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one day last year I was in the gym and went to the lat pulldown machine in the middle of my workout. someone had it on 200 lbs or something, so I pulled the pin out of the weight stack, and the entire attachment fell on the back of my head. this was a really heavy metal attachment, must have been like 20-30 lbs fell on my head. I got really dizzy for ~30 seconds and had a big bump on my head, but that was somehow all that happened.

to this day, I'm kind of scared and cautious whenever I change the weight on those machines.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Almost ate mushrooms my partner who was new to mushrooming had picked without checking them myself. But I did check and they were one of those that look a lot like a very good edible mushroom, but will kill you.

F'd around and found out on the sea ice as a kid. Thankfully wasn't alone.

Also have one of those near death lifting experiences. This was a loaded hack squat that someone has secured poorly that fell on the floor right as I walked past it. The super sharp edge went right past my head.

One morning almost late for work in a shitty old Golf and low road visibility I decided that passing a long truck is a good idea. Out of the rain & fog came another car, all three of us just fitted on the road and nobody died. Never drove like that again.

In my village we used to do this thing as teens when someone with a moped (always tuned way past what it should go) would push others on a bicycle. One day we decided to do this in a way where one is pushed by the foot of the moped driver and other hangs in the back on their shoulder. Of course we fell. I almost landed in a way that would have snapped my neck, didn't walk normally for days I was so sore and my moms bike came home in the shape of an S.

Also did a lot of stupid dare stuff as a kid. Probably was close to death far more often than I realize.

These days I am overly cautious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

most of the ways I've almost died are drug related and kinda boring.

but once I was up in the mountains with some people I knew, we were out in front of a cabin, and I blacked out for a few seconds (long story). I come to, and all the other people are facing me, and I'm facing them. I can see (and they can't!) that a black bear and her cub were about 5 feet away from us. I yell bear and try to make myself all big, and then we all slowly backed our way into the cabin.

we probably weren't going to get mauled, but it sure felt like it.

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