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I got sprayed in the face with pepper spray yesterday. It was the second time I've ever been pepper sprayed and it is just as horrible as I remember.

Try to avoid it if you can. :p

Has abybody here ever been subjected to non-lethal weapons? Pepper spray? Tear gas? tasers? etc?

Tell your stories.

I am dreading the answer to this.....but why did you get sprayed??

Have to ask: Why did you spray yourself in the face with pepper spray?
Were you making taco and thought it would add a bit of extra zip to the flavouring?

I am dreading the answer to this.....but why did you get sprayed??

On a dare, of course. :)

Have to ask: Why did you spray yourself in the face with pepper spray?
Were you making taco and thought it would add a bit of extra zip to the flavouring?

I really love spicy food. :)

On a dare, of course. :)

Was it so fun the first time you decided to do it again?

On a dare, of course. :)
I'm surprised no-one dared you to pepper-spray your nads. I mean they've had everything else done to them.

(hopes one of LG's real-life buddies reads this)

Was it so fun the first time you decided to do it again?
Knowing LG, it was probably either a case of, "Man was that dumb of you to spray yourself! I bet you're not dumb enough to do it again!" (thus giving LG enough bait to rise to)
or
"Hey LG, you missed a spot!"

I'm surprised no-one dared you to pepper-spray your nads. I mean they've had everything else done to them.

(hopes one of LG's real-life buddies reads this)
Isn't the whole point of a dare to do something harmful and dangerous? :p

Touched an electric fence once, by accident. That hurt.

Touched an electric fence once, by accident. That hurt.

I've done that, it didn't so much hurt as scramble my vision for a few seconds. Then again it was like a dog electric fence, but it was probably 20 years old, so who knows how powerful it was.

Was it so fun the first time you decided to do it again?

It's not much of a dare if it's enjoyable, is it? :p

I'm surprised no-one dared you to pepper-spray your nads. I mean they've had everything else done to them.

(hopes one of LG's real-life buddies reads this)

SHUT UP! :eek:

:(

I got sprayed in the face with pepper spray yesterday. It was the second time I've ever been pepper sprayed and it is just as horrible as I remember.

Try to avoid it if you can. :p

Has abybody here ever been subjected to non-lethal weapons? Pepper spray? Tear gas? tasers? etc?

Tell your stories.I got hit by one of these (http://www.mcuniverse.com/album24/1766_smart.jpg) once. Do they count as "non-lethal"?

Back in basic training they let you take of your gas mask in a room full of tear gas. I was among the idiots dumb enough to do that. In addition, I, teary-eyed and having hard time to breathe decided that the stuff just wasn't strong enough and sniffed the much more concentrated "smoke" that rose from the burning stuff. Sure put me down.

I got hit by one of these (http://www.mcuniverse.com/album24/1766_smart.jpg) once. Do they count as "non-lethal"?

My god, I've tackled bigger things than that. :p

Fried Tuna;11766489']Back in basic training they let you take of your gas mask in a room full of tear gas. I was among the idiots dumb enough to do that. In addition, I, teary-eyed and having hard time to breathe decided that the stuff just wasn't strong enough and sniffed the much more concentrated "smoke" that rose from the burning stuff. Sure put me down.

'let'?

They used to make you. That was fun. :(

i got hit with a truncheon - does that count? it hurt and i didn't die so i rekon it should.

Fried Tuna;11766489']Back in basic training they let you take of your gas mask in a room full of tear gas. I was among the idiots dumb enough to do that. In addition, I, teary-eyed and having hard time to breathe decided that the stuff just wasn't strong enough and sniffed the much more concentrated "smoke" that rose from the burning stuff. Sure put me down.

I hope that was a test of intelligence that got you removed from whatever armed force you were training for. Joking

My god, I've tackled bigger things than that. :p
Most people excrete things bigger than that.
i got hit with a truncheon - does that count? it hurt and i didn't die so i rekon it should.
I decree that it does.

Touched an electric fence once, by accident. That hurt.
Done that a few times (used to work on farms over the Summer break). Luckily I seem to have a high resistance to electricity, as it didn't do much at all. Likewise the times I've been shocked from the mains.

Watched a guy piss on an electric fence once. The non-lethal accident for me was that I almost choked I was laughing so hard.

i got hit with a truncheon - does that count? it hurt and i didn't die so i rekon it should.

