Near Death Experience

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[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Racer377 wrote:
I got run over by a tanker truck. It sucked. [/quote]

How did that go?

Don’t say “Bang!” or “Splat!”.

I can’t imagine getting hit by a truck. That can cause some serious physical turmoil.

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More like a Bang-thump!

Riding a bike, I was in left turn lane when tanker truck driver decided he wanted to be where I was. According the the reports, he hit me knocking me off the bike, and as I tumbled the rear wheels went over my head and arm. I’ve got 8 plates in my face and skull from all the fractures, it crushed the brachialplexus nerve in my right arm, which left it completely useless for almost a year. The damage is permanent, so my right side curling sucks 8 years later. There was some cerebral bleeding, punctured lung and a crushed phalange.

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[quote]therajraj wrote:

ah okay.

Then the booby trapper must be sadistic. From a quick google most people do not die from ingesting Drano. It just is really painful and causes a lot of damage
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Well, I’m glad that google could clear that up for us. I’ll be sure to pass that on to the good Doctors who treated me.

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The shit I used to do on my street bike at high speeds when I was younger was crazy. I should be dead. Fifteen car passes on a two lane highway in rain so bad cars were pulled over. Speeds of over 220kph in a deluge is not recomemnded, with my GF on the back no less lol. We still laugh about it though, she married me, however she no longer likes to ride on the back of my bike.

When i was a kid(four maybe) I drank a bottle of Resdan which is a hair tonic. I told my mom later it looked like lime green kool-aid. Had to be rushed to the hospital to get my stomach pumped. Week later they caught me as I was just about to dig into a bag of mothballs, I thought it was candy. Awhile after that I ate a whole bar of exlax, It looked like chocolate to me…off to the hospital again lol.

Yeah, I’m dumb…and clumsy, not a good combo.

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[quote]Racer377 wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Racer377 wrote:
I got run over by a tanker truck. It sucked. [/quote]

How did that go?

Don’t say “Bang!” or “Splat!”.

I can’t imagine getting hit by a truck. That can cause some serious physical turmoil.

[/quote]

More like a Bang-thump!

Riding a bike, I was in left turn lane when tanker truck driver decided he wanted to be where I was. According the the reports, he hit me knocking me off the bike, and as I tumbled the rear wheels went over my head and arm. I’ve got 8 plates in my face and skull from all the fractures, it crushed the brachialplexus nerve in my right arm, which left it completely useless for almost a year. The damage is permanent, so my right side curling sucks 8 years later. There was some cerebral bleeding, punctured lung and a crushed phalange. [/quote]

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[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]nomorewar wrote:

I have to ask.... what did you do to the brother? if you want to share.lol[/quote]

Not a thing. My attorney advised very strongly that I don’t do anything.

Other people may have done something as a result, but not me.
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Well at least tell us that the asshole was charged with SOMETHING!
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Nope. Investigation couldn’t prove malice or intent to harm, just that it was exceptionally negligent.

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Negligent??? We’re not talking about replacing liquor with cat urine. It was fucking DRANO!
You had a shitty lawyer, Skyzyks.

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[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]nomorewar wrote:

I have to ask.... what did you do to the brother? if you want to share.lol[/quote]

Not a thing. My attorney advised very strongly that I don’t do anything.

Other people may have done something as a result, but not me.
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did he atleast offer you to fuck his sister? did you stay buddies with the bro,your friend?

Well at least tell us that the asshole was charged with SOMETHING!
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Nope. Investigation couldn’t prove malice or intent to harm, just that it was exceptionally negligent.

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did i say something wrong,mods? ^^^^

oops… no im just an idiot. wrote my reply in the quote.

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

Negligent??? We’re not talking about replacing liquor with cat urine. It was fucking DRANO!
You had a shitty lawyer, Skyzyks.[/quote]

Nah, he did good. Hospital bills paid for and a big chunk of cash which fueled and epic bender.

In the words of the great Charlie Sheen, I was “Winning!”.

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Wow. A friend of ours was not so lucky. Got hit downtown while walking in a pededstrian zone crossing the street by a guy who didn’t even hit the brakes. Fortunately, she went over instead of under. Almost killed her and she will probably limp the rest of her life. Guy turned himself in the next day after he saw blood on his car and watched the news. Stated he didn’t even realize he hit her…

Two things come to mind. Falling asleep behind the wheel in the Allegeheny mountains. Woke up to the screaming of my engine (speedo was pegged) just in time to brake and swerve avoiding a 100+ mile collision with the guardrail and one hell of a drop if I would have gone over.

The other is one I will share because I think it is avoidable and was caused by my stupidity.

