Closest you've come to death?

[A S U]

I got in a car accident 7 years ago. My buddy fell asleep at the wheel, we went off the side of the 10 freeway between Blythe and Indio in CA. I was asleep at the time, the only thing I remember was being awoken by my buddy saying "oh fuuuuuck" I opened my eyes, say the horizon and then woke up at the bottom of the road. The airbag knocked me out. We landed on the underpass 20 feet below and slid into a empty ravine and ended up into a wall of rocks. We probably should have died, the impact was enough to break his rims in half and take 6 foot long chunks out of the asphalt.

I guess I'm lucky... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Anybody else got similar stories about being cheating death?

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

I didn't send flowers to my wife at work on our anniversary. That was some scary [censored], let me tell you what.

[canis582]

5 years at CWRU. Suicide and homicide were daily threats.

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

Nothing nearly so dramatic or terrifying as your experience, but when I was young (must have been between 5-8 or so), I was on my Dad's shoulders in the ocean while on vacation in Mexico when he decided it'd be funny if he let a wave take me. I had no idea it was happening, but it must have been about 7 feet high if it took my off his shoulders. All I remember was not having my breath, tumbling around in the wave, only able to see white and blue, and then realizing I was on my knees back on the sand. I ran crying to my mommy. Damn straight.

I probably wouldn't have died, but in the moment I thought I was a goner for sure.

[DoubleTwentyOne]

It was last Nov. We were on the way to Morongo for some nice action, then the driver decided to slam into the median and roll the damn car 3 times. Luckily we came to a rest in the Elane, otherwise with our gas tank exposed to oncoming traffic, it would've been game over in a split second had someone collided into us. Funny thing is, we eventually made it back to my car and decided to drive to Morongo anyway...that night I played like a Maniac among maniacs, raising every pot without looking at my cards... apparantly I haven't used up all my luck surviving the accident...I actually came up 2 buy-ins in 3 hours playing like that. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[Shajen]

I crop dusted Compton one time.

We did this thread a good while back. Astro wins. I come in second for hitting a deer on a motorcycle. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

[Fishmonger]

Used to eat at McDonalds and Pizza Hut.

[Layzie]

I once shot heroin with a needle that I had previously used for transfering LSD into seperate vials. This resulted in a hosptial trip.

[A S U]

Canis,
What is CWRU?

Macdaddy,
When I was younger I was caught in a riptide and got flipped. Very scary.

[tomdemaine]

I almost drowned when I was 5 or 6. At center parcs for crying out loud. My dad didn't have his glasses on and couldn't see that kids shouldn't really go on the rapids.