Cats have 9 lives......

[stkr00]

1984 - Riding through town on my Honda Hawk 400 at about 45 mph, when a driver turned left in front of me. Due to the curbs, and my inexperience, I had nowhere to go. Did a powerslide right into the front of his car...target fixation. The impact broke my right elbow (no surgery tho) due to my grip on the bars, and then sent me airborne for about 30 feet where I landed on my head/left shoulder, then slid for another 20-30 feet. The bike was totaled. If I wouldn't have had a Full Face helmet on...I would have been dead.

1991 - US Navy: While on submarines. The sub had stopped for a swim call in the Bahama's area. Although I don't dive for shiot, for some reason I decided to dive off of the sail planes...those wing things you see when a sub is surfaced. These are about 30 feet above the water. Didn't get my hands to break the water first and almost broke my neck due to the impact with the water. 3 months of meds/therapy got me back to normal.

1996 - US Navy: The ship was in Curacao and we were all swimming at the beach. We swam out to the breakwall, and then I borrowed a mask/snorkel just for the fun of it, although I had never snorkeled before. I got a mouthfull of saltwater through the snorkel, and started gagging/choking. My brain went into a panic mode, and I forgot that I still had to swim to stay afloat. One of my buddies swam over and pulled me back to the breakwall where I was able to get my breath. I could have easily drowned there without his help.

2000 - US Navy Reserves: While driving a Hummer out on SEAL Beach in Coranado Calif, me and a buddy we taking turns tearing up the sand doing doughnuts and other stupid shiot. But then, while on the way back, not tearing it up, the right front tire caught the surf and we were headed out to see in a Hummer at about 45 mph. I turned the wheel left back towards the beach, the right front dug in and the Hummer started to highside. I turned the wheel to the right to set it back down, but it was too far gone, and somehow...it stood the Hummer on it's nose and then did a peroet(sp?) and then slammed down on the driver's side. Luckily, we were both wearing seatbelts. The Navy SEALS brought one of their Dodge trucks and winched it back onto it's wheels and we drove it back to the base. There was some disciplinary action over that one, but at least we survived it.

That's about it for me

Some good/scary stories so far. Good reading

 

[badboysbailagnt]

1. Bad car wreck tottaled car broke ribs so on
2. caught spinal menenjitus temature went to 106
3. Oh when 1 year old had a temp of 106 nurses put me in a bath tub of ice
4.coming from a club extremly drunk driving my 600hp firebird with nos,nos hit tires broke loose spining me out missine a huge telephone pole by inches.
5.Several 150+mph runs in cars while drunk
6.ran from the law in the rain sideways around a curve at 100mph in my firebird
Needless to say my drinking days are over

 

[Devil Dog]

1989 and 19 years old and Managing a Pizza delivery shop.  We get really busy and the owner asks me to take a delivery.  4 Large pizzas to a not so great area.  I get there and there is a kid(I'll leave it at that) sitting on the front stoop.  It is a 6 family and the tag says 1 rear.  I head down six steps from the sidewalk and have this horrible (I just F-D up) feeling.  I hear the kid come down behind me and before I even get turned around I see the blade (hunting knife about 12 inches long) coming around my head.  I stopped dead and he flashed the blade in front of my eyes and pulled it to my throat and held it tight under my chin.  I still have the 4 pizzas in my right hand.  He asks where my money is, I had $40 in my left front pocket and about $400 in my right.  I said left front, he took the cash and the food and said "you better give me enough time to get up the stairs before you turn around".  I waited, he screwed.  He could have taken my wallet, my keys, my car and my life...  This was before everybody had cellphones so I had to drive to a pay phone and call the Police and the shop.  The owner never even asked If I was ok, he just kept yelling about the cash and pizza.  A$$hole...  It took about half an hour to really set in that this clown could have dropped me in about half a second.  They caught him a couple of weeks later, he robbed 34 delivery people in the city.  17 year old Heroin addict.  He was ordering the food to about 10 different places he had scoped out as "perfect" for robbery.  

This changed my life and to this day still has an effect on how I look at things.  I could have died over $40 lousy bucks.  I had friends say " you should have..., I would have..."  until it happens to you and you realize how easy it is to be killed...  

