Near Death Experience?

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Me going for a swim in crocodile infested water when I was about 10 in the NT. Parents went mental when they saw me, bout 5 min after I came out, saw a ~3m croc slide into the water on the other side of the bank. :?

It's the real crocodile dundee \

 

 

 

 

 

I've had too many. Quite a few falls while rockclimbing, near-misses with various vehicles on the road while on my bike. The usual stuff. Water seems to like me though, never had a problem with that in my life.

 

 

 

By all whitness stories, I should've been killed by one of them. I probably would've been about 13 or so and I was rock-climbing at the Kangaroo Point cliffs in the city. And everything was going well, and out of nowhere I was falling. slid against the cliffs for about 6 meters then landed on the ground very awkwardly. didn't break any bones, nothing. Just had a cut of cuts and grazes :-k

[malo2]

I had one when I was about 8. I just came to a street and was about to cross it, when a van passed me, so I couldnt see if anything was coming from the other side because the van was blocking my view. So I thought "what are the chances of something actually coming?", it was a pretty quiet street. So i went for it, and guess what? a car coming from the other side was litterally about 10cm from hitting me! I even felt a part of my jacket hit the car! Well I was completely fine in the end :)

 

 

 

I had several others, but this one stands out for some reason.

[cadburys_egg]

My only near death experience that stands out was when I was nearly run over by a van. :|

 

I have to cross a T-junction to get back to my home from school. I was waiting for some cars to pass so I could cross, but little did I know that a friend was behind me. He gave me a friendly slap on my back (like all good buddies, durr) as a van was coming. Since I wasn't expecting it, I went forward. Luckily I was able to hold my balance for a moment and as the van passed I pushed off of the side of it and got back on my feet.

 

 

 

My other one was nearly being hit by a golf ball in the head. My playing partner shanked (mis-hit) his shot and sent it towards me, I was pretty much day-dreaming at the time but I managed to step backwards as I heard it spinning towards me. Yeah, safe sport golf. Although, I have been hit a few times myself. Just not my head. Being hit in the groin hurts the most.

[richpoepaap]

I once was playing outside my grandparents' house. In front they have a small pond, and from the roof there hang a chain into the pond.(don't know why :? ) Well, I was running a bit round the pond when my arm hit the chain, not hard, but gently, it was by accident. The chain broke. I had a 3 meter long chain of wich each link of it had a thickness of 5 centimeters fall on my head. I fell away from the pond. If I had fallen forwards, I wouldn't be typing this. Either way, I was unconsious for about five minutes, and awoke with a terrible headace. Went back to the rest of the family, on the other side of the house. Pretty shocked all of them :D

 

The eirdest thing is I didn't have a concusion or anything. Just headace. O:)

[Aijiru]

It happened when I was like 9. I was taking photos of my city and standing in the middle of the road; didn't noticed the carriage that was coming, the driver didn't noticed me because he was talking to someone, so I got pushed by the horse and fell under it. The horse stayed on my back and my feet but luckly it stopped on time and didn't walked over my head, otherwise my history wouldn't be there...

 

 

 

I didn't broke anything, just a shoe got ripped but all my bones and the camera were fine :mrgreen:

[nightshade53]

Driving on the motorway when I was about 10. My dad noticed thick white smoke coming out of our exhaust and immediately pulled over. When the RAC man came he said 100m more and our car would have blown up :shock:

[Kryptic]

Ive had one experience when I was a youngin'. I use to hang out with some guys that were really cool gangster style type of guys. Me being 12, just thought it was the new fad and Id join in because Id rather join them. But I never knew they took this "gangster" thing so seriously, especially their older brothers. I was in the "hood" (a place where all the "gangsters" hang out) at the basketball court, shooting hoops whatever.. Everything was fine, my team won $20 off our first game and we were about to start our second. Just about I took a shot ( to see who gets first ball ) all I heard was a loud terrifying scream from a woman. The "hood" is known to be really loud, but this was something that caught all our attention. So we run over behind a few houses and see a woman over a guy a knew and he was bleeding everywhere. We all took off our shirts and tried to stop the bleeding - then we heard a car just screech doing a Uey (sp). By then everyone scattered, I just stood there wandering wtf is going on. I looked at the car closer and saw someone sticking out the window, right then I ran as fast as I could. Never went back to the "hood" again.

