Near death experiences?

[red90xj]

Any of you guys ALMOST die? or die and been brought back... for example.
heart failure? getting CPR and then being brought back to life again?

fortunatley i have been lucky enough not to have this experience.
but do any of you have any stories of maybe somthing you seen or experienced while being in a comba maybe? anything! lets get another neat thread started here

let em roll

[TRNDRVR]

I got really drunk one time and thought I was 'coming to jesus'. :angel:

Then I woke up the next day and realized I was still right.

That's about it.

[Beej]

PM 5-90. I think he's died two or three times...

[UNCC_99XJ]

PM 5-90. I think he's died two or three times...

Oh really? Is that all???

[old_man]

I got my heart stopped from getting shocked on the pulse forming network on a radar set.

I drowned from getting thrown in a pool with my motorcyle leathers, gloves, helmet, and steel toed boot.

[RTicUL8]

When I was 16 I was skiing alone and off-trail at Breckenridge when I lost control and hit a tree.
I think I was out for about 15 minutes before I woke up.
I remember seeing a very bright light.
No tunnel – just the sun beating down on my sorry a$$.

[riverfever]

I think I pushed the envelope the other night and had one too many jalapenos on my quesadilla. My brown eye thought it was a near death experience. I think my g/f almost had a near death experience when she, unsuspectingly, walked into the bathroom and got slapped, hard, in the face with the aftermath.

They call me trumpet butt.
:passgas:

[SBrad001]

Ruptured spleen, and lascerated liver and kidney form a motorcycle accident 15 years ago. Heart stopped twice on the surgery table. . . I got really scared right before they took me up to the OR because all the pain stopped.

[red90xj]

all great stories guys keep em comming

[Root Moose]

Drowned once when I was 12 - horseplay at the pool. Lots of water pumped out of the lungs.

Almost ran over by an 8 wheeled troop transport once... Lots of blood where my bike scraped the hell out of my leg as I slid into the ditch.

Car accident near miss... Man that's a far drop...

And then I hit puberty. It all went down hill from there.

Been shot at... really close to getting hit in the head but have never actually been hit.

Plus some other memorable stuff that shouldn't be in public forums.

Damn, never wrote all down in one place before. I probably won't leave the house for a week.

[Ramsey]

something similar to THIS (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002382718_horse15m.html) but I had slightly better luck than this guy.

[Ivan]

Alcohol poisoning a very long time ago (HS graduation). Once the people I was with realized how bad off I was (non responsive), they took me to the ER. As I was being hauled to the ER across the hosptial parking lot on a makeshift stretcher made from 2x12, I let out a big gasp and I quit breathing altogether. Luckily, one of the people taking me in was a lifeguard that knew CPR, and kept me going long enough to make it into the ER.

I spent 3 days in a coma, and don't remember a thing of the event. Needless to say, I didn't drink at all for about 20 years after that bad experience. Today at 50, I only have an occasional glass of wine if that.....mostly for social purposes.....

[goodburbon]

The bus I took every morning to work had a head on collision the day after I quit.

The Frankfurt airport was blown up a few days after I passed through.

My appendix ruptured and exploratory surgery had to be done to clean me out.

I thought I died once when I passed out. Didnt' help that everyone ran in and said OMG is he dead when they heard the crash.

Flew over the handlebars a few times, nothing too serious, just broken bones and butterfly bandages.

[Brendan_91XJ]

I stopped breathing during surgery after a motorcycle accident back in '87, they kept me out for three days after the surgery.

[Beej]

I was shot 162 times once. I died on the operating table of lead poisoning and was only revived after they could remove all the bullets and fill the bulletholes with tiny custom-cut corks. Remarkably, it left no scars...

[Ramsey]

are you the matrix?

