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[rs7k]

Post yours. I'm talking about moments that could have cost you your life, or at the very least hurt you a lot.

I used to be a bad kid. Well, sort of, I would just get drunk quite a bit during the summers and experiment with various drugs. When I started drinking, I would always feel powerless, and I jumped off my roof on a dare. I was very drunk at the time, and jumping a meter more to the right would have made me fall 4 floors. Instead I landed on a stone balcony, and it hurt the next day.

Not long ago, I got really drunk with my buddies, and one of them used to be a real dumbass and thought it was okay to drink and drive. I drank a 26er of Smirnoff, and being only 155 lbs at the time made me more than a little tipsy. I had the great idea of asking everybody to come for a ride to buy some drugs, which everybody agreed to thinking it was indeed a great idea.

Turns out I got in a fight with the guy who was driving. I put on my aviator glasses, and he told me I look like Johnny Knoxville. I screamed: "Bitch I AM JOHNNY KNOXVILLE" and punched him in the face. At this point everybody's laughing, and we're fighting, for real, but all in "good fun". I don't remember it, but the only sober person in the car was very scared, since we were doing about 130 on a country road with lots of trees at night in the rain while the whole thing was happening. The next day, when I've heard about it was the night I decided to cut down on my drinking, and I've definitely done a good job.

Anyways, I thought of making this topic because we've probably all been so close to dying, and life isn't to be taken for granted. I quit smoking two days ago, and I'm doing OK so far. My birthday is coming up so I don't know if it's necessary to completely eliminate smoke from my life, because I'm *very* addicted, but my birthday wouldn't feel complete without tobacco.

 

[Pedigree Chum]

Almost got run over by a speeding car, who funny enough was a guy from my floor who was also drunk.

My roomate jumped out of his 3rd story window and wasn't seriously hurt. He stayed off his feet for 3 days and was prefectly fine after that. To this day I still don't know how he didn't at least break his legs.

 

[Lonestar]

well..."Bitch, I AM JOHNNY KNOXVILLE" makes this thread pretty much complete. :lol

 

[Zensetsu]

Alcohol + Fireworks

 

[BobbyRobby]

In my junior year, I was drinking at Watchung Mountain reservation, and tumbled down a rocky hill when drunk. A tree stopped me, hitting my back. I woke up the next day with cuts covering my arms and legs.

Not all that dangerous, but this past weekend, some girl punched me in the face, and in the neck.

 

[siege]

When I drank, I used to be a horny bastard. Many times I've hit on my friends women directly in their view.

On one occassion, I was flat out wasted and felt ill, so my buddys girl helped me up the stairs into the bathroom. She was wearing a night gown and getting ready to go to bed, so I started rubbing up her leg and what not. She actually didn't seem to mind, but her boyfriend came up to check on us and saw me feeling her up.

Got my head slammed up against the bath tub a few times, but he took pity on me being drunk and let me live I suppose. I never was allowed to be alone with any of my friends girls while drunk after that incident.

 

[etiolate]

I've never gotten into a dangerous stiation, as in endangering others. My worst experience was when I lost badly at a Mario Party drinking game and drank half a bottle of scotch and half a bottle of vodka in a short time. I was pretty lost by then and I remember we were watching some Chris Rock movie and all I could hear was his voice squawking and making strange noises. The cat jumped on my lap to take a nap and that seemed to trigger everything. I vomitted all over the cat and couch. I then ran to the bathroom and spent the whole night there. I was worried I had overdone it and might have to go to the hospital, but eventually the dry heaves stopped and I went to sleep.

 

[Bebpo]

I'm not gonna go into too much detail but the two that come into mind are JHS heavy drinking and nudity, and College heavy drinking and being very near dying in my sleep.

I would like to thank moments like these for making me give up alchohol for good at this point ^^;

 

[AntoneM]

I remeber when I was insanely drunk and I wanted to go to the convienience store on the corner (about 1/2 block away) to get some more mixers, anyway I apparently went there with no coat, and no shoes. I think I ended up just buying smokes and a lighter. So, I got my shit and it's time to go home, keep in mind I was insanely drunk, so I got lost (yep 1/2 block from home) and ended up sleeping in some nearby park without a coat or shoes... oh and it was February in Fargo, North Dakota. Lucky for me my body was able to wake my ass up in some sort of coherant state and I stumbled back to my house nearly freezing to death, I lost multiple layers of skin on my feet but didn't loose any toes or anything. I have come to the conclusion that I couldn't have been out there for more than an hour and likely a lot less. Since then I always keep plenty of mixers present . You think I was going to stop gettin shit-faced???

