I had a near death experience a couple of months ago (freak accident) i was maually closing my garage door and the spring broke. The spring fell to the floor but a pulley flew just past my head (a couple of inches) and flew all the way accross the garage (two car garage) and hit the concrete wall with such force that it left a baseball size crater on the concrete wall. ...if it had hit me i would have certainly died. ....SCARY !
I remember coming home from work and decided to take the back route instead of my normal route. I was stuck at a red light that crossed a major highway, and since I had just bought the evening newspaper, I decided to look up the price of a stock that I had just bought. Just then, I saw the light turn green and started to move forward. Before I got 20 feet, an 18 wheeler crashed the red light, and if I had gone any sooner, he would have plowed me down to the next traffic light. Absolutely no chance of survival for me at the speed he was going!
I was traveling in India, riding a scooter, was riding on my side of the road when a taxi driver roared around a truck from the other side of the road. I was about 3 lanes away from him to give ya an idea of how far he came to get me. I can only assume that the truck was moving to slow for his liking and since there is no fking rules on the road there he made his own path, smoked me and bailed. Luckily somebody ended up helping me. Ended up in a shithole 3rd world hospital till they could transfer me safely to a better facility. Woke up more scared i'd leave with hepatitis than I was of my own injuries. Got lucky fractured ribs, broken arm and nose, lots of scrapes and bruises but should've probably have bit it.
2rd time I was drunk and made a pit stop at burger king for a personal best 3 triple whoppers with bacon and cheese and 2 large onion rings...and a diet cokepersonal best not achieved, think I made it thru one burger before passing out and waking up in my vomit, pretty sure I could've choked on my own vomit so dodged a 2nd bullet
The other good news besides my surviving, I didn't puke on the bag so triple whoppers were ready for breakfast that next morning.
Man I order the exact same burger at BK but with extra pickles as well
1980 , fell a sleep behind the wheel while of a car driving up north from Florida to NY
it was night time, on 95 .. was with my girlfriend taking turns driving back to NY for the Holiday's
our plan was to drive straight through with just Gas, Food and Restroom stops. Knew I was getting sleepy, but knew it was still my turn to drive. Was driving in the Right lane of the Highway...
Next thing I knew we were in a complete spin, spinning and spinning. All I saw when I woke up was Pine needles from the trees. Came to a stop 6 inches from a large Tree trunk. Broke an axle, flat tire.. wind up in the middle of the North bound and South bound 95
NC State Trooper said we were lucky to be alive.
Never did that again
it was night time, on 95 .. was with my girlfriend taking turns driving back to NY for the Holiday's
our plan was to drive straight through with just Gas, Food and Restroom stops. Knew I was getting sleepy, but knew it was still my turn to drive. Was driving in the Right lane of the Highway...
Next thing I knew we were in a complete spin, spinning and spinning. All I saw when I woke up was Pine needles from the trees. Came to a stop 6 inches from a large Tree trunk. Broke an axle, flat tire.. wind up in the middle of the North bound and South bound 95
NC State Trooper said we were lucky to be alive.
Never did that again
Age 6 or 7 cracked my head open playing rodeo on my bike, rope caught in my front tire
Age 26 buying drugs in las vegas motel there for 10 minutes & just so happen it gets raided. SWAT team breaks down the door, 5 guys w/automatic weapons pointed at us. Had the drugs in my pocket & for a split-second after the first knock thought about trying to reach in & get it out to toss it but guaranteed they'd blow a hole in me thinking I was reaching for a weapon. Still think about "what if" I had, glad I didn't although being HIGH as fuk in a LV jail cell with 20 other guys for 24 hours is almost as bad.
Age 26 buying drugs in las vegas motel there for 10 minutes & just so happen it gets raided. SWAT team breaks down the door, 5 guys w/automatic weapons pointed at us. Had the drugs in my pocket & for a split-second after the first knock thought about trying to reach in & get it out to toss it but guaranteed they'd blow a hole in me thinking I was reaching for a weapon. Still think about "what if" I had, glad I didn't although being HIGH as fuk in a LV jail cell with 20 other guys for 24 hours is almost as bad.
That's hilarious!
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I had 3 near-death experiences in 2010:
- Took a header off my bicycle, landed on my chin, knocked out a tooth, ended up in the ER
- Snowboarding in Lake Tahoe....going 60 mph (give or take)....ate shit, hit head, saw stars, blacked out, almost broke my jaw
- Came inside from the rain, slipped on the stairwell....feet flew up in the air...I tried to catch myself, back hit the stairs and I slid to the bottom (about 18 stairs). I came to a halt, the neighbor comes out and says "Are you okay?!?!" I said, "I'm not sure!" I slowly got up, not knowing if my ankles or knees were intact....fucked up my back. I climbed in bed and went to sleep for 15 hours!
