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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on October 03, 2003, 02:47:12 PM
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One time I was driving on a two lane road. I was following a camper. We were going real slow. He moved over into the oncoming traffic lane to pass a horse trailer.
I, thinking a camper would never pass without a lot of room, moved out with him.
Camper cut back into our regular lane and right in front of me was oncoming traffic.
I barely made it over.
Every time I think about it I get chills. It would have been 65-65 head on. Goner..
Then there was the wasp where I went into anaphylactic shock. Doc told me I was probably as close to dying as I\'ll probably ever come. Pretty freaky consider there are wasps everywhere. But now I am getting treatment and I should be alright.
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umm pumping gas during the DC sniper attacks
was a 1/million chance I know but still pretty scary.
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Everyday- we are always at risk of dying. I can die right now of an unexplanibale disea- EKCKK!K!
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Cant really remember. Almost fell of a building when i was a kid. We were on the roof and i was looking over this really small banister and my sister scared me but my dad was there and kinda pulled me back. I wasnt far enough to fall but if i panicked maybe.
Then another time when i was younger maybe 3 or so i was climbing on the counter and somehow slipped and hit my head on our metal sink. Still have a small mark above my eyebrow.
I dont know. I guess im a pretty safe person or something cause there arent any crucial points where i think i full-heartedly could have died. Well maybe a couple car accidents but ive never broken a bone in my life.
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I was stoned with my buddies and were heading to the mall. We started to notice all the cars pulling over to the side of the road but we didn\'t hear or see anything so we didn\'t. Anywayz there was a fire truck hauling ass and we didn\'t see it till the last second and I swear there was maybe a 3 inch gap between the fire truck and the car.
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Twice once when I was about 10 we were at Sun Devil stadium watching one of those minor league football games I think our team was called the Wranglers.. Anywas I was climbing up and down the railing at the top of the lower level and fell head first (about 2 stories) to the ground below. Knocked unconscious for about 6 hours.... No well almost no lasting injuries..
the second time when the day after I kissed my wife (girlfriend at that time) and I was getting off the freeway on my ZX-7 and bang hello chevette she turned in front of me and I t-boned her at 45 flew about 200 feet no helmet the only thing that saved me was a class 2 trama center less that 2 blocks away and some docs were driving home and sitting in the intersection at the time.
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shooting my WWI Enfield .303... lying in the prone position, shooting at a 12\'\' circular piece of 1/4" steel hanging on a rope, about 75 yards.
After the third shot, the steel was spinning pretty good. Took the fourth shot and immediately after I heard, "fsfsfsfsfsfsfsfsfsfssssssteeeeooowww"
Riccochet went about 4 inches above my head and to the right. The spinning disc hit the bullet like a baseball, and it splintered the tree behind me. You know those bullet sounds in Saving Private Ryan? Well, they\'re very accurate.
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Driving around the bad part of town at night with an idiot friend in the car, he yelled at some guy on the street, next thing we know we\'re being shot at. I later let him alk home.
Another time a guy tried to mug me with a knife and we got into a fight, I took him down but I still have a scar on my left hand.
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When I was 4 or 5 I was thrown off a horse and was about 6 inches from being trampled by the damn thing, and to think my name means lover of horses. Damn God and his sense of humor.
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Almost drowned twice. (can\'t swim and stupid high school PE teachers forced us non swimmers into the 10 ft deep pool...)
And living in earthquake country kinda puts me at risk everyday. =P
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You gotta learn how to swim... In essence it\'s almost as important as learning to walk....
Oh yeah... When I was 4 years old I was wheelin about on my tricycle, and this girl (about 6 years old) commanded me to let her ride or whatever, and I was like, no! And she picked up a rock, and threw it at my head and literally split my upper frontal bone open slightly. I got a small scar from it...
...the scar re-opened just recently. I was at my gf\'s house, trying to be a macho man by fixing her TV reception. Well she had this huge ceramic gargoyle on top of the TV, and I didn\'t know it. The TV was on this wall mount, so I reached up and swung it around so I could see the back, and "CRACKKKKKKKKKK". The gargoyle smashed into four big pieces on my head.
My girlfriend made that gargoyle. :(
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I\'ve done that. My dad makes soap stone carvings, and he keeps some ontop of the big screen. I tried to hookup his DVD player I got him for Christmas and I was out cold, it fell from a good 4 feet up. I think I saw god, he smelled nice.
