Stubbing my toe.
In all seriousness, was riding down the road on my bike full speed and my gears skipped and i slipped, barley staying on my bike and almost got hit by a car.
When I was around 10 years old, I got caught in a rip current and dragged out to sea with my brother. I was treading water for hours. I was completely out of energy and began to drop below the surface when a surfer came out of no where and grabbed on to me. He got my brother and I to the shore. I didn't even get his name.
When I was about 7 my family went on a trip to Florida. I was having a great time in the shallow end of the wave pool in a water park when suddenly a fatass American lands on me and I get scraped all along the rough floor, lacerating my back, the shock caused me to inhale a lot of water and I felt like I was drowning. After what seemed like ages the fatass finally stood up, and get this, doesn't even turn around and acknowledge he'd nearly drowned me and in the process had screwed up my back.
When I almost clawed my brains out from trying to think of a near death experience...
EDIT: But on a serious note, I was at this foster home for a bit. There was this other kid named brandon. We were sent to our room for some reason. We had a bunkbed in our room, so when he climbed up, he jumped onto it and the bed fell and almost crushed me.
Stupid gravity...
EDIT2: The above edit happened when I was like six.
[QUOTE=fray;27048966]1. Age 5 I jumped into a 6 ft pool and drowned, then my aunt's dog started barking like crazy, my brother just came from school and pulled me out.
2. 7 years later I was riding a jeep, made a tight turn and the jeep kept flipping and flipping and I crashed into a mechanic's garage and broke his motorcycle. What almost killed me was my mom. With her eyes...[/QUOTE]
You flipped a Jeep at 12?
What?
Electrocuted my self when I was 5. (If you want the story I'll post it)
Let's see, this is kinda funny, about a month ago I would have nothing to say in this thread.
Before this month the closer I had was falling off a Tonka truck into a fireplace, I hit my head on the small ledge in front of it. I got a scar that's about 1 inch from my left eye.
The new closest thing is hiting a tree going somewhere between 40-60 mph. On the way back from another state we were going down the highway, this was Dec4th so it was after the first snowfall that Wisconsin had, there is a long story that goes with this that includes spending 4+ hours at a gas station. The car brokedown. We were able to get someone to come and get us, right south of the Dells the driver hit a patch of ice, most of us were sleeping in the van, I woke up and noticed that the car was going sideways, the driver was able to correct the car but we were on a curve and it sent us into the ditch head on into a tree. Everybody survived the crash, 2 people broke a few bones. The scary thing is that if it had happened 1 mile down the road, a few of us, including me, would of not walked away. From what I remember there was either a gully or canal, I guess something for water runoff, if it happened there, there was a good chance that the front-end or half of the car would of been sliced off. I was in the front passenger seat, thanks to a seat belt, I didn't get thrown out the windshield.
When I was like 5 or something, I fell from 5th floor. Only got some bruises and a dislocated foot and knee.
fell off my bed sometime at night about two years ago
landed on something sharp, woke up in pain and in a small pool of blood
Had one about an hour ago, actually.
Icy rain lead my car into a ditch, there was a nicely sized tree not but 5 feet from where my car landed. Luckily there was a foot of snow keeping me from my otherwise inevitable doom. I loved how earlier that day my mother had warned against driving in said rain, had to give the most smartass remark upon calling her...
Myself: "Hey, Mom, remember how you were telling me about how the roads became icy after the sleet that fell?"
Mom: "...Yes..."
Myself: "Well, my car supports your hypothesis. Care to come help me dig myself out of a ditch?"
Was 12:30am when I called. I am surprised both my father and mother were as calm as they were in the hour that it took us to dig it out...
Hit a tree doing 40 mph in my s10 blazer
Flipped a ATV on asphalt
Drove a ATV into a 20ft hole in the middle of the night
Almost rolled a ATV forwards down a hill
Got caught up in some nasty current on my dad's boat
Swerved into traffic on my bike trying to avoid idiot pedestrians
Dodge five trees and landed into someone driveway with my car.
Amazing story but would have hard time explaining all the little details.
Fell 6 metres off a wall, both ankles shattered and I wish I would have just died back then.
When I was 5, I tobogganed down a hill and slid onto oncoming traffic but I somehow stopped a few inches from a big semi driving by. I remember watching the wheels roll in what seemed like slow motion. My head would have been crushed for sure.
[QUOTE=Superstormj;25737061]There's nothing after death, from what I can tell. Which saddens me greatly.[/QUOTE]
If you could be bought back to life, you were presumably not fully dead. So, who knows?
EDIT: Mine's pretty lame looking back on the other ones, but I basically tripped over a root whilst playing tag with a few friends when I was 7. I partially cracked my skull and I had to get it glued (not stitched) back together.
