Scary Stuff

[A2597]

*Thinks*
well, walking back inside right after sunset, hearing a "HISSSSSSSS" turning to my left to see a coiled rattlesnake in striking position not more then 3 feet away from me. I remember the only thing going through my mind was "The fastest snake is the Black Mamba, which has a land speed of 8mph. I can top that" and breaking into a dead run to the house. Of course, if it had struck, forget it, not dodging that.

then theres always hearing/seeing HUGE alligators not but meters away from you. I'm talking 15 footers. A 15.5 foot gator was taken out of the lake not a month ago...and I know there was more then one that size.

swiming in the Bahamas, right after a shark dive. meaning the chum is gone but there are still hundereds of sharks around. I was getting tired, and started swiming back towards the boat. I had goggles that allowed me to see both directly left and directly right, and I noticed a large shark heading right towards me from behind when I turned my head. It being my first time swimming with sharks, I was stupid an paniced. meaning I started swimming faster, which ment splashing more. Nothing like alot of splashing to get a sharks attention. it zeroed in on me. Thankfully, I came to my sences and just STOPPED, and turned to face it. at about 10 feet (~3 meters) it turned and swam past me.

another dive in the bahamas. 10 foot barricuda. need I say more? Sure, I'm not on it's prey list, but DAMN if those things arn't freaky. lightning fast and big teeth. I'm fine with sharks, barricuda get me out of the water.

other then that, just dreams. I don't get your usual dreams, I get true nightmares. the kind where you have 30 people attacking you, and your forced to watch family members killed...and well. Lets just say you always go down swinging, but you ALWAYS go down, and you ALWAYS wake up with adrenaline flowing and feeling like you have just been dragged and beten.

And WHY is it, that the bad guys ALWAYS have the better weapons. I have fist, they have knives...gah.

 

[AcousticToad]

Most scary thing happened to me, when i was 17 (2 years ago) i shot a Glock 17 by accident and missed my *groin region* by 2 inches, the round went into my thigh 14mm away from the main artery before coming lodged in my bone.

Was a fun 23 weeks in hospital sharing my joy with all.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Wait a minute...so you shot yourself in the leg, specifically right near your peen, something a man treasure the most (Well, sort of)? I'm just trying to understand how you got the gun in he first place.

 

[FoxDie]

Well I'm guessing that he lives in the US, and it's really not hard to get a Glock 17 in the US. Also, Glock's have this strange trigger that kind of clacks back after a small amount of squeezing, instead of, for example, Beretta triggers, that can be smoothly squeezed back until the firing pin is released (Could have been a wierd Glock, but that's my experience with them) My guess is he was trying to stick it in his waistband, but I could be mistaken.

 

[AcousticToad]

Nope, im in the UK, a friend imported the parts over in radio's (must have been about 8 or 9 radio's with different parts in) i was putting the clip in and taking it out, cocking it then it just went off, i think my friend put it together wrong because it was during the cocking sequence, the slide just went forward with such power it must have loaded a round into the chamber and shot it out. Plus i was aiming down away from my face but the it was so hard to cock i turned it slightly and thats when it went off.

The thing just broke after that, was hard trying to convice the neighbours that a dog had bitten me thats why i was in hospital and that it was the TV that went bang.

 

[Sprafa]

smugling Glocks AcousticToad?

 

[Gunner]

Someone call the federales!!!

 

[AcousticToad]

I prefer to call it 'Importing for personal use'

I would never use it in public or on another person, its just good incase any sudden wars start and the reds come rolling through.

In other words i live near Liverpool...

Plus i collect guns, make them safe and unusable and then mount them on my wall in cases wih blank rounds. UK should have lighter gun laws.

Other scary things that happened to me have been dogs...bloody dogs, they hate me i cant walk down a street without one running after me growling, first time it happened i was 6 standing off against a 3ft tall Alsation (SP?) the taffer bit my leg and i had to have 3 or 4 tetnus boosts.

Scary for other people that relate to me?

Me having Meningitis when i was 8 days old, first 2 years in hospital and prnounced medically dead 3 times because my heart had stopped for 6/7 min.