Closest you have come to dying

[edfurlong]

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If you're 55ft under, you are NOT getting to the surface safely on one breath of air.

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I hope you failed your scuba test, because you are dangerously wrong.

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I think he is saying that depending on the amount of time you've been down there, just getting to the surface alive doesn't mean that much.

[HP]

a cop pointed a loaded gun at me once cause he was a retard (IMO)

probably not too dangerous though, I've been lucky

[Maulik]

In high school we my friends and I lived near the cornfields. Usually we'd do a dry run around the two lane roads we'd zip around. During the initial run there was no debris or wet spots on the road.

During the second run I was the lead car, pushing a turn around seventy-five, my Toyota MR2 MKIII can handle in excess of ninety. [censored] wet-spot! Some farmer took the libery to water his crops during the heat of the summer afternoon. I spin out in his cornfield; my car jerkily naviagated between a telephone pool and a big [censored] oak tree. There was about thirty-six inches of clearance on either side.

Pissing your pants is not a pleasant experience.

[neuroman]

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a cop pointed a loaded gun at me once cause he was a retard (IMO)

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trip report?

[Chris Daddy Cool]

my wreck wasn't nearly as bad as others, but falling asleep driving up the 101 around montecito.

[Artdogg]

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On a related note, I think the closest I ever came to dying was everytime I rode a bus in the mountains in Costa Rica.

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lol, rode in one for 8 hours in march from San Jose to Puerto Jiminez, I have to say I was impressed with the dudes driving, but he was [censored] flying around those turns with dropoffs everywhere

[Legend27]

My brother and I got got in a rip current surfing once and didn't even notice any thing happened till about 5 minutes after. We noticed we were about a mile and half off shore instead of 300 yards or so and hauled it back in. It's creepy out in deep ocean on just a board.

[edfurlong]

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lol, rode in one for 8 hours in march from San Jose to Puerto Jiminez, I have to say I was impressed with the dudes driving, but he was [censored] flying around those turns with dropoffs everywhere

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I was more concerned with the passing that took two minutes on blind corners.

[HP]

not too thrilling

pulling out of the high school parking lot, I drove out the exit. This is illegal, but it happens every single day, if we had not done this it would have taken literally hours for the parking lot to clear (over a 1000 cars)

so this cop sees me do it and pulls me over (I later found out he was new to the area) except that he rides my ass so closely that I can't see his lights were on from the rear view mirror. He didn't have his siren on so I didn't realize he was trying to pull me over, I just thought he was trying to ride my ass (I don't know why but it's happened many times before, maybe since I was 'only' going the speed limit, or maybe since I had a nice car)

Then a few hundred yards down the road he puts the siren on, and I'm like oh rite. Except we were at a busy stop light, which was kind of comical, since he had is siren on like we are in a high speed chase but we are stopped dead at a stop light. It goes green I pull over after driving about 20 yards past the stop light, and I'm waiting for him to stroll up to my car, but instead I hear him yelling from his car "GET YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEEM EM" and he's in classic using-the-door-as-a-shield stance with his gun pointed at me

I put my hands out the window, he runs up with the gun still pointed at me, pulls me out, searches me for weapons, puts me in the back of the cop car and then searches my car. 3 other cops cars pull up in the meantime. Eventually he figures out I didn't realize he was pulling me over, but still is mad at me so gives me a ticket for the violation that is committed over 500 times daily in the same spot

[edfurlong]

WTF? A thousand cars at a highschool?