[Scruffy5389]

You probably did the worst thing possible in that situation. :uhh:

 

 

 

Never fight a rip tide (think that's what it's called), just let it suck you away, then go to the left, and swim back. The rip tides pulling you out, if you get out of it's current, you're safe.

 

 

 

I thought you were suppose to swim at a 40 degree angle towards the shore.

 

 

 

42.7 degrees, actually. That's why your parents always tell you to take a protractor to the beach.

 

 

 

No near-death experiences for me, unless you count the time I almost fell out of a tree from about 30 feet high. :shock:

[heart_of_ink]

The only near death experience I've had was accidentally locking myself into the trunk of my dad's car when I was 8. Exciting, I know.

 

 

 

Well, I take my first statement back. I was 10, with my mom in the car, and we were almost hit by a semi-truck on the highway. We would've been squashed flat if my mom didn't swerve.

 

 

 

Very exciting.

[katha610]

atlantic ocean, i was about 8 and it was tidal, a wave got me and while i was underwater i in a rockformation close by because of the current.

[Oy_the_Great]

Isn't it awkward that so many people seem to have scary experiences with water?

 

I think people don't drown to death that easily if you see how many people have nearly drowning experiences. Even if you do drown (i.e. water in your lungs) I think there's a very big chance you'll survive as long as someone notices you and alerts the hospital.

[gonpost]

Eh...when I was about 2.5 years old, I was pulling on the handle of a grandfather clock. It was already on a very loose foundation, and even then I pulled hard enough to knock it over. Needless to say, it fell over....but...luckily, there was a wall on the other side of me (sort of a weird hallway), and it got stuck on that wall about 3 feet above the ground.

 

 

 

My mom said I would have certainly been crushed to death if that wall hadn't been there.

 

 

 

Another one...wasn't really too near death at all....but it was scary.

 

 

 

I was skiing out in Colorado, and being the genious that I was, I decided to go way off trail after a fresh snow of about 3 feet. I ended up accidentally tripping, falling off my skis, and then I was stuck in the deep as hell snow very far off trail. I was in the bottom of a mini-valley, so I immediately climed up to the top of the valley to get to snow that was slightly more shallow. Then I had to dig through snow, toss my skis, dig more, toss the skis, and eventually I got to a spot where I could get back up and find a trail. That process of digging and whatnot took me about an hour. Of course, I'd probably have been ok if I needed to have made a little snow fort and spend the night outside. It's cold, but you can do it if you're not wet/sweaty, which luckily I wasn't. I had enough warm gear on to wait till morning when they'd come search for me.

 

 

 

Anyway, that's about it. :)

[killersushipunk]

When I was 3, and home alone, i was jumping on my trampoline (I had one of those mini tramps that go inside) I was wearing my socks #-o . I slipped and hit my jaw on the fireplace mantle. My jaw on the left side shattered. My face slipped, so that my chin was where my left cheek was supposed to be, and my forehead was where my right cheek was supposed to be. I passed out for some reason. I don't know when my parents got home. A few days ago I learned that the opperation cost...

 

$alot. :oops: at least I can still feel where my jaw turnes from bone to plastic!

[FrankyBrown]

Well. I was out riding, with just one other person with me. We were near a road in a large open park. The road was quite busy, but luckily we were quite a long way from it.

 

I would say I'm quite an expierienced rider; I can gallop (just about!) and jump 3ft. But I'm not very strong, and they'd been lots of dogs yelping, which really upset my pony. The last straw was when a car backfired in the road and he reared, then ran out into the road. I fell off to the side and nearly broke my shoulder. I don't quite know how but my pony managed to step on my helmet. Thank god I wasn't hurt and he was tiny! Later on there was a dusty hoofprint on my helmet and a large dent. For sure, if I hadn't been wearing it I wouldn't be typing this.

