nation

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back in 2003 i caught a guy poaching deer off the county road by cache creek(the river area not casino lol) he was about 125yrds away. i yelled at him and he shot at me,hitting me in the waste. lucky for me he was 1)shooting a .22 2) a bad shot 3)i was wearing a leatherman. the bullet hit the leatherman causing a super gnarly bruise. i returned fire with my .45 hitting his truck as he drove away.

ive had more than one scary incident at work and all were close calls.

most recently im currently going through some really really nasty crap that leaves me scared everyday i wake up.

kyle16

I would say the top 2 in recent memory are:

1. My dad calling me back in September because my mom was in bad shape and we ended up calling 911 to take her to the hospital. She wasn't responding to commands, barely conscious. The first thing that we thought it could have been was a stroke or or something bad related to the Multiple Sclerosis she has. Then she was in the hospital for about a week, then she had a relapse, which required another trip in the ambulance and another 10 days in the hospital. The second time, my sister and I were all the way up at Lake Sonoma as I was just finishing up the Waves to Wine and we both drove all the way back down to Santa Cruz right after that. To this day, there are several day spans where she has no memory. In the end, the doctors gave no definitive answer, but at best guess, it was a bad bladder infection that caused all that.

2. My friends and I were held at gunpoint about 7-8 years ago by about 10 or so cops. For this one, it really didn't sink in until a little while after this all went down. And this was pure stupidity on our parts. My friends and I were making a movie and we shot a scene with a gun (pun intended). The location was right off the 101 offramp by Coyote Creek Golf Course. We were shooting for about 3 hour, ran out of tape, then we were just starting to pack up to head out of there when we saw a cop turning around a minivan on the other side of the underpass. Then we saw another cop, and another, etc. And we were pretty much... oh ****. One of us threw the airsoft gun in the trunk (with the orange scraped off). Then a cop over the loudspeaker says "put your hands on top of your head, we heard you have a gun." After that, they pull one of the guys up towards one of the patrol cars, which was about 150 feet away at that time. Friend proclaimed that it was a fake gun and we were shooting a movie. From there, we could hear an audible sigh from the cop in charge, then he got over the loudspeaker and say "it is a fake gun, everyone lower your weapons and move in." From there, we got a 30 min lecture, rightfully so. The part that really made it stick is that while one of the cops was talking to us, one of my friends and I turned around to see 2 cops, 1 was opening the chamber to the assault rifle and the other was holding his hands out to catch the bullet that was chambered.

ouji

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Couple years back the during the drive of our anual tahoe trip a suburban driving the opposite direction flipped over the middle island on the freeway and landed in between our car and the car behind us.

rau

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1. Shot at while walking through Gateway Park.

2. Almost decapitated myself with rope and a bike ( Don't ask, but you can see the scar on my neck still )

3. When I proposed to Michele.

glenspen

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Congrats Walt...are you registered anywhere?

rau

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Nope. Doing this nice and simple. Minus the flight to Fiji. Oh yeah....






4. Anything involving me getting in a tin winged coffin.

slugrx

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Off the top of my head, is when I was at a house party, a fight broke out and shots started poppin off (this was in the sunset district btw, graffiti party, stupid graff funk) I counted 5 shots, one person was shot in the leg

I've had COUNTLESS "oh ****" moments but I wouldn't really call those scary

mcast

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Speaking of rope a few posts up.

This instance wasn't too scary, but it was pretty scary at the moment. I fell off a jet ski after doing donuts and my hand slipped off the throttle, couldn't get back on it(it was too light, and turned like a housefly, bad characteristics for something you're trying to get onto) the motor wouldn't turn over, I got towed back to shore and the rope got tangled around my arm and I was getting dragged and couldn't yell for help or for them to slow because the water kept rushing over me.

