EPTthis summer i was working full time in a resturant. This took place on monday, right after the gay pride parade in toronto I had just cleaned out the deep fryers and all, they were nice and hot, real hot. im sure you think you see where im going with this. anyways i was standing right infront of these when my boss says "Hey doug, how was the parade on sunday?" i start walking towards him to retort with an equally witty remark, when a car smashs through the wall, knocking ovens, and about 80 litres of hot oil to the exact spot where i had been standing about two seconds ago. needless to say i counlt stop shaking for a few days, and the restaurant was shut down for the rest of the day. Those guys have mad connects to get it fixed up so quick
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TryThis
Canada1522 Posts
this summer i was working full time in a resturant. This took place on monday, right after the gay pride parade in toronto I had just cleaned out the deep fryers and all, they were nice and hot, real hot. im sure you think you see where im going with this. anyways i was standing right infront of these when my boss says "Hey doug, how was the parade on sunday?" i start walking towards him to retort with an equally witty remark, when a car smashs through the wall, knocking ovens, and about 80 litres of hot oil to the exact spot where i had been standing about two seconds ago. needless to say i counlt stop shaking for a few days, and the restaurant was shut down for the rest of the day. Those guys have mad connects to get it fixed up so quick | ||
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Sepiraph
Canada13 Posts
On January 20 2010 11:57 TryThis wrote: i had my life saved by a gay joke. seriously. this summer i was working full time in a resturant. This took place on monday, right after the gay pride parade in toronto I had just cleaned out the deep fryers and all, they were nice and hot, real hot. im sure you think you see where im going with this. anyways i was standing right infront of these when my boss says "Hey doug, how was the parade on sunday?" i start walking towards him to retort with an equally witty remark, when a car smashs through the wall, knocking ovens, and about 80 litres of hot oil to the exact spot where i had been standing about two seconds ago. needless to say i counlt stop shaking for a few days, and the restaurant was shut down for the rest of the day. Those guys have mad connects to get it fixed up so quick Did this make the news? | ||
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muse5187
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EniraM(CA)
Canada160 Posts
Another time, I was lying in my bed with my girlfriend and we were eating those hard candy campino things, just chilling. I remember starting to fIall asleep and I woke up with the fucking thing stuck in my throat. My parents were not home and I knew my girl didn't know how to do the heimlick or whatever that shit is called so naturally I freak out for a second. Somehow I forced the candy down my throat by swallowing really hard. It was god damn pain full, I could feel the candy go down the whole way. But I was so fucking relieved. A more recent time, I was in the passenger seat of my buddies car headed to the casino. We were on the highway between St.Catharine's and Niagara Falls. Just before you hit Niagara there is this long slow turn off, the conditions were pretty poor with black ice and some snow, Not to mention he was driving about 120km/hr. About half way into the long turn we start to power slide, this continues for about 6-7 seconds as my buddy navigates pretty well through the turn (6-7 seconds no joke, i remember saying "wow were fucking sliding arent we? "lol yeah" he responds. As we hit the end of the turn the road starts to straighten out, he tried to balance the vehicle but we start fish tailing pretty hard. I grab the fucking dash and yell out "you can fucking do it, dude!" to keep him positive and confident. Unfourtunatly we start spinning fucking quickly, i remember seeing wall, oncoming traffic, wall, open highway, wall, oncomiong traffic, wall,....etc. Spinning like crazy we hold our breath for the inevitable contact. While spinning I can vaugely see this other car 2 lanes to our right WAY overreact and clearly pull the wheel like a retard. Now that car starts spinning toward the concrete wall. Finally we stop our death spin and hit the wall and about 5km/hr. A small jolt is all that happened to us. We both look at each other and fucking laugh at the anti-climactic ending to that retarded experience. The other car that spun and fucking whipplashed into the concrete wall was totally fucked. A woman got out of that vehicle (fucking obviously) and after realizing she was alright loses her mind saying it was out fault. lol She was only 2 lanes away and 10 feet north of our position. Cops came, and clearly said it was her fault. So we headed to the casino. Pretty sick. So standard, high way driving and almost drowning. Just like every one else's near death. | ||
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[NyC]HoBbes
United States803 Posts
On January 20 2010 12:21 EniraM(CA) wrote: So standard, high way driving and almost drowning. Just like every one else's near death. Speak for yourself dude, I got shot with a fucking crossbow... =P | ||
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Try
United States1293 Posts
tl;dr I almost drowned in a river. | ||
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
On January 20 2010 09:50 Jayme wrote: Investigated an IED in iraq Opened the pack, the blasting cap went off but the IED didn't actually detonate. I was totally freaked the fuck out but calm at the same time. Holy fuck dude, that's sick. | ||
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TryThis
Canada1522 Posts
On January 20 2010 12:15 Sepiraph wrote: + Show Spoiler + On January 20 2010 11:57 TryThis wrote: i had my life saved by a gay joke. seriously. this summer i was working full time in a resturant. This took place on monday, right after the gay pride parade in toronto I had just cleaned out the deep fryers and all, they were nice and hot, real hot. im sure Did this make the news? all that happened was the guy was in the wrong gear and smashed forward. But there was a picture of the hole in a small corner of the local paper | ||
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leomon
Canada169 Posts
I was skiing down a mountain, and there were two trails, going left and right. I took the right one, and lost my balance, and fell. Next thing I know, I had half my body over the edge of the mountain, almost falling to my death. I quickly gripped the little piece of rope that they have surrounding the pathway, and I tried to quickly take off my skis while trying not to fall. Of course, this was my VERY first time skiing, so I had no idea what to expect. | ||
