how close to death were you?

[Thad]

i had fallen straight on my back from about 8 feet in the air sliding down on a pulley and wire. thought i had broken something but didn't just couldn't breathe right for about a half hour

Driving to work in the rain on I-95 my car started to slide a bit , i'm going 55 at the time, then i caght a pocket of water and it caused my car to whip around 360 style 3 times in morning traffic. came to a stop off the road in a foot deep of sugar sand.

when i was 11, 3 friends and i were walking to my house in the dark. it was a full moon so it wasn't any big deal. we lived out in the farms (woods) at the time. The roads were all light dirt or sand. anyway we were walking and we noticed something starting to cross the road. we stopped because it was farely large in size. we watched it crossing and it suddenly stopped. We then heard something like a snort or growl or what have you and we all freaked and took off to one of the friends house we had just left cause it was closest. we heard this thing snorting or growling behind us. couldn't tell how close it was, all focused on running! we had to run through a little brush to the house and could hear it running through the brush with us. got tto the gate and jumped it. never saw what it really was. we figured it was a big boar or a panther or something. freaky close call!

i've lso ben chased by a shark!

Gotta love Florida!