Close calls?

[Sperry]

Well, to draw the phobia topic back to itself and the newly formed topic into its own, I made this. How close, if at all, have you come to death?

Personally, I would have to say today. I was walking home and moved onto the road to let a oncoming person pass (my friend remained on the sidewalk), and of course, cars are on the road. About five inches from hitting a large silver blur. Nutty drivers.

[noobpwner1]

About 3 years ago, there was a huge storm, and I was in my garage watching it. I decided to go in for a few minutes to get a drink, and after I had been inside the house for a few seconds, a lightning bolt struck a tree outside our house a few feet from the garage. (Lightning keeps traveling through the ground for a few feet outwards).

[Justin]

The aformentioned digitectomy was my closest. I needed 2 units of blood.

[Mmac27]

i had a seizure once.... black out.... woke up in the hospital 9 hours later...... it was like 3 years ago....

[CABLE]

I would have to say that I was at my grandparents house sitting at a table with a window to my back and it got stormy so I got scared(i was 8 at the time) and kept asking if I could go to the basement to be safe. We finnaly went to the basement and we no sooner got down there we heard a crash. A large tree branch had went through the window that was behind me and landed on the table.

[Sperry]

Oh right, that made me remember my pencil incident. I er... got a pencil with a paperclip tied to the end er... stuck inside an electrical socket... And it er... blew up. Bless the rubber-coated pencil.

[Mmac27]

Oh right, that made me remember my pencil incident. I er... got a pencil with a paperclip tied to the end er... stuck inside an electrical socket... And it er... blew up. Bless the rubber-coated pencil. wow....... that was smart

[Sperry]

It's not my fault, I swear to God. It was just because my friend failed to produce results with a chewing gum wrapper. -_-

[Sparky]

I jumped in a pool with a digital watch, I could have been electricuted

[zyal]

lesee...

almost fell off a cliff, was stopped by some bushes..
also fell off a moving vehicle... im such a faller.

[Justin]

There was a guy in the band I used to be in who did that. It was a crappy old building with bad wiring, so he ended up shorting out power for a 3 block radius.

[Mmac27]

It's not my fault, I swear to God. It was just because my friend failed to produce results with a chewing gum wrapper. -_-
were you guys drunk or something?

[Shadow Crest]

I almost ran straight into an electric fence once (wasn't paying attention). Fortunately, I tripped on a branch and landed a few feet away from it.

[CABLE]

I grabbed an electric fence once (I was being stupid) it wasn't as fun as they said it would be...

[dastardly_fiend]

I haven't come close to death at all. I broke my leg once, but that's about as dangerous as I have fallen.

[Sperry]

were you guys drunk or something?No, just bored during math class. -_-

[the real king]

Diaphram snapped when I was 5 years old.

[Freddy]

Lets see.. I was 3.
my leg was hurting so I had my mom carry me. She goes down the stairs(myself in her arms), she trips. I fly into the air. I end up hitting my head at the edge of the stairs. Blood, lots of it. I'm rushed to the hospital, as an unconcious, bloody, motionless, toddler. As they clean the blood from me head, I wake up before any anesthetics were used. Naturaly I quickly began to yell really loudly. Once I was tied down, drugged up and no longer a bloody mess, I woke up a few ours later stiched up and with a terrible headache.
The doc said I didn't break or crack or damage my skull in any way. But if I did, I would have a much different personality, IQ, look on life...mental age.

still have the scar to prove it ^_^

[RNE]

I have an advantage, won't say anything about personal close calls.

Oldest son, 4 decided that he was tired of riding his new bike in the drive.
Hit the street peddling as fast as he could. Right into the path of a truck. somehow he managed to get off the bike and on the curb before the truck turned his nice new shiny bike into a pretzel.

(PS he didn't get another bike until he was eight.)

[mattz1010]

Hmm.

Many times drowning, many times *accidental* cutting of wrists, many times falling (not fear of heights), many times being killed by another (usually someone stupid who doesn't understand what I mean), many times nearly choking to death...

I'm a risky person -_-.

Edit: many times means at least 5. Does suicide on a friend's suicide count?

[Freddy]

I'm a risky person -_-.
or perhaps just unlucky

[mattz1010]

That too.

And read the edit, I thought it wasn't the last post on the page.

Not actually unlucky about those things. I just blame it on others' stupidity.

[eatmorchikin6464]

Well, Ive told this story before...but here is the short version.

I got hit by a car in 7th grade. It was a BMW X5(SUV).

That is probably the closest...well, I got pegged with a rock in the head from someone about 15 feet away. Ive never seen so much blood..well, when I got hit there was probably more, but my face was so puffed up I couldnt see anything. I just heard from people who saw that my whole face was covered from blood streaming out my nose, my mouth, and the side of my face that got road rash. This poor women let me lay on her fur coat to keep warm. The blood was dripping off of me and onto it.

[GTAV7]

Uhh probably the time I attempted suicide...

[Posh Jibbons]

I vote that suicide attempts are stricken from this thread... its cheating =P

I'd have to say nearly drowning at a lake... that sucked. lolomglomf, I made a funny.

