Posted on 07/06/2013 7:15:44 PM PDT by MNDude
It seems almost everyone has a story of how they almost drowned, almost drove off a cliff, or narrowly dodged a bullet. What is your story of the closest you came to dying?
Oy veh, you stop every mother’s heart with your story. I’m glad you two little devils made it back alive!
Had to many close calls to count but the closest is probably when I totaled my airplane in Mexico.
I survived a case of pneumonia when a very young infant. My lungs are still scarred from it.
I got that phone call at 1:30 am that you never want to get. I thought I was dying.
“Reading the articles,” no doubt!
In 1972 my then husband and I lived in Rapid City, South Dakota. On the night of June 9th we were involved in a major flood where we lost both sets of parents, and 3 homes. We narrowly escaped while crossing a wooden bridge in our Jeep CJ5. As we got to the other side we turned around in time to see it collapse.
CC you win!1
Here are mine:
10,000 volts at 50mA.
Car crash.
Shot at to no effect.
Shot with effect(2X)
Plane crash(Cessna 150 blew a tire on landing).
7,000 pounds of stainless steel fell a foot away from me when a chain broke.
I do answer to “Lucky”.
They were slinging everything in the inventory at us and, (old joke) I thought I saw a kitchen sink go flying by. One of my 6 loads into the firebase was a water buffalo (large water trailer) I had barely got the thing on the ground when a mortar round dead centered it. We got some shrapnel on the bottom of the helicopter but that was all. It took me a few days to figure out that the only way it could have hit the trailer would be to go between the rotor blades going about 307 rpms.
Whooah! More details man!
My first night taking newly prescribed BP meds I was at the kitchen sink and blacked out. Next thing I know I’m on the kitchen floor on my left side. My kitchen is small with an island very close to the sink so if I fell any other direction but to the left I could have cracked my head open or done serious damage.
Turns out all I had was a sore left butt and didn’t hit the head at all during the fall.
I was amazed how that turned out. I live alone so just speculating how it could have turned out otherwise. This story is lightweight compared to most here but death can occur a thousand different ways.
Sigh. I don’t do that anymore, but when I was in the Navy, I thought I could do nearly anything.
I got up at 10 AM, worked a full night shift at work, jumped in my car the next morning and drove straight through on leave from Jacksonville, FL to Boston, MA, about a 24 hour journey. When I got home, I immediately dropped my stuff off at home, visited with as many friends as I could, picked up a gal I had arranged a date with, and drove up to Hampton Beach in New Hampshire with her for dinner and beach activities.
Around midnight (about 50 hours since I woke up in Florida) as I was driving my date home on 495 South in Massachusetts, I fell fast asleep.
No warning, just fell fast asleep (she was sleeping in the passenger seat of my MG Midget already). Next thing I knew, my head was bumping the inside of the convertible top of the MG. We were transversing the grass median of the highway diagonally at about 50 mph.
I was so damn lucky it was relatively flat and clear. No rocks or trees. I couldn’t believe how stupid I had been. I could have killed that girl, not to mention myself.
What amazed me was how quickly my brain just turned off.
I was on my hands and knees looking for a lost contact lens, it was dark, and the cops thought I was a dog and they shot me!
Thanks man.
For everything.
The older ya get the more ya add to the tally, makes you wonder how ya made it this far sometimes.
Then you thank the Lord.
When I was a teenager I gave my mom the finger.
Lost my engine at the Nampa ID airport when I was in the pattern...
I like your story!
I live such a boring life.
Zapped by 13,800 volts while trimming trees.
Head on collision at 70 MPH
Too many to list, the Lord had different plans for me.
Yeah. Well, you are an American guy, an example of one who still makes me proud. You did what we asked you to do, because that is the way you roll. You may not be a hero, but if things are as they should be, you should never be broke from spending your money on drinks.
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