I suppose. If it's anything like getting hit with a wooden or bamboo practice sword, then I reckon it should.

They leave the most interesting welts. :)

I suppose. If it's anything like getting hit with a wooden or bamboo practice sword, then I reckon it should.

They leave the most interesting welts. :)

yep, especially when used in anger

Touched an electric fence once, by accident. That hurt.

I grew up on a dairy farm, so I did that a number of times. When I was 8 or 9 I was throwing hay over the fence in to the cows and I got my coat caught on the barbed wire fence. I kept getting zapped trying to get loose. That hurt like a bitch, as I recall.

Fried Tuna;11766489']Back in basic training they let you take of your gas mask in a room full of tear gas. I was among the idiots dumb enough to do that. In addition, I, teary-eyed and having hard time to breathe decided that the stuff just wasn't strong enough and sniffed the much more concentrated "smoke" that rose from the burning stuff. Sure put me down.

They made us take our masks off, and that was only in 2000. The NBC guy running the chamber had been an NBC guy for years so had developed an immunity to it. He put about 8 tablets in there and there was a bit of a haze in the air. He was standing there with no mask and told us that it was fine and only stung a little bit. Of course, we found out quite quickly when told to unmask that it was most emphatically not "fine".

I've been hit on the head by an airborne golf club before. Fortunately it was the shaft that hit me and not the head (oh, the possibilities for immature jokes...). Apparently some guy wasn't wearing a glove and the club flew out of his hands after he'd taken a shot.

Apparently some guy wasn't wearing a glove and the club flew out of his hands after he'd taken a shot.


*snicker*

*snicker*
I think we've all been there at one time or another...

One of my cousins got shot in the leg by a taser at school once. They never caught the shooter.


I'm too much of a homebody to get into a situation even remotely dangerous.

One of my cousins got shot in the leg by a taser at school once. They never caught the shooter.


I'm too much of a homebody to get into a situation even remotely dangerous.

:confused: Usually the shooter is on the other end of the wires. DId the shooter drop the taser and run?

yeah- I've been pepper sprayed, "cap stun"- 10% or more- way too strong for me-It worked, I gagged & choked till I puked up bile from my intestines.
Tear gas and a stun gun too.

If you get used to it, there is something wrong with you- the smart thing is to avoid being on the wrong end of any of these items.

Touched an electric fence once, by accident. That hurt.


Pissing on one hurts even more.

Been tear gassed (boot camp) and have had the electrical equivalent of a tazer go through me.

I got sprayed in the face with pepper spray yesterday. It was the second time I've ever been pepper sprayed and it is just as horrible as I remember.

Try to avoid it if you can. :p

Has abybody here ever been subjected to non-lethal weapons? Pepper spray? Tear gas? tasers? etc?

Tell your stories.

I've been sprayed with pepper spray and I've been hit with one of those 50,000 volt "stun guns" you get out of the back of gun magazines. Both times when screwing around with my stoned, drunk friends.

Have to ask: Why did you spray yourself in the face with pepper spray?
Were you making taco and thought it would add a bit of extra zip to the flavouring?

No you fool! The classic quote from Homer Simson was.

"Come on Marge! One shot of this and you will be south of the border."

As he sprays it on his mac n' cheese and eats it before his eyes swell and turn red.

In Austin I got some tear gas at a Stevie Ray Vaughn concert.
It was an outdoor concert. They had put up a chain link fence covered with black plasic sheets, so people who hadn't paid couldn't see the concert. My husband and I were among those too broke to pay, so we brought a picnic and sat outside the fence to listen. Some people started ripping the black plastic of the fence. The cops headed over to stop them, when a guy near us threw a beer bottle over the fence. It cold cocked a cop.
It looked just like a cartoon as he fell. Sort of slow motion.
Anyway, we got tear gassed because of that. Just in the wrong place at the right time.

I stuck a fork in the electrical socket when i was younger. :P
fell through some glass sheets when I was about 3.
Been hit by 3 cars
Attacked by a deer
fell off a cliff
fell into a fire(no bad burns somehow)
been shot(ok it was a pellet gun, but owwwie!!)
hit up side the head with a 2*4 peice of lumber.

and I am still alive..somehow.

I hit my own leg with the business end of a cattle prod once.

I don't reccomend that.