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1) choked on a piece of food and noone around me knew how to do the hemlic..eventually worked its way down but it took a while
2) we left for school 5 minutes late and there was an accident right where we couldve been. Went past the site and cops werent even there yet and some semi kicked the crap outta a car
3) was pitching and the batter hit the ball and it hit me pretty hard on the left arm and bounced all the way back to the fence on the first base line..who knows what it wouldve done to my heart if it hit me a bit more to the right
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I live on an island and I don\'t freakin know how to swim. :(
Me and a buncha friends went swimming at a place with a cliff.. I didn\'t wanna go in the deep end, but I wanted to see the view from the top.. Anyway, one of those fags pushed me off and I nearly drowned! Good thing someone was already down there to save me. Since then I\'ve been afraid to get into water where my feet can\'t touch the ground. :(
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Swimming is so incredibly easy... I swim competitively for my school, and just tredding in general is really a simple feat. I highly suggest you learn as soon as possible... Water rules.
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a few years ago, I nearly choked to death after eating a kashew nut, I had a really bad allergic reaction to it, at it\'s most extreme point, it felt like I was being strangled.
I was in the pub with a friend and he offered me one, I didn\'t know I was allergic to them.
I couldn\'t help thinking to myself as I was fighting for breath, "is this it?"
I really thought I was a gonner.
I woke up the following evening after over 18 hours sleep with a neck like an elephants leg, the skin on my cheeks & forehead had blistered off and my left eye completely closed up, it looked like someone had splashed acid in my face.
That was the closest I have ever come to death.
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Hmm, can\'t say I\'d had any such moments. I\'ve been under surgery a few times and I guess there\'s always a risk with such things... but other than that, no.
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Nothing close to death for me.
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One time I was fighting with Dennis Hopper on top of a subway train and almost got my head taken off.
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True Story too.
In a swimming lesson, ages and ages ago. Me and another kid were fighting over a kick board thingamagig. I ALMOST DROWNED!!
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Mine is the same as Vids. Heading up a 2-line state route to Cedar Point with 5 of my friends, one of them driving. He went to pass a car and a semi and mid-way through the semi we pretty much realized we weren\'t gonna make it. All I said was, this sucks. But as you can tell we ended up missing the car and the front of the semi but by about 1 foot a piece. Yea, and it would have been 90 on 65.
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Got hit by a car, was dragged under it.. Luck was on my side, i managed to grab the front bumper bar so my top half didn\'t go under too. When the car stopped i got out from under it, the lady that was driving cracked the shits with me, when she was the one in the wrong. She then asked if I was ok. l told the stupid bytch to **** off. I walked home with my whole left side covered with scraps and cuts. i didn’t go to hospital or anything, It wasn\'t bad enough for that. Thank god.
If i had something broken i would\'ve accepted her nice little offer to drive me there.
Also when i was a lot younger i nearly got hit by a bus. I was with about 5 friends. We were talking while crossing the road when they all stopped. So i was looking back trying to figure out why they had stopped. Next thing i hear a bus horn going off. I turn to see where it was and it just missed me by about 3 inches from my nose. The side mirror just went over my head, so all my mates said. If was any taller, the mirror would have KO\'d me then the rest of the bus would have probably finished me off, scary sh@t.
ohh, and i nearly had cancer. Had a golf ball size lump removed from my neck. It was a gland that went mad. Infact i had 3 of them removed, but the 2 others were a lot smaller. Guess you could call that a close to death thing, cause if it was cancer, i would have been in a lot of s@#t.
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I have two things
1) I was an infant and choked on dog food. I almost died there.
2) In middle school, I was waiting for the bus. This was the first time my mom stayed out and talked with me in a couple years. My bus came and you know those assholes that don\'t stop. Well this one ass didn\'t stop and I had to cross the street. She yelled "Chris look out!!!" If my mom wasn\'t there, I would have been hit and killed. He was going fast.
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Got hit by a car, was dragged under it.. Luck was on my side, i managed to grab the front bumper bar so my top half didn\'t go under too. When the car stopped i got out from under it, the lady that was driving cracked the shits with me, when she was the one in the wrong. She then asked if I was ok. l told the stupid bytch to **** off. I walked home with my whole left side covered with scraps and cuts. i didn’t go to hospital or anything, It wasn\'t bad enough for that. Thank god.
Did the lady ever get in legal trouble?
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Originally posted by Titan
I was an infant and choked on dog food. I almost died there.
Yeah, I hear dog food is cheaper than baby food. ;)
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Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
Got hit by a car, was dragged under it.. Luck was on my side, i managed to grab the front bumper bar so my top half didn\'t go under too. When the car stopped i got out from under it, the lady that was driving cracked the shits with me, when she was the one in the wrong. She then asked if I was ok. l told the stupid bytch to **** off. I walked home with my whole left side covered with scraps and cuts. i didn’t go to hospital or anything, It wasn\'t bad enough for that. Thank god.
If i had something broken i would\'ve accepted her nice little offer to drive me there..
crap!
