How Close Have You Come to Death?

[TinyEvel]

Spinning off the car surfing teen thread...

What’s your story of the closest you’ve come to dieing?

Between all of us I’m sure there’s a decent mix from Darwin-award candidate behavior to emergency quadruple bypass patients.

Also: take a moment to be grateful to be alive. Every day is a gift.

[Coyote]

Originally Posted by DeepPurple

In 1975..
..About a year later in May 1978 I was working in Pensacola Approach Control (radar controller). Our ILS Runway was closed for repaving and we had no instrument landing available other than a controller instructed Surveillance Approach to Rwy 9/27. We had heavy thunderstorms coming through the area and National 193 from Tampa was inbound and wanted a surveillance approach. My team was working that night, the controller next to me was handling final approach. Most of us never do surveillance approaches, or at least not since our military days. It's where you give detailed instructions to the pilot and he follows those instructions until he sees the runway. His altitude is determined by already published altitudes, the MDA for this approach to Rwy 27 was 520 feet. Runway 27 final is over Pensacola Bay for about 5 miles with the last mile over houses and the shoreline is rather step for Florida, it's like California with a 100' cliff. Around two mile final the pilots mistook a barge and it's lights in the bay for the runway, and with gear and flaps down made a perfect landing on the water. Fortunately only 3 people died, they drown but the barge was able to pick up most of the survivors. The aircraft did not break up and was sold about a month later for a $1 million dollars and floated up and taken away.

Had crash happened a mile later, it would of been a total disaster.

I never knew how this mishap occurred.

[CrazyPhuD]

Does giving Death a melvin count?

[UTChief]

5/5/1997 I was in an accident snowmobiling in the mountains I went off a cliff and dropped about 40 to 50 feet breaking my back at t12, (that is about right in the middle of your back) because it was a very steep slope I tumbled another 75 to 100 feet further causing the small broken parts of my vertebra to chew up my spinal calum rendering me paralyzed from the waist down. They was able to life flight me to one hospital when they realized they couldn’t help me they then life flighted me to the university of Utah hospital where they found out I had a broken hip they had to put a big screw in my hip along with two rods down each side of my spine also spent 5 weeks in the hospital. That next January is when Derrick Thomas broke is back then passed so it was close to home for me.

Chapter two 4 years later I was at the sand dunes and rolled my 4 wheeler causing the 4wheeler to roll on top of me breaking my pelvis but because I have no feeling I didn’t know it and just thought I was sore later that night started to turn grey and wasn’t coherent so they took me to the emergency room where they life flitted me to Provo were the doctor prepared my wife that I would not make it through the night I was in a coma for 3 weeks but obviously made it through.

Chapter 3 I was riding my 4 wheeler up in the mountains and stopped were I dropped my hat when I leaned over to pick it up by femur exploded into about 20 pieces because of complications with my paraplegia my bones in my legs have osteoporosis because they aren’t weight bearing and low Blood circulation I had to ride my 4 wheeler out when they moved me to my truck my leg was like jelly making my son about pass out, they had to put a big rod down my leg so the bones could heal no one could figure out how a sharp piece of bone didn’t puncher an artery.

Chapter 4 3 years ago I got infection in my leg had to spend a week in the hospital getting iv antibiotics and then again one year later with the other leg.

Needles to say I have a lot of metal inside of me and some day an infection will take me I take an antibiotic every day but eventually it will become resistant to antibiotics.

But I am still here and still very active I snowmobiled 12 years after I got hurt the first time until it got too expensive, I still am very active outdoorsman have a rzr and still work on my farm we have over 150 animals,
I have always been a chief’s fan since I think 1986 or 87

[Chief Roundup]

I was at a bar with a couple of friends. A guy jumps me from behind. I flipped him off on to the floor. I landed 1 good shot before I felt this pain in my leg ass area. I got one more in and I felt that pain in my ribs and I couldn't breathe. Dude stabbed me on the inside of my thigh and in my left rib cage which punctured my lung. I had to have surgery to repair my saphenous vein which included a transfusion. They put a chest tube in to hold the sack around my lung open where my lung could still operate properly. After 2 days they went in my back and scraped my chest cavity with a laser. It created scar tissue to hold the sack around that lung open so it could not collapse because of the size of the hole.
A little over 4 months later I am over at my girl friends house we are being intimate. All the sudden I hear click click. It scared me and as I turned dude shot me. A graze if you will. It sure bled like It did some real damage. Dude stood there and told me "The knife didn't work but this will!" She whacked him from behind with a flashlight and took the gun from him.
She was trying to get divorced from this dude. I had no idea she was married. Well he went to prison and she got divorced.
We met up again a little over a year later, dated for a year, got married and now are in the home stretch of getting a divorce.

