Monday, December 7, 2020

The Biggest Bullets People Dodged


We like to think we're in control of our own lives, but that's not always the case. We do our best to stay out of trouble, but sometimes it's just up to chance, or someone else's intervention that we don't end up stepping into a pit of snakes. One missed bus or the decision to have cake instead of pie can lead to some missed bullets or crazy butterfly effect situations.

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Text - alex_harold 4.0k points · 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago As a kid, after running errands in town with my mom, I was climbing into the backseat of our family station wagon. A semi-truck hit a power line pole down the street causing the still-live wire to fall, bounce off the roof of the car and hang across the open door just a foot or two above my legs. Raised catholic, I wondered for a while after if I had actually died that day and that the rest of what I thought was my life was my purga

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Text - EmperorHans 45.0k points · 3 days ago 5 O5 2 3 10 & 7 More I had a cardic arrest about four years ago. Dropped dead(ish) in the middle of my shift. Found out after I woke up about a week later that: A) the manager who saw me fall was a former life guard and knew proper CPR B) an ambulance happened to be passing about two blocks away C) probably the best cardio unit in my state was a ten minute ambulance ride from where it all happened. Walked out of the hospital about two weeks later, ful

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Text - LegallyBodacious 37.6k points · 3 days ago O 2 3 & 3 More Not changing jobs in early 2020. Would have been a short lived promotion after early restructuring and layoffs. Nice-Excitement888 27.3k points · 2 days ago 2 e7 32 I changed jobs March 9, 2020. Two days later my city shut down and everyone was sent to work from home. My new company committed to zero covid layoffs, the company I left, laid off about 80% of my department. Dodged a bullet haha.

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Text - StuckInTheElevator 37.4k points · 3 days ago · 2 5 3 3 & 3 More edited 2 days ago Was going to move to a different apartment complex last month...got injured at work and lost hours; therefore, couldn't come up with the deposit money in time. Last week some asshat was cooking meth and caught the building on fire.

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Text - well_uh_yeah 30.7k points · 3 days ago 2 2 2 5 When my great aunt passed away I was helping to clean out her house. I'm just dragging everything out of the basement and suddenly my dad is like, "Whoa! Put that down gently and let's move away from here." So I put the weird metal tube-type thing I'm carrying down and get out of there. Turns out it's a mortar shell from when my aunt worked in a munitions factor during WWII. Bomb squad came and took it away.

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Text - ThadisJones 29.4k points · 3 days ago & 9 More Not me, but I had a field service engineer working on one of my big robotic liquid handlers. He decided to bypass the safety pin that prevents the heads from moving while the cover is open while he had a diagnostic program queued up on the computer. What he didn't know was that the instant he reinserted the safety pin the machine would execute the queued instructions and start moving, and he had a hand inside it right in the danger zone. I gr

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Text - The_Chonto 27.6k points · 2 days ago 2 4 3 4 8 4 I stayed up all night before a daytrip to Hong Kong. You know that daze when you haven't slept, you're just kinda robotic and doing the human stuff, nearly zero awareness of anything? Well, I went to cross a street and my friend behind me SNATCHED my shoulder and yanked me backwards just in time to feel the WHOOSH of a doubledecker bus breezing past us. I just looked at him like "oh, thanks man" and it took a whole extra minute for my brain

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Text - whitethrowblanket 24.3k points · 2 days ago · 3 4 e & 13 More Not my story, but a girl I knew had had a few drinks edited 2 days ago and decided to hitchhike home, a town about 40 min away from the one she'd been drinking in. Note- it is very common for people to hitch hike in this area. She gets picked up by a car of guys, all seems fine until she points out they can drop her off just up ahead, and they keep driving. She had that 'instant sober' feeling. She plays it off like she's cluel

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Text - mlahut 19.5k points · 2 days ago 2 2 3 2 E Freshman year of college I had a calc class. It was material I had learned before, but for various reasons they didn't give me transfer credit. So I skipped class quite frequently. Though I usually slept in, one morning I find myself awake at 8:30 and not really feeling like sleep. Might as well check in on the class and see what's going on. It was the midterm exam.

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Text - TheFuckingQuantocks 15.6k points · 2 days ago · edited 2 days ag PE 6 2 5 6 10 & 41 More My GF and I were going to see Cats, the movie. Our Uber pulls up and straight away we notice something about the driver. To this day, we can't articulate what it was, other than to say he just felt "off". We got into he car, already hesitating and a touch anxious. He looks at us in the rear view mirror and makes a comment like "two lovely ladies in my car tonight" or some weird shit. A few minutes in,

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Text - seeing_red415 15.5k points · 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago 2 2 S I was walking down the street in downtown Chicago and I heard a loud bang followed by a woman screaming. Somebody dropped a full 2 liter bottle of soda from the 13 floor and it just missed me. It was essentially a giant bullet at that height and speed. The woman screaming was about 5 feet behind me (she was the 2nd closest to being hit). I'm pretty sure that bottle would have killed me if it hit me.

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Text - Axeman1721 13.0k points · 2 days ago 2 4 & 6 More When I was in middle school I wanted to buy a fedora, but none could fit my head.

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Text - Worlds_Best_Coffee 12.4k points · 2 days ago A friend had lost his job under suspicious circumstances. A few weeks later he asked me to take him to the bank, as I got near to pick him up I caught a train. He called to say never mind he would get someone else. A few days later a friend sent out a message to a large number of our friends, this guy lost his job and was running a check cashing con - Can you cash this check for me? I'll pay you $50 if you do. The check is $500, he has no backi

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Text - baeuti 11.7k points · 2 days ago 2 3 23 36 84 There was a pile of stuff that people would leave at our house when I was at university, coats and stuff. Moving out day and we found a random samurai sword in the pile. We were messing about with it trying to make it go “swoosh". I was stood facing my brother while he was swooshing it when the blade dislodged from the handle, flew straight past me and stuck horizontally into my headboard. So yeah my brother nearly impaled me while messing aro

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Text - khendron 11.5k points · 2 days ago Many years ago, my flight had just landed at Chicago O'hare and the plane was taxiing when the pilot suddenly slammed on the brakes. People were literally thrown forward against the seat in front of them. A few seconds later, another plane (taking off I think) went screaming by right in front of us. No explanation was given, though our imaginations provided a lot of gory details.

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Text - HoodooSquad 9.7k points · 2 days ago 2 3 2 9 8 2 My newborn needed to be rushed to a super high level NICU to be put into a state of induced hypothermia, because he only had hours before he would suffer permanent brain damage. I live in a small town in the middle of no where. The small town next door just barely upgraded their hospital to have that hypothermia suite, one of only a few in Texas. He's doing great, no sign of any damage.

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Text - ansteve1 7.1k points · 3 days ago 2 S Literally. I was walking back to our barracks in Afghanistan talking with my peers and my staff Sergeant. We get to on part my staff Sergeant grabbed my collar and pulled me back. Right there was a unexploded 40mm grenade projectile from a launcher sitting where my my foot was about to land. Big yikes.

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