LOL
I don't suppose you have film of that, eh?

Not really. I've been hit by a baton, but that might qualify as potentially lethal, and, in any case, the other guy started it. I just finished it with a lampost....:p

A couple months ago I got really drunk at a gay bar (long story) and after three Jagers I was down on the floor babbling incoherently and the security guys dragged me out and I got belligerent and ended up getting maced.

I don't know if it would have made me puke or anything if I'd been hit while sober, but I woke up that morning with scratches I had no memory of getting.

Then again, that stuff is designed for taking down drunks (some weaker varieties of mace are ineffective against drunks and people high on crack) so it might have been worse if I were sober.

I've been sprayed with pepper spray and I've been hit with one of those 50,000 volt "stun guns" you get out of the back of gun magazines. Both times when screwing around with my stoned, drunk friends.

Cheap entertainment. :)

I've done that, it didn't so much hurt as scramble my vision for a few seconds. Then again it was like a dog electric fence, but it was probably 20 years old, so who knows how powerful it was.

The cattle versions hurt.

A lot, they're designed to stop cows! Never EVER piss anywhere remotely near them!

The cattle versions hurt.

A lot, they're designed to stop cows! Never EVER piss anywhere remotely near them!

Yes, I all to well know that pain.

Okay, the only other person I know who's been sprayed...got paid to do it, and it was for a self-defense workshop.

Does getting shot in the foot by someone using a pellet gun count?

Oh, there was the time my friend decided to use me as dartboard, sunk one of is damned homemade darts about an inch into my arm, bounced one of my eyebrow. Not sure if that qualifies either.

The of course there is the time a spark plug wire in my '74 Pinto broke, and I tried to re-wire it using a regular piece of wire and a pair of pliers. There is a reason those cables are so heavily insulated!

So, do any of those count, or should I just chalk them up to "Stupid Human Tricks"?

Does getting shot in the foot by someone using a pellet gun count?

Oh, there was the time my friend decided to use me as dartboard, sunk one of is damned homemade darts about an inch into my arm, bounced one of my eyebrow. Not sure if that qualifies either.

The of course there is the time a spark plug wire in my '74 Pinto broke, and I tried to re-wire it using a regular piece of wire and a pair of pliers. There is a reason those cables are so heavily insulated!

So, do any of those count, or should I just chalk them up to "Stupid Human Tricks"?

They aren't 'tricks' until you practice them a number of times and can do them at parties to entertain friends. Get practicing. :)

lets see...

During the red sox riots I got tear gassed...I actually got hit with the shrapnel from one of the flash grenades. that didn't feel good.

The next night I got pounded in the chest with one of their clubs for not moving (I was pressed against an iron fence with people on both sides...I really didn't have much of a choice, and came away with a wonderful bruised sternum as a consolation prize)

got pepper sprayed by my aunt by accident

tazered by a friend on a dare

electric fence

many pelet guns...I actually had a metal bb under my skin for a few months

got kicked in the chest by a horse...that really hurts. I was just within his range, but far enough back that I didn't get the full brunt or it would have shattered a few ribs. Appearently, me and my sternum aren't good friends.

As a 5-year-old I stuck 2 nails into a power outlet in my room to see if they'd fit.

They did. http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/shock.gif

And I've accidentally peed on an electrical fence, too. http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/shock.gif

And this one time, I tried to change a broken lightbulb, it came apart, and again... http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/shock.gif

(What is it with electricity, eh?)

just wrote it under another thread but I like this one:
Got beated by an ambulance. They forgot to tie me down and the road was bumpy. I have flied, turned around in the air, fell down, flied again and again and again till hospital. then they put me on of those beds with wheels, whatever they are called. they also managed to speed me in the corridors just to hit one of wheels to something...

just wrote it under another thread but I like this one:
Got beated by an ambulance. They forgot to tie me down and the road was bumpy. I have flied, turned around in the air, fell down, flied again and again and again till hospital. then they put me on of those beds with wheels, whatever they are called. they also managed to speed me in the corridors just to hit one of wheels to something...

:eek::eek::eek: Where do you live?!? http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/snoopytrage.gif

(I worked as a paramedic and there's always someone in the back of the truck, making sure that something like that doesn't happen!)

lets see...

During the red sox riots I got tear gassed...I actually got hit with the shrapnel from one of the flash grenades. that didn't feel good.