[Morwin t3h Banninator]

Well...once my friends and I were playing Chickenfight in a swimming pool, which is where to people get on two other people's shoulders and then they try and push each other off into the water. I was one of the stronger girls, so I was on the bottom with a smaller girl on my shoulders. During the fight, the other pair managed to push us deep enough that my head was submurged, and the idiot on top of me wouldn't get off. I panicked and started struggling and she finally got the idea, but only after I was almost unconcious.

Let's see...I've also crashed into a tree on a toboggan, knocked myself out by trying to jump off a swing and into a kiddy pool, mistaken the accelerator for the brake pedal in a moment of panic and many other stupid and unlikely things. I had an eventful childhood.

[Vagrant]

Closest? When I had my bike accident, I skidded for a good 30-40 feet at 25 mph. I was going downhill, and my main cnocern wasn't actually that I was skidding on my chest. The concern was that a car would turn around the corner and run me over without seeing me.

Other than that, I haven't really come all that close, even when playing with bladed weapons. A friend of mine accidentally stuck a knife in his leg. >_<

[Rambo]

When I was quite young, I was in a large retail store of who's name I shan't mention. I was ducking beneath all those racks on the sides of aisles. One of them was one of those metal webbed things with PEZ dispensers on it. I ducked under it and came up way too soon. One of the protruding metal pieces actually went INTO my head. I was bleeding a lot. I was brought to the Pharmacy where I was forced to sit down. I passed out anyway. Strangely, I don't remember where I woke up, but I know I ended up in a car driving somewhere from the place I was.

[Patrickb292]

I Died On A Hospital Bed And They Brought Me Back To Life Ha!

[game-bot]

My aunt was in a car with her BF and another freind....the freind pulled out a gun and aimed it at my aunt....her BF jumped infront of her to dodge the shot just in time...if it went by him it would hit my aunt's head...

ps, it luckly only hit him in the lower chest

[eatmorchikin6464]

Why did he do that? People these days, always trying to kill each other...

[Matt]

.....or them selves

[Sperry]

My aunt was in a car with her BF and another freind....the freind pulled out a gun and aimed it at my aunt....her BF jumped infront of her to dodge the shot just in time...if it went by him it would hit my aunt's head...

ps, it luckly only hit him in the lower chestIdiot. Like an extra foot of flesh would stop a bullet.

[mattz1010]

Your aunt has great friends.

Oh, and I forgot being run over by a toboggan once. Stupid 300 pound kid CRUSHED me.
O_o and I think I've got cancer for some reason.

[Wurmy]

Hmm 2 encounters kinda, one small one big:
1) Me and my bro were playing in the pool, but he hit me with the "doughnut" thingies, but the side, where the 2 sides were stitched together was sticking out and hti my eye, about 1-2 mm away and I would've been blinded in one eye (right eye) ...

2) I was about 6ish, I was dumb, so I was playing with a plastic bat (like a baseball bat, bat) and I threw it far, into the middle of the street. So I ran to get it, but without looking, I barely saw my brother coming at me so I slid (onto my knees) foreward, which basically raped/damaged my kneecaps, a lot, and lots of bleeding, anyways, my brother who was going as full speed on his bike tried to stop but turned, and since I slid to get the bat somehow, he basically went over me, yeah thats right, the whole 2 wheels went over my back, didn't hurt though, dunno why, oh, and he was 13ish, so it was kinda painful. So I ran back home (about 20m away) with my bro, and my dad brought me to the bathroom and put alcohol (not the drinking alcohol, but the one that disinfects) onto my wound, it was about 7cm squared, ya, that was ******* painful, trust me, I yelled, and screamed etc. And then a bit after that (1 hour maybe) me and my brother shook hands and made a deal that we were both idiots, since I slid (which was really dumb!), and he went over me (which was really dumb, also!) ...
Yeah, that's pretty much it, I guess ... Never, ever, ever went to the hospital after I was born, so nothing serious ...

Oh, and when I was born I had trouble breathing or something, forget, so I had to be put into intensive care for about 2 weeks, my mom was so sad :(


EDIT: WOW! Fricking long post, I think it's my longest post ever ...

[Matt]

wow you people have been through alot me id say the closest ive come was when a car almost hit me it just went by so fast i almost didnt know it was even there

[eatmorchikin6464]

Your post, Wurmy reminded me of something.

When I was young I also had trouble breathing. I dont know the specifics though.

[-Scratch]

Closest call? I think it was the summer I was diagnosed with Crohn's, my stomach was so inflamed that I wasn't eating nearly enough and I lost a LOT of weight, a very unhealthy amount.

Yeah, it's not the blood-filled stories ya'll have, but it was just as bad.

And believe me, I have been in the hospital, several times. Probably climbing into the thirties about now.

[mattz1010]

didn't hurt though, dunno why, oh, and he was 13ish, so it was kinda painful.

Erm...Wha??

[GTAV7]

Idiot. Like an extra foot of flesh would stop a bullet.

...it would.

The bullet would probably hit a bone or two and stop somewhere in the man's body.