[rock rash]

had a snowboarding accident two or so years ago...was going down the mountain, and right at the end, i bent down to pick up a snowball to throw while riding...caught an edge, fleww about 10 feet in the air, crash landed on my heads and neck. was knocked out for about 10 mins...woke up with blood flowing from cuts in my face and nose, with people over me screaming at me to wake up...broke my collar bone, tore my MCL in my right knee, broke my nose, severe concussion, and had to get stitches. the crash shattered my goggles and cracked my helmet. The doc said that if i didnt have my helmet on, i would have broke my neck and died...i wear my helmet all the time snowboarding now!

i just cant live down that this happened while just riding down the hill where i had spent all day in the terrain park.

i have had a total of 11 concussions i think...a couple have been pretty bad.


i spent a week in the hospital because i had a horrible headache for about three days and kept passing out while walking...would wake up anywhere from 10-45 mins later...

they thought i had a brain tumor, then it was an enlarged heart, then it was siezering (sp?) in my sleep...at one point they said i had a few weeks to live...they never figured out what it was, and im still here 3 years later.

there are more, but i cant remember them all right now...some i dont remember at all :D

[jeepinxj01]

He's the "ONE."

[rock rash]

he cant be, hes canadian

[cjsxj87]

I was in the back of a former friends pick up truck and he took a turn fast and i didnt know that he was going to soI went flying out headfirst at like 20-30 mph hit face first and i had no broken teeth or bones but the other kid that was in the back got road rash because he hung on to the truck

[goodburbon]

Everyone knows Canadians are agents.

[Root Moose]

I was shot 162 times once. I died on the operating table of lead poisoning and was only revived after they could remove all the bullets and fill the bulletholes with tiny custom-cut corks. Remarkably, it left no scars...
For now on, I'm callin' you "Corkie!"

:D

[Root Moose]

Everyone knows Canadians are agents.
When you go this deep undercover you can't help but talk funny.

[LilRhodyXJ]

When I was 13 I was skiing at Sunday River and I got onto a long flat cross trail, a snowboarder losing speed tried to grab hold of me but ended up pushing me off the trail...I was going slower then my parents and they never saw me fall......I slid over 30 feet down into forest and hit my head on a rock and passed out...the trail was not connected to another on the other side so the one I was on just went pretty much straight down...the rock that knocked me out also stoped me from going further....when I came too there were 4 college kids near me who had seen me fall and sent their girl friends to get ski patrol... They pulled me up and I was put in a lodge with some hot chocolate and waited for my parents....Sunday river got almost 8 inches that night along with strange freezing rain in the mourning...I would have been an icicle!!!

Then there was the accident with my last Xj...I got hit head on by a Chevy 2500 and I slammed head on two windows and my apillar...after it settled I ended up with a shattered femur and bad laserations...I now have a plate in my head, a titanium femur, part of a titanium knee cap, fake hip and some screw/pins...not much fun...couldnt stand for three weeks because of loss of blood and i didnt feel any limbs but my right arm for a few months while I rolled around in my wheelchair

Andrew

[TRNDRVR]

I was shot 162 times once. I died on the operating table of lead poisoning and was only revived after they could remove all the bullets and fill the bulletholes with tiny custom-cut corks. Remarkably, it left no scars...I'm calling SPOBI :bs:

[Kittrell]

1st grade, came around the end of a enclosed backstop and took a aluminum bat to the face. Broke my nose, pushed one inch the other direction would have killed me..................:helpme:

[WayneXJ]

I was driving this car on the interstate and flipped/rolled doing 75mph. Happened 7 years ago and so far I have no lasting effects from the wreck.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/wthomas39/scrapmetal2.jpg

[IXNAYXJ]

I was driving this car on the interstate and flipped/rolled doing 75mph. Happened 7 years ago and so far I have no lasting effects from the wreck.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/wthomas39/scrapmetal2.jpgIf I ever got into a pink Geo, I would want to die.

