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otis · Joined: 02 Jun 2006

I've almost died a couple times.

The one that brought me the nearest to the reaper was while swimming in a lake as a kid. I was thirteen.

I was out in about ten feet of water. I cramped up. I sank.

I was saved by an Eagle Scout. No kidding.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject:

My heart stopped beating when I was three. My father gave me mouth to mouth and revived me, took me to the hospital.

I, age 12, was panning one sunday afternoon with my dad on the Gold Rush trail and got bored of the swish-swashing so went for a walk by myself, ending up on a slope with lots of big, sharp, loose rocks, which began sliding downwards. I fell down on my hands and knees, sprawled out to try and stop my descent, which had been 20-30 m before stopping luckily about a metre from the dropoff to the canyon floor a 100m below. My hands and knees were chopped up by the shards of sharp rocks, looking like someone took a knife to them, sore for months after.

I, age 18, was driving to work on a Saturday night in my first car, a small Datsun, giving my coworker a ride as well. We were on the highway going toward a supermarket on the edge of our hometown that was doing overnight renovations for two weeks and us college students were making some extra coin in early September juggling 10-hour graveyard shifts with our new semester schedule. Sleep suffered. In the second week I dozed off at the wheel on the way to work on a Saturday night, 10 pm and we hit a small hole on the side of the highway, doing 90 km/h the effect on the small car was to lurch it onto the side slope. I looked up and a telephone pole was right in front of us so I turned the wheel hard left at the last sec and we hit it on the front right corner of the car, doing about 60 km/h. Then I feel a light floating sensation followed by unconsciousness. When I awoke I noticed we were smack in the middle of the side road which runs parallel with the highway but several metres below it. A small old Japanese man witnessed the whole thing, said the car "spin like a top" showing a round round motion with his forefinger - four times in all. Both my coworker and I went to work that night after answering all the police's questions (took us awhile to convince them we weren't drunk or on drugs, it being a saturday night and all), though both had to go home a few hours later as the symptoms of major whiplash kicked in (we had no idea) and I was immobolized in bed for a week, had trouble turning my head for a month, and had headaches for years. My dad went to the salvage lot to get my personal effects from the written-off car, and he brought back the cassette tapes which were in the back seat, even though some of the tapes were broken. The thing is: ALL those tapes had been locked in the glove compartment!! That's how strong the impact was. That early 70s little car had no air bags of course, which makes it all the more remarkable: luck to hit the pole at the exact right angle to let the resulting spin take off much of the force of the impact.

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

http://www.near-death.com/mccormack.html

cangel · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: Jeonju, S. Korea

Way back in my Army days I was sling loading a vehicle under a Chinook helicopter. Well, for those who don't know, you can get a jolt of a lifetime if you don't get a clean hook-up. I was standing on top of the vehicles shelter-about 10 feet up and was hit with a bolt of static electricity that blew me off the shelter and about 8 feet away. My skin was smoking, split, hair gone. My heart actually stopped and I was given CPR. The medics said I didn't have a heartbeat for several minutes. When I finally got to the hospital they needed to give me the paddles to get the old ticker going they way it should be. I, of course, don't remember any of this. The only "white light" I saw was probably the massive electrical discharge from the Chinook. Oh, I won't even mention the bullets of Somalia...

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

too serious.
Mine makes me look like an idiot.

4th grade. on vacation.
Swimming in a friend's pool in Kamloops. Yell out ot my friend, "Hey, I'm going to jump through the middle of this tire tube!"
Do it.
Get stuck halfway (with a wicked scar on my gut). Head, torso, arms underwater and (of course) unable to flip the inner tube right side up. Flailing, slowly drowning.
Friend thinks its a good idea to sit on me. I kick him in the face. Black out. Am rescucitated (sp?) by the pool owner.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject:

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

Motorcycle. Country roads. Curves. Oncoming cars cutting over the middle line.

Canoeing. Flooded river. No lifejacket on. Tipped over. Currents keeping me under.

