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BreakingThoseCankles , Thirdman / pexels Report

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Cancer Stage 4 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

Doctors told my parents I had a 1% chance of survival over the next 6 months and basically to prepare for my funeral.

Well little ol me probably sold my soul to the devil because I beat the s**t here 30+years later and went from a blonde haired kid to a red haired adult (hence the sold soul)

Final score:

138points

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Nina 5 months ago

Hehehe

24points

wizardofgauze_ , Oleksandr P / pexels Report

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) On an island called Cat Cay in the Bahamas, there is an area called the Flats, where the tide rolls out extremely fast for a mile. You can walk on the sand and find incredible things (sand dollars, crabs, shells). The water moves out so fast, fish are lying on the sand still alive.

The tide comes back in just as fast. Like a tsunami of water. I was 8, out there with my mom. She forgot that day was daylight savings time and misjudged. Thought we had another hour. The water came in and we started running. But before we knew it, we were up to our necks and the suction out to sea was so strong, it ripped off both our water shoes and her shirt. She carried me on her back, one step at a time, staying completely calm. The water was up to her ears.

When we got to shore, we both lied on the beach completed exhausted. She could barely walk.

Moms are incredible.

Final score:

124points

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Dragon mama 5 months ago

My heart...

30points

afootofgirth , cottonbro studio / pexels Report

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Three times come to mind for me.

First - drunk driver going 100mph+ hit my vehicle. They were coming down the wrong side of the highway that late evening. I swerved and woke up in the floor of my truck.

Second - working in a restaurant, glasses straight out of the dishwasher. Grabbed two out of the rack for a table, and one sheared at the base, fell and hit my wrist. 3 tourniquets at different spots on my arm later, they were able to stop the bleeding. I was wearing a watch with a metal band, and that stopped the glass from cutting further.

Third - found out I had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Dr said another 2-3 months without treatment, and I’d have been dead. Finished chemo last month and in remission.

Anyone know a good gift for their guardian angel? Mine has been working overtime…

Final score:

121points

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Paul C. 5 months ago

Was thinking of asking you for some lottery numbers, but I think your good fortune is working overtime for you. Stay healthy mate.

27points

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) The light turned green at the intersection. I started to move forward, but the driver in the lane next to me honked and hit his brakes. I hit my brakes too and looked around. Just then, a car blew through the red light going 45+ miles an hour. Had I continued through the intersection, my little hatchback might have been T-boned on the driver's side by a much larger vehicle. Thank goodness that other driver saw the car about to run through the light and honked his horn or I might have been flattened.

Jim_Farnsworth , Dids . / pexels Report

Final score:

117points

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Paul C. 5 months ago

I'd been to a concert in London many years ago and was driving south down to Sussex on the A24. Gone midnight, probably bit too fast, suddenly thought, what if an animal was to run out of the woods. Raised my right foot and slowed down a bit, a bloody great Deer bounded across the road just in front of me. Half asleep mates in car, what was that? Nothing go back to sleep.

37points

Kermit_The_Mighty , Grandmaster E / Wikipedia Report

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) I attended a meeting in the south tower of the World Trade Center on Monday, September 10, 2001. That meeting had originally been scheduled for the following day.

Final score:

109points

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PickleRick 5 months ago

It’s hard to believe that it’s been this long ago. Seems like yesterday.

63points

Lee 5 months ago

Seems like yesterday and forever ago at the same time. It will never NOT be almost trancelike horrifically surreal what happened that day., all of that just....gone.

9points

H. Brown 5 months ago

Right?! My heart lurches every time I see a pic of the Towers.

4points

featherytoad 5 months ago

I was working in a call center with about 22 women and I can still recall where everyone sat. It's just seared into my brain.

4points

The Doom Song 5 months ago

The image of that second plane hitting the tower will forever haunt me. I had this conversation with my 22 year old co worker

3points

Libstak 5 months ago

I thought about Osama Bin Laden the other day, for some bizarre reason. It still drives me nuts how many crazies and terrorists hurt people thinking they can make the world bow down to their personal beliefs and agendas and it comforts me that they fail miserably and fall into obscurity every time while the world goes on its merry way.