-----Matt-----

[oz_hole]

Got caught in a storm Christmas day 3 years ago taking a sailboat south, had 55' seas (average) for 2.5 days. Tanker that was near us said that some were as high as 75'.
All that time it was in the back of my mind wondering if we were going to make it through, so it was kind of like dying in slow motion.
I had my brother and another guy, a complete idiot who lied on his resume and was too scared to do anything. So it was my brother and I taking turns on the wheel until we got too tired, and then we'd go down below and attempt to sleep.
It was the most physically and mentally draining experience of my life.
Oz

[Jeepsloth]

Other than having people run across my canopy and bounce off my suspension lines and some war stuff (Panama, Saudi) the closest events both involved Jeeps. The first time I was wheeling a CJ-7 and not wearing a seat belt, I got into a serious off camber deal and slid out of the Jeep and almost ran myself over. The next one involved a Scrambler I was a passenger in flipping on its roof on the Autobahn. I had learned my lesson from the CJ-7 and was wearing a belt, but in that "this is gonna hurt" time warp I had time to realize just how close to the road my melon was as we slid along on the roll bar.

1st lesson: don't jump with cherries
2nd lesson: don't fly at night in helicopters when people are upset and have guns
3rd lesson: If you roll your Jeep slouch

[Ben H]

I almost killed farmermatt with a cut off wheel the other day. :D ooops

[53guy]

I have close calls all the time at work. Like many of you know, I'm a Ch-53E crew chief, so its a common occurance to be doing something and realize you almost died....again.

-Flying along, (way too low to make any sort of autorotative approach) lost two of three engines while doing lifting about 13K externally. Pickled the load about 50' of the deck with enough time for the pilots to recover the drop in altitude at about 15'. I'm laying in the middle of the aircraft at the time, looking out a square hole watching the load ride and 15' off the ground is really close to your face when you think about it doing 130kts.

-Doing externals again, pulling tension on the load, the #2 engine freewheel unit slipped causing a sharp yaw in the tail (about a 40 degree change in direction) when the load broke the deck. Over loaded the other two engines and fell a few feed until the #2 caught back up saving our ass at the last minute.

-Had a pilot ignore my calls and flew us into some trees. Thank goodness for the heavy ass blades of the shitter, we had a new pine fresh smelling helicopter with some new found vibrations. Upon shut-down we found 4 of the 7 blades needed new tip caps.

-Flying on our way out west on a deployment, we took of as a flight of three in questionable weather that only got wose as we went towards the Blue Rige Mtn's. Flying along as dash 2, we lost sight of dash 1, and shortly there after, dash 3 was gone in the goo. Following procedure's, we broke and climbed altitude only to break through the goo about 1000 feet higher than we were at about 1 rotor arc (about 75') away from dash 1. We ended up over taking them on the climb out and they mistakenly climbed instead of maintaining their altitude and heading. That called for a new pair of shorts.

-Had a cabin fire at about 4,000' above Kentucky. Unfortunately it was an electrical fire that was behind sound proofing that was behind huge boxes that were cargo strapped tight to the floor. After frantic releasing of cargo straps, we got to the fire and put it out and pulled the circut breakers. Fun stuff there too.

-Flamed out few engines, fodded out a few now and then, ran out of hydraulic fluid blowing up numerous hydraulic pumps, came back with bullet holes in the floor...the list goes on and on. Not everyone realizes the danger involved in flying the missions we do, nor do they realize the limits that we have to push our aircraft to just to accomplish the mission. You'd be suprised if you don't already know, but we're all pretty much ready to die at any moment. What's life for if you're not living on the edge!?!?

[bjoehandley]

No near death experiences, but I've been in situations that should have atleast severly injured me, let alone kill me.

[ridge_runnerxj]

broken neck c-5/6 vertabrae. truck rollover, i was passenger girl friend at the time was driving. air evaced out, but became stable few hours later.

[ridge_runnerxj]

when i was 12 i fell into a rock quarry by my house and grabbed a tree before i went all the way in.feet dangling, my friends laughed

[Kittrell]

I have close calls all the time at work. Like many of you know, I'm a Ch-53E crew chief

Is this you? Thats a big bitch...................:D

http://www.history.navy.mil/planes/ch-53e.jpg

[Ramsey]

ah, i almost walked into a spinning prop at work. parked the plane and the guy waved me to him(bonanza)so my ass just walked right to him, got there and realized i came within inches of the prop. I was scared like a little girl the rest of the day.

