30 of the Biggest Bullets People Dodged

‘When I was in middle school I wanted to buy a fedora, but none could fit my head’
30 of the Biggest Bullets People Dodged
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The firearm is one of the deadliest and most efficient weapons ever created by humans. It can also be rendered completely useless by someone deciding to tie their shoe at the perfect moment. It’s not common, of course, given the speed with which they operate.

But dodging a bullet has become a metaphor for narrowly avoiding disaster, something that happens with much higher frequency. Probably even more than we can sanely admit, to be honest. 

Here, by the grace of god, are some of Redditors’ all-time dodged bullets, thanks to a thread requesting those very stories.

Deadthrow742 5y ago A few years ago I had pneumonia, but my whole family insisted that it was just post nasal drip, (Which runs in the family) after a week or two I woke up in the middle of the night when I couldn't feel my arm. After I got to the ER the doctor said that it was the worst he'd ever seen and he was surprised I wasn't dead. I had 3 lbs of mucus cut out of my lungs and another two weeks in the hospital siphoning out the rest. For three months afterwards I could barely
LackingUtility 5y ago Around 30,000 pounds. I was driving with my wife in town one snowy evening and we had pulled up to a stop light. I happened to glance up at the rear view mirror and saw a city bus heading towards us... and rotating sideways. I hit the gas and pulled ahead into the intersection and left into the turning lane, and less than a second later, the bus went sliding through right where our car was. It came to a stop on the other side of the intersection and fortunately didn't hit anything, but one second or
khendron 5y ago Many years ago, my flight had just landed at Chicago O'hare and the plane was taxiing when the pilot suddenly slammed on the brakes. People were literally thrown forward against the seat in front of them. A few seconds later, another plane (taking off I think) went screaming by right in front of us. No explanation was given, though our imaginations provided a lot of gory details.
. 5y ago C Edited 5y ago As a kid, after running errands in town with my mom, | was climbing into the backseat of our family station wagon. A semi-truck hit a power line pole down the street causing the still-live wire to fall, bounce off the roof of the car and hang across the open door just a foot or two above my legs. Raised catholic, I wondered for a while after if I had actually died that day and that the rest of what I thought was my life was my purgatory.
LegallyBodacious . 5y ago Not changing jobs in early 2020. Would have been a short lived promotion after early restructuring and layoffs.
miked4o7 . 5y ago . Edited 5y ago after i i had a stroke, i was in a coma and it didn't look like i'd wake up. the drs asked my wife if they should let me go. i only exist because she said no. i didn't i dodge a bullet so much as my wife blocked it for me.
5y ago A friend had lost his job under suspicious circumstances. A few weeks later he asked me to take him to the bank, as I got near to pick him up I caught a train. Не called to say never mind he would get someone else. A few days later a friend sent out a message to a large number of our friends, this guy lost his job and was running a check cashing con - Can you cash this check for me? I'll pay you $50 if you do. The check is $500, he has no backing funds, you
ThadisJones 5y ago Not me, but I had a field service engineer working on one of my big robotic liquid handlers. Не decided to bypass the safety pin that prevents the heads from moving while the cover is open while he had a diagnostic program queued up on the computer. What he didn't know was that the instant he reinserted the safety pin the machine would execute the queued instructions and start moving, and he had a hand inside it right in the danger zone. I grabbed his shoulder and yanked his hand out an instant before it was crushed.
HoodooSquad 5y ago My newborn needed to be rushed to a super high level NICU to be put into a state of induced hypothermia, because he only had hours before he would suffer permanent brain damage. I live in a small town in the middle of no where. The small town next door just barely upgraded their hospital to have that hypothermia suite, one of only a few in Texas. He's doing great, no sign of any damage.
5y ago I stayed up all night before a daytrip to Hong Kong. You know that daze when you haven't slept, you're just kinda robotic and doing the human stuff, nearly zero awareness of anything? Well, I went to cross a street and my friend behind me SNATCHED my shoulder and yanked me backwards just in time to feel the WHOOSH of a doubledecker bus breezing past us. I just looked at him like oh, thanks man and it took a whole extra minute for my brain to process I would be fucken ded had he not grabbed me.
excessofexcuses 5y ago | survived a rocket attack that landed about 10 meters from me, very close to where we were standing. We were so close to the launch site, that the warning alarm came AFTER the rocket had already impacted. Thankfully, we were able to dive under a vehicle for some shelter and the three of us made it through unscathed.
. 5y ago . Edited 5y ago Was going to move to a different apartment complex last month...got injured at work and lost hours; therefore, couldn't come up with the deposit money in time. Last week some asshat was cooking meth and caught the building on fire.
Butterflylollipop O 5y ago I can answer this in a literal way. When I was a child, I was playing video games with my little brother. Well, he found our dad's gun and fired it. No one was hurt but it scared the shit out of me