 

 

 

Riding ftw :o I havent been on for ages but I was taught the stockman way so its sorta the opposite of the fancy dressage crap :lol: I used to play those games where you grab a flag from a pole then put it in the next pole and so on, which means I came close and also did fall off a few times since I leaned over too much coz its more fun :P But luckily never injured myself (got caught once and dragged for a bit which was kinda scary and a little fun :oops:

[caligula101]

And I thought I was the only tipiter to have been at deaths door. Oh well guess i'm not as special as I thought. Funny how we like to think we live in a safe world yet so many people have almost died it's quite scary :uhh:

 

 

 

Thanks for the responses though! :)

[Oy_the_Great]

And I thought I was the only tipiter to have been at deaths door. Oh well guess i'm not as special as I thought. Funny how we like to think we live in a safe world yet so many people have almost died it's quite scary :uhh:

 

 

 

Thanks for the responses though! :)

 

 

 

The thing is: we don't die that fast. Even a severe car accident is only fatal in the minority of the cases. Humans aren't that weak, we are built to survive, like all animals. But the problem often is our weak skin and our heavy head. Our skin is easily cut through, so we can easily break several bones because our skin barely stops anything. And then there's our head: when exposed to many negative G's, its weight shoots forward, which often snaps the neck, instantly killing us. That's one of the reason car accidents are dangerous.

 

 

 

Drowning is a lot harder than you might think: it often takes more than 5 minutes under water for an adult to suffocate, we can hold our breath much longer than usual when we really need to. In fact, we can do a lot we never thought of being able to when we're trapped.

[Kashi]

The thing about rip tides that a few people mentioned ...

 

 

 

That happened to me once surfing, but I had taken classes and knew exactly what to do in the situation. I just let the current carry me until it lost strength, then swam out of it and went back to shore. Even then I was about a mile from the shore, and without the support of my surfboard I probably would've given up from sheer exhaustion.

 

 

 

My only real near death experience was as follows.

 

 

 

There had been a rash of burglaries in my neighborhood, and one woman had been hospitalized from a knife wound given to her by the burglar. At this time I was 15 years old, and already cautious to the point of paranoia. Every night when I came in I'd pull out my pocket knife and do a round of the house to make sure nobody had gotten in. Well once it actually paid off ... I was home alone, watching a movie, when I heard a noise outside. I dashed to my front door (it was a one story house, so not hard) and looked through the peep-hole. I saw the silhouette of a man cast by a street light, trying to squeeze under my garage door without making any noise. My house is arranged such that my front door is 15 feet from my garage door, with the living room between them, and the garage door coming off the laundry room. I practically leaped from the front door to the garage door and twisted the dead bolt, not two seconds before the person in my garage turned the knob and threw his weight on the door. Now my house is really old, but the doors had been reinforced with those little metal pegs you put in to stop them from being broken down. The criminal in my garage fired a freaking GUN through the lock on my door, the bullet grazing my right arm. I jumped back, though, and whipped my knife out of my pocket. The burglar, about 6 foot 3 inches, maybe 210 pounds, slammed through my now disabled door and charged into my house .. directly onto the point of my 4 inch hunting knife. I had stabbed him under the the rib cage and forced the knife upward, piercing his liver, right lung and heart. Although he died almost instantly, I made sure the last words he heard were, "Big mistake ...". Of course I called the police, they came and removed the body from my house, took me in for questioning, etc, but the old woman who had been stabbed identified the man I'd killed as the same one who attacked her, so I was more praised than punished. Bastards will think twice next time ...

 

 

 

The above story ^ is absolutely true. I still have the scar on my shoulder from the bullet. The reason this counts as a near death experience is that, had I moved a few inches to the right, the bullet would have gone through my lung, and my parents weren't home for hours after that, so I'd have died lying on a pile of dirty laundry, the TV still playing in the background (assuming it wasn't stolen).

[Oy_the_Great]

You've killed a man Kashi????

 

You are SO lucky you live in the US. Even if that guy would've been a serial killing rapist, you'd still get 15-20 years here in Belgium for that.

[Kashi]

You've killed a man Kashi????

 

You are SO lucky you live in the US. Even if that guy would've been a serial killing rapist, you'd still get 15-20 years here in Belgium for that.

