What's your "in the wrong place at the wrong time" story?

Buddy of mine and his friend were coming across a bridge when a big flatbed went into their lane and hit them head on. They were in a Corolla, flatbed was loaded with firewood and towing a trailer. Shoved engine and transmission through the firewall and pinned the driver in the back seat. My buddy got pinned in between the floorboard and firewall. First responders assumed driver was already dead and cut my buddy out the car, they were laying out the bag when he gasped for air. 20 years old and got 2 new hips and 2 knees for the driver. Owner of truck had too many dui and made his employee drive who had seizure problems, and he had one at the wrong time.
 
I got caught in the flooding in TN Saturday night and had to evacuate. We had to wade through nasty water, then dodge downed trees and mudslides on the road out.

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Had this dumbass co-worker years back that never would listen. We were moving bundles of plywood and 2x4's to the new building because the old one had a horrible roof on it. We were shoveling all the tops so the snow would not blow in our faces. Dumbass puts the shovel on the fuel tank of the forklift. I told him not to do that because the handle was hanging out of the ROPS by a 2 feet. He doesn't listen, leaves and goes flying down the alley. Takes the corner tight and I see the handle to the shovel hit the building. It rotated on the ROPS and scalped him. I saw his hard hat fly off and knew shit was going to be ugly. He's freaking out I run up and put my sweatshirt on his head and we head inside to the first aid kit in the breakroom. Prob 5-7 guys eating lunch. He sits down and I grab the kit. He pulls the sweatshirt off, blood everywhere, puts it back on. Guy at the first table pukes, then like dominoes everyone else starts puking. My boss Mike the co-owner walks in to see 1 guy bleeding like a stuck pig and 5+ guys puking all over the break room. I'm holding the first aid kit laughing at the guys puking. And he's like WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN HERE. Matt! :lmao: So I tell the shovel story, dumbass pulls the sweatshirt back to show the boss. Boss just walks off. His wife was the accounting lady and I guess he went upstairs and puked in the trash can in her office. I guess no one ever went hunting or saw blood before. I was a little creeped out by how white his skull was where there wasn't any bleeding.
 
This is a popular story around the campfire about how some friends and I almost got killed for doing a good deed. Kind of fits with the theme of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Never really written it out before so bear with me.

In 2003 when I was a Jr in High School 4 friends and I piled into my '90 extended cab Dakota and decided we were going to the drive in to watch Terminator 3. Everything goes off without a hitch and we are heading to drop off the first freind. My cousin is driving because my license is provisional at the time, I am riding shotgun because it's my truck, and there are 3 assholes in the back because that's where assholes go.

Driving through a dark neighborhood Tim in the back seat says, "naked girl" totally calm, as if it is the most common sight on earth. We all reply with various forms of, "where?". He points and repeats, "naked girl".

We all look, and sure enough there is a woman running down the road in nothing but a loose frilly top. Bare assed, no shoes, white with cornrows. As we get closer and she sees our headlights she starts flagging us down and yelling "Omg this guy just tried to kill me!, I need help!" We pull over and tell her to hop in. I open the door and scoot over to the middle of the front bench, She jumps in and repeats "Omg this guy just tried to kill me!" and then says "and I took this gun from him!" At this point I see for the first time that she is carrying what was probably a Luger of some type.

She closes the door and my cousin takes off, we all start digging for our cell phones because we should probably call the cops and report an attempted murder right? "No, No Cops. I just had a bad date and I need to meet my boyfriend out on Stockton Blvd." If you were from around here it would have been obvious to you,as it was to us, that we had just picked up a hooker. The naked lady had the gun so we start driving up and down a Notorious Hooker Blvd. looking for a pimp.

After a little while we tell her basically we need to go home and get out of this situation and we pull behind a tire shop or something where it is dark and pile out of the truck. Then starts a short debate about who is going to give her their underwear so she is not naked. Most of us were using our football silkies as boxers and did not want to give them up, Tim by virtue of having on regular boxers got elected. Just as Tim dropped his drawers and kicks his shoes off a black sedan skids to a stop near us and out hops a huge black guy, he sees the pistol packing hooker and Tim's bare white ass and starts moving towards us with a purpose. The hooker, seeing her "boyfriend" takes off running towards him shouting "Baby, this white boy tried to kill me!" he grabs the gun from her hands and continues towards a truck load of white boys.

