» Near Death Experiences

Not me, but my Dad...
...worked with animals in zoo's and a safari park when I was younger. He's had a lion bite a hole in his landrover, an elephant tried to push him through a wall, he's been punched by a chimp, and the little platform above a very deep killer whale pool nearly fell off. My dad couldn't swim at the time.
I think the freakiest event he's told me about was when he had to dart some bears (knock them out). The dart has a tiny percussion charge so that when it hits the animal the charge goes off and forces the drug into the animal. What happen here was that the charge went off just as the dart left the gun and sprayed my dad with the drug. Well, this stuff knocks out animals ok but is kinda lethal to humans, and to make things worse he'd tripped over earlier in the day and had grazed himself. So he quickly washed himself down with a hose and he went with the boss and sat down in the office. His boss got out some animal antidote (I don't think there was or is a human antidote) and told him that if anything funny starts happening he'll stuff some of this into him. So my Dad just had to sit there and wait. Every few minutes his boss would look into his eyes and ask if he was ok. After half hour or so of contemplating meeting the grim reaper nothing had happened sooo.....they went back to work. My dad is the coolest :-)
Some of these things happened before I was born so I feel I'm quite lucky to exist!
(Mon 29th Nov 2004, 14:43, More)