Near Traumatic Experiences
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Topic: Near Traumatic Experiences
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Subject: Near Traumatic Experiences
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 3:16pm
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I was talking to my friend about this today at work, about things that could have gone horribly wrong, resulting in serious injury or death to yourself or someone else.
When I was 10 years old, I shot a BB gun at a plastic Dr. Pepper bottle and it (The BB) bounced off the hard plastic at the bottom and hit less than an inch below my eye. Had I been shorter, I would be blind in my right eye. I came within a foot of hitting an old man with my car when I was 16. Had I hit him, I probably would have killed him (was going about 40 MPH). Hopefully someone can beat my lame stories. |
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 3:22pm
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I've had a BB stuck in my leg since I was 17. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 3:23pm
At least humor us with the story Benji 
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Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 3:29pm
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I think i caught the jist of it. He got shot in the leg with a BB when he was 17? |
Posted By: Bounty
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 3:45pm
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One of the many times my car has gone sideways around a corner or pretty much any time I was in a car with a friend driving. I was almost kidnapped when I was younger, too. Some guy parked outside my house when I was outside playing and sped off when he saw my dad. I coulda been raped. |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 3:45pm
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I hit a guy in the balls with a baseball in my backyard once, a la Americas Funniest Videos. Does that count? No? :( but really, I remember the time I was on my 4wheeler and wasn't paying that much attention and I managed to go flying onto the road on accident right in front of a minivan going at least 60 mph. Barely missed me, I almost pooped bricks. ------------- 
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 3:49pm
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Nevermind, it was traumatic.
------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 3:54pm
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I have been stabbed, burned and shot in the hand. Does that count? ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: Destruction
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 3:55pm
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One time I ran across the Eisenhower in Chicago, jumped the fence onto the El tracks, tripped and almost fell onto the third rail (the one with thousands of volts of electricity flowing through it). Needless to say, I would have been fried pretty fast.
If anyone is wondering why the hell I did it in the first place, I was drunk and didn't have money for the train, and my friends and I needed (yes, NEEDED) to get to this party at DePaul. We ended up not going because this other guy we were with who DID pay busted his head open trying to skateboard. He was already out-of-this-world drunk and was trying to board down the ramp to the platform and just faceplanted into the metal railing. There was a TON of blood on him and the platform, and it was there for a week they said. Yeah, so, I almost got cooked. Edit: I just re-read the title, and it's "Near Traumatic experiences." This wasn't really traumatizing at all, for anyone (except maybe for the person who found blood stains all over the ground...maybe) ------------- u dont know what to do ur getting mottor boatted Men are from Magmar, women are from Venusaur. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 4:09pm
at a bonfire. One of them said "I'm gonna shoot you in the ass." I said something along the lines of "Yeah, okay," and he shot me in the back of the leg. What I swiftly found out was that he pumped it 13 or so times. Never was able to get it out, didn't feel like telling my parents, kept it clean and it healed. The BB is right under the skin right now. I forget it's there most of the time. ------------- irc.esper.net #paintball |
scotchyscotch wrote:Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 4:42pm
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I had a friend bring a rifle to a reenactment once that he had hunted with and forgot to unload first. It went off during the safety inspection blasting a hole in the road right next to me. Had we not done the inspection, he could have killed someone rather easily. As for myself, I was shooting .22s behind my grandmother's place one year, and a dumbass neighbor decided he didn't like that, so he came down to yell at me.....by cutting through the woods downrange. He came out of the woods yelling only a few yards from my target. He was stupid for crossing there, but it rattled the living hell out of me and I didn't shoot for a while. I've had a few near death experiences, but nothing that really warrants a story. ------------- ? |
Posted By: ctchofday
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 4:49pm
I was driving one night as it was raining balls and not really paying attention to my speed. I came around a curve and hydroplaned across the road into a ditch, which caused my car to go into a barrel roll of about 5 rotations. The first flip landing on top of a fence post putting the roof below the top of my head. It finally came to a halt upside down and with a total distance of about 200ft or so maybe more i dont remember. I Crawled out the busted passenger side window completely unharmed with the exception of a slight back ache from the hard landing.   ------------- Xbl:PhantomReign97 
