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Nov 17, 2021
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ReyOso
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Hit by a car at six when crossing the street.
The light changed while I was crossing on the crosswalk and a guy blew threw it. I was knocked unconscious and my scalp was peeled back and bleeding.
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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
kapcreations
4/17/22 4:51pm
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