SpaceCowboy
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What the most dangerous situation you've ever been in? How'd you manage to get out of it?
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Pilot7893
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Once I was climbing a rock at a 50 degree angle, and 50 feet up, my foot slips.
Urwumpe
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Being nearly shot because some guy was too smart to
- clean his rifle the right way
- make sure no bullet is in the chamber of his assault rifle when discharging it.
- discharge it either into the ground or to into the air, but not into the rough direction of his own squad.
- clean his rifle the right way
- make sure no bullet is in the chamber of his assault rifle when discharging it.
- discharge it either into the ground or to into the air, but not into the rough direction of his own squad.
Pilot7893
Epik spaec mishun!
Holy crap, that WAS a lucky one, Urwumpe!
Kveldulf
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Off hand? When I was a kid, my family was snowmobiling in far northern Wisconsin. We got a little lost, and some guys offered to show us how to get back on the trail. This involved going across a fairly large lake. The entire thing was iced over, but I dont think we liked it.
James.Denholm
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Running through a window last year, slashing up 2.8 tendons. I'm glad I missed the major arteries.
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No, it isn't allowed at all. The staff will suspend accounts that are used for spamming/unauthorised advertising.
I still remember the moment of stepping on the steep pitch roof of 2 storey house from the ladder and my shoes started to slip badly.I stopped just few feet of the edge and froze.Luckily mu buddy was already on the ridgetop and tossed a rope at me.Scary.
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Hmm...let's see.
Well, as it happens, it was just the other week.
I was casually walking round a lake, when I was nearly shot by an idiot with a shotgun.
I was quietly walking along, when I suddenly heard a loud "BANG" at my right side. Less than a second laterl I heard "phvoosh, voosh, voosh, voosh" as a few shotgun pellets whizzed over my head. Above & to my left, a bird fell out of a tree, along with a few twigs & leaves. I never saw who it was, but quickly changed my course to take me down a large drop & continued to walk below the hedge line for quite a while
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Or there's the time when, as a child, I was climbing a tree (don't know why). But my foot slipped, and my body fell through a "V" shaped branch. But as I fell I must have moved my head backwards, because my neck got caught in the bottom of the "V".
So my whole body was dangling from my neck, which was caught in the lower part of the "V" shaped branch, where the two branches met, which was thinner than my neck. My arms were below my neck so I couldn't pull myself out. I couldn't shout for help as my whole bodyweight was on my neck, so all I could do was choke.
Fortunately for me, this was in my back garden (yard), and my uncle happened to see me being strangled to death & came to my rescue. But if I had been on my own, who knows...
Well, as it happens, it was just the other week.
I was casually walking round a lake, when I was nearly shot by an idiot with a shotgun.
I was quietly walking along, when I suddenly heard a loud "BANG" at my right side. Less than a second laterl I heard "phvoosh, voosh, voosh, voosh" as a few shotgun pellets whizzed over my head. Above & to my left, a bird fell out of a tree, along with a few twigs & leaves. I never saw who it was, but quickly changed my course to take me down a large drop & continued to walk below the hedge line for quite a while
-----Post Added-----
Or there's the time when, as a child, I was climbing a tree (don't know why). But my foot slipped, and my body fell through a "V" shaped branch. But as I fell I must have moved my head backwards, because my neck got caught in the bottom of the "V".
So my whole body was dangling from my neck, which was caught in the lower part of the "V" shaped branch, where the two branches met, which was thinner than my neck. My arms were below my neck so I couldn't pull myself out. I couldn't shout for help as my whole bodyweight was on my neck, so all I could do was choke.
Fortunately for me, this was in my back garden (yard), and my uncle happened to see me being strangled to death & came to my rescue. But if I had been on my own, who knows...
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GLS
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Being hit by a motorcycle at 80Km/h..... luckly I just scraped my knee and didn't say anything coherent until 2 or 3 hours after...
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ouch :blink:
There seems to be a lot of people that got shot at on this forum.
I was in ND with my dad and some buddy s when a game and wildlife ranger walked up to us and we started chatting for a little while. We where walking back along a shelterbelt when some idiot either A.Thought we where a deer... or B. shooting at a deer and we just happened to be behind where he was pointing... but anyway, we heard a wizz sound and everyone dropped to the ground, which is when the second shot (a fair distance away, but still uncomfortable) hit a tree and blew the tree apart, (small tree, 2" at most in diameter) The ranger shot up in the air, and then walked up to have a looooonnnnggg talk with that guy.
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Got pulled into a fistfight against a drunken policeman who was going to break into my house. Luckily, there was a 2 on 1 odds, and we managed to throw him down the stairs and close the door while he was opening his holster.
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He wanted to check papers of my friend who, as the policeman said, was "too much tanned". He wasn't uniformed, his gun was not noticeable at first sight, he already stormed other doors, and most importantly, he refused to show his own papers as the procedure requires.
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It was on a freeway in summer 1997. The overrun brake of our trailer did not work properly. We carried exactly the same car we were driving by the way (and I was just the co-driver 
). So, driving downhill, the trailer started to swing until about 70° to the right and to the left (it looked rather scary in the side mirrors), until the whole stack fully turned about 180°. The sound of the wheels remembered me of some usual scenes of The Fall Guy :lol:. But at that moment, which was just a few seconds, it was anything but funny. Amazingly the car fully remained on the trailer, although I thought one more second and it is going to detach and flash over.
Luckily, the traffic behind us did stop fast enough and without any crash.
I never was that much lucky to just get out of a car.
). So, driving downhill, the trailer started to swing until about 70° to the right and to the left (it looked rather scary in the side mirrors), until the whole stack fully turned about 180°. The sound of the wheels remembered me of some usual scenes of The Fall Guy :lol:. But at that moment, which was just a few seconds, it was anything but funny. Amazingly the car fully remained on the trailer, although I thought one more second and it is going to detach and flash over. Luckily, the traffic behind us did stop fast enough and without any crash.
I never was that much lucky to just get out of a car.
Pilot7893
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I was at the YMCA pool, when my idiot friend wants to demonstrate how strong he is, by picking me up. He picks me up by the ankles, and I start to topple over. Thanks to my guardian angel, a guy named Dan who grabbed m head 1 foot above the tiled ground, I didn't end up hospitalized for a month. Me and Dan are now friends.
astrosammy
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In April 2003 I was in Norway dirving with my grandparents from Oslo to the Sognefjord where they live. Near Hemsedal suddenly a car came driving on the wrong side. But luckily it got on the right side again 10 seconds or so before it would have crashed into us.
And I fell on my back and my chest several time and were unable to breathe for some seconds.
And I fell on my back and my chest several time and were unable to breathe for some seconds.
