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Well said. Amen. We owe HIM more than we can ever even imagine or repay, and not just for the sacrifice of HIS son JESUS CHRIST and HIS sacrifice for us to have everlasting life, but also for a full and blessed life on this earth in the blessed US of A.

A few times i made a bad auto move after i missed seeing an oncoming auto, or by providence seeing a drunk move head on into my lane and dodging the head on late at night.

When I was 19 I rolled my truck and was thrown through the windshield. Truck ended up on it's side 6-8' from me. A rodeo in Woodbine, IA I came off a bareback horse straight off the back. The horse kicked me and when I hit the ground I landed perfectly vertical head first. I used to watch and joke about the video. Now I can't even watch it thinking about what the out come could have been.

Some things I don't like to talk about.

PTL for you bro, and for saving Paul a 3 inch dick and giving me the extra 3 inches to my original 6.

In rollover accident on I5 near Coalinga. I was asleep in the bed of a Chevy luv pickup. My buddy fell asleep at the wheel. I woke up in the detached canopy about 100 feet from the upside down pickup. All the walls were gone except the front one. Only thing else in the canopy was a pachinko machine my buddy bought at a swap meet. Cab was crushed to the steering wheel. Hundreds of pachinko ball bearings all over the freeway along with a bunch more crap. Tow truck driver asked me how many people were killed. We both walked away with just scratches.

Other than that just the normal almost drowning or setting myself on fire.

Had a few in my career as a firefighter. Early in my career I was blown across a room and 15' out of a building by a natural gas explosion. The outside meter had been shut off but this was a house converted into commercial property and a second service had been installed. That made the news as a crew was broadcasting as the house lit up.

Had a 1500 gallon propane tank catch fire and rupture and zip up the driveway as we slowed down to turn in. Didn't know what it was at first but it was impressive.

Was on the third floor of an apartment building doing a final check for residents and looking for extension on an assist to a neighboring city. Fire was on second floor but Command did not seem concerned. Just as I began to push the fire door open, the other side collapsed to the ground. 5 seconds later and my crew and I would have either been caught in the collapse or burned by the heat being pushed by the collapse. Nearly a year later I watched a larger version of this happen in New York. This one still gets my blood boiling. It cemented my belief that if I die during a fire, it would probably be on a mutual aid to that city.

Two different times I was shot at while at work- once in the truck and a second walking down an apartment hallway. another time I had the suspect in a knifing return and try to finish off my patient and me. Another patient tried to knife me after his high was ruined by Narcan. I checked all unconscious patients for weapons after that.

Have had numerous run ins with cattle and pigs, twice I shot an animal to save my own skin. Rolled a Roadrunner doing over 80 mph when I lost a tire while drag racing on the highway. Stayed in the hospital for 7 hours for observation. They wanted to keep me longer but I had to get to work or get fired. One recovers quickly at 19 years old when beer money is threatened. I was sober at the time of accident which is why the cops took pity on me and did not charge me with something.

All some great stories but you do AK proud Thomas 💪🏼

Puttin’ along in a Piper Arrow on the way to Ft Liquordale and was abeam Boca Raton just west of I-95. Engine conked out. Damn it was kinda quiet. Declared an emergency with approach and flipped to the Boca advisory frequency. Declared again and by that time was on a good glide path to the runway. Called position crossing 95 and about 100 yds shy of touchdown a silly wench in another plane taxied for takeoff in front of me. Slid left a bit and touched down beside her and turned off the runway with just enough momentum to make it to the parking ramp. Same ramp she had just vacated. Owner of the FBO came running out all shook up. The girl was one of his instructors and was driving one of his planes.

Thank you for your service and as a witness.

Her name was Alisha, and I am a survivor.

Thanks and PTL for bringing you through, but we would certainly like a few stories of your close encounters to realize just what HE has brung you through. I think some of us would find it very interesting if you wouldnt mind and had the time.

Regardless, take care and may HE continue to bless.

Speaking of AK I know of a guy that stopped a po’ed coastal brown bear with a 9mm


That’d muddy the undergarment of many a man


Me meh I’ve had some close calls, car accidents, gunplay w adversaries, what I thought was an invitation to a good old fashioned fist fight that turned out to be a knife fight, pissed off some mob guys in Chicago. Run of the mill stuff

I was rear ended by a peterbilt making a left turn off the highway into my driveway. I was dead stopped, I had two semi trucks pass me at the same time , one on the left, and the other on the right on the shoulder which whited me out. A third one come up behind me and slammed into me at about 60 MPH. My head went through the back window of my 1978 explodable chevy pickup. The truck was knocked about 60 feet into the narrow pit on the left side of the highway, and looked like a wrecked vehicle in a huckleberry hound cartoon. Later I found my glasses on what was left of the rear bumper. Earlier I had 2 dogs in the back, but it was cold and snowy so I let them in the front. Luckily there was no on coming traffic in the left lane. Well me and the two dogs walked away from it unharmed except for me with a little whiplash. I was getting a lot of phone calls for about a week from neighbors wondering if I was dead

PTL. Thank you Father for bringing MB through.

Yes, PTL for the shot which saved the lot. Thank you FATHER. AMEN.

I was ice fishing when I was 14 and fell thru, I was unable to get out of the water I was close to the shoreline and had no choice but to swim under the ice to the shore and force my head up between the
bank and the ice.

Doing OT wheelbarrowing a chip spill from the upper mezzanine at a paper mill, after opening the door stepped backwards into an elevator .....that wasn’t there! Seems the door safety lock wasn’t functioning. When I stepped back and my foot touched “nothing” .....I rather quickly released the wheelbarrow handles, and grabbed the elevator door frame. Once safe I looked down, about 40 or 50 feet below was the top of the elevator!

Then there was the Dodge truck I T-boned at about 50 mph on a 1973 Honda XL 250.....mostly walked away from that one!

There’s a few more....those are probably the “closest” close calls! memtb

Had to think about which times to tell.
I was driving into the local City one evening, it was dark and driving a small car at a speed of 60 mph and suddenly, there was a datsun 510 coming at me... in my lane...with his lights off, I swerved to the right and was going for the bank with rocks and trees, managed to get control of the car...I knew it was a 510 because my buddy had one and I knew the car well.

Then as a faller... I had some really close calls as anyone who has been a faller for any length of time has had. I had a tree once start sliding down on top of all the fallen timber, in extremely steep terrain, all I could do was duck into the fallen timber and hug the ground and it went right over me, lol.

Then there was the time a tree landed about 6ft from me while I was falling another tree, this tree was over 100ft tall and was about 16" in diameter when it was beside me, really scary stuff.
I notice pretty much all fallers have a relationship with God..
There were other times too LOL

I heard pink is a tough color to master, for a dude.

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I had a Honda 420 Rancher 4 wheeler try to murder me right before deer gun season in 2014.It flipped backwards going up a hill, tumbled over me and the handlebars smacked me in the side of the head like a baseball bat. I had my nose almost cut in half, a cut artery squirting on my temple and a broken left eye socket. After a couple of surgeries and a few months, I could see normal again. The doctors called me miracle man because I didn't have any brain injury and was never knocked out.