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re: Change Of Pace: Your Closest Call To Death
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:33 pm to Sao
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:33 pm to Sao
Late 1980s, riding over the Mississippi River bridge at Vicksburg at >90mph, passenger side tire blew out and threw the car to the right, where it rode up the concrete barricades. I was passenger side and could see the long drop on the other side of the barricades. The driver was good enough to get all 4 tires back on the bridge without flipping or rolling.
About 6 years later, as a passenger in a ski boat at night, the driver lost track of our location and drove the boat up an embankment lined with boulders to prevent erosion.
About 6 years later, as a passenger in a ski boat at night, the driver lost track of our location and drove the boat up an embankment lined with boulders to prevent erosion.
This post was edited on 7/8/20 at 3:39 pm
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Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:33 pm to LSUJML
Rode out hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:34 pm to Sao
Flipped 3 times riding passenger in a Pontiac g6 while wearing no seatbelt. Guy I was with gassed it and fishtailed over a culvert into a ditch. Young and dumb.
Crazy thing is he died this past weekend in his sleep. Rip
Crazy thing is he died this past weekend in his sleep. Rip
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:35 pm to Sao
Upper Gauley class 5 rapids at Pillow Rock rapids. Was under water until I almost passed out. Entire 9 person raft flipped.
Woman died in the same spot the next day.
Woman died in the same spot the next day.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:39 pm to Sao
Oncoming car on a two lane road hits a guard rail on the front right side and, comes spinning across and careening into my lane. Time slowed to barely a crawl and it felt like I had an eternity to sit there and contemplate the end. Missed me by inches.
I stopped and turned around to go help. When I opened the drivers side door I found a drunk, incoherent, pregnant woman saying everything was ok, could I help her get her car running again. It was totaled. She was totaled. I was nearly totaled.
frick you! You selfish, inconsiderate arse hole!
There. I feel better. Sort of.
I stopped and turned around to go help. When I opened the drivers side door I found a drunk, incoherent, pregnant woman saying everything was ok, could I help her get her car running again. It was totaled. She was totaled. I was nearly totaled.
frick you! You selfish, inconsiderate arse hole!
There. I feel better. Sort of.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:40 pm to Sao
In Ireland...
Went the wrong way in a small road..and starring at a semi ( kind that carries tanks of...CO2 etc) coming ...dont remember much aboutb the next 5 seconds but i did a 180 in the road ..i just remember seeing the truck and somehow going the opposite direction at a high rate of speed
Went the wrong way in a small road..and starring at a semi ( kind that carries tanks of...CO2 etc) coming ...dont remember much aboutb the next 5 seconds but i did a 180 in the road ..i just remember seeing the truck and somehow going the opposite direction at a high rate of speed
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:40 pm to Sao
17 years old flipping twice in a car .. belted in Passenger side backseat thankfully.. driver side back was crushed.. landed on a gas main that was slowly leaking into car.. only had a scratch on my knee and some serious body soreness.. unlucky was friend driving who wasnt belted and flew out window and was in a coma for weeks and suffered some damage for a few years. Thankfully he made a pretty miraculous long term recovery
This post was edited on 7/8/20 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:41 pm to Sao
I was probably around 12 and visiting my Mamau's house. I found an old bike in her storage shed, 3 speed "adult" bike, much bigger than my Mongoose. I decided to try to ride it and hopped on. I had never ridden a bike with gears before and was hauling arse, marveling at how fast this bike went, when I noticed I was flyinf right towards an intersection that crossed Government street, and cars were whizzing by. I hit the brakes and that's when I discovered the brakes didn't work!
Time slowed and I just knew I was dead. I threw myself off the bike to the side, reaching out for the street sign post. I grabbed it/slammed in to it with my torso knocking the wind from me. The bike careened in to the street and wash smashed to shite by a car.
I don't know who was more scared, me or the driver. He got out, saw that I was OK, dragged the bike off the road, and hauled arse. Maybe he didn't have insurance.
I had to push the bike home. I thought my Mamau was going to kill me. When I told her what happened she said "that damn bike is a death trap! I'm trowing it out."
