What is your "bullet fucking dodged" moment?

1. Lived outside of st. Louis in my early childhood, woke up screaming in the worst pain of my life and then felt my face get sprinkled with something. I actually got shot in the hip, and when I sat up a bullet went through my window right where my head was just at. And what sprinkled me in the face was tiny pieces of glass. So I dodged a literal bullet, by taking a bullet. Edit: Really expected this to get lost in the sauce, but here are some details someone else asked about. So my bed was right next to my bedroom window, parallel to the wall. The end of the bed where my head was at was right next to the window. The bullet entered the wall and struck me in my left hip so I guess I was sleeping on my stomach. The windows were real weird now that I think about it. It was actually two single pane pieces of glass separated by 6". And since both of them had a hole in them you could stick a rod in and see that the bullet travelled right where my head had just been on my pillow. Edit: Another side story connected to this now that I think about those windows. One time I came home from school I noticed the inner window was shattered and there was blood all over the place. Turned out it was my dog that tried to launch herself through the window. We were pretty certain that someone was at my window scoping it out. She was super defensive of all of us. I'm pretty sure this actually occurred after the shooting.
   — joemaniaci


2. I was making a day trip in Colorado to do some sight seeing. It was just me and the dog, driving a few hours over Wolf Creek Pass. I felt a little off and stopped up near the top of the pass to get some fresh air at a waterfall. I figured I was just sleepy and at altitude so I decided to actually hike the mile round trip to the falls and wake up a bit. On the way back down the trail I had a seizure. If I'd not stopped I would have been coming down the pass when it happened.
   — GuruBushHippie


3. Went on a date once with the photographer from my cousins wedding. I was in the wedding party so we spent much of the day chatting, he was good looking and amicable so I figured why not. We went for coffee and it was perfectly pleasant, we chatted about the usual stuff, he told me more about his upcoming photo tour of Europe.. Nothing unusual, but nothing special either. Got an awkward one armed hug at the end and he said we'd get in touch when he was back, which was about 4 months time. 4 months came and went and I just let it go. It had been pleasant but tepid and I guess I kind of forgot about it. Jump ahead a few years and I'm browsing the news and I see a familiar face. The photographer. Who is now in jail for an unprecedented collection of unique child porn. That he made. More of which, authorities guessed, was on the hard drive with military level encryption they'd seized that police still couldn't crack years later. That photography tour of Europe? Yeaaah, he was in Thailand. Cool. Cool cool cool.
   — 18005467777






4. Back when I was young and impressionable, someone stopped me on the street and asked if I'd like to do a free personality test. After enthusiastically filling out the answers to a long list of probing questions, the person who'd approached me asked how old I was. Since I was under 18 they said they'd have to get a parent's permission to give me my results. They call my mum, who tells them to stick their test up their arse (or words to that effect), then proceeds to give me an extended talking-to about trusting strange people with my personal information. And that's how I learned who the church of scientology were.
   — crunchymintybiscuit


5. I had a type of bone cancer (Ewing's sarcoma) when I was 10. It usually shows up in the bone itself, which usually makes one lose whichever limb the bone is in. Mine, fortunately, started in the surrounding flesh and was working its way towards the bone. The tumor grew so fast that I only realized it when I bumped my leg against a rock that I should not have hit (the tumor was about the size of a softball). Because of finding it like this, we got to it early enough that it could be removed before it reached the bone. I still got 9 months of Chemo to make sure it was all removed though. I kept my leg, although I have a large scar on the outside of my left leg above the knee running to mid thigh, and a large dip in the same area. Also have some kidney damage relating to the type of chemo they gave me, although things are looking up there. This May I was 6 years cancer free, and I would've lost my leg if we would've caught it any later. Edit: Thanks to everyone that gave their congratulations, and my condolences to those who have lost someone to ES.
   — zdschade


6. I had my police car pulled over off the side of this rural road, with the emergency lights on. I had stopped because there was a man splayed out in the middle of the asphalt; turns out he was super drunk and decided to take a nap during his walk home. I had just helped him to his feet, and placed him in the back of the car to drive him home, when I hear an engine revving hard. I closed the car door, and straightened up, just in time to have my car smashed out from in front of me by a pickup truck. I felt the trucks side mirror clip my body armour. The driver was drunk, and had decided to go looking for his drunk friend; that friend was the guy I just picked up. The guy in the back seat survived the impact, because those old Crown Victorias had massive trunks. The driver went to the hospital, and in the coming months, he plead guilty to impaired driving. I remember the collision analysis showed that the guy hit my car at 145 km/h. It was a wild night, and I still have major hangups when I have to stop my police car on roadways.
   — TheSwimja






7. Before my wife and I met she had a single date with someone. The date went fine but she found him to be over bearing, (he pulled his dick out for her to touch as an example) so they didn't go out again. They remained friendly until 2 weeks later when he murdered his next date and set her on fire. He is now in prison for those who may want to know. Edit Update: He shot and killed her in front of her kids and then set her house on fire. Sorry for my (partial) inaccuracy.
   — capta1n_sarcasm


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9. Was traveling to somewhere on a highway behind a logging truck. When we were going uphill, the truck changed lanes and a log slipped off, bounced between the car I was in and another car, and rebounded off the highway into the nearby forest. Their was no one immediately behind us. Edit: Hit comment instead of edit. Screw it, my accidental edit is somewhere in the comments.
   — TheSiegeHowitzer