Your bravest moment in life?

[Young Un]

asking that girl out on friday night was pretty nerve racking., and apart from that I don't think I have been that brave compared to people on here.

 

[gbb]

Brave or stoopid, i dont know, but i once got involved in an arguement with a local guy who looked like a hardcase, much much bigger than me, and from a bit of a wild family....and i'm not a fighter, but i hate to back down..
We stood face to face (looking at the bridge of his nose, thinking if i get the first punch in....nah, best not )...and he said to me 'if we were in London, i'd have your knees shot out'
I said 'grow up you tw@t'....

He just looked, and turned and walked off.

Phew

 

[palinurus]

I have never, ever, done anything remotely brave in my life. I am an exceptionally cowardly coward.

 

[Crackle]

Tackling and disarming a gunman who had already shot 2 people then saving one of the victims of the gunman

Holy shoot! C'mon User76 we need more details.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

A couple of things for me.

Tackling and disarming a gunman who had already shot 2 people then saving one of the victims of the gunman


Telling the leader of a group of ruffians who were picking on a girl on a bus that if he and his gang didn't leave her alone they may beat me up, but I would definitely be biting off his nose, and maybe an ear in the process. They sat down and got off the next stop, as meak as lambs

Blimey, well nothing like the former. That sounds like something you don't forget in a hurry. But I have done things like the latter a couple of times and got punched for my trouble...

 

[Crackle]

That reminds me, I did intervene against 3 lads trying to climb on top of the car of an elderly couple who'd been in the pub for an anniversary meal. I was a bit incensed by it, so grabbed two of them and flung them off. The third tried to grab at my head or something (I was a bit lubricated), a rough shove sent him into the gutter and I squared up to the other two. Lucky for me they were more pissed than me and not too scary or I think I might have got a tonkin'.

 

[Batzman]

Out on the mtb one day with a mate, and we rescued a 13-yo girl from a rapist.

 

[catwoman]

Does calling Robert Plant an old dinosaur to his face count as brave?

I was rather (very) drunk one night many years ago and was just leaving the Hammersmith Palais (as was) after seeing a triple bill of Lew Lewis, The Specials and Dave Edmunds Rockpile. It was a good night.
On the way out I came face to face with Robert Plant and said to my friends "Oooh look, it's Jimmy Page". If looks could kill I would have been a plie of smouldering ashes......
The bravest thing I think I have ever done was to talk down two gangs who were squaring up to each other for a fight. I was absolutely terrified and ready to run but they did back off and walk away in opposite directions - probably only to meet up later on.

 

[JamesAC]

I saw a yoof p*ssing against a phone box in the late afternoon - kids coming home from school, folk out and about shopping and so on. So I had a word - I just pointed out that it was a phone box, not a urinal. So he whipped out a knife and invited me to "come on then". I looked at my watch. "Sorry, mate, my missus has got my diner on the table, and she'll do her pieces if I'm late". "Oh, ok then" he said, and toddled off.

 

[Joe24]

Errrrm, i dunno. Ive stood up to bigger kids, punched a kid who had grabbed hold of me when the rest of his 'crew' was there. He just moved back. Then came back at me and told me not to punch him again.
Ive barged a few taller kids out the way when they have done that thing where they just keep walking and think you are going to move(except i dont, and because my tops are baggy they think im pretty skinny, but they find out im not when they bounce out the way)
Oh, and going to meet the girl im with now for the first time. I rode over there and sat just down from her school(arranged to meet there) and waited for her to come out. I was in full lycra aswell
Not sure what other brave things ive done
Got back in the water canoeing just after i nearly died(after i had caught my breath back ofcourse) which was pretty scary.

 

[Dayvo]

So I had a word - I just pointed out that it was a phone box, not a urinal. So he whipped out a knife and invited me to "come on then". I looked at my watch. "Sorry, mate, my missus has got my diner on the table, and she'll do her pieces if I'm late". "Oh, ok then" he said, and toddled off.

Good one!

 

[sticky sherbert]

I once threw a stick at a wasps' nest!

 

[ColinJ]

I once threw a stick at a wasps' nest!

Ho ho! I tried blocking one off with stones when I was about 5 years old. It wasn't so much bravery as not knowing that those little black and yellow things don't like to be messed about with. I got stung about 20 or 30 times and was terrified of wasps for about 30 years after that...

 

[Night Train]

I once chased and caught a thief that was being chased by a security guard that I thought was Police from the uniform at first. I caught the thief and pinned him to the ground with his face in the dog pee at the roots of a tree. The security guard eventually caught up and called the Police and I held the thief until the Police processed him.

Another time I saw some lads stop a car and then start peeing on a neighbour's gate post. I 'had words' with them and despite them getting back in the car and reving the engine at me I stood my ground, in the road in front of them, and politely requested that they got some water to wash of the gate post. Although they didn't do that, the four of them didn't get back out the car and do damage to me in the graphic ways they described either. In the end they had to back down and apologise before I would let them drive off. I wasn't stopping them as they could have just reversed back out the road any way.

My bravest thing though was identifying my brother's body at the morgue to save my folks having to see him messed up after the car crash.

 

[Black Sheep]

driving a mini bus full of people and gear down a steep welsh mountain road just after the brakes had failed. bye bye gear box

asked my future father in law if i could marry his daughter - that was quite scary but he did say yes!

thats about it really