1point

Spencer's slave no longer 5 months ago (edited)

I remember watching this on the very early morning news in NZ with a chef from Germany who was staying with us. He was on the viewing level of the WTC the day before. Fate has a time, place and plan for all of us.

0points

Xenia Harley 5 months ago

I heard about so many stories like this, (I worked close enough where many people commuted to the World Trade Center.) One, a colleague said a friend got hit on the turnpike and was late going in to the World Trade Center, pulled onto the shoulder very annoyed when he witnessed the plane hitting the tower.So, car accident saved him. I heard many stories like this! Wild!

11points

Biofish23 5 months ago

My brother in law was supposed to be on one of the planes, but he overslept and made a last minute switch to a different flight.

6points

Upstaged75 5 months ago (edited)

One of my best friends had just exited the subway that was located in one of the towers and was on the bridge that connected them to the World Financial Center (where she worked) when the first plane hit. I couldn't even say anything after she told me what she experienced. She ended up having to walk home that day, which took her about 8 hours. Since she happened to be wearing heels that day she ended up with permanent foot issues. But she's alive, which I'm very grateful for!

8points

Marion 5 months ago

A friend of mine was on the platform a day before. Still gives me the creeps..

6points

Mark Karol-Chik 5 months ago

RELIGION KILLS

4points

Gen X Feral 5 months ago

Idk why you're getting down voted when it's true. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth.

5points

R.A. Haley 5 months ago

I remember hearing the nrws about the first tower being hit and thinking; "well, that's terrible, but a plane hit the Empire State building years ago and that wasn't a huge deal". Turns out there was a considerable difference in size between the two planes.

4points

Robert Trebor 5 months ago

My brother worked a block away, and often had meetings in the twin towers. He was not there that morning, as he had to go to a conference with his son's teacher.

4points

Donkey boi 5 months ago

I still find it weird that there are adults alive that were not even conceived when it happened. I have a colleague that has a mortgage, but had to ask someone what 9/11 was.

3points

Gen X Feral 5 months ago

It makes me feel like Cleopatra's grandma 😑

2points

Jen Mead 5 months ago

My cousin was a bicycle courier in NYC at that time. He delivered packages to one particular company in the WTC so often they got to know each other. That morning, he ran into one of them on the ground floor. She said "Is that for me? I'll take it now, save you a trip up top." She signed for it and off he went. If he had taken the package to the office, he would have been up there or in the elevator when the first plane hit.

2points

Tamra 5 months ago (edited)

My husband and his colleagues were scheduled to be in meetings in one of the twin towers on that day. Last minute, he was asked to go to a separate meeting in Canada. His partners were just getting ready to leave their hotel rooms to go to the meeting in the tower, when it was hit. Watching the news was surreal.

2points

and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 5 months ago

I’m too young to remember, but my mom was working in NYC at the AMNH when it happened… she says the one thing she’ll never forget is the smell.

2points

H. Brown 5 months ago

...my goodness...😳 I often wonder about these "was almost there" kind of stories...

1point

LapCat 5 months ago (edited)

I had just turned 19. After all these years, it still hurts to think about. 😢

1point

Whoopdeedoo 5 months ago (edited)

How does this relate to death? Srry, I can't understand anything today but ols explain 😭 Edit: just realized. Towers.

0points

Bored Trash Panda 5 months ago (edited)

This day will forever be ingrained in my memory. I still remember it and when my son asks about it, I still tear up talking about it. I remember my dad waking me up for school early. I remember watching live on the news the second tower hit, going to school and doing nothing but watching the news all day, seeing no planes in the sky for a few days after that. I remember seeing lists of the people who died, it tore me up.

0points

Jen Mead 5 months ago

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0points

Dorothy Reiser 5 months ago

We were up there a week before for Labor day. Who knew it would be the last time we would see it?

0points

Seanette Blaylock 5 months ago

I lived near Vandenberg AFB in California at the time, and really worried about whether military bases were going to start getting hit.

0points

Hellofriendinternet , Charlotte May / pexels Report

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) My frat bro’s mom was in the Chi Omega house at FSU in 1979. Ted Bundy broke into the house while they were sleeping and killed the two girls in the room across the hall from hers and seriously beat up two other women. She had to testify at his trial. What saved her? She locked her door.

