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Q: What is the closest you've ever come to getting seriously hurt here?
I mean with all the pushing and shoving, car drivers who run lights and don't use the turn signal how close have you come to becoming seriously hurt?
A lady ran into my bike we both fell off I got scratched banged me up a bit....other than that on the subway I got squished like a pimple ready to burst! I was basically sitting on someone's lap the entire ride while it was hot!
11 years 19 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
My troubles in China have all been drink related. Woken up three times (or is it four) with my wallet missing, and one of those was in hospital, besides which i'm a big-mouthed c**t, and God knows I keep getting in trouble for that. Been banned from my local three times. Might wander in there now in fact and see if I can't make it four. But as for the roads, you have to be kidding. I can see the problems coming a mile off. Just wish I had a more powerful bike to help me avoid them.
Beat up in a bar brawl. cracked rib, broken glasses, chipped tooth, concussion from bottle broken over the back of my head.
I was driving at 60km/h at night on my scooter, in shorts and flip flops and with no helmet, and didn't see the huge hole in the road in front of me. I totally had it coming, but still, it hurt like hell. I hit my head on the ground HARD, but was extremely lucky not get any after-effects. Some of the skin on my right arm and leg was ripped off, and it hurt like a bitch, and my right foot somehow got a nasty cut, which got infected a few days later because of the huge summer rain that came out of nowhere (I had to walk through giant puddles of filth...).
It took me almost a year to grow the balls to ride that scooter again, and I've been scared of speed since (If I rode it I'd never go above 15km/h).
I still have a scar on my arm, leg and foot to remind me not to be this stupid ever again.
I was living in one of the older, very typical, 7 or 8 story appartment blocks with the built in balconies, no elevator etc. One of the appartments nearby in the block had a gas explosion and blew the crap out of the place and set fire to the one upstairs. Scared the bejesus out of me when it blew and unfortunately the person in the unit was critically injured. Not sure what their outcome was as I moved out soon after.
Last October National Day, I heard lots of noise and commotion so I went to see what was happening. A huge mob of people were destroying a local Japanese owned supermarket. I got hit in the back of the head by a piece of flying concrete. It knocked me to the ground and felt sore for a few days but I managed to recover.