 

[Crispy]

I remember one time I drankalmost a whole bottle of goldstrike for €10. I spent the rest of the night vomiting, I couldn't even stand on my legs anymore. My friends were worried that I had to go to the hospital, but eventually we all went to sleep. Then that night I woke up because I vomited in my sleep and started calling for help, my friends came and ductaped my pillow in a garbage bag...I don't really know why....anyway, I survived!

One other time I was going home from a party, by bike. While riding someone called me and when I tried to get my phone I fell in the middle of a crossing. While still on the ground I started having a conversation (well...I'm sure there wasn't a lot of coherent stuff coming out) and after that I sent someone a text message. I was really lucky no cars came by.

 

[rs7k]

I'm not gonna go into too much detail but the two that come into mind are JHS heavy drinking and nudity, and College heavy drinking and being very near dying in my sleep.

I would like to thank moments like these for making me give up alchohol for good at this point ^^;

Pffft. Many people have come close to 'dying' from alcohol. I had to go to the hospital for alcohol poisoning at 16 (drank a 26er in less than 20 minutes, went into coma..), so I guess that counts as a dangerous moment, but I still didn't give up drinking after that. I just got a lot more responsible, and as long as you do that, you're fine.

 

[pollo]

Well my worst experience ever drinking would have to be the time i went to my ex's place and made a whole scene. Some friends of mine were egging me on and I just went on a rampage, calling my ex a slut a whore and talking about how i popped her. I vaguely remember going to her roomate (which is Stephen King's nephew btw) and asking him if he heard us fucking each night and how loud she was. This all in front of my current girlfriend too.

That night I was also hanging around in the kitchen and some girl took a brita water filter out and I grabbed it from her hands and drank it down all messily. That was bad. Girl looked freaked out.

My girlfriend left the party early, I was close to making out with this other girl who was hitting on me and everyone realized how much of an ass I truly was that night

Needless to say Ive been off excessive alcohol for 3 months now, in fact last weekend was the first time I drank, and I left the party before I could get really bad.

Never again.

 

[Papi]

Driving 150kmph down the freeway. Car slowly drifting into other lanes.

I'd been drinking at a barbecue. And all day we were drinking. At night there were fireworks so i climbed onto the roof of the garage with my beer and sat there watching it. Then when i went to climb off the roof, i fell down onto concrete. Landed on my feet and still had the beer in one hand but it had frothed up quite a bit.

I sprained my ankle last week falling down the stairs at a club. Two nights later i was back there drinking again. *sigh*

 

[psycho_snake]

I dont really do things that could threaten my life when I am drunk, I just tend to do things very very stupid that when you are drunk, you just cant stop laughing.

 

[Jeffahn]

Running across a six-lane freeway (read: highway) at night.

Rolling down a hill and landing in a ditch.

Making my thoughts known...and not remembering it the next day.

...

 

[Crispy]

Just under dinner I heard of a mother of someone who was in school with me when I was about eight years old. She was an alcoholic and drank all day long. One day, while she was home alone, she tripped and fell with her head against the edge of the washing machine. She passed out and bled to death on their bathroom floor. This kid came home from school and found her like that. I think finding your mother like that will scar you for life, destroying two lives in one blow.

 

[milanbaros]

Probably just walking in the middle of the road all the time and lying down on it but I have no idea what the odds of death are from that and its not very interesting and I do that every weekend and haven't come close to dying yet.

The weekend just gone could've ended in my death or at least hospitalisation. I had been drinking since right after school at the Sunset Lounge (AKA Dodgey Roger's) and it was about 10pm and we decided to go to a party a bus ride away.

We got on the bus and all is fine. This bus route is notorious at this time of night and i've seen many a bad thing happening on them but I was with a few friends so it was ok. Anyway, a lad called Webster came on with his freinds. They told the bus driver they weren't paying tonight and walked on. The bus driver said he wasn't moving until they paid. Well webster doesn't take kindly to anyone or anything, he will hit you in the face for being within 10m of him. But I was very drunk and wanted to get to this party. Webster was back at the bus driver threatening him and I started giving him shit, telling him to fucking pay etc. Not a good idea really. The guy comes over and smashes my face over the seat in front breaking my nose and pulls a knife on me. He didn't use it thank God but I know he has before. He is an absolute psycho.

I managed to get respect for standing up to him but I really shouldn't have. Next time he sees me out of camera shot he will probably kill me.