What's Your Scariest Near Death Experience? (r/AskReddit)

rajat I was almost killed at work today what are some of your near-death experiences two weeks ago I had some weird chest pains and decided to walk to the air it got worse as I went but by then I was pretty close to the place so just kept going I walked in the automatic door and within four seconds I hit the floor heart attack this was at 2:30 in the morning in this dinky little town if the heart attack had hit a minute sooner I would have laid out on the sidewalk and died they tell me that my heart stopped for three minutes I don't think it would have started up again without the compressions and shock paddles and whatever else they did if you are going to have a heart attack I highly recommend having it right there in the air you sir are a lucky man you are a faceless fellow redditor yet I shed a tear reading your story my father was not lucky just four weeks ago I miss him so much we had a loss of depth control on my submarine while in some in heavy seas and in not-so-friendly territory sunk out very deep and had to use emergency blow to regain control of depth one of the dudes in Sona with me started to cry some spooky crap I too usually snort a few lines of emergency blow when things get out of hand this happened just today actually I'm visiting my eldest brother for the week and while he is at work today I decide to go on a bike ride to see the neighborhood I find his bike and take it and start going down the road the roads are mostly flat and I soon find myself going down a side road with lots of bushes and trees on both sides then the road starts to become a downwards incline not too steep but steep enough where I am gaining speed without pedaling I'm now going at a decent pace and remember that it's an unknown Road and I don't have a bike helmet on I should slow down hum that's strange the brakes don't seem to be working moving faster now downwards help getting steeper wait what the heck I have no brakes at this point in time I'm really moving quick I was pretty much going about as fast as someone that was biking all out under their own power on a flat piece of land I look ahead to see if this hill has any plans to fly in mouth before something bad happens to me hum this is a problem the road ahead about 25 metres away takes a sharp left turn I can't see past that turn but I can see that it's a downward slope the entire way I had a choice take the turn blind and hope after I turn the road is safe in the hill flattens out or do something right now to stop my bike before I get to the unknown turn ahead I decided to do the latter and aimed for someone's bushes on the side of the road about five seconds later I slam into the bushes moving about oh I don't know 20 miles per hour it was a lot more painful that I thought it would be I got the wind knocked out of me and was covered with a dozen cats or so some of them bleeding through my clothes as I limp over to dragged my bike off of this yard I get a chance to see what was around that blind corner after the turn there was about 10 feet off street and then a stop sign it then crossed a four-lane frontage road that was full of cars moving in either direction at high speeds if I didn't decide to crash into the bushes I would have taken the turn and found myself moving 20 miles per hour right across four lanes of busy traffic TL DR six hours ago I made a split-second decision which ended up saving me from slamming into traffic on a bike glad you're safe keep in mind for later that you can reach your heal around behind the seat and press down on the tire where it passes through the seat stays as an emergency brake was urban exploring at an abandoned jail during my high school years we were on third floor of building and there was a catwalk that was behind between the cells decided to explore below us was a drop of about 40-50 + ft to a bunch of mangled metal and concrete and a basement as I was walking on the catwalk it rotted off the boards and I began to fall down Ward my friend was behind me luckily and grabbed me by my hoodie while jumping on the seesaw in catwalk I still know him to this day because I am sure I would have been impaled on something had the fall not killed me needless to say my stupidity would have killed me curiosity this kills a cat I climb towers in the US cellphone towers more specifically as a climber we're equipped with various safety devices for climbing a tower we have a safety climb which attaches to a metal wire running the length of the ladder for free climbing outside of the ladder we have two pelican hooks or PFA s personal fall arrest system which are basically two huge carabiners hooked onto a fabric lanyard that is attached to our climbing belt on top of all of this we have a number of adjustable lanyards Pelican hooks and carabiners to make working as safe smooth as possible one day in particular I was working on a tower in California roughly 350 featuring tall give or take anyone who's been mountain climbing in California knows that it can get windy where I most sell sites located on mountaintops better reception more range but not fun to work on when bad weather rolls in this was one of those days where the weather chose to work against us we arrived and as soon