Near Death Experience(s)- Share yours

[scottycards]

I have had two that really count.

1. 80 foot rockclimbing fall. Stopped 5 feet short of grounding out. I remember falling, running backwards on the vertical wall, smacking the rock when I fell past the overhang, my tibia/fibula snapping, a few more bounces, seeing the ground coming up fast, and thinking "this is it, I'm going to die".

Then I suddenly stopped, pretty much eye-to-eye with my belay partner. He's just looking at me like "Jesus Christ, what the hell happened".

I'm like, "Dude, lower me down". :eek: :eek:

2. Riding my bike to work. I wait for the green, look both ways, and proceed into the intersection very slowly. I hear tires screeching, look over just in time to see the driver cranking the wheel (it didn't turn, as the fronts were locked up), and SMACK- up and over the car, landed about 50(?) feet down the road, still clipped in my pedals, and woke up with several EMT's standing over me.

How I didn't go under that car, I'll never know.

Both incidents were good for a little PTSD, nightmares, etc. for several months.

What 'cha got?

[Steve]

I predict that Camp wins for best post in this thread. :D

[JimhatTJ]

first tour in iraq, when baghdad "fell" the tards were doing celibratory fire into the air. we though we were under attack, bullets came back down and one missed me by about 2inchs from going through the top of my head out out my ass.

[Oscar]

Yesterday pissed off the wife

Only once in Honduras was drive a 13K ART forklift. The glass and headlights exploded and saw flash's from jungle couldn't hear the shots do to the engine. Turned out to be a drunk Honduran farmer. Fawker killed my forklift.

[Swat]

NDE? Do OOB's count???

[JeepWheelin02]

first tour in iraq, when baghdad "fell" the tards were doing celibratory fire into the air. we though we were under attack, bullets came back down and one missed me by about 2inchs from going through the top of my head out out my ass.

I remember that day very well. You were guarding the Van when the firing started and I was in the shower, came out with my weapon and was on the wall about to return fire in a towel. :lmao:

Back to the subject at hand. When I was 15 surfing at Sunset Beach, NC hit a 8ft wave and lost the board, got slammed against the ocean floor and passed out. My dad drug me up to shore and got me breathing again. Took me a few months to get back into the ocean after that.

[JKTODD]

My closest death experience was on a motorcycle. It was at night and I was trying to catch a buddy of mine who was driving his truck through the little canyon just west of Glenwood Springs. He had a head start on me so I was going about 95+ miles per hour. With no helmet(yeah, yeah I know-save it.) Someone had hit a deer and the carcass was right in the middle of the road. I missed it by about a foot. It was in the headlight beam of the headlight then gone and I was past it in the blink of an eye. I was 17 at the time. Close call. I can't even imagine what would have happened if I would have stuck the front tire into the side of the deer.:eek:

[Scooter]

first tour in iraq, when baghdad "fell" the tards were doing celibratory fire into the air. we though we were under attack, bullets came back down and one missed me by about 2inchs from going through the top of my head out out my ass.

I thought myth busters did one on that and found out you are really not in too much danger as previously thought.
Terminal velocity of a tumbling bullet ?

[Camp]

I was driving home from school when I got a hang nail once.....no really......I was driving home from school, on a dirt road, approaching a train crossing that only has the wooden crossbucks and a Yield sign. Not hearing a horn and thinking I could see the tracks, I proceeded to attempt to cross the tracks. I was wrong, locked up the brakes as soon as I saw the train. Slid up to the tracks but, didn't impact the train,.....instead I was hit by the steps hanging off the second engine, which ripped most of the front of my vehicle off, throwing me into the 10' deep ditch that was next to the road/tracks. I was died on the scene but, they rececitated me and drove me to a hospital, where I died again. They couldn't deal with the extent of my injuries at that hospital, after rececitating me a second time, so they put me on a chopper and flew me to the University of Michigan hospital. I had a closed head injury of the third degree, colapsed lung, 5 compound fractures of my left arm, and various other injuries of less importance. They gave me as much blood as they could give me and the needle was still reading "E". 14 days later, I walked out of the hospital under my own power. They still consider me the Miracle Child.

[JimhatTJ]

I thought myth busters did one on that and found out you are really not in too much danger as previously thought.
Terminal velocity of a tumbling bullet ?


tell that to the floor i dugg the bullet out of

[RebelRescuer]

Another member of the board and I managed to narrowly escape being shot at an ice arena thanks to his dad. It could've been really, really bad. Though I don't know if it qualifies as near-death since we weren't injured.

[scottycards]

Camp-
Glad you're still with us.

Are you now a "carpe diem" kinda guy, as I have become, as a result of your experiences?

I'm all about the "carpe diem". Well, mostly.

