People Are Sharing The Dumbest Reasons They Almost Died, And I’m Relieved They’re Still Alive But OH MY GOD

A mates of weeks ago, Reddit idiosyncratic gregorygreghouse posted to the fashionable Ask Reddit leafage to ask, "What’s the dumbest crushed you astir died?" and ohio my god, people's responses were wild. I, for one, was highly entertained, truthful I decided to share! Here are immoderate of the champion answers:

1. "When I was a kid I astir hopped successful immoderate unusual man's car to assistance him find his puppy. I lone didn't spell due to the fact that my small member started crying. I thought helium was SO boring."

2. "I got folded up successful 1 of those fold-up couch/bed things. It got stuck and I was successful determination for 15 minutes. I was sweating truthful bad, pinned. Accepted death. It was astatine my friend's location and we were similar 12. Luckily his older sister came location and they each grabbed a broadside and forced it open."

3. "I americium not allowed adjacent a chainsaw."

4. "Reached into a spare switchboard abstraction and touched the unrecorded 440-volt busbar astatine the backmost due to the fact that idiosyncratic had removed the guard."

5. "Chainsaw kicked backmost and missed my caput by similar 3 inches."

6. "I was fixed a precise terrible wedgie, and I had to get rushed to the hospital. It was each captured connected camera and determination are inactive photos. 😂"

7. "Holding a Swiffer sweeper grip supra maine extracurricular during a thunderstorm to spot if it would pull lightning. Nothing struck me, but it took 1 striking astir 30 feet distant for maine to think, 'WTF are you doing, that crap tin and volition termination you.' I don't cognize wherefore I was expecting to beryllium each similar Thor and his hammer with the lightning coursing astir me, each badass."

8. "I fto myself go morbidly obese with nary exercise. The doc told maine I was going to person a bosom onslaught immoderate time now. Thankfully, it shook maine up and since past I person mislaid implicit 100 lbs."

9. "My toast got stuck successful the toaster. I had a metallic weapon successful my hand. The toaster was inactive plugged in. Fortunately, my encephalon kicked into cogwheel an inch earlier my weapon made interaction with the toaster. I deliberation astir that a lot."

10. "I stepped onto the roadworthy whilst engaged talking, not realizing I was lasting seconds from being deed by a bus. A random alien grabbed my garment and pulled maine backmost onto the curb. The autobus brushed against my hairsbreadth arsenic it drove past. The alien conscionable kept connected walking aft causally redeeming my life."

12. "Tried to drawback an olive with my mouth. It went close down and I choked connected it. My dad, an implicit hero, grabbed my legs and picked maine up upside down, and the olive came close retired again, truthful nary Heimlich maneuver necessary."

13. "I was truly drunk astatine Oktoberfest successful Munich. We went connected the rollercoaster and I didn't region my backpack. The attendant conscionable 'closed' the information attachment implicit my shoulders, and erstwhile we were doing a loop, I noticed the happening wasn't really closed."

14. "I took a wound of a fried mozzarella stick, didn't wound done the cheese, and swallowed the archetypal half. I had to propulsion the food retired of my pharynx similar a clown with a drawstring of handkerchiefs. It was my 9th birthday, and we were eating astatine the edifice my ma and 2 aunts worked at. All of their coworkers saw it hap and were horrified."

15. "Riding my motorcycle down a upland road, I smoked the interruption pads down to the metal, deed a heap of equine shit, did a beforehand flip, and nutrient crayoned into a ditch afloat of poison ivy. Having that poison ivy interaction caller abrasions caused a brutal absorption and took the remainder of the summertime to heal."

16. "Fell disconnected a ladder breaking into my ain location due to the fact that I didn't privation to aftermath my woman up."

17. "I was astir a week aged and I conscionable randomly stopped breathing. IDK, I was precise melodramatic backmost then."

18. "I mislaid my equilibrium and accidentally grabbed an electrical obstruction with some hands. It was incredibly painful, and I screamed due to the fact that I physically couldn’t fto go. Thankfully, a person was determination to assistance me."

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19. "I ate a state presumption ovum sandwich, which landed maine successful the ICU with the caregiver injecting my bum owed to seizure and asphyxiation from terrible allergy. My tombstone would person said, 'taken by an ovum sandwich.'"

20. And finally: "I was wearing a Halloween costume with nary limb holes — it wouldn’t person been authentic to person arms — and fell backward down a staircase! Thank God my champion person saw it hap and grabbed maine earlier I went headfirst down the flight."

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! I emotion speechmaking these.

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