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indi
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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 07:50 Edited at: 15th Nov 2006 07:51
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Oh man i just went to the shops, and a severe storm brewed up out of nowhere.
5 minutes late and i would be under that scaffold.

btw check the sign on the church lol.



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oops, posted in DBP, moved to geek.

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Damn--- and that got me thinking. If somebody from the forums died in an accident like that, I don't think anyone here would even find out.

Anyways, glad to see you're ok.

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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 08:11
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actually your right, my family has no clue regarding Darkbasic and game dev.
I should go buy a lottery ticket

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Yeah you should because you are one lucky mother....

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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 09:25 Edited at: 15th Nov 2006 09:25
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Nice.

Good point with the nobody knowing bit. I'm moving to Cyprus in a week or so. If I don't post by Xmas then I'm dead. Wish me luck...

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Quote: "If somebody from the forums died in an accident like that, I don't think anyone here would even find out"


Somebody did die a few months ago, and it was posted here. His family emailed everyone who had sent him emails since his death, and it made it's way here.



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Really? Who was that?

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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 12:57
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Quote: "Somebody did die a few months ago, and it was posted here. His family emailed everyone who had sent him emails since his death, and it made it's way here."


Yeah, i remember that, it was about the time i joined? Remember it being one of the first threads i read on this board.

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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 14:23 Edited at: 15th Nov 2006 14:24
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Quote: "I'm moving to Cyprus in a week "

I spent 6 years living in Cyprus, i moved back to blighty about 18 months ago ... where abouts are you moving to?

Back on topic, A 17 year old girl drove through my village way last week, way in excess of the 30mph speed limit. She lost control of her car and crashed into my house, destroying the porch and righting-off Mrs. Scraggles car in the process. I took pictures but I am away from home for a few days, so I will post them in a new thread when a get home. The crazy thing is, I was sweeping leaves out of the porch about half an hour earlier. If I had been in it at the time I would surely be dead! It was shown on TV on the local news. I was interviewed and got another 12 seconds of fame. I am turning into quite the celeb


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damn, i wish i'd been watching look north to see you scraggle.


Indi: congrats on not being dead.

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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 15:27 Edited at: 15th Nov 2006 15:45
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5 minutes to change the future... Wait 'til you've got ten seconds, or a small distance, to make a difference!

I used to work in A&E (ER for you guys across the pond), it wasn't so bad when you get used to it. This thread's like Hallowe'en came a fortnight late!

The good thing is everyone's still living.

That church... What did they do to upset Him?

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yah guys... you know when people get in a car crash or aomething and they die...well here is my theory. if these people started there day even 5 seconds later they would not have gotten in that same crash.



: glad you are still here Indi.

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I've been in a similar situation myself, a few weeks ago a helicopter crashed not too far from my house. I just turned on my computer at the time and had the window open, then suddenly came a huge BANG! and the curtains blew in because of the shockwave. I almost fell out of my chair.

The thing is that about 15 minutes earlier i was on my porch and tested my new video camera, if i'd stayed some longer i could have caught some disturbing footage.

Both in the chopper died..... including my neigbours brother.

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If I died I'd get Peter H to tell you guys...


glad to hear you weren't splattered indi...though if you had got pasted and lived to tell the tale I'd bet there would be some wicked pics.

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I'm not a big fan of close calls. I've had three notable instances where I came way too close to dying... if there's a higher power, it wants me around for something (or it's just unlucky at killing me lol). I had a really bad car accident, almost died and two other people did die, I almost drown when I was about 14-ish, and on 9/11 I was unlucky enough to be in Manhattan, a few blocks away when it happened. If anything they tought me (A) always drive the speed limit and keep an eye out for drunk drivers, (B) swimming pools are evil, and (C) do your holiday shopping late like everyone else (prior to 9/11 I started holiday shopping in July, that way I was less-likely to forget people, although I manage to forget at least two people every single year ) At any rate, I think near-death experiences are somewhat useful, they keep us in check by re-confirming our mortality. Kind of like a vision test, if you will, but more dangerous


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Quote: "where abouts are you moving to?"
Limassol. My parents live there, with my sisters family in Paphos.