I at this point still believe that nothing is worth dying for except your family...  I'm not afraid to fight, but if I'm gonna get killed while doing it there has to be a reason.

I'll do all kinds of other stupid things, Motorcycles, Bunji Jumping, Diving/Snorkling, Jet boat racing, Demo Derbies...

So thats`why ur Grumpy.......

 

[Devil Dog]

1. Bad car wreck tottaled car broke ribs so on
2. caught spinal menenjitus  temature went to 106
3.  Oh when 1 year old had a temp of 106  nurses put me in a bath tub of ice
4.coming from a club extremly drunk driving my 600hp firebird with nos,nos hit tires broke loose spining me out missine a huge telephone pole by inches.
5.Several 150+mph runs in cars while drunk
6.ran from the law in the rain sideways around a curve at 100mph in my firebird
Needless to say  my drinking days are over

Glad ur not drinking anymore.....

 

[DNGrumpy]

Actually I was dubbed "Grumpy" by a Stripper at a local club, we used to deliver there all the time and she always called me Grumpy because I never wanted to go back to work... It just stuck. I've been called that for 15 years, I have him Tattooed on my arm along with 8 million other things. Ahhhhh, the good old days...

Oh, sorry, dreamin' a little...

 

[Oldroller]

I nearly drowned twice while windsurfing in the ocean. One time while in 12" of water. I was walking the board back to the beach when the wind shifted. I lost my balance and fell over.
The sail came down on top of me and an oncoming wave pinned me underneath the sail againt the ocean floor. That one was really close. The beach was closed because of storm conditions so the lifegaurds never saw me. I swallowed a lot of salt water that time.

I've been hit by ground lightening twice now. The first time it knocked me to the ground. I never knew what hit me. Yes I play the lottery religiously.

With 2,000 skydives under my belt I've had five malfunctions and reserve rides. On no less than a 1/2 dozen skydives, I've come within inches of a freefall collision with another jumper while still freefalling at 120 mph. and in four cases I nearly collided with a plane while in freefall. My heart has gotten a good workout during my lifetime.

Two years ago I was thrown underneath the wheels of a tractor trailer and run over while riding my 1200 Bandit. My left leg was shattered in six places from the trailer tire running across my leg. I now have a 16" titanium rod inserted in my Tibia.

Oh and lets not forget the really stupid things I did when I was sixteen. I jumped out of my buddies car at night while going 65 mph. I was really drunk and pissed at him and he wouldnt stop the car. You would not believe the road rash I got from that. Being drunk probably saved my life that time.

Oh and the time I tried to off myself by chugging a 1/5 of straight vodka in ten minutes. Figured alcohol poisoining would be a good way to go. That was a dark period in my life. I have several more very serious close calls but I'm long past using nine lives.

I had always believed from the age of 12 that I would be dead before fifty. Well I just turned fifty so no what the hell do I do? My life sure hasnt been boring.



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[kkattan]

Well i also had several bad car accidents but how many of you guys got attacked by animals??

the car accidents werent too bad except for the air bags hitting my with my glasses on..

as far the animals..

1st ATTACK:
well i was teaching at the university and someone yells out "there's a rat!" and the girls start yelling and moving around and i think someone is going to step on the rat.. so i go over to see what the fuss is about..
it turns out to be an old senior citizen mouse.. with dust balls all around him. he's barely walking. im thinking, oh you poor guy let me help you out to the side door, so you can go out and play in the field and no one will hurt you... so i try to get him to go by schooching him with my shoe.. he get close to the door but just wont go out.. finally, time a wastin and the class is almost over.. so, i (genius) pick up the mouse and immediately he is like the mexican mouse.. forget his name cartoon guy.. becamse very fast and bites my middle finger. i get a sharp pain but i am still holding him.. i get angry at him since i was trying to save his live so i chuck him across the field like you try to get stones to skip in the pond.. students laughed class dismiised.. well after that i have to goto the unverisity infirmary.. nurse says.. well sounds like the mouse was acting normal (hinting i was the abnormal one).. so no need for rabbies shot.. come back if you start foaming at the mouth.. this was around october...