[Hypersolidsnake]

I've never really had close calls with death, but always get those every day, garden-variety brushes with great misfortune. Things such as permanent blindness, loss of limbs, et cetera, are always threatening me. I'm glad to have my life, and whenever I realise that I could have died in an instance, I feel lucky.

[huntershadow]

well the closest ive coming to death was i was in a car it crashed i didnt have a seat bealt on and well a 200LB weight traveling 47mph at a windsheild +a helmet(football practice in american sense) = about 1300pound force into a tree

[eatmorchikin6464]

Heh. You were wearing your football helmet? Well, that was lucky, or else you most likely would have died.

[mattz1010]

O_o your sig has died.
Blindness - I look at the sun too much, I've put lasers in my eyes.

[eatmorchikin6464]

Wha? My sig died?

[Justin]

not you, huntershadow.

[huntershadow]

yay i broke a spinal vertabrea thingy so tehy fused em and i can walk (lucky as hell)

[loads_of_fun]

one time about 6 years i was goung about 30 on my bike down a really big hill
a stick got stuck in the font wheel i went flying about 25-30 feet knocked out
a lot of my teeth and on top of that i hade to ride more than a mile home

[Sperry]

i didnt have a seat bealt onInvitation to flame?

[Blixinator]

lets see... ummmm... yeah... I once kicked a ball over a fence so I climbed over it got the ball then climbed back. About 30 minutes later I kicked the ball to the fence but not over it. I went to get the ball and I saw that a sign saying WARNING HIGH VOLTAGE FENCE. had fallen down luckily it broke somewhere.

another time is when... oh yeah now I remember.
a friend and I went to a hill to go sleding. there is a lake right by the hill, but no one told me this. it was my first time there and the snow and ice hid it. so I sledded down the hill, went about ten feet out from where the lake started, then *CRACK* I fell through the ice.

[Wurmy]

WOw ... in winter masterchief007??????
I'm surprised you're not dead, I mean, once you break the ice and go under the ice reforms rapidly and you can't break it, and you freeze to death after a few dozen seconds, guess you got lucky ;)

[Blixinator]

I sure did oh and here is another one I just remembered...
I was swimming in the ocean and all of a sudden I saw a fin pop up 10 feet away from me I am still not sure if it was a shark or a dolphin

[eatmorchikin6464]

It could have been God playing a joke on you. Or maybe it was Shadow with a fin on his back. Ya never know.

[Freddy]

it was me.
I wasnt stalking you though. >_>

*hides poison dart*

[DarkReality]

I'm surprised you're not dead, I mean, once you break the ice and go under the ice reforms rapidly and you can't break it,

Ice reforms rapidly? Where the heckums do you live? I dunno, but water takes a while to freeze when it's a lake we're talking about. Especially when it's in motion after someone falling in. But in -120 degree weather I'm sure water freezes in the blink of an eye. Not that I would suggest blinking in temperatures like that. Or going outside at all.

[killerstick9]

probibly every time I step on the hockey rink. Because i play varsity hockey... there are people like 6 in. taller, 5 years older, and a weigh a lot more.

[Wurmy]

Hmmm, true. But I've heard that it re-forms quickly (a tiny layer, then another, and another, etc.) in the arctic ..... I think ..

[Justin]

It doesn't refreeze very fast. Especially if you're thrashing around. Which you should be.

[noobpwner1]

And I doubt he lives in the Arctic.

[Sperry]

The arctic doesn't have a 'tiny layer'. The ice is generally thick there.

[safeway2279]

the times iv been in pain:

age ?: i was on me new scooter, and my friends were playing on the grass, i was riding up to them. i was stupid then, i jumped off the scooter, and ripped the skin off of my leg from my knee down to my ankle. my dad said it was just a scratch.

age 11: at the school carnavle, i was doing the test your strength thing. i missed, hit my big toe, swung again, hit my toe, and repeated about 6 more times. i ended up with a bleeding toe, and then finding my broaken toe nail, they never get long, but anyway, i had to peel it off my toe.

a couple of weeks ago: archery in phys ed. i shot an arow, hit the wall in back of the target, and i just stood there watching the arow fly back at me. i rememberd that the arow was sharp, and it could go through me fast enough to get out of the way. well, i was lucky! it was a real arow, but i got hit in the hip with the shaft, so it didnt send me to the nurse. (thats what my teacher would tell me to do)


well its not nearly as bad as anything else, but im really careful.

[eatmorchikin6464]

Maybe it was just a scratch, but time has distorted your memory. Or, you saw it bigger since you were little and not used to that much pain.

[Sperry]

Nearly impailed by the second best weapon ever invented and it's 'not close'? Hello.

Your administration is foolish to trust children with weapons.

[mattz1010]

Umm, how does an arrow bounce back AT you?

The only way I can think is if the target was set up improperly, like this :
/

Which, it SHOULD NOT, don't even bother to ask why.

And the arrow bounced back off, and back up in the air at you? The description seems to say you shot the arrow at the target, and it bounced straight back at you.

[Blixinator]

And I doubt he lives in the Arctic.
well it can get very cold here in Chicago

[noobpwner1]

There is a very big difference between Chicago and the Arctic.