[53guy]

Is this you? Thats a big bitch...................:D

http://www.history.navy.mil/planes/ch-53e.jpg


That's me buddy! She's a beauty! I'm hoping to get out and go work on the new model of it, the HLR (heavy lift replacement) or the CH-53K. Its gonna be slightly bigger and about 50% better than the one we have now, the Echo.

http://www.iol.ie/~helicopters/ch53ebank.jpg
http://bushsupporter.org/war/pi020303a3.jpg
http://bushsupporter.org/war/pi020303a7.jpg

And especially for Ladywolf......

http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/image1.nsf/Lookup/200610914552/$file/060927-M-3333H-001low.jpg

Can't find the one of it being lifted, think it might not be there any more, but this is close I guess. Just have to help our Army buddys out. :wierd:

[Kittrell]

Isn't Marine One a Sikorsky variant?

[53guy]

Isn't Marine One a Sikorsky variant?

Yes, it is!!! Hmmmm, how do I know that now........lets put it this way....I no longer work on CH-53E's because I am working on another helicopter for the next few years. Much better paint job and less dangerous, or so I think.

[Beej]

Isn't Marine One a Sikorsky variant? Anyone ever seen that show... Sikorsky and Hutch?

[Root Moose]

Anyone ever seen that show... Sikorsky and Hutch?
You're bucking for a near death experience, ainchya?

:D

[Darky]

That's me buddy! She's a beauty! I'm hoping to get out and go work on the new model of it, the HLR (heavy lift replacement) or the CH-53K. Its gonna be slightly bigger and about 50% better than the one we have now, the Echo.
One of the only choppers to be able to do a full barrel roll I think, right? I almost re-enlisted as a crew chief for the V-22 (1st), 53 (2nd), or Huey (3rd)

[53guy]

One of the only choppers to be able to do a full barrel roll I think, right? I almost re-enlisted as a crew chief for the V-22 (1st), 53 (2nd), or Huey (3rd)


It's not the only one any longer. The majority of the Sikorsky products can do them now (S-92's, H-60's, and others can all do split-s manuvers and rolls), but I'm not so sure about loops. We can do loops, rolls, anything you'd like, but it takes its toll each time you do them. The airframe doesn't particularly care to do them from what I understand. I know the Longbow can do split-s' but I am not sure about what else.

[RichP]

Alchol poisioning, 21 blackrussians after a new england lobster dinner, luckily I puked out the window and the guy behind us had to use his windsheld wipers.

Short 4duce round, landed about 12ft away and didn't go off...broke my lawn chair hitting the dirt then had to go c4 it in place...

155HE round, screwed the paint job on my track and peppered the TC clam shell where I was sitting with my feet up on the maduce mount...screwed my helmet too.. driver got the track airborne twice unassing the ao figuring there was the rest of battery right behind it...

Then there were the couple of 'quick, out the window, my husband came home a day early', moral of that one is if you're going to screw around with a married woman make sure she lives in a ranch and not a split level...

[XJ Dreamin']

I think I pushed the envelope the other night and had one too many jalapenos on my quesadilla. My brown eye thought it was a near death experience. I think my g/f almost had a near death experience when she, unsuspectingly, walked into the bathroom and got slapped, hard, in the face with the aftermath.

They call me trumpet butt.
:passgas:

How much more is this g/f gonna take? :D

[XJ Dreamin']

bestiality is not illegal in Washington state

That answers a lot of questions, right there. :roll:

[XJ Dreamin']

The bus I took every morning to work had a head on collision the day after I quit.

The Frankfurt airport was blown up a few days after I passed through.

My appendix ruptured and exploratory surgery had to be done to clean me out.

I thought I died once when I passed out. Didnt' help that everyone ran in and said OMG is he dead when they heard the crash.

Flew over the handlebars a few times, nothing too serious, just broken bones and butterfly kisses.