The next night I got pounded in the chest with one of their clubs for not moving (I was pressed against an iron fence with people on both sides...I really didn't have much of a choice, and came away with a wonderful bruised sternum as a consolation prize)

got pepper sprayed by my aunt by accident

tazered by a friend on a dare

electric fence

many pelet guns...I actually had a metal bb under my skin for a few months

got kicked in the chest by a horse...that really hurts. I was just within his range, but far enough back that I didn't get the full brunt or it would have shattered a few ribs. Appearently, me and my sternum aren't good friends.

i nearly got kicked in the crotch my a horse once. luckily i saw it coming and mangaged to turn slightly away. the horse's hoof connected nicely with my hand which was in my jeans pocket at the time. evil horse.

i nearly got kicked in the crotch my a horse once. luckily i saw it coming and mangaged to turn slightly away. the horse's hoof connected nicely with my hand which was in my jeans pocket at the time. evil horse.

Did you hit it in the face with a shovel to teach it a lesson?

Did you hit it in the face with a shovel to teach it a lesson?

no, i just put my dad and my godmother in between me and it. i've always been a bit wary of horses but my godmother assured me that this was an incredibly docile horse and that i shouldn't be worried, so after it kicked me i rekoned that if this was the horse finally cracking under the pressure of being nice all the time then she could take the concequences. actually the damn thing was probably just pissed off i wouldn't stroke it cuz it was clearly angling for a stroke before it turned and kicked me.

when i was a kid, one of the imc companies (i think it was raytheon, but it might have ben gendyne) was demonstating some of their gizmos for public relations. They were giving a large cash prize to to anyone who could walk into their fear field and go through the gate (it looked like an airport metal detector). I started walking at a stiff pace, but the closer i got the more fear gripped me, till i was so overwhelmed i could not get my legs to work. i was so paralyzed that i collapsed in front of the gate, and the goon, er gentleman turned off the machine, and my legs took off running the other direction with me still attached. It was like drowning, falling, having some psycho hand with a knife appear in your shower stall, and evil circus clowns attacking in the dark, all at once.

instilling fear in kids is not my idea of public relations... lol.

I got shot in the stomach with a bow&arrow, luckily it was not one of those hunting arrows with the razor-blades that cause massive internal bleeding, only a practice head.

I grew up around farms, so I've touched electric fences a few times. I learnt to listen for a ticking noise before climbing over them.

I copped a cricket ball in the nads, I wasn't wearing a box either. It had me doubled up for a few minutes, spewing up in extreme pain.

:eek::eek::eek: Where do you live?!? http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/snoopytrage.gif

(I worked as a paramedic and there's always someone in the back of the truck, making sure that something like that doesn't happen!)
If I'm not mistaken, he lives in Turkey.

when i was a kid, one of the imc companies (i think it was raytheon, but it might have ben gendyne) was demonstating some of their gizmos for public relations. They were giving a large cash prize to to anyone who could walk into their fear field and go through the gate (it looked like an airport metal detector). I started walking at a stiff pace, but the closer i got the more fear gripped me, till i was so overwhelmed i could not get my legs to work. i was so paralyzed that i collapsed in front of the gate, and the goon, er gentleman turned off the machine, and my legs took off running the other direction with me still attached. It was like drowning, falling, having some psycho hand with a knife appear in your shower stall, and evil circus clowns attacking in the dark, all at once.

instilling fear in kids is not my idea of public relations... lol.
Whoa! :eek: This sounds like science fiction! They actually have machines that can do that? o.O

when i was a kid, one of the imc companies (i think it was raytheon, but it might have ben gendyne) was demonstating some of their gizmos for public relations. They were giving a large cash prize to to anyone who could walk into their fear field and go through the gate (it looked like an airport metal detector). I started walking at a stiff pace, but the closer i got the more fear gripped me, till i was so overwhelmed i could not get my legs to work. i was so paralyzed that i collapsed in front of the gate, and the goon, er gentleman turned off the machine, and my legs took off running the other direction with me still attached. It was like drowning, falling, having some psycho hand with a knife appear in your shower stall, and evil circus clowns attacking in the dark, all at once.

instilling fear in kids is not my idea of public relations... lol.

That sounds very much like a lie.

