Nine lives (but there's only one left!)
My other half has had more than his fair share of brushes with death.

1. When he was a toddler, he fell out of a moving car, and his teddy cushioned his head from being smashed onto the road.
2. He had been thrown across the room by an electric shock not once, but twice, on two separate occasions. The first time was a Teasmade (we're going back a bit here) and the second by a washing machine.
3. He fell off a mobile classroom backwards and landed inches away from a spiked tree truck, his friend went white with shock when he saw how close it was.
4. He had slashed both wrists, accidently. Once when a glass door rebounded and smashed, cutting his wrist; then when he was carrying a bottle and fell, again cutting his wrist. Both wrists are still scarred.
5. He overdosed on LSD as a teenager, and lost consciousness (and suffered flashback and panic attacks for years afterwards.)
6. He sat in a booth to get his photo taken, and it blew up, spewing flames and smoke. He was oblivious to it all, he heard an explosion but thought it was outside. It was only when a passer-by pulled back the curtain that he realised.

I'm amazed (and very glad) he's still alive.
(Pushka, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 17:31, 2 replies)

overdosed on LSD?!
The LD50 of LSD is 46mg an average dose is 50-150 micrograms. a microgram is a millionth of a gram. This means that he would have had to take 306 doses at 150 micrograms a piece.
(seshmarls, Sat 14 Feb 2009, 1:08, closed)

I think
She means he took too much. Happened to me once... it was horrible. For two years.
(McChinaman banned, Sat 14 Feb 2009, 14:43, closed)