Life How Close Have You Come to Death? - Page 8

**TinyEvel** · 04-16-2019, 04:45 AM

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.

**Shaid** · 04-17-2019, 08:51 AM

hmm, there's a few. I'll give one.

TLDR version - almost got ejected from my car and thrown over a cliff to my death.

Full version

It was a car accident when I was about a week out of basic/AIT. Got home and was driving from Beach, ND to Medora, small town in the Badlands. If you know the badlands, it's basically just buttes, ravines, etc. for miles and miles. I was on Old Highway 10(yep, that's the name) because I had picked up my buddy who lives on that road. I hadn't been on that road for a good year at least. I knew a turn was coming up so I was keeping my eyes open for the sign showing a bend in the road. It essentially is a 90 degree turn, should really have one of those 35 mph signs or something. It was a rainy morning. Just as I came over a hill, there was the turn, the sign showing a bend in the road was actually halfway through the bend rather than beforehand. I tried to slow down for the turn but hydro-planed and went right over the edge into the wet grass. There was about 50 feet between me and a ravine and there were 2 trees. I hit one tree with the side of the car and ricocheted off it to hit the other tree dead in the center of my grill, right at the edge of the cliff.

My brother was in the front seat with me, my buddy in the back. He had reached forward to try and grab my brother since none of us were wearing seatbelts. When it was all said and done, there were 2 big bulges in the windshield where my brother and my heads hit it, thankfully we didn't get ejected. My brother had a concussion and a bunch of cuts. I had bent the steering wheel forward with my chest and had broken my arm in multiple spots. I also had a bad concussion. My buddy told me I had gotten out of the car and was holding my wrist saying I thought I broke my ankle. My buddy had fractured a vertebrae in his back. A truck driver picked us up and dropped us off at the Medora exit(don't think he wanted to get involved in the crap of dealing with an accident). My buddy's dad was actually going to work and saw us walking towards Medora and picked us up. I don't remember any of it except once we got to town and were waiting on the ambulance. My brother was going into shock and I calmed him down and told him he was ok and only had a couple cuts and we were all going to be fine. I then walked around the corner so he couldn't see me collapse and pass out. We all lived, car was totaled.

Frazod · 04-17-2019, 09:33 AM

Forgot about this - one night when I was 18 some friends were at my apartment, and we decided to go for a drive (can't remember if it was a specific destination or just boredom). Anyway, there were six of us, and three cars, so that would generally mean two to a car - I started to get in the car with my friend Chris, but he drove off as I was walking toward the car. The douche. Anyway, this was 1983, and everybody was driving a crappy secondhand 70s car, and Chris's car was far and away the crappiest - an old Dodge Colt. Somehow his car became last in the group, and as we were driving on a dirt road outside of Kirksville at some point I noticed that his headlights were no longer behind us. I figured he had just decided to go home, since he'd been in a shitty mood all night anyway, but my friend Alan had a bad feeling and wanted to go back and check, which we did.

We topped a slight hill, and saw Chris's car, upside down with the roof crushed in, lying in the middle of the road. I'll never forget how that looked with the headlights illuminating the wreck through the dust against the darkness of the open country. It was surreal. From the look of the vehicle we all assumed he had to dead. But when we got there, we couldn't find him, and there was a little blood, but not major injury/death level blood. Turns out that his steering had failed, which caused the wreck. He wasn't wearing a seat belt, and so as the vehicle was rolling he bounced first to the passenger seat, and then into the back seat. He was bruised, and cut himself getting out of the car, but other than that he was miraculously unhurt, and had already started walking to a nearby farm house for help when we got to the scene. (Yes, not wearing a seat belt saved his life. Go figure.)

Of course, had I been in the car with him, when he bounced into the passenger seat, he would have just bounced into me instead, and we would have both absolutely been killed.

Thanks for being a moody prick, Chris. It saved both our lives!

DJ's left nut · 04-17-2019, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Buehler445

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

Right?

I have motorcycle wrecks and falling asleep at the wheel and dodging lunatics on the road kind of stories and Imma just keep those in my pocket.

Because some of y'all have seen some shit.

Damn.

Hoopsdoc · 04-17-2019, 12:08 PM

First job I ever had as a teen was at a saw mill. Out in the sticks on a county road. We had a wood chipper right by the road to chop up our wood scraps into sawdust.

It was my job every day at the end of the day to change the blades on the chipper.

One day about 15 minutes after I got done, like 10 cop cars went screaming past, lights and sirens blazing. Turns out 2 guys who had been up on meth for 5 days decided to start killing anyone they encountered. They had killed 4 people by the time they passed by my job, literally minutes after I had finished working right next to the road. I have no doubt they would have killed me if they had seen me.