That sounds very much like a lie.
Sshhhh! That would make me a stupid dork for believing him (if in an incredulous manner) and we wouldn't want that, would we now? >.<

Sshhhh! That would make me a stupid dork for believing him (if in an incredulous manner) and we wouldn't want that, would we now? >.<

Let's just pretend you were temporarily insane.

Let's just pretend you were temporarily insane.
Yeah. Let's.
<.<
>.>

Yeah. Let's.
<.<
>.>

Crazy WYTYG.:rolleyes:

Crazy WYTYG.:rolleyes:
Don't make me break out the fear field, now.

Yeah. Let's.
<.<
>.>
Looney, looney, looney! :D

Don't make me break out the fear field, now.

:eek: Please noooooo.
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i nearly got kicked in the crotch my a horse once. luckily i saw it coming and mangaged to turn slightly away. the horse's hoof connected nicely with my hand which was in my jeans pocket at the time. evil horse.
ouch.
I had a friend who caught a kick to the jaw. It was not pretty at all

i nearly got kicked in the crotch my a horse once. luckily i saw it coming and mangaged to turn slightly away. the horse's hoof connected nicely with my hand which was in my jeans pocket at the time. evil horse.

I got kicked in the groin by a cow. :(

I got kicked in the groin by a cow. :(

were you trying to milk it? If so, are you sure it was a cow?

were you trying to milk it? If so, are you sure it was a cow?

:eek:

:p

Maybe I deserved the kick.

I got sprayed in the face with pepper spray yesterday. It was the second time I've ever been pepper sprayed and it is just as horrible as I remember.

Try to avoid it if you can. :p

Has abybody here ever been subjected to non-lethal weapons? Pepper spray? Tear gas? tasers? etc?

Tell your stories.

I'm going for the pepper spray on November 18th...that goal post is mine!

i once sniffed some pepper spray that somebody sprayed on a wall.

I was curious as to how it smelt :( I realised it doesn't - it just clogs your throat and makes you cough.

I was run over by a one tonne dodge diesel and spent one week in intensive care, then two months in bed... does that count?

if not, I can always relate the story of the time I licked Micheal Duncan Moore's balls.. apparently he doesnt like that.

I've jumped off a swing and did a backflip and landed on my head on pavement in like 1st grade, needing stitches.

I was being pushe don a big wheel and made a sharp turn and fell face first into some glass having to get many stitches above my eye

I've fallen off of the roof of a house onto my back.

I've tossed scissors into the air and had them plunge into my leg, needing stitches.

I've cracked my head open on the corner of a slide, needing stitches.

I've cracked my head open on the corner of a ceiling while jumping over a couch. I probably needed stitches but didnt get them.

I had a rope with a loop on one end thrown over some monkey bars and I put my foot through the loop and pulled on the other side to hoist myself up only to flip myself over and slam my head on the ground. No stitches needed but I knocked the wind otu of me and passed out.

I was being chased around a glass coffee table and fell and cracked my head open on that needing stitches.

errr uh... for some reason I have forgotten the majority of my accidents.

I've jumped off a swing and did a backflip and landed on my head on pavement in like 1st grade, needing stitches.

I was being pushe don a big wheel and made a sharp turn and fell face first into some glass having to get many stitches above my eye

I've fallen off of the roof of a house onto my back.

I've tossed scissors into the air and had them plunge into my leg, needing stitches.

I've cracked my head open on the corner of a slide, needing stitches.

I've cracked my head open on the corner of a ceiling while jumping over a couch. I probably needed stitches but didnt get them.

I had a rope with a loop on one end thrown over some monkey bars and I put my foot through the loop and pulled on the other side to hoist myself up only to flip myself over and slam my head on the ground. No stitches needed but I knocked the wind otu of me and passed out.

I was being chased around a glass coffee table and fell and cracked my head open on that needing stitches.

errr uh... for some reason I have forgotten the majority of my accidents.

The inside of your head has seen an impressive amount of daylight. :)

oh yeah I had a horse step on my foot with what felt like its full weight. nothign broken but was cut.

I was riding an ATC and was coming up on a parked van (my grandparents) when I pressed on the gas rather than the brake and slammed my hand into the side of the van. I am pretty sure I fractured something but let it heal on its own and told noone.

I was in a car accident where I, the driver, was hit on teh drivers side by a car going probably about 50 MPH. Totalled my car and I got a sharp pain in my back and some nasty whiplash.