I attached a new propane tank to my grill. While tightening the nut, it cracked. I checked it with soapy water and it wasn’t leaking. Wrapped it with duct tape to tighten it up as we had people over and I was getting ready to cook and didn’t want to have to stop.

I came out to flip some potatoes that we grill in foil. Heard kind of a pop and a crazy whooshing sound.

On this grill, the tank is enclosed in a cabinet underneath. It’s kind of one of those things where your brain is telling you not to do it but your body does it before it can stop.

I opened the doors to see what the hell was going on and was fucking engulfed in flames. The crazy part about it was I saw my reflection in the glass doors and thought my whole body was on fire. This would have been a big problem because I was on a deck on the second story and my only path off was past the grill.

So, the grill is now spewing flames about 10-15 feet high. I ran inside and told the wife to get the kids out of the house and call 911 because I didn’t know if it was going to blow or not.

The whole right side of my face and head were charred. I remember thinking how fucking hot the flames were.

I ran inside and doused my head with cold water in the tub and basically rubbed all the hair on the right side of my head off. It was a singed mass and I lost my right eyebrow and eyelash, as well.

Paramedics showed up and were really concerned I had inhaled fire and scorched my lungs. They wanted to take me in but I refused.

When they left and the adrenaline wore off my nose and eye on that side were running non-stop and I was in absolute agony. Literally, I would put an ice pack on it and it would melt the ice in about 2-3 minutes and when I took it off the pain was damn near unbearable.

Told the wife if I couldn’t do something for the pain would have to go to ER. She went to Walgreens and spoke to a pharmacist who sent her home with a can of spray Lidocaine.

She sprayed the hell out of my head and it relieved the lion’s share of the pain so I was alright.

The next day I looked like I had the worst mat burn in the history of sport and I still have about a 1" long by half inch wide scar on my forehead from where the burns were the worst.

I looked like a GD leper for about 3 weeks but compared to what could have happened, it was OK.

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[quote]Racer377 wrote:
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A friend of mine’s brother kept his helmet from his bike accident as a reminder. Complete with splinters imbedded from the telephone pole he swiped with his CBX, killier bike btw.

My new job has allowed me to save up enough quid to insure my bike this year yay! Problem is my new job is in a hospital where i get to clean the rooms of bike accident victims such as yourself and another poster Kneedragger. It’s a dilema for me big time.

I love to go fast, I NEED to go fast to have fun on it. Cruising around at the speed limit for me is okay but boring as fuck. The sound of an engine at redline is music to my ears, unfourtunatly the sound of an ambulance siren coming to help me is not, actually maybe it is lol…that’s if I’m awake and alive to hear it.

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[quote]bond james bond wrote:

[quote]Racer377 wrote:
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A friend of mine’s brother kept his helmet from his bike accident as a reminder. Complete with splinters imbedded from the telephone pole he swiped with his CBX, killier bike btw.

My new job has allowed me to save up enough quid to insure my bike this year yay! Problem is my new job is in a hospital where i get to clean the rooms of bike accident victims such as yourself and another poster Kneedragger. It’s a dilema for me big time.

I love to go fast, I NEED to go fast to have fun on it. Cruising around at the speed limit for me is okay but boring as fuck. The sound of an engine at redline is music to my ears, unfourtunatly the sound of an ambulance siren coming to help me is not, actually maybe it is lol…that’s if I’m awake and alive to hear it.

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Do trackdays. Closed course, fast as you want, no poles, curbs or idiot soccer moms driving like morons. Riding the street is boring as fuck.
about 3 years after my accident, I got into trackdays and racing. The latter is like a viagra-fueled romp with Aria Giovanni and Bree Olsen, and riding on the street was like rubbing one out dry to Sears lingerie ad.

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OD’ed on heroin. Woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed. That was re-hab back in 1982. I think I saw Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, and it wasn’t heaven. Hell has it’s quota met for bassists, so I think I’m cool…for now, at least.

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Ok,
I’ve been lucky, many times… But here’s one my kids can read.

Helping friend dig out basement…
He’s on the backhoe, I’m in the pit. The edge the backhoe is on collapses and the backhoe falls in (only like 2 feet), When it stops, Charlie’s arms jam the controls forward the digger end jumps out and punches hole through the cinder block wall and well into the dirt behind it…

If hadn’t jumped it would have caught me right in the chest and pushed me through the wall too…

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[quote]Racer377 wrote:

[quote]bond james bond wrote:

[quote]Racer377 wrote:
smashed lid[/quote]

A friend of mine’s brother kept his helmet from his bike accident as a reminder. Complete with splinters imbedded from the telephone pole he swiped with his CBX, killier bike btw.

