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re: When was the last time you cheated serious harm or death?
Posted on 6/10/25 at 10:52 am to WhiskeyThrottle
Posted on 6/10/25 at 10:52 am to WhiskeyThrottle
Im vv careful around saws.
Won't even have a single beer if Im cutting.
Won't even have a single beer if Im cutting.
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Posted on 6/10/25 at 10:54 am to CAD703X
I wasn't wearing the mystical ancient tiki, I was just dumb
Posted on 6/10/25 at 10:54 am to dek81572
Posted on 6/10/25 at 10:56 am to Naked Bootleg
I had a aortic aneurysm I knew about and about a year and a half ago it ruptured. Worse pain in my life. Got a new aortic valve and it's pumping good.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 10:57 am to facher08
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2 weeks ago. Coming down the BR "new bridge eastbound in the left lane. I merge into the middle and someone ahead of me slams on their breaks. I quickly look in my mirror and the right lane is open. Good thing it was because if it wasn't, I would have probably rear ended that car pretty good.
That area is a cluster. Whoever designed it should have gotten an arse whipping.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 11:06 am to Naked Bootleg
Oder and had to get narcaned a big over a year ago. Probably the last close call I’ve had
Posted on 6/10/25 at 11:33 am to DavidTheGnome
Have avoided being electrocuted a couple of times.
Last time I was changing a light fixture in our laundry room. Somehow, I forget to turn the light switch back off. When I went to connect the power wire to the light fixture wire, I accidentally bumped them together and made the two wires arc milli-seconds before I was going to grab them with my hands and put a wire nut on them.
Was leaning up against the backhoe with my hand on the fender while my boss was digging a footer. Had sweat drip in my eye and moved my hand to wipe it and the same time my boss just cut through a high voltage power line with the bucket that went kaboom. Don't know if I would have got juiced but glad I didn't have to find out.
Last time I was changing a light fixture in our laundry room. Somehow, I forget to turn the light switch back off. When I went to connect the power wire to the light fixture wire, I accidentally bumped them together and made the two wires arc milli-seconds before I was going to grab them with my hands and put a wire nut on them.
Was leaning up against the backhoe with my hand on the fender while my boss was digging a footer. Had sweat drip in my eye and moved my hand to wipe it and the same time my boss just cut through a high voltage power line with the bucket that went kaboom. Don't know if I would have got juiced but glad I didn't have to find out.
This post was edited on 6/10/25 at 11:35 am
Posted on 6/10/25 at 1:19 pm to Naked Bootleg
It was the late 1980's. It's about 1:00 AM and my girlfriend and I, are leaving Brady's in Hammond to go to a place in Covington to hear a band. I believe the place was formerly Louie Prima's or next to it. It was group of us that closed up Brady's but only my GF and I were in my vehicle.
She was totally unaware that some in the group were tripping on acid. I will not confirm or deny if I was included in that number.
All is good, we hear the band and everyone is having fun.
It's now close to 4AM and we decide to leave head back to Hammond. It's extremely foggy. It's really bad. As I approach the I-12 on ramp to go back to Hammond, my girlfriend lays back her seat to sleep. When I merge onto the Interstate the fog is absolutely terrible. An 18-wheeler moves from the right lane to the left lane, so that I could merge safely. Within a minute or so, I decide to follow behind the 18 wheeler because his trailer was well lit up with lights and very helpful on such a foggy night.
This is TOTALLY out of character for me to follow an 18 wheeler . Normally, I never ever would follow one and generally pass them as soon as possible. Not tonight. i felt something that was telling follow this truck, I remain behind him for a few more miles, and he puts on his blinker and begins to move from the left lane to the right lane. IMMEDIATELY, as he moves to the right lane, i do exactly the same thing. I'm kinda tucked in behind him and we both changed lanes together in harmony. When I say, AS SOON AS we both got in the right lane, a car comes flying by in the left lane HIGH SPEED going the wrong way with 2 State Trooper Vehicles chasing him. They were so close that the wind shook my car.
If I would have paused for just a half a second, they would have hit us head on. They had to be going over 100 mph !