'99 Snpr II, ½d Karni, E-Orracle, 2k4 Spstk, 2k5 Prstk, PMR SE, A5, 98 |
Posted By: TheDude
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 5:03pm
 ?------------- "According to Sue Johanson, theres nothing that can increase your manhood, trust me I've already looked into it for myself." -Zata <keep the sigs friendly, please> |
Posted By: TheDude
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 5:08pm
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*waits for Uncle Rudder*
------------- "According to Sue Johanson, theres nothing that can increase your manhood, trust me I've already looked into it for myself." -Zata <keep the sigs friendly, please> |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 5:09pm
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I unwittingly wandered on to a lake during a winter exercise quite a few years ago and broke through the ice. (Even through the deep snow I should have felt the difference in the surface, but I was separated from the rest of my team and had "target lock" on an enemy squad that I had somehow managed to accidentally flank.) I was lucky as the water was only chest deep where I broke through; had I gone much farther out it would have been much deeper. (Which probably would have been bad with the 50+ pounds of gear I had on.) As it was, with the snow on top of the ice, I disappeared completely from view. I couldn't get back up on top of the ice so I worked my way to the shore breaking the ice as I went with my M16. It was the coldest I have ever been in my life and I ended up being transported for hospitalization. As I am a poor swimmer, the experience probably qualifies as fairly traumatic. I never panicked or floundered around or anything; as soon as I broke through I threw my arms away from my body to hopefully catch the edges of the hole. They did too; right about the same time my feet hit the bottom. I do remember very clearly thinking "I'm screwed" as it happened though. ------------- 
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Posted By: TheDude
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 5:13pm
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In a situation like that, you could scream like a girl all you want. You're holding an m16 in your hand, I don't think anyone would judge you.
------------- "According to Sue Johanson, theres nothing that can increase your manhood, trust me I've already looked into it for myself." -Zata <keep the sigs friendly, please> |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 5:15pm
I was too cold to scream,* I could barely breathe. Edited addition: As a gee-whiz fact, my pulse rate upon arrival at the hospital was still above 200. (212 if I remember correctly.) *Not that I wouldn't have screamed like an 11 year old girl meeting her teen idol in person had I been capable of doing so. -------------
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Posted By: TheDude
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 5:20pm
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Oh thats good to know. If you didn't scream and could have, THEN people would have judged you.
------------- "According to Sue Johanson, theres nothing that can increase your manhood, trust me I've already looked into it for myself." -Zata <keep the sigs friendly, please> |
Posted By: Destruction
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 5:25pm
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Mack's story reminds me of another.
I was helping my dad on a house he was building. He was on the second floor and I was down on the first. I was lifting a really long 2x4 up to him, walking backwards as I did. I don't know what it was for, but there was a hole in the floorboards which exposed the foundation, and I stepped right into it. It was a good 10 foot fall at least, but luckily I threw my arms out without even really thinking and caught myself on the sides of the hole. Besides some nasty scrapes and a killer back ache from hitting the edge of the hole, I was fine. Later that day he accidentally dropped a pry bar on my head from the second floor, and I got a nice goose egg on my noggin for a week. ------------- u dont know what to do ur getting mottor boatted Men are from Magmar, women are from Venusaur. |
Posted By: cdacda13
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 5:45pm
| Was bitten in the face my a dog when I was 16. Half an inch higher, and I wouldn't have a right eye. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 5:50pm
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i was driving home from work one night and this idiot blew off a stopsign and pulled out right in front of me
i t-boned him at 50, wasnt wearing a seatbelt, hit him so hard i bent my driver side door shut, had to climb out the window, but i walked away with barely a scratch. |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 5:56pm
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Not quite near tramatic but I fell off my bike mid last year and all I can remember is falling but in really slow motion. It appeared to take like a minute to fall during which, I remember being able to think about things but not having any control over my body. Thus, I landed and scraped the side of my face across the road. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: notXXscared
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 5:57pm
