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Anyone almost die?
All this talk about Doctors and how they introduce themselves reminded me that I nearly impaled myself on a knee high fence when I was up in Chicago a couple of weeks ago.
Around 11am we were walking from wrigleyville to the beach and playing catch with a football on the side streets. I'm jogging about 50% of full speed and give the "I'm open!" wave with my hand.
Buddy see's me but makes a terrible throw, I jump to catch it but don't notice I'm right next to a knee high fence...The fence trips me up and I land chest first on the stupid decorative spikes(lucklily they had rounded tops to prevent idiots from impaling themselves). 1 spike hit my chest about .5 inches from my neck and the others hit my pec and stomach. I also cut my leg pretty bad when it slammed against the fence, was squirting out blood :sdeek:.
We had a ksu vet grad and a DR(physical therapy) with us so they were able to patch me up good enough to continue binging.
You can see the stupid fence in street view
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&sa=N&tab=lw#hl=en&q=724+west+barry+avenue+chicago+il
What about you? Have you ever almost died?!?
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once had a guy point a loaded gun at me for about 5 minutes. then he decided to kill himself instead. :sdeek:
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My car was sliding on a side of a mountain in slick weather. Once it stopped I was on three wheels right on the edge. That was not ideal
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My car was sliding on a side of a mountain in slick weather. Once it stopped I was on three wheels right on the edge. That was not ideal
i get severe anxiety about driving in the mountains, which sucks. would prefer to be airlifted in/out i think...
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car accident. head slammed into windshield and almost broke my neck. Only my Michigan Wolverines hat saved me from being disfigured and picking glass out of my face for the rest of my life. was out for 30 minutes. woke up in the ambo and was all :confused:
:D
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1998, was listening to Big12 champy game while on way back from hunting. Gun readily availible still and all.
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I almost die like once a year. When I was 9 tho, I slid down a mountain after dunking a rock over a fence like MJ. I slid under the fence and grabbed onto it as I hung there dangling a 100 ft above a roaring river. My grandpa and brother grabbed me and drug me back onto land. :horrorsurprise:
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Anyone almost die?
All this talk about Doctors and how they introduce themselves reminded me that I nearly impaled myself on a knee high fence when I was up in Chicago a couple of weeks ago.
Around 11am we were walking from wrigleyville to the beach and playing catch with a football on the side streets. I'm jogging about 50% of full speed and give the "I'm open!" wave with my hand.
Buddy see's me but makes a terrible throw, I jump to catch it but don't notice I'm right next to a knee high fence...The fence trips me up and I land chest first on the stupid decorative spikes(lucklily they had rounded tops to prevent idiots from impaling themselves). 1 spike hit my chest about .5 inches from my neck and the others hit my pec and stomach. I also cut my leg pretty bad when it slammed against the fence, was squirting out blood :sdeek:.
We had a ksu vet grad and a DR(physical therapy) with us so they were able to patch me up good enough to continue binging.
You can see the stupid fence in street view
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&sa=N&tab=lw#hl=en&q=724+west+barry+avenue+chicago+il
What about you? Have you ever almost died?!?
next time take a cab :lol:
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drove on the wrong side of bluemont around 9th or 10th street for about 10 seconds trying to get my skidding car under control after a soccer mom rammed into me from behind (:fatty:).
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this thread is giving me sweaty palms.
when i was about 7 my family was at arches national park and i climbed up one of the arches, and then realized i was sort of stuck, and just fell down the side of the arch, about 50 feet. some guy with a mustache noticed that i was stuck and caught me. my dad was about 20 yards away filming the whole thing :lol:
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When I was five I tripped over a rattlesnake out at our campground but my grandpa chased him away with a rock :thumbs:
When I was three I cut the cord to an electrical fan that was plugged in with some scissors but luckily the scissors had rubber handles :cool:
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My bro Kiefer and I kill each other and bring each other back to life all of the time. it is trippy
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Not really. I feel like 35 feet out of a tree in 8th grade, but that's all I got.
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When I was five I tripped over a rattlesnake out at our campground but my grandpa chased him away with a rock :thumbs:
When I was three I cut the cord to an electrical fan that was plugged in with some scissors but luckily the scissors had rubber handles :cool:
Some kid did this in my 2nd grade classroom, crazy sparks everywhere!
Luckily for you and him most scissors have plastic handles!
