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See people almost die?

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Mr.Feeny
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What up guys? So I was at Melting Pot with my family and family friends last night and this lady at the table next to us started choking on her food and someone had to bust out the heimlich but it wasnt working.
She was getting real blue cuz she couldn't breath and finally after almost 2 minutes, they're able to get it out and she starts gasping for air. Now, I didn't think it'd affect me so much but it was pretty scary being right next to that, almost seeing someone die.
Have you guys ever seen someone die, or get in a gnarly car accident or something? It's crazy to think that life can just end at any moment so quickly. You gotta live it to the fullest...
Nov 4 2010 4:44PM
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H8CH
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the funny thing was - he'd see the same guys back in a few weeks later, fucking shot to shit again - still not die...... I think it was getting to the point he wanted to just shoot the fuckers in the head himself to make his workload easier.... ha.
Nov 4 2010 11:13PM
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jibjunkie
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goosebumps......ahh
Nov 4 2010 11:22PM
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Smuffy
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a couple years ago, i watched a good friend of mine do a cork 630, catch an edge, high side right to his head. he was out cold for an hour, having seizures and stuff. he ended up going out in a heli, and was alright with bleeding of the brain. every doctor said he would have died without his helmet, which was split down the side. it was one of the scariest moments ive ever been through.

wear your dome piece kids
Nov 4 2010 11:29PM
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SmokeyTheBear
Posts: 492 - Karma: 24
I'll bite.  What happened?
Nov 4 2010 11:29PM
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Deezy
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this thread makes me want to learn first aid stuff, i have my bronze med for swimming, but i wanna get all the certs for that.

and i am lucky enough to not see anyone die.
i fucking hope i never will.
Nov 4 2010 11:30PM
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njwa88
Posts: 465 - Karma: 15
that would be great! we need ppl like you. I wish you never do see one either, it's rather shocking.
Nov 4 2010 11:54PM
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Phil-X-
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im a year round life guard, we learn a ton of different emergency stuff, just in case anything ever goes wrong. last season i saw a snowboarder riding a rail jutting out 45 degrees upward over a slant, i was only like 15 feet away from him when i saw his board catch the rail and he basically did half a flip and landed on his head. no movement, instantly i unclick and run up to the guy and my hearts racing, ive done drowning rescues but never something like a dry spinal. im crouched over him trying to get a response, he had a very shallow pulse but was breathing. i yell at my friend to go ontop of the jump we were under so no one lands on us. He violently starts convoluting this was on and off for a few minutes and eventually he seemed to regain consciousness. no clue who he was, where he was or anything, his dickhead friends tried to pick him up and board off with him saying "hes fine, he just needs to go in the lodge" i wouldnt let them take him and made them wait for the patrol to come over.

shits scary when it happens, totally different mindset then ive ever had before
Nov 5 2010 12:15AM
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skithesprings
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yeah, theres no real reason why the guy should have lived. he got so incredibly lucky and somehow didn't just get absolutely crushed.

heres a pic of the truck wrapped around a tree. this was after the tow truck had pulled it about a foot or so away. the tree was about 10 inches away from the center console and the guy was pinned between that and the steering wheel.

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Nov 5 2010 2:51AM
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rudager
Posts: 11335 - Karma: 4,624
I've had something like that.
Except it was me that fell 30 feet to flat ice at Lake Louise when I was 7, didn't get on the chair properly, so I slipped out, my instructor was holding me by my hood and I was so scared. The hood zipper started to unzip, her only choice was to drop me at 30 feet and hope I make it, or keep holding on, which only got higher.

I was dropped, landed on hard pack. Snapped my tib/fib in my left leg. Ski boot to the chin, so that got split open.

I remember the out of body experience watching me lay there unconscious with people gathered around, then waking up on a toboggan, then waking in the ambulance, then waking with a cast.


