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Oct 30, 2024
4:35:21pm

Yukon All-American

My FIL had a similar experience while canoeing.

This was before I met my wife, but they went on a canoeing trip with family friends. He had taken off his life jacket and was drowning. Nobody knew exactly where he was.

He was saved by one of the kids in the other family. He learned what to do in a merit badge class, stuck his oar down there for him to grab, and with the last of his remaining strength, grabbed the oar and got pulled out.

The boy was featured in Boys Life magazine.

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Yukon

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Time

What’s the closest you’ve ever come to experiencing death?

Yukon

Oct 30, 4:01pm

No idea. Death can come in a moment.

John Doe

Oct 30, 4:03pm

on my mission scaled a wall to cross a narrow train corridor, crossed the tracks

Buffalo

Oct 30, 4:03pm

What were those Elders thinking?????

BaseCoug

Oct 30, 4:05pm

Thr Romans believed it was anytime you had a strong sneeze, and it expelled bad demons

CLCougar

Oct 30, 4:05pm

Well, if I were Roman, it would have been about 3 days ago then.

IdahoCoug

Oct 30, 4:28pm

Monday, when running and a guy ran a red light going 50+ and missed me by a foot

Frankfromtheballpark

Oct 30, 4:05pm

Almost died from an antibiotic

BaseCoug

Oct 30, 4:05pm

Early on in the 2015 Las Vegas Bowl

Oct 30, 4:07pm

But you survived, huh?

Yukon

Oct 30, 4:09pm

Fell asleep behind the wheel when I was 17. I was only going about 85

Oct 30, 4:07pm

17 minutes without a heartbeat…dare you to try that! (nm).

Oct 30, 4:08pm

17 months with a heartbeat, in Haiti

Chester Copperpot

Oct 30, 4:17pm

Slipped on bull… manure and my brother scared off a charge my bull when I was young

Oct 30, 4:08pm

Props to your brother. A real everyday hero

reddead

Oct 30, 4:25pm

Right after my wedding I forgot my tux at the temple in SLC, reception in Orem

Madcutidok

Oct 30, 4:09pm

How mad is “freaking heck”?

StantonMac

Oct 30, 4:09pm

Regular mad.

Yukon

Oct 30, 4:13pm

A few of mine

jdub

Oct 30, 4:09pm

That car accident is something else

reddead

Oct 30, 4:27pm

impressive? sheesh. that's crazy! Glad you are alive!!!

theozfam

Oct 30, 4:50pm

Brakes went out on my mission bike...my companion was riding next to me holding

Fdnman

Oct 30, 4:09pm

God saved you and that comp. Imagine how it would feel to have killed someone

reddead

Oct 30, 4:28pm

Not me - my wife flew out of New York City on American Airlines on 9/10/2001

SoCalCoug

Oct 30, 4:11pm

Brother flew next day Boston to LA 1 hour earlier. Man that is close

stonecougar

Oct 30, 4:26pm

Wow, did they ground the flight before he got to L.A.?

Yukon

Oct 30, 4:38pm

Had a dvt clot in my leg, ultrasound tech could see the blockage below my knee

Blue Ridge

Oct 30, 4:11pm

Boat capsized. 4 years ago. Very close to drowning. Was an experience I wish

oryguncoug

Oct 30, 4:11pm

Man, drowning would be a sucky way to go. I’m glad you survived!

Yukon

Oct 30, 4:18pm

Miraculously survived a fall off a cliff.

2ndTrombone

Oct 30, 4:15pm

Hydroplaned on the freeway and did a 180 going backwards at 70mph

inertiaman

Oct 30, 4:16pm

Took the family on a road trip

Oct 30, 4:18pm

Cutting down a tree while standing on a ladder, ladder got taken out i fell, was

BYUFootballisBack

Oct 30, 4:19pm

Was in this fail army video about trees lol 23 seconds in

BYUFootballisBack

Oct 30, 4:25pm

I've come close a few times

Oct 30, 4:20pm

Fell asleep at the wheel. Luckily was ~200 yards after the median wall started

Coog4Life

Oct 30, 4:21pm

*barrow* pit

AZ Coug

Oct 30, 4:29pm

thank you

Coog4Life

Oct 30, 4:29pm

*borrow pit

IdahoCoug

Oct 30, 4:30pm

Times square truck bomb failed to blow up next to me.

CAPX

Oct 30, 4:22pm

I've had two:

reddead

Oct 30, 4:22pm

White water rafting, stuck in a rapid hole for several minutes.

The Dark Knight

Oct 30, 4:23pm

My FIL had a similar experience while canoeing.

Yukon

Oct 30, 4:35pm

Late night, taking the back road from Delta down to Cedar city on the way to

Florwood

Oct 30, 4:24pm

Oct 8th 2022... BYU vs. Notre Dame

TheLost

Oct 30, 4:24pm

Getting attacked by 3 pit bulls in my own front yard is probably

jxncoog

Oct 30, 4:25pm

Free climbing cliff, losing grip so I had to jump to a hold but only 50% sure I could make it.

Dr MoBYU

Oct 30, 4:25pm

Rolled a car going 80 mph.

bluesloth

Oct 30, 4:25pm

Subdural hematoma undiagnosed for over a week and subsequent burr hole surgery.

O Gaucho

Oct 30, 4:27pm

A few from my mission in Brazil

Still Blue

Oct 30, 4:31pm

Got hit by a car while biking on my mission

Oct 30, 4:40pm

Chased a bear through the woods in the dark.

mccledg

Oct 30, 4:47pm

Almost dropped a car on my head changing a transmission.

Oregano

Oct 30, 4:49pm

As a teen fell asleep at the wheel on a freeway in California

TNT

Oct 30, 4:51pm

Not so exciting, but nearly went septic after being released from a hospital

Kdubb

Oct 30, 4:53pm

I was tuned into a newt!

BYU Grounds

Oct 30, 4:54pm

RE: I was tuned into a newt!

porl thompson

Oct 30, 5:42pm

Chopped in the neck with a hatchet

z21Cougar

Oct 30, 4:56pm

Was walking on sidewalk, a car accident happened and one of the cars came right

Hawk Talons

Oct 30, 5:00pm

Was it in West Valley City, UT?

IdahoCoug

Oct 30, 5:22pm

Nearly killed by inattentive, sloppy and incompetent nursing staff at hospital.

ninja math

Oct 30, 5:10pm

Reads like a great opening to a novel. Maybe you should write a book and make the fight back even more worth it.

IdahoCoug

Oct 30, 5:20pm

Cutting up a fallen log for firewood alone at age 18. I was 7 miles up a canyon

osbooks

Oct 30, 5:25pm

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