Close Calls With Death

[Terpit]

yuk

[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.

How the fuck did he survive that?

He fell into the space between the platform and the rail, just before the train has passed. The side of the train went above him, he got away with a few scratches and bruises caused by falling. We were just standing on the platform, not even completely aware of what's just happened and what could have happened. The sad part of the story is that twelve years later he took his own life

[ninjadog]

Had another close call where I literally thought I was dead. Was snowboarding with some buds and we built a jump on the backside of the mountain out of bounds. We piled and packed snow on top of a tree sticking out of the snow. This section of hill is pretty much cliff, steep as fuck. I hit the jump first and obviously it wasent packed enough. I felt the tree as I left the ground and that was enough to kick me super high into the air, I wasent expecting that. My feet were above my head and my back was facing the hill and my arms were rolling the windows up like crazy. I was in the air for so long I thought to my self there is no point of waving my arms anymore so I stopped doing that and just waited for impact. Landed in untouched deep powder head first. Totally had a moment where I was like am I alive still? Once I realized I was indeed still alive I was happy as could be and let out loud whoo hoo, then my buddies silence was finally broken with laughter. The shit I do for some fresh tracks...

[ninjadog]

Similar experience off Venice beach. Every January in LA there is like one oddly hot weekend. I went to the beach with my buddy (same guy that cut his leg, matter of fact), no one was there. We went for a swim in really really chilly water. We were out there past the breakers, coming in, and Bam, in a rip. I guess I'd been in a few rip currents, but nothing too serious, but this was like getting vacuumed down and out to sea. We swam and swam... and swam and swam, and my buddy (who is a tough guy btw) finally gasps, "nwj, I don't think I'm gonna make it..." I tell the dude to just keep swimming. He did make it, lolz, has three kids now, but we were collapsed on the beach for a good few minutes, getting pushed around by the little waves unable to move.

Actually, not far from there, a little further south of Venice, I took my wife and daughter to the beach on Mother's day. It was my daughter's first time at the beach, she was about a year old. We walked out in the water carrying her and were dipping her feet into the water, she was loving it. She wanted to get into the water, so I lowered her down into the water, and as soon as her feet touched the sand under the water, she took off running, right out of my hands, instantly went underwater when I lost my grip on her... just as a little wave flowed in. For a second I lost my baby underwater. I looked down through the water and found her, she was facing up just staring at me, eyes wide open in the water. Holy fuck I grabbed that girl. The time looking into her eye was as long as the universe itself, like we were connected on some infinite axis running between all those that begot and their begotten.

Holy fuckin shit on almost losing your kid!!! Dang.
Had another close call at the same beach as my other surf story, Cox bay in Tofino. Saw some sweet waves breaking by some rocks on the edge of the bay and went out to catch some. This was my first experience with a strong rip current, and found out rips can go sideways not just out to sea. Got sucked over to the rocks despite my best efforts to swim away from them. Made eye contact with a tourist standing on the rocks and could pretty much read his thoughts; wish I could help but your on your own bud. I was shitting my pants as I would surly have been killed if a wave bashed me into those rocks, as they were violently breaking on those rocks. Somehow ended up on a perfect rock covered in sea grass which was perfect for gripping at the perfect tide level as waves would roll over it and expose it once again when they passed and managed to climb up to safety.

Fun thread I'm loving all these stories.

[ninjadog]

Just one more from me, not sure if it really counts but it's a good story.
There was a bunch of us on acid like a group or 9 of us, and I was having a bad trip because I saw a big black spider which was the devil in disguise. If I told anyone what I saw I thought I'd die, but I had to tell my best friend Dave. I told him I got something to tell him and this other sketchy kid who would think he was Jesus pulls out a pad and a pen and asks if he should write it down. Now I'm sure I'm gonna die. Long story short my friend got me to run over some small rolling hills with him which was really fun actually, feeling gravity shift like that. I knew there was a river near by and was kind of aware of where it was supposed to be and thats when I saw a porthole to another dimension - A fucking door sized black rectangle with ripples emulating from all sides. I stopped in my tracks and stared at it as my mind raced, among my thoughts was contemplating going into it. When my eyes focused I was literally standing on the edge of the river, one more step and I'd be in it. Part of me still wonders if it really was a way into another dimension, but I'm glad I dident leave this one just to find out.

[EliteLennon117]

damn you live a dangerous life

[nowaysj]

Had another close call where I literally thought I was dead. Was snowboarding with some buds and we built a jump on the backside of the mountain out of bounds.

