How did you almost die as a kid??? (stupid stuff we did)

[yoda313]

Hello,

Well, this is inspired by the dr dos thread:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1104103#1104103

I guess the closest I came was when I was in my early teens working on stereo stuff in the basement. I was working on an extension cord that was bent. It was still plugged in (not thinking of course).

And I happened to be using plyers to try to straighten the prongs... and ZAP! Man that stung bad......

But no biggy - didn't even blow a fuse!

But that's about as big of a blunder I can remember myself getting into....


How about you????

Kevin

[stiltman]

At the age of 2, I got salmonella from a little green turtle (the ones the used to sell in pet stores that came in the little tank with the little fake palm tree). I was in the hospital for 6 months. I still have the track marks on my ankle from the IVs

At the age of 5, I was hit by 2 cars at the same time while walking across our nieghborhood street. I flew over 40ft and landed in the front yard. I was in the hospital over night for a concussion.

[Goober57]

At the age of 5, I was hit by 2 cars at the same time while walking across our nieghborhood street. I flew over 40ft and landed in the front yard. I was in the hospital over night for a concussion.

http://www.ramblezone.com/flying_kid.jpg

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[stiltman]

http://www.ramblezone.com/flying_kid.jpg

Talk about a bad photoshoping job

[Rookie64]

I'm sure there are many, but these were the closest I remember:

- My older brother locked me in a chest (assured me he'd open it right back up after...don't know why I trusted him)...At first, he was trying to be a wise guy and make me think he left me there...so I'm pounding on the thing saying, ok let me out now...after a bit he decided to let me out but he couldn't get it to open...so I really was stuck in there...and it took him a while to get it back open...a couple more minutes in there, I would've been dead for sure.


- Safty bar came open on the Corkscrew at Cedar Point while upside down...I was falling out but gravety pulled me back in just in time.
Was as if everything was going in slow motion - very weird experience.


- School bus plowed into a coal truck when I was in 4th grade.
I was the only one that wasn't hurt - only reason I lucked out was I hadn't done my homework the night before and was leaned over on the seat trying to get it done before we got to school. If I was sitting up, I could've been injured very bad or even worse.


I saved my younger brother's life when he was a few months old - he fell down a flight of stairs while I happend to be at the bottom and caught him in time. Though my mother blamed me for leaving the basement door open. It all happened so fast.

[888888]

I never did anything "stupid" that almost killed me. But I was very sick for a while when I was like two with a digestive illness cause by radiation poisoning. Yes, it's true.

[Capmaster]

I never did anything "stupid" that almost killed me. But I was very sick for a while when I was like two with a digestive illness cause by radiation poisoning. Yes, it's true.

I hate to ask, but radiation poisoning? May I ask how?

[yoda313]

I never did anything "stupid" that almost killed me. But I was very sick for a while when I was like two with a digestive illness cause by radiation poisoning. Yes, it's true.

I hate to ask, but radiation poisoning? May I ask how?

Hello,

He must have known indolikaa!

But seriously that does seem hard to believe????

Kevin

[tekkieman]

Climbed 30 ft into a maple tree, tied a nylon rope around the branch, and rappelled down. As least until the grooves in my fingered reached the bone!

[adam]

A friend of mine had some property with alot of mountains on it and we would go camping there in the Fall. There were leaves and small branches on the ground all over the sides of the mountains so it was extremely easy to slide on them. So of course we worked our way down the mountain trying to surf on the cusion of leaves. Well, I totally lost my footing and slid for a good 50 yards until I came to a cliff edge. There was a tree with a long branch extending across the mountain, so I planted my feet right at the edge as I blew by and jumped and was able to grab it. Looking down it was at least a 100 yard drop. We all agreed that if I hadn't grabbed that branch I would have been toast.

[Dr. DOS]

Subject Sounds familiar.....
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1104103#1104103

[888888]

I never did anything "stupid" that almost killed me. But I was very sick for a while when I was like two with a digestive illness cause by radiation poisoning. Yes, it's true.

I hate to ask, but radiation poisoning? May I ask how?

Hello,

He must have known indolikaa!