My guardian angel was with me that night. Absolutely divine intervention. I should be dead and I'm very thankful to be alive.
She was totally unaware that some in the group were tripping on acid. I will not confirm or deny if I was included in that number.
All is good, we hear the band and everyone is having fun.
It's now close to 4AM and we decide to leave head back to Hammond. It's extremely foggy. It's really bad. As I approach the I-12 on ramp to go back to Hammond, my girlfriend lays back her seat to sleep. When I merge onto the Interstate the fog is absolutely terrible. An 18-wheeler moves from the right lane to the left lane, so that I could merge safely. Within a minute or so, I decide to follow behind the 18 wheeler because his trailer was well lit up with lights and very helpful on such a foggy night.
This is TOTALLY out of character for me to follow an 18 wheeler . Normally, I never ever would follow one and generally pass them as soon as possible. Not tonight. i felt something that was telling follow this truck, I remain behind him for a few more miles, and he puts on his blinker and begins to move from the left lane to the right lane. IMMEDIATELY, as he moves to the right lane, i do exactly the same thing. I'm kinda tucked in behind him and we both changed lanes together in harmony. When I say, AS SOON AS we both got in the right lane, a car comes flying by in the left lane HIGH SPEED going the wrong way with 2 State Trooper Vehicles chasing him. They were so close that the wind shook my car.
If I would have paused for just a half a second, they would have hit us head on. They had to be going over 100 mph !
My guardian angel was with me that night. Absolutely divine intervention. I should be dead and I'm very thankful to be alive.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 2:07 pm to Naked Bootleg
I cheated death twice - both times around 1998 and 1999.
#1 - hit a patch of ice while cresting a mountain north of Asheville. Truck lost traction. Road went left. I went straight. Hit the 'ice curb' left by the scraper truck and flipped sideways down the mountain. Truck was totalled. Years later, I needed cervical vertebrae fused because the discs were toast. The rollover accident is the only thing to explain the disc damage.
#2 - Wife and I headed to Destin just two months after getting married. Headed south on some 2-lane highway. The highway opened up to a temporary passing lane, and I pulled alongside the car I was gonna pass. As we crested the hill, an old Buick was right there on our side of the highway heading in the wrong direction. No time for brakes. Did a quick evasive turn of the wheel and heard a loud crash then dead silence. In the mirror I saw debris all over the road, and the Buick still going the other way. He had hit the car I was passing. It ended up against a barbed wire fence. Luckily the lady driving and her 18-month old were unhurt, though car was totalled. Found out later the Buick driver was an elderly man who apparently suffered a stroke behind the wheel. His car eventually died from the damage after the wreck.
#1 - hit a patch of ice while cresting a mountain north of Asheville. Truck lost traction. Road went left. I went straight. Hit the 'ice curb' left by the scraper truck and flipped sideways down the mountain. Truck was totalled. Years later, I needed cervical vertebrae fused because the discs were toast. The rollover accident is the only thing to explain the disc damage.
#2 - Wife and I headed to Destin just two months after getting married. Headed south on some 2-lane highway. The highway opened up to a temporary passing lane, and I pulled alongside the car I was gonna pass. As we crested the hill, an old Buick was right there on our side of the highway heading in the wrong direction. No time for brakes. Did a quick evasive turn of the wheel and heard a loud crash then dead silence. In the mirror I saw debris all over the road, and the Buick still going the other way. He had hit the car I was passing. It ended up against a barbed wire fence. Luckily the lady driving and her 18-month old were unhurt, though car was totalled. Found out later the Buick driver was an elderly man who apparently suffered a stroke behind the wheel. His car eventually died from the damage after the wreck.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 2:10 pm to Naked Bootleg
Novice scuba diving in Curacao, making it back to the beach almost killed me.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 2:42 pm to Naked Bootleg
The two times that come to mind
Back many years ago I owned a 63 Chevrolet Convertable with a 350 Cu in. engine. Unfortunately it had a two speed "Power Glide" transmission. At lower speed, when I pulled out to pass, stepped on the accelerator, it would accelerate very quickly to about 55 mph, then shift to high gear.
