'[The] closest I came to killing someone was about six inches.'
Here are 28 stories where people almost ended up accidentally killing someone that range from so, so dumb to genuinely bone-chilling."Chlorosulfonic acid. At university, I misread the instructions on decomposing it and poured the remainder into a beaker of water. ClSO3H + H2O → H2SO4 + HCl. For the non-science types — it reacted REALLY violently with the water and formed hydrochloric acid and sulphuric acid both as a gas that started to float around the lab.
It's true what they say about your brain and trauma. I don't remember much after that except dad did find out and patched the hole."[I was] hunting at night with my best friend as a young teenager on a farm. The farmer was paying us for pest control as various nocturnal animals were contaminating the cattle feed and causing other problems. We had one scoped rifle and one flashlight and took turns.
"I started to panic and felt like I was fucked. All I could see was stars as he kicked me in the back of my kneecaps and forced me to my knees. As I started to literally black out, for whatever reason, he took his leverage arm and started hitting me in the head. I somehow managed to wrestle his hands from around my neck at that point, and I was able to square up with him, ready for a fight. He then threw the biggest most obnoxious hook I have ever seen.
"Turns out, I twisted her neck and damaged her neck vertebrae. Doctors in the hospital told the parents of this girl that if it got pushed a few millimeters further, she could have got paralyzed for life.""When I was in my early 20s, I would drive like a total ass. Speed, pass people where I shouldn’t, etc. One night, I’m driving home around 8 p.m. Home was off a semi-rural two lane 'highway,' and the speed limit there was 55mph. I get stuck behind someone going 45mph.
I found out in the hospital the next morning that one of my drinks had been spiked with a cocktail of drugs including almost lethal levels of GHB and some form of methamphetamine.
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