Final score:

101points

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Aud (formerly Spooky) 5 months ago

Jesus christ. When I was little, I used to live in the same neighborhood as Israel Keyes before he was caught. He never targeted families with children, so thank goodness for me & my brother.

29points

awtcurtis , Mads Thomsen / pexels Report

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Was 16 in Bermuda, riding my moped into town when I came up to a bus stopped at a red light. I came to a stop, and then, as is tradition, I scooted around the bus to be at the front of the traffic. No more than 10 seconds later a second bus plowed into the back of first bus at 30-40 mph. I would have been pancaked, no question.

Apparently the second bus driver had had a medical event, and lost consciousness. I just sat on the side of the road for 30 minutes and looked at the trees, contemplating my mortality.

Final score:

85points

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Kombatbunni 5 months ago

I’d go and buy a lottery ticket after that.

27points

Little_Lara21 , cottonbro studio / pexels Report

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) One time i went on a blind date with a guy and everything went great. We wanted to go to his apartment but suddenly my mother called me that my dad is in the hospital so i left my date there and rushed to the hospital. After that i didnt hear from the guy but few weeks later the police knocked on my door and i needed to go to the station because they wanted to ask some questions about my date. Turned out he already r*ped 4 girls and one of them died after they met.

Final score:

84points

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Nina 5 months ago

Yikes!

26points

#10

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Back in the year of 2000, 7 year old me and friends were outside exploring. That days location happened to be a power station. Older 9y boy lost his life on top of a machine, electricity burned a hole through him. I lost both my hands trying to climb up and help him. Amputated below my elbows.

Power entered both arms, excited in armpit one side, neck other side. Power never went through my chest or I'd be dead aswell.

HandHunter , Hieu Minh / pexels Report

Final score:

82points

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Nina 5 months ago

This is so sad..

62points

stootchmaster2 , cottonbro studio / pexels Report

#11

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) I'll try to make a long story short. My ex-wife and her boyfriend she had behind my back tried to hire someone to kill me so that she could have my life insurance and there wouldn't be a custody battle over our daughter like there would be if she just left me. Luckily for me, the guy they hired to do the job was an undercover deputy working a completely unrelated case against the d**g selling gang her boyfriend belonged to.

Yeah. . .finding out about all this was a nice surprise. I had absolutely no clue.

The boyfriend got 10 years because the gun he gave the deputy to kill me with was stolen, and he had other stuff related to the gang on him. She got 5 years for conspiracy and was released after 3.

Final score:

80points

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Hamster pancake she/they 5 months ago

Only three years is ridiculous for trying to kill someone.

88points

CaptainMyCaptainRise , Bayu Prakosa / pexels Report

#12

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Being born at 26 weeks. Doctors gave me a 10% chance of survival and somehow I beat the 90% odds against me.

Final score:

79points

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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 5 months ago

Same, I was born around 24/25 weeks, in 1985, weighed 2.2 lbs/1 kg. If I did somehow survive, I was likely to have severe cognitive and physical disabilities. Glad I was able to prove them all wrong. 🙏

28points

Murky_Ad_5668 , Sebastian Arie Voortman / pexels Report

#13

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) My only example...

We went to party at Paul Smith college, my friend's favorite cousin was a student there. Bonfire, booze, and someone had the bright idea to bring out a snowmobile.

I was gonna ride on it but had to go to the bathroom. I guess I took too long because he asked a different girl to ride with him. She did.

They were both killed like 2 minutes later.

It was traumatizing.

It blew my mind for a long time. Had I just held my pee in, I'm the one currently in a coffin instead of Kristine.

Final score:

75points

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BebeR 5 months ago (edited)

from OP on how they died: ''Got on the snowmobile on the frozen lake in the fog, went far enough out to hit that giant rock.'' and link to article https://www.mcall.com/2005/02/08/emmaus-man-killed-in-accident-student-at-college-in-new-york-dies-in-snowmobile-crash/

34points

#14

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) I was at the Boston Marathon, watching my sister run the race. I’m from the west coast and there’s this incredible hot chocolate place that they only have on the east coast (Max Brenner - so good). I told my husband and brother in law that I wanted to go there and then we could watch her finish the race since it was next to the finish line. We were a block away when my BIL checked her location and we realized we would miss her if we didn’t watch right then. We cheered her on and then 45 seconds later the bomb went off right next to Max Brenner. Basically my sister’s race time saved us from being at the center of the attack.

thti87 , RUN 4 FFWPU / pexels Report

Final score:

75points

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Upstaged75 5 months ago

My best friend's father had thankfully not finished the race yet and was about 300 yards away when the bombs went off. We're all so grateful he was slow that day!