[Oscar]

I was driving home from school when I got a hang nail once.....no really......I was driving home from school, on a dirt road, approaching a train crossing that only has the wooden crossbucks and a Yield sign. Not hearing a horn and thinking I could see the tracks, I proceeded to attempt to cross the tracks. I was wrong, locked up the brakes as soon as I saw the train. Slid up to the tracks but, didn't impact the train,.....instead I was hit by the steps hanging off the second engine, which ripped most of the front of my vehicle off, throwing me into the 10' deep ditch that was next to the road/tracks. I was died on the scene but, they rececitated me and drove me to a hospital, where I died again. They couldn't deal with the extent of my injuries at that hospital, after rececitating me a second time, so they put me on a chopper and flew me to the University of Michigan hospital. I had a closed head injury of the third degree, colapsed lung, 5 compound fractures of my left arm, and various other injuries of less importance. They gave me as much blood as they could give me and the needle was still reading "E". 14 days later, I walked out of the hospital under my own power. They still consider me the Miracle Child.
Miracle hmm I bet Hell just had the "No Vacancy" sign on. But wow lucky dude.

[Camp]

Camp-

Are you now a "carpe diem" kinda guy, as I have become, as a result of your experiences?

I'm all about the "carpe diem". Well, mostly.


Absolutely





oh,....and Steve..... :flipoff2:

[Camp]

Miracle hmm I bet Hell just had the "No Vacancy" sign on. But wow lucky dude.

They put me on suicide watch after the wreck because there is more to the story but, lets just say I answered with, "There are way to many people I haven't pissed off yet for me to go out early." :D

[JKTODD]

So did the hang nail heal completely? :shrug:

[bigblackrubicon]

April 19th, the Support Our Troops Run. I guess I wasn't that close to death in the sense of injury or trauma, but a lot of things could have happened on my roll that easily could have done me in. Most of them were my fault: no seatbelt, not having my $hit tied down/secured. Nonetheless, it did make me ponder that one foot to the right, or just slight changes in the angles or speed etc...of what happened easily could have done me in.

I'm thankful to be alive.

[scottycards]

They put me on suicide watch after the wreck because there is more to the story but, lets just say I answered with, "There are way to many people I haven't pissed off yet for me to go out early." :D

PTSD?

I had to see a therapist over my incidents. Friggin' nightmares, short temper, general crazy behavior. Really whacked me out there for a while.

Just talking about the close calls would put me in a heavy cold sweat, right there in the Dr.'s office- full on panic. It was freaky.

[Camp]

No PTSD for me. I was rated as one of the top 5 16 year old defensemen in the country at the time for Ice Hockey and was supposed to be drafted to the show at 18. I focused on what I had in front of me and was able to deal with everything else. The injuries I had destroyed my NHL chances but, I still made it back to play through college. Having that desire to let nothing stop me allowed me to focus on what I could do, rather than what happened. I don't think I would have made it through the trama as easily if I hadn't had that. Three of my close friends died in the wreck.

[Steve]

oh,....and Steve..... :flipoff2:

What? I know your story. I know you win a thread like this hands down. I know you even turned out kinda, sorta, almost normal in spite of it. :spit:

:beer: :beer: :beer:

[JKTODD]

No PTSD for me. I was rated as one of the top 5 16 year old defensemen in the country at the time for Ice Hockey and was supposed to be drafted to the show at 18. I focused on what I had in front of me and was able to deal with everything else. The injuries I had destroyed my NHL chances but, I still made it back to play through college. Having that desire to let nothing stop me allowed me to focus on what I could do, rather than what happened. I don't think I would have made it through the trama as easily if I hadn't had that. Three of my close friends died in the wreck.


Glad you're still with us. I'm truly sorry for your friends.:(

[scottycards]

Three of my close friends died in the wreck.

Wow. That's horrible. Man, way to stick with it. :hail:

[IntrepidXJ]

I thought myth busters did one on that and found out you are really not in too much danger as previously thought.
Terminal velocity of a tumbling bullet ?


that's only if it is shot straight up....not in an arc

[Camp]

Wow. That's horrible. Man, way to stick with it. :hail:


The challenges life has thrown me are no greater than what anyone else deals with, they are all just different. We are what we want to be, shaped and guided by the experiences we have had.


Oh, and Steve..... :flipoff2: :D Just because they said my head injury cost me 10% of my IQ doesn't mean you can make fun of me :flipoff2:

[JeepWheelin02]

Just because they said my head injury left me only 10% of my IQ doesn't mean you can make fun of me :flipoff2:

Fixed it for ya. :flipoff2:

[ZappBranigan]

Even with 4 combat tours the closest I ever came to dying was probably a motorcycle accident in Federal Way, WA in 1990. Out for a nice evening ride on my sweet little Honda 550 Nighthawk. Stopped at a traffic light and then - BAM! - I was flying through the air. Don't even remember landing on the pavement. Turns out I got rear ended by a drunk driver in a caddy. I went to the ER with bruises and scrapes, the bike went straight to the junkyard. :(

[ToyRunner1]

Fixed it for ya. :flipoff2:Waiting to see the "Banned" sign under Scott's name :D

[JeepWheelin02]

Waiting to see the "Banned" sign under Scott's name :D

I'm sure that shoulda shown up a long time ago. :D

[JimhatTJ]

Waiting to see the "Banned" sign under Scott's name :D


i got $5 on it....:flipoff2:

[XtremeXJ]

I have a couple.

1) At 14 months I walked through the railing on a balcany and fell about 15 feet to a paved drive way.

