Any Near Death Experiences?

a few. mostly involving cars or being on a bike in traffic i shouldnt of been. almost hit by a subway train once, thought it would be fun to hang on the edge of the platform.

edit-i dont mind going into them, its just too much detail and crap to post it here when i know no one really cares that much. plus then it gets into the usual, a match over whose more badass and hardcore.


Edited by GI JOES SON - 13 December 2007 at 8:12am

When I was five, I passed out from a high blood sugar and almost drowned in a toilet. That was when I was diagnosed as a diabetic.

What to do? wrote: Have any of you had a near death experience in your life? If so, could you tell us about it? Well, yesterday, me and some friends went cycling around our town and were working our way up an enourmous hill. Well, my friend says that his front brakes are broken, so I say, "ok, but don't go too fast down the hill because the street below has some heavy traffic down below." So what does he do? Thats right. He just pedals faster and faster until he is around 20 mph. He draws nearer and nearer to the highway. Well we get almost 200ft from the highway and my friend tries to put on his back brakes. Well then his break cables snap, and he goes barreling across the highway and almost gets clipped by two old ladies in their minivans. I watch the minivans speed away and then I look back and see that he is gone. Well, by now I am panicing and wondering if he wrecked somewhere or what, but sonner or later I found him lying in a ditch scraped up a little. But anyways, we called it a day and headed home,

How in the hell did he snap his brake cables? His bike must have been a real POS to begin with. Also, why not just use the foot method?

This one time, at band camp..

Indeed, reif.

I'd hit it.

During a 3 day paddling trip to do some rough water paddlin and surfing, I got pinned in my boat upside down in a rock garden. Was under for 2 minutes, had a large gash along my armpit that just missed the arterie running into my arm. Had to patch myself up on the beach and then paddle 15 miles back to the put in where the cars were so my friend could drive me to the hospital. Would have just called the coasties but my vhf that was on my lifejacket got crushed when I hit a rock upside down.

Lesson learned: carry more than one vhf radio in a group

A few. When I was about 5, first time I ever rode a quad by myself, it was snowing, and it was a small quad, either a 50 or a 90. It was my dad's good friend's house and we didn't have a helmet small enough, so I used a bike helmet and went around the yard. There was about a 8 foot high retaining wall against the driveway. I drove a little to close to it, the fresh powder was soft and just filled in a big hole in the dirt. So my wheel sunk in, the handlebars jerked, and off the wall I went. I landed on my face, then the quad landed on me. Luckily everyone was standing in the driveway, and I went to hospital really quick. I think I fractured my jaw and my smile is still messed up today from it, my lips are kind of crooked lol.
Then another time, I went up the neighbor's driveway on my bike, I was a little older, probably like 10. It was a bmx bike, so the handle bars are obviously meant to spin, but this was back in the day with bmx bikes, where the brake cables spun also. So I grabbed my bike, went to go get my brother, and the freakiest part was I turn around about halfway down my driveway, and got my helmet. So I got my helmet, went up this massive driveway, told my bro to come home, and bombed the hill-the brake cables were wrapped around the handles, so it turns out when I turned the handles, the brakes locked up- It was towards the bottom of the hill, I had a ton of speed, and there was a sandpit- went to make a small turn, brakes locked up, back end of the bike kicked out sideways, I went head over handle bars, and slid on face/stomach/arms/hands a good 6 feet. Lots of roadburn, and the helmet that I thought of not bringing turns out to have saved my life- the plastic got smashed off, the hard protective styrofolme had a crack in it from about my eye brow to the top, middle part of my  head- I would DEFINITELY been dead without it.

Boss_DJ wrote: last week me and my friend were driving back up to school after a snow storm...lost control of the car and we were skidding through 4 lanes of traffic at around 70 miles an hour...theres no reason why we didnt get into an accident that day it was a miracle

Was that on the Taconic? I was driving back from the city through that storm and they had only plowed one lane

Snake6 wrote: Benjichang wrote: High Voltage wrote: I'd hit it.

I was driving down the road one night around 10.30. Had tops 5 hours sleep the night before and had been up since 6. It had just finished raining, but was still slightly spinkling. Just left my ex's house headed down the long straight away. There is a fairly large but not at all graceful 110* turn that is banked the wrong way at the end of this straight. Not paying attention until the time i was 1/4 into the turn and looked down i was doing nearly 80mph. Let off the gas and took the car out of gear to let it coast so nothing abrubt would send me sliding... well it happened anyway the rear end slung out (light front wheel drives ftl)  i saved it at first and got it going right again, but it slung out again and then commeneced to slide across the road (3/4 way into the curve now) theres a ditch that runs with the road my driver side wheels went down into that which started me flipping through the air. Luckily there was only a pasture in the direction i was headed but it still wasnt gonna be a fun ride. the first flip landed on top of a fence post bringing the middle of my roof below the top of my head which also cracked the windshield... the second flip landed down and crushed everything on the pasenger side glass exploded everywhere the third flip blew out the driver side tires and the other two flips just continued messing everything esle up then the airbag goes off... knocks me out... i wake up 10-30min later hanging from my seatbelt.. i unhook and crawl out the passenger window.. glasses are gone.. i look frantically for the cell call my mom, ex's dad, and cops.. my back hurts and i couldnt open my eyes but that was the extent of my injuries... im strapped to a stiff board when the ambulance arives and taken for xrays... i was perfectly fine it turns out just bruised from the shock of the first flip.


i should be dead... i have pics of the car if anyone who hasnt yet wants to see