near death experiences

[bellweather]

a little poll to see how many of you have had near death experiences..

this came up in a convo with some friends the other night and some interesting stories came up..

mine: mowing lawns for commercial landscaping co. about 11 years ago.
was operating a 42" scag power mower and hit a retaining wall at the bottom of a hill that led into a ditch. i flipped over the mower and fell about 15 feet onto rock, snapping my ankle like a twig. i look up and see the mower, still on, about to fall ontop of me with blades spinning full speed. the only thing stopping it was the 2" of the retaining wall it was struggling to get over. i was sure death was next. at the last second my co-worker ran to the rescue and turned the mower off..

your turn..

-b

 

[Dlove]

Rolling a Bmw M3 doing 130mph off the highway threw trees. Passenger in a Z3 going 135mph soft top flipping about a dozen times almost over the guard rail with a 50 ft. drop. Scary shit, walked from both with scratches and one broken tooth. Testamonial for BMW they are rock fuckin solid!!!!

 

[tazman03]

I guess you could call mine near death......

Generally when sitting in the left turn lane most of us nudge out into the intersection when the light turns green. For some reason I just sat there this time. Light turns green and cars to my right (2 lanes) proceed straight through the intersection and probably 4-5 cars make it across in both directions and suddenly from my left a lady flys through the intersection doing about 50mph and somehow no one got hit. If I would have inched out even just a little I woulda got T-Boned by this bitch! she must have realized the light was red right about the time those flashbacks started cause she locked up the brakes AFTER she got all the way through the intersection.

 

[tazman03]

Rolling a Bmw M3 doing 130mph off the highway threw trees. Passenger in a Z3 going 135mph soft top flipping about a dozen times almost over the guard rail with a 50 ft. drop. Scary shit, walked from both with scratches and one broken tooth. Testamonial for BMW they are rock fuckin solid!!!!

I have had bad dreams of doing this in my mustang after watching the needle damn near touch 0 again, lol. Think this summer I will tone it down and keep it at the track

 

[DarkCurse]

when i was a kid i almost went over a waterfall, i couldn't beat the current, a stranger saw what was happening and saved me probably 6 feet from the edge.

 

[AASynergist]

Travelling on a motorway in a double decker coach a caravan jacknifed in front blocking all three lanes. The driver was speeding in the fast lane knew he couldn't break in time he tried to swerve and go round on the hard shoulder (breakdown lane) coach flipped and I was thrown out of the window from the top floor amazingly I didn't break a thing which incidentally I put down to my training and rugby at the time. However suffered lacerations all over the left side of my body over a 100 stitches were put in my face. One of the lacerations caused an arterial bleed and by the time I reached hospital I had lost at least half of my blood.

However I am still here but my modelling career has gone down the pan.

 

[Uruk Hai]

Back when I was younger, I was doing whipits aka laughing gas. I took to much and everything went black, I saw the white light and a guy waving at me to come closer, then I got woken up by my friend hitting me in my face. I had turned purple and was foaming at the mouth. I don't know if that was "god" or not but he looked Jewish for some reason.

Pretty scary!

And like a stupid fucking kid, I did another whipit.

 

[big12]

I don't know if these are near death, but they were kind of freaky.

1. I got home one night at about 11:00 PM from the gym. I went in the house and just shut the door without locking it (because I knew my dad was also on his way home). Everyone was in bed. I went into the kitchen and then walked down the hallway, when I saw someone walk into the house and turn around to quietly shut the door. He turned around and it was a big (kinda fat) guy was talked like he was crazy (I think he was). I asked him what he was doing, and he asked me if I knew such and such family because a murder had just taken place. I told him that I didn't, and after a few seconds he left on his own. About a minute later the police came to the door with the guy in handcuffs. It turns out that they were in the neighborhood looking for him. Cops took him away and never saw him again...may not sound bad, but it felt pretty dangerous being in my shoes.

2. I had borrowed my brother's car to take to school because mine was in the shop. My brother's car had a broken window that was covered with card board and duct tape. After school I was walking to my car, when I noticed that the door with the broken window was slightly ajar. I didn't think I had left it open, but I wasn't sure. I walked over to the driver door, which when I got there, was wide open, and some skinny little kid (about 16/17 years old) was sitting in the driver seat of the car with a screw driver trying to break the plastic over the steering column so he could wire the car. The kid and I both looked at each other for a second (almost in disbelief at what was happening). The kid then just got up and started to walk away, until I grabbed his arm and say "hey." The kid pulled his arm away and swung the screw driver at me and said, "I'll fucking stab you." The kid ran through the parking lot. I called a buddy of mine and we chased him across campus into a residential, where he was hiding in some lady's backyard, and then we lost him.

Like I said, I don't know if these quite count as near death experiences, but they were both pretty fucking weird/potentially dangerous/uncommon events. The weirdest part is that both of these events took place in the same week! The first one happened on a Monday, and the second happened on Wednesday. For a while I thought that these events might be signs that I was going to die soon or something! I didn't really believe that, but I thought it was strange as hell that both of those happened to me in the same week.

 

[ohmygoodness]

shit

When I was around two or so I got sucked out in the under tow and someone saved me. While I was in the ocean after the sun faded to blackness I was over come by a intense feeling of peace and loving support. Then I found myself blinded by intense light and it was extremely hot. Then I don't remember much my life's a blur. But rest assured no other earthly feeling has ever come close.