Your brushes with death...

Indyologist

Well-known member
Now THESE are also some great "survival" type stories.

Hammer, I'm so sorry that you lost people in that fire. What a horrible, horrible tragedy. I can't even begin to imagine what a scene out of hell that cafe must have been. We're all glad you're okay.

Aaron, that story about you being bitten by that spider DEFINATELY qualifies. I mean that doctor said that you shouldn't be alive, man. You must have an angel or two looking over your shoulder as well. Thank God you made it through that one! Geez. Now you know how Indy feels about snakes, eh? I hate spiders, too. Give me the willies like nothing else.

Wow, all you guys have really spit in the eye of the Grim Reaper and lived to see another day! Whew!

Any others?
 
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Fist23

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I got beaten up by a bunch who just crossed the boarder who tried to take my truck.

Someone called my date (who I later married) a bad name... broke a bottle and cut my face right by my eye.

Got thrown off a horse and almost broke my spine... cracked the bone in my ass.

Drank a whole bottle of Jack and was hung over for days.
 

the hammer42

New member
This week was a bad one for me and my buddy.
We ran into some trouble at work.
Friday, saterday and sunday some kids tried to brake into the building we are working.
Three days in a row I had a gun pointed at me.
On saterday one of the guys shot at us.
The bullit ripped through my jacket but missed my body.

But we did get them and turned them over to the police.
 

Aaron H

Moderator Emeritus
Sounds like fun, Hammer. What type of buildings do you guard?

Indyologist: Well, I figure that Someone upstairs likes me. Otherwise I would be dead several times over...I was quite the "danger boy" when I was younger.
 

the hammer42

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Right now we are guarding a internet provider.
Lots of computers here.
You know. lots of stuff that makes good money on the blackmarket.

I think its fun also, but my wife gets scared [omit] everytime she hears what happens to me at work.

EDIT: removed inappropriate word
 
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Pale Horse

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the hammer42 said:
This week was a bad one for me and my buddy.
We ran into some trouble at work.
Friday, saterday and sunday some kids tried to brake into the building we are working.
Three days in a row I had a gun pointed at me.
On saterday one of the guys shot at us.
The bullit ripped through my jacket but missed my body.

But we did get them and turned them over to the police.

I may be opening a can of worms, but what types of guns were used (revolvers, automatics, rifles) and what is the firearm policy for civilians in the Netherlands?
 

the hammer42

New member
It was a small hand gun. I'm not sure witch type.
But it is illegal for civilians to carry guns.
The problem however.
In Amsterdam you can buy a gun like your buying a donut.
The kids were in the age of 17 to 19.
The dont care about anything anymore. sad.
 

Pale Horse

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Staff member
Well, as the saying goes: "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."

Interesting about the black-market, computers, and the potential influence of an eastern-bloc mob. Migh make for a great script....


I will think about that one for a while.....
 

Pale Horse

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Staff member
Nope. The American AWB sunset means nothing to the People of the Republik of Kalifornia (we're a socialist, bankrupt, loose boarder, sess pool of greed; over-riding logic and civility) . All I get to do is look at pictures of firearms that other Americans (and possibly other world citizens) can own with confidence.

But I digress, this is about experiences that threaten life as we now it

"Those who give up liberty for the sake of security deserve neither liberty nor security." Ben Franklin
 

Zharah

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I have a few...

When I was asleep I was bit on the face by a Black Widow. Went in and out of consiousness. I was pretty much paralyzed for almost three weeks. That sucked really bad. :)

At a concert, in the mosh pit, I fell down and was trampled on for ten minutes (from what I heard). Paramedics pulled me out and I was unconcious (I'm a small girl, so no one noticed me). Basically, broke my left hand, severe concussion, and I was really bloody. All in all, that was a good show.

Oh, and I lived off of Top Ramen for two months straight. Good God... one can die just by eating those. Ugh. :p
 

Indyologist

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Re: I have a few...

Zharah said:
When I was asleep I was bit on the face by a Black Widow. Went in and out of consiousness. I was pretty much paralyzed for almost three weeks. That sucked really bad. :)

At a concert, in the mosh pit, I fell down and was trampled on for ten minutes (from what I heard). Paramedics pulled me out and I was unconcious (I'm a small girl, so no one noticed me). Basically, broke my left hand, severe concussion, and I was really bloody. All in all, that was a good show.

Oh, and I lived off of Top Ramen for two months straight. Good God... one can die just by eating those. Ugh. :p

Black Widow bites-- OUCH! I saw a special on National Geographic about those. Wicked. The toxin in the bite makes all your muscles contract as tight as they can go, over and over and over again. Really, really painful.

"All in all, that was a good show." -- you are too funny! I think they should make mosh pitting illegal. So many people get hurt in them.

Top Ramen for 2 months straight?! I guess there ARE some fates worse than death!
 

Finn

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I've had a shot from a nailgun miss my head just by inches. A friend was handling one carelessly. Now when I think of it, the most comical part was that after that had happened, I calmly told him to be little more careful with it in the future against his all-pale face. (Well, I think I know <i>some</i> people who hope he hadn't missed.)

It struck me yet later on how close that had been. Of course, all kinds of things happen while doing some home timbering. I once almost sliced my shin whole open with a shovel (left a nice scar) and also have stepped on a six-inch nail sticking from a fallen plank that impaled my foot.
 

the hammer42

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He Finn.
That from the nail sounds like some thing that happend to me also.
I was about 7. Jumping from a log upon a plank and impaled my foot with nail.
All I could think about was what my dad would say about my new shoes he just got me.
 

Indydan13

New member
I know it's not as severe, but its something...

The day before my 5th birthday, my family and I was in Florida. We had gone to a beach that had just been hit with a hurricane a week before we got there. The change in the sand underwater caused the depth to go from 3 feet to about 10 instantly. I was out swimming with some friends and I hit the 10 foot area. I immediatly began to flail because i couldn't touch the bottom and I was almost drowning. I passed out for some reason and from what I've been told, my dad came and pulled me out and performed cpr and resusitated me before a lifeguard even arrived.

Another instance was when I was between 2 and 3. I had just finished watching Raiders (no kidding) and I was pretending I was on a horse (truck chase), I tripped and hit our radiator in our apartment. It sliced the skin all the way to the bone. I was gushin blood and was concious, but was in a sort of catatonic state. I was taken to the hospital, and i got 13 stiches inside and 14 stiches outside. I still got a highly noticable scar on my left side of my head. The doctors said that if we had run into traffic (we just missed rush hour) and if another 30 minutes had passed (we lived right outside of chicago) I most likely wouldn't have made it.

That's all I got...nothin big...
 

KDuncan

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Nothing particularly exciting. I came really close to getting run over once, and I went to a friend's party, and she had a swimming pool. I can't swim, so I accidentally lost my balance and slipped in because I misjudged my step (I planned to sort of wade in) and, well, I was ten I think, so I think I would have drowned (at that time I didn't know that end was shallow, so I was horizontal and freaking out, what you aren't supposed to do of course :p ) and I guess I might have drowned if my friend hadn't remembered I couldn't swim and pulled me up.

I still can't swim. :whip:
 

San Holo

Active member
My uncle owns a few acres near Cripple Creek in Colorado. I used to go up there nearly every summer and hike around the mountains looking for old horseshoes and such. One time when I was about 12, I was playing Indiana Jones with my cousin , when this fricking huge mountain lion darted out from behind a boulder. My beagle chased it into the dusk, then returned unharmed. I have no idea how long the puma was watching/stalking us, but I'm pretty sure that it was hungry for a little taste of San's Holo.
 
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