How many times should you have DIED already?

[RevJim 0]

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Also, totalling my Yamaha FZR600, TWICE, before my wife convinced me to sell it.

Why would you "total" something twice?

Blues,
Dave

Insurance company totaled it out both times, and both times I bought it back from them (cheap) and rebuilt it. Fiugred I better not go for strike 3....

It's your life, live it!
Karma
RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1

[tigra 0]

Whoa, take it easy, it was just an answer to YOUR question. If the question offended me, I would not have answered it, BUT there's a huge difference between the words "could", "might" and "should" and I'm not the only who made that distinction. Instead of singling me out with your faces, you might want to ask yourself why you worded your question the way you did. That's kind of a dark way of thinking if you ask me.

And sorry, I know you just wanted to tear apart my post and twist my words, but I don't get your logic at all. Maybe I'm a little slow this morning.

[Channman 2]

Well it appears you maintained your MEA, new what your weather was and was able to fly to or desend into VFR conditions. Partial panel work can be difficult if not practiced often.

You relied on your training and therefore number 2 might not count.

[skycat 0]

Your poor poor guardian angels, chain smoking and drinking.

Fly it like you stole it!

[airtwardo 7]

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Glad you're still amongst us.

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"The candle burning at both ends may only last half as long....but it's twice as bright!"

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[hexadecimal 0]

Not breathing when I was born.

Bad car accident when I was 17. Hit by a drunk driver trying to fly across a busy 4 lane street at 60mph out of a side street. Luckily my Jetta sacrificed itself and saved my passenger and I.

Several close calls on my waverunner, motorcycle, and in various cars.

[weegegirl 2]

5 years old - Anaphalactic reaction to bee stings after bumping my head into a nest and getting 10 stings on my head.

15 years old - Should have been in a car that crashed on the way home from a party. Alcohol was involved. Would not have survived. Fortunately, for me, I was grounded and had to stay home.

16 years old - grand mal seizure in the middle of the high school hallway. Cracked my head on the fall. Seized for at least 45 minutes. Scared the piss out of a lot of people.

17 years old - sitting shot gun in my friend's car when she crashed through the guard rail on a steep hill/turn near my house. safety wire grabbed the last tire just before going over and hitting a tree. my head cracked the windshield, but the radio still worked and was playing the violent femmes.

since then, nothing major. knock on wood.

[karenmeal 0]

Only one kinda close call...

Both legs and left arm tangled in my reserve lines.. got disentangled at 1,000 feet.. I had pulled at 4500.. good thing I pulled high on that jump or I could have been hurting.


-Karen

"Life is a temporary victory over the causes which induce death." - Sylvester Graham

[pirana 0]

6 that I remember, and none of them skydiving. Hit by a car while riding bicycle (9), hit by motorcycle while riding bicycle (12), hit by truck while riding motorcycle (19), fall out of tree (10 or 11), fall into ravine (24), attacked by drunken rascist with knife (16). I think skydiving has taught me to focus, thereby reducing the number of nasty situations I get into.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

[diablopilot 2]

Zero. I only got one.

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You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

[JohnRich 4]

Gosh, I've led such a sheltered life compared to youse guys. No major car wrecks, no broken bones, no serious illnesses.

There was... April 23, 1987, when a shithead neighbor pumped five shotgun blasts into the side of my car. While I was in it. He missed me.

[BillyVance 34]

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Not breathing when I was born.

Bad car accident when I was 17. Hit by a drunk driver trying to fly across a busy 4 lane street at 60mph out of a side street. Luckily my Jetta sacrificed itself and saved my passenger and I.

Several close calls on my waverunner, motorcycle, and in various cars.

I've had many close calls in all kinds of activities, but in relation to your incident above, I was a passenger in a Porsche 914 going 65 mph when somebody cut in front of us at a traffic light where we had the right of way. We hit him at 65 mph in the left rear door, spun him around nearly 360 degrees, and we drug to a stop one block away with the engine mounts sheared and brakes gone. Nobody was hurt... Damn...

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[ACMESkydiver 0]

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Not breathing when I was born.

So was that problem ever rectified?

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[Hooknswoop 19]

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Well it appears you maintained your MEA, new what your weather was and was able to fly to or desend into VFR conditions. Partial panel work can be difficult if not practiced often.

You relied on your training and therefore number 2 might not count.

I wasn't PIC and the PIC was in over his head. If I would have had my rig on, I would have jumped. A non-precision approach to minimums with no vacuum was scary. The second attempt was sucessful, the first we went missed. It was into that little airport just up the road (north) from ssl. Check valve failed, so when one pump failed, we lost it all.

My guardian angel quit

Derek

[ACMESkydiver 0]

I worded it the way I did intentionally. It was taken different ways on this thread by many people, which is pretty much what I expected, and the main point of the post.

If you don't get my logic, that's not surprising and obviously many people don't.

As for singling out, well you're the only one that called my comment 'f'ed up'. Different viewpoints I expected, as I said, but having someone call my perspective fucked up wasn't.

