VirusMaster3073What was the biggest bullet that you have dodged?
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Boomkop3A bit too late to dodge
VanthCame to say “ex” too. We split when engaged and before married, so yes, bullet dodged. We went our own ways before legal/financial/possible children complicated things.
That makes sense! Good on you
Maybe 9mm?
On that note:
Most likely 7.62 x 39 for myself.
Was walking down a sidewalk, roughly 100 to 50 feet from a stationary group of people, when a car slowed to a near stop and unloaded on them.
It looked like some kind of Draco, AK-pistol type of weapon, but I did not get the best look, as I was rather preoccupied with jumping into some bushes and then sprinting away.
do you - by any chance - live in the greatest of all nations, the US of A?
“Why do they call him the bullet dodger?”
“Because he dodges bullets, Avi”
"“Wots in the car?”
“4 seats and a steering wheel”
Bullet Bill on Mario Kart
Possible bullet: May get made redundant rather than having to quit and find somewhere else - may get an easier out than just quitting.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆9/11 happened a couple weeks after my family and I got back to California from vacation at Disney World and it always felt like we dodged possibly being on a hijacked flight.
This is overly dramatic. It’s not like you were on the same flight number, but the day before.
My uncle was sent from Canada to South Korea in 1983, to help with their CANDU nuclear reactors.
He flew on Korean airlines flight 007, a week before that same flight was shot down by the Soviet Union.
QkallSo back when my career was absolute shit, there was this small tech group within the company. I had been on a few projects for them and they really kept trying to get me to join. I strongly considered it but I noticed a trend of the folks on the team being overworked and underappreciated… And I would have to relocate. I debated for a week and finally decided that my sister was about to have kids and I wanted to be involved. Fast forward like a month or two after I turned them down… Our company canned the entire group. I now have a really good position and am quite happy.
The grass isn’t always greener and all that…
jordanlundRiding a motor scooter through an intersection, I hear a giant crash behind me.
Turn around and I see a Jeep on its side in the lane I had turned from.
If I had been about 2 seconds slower, I wouldn’t be here to tell this story.
Oh yeah, Jeeps do that.
“It’s a Jeep thing; you wouldn’t understand”
A firework fired at my face
As kids we were out in the country setting off fireworks, I launched a bottle rocket. Instead of it going up, it took off did a 90° turn and went horizontal. Went inside their garage. It landed in the case of all the other fireworks.
I’m not sure what the odds were of that firework setting off other fireworks. But it definitely made us hit the ground.
Almost like Bart did in that episode in china town with the “Chinese Fire Drill”.
I pulled a Neo matrix move like where he dodged the bullets on the roof. I had to sit for about 20 mins to get the adrenaline rush to subside.
Shortly after getting my driver’s license, I stupidly merged onto a road with a 40 mph speed limit without looking left.
A car was coming right towards my driver’s side door. The driver of the other car made their brakes squeal (this was before ABS). Right before they would have hit me and probably killed me (this was before airbags), they released their brakes, swerved around me, and kept going.
It was some really impressive driving, and it likely saved my life.
A car was coming right towards my driver’s side door. The driver of the other car made their brakes squeal (this was before ABS). Right before they would have hit me and probably killed me (this was before airbags), they released their brakes, swerved around me, and kept going.
It was some really impressive driving, and it likely saved my life.
As an EU immigrant, left the UK after the Leave vote but before Brexit and Covid.
It’s not a bullet but more like a whole lot of bullets.
Mind you, most of it was entirely predictable back then.
I moved to UK after school to get a university degree. Graduated in 2014, and despite having multiple interviews, had to move back home due to not being able to land a job. Eventually got employed elsewhere, and boy did it turn out pretty well compared to what would have happened if I stayed.
WahotsCan you elaborate on some of the bullets dodged? Not from that part of the world and I’ve only heard of the economic ramifications. I’d be curious to hear about it in greater detail, if you have the time!
The country moved to the far-right, the Industry I was working in - Finance - lost 40,000 jobs, Britain got general Economic stagnation worse than the EU, the value of the British Pound fell significantly against the Euro after the vote (fortunatelly I moved all my savings out of Pound-denominated assets evern before the Leave vote, so I personally was alright) all of the sudden as an EU immigrant you became a second class citizen with lots of extra hassle for living there (inside the EU, EU immigrants have the same rights as the locals, so when Britain left, they lost that), significant decay and problems with their National Health Service, really bad mishandling of COVID (especially in the beginning) and so on.
In some ways the place turned into a mini Trump’s-America, only with the extra nastiness of already being very classist country with very low social mobility from the start and a heavy “know your place” mindset - which is extra hard for immigrants because Britons see themselves as superior to all foreigners but Americans, so “Immigrant” is the lowest “social class” for them - and without the upsides that American has (mainly space and scale, natural resources and at least in some places good weather).
Mind you, most of those things are trends predating Brexit which were heavilly accelerated by it.
ScrubblesHigh school girlfriend was a bit intense and told me she wanted me to marry her and that she wanted children. I was 16 at the time. I was terrified by that, because you know, 16, and she got mad at my nervousness. She dumped me a week later and wouldn’t you know it, married less than a year out of high school with now 3 kids.
