The closest you ever came to death?

[defyant]

Doing an internal attack during a structure fire. My partner and I were about the enter the structure, and for whatever reason we stopped and looked behind us cause we thought someone called out to us. Seeing no one there we proceeded inside and the entire roof collapsed 3 feet in front of us. If we never stopped, we would be toast.

[neowolfe]

cops raided my apartment while i was watching tv, dog barked at them and cops shot him 20+ times, and I was right behind the dog. by some miracle i didnt get hit.

cops raided the wrong apartment, it was the guy on the floor below cooking meth

[RapierApe]

You are closer than you have ever been to death on each second that passes. liv luv laf until aw fuk bye.

[ParkCity]

survived that by being thrown out of driver side window as it flipped mid-air before smashing into a tree and falling 15ft

[Uuuhhh]

I flipped my old wrx, went about 10ft in the air, hit a tree and landed upside down on the other side of the street

I was 18, and an idiot, I'm sorry world

Scooby power

[Hussar1]

A few times. Most not worth mentioning. But the "big one":

IED flips suburban on its side. I'm in front passenger seat. Right leg gets trapped between seat and door. I wasn't stuck stuck, but the angle wouldn't allow me to pull it out. Engine is on fire, smoke coming through what's left of windshield. I'm hearing "tink tink tink" of rounds hitting vehicle. Debating if I'll burn to death or get my head chopped off on Al Jiz.

Big burly Brit who was our trunk monkey reaches through windshield and pulls me out. Head back to compound.

Get wasted on vodka.

[dixie_normus]

lets see here.

When i was 11 I was walking to the grocery store for a sunday newspaper and 3 guys, 2 black 1 white, held me up at gunpoint for the measly 5 dollars I had.

when i was 14 i tripped over a board of nails and had 5 of them enter me, one nearly missing my spine.

just a couple weeks ago i had a 25 foot aluminum ladder fall on top of me. luckily someone was looking out for me and saw it just in time and braced myself for it by diving out of the way. I was facing away from it and i suddenly had the urge to look back to see it coming down. escaped with a concussion and multiple bruises on my back, shoulders, and legs.

[Quadzillas]

Fell out of bed when I was a baby and landed head first on a plug.

[Breaktalents]

Numerous times coming home after a night shift where I doze off and swerve back into my lane. Das it mane, playing with death.

[xHiroko]

Bench pressed to failure and the barbbell fell on my neck.
I couldn't lift it any higher, chest was dead so some huge guy lifted it off me and saved my life.
(srs)
still thankful to him.
I was all fkin red.

[Power_Strike92]

cops raided my apartment while i was watching tv, dog barked at them and cops shot him 20+ times, and I was right behind the dog. by some miracle i didnt get hit.

cops raided the wrong apartment, it was the guy on the floor below cooking meth

Did they disrespect your family?

[TERMINATORBRUH]

took a huge sh*t once and my angus bled hnnnng

[ImmaWoya]

>doing some core work too close to some ******* benching
>he couldn't keep bar straight
>two 45 lb plates hit the ground where my head used to be
>reaction time of peace whole class gets quiet and we never speak of this again

[Market_Pantry]

a few times. id say the surgery was the most recent close call.

also when i was younger a drunk driver almost hit me when i was crossing the sidewalk.

[barbariancase]

I fell off my bike one time and got a nasty cut, but no worries, I was shredded anyways.

[RustlerB]

I got really lucky in my cases:

-Riding on my road bike (wearing lycra and helmet). Doing 30mph down this road that i'm unfamiliar with, massive pothole in the road that I couldn't see, throws my wheel out and can't control it. Bounce straight onto the other side of the road and hit a car head on, they must've been doing at least 30/40mph. Got out very lucky, with only a bruised ass and a very broken bike. I lunged the bike forward and fell backwards so it took most of the impact. Them reflexes.

-Racing and a guy takes me off at 42mph on this bridge and I nearly fly over this bridge into a quarry. Came out with shortened fingers and my eyebrow split open.

Not half as bad as some of you guys, but just my little stories

[canyoudigthat]

Was in Singapore mid way crossing a narrow road some van from nowhere speeding fukn fast only misses me by a couple of inches, didn't think anything of it when it happened but looking back i was pretty fukn close into getting run over.