2nd ATTACK:
well around christmas time i drop my friend off at his dorm room... and we notice some maintenance guy with a broom inside a dumpster and lots of commotion.. so we go over there and ask whats happening.. we get there and notice two squirrels inside the empty dumpster. Maintenance man says that during the semester there is lots of trash inside so the squirrels come in and eat the food.. but you see, he said, the outside of the dumpster is painted so it provides a sticky enough surface for the squirrles to climb in,, but the inside is not painted.. so without the food and trash to climb up on.. they cant get out.. and this is why i am hoping the squirrels will climb my broom and get out.. otherwise they will starve since school is out for another 4 weeks...
well (genius again) i said not if i can help it, .. my friend says, what are you doing.. i said i am getting inside to get them out.. i dont want them to die.... so in i jump.. and i was almost like bullets gping back and forth.. they were so scared.... i just sat there in a squatting position, not moving.. a couple seconds later one squirrel climbs my leg, up my jacket, jumps onto my head, then out the dumpster.. one down, one to go....
..... time goes by.. nothing.. i am not moving.. squirrel stops moving, but i can still see heart beating fast... poor guy.. well my friend is losing patience.. so i go to do something.. ..
i grab the squirrel as if i was picking up an puppy.... OUCH>>>> he comes out of the hold turn his around and bites down on my index finger nuckle. and he kept on bitting as if he wanted to break off my nuckle. luckliy he didnt get a great grip or get too deep.. after a few seconds he lets go at which point my arm was holding him over the dumpster area.. and he takes off running... i get in my car and try to run him over... thanks for saving his life...
the best part of all.. was when i walked into the infrimary office again.. the nurse couldnt belive it.. she said stop picking up animals.. i dont care if they need your help.

well years later.. i am rodent-bitten free.. i still like animals. but i have more respect for them and know we must seem like huge monsters and they are just defending themselves..
.. i guess the two criters probably lost one of their cat lives each as they explained the story to their buddies.

wishing you all safety and health.

 

[#cruncherbusa]

Well i also had several bad car accidents but how many of you guys got attacked by animals??

the car accidents werent too bad except for the air bags hitting my with my glasses on..

as far the animals..

1st ATTACK:
well i was teaching at the university and someone yells out "there's a rat!" and the girls start yelling and moving around and i think someone is going to step on the rat.. so i go over to see what the fuss is about..
it turns out to be an old senior citizen mouse.. with dust balls all around him. he's barely walking. im thinking, oh you poor guy let me help you out to the side door, so you can go out and play in the field and no one will hurt you...  so i try to get him to go by schooching him with my shoe.. he get close to the door but just wont go out.. finally, time a wastin and the class is almost over.. so, i (genius) pick up the mouse and immediately he is like the mexican mouse.. forget his name cartoon guy.. becamse very fast and bites my middle finger.   i get a sharp pain but i am still holding him.. i get angry at him since i was trying to save his live so i chuck him across the field like you try to get stones to skip in the pond.. students laughed class dismiised..  well after that i have to goto the unverisity infirmary.. nurse says.. well sounds like the mouse was acting normal (hinting i was the abnormal one).. so no need for rabbies shot.. come back if you start foaming at the mouth.. this was around october...

2nd ATTACK:
well around christmas time i drop my friend off at his dorm room... and we notice some maintenance guy with a broom inside a dumpster and lots of commotion.. so we go over there and ask whats happening.. we get there and notice two squirrels inside the empty dumpster.  Maintenance man says that during the semester there is lots of trash inside so the squirrels come in and eat the food..  but you see, he said,  the outside of the dumpster is painted so it provides a sticky enough surface for the squirrles to climb in,, but the inside is not painted.. so without the food and trash to climb up on.. they cant get out.. and this is why i am hoping the squirrels will climb my broom and get out..  otherwise they will starve since school is out for another 4 weeks...
well (genius again)  i said not if i can help it, .. my friend  says, what are you doing.. i said i am getting inside to get them out.. i dont want them to die.... so in i jump.. and i was almost like bullets gping back and forth.. they were so scared.... i just sat there in a squatting position, not moving.. a couple seconds later one squirrel climbs my leg, up my jacket, jumps onto my head, then out the dumpster.. one down, one to go....
..... time goes by.. nothing.. i am not moving.. squirrel stops moving, but i can still see heart beating fast... poor guy.. well my friend is losing patience.. so i  go to do something.. ..
i grab the squirrel as if i was picking up an puppy....  OUCH>>>> he comes out of the hold turn his around and bites down on my index finger nuckle.  and he kept on bitting as if he wanted to break off my nuckle.  luckliy he didnt get a great grip or get too deep.. after a few seconds he lets go at which point my arm was holding him over the dumpster area.. and he takes off running... i get in my car and try to run him over... thanks for saving his life...  
the best part of all.. was when i walked into the infrimary office again.. the nurse couldnt belive it.. she said stop picking up animals.. i dont care if they need your help.