 

 

 

That's harsh!! In the US, if a man breaks into your house anything you do

 

to him is legal .. as long as it doesn't violate the Geneva Convention.

[Tigra00]

You've killed a man Kashi????

 

You are SO lucky you live in the US. Even if that guy would've been a serial killing rapist, you'd still get 15-20 years here in Belgium for that.

 

 

 

That's harsh!! In the US, if a man breaks into your house anything you do

 

to him is legal .. as long as it doesn't violate the Geneva Convention.

 

 

 

Naw, pretty sure you can violate the Geneva Convention too. America ftw. :P

 

 

 

Killing someone isn't something to brag TOO much about. I got into a fight once and the guy ended up rupturing a kidney or something and he almost died...I'm extremely lucky he didn't press charges because he was the one who started it. I probably would have got off since he DID start it, but if he would have died, he wouldn't have been able to admit that...I probably would be in prison right now.

 

 

 

Wow, that sucks to think about. :uhh: Never really thought how lucky I am that he didn't press charges. Maybe I should write him a letter some day, lol.

[____]

You've killed a man Kashi????

 

You are SO lucky you live in the US. Even if that guy would've been a serial killing rapist, you'd still get 15-20 years here in Belgium for that.

I've almost killed someone and I can honestly say that I'm not sorry about it.

 

 

 

Mate of mine had been recently killed in an accident, and some tosser was mouthing off about him. Said something about "if he wasn't such a [developmentally delayed]ed [bleep], he would've been hanging out with worth while people instead of those [bleep]faced losers".

 

 

 

Essentially it was the standard comment coming from a "jock" who wasn't in their "group". And to cut it short, I put him in hospital with a lot of injuries. From memory it was a broken jaw, collapsed lung, concusion and a broken wrist.

[RaggyTramp1]

You've killed a man Kashi????

 

You are SO lucky you live in the US. Even if that guy would've been a serial killing rapist, you'd still get 15-20 years here in Belgium for that.

I've almost killed someone and I can honestly say that I'm not sorry about it.

 

 

 

Mate of mine had been recently killed in an accident, and some tosser was mouthing off about him. Said something about "if he wasn't such a mentally challenged *, he would've been hanging out with worth while people instead of those [bleep]faced losers".

 

 

 

Essentially it was the standard comment coming from a "jock" who wasn't in their "group". And to cut it short, I put him in hospital with a lot of injuries. From memory it was a broken jaw, collapsed lung, concusion and a broken wrist.

 

 

 

Wow.. im sorry to hear that your friend died.. Buut you nearly got your revenge.

[caligula101]

Dam Kashi, you killed a man, woah that is truly amazing. But what Oy said happens in Belgium would also apply here in England. There was a case not long ago about a farmer shooting a burglar in his house. He didn't die but instead pressed charges on the farmer...

[Rose_2_Pure]

The criminal in my garage fired a freaking GUN through the lock on my door, the bullet grazing my right arm. I jumped back, though, and whipped my knife out of my pocket.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm sorry. I just found that funny....

 

 

 

 

 

He shoots at you, so you take out your pocket-knife as your defence....lol.

 

 

 

Had the burglar had an ounce of intelligence he woulda just used the range of the gun and rid himself of any possible self-injury and should have been aware of the possibilty of you lying in wait for him on the other side.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

None of my near-death experiences I want to share with anyone, let alone all of Tip.It....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rose

[Aijiru]

Dam Kashi, you killed a man, woah that is truly amazing. But what Oy said happens in Belgium would also apply here in England. There was a case not long ago about a farmer shooting a burglar in his house. He didn't die but instead pressed charges on the farmer...

 

 

 

The same for Spain I think :-s Althrough you will be waiting like five years for the judgement :P

 

 

 

Can't remember any similar cases right now, but I'm pretty sure that there are, if not people going to prison, at least veeery long and expensive judgements...

 

 

 

I have found a case like that what you say, caligula: some burglars come into the house of a man who knew Karate, he attacked them and now he's on prison until the judges determine if it was "self defence" or not...