[ImAlexBrah]

When I was 6 or 7 my brother and I were in a hotel pool, neither of us could swim. We would just stay in the shallow area or hold onto the side. I got the bright idea to show off, so I went to the deep end and jumped off thinking I would just turn and grab onto the side when I came up. LOL NOPE.

Luckily after a few seconds my step dad noticed and grabbed my ass out of the water. Scary chit.


Another time was I was wading in the tide pools looking for critters (8 or 9 at the time), wasn't paying attention and a wave knocked me over and an undertow pulled me out a little. Fuuarrkk that was scary.

[ChickenMadness]

was 6 ish. Was in Cornwall at the beach. Saw a bunch of people swimming really far out in the sea so I followed them. Got swept away by the current and almost drowned lol. Was shouting for help and luckily there were some surfers near by who swam over and brought me back to the beach.


That moment when you think 'oh ****'. Because you don't have any control of the situation anymore. Thought I was going to die. srs.

[cyanotikat]

i got lyme disease which also made me get brain menigitis and bells posley.

Could of went blind or died, was very lucky

Cousin just had the same thing. He had to be put in an induced coma for a few days. They had no freaking clue. It was scary as hell. He's okay now.

[Dariusx78]

I fought in chechnya during the second war was more scared of older soldiers then the enemy

[MattyJ1s]

I almost rolled a backhoe over a cliff when I was moving some boulders...and it didnt have a roll cage. Some how I was able to slam it in reverse and save myself from absolute death....scariest moment of my life.

[NEBinAK]

I've had a couple

Got caught in a storm out in the ocean in a way to small to be out there boat, the storm came so fast we didn't have time I get back. The boat was catching air on the breakers and kept filling with water. Was very lucky to make it back on that one.

The other one I was on a road trip and we saw a waterfall and I said I bet I can climb that waterfall, I made it pretty damn close to the top until it went to a unclimbable angle without ropes. Looked down and saw two Harley's pull onto the pullout and they looked like ants. Tried to see how to climb back down and couldn't find any good foot holds. Decided to traverse to the vegetative part cause it looked easier to get down ended up slipping and dropping about five feet before catching myself by grabbing onto devils club. It was a very intense moment and I didn't even feel the 1" spines embedded in my hand.

I've had some other close calls but those were probably the closest.

[Brahhphomet]

Cousin was playing around with a pistol, thought the cartridge was empty. Pointed it right to my head, about to pull the trigger laughed then put it down. Doubled checked that there was one in the chamber.

[l2ambo]

Tried passing a semi on a 2 lane highway he was going 110km in a 110max. Had more than enough time or so I thought. Hit the gas to accelerate past, I must've been on a slight incline because I wasn't getting any speed at all. (probably 115) At this point I'm getting kinda nervous even though there's not a car in sight. I decide to floor it, still only getting about 120. (strong POS 94 accord) I'm about half way passed the semi when I see another semi come around the bend, probably about 3km coming towards me. Start getting really freaked out. I'm about 2/3rds past the semi at this point but my car isn't going any faster. 2km away now. I have to make a decision to brake or pass. I slam on my brakes and start swerving slightly but it seems like I'm not even stopping. (I think the semi beside me started slowing down to let me in) I'm less than 300m away at this point. The oncoming semi moves almost completely off the road to keep from squashing me. Probably missed me by 5metres. "HOLY CHIT!" *breathing heavily**let's out huge sigh* Stay safe brahs.

[soxxxx]

When the boat got damaged and sunk, I was left in the ocean for nearly 2 days. Ended up on island off the coast of south america. I was able survive for 2 weeks before native people discovered me. They took care of me for a couple days before I was eventually flown home.

[joewtugwell]

Did they disrespect your family?

Haha I knew it

[k1ckstand]

went into a coma for a few hours before diabetes diagnosis

[scullin]

Car accidents and rocket attacks in Iraq. More scared of car accidents than war crew. srs I expect to be killed half the time I drive to and from work (DC traffic nightmare). But I was never really nervous during either deployments even when being attacked.

[Large_Emu]

I got the flu when I was 2 weeks old.