2) At 4 years old I rolled between the bleacher seats at a crash-n-up derby and bounced back and forth off the railing straight down for about 25 feet.

3) Roll over accident on black ice off of a cliff. It was my 13th birthday and I was going to Manti Utah for some church activities. As we hit the ice and I knew that we were going to go over, I opened the door to get out (ya opened the door at like 30mph, I really wanted out), but the seat belt stopped me from making my bail. As we went off the first side to hit was the driver, as we rolled my door was removed and a wild rose shrub made contact with my entire right side. I cannot tell you how many times we rolled it was all a blur.

4) Last year my wife and I were flighing United Air into Vegas. We were on our approach and just as we are about to land a plane turn onto our run way right under us. The plane we were on had to make a hard bank to the left to miss the tail fin on the plane that turned under us. I was pretty sure that we were going to hit.

That is it and it does explain a lot about me.

[Camp]

:innocent:

[JeepWheelin02]

:innocent:

:flipoff2:

[JimhatTJ]

Camp remind me to get u that beer next time i see ya........

[bender]

rear ended at a light by a car doing 50....I was on a bike.

thrown out of a peterbilt at 60

crushed by a piece of drill pipe when the derrickman didn`t make a catch.



blah blah blah

[freestyle_6981]

ok, let me hop in on this one...

I got a few with the few tours in Iraq, so thats where mine come from...but I will go with my 2 most recent events.

1- December 26th, 2007. 4 vehicle convoy, traveling on dirt back roads with Iraqi Police pulling up the rear, Southern Baghdad. I was in TC in vehicle number 3. Its dark outside. Vehicle number 2 gets hit with deep buried IED (improvised explosive device), EOD estimates it was about 300lbs of homemade explosives. Blows the hood almost off the truck, and lodges the passenger side door on, luckily it didn't come off. About 2 seconds after IED strike, small arms fire came from everywhere, and an RPG (rocket propelled grenade) missed my vehicle by about a foot. And my gunner, with the largest weapons in the convoy, a .50 cal machine gun, and a 40mm grenade machine gun couldn't maneuver to shoot at anything cause we were trapped in an alley. Luckily we got out, no one got hurt, and had apache's hellfire the whole damn place afterwards.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i233/freestyle_6981/riveraied10-16-07front2.jpg

2- January 19th 2008- They say approx. 75 insurgent tried to take over our Iraqi Police Station that is about the size of a 7-11. 1 squad of MP's 12 (us), and 1 squad of Infantry with 2 Bradley's. 45 minutes or so of laying on a roof top with 2 of my best friends, bullets buzzing over our heads and impacting all around us. By myself I fired 37 M203's and about 1300 rounds. Thank God my M4 didn't jam. Bradley's leveled 5 or so houses with High Explosive Incendiary Tipped Rounds. GOOD STUFF. I have the video, if you are interested when I come home. And this all went down across the street, from 100 to 300 meters away. I though we were toast that night.

I got lots more, but those are probably the worst....beside the indirect fire that we get, rockets and mortars at least twice a day at our FOB (Rustyimiah), in southern Baghdad. Hearing the wizz of rockets is no fun.

God rest PFC Bohannon and SPC Blackwell, two who died from my company from the indirect fire our first week here, last July.

[Dave McDonald]

I can't even imagine what would have happened if I would have stuck the front tire into the side of the deer.:eek:

The last thing you would have heard would have been SPLUT!!!!!


Edit: (I forgot my original reason to post) I got hit by lightning, which to any of you familiar with my ramblings, is probably not a huge surprise.

[JeepWheelin02]

Camp remind me to get u that beer next time i see ya........

If he would ever get his a$$ down here for a BBQ he could have a beer and I could give him back a bottle to get refilled for me.

[Dave McDonald]

I thought myth busters did one on that and found out you are really not in too much danger as previously thought.
Terminal velocity of a tumbling bullet ?

A buddy and I were goin camping, and on the dirt road there was a herd o'cattle. They were stubborn. Buddy (who has since become much smarter) pulls out his .22, aims it up in the air and fires it, hoping the sound would make the herd move. It didn't. Then the bullet hit the top of the Bronco with a 'thunk'. It barely scratched the paint.

I didn't stop laughing for about 10 minutes. Then I told him to try spittin at 'em - it might scare 'em more than his rifle. :)

[JeepWheelin02]

Jason reminded me of another I would call interesting story not really near death.

Headed into Mosul to take over the airport from the north. We had a convoy of about 50 vehicles. Every one of them was a civilian vehicle except the 5-ton LMTV I was driving fully loaded with gear. I'm driving JimhatTJ was in the passenger seat and our buddy Paco was in the center seat. We were doing about 70 when I hit a bump in the road and the LMTV went airborne. Somehow actually landed the thing and kept going. We get into Mosul at night and we are driving through the city when we heard 2 shots followed by 2 tinks on the 5 ton. The ABS light came on, but the brakes still worked. Ended up using the truck to break down some barriers. The convoy made a wrong turn on the way to the airport and I had to turn the truck around on a 2 lane road. Took it as far right as I could off the road next to a brick wall and started turning. Asked JimhtTJ if I was gonna clear the guard rail while turning he said yeah your good. Yup, we took that out to, nice little bump when we went over it. finally got to the airport setup security and called it a night. It was quite entertaining.