as the truck door was flung wildly opened by the wind we knew that they was going to be horrible there's not much you can do aside from put on all the layers of clothing you haven't hope it's enough I suit up throw a my belt on and stand at the bottom of the ladder looking up for a moment and listening to the wind howl as it passes through the various tubes and slots of metal situated on the tower it's a haunting sound so we climb the tower and about three hours into work I move to work on a new antenna I do the usual double check all my connections and slowly put my weight on said connection so that I can let go of the tower and use my hands to work no problem I sit there working shifting my weight occasionally just doing the job the wind is pulling the tears from my eyes and my windbreaker hoody has been flaying like a hummingbird wing in my ears for the entire day one little shift of my weight and the world drops out from under me my foot slips I grab for the tower but I'm falling I've never fallen so slow I could clearly see a hand held coming up and remember having the time to consciously think I can grab this before my hips slammed into it and my body slid over the side of the metal I was caught by my armpit as traumatic as it was I don't remember much after catching myself i sat there stunned for a minute and looked up to where I was working I would guess that I fell roughly 15-20 feet I saw the cross beam that I was tied off to Bend slightly and when I climbed back up to finish the job I noticed that the nut on the bolt holding the piece in was missing I'm guessing it's d threaded overtime or maybe it was never there to begin with more than anything I remember just being embarrassed I never told my co-workers TL DR a 40 bolt connection almost killed me on a cell tower I almost drowned in a canoe when I was 9 I was under the water for about 30 seconds before my cousin's boyfriend now husband pulled me out I used to work in a computer shop was a mom-and-pop computer store that sold custom-built machines and repaired PCs to occasions come to mind first I was holding a motherboard in one hand and the power switch for the PC in the other I push the power button with my right thumb and must have been touching some part of it that screamed conductive because the next thing I know every muscle in my arms and torso are clenched like it's minus 80 degrees and the motherboard is smoking some sort of fuse must have popped somewhere because as quick as it happened it was over and nothing worked anymore to this day when I smell burning electronics my chest twinges second much like the first only this time involving a faulty power strip I have my left hand over the center of the strip as I'm unplugging something with my right next thing I know the center of my left hand feels like the silver side of mercury on a summer day and my right hand no longer wants to cooperate with commands again bless you fuses because I'm able to forcibly eject the offending power strip across the room with nothing more than an utterance of obscenities while writing this remembered a third time where as a child I had a chain much like those used to attach pens to desks in side banks except each little bearing was three times larger I was possessed with the notion that lower in one end of it into the open socket of a plugged in land might be a good idea fortunately I let go of the chain at the last moment and just let it drop the entire length of the chain lit up in a blue that can only be described as electric blue but still is not given homage by the most detailed videogame in that briefest of moments I smelled the universe creation itself was laid bare for my olfactory senses if you can get high ozone I did it that night the fact that it shorted out half the house and I had to explain to my dad what happened was a minor after-effects in my memory editing - right it would seem electricity as my arch-nemesis I've had two cars die to the point of needing replacement due to severe electrical problems if electricity is my mutant power I fear I'm doing it terribly wrong my brother came extremely close to death he was three I was five we were at our neighbours playing I was at their pond with my friend and her mom and my brother was riding a tricycle in the driveway their grandpa was a truck driver and had the cab or his truck on the driveway all of a sudden I hear my friend's mom screaming and running towards the truck she's waving her hands and yelling stop over and over again my brother was riding the trike in front of the truck in the ground pod didn't see him he started and it knocked my brother off of the trike and underneath the truck the ground pass or the moment stopped my brother had his head hit from something under the truck and had tire marks on his head and arm where the tires brushed up against him if the grandpa hadn't stopped exactly when he did my bother would have been ran over the ground path stopped driving trucks after this happened because he felt so bad awh poor grandpa my grandparents have a pool and they usually open it in July I was over in May and it was scorching hot and wanted to swim the cover on the pool was still on but whatever I thought and still went in my grandpa was in the house and grandma was shopping