Who here was in a near death situation?

[wtp]

i WAS almost in one, these **** dogs chased me, and then well, i jumped over it, and i hopped this fence, but the dogs were BIG and it almost got to jump on me and rip me apart. Since then, some dogs to me are EVIL.

wtp

[dkozloski]

When I was about three years old An Alaskan Malemute dog had me down and was on top of me about to deliver the coup de grace when the neighbor, an old Italian lady buried ALL the tines of a garden rake in his back. I'm 60 years old and I still remember the look in that dogs eyes.

[wtp]

yah, mezmorized me forever.... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

[thekingofpain]

Ran over by a delivery vehicle in Japan, coma for 3 weeks, delivered stateside after that--year and a half initial hospital stay, many operations and more month-long-stays in the hospital, a few pounds of steel and a new outlook on life later, im glad to be "here"...as far as the dogs go, I guess I wouldnt be jumping fences so well, but then again, delivery trucks make me shudder when I see em nowadays...id kiss a **** dog...

[jad1097]

Never had many problems with dogs. Just a swift kick in the nose and usually they left me alone.

Near death experiences? Yes I have had several. Twice I floated out of my body etc...due to a couple of od's. I have been shot at, run over by cars, thrown out of a car while going down the highway(that hurt)and had the ***** knocked out of me from 277volts(by the neutral with a load for those that know a little about electricity) more than once.
Now my best friend has been DOA twice. Once due to a gang fight, no we were not into gangs but were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and another time due to a OD.

[mgordon99]

When I was 15, I choked on a chunk of potato. My mom was just screaming while I turned blue, then my step-dad just happened to walk in the door after work and did the old heimlich, and out it popped.

[mattheadfat]

i came close skiing a couple times. spilling on double black's can be a tad scary.

[SysOpt]

Heh, that reminds me.. The second time I went skiing I was going down a blue run (which is easy, but not for a new skier) and got going too fast for the snowplow to slow me down at all. I was going FAST (straight down) and heading right for the ski lift building. I bailed - skies went flying, poles went flying. Knocked the wind out of me but I was lucky - snow is softer than a corrogated metal building.

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[chipbgt]

Scott, whats so scary about that? Isnt that how you stop in skiing? and whats this "snowplow" deal you speak of?

[hd581]

LOL chip, yeah theoretically you just put your toes together and you stop right? Yeah I agree, Scott, best to just eat the snow, lose the poles and have the skis breakaway then to punch a Scott-sized hole in the building.

[wtp]

that reminds me when i was skating (i blade aggresively), and when i jumped this 15 foot roof, i slipped went off the roof, and hit my tailbone. Was knocked out for about 30 seconds, got up, and did it again.

wtp http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif (what skaterz would do)

[seti]

Almost went with a cornice down a 50 foot drop....it caused a class 4 avalanche when it hit bottom. That was two years ago, backcountry snowboarding rules. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif


When I was 5, I was in a plane crash with my family (four of us at the time). Lucky my dad found a realitvely good place to put it down, and all I have to show for it is a scar on my forhead.

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[wtp]

man, now it's starting to remind me of these near death experience when i was a child. When i was 4, i stuck a fork in a outlet, literally electricuted myself, but survived. My friend ate rat poison (he stupidly thought it was dannon sprinkles) , emergency room... and then he also stuck gum up his nose (couldn't breathe) and emergency room again http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif

wtp http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[SysOpt]

It's a wonder we all make it to the ages that we do http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif. Enthusiast types get into more trouble than most, I'd imagine. As an aggressive driver who loves sports cars, a pilot, and an intermediate to advanced (in recent years) road cyclist (criteriums are my thing), I've had my moments http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif.

Yeah that's how you're supposed to stop in skiing, but at some point before you reach terminal velocity http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif.

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[Gutter Ball]

Closest I came was when my friend lost control of his little Hyundai and spun us into a very deep ditch filled with water UPSIDE DOWN! Nothing like cold water rushing quickly through 4 open windows and burying your face and going up your nose while you're hanging upside down by seatbelts and everything is pitch black and the only way out was through one of the back doors cause the other 3 were kinda stuck and the stupid back windows were child ones (only went halfway down) and it really sucks when one of you can't swim! Whew, scary.