[freestyle_6981]

Jason reminded me of another I would call interesting story not really near death.

Headed into Mosul to take over the airport from the north. We had a convoy of about 50 vehicles. Every one of them was a civilian vehicle except the 5-ton LMTV I was driving fully loaded with gear. I'm driving JimhatTJ was in the passenger seat and our buddy Paco was in the center seat. We were doing about 70 when I hit a bump in the road and the LMTV went airborne. Somehow actually landed the thing and kept going. We get into Mosul at night and we are driving through the city when we heard 2 shots followed by 2 tinks on the 5 ton. The ABS light came on, but the brakes still worked. Ended up using the truck to break down some barriers. The convoy made a wrong turn on the way to the airport and I had to turn the truck around on a 2 lane road. Took it as far right as I could off the road next to a brick wall and started turning. Asked JimhtTJ if I was gonna clear the guard rail while turning he said yeah your good. Yup, we took that out to, nice little bump when we went over it. finally got to the airport setup security and called it a night. It was quite entertaining.

HEHE...the 2 story brick buildings about 150 meters East of the Airport on the FOB perimeter is where I lived last deployment for a year. Good times, I actually miss Mosul....thats sad!!!

[Loki]

I was mindin my own business in Reno, this guy came up and shot me.

I think he just wanted to watch me die. :shrug:

:D

[JKTODD]

I was mindin my own business in Reno, this guy came up and shot me.

I think he just wanted to watch me die. :shrug:

:D

:spit:

You owe me a new keyboard with that one!:lmao:

[JeepWheelin02]

HEHE...the 2 story brick buildings about 150 meters East of the Airport on the FOB perimeter is where I lived last deployment for a year. Good times, I actually miss Mosul....thats sad!!!

Yup I know the buildings you are talking about. Good thing you werent in the old Sugar factory near there shortly before we moved out. That thing made quite the explosion. It actually blew out some windows at the Airport when it went up.

[Colo.TJ]

When I was 4 or 5 I was playing in a dumpster w/ a friend. It was the side load dumpster that we could easily climb into to get good stuff people threw away. It's good stuff when your are 4 or 5. As you can guess the garbage truck came and dumped us into the truck. After the initial shock I looked up to see the "roof" coming down. My friend panicked and began to scream and cry. I looked to where we had been dumped in and tried to get my friend to climb out with me. I was disoreinted and thought the front of the truck was the rear. I was unable to get my friend to climb out with me and he continued to cry and scream. Loud enough that the trash men heard him. At the time they weren't sure what they were hearing but decided to take a look. The hydraulics stopped and the next thing I knew the rear door of the trash truck opened. There were two trash men staring at us w/ eyes the size of baseballs. They pulled us out and took us home (apartment complex). All the way to my apartment I begged them not to tell my mommy. They told her anyway. I was grounded for a week.

Around the same time I stuck a screwdriver in an electrical outlet. That knocked me back about five feet. Grounded for a week.

I'm not sure how close to death either of those really were but both have been known to kill people.

As a small child I wreaked havoc on my parents. I'm being payed back in spades by my own.:)

[JeepWheelin02]

Around the same time I stuck a screwdriver in an electrical outlet. That knocked me back about five feet. Grounded for a week.

Im not sure if that can actually kill ya but I'll tell you that 220volts out of a light fixture in Germany will make your arm go numb for a couple hours.

[JimhatTJ]

Im not sure if that can actually kill ya but I'll tell you that 220volts out of a light fixture in Germany will make your arm go numb for a couple hours.


also touching the rotor in a distributor with the key on will kick you out from under the hood and across the garage floor

[JeepWheelin02]

also touching the rotor in a distributor with the key on will kick you out from under the hood and across the garage floor

Let's not forget getting shocked with 220 in Iraq will send you across the room and under the table to wait for about an hour before you wake up.

:flipoff2:

[scottycards]

This thread delivers.

[jeeplvr79]

also touching the rotor in a distributor with the key on will kick you out from under the hood and across the garage floor

Let's not forget getting shocked with 220 in Iraq will send you across the room and under the table to wait for about an hour before you wake up.

:flipoff2:

:worthless:

[JimhatTJ]

Let's not forget getting shocked with 220 in Iraq will send you across the room and under the table to wait for about an hour before you wake up.

:flipoff2:


yea that was fun....NOT

[JeepWheelin02]

:worthless:

No pictures of either. But there is something about electricity and James that just causes him to end up flying. I guess it's his redbull.

[Dave McDonald]

Around the same time I stuck a screwdriver in an electrical outlet. That knocked me back about five feet. Grounded for a week.


If they just would have grounded the screwdriver instead it would have saved you the pain in the first place :)


OH! I got hit with 660 volts in Vocational Electronics in high school. Low amps tho, so it just made me hurt rather than cookin me from the inside out.

Did you know that you can use your fingers to find the live wire in a 110 circut? Just use one hand, and don't lick yer fingers first.