And that is how I almost died.
Nov 5 2010 3:26AM
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etlie
Posts: 166 - Karma: 16
shit. One of my good friends from primary school drowned when he was young (5?) or something, but he was revived.
Nov 5 2010 3:30AM
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rankstank
Posts: 1033 - Karma: 223
god some people are so fucking retarded when it comes to what to do about injuries. Good thing you didn't let hime, that could have been lights out.
Nov 5 2010 9:29AM
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hoodratz47
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on tv a couple weeks back Kenjon Barner thought he was dead look at the replay and watch how his neck torques
Nov 5 2010 9:39AM
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lahnabonny
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A girl here at school had a friend back home that worked at dunkin donuts and came to know all the regular customers. Well one day a guy that always came in, his name was scott i think, was leaving and walking across the street and a lady had ran a red light and then killed him and the girl saw the whole thing. I cant even imagine.

Also I was at an amusement park one time and a guy was having a seizure on the floor in one of the gift shops. My mom felt like she should help considering shes a registered nurse, so she did. I couldn't watch, the poor guy was completely blue.
Nov 5 2010 9:45AM
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pmsnow
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I was driving through this sketchy ass town one time on my way up to colorado. Half parked in the middle of the intersection was a guy with his head laid back not moving. He had stab wounds all over his stomach. First dead guy I had ever seen.
Nov 5 2010 10:14AM
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theline
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Last year i was taking the bus home and got dropped off about a mile from my house. it was a nice day and i was just going to walk home from there. So, i get off the bus and i'm about 10 steps up the road when i hear an engine rev behind me. I had gotten off at a 4 way intersection and the car which had been going across the road (he was going to drive up past me) suddenly gunned it across the intersection, missed me by inches, and smashed into a tree. I hadn't even moved, i just stood there for a few seconds not able to believe it had happened. There was smoke coming from the car, and people who had stopped and I ran over and opened the door. The guy was slumped over the wheel and bleeding and not breathing. We got him out of the car and started CPR but when the ambulance got there he was dead. Turns out he had a heart attack and just stomped on the gas. He was probably dead before he hit the tree, and it was just luck that he had missed me. Crazy way to end the school day.
Nov 5 2010 1:50PM
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BlackcountryBill
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Is that why your English is so bad?
Nov 5 2010 7:25PM
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thesheik
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wow...it's impressive you still ski

i once saw a woman jump in front of a subway car in munich...that was pretty bad



i thought brad smith (who is my favorite player) had died for like 3 seconds after this hit, too. i hid my head under a pillow for a while.
Nov 5 2010 7:39PM
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RubberSoul
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yeah it goes really well sometimes when a relevant song is playing in a thread. well played
Nov 5 2010 7:42PM
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tuna.
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i was at this game and i honestly thought i watched a man die.
Nov 5 2010 8:10PM
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Cthulhu
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i have 2, i dont know how old i was but it was grade 3 or earlier, i was driving to school and there was a 18 wheeler pulled of to the side of the road, there was some problem and the driver had to crawl under the trailer to fix it, well he unfourtuneatley decided to look out from underneath right as a driver came to close to his trailer, i watched the mans head get hit by the bumper/ wheels of the car and saw his skull/ brain matter disperse itself across the road and then watched the pool of blood grow around his lifeless body, sorry if it was descriptive but kinda traumatizing for a kid less than 10 yrs old, i can actualy still picture it happening as if it were 2 seconds ago, and this year i was driving past an elementry school, a mom put her infant daughter (they have a preschool there) in the child seat in the back and got in the car, well something happened in the car as they were leaving the parking lot because as the mom turned onto the road the passenger door in the back flew open and the child (2 years or younger) launched a good 6-8 ft from the car and landed on the road, she turned out to be fine but it was one of those things you just cant believe you actualy saw
Nov 5 2010 8:11PM
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syrup.
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When I was 13 I was at a Toronto Maple Leafs' game, and it was the 75th season so they had a bunch of the old players out to honour. When one guy came on the ice, right in the spotlight, he had a heart attack and died. I was five rows up so he died right in front of me. So frightening.
Nov 5 2010 8:20PM
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Hodor
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I play keeper in soccer and I was diving forward for a crossed ball three weeks ago, when an oncoming player lifted up his knee and caught me right in the top of the head. I then felt shooting pains go through my limbs. It felt as if my back had bowed out to the right, and my neck had snapped. I was completely stunned for abut ten seconds when I thought, shit I am not going to walk again. in another ten seconds I sort of came to, and then I wiggled my toes. At that point I knew that things were going to be okay. I just have a broken neck, which does not require a surgery, and I will be out of any sports for three and a half months. That sure scared the shit out of me though
Nov 5 2010 8:29PM
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theabortionator
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I've seen some pretty bad shit too. People that were close to death, and people that didn't make it. Scary shit. Really makes you think about things sometimes.
Nov 5 2010 8:31PM
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rankstank
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holy shit that's intense
Nov 5 2010 8:32PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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I had a guy on the verge of death in my hands for about 10 minutes. he had a heart attack scuba diving at about 30 feet. his buddy brought him to the surface and the dude was face down in the water. we happened to be getting ready to certify a rescue diver at the time, so we had oxygen and an aed right there.

