Any near-death experiences(?)

[thediscochef]

I can't say I've had a full NDE, where my body was actively expiring. But I have dodged almost certain death way more than someone should have by 32. 

 

Severe salmonella from a reptile bite in the middle of the Kenyan bush. I was 9. 104 fever and an eight hour ride through the bush to the nearest hospital.

 

About two months later my dad took myself and my mom to broken bow to take fly fishing classes, we were in a severe rear-end collision on the way home. I was laying down in the back seat. I woke up looking at a suburban's undercarriage and the headrest of the seat I was in. If I had been sitting up I would have certainly passed.

 

Covid+rocky mountain spotted fever at the same time last year, 103-104 fever for four days. Pretty sure I lost some brain cells from that one. 

 

Almost t boned a 2003 Mazda protege doing 70 when he pulled out in front of me at the last second. It's good to know how to handle a vehicle in a skid at high speed. He painted my back bumper and then sped off. I had to find a safe place to pull off the road, and was told by the county sheriff after an hour on hold that "since i had left the scene, no report or dispatch would be made". Guess I should have parked in the middle of a busy farm to market road. Absolutely useless. This was last year.

 

2010, working at a casino vendor. Kept me on shift for almost 18 hours. I fell asleep at the wheel less than five miles from home and was within milliseconds of driving off the side of a hill and into an oil/gas site. Road sign killed one of my doors, but I lived.

 

There's more but those are the ones that come to mind the most easily

[ATA]

Stand on motor bike while riding we called that CROSS. when I was 20, It was 1AM in highway between cities, A truck came to highway from dirt road, Hit it and fly good and slide on highway for good. I still remember my bike made spark and slide following me on asphalt and the truck that stoped and then left me on the road. To this day I have the signs on my body and skin. I was lucky that truck and other cars that later passed by didnt go over me and I was lucky I didnt die. I'll try to ask my mom to find some pictures and if I cam find I'll share. I was like terminator, Right half of my body had no skin and you could only see meat and blood. I almost loose the right eye as well because there was no eyelid left. Basically the asphalt act as grinder. I have few places broken, Head to toe but the eye and skin was the worst.

picture is what we did back then and there was no gear like now and we never use helmet of course stupid 20 years old 🤣

[WRB]

How I managed to survive my youth is a mystery. 
It stared with a ladder fell on me at age 3 scalping my skin off the back of my head still have a 5” scar. 
I was a diver and gymnasts in high school. Practice a dive someone jumped into the water while I was in the air and hit him knocking out. I remember laying on the pool bottom looking up when the light went out. The life guard saved me woke up covered with a blanket people standing looking at me.

I loved to race everything from boats, cars, motorcycles etc. few high speed accidents that managed to survive.

Deer hunting we would use army pack frame to carry out the dressed deer tied to the pack board. I was carry out a deer when hearing bullets buzzing passed me. Realizing some ass was shooting at me when a bullet hit the frame knocking me down. I thought of shooting back but couldn't locate the shooter. Last time I deer hunted!

When I was in high school a few friends decided to hike up to Mt Luken’s. I was at the rear when the trail going up a cliff broke away and fell into a pine top breaking branch’s until hitting the rocky ground knocking me out. Back then we didn’t have phones so my friends carried me out and to the hospital. Brushed brain but no bleed and chipped the tail bone other than  that was OK.

Last year I fell off a 8’ ladder last in our 14’ high entry, birds in the nest flew into my face and stepped back falling. Managed to turn to land face and chest down knocking me out. I woke up in the ER and lucky to have my gymnastic skills.

Tom

 

 

[ThatZX14Fella]

Closest one for me was riding with my little brother (not blood related, but I’ve known him his entire life). His 16th birthday, he cops a feel on a girl, runs off one side of the road, overcorrects, then runs off the other side. Hit a fence and took out a couple of trees. I was in the back center seat with no seatbelt on. Almost went through the windshield, which probably would’ve ended with me face planting the tree that stopped us. After that night was when I decided to start trusting my gut when I got a bad feeling.

[A-Jay]

There's some pretty hairy accounts up in this one.

Personally, I stopped counting them quite a while ago

and a few I've deliberately miss-remembered.

I'll just borrowing a term from the medical field.

TNTC

Fortunately, there hasn't been any in a while and I hope that trend continues. 

Stay Safe 

A-Jay

 

[MediumMouthBass]

On 6/4/2024 at 3:51 AM, Susky River Rat said:

I raced motocross. At one time I almost became numb to risking life and limb. It was just another day. 

It gets to a point where you no longer realize the chances you are taking. So many guys out there now going all in, doing 110% just to get ahead 1 spot or make themselves look good on youtube. And if they win, only A class pays at most places. Ands its not even much money.

