Narrow EscapesIHateSprouts tells us they once avoided getting caught up in an IRA bomb attack by missing a train. Tell us how you've dodged the Grim Reaper, or simply avoided a bit of trouble.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 12:31)
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Went out shopping for a mother's day gift, wasn't I a good boy.
Bit peckish as it's getting towards lunchtime, popped into Boots and got plastic sandwich and a bottle of Lucozade. (Other energy drinks are available.)
Got outside, and there's bloody old people all over every available bench, so I sit on the edge of a bin outside the shop, scoff my sarnie, and then dawdle off to get the bus home.
When I get home about 30 minutes later, I discover from the newsflashes that an IRA bomb has gone off. There's a kid dead. Turns out the big bomb was outside Boots. In a bin.
(PS. Three years later I missed the big Docklands bomb by a slightly more comfortable six hours. Pretty sure I didn't actually sit on that one, either.)
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