re: Have you ever cheated death?

More times than I care to count.

The ones I remember offhand:

When I was very young a cable snapped. It put a light scratch across my nose rather than decapitating me.

I had a 300 honda 4x4 flip over backwards onto me in the same way the same bike killed a friend. I held on to the bike and ended up supporting it with my hands and feet rather than getting a gas tank to the chest.

While hoisting a large cypress log from each end when I was young, a chain slipped and the log swung into my chest. 10-13 ft long and 24in in diameter...no injuries.

I had a pipe box stand fall on me and I went through the plywood rather than getting hit by pipe.

I caught two ricochetes to the chest when U was in my early teens.

I put a safe family sedan into an oak tree at 45 when someone ran me off the road. No permanent injuries.

I flipped a 4x4 multiple times and ripped the seat belt mount through the body of the vehicle. No visible injuries. Compression fractured two vertebrae.

Nearly drowned as a kid because I was attempting to walk across a pool under water.

I am not invincible, but at this point I am starting to doubt my own mortality.

Passenger in a car hit by a school bus. Hit my side, stopped breathing and was resuscitated. Not bright light, so I was prolly hell-bound.

I have been bitten by poisonous snakes twice. Also was ran off the road by a truck hauling cane and entire vehicle was submerged in bayou lafouche. Worse time was being held hostage at gunpoint for over thirty minutes until me and a friend were brought into the store with the robbers and used as shields. The robbery was called into the cops and as they were getting there the robbers speed off, a high speed chase started for a couple miles till the robbers shot out their back window and both cop cars were stopped due to the amount of bullets that hit the engines.

Was about 5 or 6 when we were leaving my grandparents in the Lake Charles area heading home to the Houston area. In between Vidor and the Neches River Bridge, our van hydroplaned, bounced off the center concrete median, then hit the back of an 18 wheeler, which sent us into a full on spin. I convinced my mom to let me sit in the front seat, despite not being big enough to really do so. To make matters worse, I had the shoulder strap behind me so I could try to sleep. Somehow during the wreck, the passenger side door flung open, and I slide out of my seat belt. Somehow I grabbed the shoulder strap portion of the seat belt and held on for dear life. When our van finally came to stand still in the ditch on the complete opposite side of I-10, I was facing my mom, and my feet were on the bottom lip of the passenger side door frame still clinching the seat belt for dear life. People ran up and kept asking me if I was ok. I didnt understand why they were only checking on me because I was trying to calm down my mom and sisters. When the madness finally calmed down, the people in the car behind us said I was flying like Superman out of the passenger side door and was totally parallel to the ground at one point. Ever since that day, I wear a seat belt properly any time Im in a vehicle. I walked away with only a few glass cuts from the window and wind shield getting busted out during the wreck.

That scene with Dinero playing Russian roulette when he asks for three bullets is probably one of the most intense scenes I have ever watched.

Before they taped that scene Dinero told the vietnamese actor to really slap him so the emotions would be real and raw. He said his crying was not in the script but was real from being angry at the dude slapping the shite out of him. Lol

When I was 13 I pull started a 15hp Yamaha outboard. As soon as it cranked up it took off. Somehow it cranked up with the gear in between neutral and forward. I'm hanging for dear life outside the boat with the prop inches from my legs while it spins in circles. After a minute I was able to reach the kill switch.

Another time I was headed to SLU my freshman year and I fell asleep at the wheel at 6:45am headed to class. The side of the truck hit the airport exit sign which woke me up. Truck starts sliding down the overpass at 75mph. Luckily it didn't flip and it the tree line stopped me. Truck was totaled and all I had was a few cuts from glass in my face and arms.

flipped 2 cars going 60mph+ and walked away without a scratch either time.

Almost fell into a tigers habitat in the Audubon Zoo from someone trying to scare me.

Guy was trying to shoot a muzzleloader and it misfired. He put the butt of the stock on his thigh while he checked it out, inadvertently turning towards me while he did it. Apparently the powder was wet and it went off about 6 inches from my head. Felt the heat from the flash. Would not recommend