I went on to get my degree, move far far away, get a much better job and a much better partner. I think back to who I would have been if teenage me had let myself be pressured into that. Small town, working at the gas station or pizza joint, supporting 3 kids…
God, I feel this. One of my uni girlriends was similar. I was attracted to bad women or women with problems, lol. Then I fell in love with a really nice guy who was like, the polar opposite of everyone I had dated prior. Fast forward years later, and we’re married and finally starting to think about having kids. Feels closer to the right time :)
y0kaiI’m guessing .30_06 or .308, but I never saw the shooter. Just heard the zip of the bullet and then the gun.
Growing up in the middle of nowhere was an experience.
I was driving home from an event late at night on a highway. It was warm and my AC wasn’t working, and my eyes felt heavy. My blinks kept getting longer until I realized my eyes had been closed too long. I realized I was falling asleep at 65mph and opened up the windows and managed to wake myself up, but if the road had been any busier I could have killed someone, myself included.
Taken literally, a gang shooting aimed at somebody about 10 feet from me. A friend nearly tackled me and dragged me into the bar I was standing in front of.
having kids. If I had established myself a bit earlier financially it might have happened before I saw the signs of where things were going.
I get what you’re saying but I love my kid. He’s the best thing to ever happen to me.
I can understand that but its part of the reason im so glad I don't have one as I would not like to see them dealing with the world today as far as getting an education and a job and seeing a nice future for themselves.
Yeah, I feel this. I’m in a rough spot right now and the world keeps getting tougher. The idea of bringing someone into this suffering seems cruel to me
Well and when you age you can't help but lean on your children who just can't handle the load. its just not an option without kids which is good. I would rather take the suffering than feel I am dropping it on my kids. How aweful it would be to see their suffering, almost worse is they were the best of us and did so well but could achieve so little due to circumstances. If I had kids I certainly would not have been able to help them pay for college. I mean my parents could not but my college loans were like a very nice car loan not like today where its a mortgage.
𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘Almost went to college for art, decided last minute to do engineering instead. Still ended up getting heavily involved in art later in life because I had the financial freedom from tech to do so
The biggest?
That time we dodged a Scud ballistic missile. I don’t mean we saw one get intercepted or had one land nearby and just watched. We actively dodged it.
So there we were in Iraq in 2003. We’re outside Al Najaf and the battle for the city is raging. There are artillery rounds going both ways, planes dropping ordnance, and thousands of civilians leaving the city on foot. Mostly we ignored them because we had a job to do. But one guy turns around suddenly and starts walking back into the city. Several of us noticed him and started asking the others around us, “is he?.. Is he pacing? Did he turn around just to the side of our position?”
The consensus quickly formed that, yup, he was walking in a way to count his steps and get a distance measurement. Our leaders called up the chain and a plan quickly formed. If it was nothing then there wouldn’t be an interruption to the battle anyways. The second the sun was down we moved out to a new position in complete light discipline. Nobody was allowed any light but what they could get through a night vision device. Not even the IR flashlights and markers.
In our new position everything was normal until around 0300 when a huge explosion went off right in our previous fighting position. They had indeed launched a SCUD based on one man pacing a distance measurement, and they were accurate. If we hadn’t moved that night then I wouldn’t be here.
So we dodged a Scud Missile.
Holy shit dude.
I’m a fan of your war stories. The amount of shit you’ve survived must put you on par with chuck norris or something.
Nah, with Chuck Norris, it’s usually the missiles that do the dodging.
With chuck norris it’s actually probably a lgbtq or minority that needs to do the dodging.
Chuck Norris is a piece of shit
Are we talking about the same Chuck Norris?
No, we are not.
I am talking about an internet meme
You are talking about a real person, who is probably old by now.
Yeah, we’re talking about the same chuck norris.
Unfortunately we memed a douchebag back in the day, but the good news is you can stop.
It was definitely a year that contained a decade, but I’m far from being the one to see the most stuff. And I certainly wasn’t a lone wolf. Well except for that one time… Lol I jest, we never did anything alone.
That time I said no to Arthur Anderson when they were recruiting me hard - offering to fly VPs to me the next day (Sat) to convince me not to start a new job on Monday.
I was watching some amature tree removal people rig a pulley system to a tree that partially fell over from about 50 yards away with a few other people. They hooked it up to a pickup truck and drove forward at full power. The pulley snapped and landed behind me on an incline a fraction of a second later. I felt the wind from it go over my head and sort of visually noticed it go by in the same way someone would notice a cannonball go clear across a field in an instant. It was most certainly going fast enough and weighed enough to completely demolish my skull and everything inside. Very surreal, we opted to leave them to their work after that.
Out of curiosity, where were you in relation to the direction the truck was driving? Was it driving towards you?
No, perpendicular. We were on a path out of the way.
12 ga, not sure if slug or shot.
Gun was held to my head for 20-30 mins during some gang stupidity involving a family member not wanting to leave a party I was supposed to pick them up from. I left, came back and the place was crawling with police and EMS. The same gun, held by the same guy was used to shoot another person in the face.
I ended up having to give statements, got subpoenaed, and myself, family, and friends being threatened by same gang for a number of years.
I love the Americans in this thread answering the question literally
A narcissistic girlfriend. I don’t know at that time. Was a hard cut from me at some point, got partly ugly and left scars.
MaxxieRussian military draft.
HubiHow did you do it? Must be crazy to look back at it with all the things that happened in mind.
proleNice try, KGB
A lot of moving around, not knowing what city or country I will be at next week.
Was a wild ride for sure, glad I was fortunate and persistent enough to find a place I can tentatively call home again ❣️
I’m glad you made it!