so I was alone I get in the pool under the cover and I go toward the deep end and dunk under I come up for air but the cover suctioned back at this moment I realized I flicked up I push and push but no luck after about 30 seconds I'm scared shitless thinking I'm going to die here I want to make one last I swam to the shallow end where I could use my legs to push off and I get it off and get some air no longer than five seconds after my grandpa comes out to check on me we made eye contact and I will never forget the look on his face because he realized what had just happened don't ever do that again okay after recovering from chickenpox as a kid I still had one sore left on the top of my head which I kept scratching and picking at because I was about seven eventually it became infected with what we later found out was flesh-eating disease so I wake up one morning felt extremely weak told this to my parents who saw a line of red creeping up my face and we rushed to the hospital after the danger had passed the doctors told my parents they weren't initially sure I was going to make it and certainly welled Teva if I'd come in the next day mine saw too lame but when my sister and I were a lot younger we were swimming in a friend of our parents hot tub which was only half uncovered we like to go under the part covered by the heavy hot tub covering since the water was lower in there was space to breathe unfortunately our parents friends thought we got out because he couldn't see us under the covering so he closed the hot tub we became terrified and being two girls in elementary school we didn't have the strength to lift the cover off and we were scared we were going to die because of the lack of air and steam everywhere luckily after a wall of banging and pounding and yelling he realized we were in there and rushed to open the cover still scared that I almost died of suffocation when I was a baby my dad was holding the upright while walking along the new property my parents bought a hunter took a shot at us and my dad swears the bullet went between our heads I of course have no memory of this not one involving me but one caused by me when I was around three I got lost in a supermarket when shopping with me mum I just wandered off and my eight-month pregnant mother went into a complete panic this was around the time of the Jamie bulghur incident I was found about thirty minutes after she lost me but she had freaked out so much that she went into early labor our they're an awful lot of bleeding and a very complicated birth she and my sister were okay but the truth is almost killed my mother I still feel very guilty about it ooh honey it wasn't your fault you are only three years old you had about as much conscious intelligent control of your actions as well as much as a very little child could possibly have while camping around Austin Pedernales falls I think I went on an impromptu rock climbing expedition after breakfast I got all the way to the top of a 30-foot cliff that we started down below at the river bottom to where we had set up camp my feet were on a two inch ledge with my feet dangling off the back a fellow camper had mustered up the ability to navigate the last six feet and was grabbing a rope I lost concentration and remember falling down a 10-foot sheer face and hitting the boulder below I then fell backward and by only a miracle I hit the one tree that had grown between the boulders up to this point my back hit square in the middle of this tree and I literally kicked myself in the face with both feet from there my body slid down the second Boulder and I spun around to hit the ground moving forward face-first I hit the ground my body performed a front flip and my right knee hit a rock as I landed on my knees I clutched my knee for a second before I got up and ran back to our campsite as I knew my knee was going to swell up and we were at least three miles from the car almost drowned got saved by a lifeguard who only had one arm and that's why you leave a note motherf Rick Opie I've always had a deep respect for lathes I'm an aviation maintenance engineer and I fix a lot of aircraft in their frames so occasionally I'll do some work on the lathe often for the aircraft I work on we are milling extra-strong titanium but mostly aluminium one time the lathe at about 2,200 revolutions per minute instantly stopped the lathe jammed up and in the process the shock broke the material off the clamp assembly and threw it to the ceiling at ungodly speeds it shattered one of the massive lamps used to illuminate the hangar and cause the glass to come raining down just feet from me I'll see if I can find a are these lamps they are massive it's insane example you ever see those big dome lights at Walmart or whatever store you go to they're shaped like that made of solid heat-resistant glass filled with several bulbs all that glass shattered oh and they are about eight feet big too thought I broke my back surfing once I came out down under a wave and slammed against a rock my spine bent back and I heard everything crack somehow I was able to get up fine but the thought of me getting paralyzed underwater shook me up a bit this actually happened to a friend of my sister and he wasn't so lucky he was playing soccer with