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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: JB88 on January 21, 2007, 07:57:53 AM
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duck survives being shot, stuck in freezer (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070120/D8MP95K01.html)
man falls 17 stories...survives. (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070121/D8MPERR81.html)
ever had a brush with death?
i nearly drown once but was rescued and pulled ashore by a freind.
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After years of riding motorcycles, driving cars too fast, flying aeroplanes too low and other adventures. I can safely say the closest I ever came to death was the time I was standing near a forklift truck which was lifting a pallet of of 'slimmers chocolate chip cookies' onto a high rack. The pallet split and I dived out of the way, just in time. I was clipped by a couple of boxes and slightly hurt. But when I looked back there was a pile cookie boxes five foot high exactly where I was standing. :eek: :rofl
Death by chocolate:lol
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my mother in law visited last night, does that count?
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mine has been here for a few days so far...yep. definitely.
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you poor soul, you have my sympathy
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had a fever of 106.2 and another 105.9 in the hospital from what I was told after. don't remember a ton, but they had me on a mattress of freon to "cool me off" and I hated it.
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I got stuck out in a lightning storm on a sailboat. The lightning was hitting the water all around us (as opposed to our mast).
Of course I didn't know about farraday's cages at that time, so it was very exciting for me.
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Of course I didn't know about farraday's cages at that time, so it was very exciting for me.
didn't know what they were, so wikied them..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
what does that have to do with the lightening on the boat?
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If he is inside the boat and lightning strikes it the boat acts as a faraday cage by allowing the electical charge to travel around the outside of the boat to reach ground (the water). Now if he was outside on the boat there is a good chance he would have a part of the charge routed through him. In which case he likely wouldn't be posting here.
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Originally posted by Maverick
If he is inside the boat and lightning strikes it the boat acts as a faraday cage by allowing the electical charge to travel around the outside of the boat to reach ground (the water). Now if he was outside on the boat there is a good chance he would have a part of the charge routed through him. In which case he likely wouldn't be posting here.
I know wikipedia is not an authoritative source... but according to this part, it doesn't sound like that is true:
Cars and airplanes are often mistakenly thought to be examples of Faraday cages because the charge from a lightning strike remains on the outside of the metal surface. However, in the case of metal cars and airplanes, this is due to something called Skin Effect, and neither are Faraday Cages. A good common sense test to tell if something is a Faraday cage is the question "can I make a cell phone call from X location?". You can in fact make a call from an airplane, and EM energies pass in and out of the body of the plane easily. It's important to note that a lightning strike on a plane or car can be dangerous because the charge can travel into the plane or car via wiring and mechanical parts and destroy or disrupt key functions.
like I said though I am quoting an "unreliable" source.
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i was working at the bottom of a 60 foot deep concast. it was during a huge expansion program at McClouth Steel on the Detroit River. there was a cement mixer 60 feet above me pouring concrete into a big funnel attached to a long thick plastic "sock". my job was at the bottom end of this sock - directing the flow of concrete into rebar that had been paint yellow. i had to try to steer the concrete wherever i saw yellow.
the sock broke up at the top. 60 foot of concrete filled sock fell down all around me and i got clipped on the shoulder and it knocked me down. my legs went into the rebar up to my crotch. i started getting covered up by concrete coming down from above. it was killing me, really beating me to death because of big stones in the concrete mix. i got covered up except for my head and one arm before somebody noticed. my hard hat was really dented in, and i was bruised and sore for a week. never got my work boots and my wallet is still buried there under McClouth Steel Mill.
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I did have to make a call from the boat with my cell phone, but I got an extremely weak signal.
Anyway, if a boat gets struck by lightning, it's in trouble anyway. But from what I understand, the occupants wouldn't be in so much danger (provided they weren't hugging the shrouds).
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Originally posted by Gunthr
i was working at the bottom of a 60 foot deep concast. it was during a huge expansion program at McClouth Steel on the Detroit River. there was a cement mixer 60 feet above me pouring concrete into a big funnel attached to a long thick plastic "sock". my job was at the bottom end of this sock - directing the flow of concrete into rebar that had been paint yellow. i had to try to steer the concrete wherever i saw yellow.
the sock broke up at the top. 60 foot of concrete filled sock fell down all around me and i got clipped on the shoulder and it knocked me down. my legs went into the rebar up to my crotch. i started getting covered up by concrete coming down from above. it was killing me, really beating me to death because of big stones in the concrete mix. i got covered up except for my head and one arm before somebody noticed. my hard hat was really dented in, and i was bruised and sore for a week. never got my work boots and my wallet is still buried there under McClouth Steel Mill.
You always hear about how bodies of workers get buried in foundations of buildings and bridges (Hoover dam and Mackinaw Bridge come to mind) and you just described how easily it can happen. You are definately lucky. I certainly wouldn't want to be known as the guy who's buried in the foundation of McClouth Steel...
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I had a run in with a drunk titty dancer once.
I don't think I'd be here if I hadn't put some steering input at the last second.
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Freaking Hell Gunther....
You are lucky to be here man.. that is some scary stuff right there.
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I cut a house's main electrical line with a pair of heavy duty scissors.. the electrical arc burnt through most of one blade, and obviously the grips were thick plastic.
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Originally posted by moot
I cut a house's main electrical line with a pair of heavy duty scissors.. the electrical arc burnt through most of one blade, and obviously the grips were thick plastic.
scary indeed.
but how did you manage to stay alive in the freezer?