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Send me a postcard!


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Cool. I used to live in Limassol, near the old hospital. I miss it a lot!


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Bloody hell mate, glad you're all right, you lucky dude.

Well, on the topics of near dead experiences, I was drowning when I was 2, I didn't do a good job of it though, I mean I'm still alive, thus proving God is horrible, or hates everybody who comes into contact with me.

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Somebody died?!


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WO good thing you suvived, on the topic of neer deth expeeriances i havent really had any magor ones but a few weeks ago on bodfire ight a fire work whent wrong and almost killed us all.

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Glad to hear you are ok. Were there any casualties?

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About a month ago I got hit by a car. I had some back pain, sprained leg, ect. If I had listened to my friend about 20 seconds before, I would have been fine=/. Now it turns out they think I might have a concussion that they didnt "see" before

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ahhh. Lucky escape chap! Another good reason not to go to church as well!


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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 19:47 Edited at: 15th Nov 2006 19:48
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Quote: "I used to live in Limassol, near the old hospital. I miss it a lot!"
Yeah, am well looking forward to it. Plus I have a pretty sweet deal going for the foreseeable future. Basically no mortgage or rent for an apartment that is about the same size as my house here and about the same salary as here after tax but for only working four days a week (days are flexible and I can build them up to have a "free" holiday). Plus I only lose 5 days holiday a year (once in Cyprus will get 20 days holiday (not counting the 3 day weekends) instead of the 25 days I get at the minute).

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That sucks, you're really lucky, you SHOULD go buy that lottery ticket.

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@indi: scary when you realize how close you could have been to death, glad you made it though, lol .

I've never really had any near death experiences, I guess if you count the time a few years ago (actually about 5), all of my cousins and my brother and I were at my house and the parents were out doing something, and a couple of the older kids were supposed to start dinner, so they started it and about 30 minutes later the parents got home and realized that they hadn't lit the stove but it had just been spewing gas everywhere (none of us smelled it, but the adults did as soon as they walked it ). So I guess you could say I might have been a light flick or spark away from death (or all of us could have been).

That's one reason I don't know if I could ever join the Army, considering they go through that stuff all the time, and it'd be overwhelming stress and anxiety . I saw one story where some squads were patrolling in Iraq, and as they moved one of them yelled, and it turns out he only sprained his ankle in a pothole, but it caused one squad (I think there were two squads patrolling together or something) to stop and check on him, and about 10 seconds later an IED went off right next to the squad who kept going, I think killing most of them. Only the fact that the guy sprained his ankle prevented them from being in that same spot. What if that guy had planted his foot 6 inches off? Things like that are the most scary.

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WOW indi good to know ya alright

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We're all so close to death every moment of our lives.

I know of 3 close calls in my life.

The first one was when I was a kid. I was riding my bike into an orange grove from the alley behind my house. I rode as fast as I could and right before crossing I see a 18 wheeler barreling down the cross street. I slammed on my brakes and skidded sideways the driver of the truck did the same. He avoided me and I avoided him. He got out and made sure I was ok then drove off. I only saw him because the neighbors right next to the end of the alley got a fence that was easy to look through... if they had a fence like everybody else I wouldn't be here.

The second I was at a pool party for my class and all my friends were jumping off the diving board. I saw how much fun they were having and joined them. Before I jumped I knew I didn't know how to swim... but I figured how hard can it be? I jumped and soon realized I wasn't going to just learn how to swim on my own... I was going to die. Thankfully one of the new kids at the school saved me. Adding insult to injury the adult that owned the pool yelled at me for almost drowning... then later asked "Why aren't you in the pool having fun?" 30 minutes later.

The third I was just crossing a crosswalk to catch up to 2 of my friends who had started to cross about 30 seconds before me. A truck was driving up to the crosswalk but instead of hitting the breaks they floored the gas. I saw them speed up and started running... when the truck got too close for comfort I leaped. It barely missed me... ran through the intersection and finally slammed on their brakes after they got onto the other side. I'm guessing that's when they looked in their mirror to see if I was hit... then drove off.
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Quote: "Before I jumped I knew I didn't know how to swim"

Not to sound mean or anything, but I think that would've been a nomination for a Darwin award.