[Oscar]

electricity hehe I learned what it was in second grade. Got got a mouth full of water and pressed the lips in to the outlet a spit was an intresting sensation.

[Oscar]

Did you know you can set off a .22 round when you beat it with a hammer? That was second grade too. That was a good year

[jeeplvr79]

Any of you guys pee on an electic fence? :D

[Dave McDonald]

Any of you guys pee on an electic fence? :D

Only once.

[JimhatTJ]

Any of you guys pee on an electic fence? :D

Only once.

x2

[Dave McDonald]

Did you know you can set off a .22 round when you beat it with a hammer? That was second grade too. That was a good year

2nd grade was when I found out that if you shoot at the little green army men with a bb gun when they're in formation in front of a rock wall, they shoot back!

[JeepWheelin02]

No, but I did get so use to electricity that while working on a laptop that had electrical issues i kept wondering what the tingling feeling in my hand was. Finally figured out the short was in the metal bar on the CD tray.

[JimhatTJ]

dont tell me you did Nora:confused:

[freestyle_6981]

Did you know you can set off a .22 round when you beat it with a hammer? That was second grade too. That was a good year


HAAA-

second grade??? my Army friend and myself were drunk and tried this about a year and a half ago, good thing we were too drunk to make it work....good times :D

[JeepWheelin02]

2nd grade was when I found out that if you shoot at the little green army men with a bb gun when they're in formation in front of a rock wall, they shoot back!

This had me rolling. :lmao:

I can so picture this

[jeeplvr79]

dont tell me you did Nora:confused:

Nope but my dad would always somehow get one of us kids to go check the fence to make sure it was on before we turned the horses out... ;)

[Colo.TJ]

Nope but my dad would always somehow get one of us kids to go check the fence to make sure it was on before we turned the horses out... ;)

My dad would just grab me then the fence. He thought that was pretty funny.

[mrutledge]

Another member of the board and I managed to narrowly escape being shot at an ice arena thanks to his dad. It could've been really, really bad. Though I don't know if it qualifies as near-death since we weren't injured.

Weird. I never considered that near death. We didn't hear the gunshots. There were no bullets flying near us. The shooter knew exactly who he was aiming at. The only reason no one died is because he was too distraught to group properly.

I've had much closer calls just hanging out in the woods during rifle season.

Still, nothing that competes with being flatlined or taking enemy (or friendly) fire. Well, I guess the hunting things could be considered friendly fire...

-Matt

[RebelRescuer]

Weird. I never considered that near death. We didn't hear the gunshots. There were no bullets flying near us. The shooter knew exactly who he was aiming at. The only reason no one died is because he was too distraught to group properly.

I've had much closer calls just hanging out in the woods during rifle season.

Still, nothing that competes with being flatlined or taking enemy (or friendly) fire. Well, I guess the hunting things could be considered friendly fire...

-Matt

True. But the timing was a little scary.

Still very much glad that your dad was there to send us out the back instead of going out the front.

And you're right its nothing compared to some of the other stories here! :eek:

[jeepn4evr]

Nope but my dad would always somehow get one of us kids to go check the fence to make sure it was on before we turned the horses out... ;)

Reminds me of my dad. We had a 12 ft round above ground pool that you had to plug & unplug filter into an extension cord. We were in there messing around & he told me to get out & plug in filter. Lets just say my wet little hands got to close to the plug. Good thing I wasn't still in the pool.

Have beren laughing for last 5 min reading this thread. Coworkers are gonna think I have really lost it.

[Elk]

kinda, sorta, almost normal

'bout sums it up :flipoff2:

Mine occurred before my first birthday. All the iron left my body and they didn't know what to do. They told my mother to take me home because they didn't want me to die in the hospital. Glad I don't remember it.

And I peed on an electric fence once too. Just 'cause my dad said not to.

[ChiliPepper / Kenny]

I was 12. Whitewater canoing with my father, the Gulkanan river in AK. It was May, and still had ice chunks flowing down the river, which was glacier fed anyway. Had my rain poncho on cuz it was raining off and on. We dumped it over on a rock that was slightly behind and between two other rocks. Went between the first two rocks on the tounge, and didn't even see the one that dumped us till it was to late. I tried and tried to get to shore, but everytime i'd almost get there the damn poncho acted like a sail in the water and drug me further down river. Not to mention the shores for the most part were undercut and about 4 feet up to anything solid and flat. By the time i finally got out I was almost a mile downshore, and blue. Dad figured my core temp was low enought I better curl up in the same bag as him. He said he'd never been so cold in his life trying to keep me warm. We were a good 30 miles from anything civilized. Got back in the canoe the next morning and paddled the rest of the way out. Will never forget that day.

[MinesJeep]

At my Aunt's house, about 12 years old, always went across the road to fish in the neighbors pond. Well had been awhile since I went fishing and neighbors had replaced the barb wire fence with an electric fence. Didn't realize it was there and tripped and fell into it. Woke up a few minutes later going WTF happened with burns where I had touched the wires.

