Close Calls With Death

[joeki]

fell into a deep well when I was a kid.

Stopped reading when I realised that he didn't grow up to be Batman.

Got stabbed, almost fallen from roofs a few times, got electrocuted once, got run over as a kid.

I'm not batman, I'm Badman!

[dickman69]

one time i was chasing my neighbors dog & he ran into the street just over this hill

the dog was about to walk into the road so i was gonna run into the road to cut him off, but decided not to at the last second

1 moment later a huge truck came flying over the hill, ~45 mph, wouldve no doubt killed me

[Sexual_Chocolate]

I almost drowned when i was 4.

remember it like it was yesterday too.

i went to see my sister at a camp she was staying at (kiwi ranch). After seeing my sister, my mum took me to the public pool there for a swim (obviously).
The pool was your average rectangular pool, except the stairs into the water went from one side of the pool to the other, and they were rather large steps too. My mum told me too stay on the edge, where i could stand on stairs and be well above the water. well obviously being 4 i didnt listen and decided to swim over to the deep end... which was a problem considering i couldnt swim.

i started to move out from the stairs, and not long after, i started to slip under the water. i can remember trying to scream but everytime id open my mouth it would just fill with water.
eventually i stopped trying to scream, and not long after i stopped struggling... (now this is the part i will NEVER forget) i looked up through the water, it was beautiful. the light was gleeming off of the ripples, and at that point i stopped being scared, i became calm and then i blacked out.

dont remember much after that though.

[Electric_Head]

I've mentioned this story before but here goes, hold tight gents

I was cutting some thick floor tiles with an angle grinder and groin level.
The diamond cutting disk I was cutting with got a large chip in it and the grinder hit the chip and forced the entire grinder out of my hand.
It shot into my groin and cut through my pants & underpants, nicking my right testicle/scrotum.
My underpants luckily wrapped around the drive shaft of the grinder and forced it to stop.
So there I stand, white as a ghost with a bleeding scrotum and an angle grinder hanging from my crotch.

When I was 9/10 I woke up while we were driving on the freeway at 140km/h +.
I woke up in a daze and didn't realize we were still moving, I thought we were at home.
So I climbed out of the car but somehow instinctively hung onto the door handle whilst being dragged along the freeway with both feet scraping on the road.
My uncle pulled me back in but I had already lost all the skin off the front of my toes.

I also almost drowned once by jumping into a pull when I couldn't swim and my dad had to jump in to save me.
I lost all those skin off my toes but I

[Terpit]

That scrotum injury must have been messy, i can imagine that area bleeding a lot

[Electric_Head]

Luckily it was a nick but that nick was enough to make me realize how lucky I really was.
Just imagine the image of my standing there with en exposed scrot, bloody, underpants wrapped around grinder as it hangs next to the scrotum.

[NickUndercover]

When I was a kid, ended up in emergency room because of an advanced peritonitis. Really really painful, the doctors told me I could've died from it so I guess it's the closest to death I've ever been. Took me a while to recover too, I really don't wish this to anyone.

[dickman69]

(_)(#) <- mangled scrotum
.....|
.....O <- testicle

[Terpit]

Im trying to, but i cant.

[dubfordessert]

jesus christ there's some stories in here.

have never had a real one myself.

[mo_respect]

long story short:

i was polishing a wine glass, and it broke at the stem and cut my wrist and just barely missed my artery.

then there was a time when i was passing someone on a one lane highway, and almost got hit by a semi coming from the other direction
(i know nowaysj only said one per post but fukkk the law)

[Ficticious]

Spose' it's my turn.

Lets start it out corny to lighten the mood. It was the year 2009, I was driving in my cool silver Jeta that I had borrowed from my step sister. The only problem was that I was driving 90mph down the freeway to get home. The reason? Well my ex' called me and was seriously sick so I was speeding home to get there in time since I suppose she'd need the comfort, I was a crazy bastard then' Oh woman and emotions ha Ha Ha. Anyways, the way it's out for me up here in cali-for-ni-ay' is that there are nice merges around corners that people generally don't see or slow down on. A black car with one broken tail light had just merged onto the freeway, without watching where he was driving regardless of me actually breaking the law for approximately 5-10 seconds (I had room and was about 5 minutes from home.) Decides to wittingly cut me off.

Now, stop right here and give it a thought. This is a Four laned highway. Thus, this means that cars are constantly going approximately 60 at slowest and 80 at highest, sometimes breaking the law like me at 90. I slam on the breaks and start fish tailing, smoke builidng up at this point in time. This all really happened in a flash but for instances of story telling I'll slow it down as best as I can remember it. So here I am fish tailing as this car just cuts me off, the bastard didn't even slow down he drove off extremely fast with the "Oh shit I just fucked osmeone over" bit. So now I have two choices.

1. Try not to crash into the white truck next to me and pull into the next lane over.
2. Turn right completely lose control and hope I don't hit anything.

I chose option 1. Quick thinking, not a good move... The problem was the truck seemed to not notice anything going on, so I'm still slamming on my breaks with smoke now completely filling my car (cannot see anybody ahead of me or the liscence plate at all). The white trucker steps on his gas peddal and drives smoothly along like nothing happens, oblivious or tarded, not sure.

Now I am all the way in lane 1 next to the carpool lane and what do you know! the wall guard is next to me.

