Any Near Death Experiences?
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Topic: Any Near Death Experiences?
Posted By: What to do?
Subject: Any Near Death Experiences?
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 8:06am
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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,
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Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 8:10am
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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. |
Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 8:19am
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A few, but this is the most notable.
About ten years ago I went skydiving. I had to work that day so I got up earlier than I wanted so I could make it back in time. I went, made the jump, and it was awesome. The next time the plane went up it caught fire and crashed, killing all six people on board, including my jump instructor and a girl who was going to make her first jump. Yes, they were all wearing chutes, but they weren't very high when the oil pressure dropped, and they were on their way in to land when the plane caught fire, overwhelmed the pilot, and veered off into the trees. If I had been any later getting there I'd have been next in line and died. An interesting "what if": My jump instructor was handed a check by a friend on the way up and as he put it in his flight suit he asked me to remind him it was there so he could cash it. I forgot. Maybe he would have gone to the bank and not have died. ------------- 
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Posted By: Schlockmerc
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 8:36am
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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. ------------- George Zimmer is a sexy mother |
Posted By: little devil
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 8:41am
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What to do? wrote:Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 8:58am
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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 8:59am
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I'd have jumped off of the bike and taken the roll on the ground before I let myself fly across a highway like that. -------------
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 9:01am
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This one time, at band camp..
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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 9:10am
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Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 9:22am
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Posted By: What to do?
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 9:23am
Dunno, He just rolled and crashed later on....so I'm not really sure why he didnt use his feet. Also, if he rolled, he would have slammed into the pavement, plus, we didn't know if there were oncoming cars, there was limited sight distance coming around that corner to turn onto that street. P.S. his bike is a POS, his dad built it out of aftermarket parts. -Really cheap ones. -------------
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 9:25am
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I'd hit it.
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 9:48am
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Posted By: GhilleMan
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 9:57am
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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.
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Posted By: Boss_DJ
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 10:58am
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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
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Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 11:16am
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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. ------------- 
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 11:20am
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Posted By: hoginds24
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 11:24am
Was that on the Taconic? I was driving back from the city through that storm and they had only plowed one lane 
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Posted By: BearClaw
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 11:32am
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Not really near death as i was not really injured in anyway but shure scared the crap out of me. I was working for a school bus company. There was a service call and it sounded like a starter problem. So i headed out with a jack some stands a starter and my little carry tool box filled with needed tools to do said starter. When i got their i confirmed my suspishions and went about getting ready to replace the starter. I brought a jack and stands to give myself a bit more room to work as i don't fit under the front axle. Well any ways i jacked the front end up and crawled under the bus to place the first jack stand as i was just positioning it the jack SNAPPED in two and the bus fell but got caught on the jack stand that was in my hand (it jammed between suspenshion componets and the engine oil pan). I never moved so fast in my life. After i looked to see what happened i walked down to the near by high school located their auto shop and asked for use of their jack. Got the bus of the jammed jack stand but the bus on the ground and called a tow truck  .Kinda freaked me out cause if the stand did not get jammed like it did lets just say i would have been ALOT skinnier ------------- AGD 68 Automag Azodin KPII Sheridan PGP2K Tippmann Crossover XVR Tippmann ProCarbine Tippmann SL68-II Tippmann TiPX |
Posted By: ctchofday
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 12:27pm
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 ------------- Xbl:PhantomReign97 
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Posted By: Ticalxx421
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 12:37pm
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Od'd on E
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Posted By: ctchofday
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 12:49pm
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Tical .. your sig makes me laugh everytime
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Posted By: Ticalxx421
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 12:52pm
She looks very unimpressed. ------------- [IMG]http://i14.tinypic.com/73e0l8j.jpg"> Represent! |
Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 1:12pm
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When I was a little kid we used to live in Pennsylvania. We had a lake near by us just down the hill.
One winter I was with my sister and her friends walking on the lake and I fell through the ice. Luckily I got pulled up pretty quickly... but still scary non-the-less. ------------- 
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 1:20pm
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I almost got hit by a car when I was running through traffic when I was about 12 years old.
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Posted By: Ticalxx421
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 1:42pm
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Oh another one. Almost od'd on cocaine.
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Posted By: Panda Man
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 1:47pm
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me and an old best friend of mine were messing around with Dynomite(yes, dynomite not just big explosives.) and I went to lite the fuse and the wind shifted and caused it to light about 3/4 of the way down and I just threw it behind the biggest rock I could find(not smart, I know) and I just Grabed my friend and his little brother and chucked them both into this tiny ditch then... boom. Debris was flying everywhere out of that canyon, and you could litteraly feel the ground just shake from it. ------------- 
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 1:57pm
Psh. I've bui;t bikes out of garbage parts that didnt have brakes. Stuff like taking parts out of coaster brake hubs, and when used, slow down the bike and then "pop" and the hub is useless. Sometimes the back hubs would even unscrew and the rim could wobble back and fourth. I also have an old DB BMX bike I built. Really nice frame and stuff in poor condition, and some nifty old school parts. Only bad part I lost my chain tool and there is a MTB chain on it, so it makes a crunchy noise and the chain wheel gets stuck for a second or two. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 4:32pm
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Many years ago I wandered out onto a frozen lake during a winter exercise in unfamiliar snow-covered terrain. The ice broke and I went through in full gear (flak vest, helmet, gas mask, web gear, M16, ammo, etc.).
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Posted By: What to do?