[jad1097]

My wife will get a kick out of that. She put one of my cars on the roof, I did not like it a bit. Funny I just realized I was upside down in that car in two ways.
I have also been in quite a few car accidents and have no idea how I walked away from some of them. One that comes to mind is a 1970 Dodge charger R/T with a 440 smacked into a poured concrete wall, KOed all of us, the driver got fairly banged up. Same guy ran a TA into an oak tree and was told he would never walk again, he walked into court and got 5 years because he killed his girlfriend in that accident.

[bhess]

I almost walked into a helicopter tail rotor. There were about 10 helos going at the same time and with all of the noise and rotor wash , I had my head down looking at the ground. I happened to look up just before I hit it.

[M1pilot]

I was in a plane crash a couple of years ago after an inflight engine failure. Too low to bail and nothing below but tall trees and ravines, I managed to get it down in a small clearing, but she wrapped up into a ball. (This particular aircraft had a stall speed of 92 mph, so that meant a touchdown speed of around 100 in a 400-500 ft very rough area.) Had to get cut out of the wreck, and spent the next seven or eight months in the hospital. Got a ton of steel holding my back & right leg together know. I feel very lucky to be alive, but I am itching to get back in the air again!

-M1pilot

[Sweeper]

Took a motorcycle into a turn at about 90 miles an hour while racing a buddy of mine. Of course I was on the inside he was on the outside and we came too close, needless to say we both lost it. He kept from wrecking to bad, but I went into the ditch and flipped the bike about 9 times. Was able to get up and walk away from it without a broken bone. "sore as ****" but I walked away. I guess someone was watching over me that day. Took about 3 days to get the bike started up again. Didn't look to hot either.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.....

[shadow]

Does getting married count?

[psyklone]

i drowned when i was a little kid, too young to realize that when i was chasing a beachball into the water i would not be able to float like it did. fortunately i was brought back and everything turned out fine.

then about 4 years ago i was bitten by a coral snake while playing in a friend's back yard with his two year old son, keaton. he was standing there looking down saying,"nake ..nake" and i went over there and saw it and at first thought it was his toy because he had a little rubber one that looked identical to it. but then it moved and i freaked out and instead of picking up keaton i reached down to slap the snake away and he got me right between the thumb and forefinger. it's the strangest thing too because he wouldn't let go, he was stuck on me like velcro and i had to grab it with the other hand and pull it off and threw it over the fence. by the time i got to the hospital my whole arm and half way across my chest felt like it was on fire from the inside out. it turned out that i pulled through with only minimal damage. i still can't feel anything in the small area where i was bitten. the doctors said that it probably would have killed the kiddo had he been bitten which does make me feel better about it, but i look back and still can't figure out why i didn't just pick him up and run. *L*

[Szech]

1) When I was a baby, my mother fell asleep carrying me and dropped me.

2) When I was about four, a mallet fell from two stories up, and got me right in the middle of my head. I was knocked unconscious and needed quite a few stitches.

3) When I was about 14, I got hit by a car when I was riding my bike, and the guy didn't stop.

4) I was in a forest fire, and didn't know which way to run because the fire was all around.

5) I was on the top of Mammoth mountain, when a blizzard struck, and I couldn't see eight feet in front of me. I went down the mountain as best I could, but went off the trail because I didn't know where I was going (COULDN'T SEE!). After about 20 minutes I was so tired, so I went under a tree to rest. When I woke up, I was covered to my chest in snow and was freezing.

6) Some chollo threw a knife right for my chest / neck, and I ducked right in time to avoid getting hit in any vitals. It grazed the top of my head, and to this day, I have a bald spot where the scar was.

Wow, I'm pretty **** lucky that I'm not dead http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif.