well years later.. i am rodent-bitten free..  i still like animals. but i have more respect for them and know we must seem like huge monsters and they are just defending themselves..
.. i guess the two criters probably lost one of their cat lives each as they explained the story to their buddies.

wishing you all safety and health.

So you were that guy on the video "When animals attack"  

 

I still have about 7 lives left, I was going through an intersection when a truck decides that it's time for him to get on the on-ramp. I ended up T-boning him and flying a 100ft and breaking my leg and arm in 2 places and breaking the main bones in my hand. Other than that, risk free

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[Devil Dog]

Oldroller...... Dayuuuuum dude... you have definately used all your 9 lives.

 

[Devil Dog]

KK....you made me laugh tonight.....Great story. thanks

 

[kod3001]

Had a bit of a scare when I was learning to fly. Early days when I'd only been solo a couple of times before, I went up solo in a Piper Cherokee (dinky single engine - low wing).

Took off, flew a circuit, downwind, base leg, final for a touch and go.

I landed late (short runway - sub 600m), and wanted to get the throttle in quick to be able to take off again to save having to stop, turn around, taxi back to take off again.

When I had landed, I was in a bit of snaking effect, and being in a hurry to get the throttle in again, only made matters 10x worse. Swerved to the right, left, right and then hard left and right off the side of the runway. Across the grass at 50kts or so, heading for the trees.

Pass me my brown trousers. Pulled her to a stop, and breathed a sigh of relief. As I was shortly to find out, the guy in the tower had hit the alarm bells, and the little fire truck (more of a van than a truck), came screaming over with all the locals from the airfield. Totally embarassed, but could've been worse.

 

[Devil Dog]

Had a bit of a scare when I was learning to fly.  Early days when I'd only been solo a couple of times before, I went up solo in a Piper Cherokee (dinky single engine - low wing).

Took off, flew a circuit, downwind, base leg, final for a touch and go.

I landed late (short runway - sub 600m), and wanted to get the throttle in quick to be able to take off again to save having to stop, turn around, taxi back to take off again.

When I had landed, I was in a bit of snaking effect, and being in a hurry to get the throttle in again, only made matters 10x worse.  Swerved to the right, left, right and then hard left and right off the side of the runway.  Across the grass at 50kts or so, heading for the trees.

Pass me my brown trousers.  Pulled her to a stop, and breathed a sigh of relief.  As I was shortly to find out, the guy in the tower had hit the alarm bells, and the little fire truck (more of a van than a truck), came screaming over with all the locals from the airfield.  Totally embarassed, but could've been worse.

Funny now....but it wasn't then......

 

[kod3001]

Indeed.

Had another episode flying out of a grass strip in Wiltshire.

Me and a friend flew down to Compton Abbas in late summer, landed and went into the local flying club / hut for a cup of tea.

As we were walking out to get ready for a flight back to Elstree (North London), one of the locals mentioned that they had a drainage problem on the grass runway, leading to parts of the runway becoming mud pits. To get around this problem, they had concreted over a certain area, and as long as you went over the top of the concrete you'd be ok and wouldn't get stuck in the mud.

So, taxying out, we lined up on the Westerly runway, and it was the time of day when the sun is low and it completely blinds you, so we could barely see where we were going.

Anyway, lined up, throttle in, 10kts,20kts,30kts,40kts, at around 40kts I looked out to my left to see the concreted section about 20 yards off to my left - we had drifted and just as I was about to say something, we hit the mud - the plane lurched sideways and at the same time was catapulted into the air, just above 40kts (pretty much on the stall speed).

We were now flying sideways, with barely enough speed to keep us in the air. We managed to use the ground effect to build up a bit more speed before climbing away and home, jeez.

When we got back to Elstree, the aircraft looked like it had been 'off-roading' with all mud splattered down the sides.