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When I said this in my previous response to you:

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If you're here for a reason, then you would have died during those times that otherwise should have taken your life. So what's your reason?

Maybe I should have thrown a '

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[hexadecimal 0]

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Not breathing when I was born.

So was that problem ever rectified?

Still haven't quite figured that one out

[airtwardo 7]

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There was... April 23, 1987, when a shithead neighbor pumped five shotgun blasts into the side of my car. While I was in it. He missed me.

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Why do Texans think that's NORMAL?!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[Girlfalldown 0]

Wow, I have so many!

The most recent was just this Monday morning. I was driving to work and some guy on the opposite side of the highway slammed right into the divider wall right in front of me! If that cement wall (maybe 3 or 4 feet high) wasn't there he would have hit me head on with both of us going about 65 mph. I watched him in my side mirror go up on his side and flip over. The sound of it alone scared the crap out of me.

I fell into a fast moving river when I was 3 or 4 and my dad had to jump in and save me.

Another time, back when I was maybe 7 or 8, we were playing with this tarp in this lagoon. We'd throw the tarp in the water and jump in and it would suck us into the water. The bigger kids could just touch the bottom and push back up but I was the littlest and i just sort of stuck there for a few minutes until someone jumped in to find me and I grabbed his shorts and pulled myself up. That was freaky. Everyone was standing on the dock looking at me like I was some kind of freak for surviving that long under.

I was very close to being hit by lightning while riding dirt bikes as a kid.

I think I almost killed myself on dirtbikes a lot back then actually. I remember hauling ass down this dirt road and suddenly seeing this HUGE hole in the ground. The next thing I remember I was on the other side. I don't remember jumping it or anything so I'm not sure what happened there.

Back when I did a lot of body surfing in SoCal there were defininitely a few times I was smashed to the bottom of the ocean and rolled over and sucked back out. I was never saved by a lifeguard but I managed to get my ass out it each time. I miss the beach!

There's a few BASE jumps that went awry but we don't need to get into that.

I was in a head on collision when I was 22. Hit by a drunk driver. I don't know how but I walked away with a few scratches and a lot of sore neck muscles that never went away fully. He went to jail overnight then they let him out the next day and he went back to Mexico so he wouldn't have to deal with it. He wasn't legally here.

I can think of a few others but I'll leave it at this for now.

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(Do not, I repeat DO NOT, take my posts seriously.)

[FrEaK_aCcIdEnT 0]

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My life time goal is o be in the 200 mph club. I will do that. on a turbo charged Hayabusa. Thats my life goal. If i can get 210mph i will be forever grateful and walk away with a smile and an adrenalin high for days!

Uhhh, you might want to rethink that after seeing this

Rethought the whole thing and.... Ive seen worse wreck video and pics. I may be stupid for wanting to do it, but its my goal and it will be done in a controlled environment. not on some back raod and emergancy personel will be on standby. here is the texas mile website.
http://www.texasmile.com/

edited to add smilies. it looked like i was firing back and pissed off. had to make sure that wasnt the case.

ExPeCt ThE uNeXpEcTeD!
DoNt MiNd ThE tYpOs, Im LaZy On CoRrEcTiOnS!

[tigra 0]

Actually, it was the question I called f'ed up, not your perspective. And perhaps that was a poor choice of words, but it IS dark. I don't consider myself to be religious or spiritual, but on some level I believe in a higher power and that things happen for a reason. I don't claim to know what that reason is, but if I ever figure out my purpose on this planet, I'll be sure to let DZ.com know!

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[hexadecimal 0]

I see lots of squids attempting to do 200+ on Hayabusas every day on public roads... wearing t-shirts, shorts, and flip flops.

[motorheaddown 0]

3 years ago, I nearly hit an airplane in freefall at deployment. As I threw out my hacky, I noticed a plane below heading in my direction. It was too late to stop deployment, so I waited for the snivel and looked up. There he was directly overhead and slightly past my vertical heading away.

I guarantee the pilot saw me snivelling past the nose of his plane if he was watching out the window.

-scott

[superstu 0]

too many to count, but the 1st was when i was 18months old. 3rd degree burns over 2/3rd of my body. been down hill ever since.

my latest incident was probably a few months ago. try to swoop through tree's but took the top of one right in the face and then went into bushes at probably 50-60mph. lots of scrapes but that's it, really should have been punji'd but someone is looking over me for some reason.

Slip Stream Air Sports
Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

[crewkeith 0]

it seems every time im really having fun and smiling big somebody thinks im gonna die. they aint been right yet. stop worrying about death and have fun living.


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The skies are no longer safe

I'm back

[ACMESkydiver 0]

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my latest incident was probably a few months ago. try to swoop through tree's but took the top of one right in the face and then went into bushes at probably 50-60mph. lots of scrapes but that's it, really should have been punji'd but someone is looking over me for some reason.

Hey your avatar looks like some place very familar to me...I think I recall doing practice exits using those cross beams as the strut...

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.