re: So whats the closest you have come to death ??

9/11/2001 - Pentagon E Ring, Army DCSOPS SACO about 90 minutes before the plane hit picking up distribution...the plane hit in that location and people I knew and worked with were killed...

On the porch of our house growing up there was a bench that ran the length of the porch with a railing at the end and a drop-off to the ground after that.

I liked to run down the bench and jump to the railing and launch myself out and up over the ground. Stunts.

So one attempt my foot accidentally touched down before the railing and I ended up flying over the railing like Superman.

Hit the ground face first, then chest, then legs. My eye was 3 inches away from a pointy stick.

I stayed on the ground a few minutes and assessed by digits and limbs. Hopped up fine.



Never tried that stunt again.

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Should have used a ladder instead.

Stayed up all night drinking once and went wade fishing the next day in 100 degree heat, was about 300 yards from the shore in waist deep water and started having a heat stroke.

Buddies were spread out all over and couldn't tell I was in trouble.

Don't know how I got out, damn near passed out 4-5 times

I have died before so.

Born dead, no breathing, no pulse, no nothing.

Brought me back, spent some time in the ICU and I'm here now.

I've rafted that river with that same company.

I rode shotgun into the Class IV that they intentionally try to flip the raft in. I thought I was going to drown, spinning out of control under water is a weird sensation. Popped up over 200 yards down river near the eddy where all the other rafts hang in line waiting their turn.


For those who haven't been. There is a Class IV/V that you come through and on the other side there is a massive eddy (calm pool off to the side). The guiding companies all paddle over into that eddy and line up facing up river. One at a time you paddle up river as fast as you can back into the rapid. The raft almost always goes under, flips, and tosses all riders. You spin around under water uncontrollably until you all pop up downstream right on the eddy. The rafts in line pick you up and you are then transferred back to your recovered raft and head down stream.

One inch cable snapped, sliced just the tip of my nose.

Multiple flipping wrecks. One bad enough to make me an inch shorter.

Alcohol poisoning from everclear and red bull.

24in diameter log swung into my chest when one end swung free.

Had a pipe stand fall on me.

Kid pulled a gun on me to rob me. Thankfully it was unloaded.

Faux baud tried to rob me at knifepoint.

Fence post through my windshield.

Caught fire 4th of July 2004.

2 ricochets to the chest in highschool.

I am effectively immortal.

Apparently when I was a baby, I was in my crib in my parents room. It was chilly that night so my parents removed me from the crib and brought me into the living room where the fireplace was.

Minutes later, a guy that was driving on our street had a heart attack, lost control of his vehicle, and crashed into our house, through my parent's room, and demolished my crib. This is all according to my parents.

Been shot at on 3 occasions.

2 car accidents where I went through the windshield. cars totaled in both wrecks.

2 brain surgeries where I was not expected to live through either surgery.

3 malignant brain tumors.

1/9/12

Another time diving off Barbados, almost got rip tided out to sea.

Another time driving on I-110 in Biloxi. A feller decides to suicide by car wreck by driving the wrong way up a exit ramp and heading into oncoming traffic. I (luckily for me) had a little import car and he chose the F-150 slightly behind me in the other lane to face-up to. He died as well as the two occupants of the pick-up.

I can still see his face as he passed me....