Scariest moment of your life

[Scottdau]

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Damn Jim that is scary! And you have to watch for Mooses they are mean!

[Maxattax3]

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Well, I have quite a few and I think I may have posted this before but here goes.

Cliff diving with friends in Austin, TX. We climbed this one cliff not knowing how deep the water was. My friend jumped first and we all scrambled to edge to watch him hit the water. After he submerged, a HUGE cloud of brown dirt sprung up. He surfaced and yelled "It's fine!". Well, I went second. I jumped and tried to hit the water at a slight angle to maximize the slowdown you get from the water... that was a mistake. I hit the bottom was stuck in this silt-like muck. The only thing above the muck was my head and shoulders, every other part of my body was completely stuck. I looked up and could see the surface/daylight and the bottom of my friend's boat, but could not move at all. I struggled for a bit then had one of those

"Wow... this is it. This is how I'm going to die" moments.

I snapped out of that and kept wiggling around until my arms came free enough to dig my legs out. I swam to the surface and gasped for air. I wish I knew how long I was underwater... it could have been 15 seconds for all I know, but it felt like an eternity. I havent been cliff diving since haha.

[CHIEF61]

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I been shot at so many times thanks to gang bangers. Thank god for their horrible shooting (mostly when i was alil teen just playing sports outside). You got to where and whats around you at all times.

[PVarck31]

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This was in the Army: My First Ever CQB live fire.

Wow. Was this a real firefight?

[Jackdog]

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I had more than a few between growing up in Detroit and the service. Nothing scared me more than when my son had pneumonia when he was a baby. He stopped breathing twice. I never want to feel that kind of pain again.

[Cusefan]

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Wow. Was this a real firefight?

Training Exercise.

Is it possible to have post traumatic stress disorder from a car accident? Because ever since, I can't be in a car without freaking out. Which is pretty tough, because most of us drive (or in my case, are driven) every day. Anytime I see a car pull out just a bit from a side street or cars slowing down for a red light, my stomach just turns. I guess it doesn't matter, though, as I don't want to be medicated. It's just something I'll have to deal with and face every day.

Absolutely

[mgoblue678]

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Mine aren't really life threatening, I have been fortunate in that regard but they still freaked me out when they happened.

One was when I was 10 years old on the Fourth of July, my dad was doing some remodeling on our house. There was box of nails sitting on the counter and one of them somehow fell out of the box onto our carpet. I was walking through and wasn't paying lot of attention. The nail must have caught on my sock which lifted it to stand straight up and then I stepped down directly on it. At first I thought I had just tripped over something since I didn't really feel the pain . Then when I looked down at my foot I realized I had a nail in my foot. It was one of the really long nails and the whole thing had gone into my foot. The X-ray showed it went almost all the way threw my foot and out the other side. It also showed it had barely missed some important nerves along with the growth plate in my foot. The doctor said it was the farthest they had ever seen a nail go into somebody's foot. They actually ended up having to knock me out to take it out and obviously gave me a tetanus shot. I just had to stay off my foot for a couple of weeks. Like I said it wasn't scary in the fact that it was life threatening or anything but it still freaked me out.

The second thing would be when I was 11 years out and my family took a vacation down to Florida. Instead of a hotel we stayed in one of the state parks down there. Unfortunately we were back in the woods section of the park. That section of the park literally had hundreds of banana spiders(if you have seen them you know they a creepy looking and can be rather large) all over the place including directly over your head most of the time. That was a little bit unsettling but wasn't too bad. One night right after we turned off the tv to go to bed, I was lying there on my bed in our camper and one of those banana spiders slide downs on it's webbing a couple of inches in front of my face. I really hate spiders anyways so I literally jumped straight out of my bed in a second and ended up killing it. Apparently it had got into the camper somehow and had started making a web in there while we were out during the day.

The third would be last Winter when I hit a patch of black ice going about 50 on a two lane highway and spun directly into the other lane. There was a truck in that lane and I thought for sure he was going to hit me. Luckily he was able to slam on his breaks and turn a little to avoid me since there was nobody behind him.