I remember once I was climbing up a steep, grassy hill. The kind where you have to climb by pratically crawling on your belly. I leaned upwards a little too much and started to fall backwards. Thankfully, I have long arms and the grass was a foot or more tall and I grabbed the biggest wad of grass ever which luckily didn't completely rip out of the ground and I pulled myself back down. I believe my heart did skip a beat.

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according to alot of posts here, alot of you guys have been in quite some danger! nothing has ever even happened to me in my entire life, no broken bones, zilch.

which leads me to think that something is overdue, or building up to a greater disaster, saying this though, i dont really live to the extreme, except jaywalking


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I was in my car behind a pickup truck once. The light ahead turned green, but a car that had been sitting at the intersection had not noticed. The truck in front of me kept going and then noticed the car in front was not going to start moving. The truck in front of me had anti-lock brakes and stopped very quickly. I did not. My brakes locked and I started to slide. At that moment everything went into slow motion and I remembered what my driver's education teacher said, "If your brakes like, pump the brake repeatedly". I did and I stopped about a foot behind the truck in front of me. Good thing I didn't fall asleep that day in Driver's Ed.

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well thankfully indi isn't dead or we'd be one aussie less!

as for the if i was there 5 seconds earlier I would be hit. well that theory isn't sound, cause if you weren't in that position maybe the storm wouldn't have happened, your eally can't tell, it's like the whole every time you make a choice a paralel universe is born theory. I'm not sure if the theory exists but if not it does now! I tend not to think about those things although I do pray to the four winds of chance and luck every morning

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glad you'r still alive the lottery tickets a waste in my opinion as you've probably used up your luck for the next few yours though lol
although you folks really should learn to build better buildings, you wouldn't see that here in edinburgh where the buildings are made of 1 tonne chunks of sandstone or decent bricks, our roofs are individually tiled, and if any break loose they just slide off if it gets too windy, they don't get blown anywhere more than a few meters from the building (that's not to say small falling tiles aren't dangerous though, they just have a very limited area of effect)

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Quote: "they just have a very limited area of effect"


yeah but when you add all those bricks up...

http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=461&id=712172005

Quote: "The catalogue of incidents include three huge slabs of stone plummeting into the back garden of a tenement earlier this year."


and one of your fellow aussies wasnt so lucky Indi...
Quote: "The shocking new statistics were released today by the local authority to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the death of Christine Foster, an Australian waitress killed when heavy stones fell from Ryan’s Bar in the West End."


come to Edinburgh and get stoned , quite literally.

granted this was from an article last year

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Quote: "Before I jumped I knew I didn't know how to swim... "

my cousin did the same thing following a bunch of us off the diving board, saw him go under, come up with a bright red face going GAHLAHHAL then back under. Was a public pool and a lifeguard jumped in to save him. If you don't mind grog what would possess you to do such a thing? I mean I have done alot of crazy things and have the scars to show for it, but this seems like one I would have passed on.

As for the close to death thing we are all seconds away all the time and we just never know it. A few years back we were driving down I-90 to go to Six Flags and a car carrier was switching lanes right behind us, it ended up jackknifing and crashing around 20-30 cars, my sister-in-law who was a bit back of us stopped just in time to only smack another car at about 5mph.

Another time coming home from a gig, my bass player in I were driving home and our drummer and other guitarist were in a U-Haul about 200 yards back. It was late and another car went speeding past us on the right, I was in the passanger seat when the other car started to spin, the back end came literally withing 6 inches of my door. It was truly a slow mo kinda moment and All I could do was read the bumper stickers as the car got closer. "God is my CO-Pilot" I will never forget it. While this was happening my drummer (whose car we were driving) was driving the Uhaul watching this and screaming (as reported to me) "Son of a Bitch don't you dare hit my car!"

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Well, I guess I should share a near death story...