[newracer]

When I was 4 I crashed my bike and hit my head on the curb, fractured my skull. A few days later I came down with spinal meningitis. Doc's told my mom I only had a 10-15% chance of surviving. Spent a few weeks in the hospital and pulled though it.

[ni0h]

Around the same time I stuck a screwdriver in an electrical outlet. That knocked me back about five feet. Grounded for a week.


That doesn't make any sense. The residual charge would have dissipated within the first couple seconds. :D

Jumping a Plymouth Horizon at 80+ in my "big air" spot, my own welds broke (there's just no good way to stick-weld unibody), lengthwise down a board fence with the boards going through the windshield and out the back, except the one that peeled the top of my face off.

[Oscar]

Hmm Dukes of Hazard syndrome huh

[bsaunder]

when I was ~8yrs old, me and friend were in a really old barn and found a length of rope and pulley that was hanging from the top of the hay loft. So we found another pulley and setup our own version of a zip line out to the fence line. I was dumb enough to try it myself without any other tests- about 3' from the window I had just left, the rope broke and I fell ~40ft flat on my back into a pile of rail road ties; every single tie had spikes sticking up except for exactly where I fell. Still permanently screwed up my back, but at least I didn't fall on the spikes :D

A couple years ago I was backpacking and did many things wrong and ended up with full blown HAPE in the middle of no-where during a blizzard. Breathing/coughing pink froth sucks...

a couple really close calls on my bicycle and a couple others out rock scrambling too....

[Budman]

Oh I have so many of these. What are the good ones. Had a wooden plank fly off a trailer truck and come through the windshield of my hay truck we were both probably running about 50. It went through the windshield, seat, adn cab. Missed me by a few inches.

Almost hit a racoon on my sport bike running like 90 at night on a country 2 lane.

Several from my time IZ and the Stan, one from the live fire range near Las Vegas, and one really close call jump. Oh I could go on and on. I am SO LUCKY to be a live.

Okay one kinda funny one. On a C-130 into Baghdad International right after we took ownership of it. I was asleep in one of the jump seats, and there was a very young, VERY green Lt next to me. We took a few rounds of small arms fire to the belly. I didn't know it happened until they woke me up to tell me about it. LT was wetting himself. Loadmaster and Flight Engineer were worried because the rounds had hit right under a pallet full of AMMO. I was trying to shake off the sleep. Damage to the aircraft was minimal, and we all made it to out destination. God I love the 130.

[Big Kev]

I was 18 and kayaking in lake Superior. Waves were 6'+ and some were quite a bit more. I got hung up in a wave and was surfing it backwards, the tail caught and I went over. Happened so fast I was confused and underwater. I could roll pretty good in still water but I did not have a chance in those conditions, and I was pretty confused about how I got up side down. I spent some time trying to swim back with holding onto the boat. It got too difficult and I left the kayak. I still was swimming, every wave put my head under water. I was to a point that I thought I wouldn't be able to make it. I put my foot down and felt the bottom of the lake. From there I walked out and up onto the grass and threw up a bunch of water. I looked down the shore and the kayak beat me in. A guy watched the whole thing and walked down the beach to help me carry the kayak back to my jeep and to see if I was alright. 2 people called 911 and I had a nice talk with the police when I got back to the jeep. The guys wife was really nice and offered me some water to drink, I told her I had had enough. It felt like I was in the water for at least an hour, I asked the guy and he said it was only 15 to 20 minutes. Fortunately it was August and the water was pretty warm around 65 degrees.

[HollywoodCTS]

4 years ago 4 of my buddies and I were driving home from my sisters wedding. I was in the back of my jeep with two of my buddies, and had no seatbelt on, only two seat belts back there. We hit a speed bump that we didnt see till too late, caught a little air, and the driver lost control. We were heading towards a tree at 50 or so, and I remember saying "well i guess im about to see what god looks like." The driver lost it right into a brick wall. My head went up into the roll bar, then forward into the windshield from the back and into the actual brick wall itself. I woke up to a woman whose yard we crashed into saying someone call 911 this kids gonna die. I was wondering who she was talking about. Luckily I just had a severe skull fracture that needed bone marrow from my hip and about 30 little plates and screws. A broken humurus, and about 500 stitches to my face and head. Good as new today but it makes you believe

[WhtJeep]

Nothing big or exciting really. I figured that as a 2 year old, I would make a better anchor than a floater. We think I was under for around 2 minutes. Pull me out and I was a code. So CPR started til the medics got there, shocked me a couple times and started back up again after about 7 minutes out of the water.

Funny thing was I never found out about it til I was 20. My parents thought I was a goner, and they just have never really liked talking about it.

[1sicbronconut]

In my early 20's I took a three wheeler for a ride off a 30' cliff. Tore all the ligaments in my right knee, punctured my left lung and broke/cracked all my ribs on that side. Man that hurts when you get a chest tube!

[CLYDE]

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Almost hit a racoon on my sport bike running like 90 at night on a country 2 lane.

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Did that last year on the Harley, very big, and very dead. My own fault. runnin south on I-25, doin about 80, was to close to the pickup in front of me, he centered over it, and by the time I saw it there wasnt anything I could do. Marge was behind me in the libby, said I was way airborn. It all stayed straight, and didnt go into a wobble, but scared the hell outta me.