some friends at the beach and slipped into the shallow water where he hit his neck on a rock the water was shallow so his friend was able to prevent him from drowning but he is now a quadriplegic you're really lucky to be all right I was born well three and a half months premature my mother was very worried I bankrupt him our insurance company also I was told by my dad I am still not mature but now my mother more annoyed than fearful also when I left the incubator after 3 ish months to be taken home my father was throwing me into the air we have ceiling fans my head came an inch sort of the spinning blade so you almost died when you're born say your dad celebrates by almost cutting you in half amazing I am a manufacturing manager in Texas I have seen a machinist working an automated lathe with his shirt untucked the lathe malfunctioned and started operating when he was working on it in court his shirt he was pulled up and over for about 20 times until someone could shut it off he cannot walk anymore that guy is lucky is Frick I've seen pictures of lathe operators who get their shirts scrubbed it usually ends much worse during officers training in the German army my class and I received training on our assigned weapon systems I'm with honored reckon so miners always since it has been phased out a few years ago an 8 wheeled reconnaissance tank with a 20 millimeter machine cannon for self-defence this is some serious hardware dealing out 20 millimeters he rounds with a kill radius of 6 meters at 1,000 rounds minute they are pin fired and the primer needs about 70 neutrons that's 7 kilograms of force to ignite the charge this will become important later on so I'm tasked with loading the gun up for some live firing as fast as possible since we were already behind schedule now the ammo comes in 25 round belts which have to be linked and fed into the storage compartment inside the turret this process is done by one person sitting inside there are special tools to pull out single rounds overlap two links and connect the two belts with the spare round these have to be used for safety reasons I being young and dumb bit ambitious of course choose to ignore all safety precautions because it's faster that way the he storage compartment is at about knee level in front of me and holds around 300 rounds and I am trying to link the final belt to the snake like chain of death 0.5 metres away from my crotch but the round I have to pull out is stuck in the link I apply all my strength at this sucker is stuck for a second I contemplate using the special pair of pliers designed exactly for this task no I pull again with the belt against my shins pulling the route towards me for maximum leverage suddenly comes free unable to stop the motion because of the surprise my hand ammo combo moves between my legs at the speed of sound no it didn't hit my Johnson with the base of the round where the primaries struck the edge of the steel storage container under the seat I was occupying with the loudest freaking clang I have ever heard I pause silence five seconds pass 10 seconds pass a bead of sweat rolls down my cheek I finally managed to move my arm again I look at the base of the round around two millimeters that's one stroke tenth of an inch next to the primer is a huge freaking dent twice that deep what I'm trying to say is a bit more to the left and that thing would have gone off in my hand sending shrapnel and burning powder right into the ammo storage where two hundred and ninety-nine rounds of live twenty millimeters the ammo we're setting that combined with the five hundred litres of diesel fuel in the tank would have provided quite a spectacular and mrs. DJ s four thousand but your son is dead because he was a fricking idiot there are more instances where I along East died almost got shot squashed decapitated during training but this one had the most profound impact on me would have been a shame those tanks aren't cheap used to work at a bookstore borders to be exact when I was in my late teens early twenties there was a guy that I worked with who was in his mid thirties and basically a hardcore nerd war cloaks still lived with his mom had a gargantuan comic book manga collection made stop-motion animation movies with comic book figurines every nerd stereotype ever including the not-so-great of human interaction bit so one day we had some sort of disagreement I won't even pretend to recall about what as a revenge joke I had an idea we had an employee hold shelf behind the registers visible to customers where employees could reserve stuff they wanted to buy once they were done with their shift grab the item add a little tag with your name on it and buy it at the end of the day I decided to reserve a few items for the guy with his name clearly visible compelling the trishal like everybody poops why do I have two daddies in the classic how to massage your horse to put the immaturity of the last one on the same lines as the first two i Tate's quotation marks around massage turns out he was a hardcore hardcore homophobe and the book suggesting that he'd come from gay parents was a mortal insult he worked the first shift in the cafe the next morning whereas I usually closed before I got in he decided to grab my coffee cut from the