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#82
10-09-2006, 06:15 PM
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Re: Closest you have come to dying
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Thought this might make for an interesting thread. I think it odd how we flit through daily life with all these things that can so easily kill us, and yet most of us emerge completely unscathed. What's the closest you have come to biting the big one? Here's mine (pretty tame, but I'm sure others will have spicier contributions) I was scuba diving, and all 8 or so of us divers were in a line, one behind another, with me at the very end, and the 2nd instructor behind me bringing up the rear. This was my first underwater certification dive, and I apparently hadn't affixed the tank properly to the tank-holding apparatus, and -- as was told to me later by the instructor behind me -- it slipped out, and was free-falling in the water deeper and deeper but he saw what was happening and caught it just before it would have consumed all the slack in the line going to my mouthpiece. Had he not noticed it and caught it, it certainly would have ripped my regulator (aka mouthpiece) out. I was only around 15 feet underwater, and might have been able to shoot to the surface unharmed, but I prob would have panicked and taken a big gulp of tasty lake water. I don't really know if taking on a ton of water is enough to kill you...or whether being resuccitated Hasselhoff-style is a straight-forward procedure...but it was enough to spook me pretty good. [/ QUOTE ] okay, i'm sure it was scary but come on - you were only 15 feet below, and you had been properly trained on a free-ascent, I presume. Hell, I once had to ditch my gear at 80 feet and ascend...not a big deal as long as you don't panic. 
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#83
10-09-2006, 06:18 PM
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Re: Closest you have come to dying
In 1980 I was flying into Detroit the day after Xmas right after a huge freeze in the area. As the plane landed, it hit a patch of ice and spun to the side, tilting, and slid down the runway sideways, scraping one wing on the ground. So, a "psuedo plane crash." Damn scary. Had to slide down the yellow slide thingy and everything.
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#84
10-09-2006, 07:00 PM
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Re: Closest you have come to dying
I've lived a relatively safe life. Fell asleep once while driving, and woke up right before hitting the cement barrier on the interstate. That was a little scary.
Was very very close to being kidnapped when I was 2 or 3. Who knows what the guy would have done to me.
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#85
10-09-2006, 07:31 PM
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- Fell asleep at the wheel on I-64 outside of St Louis, spun out into the median, knocked over a road sign, and missed getting hit by an oncoming semi by about a foot.
- 5 years old, had a MASSIVE asthma attack and was in the hospital for a few days - Flying into Pittsburgh from London and a plane taking off undershot us by about 50 yards. Those on the other side of the plane screamed like hell - apparently the other plane was close enough that they could see the passengers' eyes. On my side we were visually unaware, then we felt the pressure wave and the others explained things. We all received free flights upon landing.
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#86
10-09-2006, 07:43 PM
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Re: Closest you have come to dying
Gun to my head in a semi-ghetto nieghborhood for no reason, they werent gonna hurt me they just wanted to scare the hell out of me...dicks
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#87
10-09-2006, 07:43 PM
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Re: Closest you have come to dying
Head on collision in Taurus wagon, head first thru windshield landed in intersection. Yay!
GF has better story, head-on on hiway, guy crossed median and nailed her, she gets helicoptered to hospital <10mins before death, has cool titanium plate in her face.
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#88
10-09-2006, 08:10 PM
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Driving my '84 s10 pickup about 80mph down a curvy 2 lane country highway. I was trying to keep up with one of my buddies who was leading the way. It had just started raining so there was the usual wet/oily coating on the asphalt. I dipped the right side of the truck onto the gravel shoulder. I know it was the wrong thing to do, but I instictively jerked the wheel to the left. A smoother aproach would have been more appopriate, but my action sent the truck into a slide on the highway. I tried to correct the slide by turning to the left, but when the tires grabbed the road it sent me straight to the left ditch. The ditch was proably 15ft down to a corn field at a 45 degree angle. I was airborn through the decent, but when I hit the field the left front tire dug into the field and sent me into a 70mph roll. We esimated that I rolled about 6 or 7 times, Its tough to tell because there was areas of corn knocked down, and then areas of corn still standing which means some of the rolls were in the air. The only injuries I suffered was a bump on the head from releasing the seatbelt while upside down, and cuts on my back from crawling through the broken window. By this point my friend was out of sight so I proceeded to sprint about 2 miles until my friends drove back to look where I was.
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#89
10-09-2006, 08:26 PM
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Re: Closest you have come to dying
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#1. When I was in about the sixth or seventh grade, I had it my head that I wanted to be a Navy SEAL. So I found big wide drainage pipe, about 18 inch diameter and about ten feet long and somehow got the monster into our swimming pool. I then decided to hold my beath and try to crawl through it underwater. All I remember is getting stuck in the middle and panicking. The next thing I remember is smacking my face into the side of pool. No idea how I got out of that, but I did this with no one around because I knew they would try to stop me. [/ QUOTE ] WOW. Luck you were only a Darwin Award nominee and not a winner!
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