Dogs had a field day cleaning dead racoon bits off the scooter when i got home.

[Walking Eagle]

Back in 93, my mom had a new Grand Cherokee. I hit a deer with it. My mom tried to kill me. It was the first and only time my dad has put a car in her name.

[Mkeeper19]

Mine really don't compare to all you guys combat ones but here goes...

driving in a friends parents mini van we borrowed for my bachlorette party to vegas we switched drivers in junction and I was driving. The previous driver had been averaging 85- 90 mph the whole way through the mountains :eek: We had left denver at 10:30 pm and were making great time to vegas. I had been driving for about 45 min when we thought we had gotten a flat pulled over checked everything out all was good and dandy. (thinking it must have just been the road) We keep going, get back up to speed, I have cruse set at 78ish all of a sudden wham!! rear tire flies off! We slid for forever it felt like. All I remember is standing up trying to hold the van strait not hit the brakes and keep the car from rolling while my other passengers are screaming like little girls on a roller coaster and all I can see is sparks fling out one side of the van. We finally stop! although two if the girls were still screaming for the next 20 min. So we didn't know what to do so we called 911. They told us to call them back:eek: because utah state patrol didn't patrol that late at night/ early in the am. So I checked out the damage and called 911 back they said they would send a trooper and a tow truck. They said he would be there in 20 to 30 min so 2 hours later they show up. It was January and freezing cold out and they told us to stand on the side of the road away from the van. so when state patrol shows up he lets some of us sit in his suv patrol car. while he is chain smoking outside. we get in to find an open bottle of jose cuervo with about a sip left in the back seat. We waited for another officer to come so we all would have a ride. (i got in the other officers car) The tow driver said he had always seen accidents like this resulting in roll overs, and that he was shocked we didn't roll

Turns out the tire shop that had put new tires on the van the day before had forgotten to tighten the lug nuts on that tire oops!:tisk:

to this day I always check the tires before going anywhere and I still have nightmares of it turning out much worse then it did.

But we did make to to vegas eventually :)

[Stumpalump]

Got stabed in the chest. Had a cop put a loaded and cocked gun to my head. Got too drunk to put my boat on the trailer on the Arkansas river in Arkansas so I took a nap. I woke up when I head the fear of god comming from a crew member on a huge river barge. They can't stop so he got to the bow and put a q-beam in my face. All I remeber is he was yelling to wake the f-up in a voice that was watching a dead man. I had time to bump the key, throw it in gear and I bounced of the starbord side about 10' from the bow.
I survived a CJ-7 rollover with no full cage when I had a shoulder belt on and a volkswagon that barrel rolled at least 7 times. I put a telephone pole into the passenger compartment in a 67 Impalla. Totaled a Duster and broke my leg in a Caravan. I got shot on the right index finger. and jumped by a gang of about 13 in Atlanta,drug out of my car and beat a little before I started beating back. Thing I learned was when you have multiple attackers you also have multiple targets and gang members are a bunch of pussys with nothing but a gang for strengh. I tryed to make a the high half moon mark on a hill that turned to cliff when I was on a borrowed Husky 390. I found out then when a bike is going straight up on basically a cliff face you cannot turn. Think about it. I hit the break and freefell sidways and somehow landed it by the grace of God. All luck no skill on that one.

I had a gun come thru a window and pointed at my balls if that counts and survived alcoholism and coke adiction to the tune of 2-3K a week habit plus all the gun toteing ,violence and out running the law that goes with it. God gave me another chance one day at a time for almost 15 years. I had a major gear malfunctioning while scuba diving and my dive buddy save my live and I got tangle in a trout line another time . I quit diving. I hit a raod barrier at 56 mph on an XR75 dirt bike. That was top speed and the barrier was new so I never saw it. I got into a fight with a pit bull does that count? I could go on for hours! I'm the luckiest mother I have ever met and thank God daily for the second chance to get it right! Fell asleep on the interstate and crossed all lanes, Got into a fight with a convicted murderer who seved 7 years, Hit a boat with mine and fliped, fliped another boat while on 7 yellow valium, and got luanched when a 26' J80 race boat nose dived and broached. Got across 220 volts on a hot water heater that was suposed to be shut off. I allways double check now. Heck thats just what I can think of now. Today, every day is a good day one day at a time. Only by the grace of a God that decided to pick my ass up and give me a new lease on life. For that I will be forever gratefull.

[deadjeep]

I almost hate myself for saying it, but there is some funny shiat mixed in here with the serious stuff. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry on some of these.

[IronMonkey]

Came back from Moab (01 maybe? was 33) and had a funny feeling in my chest. Layed down on the bed, felt my heart beating out of rhythm. Went for a bike ride to see if that would fix it. Didn't, went to the hospital was atrial fibrillation, they tried some drugs nothing worked so they knocked me out with versed and cardioverted (used "the paddles"). 15 joules right thru the heart, fixed the a-fib. Some bad beats once in awhile, no caffeine, drugs, etc. Ok maybe just a little. But no serious stimulants. Moab is ok to go back too.

