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Just wondering what the scariest thing any of you have ever done was, or the scariest thing that has ever happened to you, that possibly made you fear for your own life, and seriously condider that you would not live.

For me, it was a few days after christmas, and I was in Switzerland with my family. My mom wanted to go somewhere that took a lot of time and was on the other side of the mountain from where we were staying. We ended up on the top of our side of the mountain as the sun was going down. Let me tell you, these were long runs, several miles on avarage.

Anyways, we are trying to get down the hill, but the light was very flat (any long time [and possible not so long time {beat that Pufer. Parenthesis within parenthisis within parenthis}] skier or rider knows what that is. It is when the light reflects off of the snow strangly and makes it hard to see the terrain), so it was making it very hard to get down the run, and the sun is dropping fast.

Twenty minutes later it was completely dark. I am next to the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps in the complete dark. In the U.S there is a partol group that goes out and does "last call" and escorts any stragglers down to the bottom. In Switzerland they don't have that. I was so scared. I couldn't see where I was going, and we were still several miles of trail until the bottom. I didn't know what to do. My mom started to cry, which only made me feak out more. I almost cried myself. My parents are Ski Patrolers in the U.S, so they had to take an Outdoor Survival class, and right as I was about to ask wether we should dig a hole and hope not to freeze to death rather than fall off one of the increasingly thin trails, we see a light behind us. A ski patroler that was finishing late. He gave my mom his headlamp, and we made it down to a gondola station, and they put us on it, and got us back down. It was as close as I have ever some to death in my life, and it scared the heck out of me.

I don't know why I only just posted this, seeing as how Christmas was severak months ago, but it popped into my head today. So, anybody else here have any stories?

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The scariest thing that has ever happened to me is the day I walked into my kitchen to this:



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- "THE VIRGIN MARY WILL GET YOU!!!!" --Jambo
- "Mmmmm...hostess..." -- dude3 & Jambo
-"*Bursts in through door, "I heard there was going to be a fire going on down here, a fire in my pants"*" --ElGato

AHHHHHHHH!

Anyways, what was the closest I came to death....hmmm....cant think of anything...

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The closest I ever came to death was when I was attacking this guys base,

and didn't notice he sent some forces to kill me as I used starfall. I just

barely used my scroll of town portal in time. I got back with 3 hp left.

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Well in Star Craft, the other day I was playing a Zero Clutter match and my base was dang near to being wiped out....

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The scariest situation that I've ever been in happened in conjunction with my first episode with a kidney stone. After a few hours of extreme and horrific pain on my right flank, severe enough to induce vomiting and bring me to the brink of unconsiousness, I dragged myself to the bathroom to urinate only to find nothing but dark red blood splashing down into the toilet bowl. Keeping in mind that I had no idea what was happening to me at the time, I was not above thinking of the prospect of death at that point on my way to the hospital.

It has often been said that passing a kidney stone is the closest that a male can get to experiencing childbirth (it's even been studied, brainwaves are similar between males experiencing the passing of a stone and females during childbirth), and I can assure you that it is desparate feeling. The one thing that I can say that women do have over us is that you know what is happening when you are having a child for the first time, what with nine months of prep time and all, males have no warning or prep time at all, it just suddenly hits (around a half-hour from the first pang of pressure into full-blown, get me to the hospital type of pain, then progressively worse, my first stone had me waiting probably five to six hours before heading into the ER, I at least knew what was happening the second time and got there within a hour and a half). That not knowing what is going on is the scariest thing of all.

-Pufer

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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
-Frank Zappa

I remember when my dad had kidney stones. I remember seeing the X-rays. I was only about...three or four...but I remember seeing the X-Rays..pretty scary.

Pufer...how old are you?

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- "THE VIRGIN MARY WILL GET YOU!!!!" --Jambo
- "Mmmmm...hostess..." -- dude3 & Jambo
-"*Bursts in through door, "I heard there was going to be a fire going on down here, a fire in my pants"*" --ElGato

Nineteen. I was the youngest repeat kidney stone patient that my urologist had ever treated.

-Pufer

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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
-Frank Zappa

Wow, yeah...I was going to say...I didn't think you were over about twenty-one and from what I know, ninteen is quite young for kidney stones.

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- "THE VIRGIN MARY WILL GET YOU!!!!" --Jambo
- "Mmmmm...hostess..." -- dude3 & Jambo
-"*Bursts in through door, "I heard there was going to be a fire going on down here, a fire in my pants"*" --ElGato

Holy crap breh. That sucks. Though peein blood would be strangely, and in kind of a sick way cool. Sorry, dark blood red is my favorite color, no matter where it was coming from.

Well, the closest I have come to death...lemme see.....

I was twelve, and I acidentaly cut open one of my arteries in my right wrist with an Exacto knife when I was working on a model airplane. The "inscision" was about 1/8 of an inch long. AMAZING amounts of blood came out. I remeber hearing the ER tech saying I had lost some where between 3 and 4 pints of blood. They told my mom if she hadn't gotten me there sooner, I most likley wouln't have lived. It didn't hurt like bloody murder like our poor, good friend Pufer's incident, but it did scare the living shi* out of me.

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" The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies."
~~Psalms 18:2-3

[This message has been edited by ShinobiGatakana (edited 03-20-2004).]

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.....That's sick...