we pull the guy to shore and peeled his gear. we immediately get him on o2 and start ccr. we go at it for what seemed like an eternity until the ambulance showed up. they immediately took over and started zapping him. things weren't looking so hot when they pulled away. don't know if he ever pulled through.
Nov 5 2010 8:42PM
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BenWhit
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lost my bestfriend in a bad car accident on the way home from Mt. Snow. i think about him and the accident every day
Nov 5 2010 8:42PM
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OlliePop
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Ok so my friends girlfriend was giving us a ride back to his house when the city bus was stopping. She decides to pass the bus on double yellow going about 10 miles over the speed limit when 2 little latino boys cross the bus. The kid had two dive out of the way to avoid being hit. He was about a foot from the car.
Nov 5 2010 9:05PM
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twin-tip-hero
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I'm so sorry to hear that man. That's a really sick car.
Nov 5 2010 9:16PM
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TOUCHE
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Last year at Mt Hutt in New Zealand, we were having lunch at the bottom of the runs and i see this little girl probably about 6-8 screaming down the hill completely out of control. She just kept going the whole way down unable to turn, until she eventually ran straight into a pillar that held the balcony for the cafe up. As she hit it i heard a huge "THUD" which was fucking scary. they taped the area around her off and there were tons of ski patrol around her until she was lifted out by helicopter. found out on the news that she died in the chopper.

also when i was 6 i was at the pool with my family and a woman who was probably about 50 had a heart attack and died.
Nov 5 2010 10:26PM
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Alex=God
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alright, so my car club went out and drove the dragon a couple weeks ago. If you dont know what that is, its a mountain road with 300 something curves in 11 miles. Anyways there is me in the forester and you can see the white integra behind me

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That is the last image of the integra not totaled because less then a minute later this happened


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he understeered and went straight off a cliff, hit a tree about 30 feet off the ground and then just slid all the way down the tree to the ground, I watched it all unfold in my rearview mirror. I thought I seriously had just watched a good friend die. Luckily he just had a couple scratchs and cuts, nothing to major. He lucked out.

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Nov 5 2010 11:25PM
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Alex=God
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Nov 5 2010 11:26PM
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eastcoastplanker
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about 4 chairs behind a kid who fell of the lift onto his head...he regained consiousness(sp?) and seemed like he was gonna pull through then all of a sudden it was over..didnt sleep at all that night...it was real humbling
Nov 5 2010 11:58PM
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HalfandHalf
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1. some guy at Alpine threw a huge half backie and landed directly on his head, some people that were above me ran up to him and the lifty radioed the ski patrol. There was blood but they got him out of there. Not sure how bad it turned out to be.

2. a cop in san francisco hit a bicyclist, the guy got smacked to the car and rolled up on the windshield and then smacked to the ground. He hit his head pretty bad but he got up.

3. some sketchy ass knife fight in san francisco.
Nov 6 2010 12:14AM
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njwa88
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Yeah bro, it was. I miss it a lot. What I did not mention in my story was that the guy who smashed into us at 150km/h did not even stop. He did a hit and run, so for all he knows, he smashed into a car with 3 teens in it, who are left dead in a ditch.
Nov 17 2010 6:35PM
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