• What's your nearest "near death" experience?
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[QUOTE=Freestyle;25918959]When I entered Fast Threads.[/QUOTE] You've literally seen hell, then
Well, the only times were all on the same day. I was out for lunch with some friends, and decided to head over to the comic book store. I had to cross the street, and saw no cars coming either ways, so I ran fast to the other side of the street, and car was speeding and came like --- (-_-) that close to hitting my head , I was to shaken to confront the driver, so we just went to the comic book store and looked around. I am an idiot so this happened 2 more times and different streets. I think that is it. I have never been to the hospital for anything serious in my whole life, other than birth.
I once went to the edge of the grand canyon. scary shit, but also amazing
My friend tried slitting my throat witha machete. He stabbed me in the stomach, not too far in though. He had really really bad ADHD or something.
Been hit by a car(twice). Almost felt down the roof. Broke open my chin on a table when i was little(there were pins from a tent right behind me sow if i would have fallen..). There probebly is more that i just forgot. I am not trolling,death really want's me in his collection.
I was on the side of a mountain coming down from it in Borneo with a group of friends (11 + 3 over 21's as supervisors :v:), and I slipped on a wet rock and i done a 120 degree rotation in the air, hit my head against a rock on the floor really hard. I black out for a moment, get up, and the two people in front of me say "Are you ok?" and then their faces drop. Wondering why (I had just hit my head very hard so I was out of it) I ask "What am I bleeding?", bring my hand up to my head and back down in front of my face. There was bloody everywhere and a deep inch and a half long cut on my hand. With blood dripping down my face from my head wound I sit there for 5-10 minutes as someone starts trying to mend me enough to get off the mountain (We had another 4km to go with 1.5km of downward, and at least 3-4 rock climb sections). They finish, I get up, for some reason completely full of energy and get down the mountain 45 minutes before anyone else. Was a good time.
My twin brother and I were born six weeks early. My mom got put to sleep in order to get the C-section, and we came out as both ~4 pounds. We both had to be placed in incubators, and the doctors told my parents that we wouldn't survive because our vital organs were not large enough to sustain us. Remarkably we survived, but a few months later we both contracted the chicken pox and had to be flown to the hospital again by helicopter- we almost died again there. So tl;dr I almost died twice along with my twin brother when we were born.
i dont have any but my mom lifted my brother into a running ceiling fan when he was like 3
My brother had a motorcycle. we thought it would be a great idea to attach my bicycle to it with a rope. obviously, it wasn't.
Road my bike into a house, and nearlly smashed through the window.
In crismas me and friends built an explosive-pack and i was trying to fire it up but it's exploded before i ran.
[QUOTE=Trumple;25701871]Fell out of a car when I was about 1. Needless to say, it made me what I am today....i'm not sure thats a good thing, but my doctor says i'm special :smug: Oh and I got dropped on my head. And I also fell down the stairs about 3 times. Apparently I was an accident prone baby, or at least thats what my family would have me believe... [B]OH and I also wired up a mains plug to a light bulb, holding the bare wires with my fingers to see if the light would work[/B]I got away with a blister.[/QUOTE] I did the [B]EXACT[/B] same thing with those tiny incandescent bulbs except I held the rubber on the wire
[QUOTE=Testabar;25917745]From my first tour to Iraq: Another mounted Patrol. I was the 240B gunner on our up armored HUMVEE. We were on our way back to our FOB going threw this residential area. We were driving past rows of apartment buildings SGT Dunsmore pokes me in the leg and says "T, watch the rooftops!" "Rodger Sergeant!" I just look up on the rooftops for anyone. Everything was normal, no deserted streets, kids were outside. People were holding conversations on one corner or another. I watch this cat run across the street and then I go back to looking at the rooftops. I didn't even hear the gunshot. All I felt was a thud. Like someone punched me in the chest really hard. A bullet had hit me in my front chest plate. I couldn't breath due to a combination of stress, shock, and the "oh shit someone just shot me" moment. I was hyperventilating. Now between the time I was shot to the time I black out was only a few seconds. I slipped off the gunners seat and down into the Humvee. Sgt Dunsmore looks down at me and yells "He's dead! Speed up, get us the Hell out of here. I wake up and look around, the first thing I grab is Sgt Dunsmore's arm. Sgt Dunsmore freaks out, he thought I was dead. He responds my punching me in the face thinking I had the devil in me or something. 0_o My only wound was a brused rib that I got from the impact of the round that hit the ceramic plate. And a black eye from the punch.[/QUOTE] Anyone else think that sounds like a remake from a mission on MW2?
Jump out of my friends 1st floor window for fun
Was biking with my grandparents when i was 12, so i beat them up the hill and go down as fast as i could then the bike just fell onto it's side with me still on it, it then hits a small pothole and causes the bike to fling me down a relatively steep hill at about 25mph, the bike following under me it must have been about 3-5 metres i got flung forward keep in mind it's going down hill so i must have fell some distance, the bike landed first then I did after that the bike landed on me and it felt the handle bars impaled my chest. Bike bounced off i'm just on the floor confused to what happened looked back at how far i went saw the mark from where the bike got caught in the pothole and figured i must have fallen more then 3 metres. Surprisingly it didn't hurt much after the initial impact because further on down the path i got on my bike and rode off.