Was skiing in Vermont, on a run better than me, and at one point there was this sort of turn and on the turn there was nothing there on the outside edge, just an orange plastic netted fence with a 50 foot bouldery cliff below. It was my first time on the run and didn't realize I had to turn so much, so quickly. I knew I couldn't edge it well enough and saw I was heading for the fence. I intentionally wiped out, but kept sliding horizontally across snow and ice. I hit the base of the fence where a couple of feet of powder were stacked up. I hit so hard I punched through the powder and slid under the fence. My lower half was hanging over the lip of the cliff and I was holding onto the fence with my hands. I was wedged in there in an awkward position and had absolutely no leverage to pull myself back out. Some passing skiers luckily saw me and pulled my idiotic ass out.

[nowaysj]

Holy fuckin shit on almost losing your kid!!! Dang.

You can understand cause your a dad. Until you have that kid, you can't know what that feeling is like!

Had another close call at the same beach as my other surf story, Cox bay in Tofino. Saw some sweet waves breaking by some rocks on the edge of the bay and went out to catch some.

I was working on this photography project that involved Manhattan beach, a beach even a few miles further south of Venice. The beach there is artificial, in that currents take the sand away from the beach, so they imported sand from Hawaii. I shot shots there in California, and went to Hawaii to take further shots (a major sacrifice! ). I got my shots in like less than an afternoon, and had a week left over. I went over with some friends (one of which has a crazy near death story, an Australian traveler who was the temporary hookup of my buddy who cut his leg open, see Earlier Story, lolz) and we decided to hop over to Maui. We ended up hitch hiking and arrived at this supposed camp ground late at night. We set up tents and had an absolutely restless night. When we crawled out of our tents early in the morning, we were amongst tombstones. Had artlessly camped in a Buddhist cemetery.

We were kind of living off the land there, taking it real easy. I was spearfishing for food when I spotted an absolutely huge fish, but I was on the surface when I spotted him. I started swimming over to him, but you don't get big in the ocean by being unaware of your surroundings. This fucker took off, and I took off after him. I followed that fish for a LONG time, he was always just ahead of me. The water kept getting deeper and deeper and deeper. Finally I was like, this is my last chance, I took a dive and powered after him but he stayed out of reach, fucker had another gear that I didn't have.

I shot (a good shot), but I was just too far away. I surfaced breathless, looked around and realized I was at least a quarter of a mile, and more likely a half mile out to sea. The land was just a thin strip over the water. I started lazily swimming back, looking for fish, but it was a wasteland out there, just sandy bottom, no structure. I swam and swam and finally came up to the reef where all the waves were breaking. The reef was about a foot under water and I could not get through. I swam up and down that reef looking for the little canyon where I followed that fish out, but could not find it.

I swam for so long up and down the reef, I just got bored. Finally I said fucket, tried to time the wave, sort of body surf in. It worked for a sec, I thought I was the don-diggity, but then the wave dropped me and I was awash in bubbles. I couldn't see a thing but was absolutely flying through the water. As the wave passed my vision cleared enough to see jagged lava rock rushing past my face about 6 inches away. Psychotic. I actually passed right over without a single nick. Maybe not near death, but near losing a good portion of my face/flesh

Also, no dinner that night.

[Terpit]

Coral is so sharp aswell, would probably be more comfortable cheese grating yourself. lucky.

[nowaysj]

Yeah, have had some run ins with fire coral, awfully unpleasant.

[Phigure]

^ yeah that stuff is a bitch. touched some while diving just to know what it felt like - big regret



also just knicked my sack while shaving, was bleeding so bad it belongs in this thread

[Sexual_Chocolate]

never understood how one can cut themselves whilst shaving the sacular region.

maybe ive just got it down to an art.

[Phigure]

never understood how one can cut themselves whilst shaving the sacular region.

maybe ive just got it down to an art.

motherfucking freckle that always throws me off

dont even know how i got it, not like i go sunbathing in the nude

[Sexual_Chocolate]

AH, seen.

[nowaysj]

Furry bean bag is the solution.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

thats not a solution, THATS THE PROBLEM!

[Terpit]

wax them init

[nowaysj]

THATS THE PROBLEM!

For whom?

[Sexual_Chocolate]

people who prefer the cleanliness of a shaved ball sac... obviously

[Gewze]

people who prefer the cleanliness of a shaved ball sac... obviously

I keep mine hairy, I like my woman to suffer natures wrath