Then she made me brownies.
No wonder I continue to do stupid risky stuff to this day. My Cajun grandmother imprinted on me that risking your life gets you brownies
Time slowed and I just knew I was dead. I threw myself off the bike to the side, reaching out for the street sign post. I grabbed it/slammed in to it with my torso knocking the wind from me. The bike careened in to the street and wash smashed to shite by a car.
I don't know who was more scared, me or the driver. He got out, saw that I was OK, dragged the bike off the road, and hauled arse. Maybe he didn't have insurance.
I had to push the bike home. I thought my Mamau was going to kill me. When I told her what happened she said "that damn bike is a death trap! I'm trowing it out."
Then she made me brownies.
No wonder I continue to do stupid risky stuff to this day. My Cajun grandmother imprinted on me that risking your life gets you brownies
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:43 pm to Sao
Back in college, I did an overnight drive home with a friend. I was driving the dawn shift, and while I was driving, I woke up in the left interstate lane passing a semi. I essentially was sleep driving.
Scared the shite out of me and I stopped at the next exit to change drivers.
Scared the shite out of me and I stopped at the next exit to change drivers.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:44 pm to Sao
Early 90’s on my way home from a night out I decide to stop at some redneck bar to get a beer. I walk up to the bar to get my beer and this good looking girl grabs my hand and says come dance with me. I’m already buzzing and it’s a slow dance and she rubbing all over me. She’s says let’s go back to my place, I said sure. We walk outside the bar , that’s when her boyfriend walks up ( they had been arguing before I got there)and puts a 9 mm up to my head. Telling me he is going to kill me. I’m telling this guy that I just met her and didn’t know she had a boyfriend. She’s calling him a pussy the whole time saying he’s to chicken shite to shoot anyone. This guy is crying, shaking with the gun to my head Luckily someone went inside and got his uncle who talked him down. I got the hell out of there
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:49 pm to Sao
I doubt it was my closest call with death, I'm sure that was probably something I'm not even aware of, but I did have a close call with lighting like you.
I was kayaking off of North Ave Beach in Chicago on a nice, partly cloudy day. The wind started hurtling from the west and pushed us out pretty far, close to the boats. In a matter of moments a storm had rolled in and the sky was black. I was paddling in, moving at a snails pace against the wind, when a bolt of lightning hit a boat about 50 yards off. Butthole clenched, scrotum retracted, and heart racing, I somehow managed to push hard enough to get back to shore.
I was kayaking off of North Ave Beach in Chicago on a nice, partly cloudy day. The wind started hurtling from the west and pushed us out pretty far, close to the boats. In a matter of moments a storm had rolled in and the sky was black. I was paddling in, moving at a snails pace against the wind, when a bolt of lightning hit a boat about 50 yards off. Butthole clenched, scrotum retracted, and heart racing, I somehow managed to push hard enough to get back to shore.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:50 pm to Sao
1989 working offshore as a medic. Has an explosion on the platform and had to utilize the escape capsules. We lost 7 lives that night and I sent 10 to the burn unit at West Jeff.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:50 pm to Sao
Lets See:
1. Loaded revolver pressed against my chest while being mugged by a guy obviously on speed/meth
2. Pneumonia - went into Ketosis and body started shutting down, but I made it
3. Shot at by poachers in the woods
4. Lightning struck a vehicle I was driving.
1. Loaded revolver pressed against my chest while being mugged by a guy obviously on speed/meth
2. Pneumonia - went into Ketosis and body started shutting down, but I made it
3. Shot at by poachers in the woods
4. Lightning struck a vehicle I was driving.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:51 pm to BowDownToLSU
Living on a 1 room houseboat in a marina. Something electrical shorted out and it caught fire. I was asleep in a chair, sick wife in the bed 10 feet away. I came in last so only locked the middle lock and left the upper and lower bolts unfastened. She woke up to a wall and the bed on fire with smoke pouring out. Until you have been there, you cannot imagine trying to undo a lock you cannot see with fire and smoke all around you, hardly able to breath. If she wakes up a minute later or I lock all 3 bolts, we die in that houseboat.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:53 pm to Sao
I used to go to my buddy's lake house on the Ponchatrain all the time. We had the boat anchored in the shallow water off the pier. A bad storm popped up, which happened from time to time there, so I told my buddy to go grab the truck and trailer and I'd get the boat (maybe a 5 min ride to the launch). By the time, I got to the water, the rain hit hard. I remember finding the anchor and just pulling the rope, not being able to see the boat. I hop in, crank the motor and start driving blindly through the choppy water. I knew about where to go since I'd been there a bunch of times but could not see where I was at all.
