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re: When in life have you 'dodged a bullet'?
Posted on 1/25/14 at 10:54 pm to SwaggerCopter
Posted on 1/25/14 at 10:54 pm to SwaggerCopter
Ahh, sprinkler stories...
I had just come home from a bad night out and my friend and I were coming up an off ramp. There's a sign that explicitly says, "DO NOT TURN ONTO _____" after getting off the highway. Well I took that turn without knowing there was a huge puddle of water from a broken sprinkler. Car hydroplanes taking the right turn, spins 360 degrees, pops onto a curb, slides through wet grass about 50 feet, and the car comes to a stop about 10 feet from a crowd of people/cars in the parking lot of a Chili's. Everybody was just mouth agape, my friend and I included. It could have turned out REALLY bad.
Luckily only the rear right tire had popped off the rim + bent rim and the parents were off on vacation. They never found out. My high school bank account money back then though...
Listen to the signs!
I had just come home from a bad night out and my friend and I were coming up an off ramp. There's a sign that explicitly says, "DO NOT TURN ONTO _____" after getting off the highway. Well I took that turn without knowing there was a huge puddle of water from a broken sprinkler. Car hydroplanes taking the right turn, spins 360 degrees, pops onto a curb, slides through wet grass about 50 feet, and the car comes to a stop about 10 feet from a crowd of people/cars in the parking lot of a Chili's. Everybody was just mouth agape, my friend and I included. It could have turned out REALLY bad.
Luckily only the rear right tire had popped off the rim + bent rim and the parents were off on vacation. They never found out. My high school bank account money back then though...
Listen to the signs!
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Posted on 1/25/14 at 11:22 pm to siliconvalleytiger
I left a baby on a bed. If I hadn't put a pillow in front of him he would've rolled of the the bed and died. I found him on the pillow
Posted on 1/25/14 at 11:22 pm to forksup
Drunk and driving 70+ mph looked down at the radio looked back up and my truck was half way off the road. I tried to pull it back easy but the rear end came around. I just remember every time I saw ditch I turned the wheel and ended up stopping in the other lane facing the opposite direction.
Driving in the rain one morning going hunting turned a curve only going 50 to 55mph. The truck started fish tailing. I went past another car coming out of a side road side ways. Fish tailed a few more times and almost had it back on the road and it took a hard turn and nose dived into the ditch. I barely missed several big pines and that car turning on the the hwy.
I was out with a girl one night after her curfew. We were headed back to her house when we crossed a train track and the train was only a 100' from the intersection. No lights were working at the crossing. I almost shite my pants on that one.
I have dodged several bullets in my career choices. Rarely I have I been wrong when I decided to make a move or stay put. Only once have I made the wrong choice but it helped me out in the end.
If anyone ever put a gun to my head they better be intending to kill me. I would beat that dude with in an inch of his life.
Driving in the rain one morning going hunting turned a curve only going 50 to 55mph. The truck started fish tailing. I went past another car coming out of a side road side ways. Fish tailed a few more times and almost had it back on the road and it took a hard turn and nose dived into the ditch. I barely missed several big pines and that car turning on the the hwy.
I was out with a girl one night after her curfew. We were headed back to her house when we crossed a train track and the train was only a 100' from the intersection. No lights were working at the crossing. I almost shite my pants on that one.
I have dodged several bullets in my career choices. Rarely I have I been wrong when I decided to make a move or stay put. Only once have I made the wrong choice but it helped me out in the end.
If anyone ever put a gun to my head they better be intending to kill me. I would beat that dude with in an inch of his life.
This post was edited on 1/25/14 at 11:24 pm
Posted on 1/25/14 at 11:23 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Flipped 6 times in a Pontiac GTO while riding shotgun with no seatbelt
Posted on 1/25/14 at 11:30 pm to siliconvalleytiger
In the early 90s, I hung out with a dude who smoked a lot of weed. Cruising Athens one night, we ran out and he said we just needed to go to his buddies house to get hooked up. We parked in the driveway and walked up to the front door and just walked in as the door was left unlocked. Place was pitch black....not a light on anywhere.
He told me to just stand there in the living room as he walked down a hall and started knocking on the bedroom door at the end. Meanwhile, I notice a light turn on to a room adjacent to the living room. The door was closed but I saw the light under the door at the floor. The door opens about 3" and I see an eyeball look at me and then the door closed. Then the light went off.
About 20 seconds later, a shirtless dude comes rushing out of the room with a pistol and puts it right in my face. He was yelling "Who the f$$k are you" about two or three times when the guy I entered the house with came hustling down the hall yelling the guys name saying "It's just me Bill, he (me) is with me, he is cool man."