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

I was at a bar with a couple of friends. A guy jumps me from behind. I flipped him off on to the floor. I landed 1 good shot before I felt this pain in my leg ass area. I got one more in and I felt that pain in my ribs and I couldn't breathe. Dude stabbed me on the inside of my thigh and in my left rib cage which punctured my lung. I had to have surgery to repair my saphenous vein which included a transfusion. They put a chest tube in to hold the sack around my lung open where my lung could still operate properly. After 2 days they went in my back and scraped my chest cavity with a laser. It created scar tissue to hold the sack around that lung open so it could not collapse because of the size of the hole.
A little over 4 months later I am over at my girl friends house we are being intimate. All the sudden I hear click click. It scared me and as I turned dude shot me. A graze if you will. It sure bled like It did some real damage. Dude stood there and told me "The knife didn't work but this will!" She whacked him from behind with a flashlight and took the gun from him.
She was trying to get divorced from this dude. I had no idea she was married. Well he went to prison and she got divorced.
We met up again a little over a year later, dated for a year, got married and now are in the home stretch of getting a divorce.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

I was at a bar with a couple of friends. A guy jumps me from behind. I flipped him off on to the floor. I landed 1 good shot before I felt this pain in my leg ass area. I got one more in and I felt that pain in my ribs and I couldn't breathe. Dude stabbed me on the inside of my thigh and in my left rib cage which punctured my lung. I had to have surgery to repair my saphenous vein which included a transfusion. They put a chest tube in to hold the sack around my lung open where my lung could still operate properly. After 2 days they went in my back and scraped my chest cavity with a laser. It created scar tissue to hold the sack around that lung open so it could not collapse because of the size of the hole.
A little over 4 months later I am over at my girl friends house we are being intimate. All the sudden I hear click click. It scared me and as I turned dude shot me. A graze if you will. It sure bled like It did some real damage. Dude stood there and told me "The knife didn't work but this will!" She whacked him from behind with a flashlight and took the gun from him.
She was trying to get divorced from this dude. I had no idea she was married. Well he went to prison and she got divorced.
We met up again a little over a year later, dated for a year, got married and now are in the home stretch of getting a divorce.

Pack it in boys, this guy just won the thread. Holy shit bud.

[burt]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

We now are in the home stretch of getting a divorce.

Congratulations???

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by burt

Congratulations???

I just feel sorry for the guy that's about to get stabbed and shot at now.

[Buehler445]

Jesus. Some of you guys are ****ing nuts.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

I was at a bar with a couple of friends. A guy jumps me from behind. I flipped him off on to the floor. I landed 1 good shot before I felt this pain in my leg ass area. I got one more in and I felt that pain in my ribs and I couldn't breathe. Dude stabbed me on the inside of my thigh and in my left rib cage which punctured my lung. I had to have surgery to repair my saphenous vein which included a transfusion. They put a chest tube in to hold the sack around my lung open where my lung could still operate properly. After 2 days they went in my back and scraped my chest cavity with a laser. It created scar tissue to hold the sack around that lung open so it could not collapse because of the size of the hole.
A little over 4 months later I am over at my girl friends house we are being intimate. All the sudden I hear click click. It scared me and as I turned dude shot me. A graze if you will. It sure bled like It did some real damage. Dude stood there and told me "The knife didn't work but this will!" She whacked him from behind with a flashlight and took the gun from him.
She was trying to get divorced from this dude. I had no idea she was married. Well he went to prison and she got divorced.
We met up again a little over a year later, dated for a year, got married and now are in the home stretch of getting a divorce.

Nice.

[ROYC75]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

I was at a bar with a couple of friends. A guy jumps me from behind. I flipped him off on to the floor. I landed 1 good shot before I felt this pain in my leg ass area. I got one more in and I felt that pain in my ribs and I couldn't breathe. Dude stabbed me on the inside of my thigh and in my left rib cage which punctured my lung. I had to have surgery to repair my saphenous vein which included a transfusion. They put a chest tube in to hold the sack around my lung open where my lung could still operate properly. After 2 days they went in my back and scraped my chest cavity with a laser. It created scar tissue to hold the sack around that lung open so it could not collapse because of the size of the hole.
A little over 4 months later I am over at my girl friends house we are being intimate. All the sudden I hear click click. It scared me and as I turned dude shot me. A graze if you will. It sure bled like It did some real damage. Dude stood there and told me "The knife didn't work but this will!" She whacked him from behind with a flashlight and took the gun from him.
She was trying to get divorced from this dude. I had no idea she was married. Well he went to prison and she got divorced.
We met up again a little over a year later, dated for a year, got married and now are in the home stretch of getting a divorce.