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Well the first was when I was 7. Had my tonsils removed in a country hospital. There was no ICU or recovery room, just my regular room straight from the OR. When they extubated me post-op the nurse was none too gentle and tore loose the stitches. I drowned on my own blood. Flat line, the whole nine yards before someone came by to check on me. CPR for 8 min and shocked twice before I recovered.
When I was 24, I cut down a 10 inch oak tree with my Shelby Charger at 130 mph. I was thrown clear. Skull fracture, concussion, 3 fractured vertebrae, broken ankle.
Last November, I had angioplasty and 2 stints implanted. That was the one that scared me.
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Hmmm....I've had a heart attack, scary. Been shelled by artillery and scud missles, very scary. Been shot at by pissed off Iraqis with AK-47's and almost had my left kneecap blown off, very very scary.
Other than that I've had a pretty boring life.
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last day. she leaves @ 3.
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I think most people don't know about their closest brushes with death. I'm sure I don't.
I think my closest known brush was when I tried to back a chevy blazer over a crate of grenades and recoiless rifle rounds that had been policed up from an ammo cache explosion.
We were bringing these unstable explodables to a place where we had dug pits to expode them safely. We were unloading in a helicopter sized patch of ground that we had just machetted clear. Some conscripts unloaded the crates from the car and walked one foot and set them down. Not knowing this, and not expecting this since they could clearly see that I would have to back out, I backed up. And hit something in the foot-tall grass My first assumption was that it was just a log that got overlooked in the grass that morning. So I gave it more gas and tried again to go over this "log". Hit it hard but still couldn't roll over it. Went back and fort a bit and around the obstruction and got back up onto the road, and that's when I saw the two wooden boxes, one of them with a broken top and tire marks on it. By this time nobody else was in that area, and I really didn't feel like relating this incident to anybody. I was relatively certain that the tire marks and broken crate would be quietly attributed to our hosts' carefree driving stye.
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Suave.....dude that's messed up, but I can relate in a way. After the first gulf war my unit was taking all our un expended MLRS rocket pods back to one of the ammo dumps in Saudi. We pulled in with our trucks with 4 rockets pods a piece onboard and found a bunch of guys with Hi-Low fork lifts waiting for us to unload the pods. Nothing real unusual about it. Anyway I'm standing next to my truck waiting for my turn to unload when I look over to the truck next to mine in time to see a rocket pod sliding off the forks about 15ft up in the air. When it hit it cracked the case on one of the tubes and flipped up side down. The guy driving the fork lift then uses the forks to flip it back over, driving a fork through anouther rocket tube in the process. He finaly turned around to see everyone hiding under our trucks screaming at him to stop what he was doing. Our Captain happened to see the whole thing and gave that guy a serious butt chewing. Pretty scary seeing 2 1/2 tons of rocket pod flying through the air and being banged around.:O
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Camels (http://www.surveyhistory.org/images/adcamel.jpg) and my trusty circulatory lungs.
I laughed it off, basically.
I know there's been a number of other moments at least as bad as that, but like Suave, I wasn't aware of them to commit them to memory until after they happened.
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I have another one, has to do with sailing too. Maybe I should just get the hint.
Anyway, I was racing a kid's boat in College (don't ask, I hate it) and the wind picked up to 30 knots, which is getting up towards survival conditions (i.e. all you try to do is to keep the boat upright). But we keep racing.
Now, some of the people were very good racers, but were the absolute worst sailors I've ever seen in my life. Knowing this, I gave a lot of people a lot of room around the course. So we are coming down to the gybe mark and I am about 4 lengths outside of it. The two boats rounding right ontop of the mark collide. One cuts hard over to me, moving really fast. I was just in the process of gybing, when I stop the maneuver and cut hard away to avoid getting hit.
My boat goes right over. Now my crew was wearing a drysuit. That's enough protection for cold early early early spring water. Me? I was wearing a windbreaker. And some regular clothes under that. I was in trouble.
The wind had picked up to 35 with gusts over 40. The problem was that if the boat wasn't pointed straight into the wind, the friction on the rig and sails would push it right back over. I ended up spending 15 minutes in frigid water with no protection. I could literally feel the strength draining out of me.
When we finally got it up, I felt like I didn't have the strength to get back in. Through some miracle, I did get back in, and we made it back to shore. I proceeded to spend the next 3 hours shaking underneath a blanket. I probably should have gone to a hospital.
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I had one guy stab me with a knife during an arrest.
I came within inches of being run over by an M60 tank that lost it's brakes coming down a hill. I had been in a jeep going down tbe same hill and the tank driver was supposed to wait until I got started up the hill on the other side of the depression. It was about 60 feet deep and steep hills on both sides. I heard the track moving when we were about to the bottom of the hill and saw the tank rolling very fast. I bailed out of the jeep as my driver stalled it. The tank Commander was thinking and told the driver to make sure he didn't hit the jeep. Then I bailed to the same side the tank driver swerved to. I had about 4 inches to spare while picking them up and putting them down, all in full NBC MOPP gear including the mask. I think the tank driver was more scared than any of us. He was sure I was going to court marshall him. The Battalion Commander saw this from a hundred yards away and commended my sprinting ability. :)
I've had rounds go zipping past my head including one that was very close.
I totaled out a Ford Mustang with a motorcycle. The car was driven by a texan idiot and he hung a fast left right in front of the bike and I turned the car into a banana part of me also caved in the roof while passing overhead. It was his 3rd collision in 2 weeks while driving daddy's car going to school on daddy's money. The Officers who investigated the other 2 collisions happened to show up to the third with me.