rack where the clean ones were kept and put some industrial-strength drain cleaner in it fortunately he had made some kind of joke about my well being to the guy who took over his shifts for his lunch break who checked out my coffee cup and noticed that there was in fact drain cleaner at the bottom and reported it to the manager if he wasn't such an egotistical freak I can't help but wonder what an ounce of drain cleaner does to an esophagus TL DR psycho ex coworker took a joke way too seriously and half acid tried to poison my coffee with drain cleaner when I was about 4 I was waiting in line to jump into the ocean or father dock in Jakarta when a little rude French boy jumped in the water right as I was supposed to he ended up jumping on a man-of-war jellyfish and nearly died if it had been me I was so little I would have died I fell almost 200 feet off a mountain in Colorado it happens to the best of us I was working at Walmart on the maintenance crew overnight there was a blocked drain near the deli and I had to dump some clog remover into it no big deal I walked up found that someone had jammed a wet floor sign into the drain grate so I yanked it out didn't know if the clog remover would bleach it or something in pulling out the sign I also moved the drain cover I dumped in about a gallon all the stuff that's what they told me to do and figured I was done I took off my gloves toss them in the trash can next to me then I noticed the grate was shifted with a lack of sense I was a team I put my hand in the water and moved the grade back into place no biggie I just saved everyone's loose change from falling in the drain I walked into the back and was doing something else for a bit kinda noticing my hand was sorta Richie I have eczema so being it she is nothing new I went on to grab and run with the hand I put in the drain and the broom stung my hand I looked all over the broom nothing sharp so I took a look at my hand my hand was turning deep red all over my nails were deep yellow and floppy it was covered in red bumps and there was a black patch forming on top of my hand I thought it was some massive allergic reaction so I took some benadryl and went to find the manager manager is nowhere to be found he was an alcoholic that would sleep off hangovers in the meeting room so I went to a friend of mine that was also on the maintenance team he screamed not the reaction I was hoping for he bang near dragged me into the bathroom and told me to turn on the faucet and keep my hand under it so I did he runs out like he's on a mission runs back in with the manager i chat with the manager a bit gets sent to the hospital apparently it wasn't an allergic reaction the doctor told me it was the natural reaction of someone's skin to industrial-strength drain cleaner my skin was developing a massive chemical burn and if I'd let it go or not notice it as soon as I did it could have burnt through my skin into my blood and laid me out when I was around 7 I almost fell into the septic system in my yard the access point was opened and I didn't see it until my leg was dangling into a pit of crap the event scared me so bad that for at least two months I didn't go into my yard I was around 11 months old at the time and was always a playful baby my mom was cooking something up in the kitchen and let me play in my crib I was very giggly and would make noises so my mom knew I was okay however at a certain point she stopped hearing me make noises completely and I previously took a nap so she knew something was wrong she found me not breathing in the crib and immediately dialed 9-1-1 untried mouth-to-mouth but nothing was working she felt like the ambulance was taking too long so she picked me up and ran down the stairs of our apartment complex to look for help coincidentally there was the police officer just about to leave responding from a call and he noticed my mother bailing her eyes out the police officer rushed us to sick kids hospital here in Toronto and luckily we live ten minutes from the hospital the ER was able to revive me within five minutes the ER team later told my mom if it was ten minutes longer I would have died still brings chills when I think about the story probably the most frightful thing for any parent to go through worked in a 120 year old building where the elevators were built to be operated by people not computers they put in push buttons but there were always people there working on the elevators they never seemed to work right over all the years I worked there I can't remember a time when they weren't trying to fix at least one of the elevators one day I was riding an elevator down and it suddenly stopped just sat there for 10 seconds or so then it jumped up about 3-4 feet and instantly dropped about a floor it then slowed back to normal speed and stopped again the weird thing was that nobody screamed nobody talks nobody made any sounds we all pretty much assumed we were about to fall to our deaths but there was a weird electric feeling as we just waited to see when it would happen waiting not moving total silence instead of plummeting us to our deaths the elevator then just resumed its normal course to the next floor and opened who Tower of Terror I love that right hit a deer while in a rabbit deer head