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Injury I had a couple major ones they still trip me out I was working when I was maybe 20 with a girl my age we were on a construction job site we should not have been without helmets on I put my hands up in the air above my head and caught the long pipe perfectly in my hands 2 guys had dropped it from the roof of the building they were tearing down One of them went to his knees in shock and relief We were instantly made to leave. I guess I somehow must have seen it but honestly how could I--- it was straight above my head it was like a miracle I caught it. It was metal, long, and heavy. Another time I got roofied in Seattle at a poker room. I only went there that 1 time of course. I made it out to my car in the parking lot and locked the doors and passed out. I swear to God that I think it's possible it was Gary Ridgway I've never told anyone I've never pursued it I don't want to know
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One time when I was a kid I fell into the deep end of the pool and thrashed around until I blacked out. I woke up in the arms of a very handsome lifeguard
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There was just a thread for this https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4078860
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I was unloading equipment from a trailer improperly. It was late in the evening after working all day and I hadn't been trained properly. I drove the mini track loader down the trailer ramp with a load in the bucket. Big mistake. As soon as the front edge of the tracks cleared the edge of the trailer, the whole thing lurched forward and down. Bounced off of the ramps and catapulted me into the air. I landed next to the ramps just as the machine teetered and tipped off the ramp, in my direction. Fortunately it twisted enough to straddle my legs or a ton of steel and diesel would have landed on my lower body.
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mystes posted:There was just a thread for this https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4078860 Oops lol  Was thinking of adult stuff though No big deal it can sink down like the above poster did
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I was working at the top of a big a-frame ladder, like 15 feet up. I leaned over to adjust some equipment but I reached too far and started tipping the ladder over. Totally out of control falling over. But there was a piece of frame that stuck out from the equipment and I caught myself after tipping over about 15 degrees or so.
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i think i've posted this before but about 10 years ago at an old job i did this: note that we use right hand drive cars here, so the door closest to the camera is the drivers side lol. somehow crawled out with one little scratch on my hand
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Well a plane crashed on my street very near my home last month It crashed right at the bus stop I go, if this happened like 2 years ago I'd probably be at the bus stop going to work, so I'd be dead now or at least seriously injuried Miraculously the bus stop was empty during the accident, which is quite uncommon for the time it happened, and it didn't hit any other car or pedestrean, so only the two guys inside the plane died. I guess that's the closest to dying by an accident I've been But I almost died by bacterial meningitis when I was 3, my parents rushed me to the hospital just in time, otherwise I'd have died if they took 30 more minutes. I don't have any memories of this as I was too young but I was hospitalized for a month and ended up going through it without any alter effects after. I feel kinda weird every time I think about this
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Woke up after a pretty wild night in college firmly on my back with puke everywhere on my face and body. Pretty close call imo
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One time I was laying in a hammock and had my phone with me, I apparently fell asleep reading FYAD and when I woke up my phone in the awful app had started a reply with nothing but gibberish and it easily could have been sent. Can you imagine?? Spooky
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This one just happened to me. I decided to get my thyroid removed because the biopsies are super uncomfortable and I didn't want to get them anymore. And I've had hashimotos for about 30 years now so I figured that eventually my immune system was going to cause a major problem. Turns out that eventually was actually now, but the cancer tumor was so small that it was totally undetectable until my thyroid was removed and sent to pathology. RIGHT THYROID: INCIDENTAL PAPILLARY CARCINOMA OF THE THYROID, 0.1 CM IN GREATEST DIMENSIONS (SLIDE 2B) TUMOR LIMITED TO THYROID GLAND CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC (FOLLICULAR) THYROIDITIS I also found out that I react very badly to fentenyl. I was in recovery for 10 hours after the surgery because I would just stop breathing every once in a while. They had me on supplemental oxygen for 24 hours too. And I'm very allergic to dermabond. I have such a rash right now. It's not just on my neck where the dermabond was either. The rash is also on my chest and my arms. Saw my Dr today and very tearfully thanked her for saving my life. Didn't even know I had cancer but it was cut out of me so early that I don't have to have chemo or anything. It's over. I'm so lucky. Who gets that freaking lucky? It's been 14 days since my surgery and I'm still giddy about my near miss.
