r/Askreddit What's The Biggest Bullet You Dodged
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- r/Askreddit 2020 has been an absolutely crazy year, but sometimes it's good to remember that things could always be worse... much worse. Listen to these stories of people who have dodged catastrophic mistakes. We have one story from a hitchhiker who was almost abducted, and a kid who discovers a live WWII munitions round in his grandmother's basement. If you like this video, be sure to subscribe for more daily Reddit content!
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What's the craziest bullet YOU dodged?
It was a crazy bullet
I was gonna go out with this girl but she went out with my best friend and was really needy
2nd reply
edit: actually 3rd
It was about 20 cm wide
I drove an RC car into my fence and my cousin took the fal
*Clean, no witness getaway*
The firefighter in the window: *Surprised Pikachu face*
My thought exactly 🤣
@@Grey0618 same here.
I was just about to comment on that 😂😂
At least we know the narrator wouldn’t get away with murder 😂
My best friend and his girlfriend purchased a ticket to go watch the very first showing of the Dark knight, in Aurora Colorado, but their car broke down and they weren't able to go. If you're unaware, that's the one that was shot up by James Holmes.
My cat saved me from suicide too. I never quite got the the point of making an attempt but she was the reason I got out of bed, went to work, survived. I made her a promise when I adopted her. I can’t explain to her why I would be leaving and breaking that promise. She was ultimately the reason I admitted myself to the hospital. Twice. Iris I love you princess. Her 3 year adoptaversary is tomorrow!
Edit: Iris developed a very severe illness very suddenly not long after I posted this and passed away. I miss her every day, and all the replies I get remind me how much I miss her, but also what a light she was in my life. I love to keep seeing them, and hearing about the animals that have lit up your lives.
That’s wonderful!! I’m very glad you’ve gotten past that awful moment.
I'm glad you were able to fight past such a dark moment. Iris is lucky to have you!
She's a good kitty
Very good kitty boop her nose for us
I tried to overdose... on MELATONIN GUMMIES🥲😂😭
I once picked up a hitch hiker when they pulled out a knife and demanded I drive him to somewhere 3 hours away at the time my gas gauge was broken and always said it was low fuel so I point that out were not going to make it there .... he reluctantly let's me pull into a gas station he toke my keys and tied my hands to the steering wheel with his shoelace he gets out and I just locked the doors the guy tried to get back in cause he wanted to just gas and dash as hes banging on the window to get in a cop pulls in for his own gas and recognized him as someone there looking for he was wanted for the murder of his gf and step kids... I was so lucky
Holy shit...
Holy shit.
Holy shit..
Lucky and smart
Great story, but have you heard of Punctuation?
This didn’t happen to me, but a friend’s relative. My friend’s relative was a worker at the Twin Towers. On 9/11, he was sick. If he hadn’t been sick, he would’ve died.
Edit: I guess I should clarify he was sick and stayed home.
I’ve heard that story somewhere else before.
My cousin worked at the pentagon. He retired the summer of 2001. He worked at the side that the plane hit
@@niccage6375 If he died, I give you my condolences
@@zdelrod829 umm, he retired in the summer and the towers fell on sepyember so if he died it wasn'tin the towers...
@@horselover40 misread it lmfao. My bad
“Hospitals mix up babies all the time...” Don’t know how it works in other American cities, but that scenario would have been highly unlikely in my state. After giving birth to my child (7yr’s ago) the maternity ward was on constant lock down with wrist monitors attached to baby and mother. If the baby was too far away from their mother, an alarm would sound. If a baby was moved too close to door that exited the ward, the entire hospital would lock down and elevators would shut down. Very Secure.
I have a hard time believing that hospitals don't take extensive measures to make sure that babies AREN'T mixed up
@@NinjaFlibble They absolutely do.
Yeah 20yrs ago, seconds old newborn is laid in mom's arms. Before the baby goes anywhere a ankle tag is put on that matches not just mom's but dad's wristband as well. I can't believe it's any less secure now.
What hospital?
Alarm also sounds if someone tries to take the monitor off. When I had my youngest (5), another baby's monitor kept malfunctioning and would go off almost every half hour. Hospitals take that kind of thing serious, and do everything to prevent mixing up of infants
Typically if you have a bad feeling about someone/ something your subconscious noticed something that is giving you that feeling. So trust your gut.
I'd argue that typically, your bad feelings are just paranoia speaking. It's just that when it turns out to be true, everyone tells that story -- they don't tell the stories about all the times they were wrong.
Case in point, for the entirety of my life (over 30 years, now), every single time my father isn't home from work at the expected time, my mother claims a "bad feeling". Well, when I was around 16, he got into a car accident on the way home (everyone was fine, the truck was barely dented) and that's why he was late. My mother proceeded to crow about how she was right and psychic and "knew it" for the next month.