32points

Educational_Dust_932 , Marina Pechnikova / pexels Report

#15

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) When i was dumb kid of ten years old a guy in a s****y car asked me to hop in and help him find his lost puppy. My dumb a*s was about to get in when my little bro happened to ride by on a bike and started screaming. He probably saved my life.

Final score:

72points

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_physically_insane_(he/him) 5 months ago

That’s the exact thing my parents said kidappers would say to me to try to get me in their car

42points

JackCooper_7274 , Karolina Grabowska / pexels Report

#16

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) I was at an indoor shooting range testing a potato cannon (don't ask). I was leaning against the stall wall with my hand behind my head while my buddy took a shot with it. Suddenly, I felt a pinch/burn sensation on my wrist. I took a look at my arm to see blood streaming from a half inch deep hole on my wrist. The idiot in the stall next to me wasn't sure if his handgun was empty, so he did the most logical thing. He pointed it at the stall wall and pulled the trigger. The bullet grazed my wrist, about 3 inches from my head. That's the only time I've ever seen an RSO tackle someone.

Final score:

69points

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LB 5 months ago (edited)

What does RSO mean here? I googled it but is it Registered Sex Offender, Road Safety Officer... what? ETA: nevermind, it's probably Range (as in shooting range) Safety Officer. It makes sense these places would have security, but I've never seen one irl so I didn't know the term.

54points

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#17

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Sudden Cardiac Death at work. Co-worker gave me CPR, paramedics got my heart beating again. 5% survival rate.

I ate a lot more ice cream once I was healthy, again.

GibsonMaestro , RDNE Stock project / pexels Report

Final score:

66points

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james stevenson 5 months ago

More than one type of being dead than you might think guys

6points

lmlgiraffe , Dmitry Zvolskiy / pexels Report

#18

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) I was in the passenger seat of my dad's small sports car (low to the ground) when a crowbar came off a work truck in front of us and flew into the windshield of our car. Somehow it stopped a few inches away from my face and I luckily happened to be looking down, which meant all the glass that would have ended up on my face was all in my hair instead. I always think about how lucky I was, I can't explain why that crowbar stopped half in and half out of the car. Crazy to think that if it didn't stop it would have hit me square in the forehead.

Final score:

63points

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Wilma Flintstone 5 months ago

That's some Final Destination sh*t!

31points

hUmaNITY-be-free , Rodrigo Soldon / flickr Report

#19

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Was swimming at an Australian beach, stupidly not between the flags, got smacked by a rogue wave and was stuck in a riptide, I was knocked out cold and pretty much drowned, still to this day I don't know how I got to shore, when I woke I was up on the wet sand of the beach and had 5 jellyfish around me.

Final score:

61points

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Vinny DaPooh 5 months ago

The jellyfish saved him

74points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#20

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) I grew up in a rural town in Southern Ontario and took the school bus every day. One afternoon, I got off the bus at my driveway and as I always did, I walked across the road to our mailbox to get the mail. As my school bus drove away, it was partially blocking my view of the opposite lane. As I stepped to the yellow line in the middle of the road, I suddenly stopped as if someone grabbed my backpack to yank me back. Just as I stopped another school bus came flying past me, missing me by only a few inches. I was stunned and couldn't believe it. These buses would drive super fast on those back roads too, had to have been at least 90kmh. Nearly knocked me on my a*s.

I have no idea what stopped me. Intuition? Paranormal? Part of me thinks I died then and there and this is one of many alternate timelines I've skipped through.

kabbage_with_hair , Laker / pexels Report

Final score:

60points

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Leah Brown 5 months ago

Upvote for the alternate timeline theory!!

