Almost a Darwin award contender

I was snorkelling and spearfishing just near the cliffs when I lived in Babbacombe (Torquay). I'd caught a couple of nice fish and left them on a rock.

I then swam away a short distance, dived down, only to come up and see a gull starting to snack on my hard won catch.

A/ Tried shouting. The result? No reaction whatsoever from a gull.

B/ Aimed speargun, pulled trigger. The initial result? Missed the gull by a smidge. The rest of the result? The discovery that speargun string, when used in the medium of air, is actually *very* elastic. The spear missed my head by, oh, about one bugger-allth of an inch.

Interesting that in the moment that it took the spear to come back, I had time to imagine how ridiculous a way this would be to die and what the post mortem report would have said..but not to duck.

I think that the gull flew away, although it may have just fallen off the rock laughing.
(BeatsWork, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 9:38, 11 replies)

Tempted
To click I like this just because Babacoombe is my favourite place name ever.

All day now I will be singing 'Babacoombe, Babacoombe, Baba Baba Coombe Coombe'

Actually, I don't like this.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 9:58, closed)

Um, thanks for sharing.
(BeatsWork, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 10:02, closed)

You
are very welcome.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 10:12, closed)

Surely Giggleswick is a better place name.

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 10:24, closed)

Lickey End
is my fave
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 9:09, closed)

Clicked mightily.
For both "bugger-allth" and "I think that the gull flew away, although it may have just fallen off the rock laughing."
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 10:18, closed)

^This
and for not dying.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 11:20, closed)

No way!
I use to live in Babbacombe! I had an amazing beach party in the small enclosed beach by the cliffs. Haven't been there in about 3 years now.
(RJWEcology is just sharpening his axe on, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 10:27, closed)

I had my 21st on that beach!
The spearfishing rock was to the left..
(BeatsWork, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 10:38, closed)

We had such a great party there! This is the place: img98.imageshack.us/i/torquay59.jpg/

I grew up in Torquay / Paignton but moved away to study at RHUL.
(RJWEcology is just sharpening his axe on, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 10:51, closed)

Great party spot indeed, no-one to hear the noise, plenty of firewood!

We did have security come around at 3:00am and try to charge us rent for the deck chairs we were using. We declined, politely. Actually we said that were about as likely to pay, as they were to give us a receipt..
(BeatsWork, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 11:54, closed)