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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.
God your friend is an idiot if the only warning he had for a lethal projectile was a dinky little sign. Good think you're ok!
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my near death experience was two years ago.me and my family were going to visit my uncle's house.but on the way a bus hit our car at a very high speed from behind and our car bumped into the rear bumper of the car ahead and it flipped like 90 degrees to the left and skidded about 150-200 feet away.i was in the front passenger seat at that time.i thought my life just flashed before my eyes and everything started to become somewhat slower.after that accident my dad that about 3 broken bones in both sides of his hip,my mom had a serious head injury and by sister had a broken foot and broken nose.but surprisingly enough we all managed to survive that horrible accident.but the weirdest thing of all is that i only came out of that accident with only two permanent injury marks, one on the left side of my head and the other on my elbow.but i didn't even have a concussion.i must say i was quite lucky.
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Mmmmm I can think of 2 in my most recent memory, and they were both in the same week in the same place lol.
So I was on the backstage crew for a local high school and it was one of the last scene changes. The cue to begin taking off the set pieces was that a uh...giant...metal...pipe that is connected to a sheet that acts as a curtain was supposed to come down. So I'm sitting there waiting and...it doesn't so I was like okay fuck it they'll get it down I need to get moving. And as I go in front of my piece to unbrake it, the thing comes fucking flying down. Mind you, this thing is heavy as balls. like, unliftable and requiring a huge pulley system to get it up and down. The thing fucking lands on my shoulder and it hurt like hell but I had to do my shit. After, I realized that it only glanced of a meaty part of my shoulder. If it was only A FEW INCHES off, it would've easily broken my collar bone or smashed into my head, probably killing me. ~_~
A few days later, during strike, we were packing up the used batteries from the microphones and we connected a huge line of 9 volt batteries. This thing was...iunno around 4 feet long. Two other friends and I held hands and then proceeded to complete the circuit, and we immediately felt a HUGE electric shock run through us. It was almost as if my heart stopped for a moment. Scared the shit out of me and it hurt like hell lol, I don't know what would've happened if it was only one person...Dumbassery for the loss...
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I fell face-first onto subway tracks. Fractured an area of my cheek-bone near under my eye.
edit: Besides that nothing serious, some internal bleeding, sprained ankle and some bruises/scratches.
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New topic: Why are TLers so hard to kill?
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On January 20 2010 23:14 Ian Ian Ian wrote:
New topic: Why are TLers so hard to kill?
Well this thread is biased. All the TLers who died from similar incidents aren't around to post about how they almost survived a death-experience.
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On January 20 2010 23:30 LonelyMargarita wrote:Show nested quote +On January 20 2010 23:14 Ian Ian Ian wrote:
New topic: Why are TLers so hard to kill? Well this thread is biased. All the TLers who died from similar incidents aren't around to post about how they almost survived a death-experience.
Joke killer +1
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I was out snowboarding a year or so back, and was off-piste with a couple of friends. One of them hadnt had that much experience particularly off-piste, so I offered I'd lead the way and see if it was all decently doable for some1 with little experience. Boarded down a bit, very rocky so required quite a bit of jumping so I waved them off to go back to the slope and i'd see them at the bottom. Boarded on a bit and at some point I boarded over a small overhang of snow (altho I couldnt see that at the time I went over it), I started to sink trough it and fell about 5m (15ft?), and all the snow from the overhang came with me and onto my back. For a few moments I thought I'd just be totally burried in but most of it went rolling down and in the end I was covered in a small layer of snow that I was able to crawl out of. Didnt have any real slow-mo going on, just all kinds of ("you fucking idiot") thoughts racing trough my head. Fairly exhilerating
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When i was very young, i stole an air-bed from my older brother and went on the lake. I have never swam before this happened, so i was going parallel with the bank but then i got into place where water was deep right of the shore (very steep shore there) I fell of the air-bed into the water and was absolutely panicking and kicking, swinging around and started drowning slowly. Then i somehow figured out how to stay with my head above the water and miraculously managed to get to the shore. I was very scared after this sort of first swimming experience. Next day i went to the lake a started swimming in shallow water and i learned how to swim shortly after. So again drowning near death experience.
