Darwin AwardsBluffboy says: My mate cheated death and burned his eyebrows off looking down the barrel of a potato gun. Tell us about your brushes with the Grim Reaper through stupidity.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:01)
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I posted this QOTW suggestion about 10 weeks agoand have just had to trawl through the suggestions to find my post so I could pea this.
When I was 18, I tried to abseil down a huge stack of straw-bales using that thin hairy blue twine they use to hold the straw together. I wrapped the twine around my hand and lowered myself over the edge.
My foot slipped and I was left dangling with just the cord which had pulled tight around my palm, preventing me from plummeting the 25ft to the concrete floor of the barn.
Had I coiled the string the other way, it wouldn't have pulled tight and I would have burned my hand, ruined my skeleton and then died.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 17:37,
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