No, Mom -- you were right *one time* out of thousands. And it's largely the same for everyone else. Confirmation bias is all it is.
@@sirennightshade4977 hmmm that's a good point but I never have a "bad feeling" about anything. I get worried when someone is late etc. But i never am like "they had an accident" or something just like "hmmm they are late I wonder if it's traffic or what" (maybe i'm just oblivious) but one time, just this one time I had a feeling something was wrong with my mom in the middle of the night when we were living together. I came to her and checked and she had difficulty breathing. She was already blanking out. Apparently it was something with her sleeping in a wrong way and her lungs weren't working properly. Me getting her up allowed her lungs to work properly again. She wasn't calling for help, she wasn't even coughing. I just had to go to her in the middle of a night. That one time. No idea why.
She's fine now though :)
@@KiMiRi4you
It's probably like Tubylubrx said - your subconscious noticed something and nagged at you until you noticed.
Maybe it was an unusual sound, or silence where a sound would normally be expected.
The tiniest things can tip your mind off.
Regardless, whether you're actually psychic, or just observant, it's good to hear that your Mum is okay.
A few years ago, On my brother's birthday, me, my brother and my cousin (Relatives were staying over for a few days) woke up really early and were bored so we decided to go to a conveniance store nearby to buy candy.There was a big pillar/pole in between the store and our house. it was a really cold day and it was slightly raining and foggy.
We got the candy and were discussing urban tales about death, horror stories, and all those stuff. We decided to have a race. We began racing each other to our house. As soon as we ran past the pole A huge truck carrying iron rods hit the pillar.We were about 5 meters away from the accident.We would have been crushed between the truck and the pole if we hadn't started racing.Never talking about death and dying so early in the morning again.
Racing saved potentially all of or most of your lives...
That's some Final Destination shit right there, holy fuck.
NEVER let an assailant get you to whatever secondary location they want to get you to. Your chances of making it back from there are slim to none.
^^ this is amazing, possibly life saving advice, but whenever I hear 'secondary location' my mind automatically goes to the John Mulaney bit lol
same here, lol
Exactly! If they're waving a gun, drop to the ground, roll, and then get up and run like hell. Chance are they may not want to draw attention OR they'll miss. You might survive a bullet wound. What you likely will not survive is that abduction.
Uh uh sister you ain’t gettin me to no secondary location
STREET SMARTS!!!!
I've had had feelings about people before and they all ended up being child predators and/or highly abusive. I've also gotten bad feelings while walking and decided to take another route which has saved me from being hit by a car and saved me from being raped by a serial rapist. I will always trust my gut.
I personally believe that foresight exists to save the lucky from an early death
Same, I’ve had weird or unsettling feelings about people and usually I find out they were a predator or a creep. Always trust your gut.
When I go out and get those unsettling feelings, I usually end up scanning my surroundings... _a lot_
Good to hear! I always say trust your sixth sense when it goes off!
"Lie down I'm a nurse" yeah and drives off without reporting "and caves your skull in with a tyre iron" Well Rslash, that escalated quickly.
I laughed more the more I thought about how fast that turned
I guess the firefighter has go too then
he ignored the eyewitness watching it happen that was mentioned already
@@ryzukumagawa7143 his entire crew…it sounded like he was on duty and they’re never alone on the road
My ma grew up in a small town where the Sheriff said he would allow underage drinking, and if you needed a ride home, he would give you a ride in the passenger seat with the lights off, and wait till he saw a lite inside the house, but if he caught a drunk driver, he would give you a ride home in the back seat with the lights and siren on.
Sounds like a very reasonable guy. People will always drink or do drugs, but giving them understanding and a safe ride home is much more likely to save somebody's life (their own or somebody else's) than punishing them and forcing them to keep their intoxication a secret.
I’m just imagining that Nan throwing the mortar and saying yeetus deletus
Omg you get my like
@@josephnorris4095 In the other video I saw that featured about 90% of the stories that RSlash covered here today, plus a few others, the OP updated that the round was a dud, but still was thankful that they didn’t have to deal with it.
@@guitarbass22 that’s a relief
Tosses it over the fence at the dog yeetus deletus cleetus
Now I can imagine this lady telling this story in an OwO voice
"And den I thwew de mowter shewll over da yawd and spowk the wowds of wisdom yeetus baweetus"
Apparently, my step mother was supposed to be on the missing Malaysian airlines flight, but she cancelled & went for a later date
Oh wow that was a dodged bullet 😳 glad she's ok
This post made me think of something, if people who are able to buy internet on the flight couldn’t the satellites like track the phone or something
My brother was meant to got to the Manchester arndale centre the day it got bombed by the IRA
oh dang, glad she was okay-
Was she stuck in the washing machine?