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Xaanix
United States109 Posts
this is the EXACT location on google maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=route 31 east amwell nj&sll=40.400505,-74.84609&sspn=0.046212,0.066175&g=route 31n east amwell nj&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rte 31 N, East Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey&ll=40.384699,-74.823069&spn=0.001444,0.002068&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.384663,-74.82297&panoid=nsBXJx9SNy6IzndEq_4v1w&cbp=12,267.94,,0,19.21 My parents found me crawling onto the shoulder of the road.... (from the driveway shown on the left) just in the nick of time. One other time, as an adult i was doing 85 on the NJ turnpike, northbound, (on a bridge on a 3 line highway )and some absolute a$$hole in a cab went from the LEFT lane without stopping into the right lane, in about 2 seconds. No signal, and VERY sudden... the rear of his car was actually about 2 feet behind the front bumper of my car, meaning if i hadnt reacted he would have clipped my front end. I saw jerk towards my lane (i was in the middle lane) and slammed on the breaks, fishtailed into the RIGHT lane, and had him pull right in front of me, while my wheels were screeching. I cant believe i didnt lose control of the car and go right off the side of the bridge.. here's the location on gmaps http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=nj turnpike exit 16e&sll=39.488675,-75.254631&sspn=0.187326,0.264702&ie=UTF8&ll=40.757116,-74.092686&spn=0,359.998966&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=40.757116,-74.092571&panoid=Qx9sWuP80_tJISjDKlnviQ&cbp=12,89.77,,0,13.74 | ||
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nastyyy
United States262 Posts
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
On January 20 2010 11:13 [NyC]HoBbes wrote: My school, like many schools, holds a huge science-fair type thing near the end of every year. One of my friends decided last year that for physics, he was going to build an authentic medieval crossbow. One fine spring day, he decided to test this crossbow (thankfully without metal tips on the bolts) on our football field. The door between the inside of the school and the athletic field has no windows. To prevent from shooting anyone, he had placed a sign on the inside of said door that read "CAUTION, EXPERIMENT IN PROGRESS, DO NOT USE." Somehow, over the course of the day, either this sign had fallen off, or some asshole thought it would be funny to move it. Either way, I opened the door to be greeted with a crossbow bolt to the chest. This bolt proceeded to do what crossbow bolts are designed to do, and puncture my chest. Thankfully, the bolt was entirely made of wood, and hit a rib, meaning I got away with only a highly painful, but not dangerous puncture wound. An inch off, though, and crossbow bolt+internal organ would have been a very bad outcome indeed. Wow, do you have an epic scar? If some guy is ever like "I got stabbed..blah blah here's the scar" you can utterly 1UP him | ||
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YPang
United States4024 Posts
On January 20 2010 07:37 xDark.Carnivalx wrote: every time i got into a car that my sister was driving. that's a lot of near death experiences considering she drove me to school/from school for an entire year of high school. i still have nightmares to this day. | ||
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[NyC]HoBbes
United States803 Posts
On January 20 2010 14:49 Fontong wrote: Wow, do you have an epic scar? If some guy is ever like "I got stabbed..blah blah here's the scar" you can utterly 1UP him lol, there is a pretty big sort of dent/dot there, it's always fantastic for when people are telling any kind of scar story. | ||
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~_~
Canada239 Posts
On January 20 2010 11:13 [NyC]HoBbes wrote: My school, like many schools, holds a huge science-fair type thing near the end of every year. One of my friends decided last year that for physics, he was going to build an authentic medieval crossbow. One fine spring day, he decided to test this crossbow (thankfully without metal tips on the bolts) on our football field. The door between the inside of the school and the athletic field has no windows. To prevent from shooting anyone, he had placed a sign on the inside of said door that read "CAUTION, EXPERIMENT IN PROGRESS, DO NOT USE." Somehow, over the course of the day, either this sign had fallen off, or some asshole thought it would be funny to move it. Either way, I opened the door to be greeted with a crossbow bolt to the chest. This bolt proceeded to do what crossbow bolts are designed to do, and puncture my chest. Thankfully, the bolt was entirely made of wood, and hit a rib, meaning I got away with only a highly painful, but not dangerous puncture wound. An inch off, though, and crossbow bolt+internal organ would have been a very bad outcome indeed. why couldn't he have just picked a spot to shoot at that wasnt the door? maybe a wall? wtf | ||
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EsX_Raptor
United States2802 Posts
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StorrZerg
United States13922 Posts
On January 20 2010 07:33 DrTJEckleburg wrote: My brother and I had to bail out(he lost control traveling south due to extremely high winds) of our family Cessna 152 four years ago at about 2000 feet and my parachute didn't open all the way. Somehow I just broke my left ankle. holy fuck thats crazy do you live in Alaska? | ||
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bluegoo
United States141 Posts
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Lovin
Denmark812 Posts
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DrTJEckleburg
United States1080 Posts
On January 20 2010 15:01 StorrZerg wrote: holy fuck thats crazy do you live in Alaska? Negative, this occurred over the Tehachapi mountains in California. The ironic part is a kid I went to high school with(didn't know him personally) died with one of his relatives in the same area while flying south about two years later, they lost control of their plane also but did not or could not bailout and time and both were killed. As a final edit I still want everyone to know I still love flying, aviation, and will eventually get my license once I stop being a cheapskate. | ||
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