They ended up killing two more people before the cops caught up with them in the next state. One killed himself and the other got life in prison.

Clyde Frog · 04-17-2019, 04:38 PM

1) I was born dead. Breached and ended choking on the umbilical cord on the way out. Revived after a couple of mins.
2) Fell out of a tree when I was 5 and got impaled on a fence post. If it had been 2 inches to the right it would have went through my stomach and killed me.
3) Surfing during a storm in high school I wiped out and my leash snapped. I was stuck in 10 foot surf in a wicked rip current. I tread water for about 5 mins and was nearing exhaustion from being battered by the waves and trying to tread water. Felt a hand reach out to me right as I was about to give up. There was a guy sitting on the beach who grabbed my board and paddled out on his board dragging my board by what was left of my leash out to me.
4) Early 20's, Worked a double shift and was exhausted on my way back to the plant with the work van @ 3am on an 8 lane freeway. Passed out at the wheel. Hit a puddle and spun out. Woke up mid spin and finally got the van under control and ended up facing the wrong way on the freeway. If there were any other cars on the freeway at that time I have no doubt I'd be dead.
Im old now so no risky stuff anymore as I am fully aware of my mortality.

Discuss Thrower · 04-17-2019, 04:40 PM

Nearly died during childbirth and was close to get hospitalized with pneumonia as a toddler.

**Rain Man** · 04-17-2019, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

First job I ever had as a teen was at a saw mill. Out in the sticks on a county road. We had a wood chipper right by the road to chop up our wood scraps into sawdust.

It was my job every day at the end of the day to change the blades on the chipper.

One day about 15 minutes after I got done, like 10 cop cars went screaming past, lights and sirens blazing. Turns out 2 guys who had been up on meth for 5 days decided to start killing anyone they encountered. They had killed 4 people by the time they passed by my job, literally minutes after I had finished working right next to the road. I have no doubt they would have killed me if they had seen me.

They ended up killing two more people before the cops caught up with them in the next state. One killed himself and the other got life in prison.

Do you have any theories on how they would have killed you while you were maintaining the wood chipper?

Hog's Gone Fishin · 04-17-2019, 05:00 PM

Just one of mine, I was passenger in a car and we got pulled over for driving left of center. I had my mini-14 with a 30 round mag in laying across the dash, The officer walks up and I'm reaching up trying to pull the mag out and the officer has his gun on me yelling to drop it, but Jack daniels told me to continue what i was doing. I could have easily been shot dead.

'Hamas' Jenkins · 04-17-2019, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

Sounds like terfenadine.

Chief Roundup · 04-17-2019, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by burt

Congratulations???

Yes it is a good thing.

'Hamas' Jenkins · 04-17-2019, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ROYC75

Is your 1st name Lucky?

I'd wager on it being a compound name like Carl Ray or Bad Judgement.

Chief Roundup · 04-17-2019, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by ROYC75

Is your 1st name Lucky?

No but I definitely had someone looking out for me.

Chief Roundup · 04-17-2019, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I'd wager on it being a compound name like Carl Ray or Bad Judgement.

No compound just a standard English first and middle names with a standard Scottish surname.

Discuss Thrower · 04-17-2019, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

No compound just a standard English first and middle names with a standard Scottish surname.

Abdul Muhammad MacTavish?

Chief Roundup · 04-17-2019, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Abdul Muhammad MacTavish?