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

Agasaya · Joined: 06 Mar 2007

A few summers ago I was in Namibia with a World Challenge Expedition.
My group was at a bush camp (nothing around for miles and miles) in the middle of nowhere. A small group and I decided to climb up a small mountain near where we set camp.
On our way down, we came to a spot where we were going to see if it was safe enough to climb down a certain way... so I want to check it out, and I slipped and started sliding this very steep rockface. I grabbed a root that was sticking out of the rock and stopped myself. At the end of this downwords slide, there was a cliff, a 4 foot drop down onto a 2 foot wide ledge, and then a crevasse that went down into darkness farther than I could see. One of my friends ran around and managed to work his way along the ledge and hold on to a tree as I was losing my grip. I lost my grip, slid down the rest of the rock face and grabbed onto him and made it onto the small ledge.
Scariest thing I have ever been through in my life. Thank goodess for my friend and his Indiana Jones tactics involving a tree and some serious climbing skills

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Last summer I fell asleep with the fan on in my room.... just narrowly escaped with my life

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

Canuck Teacher · Joined: 18 Feb 2007

I went to bed with a Korean girl who went nympho on me. In order to not shame Canada as a nation of great lovers i had to "salute the flag" all night. Damn near killed me.

She didn�t even make me breakfast.

traxxe · Joined: 21 Feb 2007

I was always climbing crap as a kid, my parents had to tie everything down. I climbed up to the top of the fridge and took my father's heart medication. It was nitro glycerine. I'm in a medical journal for the first official overdose of the meds with a healthy heart. Went into cardiac arrest.

I was four and tossing a quarter up in the air and trying to catch it in my mouth (I know, gross) but I was too successful an it lodged in my throat. They cut a small hole in my throat to force it out.

I was two and my oldest sister was babysitting me. She fell asleep watching a movie on the couch and I crawled out the doggie door and straight into our swimming pool. Our neighbor came by bringing us cookies and to check on us. The frantic search turned me up face down in the pool. CPR, and Rose was my babysitter ever since. Close family friends still.

Tubing down the salt river when I was ten with family. Hit a rapids part and our tubes were tied together. I split my head on a rock, got caught in the current until someone saw my body pinned and got me out. Airlifted, revived by my uncle.

My first boxing match I was 15, fighting a guy who just got out of prison. I was unconscious ten minutes when he knocked me out and was stuttering for a few months after, skull fracture and brain swelling.

Saw a kid fall through ice in Northern Arizona. Jumped in after him. I locked up when I got him out by throwing him through the crack. He was down at the bottom. I lost consciousness but not before grabbing onto a guys jacket who pulled me out.

Shot at once, friend took a bullet in the leg. Somehow they missed my huge ass.

Uh, that's all I can think of.

traxxe · Joined: 21 Feb 2007

Oh... my last girlfriend...

She's very thin, we were drunkenly screwing against the wall. It came out, she came down with that deadly pelvis and I folded in half.

While technically I wasn't dead. That's as close as a man can get and still survive. Everything turned black (I'm incredibly white). At the ER the doctor looked and shouts, "OH my god!" when I showed him. And not in the good way. They had to call in two urioligists to look, scariest moment of my life and I've been jumped, fought in cages, been shot at and I was crying like a little girl.

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:15 am Post subject:

University rugby team. I was hooker. During practice, the scrum collapsed and I landed (unprotected) on my head with 14 other guys landing on top of me. My neck got wrenched pretty good and I was lying paralyzed on the ground for about 15 minutes before extremeties would start working again. Doctors told me I "technically" broke my neck, but it was more like hairline fractures to 2 of the vertebrae. Neck probelms ever since.

Elementary school. Winter tobogganning near my house one night. The hill was actually a train overpass for cars, hill facing the local canal several dozen meters out with tall light/telephone posts dotting along the bottom of the hill. Going down the usual run was uneventful, but also boring because it wasn't as high as further down the overpass. My buddy and I moved over maybe 15 meters over and up, and tested the virgin snow on that part of the hill. There's a telephone pole at the bottom of our run, but we'll skirt it with lots of room to spare. Go down. At the bottom, something whistled over my head and snagged my hat off my head... after picking up the toboggan and marching back to get the hat, we saw a guide wire was holding up the pole and it had missed me by a fraction of a centimeter. If we had gone down the hill a foot over from where we were, the wire would have caught me around the throat and taken my head right off. Now we knew why other people didn't toboggan on that part of the hill at night.