[Pollard]

He must have landed just the wrong way. Sounds exactly like a neighbor. He was riding a dirt bike up the gravel road, chasing his cousin’s dog home. Looked like he was trying to touch the dog’s tail with his front tire. Dog lost traction and ended up against the front tire, guy turned front wheel too sharp, too quick and went over the handle bars. I watched it happen and it didn’t seem like a bad fall but his breathing wasn’t right and he was unconscious. They airlifted him but I guess both lungs had collapsed. Took 35 minutes for the ambulance to get here and then another 30 to get to the chopper. Obviously, he was brain dead long before the ambulance even got here. We’re kinda rural. He was a little overweight and soft around the middle.

I’ve fallen or been flung that far before. No damage except for scrapes and sore wrists or elbows depending on which side I landed on.

Me and a childhood friend used to climb a pine tree that had to be 60 foot tall at least. We’d go so high the thing was swaying back and forth a few feet with the wind. 4 inch diameter trunk up there. Gives me the heebie jeebies thinking about it now. I think most boys and some girls should/could have been dead a few times over. A Lot of people have cheated death more than once. Some people don’t.

[GingisK]

When I graduated from high school, my mother told me that she always thought I wouldn’t live long enough for that day. Many times she told me, “Angels watch over children and fools”.

[litehaus]

” A Lot of people have cheated death more than once.”

Is there anyone who cannot be thankful for “getting away” with something that could have been a disaster ? I can think of more than just one....

[RedMonqey]

Me and a childhood friend used to climb a pine tree that had to be 60 foot tall at least.

Got lots of pines trees in our mother's yard like that. Lotsa easy branches to reach the top.(Oh, I helped plant them when we were kids.) Too old to climb but my nephew and his friend did and got poison ivy for his efforts.

Tried to warn him not to but, city kid.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Many years ago when a buddy and I were sharing a house I let him get on my bike in the backyard. That was a big mistake.

He hit the throttle too hard and brought the front end up and panicked and held onto the throttle. The bike went about 10 or 15 feet and fell in one direction and he fell in the other. It didn’t look like much of a fall or anything. He ended up with a diagonal break in the upper part of his leg and spent 10 weeks in traction followed by 3 months in a full leg cast.