Odd things

[Reasonable Doubt]

(I am sorry if this has been done before)
I am asking has anyone else here for example fallen off a tall structure and landed without any injuries while many other people would have possibly died.

For me it was when I was sixteen, I was walking down a flight of stairs in my Highschool when I tripped and fell all the way down. I hit the wall (Which was concrete mind you) and just stood up and brushed myself off everyone stared at me amazed that I had not broken anything.

 

[The_Spirit_of_Epic]

i had a very heavy fish fryer i was carrying fall on my leg due to slippery floor and not feel A THING....

stuff like that?

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Huh, I don't think it's anything near-death but, I was sleepwalking and fell down the stairs (and woke up halfway down), I only broke my nose but my mum says I could've broken my neck, but I don't think so.

 

[Haliwali]

Fell off my second story roof with nothing but a sprained ankle.

 

[Reasonable Doubt]

I am talking about where you could have died or as Scarx put it, or even just plan odd things that happened to you and people gawked at you afterwards.

 

[Reasonable Doubt]

When i was like a kid, i had someone lock a door on my thumb on my left hand... funny thing, the door was LOCKED and my thumb was somehow in there up to the first( or last) joint on it...
Then i took it out and there were no broken bones no nothing. Just really purple. Lol.

All I am going to say to that is ouch.

 

[the monopoly guy]

Witch! Witch! Burn him! buuuurn him!


When I broke my toe I twiseted it almost 90 degrees, it was a spiral fracture, and I thought that I just jammed it. Walked home without it hurting. Of course by the time I did get home it started hurting like hell.

 

[Arcticflame]

When I was around 10, My friend was playing a gameboy on the balcony fence, I hopped up next to him to have a look at what he was playing, overbalanced and fell straight off the balcony. I landed in their "underneath the house" garden. Perfectly fine.

I was very lucky, next to my head about 50cm from my head there was a huge rock, about a metre to my left there was a very spiky solid plant, the soil was damp, and it was the loose style so it was a very good cushion, still, around a 5-8m fall with no injuries at all = lucky.

The funny thing was, my friend didn't even notice I had fallen, and come to think of it, I never told him.

 

[Calobi]

When I was a little kid, I could uncross my eyes; you know, look both at once. Doctor couldn't figure out how I did it and my parents told me to stop, so now I can't anymore.

Also,

...overbalanced...

New favorite word. Sounds like such an oxymoron.

 

[Souplex]

I once got shot through my head and heart and junk got up, ripped the bullets out and noncholantly walked away.

 

[Kraj]

hmm. this is the story of my life. i have like "unbreakable" syndrome.
the big one's would bee.... falling off a 20ft drop onto a backyard "normal grassy area" and not getting even a bruise.
uhm... completely totalling my car to the point where the doors were even twisted shut "i had to use my legs to force it open enough to crawl out" and not getting even a bruise.
wrecking a bike going full speed downhill on a bike trail flipping through the air and getting only a minor bruise.
many many many stupid mistakes messing around with car jumping and such, and getting no bruises or anything.
and other than that, a generic immunity to almost everything known to man, and a severe immunity to chemical affects, drugs, etc. this kind of stuff happens to me :all the time: and its kinda annoying to my friends lol.
oh yeah, got cracked in the ribs wiht a baseball bat in little league when i was pretty young, not even a bruise. >_>
funny thing is, until i was about 11, i had like serious "tender head" like, going to the barber and such was suuuch a pain. i would screaaaaam an junk. hurt like hell. but thats gone now too. "thank god... a 20 year old screaming at the barber would be... youtube-worthy"

 

[lousyshot55]

I got a nail through the center of my hand but I was able to pull it out (the side it did not enter from) and just put a band aid on both sides and I was fine. Thought the nail was a VERY small one.

 

[Gooble]

Not quite in the same category, but I got Meningitis B back in February, stayed in hospital for 5 days, was fine about a week after that, and I have no side effects.

To put that into context for those who don't know, of those diagnosed with Meningitis, 1/3 of people die, 1/3 of people suffer paralysis/deafness/other fairly significant disabilities, and the final 1/3 are all OK.

 

[Lord Krunk]

Sorry, this is irrelevant to the topic.

I have a feeling Indigo_Dingo may have something to say about this thread.

I really have nothing to say in terms of the unexplained.

 

[Trogd0r]

I stabbed myself in the hand with some scissors when I was 10, right in the soft spot between the index finger and thumb, it went in 2,5 inches and severed an artery I guess.
With literally a fountain of blood pulsating out of my hand I calmly walked down the stairs and into the living room, my father nearly passed out and my mother got me to a hospital fast.

I did not feel a thing, I did not even shout or cry, I was just amazed i guess.

 

[Reasonable Doubt]

Wow well as with Kraj my body builds up immunities to drugs that help me in less than ten seconds, for example when I was fourteen both my big toe nails were in grown severly so I had to have them ripped out so they could grow back normally, after the first shot of (I think either morphine or even novacaine) I still felt everything and I screamed in pain, that hurt like hell.

 

[Captain_Ne-San]

Out at this campground I used to go to, there's a Swing. It deserves the capital S becuase it was about three inches thick, a foot wide and attached to the maple tree with chains like you'd pull trucks out of mud with. I managed to really tick this kid off and he hurled said Swing directly at my head. Hit me in the forehead, knocked me off my feet and I ended up on the ground 4 feet from the place I was standing. I blinked a few times, got up and laughed before returning to my campsite. Never felt a thing.

 

[rottenbutter]

I was dropped on my head when I was a baby.
I wasn't the least bit injured.

 

[Death Magnetic]

I was once half paralysed for about half an hour because my brain exploded or something. Only happened thrice in my 15 year old life.

 

[werepossum]

A guy I knew in my home town had a remarkable escape driving drunk. His car left the road at what the police estimated as sixty to seventy mph (97 to 113 kph) and went tumbling over a very high bank, striking a tree with the roof above the front floorboard/seat. The car wrapped completely around the tree and slid down the tree until the increasing girth stopped it maybe 20 feet (6 meters) above ground. The dash and roof were pressed completely to the floorboard, compressing the front seat to almost nothing. Even the rear seat was compressed by the collapsed roof. There was a big pool of blood beneath the car, and the cops that found it and called it in told the EMTs not to hurry as no one was left alive.

To get the car off the tree they got a very large wrecker and hooked chains through the car's frame (cars used to have frames like trucks still do) and pulled, straightening the car enough to let it fall the twenty feet to the ground. After it hit the ground Junior groaned; at that point it became a rescue rather than a recovery. He had wound up in the rear floor board before the car hit the tree, and the front seat was flattened back and hid him totally from view. His only injuries were a broken ankle and a large chunk removed from his nose, the sole source of all that blood which ran from the rear floor board to the slightly lower front floor board and then out from under the door at the front hinge. The cops had assumed from the location of the dripping blood that the driver was in the completely squashed front floor board, and because he was passed out drunk Junior was unable to respond. (His blood alcohol was 0.38 when tested hours after the accident, a level considered safe for surgery and in the range of poisoning.) They had to cut the roof off to get him out.

The cops on the scene said the front and rear bumpers were almost touching. Even after the wrecker pulled it loose, I could easily hold the bottom of the front bumper and the bottom of the rear bumper without completely extending my arms, and my hand wouldn't fit between the roof and the front floor board.