Times you almost died or could have died if you weren’t careful

[Seventy_Yard_FG]

Discuss times you’ve almost died

So I did Mount Katahdin in Maine.  We started late and it was chilly and the weather forecast a snow storm around 6-7pm.  We got to the top and I’ve never really been outside in wind that strong.  I’m used to a little wind chill but wind that strong really sucks the warm out of you.  We were too tired to bring the pack as high as we did, and we left it maybe 500 feet below, where the wind was a bit less. Unfortunately I left my windproof pants

It’s about a 4-5 hour hike to the bottom and it’s already about 430

We make it to the trees by dark but it’s still a 2-3 hour walk in complete darkness where we can’t see the blue blazes, there’s no cell phone signal. Enough battery to power cell phone flashlights for about that long

I wouldn’t say there was a great chance we could have died, but I can now understand completely why occasionally someone does die on that mountain

[IFB DOG]

Rollover accident: six times four different ways as a child.

Head-on with a drunk.

T-Boned a red light runner. Car landed in incoming traffic on 40mph rd. Nobody else was coming that way thankfully.

That's about it for near death experiences. Graduated from a public high school, maybe that's something lol.

[hputenis]

I fell off a donkey when I was 7 years old riding on a trail alongside the Grand Canyon. The donkey stopped to take a dump, and I flew forward and to the left face first onto a rock, and lost my 2 front teeth, and the closest hospital was like 50 miles away.  Blood everywhere.  Had I flown off 90 degrees to the right for any reason, I would have rolled down the Grand Canyon.  My aunt, uncle, and grandparents didn't seem very concerned, but things were different in the 80s I guess.  

[HazletonEagle]

1 hour ago, IFB DOG said:

Rollover accident: six times four different ways as a child.

Head-on with a drunk.

T-Boned a red light runner. Car landed in incoming traffic on 40mph rd. Nobody else was coming that way thankfully.

That's about it for near death experiences. Graduated from a public high school, maybe that's something lol.

You may be a worse driver than @BFit

[FranklinFldEBUpper]

It was the day after my grandmother died in 1985. I was in the car with my father. I don't even remember which one of us was driving at the time. We were making a jughandle turn across Rt 130 in Moorestown, New Jersey. As we were crossing the highway, a truck came barreling towards us. Our light was green. His light was red. He never stopped. We got through the intersection an instant before he did. The front of the truck missed the back of our car by only a couple of feet. I later did some math and calculated that I was about a fifth of a second away from being killed.

[paco]

I mean, I almost electrocuted myself twice a week and a half ago.  Almost dying isn't a rare event.

[IFB DOG]

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

You may be a worse driver than @BFit

Maybe.

First one I was 7 and we were passing a guy who didn't like it, so he slammed into the side of our vehicle.

Second a guy was five sheets to the wind. Got to witness the video of him stumbling out of the bar and insisting on driving.

Third one was some dumb high schooler. "I don't know why I just did that." I don't know either, but are you ok???

Freaking bitxh of it was that she had the same insurance I did so the property claim was a fiasco. They docked my FORD FUSION $800 because it was less value then one they found with third row seating.

Yeah, Fusions NEVER have third row. F'ing **** the insurance lady was.

[Alpha_TATEr]

when andy reid acted like there was a whole 1/2 of football left late in the 4th qtr against the patriots in the super bowl. 

[EagleJoe8]

14 hours ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

when andy reid acted like there was a whole 1/2 of football left late in the 4th qtr against the patriots in the super bowl. 

Might need a separate thread for the times we almost died watching the Eagles. I suspect most stories would be near suicides. 

[BFit]

17 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

You may be a worse driver than @BFit

[Imp81318]

17 hours ago, paco said:

I mean, I almost electrocuted myself twice a week and a half ago.  Almost dying isn't a rare event.

