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What was your closest brush with death?

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?


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KEYWORDS: chat; death; faithandphilosophy; nde; neardeath; neardeathexperience; survival
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To: SamAdams76

And Finland like New England, and South Africa like Australia. I’ve also missed by over 19,000 km!


301 posted on 07/07/2013 5:53:13 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: null and void
I think top available is something like 32895.

A rather odd number. 32768 would have made more sense...

302 posted on 07/07/2013 5:54:51 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: null and void

dress blues - blue dress, LOL


303 posted on 07/07/2013 5:57:12 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If global warming exists I hope it is strong enough to reverse the Big Government snowball)
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To: Clarence Boddicker

Whoa! What’s it like to be dead?


304 posted on 07/07/2013 6:07:12 PM PDT by MNDude (Sorry for typos. Probably written on a smartphone, and I have big clumsy fingers.)
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To: MNDude

I posted my abduction-by-serial-killer story once before on FR. I stopped hitchhiking after that.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1818327/posts?page=23#23

I’ve been in only one situation even remotely similar to this and I panicked. A police car drove right past me and my abductor when all I needed to do was turn the wheel and cause an accident to free myself. When the time came that the truck was slowed down enough I jumped out and ran as fast as I could, even weaving back & forth because I was convinced I would have a few rounds coming my way. But I learned on that day that people do panic, it happened to me. When you’re stuck inside 4 walls, the fight-or-flight syndrome can go off into the weeds. As a p.s. to this story, about 15 years later I saw an article that had a picture of someone who looked like him, so I read the article — it was about a guy who had been executed in California for picking up hitchhikers, raping, torturing & murdering them.


305 posted on 07/07/2013 6:15:08 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: null and void

Once I was dropped at the foot of the Queensboro Bridge in Brooklyn. I think I got within 10 meters that time. I’m still waiting to get dropped in front of my house - now that would be weird. I know the Google Truck came through my neighborhood once so it’s in the database.


306 posted on 07/07/2013 6:53:14 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Those evil people dropped me in the lobby of a cinema. All the signs were in English, and I couldn’t leave the center of the lobby, saw some green out the glass doors.

It was in Odessa, the Ukraine.

I missed by a little, like half a planet...


307 posted on 07/07/2013 7:21:58 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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