04-16-2019, 04:45 AM
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04-17-2019, 08:51 AM	#106
Shaid Supporter Join Date: Nov 2006 Casino cash: $1585783	hmm, there's a few. I'll give one. TLDR version - almost got ejected from my car and thrown over a cliff to my death. Full version It was a car accident when I was about a week out of basic/AIT. Got home and was driving from Beach, ND to Medora, small town in the Badlands. If you know the badlands, it's basically just buttes, ravines, etc. for miles and miles. I was on Old Highway 10(yep, that's the name) because I had picked up my buddy who lives on that road. I hadn't been on that road for a good year at least. I knew a turn was coming up so I was keeping my eyes open for the sign showing a bend in the road. It essentially is a 90 degree turn, should really have one of those 35 mph signs or something. It was a rainy morning. Just as I came over a hill, there was the turn, the sign showing a bend in the road was actually halfway through the bend rather than beforehand. I tried to slow down for the turn but hydro-planed and went right over the edge into the wet grass. There was about 50 feet between me and a ravine and there were 2 trees. I hit one tree with the side of the car and ricocheted off it to hit the other tree dead in the center of my grill, right at the edge of the cliff. My brother was in the front seat with me, my buddy in the back. He had reached forward to try and grab my brother since none of us were wearing seatbelts. When it was all said and done, there were 2 big bulges in the windshield where my brother and my heads hit it, thankfully we didn't get ejected. My brother had a concussion and a bunch of cuts. I had bent the steering wheel forward with my chest and had broken my arm in multiple spots. I also had a bad concussion. My buddy told me I had gotten out of the car and was holding my wrist saying I thought I broke my ankle. My buddy had fractured a vertebrae in his back. A truck driver picked us up and dropped us off at the Medora exit(don't think he wanted to get involved in the crap of dealing with an accident). My buddy's dad was actually going to work and saw us walking towards Medora and picked us up. I don't remember any of it except once we got to town and were waiting on the ambulance. My brother was going into shock and I calmed him down and told him he was ok and only had a couple cuts and we were all going to be fine. I then walked around the corner so he couldn't see me collapse and pass out. We all lived, car was totaled. __________________
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04-17-2019, 09:33 AM	#107
Frazod Did you hear what I said? Join Date: Aug 2000 Casino cash: $-656615	Forgot about this - one night when I was 18 some friends were at my apartment, and we decided to go for a drive (can't remember if it was a specific destination or just boredom). Anyway, there were six of us, and three cars, so that would generally mean two to a car - I started to get in the car with my friend Chris, but he drove off as I was walking toward the car. The douche. Anyway, this was 1983, and everybody was driving a crappy secondhand 70s car, and Chris's car was far and away the crappiest - an old Dodge Colt. Somehow his car became last in the group, and as we were driving on a dirt road outside of Kirksville at some point I noticed that his headlights were no longer behind us. I figured he had just decided to go home, since he'd been in a shitty mood all night anyway, but my friend Alan had a bad feeling and wanted to go back and check, which we did. We topped a slight hill, and saw Chris's car, upside down with the roof crushed in, lying in the middle of the road. I'll never forget how that looked with the headlights illuminating the wreck through the dust against the darkness of the open country. It was surreal. From the look of the vehicle we all assumed he had to dead. But when we got there, we couldn't find him, and there was a little blood, but not major injury/death level blood. Turns out that his steering had failed, which caused the wreck. He wasn't wearing a seat belt, and so as the vehicle was rolling he bounced first to the passenger seat, and then into the back seat. He was bruised, and cut himself getting out of the car, but other than that he was miraculously unhurt, and had already started walking to a nearby farm house for help when we got to the scene. (Yes, not wearing a seat belt saved his life. Go figure.) Of course, had I been in the car with him, when he bounced into the passenger seat, he would have just bounced into me instead, and we would have both absolutely been killed. Thanks for being a moody prick, Chris. It saved both our lives!
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04-17-2019, 04:38 PM	#110
Clyde Frog Tre Right, Three Jet Chip Wasp Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Land of the Tech Bro Casino cash: $2802474	1) I was born dead. Breached and ended choking on the umbilical cord on the way out. Revived after a couple of mins. 2) Fell out of a tree when I was 5 and got impaled on a fence post. If it had been 2 inches to the right it would have went through my stomach and killed me. 3) Surfing during a storm in high school I wiped out and my leash snapped. I was stuck in 10 foot surf in a wicked rip current. I tread water for about 5 mins and was nearing exhaustion from being battered by the waves and trying to tread water. Felt a hand reach out to me right as I was about to give up. There was a guy sitting on the beach who grabbed my board and paddled out on his board dragging my board by what was left of my leash out to me. 4) Early 20's, Worked a double shift and was exhausted on my way back to the plant with the work van @ 3am on an 8 lane freeway. Passed out at the wheel. Hit a puddle and spun out. Woke up mid spin and finally got the van under control and ended up facing the wrong way on the freeway. If there were any other cars on the freeway at that time I have no doubt I'd be dead. Im old now so no risky stuff anymore as I am fully aware of my mortality.
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04-17-2019, 05:00 PM	#113
Hog's Gone Fishin Fish are scared of me Join Date: Nov 2001 Casino cash: $-1489523	Just one of mine, I was passenger in a car and we got pulled over for driving left of center. I had my mini-14 with a 30 round mag in laying across the dash, The officer walks up and I'm reaching up trying to pull the mag out and the officer has his gun on me yelling to drop it, but Jack daniels told me to continue what i was doing. I could have easily been shot dead.
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