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- "THE VIRGIN MARY WILL GET YOU!!!!" --Jambo
- "Mmmmm...hostess..." -- dude3 & Jambo
-"*Bursts in through door, "I heard there was going to be a fire going on down here, a fire in my pants"*" --ElGato

I told you so. weaklings.....

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" The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies."
~~Psalms 18:2-3

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Shinobi, you seem to assert your blood fetish and your fear of it in the same post.

As for me...hmm...probably dying in a dream. Seriously. None of you need to know how I died, however...

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The closet I've ever come to death is when I had a alergic reaction to nuts for the first time, my eyes hurt because they were swelling, my throat was closing up, I could barely breath without coughing(which hurt a whole hell of a lot) And of course my friend is on the phone when this was happening, he kept on asking me if I was okay, because I kept coughing and saying ow(and other various "colorations"). Then my dad was like "Thats it, I'm taking you to the ER." On the way, my fingers were like the size of sausages (the really thick ones). When I got there, they pretty much stopped the swelling, and it died down, but they sent fluids in through my hand, and I got all shaky. One guy I overheard said that I was almost to late, scared the sh*t out of me(not literealy).

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Curiousity killed the blood thirsty monkey...twice
"It's difficult to comprehend how insane some people can be, especially when you're insane."

Well, I was at a softball game, and me and my brother (some of you may know him as the loser) were playing catch. He threw some kind of fit about something, and threw the ball way past me to piss me off. So I turn, and I'm jogging over to it, and my hair is over my left eye.
Out of the far left corner of my right eye, I see the tip of a baseball bat swing towards me. It hits, and I fly backwards, landing on my back. Blood everywhere, Emergency Room, 15 stitches, heavy painkillers, the whole deal. (BTW, the bat that hit me was from some random guy who was practice swinging)
Actually, thanks to my good friend shock and trauma, I wasn't really scared.


Side note: This girl at my school dyed her hair redish, and now it's the same colour as mine was when it was drenched in my own blood. I can't look at her without shuddering, which is inconvenient seeing as she is in all of my classes.

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About the blood fetish thing, thats not true, he can like the color of dark red and not be sick. I mean some people like the color dark army green. Yet they don't like war or barf. It's not very traditional if you ask me but it doesn't nescarrialy mean that they like seeing people's blood. Another example is AzzyGreen™ and you all know what I am talking about. How many people can look at that and say whoa, what a nice color, instead of having a seizure on the floor.

The scariest thing I've ever done was when I was skiing, very young and I was on one of the older lifts and I forgot to jump off, it was at least 20 feet in the air and I jumped into a nice powder rift, but the powder caved in on top of me. So I was stuck in a hole in skiis with powder inclosing me. Luckily everyone saw that and were able to get me the hell out. So now, I enjoy skiing, but I always try to be first off the lift, and first on.

And the other fairly traumitizing moment was when I saw Azzy art for the first time.

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It seems people have a taste for hell in the morning.

The scariest thing thats ever happened to me was the time dude3 waltzed into my room naked.

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Really? That was the best day of my life.

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- "THE VIRGIN MARY WILL GET YOU!!!!" --Jambo
- "Mmmmm...hostess..." -- dude3 & Jambo
-"*Bursts in through door, "I heard there was going to be a fire going on down here, a fire in my pants"*" --ElGato

I can't see him waltzing.

But Azzy and Vec apparantly can.

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On a regular basis from what I hear.

-Pufer

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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
-Frank Zappa

dude3 is one kinky mofo. I'd know.

Yo.

Hohoho.

I think his name is Bo.

It may be so



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ATTs Official Newb, And Znorty's official Sidekick. "All hail fearless leader." [url="http://"mailto:lotsofblackflags@yahoo.com"]mailto:lotsofblackflags@yahoo.com[/url]lotsofblackflags@yahoo.com

Vec...I'm agreeing with you on that one.

Scariest time...there have been a lot...but the most recent was...

I was at my swim team BBQ, and I was heading over to where they were going to take the group pictures. They had to make the pic PERFECT so I was on my knees for about an hour and a half. I didn't really know what was going on and my ears started to just lose sound. I couldn't hear anything...then everything started get speckled in my eyes..I thought it was my glaucoma..so my eyes were going black and I started moving back and forth uncontrolably...then started swaying all over the place and started getting a vomitting feeling in my stomach. I tried to hold it back because everyone was around me. I felt like I was going to die and so I figured it wasn't the glaucoma but then I couldn't really think about anything at all and going back and forth just fell back. I guess I was carried by people over to table or something. Then I woke up after they straightened out my legs...I guess it was a lack of circulation or soemthing...but whoa...

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It seems people have a taste for hell in the morning.

That is exactly what happend Mu. The same thing happens to cadets at the AFI (Annual Formal Inspection) in ROTC. It was actually last Wednesday, 1-4 periods in the Gym. Well, blood gets stopped at the knee in the Femoral Artery and Vein when cadets lock their knees when at attention and at Parade Rest or At Ease. All that happened to you was being on your knees didn't allow blood to flow through the Great Saphenous vein adjascent to you femur. So, all of your blood got caught in your legs, and the brain didn't get enough oxygen from the blood because it was all in you legs.

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" The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies."
~~Psalms 18:2-3

[This message has been edited by ShinobiGatakana (edited 03-21-2004).]

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Who the heck did they have taking the picture? One and a half hours is an absurd amount of time to do anything photographic in nature (excepting long time-lapse exposures), much less a simple group shot.

-Pufer

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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
-Frank Zappa