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russsavokskis
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Share your near death stories.

Mine was a couple years ago I was fourwheeling and I hit a dip in the trail too hard and my machine flipped and almost crushed me but I rolled out of the way at the last second.
May 12 2016 3:29AM
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S.J.W
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Mate had this old shitbox of a car and was driving around a corner at around 70, spun onto the other side of the road and if there was a car there would have killed me straight away I think.

But probably scarier than that was I was surfing a spot called deadmans two years ago on a pretty big day. 10 ft plus, and I got caught on the inside and washed onto the rocks and against the shelf. Luckily the swell was long enough interval that I only had to take a few on the head and wash around against the rocks. Completely fucked my wetsuit, completely fucked my surfboard. Amazing I didn't break anything.

For reference this is deadmans
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/828039/deadmans-12-july-2007
May 12 2016 6:07AM
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Dddsz
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I was jumping chad's when ski patrol blew it up... fucker sent me into orbit. I landed at the bottom Alta and the homies were all " Hey bro how do you get to Chad's from the bottom of Alta?" And I told everyone the good news. Thus, the legend of Chad's gap was created.
May 12 2016 6:48AM
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aiden516
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tried to watch dennis_reynolds cork 7
May 12 2016 8:03AM
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HairyCox
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Mine is beyond crazy.

I had a palpitation (The FEELING of an irregular heart beat (although it is nothing)) in my sleep, causing massive panic attack, leading to hyperventilation. I thought I was going to die in my shitty dorm room in this stupid German country on my study abroad trip.

Pretty lame near death experience
May 12 2016 9:12AM
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270on420out
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In January we had our only snowstorm of the year. We got 3 feet in one night (It melted in about 4 days). I was at my friend's place, but I knew my mom was worried about the storm and wanted me home. It was around 9, so I figured I'd go. At this point, it had been snowing pretty hard. There was already a foot of snow on the ground. Then I found out that the shuttle service had shut down. My buddies place is about a mile away from the top of the mountain, so I figured I'd just walk up there and use something as a sled to slide down to the lodge. Well I took some wrong turns while walking up to the mountain. Next thing I know I'm in the middle of the woods. My sense of direction was awful. It was snowing so hard that my visibility was poor. I was wading through wais deep snow trying to find my way out. At this point I'm freaking out cause I was freezing my ass off. And my clothes/hair were wet cause I was in my friend's hot tub before I left. I figured I should find a spot to build a shelter. I wandered for like 20 minutes before I found an opening in the forest. I walked out to it, and I sunk about a foot into the water. I had walked out onto some water. My foot was stuck. I was breaking the ice and sloshing water around. I was flailing in survival mode. I freed my foot and got to the shore. At this point I am loosing my mind and attempting to run through the snow, but it's like trying to run through a lake of maple syrup. At this point I had been lost for about 2 hours. But then I saw a structure of some sort. I "swam" towards it. There I saw a snowcat driver refueling the cat. I approached him and told him my story. He was a homie and gave me a ride down to the lodge. I was safe now, but the shuttles were still shut down. So I was stuck at the lodge with about 25 drunk people, luckily my 2 friends were also there. We walked into the hotel, and found a random room open. We slept in there for a little before the owner came in and kicked us out. Shuttle service resumed at 4 in the morning. Slept for 4 hours then skied pow the next day.
May 12 2016 9:57AM
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Mingg
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In high school I was dating a guy who had post concussion syndrome and he was super inattentive because of it. He was on ADHD meds for it but he usually didn't take them though. This same guy had an old 1959 Chevy Apache with no seatbelts or airbags. It was just a large chuck of metal and to make it worse the gas tank was behind the seat.

Anyways he never paid attention when he drove and he'd accelerate towards red lights/stop signs and I'd tell him the lights red and he'd slam on his brakes and yell at me for being a back seat driver. After a while of getting yelled at I stopped even bothering.

One day after school he was driving us to his house and there's a long stretch of road, speed limit is like 45. I was on my phone and it died so I looked up and the moment I look up I see a car stopped not too far ahead of us. They were turning left down a side road that has maybe 2 or 3 houses on it so no one ever turns there. I scream that they're stopped. He slams on the brakes, the truck tips onto two wheels but he cranks the wheel back and we swerve off the road. If we would have rear ended that car I for sure would have gone through the windshield and most likely died.

