off with the tail we picked up while some decided to keep drinking. I was in the drinking group. We took a cab back to the hotel and picked up the flat of beer that we left there and decided to hop in my buddy's 1976 Honda Civic (like a Mr. Bean car). We proceeded to drink said beer and thought it would be a great idea to break into the hot springs and go for a swim. So we scaled down this rocky slope to get there and went for our swim into the springs. It was probably about 4 in the morning at this point. We heard some security guards coming so we proceeded to throw our clothes back on and run up the slope. We all made it up to the car just as the security guards found us. We hoped into the car and took off. We ripped through Banff and up some mountain as we were sure the cops would be out looking for us after that. So we stayed up on the mountain for a few minutes. My buddy Kasey who was driving decided it would be a good idea to rally race down the mountain while on our way back to the hotel. So we proceed to fly down the road and he's going about 70kmph when we hit this thing that we later found out is called suicide corner. We were drifting like something feirce. The only thing is we ran out of road and fell off the edge of a cliff. Thankfully we got caught about 10 feet down the embankment on two tiny trees. These trees held us up while we all bolted out of the car. We all climbed to the top of the cliff (about an 75 degree incline) and got back onto the road. If it wasn't for those two tiny trees we would have had a 200 foot free fall into some trees then into the bow river. I still thank my lucky stars that I didn't die that day. Since then I won't get into the car with a drunk driver.
Oh yeah it took 4 tow trucks to get the car back up onto the road. We got a call at like 10 in the morning from my buddy's dad who said the RCMP had called him wondering about a car that was off the edge of a cliff (they ran his tags and called his parents house phone).
And does leave me wondering why the morons in the other car's first thought was to film the poor sod rather than getting in front of the semi and slowing it down.
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