Just thought this thread might be interesting...many years ago comming back from a session on the Severn late evening alone, I decided to take a short cut across a field, instead of keeping to the path( as one should). The field was divided by a barbed wire fence, at about crotch height. No problem me thinks and cocks a leg over, tackle in hands heavy rucksack on back. Oh shit... supporting leg goes and I end up with my left leg tangled in the wire and me hanging from it with just my right elbow on the ground. The wire has dug into my calf and I can't move because my weight is supported by the fence and the tip of my elbow is just..just touching the ground. No mobile phones in those days.. Lets shout for help.. only in the middle of a hundred acre field and its going dark.. oh shit. Over the next few minutes panic set in.. would they find me next morning?? What if the farmer or other anglers didn't visit next day?? There were no thoughts of sacrificing my leg ( like the guy who cut his arm off recently. A plan came together, I could just reach my chair at a streach of the finger tips, having grasped this I managed to use it as a crutch and got my free leg into a supporting position, thus able to free myself and lived to tell the tale.. Had to go for a tetanus next day as my leg was badly cut. Anyone else have any close shaves???
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