Luckily she realizes what she did and yelled, "No, No they helped me!". They hop in the sedan and take off and we scramble back into the truck and make tracks. In the silence after everyone had said their version of, "holy shit, we almost got shot" Miles chirps from the back, "we could have at least got a thank you blowjob or something!"
 
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Had a boss tell this story.

He’s heading home from work in the company truck, crossing/passing one of the lakes north of Atlanta. Hears a “twang” and looks in the rear view mirror to see a good sized tree land across the road behind him in front of another car. Tree hit and twanged the CB antenna on the roof as he drove under it falling.
 
2big bronco said:
Im driving under an overpass is santa cruz in my wifes car when i see what looks like a big rock fall right in front of me and i run it over. Confused i pull to the side a couple hundred yards up. Right behind the big rock (chunk of concrete k rail that got launched) was a semi truck following it over the edge that landed right behind me. When i stopped and looked back it took a while to comprehend what happened. My first though was that the semi truck jackknifed trying to avoid the rocks. He walked away from it
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You and fences seem to have issues.
 
Reminded me of this one:

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A 40-ton steel girder dropped from a freeway overpass construction site into morning traffic on Saturday, crushing one car and killing three people west of Denver. The 100-foot-long girder sagged across three lanes of Interstate 70, shearing off the top of an SUV that was carrying a man, a woman and a young girl, said State Patrol Master Trooper Ron Watkins. All three were killed but no other vehicles were involved in the accident, which occurred shortly after 10 a.m., Watkins said. The site is 10 miles west of downtown Denver.

A caller to radio station KOA described seeing a blue Dodge SUV cut in half. “The front, from the driver’s seat forward, is about 200 feet down the road from the other part that’s under the girder,” the caller told KOA. The station did not identify the caller. Police: ‘This is as bad as it gets’ The girder was put up Tuesday as crews were adding a lane to a bridge carrying Colorado 470 over I-70, said state Department of Transportation spokeswoman Stacy Stegman. The beam was resting on concrete pillars at both ends, with the middle draped across all three lanes of the highway. The crushed remains of the car were underneath. “This is about as bad as it gets,” State Patrol Capt. Jim Wolfinbarger said.

Engineers were on the scene investigating, Stegman said, adding that no vehicles were on the bridge when the accident occurred. “We can’t figure out why on earth it fell,” Stegman said. Asphalt Specialties Co. was overseeing the construction project, Stegman said. The phone rang unanswered at the company’s Colorado office on Saturday. Asphalt Specialties is an experienced company with about six other state highway projects currently under way in the state, Stegman said. Traffic on I-70, the main route from Denver west over the Rocky Mountains, was stopped in the eastbound lanes and moving slowly in the westbound lanes after the accident.
 
mrblaine said:
So, artsyfartsy, TJQueef, Alfred, and the Land Rover dude all rolled into one? Can we actually stand that much awesome in one fucking place?
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If he edits in some boomerang shackles we would have RAMS as well.
 
I was 17 still in high school and I had started working at Timken(co-op after school thing). Hadnt been there long 3-4 months maybe and I'm headed out to get a pallet jack from the loading dock. It was a pretty big building and equally large over head doors, we're talking like 20' wide and at least as tall and 70's vintage so rather stout construction. I'm about 5' from the door and noticed the door was slightly crooked so I tell the dock guy "hey this door looks fucked up" as I'm directly under it I start hearing a bunch of racket at like 3' past walking through the door that motherfucker SMASHES into the ground, to this day I will very rarely walk through an overhead door.
 
Filthy McChevy said:
Reminded me of this one:




A 40-ton steel girder dropped from a freeway overpass construction site into morning traffic on Saturday, crushing one car and killing three people west of Denver. The 100-foot-long girder sagged across three lanes of Interstate 70, shearing off the top of an SUV that was carrying a man, a woman and a young girl, said State Patrol Master Trooper Ron Watkins. All three were killed but no other vehicles were involved in the accident, which occurred shortly after 10 a.m., Watkins said. The site is 10 miles west of downtown Denver.