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I got bitten by a sharp hay when I was around 5. The dog had an ear infection, and no body knew it, so it was in a lot of pain, I was playing with my cousins, and it flipped. I guess there first instinct is to go for the neck, but the way I fell on the ground he bit my shoulder instead. And when I was around 13, I bombed a huge hill on my bike, the brake cable got twisted around my handle bars so turning the wheel made them lock up. The brakes locked up, bike skidded out, kick side ways, and grabbed sending me over the handbars. I landed on my face and chest, and completly demolished the helmet that I contemplated putting on, left the house without it, and came back for it. The helmet had a crack from the front near my eyebrow to about the center of my skull, so more than likely it would have killed me. ------------- 
Previously DYE PLAYA |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 6:17pm
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I used to go to camp during the summer when I was around 7 or 8. So they had a bike-a-thon to raise money and stuff and we were biking along side of the road and it was a rural area. Me and my friend were biking beside eachother and I hear this smash then the sound of a car accelerating and I turned around just in time to dodge a car going around 40 comming at me and I fell off my bike just to dive out of the way. Turns out a woman and a guy hit a car (happened to be their daughter and her husband) and that car went off the road and into the woods (they were alright). But yeah it scared the 8-year-old out of me. |
Posted By: Destruction
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 6:33pm
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XB ------------- u dont know what to do ur getting mottor boatted Men are from Magmar, women are from Venusaur. |
Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 6:45pm
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In high school one of my friends had a 2000 Miata that he had a custum turbocharger built for that and was boosting 16 psi , God knows how many horsepower this thing had, but he dumped all of his money and time into the car. We were just at a friendly get-togeather, little fire and hanging out smoking cigarettes and stuff with my friends and he says hes going to go to the gas station to get some gatorade, I said I'd go with him cuz I was thirsty and I also wanted to check out his whip, since I had never riden in it before. He back out the dryway, and then he puts the top down and says "I'll show you what this baby can do" and takes off like a bat out hell. We hit 95 in a 25 as we blast through a stop sign. He eventually gets on the freeway and gets 150 as he's weaving between cars. The scariest part was when he got off the freeway he lets out a war cry as he slides the back out end and we slid sideways doing atleast 50 mph into oncoming traffic. He pulled the back end just in time and then slide it out in the oppisite direction and we spun 180 and came to a halt. Tires smoking like all hell. I needed to change my pants, however, he was just laughing uncontrollably. ------------- 
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 6:49pm
| I was almost hit by a train when I was 3. |
Posted By: AoSpades
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 7:14pm
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Traumatic Experience #1
Was driving my Scion Tc home from work about 11PM. Took a corner about 35, the tirewall was all jacked up from the previous owner who apparently had a curb fettish. Anyways, I was taking a Right turn, the front left tire blew. ( I think we all know what happens when all the weight is on one key tire and that tire blows) Anyways (again) ended up smacking the curb and flipped the car on the front corner and slammed on its side. car finaly stops and through my driver side window I see grass, look out the passenger and I see a hand and soon enough a man was trying to pull me out of the car.
Truamatic Experience #2 Was driving my truck to school one day. Takes about 25 minutes so it is a decently long drive in which the whole way there is highway. I went to take an exit to stop at the 7/11 for some gas. On the right a little past the right lane line is a 25 foot drop to the service road below. SO I get into the exit lane when the man beside me, driving a white Chevy 3500 with a gooseneck trailor whips over, no signal or anything. Since all my attention is on avoiding this asshat I forget about the drop on my right. I whipped the truck to the right and plunged to the service road below hitting at about a 35-45* angle, bounced off the service road, into a 2 ft. deep drainage ditch and finally coming to rest in a very nice mans yard. Physical Damage to the truck included, a bent frame, buckled cab/bed, the insides were crammed to the back, front end basically history.(now lets recap shall we? I was driving a 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 which has the toughest frame in the truck world[at the time] and that fall bent it) Physical Damage to myself a fudged up back (never felt 100% after the accident) and a severe headache from NONE of the airbags going off resulting in my head + steering wheel = minor concussion. Mental Damage came later. When I decided to let the man, whos yard I had landed in, know what happened. He said he has seen cars do the same thing end up rolling down the hill in which 3 have been fatal. I was in a friggin truck...about 3 hours later I got to thinking about it and broke down at the fact that I could have died from some idiot who somehow managed to get his hands on a drivers license.
