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Everything that was close...a narrow miss...a narrow escape.

Got me thinking after I drove around for 15 minutes with a FitBit charger sitting on the back of my car boot.

Found it in exactly the same place where I left it after removing it from the USB charger in the garage.

I am sure you have more interesting 'that was close' stories...
 

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There's lots on the interwebz of close calls.

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Not me but my best mate drunkenly jumped across two buildings about ten years ago. Maybe 3 metre gap so not huge but big enough after a dozen schooners. He slipped and had to pull himself up and he reckoned he was pretty close to falling.

I wasn't there so we went together and checked it out a few days later. It was probably a 15 metre drop (6th story of the building) into a construction site. Nearly no chance of survival. No idea what his plan was at the time. Thought he might have been bullshitting me for some reason but when he didn't drink for about 6 weeks after I knew he was pretty shaken up by it.
 
****, bit of a thrillseeker. Must be some awful footage in police stations of people deliberately not getting out of the way...
There's a video about of a freight train at Albion of two tresspassers crossing the track. One slipped right in front of the train and nearly was clobbered.
 
My uncle in fixing train line faults. Heard about some pretty gruesome happenings. He doesn't deal with them himself, but has spoken to some of the forensics people. Worst he has seen were some small bits of flesh left over from a clean up.
 
The only time I can think of is being caught in a rip one day when I was about 17. I was only about 30-40 metres out but it took me close to half an hour to swim in.
 

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When i first got my license, i was driving and my drivers side mirror hit the passenger side mirror of a turning car. The gap that would of been...
 
Sunday before mothers day just gone I had my partner and three little kids in the car, car came round a bend on the wrong side, I swerved and he missed me by a foot only to head on the car behind
He died instantly and she lost her legs
A split second swerve saved my whole family but cost that the lady behind me for the rest of her life and cost the young driver his existence
A split second in time
 
I was climbing the ice above Annapurna base camp when I slipped and fell without being roped up. Slid uncontrollably for about 50 meters straight into a rock.

Walked away without a scratch, but with a new appreciation of my own mortality.
 
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Sunday before mothers day just gone I had my partner and three little kids in the car, car came round a bend on the wrong side, I swerved and he missed me by a foot only to head on the car behind
He died instantly and she lost her legs
A split second swerve saved my whole family but cost that the lady behind me for the rest of her life and cost the young driver his existence
A split second in time

Scary shit. Glad you and yours are ok.
 
How original, you need a Facebook page - Interesting Lums23.
Those sorts of pages have been around for years and I still laugh at every post. There was a great Interesting James Milner Twitter profile going for a while that was the best I've seen
 

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