I was 8 and some kid (which i never liked) pushed me into a river. And because of my height fear, i was shocked AND drowning for like 5 seconds underwater with my mouth open, gasping for air. Then out of nowhere, someone pulls me out of the water with great strength, i look up and see my brother. He's an ass to me most of the time, but i'll never forget that he actually saved my life that day. Hell, if he weren't there, i wouldn't be here.
Riptides are BITCHES. ive gotten like >150 feet out into the ocean twice.
One of my friends gave me a piggy back in Primary school, walking home. He says to me "Hey, wanna play chicken?" I say "Sure, how do you play?" Then he ran onto the road and we were hit by a Subaru.
One time I fainted due to dehydration, I almost hit the concrete on the way down.
Me and my brother were playing in our rooms (bunk bed) and we had a big ass TV on a little tiny rolling cabinet thingy, I fall, and hit my head on the edge of the cabinet. I was bleeding and was told I have a bout a 1 inch gash in my head; I think I still have scars.
Falling out of a tree and barking My arms yes arms and came inches from smacking my head off a bike and again like a week ago I was playing football I play o-line so i got blitz by a lIne back and fractured my left arm again............. And on and on and on
When i was about 5 i wanted to go into the deep end of the pool but couldnt swim, so i climbed along the edge until i got to the 12 foot part when my hand slipped and i sunk to the bottom, I was under for about 15 to 25 seconds when my cousin jumped in and pulled me out. they gave me CPR and brought me back. Needless to say i got swimming lessons soon after
'Venturing into /B/ on 4Chan... Does this count?
I was a complete noob at the time and I was reading the rules of the internet when I decided to find out what /B/ was and why I musn't talk about it. Needless to say, It is a miracle I am alive and posting here today [editline]7th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=0lenny0;25921131]Been hit by a car(twice). Been hit by those people that stop cars at school(he saw me going,he turned around and spread his arms in my direction while i whas passing by). Olmost felt down the roof. Broke open my chin on a table when i whas little(there were pins from a tent right behind me sow if i would have fallen..). Olmost been hit by an iron bar that whas holding a speaker at a concert(it whas horizontal). There probebly is more that i just forgot. I am not trolling,death really want's me in his collection.[/QUOTE] Have you been having any premonitions about exploding planes, massive car pileups, crashing rollercoasters, or collapsing speedways lately?
[QUOTE=Xephio;25924342]I was 8 and some kid (which i never liked) pushed me into a river. And because of my height fear, i was shocked AND drowning for like 5 seconds underwater with my mouth open, gasping for air. Then out of nowhere, someone pulls me out of the water with great strength, i look up and see my brother. He's an ass to me most of the time, but i'll never forget that he actually saved my life that day. Hell, if he weren't there, i wouldn't be here.[/QUOTE] That's the job of the sibling - you give each other shit but when it comes to actual important stuff like saving each other's life, you can count on each other most of the time. On the subject of drowning: I was hanging out in the shallow end of the pool during my vacation this summer, minding my own business watching the festivities going on in the deep end. I slip on something, it was night so I couldn't tell what, and the lower half of my body is now in the mid-depth section and my head is three feet under. Now I was in the shallow end for a reason - I can't swim to save my life. I almost managed to inadvertently prove that. Then, random dude swims over. My arm hits him while flailing and instinctively I GRAB ON AND PULL. Dude didn't seem to realize the full gravity of my situation - he probably thought I was dry humping him in the pool (somehow). But I owe that dude one.
My face almost got mashed by a truck
In 7th grade I was bicycling to school alone when a moped hit me from behind. All I hear is the front wheel of the moped hit the back of my bike, a great pain in my back and all black. I come back like 30 seconds later, with a broken helmet laying besides me. The guy told me I had been flinged from my bike right into a big rock. Had it not been for my helmet, I would probably have been brain dead today. Not that I was totally unhurt. I had some heavy bruising on arms and legs since it was summer, and a wound on my head where it bled from. So remember kids, wear your god damn helmets when you bicycle.
A few weeks ago, while I was walking along the edge of a cliff, I slipped and slid down the entire cliff, landing 10 or so meters down right next to a large pile of jagged rocks. Somehow I managed to get away from it with a few holes in my jeans and legs that refused to stop shaking for the rest of the day.
I was carrying a big box on this rickety ladder to my attic, I slipped ant almost fell over my guard railing and down my hard wood stairs to the first floor. Luckily I grabbed onto the edge of the opening to the attic door and didn't fall. Was [i]this[/i] close though. I felt adrenaline pumping seconds after grabbing the attic opening.
Was 2 hours from blood poisoning settling into my blood stream from an infection. Little bit of context: Had an infection from a damaged organ, NHS said I was fine, I was not. I went home and took meds for a week as it got worse (And later found out the organ was near dead) before finally giving in like a girl to the massive amount of pain. I was considering that night when it got particularly bad of just doing what I did the previous nights and toughing it out and without waking up my family, but I caved, went the hospital and once the doctors understood fully they told me after the surgery that had I stayed in bed that night I would be past the point of no return. Would not wish that kind of pain on anyone, it changes a person if they live through it...
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