Suprisingly the truck still worked and ended up driving it to the wrecker. I wish I had pictures, but they are long gone. -------------  |
Posted By: ctchofday
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 7:23pm
i lol'd ------------- Xbl:PhantomReign97
'99 Snpr II, ½d Karni, E-Orracle, 2k4 Spstk, 2k5 Prstk, PMR SE, A5, 98 |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 7:35pm
| Reading this thread as made me realize how boring of a life I have led to this point. |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 7:36pm
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Three years ago I had mono. I was driving home (300 miles) for my grandparents 50th anniversary. Halfway home my left side started hurting really bad. I just hunched over, grabbed my side and kept driving for the next two hours. I got to my parents house, took three advil and tried to take a nap to sleep it off. 10 minutes after laying down I was running to the bathroom where I started puking blood. I get taken to the ER and it turns out my spleen had ruptured due to swelling caused by mono and i was bleeding internally. I ended up spending the next 5 days in the ICU. I still have my spleen and I still hate it to this day. ------------- 
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Destruction
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 7:46pm
I'm sure a crippling addiction could change that. ------------- u dont know what to do ur getting mottor boatted Men are from Magmar, women are from Venusaur. |
Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 7:59pm
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The best thing I have is that a few years ago, I was on a snowmobile, hit
a turn to fast, maybe hit roots or something, it started to roll and I fly off of it, luckily after I fell off, the snowmobile straightened and drove off about 30 feet from me and slowly stopped while crushing baby trees. We have older, heavy snowmobiles, and being pretty young at the time, i'd expect a few broken bones if it rolled on top of me. ------------- 
hybrid-sniper~"To be honest, if I see a player still using an Impulse I'm going to question their motives." |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 8:28pm
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When I was 9 I used to shoot my BB gun at a stump because the BB's would stick in about halfway and it looked cool. I hit a spot that was less rotten and it bounced off and hit my straight between my eyes. My mother ran over and killed our new puppy....the day before I started 5th grade at a new school. It was both horrifyingly gory and not at all painless for the dog. I had a bottle of jellied alcohol pellet stove starting fluid explode in my hand/face and burned off my eyebrows and lashes. When I was 11 I was walking to my grandparents house during the summer in the middle of the day and was followed by a mangy, possibly rabid coyote who only stayed away because I kept pegging rocks at it. No cars drove by the entire time. I was once charged by an angry mother bear who made several "bluff charges" and popped her teeth at me, which is typically the last thing they do before stomping your guts out. I had an unloaded 20 gauge I managed to put two shells in before the bear got within 15 yards at a dead sprint, I probably would have been toast anyways. I crashed my car twice, I totaled it the second time. I've had close calls that involved doing 180* spins on ice, going over 100mph sideways in the rain with insane people driving, been airborne in cars(once at over 100mph) and been in some stupid snowstorms on the pike. The worst was doing 70 in an SUV around a corner in the wrong lane and almost having a head-on with a dump-truck that was also hogging the road and passing them on the right side, getting the SUV up on 2 wheels and almost flipping it twice. That and the bear incident were the closest I've ever come to soiling myself. I've had multiple testicular trauma, I had cellulitus and a yeast infection on my nuts that was almost bad enough to have skin removed. My ex-gf once kneed me in the groin so hard one of my testicles disappeared. I then noticed a lump in my abdomen and when I pressed it it disappeared and surfaced in my scrotum at high velocity. The whole process was uncomfortable and disturbing. I was gang-beaten unconcious twice in a night with fists and a flashlight a few months ago. If something hadn't come up, I would have been at that machinegun shoot around the time that kid shot himself in the head. |
Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 8:37pm
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I almost forgot, this Saturday will mark the 2nd year anniversery of when I found the cold metal barrel of a gun pressed into my temple by a very angry man who wanted my money and car keys. Joke was on him, I didn't have any keys on me and I have $2.50 in my wallet. He didn't even take my credit card. -------------
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Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 8:44pm
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i fell off a 10ft drop on my dirtbike once. when i hit the ground the suspension bottomed out hard enough to break both of my ankles. then threw me 6 feet onto a pile of pallets. i now have a large burn mark on my calf and a problem with stairs. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 9:38pm
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Jesus Christ, Rednekk.. ------------- irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 10:04pm
 I'm okay! ------------- X |
Posted By: ThatGuitarGuy
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 10:05pm
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Back in high school I was walking along the rafters in the attic helping my dad with something, and my foot slipped. My legs decided to straddle the beam, which would have led to severe trauma to my groin, had I luckily not caught myself with my hands. My legs went straight through the sheet-rock and into the kitchen, not far from where my Mom was standing. Hearing her scream like that would have been really funny had I not been scared lifeless after having almost fallen through the ceiling.
Enough said. /end inevitable Scion burn ------------- Skillet: I've never been terribly fond of the look of a vagina |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 10:11pm
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I stepped on a nail when I was 14 and it went all the way through my foot.
