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deez_nuts_730 t1_j9wwdzw wrote

Reply to Most people don’t know the closest they have been to dying by Mr_Pocket_

I'm one of those actually that do. When I was 11, I was being a dumb fucking 11 year old. I was playing COD online and thought it would be cool to grab my father's .45 and mess around with it. Playing marine in the game and IRL, what could be cooler? I was messing around with my father's gun and died in the game. I pretended to shoot myself with the gun out of frustration, stupid kid stuff. Then I aimed the gun at the floor and pulled the trigger and it fired a round into the floor. To this day I swear when I was playing around and shot at myself I pulled the trigger and nothing happened. I don't know how or why I'm still alive, but I know for a fact I've never been closer to death than when I was pointing that loaded gun at myself thinking I was funny.

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vampyrewolf t1_j9wvr8r wrote

Reply to Most people don’t know the closest they have been to dying by Mr_Pocket_

I'd say hitting a semi that ran a stop sign at about 50kph comes pretty close.

Hit the front third of the rear hopper on the 2nd trailer... 10' forward and my hood would have gone underneath but would have hit about 6" up my windshield... 10' back and I'd have hit right in front of the rear tires, gone under and possibly run over.

We're talking just over a second either way on my dashcam footage.

Had JUST traded in my Ranger for an Explorer less than 18 months prior, and the Ranger would have gone under the hopper which would have hit 4" up the windshield. The Explorer just stopped on impact, no airbags.

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