"Nearly Decapitated" — People Are Sharing The Absolute "Dumbest" Ways They Almost Died, And I'm Deeply Concerned But Also Laughing

Recently, I wrote an article sharing people's stories of the implicit dumbest reasons they astir died, and it got truly wild! You each truly look to emotion these, and successful response, adjacent much radical elaborate their ain wild, "dumb" near-death experiences. So, I decided to stock their answers! Here are immoderate of the best:

1. "I erstwhile started choking connected a pasta noodle successful the mediate of a Noodles & Company. My ma had gotten up to spell get a drink, and I couldn't emblem her down. I thought I could cough it up, but it wasn't cooperating. Finally, close arsenic a woman astatine a adjacent array got up to bash the Heimlich connected a 20-some-year-old choking connected her spaghetti, the noodle came loose, and I coughed it up. I astir threw up from the unit of coughing. Thankfully, each ended well, though I was acrophobic to devour noodles for a portion aft that."

2. "I erstwhile sprayed my Moonlight by Ariana Grande perfume up my chemoreceptor owed to intrusive thoughts astatine midnight. Don’t effort this astatine home, kids!"

3. "I was astir 15 and had a .22 rifle. I would spell into the woods to signifier my aim. I came crossed a junk car and changeable astatine the doorway fastener from astir 30 feet away. I heard the slug ricochet and travel backmost into the weeds astir 2 feet from my near ear. More luck than brains, arsenic the saying goes."

4. "I astir got thrown disconnected a cliff by the equine I was riding."

5. "I was possibly 8 oregon so, and my person invited a clump of america implicit for a sleepover. She lived connected a farm, and we each lived successful town, truthful it was truthful amusive looking astatine the babe chicks and everything. We were playing fell and question and I tried to compression down this heap of discarded wood by the fence."

6. "As a kid, I went adjacent doorway to sojourn a friend. He was successful his bedroom. I walked successful arsenic helium was holding hairpins successful each hand. He stuck them successful a 120-volt outlet and helium started shaking."

"I yelled for his mom. She walked successful the room, saw what was happening, and ran out. She runs backmost successful with a immense cookware of h2o and throws it connected my friend. Luckily, it blew a fuse. Somehow, my person survived that incidental with lone insignificant burns."

—Anonymous, 69, US

7. "I was young, possibly 5 oregon 6. My dada was a smoker and I’d seen him usage a lighter before. He was sleeping 1 time and I decided that present was a bully clip to spot if I could fig retired however to usage the lighter, and much importantly, what would hap if I acceptable the garbage connected fire?"

8. "When I was 6 oregon 7, I went into my dad's store to accidental meal was ready. Saw a drinking solid of wide liquid. Grabbed it and took a swig. Bleach. Vomited truthful overmuch blood. ER visit. Not allowed successful the store for a while."

9. "I was successful my aboriginal 20s connected my archetypal overseas enactment trip, staying astatine a edifice successful Belgium. I went to usage the hairdryer, and the outlet came retired of the wall. In my infinite wisdom, I went to enactment it backmost successful spot by grabbing the exposed wire. Luckily, I got thing worse than feeling a terrible pulse successful my limb arsenic a one-off. Not by brightest moment."

10. "I lived connected a workplace and was told not to ever thrust my motorcycle connected the highway. One time portion alone, I decided to bash it anyway; showing off, I took my hands disconnected the handlebars. I fell and deed my caput connected the concrete. I went location dazed and told my parent I was bushed and went to sleep. May person had a concussion, but ne'er confessed and survived."

—Anonymous

11. "I was 17 and driving my uncle’s car that he'd lent us. When I was driving backmost location from the airdrome connected the freeway, the motor started to smoke, and knowing practically thing astir cars, I slammed connected my brakes connected a three-lane freeway. I’m inactive not definite what happened, but the car spun around."

12. "I was 5 years old, moving astir with the neighbour kids successful their backyard. Suddenly, I was level connected my backmost with their collie canine attacking me. Fortunately, the proprietor was determination and dragged the canine disconnected of me. I had claw marks down my cheek, and 1 of his teeth had entered conscionable beneath my eye. My oculus wasn’t damaged, but I inactive person a two-inch scar to punctual me."

13. "Wrecked my motorcycle. Walked distant without adjacent a bruise. Never rode again."

14. "I was astir apt successful sixth grade, and I was having a sleepover with 1 of my friends. We were eating ramen, and I took a bite, and she made maine laugh. I started choking and stood up and continued choking. Tears came retired of my eyes from coughing truthful hard, but I got it out. Later, we laughed truthful hard."

15. "My 'friends' and I smoked weed and got hungry. We got roast beef sandwiches and took them backmost to my place, wherever I started to choke. Seriously, nary aerial was coming successful oregon out, and my hands were astatine my cervix doing the cosmopolitan choking sign. They virtually fell connected the level hysterically laughing, and I had to bash the Heimlich maneuver connected myself implicit the backmost of my room chair. Saved my ain life. They laughed adjacent harder astatine the show of maine throwing my thorax implicit the backmost of the chair. Haven't smoked weed since."

16. "Just walking down the stairs. I missed a measurement and down I went. Luckily, I got my hands out; otherwise, my caput would person been smashed close into the floor. I was bruised and shaken up, and present I marque definite to ever ticker erstwhile I person to spell down the stairs."

17. "I can’t retrieve however aged I was, but I had to beryllium beauteous young, possibly 10 years old. We utilized to person fires successful our occurrence pit successful our gait often. This wasn’t 1 of those small occurrence pits either. It’s a large spread successful the ground, truthful the fires were big. Anyway, I was moving astir the gait picking up sticks to propulsion successful the fire, reasoning I was being ace helpful, and erstwhile I got to the occurrence pit, I tripped connected 1 of the stones surrounding it and fell backward into the fire."

18. "I utilized to spell and ticker my person contention his car. It was conscionable a ton of guys with suped-up cars who wanted to spell accelerated and not get a summons for it. I would instrumentality pictures of my person astir the way from antithetic spots, arsenic determination were precise fewer spectators. On this peculiar day, the feline who ran the nine and handled renting the racing way decided to contention his car."

19. "I was 15 and connected a schoolhouse travel to Italy, wherever we were pulling retired of Florence. I enactment my caput retired the broadside model watching the metropolis down us, and past for nary reason, I pulled my caput backmost into the railcar — conscionable arsenic a precise adjacent awesome station went by! I would person been astir decapitated. Pretty dumb for 15."

IDK astir you, but I consciousness kinda dazed speechmaking immoderate of these! Please permission each your thoughts successful the comments below. Or, amended yet, stock your ain dumb near-death story! Even amended if it's benignant of hilarious successful retrospect. I emotion speechmaking these.

Or, if you person a communicative to archer but similar to enactment anonymous, you tin cheque retired this anonymous form! Besides, who knows — your remark could beryllium included successful a aboriginal BuzzFeed article.

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.