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well, i won't say this instance was death, since i wasn't IN my car at the time. at my old job, i always parked in the same space. force of habit, no real reason for it, not like it was assigned parking or anything. this particular day, someone parked in my usual spot, so i parked elsewhere in the lot. halfway through the day, we heard screeching tires, then a HUGE crash. a car was speeding down the highway that overlooked our office park, jumped the curb, flipped over and smashed upside-down...right into the space where i usually park. somehow the driver didn't get turned into people spaghetti (but he was pretty hosed up.) i suppose it was lucky that the car didn't land in such a way that the momentum carried it into our building, since the walls were all glass and it was just one floor, it would have busted through easily at that speed. just one of many wacky stories from that job, we had some wild poo poo happen over the near decade i worked there.
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accidentally went down a small cliff on an atv and it landed on me
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Haji posted:This one just happened to me. I decided to get my thyroid removed because the biopsies are super uncomfortable and I didn't want to get them anymore. And I've had hashimotos for about 30 years now so I figured that eventually my immune system was going to cause a major problem. Turns out that eventually was actually now, but the cancer tumor was so small that it was totally undetectable until my thyroid was removed and sent to pathology. Whoa. dodged a 0.1cm bullet there! glad to see it got taken care of. I think we'd all agree having a yucky rash is a SMALL price to pay for being cancer-free.
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Aishlinn posted:Whoa. dodged a 0.1cm bullet there! glad to see it got taken care of. I think we'd all agree having a yucky rash is a SMALL price to pay for being cancer-free. Lol. Yes. Though the constant scratching may yet do me in. Only time will tell.
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Haji posted:This one just happened to me. I decided to get my thyroid removed because the biopsies are super uncomfortable and I didn't want to get them anymore. And I've had hashimotos for about 30 years now so I figured that eventually my immune system was going to cause a major problem. Turns out that eventually was actually now, but the cancer tumor was so small that it was totally undetectable until my thyroid was removed and sent to pathology. I am happy for you The rest of your life is more special
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I got two unusual ones, and they both sound like I'm lying. 1. I've told this one before, but a family friend took my whole family out on his house boat on Lake Monroe in Florida. The engine died and it was summer, so we asked if there were any alligators in the lake. "No!" says family friend, having spent weeks on this stupid lake. So my mom and I jump in, he sets up the sail, and throws us a rope to pull us behind the boat. 7 year-old me is having the time of her life when suddenly, we're ushered back on board. Everybody's really scant on the why until I want to jump back in later. My sister tells me "No, they saw something in the water behind you." Now, my sister's always teasing me, so I doubt this and think she's saying it to scare me. Long story short, the wind died and I can only assume no one took our call for aid seriously because family friend was drunk off his rear end. We were stuck out there all night while he puked into the water. My mom also says she saw something moving around the boat, but she teases me too, so DOUBT. It wasn't until the next morning when we finally got back to land that I saw with my own eyes the stupid loving 10-foot long alligators chilling on the bank. Another family friend met us later and informed us that they used to shoot Tarzan stuff on Lake Monroe due to all the alligators. So I guess I was lucky I didn't get eaten by an alligator? 2. A little explanation is probably necessary: My family moved to Bangladesh when my eldest sister was 20. My sister made friends with a lot of Westerners because hey, same language is a good start. But, and I feel gross saying it, white foreigners are kind of seen as social trophies for the Bengali elites. It was pretty normal to have a bunch of middle class whities in the same social circles as Bengali peeps who were stupid, stupid wealthy. The other thing to note is that the police are useless in Dhaka. Like actual useless. If you need help, you go to the mob. So through socializing, my sister made friends with the brothers who run Sikder Group. All this to explain how I ended up in a Chinese bowling alley, running away from a drunken mob boss (Rick) as he chased me and randomly shot his drat gun off. Not to intentionally hit me, but to show how cool his gun was. It's sheer luck I didn't get hit. He was stumbling, droning drunk.