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I had a bad acid trip my freshman year of college where I thought I was being sucked into another dimension. It was a close call until a giant purple rabbit saved me.
I stopped doing acid after that.
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I had a bad acid trip my freshman year of college where I thought I was being sucked into another dimension. It was a close call until a giant purple rabbit saved me.
I stopped doing acid after that.
Did one of your friends throw you the giant purple rabbit, or was it imagined as well?
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once had a guy point a loaded gun at me for about 5 minutes. then he decided to kill himself instead. :sdeek:
I'm sorry to hear that, must of been scary though!
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I almost die like once a year. When I was 9 tho, I slid down a mountain after dunking a rock over a fence like MJ. I slid under the fence and grabbed onto it as I hung there dangling a 100 ft above a roaring river. My grandpa and brother grabbed me and drug me back onto land. :horrorsurprise:
I'm glad they saved you wacky! Also I'm sure you looked amazing throwing down the MJ'esque dunk!
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I had a bad acid trip my freshman year of college where I thought I was being sucked into another dimension. It was a close call until a giant purple rabbit saved me.
I stopped doing acid after that.
Did one of your friends throw you the giant purple rabbit, or was it imagined as well?
Nope, that was all me.
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Ames flooded
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once had a guy point a loaded gun at me for about 5 minutes. then he decided to kill himself instead. :sdeek:
I'm sorry to hear that, must of been scary though!
it was!
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once had a guy point a loaded gun at me for about 5 minutes. then he decided to kill himself instead. :sdeek:
I'm sorry to hear that, must of been scary though!
Yea, this was already the winner after one reply.
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once had a guy point a loaded gun at me for about 5 minutes. then he decided to kill himself instead. :sdeek:
I'm sorry to hear that, must of been scary though!
"HAVE"
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I had a bad acid trip my freshman year of college where I thought I was being sucked into another dimension. It was a close call until a giant purple rabbit saved me.
I stopped doing acid after that.
Sounds like a journey through the C(lams)ERN super collider. Are you left handed now?
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once had a guy point a loaded gun at me for about 5 minutes. then he decided to kill himself instead. :sdeek:
Good ghost story and a gun story.
:emawkid:.
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once had a guy point a loaded gun at me for about 5 minutes. then he decided to kill himself instead. :sdeek:
I'm sorry to hear that, must of been scary though!
Yea, this was already the winner after one reply.
:emawkid:
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this thread is giving me sweaty palms.
when i was about 7 my family was at arches national park and i climbed up one of the arches, and then realized i was sort of stuck, and just fell down the side of the arch, about 50 feet. some guy with a mustache noticed that i was stuck and caught me. my dad was about 20 yards away filming the whole thing :lol:
Post the video.
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I had a bad acid trip my freshman year of college where I thought I was being sucked into another dimension. It was a close call until a giant purple rabbit saved me.
I stopped doing acid after that.
Sounds like a journey through the C(lams)ERN super collider. Are you left handed now?
I have always been left handed. I did stutter for a couple days after though and failed a multiple choice Geography test because the A,B,C and D's kept moving around. I told the professor I had a panic attack because it was my first college exam (it was) and he let me retake it. I ended up with an A. :Woot:
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once had a guy point a loaded gun at me for about 5 minutes. then he decided to kill himself instead. :sdeek:
I'm sorry to hear that, must of been scary though!
Yea, this was already the winner after one reply.
:emawkid:
Deets?
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Anyone almost die?
All this talk about Doctors and how they introduce themselves reminded me that I nearly impaled myself on a knee high fence when I was up in Chicago a couple of weeks ago.
Around 11am we were walking from wrigleyville to the beach and playing catch with a football on the side streets. I'm jogging about 50% of full speed and give the "I'm open!" wave with my hand.
Buddy see's me but makes a terrible throw, I jump to catch it but don't notice I'm right next to a knee high fence...The fence trips me up and I land chest first on the stupid decorative spikes(lucklily they had rounded tops to prevent idiots from impaling themselves). 1 spike hit my chest about .5 inches from my neck and the others hit my pec and stomach. I also cut my leg pretty bad when it slammed against the fence, was squirting out blood :sdeek:.
We had a ksu vet grad and a DR(physical therapy) with us so they were able to patch me up good enough to continue binging.
You can see the stupid fence in street view
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&sa=N&tab=lw#hl=en&q=724+west+barry+avenue+chicago+il
What about you? Have you ever almost died?!?
next time take a cab :lol:
:lol:
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Some guy poisoned me with lilly of the valley plant when I was a kid to get back at his partner.
