[wardaddy]

Sad

As a boy but for Gods hand I could have died too many times

Falls

Accidental gun discharge

Water moccasin nest

Huge fat southeastern diamondbacks

After on of course comes fast cars or motorcycles or booze and drugs or that women that’ll stab ya

God bless that boy and his family

RIP

Now you look back and you’re old and go damn...poor kid

[rlmorel]

All true. So true.

I was climbing on the roof of an abandoned stable when I lived in Virginia and it was really hard for me to get up on the roof, but I couldn’t get back down.

So, I have my torso hanging from the roof overhang, and my brother tells me to just let go because the window is right under my feet.

I let go and plummeted about 15 feet into a pile of jagged scrap metal, and came out of it with a inch wide hole in my shin that just missed my shin bone and penetrated a few inches in.

I was lucky. Looking back there, could have had a rusty metal thing impale my neck, head, or torso, because it was just a big junk pile of that stuff.

I was afraid to tell my parents, so I let the thing heal on its own, and it took nearly a year before it completely healed over with purple skin.

I ripped it open about a year later climbing on a breakwater (where I shouldn’t have been) on a Navy base in Japan. The wound was very puzzling to the doctor who sewed it up. He couldn’t figure out how I got such an ugly wound skinning my shin on rocks.

I am sure I would have had lockjaw if I hadn’t already had so many tetanus shots!

Anyway, I feel bad for this kid and his family he was stupid and unlucky, where many of us who make it are stupid and lucky.