I accidentally knifed myself in the knee with a hunting knife when I was 17 and cut it to the bone. Didn't feel a thing. When I was 5, I was helping my dad tear down a wall and smashed my index finger with a hammer, taking the nail off with it. When I was in 8th grade I was snowboarding, and was halfway down the hill. The next thing I knew, I woke up at the bottom on my back. No idea what happened. I went to bed an hour later. When I was 16 or 17, I totalled my car by hitting a tree at 45 mph. My friend put his seatbelt on 2 MINUTES BEFORE it happened. Mountain Music by Alabama was playing read:blaring on the radio when it happened. One time, I was blind drunk in Toronto and fooled around with a chubby black chick. ------------- irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 10:14pm
BAOTM. ------------- X |
Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 10:27pm
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I just got back from Vietnam and I was hitching through Oregon when these cops start harassing me, I had to kill them all, it was pretty traumatic. ------------- 
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 10:47pm
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I am so boring... I'll try to think of something, but they just ain't coming. I really am not that suicidal. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 10:59pm
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ceesman-considering thats pretty close to a major artery, i would consider it to be pretty serious, plus not being able (potentially) to use that hand again. mack-that's some crazy stuff...i can vouch for not being able to scream in cold water, except when i went in when i was about 8 there was someone to fish me out, and its a good thing i had a life vest on, god knows i was way too cold to even move from the shock of the temp. of the water...it was april in maine edit- as for my own near traumatic, standard "holy """"that just happened and i missed dying..." usually in a car. sometimes was jumping off or over something and said that after |
Posted By: RocoriSpartans
Date Posted: 29 October 2008 at 11:08pm
Hmm, where exactly do you live? Cause we happen to own both those. Just thought that was an odd coinky dink. |
Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 3:31am
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One time, I thought I was on page 3 of this thread but was only on page 2. Crazy... I've been shot twice, stabbed once, and have shrapnel from an IED in my right shoulder. At work I once palmed my butane soldering iron which is about 400*F and didn't feel a thing. When I was in high school, my idiot friends and I were driving too fast through the nieghborhood and my buddy tried to pass our friend around a corner doing 40MPH and what do you know, a car was in the other lane headed right for us. I closed my eyes thinking that we were done for, barely missed them thanks to our friend slamming on his breaks to let us in. Once fell in to a lake durring a snow storm after thinking that there was no possible way I would go fast enough to clear the ammount of shore between the ramp we made and the water. I was wrong. I was right, however, that water floatation chairs would make an excellent sled. Very slick and very fast. This past summer I almost was hit by a speedboat while I was on my jet ski. Speed boat was going fast enough that the bow was high enough in the air for the skipper not to be able to see me or anyone around for that matter. Anyone I have talked to says the people they know who ride stand up jet ski's that have hit other watercrafts while riding them have been fatal. My apendix almost burst when I was in 6th grade, which would have caused sepsus. ------------- http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/857/sig9ac6cs1mj.jpg - |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 7:10am
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I like having my car go sideways round corners. Thats why you practice it :)
Worst thing I've had happen to me? I mistook a F90 read back for a F190 one, and had a Learjet 45 descend half a mile behind a fully laden Boeing 737-800, at 18 000 feet. All because I thought I heard a "one" when I didn't. KBK |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 7:53am
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My friend was a motocycle repo guy. My folks were NOT into street bikes, so when the deal came from repo guy. I had to keep the bike at his house. The ninja 600r I picked up from him had been laid down on the right side. But, with his connections, I got all the parts to put it back, and then I custom painted it at another friends house. I didn't have insurance, so I was very careful... I always wore my bell tech helmet, when riding on the street. One day on the way to the pool, I was cruising down falls ave in Raleigh when some old lady in a old car pulled out right in front of me. I was doing about 50. No time to swerve so I just laid it down, and went right under the back of her car. The bike got wedged underneath with me trapped between. She kept going. About 300 feet down the road, someone pulled in front of her and made her stop. My helmet was caved in with a perfect impression of her bumper, where it hit. I still have scars on my legs from the burns from her muffler, and my muffler. But, I walked away not even bleeding... I fixed the bike and sold it. |
Posted By: cdacda13
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 7:55am
No, your thinking of Rambo. /Always Sunny in Philadelphia reference |
Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 7:58am
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When I was six the neighborhood kids, all older, were making fun of me for not riding a bike. They figured I didn't know how. I grabbed the nearest one and took off down the driveway and around this large, baseball-diamond shaped intersection.