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This guy:
http://nypost.com/2013/09/30/bikers-attack-suv-after-driver-rams-riders/ (http://nypost.com/2013/09/30/bikers-attack-suv-after-driver-rams-riders/)
Don't mess with a gang of any sort, dumbass. (The video is freaky to watch.)
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My bro Kiefer and I kill each other and bring each other back to life all of the time. it is trippy
are you kevin, julia or william?
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I overslept for a final exam once. Luckily, I was still allowed to take it.
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I overslept for a final exam once. Luckily, I was still allowed to take it.
miss it completely, or just late?
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Freshman year of college was partying at one of my teammates house and he was really drunk and pulled out a gun and pointed it at my face. I ran out of the house but eventually another teammate got me to come back because he said the one that pulled the gun on me "was only messing around". :sdeek:
Also just to show me he was just joking he pulled out the gun then proceeded to empty all 6 bullets on the table. :sdeek:
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I overslept for a final exam once. Luckily, I was still allowed to take it.
miss it completely, or just late?
Late. Like 30-45 minutes. Sheer hell.
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I overslept for a final exam once. Luckily, I was still allowed to take it.
miss it completely, or just late?
Late. Like 30-45 minutes. Sheer hell.
close one.
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Freshman year of college was partying at one of my teammates house and he was really drunk and pulled out a gun and pointed it at my face. I ran out of the house but eventually another teammate got me to come back because he said the one that pulled the gun on me "was only messing around". :sdeek:
Also just to show me he was just joking he pulled out the gun then proceeded to empty all 6 bullets on the table. :sdeek:
This story makes you sound like a real pussy.
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I almost died Bread. :shakesfist:
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I overslept for a final exam once. Luckily, I was still allowed to take it.
miss it completely, or just late?
i overslept once and missed the final completely. was out the night before PAK'n. went to prof's office later on that day and asked if i could take a make up. he said no and started to yell at me. i stood up and told him i didn't come to his office to be ridiculed, then turned and walked out of his office. his grad asst came down the hallway 30 seconds or so later with an exam in hand, led me into a side room and let me take it. i failed the living crap out of that test but at least i took it. i showed him how i was going to fail that rough ridin' class.
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I overslept for a final exam once. Luckily, I was still allowed to take it.
miss it completely, or just late?
i overslept once and missed the final completely. was out the night before PAK'n. went to prof's office later on that day and asked if i could take a make up. he said no and started to yell at me. i stood up and told him i didn't come to his office to be ridiculed, then turned and walked out of his office. his grad asst came down the hallway 30 seconds or so later with an exam in hand, led me into a side room and let me take it. i failed the living crap out of that test but at least i took it. i showed him how i was going to fail that rough ridin' class.
my first semester my roommate had a 7am (or 730, whatever it is) final. comes back to the dorm room at 7:15, looks at syllabus on his desk and says "oh, that final was yesterday".
blam, failed out of school.
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I don't think I believe clams' story.
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I overslept for a final exam once. Luckily, I was still allowed to take it.
miss it completely, or just late?
i overslept once and missed the final completely. was out the night before PAK'n. went to prof's office later on that day and asked if i could take a make up. he said no and started to yell at me. i stood up and told him i didn't come to his office to be ridiculed, then turned and walked out of his office. his grad asst came down the hallway 30 seconds or so later with an exam in hand, led me into a side room and let me take it. i failed the living crap out of that test but at least i took it. i showed him how i was going to fail that rough ridin' class.
my first semester my roommate had a 7am (or 730, whatever it is) final. comes back to the dorm room at 7:15, looks at syllabus on his desk and says "oh, that final was yesterday".
blam, failed out of school.
fortunately, i did NOT flunk of out KSU CATs. got serious after that little incident and improved!
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Freshman year of college was partying at one of my teammates house and he was really drunk and pulled out a gun and pointed it at my face. I ran out of the house but eventually another teammate got me to come back because he said the one that pulled the gun on me "was only messing around". :sdeek:
Also just to show me he was just joking he pulled out the gun then proceeded to empty all 6 bullets on the table. :sdeek:
This story makes you sound like a real pussy.
Empty the gun like open and dump out the bullets or empty it like pump that rough riding table full of lead?