[wyvrn]

Uh, I guess I am **** lucky because I never got that close to death. Have seen my share of them though, if that counts for anything. Last one was a Ford SUV that jumped a concrete barrier into oncoming traffic, collided with an 18-wheeler that was carrying some sort of gas, and next thing you know there was an explosion and massive fireball. They shut down the entire highway, both ways, 7 lanes of traffic. The driver of the SUV had fallen asleep, and needless to say no one in his vehicle made it. Not sure about the truck driver though. I almost peed my pants when I saw that fireball go up hehe http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[chipbgt]

Thanks scott....I was kidding http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif Its just more fun to pretend I am serious than to put a j/k after it.

[alpha]

Lets see now.
1) Got 220volts up my arm
2) Raming a BMW on my bike (that was the mearest touch risky)
3) Doing a handbrake turn in the middle of a main road with traffic behind me

I'm sure there are more, they'll come to me.

[Algee7]

When I was a kid I lost my grip on a rope swing. Fell about forty feet. My head landed right next to a pile of rocks.

Then...

I got stabbed in the abdomen in '83. The E.R. crew didn't think I'd make it through surgery.
Nearly died at home afterwards from pneumonia.
Only lasting prob is that I'm prone to blood clots in my leg. Had 4 or 5 episodes since; the last one made it to my lung...

Death keeps calling my name but I just won't answer! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[mgordon99]

I feel fairly confident in saying that if you haven't had a near-death experience, relax, someday we will all be closer than "near", if you know what I mean. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[ceedee]

i did
died three times
they had to resusitate me
no lights
no magical experiences
just lots of pain as i remember
anyway
if it dont kill ya it makes ya stronger
yeah right
who cares

[Amarok]

rolled a mercury bobcat on the highway.

rolled over three times..... was 18 at the time.... my life flahsed before my eyes... was so short that I asked for a repeat and got it too......

the three of us walked away from it.... the car was completely totaled.... everyone heard about the accident... and heard that we were dead.... when we walked in the next day at work one woman fainted beacuse she thought we were dead and she was seeing ghosts

[FrozenLiquidity]

hehe, I don't even think death has my number! Hah hah hah!

FrozenLiquidity

[narayan]

I got T-boned in a 73 Ford puckup on the passenger side by an El Camino doing about 55mph. That was a fun one. Walked away with a small scratch on my left arm and glass imbedded in my right arm. But the closest I've been to death was when I had Pneumonia at about 14. That was a close one!

[SysOpt]

That's the kind of thinking that will get death's attention real fast. A little fear is what keeps us alive and on the living side of the envelope.

[PwAg]

Wow, these are some incredible near death experiences. It's rather interesting to get a glimpse of your tragic experiences. Glad to see you're all making it through and hanging tough.
As for me:

1) Last ski season I was out in the Rockies for spring break. Being an avid extreme skier, two friends and myself pitched in for a heli lift to top of Snowmass Peak (the real deal 14000+, not the resort). My buds took first cuts on pretty much the same fall line. I was feeling good that day and took a challenging 70Degree+ fall line to the right with some nasty cornices. Well as you probably already guessed, that snow came on roaring down about 1/3 way down (most likely due to charges being set over at the resort mt). Let me tell you there is nothing more hollow feeling than seeing a wall of 80mph moving snow charging for you on a 4000ft vertical face. I will admit i almost started to cry in that short reaction time i had. I was hit hard and thrown up in the air some how which is still a mystery to me. After being carried by massive chunks of new snow pack, I was driven into a jutting slab of rock. Broke my jaw, nose, hands, and a rib, but that **** rock broke the fall and saved my life as i watched the snow rush by on both sides and drop 120 ft+ to a rock filled ravine. It was an absolute miracle. The snow should have engulfed the entire rock based on shear physics. God was there, dividing that snow like Moses and the Red Sea.
2) Flipped my father's SUV offroading in a field doing 50mph, in the mud. Boy was that car in a mess as myself with my father. Not a good time as I had just gotten my license about 1 month prior to that accident. Seatbelts save lives. So GOD **** WEAR them.

Later.

[alpha]

My dad nearly got mashed by a lorry.