Two options again,

1. Swerve right and spin to hit the back of the car or
2. Swerve left and hit it head on.

Lucky for me, I learned that if you hit it at an angle and your bags are working right you actually have a good chance of survival. So going about 70 mph at this point, or at least so my speedometer that I had half a second to read showed (it was probably still 80 or so) I slammed directly into the wall. A huge chunk of my car tore off, from the front wheel all the way to the drivers side door. I just screamed "Fuck" as loud as I could and hoped to myself in my last seconds that I'd survive.

So when I hit the wall, the chunk is now gone all the way up to the wheel, pieces of the car flying all over the road. bumpers off, and somehow...I didn't hit another car as I swerved spinning out (not flipping over somehow) across the whole freeway back to lane 4. I ended up having my car stop right before a ditch.

Coughing I had emerged from my car, having to kick out my jeta's door, was 2003 at the time I got upgraded to 2008 YES! but anyways, there was a punk girl with a shaved head and her Mexican big guy boyfriend/friend standing there who had come as witnesses and called the cops for my safety, bless good samatarians hearts' so I crawled from my car coughing my ass off and scraping any of my valuables from it as the smoke slowly cleared out. Eating rubbery-smoke from tires was never a good feeling. Car completely turned off and my face imprint on the bag. Everything popped open and the door fell off half way from me kicking it out.
Pissed off enraged, shocked and confused I ran down the street stupidly yelling fuck yet again at the top of my lungs because I was so mad at the guy who cut me off. Then I slowly ended up walking back. The shaved head girl patting my back telling me it was going to be okay.

So the cops were called, in my defense of course and well my dad coming in his car to roll down to see what happened.

All the cops could say was "Did you get a license plate of the guy that cut you off? And "Looks like that airbag saved your life." I was thinking, well I'd be dead if I didn't hit that wall right either.

Oh but yeah, it gets even better. The heads chief of police's daughter ran over my car part as I had found out...which got me a point on my license. However as I'm about to shit my pants he said "Shit happens sometimes, it's my daughters problem." I just stood there shocked, but relieved. From there, they just cleaned up the car parts out of the street and towed my totaled car (mind you it was really a whole chunk ripped out all the way to the engine, just picture a giant taking a good bite out of a car.)


But it doesn't end there, seemingly I walked away with just a bruise on my chest. but as I woke up the next morning to say hello to my mother and give her a proper hug and good bye, I fell to the floor unknowingly having a seizure. (it's like a tape recorder playing backwards in your head, fucking weird). So I had to have my liscence revoked for about 3 months to make sure there was nothing wrong with me,

And so here I am today, with my smug self enjoying my lovely life that wasn't taken from me that day.

Thus...

Shit happens sometimes, and we just gotta deal with it..But you know sometimes I just wanna bone ya'

[Electric_Head]

TLDR

I also put my hand through a window and slashed my wrist as a result, rushed off to hospital, etc.

[hugh]

when I was very young my family was spending christmas at the lake district.
When coming back from a day trip to some restaurant out in the middle of nowhere we decided to take the scenic route back.
This meant travelling up a fucking terrifying mountain. The roads were frozen.
Suddenly, our car lost all control and we started drifting towards the precipice. There were no barriers. My whole family was screaming except for my father who was fighting desperately with the wheel to get the car back under control.
All of a sudden we stopped, but we were terrifyingly close to the cliff edge

And that's the story of how my whole family almost died.

[Ficticious]

TLDR

I also put my hand through a window and slashed my wrist as a result, rushed off to hospital, etc.

That's too bad, it's a good story. the best part is it's true.

I almost got swept away in the ocean at about 6 or 7, was cut up from the rocks and could hardly get back to the beach. But the waves swept me forward more than they dragged me back so I got lucky.

I had toxicsenevidice at five which I was hospitalized for, apparently I could have died from that and had to be put under for surgery

My appendix as well as 100 other people every year had to be taken out from appendacitis.

I've had quite the lot of close falls.

Almost got struck by lightning on the mountains when in a hike with family, whooo boy that was a fun one.

Alright I just broke all the rules in this thread. Satisfied.

[Electric_Head]

Much better.

[JBoy]

I slit my wrists sledging down a hill and flying across the road and hitting a barbed wire fence.

[jaydot]

Not me but my brother. He fell in front of a car and sort of rolled out of the way just in time, otherwise he'd have been splatto.

[ch3]

Not me but my brother. He fell in front of a car and sort of rolled out of the way just in time, otherwise he'd have been splatto.

My friend drunkenly fell down between a platform and a running train.

I was in early teens, swimming in the sea, when I was washed off by a wave. I was struggling to get above it, but new waves were coming and I was too weak to fight against them. My cousin has come to the rescue. Remember the feeling of soft knees when walking out of the water.

Was camping when little tornado went through the forest. Nine massive trees fell down around our tents, one of them pushing the tent half way into the ground (they were big army tents, fitting 10 people in each). No one got hurt!

Not near death, but I'll mention it anyway. It was my boyfriend's first night in Poland and we decided to go to the seaside. We were driving through the forest, on a snowy road, in the dark. Suddenly car before us braked. The road was slippery, so we aquaplaned but thankfully due to my mate's excellent driving skills we ended up parallel to the car in front of us (and nothing was coming against us). What was the cause of all these maneuvers? A wild boar family, including little ones, decided to cross the road! Perfect welcome to the country...

[nowaysj]

My life is boring, no near death experiences

Says Rushdie... don't think that is a true though, is it.