 

Your words on that are really the truth, you just keep pushing yourself further and further, jumping a double becomes a triple, then trying to get faster lap times, mix that in with other people in a competition with ego and its worse than alcohol at that point.

 

When you step back and watch other people racing you start noticing and understanding how these guys are risking their lives and health a few dozen times each race. Ive moved away from any ambitions for the moto/supercross part of the sport, still enjoy watching it but ill stick with enduro, cross country, and trail riding. Thats still not the safest but probably better than drinking public water these days.

[DaubsNU1]

@MediumMouthBass, my college roommate turned in to a life-long best friend! He raced super-cross for many, many years...and has lots of crazy stories. Wrecked on hole shot and got run over...pulled himself up, finished the race...and limped his bike back to the pits...

 

Lying on the ground, his buddy walked up and said, "Hey, did you see the start...this guy fell in front of me and I had to pull a wheelie to get over him...hopefully he's okay..."

 

My buddy replied, "yea, that was ME!" (He broke three ribs, and still finished the race!)

 

By the time we met in college, he had really slowed down on racing...but still did amazing things on that bike.

 

Fortunately (or unfortunately), I was in to sports...and pretty darn competitive. Didn't run in to any issues until I was mid 30's playing pickup basketball. Ruptured my Achilles tendon. That slowed me down quite a bit...only played slow pitch softball for a few more years. Thankfully no lingering effects

[Susky River Rat]

@MediumMouthBass yeah, it’s pretty insane what gets blocked out. These kids are taught from age 4 on up to just huck it. 

[Texas Flood]

On 6/3/2024 at 4:14 PM, 12poundbass said:

Does stage 4 cancer count? If so put me down. 

Sorry, we're looking for more stage 5 survivors.

[deaknh03]

On 6/3/2024 at 4:15 PM, king fisher said:

Ran over by a bull moose 5 miles from cabin no way to communicate with any one. Not due to be picked up for another month. Bruised and a broken finger.

 

Charged by brown bear at night while crossing a river. Shot bear.

 

In a plane crash I was not the pilot no one hurt. Plane totaled.

 

3 complete engine failures while piloting aircraft. One at worst possible time while taking off. No injuries to self or plane

 

Fell through ice while wearing snow shoes. Temperature was - 25 degrees 3 miles from cabin. Set land speed record.

 

broke up fight between Bait Monkey and my wife. Lasting emotional scars.

 

 

 

 

 

Passenger in a plane, it crashes..you get in another plane, engine fails, you then get in another plane, engine fails...then you get in another plane, engine fails. Seems a bit masochistic.

[king fisher]

1 hour ago, deaknh03 said:

Passenger in a plane, it crashes..you get in another plane, engine fails, you then get in another plane, engine fails...then you get in another plane, engine fails. Seems a bit masochistic.

30 years living and flying in the Alaskan Bush stuff happens.

[slonezp]

5 hours ago, Texas Flood said:

Sorry, we're looking for more stage 5 survivors.

@12poundbass is an underachiever. Remedial at best. 

[slonezp]

I had a brother, may he RIP, that was born developmentally disabled with a severe behavior disorder. He almost killed me more than once. He was "that guy" with super re-tard strength. 

Love you Steve. I'm glad you didn't kill me. Here is my brother fishing with the legend himself Bill Dance. My brother has been gone 20 years, so the pic is from 25-30 years ago

 

 

 

 

 

[volzfan59]

I've been in a couple of pretty bad car accidents on the road, one really bad one on the race track. Managed to walk away with a couple of concussions. Couple of rough patches in my law enforcement career, walked away with minor injuries.

[N Florida Mike]

I came close to drowning 3 times. Twice in undertows at the beach, and once trying to swim across a pond. 
when I got older , alcohol became a big factor. Once I woke up in my bed the next morning and the last thing I remembered was sitting across a table from a girl friend around 1 in the morning . I drove home somehow, but don’t remember it at all.

Another time I was careening down a dirt road going very fast while drunk  and heard a distinct voice telling me to STOP. I slammed on brakes and slid up to where the road just ended with no warning, and it dropped down into a deep ditch full of water. My tires were about half way over the edge. I backed up and slowly drove home, becoming pretty sober from the scare.

I became a Christian not long after that !!

Another time at work a talkative customer held me up, and as I drove back to the shop a big tree had just fell across the road . If the customer hadn’t slowed me down , the tree could have hit me… 

I also got hit on my side car door by a lady going at least 55 mile an hour on HWY A1A . I walked away with a few glass cuts. The paramedics asked about my friend who was sitting on the side of the road white as a sheet.