I don't know what that means, but I had to fix it.






sorry

[XJ Dreamin']

OK. Enough screwing around...down to topic:

(short version) Just turned 21 and went out drinking with a buddy. Best guess - 30 shots of Jack Black Label between 21:00 and 01:00. About 03:30 I woke up on g/f's couch (buddy's g/f and my g/f shared a house with some other girls). I went and threw up in the toilet. I don't remember walking back to the livingroom, but I ended sitting on the couch with my head in my hands, my g/f was standing in front of me and she said, "Serves you right."

The only problem is, in my memory that image - of me on the couch and my g/f standing in front of me - is from an upper corner of the livingroom. When I remember that scene I see me on the couch and her standing in front of me from up above my right shoulder. And that was an old victorian house so my perspective is from 12' up. After that first 03:30 visit to the john I threw up every 30 to 60 minutes for 21 hours straight.

I think maybe it was alcohol poisoning :D That seems to be a popular cause of near death in this thread :thumbup: :)

[DrMoab]

I farted last night on my roof and everyone around me had a near death experience.

[XJ Dreamin']

I farted last night on my roof and everyone around me had a near death experience.

You go up there for the carrying winds aloft?

[Ramsey]

The only problem is, in my memory that image - of me on the couch and my g/f standing in front of me - is from an upper corner of the livingroom. When I remember that scene I see me on the couch and her standing in front of me from up above my right shoulder.
i've got one of those from a drug induced passout, amazing how real it seems

[TRNDRVR]

I think maybe it was alcohol poisoning :D That seems to be a popular cause of near death in this thread :thumbup: :)Nope.....I was just being an ass! (like usual)

[ladywolf]

And especially for Ladywolf......

http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/image1.nsf/Lookup/200610914552/$file/060927-M-3333H-001low.jpg

Can't find the one of it being lifted, think it might not be there any more, but this is close I guess. Just have to help our Army buddys out. :wierd:[/QUOTE]




gee thanx. appreciate that picture. will try to get up some of our birds as soon as i redeploy here in a couple of days. and it just HAD to be a medevac bird didnt it.


my experiences:

flew in a severe thunderstorm 3 weeks ago, browned out at the POI site, couldnt take off till weather cleared enuf to see our sister ship.

a month ago had a mortar attack. that almost called for a new pair of shorts.

as a child damn near landed on top of one of dads herford bulls playing around with the rope swing in the barn

have had engines crap in flight, havent managed to come back with bullet holes in our floor....god knows how many hydraulic pumps i've blown up, and have had one electrical fire over KY.

btw.....love your aircraft. have watched yall fly in and out of our fob, thought i mighta had to walk up to your aicraft and get u guys to move one nite, but didnt get too. you have the blackhawk on severe steroids. plus its sikorsky:) as long as it aint boeing or macdonald douglass we're good.

[53guy]

you have the blackhawk on severe steroids. plus its sikorsky:) as long as it aint boeing or macdonald douglass we're good.


yup, I really love watching the baby shitters buzzing around, although, I don't really care for their vib's. Just rubs me the wrong way for some reason.....that and your gun/crew windows.

[woody]

I've had quite a few... one lately which stuck:

Riding to work the other morning caught a decent fright... came out of the fog @ 50 or so on a wet road to find an 18 wheel log truck which had the whole -narrow anyway- road blocked. Around was not an option - stop before it, into it, underneath or past it was. I was right at the not stopping/aim at underneath the trailer to miss the dolly wheels & the air tank & duck mode but didnt commit to the low-side skid. It was a close as I care to shave it... on a preventable scenario. (Overrode my sight distance vs traction = lucky me) My last 'fleeting' thought intermixed with the avoid-death-by-log truck thoughts was "shoula got a double-sugared funnel cake at the fair last night Mr No Junk Food"

Last one from the old school: Falling through the ice exciting moments. Nothing says "You are Fully Icicled-Nice Being You" :wave: like dropping through ice in moving water. Every nerve in your body shouts "Uh Oh!" and so far my nerves have twitched into the get the -x- out of it mode. 3x hobbling home with frozen duds beats the alternate playout. Never again is the plan for open-water.