48points

#21

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Street light collapsed on me (my neck) and onto the face of the girl in front of me on a 5th grade field trip. I was surprisingly fine, while the girl in front of me got helicoptered out. She made a full recovery though!

anonymousrex_ , DCL 650 / pexels Report

Final score:

58points

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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 5 months ago

Wow, definitely sounds like a freak accident. Glad all turned out well in the end, considering.

19points

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#22

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Had a boundary wall of a balcony fall from almost 8 ft right after I walked by under it…. It was a very windy day and I was just enjoying the weather outdoors. Because of the wind a door just banged open in front of me, so I just walked towards it to shut it close and as soon as I walked there the wall just fell right where I was standing. Would have been crushed and died right there just missed by a couple of seconds. But that incident gave me a new perspective about life. Cherish life folks as u never know when ur time comes.

mrstonewallin , Sakina Mammadli / pexels Report

Final score:

56points

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Upstaged75 5 months ago (edited)

I was once helping a friend load her horse in to the horse trailer. He really didn't want to cooperate and kept backing out as soon as he got in. So we decided to try and close the back door/ramp immediately when he stepped all the way in. (Usually we put up a bar behind the horse before the door is shut but he wasn't letting us do that) He finally went all the way in and we pushed the ramp up so it could be latched. But before I could get the latch fastened he freaked out and threw himself backwards against the ramp and came flying out of the trailer. I somehow moved just in time, but I came within about half a second of being crushed under a 40 pound steel ramp and a thousand pound horse. It most likely would have killed me. This was over 20 years ago and I still get chills thinking about how close it was.

26points

2occupantsandababy , Mücahit inci / pexels Report

#23

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) I was out backpacking with friends on the Washington coast. We didn't get a permit on our way out. A park ranger stopped by our camp and when he saw we didn't have permits he sat with us for a bit while he wrote one for us. We asked him about his job and he was telling us how he had been cleaning up dead marine mammals off the beach all day. That there was the worst case of red tide blooming that he had ever seen. We currently had a pot of mussels cooking on our fire.

If we had gotten a permit, he probabltly wouldn't have stopped to talk with us.

If he had come by an hour later, we would have all already eaten the poisoned shellfish.

If he had come by the next morning, he might have just found a pile of bodies.

Final score:

53points

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Verena 5 months ago (edited)

If you had gotten a permit, you might have gotten the warning, so you hadn't collected the mussels? How do these permits work?

26points

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#24

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) The guy who set fire to my house used lighter fluid on a wet mattress he found behind the house. It's because he used the wet mattress that the fire spread slow enough for us to wake up, see the smoke, and call the fire department. Fire department told us that, had the mattress been dry, we'd be dead because he put it up against the side of the house with the gas line. So not just burnt to death, confetti'd. I guess I'm thankful for the stupidity of cr*ck heads.

SirChrisJames , Kobe - / pexels Report

Final score:

51points

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Sven Grammersdorf 5 months ago

Crack. It's called crack. It's freebase cocaine, made from cocaine hydrochloride and baking soda.

15points

nemelexxobeh , Anna Shvets / pexels Report

#25

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Did not inherit the genetic mutation that caused both of my siblings to have a cardiac arrest at 30… it was a 50/50 chance.

Final score:

50points

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Anna Ekberg 5 months ago

I guess you won the genetic lottery. 👍

12points

Weak-Acanthaceae-622 , David Henry / pexels Report

#26

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) One day I was walking through the streets of my city when I decided to change my usual route to surprise my friend for her birthday. As I was on a side street with little traffic, she heard the sound of an explosion coming from behind a nearby building. Frightened, I turned around and saw a car that had just lost control due to engine failure and was crashing right where I had been standing seconds before. Thanks to that sudden decision to change path, I escaped death by pure luck.

Final score:

48points

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Kaedyn Walsh 5 months ago (edited)

This is why I ALWAYS listen to my intuition and also don't mind if things "hold me up". I've had many, "Man, if I had been 30 seconds earlier...." scary moments.

17points

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#27

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Was driving home from a party with a friend in the car. Had a cop car on random patrol following me down to a main intersection.

Avoiding any sort of risk of getting a ticket, I was being extra cautious when waiting for the light to change.

My side had only just changed to green and since I was slower than normal moving off the line, it stopped me getting plowed by the semi that blew through the other part of the intersection on a red at full speed.