[mKoz26]

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No long story here, but I almost drowned when I was 13.

Summary: Was at a friend's lake house. We went out on the lake on a rowboat. We didn't bring life jackets. We got out of the boat to swim. It was very windy outside. The boat was blown away. I couldn't catch up to the boat. I swam around for 30+ minutes trying to catch the attention of the only boat driving around the lake while my friend held on to a buoy.

Eventually I caught the attention of the boat and the driver helped me and my friend get back to shore.

The feeling you get when you think you're going to die is terrible. You think about your family, your funeral, who will be there, how you will be remembered, etc. Feeling that makes you appreciate life that much more.

[bgeno]

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Damn Jim that is scary! And you have to watch for Mooses they are mean!

Moosen.

[ehh]

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Vegas 1999, out late night on the strip and some dude pulled a gun on some other guy after a screaming match. I was standing 10 feet behind the guy being aimed at, right in the line of fire. The guy holding the gun didn't fire and the other guy ducked behind a trash can or a bench, can't remember the details it was so crazy. Me and my boys sprinted into the Mandalay Bay lobby - by far the fastest I have ever ran in my life.

One of my most vivid memories from my early childhood, I was six or seven when it happened. Me and two other neighborhood kids were dicking around my neighbor's front yard across the street from my parents' place. For some reason the other two decided to try to start spitting on me (random lol) and my reaction was to just turn and run across the street back to my parents' yard. Did it so quickly that a car nearly hit me, the driver had to slam on the brakes and swerve/skid out of the way to avoid hitting me.

Flight home from Miami to JFK in 1992 (just after the Dream Team had wrapped up the Gold) and the weather/turbulence was awful. Never been on a plane that experienced that much chaos, random ppl on the plane were holding hands with each other and praying aloud. Landed safe and sound though and the entire plane gave the pilots a round of applause.

[Qb]

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I was held up at gunpoint, about a foot from my face, several years ago in Pittsburgh right by the Pitt campus. I was scared -- my one leg was shaking and foot tapping like crazy -- but it was kind of an eerie no-time-think-only-react situation, so in hindsight, it really wasn't that bad.

My #1 has to be when my wife had to get a C-section and had complications when they couldn't get her uterus to stop bleeding. I was in the OR and could sense things weren't going well, but had to try to keep a stoic face because my wife wasn't completely under and was asking me what was going on. They tap me on the shoulder and shove my first child in my face, while I'm wondering if my wife was going to make it. Then, as they're calling for blood for a transfusion, they tell me I need to leave NOW. Stupidly, I snuck a peak back at the table as they're escorting me out to see my wife's guts laying everywhere.

The time -- no idea how long it was, but felt like forever -- waiting to hear she was OK was excruciating, especially with all the emotions of seeing my daughter for the first time. I mean if the wife died and I had to take of the baby all by myself, how the hell would I ever get to play videogames?

PS - If you can't tell, she's fine. Oops, I mean

[mkharsh33]

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when our daughter was born (she's our 4th child) she was rushed to the Neonatal ICU...apparently all the fluid hadn't drained out of her lungs and she was drowning.

She was okay after 3 days...we had moved to Florida only a few months before her birth (work related) and no family or friends. Rough time...

[KG]

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I was held up at gunpoint, about a foot from my face, several years ago in Pittsburgh right by the Pitt campus. I was scared -- my one leg was shaking and foot tapping like crazy -- but it was kind of an eerie no-time-think-only-react situation, so in hindsight, it really wasn't that bad.

My #1 has to be when my wife had to get a C-section and had complications when they couldn't get her uterus to stop bleeding. I was in the OR and could sense things weren't going well, but had to try to keep a stoic face because my wife wasn't completely under and was asking me what was going on. They tap me on the shoulder and shove my first child in my face, while I'm wondering if my wife was going to make it. Then, as they're calling for blood for a transfusion, they tell me I need to leave NOW. Stupidly, I snuck a peak back at the table as they're escorting me out to see my wife's guts laying everywhere.

