flying chicken wrote: A gun pointed to my temple and ready to trigger.

Yap, this one. Happened to me 5 years ago in Phnom Penh near Wat Ounalom.....4 o'clock in the morning.......robbery.

Francis wrote:

flying chicken wrote: A gun pointed to my temple and ready to trigger.

Yap, this one. Happened to me 5 years ago in Phnom Penh near Wat Ounalom.....4 o'clock in the morning.......robbery.

Happened to me 9 years ago in Phnom Penh. Street 136 before it was busy.

7 years ago when I lived in Sihanoukville I found a fuckin' cobra in my kitchen. Was rainy season and that thing somehow squeezed under the backdoor of my house (Cambodian doors, you know). Woke up 6 in the morning.....was still dark and I was still half asleep .......almost stepped on that creature.

Parenthood. I never want to extend my emotions like this ever, ever again. Once is enough. I've had guns pointed at me before. I've had guns fired at me, striking the vehicle I was driving one of the times. Parenthood is scarier. Watching blood coming out of a hole in your kid's knee, driving out of the countryside to the city, and holding her as you tell her the shots and the stitches wont hurt that much...fucking horrifying.

Besides having a cocked and loaded revolver in my face...

Getting stuck in an underwater tunnel where the river pushes you through.. I took the wrong turn and, like others have said, the adrenaline kicks in and I got unstuck enough to scrape back through the right way...



Out running a cop in my car once...



Waking up from a drunken sleep on a beach trip in the back of a Jeep Wagoneer while spinning out on the highway while because our driver fell asleep.



A drunk (the driver, not me) moto ride in Vietnam once. I actually jumped off early.



Being chased all at once by, security, Nigerians and LadyBoys in Golden Sorya Mall.



Sneaking around were I wasn't supposed to be in a zoo and getting pulled into a cage by an angry elephant.

Walked up to the gate (pretty open, but had 2 huge bars across it so the elephant couldn't walk out) and played with it's trunk. Then out of nowhere it grabbed/wrapped around my hand and pulled me in with great force and started having a hissy fit. Looked like it was trying to stomp me. Luckily I escaped it kung fu grip.



One seemingly bad storm on a sailboat crossing the Atlantic.



Having a severe allergic reaction to Aleve where my face and limbs starting swelling at an unreal pace and having be rushed the emergency room for a shot.



Having to drive at night on mushrooms (ok, "having to" might be the wrong word).



When a snow tunnel I had dug collapsed on me as a kid. I forget if I needed help getting out, but for a few seconds I thought I was a fossil.



Definitely thought I was dying when I mixed ketamine and alcohol once.



Got my leg caught on the rope of a zip line when the person ahead of me was going. Luckily it got me good enough that it didn't let me drop, just went down with the dude in front, he got jolted and fell off, but I just had a fucked ride all the way down hanging by my foot.



Falling off a small horse while riding bareback. I lost the reigns and it started galloping. I slowly slid around its neck, then fell off underneath. Only one hoof got me, on the head. Ouch.


Getting my tie caught in a paper shredder. Just kidding, LoL.

And behind way to close to a building when they demolished it and it knocked down part of another building. Trying to run in thick, blinding dust.

Your snow tunnel reminded me of a ski run I went down with a ski jump. I landed on my head and broke through the surface to a cave under the snow. I was suspended upside down from my skis which looked flat on the surface.

I couldn't move to get out but could breath. There was a stream running under the snow that had carved out the cave.

Eventually, they lifted me out, but holy fuck, I didn't know if anyone had seen me go down.

My first emergency call as a first-responder/EMT where the guy committed suicide with a .44cal mag. First baby delivery (I did three). First person to die while I was giving CPR. First gunshot wound emergency call. First time having to go into a burning building as a fireman. (it took me about 10 min. to suck a 20 min air tank dry.)

My first hurricane at sea on a ship. Ship ramming a dock while I was on watch in the engine room. First engine room fire while on watch there. (Fire was above a 5000 gal diesel fuel tank.)

Riding a Harley-Davidson in Thailand and having an overloaded cane truck turn in front of me.

Having American police hold a assault rifle on me while I was on the ground and they were deciding if they could get away with shooting me while a neighbor was watching.

First time in court representing myself against corrupt attorneys and judge.

If a profile of local resident expats would conclude big risk takers tend to move to Cambodia, I wouldn't be allowed to enter. Worst that ever happened to me was eating asphalt after going down on a bicycle/motorcycle or doing a barrel roll off the road in a rally car.

Sailorman wrote:

First time in court representing myself against corrupt attorneys and judge.

You forgot "getting bummed by the gay attorney in return for court costs".