I was just stopped there in stunned silence. Even the cops took a minute or two to reflect on what had happened before they peeled off and lit that truck up.

I ended up coming back along the road where the cops had finally managed to pull that driver over. 5km away from where the incident happened.

W2ttsy , Pixabay / pexels Report

Final score:

47points

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Salty_Sasquatch 5 months ago

I saw a short video once of an intersection with three lanes each way. The dash cam of the car right behind the first car in one lane showed all three front vehicles moving ahead right away when the light turned green. All three were absolutely disintegrated by a semi that came flashing through the intersection, just gone. I used to pride myself on having quick reflexes that among other things made me first to get moving across an intersection. That video made me seriously reconsider that.

21points

Vivid-Soup-5636 , Pixabay / pexels Report

#28

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Worked at my local mall while in college. I’ve always prided myself on never being late. I was going in early to go to my bank which was at the main entrance. Series of ridiculous events began to happen and I found myself running late, which really frustrated me-again, rarely, if ever happened. I drove quickly to find police cars, flying past me. As I approached the mall, I saw the cops swarming the main entrance, where I was headed. A woman had entered the main entrance with a rifle began shooting as she entered, continued as she walked through the mall. She killed 3, wounded 7, some critically. No doubt I would have been in the line of fire had I not been late. She spent decades in jail and was recently released.

Final score:

47points

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Nina 5 months ago

Guardian angel working it's magic?

7points

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#29

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) Tornado passed over my car on the freeway in Texas.

Greatgrandma2023 , Thilani Ratheep / pexels Report

Final score:

42points

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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 5 months ago

It used to be the thing that you hid under an overpass if a tornado came through. They don't recommend it now as you could get sucked out and up into the tornado. But, we did that once when I was little. Very scary.

16points

earic23 , Guduru Ajay bhargav / pexels Report

#30

“People Who Escaped Death By Complete Luck. What Happened?” (30 Answers) While going 100+mph on a motorcycle, I went in-between 2 deer bounding across the street. I fortunately didn't have any time to react or I would've surely hit the second one. Instead I just eased off the throttle to a stop, and took a few minutes to breathe and think about how bad that all could've gone.

Final score:

28points

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Angela B 5 months ago

Look I'm sorry to preach. The speed listed here is just plain dumb.

103points

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Justin Tyme 5 months ago (edited)

I was with a friend in Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, South Korea on June 29, 1995. My friend suddenly looked at his watch and said we should hurry and leave because he needed to pick up his wife at a certain time. Moments after we walked out, the building collapsed killing 502 people and injuring 937. We got hit by dust and small pieces of debris but were not injured.

10points

Sara Frazer 5 months ago

Wow, that really was just in time...

2points

wuehlmaus85_1 5 months ago

I'm still alive, because I'm overweight. In a suicide-attempt I took a large overdose of my medication. If I weighted 10lbs less, I would have been in a coma or even dead.

8points

Tempest 5 months ago

So sorry to hear about this. Glad that you’re still here! Hope you sought help afterwards. Something I’ve heard about similar situations is that people who are saved from suïcide attempts are around because the world wasn’t ready to lose them! (Please this is not saying the opposite is true. It’s just a reminder of how important you are even on days when you can’t see it yourself.)

9points

Nano Iders 5 months ago (edited)

Back in the 90s me and some friends decided to go for a drive on the roads around our town. It was still a clear night but you could see a storm coming in the distance. We badly misjudged the speed with which the storm was approaching and suddenly we were under a deluge, hail and all. You couldn't see beyond the hood of the car. As we entered a roundabout we decided to pull over on the side of the road to let the worst of the storm pass instead of keeping on driving, hazards on. 2 seconds after we stopped, a stolen semi without its lights on took the roundabout the wrong way and passed centimeters from where we were stopped. We literally saw it when it was already passing us at at least 70 km/h. If we would've kept on driving, the compact car we were in would've been one more bug smashed on that truck's hood.

7points

Pamela24 5 months ago

Several times (during two trips) I fell into microsleep while driving. Nothing more horrifying than waking up holding a steering wheel driving 110 km/h. I made myself a promise to never go that far. I feel like I've cashed all my luck.

