What was your last near-injury (play on near-death) experience?

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Source  (crazy lucky biker video)  I was walking across a post office parking lot this evening. It was after hours. Parked my bike on the far side, everyone was darting in and out of spaces on the building side of the lot.  As I walked toward the door someone exited the passenger side of a car, the driver throws it into reverse and guns it toward me.  I jumped back out of the spot I was in and the car finally saw me (in a white jacket) and stopped where I had been standing.   What surprised me was what came out of my mouth. Loudly.  “Jesus Christ!!”   Not one to say that. Never said it before. Fascinating to learn what your possible last words can be.  Three people turned, glaring at me from this assumed “blasphemy”, then realized what had happened. The all melted into expressions of “Yeah, that fit.” and continued on with their lives. lol Thanks people.  Had any close calls? Lets hear them.

humanearth · Accepted Answer

April 15 2022

I was in a car accident

I was hit by someone changing lanes and they hit my drivers door

My car spins around the front of their car. I end up going in the center median. Car flips over and lands back on all four wheels.

Car is still moving by now in reverse and heading to on coming traffic while going backwards.

Car finely comes to a stop.

Car is wreaked by I still drove it home. Cops tried to have it towed. I said why It still moves.

The car no longer goes over 40 without shaking all over the place.

Two busted shocks, both rear leaf springs, two bent rims, broken sway bar, broken mirror and a crushed hood.

All I got was chipped finger nail.

Love that 1970 Chevy Impala, already started on parted her out and use on the 1971 Caprice

What was your last near-injury (play on near-death) experience?

My next daily driver
NEw tires and few parts. It will be back on the road in a week or so.

Pyrofox · Accepted Answer

Mine would be probably working with a friend who's a Grease monkey. And we nearly dropped a. Engine on my head we were removing from a rear ended sports car. 2 years ago. Genuinely I probably got a concussion from that. I really now don't trust car hoisting components XD. It was like a 600 lbs engine with it's entirety damn it mustangs lol.

douride2 · Accepted Answer

Nothing I would consider a close call of serious injury in about a year now. Not since last spring I did it to myself. We where doing a late season run on our snowmobiles. I was running close to the shore of a river when I hit a frozen hump of mud at about 40 mph & rolled my sled. I lay on the ice for about 10 minutes before I could get up. Every time I moved everything just kind of spun. Probably should have went to the ER but never did. It was close to $1000 worth of parts to fix it.

Aerissa_Jade · Accepted Answer

I've only had one and can't list it here, without people going WTF... so I'll just say it was attempted murder on my life and I almost didn't make it.

Even almost getting hit by an idiot while on my motorcycle, who pulled out their minivan right in front of me and I almost hit them, was less scary.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

I’ve had a few lol
the joys of serving in military and doing likes of Iraq n Afghan but also random stuff you end up doing in the UK or on exercises.

i fell off an aircraft on the ground, own stupidity as walking on wet wings is always fun lol, result was I split my head open when I stopped falling, got to see bone lol.

Doing an engine start on an aircraft I had just moved away from the rear with extinguisher when the APU (starts engine) decided to blow up and shed metal at high speed, in the area I had been standing.

having rockets and other stuff fired at you, I think also counts as close calls lol

on an exercise on an air base one time, we saw 2 guys walking down the fence line with weapons and very close to where we were, we were about to open fire on them, when someone pointed out there was a chance it was actually station guard force doing a patrol and they were on the ‘other side’ of the wire and actually outside of the exercise area. We decided not to do anything, then wandered back into camp and checked our positions, we were well outside exercise area when we saw the 2 guys…

basically we were about to ambush 2 guys who has live rounds and we had blanks…

We reported ourselves for our stupidity as we should not have that risk of running into guard patrol lol.

i once rolled a car and woke up with me upside down and first thing I noticed was a pen I had lost.

Worst was major trauma back in 2012, over 6 weeks in hospital, 5 banged off my tits on morphine lol. Leg and stomach injuries 🤦

shortster · Answer

Was walking in a crosswalk and the bus, that was far enough away for me to easily get through the crosswalk when I started, floored it at me. I had to pickup my pace considerably to make it through and not get run over. My trailing leg was probably a mere 3 inches away from the door side of the bus as it sped past me.

dorksided1 · Answer

lump removal, got infection in the hospital, had wound care for 9 months due to it. the first month was touch and go after that was mainly wound care which was not fun wither.

Phoenix98 · Answer

Concussion from work and before that at work I slipped on some ice and almost fell through a skylight then slid down the roof and almost fell off it but thanks to the storm drain I was able to stop myself.

anton_dee · Answer

I am a speed biker. So once I was doin like 120 mph and way ahead this lady on a tiny ass scooterette suddenly loses control and veers into my line. I braked well but still was fast enough for a nasty crash. Luckily she stabilized and I zoomed past her so close that I could smell her perfume (and probably she could smell me shit my pants😄😄😄)

exitseven · Answer

I was hanging a light fixture in my house and I fell backwards off the ladder.

Andres77 · Answer

Two days ago. Coming around a curve and there was a guy coming at me in MY lane. Brakes and horn... he finally swerved back to his lane.

megabamse · Answer

The last one... Hm 2011, was almost taken out by a bomb.

Charliefretz329 · Answer

Sounds like a prayer to me. Acceptable considering the circumstances! So glad you are ok!!!

RandomGuy1030 · Answer

I got food poisoning so bad I was sure I was going to die

Anonymous · Answer

In all seriousness, trying to kill myself. I used a nitrogen tank, which has a reputation as a fairly lethal method. I got knocked the fuck out for a while, but in the end I survived.

DaveToo · Answer

In my nearly 77 years on this earth, I've had more "close calls" than I care to admit.

Xtendable · Answer

I’ve had several and surprisingly no injuries from any of them

MrJMM · Answer

Almost committed suicide twice.

2nd_Sexiest_Man · Answer

having sex with my ex I had a heart attack

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