What was your closest brush with death?

[wa3zrm]

It seems almost everyone has a story of how they almost drowned, almost drove off a cliff, or narrowly dodged a bullet. What is your story of the closest you came to dying?

[whalen]

Your kidding... right?

[phantom]

First Mariage barely made it out alive.

[lxskllr]

Hard to say. There's been several times. A couple fairly serious car wrecks, as a pedestrian running into the side of a moving car, slipping off a bridge form, and catching myself on the ground with a piece of rebar a couple inches from my neck, 18 wheeler sliding past me in a cloud of smoke, a few feet away, runaway truck going on a hill a few feet away. I've walked steel untethered, and knelt down next to high speed roadway with my back to traffic. I could probably think of a bunch of other things if I gave it time.

It's a small miracle anyone makes it to adulthood. So many times you're only small mistake from getting splatted. That's why it's ridiculous to worry about crap like terrorists, and to infringe of rights for the illusion of safety. It's probably the retard on a cell phone that's gonna kill you, not a jihadist.

[wa3zrm]

First Marriage barely made it out alive.

Come to think about it, that may be mine too!

[chainsnuser]

Jumping down into an abandoned bunker from WWII as the first one of a group of friends, though I could not to see the ground. That was probably the dumbest shit that I've ever done. I was around 9 years old when I did that and the bunker was/is in a nearby forest. I think the bunkers have either been sealed or blasted by now and I also think that they would already have been sealed back then if they really posed a threat, but you can never know.

It was a little more than 1 metre or about 4 feet till i reached the ground of the bunker, but that 1 second jumping down felt like an eternity.

Cheers!

[rickcharles606]

I was 17 yrs old, and riding in my friend's Pontiact Fiero, we were driving to an away baseball game that we were to play. He took a left to cross a set of railroad tracks that had no gate, just lights. We were struck by the train on the passenger side (my side) of the car and it drug us 500yrds before pushing us off the tracks. We both escaped without a scratch.

We were listening to music and talking, not paying attention to the warning lights, and neither of us saw the lights or the train. I should be dead, lol

[Thunder_Snus]

Going around a turn on my way back from school when i lived in Virginia. Just a slight little hiccup in the road where it veers to the right just the slightest bit after coming over a hill. Hand was sweaty and when i moved my hand it just didnt turn the wheel. Barely missed an oncoming car.
I'm sure everyone has several stories but the only other things that come to mind is being stupid as a child and constantly trying to jump off really high shit, and not letting my parents know the pain i was feeling when i had serious gallbladder trouble.

[Nuusku]

Using Odens for the first time

[Faylool]

I probably wasn't aware of close brushes with death having driven while drunk more than a few times and not remembering doing it. I'm sober now so not to worry.

[GoVegan]

Hard to say. There's been several times. A couple fairly serious car wrecks, as a pedestrian running into the side of a moving car, slipping off a bridge form, and catching myself on the ground with a piece of rebar a couple inches from my neck, 18 wheeler sliding past me in a cloud of smoke, a few feet away, runaway truck going on a hill a few feet away. I've walked steel untethered, and knelt down next to high speed roadway with my back to traffic. I could probably think of a bunch of other things if I gave it time.

It's a small miracle anyone makes it to adulthood. So many times you're only small mistake from getting splatted. That's why it's ridiculous to worry about crap like terrorists, and to infringe of rights for the illusion of safety. It's probably the retard on a cell phone that's gonna kill you, not a jihadist.

Somehow, that doesn't make me feel any better.

[OregonNative]

I've had a few pretty bad car wrecks. Other than that.. I was riding in a car with someone when I was 15 and he was messing around with an "unloaded" pistol, and accidentally fired it through the passenger side window 3" in front of my face. I don't think my knees stopped shaking for a good 3-4 hours.

Besides that.. an accidental morphine overdose, and some stuff I'd rather not get into. Cheers folks, stay safe.

[Riggins44]

Outside of a couple of pretty serious car wrecks, I was working in a warehouse when another worker who was driving a forklift dropped a pallet of 40 pound sacks of dry cement mix (quikcrete) about 20 feet above me. I wasn't looking but heard the wood on the pallet "crunching" and was a sufficient warning to run like hell and miss getting killed by about 50 sacks of cement.