smashed the windshield and pushed the glass in to within a few inches of my face only the layer of plastic designed to keep the windshield together kept it from decapitating me my face was filled with broken glass which is really awful because you can't pick it out and when you try to brush it off it drives all the little slivers deeper in and they hurt more I'm convinced I still have glass shards in my face that will remain there forever in a final act of revenge the deer spun around and it's but simultaneously busted my back window and left poop on the rear seat took me a moment to realize you were talking about a VW the mental image that I had initially was a bit odd I got hit in the head with a lawn dart once just bounced off that's what you think happened you're actually in a coma in the hospital right now I was 40 years old when I did this stupid I know that I am still here to tell you not to do it I live next to train tracks in the city of Houston one very foggy winter night I went for a walk on the train tracks I heard a distant train and saw the glow of the light I turned around and started running back toward home the tracks are lined with tall weeds meaning that there was no real area to jump off into without getting dirty scratched and wet I was going for the break through the weeds where I got onto the tracks the train was closer than I thought due to the fog it was getting louder and the light was brighter the horn was blaring I was running and I tripped and fell flat between the rails I jumped up jumped into the weeds and a train shot past horn screaming with some presence of mind I marked the spot where I was with a chunk of wood I got up after the train passed went home got a flashlight and came back to my marked spot after a bit of searching I found my glasses in the rocks between the rails I have never told my wife and my blaze about my misadventure I was playing some pickup ball at a park in a pretty rough neighborhood where I used to live and my friends and I were playing some major dishes it was pretty close so and turned the games got pretty intense and as I was going up for a layup some guy on the other team pushed me in the back and as a result my head basketball hoop purl not good so apparently I was knocked out for 10 minutes before I woke up I went back home and I was still dizzy and continually got all my details all mixed up so my parents insisted on taking me to the hospital after some foggy moments I am in there answering some questions and they tell me they are going to perform a cat scan not sure if that's how you spell it they put me on the bed and they tell me that they got a brand new machine so rather than just imaging my head they decide to do a full-body scan to test it out beep beep bop doo-wop machine finishes and the doctors look at the x-rays we are all astonished that in addition to a concussion that I received by being pushed into a pole they find out I have stage 1 bone cancer in my left forearm I think it was called Ewing's bone sarcoma or something and they told me it was a pretty rare case had it not been for that bastard pushing me I don't know how far the cancer would have progressed before we diagnose it whew I was doing one of those assault course things that we all do as a child harness and safety gear on as we all do I must have been around 11 stroke 12 hated on up the rock wall and had to leap on to some sort of pole thing that had a platform on it from the top of the wall anyway I'm on this platform and next I have to head across the monkey bars to finish the course so I jump across onto the bars when suddenly the harness snapped I was essentially about fifty feet from the ground and impending death and so I had to get to the end of the monkey bars luckily I did and I made it to the bottom unscathed but shaken up let's talk about my 2011 shall we won I was walking to school just got a text with some bad news from a friend distracted I looked up and saw a car slowing to a stop at a crosswalk I did not check to see if she saw me she did not as I stepped out she slammed into me pushing me into oncoming traffic due to perfect timing she pushed me between two cars as they passed and I managed to awkwardly dance out of death way much crying on both our parts ensued - I got a moped it is windy as frickin Hawaii and I am NOT experienced at all with moped riding I was coming home from work and a huge gust of wind caught me off guard I over corrected and ended up tipping over while going forward again almost getting caught under the wheels of an oncoming car luckily they stopped right a few inches short and my moped kept going right into someone's front lawn much crying ensued three my films they came to visit over Christmas break it had been very windy for the previous week on Christmas Day we were walking around in the military park down by Waikiki we stopped for a few minutes to look at this plant and exchange to each other how it looked like the top of an enormous onion we continued walking and suddenly there is this horrible creaking I will never forget that sound this inexorable monstrous death rattle we both look up with a huge tree above us for falling branches nope the entire freaking tree is tipping over directly onto us I felt my fiancee bolt from