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when i was 11 months old i followed my dad out of the house unnoticed, he got in his truck and i tried to get in the passenger side door, didn't make it obvsiously because i was 11 months old and couldn't reach the handle and he ran me over flat as a pancake. spent my 1st and 2nd birthday in the hospital
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when i was 11 months old i followed my dad out of the house unnoticed, he got in his truck and i tried to get in the passenger side door, didn't make it obvsiously because i was 11 months old and couldn't reach the handle and he ran me over flat as a pancake. spent my 1st and 2nd birthday in the hospital
Superchefhero origin story.
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last day of work at ksu beef research I was walking along the edges of bunks ahead of the trailer about 10 feet but right at the edge of the peripheral vision of the tractor driver (female). I fell in between two bunks and my work boot and leg were kind of caught with my head hanging out of the ede of the bunk facing back at the edge of the flatbed. Things went slo-mo and I watched the trailer approach before it stopped a few feet from my head. If one of the crap head guys would've been driving I'd probably be dead.
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Did I ever tell the time I roped a deer when I was working a feed lot?
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Did I ever tell the time I roped a deer when I was working a feed lot?
a. i want to hear about this
b. who held your beer
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last day of work at ksu beef research I was walking along the edges of bunks ahead of the trailer about 10 feet but right at the edge of the peripheral vision of the tractor driver (female). I fell in between two bunks and my work boot and leg were kind of caught with my head hanging out of the ede of the bunk facing back at the edge of the flatbed. Things went slo-mo and I watched the trailer approach before it stopped a few feet from my head. If one of the crap head guys would've been driving I'd probably be dead.
This story makes me even more sad that you didn't come to our tailgate. You worked at the BEEF RESEARCH?!?! My god, that is awesome. (serious) We have several recovering farmers (herp derp) in the group and one rather successful vet. Plus, an ag econ prof that can drink all of your asses under the table with half of his liver tied behind his back.
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3 times. when i was 1 or 2, was riding our horse as my dad walked her, dad let go of the reins to open the gate and she bolted. he snatched me by the hood of my winter coat or else i was toast. high school summers i did drywall, and one time i almost impaled myself when i fell off a ladder. a few years back i kinda got pulled over, the cop was kinda spooked, had his piece trained on my chest in kill mode - safety off. pretty sure i got so calm that my heart almost flat-lined.
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Tractor and hay wagon accident. We were riding on the wagon. Everything went in the ditch. I was about to jump off the wagon during the accident, I was pulled by my cousin who was jumping off the other side of the wagon. Where I about jumped is where the wagon slammed into the ditch.
Car hooding behind a pickup driving down a road. My brother took a corner and sped up, causing the car hood to sling shot into the ditch after we took the corner. THE SAME COUSIN grabbed me and pulled me off before the car hood nailed a tree.
Car accident where my car was completely smashed. I was wearing my seat belt. Very unlikely I would have survived if I were not wearing my seatbelt. I just started wearing my seat belt all of the time about 1 month before the accident.
Not me, but my brother (the one who was driving the tractor) was managing a restaurant where two guys came in and ate and then pulled out guns and robbed the place. They held him at gun point while they stole all of the money and some jewelry from the patrons. My brother said that he could tell the guy wasn't afraid to pull the trigger. Two weeks later, the same two guys robbed another restaurant a state away and they killed the manager of that restaurant. My brother testified in their trial...death penalty.
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Was swimming with some kid I had just met at a house party in their above ground pool. Kid swam through the rungs of the ladder that goes into the pool, under the water, then dares me to do the same. Pudgy me gets stuck trying to go through under water, kid tries to push me through from behind but it's not happening. I thought I was close enough to the surface to lean my head up and get my breath, ended up blowing some bubbles and getting no air. Panicked, then shoved myself backwards and out. No adults were supervising, was probably about 10-11.
Another time I was close to getting hit by a car on the highway driving into Basehor taking my mom to the chiropractor. Car was coming from the other direction, and I saw it driving in the median and kind of bouncing as it was heading into oncoming traffic. I swerved gently to the shoulder and avoided being hit by the car, but the dirt and rocks it kicked up dinged the hell out of my mom's van. Luckily, the other car avoided hitting other vehicles behind us and drove off into the grass on the other side of the highway without flipping, somehow. Apparently the driver hadn't been paying attention and some other car had pulled out onto the road in front of them, and they were about to rear end it when they noticed and then swerved into oncoming traffic.