The inside of your head has seen an impressive amount of daylight. :)

ya think it might be one of the reasons I constantly get massive migranes?

That sounds very much like a lie.

no lie. they were demostrating the device to the public (this would the mid seventies), and they even did demos for the schools. it instilled fear and nausea through an strong electromagnetic field.

no lie. they were demostrating the device to the public (this would the mid seventies), and they even did demos for the schools. it instilled fear and nausea through an strong electromagnetic field.

I think I'm gonna call bull on this one... not because I'm a 100% sure that such a device actually exist, but because it wouldn't work with electromagnetic fields. They are, for all I've read and know, completly harmless, studies where people have been living in extreme electromagnetic enviroments for months showed no ill effects. Or maybe I'm just misinformed. If so, please provide some sort of linky, I'd be thrilled to read about it:)

Oh, and for the less than lethal thing...

Got hit by a bus(big one) when I was 4. Strange enough, my older co-worker was the paramedic that was supposed to pick me up, but my father rushed me to the hospital before they arrived. We found this out after a year of working together.

Got shot with BB's numerous times, a few of them close to the eyes.

Tear gassed myself thinking it coulnd't be THAT bad. It was.

Touched the spark plug of a lawnmower, guess that's pretty close to being tased. I couldn't move for several minutes.

A dozen concussions due to skies, snowboards, skateboards, inlines, falling from trees, paintball shots in the back of the head from 5ft away, falling things and general clumsiness.

But in the end, if it's down to weponry and not the darwin awards, its really just the tear gas...

I got kicked in the groin by a cow. :(
What animal hasn't kicked you in the groin?

Are you trying to get into the Guiness book of records or something?

I've been tasered before, and it hurts like a fucking bitch. One minute you're thinking "this little 2 volt battery can't do shit to me" and the next minute you're waking up in a fetal position with random twitches pulsating through your muscles.

All of this is nothing. When I was a kid, I shot in the face with a fricking bazooka from point-blank range.

I think I'm gonna call bull on this one... not because I'm a 100% sure that such a device actually exist, but because it wouldn't work with electromagnetic fields. They are, for all I've read and know, completly harmless, studies where people have been living in extreme electromagnetic enviroments for months showed no ill effects. Or maybe I'm just misinformed. If so, please provide some sort of linky, I'd be thrilled to read about it:)
I've seen sites mentioning such a thing, but I didn't think it had been demonstrated to the general public.

I doubt I can find the link now, though. I had been following up on some crazy-sounding government-conspiracy claims several months back, when I stumbled on the thing. But I remember that it was indeed claimed that electromagnetic fields *controlled to be on the right frequencies* (rather than the random crap from power lines and the like) will affect emotions in a predictable way.

So the idea isn't unheard of, at least.

Fergi America;11778119']I've seen sites mentioning such a thing, but I didn't think it had been demonstrated to the general public.

I doubt I can find the link now, though. I had been following up on some crazy-sounding government-conspiracy claims several months back, when I stumbled on the thing. But I remember that it was indeed claimed that electromagnetic fields *controlled to be on the right frequencies* (rather than the random crap from power lines and the like) will affect emotions in a predictable way.

So the idea isn't unheard of, at least.

It works - kinda. If you have a VERY highpowered EM field on just the right frequency, you can set up an interference pattern in the central nervous system. Precise effects are extremely variable from person to person, from nothing at all to Grand Mal seizure. It's the variablility problem that has stumped development for decades.

I had to go through the gas room in basic, too. I cheated though - since I'm myopic, I wore contacts (technically, yes, I should have worn my combat glasses, but like I said, I cheated), specifcally my medicated full sclera contacts. While I went teary and my sinuses filled up, my eyes were fine.

Maybe it was a placebo-esque thing. They tell you that walking into the field will scare the shit out of you, you walk into the field and get scared that it's about to scare the shit out of you. Or I could be talking nonsense :)

Maybe it was a placebo-esque thing. They tell you that walking into the field will scare the shit out of you, you walk into the field and get scared that it's about to scare the shit out of you. Or I could be talking nonsense :)

No, you've probably got a point. The Placebo effect, coupled with a mild real effect, could produce just what he described.

I live on a farm so numerous shocks from fences.

ran into a scafolding pole at head hight when I was ~6 that hurt quite a bit.