First story happened to me as well. I went into cardiac arrest. Luckily the ambulance got to where I collapsed in a very short time. On the third attempt they got my heart started and luckily I got no brain damage
First year of college, my friend and I were walking back to our dorms when a guy started yelling for our attention. He made up this BS that getting girls numbers will help with recovery from loss of a family member. We told him no sorry and walked away. He went to grab my friend’s arm so I whipped my knife out at him while my friend ran. I told him to F off or we’d have a problem. Next day found out he wasn’t a student and was stalking girls on campus. Never went anywhere without my knife again.
My bullet: I have a condition that commonly causes severe heart defects from birth. Most infants with this condition died when I was born due to infant heart surgery being brand new and very risky. My heart defect was placed specifically so that, as I grew, the defect closed itself.
Back when I was a teen, a bunch of friends were going to visit my cabin for a weekend. My Best Friend didn't want to go because he had plans with another friend. I convinced him to come by inviting the girl he was interested in. Anyways weekend goes fine. Take everybody home, drop off my best friend last and drive home (90's no cell phones) Once home I get a call from Best friend. The friend he was suppose to hang out with was drunk and stoned and hit a car while driving and killed a 6 year old kid. So he had called to tell me and to thank me for taking him to the cabin.
Nearly marrying my ex. I'd been in 2 emotionally abusive relationships before her and she was my first girlfriend after coming out as lesbian, at first things were great; she convinced me to seek help for my depression which I'd battled for years, she supported me when I was at an all time low and she introduced me to two people that I know regard as some of my best friends. After we got engaged, things started changing; I'm Buddhist but wanted a wedding in a church since I was raised Christian and wanted to honour that side of my family (my grandparents are Catholic and I'm their first granddaughter), she told me that I shouldn't want a wedding there because I'm not Christian anymore; we went on holiday with two of her friends and she started trying to dictate what I wore and what I ate; she also tried accusing me of sleeping with my friends partner. After she dumped me, she revealed that she had cheated on me while we were there, and said the fact I wouldn't sleep with her was why she left me (I asked her to wait because I didn't feel ready), since then she's still accusing me of sleeping with my friend, and has been slutshaming me to them. I got so low, that I had thoughts of ending it all; my friends and my family are the ones that got me through, but I'm still shook up from it, and I will be for a long time
Biggest bullet I dodged. Last year, I was in my final year of my teaching course, but I failed my practical placement. If I had passed, 2020 would have been my first year of teaching.
Now that would be rough
I'm guessing you're in an area where the school districts weren't prepared enough to go completely online?
As someone who attempted suicide once, you realize that in those moments where you fave your fate you realize just how precious life is. How much you want it, how much you havent done and who you will miss or what you will miss. Life is precious. Even if it feels like the world hates you, and you want to end it all, I promise. There is something out there for you to life for. And always remember it’s something thats meant for you to life for. Not for anyone else but you
As far as I know, swapping babies in hospitals is nearly impossible nowadays
They usually put a band on them as soon as they're born.
it is…they took measures to ensure the right baby was with the right mother years ago
That woman who was almost strangled needs to go into witness protection or something, that man sounds like the kind of person to blame her and come after her
i know its silly but every time i hear an attempted suicide i just want to find the person and give them a hug and tell them everything going to be okay. but i cant :( ..... if you're in a bad place and reading this, it does get better. i know trust me i know its hard but there is something or someone out their for you. a job, a love interest, a pet?... maybe even a future family. try and find someone to talk to, just remember that. find something you love and invest your time into it. its helps.
That’s not silly at all.
I feel this deeply :c
Sometimes all you need is to feel someone else's warmth and be told genuinely that they do care. Words alone usually don't do enough...
A story my mom told me when I was younger. Someone she knew (cant remember if they were a friend or cousin ect) was driving late at night and ended up falling asleep behind the wheel as they went down the steepest hill in town. When they woke up the engine was sitting in their lap. They had no injuries outside of a busted(maybe broken, this was a long time a go when I was told) nose.
5:50 wtf is wrong with that lady? Punching a hole through a door and *strangling* her WHILE DRIVING is not enough to kick him out instantly??? She had to find out he was cheating on her?????
Ikr? I'm like..... what do you mean you stayed with him??!! Like trying to kill you is fine but oh he has $ex with another woman and thats not ok? Weird place to draw a line.
You gotta remember that when you love and are emotionally attached to someone, red flags don’t really seem like a huge issue. Also, she could’ve been scared to leave and cheating would’ve given her a reason.
She didn’t dodge that bullet. She kept loading the gun and pointing it at herself!
Is "love" another word for stupid as fuck? 🤔😂😂
I'd NEVER let anyone even come near that level of abuse that she put up with
Love (make you realy stupid) and without a good reason he could try to kill her. It's happend, unfortunately, too often.
