21 People Are Revealing The Bullets They Dodged Through Sheer Dumb Luck, And My Anxiety Is Through The Roof

I’ve ever been fascinated by stories of radical narrowly escaping danger—those split-second moments wherever fate, luck, oregon sheer coincidence steps in. So erstwhile I stumbled crossed a thread connected r/AskReddit titled: “What is the biggest ‘bullet’ you’ve ever dodged without realizing it astatine the time?”, I fell down the rabbit spread fast. I realized thing surprising: truthful galore of these adjacent misses weren’t astir instinct oregon preparedness—they were pure, unbelievable luck. Some stories were terrifying, others jaw-dropping, and a fewer were truthful surreal my anxiousness went done the roof. I pulled unneurotic the astir striking ones. Here are 21 moments erstwhile radical unknowingly dodged monolithic bullets:

Disclaimer: The pursuing contented has mentions of violence, death, and different delicate topics.

1. "I was astatine a tiny euphony festival, and they were selling chopper rides. I stood successful enactment with a buddy. It could instrumentality 4 people, and determination were 3 radical successful beforehand of us. Because I wanted to thrust with my friend, I told the feline down america helium could go. It crashed, and everyone died but him. However, helium died aboriginal successful the hospital. Could person been me..."

— u/scalable_thought

2. "My friends and I ate astatine a buffet. 15 minutes aft we left, a car crashed done the floor-to-ceiling model consecutive into the array we had been sitting at. They showed the footage connected the news."

3. "Did a trial astatine a chemist that does your weight, height, bosom rate, etc. Heart complaint is 30 BPM. Go to doctors to inquire, reasoning it was faulty oregon low-quality equipment. Did an ECG and instantly went consecutive into triage and got booked into ED arsenic a CAT 2 (Category 2 intake, which is the 2nd astir superior exigency category). Avoided bosom nonaccomplishment by doing a escaped chemistry test."

— u/Worldly_Law_5861

4. "I was moving to the different broadside of the state and was driving. The full thrust took implicit a week. I had lived successful an flat successful a dodgy area, and the flat had a Facebook leafage for residents conscionable to station astir thing important. Like if there's a stateless feline sleeping successful the elevator again, oregon if 1 of the cars successful the parking country is getting breached into. Anyway, connected time 2 of the drive, I spot a notification from that page. It's pictures of the full flat gathering engulfed successful flames."

5. "I worked arsenic a postgraduate pupil successful a chemistry laboratory that dealt with some... unstable... chemicals if mishandled. We person a postgraduate pupil who was reasonably lax with their handling of these chemicals. We were some moving precocious successful the lab, and I near aboriginal for a societal lawsuit the schoolhouse was hosting portion they stayed behind. The protocol is that you needed 2 radical successful the laboratory astatine immoderate fixed clip for safety. I told them I was going, and they said they would beryllium close down me."

"2 hours aboriginal the astir experienced chemist connected the field came successful for their nighttime shift, and the different pupil had seemingly accidentally enactment astir 3 kg of chemicals drying implicit a occurrence and near them, reasoning they would conscionable adust out. However, what they were moving with turned into a interaction explosive, and if I oregon the different grad pupil had tried to grip it, we would person apt exploded the full lab, but the chemist was capable to "defuse" the situation." 

— u/whinis

6. "This happened decades ago, but the extortion implicit the crystal rink astatine Kolonnade promenade collapsed and injured a clump of people. I lone avoided this by a minute. After parking my car and starting to locomotion to the crystal rink, I realized I had forgotten to determination my container to the boot. I walked backmost to bash that and past headed to the rink again. As soon arsenic I reached the entranceway of the mall, the extortion came down. I would person been injured by the extortion illness if I had not walked backmost to my car."

7. "I got laid disconnected aft 17 years with the company. I got a decent severance bundle and had a caller occupation wrong a fewer months. About a twelvemonth aboriginal the institution went under, and each the radical who were inactive there, immoderate for 20-30 years, got nary severance. Some who had taken banal options alternatively of a 401(k) mislaid it all."

— u/Imaginary_Ad_6352

8. "Cut things disconnected with a feline who was giving maine weird vibes. A fewer months later, I saw his mugshot for murdering his parents implicit a tiny debt. Terrifying."

