RE: Tell me about the time where you were the closest to dying.

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Dec 1, 2020
9:11:44am

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Tell me about the time where you were the closest to dying.

BlueVU

12/1/20 8:59am

I'm pretty sure the answer for everyone is today

Sea Chicken

12/1/20 9:00am

Buh-dum-tss

BlueVU

12/1/20 9:03am

RE: Tell me about the time where you were the closest to dying.

USMCdad

12/1/20 9:11am

fell off my bike over a guardrail into traffic on my mission, almost shot by accident by Al Qaida in Iraq

byujag

12/1/20 9:19am

Holy crap! Both of those are intense!

BlueVU

12/1/20 9:24am

It's all fun and games until someone loses a head.

spoxjox

12/1/20 3:31pm

I did die.

CougarTailDevourer

12/1/20 9:24am

About 5 years ago my uncle accidentally shot me in the back. Had to be life

Nuke

12/1/20 9:31am

Wow! That's terrifying!

BlueVU

12/1/20 9:33am

hunting or what?

CrashMcLarson

12/1/20 9:37am

Haha nope we were moving a gun safe and the numb nut thought it was unloaded

Nuke

12/1/20 12:26pm

My story is pretty lame after reading these others but: I ate at Olive Garden

rcbyufan

12/1/20 9:38am

7.62mm round went through my mosquito netting while in Afghanistan.

SpiffCoug

12/1/20 9:44am

Whoa! I just looked up a 7.62mm round. That would have HURT

BlueVU

12/1/20 9:55am

While my cardiologist was trying to reinflate a collapsed stent in my heart,

Hinta

12/1/20 9:54am

Oh man... Did you notice anything? Did the shocks bring you out of the anastheti

BlueVU

12/1/20 9:56am

Yes, I sat up and asked what happened. My doc told me they had to paddle me.

Hinta

12/1/20 10:13am

Slip sliding car and Afghanistan.

TheLoneCougar

12/1/20 9:57am

LLVI guys are the best.

SpiffCoug

12/1/20 9:59am

Ours were spot on that day. Lots of funny stuff too, but that not the topic of this thread. Afghanis were some of the

TheLoneCougar

12/1/20 10:10am

Now you have to go on...

cougargollum

12/1/20 10:13am

Too much to say and some of it would be very inappropriate on the board.

TheLoneCougar

12/1/20 10:37am

That Afghanistan story is incredible. You could write a short story about

BlueVU

12/1/20 10:04am

Well if you ever go down to Fort Benning, GA and the Library there you can read the full account with maps, images, etc.

TheLoneCougar

12/1/20 10:13am

Speaking of firearms, once I was in my home, and I heard some would-be intruders

Loafer

12/1/20 10:28am

RE: Speaking of firearms, once I was in my home, and I heard some would-be

CrashMcLarson

12/1/20 10:32am

I know this is referring to a well known story, but I just can’t think of the

StantonMac

12/3/20 10:43am

Too many. I have a dyslexic heart.

Solomon Levi

12/1/20 1:47pm

I have 3.

Zilog

12/1/20 2:34pm

Wow, those are quite the stories. Sounds like an interesting life growing up.

TheLoneCougar

12/1/20 3:12pm

When I was about 8 my parents asked me to go to the store to buy milk. The store

Hinta

12/1/20 3:27pm

Wow

Solomon Levi

12/1/20 4:26pm

As a toddler at a friend or families house who had a pool. I wondered off and

Powerbait DPM

12/2/20 6:59am

That is genuinely an incredible story!

BlueVU

12/2/20 11:02am

Almost fell off the side of the mountain while hiking Timp. Didn’t think much of it at the time.

DKN

12/2/20 10:56am

One of the times my mother said to me

StantonMac

12/2/20 11:15am

Got lost hunting when as a teenager, couldn't get a fire going, got hypothermia

cougarmeister

12/2/20 1:04pm

Went to the doctor with my wife, we both had the flu. She looked at my wife and

Nat Gas Man

12/3/20 10:31am

Sounds like that doctor needs a lesson in bedside manner.

Vincent's Picks

12/3/20 10:36am

WOW... That's terrifying! This covid stuff must be scary for you 🙁

BlueVU

12/3/20 11:29am

I have to hibernate away from kids every year during cold and fluy season, so

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