Now that I think about it, i've got more stories than i thought:
- First job as a 15 year old kid working in a commercial kitchen, all stainless steel appliances and stainless steel walls for easy cleaning. Was cleaning up when a coworker moved a shelf wrong and it jammed in between the plug and the socket, electrifying the whole wall and my hand that was wiping the wall. I couldn't break contact, was electrocuted for about 15 seconds before I blacked out and fell backwards. The whole next day I felt really weird.
- Around same age, my buddy and I enter a fishing derby really early in the season, it's probably March. It was on a lake and they had canoes. Sure enough, my buddy hooks a fish, gets too excited, and flips the goddamn canoe. All our shit goes flying, the canoe is upside down, the water is ICE cold, it's like 6am, and we're in the middle of the lake so it's deep. This was before that show Deadliest Catch but it felt like that. Some other dudes paddled over and saved us, if nobody was around there was 0% chance I would have made it to shore.
- Driving down I-95 late at night I took a big curve way too fast and did a 720, a full spin and a half, car stalled out, every dashboard light on, I was at a dead stop in the middle lane facing the wrong direction. I must not have eaten because somehow I didn't shit my pants, started the car back up as fast as I could, turned around, and went on my way. VERY lucky the car stayed on the road and nobody else was around that late at night
- In high school my buddy was driving us home from bball practice, it was snowing a lot, he did a 360 spin into a snowbank, had to get towed out. It was like a scene in a movie spinning around we were both looking at each other yelling like bitches.
- Late night in Madrid, I'm all bombed up, my buddy left the bar with a girl so I'm walking home alone. Two local guys come up to me and start being fake friendly. Asking where I'm from, where I'm going, etc. I chat back with them to be nice. Then one guy says "that's a nice shirt", and to each other in spanish they say "lets take it". Luckily I took 5 years of Spanish in school, so I understood what was happening, they were feeling me to see how drunk I was to mug me. I stopped walking, faced them, and said real serious in spanish "my shirt is too big for you little boys". Their eyes opened real wide then they turned around and walked off. It helps that I'm about 6'9 300lb, otherwise I would have bolted instead of saying that!
- I went to Thailand for 2 weeks. Not sure how I survived that.
- First job as a 15 year old kid working in a commercial kitchen, all stainless steel appliances and stainless steel walls for easy cleaning. Was cleaning up when a coworker moved a shelf wrong and it jammed in between the plug and the socket, electrifying the whole wall and my hand that was wiping the wall. I couldn't break contact, was electrocuted for about 15 seconds before I blacked out and fell backwards. The whole next day I felt really weird.
- Around same age, my buddy and I enter a fishing derby really early in the season, it's probably March. It was on a lake and they had canoes. Sure enough, my buddy hooks a fish, gets too excited, and flips the goddamn canoe. All our shit goes flying, the canoe is upside down, the water is ICE cold, it's like 6am, and we're in the middle of the lake so it's deep. This was before that show Deadliest Catch but it felt like that. Some other dudes paddled over and saved us, if nobody was around there was 0% chance I would have made it to shore.
- Driving down I-95 late at night I took a big curve way too fast and did a 720, a full spin and a half, car stalled out, every dashboard light on, I was at a dead stop in the middle lane facing the wrong direction. I must not have eaten because somehow I didn't shit my pants, started the car back up as fast as I could, turned around, and went on my way. VERY lucky the car stayed on the road and nobody else was around that late at night
- In high school my buddy was driving us home from bball practice, it was snowing a lot, he did a 360 spin into a snowbank, had to get towed out. It was like a scene in a movie spinning around we were both looking at each other yelling like bitches.
- Late night in Madrid, I'm all bombed up, my buddy left the bar with a girl so I'm walking home alone. Two local guys come up to me and start being fake friendly. Asking where I'm from, where I'm going, etc. I chat back with them to be nice. Then one guy says "that's a nice shirt", and to each other in spanish they say "lets take it". Luckily I took 5 years of Spanish in school, so I understood what was happening, they were feeling me to see how drunk I was to mug me. I stopped walking, faced them, and said real serious in spanish "my shirt is too big for you little boys". Their eyes opened real wide then they turned around and walked off. It helps that I'm about 6'9 300lb, otherwise I would have bolted instead of saying that!
- I went to Thailand for 2 weeks. Not sure how I survived that.