The first house I bought right out of college was a HUD foreclosure that I spent 5 years fixing up with my dad and flipped for the down payment on our current home (wife was still in college at the time). The first summer, I removed the plywood they had used to cover the pond and plugged an old pump I'd found laying under the in to drain the pond so I could clean it. Pump worked fine until it clogged up with about 6" of water left in the pond. The handle was sticking above the surface, so I grabbed it (while standing barefoot on the wet rubber lining above the water surface) and gave it a quick shake to free the debris. The pump shook me back. That was the only time I've been zapped so badly that I couldn't control my muscles and I couldn't open my hand to let go of the pump. I have no idea how long I was standing there shaking, but it felt like minutes (I'm guessing 2 or 3 seconds max) until I finally shook so badly that the pump flew off my hand and tumbled through the air. As soon as it released, I dove out of the pond under the deck and scraped my legs and arms up on the rock waterfall leading into the pond and sat there to catch my wits. My wife, who was in the house with the doors and windows closed, heard my blood curdling scream and came running out into the deck calling for me to make sure I was alright. I was silent for a few seconds, then just burst out laughing. Once I realized I hadn't died I immediately found the entire situation rather hilarious. She did not agree and was quite upset with me for a looooong time. 

[VaBeach_Eagle]

I can't say that I 'almost' or 'could have' died, but back around 1987 or 1988 (I was 18 or 19 at the time), my best friend and I were stopped at a stoplight in D.C., it was a road with a lot of lanes. So my car was in the center lane and another car was next to us to the right. We're at the front of the line of traffic waiting for the light to turn green.

So out of nowhere, police cars screech all around us, completely blocking us in (all traffic, not just my car). Cops jump out of their cars with their guns out (pointed at the car next to us), one cop was right by my door, with his gun pointed over my hood, about where the windshield meets the hood. 

My buddy and I just freeze and kind of at the exact same instant, both of our hands went up as if to say "Hey! It wasn't us! We have no weapons! Don't shoot!!" After 10 or 20 seconds, the cop car that was blocking me, pulled away so that I could get out of their way. The first time I ever drive through a red light with cops watching... lol

[ToastJenkins]

Asthma attack when I was 21. Home from college for thanksgiving.

middle of the night. Knew i needed to gonto the ER but when i stood up out of bed i blacked out and fell. Crashed into my dresser and hit the floor.

my dad heard the crash and came down to my room to find me having an anoxic seizure. Lips were gray. Regained consciousness to two EMTs and a police officer kneeling over me.

figure i was about 60 seconds from the big dirt nap. If my dad had rolled over and gone back to sleep im dead.

 

[hputenis]

Part of me wants to like all these posts, but I'm not sure if that's ok.  

[RPeeteRules]

My buddies and I were driving to a friends college to visit.  We were on 95 going about 70ish.  I had a two liter bottle of Sprite.  I go to hand it to the people in the backseat.  For some reason, my one buddy in the back stabs the soda with his Swiss Army knife.  My buddy driving looks to see what is happening, and as that happens, I’m bringing the soda back to the front to try to open and throw out the window, so the soda sprays in the drivers eyes, then sprays all over the inside of the windshield.  Miraculously, the driver manages to avoid all cars around us and safely pulled to the side of the road.  Still one of the funniest and scariest things I’ve been apart of.

[Blobeph]

I once wore an”I love the police” shirt and walked throuqh Harlem.  So Dangerous

[Captain F]

Motorcycle crash, Thanksgiving day 2001. Screwing around doing wheelies and sent it too hard. 60mph flipped it backwards.  Bike pancaked me. And we both tumbled down the road about 200ft. Broke both wrists, every rib on my right side, front and back,  ruptured spleen, broken clavicle, tore acl, road rash up both arms and all over hands. 4 weeks in ICU. My Arai helmet had a 1/8 inch gash from under the chin up the jawline to the side of my head.  Basically, without the helmet my head would have split in 2. Literally.  

