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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Die Judicii » 06 Oct 2016, 11:43 am

I haven't got any pics to prove but ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Doh Doh,,,,,,,,,, I'm thinking you didn't mean that kind of "near miss"

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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Norton » 07 Oct 2016, 3:02 pm

Noisydad wrote:Lady Noisy survived a BLEVE in her near new but 2nd hand camper van 4 weeks ago. No one EVER survives those according to the fire investigator.


Read about it in the other topic, bloody lucky :crazy:
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Tiger650 » 07 Oct 2016, 9:45 pm

Heckler303 wrote:Was chainsawing a bunch of ancient bluegums for firewood. I forgot to put on suitable footwear, but I ignored it as usually the blades don't come anywhere near my person anyway. Well, I had my foot placed upon the log I was cutting, and had gotten about 4, 5 decent blocks.

Chainsaw suddenly slipped, and with it, I heard the cutting of fabric and that itchy, inflamed feel.

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(Yes, ugg ugg.))

I stopped the chainsaw, and pulled back for a moment, just reaching down to pull off the now ruined 20$ KKKmart pair. There was: A. Torn sock. B. Blood. C. Itchy toe. :shock:

After cleaning it up, I found my toe was still there, and the teeth only just grazed me.

(Taken a day later, healed a bit since it happened, but still a bit squishy)

That was almost Charles Darwin's natural selection at work :lol:

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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by kodiak74 » 10 Oct 2016, 2:10 pm

Many moons ago, in the height of summer was doing a range day with the M60 (yep that far back), which inevitably lead to a grass fire on the mound behind the target butt. Cease fire was called, and immediately the guys behind the targets ran up the hill to try and put the fire out. Unfortunately we had a run-away gun at the time - the only way to stop it firing was to rip the belt off, which one of the NCO's did - but not before the lines of tracer and the guys behind the targets got awfully close .....
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by MR. WINCHESTER » 10 Oct 2016, 7:14 pm

Have been shot in the head.

( maybe explain a lot ? )
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Oldbloke » 10 Oct 2016, 10:08 pm

MR. WINCHESTER wrote:Have been shot in the head.

( maybe explain a lot ? )


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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by pomemax » 11 Oct 2016, 8:33 am

That is a near miss i had my hand in a blower that moves plastic around fixing it when some decide oh it not plugged in just as i was taking my hand out could have lost a hand only shorted the pointer they sort of fixed that a but middle to short.I had a bloke simmilar to Oldbloke chasing me round the western suburbs of Sydney with hand grenades wanting to blow me up because he thought I was messing with his Mrs ( i was ) I must say the police had to find them all and returned them all apart from the 2 he threw at me that was a fun week.
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Jd256 » 11 Oct 2016, 1:50 pm

I was nearly decapitated by a piece of microwave zooming by my head at the local machine gun shoot. Some fool put a 1lb charge of tannerite in the oven that was waaaay to close to the firing line. it should have been 100 yrds away and it was more like 100 ft. Even the people at the mobile snack truck at the road were ducking for cover,
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Elek » 11 Oct 2016, 2:17 pm

What a dick head.
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by deadkitty » 11 Oct 2016, 2:49 pm

My brother found some old. slightly green, 22lr ammo and decided to try it out one day. He loaded up his lovely old Brno and pulled the trigger....nothing happened... waited ...then he pulled the rifle back through the car window he was using as a rest and it went off!..... luckily it missed him. but only just, it grazed the side of his neck leaving a nice red line....I never went shooting with him again.
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by gazza » 11 Oct 2016, 4:43 pm

Wow, you or your brother should have known better than that.
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by MR. WINCHESTER » 11 Oct 2016, 5:02 pm

gazza wrote:Wow, you or your brother should have known better than that.



Obviously, you have zero idea who you are talking to !
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by deadkitty » 11 Oct 2016, 5:14 pm

gazza wrote:Wow, you or your brother should have known better than that.


I tried to warn him...but... :unknown: .... stingy bugger...... who went on to be a bank manager.
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by gazza » 11 Oct 2016, 5:17 pm

Did it do any damage to the car?
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by deadkitty » 11 Oct 2016, 5:36 pm

gazza wrote:Did it do any damage to the car?


He's still alive...... so no :lol:
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by RoginaJack » 11 Jul 2018, 10:11 am

[quote="Heckler303"]Some of the other replies to this thread. Geeez. Almost chainsawing my toe seems like a pretty minimal loss.


What , not serious! bulls**t, you've ruined a great looking pair of KKKmart Uggs! :P

Can you claim that loss on Insurance? :lol:
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Stix » 11 Jul 2018, 12:06 pm

So a "near miss"...thats a saying ive never understood why the term has stuck to the meaning...i mean it must be "a hit" mustn't it...?
If you "nearly hit" something, you've inadvertantly missed it..sure you may have got close, but still you missed....so therefor a "nearly miss" must equate to meaning a hit..??!
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Member-Deleted » 11 Jul 2018, 1:34 pm

I've wondered that too. I think it is an odd shorthand way of saying it was a miss but it was close (or near)
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by doc » 11 Jul 2018, 2:25 pm

This thread was a near miss... thought it was gone, and then someone went and revived it from the past. ;)

The phrase near miss is confusing, but I can understand the concept.