Was involved in a car accident when I was younger, few of us had had a few drinks and one of the guys was giving us a lift home - he had had 1 or 2 drinks but wasn't what you would call drunk. I jump in the passenger seat as one of my mates calls "shotgun" and after a minute or so arguing I adhere to the rules of shotgun and let him get in the front seat while I jump in the backseat behind him.
Had been raining a lot, and there was a lot of standing water on the road in places (we were in a rural area), and at one point coming down a small hill there was a lot of water across the road at the bottom and the driver was going far too fast and as we sped through it the car aquaplaned and he lost control. Ended up swerving about 250 metres trying to regain control until we hit a grass bank on the side of the road and the car flipped and rolled over a couple of times before coming to rest upside down in a couple of feet worth of runoff water.
Out of the 4 of us in the car, the driver had a bit of a head injury but was ok after a night in hospital, buddy next to me in the back similar thing with a slight chest injury but was out the next day, I somehow walked away with barely a scratch and unfortunately my buddy in the passenger seat (the one who called shotgun) didn't make it. Doctors said he was killed instantly after smashing his head on the roof as we rolled over.
Messed me up for a good long while that wondering about the "what ifs" on that one and despite the fact it was 14 years ago I still wonder about it sometimes these days and wonder if I had stayed in the front seat would he have died anyway, or would I have died, or would both of us have died or would neither of us have died.
Ultimately that is the way life is, everything comes down to the roll of the cosmic dice and nobody can predict the outcome so the best thing to do is to just try to enjoy every day as much as you can and look after your loved ones as sooner of later everybody rolls snake-eyes.
Had been raining a lot, and there was a lot of standing water on the road in places (we were in a rural area), and at one point coming down a small hill there was a lot of water across the road at the bottom and the driver was going far too fast and as we sped through it the car aquaplaned and he lost control. Ended up swerving about 250 metres trying to regain control until we hit a grass bank on the side of the road and the car flipped and rolled over a couple of times before coming to rest upside down in a couple of feet worth of runoff water.
Out of the 4 of us in the car, the driver had a bit of a head injury but was ok after a night in hospital, buddy next to me in the back similar thing with a slight chest injury but was out the next day, I somehow walked away with barely a scratch and unfortunately my buddy in the passenger seat (the one who called shotgun) didn't make it. Doctors said he was killed instantly after smashing his head on the roof as we rolled over.
Messed me up for a good long while that wondering about the "what ifs" on that one and despite the fact it was 14 years ago I still wonder about it sometimes these days and wonder if I had stayed in the front seat would he have died anyway, or would I have died, or would both of us have died or would neither of us have died.
Ultimately that is the way life is, everything comes down to the roll of the cosmic dice and nobody can predict the outcome so the best thing to do is to just try to enjoy every day as much as you can and look after your loved ones as sooner of later everybody rolls snake-eyes.
We had a dirt bike leaning against the shed in our backyard when I was young......8yrs old'ish.
We would always play on it as if we were racing and being 75 lbs soaking wet the bike wouldn't budge when we climbed on it.....until one day it did move.
It fell back onto me when I was climbing into the saddle......bike landed right on my chest not allowing me to breathe in and out.
My sister went running for my mother. Note that my mom was ALWAYS pissed when she had to become involved with any of us kids misbehaving, fighting, breaking stuff, etc. My sister told her that I was dead. That got her attention. She ran out and hit me with some CPR. I came back...fortunately.
My mother spanked the shit out of all of us after she got done crying.
We would always play on it as if we were racing and being 75 lbs soaking wet the bike wouldn't budge when we climbed on it.....until one day it did move.
It fell back onto me when I was climbing into the saddle......bike landed right on my chest not allowing me to breathe in and out.
My sister went running for my mother. Note that my mom was ALWAYS pissed when she had to become involved with any of us kids misbehaving, fighting, breaking stuff, etc. My sister told her that I was dead. That got her attention. She ran out and hit me with some CPR. I came back...fortunately.
My mother spanked the shit out of all of us after she got done crying.
A couple of times unfortunately. Had I gone to Miami with the person I was supposed to I would have ended up tied up and in a ditch. Once because of pain killers and alcohol. The other time I got caught and dragged 30ft under a 1500lb piece of equipment at the airport. Ended up with a 3 inch deep gash in my hip.
I would have thought your story would have went like this...'Was walking in Hawaii a few years back and next thing I remember I woke up from a month long coma. I was hit on the head by two coconuts that fell and I had them brought to me. To help me commemorate the experience of nearly dying and my respect for the coconut I had a radio made out of them. (see my avatar picture, I carry it everywhere I go).'
