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re: When in life have you 'dodged a bullet'?
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:31 pm to LordSaintly
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:31 pm to LordSaintly
Junior year of college i locked myself on the balcony of a third story hotel. Didn't have my cell and no one was going to be in for a while so i decided to climb over the rail and make my way, balcony to balcony, down to the walkway about 4 rooms down.
I got to the balcony of the last room and realized there was about a 30 inch outcropping off the building between that balcony and the walkway. I was able to swing my leg across onto the walkway, however i couldn't reach the railing without letting go first with my other hand. I let go of the balcony railing with my left hand and reached for the walkway railing with my right. I missed. I immediately shifted my weight and grabbed for it again. This time I barely caught it with my fingertips.
I was literally millimeters away from a 25 foot fall onto pavement. Dumbest thing I ever did in my life.
I got to the balcony of the last room and realized there was about a 30 inch outcropping off the building between that balcony and the walkway. I was able to swing my leg across onto the walkway, however i couldn't reach the railing without letting go first with my other hand. I let go of the balcony railing with my left hand and reached for the walkway railing with my right. I missed. I immediately shifted my weight and grabbed for it again. This time I barely caught it with my fingertips.
I was literally millimeters away from a 25 foot fall onto pavement. Dumbest thing I ever did in my life.
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Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:33 pm to hombreman9
frick. That.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:33 pm to PurpGold 14-0
who the frick downvotes the "In Laws",,, that's a funny fricking movie
youre cocksuckers
youre cocksuckers
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:35 pm to PurpGold 14-0
1996 - Lake Charles. Following friend in another car to a party on a weekend night that I'm home from LSU. Traveling about 45mph, a car length or two back since I don't know where we are going.
Go through blinking yellow light intersection and a Dodge Truck flies right between us doing 80ish...if we had left one second sooner/later, one of us wouldn't have made it home that night.
Pulled over, checked my drawers and went home for the evening.
Go through blinking yellow light intersection and a Dodge Truck flies right between us doing 80ish...if we had left one second sooner/later, one of us wouldn't have made it home that night.
Pulled over, checked my drawers and went home for the evening.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:36 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Being born with a birth defect, multiple car accidents.. I'm sure there's been a few more.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:39 pm to CBLSU316
we were drunk at a party and my friend was showing it to us earlier (unloaded). later that night after he had put it up a friend of his went and got it (not knowing he had put the clip back in and had one in the chamber) and did it as a joke
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:39 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Friend fricked my serious h.s.GF. Was pissed then, but she got gross. Really saved me on that one, while he has a baby with her.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:40 pm to siliconvalleytiger
I got pulled over in college and the cop happened to be my next-door neighbor. He let me go with a very stern warning.
I was so fricked up there is no doubt I would have been taken to jail.
I was so fricked up there is no doubt I would have been taken to jail.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:42 pm to Mizzoufan26
Ah, and at a party in high school, friend was having girl problems, bitched out and wanted to go home. I was drinking an pissed he was making me take him back. Driving through town probably speeding and cop comes past in the opposite lane, does a u turn and starts following me. Tails me for a few miles and then let's me go
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:47 pm to Mizzoufan26
Was robbed at gunpoint at Bon marche mall after watching the last showing of Jurassic Park.
Was absolutely certain I was going to be shot and killed, but the guy took off with my money and that was it.
Was absolutely certain I was going to be shot and killed, but the guy took off with my money and that was it.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:54 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Hit by a car going over 100 mph...pinned in the car...troopers said they had never seen that much intrusion without car catching fire.
Guy tripping on acid pulled a gun and machete on me.
Guy tripping on acid pulled a gun and machete on me.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:55 pm to goldenbadger08
quote:
Being born with a birth defect,
You sure you dodged that one?
Posted on 1/25/14 at 9:59 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Almost had to stay the night in Galliano once, I willed myself sober and got the hell away from that crazy ho.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 10:01 pm to siliconvalleytiger
-almost fell in front of a subway train in tokyo
-walked across the ledge of an overflowing spillway. got to a point where it was slick with algae. it was hard to turn around but i made it back. caught two arse whippins for that.
-i was at a joint in mexico and was drunk shite talking to the wrong local folks. i had to exit stage left which was the bathroom window. also got pissy drunk and passed out once in tiajuana and woke up at the border customs station.
-forgot to open a bypass valve while operating a steam plant. a shipmate decided to come down to the engine room to chill out and caught my frickup. could've been super fatal.
-4 major vehicle crashes. two rollovers.
....still living
my bananas weren't dancin!
-walked across the ledge of an overflowing spillway. got to a point where it was slick with algae. it was hard to turn around but i made it back. caught two arse whippins for that.
-i was at a joint in mexico and was drunk shite talking to the wrong local folks. i had to exit stage left which was the bathroom window. also got pissy drunk and passed out once in tiajuana and woke up at the border customs station.
-forgot to open a bypass valve while operating a steam plant. a shipmate decided to come down to the engine room to chill out and caught my frickup. could've been super fatal.
-4 major vehicle crashes. two rollovers.
....still living
my bananas weren't dancin!
This post was edited on 1/25/14 at 10:04 pm
Posted on 1/25/14 at 10:04 pm to Festus
got really drunk one night when I was 19. vaguely remember the drive home. I remember pulling up to a stop sign, seeing 3 of them as opposed to 1 due to blurred vision, blacked out for a sec and finally came to when I nailed a curb and blew out my tire down the road from home. how the hell I didn't kill anybody or much less get a DUI that night is beyond me. must have had an angel watching over me or something. haven't drank and driven since.
This post was edited on 1/25/14 at 10:06 pm
Posted on 1/25/14 at 10:05 pm to Festus
quote:
Being born with a birth defect,
quote:funny and fricked up at the same time
You sure you dodged that one?
Posted on 1/25/14 at 10:16 pm to siliconvalleytiger
During beach week cops kicked our door in and found a bunch of nefarious shite. Said everyone not staying here GTFO I picked up my shite and left. The place was in my name and didn't get caught everyone else got screwed
This post was edited on 1/25/14 at 10:51 pm
Posted on 1/25/14 at 10:28 pm to siliconvalleytiger
I went out on my motorcycle one night, played pool and had several drinks with my friends. Not real drunk but feeling pretty good. When I got back to my house, I threw my helmet and wallet on the coffee table and walked back outside to clean up the bike. After a few minutes, it was now about 1:30 am, I started getting hungry and wanted a burger, I had a few bucks in my pocket and burger king was just around the corner. I figured I could get there and back with out seeing any police. The first intersection I came to had a cop sitting there looking at me. No helmet, no wallet and I'd been drinking. He pulled me over and asked for my D.L. and insurance. As I fumbled through the papers in the glove box behind the seat, trying to figure out what I was going to do, a call came through on the radio. There was an accident with a fatality, the officer looked at me and said "this is the luckiest day of your life, get home and don't let me see you out again". I couldn't believe I was getting away. The next morning my girlfriend at the time called me and said that her brother-in-law had been racing someone on a back street and the other guy crashed, killing himself in the accident. That was the accident that pulled the police away from me. I had mixed feelings about it, happy I got away, disturbed that my happiness was brought on by someone's death.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 10:35 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Well I did work for Enron.
The bullet I dodged was not getting indicted.
The bullet I dodged was not getting indicted.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 10:44 pm to siliconvalleytiger
well once I was dove hunting and drinking, I got up to go take a piss and my drunk buddy was shooting at a low dove and shot. It was a line drive shot from about 5 feet away and he destroyed the seat I was on not 5 seconds before.
and he missed
and he missed
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