It was a near pass. - The action was a 'pass' and it was close (near).

So near miss would indicate the action was a 'miss' but within close proximity.

Near is a completely different word to nearly even though they are similarly spelt. Nearly implies something almost occurred but didn't. Near implies proximity.

Even so -I still think the phrase sucks. Actually - I just think the whole English language sucks. It's design is shocking and confusing.
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Daddybang » 11 Jul 2018, 2:27 pm

Had a couple of close calls!
I had a maniac place a loaded firearm against my head when I was twelve. He then shot someone else and then killed himself. That was a fun day. :wtf:
Also ran a quad into a tree chasing a pig.
No helmet on went over the bars and ended up just grazing my ear in the trunk. Smashed four ribs and had to crawl four kms home.
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Stix » 11 Jul 2018, 5:23 pm

Gees Daddybang...
Id call the first one "good timing"...
But the second one...well doesnt sound like miss to me...& bet it didnt sound or feel like a miss to you either...!!
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Wombat » 11 Jul 2018, 6:21 pm

doc wrote:This thread was a near miss... thought it was gone, and then someone went and revived it from the past. ;)

The phrase near miss is confusing, but I can understand the concept.

It was a near pass. - The action was a 'pass' and it was close (near).

So near miss would indicate the action was a 'miss' but within close proximity.

Near is a completely different word to nearly even though they are similarly spelt. Nearly implies something almost occurred but didn't. Near implies proximity.

Even so -I still think the phrase sucks. Actually - I just think the whole English language sucks. It's design is shocking and confusing.


I always assumed it was an old artillery saying- what the spotter would say if the ranging was ok but it was a miss.
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Wombat » 11 Jul 2018, 6:28 pm

Found this in Wikipedia (for what that is worth).

The term "near miss" originated in artillery or later in aerial bombing, for a shell or bomb that did not strike the target, i.e. the projectile missed, not hit, but was close enough to do damage through blast or splinters. "Near hit" is sloppy English using "near" to mean "nearly a".24.108.28.165 (talk) 00:43, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Bent Arrow » 11 Jul 2018, 8:03 pm

bentaz wrote:
gazza wrote:My missus nearly saw how much I spent at the gun shop.

Get her a horse, you'll never have to worry about it again


I'm currently supporting my daughters horse habit. To say its eaten into my discretionary spending on guns and ammo is a gross understatement.........
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Ats3 » 11 Jul 2018, 10:43 pm

doc wrote:Even so -I still think the phrase sucks. Actually - I just think the whole English language sucks. It's design is shocking and confusing.


I agree English can be difficult. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Gaznazdiak » 12 Jul 2018, 9:41 am

Can a solid hit be a near miss?

Hume Highway, 11.30pm, 1100m from the road that leads to the road I live on, me @120kph, oncoming semi driver sound asleep crosses through the median scrub and jackknifes 30m in front of my car blocking both lanes.
I stand on the brakes, but because of a grabbing rear left brake I had not got around to adjusting, instead of going straight under the trailer with the obvious results that would produce, the car spun to the left and hit the prime mover in a side to side collision.
Instead of getting mashed off at the waist, I simply went out through the closed drivers window and headbutted the mover. At about 90kph.
I subsequently met a 23yo while I was in the brain injury unit, he had fallen 2m from a tree in his yard and was a ventilated quadriplegic from a small brain bleed.
I broke my neck at C3 and C4 and my back at T7, T8 and T9 and knocked hell out of my right frontal lobe and I'm still here.
Sounds like a near miss sort of thing to me.
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by Daddybang » 12 Jul 2018, 9:54 am

Bent Arrow wrote:
bentaz wrote:
gazza wrote:My missus nearly saw how much I spent at the gun shop.

Get her a horse, you'll never have to worry about it again


I'm currently supporting my daughters horse habit. To say its eaten into my discretionary spending on guns and ammo is a gross understatement.........


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Stix wrote:Gees Daddybang...
Id call the first one "good timing"...
But the second one...well doesnt sound like miss to me...& bet it didnt sound or feel like a miss to you either...!!


Yeah mate the first was lucky that he found who he really wanted.
The second was a close call because if I'd hit the tree a little more square on I'd have probably died or at least be very f@#ked up! :lol: :drinks:
Add to this a life around horses cattle and bull catchers and there's been a few interesting moments :lol: :drinks:
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Re: I thought I would start a thread on near misses

Post by p3seven » 12 Jul 2018, 11:14 pm

In new guinea back in my youth. Faced a riot of about 50 workers. Took out the guy making the most noise, slowed them, took out the next guy making noise. They then dispersed.
Wet road at night 4WD slipped off the road came to a stop in the Lantana. All well until l couldnt open the doors. Vehicle was neatly wedged between two trees. Hitting either would have killed me.
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