my side and immediately followed him he has better situational aware when I felt him run I was like crap better run too we could feel the leaves brushing us as we fled had we not stopped to look at the plant we would have been too far under the tree to make it out a huge branch fell just where we had been standing much furious freaking ensued I've had a few one disc grinder exploded in my face embedded many chunks in the concrete walls floors and the steel workbench unwounded to lit myself on fire burned quickly through several layers of greasy work clothes lost some hair on that one nothing else three ran a quad bike into a tree doing something around 70 miles per hour tossed back first against a tree's trunk by rights I should have wrapped around it backwards got scratches bruises and clean x-rays for sitting in the backseat of a car that got hit during a turn the car that hit us went just over two feet into our car a couple inches behind me and took the seat out from behind me those are just the ones that stick out in my mind from the sounds of it you're lucky you aren't a mangled pile of body right now when I was 15 my mom was driving me to school and since it was rather early in the morning she fell asleep at the wheel for a second the road in question had no curb and to make matters worse it was right beside a salt marsh needless to say water almost up to the bottom of the windows which we got out off to make matters even worse I don't like being wet it was not a good day at vote for the wet comment once my girlfriend asked if I thought a friend of hers was pretty I said yes our family was moving into new houses during my baby times it was still in construction and they decided letting loose a quiet three-year-old baby around huge pits of death would be a good idea so there I am looking around and I see this giant hole that could have been a basement I guess I start walking towards that when my brother of 8 years old comes in and swoops me off my feet like freaking Superman I owe him my life even if he beat me up a lot this isn't a joke but sounds like one when I was younger I enjoyed eating the powdered cheese out of boxes of mac and cheese I thought that crap was delicious I would pop open a box take that wide pack of cheese out hide the macaroni box in the trash can didn't want mom to know what I was up to tear open the pack lick a finger and start eating one day a friend was over and I decided I was gonna reach some powdered cheese however this time was different licking a finger just wasn't getting me all the cheesy goodness that I wanted I decided to turn the package up and pour the cheese in my mouth I guess the auntie clumping material wasn't mixed at the right ratio because the entire package poured into my mouth for a split second I enjoyed the burst of cheese the I realized I couldn't breathe but I was choking I started trying to cough up the cheese but poof saw orange cheese popped out of my mouth as I ran around in a panic I tried to use the universal sign of choking but my best friend was too busy rolling around on the floor laughing my instinct said drink water well that was a mistake I went to the sink stuck my head under the faucet and saw my hopes fade away the water turned the cheese into a thickening news of death by this point orange juice was running down my face and covering my shirt I knew at that point I was going to die in an absolute terror I decided that I would try to run outside and use the water pressure of a hose to blast the cheese out of my mouth I made it out the door and apparently blacked out the pressure off hitting the ground knocked the coagulated cheese out of mouth and I lived to tell this story boy I was an idiot I was 15 or 16 and went to pool with my friend I didn't know how to swim and I told him over and over again he said don't worry he's actually trained so he got me idiot me jumped in 6 feet I was flapping around while he just stood there I want all the way down pushed myself up slowly moved to the corner and got out turned out he didn't know how to swim I was driving a forklift and in the processing plant I worked at you drove the lifts around like a racetrack and you had all the things that needed to be picked up in the center but there were also 30-40 electrical cords hanging down so that the center had power while these cords were blackened the forklifts were black I picked up a giant tilton too began to reverse and bam I pulled the head part from the cord huge shock flash but luckily it was on 110 volt in not one of the 220 volt I was fired for the incident bought for the firing saying they didn't have proper safety hazards on the cords and I got unemployment I was lying in bed chewing on my laptop cable suddenly I saw a flash of blue light and my jaw clamp down and I started shaking in extreme pain this continued for a few seconds before I managed to spit it out I don't two cables anymore posted this sometime ago I literally stumbled into a young black bear I was wearing my Nike Free shoes so I seemingly didn't make enough noise and wind probably was coming from the other direction I was walking ahead of the group looking on my phone not paying attention until I saw a movement in my paraffin looks odd not native-speaker by the fact that I saw him