Had a knife to my chest and my cat jumped on me and started licking the knife and my only thought then was l dont want my cat getting blood on them and put down the knife. Cats are life savers! Still alive and kicking because of my cat friend
I understand the feeling of someone or something being "off" it is a feeling that happens when your subconscious brain knows something is wrong but your conscious mind can't find the exact reason why. It is also known as a gut feeling. I have experienced it a few times, and let me tell you, ALWAYS FOLLOW YOUR GUT it can tell you about things you wouldn't notice otherwise.
my gut's a paranoid fucker, though XD
Better being paranoid than dead
I dodged a literal bullet once. I tried applying for a job at a gas station, but didn't get it. A few weeks later, that same gas station was robbed at gunpoint!
The friends leaving a party one reminded me of a completely opposite story about someone I went to school with. Her and her friends were leaving a party and took a turn WAY too fast. The car ended up crashing off the side of the road and hit a tree. Everyone ended up being okay except her. She was the only one wearing a seatbelt and ended up permanently paralyzed
Not me but my uncle. He lives in New York City and had a meeting in the South Tower at September 11, 2001, 9:00 Eastern time. However, the meeting was delayed a few hours and that’s when a simple delay saved my uncle, but didn’t save many of his friends and coworkers.
"Don't drink and hitch hike."
No. DON'T HITCH HIKE!
Mine wasn't a bullet, it was a hockey puck, literally. I was a kid at the time and we were at a roller hockey rink. I had gone to ask my mother something (she was playing in the game that day and was on the bench) I was behind the glass but then the hockey puck hit the wall behind me and bounced towards my face, it missed thankfully but that was scary.
Two stories. One, years ago when I was a teenager, two friends of mine dropped over to pick me up to just drive around, but I wasn't home. Later on they were hit from behind while stationary by a car going 40 mph that barely touched the brakes. Their car was totalled, the trunk was crushed, the front seats were bent back into the back seat, and I would have been in the back seat.
Two, my brother was out driving in a rural area with some friends on a summer weekend. He was riding in the front, for some reason there was a snowmobile helmet rattling around on the floor, so he put it on just as a joke. Two minutes later, the driver took a turn on a gravel road too quickly and slid off the road into a ditch and hit a rock cut. My brother put a dent in the dash with the helmet but walked away uninjured. The cop who responded looked at the dash and said "who the hell was sitting there?"
Sometimes I think surviving your teenage years is a bit of a crapshoot.
You're right there! If we had to pay a price for everything we did, we would've been gone long ago. Teenagers have no sense of mortality.
This isn’t my story but one of my friends story’s. My friend was feeling really bored and called one of her guy friends. The guy friend answers in tears. My friend asked what’s wrong. The guy friend explained that he is sitting on top of a bridge and was contemplating suicide. He said that she just saved his life. Holy.
I was serving a proselytizing mission for my church in the NW. I was transfered to a service mission in the NE LESS THAN A MONTH before COVID hit the area I was serving.
Everyone involved in the soda bottle bullet math problem needs to immediately go back to their highschool and apologize to their algebra teacher for saying "I'm never going to use this".
Worked at a factory a part of the line was a machine that would build boxes the guy who built it had two missing fingers .... on day one for all temps he would make an appearance during orientation saying follow the steps turn off the power nothing is worst than losing your hand and he would show it ... needless to say no one ever stuck there hand in any machine
I used to walk home with my friend and her sister to her house after school, and then stay there till my parents came to get me in the evening. We always walked a different route, but we always always went in the front door. One day her little sister started acting weird when we were like half a block away from her house and insisted that we go in through the back door, she just didn't feel like going in the front door. So we did, and we saw that a door in the basement that was blocked off (if lead to an attached rental/ mother in law suite) was open, and the bookcase was knocked over... we went upstairs and it was ransacked.
Turns out someone broke in using an axe in the window downstairs in the suite, and they went out the front door as we came in the back door.
If we had gone in the front door that day we, three young girls, would have walked straight into a guy with an axe in his hands.
I tried to kill myself with massive overdoses on insulin, xanax and alcohol, the doses were so big there was no chance I'd survive, I awoke in my home 36 hours later and had miraculously survived certain death. Doctors couldn't explain how I survived.
I was hit by an oncoming car that hit us at 110 mph while in the turn lane. My kids were fine. I am alive but disabled for life.
I dodged a few...I've been hit by a car when I was walking, I was holding a fishing knife then got in a car accident, and 4 times I've barely dodged horse hooves aimed at my head
I had a classmate who was a porn addict and felt so guilty for objectifying women he literally pulled the trigger of his Dad's gun against his head. It jammed and he decided to get help after that.