Is your 1st name Lucky?

[stumppy]

Another time I was 19 and in Vermont, on a rail welding contract. Just finished a major portion of the contract and went to a local bar with my boss and coworker. Got pretty loaded on beer and shots of ouzo. At closing time I got into it with a local out in the parking lot. At some point he got ahold of a broken beer bottle. I swung on him pretty hard and he swung that bottle to block it. I felt something then when I stepped back something squirted me in the face, then it happened again. Thats when I noticed the stream of blood squirting out of my wrist. Lucky for me my coworker used to be an EMT. He ran up to me, pulled his shirt off and tied it around my wrist and held it there..
We hopped into my boss's truck and headed to the only hospital we knew about, flashers on and hauling ass. On the way there was this car with a couple guys and their dates in front of us.. They thought it would be funny to go real slow and not let us by. When we came up to a stop light my boss and coworker hopped out, ran up to the car, one on each side and leaned in and punched the shit out of them. They then let us pass.
We didn't know the hospital we were headed to didn't have an emergency room. By the time we figured that out and got directions to the other hospital I had been bleeding quite a bit. I passed out before we got there. The next thing I knew I was in a hell of a lot of pain and came to. I was in surgery and there were a few hemostats/clamps sticking in my wrist and a surgeon sewing something up. I was yelling for some anestesia then I passed out again. Turns out my BAC was so high they wouldn't give me any.
It turns out I'd cut an artery and two veins and lucky to be alive.

[rydogg58]

Back in 1994 or so, I was a student at SMSU. Some of the guys on my floor were doing these medical studies and making good cash. Since I was a broke ass college student, I decided to try it. Basically, you went to the facility on Friday night, woke up at 6 am to take the drug, and you had your blood drawn every hour or so until Monday morning when they released you.

First study I did was a new antihistamine pill. The study lasted about 5 weekends. Went in Friday night, played SNES, did homework and watched tv. It was boring but I got about 2 grand for basically doing jack shit.

Fast forward a couple weeks later, I get a call from the place asking if I wanted to participate in the same antihistamine study again. Hell yes I do! So, the next Friday night my roommate and I both show up expecting everything to be the same. Which it was. Saturday morning at 6, we all get up, take the pill, get out blood drawn, grab some breakast, and go sit in the common room to watch some TV.

30 minutes after I had taken the pill I was sitting in a recliner watching the TV and I noticed I was having a hard time focusing on the screen. I then notice it wasnt just the tv I was having trouble focusing on, it was everything in the room. My breathing wass off, I could feel tingling all over my body, and my chest felt like it was beng crushed. I stood up and the last thing I remember was, "why am I staring at the ceiling lights??"

I woke up a short time later from the most excrutiating, searing, terrible pain in my chest. I was on a bed, stripped down to my boxers with shit sticking out of the veins in my arms, and chest. I look around and there was some guy screaming at me from above, holding the shock paddles in both of his hands. Everybody was asking me how I felt, and all I could think of was, "what the **** just happened to me?"

Ambulance arrived and took me over to Cox South where I spent the day in ICU. Turns out I had several "cardiac arrest" situations and they had to bring me back with the shock paddles, which was the horrible pain I had experienced. The next morning I see some more doctors and went over some of the tests. It was then that I found out I am really, really, horribly allergic to antihistamine.

The medical experiment place was more than happy to cut me a check for double the amount I would have received for the whole study as long as I signed a waiver saying I would not sue. When I asked them why this shit didn't happen the first time I went through the study they said it was because the first time I was in the placebo group, this time I just got unlucky enough to get the real thing.

[BWillie]

Twice.

Once when I was a little kid, I was dumb and thought it would be a rush to climb a tree that overhanged over a 150 foot - 200 foot gulley into sharp rocks. I was almost to the top of the tree when the branch broke and I came tumbling down the tree, through branches. I got almost to the last branch and I managed to grab it without falling to my death.

Second time I was going to a girlfriends house who lived in the country. Pitch black. No lights. One lane in each direction road and some dumb mother ****er was driving on the wrong side of the road, without lights, in the dark. I have no clue how I managed to avoid him but I swerved onto the shoulder, my car was 80% off the road at an angle, fish tailing back and forth and I ended up unscathed.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Jesus. Some of you guys are ****ing nuts.

It looks like 50% of us on here were lucky to make it past 25.