move while looking on my mobile phone you can tell I was close I look up and there is a black bear standing and he appears to be frozen mid eating berries the rest of the group approaches more loudly he attempts to climb the tree and obviously fails because he was too big in the tree too small too now I slowly back up and in a combat alerted voice I informed the group about the bear they stopped I commenced slowly backing off all the while facing him but not looking in his face directly when four meters away two young canadians coerced me and the rest of my group to move deep into the woods all the while talking calmly to the bear while this seemed unreasonable to me as it would limit my movements I did that I was told and climbed into the woods backwards feeling awkward now with room on the path we were sure the bear would leave the bear wasn't so sure he curiously made a step towards me the Canadians calmly talked to him and he halts his movements now it gets worse from the other side of the trail there are people approaching placing the bear in an awkward spot and even more people approach from our previous location we alert them they stop thank God after what seemed like an hour it was probably one two minutes the bear finally casually left the scene looking bewildered when I was 19 my best friend and I were driving over a mountain pass in Colorado at 630 in the morning I was asleep in the passenger's seat when I was awakened by my friend screaming we had hit a patch of ice and she lost control of the vehicle next thing I know we are rolling off the side of the mountain we made probably four full rotations before my car landed right-side up on a flat part of the mountain when we landed I realized I had been thrown into the driver's seat and my best friend was no longer in the vehicle upon exiting the car I found my friend laying thirty feet from the car she had been ejected from the vehicle through a busted-out window upon realizing she needed medical attention I ran back to the car to get my phone I dialed 9-1-1 but there was no cell service I thought maybe if I got back on the road I could get some service so I crawled up the mountainside it wasn't that steep it was more of a big Hill through the snow once I got back to the road I tried the phone again that it still had no service I had no other choice but to walk to find help the nearest town was 25 miles away and at 630 in the morning there weren't too many cars passing by as I walked I noticed my whole body beginning to stiffen and I couldn't turn my head without feeling a blinding pain in my neck I walked for five miles before someone finally picked me up they drove me into cell service and I finally was able to call for help 20 minutes later an ambulance came and strapped me to a backboard while another ambulance went to find my friend at our crash site the closest hospital was 45 minutes away in the whole way there I begged the EMTs for any news about my friend but they wouldn't tell me I got to the hospital and they rushed me in to take x-rays and MRIs of my neck finally when we were done a nurse came in and told me that I had a broken neck when she told me all I thought was how lucky I am to have survived that let alone can still move my body however my joy over the Fortuna of surviving such an incident was immediately squashed upon learning my friend had passed away at the crash site she had been crushed by the weight of the car rolling over her and wouldn't have made it even if I could have found help right away that was six years ago and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of her and remember how lucky I am to have made it out of that accident alive this reminds me of my cousin jeigh a few years ago in his tool and dye shop a similar situation happened but there was a viewing window to the shop as he was walking by one day the man working the lathe lost control of the bar the bar flew out and through the window and into my cousin's head his son was the first on the scene and it was pretty horrible Jay was in a coma for the next three months after it has taken him a long time to regain movement his short-term memory is gone he is now able to do many things slower than before but at least he doesn't need a constant assistance anymore I'm glad to hear you narrowly missed a similar fate when I was 10 we lived beside train tracks and for some reason I was allowed to walk on them because the Train only came once a day great parenting my friend and I look behind us one day to see the train coming around the bend there was nowhere to jump off the tracks because of high rock ledges on each side I took off running leaving my friend behind and made it to a spot just ahead with a drop off into a rocky ravine jumped in and my friend came after we weren't hurt but I'll never forget seeing the front of that train directly behind me I didn't tell my parents until I was about 35 not my story but a friend who works at the docks in Long Beach working the cranes allowed and unload cargo ships barely missed being crushed by a falling load his coworker was not so lucky if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music]

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Length: 44min 12sec (2652 seconds)

Published: Sat May 23 2020