Because of the carpet or the sewing scissors? Using my mom’s sewing scissors on

Nov 17, 2021
1:34:56pm

Martin Van Nostrand All-American

cardboard would’ve been a death sentence. The carpet would’ve been collateral damage. She probably would’ve just used it to roll up and hide my body.

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Martin Van Nostrand

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Last login: Dec 23, 2024
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I want to hear stories. If you're willing to share, how close to death have you

BlueVU

11/17/21 1:17pm

Had brain surgery when I was younger. Glad my surgeon wasn't shaky

SUAVO

11/17/21 1:23pm

Working construction 70 plus hours a week. I nodded off perched on a ledge 250

Big Daddy D

11/17/21 1:23pm

Oh man... That would be a nightmare!

BlueVU

11/17/21 1:27pm

Does that experience ever reoccur in your dreams?

Brisco

11/17/21 1:43pm

No but I just two nights ago had the recurring nightmare that I’mat BYU

Big Daddy D

11/17/21 1:49pm

I still have both of those dreams (nightmares) about once a year.

AZ Coug

11/17/21 4:43pm

I was stuck in white water. They couldn't find me in the water for 4.5 minutes

The Dark Knight

11/17/21 1:24pm

I only know the precise times because a brother was recording video at the time

The Dark Knight

11/17/21 1:33pm

Yeah that sounds crazy intense

palangi

11/17/21 1:36pm

these stories are straight out of my nightmares

LeonMarek

11/17/21 1:38pm

Have you seen DK? I haven’t seen DK? Where’s DK? Is he stuck in washing machine?

Q-grr

11/17/21 2:23pm

I was there

FuriousMonkey

11/18/21 12:20pm

I'm pretty sure you saved those two boys' lives that day!

The Dark Knight

11/18/21 1:43pm

I was 10 and my older sister tied me up in a blanket and left me

ExitStageLeft

11/17/21 1:26pm

What is your relationship like with her now?

pegushin

11/17/21 1:33pm

Minimal Contact

ExitStageLeft

11/17/21 1:34pm

Probably for the best.

BlueVU

11/17/21 1:35pm

Had a fat 15 year old kid pull a 357 on me and

mort

11/17/21 1:28pm

WHAT?! K, we need more deets here..

BlueVU

11/17/21 1:29pm

Lived in Alpine and went down to AF to wash my car and get away from first wife.

mort

11/17/21 2:09pm

Whoa.... That is intense!

BlueVU

11/17/21 2:35pm

I've heard of this sort of thing in Orem.

DomCasual

11/17/21 2:54pm

Fat kids are always pulling that kinda crap!

Superkid

11/17/21 1:33pm

I had a hangnail that I ripped off and it wouldn’t stop bleeding.

Superkid

11/17/21 1:28pm

RE: I had a hangnail that I ripped off and it wouldn’t stop bleeding.

BlueVU

11/17/21 1:30pm

RE: I had a hangnail that I ripped off and it wouldn’t stop bleeding.

SUAVO

11/17/21 1:38pm

Fell out of a tree could have been impaled on a sharp broken branch, video below

BYUFootballisBack

11/17/21 1:30pm

One time I used my moms sewing scissors to cut a cardboard box and accidentally

notaboy

11/17/21 1:31pm

Because of the carpet or the sewing scissors? Using my mom’s sewing scissors on

Martin Van Nostrand

11/17/21 1:34pm

We apparently had the same mom.

ReyOso

11/17/21 1:38pm

Probably the combination.

notaboy

11/17/21 1:59pm

This for me too. My wife doesn't understand why I freak out when my kids take

Tricky

11/17/21 2:26pm

Hit by a car at six when crossing the street.

ReyOso

11/17/21 1:33pm

Did you get a trust fund set up by the insurance company? This happened to a

Q-grr

11/17/21 2:30pm

My parents didn't sue or anything.

ReyOso

11/17/21 2:42pm

Stuck near the top of The Grand in a lightening rain/hail/snow blizzard.

lefty

11/17/21 1:34pm

I have a fear of drowning and being underwater traced back early in my life

LeonMarek

11/17/21 1:38pm

That sounds like the worst lifeguard ever.

BlueVU

11/17/21 1:40pm

At 4, I sat watching my parents teach my older brother and sister to swim.

Q-grr

11/17/21 2:37pm

As a poor student, I had a cheap car that was terrible on ice. Coming down the

runnincoug

11/17/21 1:51pm

That is one of the scariest things to me in the world...

BlueVU

11/17/21 1:52pm

Got hit by a car while riding my bike on my mission. The car was pulling out into the street to make a turn as I was...

Brisco

11/17/21 1:52pm

Without antibiotics, I'd probably be dead. Three times I have had serious

Oceanographer

11/17/21 1:53pm

Oh man... What a life you've lived!

BlueVU

11/17/21 1:58pm

I hope your guardian angels get paid good overtime.

rmsenior

11/17/21 2:00pm

I think God is trying to tell you something

A_blue_car

11/17/21 2:01pm

Wow! I don’t know whether I want you close to me or far away from me

Big Daddy D

11/17/21 4:00pm

Maybe you should live in a padded white room with bubble wrap on...

Dark Forest Green

11/18/21 7:02pm

Day 4 of ruptured appendix, surgery, ICU 2weeks, wound reopened 4 weeks later

BruceBruce

11/17/21 1:55pm

Hit broadside on my motorcycle on 1300 east. Sailed over the hood of an

Utefaninenemyland

11/17/21 1:57pm

Glad you survived! I always get nervous when I see motorcyclists w/o a helmet...

BlueVU

11/17/21 2:04pm

At least they're wearing a mask!