Another tip for what to do if you’re unsafe and in a random person’s car: Heavily lie about having sexually transmitted diseases. If they want you for... those purposes, they’ll likely drop you on the side of the road.
I can just imagine this happen:
You: _gets in a random person’s car_
Driver: Don’t even bother crying for help, no one will hear you
You: I have herpes.
Driver: _stops pulling out knife_ ಠ_ಠ
This happened back when I was about, I wanna say 12? Give or take? We got into a car accident one morning on the way to chruch (at the intersection right out front of the chruch actually). We were making a left turn and someone whipped through and caught the tail end of the car sending us spinning. I was jerked so hard to the left it yanked my glasses from my face and caused a lens to pop right out (wear your seatbelts kids, it held me in place and kept me from going flying about). Here's where the doged bullet comes in.
When my sister's not in the car I like to sit in the driver's side passenger seat, which is where I had been intending on sitting that morning (I can't remember why it was that my sister and mom had gone earlier, just that my sister was doing something that needed her there earlier than usual, so it was just me and dad in the car). But since my sister was young at the time, there was one of those padded belt covers on the seatbelt and my sister had SOMEHOW managed to get the belt all twisted up inside it and I didn't have the time to untwist it nor did I want to wear it like that, so I took the seat behind the passenger's side instead.
Looking back, considering how i felt it yank me to the left when we were hit, had I taken the seat I wanted I'm sure it would have slammed my head into the window and I could have been seriously hurt. Instead I was just shook up.
Also we missed church that day.
Lmao not me but my friends grandfather. He was a pilot, one who'd just finished training and was ready to fly. Another pilot wanted to also fly with the group going, but there was only one plane left. So, on a coin flip, they decided. Said grandfather lost. They later received news that the plane he had planned to take had a malfunction, and crashed, killing its passenger. So, basically, my friends father, uncles, and her own life was balancing on a coin flip.
"What's the biggest bullet you've dodged " paying my taxes
Person: Life is pointless, I’m so tired I want it all to end
Cat: Humgry
I had an emotional support dog and he still will forever be my best friend. I was very suicidal & he helped me so much through middle school and high school. He helped me with my seizures and would try to wake me up from them & sometimes would succeed, my seizures are caused by mental illness. I would cry and he'd lick the tears away. I would go and cry with him while cuddling with him at 3-5 in the morning. He is and will forever be the best dog in the world and that's including his little brother. They both saved my life. My best friend was put down last month🥺❤️
I've been known to zone out. So one day as I'm walking at work I hear someone yell my name as I'm about to walk in the path of a forklift. But no one said anything. Still trying to figure it out.
I'm up early!! Why? Just to listen to R/Slash
In up early cuz I have to feed my dogs
Same I usually get up at 11am
You guys got sleep???
I had wrestling practice early and I cant nap so I'm up 😪
SAME
I love how the first one is less "bullet dodged" and more "stars aligned."
My mom lived in Staten Island when Son of Sam was first getting active. My grandma pretty much made my mom stay away from beaches and stuff.
My mom told me years ago about how when I was going to what Americans call Kindergarten, we always stopped at this restaurant place to get food but the day that we were didn't arrive at our usual time, an explosion had happened there. We took awhile to get to the restaurant that day because we popped into a store earlier with toys and as a kid, I wanted to look and touch all of them so that took time. Plus there was no rush so we just walked there instead of hurrying to the restaurant. When we got there, she said there was blood on the ground and she thanked God that we were didn't arrive or was there when the explosion happened. The place is built back up and there's something else there but I was too young to remember anything at the time and hearing how we almost DIED if my mom didn't humour me (we had no money to buy toys) was shocking to hear. Years have passed and it still is.
Happy new years from Brisbane Australia!!!
Tysm happy new year......
You thought this was a polite response but it was in fact, me , Dio
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with the whole suicide thing my rabbits saved me by conveniently have a massive freakout right before i suffocated myself
Soda story reminds me of the time in elementary school when a kid tried dropping a block of concrete on my head from the top of a playset that was taller than the school itself.
when i was 12 and my brother was 17, he was driving an old VW bug with 4 of us in the car (think 1970ish bug). We stopped at a light. We (3 kids 12-14) pressed my brother to 'give it' and to take off faster than the car next to us (us in a 80ish HP manual transmission car). He takes off, snubs the car , the 3 of us roar laughing, just as a semi-truck goes through the red-light light at 50+ miles an hour right in front of us. Then dead silence. If he hadn't snubbed the engine, my brother and i on that side of the car surely would have been dead (the other 2 as well) as the doors on that car are about 2 inches thick and the car weighed about 1800 lbs.