[Sniggs]

That's funny... I don't remember eating corn.

[ladywolf]

yup, I really love watching the baby shitters buzzing around, although, I don't really care for their vib's. Just rubs me the wrong way for some reason.....that and your gun/crew windows.


vib's.......we have a couple of really good test pilots who are really good at getting rid of em....as for gun/crew windows.....eh, its a moot point. being medevac we arent allowed to have anything but personal weapons anyhow. i dont like our seats, so if my pilots arent using their back cushion, i steal it so i can sit on it.

[5-90]

PM 5-90. I think he's died two or three times...

Twice.

DEC1991, stabbed in a bar fight. Ended up bleeding to death in the ER, and was dead for 1:12.

NOV2006 - hit by a car. Broke three ribs and my pelvis, shattered my face, subdural hematoma right parietal lobe, and dead for 0:22. Got my revenge on that one - the car was totalled. I'm doing just fine, save for some "visual effects" when I'm tired, frustrated, or hungry (lingering brain injury.)

The first time, I got a dose from the kickstart machine. Second time was, I guess, just a "hard reset" - I apparently came back on my own.

Both times, I came back just a bit healthier - but I don't recommend it...

5-90

[jeepinxj01]

Twice.

DEC1991, stabbed in a bar fight. Ended up bleeding to death in the ER, and was dead for 1:12.

NOV2006 - hit by a car. Broke three ribs and my pelvis, shattered my face, subdural hematoma right parietal lobe, and dead for 0:22. Got my revenge on that one - the car was totalled. I'm doing just fine, save for some "visual effects" when I'm tired, frustrated, or hungry (lingering brain injury.)

The first time, I got a dose from the kickstart machine. Second time was, I guess, just a "hard reset" - I apparently came back on my own.

Both times, I came back just a bit healthier - but I don't recommend it...

5-90

I believe the topic is "Near Death Experiences," not DEAD experiences. :sure:

Just kiddin'....that's insane. You're lucky. I believe you may win the award for this thread.

[goodburbon]

5-90 you died next month?

[Cornflake]

5-90 you died next month?

didn't you know that he can tell the future? :)

[red90xj]

Do you remember anything while you were dead?

[5-90]

5-90 you died next month?

Sorry - 08NOV2005. My short-term memory isn't what it was, but it's coming back...

5-90

[Glenn B]

And especially for Ladywolf......

http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/image1.nsf/Lookup/200610914552/$file/060927-M-3333H-001low.jpg

Can't find the one of it being lifted, think it might not be there any more, but this is close I guess. Just have to help our Army buddys out. :wierd:

Here is the series of fotos:
http://www.talkmilitary.com/forums/showthread.php/super-stallions-heavy-lift-capabilities-carry-7100.html

[53guy]

Here is the series of fotos:
http://www.talkmilitary.com/forums/showthread.php/super-stallions-heavy-lift-capabilities-carry-7100.html


Thanks man, I had them saved to my work desktop as well, so I guess I won't upload them now that you've gotten it for me! I appreciate it!

Here ya go Ladywolf, the one flying I was talking about.

http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/image1.nsf/Lookup/200610474224/$file/HEAVYLIFT005lr.jpg

Glad to help you guys out any time!

[XJ Dreamin']

i've got one of those from a drug induced passout, amazing how real it seems

My take on that is that my brain was so fugged up that it failed to capture the visual element of the memory. In order to provide a setting for the auditory, tactile and olfactory elements my fugged up brain put something together. Why it would choose an overhead perspective I haven't figured, but it seems to be pretty standard.

That, or I had an out-of-body experience. dodadodo

Since I can't tell the difference I don't see any point in obsessing over it. I got drunk and my brain fugged up. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Oh Yeah! Electrocuted myself - twice. Gotta love that 60Hz buzz mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm "Damn that hurts!"