Side note: They had just repaved this thing to an extent. They put down tar, and then gravel. That's it. I took the turn far too sharply and the pedal caught the ground, throwing me from the bike. I chipped four teeth, required stitches on the roof of my mouth, tore my lips open, scratched the crap out of my face, my ears were bleeding and I still have high-pitched hearing loss, and I jacked up my t-shirt that, to that point, would squeek when you pushed on the character in front. When I was 24 I went skydiving, tandem. I hurried out there because I had to work that day, so I was first in line. On the way up my instructor, Eric, was telling jokes with the other guys and got a check from one of them. He asked me to remind him about it and not forget it in his jumpsuit. I forgot. Another guy was going for his golden wings (1000 jumps) that day. He was at 998. My jump went very well, and it was one of the most amazing experiences. I loved it. The next time the plane went up, with my instructor and a new girl, and the golden wings guy, it caught fire and crashed while trying to gain altitude, killing all six people on board. I was one place in line away from death. I can't help but think that if I'd remembered to tell him about that check if he would have gone to the bank and still be alive. ------------- 
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:39am
Cauterization is a wonderful thing.
That's amazing luck. Reminds me of an ex-girlfriend's dad. He was a motorcycle instructor (might still be, I don't know), and was on the track in the rain one day. He ended laying down a bike going fast (he said 65, I'm betting it was closer to 80). He slid for almost 600 feet, burned through one leg of his suit, and ended up with a giant blister which had to be drained every two weeks. They once took close to 2 liters of fluid out of the thing. And that is why I don't ride motorcycles. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:52am
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I grew up riding bmx bikes. I helped my buddy Jon built this HUGE halfpipe in his backyard. And of course, we started riding it before it was finished. We had the platforms up, but no railing yet. It was a 12 foot high half pipe. 10 foot transition, 2 feet of vert. Much better than his old 10 footer. Here is a pic of the old one.
Anyway, I was sitting on the top platform, and Jon did a 360 flyout. I stepped back right off the edge of the ramp... I fell. And while I was falling, it wasn't fun. I landed flat on my back. The wind completely knocked out of me. I thought I was dying. A few minutes later I was fine, but man was it scary. The next day Freestylin magazine came to town and clicked this pic.
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Posted By: AoSpades
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 9:06am
Ft. Worth area, I swear if that was you or anyone related to you... ------------- |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 9:08am
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riding in my friends 1986 GMC Sonoma we compassionately named Old Dirty Joe we decided to jump some railroad tracks. the tracks were concealed by trees until maybe 15 feet from the crossing. as we were sailing over the tracks at 80mph, for whatever reason, we all looked out the right window and saw the headlight of a freight train maybe 20 feet down the track. just as we landed, the train blew through the intersection. then theres ons of other instances involving other cars, artillery shell fireworks flying through the air at head level, ladders in powerlines, playing on the flys in the school auditorium. lots and lots of stuff that could have gone really bad. |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 9:17am
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I got bit across the face by a German Shepard when I was 3. Dog was put down, and I have a permanent scar on the bridge of my nose and by my eye.
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Posted By: JohnnyHopper
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 11:03am
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I had a bottle of jellied alcohol pellet stove starting fluid explode in my hand/face and burned off my eyebrows and lashes.I've had multiple testicular trauma, I had cellulitus and a yeast infection on my nuts that was almost bad enough to have skin removed. My ex-gf once kneed me in the groin so hard one of my testicles disappeared. I then noticed a lump in my abdomen and when I pressed it it disappeared and surfaced in my scrotum at high velocity. The whole process was uncomfortable and disturbing. I was gang-beaten unconcious twice in a night with fists and a flashlight a few months ago.[QUOTE] Reader's Lolfest (you forgot the "safety word" story :) I made a homemade mortar once. The problem is you had to light the thing and stuff the shell in with a ram rod. I was too slow and it went off and blew my middle finger backwards so hard it changed the shape of the tip of my finger permanently. I also lost all feeling and ability to move my fingers in that hand for more than a week and had to finish HS trying to write with my other hand. Did a lot of dumb free diving and managed to get my shoulders stuck in an underwater cave I was swimming through. I sturggled for and got free and made it back to the surface before blacking out. Lived through a real life pedo bear attack, near abduction and life as a butt slave or skin hat. Cliff note version of my ife - I may have actually fallen out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down :) ------------- My shoes of peace have steel toes. |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 11:23am
| I was a couple of stops away from Kings cross station in london when it exploded courtesy of some friendly suicide bombers. |
Posted By: little devil
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 11:56am