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I wore my seatbelt. Driving at highway speeds, towing a U-Haul, on what turned out to be black ice, the trailer started to bounce around and "tail wagging the dog" dragged the truck sideways across the freeway and then hit the dirt on the opposite side. Rolled the truck twice. Trailer was off and upside down. I got away with a single drop of blood when something in the cab nicked my ear. Truck was totaled, trailer was totaled, half my stuff was spread out over 50 yards. I was perfectly fine, and when the tow truck dropped me, the truck, the trailer, off in the nearest town I called my insurance company. They had a local rep and she was there the next day. We went to the tow yard and she assessed the damage, considered it a complete loss. A week later I got an insurance check that was generous, only a couple thousand below what I had paid for the truck 6 years previously. Also, I had paid the optional $20 insurance on the U-Haul and they were pretty much, "Its all good".
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I was riding my motorcycle and right outside the Sam's Club in Fresno and when I stopped at the intersection connecting to the parking lot (I wanna say the Nordstrom Rack wasn't always there but maybe it was San Pablo and Fallbrook? I dunno) a guy jumped on to the back of my motorcycle and yelled at me to drive away because supposedly he was trying to get away from some guys following him in a big pickup truck (which pulled up next to me). I killed the engine and yelled at the guy to get inside (was like 30ft away from the Sam's Club tire service garage) cause I sure wasn't going to get involved in that, so he got off and ran to the store. I have no idea what kind of situation I dodged there but yikes. OneEightHundred fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Mar 28, 2025 |
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OneEightHundred posted:I was riding my motorcycle and right outside the Sam's Club in Fresno and when I stopped at the intersection connecting to the parking lot (I wanna say the Nordstrom Rack wasn't always there but maybe it was San Pablo and Fallbrook? I dunno) a guy jumped on to the back of my motorcycle and yelled at me to drive away because supposedly he was trying to get away from some guys following him in a big pickup truck (which pulled up next to me). Dude. You just gave that man right to the Terminator. You have sealed all of our fates.
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Stepped away from a high voltage switchboard which had a fault we were diagnosing so I could go have a smoke about 20 seconds before our electrician set off an arc flash which ended his career. Not sure what the health moral of this story is.
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I took a ride home with a work colleague who unbeknown to me had decided that antipsychotic medication was purely optional, and that re-enacting the opening scene to Mad Max was a wonderful way of dealing with his mental health issues. I managed to talk him down after several minutes of zooming down a dual carriageway at 130mph. After that, we went to a pub for a pint.
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A person lit a house on fire while I was in it. The house didn't make it, but I, fortunately, did!
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Dude. You just gave that man right to the Terminator. You have sealed all of our fates.
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Spinz posted:Oops lol lol
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Was riding home from work in my Dickie work pants and a t shirt and helmet on motorcycle, someone started to turn left in front of me. Then they stopped, blocking my lane, if they would have just went on I would have had enough space to slow down enough it would have been fine It was a pretty bad intersection to go up to due to a curve right before it so I was always cautious I stood on the brakes but it wasn't gonna happen and I pushed the bike over as hard as I could just before I t-boned it I made it around but unfortunately the back tire clipped the bumper and I spun out. I figure I had to have been going 25mph or so based on the fact I skidded on my belly for about 150 ft trying to hold my arms and legs up to not get bashed, which they did a bit, nothing broken but got scraped up It was a sportsbike and if I would have t-boned them it would have been a 20-30ft seesaw effect launch into the air Walked away from it with some bruises and a little bit of skin on the road
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Due to a lot of poo poo going wrong, I wound up having to make a long drive after being awake for probably 48 hours. Right near the last fifteen minute stretch of the drive when I was on the freeway, microsleep finally took over me and I drifted out of my lane. Somehow miraculously people noticed me and pulled out of the way, and there was a hill to my right instead of a wall, so my car just hit a road marker pole which jolted me awake and let me regain control of the vehicle. Escaped with basically only cosmetic damage... Still dumb and incredibly dangerous on my part... 
