Who on here as been knocked out....as in competely sparked ?

[Chief Broom]

Hitting the back of my head hard on the ground after a car collision. Instant lights out, woke up with ambulance crew staring down at me, i said "how you doing"

 

[Landsurfer]

We where proceeding along Cupar street just off the Falls road in Belfast. There where cars and 2 vans parked along the road, randomly..
A white transit van came around the corner and as it approached us a small van exploded across the road, the transit taking the main blast.
I remember the blast and being in the back of a Saracen AFV .... About 35 minutes missing .... fractured spine, L4 / L5, shipped back to England to a lovely hospital near Petersfield. We could watch people playing Polo from the hospital ....
Full recovery in 4 months, returned for a second short tour, 3 months, before setting off for the Falklands.
The driver of the Transit was killed.
All of the patrol recovered and returned to active service.

You did ask ........

 

[Time Waster]

I capsized in a weir on the Ivel between Biggleswade and Tempsford once, and hit my head on the concrete at the bottom. I just had a small cut and a black eye for a week, but that night I had the most extreme stomach upset I've ever had, sat on the loo holding a bucket all night, issuing from both ends simultaneously. I don't know whether it was anything to do with my head or just coincidence, or possibly due to the near-freezing water.

Holme Pierrepont national whitewater Centre in n Nottingham had a rep for upset stomachs even hepatitis. There was a supposed preventative you could take, Coca-Cola! Apparently full sugar Coca-Cola stops a lot of the bugs. No idea if true as never paddled it.

 

[Baldy]

Last May, (1) That didn't quite go according to Plan. | CycleChat Cycling Forum quite scary. there are still quite a few blank in my memory of that day.

 

[jowwy]

Waterfight with the mrs on the stairs, turned to run down stairs and cracked myself square in the mush with the attic conversion stairs………came round to my Mrs pissing herself laughing her head off

 

[Gillstay]

Lowering a large limb off a tree from about 90ft up, I was on the ground holding the rope, the climber shouted to `watch out for..' but by then the lump of dead wood the size of your leg, hit the buttress roots and cannoned off. It hit me on the side of the head where I had the hard hat ear muff down and just flicked me across the site. So I am told. Came too later, told everyone we wanted to finish the job and bullied them into it until by chance a colleague came by. He saw what was happening and got me to go hospital. Was quite aggressive for a while afterwards.

 

[Dave 123]

I capsized in a weir on the Ivel between Biggleswade and Tempsford once, and hit my head on the concrete at the bottom. I just had a small cut and a black eye for a week, but that night I had the most extreme stomach upset I've ever had, sat on the loo holding a bucket all night, issuing from both ends simultaneously. I don't know whether it was anything to do with my head or just coincidence, or possibly due to the near-freezing water.

I’ve seen a few people swim after a Weir on the Ivel. A benign river with consequences!

 

[Dave 123]

Holme Pierrepont national whitewater Centre in n Nottingham had a rep for upset stomachs even hepatitis. There was a supposed preventative you could take, Coca-Cola! Apparently full sugar Coca-Cola stops a lot of the bugs. No idea if true as never paddled it.

So legend has it, there was an industrial plant up stream that pumped warm water into the Trent, and bacteria flourished apparently.

 

[VelvetUnderpants]

I have been ko'd twice. The first time happened when I was 13. Me and two of my school friends decided to go to Leicester City vs Aston Villa at Filbert Street. At the time I had long hair, leather jacket, cut of denim, typical grebo. As we were walking around the outside of the stadium three skinheads approached us from the other direction, my two mates sensibly walked around them, muggins here walked straight through the middle of them onto one of their fists, they knocked me clean out. What made it worse was I was sparked out by one of my own fans

The second occasion was an England vs Wales Kyokushinkai full contact karate tournament. I was 34 at the time, extremely fit and strong and had made it to the semi-final with a knockout in quarter-final with a knee to my opponent's face. My opponent was a lad called Terry who was around eighteen, 4 inches shorter than me and a lot lighter. I confidently thought I was going to kick his ass, sadly I was very wrong, the fight lasted all of about thirty seconds, I remember hitting him in the ribs followed with a thigh kick, when he released a laser guided mawashi geri to my temple. The fight was being filmed, was told after I came to that I was unconscious before I even hit the deck. He went on to win the final, nearly knocking out my teammate who was even taller and bigger than me.

I realized after that fight, size and power is no match for ability and speed. One of the best full contact karate practitioners I have every had the honour of watching and competing against.

Nearly KO at the British Open at Crystal Palace.

 

[Time Waster]

So legend has it, there was an industrial plant up stream that pumped warm water into the Trent, and bacteria flourished apparently.

Sounds like river burrs which apparently flowed with different colours every time you went there according to what the upstream dye works was letting out. Before my time, I only went once for a slalom comp, my first. Did it in a dancer clone, got promoted a division based on first day results then came 9th out of 9 on the second day in the higher division. It was enough to put me at the edge of the top third of division 4 then. One more last place id have got promoted twice due to being higher up the table apparently.

An older club member who had been doing two seasons or more of slalom was desperate to go up from division 5 to division 4. That Saturday I beat him by one place and very little time gap. I think that annoyed him greatly. He later on retired and got into encouraging kids to get into kayaking for the bcu area we were in. A very good advocate for kayaking and well respected.

 

[Sharky]

Bumped into a vauxhall corsa. Came to in a London hospital, after a ride in a helicopter, which I don't remember.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I was 'knocked out' when coming off my Holdsworth '10 speeder' in 1973 when I hit my head on a grass verge going downhill. I always remember me only remembering taking my bike into our house, not riding the mile home after the off. Maybe I wasn't actually knocked out and it was more mild concussion, causing me to not remember the ride home after the fall. 🤔

 

[gbb]

Not myself but I suspect I had a bad concussion when I was 17. Sat on the bonnet of a Landrover as it was crossing
a field? Hit a bump, threw me off, landed head first. I had to stop work, within 5 minutes my head felt like it had an axe buried in it, the worst headache I ever felt, lasted the rest of the day. Didn't know it at the time but probably concussion.
One of lifes accidents that could have gone horribly wrong.

 

[IaninSheffield]

Once playing footie, twice playing rugby, resulting in two overnights stays in an NHS Hilton (or perhaps more accurately, Travelodge?).
My brother, who'd also been playing in the footie, came to visit in the evening to bring me some clothes. Apparently I wasn't particularly lucid until the moment I began to heave, which prompted him to call a nurse then immediately wish me goodnight. It's the thought that counts though, right?

 

[Drago]

Slight change of pace, but related. A number or us from work once went to watch a footy match at which a friendly sergeantnwas playing. One player elbowed another in the face quite nastily, and was most surprised when 3 off duty coppers walked on and nicked him on suspicion of assault GBH.

Rest days, 4 hours at double time each, and he got charged as well. A good win for the home team,