As for me and traumatic experiences, whenever I strap in(snowboard) and head into the glades in Alberta or B.C. it's always close calls. Last year I had like a 2 inch cut on my head from slamming into a tree backwards. Darn edge catched. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 12:08pm
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Boss...dope...lol. ------------- irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 12:21pm
Do you live in Raleigh? I'm from Sanford, just south of you. EDIT: I'd post some of mine, but most of them make me sound like an ignorant redneck. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 5:31pm
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 6:03pm
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I used to walk to school when I was younger around the 3rd grade I was walking home from school and there was a line of cars waiting to go out since a lot of parents picked up their kids. I just saw the line of traffic stopped and took off through the street...a car coming the other way came within 6inch of hitting me. Thats the closest I have ever came to death. I have some other injuries though... I fell out of a tree at about 6 or 7 feet landing on my side. Nothing happened except it knocked the wind out of me. I was riding my bike around at my friends house and my foot slipped off the pedals. My ankle hit the gear wheel and took a huge chunk out of my foot. I still have the scar after about 10 years. When I was younger my brother kicked out my top two front teeth when we were wrestling. Thank God they were my baby teeth. I have lost of total of 3 finger/toenails.... One got slammed in the door of a car. I look back and dont really understand how it only took the fingernail off and not the tip of the finger... I was riding on roller blades behind a bike going down hill (we tied a rope to the bike and I held on to go faster) I ended up losing control and fell forward. Ripped up my entire right side of my body. Shirt was almost completely torn off that side and my middle finger had a gash and the nail was completely off. I ended up going to the ER because we thought I needed stitches on the gash...I was wrong. The finger nail was completely ripped out from under the skin and it was going to have to be stitched back on or it would never grow back. Playing baseball, I slid for a ball and it ended up going off the tip of the glove and hit my big toe. The nail somehow came off. This happened about 6 years ago and I just recently had part of that nail removed because it never grew back correctly. -------------  |
Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:10pm
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This one time, a girl at school almost talked to me. Talk about almost traumatic! Thank GOD my mom called to tell me my favorite fabric softener was in stock. ------------- 
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Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 8:59pm
Haha. This weekend at the mall, I was heading to the food court for break, and I saw this BEAUTIFUL girl my age, roughly 17. We exchange a few glances, she says hi, I'm about to, then I walk into one of the branches hanging from the decorative, fake palm trees. I was so embarressed I just walked away. I figured I'd see her again since she worked at a sunglasses boutiqe and my job is just around the corner from it. I still feel stupid. -------------
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Posted By: soonerdude05
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 12:15am
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Last December right before Christmas break I was in ag class and we had building a gate. Well my teacher was grinding on it when the grinding wheel broke off. I just happened to be walking by about 10-15ft away when it happened. Grinder struck me in the face right below the temple and next to my ear. If I hadn't looked over at the exact instant I did the wheel would have hit me in the ear and I could be deaf in my right ear, or if I had looked over more it could have hit me in the eye, and I wasn't wearing safety glasses. I just lucked out that my head was turned in exactly the right position to prevent serious lasting injury (well, I can't wink very good with my right eye anymore.) Anyway, next thing I know I'm on the ground in a huge puddle of my own blood, wondering if my jaw is broken. Went to the emergency room and got four or five shots in my face (I have a phobia of needles, which was the worse part of the whole thing) and then layed there while they dug bits of stone out of my face. And the whole time blood kept running in my ear, and they would place a cloth over it, so lots of pressure kept building up in my ear, and that hurt worse than the cut did. I was the second person in that class of five people to get hit with a grinder that week. Someone else had been hit in the leg earlier in the week. And just a few weeks ago my grandpa was hit in the leg with a grinder and broke his leg. Maybe me and my family needs to stay away from them... ------------- 
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Posted By: QcXf
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 3:15am
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This summer on my 19th birthday me and some of my friends were out getting some exercise on our bikes. All of the sudden we heard two crotch rockets flying down the street at us and before we knew it one of the guys hit an elderly couples car at 120 miles an hour. The guy flew about 100 feet and died instantly. His bike parts flew everywhere after hitting a light poll and his battery was found in the back of the furniture store he crashed by. I came to the realization that my friends and I had been on the other side of the street his bike would have probably killed one of us because we were right across the street from the light poll... http://bismarcktribune.com/articles/2008/06/18/news/state/158235.txt - Old news but I found it... |
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 8:15am
Fix'd. If someone could photoshop that, it would be epic. |