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Close Encounters with the Death Kind
Bedigunz
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So I was walking home from work yesterday in downtown Chicago and while I was walking up to the corner to cross the street, some lady jumped the curb and slammed into 7 people, and pinned one under her axel. Specifically, she slammed into an outdoor area of a restaurant and the potted plants flew at the window and she jacked up the metal bar-fence area of the restaurant. After she hit those people, she tried to reverse and leave (without an expression on her face). While she was reversing she was dragging the guy underneath her car. Some guy jumped into her open passenger-side window, shifted her car into park, and took her keys so she couldn’t leave. At some point when the cops came, someone was talking about the lady trying to leave and she spat at them.
Long story short, if I had left work 10 seconds earlier, I could have been the guy underneath her car. While I typically don’t think of stuff like that, it was pretty fucked up.
Any of you folks had any brushes with death or close calls?
Alt topic: Women drivers—am I right fellas?
Long story short, if I had left work 10 seconds earlier, I could have been the guy underneath her car. While I typically don’t think of stuff like that, it was pretty fucked up.
Any of you folks had any brushes with death or close calls?
Alt topic: Women drivers—am I right fellas?
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What spring does with the cherry trees.
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Well, one day after classes were over, we were all going to head over there but another friend decided to join us, and for some reason I rode with him instead.
About a mile away from the school, we were ahead of them and I looked in the rear view mirror and saw them get T-boned by a huge semi
They were both ultimately okay, but the car was demolished, and the backseat was completely crushed and caved-in. I would have been gone.
FINAL DESTINATION
in this scenario death is a creepy black dude, btw.
had i continued my fall i'd be pretty much decapited.
If I hadn't got the train just before it, like literally only getting onboard ten seconds prior to departure because I was running late, then I would've been on that train and potentially one of the 5 dead and 12 injured
What spring does with the cherry trees.
They took her away on a stretcher but she looked fine, other than maybe a little pain in her neck from stopping too fast.
She was trying to speed through the light and turn left and because she was in an SUV, she turned too wide.
Who the fuck tries to speed through lights in downtown Chicago at 5pm?!
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Or maybe she's just an utter bitch after all
"Fucking ASSHOLES getting stuck underneath my car!"
"Fuck these people who have the nerve to be on the sidewalk while I'm driving. I have APPOINTMENTS!"
Actually when I gave my police report, I made a comment along the lines of what I just said above.
The cop was having a good laugh at my annoyance of the situation. I made sure everyone was okay before I started making my police report entertaining.
Also, the guy pinned under the car worked at the restaurant she slammed into.
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About 3 days into my being home sick, I'm watching the news and a report of a ride operator getting hurt on the Ladybug coaster and dying from his injuries came on. He apparently dropped his cell phone under the track, sent the coaster cars around empty to retrive it, did not fish it out fast enough, and was run over by the coaster. Now the policy on things falling under the track is to call maintenance and let them take care of it, but it was a pain in the ass trying to get a helper during the course of the day, but just before closing time? Damn near impossible. So its not uncommon for the kids they have working the rides to take matters into their own hands. Before this incident, and before I got sick, I worked the lady bug pretty frequently because it had a covered entryway, which is great in the summer time (damn sun).
So basically, a ride that I worked at constantly when I worked closing time at a theme park killed my shift coverer when I was sick. I didn't end up going back after I recovered because school was starting soon.
or did you
...right?
I was t-boned by an SUV right in my driver's-side door at about 30-40 miles per hour, but I had kickass side airbags. I've never bothered to check any statistics on these kinds of accidents or anything, so I don't know how bad it would have been had there not been any airbags. As it happened, I got out of it with a couple of small scratches, but a completely totalled car.
My mother has no recollection of this event, so it probably never happened.
Yeah he was the most injured, but the news report said everyone is going to recover and get away with minimal injuries. They didn't spend a lot of time reporting on it because the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup last night so all Chicago and Illinois news is reporting about that.
Personally, if it were me and I died yesterday, I'd be fucking furious if my death was glossed over because of the game.
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yeah that shit almost got me
almost
Never. Again.
But now you have superpowers, right?
the power to get really painful muscle spasms in my back every now and then
usually in the morning
put in an iron lung, parents were told I had a 30% chance of living but only a 10% chance of surviving without severe brain damage
welp,
oh yeah also this one time I fell down the stairs head first and landed on a carpet tack, giving me an enormous permanent scar across my forehead
aargh
when I was small some shitty kid knocked me down when he was on his bike on the pavement and I fell into the road and got hit by a car
broke bunch of my ribs and took a chunk out of my left pectoral
if the car hadn't been going much slower than it was entitled to (had just started moving aft er the light went green) and if I hadnt been so fat, Id have easily died
urgh
this pisses me off
what kind of fucking people would deny life saving treatment?
goddammit
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duuuh i spill my drink/
My mom was driving me and my sister to my dad's office and I opened the door for some reason and fell out onto the road. My mom was going about 30 mph.
Apparently I was running after the car and after a few minutes my sister was like "Mom. Bedigunz is not in the car anymore"
When my mom turned around to pick me up, she started yelling at me. Then I fell asleep in her arms and she thought I died.
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swerved into incoming traffic, just barely swerved out of the way, almost hit a power line, go back into incoming traffic, then finally back into the correct lane
ah, youth
Yer a wizard, beasteh.
Also, the other part of the quote reminds me. I stopped breathing a month after I was born. My parents remember it was during the American Music Awards, back when they were held early in the year (Februaryish).
Superpowers?!
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Truthfully, though, I have never come close to dying that I know of. Except that one time my neck popped weird and I couldn't breathe, but then it stopped and the doctors never found anything wrong with me. Mysterious.