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Not really a real near death experience but when is was about 16 years old. I was on vercation with my family, inculding my little brother, who at the time was 9 years old. We were at the beach and even though it was very windy and there were huge waves we decided to go have a little swim, just to see what it was like. We then stripped to our underwear and ran into the water about 5 meters next to alot rocks that for some reason had been put there at the beach, probably for people to walk on them. Just as we jumped into the water the waves where alot harder to swim in than i had anticipated, and as i started swimming i felt a really strong current pulling out towards the sea. That was one of the scariest feelings ive ever had. I got really scared and tried to get my younger brother into the shore, so i took his hand got him onto some of the rocks where he was somehow able to crawl back in. I dident really notice how he got back, since i was fighting just to get a grip on the rocks, so that i wouldnt be pulled away by the current and repeadetly being hit hard by the waves and smashed into the rocks. I eventually got back on the shore by repeadingly swimming when the waves hit, and holding on to the rocks when the waves retrackted.
I remember my father yelling at me, saying something about that we should swim away from the rocks, but at the time i dident really think i would be able to outswim the current. Im not sure how much danger i actually was in, but the feeling of being pulled hard out towards the sea is pretty fucking scary! I got away with just some superficial wound from being hit into the rocks, but other than that i was fine after the incident.
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near death experience: I was watching Incruit OSL Final game 5 when it was like all intense and I was almost about to jizz my pants. But then my wireless internet got disconnected for like 15 mins. I literally starngled myself for like 10 seconds, but my brain acted against my will.
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Almost drowned at the beach as a kid, but i only remember that vaguely, apparently a lifeguard saved my ass, from that day on i listened to my mother when she told me to not walk too far away.
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On January 20 2010 09:21 Ian Ian Ian wrote:
I remember one time I was shooting at this zergling thing and I thought I was about to die but then a dropship came and saved me
lol /sarcasm
When I had tonsilitis was probably another time when I could have died. Maybe another day or two of not going to the hospital would have completely closed my airway and suffocated me.
I could hardly eat and lost like 15 lbs. from it too. My throat was like the size of a dime or penny. I couldn't talk, had to write everything down. Had trouble trying to sleep (probably sleep apnea and pain waking me up)
I made a blog about if you wanna read it.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=110378¤tpage=5
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On January 21 2010 00:12 Promises wrote:
I was out snowboarding a year or so back, and was off-piste with a couple of friends. One of them hadnt had that much experience particularly off-piste, so I offered I'd lead the way and see if it was all decently doable for some1 with little experience. Boarded down a bit, very rocky so required quite a bit of jumping so I waved them off to go back to the slope and i'd see them at the bottom. Boarded on a bit and at some point I boarded over a small overhang of snow (altho I couldnt see that at the time I went over it), I started to sink trough it and fell about 5m (15ft?), and all the snow from the overhang came with me and onto my back. For a few moments I thought I'd just be totally burried in but most of it went rolling down and in the end I was covered in a small layer of snow that I was able to crawl out of. Didnt have any real slow-mo going on, just all kinds of ("you fucking idiot") thoughts racing trough my head. Fairly exhilerating
Oh god, sounds like a treehole. Those things are terrifying.
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Not sure it would have killed me, but I would probably have been blind for life:
When I was 14, and on my way home from school. I was walking past a couple of the schools gangster-kids who were firing illegal fireworks just for kicks. I didn't want to get involved, but the fireworks looked so cool that I watched from a distance. I stood there for about 3 minutes watching and then... one of the bigger fireworks had a mislaunch. Instead of going up, it bursted of with full power right towards me. I was standing about 30 meters away, but it still reached me within a second, and it was pointed right towards my face. I realized what was about to happen, but it was to late. I wouldn't have time to move. Amazingly, the rocket steered a few centimeters left just before it was about to hit me, and it exploded a few meters behind me instead. I had hearing problems for a few days due to being to close to the insane bang, and I had a nasty burn on my right cheek which the rocket had grazed.