My arm went completely numb and the rope was very taut, I eventually got out of panic mode and slipped out of the rope, being stranded in the middle of a lake with a dead jetski felt like forever, getting towed back and getting dragged quite a distance felt like forever. When I got back, I asked how long I was out there and it was only about 15 minutes hahaha.

good times.

Javirex23

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earlier this last year i was diving a fork lift and was going down a ramp. the cargo i was carrying wasn't properly secured and fell off and started rolling down the ramp...i put the E-brake on the forklift, jumped out and chased the cargo, i caught up to it and pinned it against the wall. suddenly i hear someone yelling "HEEEEYYYY" i took a step back and turned to see who said that, when suddenly the forklift passed right by me and pierced the cargo i was holding with the forks, completely destroying it....

i had to walk away. i didn't know what to think. i could have died....the guy that yelled at me said he yelled several times before i turned. he said he saw the forklift coming behind me down the hill....the 'E-brake' was faulty. we now have a new one that works lol

theres a small tear on my favorite Vans shirt, the forks missed me by inches

burnyou2

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1. I was kayaking on the Bear River up where I live, It's a very calm river and you can use a pool tube/ airmattress on the first half if you wanted too, the second 3 mile stretch is about the same except for one part where you have to pay a little attention. I hit the one damn rock in the middle of the rapids and was thrown just as i'm drifting out of the worst of it my foot gets wedged and I'm pulled under. I surpassed the point of panic, went through all the thrashing and freaking out, then I hit peace. I reached a point where I was ok with not coming back up, I could have stayed there. Most surreal moment of my life both good and bad. My shoe finally let loose and I was back above water gulping for air like never before.

2. I was fishing up the American River by shirttail creek. I was a solid 2 miles up river and found a small side stream that I followed up and fished some killer pools. Had some awesome 8-10" wild trout that fought like no other. Kept going and reached a 20 ft water fall with a pool full of awesome fishing. I wanted more fish! so I climbed up and around the fall and came across a HUGE pot farm along the river banks. Keep in mind this is 2+ miles up sketchy river bank away from ANY civilization. not to mention its a 15 mile hella bumpy dirt road just to get to the river initially. ANYWAY! I happend to meet the end of a barrel of a gun. Said gun was owned by the farmer. He didn't say a word just held the gun in my face. I said "I'm just fishing. I never saw this, I won't say anything, I wont say anything, I'm just fishing" he said "you need to turn around right now..." I did, just turned around and started my hike down this creek. the whole time I knew he was going to shoot me as I was walking away. i was certain that this was it. but nope! I never even heard a gun shot. Kept fishing. even went back the next season, limited out on fish and never saw another plant. Gotta love placer county!

1JavaBlk_in_Sac

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1998, back in Poland
I was a passenger in my friend's van (Toyota Previa) when huge Tour Bus T-boned us. When I woke up only remember my friend's feet that got cut off due to impact and landed on my lap. 3 out of 6 ppl died.

Irish_car_B0mb

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+1000 for this

only #3 for me is umbilical cord wrapped over my son's shoulder and semi on neck, went to reach to take it off but had the thought just as i did it that I hadnt washed my hands for about an hour at that point, and also wasnt wearing gloves. Nurse saw what I was going for when I stopped and did it for me.

Other things have happened, but anytime someone ask that question "Whats the scariest thing that has happened to you," thats the first thing that pops in my head.

i<3dirt

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wow some scary stuff... all i can thing of, is how i flip my car on hwy 49 and almost went of the cliff 3 years ago at 8pm. i couldn't drive on any road that reminded me of hwy 49, until i got a Subaru, still hate that hwy.

Gibz

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I would have to say finding my brother dead in his room from a brain aneurysm. Losing both my parents right before him. Getting robbed at gun point and guy made me get on my knees and held a gun to the back of my head. And getting hit by a drunk driver couple years ago and changing my life forever and not doing so hot these days.

aznpride65o

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held up at gun point by 10+ cops (long story) , hearing gun shots around my friends house in oakland with the front door completely open.