The time -- no idea how long it was, but felt like forever -- waiting to hear she was OK was excruciating, especially with all the emotions of seeing my daughter for the first time. I mean if the wife died and I had to take of the baby all by myself, how the hell would I ever get to play videogames?

PS - If you can't tell, she's fine. Oops, I mean

Glad to hear everything turned out well Q.

My contributions:

1) Carjacked at gun point. I go to run into a convenient store after playing some ball, don't lock by doors because I thought I could see the car clearly. Well some guy snuck into the backseat and waited for me to come back. I come back, he puts the gun to my head and tells me to drive a few hundred feet to this alley. When we get to the alley he tells me to get out and not look back. Everything happened so fast that I feel like I should have been more scared. Turns out dude used my car in a robbery. The funny thing was that he actually fixed some minor issues with car (he was a mechanic) so it ran better after I got it back.

2) Fell asleep at the wheel and hit a small utility pole. The summer after I graduated college I had started to develop really bad allergies. I remember taking Benadryl for them and it made me really sleepy. I dozed off about 5 mins away from house, swerved off the road, woke up right before impact and braced myself. Chest hit the steering wheel and was bruised, had whiplash and my knee got banged up from hitting the center console. That split-second after I woke up and before I hit the pole still gives me the creeps.

[Scottdau]

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I was held up at gunpoint, about a foot from my face, several years ago in Pittsburgh right by the Pitt campus. I was scared -- my one leg was shaking and foot tapping like crazy -- but it was kind of an eerie no-time-think-only-react situation, so in hindsight, it really wasn't that bad.

My #1 has to be when my wife had to get a C-section and had complications when they couldn't get her uterus to stop bleeding. I was in the OR and could sense things weren't going well, but had to try to keep a stoic face because my wife wasn't completely under and was asking me what was going on. They tap me on the shoulder and shove my first child in my face, while I'm wondering if my wife was going to make it. Then, as they're calling for blood for a transfusion, they tell me I need to leave NOW. Stupidly, I snuck a peak back at the table as they're escorting me out to see my wife's guts laying everywhere.

The time -- no idea how long it was, but felt like forever -- waiting to hear she was OK was excruciating, especially with all the emotions of seeing my daughter for the first time. I mean if the wife died and I had to take of the baby all by myself, how the hell would I ever get to play videogames?

PS - If you can't tell, she's fine. Oops, I mean

Yeah that is heavy about the C Section. My wife had one too with my second son. I think that was one of my scariest times. When they cut her up and they told me to go to the waiting room while they sew her up. I saw it when I was going to the door (The cut) I saw intestines and everything freak the **** of me. Another time was when my first son was born the cord was wrapped around his neck, so they cut my wife (you know what) and when I was removed again they walk me right by it and I see that cut. There was so much blood I thought she was going to die. But she was talking and laughing, so I figure she was going to be OK. But it still ****ed with me big.

[Scottdau]

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Glad to hear everything turned out well Q.

My contributions:

1) Carjacked at gun point. I go to run into a convenient store after playing some ball, don't lock by doors because I thought I could see the car clearly. Well some guy snuck into the backseat and waited for me to come back. I come back, he puts the gun to my head and tells me to drive a few hundred feet to this alley. When we get to the alley he tells me to get out and not look back. Everything happened so fast that I feel like I should have been more scared. Turns out dude used my car in a robbery. The funny thing was that he actually fixed some minor issues with car (he was a mechanic) so it ran better after I got it back.

2) Fell asleep at the wheel and hit a small utility pole. The summer after I graduated college I had started to develop really bad allergies. I remember taking Benadryl for them and it made me really sleepy. I dozed off about 5 mins away from house, swerved off the road, woke up right before impact and braced myself. Chest hit the steering wheel and was bruised, had whiplash and my knee got banged up from hitting the center console. That split-second after I woke up and before I hit the pole still gives me the creeps.

That was funny! Got to love getting robbed or car jack. But in my work that is good for me bad for you. When kids do this I have new students therefore job security.