He was going down a hill at 80mph and he say a lorry turn slightly to the right, so he headed to pass on the left. The lorry was actually just getting a swing to turn properly, so dad slammed on the brakes. It's very rare you see a Toyota Carina skidding at 80mph with the tyres smoking http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/redface.gif

[mgordon99]

If you want to know your "death day", check this out:

http://www.deathclock.com

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[MrEd]

I almost ran out of ciggarettes one day.... BOY WAS I SCARED!!!! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

My little sister should be on here, when she was ten, she fell off some rocks, and the only thing down there to break her fall were more rocks and some twigs. One went through her throat and barely missed her carotiod artery and wind pipe. The only thing she lost is one of her saliva glands. Then last year she was driving her car (around 65mph) and an older lady made a left turn in front of her. They hit driver to driver, and my sisters car flipped 4 times. She had her seatbelt on and only had some broken bones in her face.

She's crazy.

-MrEd
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[wtp]

cool!! hey everyone! i'm gonna die at Tuesday, March 9, 2060!! wait.. that's not good.... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

wtp http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[bkehoe]

Hmm, Saturday, July 19, 2059.

Pity I don't know what I'll die of. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

Oh well, funeral is pre-booked. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Brendan.

[grandslammer]

How's this? Driving back to Tennessee approximately 4:14 AM. Route 40 coming East from Knoxville. I'm driving at right about 63-64mph. Middle lane, figured they could pass me on either side.

I look in my rear-view mirror and see headlights waayyy back there. Then, I look down to the gas guage. Got half a tank of gas, I'll go ahead and drive the rest of the way without stopping for gas. I look up and BANG the lights are like in my back seat. BOOM! BANG! Now may car is spinning wildly! No control - all I see are sparks and the world spinning around me. I finally come to a stop about half way up an off ramp. (Lucky there happened to be one there, I guess!) Whew! I'm alive! OH NOOOOO now I smell gas EVERYWHERE! (remember, I had half a tank of gas that is now all over the place!) I'm gonna burn up no..... So I try to get out, but the door is stuck. Now I'm panicking! I finally kick open the passenger door and get out. WHEW! Now, I remember the pile of toys and presents in the back seat that I'd gotten for my kids! OH NO! So I start to get them out, but then realize there are no sparks, no smoke, maybe I'm okay after all.

So I'm looking at the car and BA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA....... a semi-truck coming off of the interstate doesn't see me in the middle of the ramp and SLIDES up to like within 2 or 3 feet of me! Thought I was going to die again! MAN WHAT A NIGHT!

Oh yeah, the guy kept on going too! I mean really, there could have been women and children in my car, he didn't know! It could have been old people, kids, heck - anybody!

Oh well anyway, there it is. Within like 10 minutes (or less) I thought I was going to die three times, so that's my 2 cents worth.

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M

[skywalker[TSG]]

dont put a screwdriver in a PS like i did

i guess u get the point

[ILC]

Currently im only 16 and where should I start?

When I was real small (cant remember my age) I was running full speed, tripped fell into the corner of a wall. Nothing to much then, unconsciuos, few stiches and a little scar I still have on my forehead.

Little older......driving a dirt bike, cruising full speed, BAM hit a big rock buried in the grass. Flip in the air, land on my head (Thank God I was wearing a helmet this time), then the dirtbike lands on my stomach.

Driving with a friend, (ok more like a full car load of 16 year olds messing around at a park), friend looses control, THWAP straight into a tree at about 40MPH. No one got hurt but boy it wasnt a pretty site when we showed my friends mom her car. LOL I still like to laugh at that one.

Thats the main ones I guess. Ive done other little things like accidnetly run in front of guns at a shooting range, had a rope break on me from about 15 ft up, and landed on my **** bone. Couldnt walk for the rest of the day. Hmm what else.......

ILC

[brandon184]

Nope.. Not me. I'm only 14.

My homeroom teacher has technically died 3 times. When having a tumour removed from his brain.