9. "I was bully friends with this miss successful college. When we some ended up single, we went retired 1 nighttime partying a bit, ended up backmost astatine a hotel, and things were decidedly heading toward sex. Right earlier really doing it, thing successful maine said, 'No, I request a condom,' and I didn’t determination forward. I paused and stepped back, and we conscionable messed astir a spot alternatively but didn’t spell each the way. Turns out… she had an STD the full time. She was afloat acceptable to slumber with maine with nary condom and ne'er said a word. I recovered retired aboriginal and was furious, not adjacent due to the fact that she had it, but due to the fact that she wasn’t going to archer maine and was wholly good putting maine astatine risk."

— u/ruser5927 

10. "I was expected to beryllium connected the Air India 814 formation from Kathmandu to New Delhi that was hijacked by the Taliban."

11. "Got into a combat with a feline connected the different squad aft a shot lucifer and decided to locomotion away. Dude went retired and changeable idiosyncratic dormant close after."

— u/NachoWindows 

12. "A feline I was dating for astir 5 years went momentarily psycho connected me. Just for an instant. I said nary the fuck not, flew backmost location mid-vacation. Changed my locks. Turned retired helium was surviving a treble beingness and that was his MO. When helium got superior with idiosyncratic new, he’d spell convulsive connected the idiosyncratic helium was dating truthful they’d tally distant quickly. No messy breakups oregon attempts of reconciliation. And the exes would spell retired of their mode to debar him retired of fearfulness he’d spell nuts connected them."

13. "Vietnam. I enlisted successful the service close retired of precocious schoolhouse successful 1964. At the time, if you qualified, you could prime your MOS and your work station. So I chose to beryllium a medic and picked Germany. Vietnam was conscionable rumors astatine the time, though determination was much going connected determination than they were telling… But had I not enlisted, I would person been highly apt to beryllium drafted. As it was, I did my 3 years successful Germany and flew home, escaped and clear. I watched Ken Burns’ bid connected the warfare and the interrogation with 1 of the grunts who was astatine My Lai. The feline adjacent LOOKED similar me…"

— u/Bikewer

14. "Deciding that, yeah, I could instrumentality the clip disconnected and spell connected an out-of-country abrogation early, alternatively of the archetypal day of March 2020."

15. "Getting fto spell from my past job. The institution mislaid backing soon after. I recovered a amended occupation earlier each hellhole successful our assemblage broke loose. Kind of similar I got a caput commencement successful philharmonic chairs."

— u/speakb4thinking 

16. "Got turned down from a occupation I truly wanted due to the fact that I asked if they had immoderate country for higher pay. Felt crushed. A mates of months aboriginal I was moving astatine a spot for much pay, a shorter commute and amended aboriginal prospects, and a disgruntled older worker astatine the archetypal spot took his coworkers hostage and killed the feline who ended up taking the spot I was going to."

17. "In 2007 I was the squad pb for a traveling occupation that had america moving successful Minneapolis for the summer. Normally I would instrumentality astir to decorativeness up the payroll earlier heading location to Iowa, but we wrapped up the occupation precocious successful the day, truthful I decided to conscionable caput consecutive location instead. I drove implicit the I-35W span astir 30 minutes earlier it collapsed, sidesplitting respective radical and injuring much than 100. Payroll usually took maine astir 30 minutes. While I can’t accidental the timing would person enactment maine precisely connected the span oregon anything, it was mode excessively adjacent for comfort."

"My telephone was perfectly blowing up, but I didn’t reply (this was erstwhile roaming was a thing) and made a batch of radical panic until I yet crossed the Iowa borderline and answered a telephone and heard the news."

— u/xxxJackSpeedxxx 

18. "Both of america successful the military, I wouldn't entertain a matrimony connection from him for a twelvemonth (he was a spot eager). Two weeks aft I said "yes" and told my household I'd beryllium getting married, I recovered retired helium was cheating connected me. But astatine slightest it wasn't aft we were already married, right?"

19. "Almost accepted a occupation successful January 2020 arsenic a researcher 'collecting samples from ICU patients with chartless precocious respiratory illnesses.'"

— u/the_ruckus415 

20. "Worked retail arsenic my archetypal job. I was determination a portion and had to discontinue for household reasons. They hired a caller feline to regenerate maine and helium was changeable and killed during an equipped robbery astatine the store, similar 3 months aft I had quit. Literally dodged that bullet."

21. "Worked astatine a infirmary that had a shuttle that would thrust employees to and from the parking lot! About a fractional mile away, 1 outpouring time it was gorgeous, and I had a caller pedometer, truthful I decided to get immoderate other steps and walk. Not adjacent 20 minutes later, a severely mentally sick antheral went to the waiting country for the shuttle and opened fire. He killed 1 employee, wounded 2 others and killed himself. I didn't find retired until I was location and my mother-in-law called me."

— u/No-Manufacturer4916

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