a funny thing happened today

revjames · May 17, 2012

Working on a gangway out to the area where the ships are tied up. A galvanised deck with sections that lift out to get access to cable tray, hydraulic hoses etc. I had a section out and was lying face down with my arms through the gap clipping cable ties. A bricklayer working at the terminal nearby comes running up the gangway towards me .... As I sat up wondering what the fuss was about he exclaimed "thank God... I thought you had collapsed".. He saw a body lying face down and assumed the worst!

Funny thing is this has happened to me before. I was training with Revsparky some time ago doing a run. He was at the finishing point already with the stopwatch to clock my time. I gave everything I had for the last hundred yards and sprinted. He clocked the stopwatch and I just dropped to the ground to get my breath back. Next thing I hear screeching tryes and people getting out of a car running towards me to give me CPR - "its OK - I've been running" I explained to the amused driver.

How many of you have been mistaken for dead?

steptoe · May 17, 2012

I dont know if it was dead or not, but I did get a ride home in a polis van.

It was a few years back and I was living overseas at the time, I was in England for a few days catching up with old mates and decided to go out for a few lemonades one night, walking home I forgot where I was staying and got a little bit lost,

anyway, after walking for an age i got fed up and decided to kip where I was,

Next thing I hear is a lot of shouting and Im being accosted by the polis and some paramedics!

I think they were happy i was just tired.

betty swollocks · May 17, 2012

Well it's never actually happened to me but it has with my ex-wife

Countless times we would be in bed making love and I would look down and think

"are you actually even breathing"

Not that it stopped me you understand

steptoe · May 17, 2012

Actually, thinking about, the lemonade incident seems to have been a recurring theme at various times in my short life. :|

M107 · May 17, 2012

Not me but I thought somebody had kicked the bucket on my van.......

in my old fiesta van stationary at the back of a traffic que on my way into London, just sparked up a *** & look in the mirror to see a bike hammering up behind me. The biker didnt stop ...........well not until he parked his bike in the back of my fiesta, next thing I see is a limp body sliding down my windscreen over the bonnet & crumple into a heap on the floor.

I get out & dive straight into medic mode, while the woman following the bike runs up giving it "oh my god oh my god he's dead"

I lift the tinted visor to be greated with "**** ME"..... no thanks mate, stay still I'll call an ambulance "no dont bother mate I'm ok, sorry I didnt see you I was busy looking at the bird in the car behind"

He gets up we swap insurance details, he dumps the bike with the engineers at the road works & the bird behind gives him a lift to work in the city.

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That reminds me I saw another biker come a cropper this week, the smarty pants thought he'd hoof it past the traffic & notced the traffic island toooooooooooooooooooo late. Me & another motorist had to lift the bike off him, he was pinned down by the stand that had gone down his back.

The front wheel hit the curb & just folded sending him & the bikecartwheeling down the road.

revjames · May 26, 2012

I came off at the bottom of a hill near where I live now. Busy summer day and cars coming towards me. I was going too fast and a car pulled out of a turning at the bottom of the hill. Probably doing about 55 in a 30 area (many moons have passed and I'm absolved now) I had nowhere to go to avoid it so made a split second decision to ditch the bike rather than hitting the car. Flew down the road and lay there with the bike next to me with wheel still spinning. Did a mental chack up and realised everything was still movable so nothing broken. Car driver winds window down and shouts "you OK mate?" "err yes I think so" I replied to which he just sped off leaving me there, worst bit was the knee ripped out of my new wrangler jeans.....