I was driving on a two lane road, pulled out to pass a SEMI going up a long hill. Most anxious I have ever been. When I felt that I was clear of the trucks front bumper, I jerked the steering wheel, and the oncoming truck whizzed by.
Only time in my life that I had to pull off and stop for a few minutes.
The other time was a few years ago.
Was was assembling a 24' X 30' metal building. I was scraping something off the edge of the metal roof about ten ft up, when I slipped. Luckily the putty knife hit something that allowed me to regain my balance. If not I would have fallen, head first, on a tree stump. That probably would have been fatal or at least crippled for the rest of my life.
Back many years ago I owned a 63 Chevrolet Convertable with a 350 Cu in. engine. Unfortunately it had a two speed "Power Glide" transmission. At lower speed, when I pulled out to pass, stepped on the accelerator, it would accelerate very quickly to about 55 mph, then shift to high gear.
I was driving on a two lane road, pulled out to pass a SEMI going up a long hill. Most anxious I have ever been. When I felt that I was clear of the trucks front bumper, I jerked the steering wheel, and the oncoming truck whizzed by.
Only time in my life that I had to pull off and stop for a few minutes.
The other time was a few years ago.
Was was assembling a 24' X 30' metal building. I was scraping something off the edge of the metal roof about ten ft up, when I slipped. Luckily the putty knife hit something that allowed me to regain my balance. If not I would have fallen, head first, on a tree stump. That probably would have been fatal or at least crippled for the rest of my life.
This post was edited on 6/10/25 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:03 pm to Naked Bootleg
Got caught in bad storms northeast of Russellville, AR. Had a large oak tree fall in front of me in the middle of nowhere. I had to turn around and go back a few miles to a little village. As I started vehicle heading that way I looked up on a hill to my left and saw an old barn disintegrating from the wind and began to hear thump, thump, thump on that side of my work van. I gunned and was going about 70 down a 35 mph for about a mile. I thought it was a tornado, but after calming down I think it was just strong straight line winds. It scared the crap out of me though.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:50 pm to Naked Bootleg
Probably a couple weeks ago with this Eastern diamondback rattler…
Or at 1:30 am this morning with this 13 footer in the Everglades…
Or at 1:30 am this morning with this 13 footer in the Everglades…
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:50 pm to Naked Bootleg
I drove down Avenue C in Ensley, Alabama last week after getting lost looking for a cabinet company.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:53 pm to Naked Bootleg
Every time I get behind the wheel of my pickup and go somewhere. Have you ever thought about meeting a car on a two lane road or highway, and the fact that you and the other driver are within mere inches from having two multi-ton vehicles collide with each other at a significant rate of speed?
Posted on 6/10/25 at 4:00 pm to Naked Bootleg
Other than driving all the way across Houston occasionally, 2007.
Landmine (anti-armor) wiped out the Land Rover in front of us, chunk bounced up through floorboard and took a sliver out of my foot on the way to just missing going up through my chin.
Landmine (anti-armor) wiped out the Land Rover in front of us, chunk bounced up through floorboard and took a sliver out of my foot on the way to just missing going up through my chin.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 4:02 pm to Naked Bootleg
I am on my third marriage, every day is a new rocket launch over snake river canyon.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 4:03 pm to Naked Bootleg
quote:
When was the last time you cheated serious harm or death?
And what was the situation?
caught myself as I was about to correct my wife when she was about to mess something up
Posted on 6/10/25 at 4:11 pm to Naked Bootleg
5 weeks ago tomorrow. Helicopter flight in the GoA. 1 hour flight turned into 3, had to divert to a different platform. Shelf platform wouldn't let us land due to weight. Violent thunderstorm. Unable to maintain altitude. Two pilots, one with 14,500 hours and the other with 10,000 stated it was each their second worse flight experience. One was a combat vet in the ME. I am quoting him to the OIM that took us in after we landed. "I thank you for offering lunch, but what I need is a fricking tranquilizer".
Posted on 6/10/25 at 5:26 pm to Naked Bootleg
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