Near death experiences...got any?

DBTS

The first time I almost choked to death.. The second time I almost drowned to death. The third time, one of my parents hunting rifles was loaded and my brother pointed it at my head without the safety and pulled the trigger, luckily the gun jammed.

nismaratwork

Choking... nothing is worse that choking when you're alone! The second is still relatively usual for people, but your third.... holy crap. I hope your brother was VERY young... but to hold a rifle... *shudder*

discrete*

Wow. You, sir, are lucky as hell...

nismaratwork

Yep, but lets be honest... not as lucky as all of the of people who haven't choked, drowned, or had a loaded rifle fired at them and survived by a misfire only. Those other people are MUCH LUCKIER.

discrete*

This crazy part is that I actually live and grew up in a pretty nice suburban neighborhood. But there's crazy people and drug addicts everywhere, I suppose -- you know, the kind of people that steal tapes. ;)

discrete*

Touché.

nismaratwork

Pas de quoi, mon ami, pas de quoi.

Alex_Sanders

Where do you live? How could you got "robbed so many times"? I know someone lives in Houston but never got robbed for even once.

Alex_Sanders

Oh yea, I just remembered someone who had one: this female person I know works in New York, and one day she found herself shaking like a mouse sitting on razor blades, she thought she caught a cold, so she decided to rise up a little bit late, as for the cold, she was gonna snap out of it.

Then she was waken by her brother's call, and was told that she might not need to go to work for sometime. Two airliners just crashed in the twin towers, where she worked.

It was quite early in the morning, so a lot senior company members didn't survive the attack, while a lot blue collars dodged the bullet.

The whole incident was quite traumatic to her, and her brother went to Iraq later (joined the military before the attack).

I also know some marines who were sent to Iraq then Afghan, but under most cases, they were shooting others so I guess that doesn't count. But if I ask them, they would likely tell me every mission is one, because they keep complaining the hmmmv being a paper coffin.

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I have gotten robbed in different countries. Nigeria 3 times, Canada twice and britian twice.

DaveC426913

How does one get robbed in Canada?? Do you carry your money roll in a shirt pocket?

nismaratwork

I thought robbery in Canada was paying too much tax... didn't realize they had street crime.

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The first time I got robbed was in a bad neighbourhood which is expected.


The second time I got robbed in downtown toronto a few blocks away from my school. There are a few crack heads and drugged out aboriginals around downtown.

Canada has it's own share of crime; every country does.

nismaratwork

I know man... I know DaveC does too... it was more a joke about Canada and its relative safety.

DaveC426913

Yeah, I just wonder if you were advertizing 'rob me'.

I suppose that's my myopia. I've lived here almost a half century, but not living downtown, so my downtown experiences were
a] during more normal hours - not a lot of late night activity like you do if you actually lived there
b] in groups and in more populated areas
c] decades ago.

nismaratwork

I feel like I'm supposed to raise my hand and yell, "C!!!, C is the answer that is the largest contributing factor to Dave's experience!"...

...Then I feel baaaaad.

lisab

Aaaahahaha...that was my reaction too....