My new job has allowed me to save up enough quid to insure my bike this year yay! Problem is my new job is in a hospital where i get to clean the rooms of bike accident victims such as yourself and another poster Kneedragger. It’s a dilema for me big time.

I love to go fast, I NEED to go fast to have fun on it. Cruising around at the speed limit for me is okay but boring as fuck. The sound of an engine at redline is music to my ears, unfourtunatly the sound of an ambulance siren coming to help me is not, actually maybe it is lol…that’s if I’m awake and alive to hear it.

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Do trackdays. Closed course, fast as you want, no poles, curbs or idiot soccer moms driving like morons. Riding the street is boring as fuck.
about 3 years after my accident, I got into trackdays and racing. The latter is like a viagra-fueled romp with Aria Giovanni and Bree Olsen, and riding on the street was like rubbing one out dry to Sears lingerie ad.
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I hear ya man, nice analogy lol.

I’ve had my bike out to the dragstrip a few times, anyone who hasen’t is a fool. Magazine 1/4 mile times and YOUR time won’t even be close lol, it’s humbling but fun as hell. Reaction times kill you. It’s a 84 GS1150 which is a beast of a bike in a straight line but around corners it’s a challange. I’ve always ment to take a course at a track where you slam their bikes around all day. Closest course is three hours away from my home which sucks.

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When I was about two years old I drank a bunch of gasoline. I stopped breathing and had to get rushed to the hospital before I passed out and died. They pumped my stomach and all that stuff and everytime I belched for about a week I smelled like gas and my parents weren’t allowed to keep any open flames near me for a couple days.

I was mt biking once and came around this slow bend on a trail I wasn’t familiar with. I must have been doing 40 mph easy, absolutely hauling ass, when this slow bend began to slope from left to right in the opposite direction I was turning and it started to get tighter and tighter. Well, all of this happened over the course of about 2 seconds and before I know it I’m dumping the fucking bike and sliding off the edge of the trail.

There’s nothing below but rocks and a creek about a hundred feet down and for a split second as I’m flying through the air I’m thinking “This is it. This is how it happens. Fuck my life.” when I bash right into a fucking tree that literally caught me in midair and I was stuck in it. I fell out and dropped just a couple feet onto my back. It was so steep coming off the trail that if I had missed the tree I probably would’ve flown several more feet further and would have ended up falling way more than just a couple feet.

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[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]nomorewar wrote:

I have to ask.... what did you do to the brother? if you want to share.lol[/quote]

Not a thing. My attorney advised very strongly that I don’t do anything.

Other people may have done something as a result, but not me.
[/quote]

Well at least tell us that the asshole was charged with SOMETHING!
[/quote]

Nope. Investigation couldn’t prove malice or intent to harm, just that it was exceptionally negligent.

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i’d imagine he would feel pretty guilty about almost killing you

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Car accident when I was 5 or 6, I was sitting next to my mom on a bench style front seat of a mid '80s Buick. Icy roads and both my mom and another driver lost control. We were turned almost sideways and the other driver hit directly into the passenger side front door. Door was indented to within inches of where I was sitting in the middle seat.

Glass in the eyes, mouth, nose everywhere, vaguely remember walking/being carried to a nearby house and waiting for the EMS. On the way to the hospital the squad almost got into two accidents on the way there, or at least that’s what I was told at the hospital, I was in and out. I did remember sliding and turning while we were in the squad and the EMS guy in the back with me having a look of panic on his face. No coma or anything, but if I were sitting in that passenger seat at the time, it would have been finito.

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Got hit by a taxi in Philly once. Life flashed before my eyes. Miraculously lived but had a bruised hand.

Got bricks thrown at me by 2 ghetto dudes while I lived there as an art student. I really thought I was gonna die that night.

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Racer377 wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Racer377 wrote:
I got run over by a tanker truck. It sucked. [/quote]

How did that go?

Don’t say “Bang!” or “Splat!”.

I can’t imagine getting hit by a truck. That can cause some serious physical turmoil.

[/quote]

More like a Bang-thump!

Riding a bike, I was in left turn lane when tanker truck driver decided he wanted to be where I was. According the the reports, he hit me knocking me off the bike, and as I tumbled the rear wheels went over my head and arm. I’ve got 8 plates in my face and skull from all the fractures, it crushed the brachialplexus nerve in my right arm, which left it completely useless for almost a year. The damage is permanent, so my right side curling sucks 8 years later. There was some cerebral bleeding, punctured lung and a crushed phalange. [/quote]
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Holy Crap! In that video it looks like the guy on the motorcycle is trying to commit suicide…just slowly driving into the path of a tractor trailer.