If it weren't for my phone dying I don't think we'd be alive right now.
May 12 2016 10:48AM
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BushDid9-11
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A while ago me and my friends would do this fucked hop thing where we would see how many people we could fit into a car and then go for a rip. So once 9 of us loaded into my friends Suzuki Sidekick, which is pretty much a 2 door jeep but smaller, and at one point we were going too fast into a corner and both left side wheels came off the ground. There were 7 people without seatbelts crammed like sardines into the 2 seater backseat, and if we had rolled the car I'm 99% all of us would have died. We stopped after that.
May 12 2016 11:12AM
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ronders_
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Pulling a small sailboat across a parking lot, and the mast got caught on a power line. I didn't look up at first so I kept pulling. The whole time I was holding onto the steel forestay.

Also swerved to avoid a dog on an ATV going 45 mph and almost slammed into an embankment and some trees.

Few months later I was laying under/behind the same ATV working on it outside. I went to shoot trap, and after like a minute I here a big crack and a tree had fallen right where I had been laying, it was a solid 20" diameter. Safe to say I would've died. So I could say guns saved my life.
May 13 2016 12:36PM
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arnie_grape
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one time I asked a girl if she was on her period
May 13 2016 3:53PM
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gapersarefriends
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I had a three wave hold down a couple years ago and i thought i was going to die
May 13 2016 3:59PM
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cornblatt
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I was skiing at Whitefish, in an area I'd been through 3-4x already that afternoon. There was good snow, but this particular run had a cliff you had to avoid. It had lots of signs and a rope, no big deal.

If you've been to Whitefish, you know it can turn from a nice day to zero-visibility ice-fog in a few minutes. So I go down this same run (last run of the day, by myself) just as the fog appears. I can't see very far but I figure I'll just go down until I hit the rope, then traverse across and go around the cliff.

Suddenly get a creepy feeling that I should stop skiing RIGHT NOW.

I come to a halt just as a 2ft thick pillow of snow collapses beneath me - and I am perched at the top of the cliff, bouncing up and down slightly. The tips of my skis are on one rock outcropping, the tails are on another, and there is just open air below my feet, where I can see pointy rocks sticking through the snow at the bottom of the cliff, around 25ft below.

I couldn't go back up the hill, because it was too steep and snowy; I was already past where the cliff started to roll off. I couldn't go down because of the pointy rocks below.

After standing there for 10 minutes contemplating how the slightest wrong step would mean I might die, I eventually decided the only option was to inch my way along the rocks at the very top of the cliff, grabbing on to baby pine tree branches and rocks and whatever else was there. It probably only took 15 minutes to get around to a point where the cliff wasn't so high and I could get down, but it felt like forever.
May 13 2016 5:57PM
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Titus69
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Back in 4th grade my parents took my friend, brother and I up to Gunstock for a snowday. We met up with my brothers 4 other friends there for a ski race. One of the friends takes us on a freshly covered glade. We go down for a while and eventually have to remove our skis to hike up. We argue and tell this kid were going the wrong way but he kept pushing us to keep going, claming he had hiked the mountain before. We eventually land atop a completely different mountain. We hike up the fire tower ontop of it and see the summit lift miles away, luckily there was a little heated room and our parents got the fire dept to call it. Patrol found us 2-3 hours later. We only got 4 runs that day and it was dumping.





Not me but my mom got home from her trip to Brussels a week or so before the attacks.
May 13 2016 6:21PM
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.Hugo.
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None of the these are near death experiences
May 13 2016 6:38PM
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cleaaaaa
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I'm so embarrassed about mine it's the dumbest thing ever: I was doing the cold water challenge a couple years back in this river and was so ready to just get it over with that i just pulled up at this dock I found and jumped off without even looking around it. The water was freezing ofc and i start to swim back to the dock and i realize it's like 8 feet off the water with no ladder or anything. My friend couldn't reach down to grab me or jump in cause she'd get stuck too so i literally tried to tread the freezing water for 40 minutes and almost drowned while my friend finally got ahold of help and these guys came to pull me out
May 13 2016 6:52PM
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Lé.Skiing
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Some friends of mine were chopping town trees to make a fort in the bushes and I was standing too close to where my step bro was chopping at a tree and he missed one swing and the axe head legitimately swung just under my chin and was really close to hitting me in the neck... I was about 6 inches away from being decapitated...
May 13 2016 6:52PM
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McNoche
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None these are near death experience. Just a bunch of dipshits making stupid decisions with their lives. Also fuck sjw. Guarantee the surf was 3 feet tall and he got rolled for like 8 seconds.
May 13 2016 6:54PM
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S.J.W
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McNocheNone these are near death experience. Just a bunch of dipshits making stupid decisions with their lives. Also fuck sjw. Guarantee the surf was 3 feet tall and he got rolled for like 8 seconds.


