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re: How many times have you cheated death? Share the story.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 6:38 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Posted on 8/12/20 at 6:38 pm to Eli Goldfinger
1990
I’m in the bed of a borrowed truck holding on to a mattress while moving my future wife’s shite from her place to mine. Driver friend pulls out on to Claiborne Avenue from broadway and hits the gas like I’m not back there
the draft catches the mattress and we both go airborne.
mattress goes one way, I go the other.
I bounce twice on to Claiborne and skid to a halt in the middle of traffic.
I remember trying to stand up and the sound of cars screeching to avoid plowing in to me. My dude calls an ambulance, I pass out and wake up in the burn ward
both forearms and elbows scraped off down to the bone, both palms of my hands have the hide burned off, and a giant gash in my head. a couple days in the hospital and some plastic surgery later I went home for some painful recuperating.
No idea what happened to the mattress
I’m in the bed of a borrowed truck holding on to a mattress while moving my future wife’s shite from her place to mine. Driver friend pulls out on to Claiborne Avenue from broadway and hits the gas like I’m not back there
the draft catches the mattress and we both go airborne.
mattress goes one way, I go the other.
I bounce twice on to Claiborne and skid to a halt in the middle of traffic.
I remember trying to stand up and the sound of cars screeching to avoid plowing in to me. My dude calls an ambulance, I pass out and wake up in the burn ward
both forearms and elbows scraped off down to the bone, both palms of my hands have the hide burned off, and a giant gash in my head. a couple days in the hospital and some plastic surgery later I went home for some painful recuperating.
No idea what happened to the mattress
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Posted on 8/12/20 at 6:41 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Got hit by a car doing at least 60 when I was riding my bike when I was 12. Went flying headfirst, managed to somersault myself over to land on my feet instead.
All I could think about while in the air was if I didn’t flip over I was gonna die. Broke my foot when I landed and got scuffed up pretty good rolling down the road.
All I could think about while in the air was if I didn’t flip over I was gonna die. Broke my foot when I landed and got scuffed up pretty good rolling down the road.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 6:42 pm to llfshoals
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All I could think about while in the air was if I didn’t flip over I was gonna die.
Solid ninja shite right there. Nice.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 6:44 pm to avondale88
Only once. I was in a car wreck that happened at the intersection of Bluebonnet and Burbank. The person that caused the wreck was killed. She pulled out in front of a Mac Truck. After the truck hit her, her car landed on top of mine and then the Mac Truck hit me on the left side. I was in a coma in ICU for four months. They gave me little chance of surviving, but I made it. Thankfully I don't remember a thing about the accident and the doc said that I never will. I was left with some permanent injuries but at least I can fend for myself. Thankfully I wasn't left a vegetable. Things could be so much worse
Glad you’re ok. Sounds shitty
Did you make “one call”
Glad you’re ok. Sounds shitty
Did you make “one call”
Posted on 8/12/20 at 6:51 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Every time I’ve driven I10 thru New Orleans East
This post was edited on 8/12/20 at 6:52 pm
Posted on 8/12/20 at 6:53 pm to Eli Goldfinger
I decided to go straight instead of staying in the left turn lane. When I swerved at full speed, I realized that the pickup truck stopped in the turn lane had a thick, long post jutting out of the back, at eye level. It barely nicked the side of my cab as I swerved. If I had continued forward to stop behind that truck I’d have gotten decapitated by the post. As I swerved I saw that they had a filthy “red” rag on the end of the post. So dirty that it lost its function as a warning flag.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:00 am to tigernnola
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tigernnola
Damn
Posted on 8/13/20 at 5:24 am to Eli Goldfinger
I cheat death everyday that I drive the roads of south Louisiana.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 6:53 am to Eli Goldfinger
5 or 6 times.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 7:00 am to Eli Goldfinger
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This post was edited on 8/13/20 at 7:01 am
Posted on 8/13/20 at 7:27 am to The Quiet One
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So, yeah. I nearly drowned in cow shite. I remember making the walk-of-shame home, snuck past my mom and took a shower. She asked me what happened later and I told her I fell in a mud puddle. Looking back, no way she bought that story considering my clothes. But she never gave me grief for it.
I call bullshite on this story.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 7:47 am to Eli Goldfinger
Got hit by a drunk driver at the end of 2015. Cresting a hill on a country road at night, he was coming over the other side and was several feet over the line. I swerved right and missed a head on collision, but he went down the side of my truck, blowing out both tires.
The momentum swung me across the road, and there was a row of trees and I went straight into one.
Truck bounced off, airbags deployed, and we settled back down onto the road facing the other direction.
I think I passed out for a second, cause when I came to my senses, my wife was screaming, and there was smoke in the cab. It turned out to be the airbag residue, but I initially thought it was a fire.
My door wouldn't open, as the impact had crushed it in. I had to get my seat belt off, then try to get my wife's unbuckled, get her door open in the dark, and push her out.
About that time, folks who were behind us had stopped and called 911.
Luckily we had overall fairly minor injuries by the way the crash looked standards. Had we been in our car, I would imagine one of not both of us would have died.
It's why I'm pretty unsympathetic to drunk/distracted driving issues on here.
The momentum swung me across the road, and there was a row of trees and I went straight into one.
Truck bounced off, airbags deployed, and we settled back down onto the road facing the other direction.
I think I passed out for a second, cause when I came to my senses, my wife was screaming, and there was smoke in the cab. It turned out to be the airbag residue, but I initially thought it was a fire.
My door wouldn't open, as the impact had crushed it in. I had to get my seat belt off, then try to get my wife's unbuckled, get her door open in the dark, and push her out.
About that time, folks who were behind us had stopped and called 911.
Luckily we had overall fairly minor injuries by the way the crash looked standards. Had we been in our car, I would imagine one of not both of us would have died.
It's why I'm pretty unsympathetic to drunk/distracted driving issues on here.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 7:48 am to Eli Goldfinger
Yep. Right where I am now there was a hungry T-Rex. Had I been in this space millions of years ago, I would've been lunch.
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