Angry man lowered his gun and walked up to my friend and slapped him upside the head and said "No, he ain't cool and neither are you mother fu#%er. Don't you ever just walk into my house again. This mother effer (me) is lucky I didn't shoot him in the face. Now walk the f$&k out of my house....NOW!"in the car, I asked my friend what the eff just happened and he then thought it appropriate to tell me that the guy had recently served some time for trafficking and had his sentenced shortened by ratting some folks out. Guy was probably paranoid as shite that someone would be looking for some retribution. And there I am, a stranger pacing around his dark living room.
We didn't get any weed and I was very shaken by the whole ordeal. Grew up a little that night and learned some valuable lessons.
He told me to just stand there in the living room as he walked down a hall and started knocking on the bedroom door at the end. Meanwhile, I notice a light turn on to a room adjacent to the living room. The door was closed but I saw the light under the door at the floor. The door opens about 3" and I see an eyeball look at me and then the door closed. Then the light went off.
About 20 seconds later, a shirtless dude comes rushing out of the room with a pistol and puts it right in my face. He was yelling "Who the f$$k are you" about two or three times when the guy I entered the house with came hustling down the hall yelling the guys name saying "It's just me Bill, he (me) is with me, he is cool man."
Angry man lowered his gun and walked up to my friend and slapped him upside the head and said "No, he ain't cool and neither are you mother fu#%er. Don't you ever just walk into my house again. This mother effer (me) is lucky I didn't shoot him in the face. Now walk the f$&k out of my house....NOW!"in the car, I asked my friend what the eff just happened and he then thought it appropriate to tell me that the guy had recently served some time for trafficking and had his sentenced shortened by ratting some folks out. Guy was probably paranoid as shite that someone would be looking for some retribution. And there I am, a stranger pacing around his dark living room.
We didn't get any weed and I was very shaken by the whole ordeal. Grew up a little that night and learned some valuable lessons.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 11:30 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Been shot at w/ shotgun 10 yards away, the guy missed.
Planes, cars, bunch of close calls.
Crazy woman pulled a gun on me, she didn't fire. She wouldn't have missed.
If ain't your time, it ain't your time. No point in being a candyass about it...
Planes, cars, bunch of close calls.
Crazy woman pulled a gun on me, she didn't fire. She wouldn't have missed.
If ain't your time, it ain't your time. No point in being a candyass about it...
Posted on 1/25/14 at 11:33 pm to Dick Leverage
Survived Dismounted combat operations in Ramadi Iraq. I can recall several times almost getting shot during urban breach. To this day I'm not quite sure how I made it out alive in the most dangerous province in Iraq.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 11:35 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Went to a club a couple years ago I shouldn't of been in and was really drunk. So some dude out of nowhere pushes me and I push back and then swings at me with a knife. I still don't know how I dodged it but it was scary.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 11:39 pm to Breauxsif
You have something important still to do.
And, thanks.
And, thanks.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 11:41 pm to siliconvalleytiger
I was diagnosed with Stage III rectal cancer on Dec. 23. I am trying to dodge one as we speak!!
Posted on 1/25/14 at 11:42 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Was sitting in a little restaurant outside Mexico City about eight years ago when a guy with about four bodyguards carrying guns walked in. They locked the door, ate their food, paid for everyone's meal and then left
Posted on 1/25/14 at 11:53 pm to VetteGuy
2009 while doing road clearance in Loy Kalay Afghanistan our lead Humvee was hit by an IED and my platoon was pinned down in a 9 hour firefight while the Mujihideen had the high ground in the valley. Fought our way out of the "kill zone" and got the frick outta there with the quickness. Lost 4 soldiers that day.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 12:05 am to siliconvalleytiger
Got pulled over at 5am for expired tags in my $200 beater maxda 626. Expired license, no proof of insurance, expired Kansas tags (this was in Texas), no registration, no inspection sticker. Cop asked me where I was going. I told him to work. He told me not to move my piece of shite 'til I couldn't see his lights anymore and drove off.
Driving home one night, me and the family got pulled over for doing 65 in a 45. We had been swimming earlier so my eyes were red from the chlorine. We didn't have swim suits so we just swam in our drawers. Cop said he would rather my wife drive the rest of the way home thinking I had been drinking. I got out of the jeep to walk around to the passenger side wearing nothing but my drawers and cowboy boots. He shook his head laughing and said have a nice night.
Man, I just realized I have bunch of stories like that.
One more...
Driving back to lake Charles from Austin/San Antonio area on a Sunday night after having barely slept the entire weekend, I started nodding off on the interstate. I started looking for a rest stop to catch some sleep. I saw a sign for one coming up somewhere outside of flatonia, Texas. I took the exit and nodded off one more time. I woke up just in time to see the back end of someone's camper. I cut the wheel hard left and crashed into the rear left of the camper with my right front. Was doing about 55 in my Chevy blazer. The spare tire which was mounted to the driver's side wall in the rear compartment broke loose, hit the roof shredding the headliner and landed behind my seat.