Not mine, but my grandmother's. About 50 years ago, she was home alone with her first newborn. It was summer so she had her door open with the screendoor closed. At some point, she noticed an unknown man standing at her door. She said "can I help you?" and he ran off. Okay, weird, but she just brushed it off. Next night, he was there again. She stepped closer and said the same thing and he ran off again. He came back a third night and this time, she pulled out her gun and he bolted. Finally, she called the cops to report him and the fbi camped on her yard for the next month. About 20 years later, she told my dad (her second child), who was studying to be a cop, and he asked for a description of the man, flipping through a book of criminals while listening to her.
It was the Zodiac Killer. If she didn't pull out her gun and report him to the police, my dad, myself, and two of my sisters wouldn't even be alive.
These people's guardian angels were getting frequent flyer miles.
That man who didn't have the kid dodged the biggest bullet hever, that is one crazy woman, unfortunately my wife is like that but at least she is faithful
Afk-ing in subnautica waiting for my cuddle fish eggs to hatch and watching this! The perfect New Year’s Eve!
The opposite of formaldehyde is casualdajeklly
This made me remember a time when I was either 11 or 12. My mom and I were supposed to go to the mall, but my mom wasn't in the mood for one reason or another and wanted to go the next day. I kind of complained about how she had *promised* me we were going to go that day. She relented and we went. I was informed during class by one of my friends that there was a shooting the day after my mom and I went shopping (it was a weekend). In the mall. Later confirmed when my mom checked the news. Apparently, me being a brat that one time saved us.
Once, me and my best friend were exploring this really cool area that had dirt trenches. Some of them overlapped and went in different directions, a complex network or trails, some leading up to higher ground that overlooked the trenches. This is important. I was exploring with my best friend, playing adventure music on my portable speaker, when she suddenly told me to turn it off. The look in her eyes told me something was off. I shut it off instantly and we both froze. Not a second later, a giant boulder landed just between us. Someone had thrown it from the higher ground. I immediately yelled "What the hell?!" And tried to climb the wall to see who hurled it down, but by the time I got up there, they had ran off. My best friend told me she had heard someome yelling "Derek, no!" from up above seconds before we froze. If we had kept walking, or turned around, that rock would've hit either of us, and it would've easily led to bone-crushing injury, or death. Still pissed I never found "Derek."
"a clean, no witness, getaway." except for the firefighter who saw the whole thing happen.
Lv 1: Dodged a bullet
Lv 2: Dodged a cannonball
Lv 3: Dodged an RPG
Lv 4: Dodged a MOAB
Lv 5: Dodged a Tsar Bomba
Lv 6: Dodged a nova
Ummm...... wrong! Hospitals DO NOT give parents the wrong baby "all the time"!! DUDE!!! STOP THIS RIDICULOUS SPECULATION!! I've been an L&D nurse for over 30 years at 3 different hospitals in 3 different states and not ONE single time has it ever happened at any of those facilities.......EVER!!
They definitely maxed out their luck skill
8:40
What rslash just said about “the most important fact” he knows about suicide is literally 110% wrong! If you don’t know, 9 out of 10 people who attempt suicide and fail attempt again and succeed. Less then 10% of people who have attempted suicide has a realization that their life is so important. Simply saying “welp if you tried once your depression and suicidal thoughts will be no more” is idiotic at best..
When a suicidal person fails their first attempt it actually causes them to look towards more lethal ways of ending their life. So Rslash, please either edit that part out or something because by you saying “if you try once you’ll regret it and never do it again” you’re hurting people who actually suffer those thoughts like myself. I have attempted ending my life more then once and if I didn’t get therapy I’d be dead today.
“It’s always the grandmas who are the true homies” Yep I Agree with that
My father was fiddling with a crossbow when I was kid. He ended up firing it and it ricocheted of a metal sign and missed me by about a centimeter.
and that's why you unload a weapon before fiddling with it...
