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post #31 of 111
7/3/10 at 10:11am
When I was a kid I put a Flintstone vitamin in my nose and it got stuck.
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post #32 of 111
7/3/10 at 10:22am
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The ripcurrents on the Oregon coast are pretty strong. My brother and I (both competitive swimmers all our lives at an All-American level) were dicking around in the ocean in Seaside, OR on vacation with our friend one day. The waves started picking up, so she swam back in, but my brother and I kept swimming out. Eventually, we got tired and decided to turn back in. We swam toward shore for awhile before we realized we were actually getting farther away AND pretty exhausted. By this time, a crowd is gathering on the shore, just staring out at us. We're about 15 feet away from each other and start shouting encouragement back and forth, but things are looking kind of bad for us. A few minutes later, a guy on a surfboard floats out next to us and asks if we need help. My brother says, (gasping for breath), "No thanks, I'm good." So the surfer floats there for another minute, watching my brother struggle, until he finally asks for help. He's pulled up onto the board by the guy (who by now I've realized is a surf lifeguard and not just a friendly dude) and they start paddling back in. A minute later, another lifeguard pulls me onto his board and we head in. We thanked the guys and just laid on our backs on the beach while several of the people who had been watching come over with tears in their eyes to tell us how glad they are that we didn't drown.

While we were in the water, neither one of us realized how close we had come to dying, but we were probably five minutes away from just giving up and being sucked under. Seaside is one of the few beaches along that coast that is guarded, so it's pretty lucky that that's where we decided to almost drown.

Similar to this. Very big waves, unusual for my regular beach -- 20 ft on average, 25 when they really kicked. Went out thinking it would be cool, could always crest and beat the ones I didn't want to ride. Well, it was hell just paddling into them. Missed several, was pounded straight into the sand. Leash tore, lost board. Tried to come in but could not beat the waves, they would smash me and pull be back out (reverse Michael Corleone). Rip was carring me east and south at a pretty good clip. My dad eventually noticed that there was a problem and told the lifeguard. The lifeguard said "Oh, he looks like he's having a good time." Dad said he didn't think so. He tried to get me himself and failed. Then finally the lifeguard, when it was apparent that I was getting alarmingly close to the yacht harbor breakwater and would be dashed against the rocks in short order, went out on a 10' long board and pulled me out.
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post #33 of 111
7/3/10 at 10:24am
I almost got fucked over by rip currents too. I need to look in to how to deal with those again... I've never actually been hit, but I've been shot at before. One occasion was stabbed in the back back, and the doc said that it came pretty close to my kidney. Never been in a car wreck, though I've almost been sideswiped on a motorcycle a few times. It doesn't take much to kill a motorcyclist.
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post #34 of 111
7/3/10 at 10:38am
Was also once rear-ended by a car going about 45 while I was waiting to make a left turn. Completely crumpled the trunk and back seat area but I got out without a scratch.

I've seen sharks in the water while I was swimming but always fairly far away.

Lost all the oil in a single engine plane once and had to land at night at a little airport with no personnel and no lights. Well, I didn't land, but it was somewhat scary.

Was once attacked by a sea lion as big as a car. Thankfully, he was very slow or at least slower than me.
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post #35 of 111
7/3/10 at 10:41am
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Was once attacked by a sea lion as big as a car. Thankfully, he was very slow or at least slower than me.

This sounds rather humorous.
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post #36 of 111
7/3/10 at 10:42am
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This sounds rather humorous.

It was afterward. At the time it was scary. I don't know what his plan was if he caught me. They have huge but dull teeth. Probably could have broken some bones.
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post #37 of 111
7/3/10 at 12:29pm
2-3 week bout of pneumonia as a kid with 106 or so temperature on side of a "cliff" (only couple hundred feet, but fall wouldve resulted in death) in elementary school, rescued by family member who lowered down on grappling hook type contraption after a friend got help crashed a car into a building almost crashed a car into a tree was foolishly on top of a car/on the side of a car going fifty plus and this didn't quite feel near death, but some kid did a three lane shift on a highway at eighty plus and almost hit the side of my vehicle once, only a short burst of adrenaline for me but it couldve been bad on impact. he slowed, pulled up next to me, and apologized, both of us still at seventy or so
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post #38 of 111
7/3/10 at 12:33pm
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I once almost made eye contact with a minority
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post #39 of 111
7/3/10 at 12:34pm
In the '70s, used to ride in the back of pick-up trucks all the time. Nothing ever happened. But a little fender-bender could have really caused some trouble.

Different world.

Another time I was crossing the Carquinez bridge with a bunch of knuckleheads in the car, going at the limit or above in the fast lane. I turned around to make some crack, and when I turned back to look at the road, the left lane had stacked up and I was only a few car lengths from plowing into the last car. I swerved into the lane to the right on instinct without looking. Luckily, no one was there. Nothing happened. Very close call though.
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post #40 of 111
7/3/10 at 12:41pm
Mine (car accident) is already posted on the Dumbest Stuff You've Ever Done thread. Definitely the closest I've ever come to a situation that probably should've killed or paralyzed me. Closest I've ever felt like dying was when I was severely food poisoned by some poorly handled cheesesteak at a local restaurant. I was throwing up nonstop for 12 hours straight, every 20 minutes on the dot. (I would later learn that the stomach empties every 20 minutes or so, which is why the puking was timed like a Swiss watch). There are few feelings in the world worse than having puked up everything you could possibly puke up, only to have your next 100 puking sessions involve dark green bile and tremendous pain.
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post #41 of 111
7/3/10 at 12:46pm
Mine isn't that exciting, but I'm asthmatic -- apparently much more so than I thought. I was smoking at a bar all night, had gone through about half a pack, and my chest was starting to tighten up, so I headed home. On the way back, I ran into some friends who (easily) convinced me to come back to their dorm and hang out. We ended up smoking -- other things -- and I managed to bite off a bit more than I could chew. Tried to exhale, couldn't and just hit the ground gasping for air. Blacked out, saw a freaky looking tunnel with some blue trees at the end, and started trying to shake myself back awake. Apparently I was shaking and talking while I was blacked out.

The good part of the story though, is that the kid I was with is distantly related to Mike Tyson, and he ran a mile to my dorm to grab my inhaler. Scared the hell out of me.
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post #42 of 111
7/3/10 at 3:05pm
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Hit in the head with a baseball bat once.

now I understand. This explains a LOT
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post #43 of 111
7/3/10 at 3:15pm
watched a day game at dodgers stadium when i was 7 with a friends family. foul ball was scorched into the seat in front of me and landed at my feet. i was eating a hotdog and reached for the ball with my offhand and snagged it. but a small piece of hot dog lodged into my airway and my friends dad (huge 6'4" behemoth) lifts me up on his shoulder in celebration.

i was choking sitting on the large shoulders of a giant and the crowd could see it while i dropped the ball nearly passed out... the piece of hotdog came up, i chewed it and swallowed and started breathing...

some mexican kid stole the ball that i dropped.... FML.
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post #44 of 111
7/3/10 at 4:18pm
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Originally Posted by Manton View Post
In the '70s, used to ride in the back of pick-up trucks all the time. Nothing ever happened. But a little fender-bender could have really caused some trouble.

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yeah, or ride on the top of things like buses or vans. crazy what I used to do. I see people like that all the time in the 3rd world.


just thought of it - I recently read a book on the early days of the 3rd riech, in one of the big early nazi conferences something like 30 people were killed falling off of roofs of trucks, and that was just considered part of life.
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post #45 of 111
7/3/10 at 4:33pm
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now I understand. This explains a LOT

What's YOUR excuse?
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