Originally Posted by KarTek

I've probably told this story before but one time I was working on a lady's car on ramps. I was under the side of the car, behind the front wheel that was on the ramp.

I had set the parking brake as well as oriented the car facing down hill so that it would have less of a tendency to roll back. As bad luck would have it, the lady comes out and leans under the car to see how I'm doing.

Just the slight pressure of her hand on the front bumper caused the car to roll back and down the ramps towards me. I sucked in trying to make myself as skinny as possible (for whatever good it would do) and pulled my arms back to my sides.

At the time, I had a heavy duty flashlight in my hand and when I pulled my arms back, the nose of the flashlight caught the suspension of the moving car and simultaneously, the tail wedged into the ground.

This formed a lever of sorts that both raised the car and slowed it to a stop before it hit me. Lukily, the length of the flashlight was greater, by a small margin, than my body's thickness from front to back.

That's probably the closest I've ever come to being hurt very badly...