We adopted an American Bulldog mix in 2018 after we lost our Pom princess to old age. We kept his foster name Duke. He loves to smell EVERYTHING. About October of 2018 I had a cold that wasn't going away. Every day Duke would get in my lap, stick his face in mine and sniff the air (he still does). When the cold was starting to get worse Duke would sniff then lay his head & paws on my chest. I didn't go see a doctor because I thought it was just a bad cold and would go away. Finally caved when I was having trouble breathing walking just a few feet. Turned out I had double pneumonia. So now Duke is the best boy ever. Even made a recent doctors appointment because he's sniffing an area where I'm having minor chest pains. He's my big health detector now lol
I had someone who I thought was my friend for almost a year, turns out they were just using my friendship to gain voice acting skills and art skills. One day due to their vanity they wanted to become the superstars of a show that I had written, directed, got the boys after together for it, did all the art for, they pretty much all of the sound work for, and essentially because I did make their character that they were voicing the Superstar of the entire series they threatened to basically steal my project away and prevent it from ever being able to be put up again. I blocked them on all social media and all connections to my project and then they had the nerve to explode and act like I was the one who was "abusing" them because I didn't let them take over what was rightfully mine. I should also note the multiple times where they would call my artwork garbage or my voice acting garbage meanwhile they didn't even know how to voice act or draw to get out of a paper bag, they just enjoyed putting me down cuz they couldn't stand that I was better. And this is not me having a big head this is me telling facts considering how many people (including random strangers) would say I was better than them. Literally last week turns out they were stalking my private messages and suddenly hit me with a message demanding that I apologize to them because it wasn't fair that I was essentially enjoying life and they were not, I told him that they need to get over themselves and block them. Ending that fake friendship and cutting them off was the best thing I ever did for my life. ( for those who don't understand this individual often drew me in sexual positions or attempted to draw my characters being sexual with their characters and at any chance they get mention about us being sexual with each other when I made it very clear to this person we were nothing more than friends on numerous occasions and even in front of multiple people all the time)
Day 3 of asking rslash to cover r/whatcouldgowrong
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I was on my way home from work one evening. I was tired and not paying much attention to my surroundings. I barely took a cursory glance before crossing (no pedestrian light) from the curb to a meridian. I had *just* stepped off the curb when I heard someone *laying* on their horn. Startled, I stepped back to the curb. Suddenly a car blasted right past me. I could have been run over! Thank goodness the driver warned me just in time! Thank you driver, you saved my life literally. It made me hyper aware when crossing the street from then on!
1. “Eventually the smell tipped some people off” the smell of rot is horrible, bad meat with a bit of a fruity smell to go with it
2. Don’t let anyone take you to a secondary location, advice from my mom “say ‘if you’re gonna kill me, do it here. Don’t take me anywhere.’ It’s so they can find your body or some clues to find your body.”
Not a bullet dodged for me, but for a friend and his sister. This was when the shooting at
Utøya in norway happened, the summer camp full of kids. My friend used to go every year, but had decided to skip just that year. And his sister was supposed to already be there, but at the very last second she decided to spend an extra night at home.
I remember spending the whole night on voicechat with him while he waited to hear if his friends were okay. I'm so relieved he decided not go that year.
I grew up under my grandparents’ care throughout my entire childhood, while my mom worked in the states to support me. Included in this household are my two older cousins, aged 19 and 21.
My older cousin was dating this one guy and he seemed all well and good...in front of the family. But around me, I got some weird creeper vibes off of him; I was 16 and this guy was 20 or 21. No matter who I tried to talk about it with, they would all dismiss me. The only person who believed me was my mom and she told me to leave the house whenever he came over or lock my room and call her.
Every single time they were going to go out somewhere he would always insist I come along, and I would refuse because I was scared. My cousin would make me go, thinking I was being a brat and I got dragged to some amusement park. Whatever ride I didn’t want to go on, he insisted on standing with me while my cousin went, but I tried to pretend I got over the fear of the rides my cousin like so I wouldn’t be left alone with him.
The constant fear and anxiety this guy gave me as well as the anxiety of being on those rides made me super queasy and I threw up all over myself. My older cousin ended the date really early after that, and drove us home.
They broke up about a week or two after, and a year after that, I overheard my older cousin talking to my other cousin about how her ex was arrested for preying on a minor around my age. Yikes.
I was active duty US ARMY on 9/11/2001, stationed at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona as a satellite communications field truck repairman. When the news of the attacks came in, we went into total lockdown and deployment readiness mode.
On September 13th, I was feeling pretty sick but still attended my guard duties at the motor pool when one of my commanders arrived. As I stood up to challenge his identity for entry, I just collapsed in the worst pain I'd ever felt. 3.5 hours later, I woke up in the hospital downtown to learn that my appendix had burst and I was very nearly dead.
Appendicitis saved me from combat in Afghanistan.
I have a funny story about hich hikeing that my mom told me.
This is my grandfather's story,
So back in the sixty when my grandpa was in his late 20d early teens, his friends parents owned a funeral home, so naturally they got stuck with helping. So this one time he had to pick up a body from a town about 2 hours away. Now this particular person had gone missing on a hunting trip in the fall and wasn't found until early spring. But since it was Canada and the way he died his body completely froze into a sitting passion and had been partly eatin by anamals. So he couldn't just stuff it in a coffin like usual, so naturally he used his own car, and not a horse, and just stuffed it in the back seat and put a tarp over it. Now on the way back he saw a hich hicker. And though ah poor guy I'll give him a ride. So pulled over and told the guy to get in. The guy was like thanks man. So they continued driving and making small talk for about ten minutes when my grandpa says "dont worry about my friend back there he's alittle hungover" so then man lifted up the tarp to travel a dead body. You have never seen a man crawl out a a window of a moving car so fast.
Now imagine what the hitchhiker was thinking. RIP grandpa.