Great to see you dedicated a post to me. Awww I'm so flattered you have a crush on me
May 13 2016 7:02PM
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McNoche
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S.J.WGreat to see you dedicated a post to me. Awww I'm so flattered you have a crush on me


Shut your mouth pussy see bitch
May 13 2016 7:32PM
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crotchvent
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I went skiing with this dude I met the day before. He drove and on the way there he decided it would be a good idea to "drift" his truck and we ended up teetering on the edge of a ~50ft cliff.
May 13 2016 7:41PM
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GrapeHunter
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i tried a backflip and landed on my head
May 13 2016 7:54PM
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S.J.W
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McNocheShut your mouth pussy see bitch


oooh I love it when you talk dirty to me big boy ;)
May 13 2016 11:38PM
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J_Christoph
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You think I'd stop rock climbing and bouldering after having accumulated the amount of near death stories I have...
May 14 2016 1:24AM
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russsavokskis
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J_ChristophYou think I'd stop rock climbing and bouldering after having accumulated the amount of near death stories I have...


Care to share some?
May 14 2016 2:04AM
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profa_212
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J_ChristophYou think I'd stop rock climbing and bouldering after having accumulated the amount of near death stories I have...


That means you are climbing wrong
May 14 2016 3:17AM
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Rparr
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Probably overdosing on opiates, I am a degenerate lol
May 14 2016 7:30AM
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theBearJew
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One day I was rushing my girlfriend to get back to school. She forgot some stuff she needed and had an appointment in 30 minutes in the opposite direction. So I'm flying down a 2 lane highway in the left lane probably doing about 100 MPH. I was a dumb 17 year old who thought this was a good idea. Anyway as I am flying down the highway she reminds me that the exit is less than 200 yards away. I swerve over barely make the exit, almost running onto the grass where the pavement stops and when I try to head straight down the off ramp I start to lose control of the car and spin down the ramp.

As I am spinning down the ramp I start to go off the road and head up the overpass in the grass. I looked out my window and saw a lightpole and thought I was going to wrap my car around it and die. Mind you I was sliding sideways up a hill at probably 60-70 MPH. I dont know what I did to get the car back on the road but somehow I was back on the offramp before the toll booth going about 30 MPH. My girlfriend said "that was crazy" and I burst out into a nervous laugh that went on for about 10 minutes.

When I got to school, no damage to the car at all, no signs of anything. I couldn't believe I didnt start to roll the car while I was sliding sideways.
May 14 2016 9:52AM
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theBearJew
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One day I was rushing my girlfriend to get back to school. She forgot some stuff she needed and had an appointment in 30 minutes in the opposite direction. So I'm flying down a 2 lane highway in the left lane probably doing about 100 MPH. I was a dumb 17 year old who thought this was a good idea. Anyway as I am flying down the highway she reminds me that the exit is less than 200 yards away. I swerve over barely make the exit, almost running onto the grass where the pavement stops and when I try to head straight down the off ramp I start to lose control of the car and spin down the ramp.

As I am spinning down the ramp I start to go off the road and head up the overpass in the grass. I looked out my window and saw a lightpole and thought I was going to wrap my car around it and die. Mind you I was sliding sideways up a hill at probably 60-70 MPH. I dont know what I did to get the car back on the road but somehow I was back on the offramp before the toll booth going about 30 MPH. My girlfriend said "that was crazy" and I burst out into a nervous laugh that went on for about 10 minutes.