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last day of work at ksu beef research I was walking along the edges of bunks ahead of the trailer about 10 feet but right at the edge of the peripheral vision of the tractor driver (female). I fell in between two bunks and my work boot and leg were kind of caught with my head hanging out of the ede of the bunk facing back at the edge of the flatbed. Things went slo-mo and I watched the trailer approach before it stopped a few feet from my head. If one of the crap head guys would've been driving I'd probably be dead.
This story makes me even more sad that you didn't come to our tailgate. You worked at the BEEF RESEARCH?!?! My god, that is awesome. (serious) We have several recovering farmers (herp derp) in the group and one rather successful vet. Plus, an ag econ prof that can drink all of your asses under the table with half of his liver tied behind his back.
Yeah I did come to the tailgate. For like 40 min.
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last day of work at ksu beef research I was walking along the edges of bunks ahead of the trailer about 10 feet but right at the edge of the peripheral vision of the tractor driver (female). I fell in between two bunks and my work boot and leg were kind of caught with my head hanging out of the ede of the bunk facing back at the edge of the flatbed. Things went slo-mo and I watched the trailer approach before it stopped a few feet from my head. If one of the crap head guys would've been driving I'd probably be dead.
This story makes me even more sad that you didn't come to our tailgate. You worked at the BEEF RESEARCH?!?! My god, that is awesome. (serious) We have several recovering farmers (herp derp) in the group and one rather successful vet. Plus, an ag econ prof that can drink all of your asses under the table with half of his liver tied behind his back.
Yeah I did come to the tailgate. For like 40 min.
Good God! Did I meet you? Here I am, all disappointed that I didn't meet you, and now you tell me you were there! There were a few of us who were talking about you and I even told them to let me know if you walked up! I am guessing it had to be right before we all went in...the last hour was pretty crazy. We guessed there were at least 100 people there at that time, if you were sober, can you confirm that?
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Plus, an ag econ prof that can drink all of your asses under the table with half of his liver tied behind his back.
Challenge accepted
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last day of work at ksu beef research I was walking along the edges of bunks ahead of the trailer about 10 feet but right at the edge of the peripheral vision of the tractor driver (female). I fell in between two bunks and my work boot and leg were kind of caught with my head hanging out of the ede of the bunk facing back at the edge of the flatbed. Things went slo-mo and I watched the trailer approach before it stopped a few feet from my head. If one of the crap head guys would've been driving I'd probably be dead.
This story makes me even more sad that you didn't come to our tailgate. You worked at the BEEF RESEARCH?!?! My god, that is awesome. (serious) We have several recovering farmers (herp derp) in the group and one rather successful vet. Plus, an ag econ prof that can drink all of your asses under the table with half of his liver tied behind his back.
Yeah I did come to the tailgate. For like 40 min.
Good God! Did I meet you? Here I am, all disappointed that I didn't meet you, and now you tell me you were there! There were a few of us who were talking about you and I even told them to let me know if you walked up! I am guessing it had to be right before we all went in...the last hour was pretty crazy. We guessed there were at least 100 people there at that time, if you were sober, can you confirm that?
Yeah it was a little chaotic. I showed up and ate a brat and some chips and was offered like a million different beers and shots and stuff. I talked to Bookie Pimp and a few other people, stopped by on the way back for a couple minutes but it was obviously pretty dead.
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Plus, an ag econ prof that can drink all of your asses under the table with half of his liver tied behind his back.
Challenge accepted
You'll have to come to WV next year to prove me wrong. I am looking forward to it! :cheers:
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Plus, an ag econ prof that can drink all of your asses under the table with half of his liver tied behind his back.
Challenge accepted
You'll have to come to WV next year to prove me wrong. I am looking forward to it! :cheers:
If #LIFE is our QB and football is fun again
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Plus, an ag econ prof that can drink all of your asses under the table with half of his liver tied behind his back.
Challenge accepted
You'll have to come to WV next year to prove me wrong. I am looking forward to it! :cheers:
If #LIFE is our QB and football is fun again
OH MAN! I have two WV buddies who have said they will keep us alive next year at our tailgate. I guess you have to talk a certain way in WV or they want to fight you. I haven't been in a good fight in a while, so one little tussle might be fun, but I really don't want to have to go sd Sidewinder Dojo style for longer than about 2 minutes. I go for the party, not the testosterone.
