I was on a jobsite a few years back, happily (not really) drilling away, on an old noisy, dusty fucker like this. When some dumbass rattlesnake finally decided he'd come up out of his hole and find out what all the noise was about. It bit my steel toe 3 times before I looked down and saw it there. I think I jumped about 10 feet straight up.
The next day the site super informed me that fluorescent marking paint shouldn't be used to make the wildlife more visible.
We would fill metal tubes with parts at my last job. The tubs were stored outside sometime. I threw some parts in one and wasps started coming out from some hollow tube built into the tub. I used yellow spray paint to try and ground them but it just made them mad.
I had to warn everyone that they were not honeybees since they would not stop stinging you after one go. The heat killed them all pretty quickly.
Someone threatened my life with a knife once but it wasn't very sharp.
Keep your hands off other bois wimmin'
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edited June 2010
I have never had a brush with death thankfully. I've always been a very cautious child and generally won't do anything with any potential for harm or pain.
I have never had a brush with death thankfully. I've always been a very cautious child and generally won't do anything with any potential for harm or pain.
I'm not that exciting.
Remember that black guy that talked to you in the computer lab?
That was your brush with death.
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What spring does with the cherry trees.
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edited June 2010
I used to work in a machine shop. One day some fool left the chuck key in a press. He turned it on and the key went whipping past my head and embedded in the wall behind me.
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I have never had a brush with death thankfully. I've always been a very cautious child and generally won't do anything with any potential for harm or pain.
I'm not that exciting.
Remember that black guy that talked to you in the computer lab?
That was your brush with death.
Oh my God YES . . .
Fore reference, I was at school, sitting in the computer lab and just dicking around on the internet, looking at some of Andrew Hussie's old comics, either on his site or here on the forums. I was looking at this:
I chuckled, and scrolled past it, when a voice asks, "Was that a comic?"
I turn to my right and realized that sitting next to me was a tall, muscular black youth.
" . . . Yes."
"Oh." He leans back into his seat and keeps doing whatever.
Someone threatened my life with a knife once but it wasn't very sharp.
Someone in my group got a knife held to their throat in cooking class at high school. That guy was a fucking psycho, last year he had a court appearance for throwing a beer bottle at another car when driving, then after the court appearance he filled up a paintball gun with marbles and shot them at passing cars. I wonder if he's in jail yet, hope so.
*Dead body to the left*
Look royce, look at the birdie to the right
*Dead body to the right*
Look at the cloud royce, doesn't it look like spot?
Can we go home and see spot? I miss her and she was hungry.
Soon, son, soon.
It was a famine and....damn....now i'm sad.
Also pony, WHAT THE HELL MAN!?!?! My niece was just born last week!!!!
Yeah, I felt so bad . . . I don't know if he actually got to read it since I was scrolling rather quickly but who knows
If it weren't for the fact that so many players left their silly goose brain back in high school, I would be upset about that. Here's hoping that all the people I knew in high school that are in the NBA and NFL don't fuck things up.
Someone threatened my life with a knife once but it wasn't very sharp.
Someone in my group got a knife held to their throat in cooking class at high school. That guy was a fucking psycho, last year he had a court appearance for throwing a beer bottle at another car when driving, then after the court appearance he filled up a paintball gun with marbles and shot them at passing cars. I wonder if he's in jail yet, hope so.
She was really, really drunk, and was taking medicine that didn't mix well with drinking. I'll always be good at making excuse for her, I suppose.
I have a terrible memory but reading this thread has gotten me to go "oh hey I remember doing something similar" twice now.
19 yrs old, POS 1st car, poor driving skills, dead of night, windy road at high speed. I get my right rear wheel stuck in what I think is a ditch. Get my dads truck, yank the car out. While doing that it is now dawn and there is light enough to see that the ditch was in fact the lip of a rather nasty cliff face that would have ended me and my car. My dad was not impressed.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
edited June 2010
I've flipped a car on the highway, lit my face on fire, engaged in a number of choreographed fights with real weapons, gotten into an argument with a man who claimed to have a gun on him (almost positive he didn't), had multiple untreated concussions, and last week I dodged a throwing knife that ricocheted really bad off the target.
Well there was this one time I almost drown, and then the other time where some guy (I've been told a crackhead) ran up to me and smacked me straight in the head with a baseball bat. I was eight.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
edited June 2010
Flipping the car was really not that spectacular. I wasn't paying attention while driving somewhere in Vermont, and I wasn't used to the car so when I hit the rumble strip I cranked the wheel harder than I should have, and spun the rear end of the car off the side of the road onto the grass median. Then I bounced around down the median on the various sides of the car before coming to a stop. I wasn't really injured, other than some whiplash and minor cuts from broken glass. The car was totalled.
Someone threatened my life with a knife once but it wasn't very sharp.