[Mntsnow]

My close call is what put me out of the military. Had a repelling mishap as a carabineer failed and dropped me almost 50 feet or so. I lived thru that and learning how to walk again after 6 months of therapy.

according to the "death clock"
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
I've been telling my Wife I would die before I'm 40 and this would put me at just shy of my 37th B-day. This is why I enjoy everyday with her and my kids and when we "play" (http://www.mntsnow.com) we play hard!

Mntsnow
*edited to fix UBB*

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[BBA]

Hehehe....

THat driving thing almost did me in a bunch of times...I mean really!

Then the electrical things I used to do in the NAVY.

Then all the drunken bar scenes in my younger years!

Then the weird stuff...all to numerous to talk about. Lets just say: It's a miracle I still have 2 arms and 2 legs and all my teeth!

[Toro 45]

Thanksgiving Day 1978, I was going to pick up my girlfriend for dinner. Headed down Cemetary hill(steep & twisty)stepped on the brake to slow down,it went right to the floor.Pump,Pump,Pump,nothing.

Downshift from drive to low,**** forgot the guy I bought it from had rigged the transmission so you only had drive,neutral,reverse & park.

Park sounds good to me,dammit no park now. Emergency Brake man,you guessed it cable was out of adjustment it went right to floor.

I always liked the way that car took corners
& I was using both lanes to make them now. If anyone had been coming up the hill one of us would not have made it.

At the the bottom of the hill is a funeral home(of all things) & a traffic light,with a red light of course. So I just cranked it hard right slid through the intersection & into the ditch.

Sat there for about 10 seconds got out popped the hood ,checked the Master cylinder not a drop of fluid in it.

Now the worst part. I new the master had a leak & I had been adding fluid for about week DUH!! KIDS http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

Toro http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Warthog]

Here's when I die:
Saturday, December 1, 2057

Guess I should start planning my funeral now http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif.

Warthog

[welsh wizard]

Well all I can say with my health last year and a few mishaps on Motercycles (head ons with Bike gettting shorter by a 16") is been there done that and I still don't like that whitish light you see , esp when they tell you your heart was stopped for a while. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif
WW

[Szech]

Heh heh heh... what interesting tales. Hey, I heard a rather amusing quote I think is relevant to this thread:
"Whatever doesn't kill me only delays the inevitable." Ha! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif

BTW: It's wierd how when you're so close to death, how the adrenaline is running, how you're 120% aware of everything, and acting without thinking. I remember in the forest fire, once I got out of my frozen state of shock, I started running like hell for the river, and I got out of the fire running along the river bed. I remember it was SO @#$%ING HOT. Like an oven. I didn't realize it at the time, but I ran through a patch of stinging neatle, which didn't hit me until later. After the fire fighters put the fire out, I picked up a stick covered in that red stuff they drop from the helicopters. Don't know where that stick is now though.

[alpha]

Cool! I die the same year as WTP! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[wtp]

yup, as long as all us overclockers die together http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif including my girlfriend, then i'll be happy http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

wtp http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
oh yeah, about that OT one, sorry about that sysopt http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/redface.gif

[FrozenLiquidity]

Supposedly I am going to die Saturday, March 31, 2057

I guess not all of the overclockers are gonna die together WTP.
http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

Hey, but what does the DeathClock know? I could die tomorrow or tonight, wait... a ... minute... that would not be good, dang, hopefully I will die the same time as you WTP , so all the overclockers will die together, hehe, you'll still be clutchin your AMD processor in your casket, and I wil be clutching my Intel processor. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

FrozenLiquidity

[barry glisson]

10 days ago while pulling rg6 through the attic to move my r.r. cable i had a heart attack.i lost 98% of the right side of my heart. the only thing that saved me was taking 2 aspirins. the aspirins thinned my blood enough to let me make it to the e.r. there they gave me the "make it or brake it" shot twice, some sort of clot buster. i then had angioplasty,and a stint installed.its kind of like a rotorooter and resleeving of the arteries. just got back on line a few minutes ago and remembered this post & thought i'd add my .02 barry

[hd581]

Good Grief Barry, glad to hear you're all right! Take it easy for a while, man.