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Freshman year of college was partying at one of my teammates house and he was really drunk and pulled out a gun and pointed it at my face. I ran out of the house but eventually another teammate got me to come back because he said the one that pulled the gun on me "was only messing around". :sdeek:
Also just to show me he was just joking he pulled out the gun then proceeded to empty all 6 bullets on the table. :sdeek:
This story makes you sound like a real pussy.
Empty the gun like open and dump out the bullets or empty it like pump that rough riding table full of lead?
Open and dumped out the bullets.
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One time BishopCarrollCat and I were driving home in the rain, talking about the 2012 Cats season. When we mentioned the Baylor game, BCC said "I swore myself to Atheism that night." We immediately hydroplaned, did a 360, and thought we were going to die. We didn't die.
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I stepped on a bee once.
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I stepped on a bee once.
Are you allergic to bees?
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I told a Cosentino to go eff himself once in KC @ fooleries and he had his "marine body guard" come up to me to tell me I was seconds away from getting my neck snapped. :dunno:
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I told a Cosentino to go eff himself once in KC @ fooleries and he had his "marine body guard come up to me to tell me I was seconds away from getting my neck snapped. :dunno:
not sure if fanning brag
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I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.
I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up — 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it...it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope and then received an education.
The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED.
The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer— no chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals. A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head.
At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slowly and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have it suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set beforehand ... kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back.
Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head — almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts.
The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now) tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the bejesus out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose.
That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an animal — like a horse — strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape. This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run.
The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down. Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are lying there crying like a little girl and covering your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away.
So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope so that they can be somewhat equal to the Prey.
Full disclosure...this didn't really happen (to me), but I memorized this story for like float trip campfire sessions. Get's lots of laughs, kids love it, too.
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Just kidding, I did read it and it was very funny
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Oh man, :lol:
(to the story, not to The Big Train's post)
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It didn't really happen? :(
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My freshman year of high school, my friend and I were trying to get my 4-wheeler to the highest speed it could go. We'd take turns going down my 1/4 mile long driveway and report back to the other person how fast we were going, usually about 45. I got the brilliant idea to try to moon my friend at top speed. For the first time all afternoon, I went and grabbed one of the helmets. I get up to 40+ miles per hour, swing my leg over, drop my drawers for the full moon effect. When I pull my pants up and throw my leg back over, I swing my weight a little too much. The 4-wheeler starts rockin', and swing back the other way to try to correct it. Boom, over correct. I fall off. There are 2 rocks lodged into the helmet, one over my temple and the other right above my forehead. Couldn't play football for a week because I was covered in 1st degree burns from the road rash, with a couple of 2nd degree burns to boot. Still have scars on my palms and left wrist.
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Summer after Soph yr in HS. Buddy and I are riding in the back of a pickup. Some idiot is giving us a ride back from a little afternoon lake party. Ther's a 30 MPH corner on the dirt road I grew up on right by my house. This moron is going 60.... I beat on the back window to tell him to slow down but he doesn't get slowed down in time... We go into the corner lose control. The truck rolls on its side and my buddy and I hop out of the back and both land on the road on our feet. we slide for a while then end up on our asses scooting down the road. He ends up in the ditch and is fine but scraped a bit. I ended up sitting right next to the roof of the truck on its side watching it sway and for a second think it's going to fall over on its top and crush me... I GTFOoT and luckily the truck never tipped.
I lived.
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Summer after Soph yr in HS. Buddy and I are riding in the back of a pickup. Some idiot is giving us a ride back from a little afternoon lake party. Ther's a 30 MPH corner on the dirt road I grew up on right by my house. This moron is going 60.... I beat on the back window to tell him to slow down but he doesn't get slowed down in time... We go into the corner lose control. The truck rolls on its side and my buddy and I hop out of the back and both land on the road on our feet. we slide for a while then end up on our asses scooting down the road. He ends up in the ditch and is fine but scraped a bit. I ended up sitting right next to the roof of the truck on its side watching it sway and for a second think it's going to fall over on its top and crush me... I GTFOoT and luckily the truck never tipped.
I lived.
you are not the first person this has happened to.. those s-10s are dangerous
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Just had a way too close encounter with a huge (for Montana) rattlesnake. Nearly walked right over him. He bowed up and I apparently let out a blood curdling scream and jumped away. Was too freaked out to take a pic even after my friend blew his head off.