Once upon a time, I was home, and hankerin' for some VHS movies to watch. After slinking into my attic and retrieving the box, I tried my darndest to get the massive box down the ladder, along with my massive self. Suddenly, I lost my balance and began to fall back! I threw the box to the right, causing them to snap one of the steps of the nearby staircase, and began to plummet towards the floor. Luckily, I have a beautifully carpeted floor, so no injuries were inflicted but an ass-kicken'-sore leg, due to it smacking off a nearby stand, on the way down.

How almost tragic.

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Driving with my family in our minivan cross country on the highway, a semi on the opposite side of the highway suddenly came barreling across the median and smashed head-on into a car just two cars back from us. I shiver to think what would've happened if we had just taken 10 seconds longer getting into the car that morning...

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Well, I've been pretty lucky about this stuff it only happened to me once.

My dad was driving my family to Rockford and the road was completely empty, so there comes a truck out of nowhere, speeding WAY beyond the speed limit right at us and my dad swerved off the road right before it got to us.
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I have the most odd mind. Whenever i stand on a bridge i think, "what if i just threw my cellphone off?" and i have to put my phone in my pocket, or my mind might lose control. yes that did have spome relevence. I was standing on a peir, when the though occured, "what if I just jump off this peir!?" and i actually got one leg over before someone tapped my shoulder aking what I was doing. I cannot trust myself in dangerous places, becuase I loose control of my mind and end up trying to live out my little fantasies.

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Quote: "my cousin did the same thing following a bunch of us off the diving board, saw him go under, come up with a bright red face going GAHLAHHAL then back under. Was a public pool and a lifeguard jumped in to save him. If you don't mind grog what would possess you to do such a thing? I mean I have done alot of crazy things and have the scars to show for it, but this seems like one I would have passed on."


I blame it on my stupidity. The way I grew up I pretty much learned things on my own... this was just another task that I have never done and thought I could handle it. I program like this too... if I've never done something I just do experiments till I figure it out.
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Quote: "what if i just threw my cellphone off?"
Ha! I used to do similar stuff when I was a kid. Normally when sitting in the back seat of my parent's car with the window slightly open. I would basically get this massive urge to chuck my watch, new game, or other such valuable object out of the window of the car. Never did it, but it was a very big urge to do it. Weird eh? Similar eh?

Quote: "what if I just jump off this peir!?"
I take it back. You are nuts. And dyslexic Seriously though I read once that this is apparently the really low level reason for people being afraid of heights. They basically don't trust themselves when they get near the edge and they might get the urge to jump off. Well, it's what some people believe.

BTW, if you are old enough I would try a pint or two of the good stuff if I was you. Either that or invest in protective clothing. And wear it all the time.

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Quote: "Ha! I used to do similar stuff when I was a kid. Normally when sitting in the back seat of my parent's car with the window slightly open. I would basically get this massive urge to chuck my watch, new game, or other such valuable object out of the window of the car. Never did it, but it was a very big urge to do it. Weird eh? Similar eh?"


I used to and still have slight urges like that... usually associated with hot pizza... and I love pizza!
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Quote: "Either that or invest in protective clothing. And wear it all the time.
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....or a straight jacket....

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I choked on a bite of Eggo Waffle, and my mom thought I was goofing around... Luckily my older brother gave me the Heimlich... Lol... I think that was my closest thing to a near death experience.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2006 11:23
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I haven't read the whole post but anyway...

Me and my uncle went to a shoe shop in town, he was looking for some comfy spot shoes. He's one of those fussy types that has to get the perfect shoe anyway we left. Three days later the shop was on the news it had been blown up. Yep blown up by (RUMOR) the owner who had run up some debts (RUMOR) I know it wasn't five minutes but still that was pretty scary!

Later my uncle said he had farted and that caused the explosion!


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Posted: 19th Nov 2006 18:57
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Quote: "I choked on a bite of Eggo Waffle,"

You should sue them, wouldn't be surprised if you won with the kind of lawsuits people file

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Posted: 19th Nov 2006 22:14
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Quote: "the window slightly open. I would basically get this massive urge to chuck my watch, new game, or other such valuable object out of the window of the car."


I get urges like that all the time. I have chucked stuff out of the window out of lack of control.

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