Cheating death

[storch]

Originally posted by txmx
You got my point .
Stick to the topic or just say  nothing.

is your point that thing your head tapers to?

[storch]

Originally posted by txmx
Ask your mother.

Why?  is porking decrepit old ladies something you do besides being an F16ubersnipermotocroschampion sexpertguitarplayingworld'sgreatestlovernottomentionintellectuallysuperiortouswhodon'tgetyourjokes?  do tell you really are fascinating.  I have the flu and am bored to tears so I hang on your every post.

[hawker238]

I actually enjoy these exchanges.

[2stony]

Ok, so you've both "hi-jacked" this thread with your bickering. Start your own thread and finish it there.



Thank you

[txmx]

Sry stony seems like the trash followed me in.

I ask them to keep to the point but kids will be kids.

[storch]

Originally posted by txmx
well thats about what I thought.

Thought, well that might require a brain.  keep posting though. express yourself, show us what your working with.

[hawker238]

Originally posted by txmx
I eat children.

What is the point of changing someone elses post?

[txmx]

Really guys start your own thread and leave this guys alone.
He did nothing to you.

[Creamo]

The greatest thing is Droopys "I can dodge bullets" now days is not only old and stale, it’s hardly noticed and just smothered by mrblacks foolish nonsense. Although that’s gotten old and annoying all a sudden as well.

[txmx]

Originally posted by Creamo
The greatest thing is Droopys "I can dodge bullets" now days is not only old and stale, it’s hardly noticed and just smothered by mrblacks foolish nonsense. Although that’s gotten old and annoying all a sudden as well.

? someone fall off the wagon again?

[Glasses]

Do several near hits in the flying practice area count as near death experiences

[capt. apathy]

I was working at a paper mill on the coast (maybe 15 yrs ago. I was an apprentice at the time).

I was about 280' up and had to walk out on this 8" beam, to hang a block for hoisting parts.

it stuck out about 16' from the rest of the structure, and  there was nothing around or below it for the last 12' or so.  it was out there so far that there was nothing practical to tie off to, so I just walked it.  I got to the last couple feet and turned around, and as I was getting ready to sit-down and pull up the parts a wind gust hit me in mid turn.

I'm not sure how fast it was (over 30mph though not near 50), but it lasted for about 5-10 seconds.  I had to really lean into it to keep from going over backward, then it just stopped real quick.  somehow as I started to kinda fall forward, I managed to get my feet on the lower flange and land kinda squatting on the beam.

after I finished up out there I really couldn't work up the nerve to stand back up and had to scoot along the beam to get back to the landing.  all in all I was fine but it really makes your butt pucker to look down from that hight when you aren't balanced.

on my way down the structure I saw a few ambulances headed into the mill.  turns out the same wind-gust caught the hard-hat off of the head of a very inexperienced iron-worker, who was working for a non-union contractor on the other boiler.  he reached for it instead of letting it go and took a 22' fall.  unfortunately for him and his family his head caught a pipe that was about 2' above the Deck he landed on, it all but removed his head from his shoulders.

I got a small case of the shakes for a couple hours after that.  his death really drove home how lucky I'd been to keep my feet under me.

I've had a few other very lucky breaks but that was the one that popped into my head just now.

[OIO]

scuba diving in a reef that was known to have an extremely vicious current that would flow through it at odd intervals.

my bud (never dive alone!) and I were hugging the reef, the water was calm, no current at all, we were setting some markers (small inflatable bright orange globes with a heavy weight in the bottom)  for our upcoming week's dive plan with an even bigger group... we were almost done, having set about 2 dozen of the things and were coming back to the boat following the trail of markers we had set.

the next thing we saw was the marker far, far away in front of us (visibility was great) just snap and fly towards us, rising about 5 feet.

My bud and i dropped everything we had in our hands and tied ourselves to the rocks next to us.

the strongest Msquealing current ive ever been in hit us like a damn truck. When i mean strong i mean STRONG as if 3 fire trucks had decided to turn on their main water lines on you at point blank. My bud and i both lost our scuba masks, our drawing tablets and my bud even lost one of his fins...the current just ripped them off. heck my own regulator mouthpiece had to be replaced because i bit into it so it wouldnt fly off too.

To this day im sure that if we hadn't tied ourselves to the rock we wouldve been swept away. and that is not nice in the middle of the damn pacific ocean.

[Sandman]

My one "near death" experience wasn't even really close because I was wearing a seat belt.

We did some offroading once in a Mitsubishi 3000 GTVR4 and the shiny side didn't stay up.

[gofaster]

Face-planted a sandbar while surfing hurricane waves.  Face stayed put while my exposed legs got swept over and behind me.   I didn't think I'd die, but I was thinking I was going to be paralyzed for the rest of my life.