Has your life ever been in danger?

[Octoberist]

I'm just wondering (though I have never been in a life threatening situation.) Maybe once or twice..I was walking to meet up with friends in San Diego during Comic Con. I parked so far from the bar that I ended up being lost while I was walking, that I walked right into the heart of a ghetto area. Mind you, San Diego isn't bad, but with any city, it's never 100 percent safe. Plus, lucky me, there were no taxis or those people on bike-taxis in sight.

As a dude, I knew I would be okay but this homeless guy was following me around the block. I was like "crap" because I'm 5'5 and he had to be..over 6'2. I was on the phone with my friend until I finally saw a cab. Then I hopped right in! SAVED!

So..

It could be a near miss situation, like a car accident, a fight or confrontation that got out of hand, natural disaster, ..umm..protecting the innocent from evil doers or whatever?

 

[The Original Bamfer]

I was robbed at gunpoint while working at a convenience store about two months ago.

 

[MadVillainy]

sounds like a question from LDT

 

[Hotwire]

Well, there was the time my intestine ruptured, that's pretty life threatening. Then there was the time I nearly ended up with hypothermia in northern England. I'm not sure, but can I count the car wreck that would have killed me had we went into the intersection a split second sooner?

 

[X-Ray]

Twice.

- Guy crosses street with his buddy by his side to hit me up. "Where you from ese' ?" I reply nowhere. He lifts his sweater to reveal the gun he has tucked under while claiming his set. I say alright. He and his buddy walk away. I was in the 6th grade at the time, walking home from school.

- Chicken ****, **** talking bastard pulls a knife on me. We supposedly made peace a few days earlier after some **** talking that was floating around between mutual friends. But he kept running his mouth about how he was going to kick my ass and whatnot. So I finally said **** it and we set it up to fight after school. While walking to the place off campus. He decides to head home for some reason. His friends, who were accompany him, say he just wanted to drop his backpack off. A few minutes later, he comes out with big ass butcher knife. Everyone, including his friends, haul ass. Before he sets his eyes on me. An older guy, a mutual friend to both parties from that neighborhood, tackles him. Him and his much older friends tell everyone to scram before he lets him loose. The following Monday, within seconds of stepping on to school grounds before class started. The principal, along with an on campus cop, haul my ass to the office. The guy's mom called the police which then reported the incident to the school. They must have left the knife part out because I received an harsher punishment than his ass. I suppose it's water under the bridge now. Haven't seen or talked to him since. But his half brother and cousins are good friends of mine.

Oh yah, I choked on a chicken bone once and almost drowned twice.

 

[Octoberist]

sounds like a question from LDT

What's LDT?

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I was born with a liver disorder. I didn't show symptoms until like 3 weeks after I was born. I had the surgery, much later than most infants diagnosed with it. However, the surgery was successful and I have not had any health problems related to it.

I was nearly hit by a car once. I was crossing the street at my house and was stupid and didn't look.

 

[Ongie]

***redacted***

 

[Cunning Stunts]

Yep. Three months after I got my license, I was driving home on a road I didn't know in a GMC Jimmy, and came across a turn that I didn't see until it was too late. My truck fish-tailed three times, then came off the ground, and slammed down on my side of the vehicle. The vehicle skidded for quite a good distance, and stopped only about two feet from a power pole.

My dad said the scariest part about picking me up, was that he'd just seen White Noise (which I still haven't seen). He said there was a scene that included a flipped truck, in which a family was trapped, and the power box falls from the pole, falls onto the car, and explodes. Creepy ****.

 

[Anubis]

Technically we're all in danger of dying horrible deaths every minute of everyday. A plane could crash through your house, you could get stabbed walking home from the bus stop, you could choke to death on a piece of steak. So everybody has kinda been in danger.

So, that said, I narrowly escaped being kicked to death by a mob of albino clowns the other day while I was taking one of those super emergency dumps in a gas station bathroom.

 

[Wiseman]

I was in a bad car accident once and my heart stopped beating and I was brought back through cpr from the paramedics. I was stapped multiple times and I don't know how close I was to dying but I lost a lot of blood and had to have transfusions. I kinda took too much nose candy once and had a mild heart attack. I've had some near death experiences but those are the times I can think of where I probably would've died if not for immediate medical care

 

[Gilpesh]

Technically when I decided to get in a car with a drunk friend driving... it wasn't my best moment... but hey, I was drunk.