When I got to school, no damage to the car at all, no signs of anything. I couldn't believe I didnt start to roll the car while I was sliding sideways.
May 14 2016 9:52AM
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Rennis_Deynolds
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Sjw came to my school and reached into his backpack
May 14 2016 6:04PM
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corona
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hiking alone down a mountain in Africa and crossing at the top of a snow patch where it was quite steep. Snow was soft and much easier walking than the scree. Got to the shadowed part and it didn't even cross my mind it would be rock hard. first step slip and start sliding down the mountain. Luckily am able to get my backpack in front of me and crash into rocks at the bottom and thank goodness only came out scraped up and bruised. Was getting to nightfall in a desolate area and was alone. If I was hurt and someone did find me I wouldn't like my luck in African hospitals either.
May 14 2016 7:44PM
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theabortionator
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I stole some pot brownies from the evidence locker at work. ME and my wife ate them and we almost died. Luckily I was able to get a call off to 911 and get rescued before it was too late.
May 14 2016 7:58PM
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McNoche
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theabortionatorI stole some pot brownies from the evidence locker at work. ME and my wife ate them and we almost died. Luckily I was able to get a call off to 911 and get rescued before it was too late.


Sounds about right
May 14 2016 8:13PM
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Rennis_Deynolds
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theabortionatorI stole some pot brownies from the evidence locker at work. ME and my wife ate them and we almost died. Luckily I was able to get a call off to 911 and get rescued before it was too late.


jesus dude how old are you, when you get a wife its probably time to stop trolling around on newschoolers
May 14 2016 11:30PM
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ascent_studios
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MinggIf it weren't for my phone dying I don't think we'd be alive right now.


fuck phones
May 14 2016 11:36PM
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ascent_studios
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cornblattSuddenly get a creepy feeling that I should stop skiing RIGHT NOW.


This is proof that Tall T dan is god and is looking out for us all

Tall T Dan is our savior!
May 14 2016 11:45PM
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Rennis_Deynolds
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IamMANMine is beyond crazy.


Pretty lame near death experience


Make up your fukin mind
May 15 2016 1:07AM
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theabortionator
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Dennis_Reynoldsjesus dude how old are you, when you get a wife its probably time to stop trolling around on newschoolers


Old enough to party
May 15 2016 1:19AM
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TheBigApple
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I crashed my parachute into a mountain / cliff face going about 60 km/h. That was an ordeal.
May 15 2016 1:45AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Selena Gomez concert.
May 15 2016 2:45AM
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No.Quarter
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Got alcohol poisoning in the middle of beehive basin near big sky and laid in the snow in all cotton layers for a while while I refused to get in my sleeping bag and into the tent. I was a stupid fuck that night.
May 15 2016 3:13AM
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No.Quarter
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No.QuarterGot alcohol poisoning in the middle of beehive basin near big sky and laid in the snow in all cotton layers for a while while I refused to get in my sleeping bag and into the tent. I was a stupid fuck that night.


Just to clarify so I don't get shit on, I don't know if it was actually alcohol poisoning, but I also probably had hypothermia. It was toward the beginning of my semester and I didn't know jack shit about how to safely drink, definitely learned my lesson.
May 15 2016 3:28AM
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MikeWeinerONE
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Decided it would be a good idea to BASE jump with the parachute not in my container and someone holding onto me with their parachute between us.

Mike Wilson threw my parachute and as soon as we jumped we went into a gainer due to the person behind me throwing his legs up on my hips. The only thing we couldn't do was a gainer.

Lines got tangled in his neck and my arm. Opened 80 feet above the ground with line twist so I basically had to cork 3 out in untangle them since we flipped and the lines got twisted. Then I had to land on the side of a cliff.

5 seconds felt like 5 min but I didn't panic and we both made it out alive.

It was directly after Wilson did his BASE jump rail slide so I was inspired. All on film.
May 15 2016 4:54PM
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extravert
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Walked by a bunch of sketchy looking people in a parking lot. A minute later heard gunshots, saw every cop in the city swarm the street, and found out later someone was shot. Wrong place almost wrong time.
May 15 2016 7:21PM
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jackdonovan
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First time driving up to VT on NYE to go skiing with homies on a pretty icy day. First half of the ride went great and stopped for food in Massachussets. By the Vermont state line we went to pass a car and slid out, so my friend corrects then over corrects and we begin to spin out. We slid from Massachusetts to Vermont and could see the Welcome to Massachussets sign. We hit a snowbank and a sign and flip three times into the median traveling about 80-90 foot in the air and the ground. We flipped once in the air, landed on the back of the bed of the pickup truck, flipped again and landed on the hood, and flipped again and landed on our wheels in the ditch.