The people who owned the camper were walking their dogs in the rest area so no one was in the camper at the time. They saw the whole thing and came running to help. I totally smashed their rear sleeping quarters where they had been laying 10 minutes earlier. One of the hardest phone calls I ever had to make to my dad that night.
Driving home one night, me and the family got pulled over for doing 65 in a 45. We had been swimming earlier so my eyes were red from the chlorine. We didn't have swim suits so we just swam in our drawers. Cop said he would rather my wife drive the rest of the way home thinking I had been drinking. I got out of the jeep to walk around to the passenger side wearing nothing but my drawers and cowboy boots. He shook his head laughing and said have a nice night.
Man, I just realized I have bunch of stories like that.
One more...
Driving back to lake Charles from Austin/San Antonio area on a Sunday night after having barely slept the entire weekend, I started nodding off on the interstate. I started looking for a rest stop to catch some sleep. I saw a sign for one coming up somewhere outside of flatonia, Texas. I took the exit and nodded off one more time. I woke up just in time to see the back end of someone's camper. I cut the wheel hard left and crashed into the rear left of the camper with my right front. Was doing about 55 in my Chevy blazer. The spare tire which was mounted to the driver's side wall in the rear compartment broke loose, hit the roof shredding the headliner and landed behind my seat.
The people who owned the camper were walking their dogs in the rest area so no one was in the camper at the time. They saw the whole thing and came running to help. I totally smashed their rear sleeping quarters where they had been laying 10 minutes earlier. One of the hardest phone calls I ever had to make to my dad that night.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 12:07 am to DLauw
St croix
Posted on 1/26/14 at 12:15 am to Turkey_Creek_Tiger
quote:
I almost bought tickets to the 2012 BCS national championship game
fricking
Posted on 1/26/14 at 12:31 am to siliconvalleytiger
Doin 75mph eastbound thru the canyon in Dallas. 3 cars ahead, someone clipped a bumper. All of the sudden, cars, pickups and a semi were banging into each other and the walls. Saw a ford f100 flip.
Somehow, I weaved my way thru and was out of the pileup without a scratch. It was like "The Big One" at Daytona. Took 2 seconds for me to get clear. Best driving I've ever done.
Saw on the news that 2 people died in that wreck.
Somehow, I weaved my way thru and was out of the pileup without a scratch. It was like "The Big One" at Daytona. Took 2 seconds for me to get clear. Best driving I've ever done.
Saw on the news that 2 people died in that wreck.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 12:36 am to siliconvalleytiger
Was driving towards UNO from Xavier and I usually sit on the right lane. For some reason or another, I decided to drive in the middle lane and stopped at the red light in front of burger king. A brand new red honda civic si comes and stops right next to me about 5 seconds later (If I were to sit in the right lane, that's where I'd be sitting).
Out of nowhere, I hear a BOOM and the civic is hit by a 1980s chevrolet suburban. You know, those GIGANTIC full metal suvs like this:
So the red civic puts on his emergency lights and pulls over into the burger king since there's no shoulder. The SUV drove away. The civic was totalled (ended up being a classmate of mine at xavier and he told me the story, and said he lost about 20k).
Out of nowhere, I hear a BOOM and the civic is hit by a 1980s chevrolet suburban. You know, those GIGANTIC full metal suvs like this:
So the red civic puts on his emergency lights and pulls over into the burger king since there's no shoulder. The SUV drove away. The civic was totalled (ended up being a classmate of mine at xavier and he told me the story, and said he lost about 20k).
This post was edited on 1/26/14 at 12:38 am
Posted on 1/26/14 at 1:00 am to htran90
Got hit by a drunk driver when I was very young on our way home very late at night. Car flipped four times and I was sleeping on my moms lap, no seatbelt. Somehow no one had a scratch on them.
My parents like to fix up old houses. When I was about 6, my parents were fixing up a house and I was on the first floor playing. A huge antique claw-foot tub crashed down from the second floor where my parents were working and very very narrowly missed landing on me and surely killing me.
My parents like to fix up old houses. When I was about 6, my parents were fixing up a house and I was on the first floor playing. A huge antique claw-foot tub crashed down from the second floor where my parents were working and very very narrowly missed landing on me and surely killing me.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 1:06 am to SwaggerCopter
Once in college...
Me and a buddy were deer hunting in a box stand about a 1/4 mile behind his house. Suddenly we hear a few break above our heads, then we notice a wizzing sound by our heads.
Jumped down and army crawled back to the house.
His neighbor was sighting in his rifle by shooting into a mound. The bullets were ricocheting straight towards the stand
Me and a buddy were deer hunting in a box stand about a 1/4 mile behind his house. Suddenly we hear a few break above our heads, then we notice a wizzing sound by our heads.
Jumped down and army crawled back to the house.
His neighbor was sighting in his rifle by shooting into a mound. The bullets were ricocheting straight towards the stand
Posted on 1/26/14 at 1:06 am to siliconvalleytiger
What economic collapse immediately followed enron?
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