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How tall was that car? You must have been SUPER LUCKY!!:eek:
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Can\'t remember how tall the car was. It wasn\'t a big car. I was crossing the road, while she was slowing down. It was a crossing, but she was to busy watching the other cars (it was on a rounderbout) rather then what was in front of her. So when she was a few meters from me, and it was clear. She speed back up and hit me from the right side pushing me to the ground. I grabbed the bumper bar and held on to she stopped. She didn\'t drive all that long. It happened pretty fast. She didn\'t get sued or anything. I was to hurt to take any details down about her or her car. I just wanted to get home. I was about 1k from my house so I just walked home. I was 14 or 15 when it happened. They\'ve changed the section now, They have traffic lights and a cross intersection rather then a rounderbout.
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WTF is a rounderbout?
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An intersection without traffic lights, just give way to traffic coming from the right (in UK, left everywhere else), then when clear drive around it to your turning.
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Ah- I can see the problems now.
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1) Was sideswiped by an angry truckdriver on the highway in South Carolina. Car flipped on two wheels and blew both passenger side tires on the way down. Driver almost lost control but managed to stick with it. We chased the semi and got the plate number but speeding semi + speeding 929 w/ 2 flats, shattered passenger side window, scared shitless occupants = not good. We pulled off the next exit and told a SC State Trooper. He told us that the license plate didn\'t exist and then he threw the number away before we could protest. We were a little pissed(to say the least) and were about to go off on the trooper but the way he(and everyone else) looked at us plus the fact that we were two black dudes in nowhereville, South Carolina kept us in check while we waited for AAA.
BTW, Someone tells you that they were hit by a semi that sped off; but they got the license number. You "check" the number and see that it "doesn\'t exist". Do you say oh well that number doesn\'t exist to bad or do you radio in that a f*cking semi truck with non existant plates commited a hit and run?
2) When I was 7-8 I was trying to open a glass jar with a big ass cork in it(inquisitiveness + boredom + little supervision + 7 year old = danger). I think I wedged a pair of scissors in it and it shattered. I cut right through the bottom of my palm and(according to the doctor) just missed slicing an artery. It was weird because it didn\'t hurt at all and I could actually see inside my hand. Freaky occurance for a little ass kid.
3) I got shot at in Atlanta over(I\'m assuming because I don\'t know why else I would be shot at) mistaken identity. I was walking to my car in Buckhead when a guy in a civic(?) drove passed me pulled a u-turn further up the street and sped by me while shooting. I have no idea why I was not hit. I just hauled ass to my car afterwards and sped home.
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Originally posted by Gohan
3) I got shot at in Atlanta over(I\'m assuming because I don\'t know why else I would be shot at) mistaken identity. I was walking to my car in Buckhead when a guy in a civic(?) drove passed me pulled a u-turn further up the street and sped by me while shooting. I have no idea why I was not hit. I just hauled ass to my car afterwards and sped home.
OMG! That is just freaky. :eek:
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Mostly motorcycle accidents.
1) Hit a patch of diesel tipping into a roundabout and got thrown off, landed on my neck on the kerb. Smashed my collarbone but for some reason my neck didn\'t break.
2) The accident I\'m most proud of! I was at a roundabout on the bike waiting to pull out when the coach behind me decides he\'s gonna pull out first. He drove up my right side and then bloody turned left. The coach hit the back of the bike and dragged me off and down the road, when he straightened up the rear wheel got closer and closer. I was pinned between the bike and the coach so I pulled my body out of the way, he got my legs though, it hurt. All I remember seeing before the crush moment was UW 10595kg and then the back wheel go over. To anyone who rides bikes, wear expensive armour, it saved my legs.
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I got hit in the head by a hockey puck while my back was turned and helmet was off. People said i was answering questions with moans but i dont remember any of that until i woke up in the hospital face down with some guys yelling for more wire. They put 6 stiches in the back of my head and i lost vision in my left eye for about 8 hours afterwards. The doctor said that if it hit me a inch up it would have blinded me or something. I duno, the doc was crazy.
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Speaking of hockey, I was at the bluejackets game where the girl died, freaky shit. I was sitting directly above her.
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I was at a baseball game where someone was hit in the face with a foul ball. It was really, well "foul".
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that near death expereince is crappier than my drowning one. that isn\'t even close to death. that sucks \'tater.
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Both of mine involved a semi-truck.
1)Driving down I-35 on the inside lane @ 1am, a dumb ass trucker driving in the middle lane must have fallen asleep or been distracted. The truck starts moving into my lane so instead of slamming on my brakes which I should have done I just kept my speed and moved over into the shoulder a little while honking my horn.
It just so happens I was at a part of the interstate where the shoulder disappears in to the median wall...I came within inches of the wall before the trucker moved.
2) I was driving across an over pass and my Jeep skids out on an icy part of the bridge. My Jeep does a 180 and I end up in the same lane but facing an oncoming semi-truck. I had just enough time to pull out of the way...I was a nervous wreck for a few days.