Someone in my group got a knife held to their throat in cooking class at high school. That guy was a fucking psycho, last year he had a court appearance for throwing a beer bottle at another car when driving, then after the court appearance he filled up a paintball gun with marbles and shot them at passing cars. I wonder if he's in jail yet, hope so.
I totally want to try putting marbles in a paintball gun
I've flipped a car on the highway, lit my face on fire, engaged in a number of choreographed fights .
I read all that as one sentence describing a single event.
Straightzi is Jason Stathem.
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HalibutPassion FishSwimming in obscurity.Registered Userregular
edited June 2010
I can think of 2 occasions where I felt more mortal than usual.
The first was when I was in 2nd grade. My dad was driving me and my sister to my mom's house for winter break. We were on a highway in Kansas and the road had some black ice on it. My dad started uncontrollably drifting into oncoming traffic just as a semi was coming in the other direction. My dad did all he could , but we were basically just sliding on the ice, at the whim of momentum. At what felt like the last possible moment, a gust of wind blew our car back into our lane and into the ditch on the other side. The car had a dent from where we took out a mile marker, but other than that we were fine.
The second was a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure that I've posted the story before, but I'm posting it again anyway. On Christmas break 4 years ago, I had tweaked my back and was simultaneously coming down with a cold. My wife (girlfriend at the time) thought I had Meningitis because of the back pain. I finally let her take me to the hospital so that she'd stop worrying (and because she called my mom and got her worked up too).
The only test for Meningitis is a lumbar puncture (spinal tap), so I got to endure a long ass needle poking me in the vertebrae for about 5 minutes before the doctor finally managed to get it in. The test came back negative for Meningitis, so I went home. The next day, I had these horrible headaches whenever I sat up straight for more than a minute. So, my girlfriend took me back to the hospital and they ran a cat scan. On the cat scan, they found a "brain lesion". Basically a big black spot where brain should be.
The doctor told me that it could be any number of things, one of which was a tumor. They scheduled me for an MRI the next day to get a better look. That was one of the longest nights of my life. After contemplating my probable death by brain cancer, I went in to get the MRI. It turns out I just have an abnormally large vein in my brain. I was probably born with it, and it's not dangerous or anything. Just a weird genetic thing.
The doctor then told me that the horrible headaches were caused by the spinal fluid they took out during my lumbar puncture. They gave me two treatment options. The first was to have my blood taken and injected back into my spinal column to make up for the lost fluid (they called this "blood packing"). The second was to lie on my back for 2 days while my body regenerated the fluid. I chose the second and used the time to get 75% of the way through Shadow Hearts 2.
Survived nearly falling straight on my head when I was 4ish.
Survived scarlet fever (it still exists, go figure).
Was hit right above my eye with a hockey stick when I was 7ish, then split the same eyebrow open falling on a concrete step (the latter more life threatening with the crazy bleeding out).
Nearly hit by a large falling tree (more than once).
Nearly run over by a tractor while biking (The driver was likely drunk and the thing took up both lanes, winning combination right there).
Fell down a hill leaving a golfball sized dent in the helmet I was wearing near my right temple, which is why I always wear a helmet when biking.
Nearly killed by a snowplow in a vehicle I wasn't driving (my sister was driving, did a 180 across two lanes and ended up in a ditch after hitting black ice).
Nearly drove into the side of a McDonalds with a vehicle I was driving (don't ask).
Just recently survived a crazy windstorm/tornado.
I'm sure there's more stuff I could rattle off, but that's all I remember at the moment.
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We would fill metal tubes with parts at my last job. The tubs were stored outside sometime. I threw some parts in one and wasps started coming out from some hollow tube built into the tub. I used yellow spray paint to try and ground them but it just made them mad.
I had to warn everyone that they were not honeybees since they would not stop stinging you after one go. The heat killed them all pretty quickly.
huh I had kind of assumed you were older, what with all the... everything
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Happy birthday!
I have to agree with Llama, from some of the stories I would've figured you were older.
Turns out it was actually a really, really old piece of quiche.
He's still sick.
I used to be a very busy man.
No.
Get out and live more.
Couple of schoolyard scrapes when I was in elementary school
I haven't experienced very much danger in my life at all
Keep your hands off other bois wimmin'
I'm not that exciting.
It was a crazy bitch!
I asked her to stop being angry, but nooooo
Remember that black guy that talked to you in the computer lab?
That was your brush with death.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
Oh my God YES . . .
Fore reference, I was at school, sitting in the computer lab and just dicking around on the internet, looking at some of Andrew Hussie's old comics, either on his site or here on the forums. I was looking at this:
I chuckled, and scrolled past it, when a voice asks, "Was that a comic?"
I turn to my right and realized that sitting next to me was a tall, muscular black youth.
" . . . Yes."