When I was 9 or so, I hit my head on the corner of one of those square poles. Needed stiches.
Everyone calls me Harry Potter now D:
Almost walking into the girls bathroom. In the school both floors look EXACTLY the same, so you can't tell which fucking floor your on if your half-asleep like I was. It was during lunch when no one was in the building I was in but I pushed open the door and saw a girl at the sink so I just ran like hell out of the building.
Oh, I remembered another one of mine.
I wasn't driving, but I was in the passenger's seat with a friend, and we came to a fork in the road- cutting off of the interstate. And we drove right into the middle of that fork, straight into a sign, which bent forward and dislodged from the ground. It landed on the top of our car.
Nothing close to death, but I was running through the woods and tripped. I shredded me knee up on a piece of shale, and came damn close to severing the tendons and losing control of my leg.
And then a second time, I was carving, and cut right were my thumb connects to my hand. I still have trouble moving my thumb. I'm just glad I can still use it effectively.
I was at a river (I think it was the Comal river in New Braunfels, TX) on a tube with my family a few years ago. after about an hour or two of floating lazily down said river, it widened to about 200ft/66m across with a lot of people around and there was 2 levels of "waterfalls" which isn't what you're picturing it was just a big ass stream that dropped about 6-10 feet into another level and then a smaller one about 40 feet further. After seeing 10-20 people go down the first bigger drop with and without tubes and seeing that there were tons of people sitting on the banks and other people swimming that I'd be okay in terms of safety like people helping me if I were to get hurt or couldn't swim for whatever reason etc. So, being the kind of person who doesn't think it completely through about how fucking dangerous it is to go down a rapid waterfall type deal without something that floats to easily prevent yourself from drowning; I decide I'm gonna go for it without my tube. I get in to the stream, flow over the edge and I am instantly dragged to the bottom of the flow so quickly I hardly get a chance to hold my breath. I was underwater dragging the bottom of a 7-10 foot section for what felt like forever, eventually (I don't know how I didn't drown) getting back up for air when, precisely the last thing in the world I wanted to do next comes up; the second waterfall. Luckily, it is a smaller waterfall and I tried so hard to avoid it and swim to the bank but this time I actually held my breath and didn't panic so I wasn't [I]as[/I] terrified. Also between the two drops I remember this old guy just starting at me smiling as I flailed completely terrified without enough energy to get to the bank.
bonus: pics of another place where I underestimated the stream, and jumped in without a tube. From my previous experience I had a little more sense of what to do and I didn't nearly drown this time but it knocked one of my shoes off and was still scary as fuck.
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tl;dr I was an idiot and jumped in a really strong waterfall and nearly drowned
While at a swimming pool 9 or so years ago, some fuckhead decided to throw one of the lifejackets at me, because I was drowning (just learning to swim) it hit my head and I hit the side of the pool, cracked my head open and started freaking out once I realised I was under the water. It was a good expierence.
EDIT: oh and dont ask me why I didnt just grab the side of the pool, I have no fucking idea.
I made a hole on the beach and put my body board over it and fell asleep under it. While doing so my brother covered the top of the board with a fucking mountain of sand. When I woke up and I pushed the board sideways to remove it, that pile of sand buried me, and I wasn't able to breath or move. Luckily someone else was there and dug me out before I suffocated.
Fucking with homemade rocket engines.
Never make them out of steel.
Had a flying lesson a few weeks ago that was a bit hairy. Didn't level the ailerons quickly enough as I rotated (when taxiing and taking-off you turn your ailerons into the wind), and I rolled to the right immediately after getting airborne. It couldn't get much worse, but it did- the wind dropped and we damn near went into a fully-fledged stall. At this point my instructor took over and pushed the nose down (what you do when you feel a stall coming on, something that's completely counter-instinctive), we dropped far enough to just touch the runway slightly before taking off again.
Probably not near-death but definitely scary.
i was in a hospital in berlin and i couldn't move at all. This was right after surgery and i wasnt strapped down or anything, i woke up too soon and all i could pretty much do was whimper at 2 in the morning until i fell asleep.
stole a car, accidently hit a guard rail and then ran
:smug:
[QUOTE=iThermal;27094609]stole a car, accidently hit a guard rail and then ran
:smug:[/QUOTE]
You're a dick.
Stealing things isn't cool dude.
Played Big rigs...It was so terrible I nearly died..I'm being serious
[QUOTE=TheNuB;27062491]Electrocuted my self when I was 5. (If you want the story I'll post it)[/QUOTE]
Go ahead. Tell us the story.
Was about 15 cm away from getting hit by a double decker bus in London. I literally had to jump to escape it.
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