 

[knowsbleed]

Gun to my head - check

Walked through a live minefield - check

AIDS - _____

 

[The Original Bamfer]

Gun to my head - check

Walked through a live minefield - check

AIDS - _____

I'm pretty sure you forgot to check one of those.

 

[knowsbleed]

Don't jinx me.

 

[xisaacx]

I was born with cystic fibrosis and I stop breathing from time to time, also in my sleep.

 

[PWN3R]

So, that said, I narrowly escaped being kicked to death by a mob of albino clowns the other day while I was taking one of those super emergency dumps in a gas station bathroom.

That alone is a life threatening situation, because if you don't go, you run the risk of internal combustion like on South Park.

If you do go, you're pretty much guaranteed to get aids from the toilet.

Albino clowns? Do go on...

 

[Pauluz]

No, but my mom's life was, many times.

Spoiler

I've saved her life 6 times, no joke.

 

[Wolfwood]

When I was born, the umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck. Kinda weak compared to everyone else, but that's all I got. :-/

 

[The Chairman]

I almost choked to death on a bagel when I was 8.

 

[Shemtov]

Twice:
When i was diagnosed with diabetes my sugar was so high I could have gone into a hyperglycimic coma at any second.

And once, when I was kid, My mother woke up to find the basket of laundry was on fire. It could have burnt the house down and we wouldn't have known until it was too late.

 

[JRPJCDJC]

Without airbags, the time I wrecked my car could've been bad. It was bad enough to knock my ass straight into the military recruiters office. Needless to say, I had a couple 'experiences' while in the military. The closest probably being the time I skydived or the time the native local militarized police of the country I was in had automatic weapons drawn on me.

I was drunk they had the guns drawn, I was in the back of a pickup, I stood up and did the stupidest thing possible... I reached into my pockets. Luckily, one of my more experienced buddies quickly pulled me down. I don't remember what happened after that but we got away fine.

Nothing bad happened the time I jumped out of a plane at 10,000 feet but... I still don't know what to say about the experience so it had to be pretty exhilirating at the least. Anytime you're falling out of a plane at 10,000 feet with your life hanging by mere threads has to be a near death experience. Chances are nothing bad will happen but still... I compare it to the drowning and reviving of Navy S.E.A.L.S. that is done in their training. Ya' know probably none of them are going to die but i'd still classify it as a near death experience.

For me, I'd include the time I got hit by a car too. I narrowly evaded serious injury, but gettting hit by a 2000+ piece of moving steel while riding a bike qualifys in my mind. Quick reflexes on my part is all that saved my butt that time. Once to hit the brakes and quickly try to swerve and secondly pulling my leg away split seconds before it(my leg) would have been ran over. My other leg was pinned under the bike as the truck ran over the bike twice and kept driving. I had a small cut on that leg and a strange feeling.

 

[terry78]

Yeah, multiple times. When I was born, they thought I wouldn't make it because the umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck, literally like a noose. Back in 2001 I had to have a biopsy on this dark mark on my back that they said was like 90% skin cancer, but when they did the tests, turned out it wasn't. Also, had a big rig on the expressway say I was in his "blind spot" and almost ran me off the thing, which had no dividers or rails, and it was a long drop down.

 

[JRPJCDJC]

Yeah, multiple times. When I was born, they thought I wouldn't make it because the umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck, literally like a noose. Back in 2001 I had to have a biopsy on this dark mark on my back that they said was like 90% skin cancer, but when they did the tests, turned out it wasn't. Also, had a big rig on the expressway say I was in his "blind spot" and almost ran me off the thing, which had no dividers or rails, and it was a long drop down.

It can be argued that living a normal life is a near death experience. Look at all the household chemicals one could ingest to kill themselves. Not to mention the 2000 pound death machines zooming around at 40 mph while the driver talks on the phone, text messages, or is eating. I've heard more than one instance of someone walking down the street(la-la-la) minding their own business and SLAM!!! A car swerves off the road and kills them.

Now, we have the damn swine flu coming to kill us. I swear to god, if I get killed by something called 'swine flu' I am going to raise hell and when I come back to this earth I will destroy this entire damn planet.

 

[Kane52630]

when i was a little kid i was crossing a road in nyc with my dad, i was stupid back then and let go of my dad's hand and ran. a lincoln was about ran me over and stopped like 2 feet away from me
my dad was pissed