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Some of these stories are quite scary.
Nevertheless, this is the most epic comment:
On January 20 2010 23:30 LonelyMargarita wrote:Show nested quote +On January 20 2010 23:14 Ian Ian Ian wrote:
New topic: Why are TLers so hard to kill? Well this thread is biased. All the TLers who died from similar incidents aren't around to post about how they almost survived a death-experience.
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The poll is not surprising. Automobile accidents are the leading cause of death in young people after all. Stupidity of youth + large physical forces of car + frail human body = easy to get hurt badly. 4 kids that I knew in high school all bit it before graduation in car wrecks.
I've been in two wrecks. The first was nothing, I was stopped waiting to turn across the oncoming lane, on top of a hill, in a school zone, in a 40 mph zone, when a dude in a ford f-150 slammed into me and totaled his truck against the back of my Blazer (very tough little SUV, btw). The guy left 30-40 feet of skids before this; the trooper at the scene said he was doing probably 60-70mph before he tried to stop 50 feet away -_-; After all this happened I found I had broken the back of my seat with my body (it slammed down on the backseat bench) I had been hit so hard. The first thing I did was get out and ask the dude if he was OK....he wasn't. No seatbelt, facefirst into his steering wheel. I ended up with mild whiplash. He got a rearranged face.
The second one is my entry for this thread. I was driving about 11:30 at night on one of the curvy backroads I live around. It's a paved road but it has a wicked corner that rises in elevation at the apex as it cranks about 80 degrees in only 30 feet (very bad corner o.O), and right on outside of the corner is a gravel road. Cars going out of the gravel road track pebbles onto this already shitty corner, making it have less traction. Well anyway, lemme factor in my stupidity: I drum, and have a really bad habit of drumming on the wheel with a stick in my right hand as I drive with my left (I am left handed, and I do drive very well with just my left hand). Well I was doing this that particular night but I switched hands this time and had my non-dominant hand on the wheel, distracted by my music and my drumming, came up on this shitty corner, and...went straight instead. I slid off into wet grass (it's like freaking ice in a car) and continued to slide for about 100 feet at roughly 45mph right into a double telephone pole. I hit it hard enough to snap it in two spots, one at the ground and again about 12 feet up. The double pole held up three large transformers between each pole and I had just wedged my Blazer under them and broken one of the poles holding them up. I got out of the truck and ran back about 10 feet to look at the situation. Amazingly all three transformers were being supported by just some cables stringing them together. It was unbelievable. Just one of those transformers had to weigh 1000lbs or more, and all three could have fallen and crushed me when I smashed into the pole. I got shaky after seeing that.
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I'm not sure it could be called as near-death experience, but as for the moment I could literally have died if not for luck, there were two moment.
One was when I was elementary student and got hit by a car when I was returning home after school. Another was approximately six month ago, when the car my family was driving in lost control while driving on the highway trying to avoid the random squirrel. Without guard rail that was placed on the side, all of us could have been seriously injured.
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I got knocked out once by an iron bar.. its the closest thing i can think of.
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I sort of experienced one playing paintball once. Someone popped around a corner and shot at me, and I watched the paintball sail into my stomach (end of round for me). Usually those things are moving a little too fast to see, but time slowed down very tangibly for me. That was super weird.
For real though: been hit by a car while riding my bike a couple times. Bent pedal and handlebars, no scratch on me. Slid out on black ice doing 75 on the interstate once, went sideways past a semi. But none of those were really close to death, though they might have felt like it for a second (I wasn't hurt at all).
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