Grandparents really are the OGs. Without mine I would probably be dead. They took me in from my mentally abusive father and narcissistic mother. I don't live with them but I do see them a lot
My grandfather was a blitz warden in ww2. He narrowly missed getting hit by a shell that fell right where he had been standing just a min before. I'm not sure i would be here otherwise.
Hospitals are moving to a new system where your baby is never parted from you. So its impossible to be "given" the wrong baby. You give birth, you kid is cleaned and handed to you, you carry it to your room and a bassinet is kept at your bedside. No anxiety and you take care of the baby from the jump. Nothing for nurses to do except make sure neither of you die before discharge. Its wonderful.
wait. It was different before? WTH
When I heard the aunt’s basement story and I heard
“Long Metal Tube” and “put it down gently”
My first thought was
Oh it must be a pipe bomb and than I was like
*O H*
My brother and his wife were visiting her family in a different province, they were late to the bus depot so they were stuck there for an extra night. The next day, there was nationwide coverage of a murder on a greyhound bus, a guy went crazy, took out a machete and cut someone's head off. It was the bus they would have been on if they hadn't been late.
I remember being in the cafeteria during lunch in 6th grade. I got a bad gut feeling and told my friends that we should go. Right after we had walked to the door, there was a commotion and we turned to see two kids fighting. Right next to where we were sitting.
Another time a year later, the same feeling happened and like 10 seconds after I mentioned it, a kid a few tables in front of me started having a seizure.
I was kicked out of Edison Elementary School (in Glendale, California) when I was in first grade (7 years ago), and sent to Village Glen in the Help Group instead. A school shooting occurred at Edison the first week of school I had at Village Glen.
9:51 "It's always the grandparents that are the true homies." Be careful of making blanket statements. My fraternal grandfather was emotionally abusive to my father and my grandmother. I didn't learn the whole extent of it till I was an adult but my father always had anxiety and anger issues because he never learned how to talk about what was bothering him or to ask for what he needed because when he was a child he was on his own and no one was allowed to help him with anything. My grandmother was a sweet old lady who suffered from depression and self esteem issues and my grandfather bullied her in front of us!
After my grandmother died we eventually just cut of contract with him because we couldn't take all the hurtful things he was saying anymore ... sometimes monsters grow up grow old and there kids grow up and have kids and boom, that monster is technically a grandparent. It doesn't fix anything that is wrong with them though.
My first accident: a truck came into my lane without notice. I swerved left into the center shoulder and hit gravel, over corrected and lost control. Went right across THREE lanes 7am of traffic without hitting anyone and ended up in the guard rail.
08:33
You know what
Thank you
I actually really needed to hear that today.
4:00 My grandad had two mortar shells that we 'inherited' when he passed away. They made it safely from Gothenburg to Stockholm in the trunk of my uncle's car, dad kept them in a cabinet until he passed away. when we were selling the house we all wonder what we were supposed to do with them.
They had clearly been decommissioned, and had no explosive compounds in them... but still... felt really uneasy handling them.
My Grandparents live in a small Czech village in the middle of a (former Millitary owned) Forest used for Warsaw Pact Tank manoeuvre training. About 70% of the elderly people living there have an empty munition shell from a T72 Tank as a vase in their livingroom
This is scaring the hell out of me because I should be dead. I was running an errand for my parents late one night. Went to cross an intersection to wait in a median for a left turn. Pulled out and was t-boned. I walked away with a few scrapes. If I had pulled out a single second earlier, I am 100% certain I would be dead rn.
If I ever had thoughts about doing that to myself, I would be on the phone with 911 before anything even happened.
1:26 hey.. uh.. you ok?
That story with the car - the fact that OP rolled over it might have actually saved him and his bones. He didn't come to a sudden stop, it was gradual one instead, so the forces exerted by the hit were significantly smaller.
Most hospitals actually have lots of systems in place to make sure babies are not swapped. They have you (and your partner ) wear a bracelet with a serial number on it then basically the moment the baby is born they put the matching serial number bracelet on the baby's ankle.
On top of this babies also have an alert ankle bracelet that triggers if someone tries to leave the hospital with the baby.
This is what the hospital where I gave birth did, and I have a friend who has had 8 kids over the span of 15 years over three different states and all those hospitals did the same
Not me, but my mom had this. She was playing softball with my dad and some friends, when she got really sick and was vomiting violently. My brother got my Dad and we took her to the hospital. While my mom was being admitted, the nurse on duty quickly got my mom a bed, and grabbed the doctor. Turned out that my mom was having a brain aneurysm, and back in 1986, it was still hard to recognize. The nurse saved my mother's life, and my mom went on to live for 29 more years, before passing away from a different cause.
The suicide cat story made me so happy and so sad at the same time