But seriously that does seem hard to believe????

Kevin

Not so hard to believe when you are born in the vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear plants.

[CoasterCreator]

ARE you serious???....did you have any noticeable body effects ??? if you dont mind answering?

[yoda313]

Hello,

Subject Sounds familiar.....
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1104103#1104103

Um.... Well duh! If you read the first post in this thread I gave CREDIT to you!

Hello,

Well, this is inspired by the dr dos thread:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1104103#1104103

See! I didn't take any credit for this... I gave credit where credit is due!

Kevin

[bugster]

When I was 8, went tree climbing with some older boys (12-13). I had climbed this particular tree many times before but could only get so high. The older boys, being taller, could reach higher branches. They were egging me on to go higher, so I tried to jump up to catch a branch that was too high.

Needless to say I fell, about 30ft, and landed on top of a Dry Stone wall. I was knoecked right out and one of the top stones penetrated my lower back about 3 inches, missing my spine by fractions. The other two carried me home unconcious, about 3 miles! I never did get to see my mothers face when they got me home (was still out!). Obviously an ambulance was called and I soon recovered with no lasting damage.

Didn't stop me climbing trees either

[CoasterCreator]

[makntraks]

A little gun shy CC???

That was prior to your pic actually showing...
Plus I read Feedback also.....

makntraks

[yoda313]

Hello,

EDIT

Kevin

[888888]

ARE you serious???....did you have any noticeable body effects ??? if you dont mind answering?

No, I'm ok except for my [insert joke here- i.e. oversized penis].

But seriously, it did really happen.

[CoasterCreator]

well glad to hear you did not develop a third eye


@ makntraks no not really gun shy I just cant stand people with book smarts and have no people skills or in this case sense of humor skills and have to complain to the big dogs about it ...just be straight up and talk to me about it..... Stop pussyfooting around..( be a man about shit)

EDIT removed per LORDSMURF's requests...see how easy that was

[housepig]

I was usually pretty careful when doing stupid shit - anytime I was playing with fire, we usually had a hose around.

worst I can remember was playing around with my friend Dave, we filled a Pepsi bottle with charcoal starter fluid and then flamethrower'd the outside from opposite sides, using some flamable aerosol and Bic lighters.

we stopped for a second, and I could hear the glass ticking and popping, and the charcoal starter was boiling, but it wouldn't ignite - not enough oxygen. So I tapped the bottle with my foot. It broke into a few hundred pieces, and the charcoal starter spread out into a puddle about 10 feet across... and then ignited. So all of a sudden, I'm standing in a pool of fire up to my knees.

Dave grabs the hose, and starts spraying it, as I try to backpedal out of the fire - but since he's on the other side, he's spraying it after me, chasing me. But we both got out alive, and managed not to get caught.

Other than that, closest to death as a kid was getting mugged for a pair of Little Ceasers pizzas, at the end of my block. Something about staring down the barrel of a .45 will put a lot of teen shit into perspective...

[offline]

Lets see...

* Blown up in the neck when my father put too much petrol
on the bonfire - 4 weeks Hospital.

* Bitten by a death adder - 3 days hospital

* Hit by a large falling tree - 1.5 weeks hospital

* Falling into an undersea sink hole -clinically dead
4 days hospital

* Car accident (not my fault) 4 days Coma /
6 weeks hospital

* Hit while riding a bike by large garbage truck
- in pain for weeks but no hospital

* Various minor but painful electrical accidents

* Brain Tumor (False alarm but bloody scary)

* Involved in live gunfire

* Heart arrhythmia due to dehydration

[CoasterCreator]

Damn Off...you make my accident prone life ok.....just about 1 1/2 years ago my wife insited on us taking our dogs for a walk while we were riding our bikes..to make a long story short..my dog decided he was not going to run so he stopped and pulled back= jerking the handle bars back I landed on my neck....luckly I only broke right arm , left wrist and my clavical bone..( dont ask how I went to the bathroom)

I thought to myself that the older you get the more it hurts.