6points

ZGutr 5 months ago (edited)

Cerebral bleeding. 50% leave via the morgue, 49% through rehab center. I'm in that other 1% group. Changes you life. And not without my share of issues, but can't complain either.

5points

Tempest 5 months ago

Not me but my grandma. In my country some seaside towns have rail tracks running parallel to the shoreline. This story happened several years ago. My family and several relatives were having a dinner gathering at such a seaside town when we decided to go for a beach stroll right after our dinner because the beach was close to the restaurant. So right after settling the bill we all walked out, full to the brim with our dinner which made all the adults walk begrudgingly slow (we kids ran ahead). My grandma (who was anyway slow cause of her age) was walking with my mom and aunts. They reached the train tracks which had to be crossed and were taking their sweet time crossing it carefully as to not trip over the rails. It was during this time that a train came rolling from their right side (I think the track was curved so they couldn’t see it ahead). In one heart stopping moment it roared past as my aunts and mom managed to pull my grandma and roll onto the ground in the last second.

5points

Dl B 5 months ago

Was in the air force in 1969. Was sent to Kessler AFB in Biloxi MS. for electronics training. I had already had some electronics in school before entering Air Force so I tested out of the first 6 week course of the training. I got to leave the base for a new assignment 6 weeks earlier than the rest of the guys I had went there with. 3 weeks later hurricane Camille, the largest hurricane to ever hit the US, went right through Biloxi. Wiped the town off the map. Base was not as hard hit and I probably would not have been killed but I do not want to know.

4points

R.C. 5 months ago

I used to live in a small town in northern Ontario. The mall there leaked for decades and had extensive water damage and one day the roof collapsed right over the lottery kiosk. I was shown the security camera footage and there were a lot of customers that day. Then, about 45 seconds before the roof came down, all the customers started wandering off. The 2 women who worked the kiosk didn't make it which is incredibly tragic but thinking how much worse it could have been has stuck with me all these years. What forces in the universe came together to cause all those customers to walk away at that exact moment, I'll never know.

4points

Hannah Taylor 5 months ago (edited)

Two instances in my life. I was working in a printroom (aka a converted Sunday School room). I had been working at a large, solid iron paper cutter that used counterweights to cut the paper. When I went to my desk to do paperwork, that's when it started. First, it sounded like a herd of elephants on the 3rd floor. Next, it gradually got louder. Then the whole building started shaking. I ducked under my desk (old classroom teacher's desk.) When the shaking stopped, I looked around to see what equipment was damaged (I heard a loud crash). Behind the paper cutter, where I had been standing 10 minutes before, one of the bookcases/makeshift paper shelves had fallen on to the cutter. Loaded down with 60 and 65-lb. paper, there was no doubt that I would have been killed. The quake was Loma Prieta, and it still unnerves me.

3points

Hannah Taylor 5 months ago

The second instance: I was living in a house that leaked each and every time it rained. That particular weekend was a very wet one. The leaking in my bedroom was so bad, I was actually running out of room to move my belongings in an effort to keep them from being ruined. The scumlord wouldn't respond to my phone calls. As I was on the other side of the room watching TV, suddenly, there was this horrendous crash. The ceiling near the foot of my bed, where I had been standing less than half an hour ago, totally collapsed. (Did I mention that this happened three days after I had the city inspector come by to check out the mold, leaking, bad plumbing, and NO central heating?) After that happened, that AH of a landlord had the nerve to offer me his childhood bedroom, less than half the size of the one I was currently occupying. That, and "offered" to "let" me move out without paying the current rent. Yeah, no.

3points

The Doom Song 5 months ago

I almost ran over a 2m long dugite (very venomous snake)on my bicycle. Missed his back end by 10cm. He came out of nowhere and luckily I swerved in the correct direction other wise I'd be dead

2points

Falcon on Dizzy 5 months ago

Idk if anyone here knows what a toro dingo is, but it's like a mini skidsteer that you stand on the back of. I used to work for a company that repaired and sold heavy equipment, and I was driving a dingo that had an auger on it (yk for digging holes). These are powered by the hydraulic pump in the dingo that also makes it move. Anyway, I didn't hook up the auger since I was just moving it, so I had stashed the hoses in the machine, but they came loose and managed to get stuck under the track. This caused the whole auger to flip over the top of the machine, with the tip landing roughly 6 inches from my face. If I hadn't ducked out of the way, that would have been 0 inches.