starsandmath 5y ago I interviewed for a job that I wanted desperately in August 2019. After the initial phone interview, I went in for an in-person interview at 4PM on a Wednesday. I had a rejection in my inbox by 8PM and was completely gutted. Then 2020 happened, and they laid off 60% of their staff and will probably go under. I'm thankful for that rejection every day.
baeuti 5y ago There was a pile of stuff that people would leave at our house when | was at university, coats and stuff. Moving out day and we found a random samurai sword in the pile. We were messing about with it trying to make it go swoosh. I was stood facing my brother while he was swooshing it when the blade dislodged from the handle, flew straight past me and stuck horizontally into my headboard. So yeah my brother nearly impaled me while messing around with a random sword we found after a house party. Pics for proof:
well_uh_yeah 5y ago When my great aunt passed away I was helping to clean out her house. I'm just dragging everything out of the basement and suddenly my dad is like, Whoa! Put that down gently and let's move away from here. So I put the weird metal tube-type thing I'm carrying down and get out of there. Turns out it's a mortar shell from when my aunt worked in a munitions factor during WWII. Bomb squad came and took it away.
rae2820 . 5y ago Edited 5y ago My mother left me in one state and went back to my abusive stepfather. She tried to get me to drop out of my senior year at hs, move back to their state and just get my ged (they wanted a live in babysitter, cook and maid) | was so lucky my grandparents let me move in with them and finish school.
mlahut 5y ago Freshman year of college I had a calc class. It was material I had learned before, but for various reasons they didn't give me transfer credit. So I skipped class quite frequently. Though I usually slept in, one morning I find myself awake at 8:30 and not really feeling like sleep. Might as well check in on the class and see what's going on. It was the midterm exam.
Axeman1721 . 5y ago When I was in middle school I wanted to buy a fedora, but none could fit my head.
peachcookieastrid . 5y ago Getting chased by someone with a knife across my apartment. I closed my door at the right moment so that person ended up stabbing my wooden door instead. The mark was there until I left the apartment a few years later as a constant reminder of what could have been.
From-the-Trailerpark 5y ago At 17 y/o I met and married a sweet little North Carolina daddy's girl. had I not I would have still been hanging with my friends that just discovered heroin. of the 3 friends, 2 are dead and one did 10 years in prison.
EmperorHans 5y ago I had a cardic arrest about four years ago. Dropped dead(ish) in the middle of my shift. Found out after I woke up about a week later that: A) the manager who saw me fall was a former life guard and knew proper CPR B) an ambulance happened to be passing about two blocks away C) probably the best cardio unit in my state was a ten minute ambulance ride from where it all happened. Walked out of the hospital about two weeks later, full recovery.
cubscoutnine 5y ago Edited 5y ago My great grandfather was in the merchant navy in the war. Не was in the engine room at the bottom of the ship and his friend came down to take over the shift early. Minutes later a torpedo struck and everyone at the bottom of the ship couldn't escape and died. My great grandfather would've been one of them otherwise. Then, he was in the sea for a while and happened to be picked up by some Portuguese fisherman who saved him. Then, all part of the same tale, he escaped death again. Не
Wrath-of-Cornholio O 5y ago Edited 5y ago My dad was going through severe depression 10 years ago and my life was equally shitty for a whole multitude of reasons, and it was rubbing off on me. I spent what felt like half an hour crying on the floor and working up the nerve to pull the trigger, then when I finally did, the safety was on; I sold my gun the next morning.
W WizardWatson9 5y ago Studying video game development in college. Reading about the standard of living for those people and the horrific abusive practices in the industry made me realize I was totally right to just go with electrical engineering.
. 5y ago A literal police car. The police were chasing someone and I was crossing the road and my dumbass was walkin slowly and the police car nearly grazed me. Look both ways and take off your headphones when you cross the road kids!!
seeing_red415 . 5y ago . Edited 5y ago I was walking down the street in downtown Chicago and I heard a loud bang followed by a woman screaming. Somebody dropped a full 2 liter bottle of soda from the 13 floor and it just missed me. It was essentially a giant bullet at that height and speed. The woman screaming was about 5 feet behind me (she was the 2nd closest to being hit). I'm pretty sure that bottle would have killed me if it hit me.
michonne impossible . 5y ago Edited 5y ago Well, about 15 years ago I dated a guy for less than a year. It was an awful, abusive relationship and I was happy to get out of it when I did. About... 8-9 years ago, I saw him on the news. Не strangled his girlfriend to death. Не then dismembered her and lived with her body for a month or so before he was caught.
Grayswandir2 . 5y ago Worked night shift at a 7-11 in a relatively unsafe neighborhood and the week after I quit it was robbed at gunpoint on my shift.
omiaguirre 5y ago 4 christmases ago I was in México with mom dad and brother doing some last minute shopping at the local Walmart . We finished our shopping and went to the car , as soon as we were leaving 2 trucks stopped right in front of the main Walmart entrance. They were a cartel and were hunting for the son of one of the opposing cartels main dudes They fired a FUCKING BAZOOKA, I think they got the guy And then bullets started flying everywhere. My dad was driving...he hit the gas , we almost crashed cause there was panic everywhere

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