[Guest]

One of my earliest memories was when I was 2(way before car seats/belts. I has sitting in the backseat neaxt to the door and pulled the handle(thanks Mom!) as we were backing out of the driveway.. I remember watching the tire inch toward my head. My mom grabbed me up just before I got my melon mushed!

When I was 3 I was able to climb up and run around on the roof. This stopped when I was 5 when I got busted eating a bowl of cereal on my grandparents cottage roof(someone left a ladder up). They were amazed how I could climb up the ladder with a bowl of cereal at 5. Never came close to falling off a roof though.

[offline]

Damn Off...you make my accident prone life ok.....
I thought to myself that the older you get the more it hurts.

Yeah.. it does seem to hurt more. A year ago I managed to
break a large % of my ribs. Although the impact was on one side, the
force was enough to break the other side as well. Sitting down, getting
up and worst of alll - going to the bathroom, became an interesting experience. I still have a slight "dent" on my left hand side 8)

I can't imagine what it would be like with a busted clavical - sounds
like that sort of injury would not heal easily and you'd be
forever bumping it by accident. I gather your whole arm/side was
immobilized in plaster & dressings? Me, they left the ribs alone.. at
first you could hear them grate.. after that I learned quicky

[CoasterCreator]

well I had my right hand on a cast but the DR..said that there is no cast for a clavial area ..so I had to wears this cupless bra looking thing.( dam the arm pits area was the worst...) kind of looked like a backpack without the pack... so every little move would really hurt....


the worst was learning to sleep while sitting down because I could not lay down ...

[offline]

the worst was learning to sleep while sitting down because I could not lay down ...

Yeah... I had to sit bolt upright on the sofa for over a month. Know
what it is like!

[Roundabout]

I never did anything "stupid" that almost killed me. But I was very sick for a while when I was like two with a digestive illness cause by radiation poisoning. Yes, it's true.

I hate to ask, but radiation poisoning? May I ask how?

Hello,

He must have known indolikaa!

But seriously that does seem hard to believe????

Kevin

Not so hard to believe when you are born in the vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear plants.

Speaking of which...

My wife really was born in the vicinity of the Chernobyl' AES, in Ukraine. The town she is from is only 35 miles away. Needless to say, she did escape death, because the the direction the wind took on April 26, 1986 happened to be north towards Belarus and not east, or south to Kiev. The people of Prip'yat were not so lucky. They still can't return to their homes, and never will be able to.

I just saw "Seconds from Disaster" on National Geograpic channel last week, and the report they gave contradicts in many ways what actually happened. In fact, watching the program, half of it made no sense at all, the timeline of how it unfolded as well as the aftermath. Don't believe everything you see, that's for sure. I don't know what their source was, but this program is full of B.S.

I did something stupid when I was a kid, about 6 years old. I went into a lake outside my uncle's house in Southern Georgia. I didn't know how to swim. My older brother (two years older than me) went in with me, but he was a marginal swimmer at best. We walked into the water. No adults around, and no one could possibly hear us. We weren't even supposed to be around there, but you know kids

As we walked into the water, suddenly the muddy bottom dropped off and I slipped in and panicked. I grabbed my brother's shoulders and pushed him under as I tried to stay above the water. Somehow, he managed to pull me towards the shore as I was screaming and freaking out. I thought sure I was going to drown. It's only a miracle that he was able to save me. I almost drowned him, instead.

I never went near that lake again.

[thecoalman]

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I guess the closest I came was when I was in my early teens working on stereo stuff in the basement. I was working on an extension cord that was bent. It was still plugged in (not thinking of course).

And I happened to be using plyers to try to straighten the prongs... and ZAP! Man that stung bad......

That's it Hell I used to do that for kicks when I was a kid. No almost getting run over by car chasing skateboard into street? No almost drowning after smashing a canoe into a submerged log and nearly getting sucked under current? No almost drowning again after falling through the river ice? No almost smashing your head off large tree in mid air going about 30mph on a mountain bike? Not even "hey watch this" incident where you almost got sucked down the creek?

[Ripper2860]

Coalman --

I'm going out on a limb...

... and say your childhood near-death experience was nearly choking to death on a lump of coal you found in your Christmas stocking.