Dark Forest Green

11/18/21 7:03pm

Almost died while flying a combat sortie in Iraq...AH-64 Apache helicopter

byuguns55

11/17/21 2:10pm

Parents came home from a date to find me in a coma. I was two years old.

TailgateU

11/17/21 2:12pm

Oh man... This is heartbreaking!! 🙁 Your poor parents! I would DIE if that

BlueVU

11/17/21 2:16pm

🌽 🌽 I almost got impaled on my mission 🌽 🌽

Bandersnatch

11/17/21 2:16pm

I've had a few fun ones, but probably the most scared I have been was playing football at

kimdaddy35

11/17/21 2:18pm

Wow! Identical story to me in high school scrimmage. I actually DID rupture

SwanSong

4/17/22 3:37pm

On my mission, I nodded off while driving 100 mph on a European freeway

Tricky

11/17/21 2:19pm

Those are Kilometers, Elder

kapcreations

4/17/22 4:40pm

Wife dozed off on the freeway. I heard our tires going over the rumble strips

Mr. Rumsfield

11/17/21 2:27pm

Rode bulls in high school and fell into the "well", the inside of the spin when

airwolf

11/17/21 2:59pm

My actual near-death incident is less interesting than the events that preceded

DB Cooper

11/17/21 3:43pm

I unintentionally insulted soupie today.

boogers

11/17/21 3:43pm

RE: I unintentionally insulted soupie today.

BlueVU

11/17/21 4:08pm

My friend decided to make a pipe bomb. This was back in the early 80s and making

m0resn0w

11/17/21 3:44pm

A kid from my ward died from a homemade "firework"/bomb, just like you said 🙁

BYUFootballisBack

11/17/21 3:54pm

I’m the cat with 9 lives but have had 7 near fatal blood clot attacks to my lung

Nat Gas Man

11/17/21 3:58pm

upside down strapped in a kayak in white water that I couldn't get out of

buckeyecougarguy

11/17/21 4:34pm

Kayaking has always scared me for this reason...

BlueVU

11/17/21 4:42pm

A BYU prof died that way in about '04 or so on the Salmon River in ID. Terrifying.

Soupie

11/17/21 5:49pm

Jumping on a pogo stick when I was 13 I slipped on some black ice

Mike Bolton

11/17/21 7:22pm

RE: Jumping on a pogo stick when I was 13 I slipped on some black ice

marticorp

11/18/21 5:55am

I almost died from a staph infection

zuldiras

11/17/21 9:59pm

An amazing example of sacrifice by your brother.

Q-grr

11/18/21 5:59am

One of my HS buddies died from a staph infection/endocarditis...

BlueVU

11/18/21 8:51am

Motorcycle accident when I was 19. 55mph into the side of a car turning left.

shadowburned

11/18/21 11:58am

That is an incredible story... You're very lucky! Motorcycles scare me...

BlueVU

11/18/21 12:05pm

Guy pulled a knife on me and my comp on my mission in Mexico

FuriousMonkey

11/18/21 12:17pm

It wasn’t you, it was the three large, bearded dudes intimating to him to try it

Q-grr

11/18/21 1:25pm

This happened to me 5 or 6 times on my mission.

Vincent's Picks

11/18/21 1:48pm

Stroke when I was about 35.

crack

11/18/21 12:18pm

I was hit in the head by a car while I was coming out of a manhole.

Jimmy the Shank

11/18/21 12:24pm

Holy smokes!! Yeah, you are EXTREMELY fortunate!

BlueVU

11/18/21 12:28pm

When I was 14 I was snorkeling in Puerto Vallarta with my sister and her friend (the sister who just passed away). We

BlueBlood94

11/18/21 12:34pm

Was in a rollover car accident. Friend and cousin got thrown out of the car.

Cougero

11/18/21 12:37pm

I’ve posted the story before but I got mauled by 3 pit bulls in

jxncoog

11/18/21 1:38pm

Any long term affects? Did they put the dogs down? Fine owners?

Mister P

11/18/21 1:55pm

I don't think I'd consider them fine owners

Bandersnatch

11/18/21 2:15pm

RE: Any long term affects? Did they put the dogs down? Fine owners?

jxncoog

11/18/21 2:33pm

Head on car crash both going 50 on a two lane road. Guy passed out driving and

gp232

11/18/21 3:04pm

Bluelands' rankings

bluelands

11/18/21 3:28pm

You are the most interesting man in the world

Backcountry

4/17/22 2:05pm

dude. There is now way these are all true right. Unreal. Simply astonishing

Mayor of Cougartown

4/17/22 2:32pm

RE: Bluelands' rankings

panacablue

4/17/22 2:27pm

dude. stop going outside. or eating.

Cougarclaw

4/17/22 3:03pm

Your King’s Peak story resonates with me.

HiLife

4/17/22 4:47pm

You people have exciting lives! My life is boring compared to y'all.

Dark Forest Green

11/18/21 8:23pm

Mine too!!

BlueVU

11/19/21 8:47am

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BlueVU

11/19/21 8:47am

We got in a car accident on our way to a girls-choice high school dance.

DraperCoug22

11/19/21 8:22am

Parents fault? Or the kids goofing around in a car driven by a new driver?

StantonMac

11/19/21 8:28am

Technically she wasn’t allowed to have anyone else in the vehicle for 6 months.

DraperCoug22

11/19/21 8:30am

All the more reason not to be goofing around.

StantonMac

11/19/21 8:49am

Yeah I am not “blaming” the parents. Not sure why you’re bent on that haha.

DraperCoug22

11/19/21 9:20am

Slowed down to try to talk to someone on the streets of Finland during winter.

allaboutthegainz

11/19/21 6:49pm

The Spirit saved me

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