Other near death...being married to the first wife.

[89minitruck]

I wheeled with Wally... :D

I'm thinking Wally's Moab Rim experience qualifies... :eek:

[Carrie]

First near death. At birth, immediately flown to Denver for a heart transplant. Parents never held nor really saw me until I was 3-4 days old.

Second near death. Moab Rim:flipoff:

[Steve]

I wheeled with Wally... :D

I'm thinking Wally's Moab Rim experience qualifies... :eek:

You should have been there. I give him hell about it, but it was way scary when it happened.


Second near death. Moab Rim:flipoff:

Between Wally's roll, your crash and the "dog incident" on that New Year's trip, I'm thinking you two should avoid that trail. ;)

[Big Kev]

I almost hate myself for saying it, but there is some funny shiat mixed in here with the serious stuff. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry on some of these.

I am a firm believer in "what does not kill you makes you stronger." I laugh every time I talk about almost drowning in lake superior. I have no regrets and I try to learn from all the dumb stuff I have done.

[PaleBlue90]

#1) i dated a girl who moved to maui hawaii with her dad. her dad and i made a deal that if he paid for my plane ticket i would help him do his contracting work. (i was only 16 at the time). anyway, we went out to dinner and to his music studio and jammed till 3am. i was supposed to go work with him the next morning but had a severe headache to the point i was in tears so i didnt go. about 2pm im feelin fine,so im doing dishes for everyone and he walks in all bloody,cut,bruised etc. i asked him what happend and he said "I totaled the passport" turns out he clipped a 240sx that pulled out in front of him. the passenger side ramped off the car, rolling his passport on its side,at 40MPH. he was slideing into oncomeing traffic and a pineapple truck hit the passenger roof crushing it to the floor. if i wouldve went to work with him i would not be here right now......

#2) i was 14 and had a friend named Shawn who i always used to hang out with. well over summer he changed, got real skinny, always wanted to fight, got pissed super easy and always asked me for money. i went over to get him at 9am one morning so we could go to the skatepark and BMX ride all day, i found him shooting heroin............. he told me to try it and i told him to f**k off. he reached under his pillow and pointed a 45 at me. it was a revolver and ii couldnt see any bullets in it, but i didnt kno if he had one in the chamberr, i calmly tryed to talk to him but he was screaming at me, i picked up a louiville slugger by his closet and nailed him in the hand....breaking it and took off running. later that night his rents called me and asked what happend.....a month later he went to rehab and they moved. havent head from him scince...

#3) i was rideing my bike from denver at 6pm when i was 15 and had 3 black guys try to jump me for my 245$ Matt Hoffmen BMX bike, i beat the crap out of all 3 and after they ran without my bike i noticed a small pistol by my bike, i rode home like a bat outta hell after i saw that.

[Stumpalump]

I am a firm believer in "what does not kill you makes you stronger." I laugh every time I talk about almost drowning in lake superior.
The closer to death you get, the more alive you feel!

[4-rocks]

I survived living with my mother. I have one dead brother and a screwed up sister that didn't make out so good.

My other near death experiences pale in comparison.

[PaleBlue90]

I survived living with my mother. I have one dead brother and a screwed up sister that didn't make out so good.

My other near death experiences pale in comparison.

yikes, sounds like shit was was rough for ya:(

[noahfecks]

My most memorable. Snowboarding on Rollins pass in 96. Attempting a sketchy line when the snow sluffed. Got pitched on my back head first sliding down a 63 degree chute. No way to stop and got spit over an 800 foot cliff. Skipped all the way to the bottom where I stuck in like a lawn dart. Intensive care at St. Anthonys for 3 days. No idea how I survived?

[4-rocks]

PaleBlue90, Yep, people have told me I should write a book. Speeling would be so bad no one would read it. After I wrote my post it dawned on me today would be mothers day.

[mtntj]

I've had several near death moments, but my Divorce scared me the most!!

[Metalhed]

Nothing like combat.
But I got hit by a stunt motorcycle rider, at work, and it jacked me up. broken teeth, Burns, many bruises and scapes. The really bad part is it was on TV a million times.
As in the opening credits of the TV show on Fox Sports News, "You got to see ths".
So every time the show played, people at work would say, Arent you the guy on that TV show.

[sonofmayhem]

I was about 6 or 7 when I was riding my bike with a newly equipt "Bike Max" (Tells you your speed, average speed, distance, etc) It talked to you. Well I was trying to hit 20mph down slight decline. Looked down to hit the button because it wasn't working properly. Heard 19 miles per hour. Looked up and there was a speed bump. Pulled up and flipped over it. My brother told me I did a back flip. Broke both bones in my wrist and SHATTERED my helmet. Doctors said if I wasn't wearing the helmet I would have been deeeead.

[supremebeholder]

Nothing like combat.
But I got hit by a stunt motorcycle rider, at work, and it jacked me up. broken teeth, Burns, many bruises and scapes. The really bad part is it was on TV a million times.
As in the opening credits of the TV show on Fox Sports News, "You got to see ths".
So every time the show played, people at work would say, Arent you the guy on that TV show.

Youtube link, please.