2points

Beeps 5 months ago (edited)

I’d like to know how many near misses we may all have had that we’ll never know about. I was sitting in traffic the other day, when randomly a roof tile fell off a building and smashed on the pavement. Luckily there were no pedestrians around at that moment, but not one minute later a group of four people walked past. None of them are aware of the fact that had they walked there just one minute earlier, one of them would probably be dead now.

1point

Yettichild 5 months ago

I was at work one day at a military base. Some people from another nearby base had come to assist me and told me they had nearly been killed by a guy's hauling a security boat with a semi. They were at an intersection turning right on their green light and the truck blew the stop light. It just so happened that those guys were heading to my base. So when the people helping me where there I asked them to identify the truck and wrote down it's info intending to ask the CO to ruffle some feathers. I get back to my office and my co-worker is all fired up and tells me how he was driving into work turning right on a green light when he saw movement out of the corner of his eye and a semi with a security boat blew the red light at over 60mph. Had he not stopped he would have been flattened. I told him I just so happen to have their info since they also almost killed the other group as well. Some SERIOUS feathers were ruffled that day. We have not had a problem with them again.

1point

Yo Momma 5 months ago

All of these stories makes you think about the trivial things people argue and fight over in life. Politics, race, religion, money, etc. Life is too short to always be mad at something or someone. Let it go! Be grateful for each and every day you still get to breathe and spend time with loved ones.

0points

B Jones 5 months ago

I found a bouncy ball outside and was bouncing it down the sidewalk by a busier street. It hit a pebble and went towards the traffic and I followed right along. I snapped back to reality right before stepping on front of a car. Kids making mistakes? No I was 26 years old LOL.

0points

Mimi M 5 months ago

Biking down a street, bus in an oncoming lane. I signal that I"m turning left, bus driver thought I was signalling him to swerve left. We both avoided a head-on collision by seconds. After that, I changed my signal style to flat hand, rather than pointing.

0points

Bookish Panda 5 months ago

When I was two, I (apparently) was across the street from my mom, and I saw a car coming. I decided that right then, I REALLY needed to get to my mom. Speeding semi slammed the brakes and stopped about two feet from my face. I should be dead.

0points

Alecto76 5 months ago

Tonight I was almost hit by a car walking to the store. I was halfway through the crosswalk when I heard screeching tires behind me. Luckily it stopped, but it was close enough that I had my hands on it. Saw the lady in passenger seat yelling and slapping the guy driving, so I waved and went on my way. On the way back, on the other side of the street, a crow flew down onto a sign in front of me. I stopped and clicked at him and said hi, happy I saw a crow. Then I remember they take the dead to the afterlife and thought maybe he letting me know I got a reprieve. Still I got to talk to a crow.

0points

Scarlett 5 months ago (edited)

When I was 13, my friend’s mom was driving me and like six or seven other girls (we were in a mini van) to the school dance. She was a little slow pulling forward after the light went green and an eighteen wheeler went flying through his red light. A second more and all of us probably would have been killed or severely injured. Being middle schoolers, we thought it was exciting but I highly doubt my friend’s mom agreed!

0points

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Justin Tyme 5 months ago (edited)

10points

Sara Frazer 5 months ago

Wow, that really was just in time...

2points

wuehlmaus85_1 5 months ago

I'm still alive, because I'm overweight. In a suicide-attempt I took a large overdose of my medication. If I weighted 10lbs less, I would have been in a coma or even dead.

8points

Tempest 5 months ago

9points

Nano Iders 5 months ago (edited)

7points

Pamela24 5 months ago

6points

ZGutr 5 months ago (edited)

Cerebral bleeding. 50% leave via the morgue, 49% through rehab center. I'm in that other 1% group. Changes you life. And not without my share of issues, but can't complain either.

5points

Tempest 5 months ago

5points

Dl B 5 months ago

4points

R.C. 5 months ago

4points

Hannah Taylor 5 months ago (edited)

3points

Hannah Taylor 5 months ago

3points