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I always hated driving in Seattle..one day,. after work, I'm driving home on the highway after a big rain. A guy cuts me off, I put on the breaks, and suddenly I'm spinning to the right in my lovely Civic. I think "This is it. I'm either going to the hospital or worse.". When I finally stopped spinning I was 2 latest to the right of where I started, but I was facing the opposite direction in traffic. I saw the guy in front of me in an SUV with a shocked look on his face. I am not a car guy. I preferred manual, but that's about as far as it went. I wasn't someone who practiced how fast they can shift or whatever. This is all to say, to this day I don't know how I had the wherewithal to put my car into reverse, angle into the shoulder, and break. I'm not trying to brag or anything. I seriously don't know how I managed. The guy in the SUV stopped to ask if I was OK. I was really rattled. I remember kind of chuckling when I realized it was also my birthday, so if I died it'd be pretty even on the tombstone. Escape From Noise fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Mar 29, 2025 |
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Escape From Noise posted:I wasn't someone who practiced how fast they can poo poo or whatever. You'll never get to the big leagues with that attitude
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Wifi Toilet posted:You'll never get to the big leagues with that attitude Lol
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Driving home from school on my bike in my late teens, holding a huge canvas from art class in one hand, I was hit by some younger student on his bike trying to overtake me. I lost control and fell right into the traffic next to us. If that had happened half a second earlier or later I would have ended up under a car, instead of just falling into its side.
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Most recent was slipping in the shower at a hotel. I hit my ribs hard enough to dislocate the cartilage ring, and bruised my liver enough to get high levels on a blood test that I requested. I could have easily knocked myself out or ruined my teeth but all my damage was subtle and I still feel very lucky.
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Also could have lost a few thumbs at construction sites but gloves are good and handrails exist for a good reason.
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peanut posted:Most recent was slipping in the shower at a hotel. I hit my ribs hard enough to dislocate the cartilage ring, and bruised my liver enough to get high levels on a blood test that I requested. I could have easily knocked myself out or ruined my teeth but all my damage was subtle and I still feel very lucky. Bathrooms are no joke man. I tripped getting out of the shower and faceplanted my whole body weight into a rod iron towel rack. Housemates found me on the ground in a puddle of blood. Split my forehead open and had a concussion bad enough to gently caress up my speech for a little while It was in the middle of the pandemic lockdown so I didn't even bother getting stitches. Looked like harry potter for a while but it's barely visible now.
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New Zealand can eat me posted:Bathrooms are no joke man. I tripped getting out of the shower and faceplanted my whole body weight into a rod iron towel rack. Housemates found me on the ground in a puddle of blood. Split my forehead open and had a concussion bad enough to gently caress up my speech for a little while I had a similar injury with a similar result during lockdown, except for me it was that I fainted on the toilet and fell forward onto the lip of my bathtub. I have a scar directly between my eyes now
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New Zealand can eat me posted:Bathrooms are no joke man. I tripped getting out of the shower and faceplanted my whole body weight into a rod iron towel rack. Housemates found me on the ground in a puddle of blood. Split my forehead open and had a concussion bad enough to gently caress up my speech for a little while it's wild how much head wounds can bleed, even if it's just a (relatively) minor nick. like the same severity wound on your arm would bleed a bit, but a head wound and it's a gusher. this brought back one of my horrible memories of all the injuries that happened working at a movie theater, the concession stand is a loving deathtrap. this was a fairly old theater i was working at. one time, one of the girls was sitting down, unpacking boxes of candy to put into the storage under the counter. meanwhile,someone else was on the other side of the island, folding those stupid little nacho trays. they went to turn to put a stack of folded trays on a shelf, and elbowed the butter dispenser. the counter under it was apparently pretty slippery because it had a very, very slow leak, and that little nudge sent it off the counter, with the sharp corner nailing the girl right in the forehead. tiny gash, didn't knock her out, just fell at her feet, but there was a FOUNTAIN of blood. i remember frantically grabbing paper towels to wad up to put pressure on it, so we could get her to the hospital for stitches. and hey, that's not even the end of the story for that god drat butter dispenser. a few months later, i was wrangling a batch of those pretzel nugget things from the oven. one hand had the oven mitt, the other hand was still wearing a plastic glove, because i was just midway through baking several batches of them during the friday night rush. someone came by behind me...and slipped on some butter...yeah, they still hadn't fixed that slow leak. rather than letting themselves just fall back while i was working with said dangerously hot oven, they grabbed my shoulder and proceeded to shove me forward, causing my plastic-gloved hand to instinctively keep me from faceplanting into the oven, melting said glove all over my hand. as i quickly tried to shed the molten plastic napalm all over my hand, it tore up several huge chunks of skin with it. i frantically asked to go to the hospital, and i kid you not, my manager wouldn't let me. "we need you for the friday rush!" If i was a smarter teenager i would have quit, then sued the poo poo out of them, but no, i just covered my hand in bandages and suffered through it.
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