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 4:47pm
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One time, when I was in 6th grade, I got a new skateboard for my birthday. Well, one of my neigbors had a driveway that goes up at a 70-75 degree angle and I had an idea to go and ride it. Well I take off running up the hill and realize, I forgot mah helmet! Well, I walk back and get it. So I prepare myself for rolling in. I gaze down and I make it. Well I want to do It again. I get right to the portion of the driveway that connects to the street and notice that a small bit of the street is a little higher than the driveway and I try and miss it. But failed.... ended up with bad road rash and broke my left collarbone in two, but now one shoulder is longer than the other! Also, now every day I wake up and get to crush the excess bone that tries to grow in that spot still! -------------
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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 7:40pm
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a few; once swam in a pool at night that had a cover on it, when I tried to come up for air the weight of the cover kept me from sucking some O2. I went to the bottom and launched up hoping to get some air, but all I got was water and I just started clawing at the cover until I finally found air - Stupid and I've been terrified of water ever since. I rolled my jeep once, it endo'd right over and rolled 7 times down the hill, ending up on it's roof. I got burnt from hot oil from the engine, and broke ribs. I had a drug reference story but I don't know if the mods would allow it, nor do I want to appear to glorify it so I'll leave it out.
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Posted By: JohnnyHopper
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 8:12pm
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I once let one of my kid's feed me fruit loops out of his hand when he was crawling still. Problem was we hadn't had any fruit loops in the house for a year. ------------- My shoes of peace have steel toes. |
Posted By: Pezzer
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 10:09pm
Shens, and I can prove it. Coefficient of friction (u) in best conditions between rubber and concrete is .85. We'll assume a 2000lb car, which would have a mass of 8896.4432 N. u = F / N F = weight * cos(a) N = weight * sin(a) a is the maximum angle that the car could rest on the driveway and not move. At your angle, the car couldn't even drive up it. Solve for a and you get 49.634 as the maximum angle. ------------- Suck, sqeeze, bang, blow, and GO! 
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 10:30pm
Dubyoo tee eff? ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 10:35pm
Grade 11 physics is fun. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 10:38pm
We get it, you can do Physics. |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 10:41pm
So is Grade 2 English... ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 10:55pm
No it isin't. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 11:09pm
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Posted By: Pezzer
Date Posted: 14 December 2007 at 8:42am
You're right Carl, it was fun. It turned out to be pretty useful too. ------------- Suck, sqeeze, bang, blow, and GO!
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Posted By: benttwig33
Date Posted: 14 December 2007 at 7:24pm
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Ihad a reaction tosome medicine and my throat almot swelled up.
Te doc gave me 2000 miligrams on benidril(?), it was crazy ------------- Sig is WAY too big. |
Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 14 December 2007 at 8:48pm
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I almost fell down a laundry chute when I was 2. Fortunately, my massive planetoid of a head kept me from falling. |
Posted By: battlefreak
Date Posted: 14 December 2007 at 9:31pm
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Not a near death experience but strange never the less. On a dark rainy night about a month or two ago, I was returning home from work at about 10pm. It was raining about as hard as it had all summer, and i could barley see the road but I did see a 90's Ford T-bird about the likes of one a friend of mine owned (some of you may have already heard this story) anyway, I finally made it home and as I walked in the door I heard an ambulance pass, so being an ignorant smart ass I said to my dad "oh yea i ran someone off the road on my way home". I went to school the next day and learned that my friend (owner of the T-bird) had been killed in a car crash at about 10:05pm last night. He had bald tires and hydroplaned while passing a car at 70mph. Ill try to find a news article on it. I know ive preached this before and i will every time i get the chance.. dont ride on bald tires get new ones there a good investment.
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 14 December 2007 at 9:55pm
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ITP... normal platelet count is 250k-400k under 100k if you get hit in the head (even a slight bump) theres a good chance you will die of a cerebral hemorrhage. under 10k you can have a spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage, i had a platelet count of 6000...6k... then i had a seizure from the stuff they gave me to thicken my blood...i dident pass out but i was convulsing and bit the heck out of my tongue... ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 15 December 2007 at 1:44am
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I guess this kind of counts.
I was at a friend's house in elementary school, and we were just watching TV in the living room. Her little brother came in with a loaded shotgun and pointed it at us. I pushed her down behind the sofa and ducked down myself. His mom came in when she heard us yelling at him and flipped out (obviously). Apparently he was upset because he wanted to play with his sister and she didn't want to because I was there. Having a gun pointed at you by someone who is too young to understand death is pretty scary. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 15 December 2007 at 1:49pm
Yea, that is very true. One of my older friends was playing cops and robbers or some nonsense when he was younger with his friend. They had cap guns, but his friend got a loaded gun by accident. My friend got shot in the leg, got rushed to the hospital, and turned out OK. -------------
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Posted By: Ticalxx421
Date Posted: 15 December 2007 at 1:58pm
Yeah having a loaded gun shoved in your face by a drugged up teen who could care less about you is never a fun situation. Glad I do not work in a gas station no more. ------------- [IMG]http://i14.tinypic.com/73e0l8j.jpg"> Represent! |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 15 December 2007 at 2:26pm
Heh. I still work at a gas station. Do a search for "Robbery." I made a thread about it a few weeks ago. -------------
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 15 December 2007 at 4:56pm
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The concept of 'near death' is kind of weird for some philosophical reasons, but I won't go into it...
A few: -Climbing on a huge rock on the coast this past summer, was maybe 50-70 feet off of jagged rocks in the surf, climbing in skate shoes, camera in one hand, lost my grip, and barely re-caught it. -Several times nearly falling off cliffs while snowboarding, and a few falls that would have cracked my skull without a helmet. I'm sure there are more, but I can't remember. |