I told them he was sick from swallowing his chew of red man when the car hit us…😂

 

[LrgmouthShad]

Yes. I was hit by a truck while I was driving in an ATV when I was much younger. I was at fault. I panicked when I started to fall into a ditch and overcorrected, swerving into the road. The truck driver slammed on his brakes but could not stop in time. On impact, I flew out of the ATV, blacking out, and skidded all the way across the road, landing in a ditch on the other side of the road. Amazingly, I suffered only a mild concussion and burns and scrapes across my back. I consider it a miracle that I did not suffer more bodily damage.

[txchaser]

On 6/3/2024 at 11:26 PM, GreenPig said:

545 lb bench press

Greenpig's over there boat flipping fish from 20 yards out.

[GreenPig]

5 hours ago, txchaser said:

Greenpig's over there boat flipping fish from 20 yards out.

I'm old and broke down at this point. I lift like a strong 8 year old girl nowadays. 

[JackstrawIII]

When I was a young teenager I went to a friends house out in "the country". They had a huge rope swing out over a gully. I was perhaps too ambitious and tried to swing out while only holding onto the rope with my arms, like Tarzan. 

 

Needless to say, I fell off mid swing and landed on my back in the base of the gully. While that hurt and shook me up, what really shook me was the sharp 8" rock sticking up right by my armpit between my right arm and my chest. Had I landed 6" to the right, I would have died that day. 

[Eric 26]

9 hours ago, GreenPig said:

I'm old and broke down at this point. I lift like a strong 8 year old girl nowadays. 

Hey no shame if you’re in the game 😉 P.S. This would be me trying to weight lift with my 17 year old son 😉

[N Florida Mike]

I had forgotten this one…when I went water skiing once with some friends. I TRIED water skiing is more like it. I couldn’t stay up. So one time after I fell forward, I just hung onto the rope for awhile as they pulled me along underwater. I felt a sensation on my stomach, kind of what  a feather on your skin feels like. I let go, and started treading water, only to stand up in 3 fow ! We were well off the bank so I figured the water was deep !

I walked back a few feet and found a cypress stump that had a sharp edge sticking up… I had gone right over it, and when I checked, I had a red line going across my belly. But it didn’t break the skin. If I had been just slightly deeper, it would disemboweled me !

I shudder still every time I think of it !

[Koz]

When I was a teenager a friend of the family invited my father and I to go pike and musky fishing with him and his son in a remote section of northern Canada. We were going to drive up to Canada, and then fly the rest of the way in their Cessna. At the last minute we could not go, and that guy and his son perished when their plane crashed on the way to the camp.

 

Another time I was driving from where I lived in Ohio to my girlfriend's house in PA on one of those country roads through farmland where the speed limit was 55. I had Led Zeppelin blasting on my cassette deck when I crested a small hill and saw a big, flatbed landscape truck going slow up in front of me.

 

I had a passing lane so I signaled and went to pass. The guy never saw me as he turned left into a driveway to turn around as he was lost. I downshifted and braked but it was too late. Luckily I got a little bit of grip and turned just enough so the driver's window post went under the back left corner of the truck.

 

It all happened in slow motion (adrenaline peaking). I remember leaning down across to the passenger seat as the impact happened, the glass imploded, and the music suddenly stopped. The roof caved in over me, but as I leaned over my seatbelt help me down allowing me to keep my head attached to my body.

 

At first, silly me tried to get out the crumpled driver's side door. After getting out of the passenger side I ran to the truck as the kid driving it was trying to get away. I ripped him out of the cab, fighting the urge to beat him senseless, and told him to follow me. We knocked on the door of that house but the woman there refused yo open the door or call the police. It was then the the kid noticed I was bleeding, but it was just some scratches from the glass.

 

I pushed my car out of the middle of the road and we walked about a mile down the road to the next house, this one on a working farm. I asked a guy near the barn for help, and of all things he was a deaf mute. But he flagged down old Farmer Brown for me. That old farmer simply said, "I've got chores to do. Phone's in the house. Help yourself to some food and something to drink while you wait for the police." That was over 30 years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday.

[new2BC4bass]

Not too old of a thread, so I'll pass on one of my scares.

 

I'm in left lane of 6-lane highway (I78 in NJ).  Full size pickup ahead of me.  Me in Camry.  Can't see ahead of truck.  70-75 MPH on slight right hand curve.  Truck changes to middle lane.  Whoa!  State Trooper's car stopped in center of left lane.  Another car also in center of left lane stopped ahead of the police car.

 

Jerk steering wheel to right.  Pass stopped cars while sliding sideways in center lane.  Watched a white van pass me in the right lane.  Tires caught and I'm suddenly in the right lane.

 

No cars crashed.  Didn't stay in Motel 6 that night.