"Oh." He leans back into his seat and keeps doing whatever.
Someone in my group got a knife held to their throat in cooking class at high school. That guy was a fucking psycho, last year he had a court appearance for throwing a beer bottle at another car when driving, then after the court appearance he filled up a paintball gun with marbles and shot them at passing cars. I wonder if he's in jail yet, hope so.
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
This is how I know my parents love me.
*Dead body to the left*
Look royce, look at the birdie to the right
*Dead body to the right*
Look at the cloud royce, doesn't it look like spot?
Can we go home and see spot? I miss her and she was hungry.
Soon, son, soon.
It was a famine and....damn....now i'm sad.
Also pony, WHAT THE HELL MAN!?!?! My niece was just born last week!!!!
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
If it weren't for the fact that so many players left their silly goose brain back in high school, I would be upset about that. Here's hoping that all the people I knew in high school that are in the NBA and NFL don't fuck things up.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
She was really, really drunk, and was taking medicine that didn't mix well with drinking. I'll always be good at making excuse for her, I suppose.
19 yrs old, POS 1st car, poor driving skills, dead of night, windy road at high speed. I get my right rear wheel stuck in what I think is a ditch. Get my dads truck, yank the car out. While doing that it is now dawn and there is light enough to see that the ditch was in fact the lip of a rather nasty cliff face that would have ended me and my car. My dad was not impressed.
It's nothing as dangerous as it may sound.
I say was because she flipped the car because she fell asleep at the wheel, 'cause she was pushing pretty hard at work.
And when she flipped the car, her left hand was torn off.
It was reattached, but she probably won't ever have full use of it.
I read all that as one sentence describing a single event.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
I totally want to try putting marbles in a paintball gun
better yet... ballbearings
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I mean I'm kind of an asshole so I'd be tempted, but I would just shoot them at shit.
Straightzi is Jason Stathem.
The first was when I was in 2nd grade. My dad was driving me and my sister to my mom's house for winter break. We were on a highway in Kansas and the road had some black ice on it. My dad started uncontrollably drifting into oncoming traffic just as a semi was coming in the other direction. My dad did all he could , but we were basically just sliding on the ice, at the whim of momentum. At what felt like the last possible moment, a gust of wind blew our car back into our lane and into the ditch on the other side. The car had a dent from where we took out a mile marker, but other than that we were fine.
The second was a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure that I've posted the story before, but I'm posting it again anyway. On Christmas break 4 years ago, I had tweaked my back and was simultaneously coming down with a cold. My wife (girlfriend at the time) thought I had Meningitis because of the back pain. I finally let her take me to the hospital so that she'd stop worrying (and because she called my mom and got her worked up too).
The only test for Meningitis is a lumbar puncture (spinal tap), so I got to endure a long ass needle poking me in the vertebrae for about 5 minutes before the doctor finally managed to get it in. The test came back negative for Meningitis, so I went home. The next day, I had these horrible headaches whenever I sat up straight for more than a minute. So, my girlfriend took me back to the hospital and they ran a cat scan. On the cat scan, they found a "brain lesion". Basically a big black spot where brain should be.
The doctor told me that it could be any number of things, one of which was a tumor. They scheduled me for an MRI the next day to get a better look. That was one of the longest nights of my life. After contemplating my probable death by brain cancer, I went in to get the MRI. It turns out I just have an abnormally large vein in my brain. I was probably born with it, and it's not dangerous or anything. Just a weird genetic thing.
The doctor then told me that the horrible headaches were caused by the spinal fluid they took out during my lumbar puncture. They gave me two treatment options. The first was to have my blood taken and injected back into my spinal column to make up for the lost fluid (they called this "blood packing"). The second was to lie on my back for 2 days while my body regenerated the fluid. I chose the second and used the time to get 75% of the way through Shadow Hearts 2.
"lie down and be lazy for 2 days... or have us inject your blood into your spine"
....do...do I get to smoke pot while I lie down for 2 days?
I am baby Jessica.
Survived scarlet fever (it still exists, go figure).
Was hit right above my eye with a hockey stick when I was 7ish, then split the same eyebrow open falling on a concrete step (the latter more life threatening with the crazy bleeding out).
Nearly hit by a large falling tree (more than once).
Nearly run over by a tractor while biking (The driver was likely drunk and the thing took up both lanes, winning combination right there).
Fell down a hill leaving a golfball sized dent in the helmet I was wearing near my right temple, which is why I always wear a helmet when biking.
Nearly killed by a snowplow in a vehicle I wasn't driving (my sister was driving, did a 180 across two lanes and ended up in a ditch after hitting black ice).
Nearly drove into the side of a McDonalds with a vehicle I was driving (don't ask).
Just recently survived a crazy windstorm/tornado.
I'm sure there's more stuff I could rattle off, but that's all I remember at the moment.