Then the boat died. I'm several hundred yards offshore, no longer in the shallow areas and I'm in wide open water with waves crashing over the side. I remember trying to crank the motor several times with no success. The gas tanks were floating around in the boat. I was panicking. The water was to the middle of my shins bc of the rain. After several minutes, which felt like hours, the boat started, and throttled it as fast as I could through the launch area. I thought of all the horror stories I heard about people dying on the Ponchatrain (there was folklore that had built around how dangerous it was), and I was sure I was one of them. When I finally met my friend, he was nearly in tears bc he thought I didnt make it.
Then the boat died. I'm several hundred yards offshore, no longer in the shallow areas and I'm in wide open water with waves crashing over the side. I remember trying to crank the motor several times with no success. The gas tanks were floating around in the boat. I was panicking. The water was to the middle of my shins bc of the rain. After several minutes, which felt like hours, the boat started, and throttled it as fast as I could through the launch area. I thought of all the horror stories I heard about people dying on the Ponchatrain (there was folklore that had built around how dangerous it was), and I was sure I was one of them. When I finally met my friend, he was nearly in tears bc he thought I didnt make it.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:54 pm to TheHarahanian
“I was passenger side...”
“as a passenger in a ski boat at night...”
I advise not riding passenger with stupid people.
“as a passenger in a ski boat at night...”
I advise not riding passenger with stupid people.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:55 pm to Sao
About 10yo my neighbors dad was stationed on the USS Lexington. They had a family day and my buddy neighbor invited me. We legit took the GD aircraft carrier out in the gulf and they launched/landed planes during family day.
Anyway no one was watching us at all and I remember running around the flight deck (no planes at this point) acting like a 10yo and as Im running full sprint to hit the stairs to go below deck I remember tripping and half of my body sliding between the protective railing...basically from my stomach to my head was hanging over the side and nothing below me but 60-80ft down to the gulf.
I still get the willies whenever I think about that day.
Anyway no one was watching us at all and I remember running around the flight deck (no planes at this point) acting like a 10yo and as Im running full sprint to hit the stairs to go below deck I remember tripping and half of my body sliding between the protective railing...basically from my stomach to my head was hanging over the side and nothing below me but 60-80ft down to the gulf.
I still get the willies whenever I think about that day.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:56 pm to Northshoretiger87
im sure it was some non dramtic moment on the interstate where somebody driving a huge truck almost didnt see me or something
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:57 pm to Sao
Missed a head on collision on the interstate with a 1 ton tool body Ford that had came across the median. It was extremely close to getting me, luckily the car I was passing at the time saw it and got over on the shoulder giving me the right lane. That guy probably saved my life and I'd never know him if I saw him.
This post was edited on 7/8/20 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:59 pm to Sao
Skiing in Colorado when I was in my 20s. Had just learned - was the second time I'd ever done it - and thought I was better than I was.
Went down a steep run and got up a good head of speed. Caught some ice as I was turning near the edge of the run and ended up barreling very fast straight towards a very large tree. I managed to just miss it.
Reminded of the first close call car accident when first learning to drive. Took a knee and breathed deeply for 2-3 minutes.
And changed my skivvies.
Went down a steep run and got up a good head of speed. Caught some ice as I was turning near the edge of the run and ended up barreling very fast straight towards a very large tree. I managed to just miss it.
Reminded of the first close call car accident when first learning to drive. Took a knee and breathed deeply for 2-3 minutes.
And changed my skivvies.
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