Our ski shit in the back flew over the other side of the highway and we had to slide across the icy highway to get our shit. I was asleep in the back and woke my p when we started to slide out, without a seatbelt and prolly woulda died if our ski bags werent next to me and held me in the back. The whole flip was in slow motion and we could see donuts and our shit flying around inside the car. Everyone was completely silent and when we finally stopped rolling, we checked if everyone was ok and cleared all the broken glass and shit off of us. The truck was totaled and my dad had to come pick us up in VT. The we got back and went to a New Years Eve party.

(have photos but the upload isnt working on my phone, will try to post em up later)
May 15 2016 8:05PM
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yungcigsmoker
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Went to clean up a downed tree at work. I went to throw this huge branch into the woodchipper. It was my first time using it and I didn't really know all the proper things to do. I went right up to the mouth and fed in the end of the branch. Well if you've ever used a woodchipper, you'd know that these suck logs with no problem. There was another branch attached perpindicular to the one I threw in, and it was right behind me. It pinned me right against the mouth of the woodchipper. I was centimeters away from being sucked in. The branch was crushing me and forcing me in, but I held myself away as much as I could. My coworker saw what was happening and hit the emergency stop. Broke out in a hysterical laughter right afterward, but I was shook up for the rest of the day.
May 15 2016 9:18PM
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mhuddy_22
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MikeWeinerONEDecided it would be a good idea to BASE jump with the parachute not in my container and someone holding onto me with their parachute between us.

Mike Wilson threw my parachute and as soon as we jumped we went into a gainer due to the person behind me throwing his legs up on my hips. The only thing we couldn't do was a gainer.

Lines got tangled in his neck and my arm. Opened 80 feet above the ground with line twist so I basically had to cork 3 out in untangle them since we flipped and the lines got twisted. Then I had to land on the side of a cliff.

5 seconds felt like 5 min but I didn't panic and we both made it out alive.

It was directly after Wilson did his BASE jump rail slide so I was inspired. All on film.


Damn that sounds super sketch. Care to show the video?
May 18 2016 8:00PM
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MikeWeinerONE
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mhuddy_22Damn that sounds super sketch. Care to show the video?


Instagram @thrillseekingbadboy

It's on there. July 14, 2013. It was super sketch so can't post it online. It was stupid and dangerous and can't post that shit online.

NitroCircus follow cam. Too sketch to use.
May 22 2016 2:49PM
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veng_m
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THEDIRTYBUBBLEIn January we had our only snowstorm of the year. We got 3 feet in one night (It melted in about 4 days). I was at my friend's place, but I knew my mom was worried about the storm and wanted me home. It was around 9, so I figured I'd go. At this point, it had been snowing pretty hard. There was already a foot of snow on the ground. Then I found out that the shuttle service had shut down. My buddies place is about a mile away from the top of the mountain, so I figured I'd just walk up there and use something as a sled to slide down to the lodge. Well I took some wrong turns while walking up to the mountain. Next thing I know I'm in the middle of the woods. My sense of direction was awful. It was snowing so hard that my visibility was poor. I was wading through wais deep snow trying to find my way out. At this point I'm freaking out cause I was freezing my ass off. And my clothes/hair were wet cause I was in my friend's hot tub before I left. I figured I should find a spot to build a shelter. I wandered for like 20 minutes before I found an opening in the forest. I walked out to it, and I sunk about a foot into the water. I had walked out onto some water. My foot was stuck. I was breaking the ice and sloshing water around. I was flailing in survival mode. I freed my foot and got to the shore. At this point I am loosing my mind and attempting to run through the snow, but it's like trying to run through a lake of maple syrup. At this point I had been lost for about 2 hours. But then I saw a structure of some sort. I "swam" towards it. There I saw a snowcat driver refueling the cat. I approached him and told him my story. He was a homie and gave me a ride down to the lodge. I was safe now, but the shuttles were still shut down. So I was stuck at the lodge with about 25 drunk people, luckily my 2 friends were also there. We walked into the hotel, and found a random room open. We slept in there for a little before the owner came in and kicked us out. Shuttle service resumed at 4 in the morning. Slept for 4 hours then skied pow the next day.


Damn man. I remember that storm, it was so much fun to ski in.
Jul 4 2016 12:59PM
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Twinjibber77
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My threads.
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