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So SE++, I thought I was going to die tonight...
Talonrazor
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...but I did not. Our department was low on manpower for the swings, so it was just myself and another safety officer and a single police patrol officer on duty for our entire campus and housing areas. My partner and I were securing buildings around a quad for the evening while the patrol officer was doing a motorist in distress call on the other side of campus when all of sudden dispatch informs us a fire alarm was going off in a nearby building. A building that stores several labs with hazardous waste plus our garage maintenance shops. As the other units are further away, I rush over to the building. This isn't too rare, our fire systems are a little excitable and we get false alarms often. I'm thinking this is another one.
It's not. Through doors and windows, I spy white billowing smoke. As I'm advising Dispatch and opening a door, my partner arrives on the other side of the building. I'm shouting in the entryway, trying to hear anything, when I hear someone shouting something that involves "Get me out!". At the same time, my partner comes over the radio that we have a chemical fire. I shout for the guy to come towards my voice and all I get is thumping. Our patrol officer arrives on scene and I let him know I've got someone inside. He ducks in without a moment's pause and I follow right behind. That stuff instantly starts burning as we breath and it's got a horrid smell. I'm thinking "Fuck, we are dead. This is some kind of burn-off from those huge ceramic baking ovens inside." It was a real fine powder. That shit was causing us to start hacking and we couldn't see a fucking thing. It was like a fucking movie, or some kind of chemical weapon.
Barely able to see, we find the hysterical guy and rush him out. While doing so, we find empty alcohol bottles and trash everywhere. Evacuating outside, we stumble upon the cause.... an empty chemical fire extinguisher. Turns out, someone got a bit tipsy and decided that firing a huge commercial extinguisher inside a tiny hallway would be fun.
Also, it turns out that those fucking commercial chemical extinguishers suck fucking ass to breath in. As I'm sitting here, I can still taste it. My entire uniform is caked in fine white powder and my skin feels itchy. This is about seven hours since the event now. Hoo-fucking-ray for drunk homeless/college people.
So SE++, when have you almost died but didn't?
It's not. Through doors and windows, I spy white billowing smoke. As I'm advising Dispatch and opening a door, my partner arrives on the other side of the building. I'm shouting in the entryway, trying to hear anything, when I hear someone shouting something that involves "Get me out!". At the same time, my partner comes over the radio that we have a chemical fire. I shout for the guy to come towards my voice and all I get is thumping. Our patrol officer arrives on scene and I let him know I've got someone inside. He ducks in without a moment's pause and I follow right behind. That stuff instantly starts burning as we breath and it's got a horrid smell. I'm thinking "Fuck, we are dead. This is some kind of burn-off from those huge ceramic baking ovens inside." It was a real fine powder. That shit was causing us to start hacking and we couldn't see a fucking thing. It was like a fucking movie, or some kind of chemical weapon.
Barely able to see, we find the hysterical guy and rush him out. While doing so, we find empty alcohol bottles and trash everywhere. Evacuating outside, we stumble upon the cause.... an empty chemical fire extinguisher. Turns out, someone got a bit tipsy and decided that firing a huge commercial extinguisher inside a tiny hallway would be fun.
Also, it turns out that those fucking commercial chemical extinguishers suck fucking ass to breath in. As I'm sitting here, I can still taste it. My entire uniform is caked in fine white powder and my skin feels itchy. This is about seven hours since the event now. Hoo-fucking-ray for drunk homeless/college people.
So SE++, when have you almost died but didn't?
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rolled an Oldsmobile into a tree
had a gun waved around threateningly near me that was then fired into the ceiling
appendix burst in the fucking rain forest
thread over, thanks for playing
that's pretty jagged little pill
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Not fire, police. Once the FD got there, they went in with full suits to confirm it was fire extinguisher material. I feel bad for our maintenance department, the entire building is fucking caked.
We were driving and we got to this turn and I hit it too late and the back swung out over the edge of a cliff and we almost fell off it
words like partner and patrol should have tipped me off
good on you for not being dead
Jesus. Are you trying to die?
well it was not a very good placebo i tell you what
I'm just trying to live.
I'm pretty sure he got shot around ten times in Iraq and survived
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Everybody knows that Stale can likely top anyone on this subject.
Something should be exploding behind you while you say this.
wasn't wearing my seatbelt
not wearing my seatbelt saved my life
I think it's called an IED?
Everyone in the jeep but him died.
He walked away, literally without a scratch.
Gorram ford exploders, always doing barrel rolls.
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Fell off a third story balcony onto a paved driveway. Totally fine.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Then as the Fire Department got there, one exploded. I didn't almost die but it was really, really, fucking cool. Though it hurt the fuck out of my ears.
Holy shit, that is awesome.
It was probably the single scariest experience of my life
Walked away without a single scratch, though the car was totalled and we had just got it in August and I really loved that goddamn car
It still makes me sad to think about it
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I was a little drunk and kept telling my friends "this is gonna be an adventure!"
NOT AGAIN made that story
See this is why I don't like to get drunk
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[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
"whoops aren't i a butterfingers today"
cool scar on my temple though
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That was something
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Not at all threatening but movies and yelling reminds me of one time.
A friend of mine and 5 or so of his old buddies were going to see X-Men 3. Honestly some of the longest previews I've ever seen. Took for damn ever for the movie to get going. Once it starts rolling "Columbia? Imagine pictures? Is... is that right? Where's the big red Marvel intro?"
THE DA VINCI CODE
Boooooooooooooooooooo! After a minute of booing, it devolves into laughing at the new shadow puppet show someone is treating us to. So they stop the movie and some usher or projectionist comes in to explain things. "Sorry about that, we'll have things--" And some guy in the front row stands up, turns to all of us, throws his fist in the air and yells "Let's eat his heart!"
Ended up in the hospital for like a month.
Thankfully, no long term complications from that.
It's the American Music Awards, I'd stop breathing too
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I worked at a movie theater before. It gets like this, sometimes. We had this manager with the nickname of 'Rage', who had been reputed to chuck a broom at an usher one time. Like a javelin.
Edit: Oh God, I just remembered when one customer came running out of theater saying somebody was acting suspicious, and that he probably had a bomb. I had to get the manager and have her explain how the poor guy is a regular customer, and that he always carries his backpack to the theater.
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Joon this story is amazing
The only way it could be better is if someone had yelled out "KALI MAAAAA"
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Worst part: it was a first story balcony, and I bounced off a sun screen. I'm a wuss.
Every year for as long as I can remember when the AMAs were still on at that time of the year, my parents would remind me of this event. Without fail.
Its like they were regretting something