[Bwestbrook36]

3 hours ago, What The F said:

Motorcycle crash, Thanksgiving day 2001. Screwing around doing wheelies and sent it too hard. 60mph flipped it backwards.  Bike pancaked me. And we both tumbled down the road about 200ft. Broke both wrists, every rib on my right side, front and back,  ruptured spleen, broken clavicle, tore acl, road rash up both arms and all over hands. 4 weeks in ICU. My Arai helmet had a 1/8 inch gash from under the chin up the jawline to the side of my head.  Basically, without the helmet my head would have split in 2. Literally.  

This is why I sold motorcycle, if I died instantly fine but to be crippled I couldn't live with that. 

[DBW]

oh there’s too many to list....but The best was that time I accidentally called my wife fat.  😂 

 

[paco]

21 hours ago, Prime said:

Tiajuana.

Murder capital of the world.  Literally the least safe place on the planet.

[HazletonEagle]

I might have some better ones but right now what Im thinking of is the night Mrs HE and I were in Las Vegas and went to Freemont street. We had a week long bus pass to get around town. Heading back, it was taking forever for the bus to come. They gave instructions on the bus when we were getting off of it, on where to catch it to head back. It was very muffled and we couldnt really understand. So when we were waiting at a stop forever, we figured lets go walk and try another.

From here, I cant quite remember what happened of why we decided to continue walking, but... we did. It was late. Maybe 1:30am or so? The neighborhood was looking rough. Lots of groups of people not like us congregating in different areas. We ended up walking past the Pawn Stars pawn shop but it didnt feel safe at that time to go get a closer look, and it was closed anyway. 

We walked quite a while. We could see some of the lit up strip hotels in the distance but we really werent that close. Finally a bus came and we hopped on to get back.

I told this story on here when we got back home from the trip. @Wentz_Era told me that was one of the worst places to be in the city. 

Nothing particularly happened. We just kept walking with a purpose trying to look like we belonged. Trying not to look too touristy. Trying to mind our business and not look at people too much. Of course, she had a nice wristlet with her. We were dressed nicely. We stood out quite a bit from the rest of the riff raff. 

We didnt almost die. But it was a sketchy situation. 

 

 

I also had my sternum fractured in a game of pick up football. A kid was wearing football cleats. I attempted to tackle him. Somehow he claimed to flip, but landed on his feet, but he came down on my chest and continued running. cleats on my chest bone. Thats dangerous due to its proximity to the heart, just like a rib can puncture a lung.  

[Wentz_Era]

16 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

I might have some better ones but right now what Im thinking of is the night Mrs HE and I were in Las Vegas and went to Freemont street. We had a week long bus pass to get around town. Heading back, it was taking forever for the bus to come. They gave instructions on the bus when we were getting off of it, on where to catch it to head back. It was very muffled and we couldnt really understand. So when we were waiting at a stop forever, we figured lets go walk and try another.

From here, I cant quite remember what happened of why we decided to continue walking, but... we did. It was late. Maybe 1:30am or so? The neighborhood was looking rough. Lots of groups of people not like us congregating in different areas. We ended up walking past the Pawn Stars pawn shop but it didnt feel safe at that time to go get a closer look, and it was closed anyway. 

We walked quite a while. We could see some of the lit up strip hotels in the distance but we really werent that close. Finally a bus came and we hopped on to get back.

I told this story on here when we got back home from the trip. @Wentz_Era told me that was one of the worst places to be in the city. 

Nothing particularly happened. We just kept walking with a purpose trying to look like we belonged. Trying not to look too touristy. Trying to mind our business and not look at people too much. Of course, she had a nice wristlet with her. We were dressed nicely. We stood out quite a bit from the rest of the riff raff. 

We didnt almost die. But it was a sketchy situation. 

 

 

I also had my sternum fractured in a game of pick up football. A kid was wearing football cleats. I attempted to tackle him. Somehow he claimed to flip, but landed on his feet, but he came down on my chest and continued running. cleats on my chest bone. Thats dangerous due to its proximity to the heart, just like a rib can puncture a lung.  

Once you leave the confines of the strip, downtown Vegas is scary!