A caller to radio station KOA described seeing a blue Dodge SUV cut in half. “The front, from the driver’s seat forward, is about 200 feet down the road from the other part that’s under the girder,” the caller told KOA. The station did not identify the caller. Police: ‘This is as bad as it gets’ The girder was put up Tuesday as crews were adding a lane to a bridge carrying Colorado 470 over I-70, said state Department of Transportation spokeswoman Stacy Stegman. The beam was resting on concrete pillars at both ends, with the middle draped across all three lanes of the highway. The crushed remains of the car were underneath. “This is about as bad as it gets,” State Patrol Capt. Jim Wolfinbarger said.

Engineers were on the scene investigating, Stegman said, adding that no vehicles were on the bridge when the accident occurred. “We can’t figure out why on earth it fell,” Stegman said. Asphalt Specialties Co. was overseeing the construction project, Stegman said. The phone rang unanswered at the company’s Colorado office on Saturday. Asphalt Specialties is an experienced company with about six other state highway projects currently under way in the state, Stegman said. Traffic on I-70, the main route from Denver west over the Rocky Mountains, was stopped in the eastbound lanes and moving slowly in the westbound lanes after the accident.
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First thing I thought of too. I bet I was only 2 minutes late from seeing this one live going the opposite way.


ive had a few right place, right time moments that didn’t benefit me but still convenient.. I bet I’ve walked into 5 vacant homes with fresh leaks.
 
Wades_76_cj7 said:
Few years ago my brother was driving north on I-49 south of KC heading into a meeting for work. he's running the speed limit with traffic and said suddenly he sees a truck in front of him run over a piece of pipe or steel about 3-4' long. the steel is kicked up about eye level and is doing the helicopter in his lane. He said he laid over in the seat and it spun just as he went past and it blew out the driver's side backseat window in his wife's ZJ he was driving. :eek:

so while not fatal it could have been ugly.
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Nj tp around exit ten last run I watched a drop leg crank handle fall off an 18wheeler in the lane beside me. spun in circles on the road and just got the feeling it would get kicked up and ruin someone’s day.
 
Another one the girder thing just reminded me of.

Out at the rodeo, hanging out with friends. One of our friends gets an emergency call to go move a piece of equipment. He leaves. After the rodeo and after party is over, I drop a friend off and swing by another friends house. He just got done with a bunch of work on his turbo eclipse and we all pile in to go do some test passes. We drive way out of town and come up on flaggers and the sherif who have the road down to one lane. They’ve got a crane out taking a swather apart and loading it onto a flatbed. Thought that was weird. A few days later I found out my buddy was the one driving that swather.

An escalade rear ended him doing About 85-95mph while he was doing about 3 mph coming up on the gate he was turning into. Cut the Escalade in half right about hood high, decapitating the driver and launching his head into the back of the thing. Buddy gets thrown all around the cab and into the windshield of the swather. Big guy about 6’11”. No bullshit and about 400lbs. Hit the steering column so hard, it broke off and almost dumped him through the front window. He got messed up bad. Makes it out of the machine to find the caddy parked under his machine and dudes head is gone. Messed him up bad for life.
 
I think I might have been 9 or 10 years old.

One fine Sunday morning my dad was hung over as fuck, I didn't really understand it then but now I know. So there I am outside and I take to bouncing a small rubber ball off the side of the house and catching it. Thump, thump, thump over and over for an hour or so. I saw my dad give me the look out the window a couple of times but thought nothing of it. So after an hour or so of this he finally comes out the back door and tells me to knock it off, I decide in my 9yo wisdom to give him some attitude. It ends up with me yelling fine and throwing the ball one more time.

A decision I've regretted my whole life.

I threw it a little wild and busted out the kitchen window.

The look on his face, well I saw death heading my way you could say. He looks around and his eyes find a homemade bow and arrow laying within reach. He reaches down and picks it up and takes one step towards me.

I fucking booked it out of there, I ran and didn't even think of where I was gonna go as long as it wasn't there. I snuck back a couple of hours later and grabbed my bike and fucked off again. I stayed away until dark and then crept home starving and scared shitless. Mom had a plate for me on the table and I ate in silence before creeping off to bed.:laughing:

I avoided a good ass whippin that day but I did have to work off what that window cost at something like .50 an hour.

Now that I am older and have had a hangover like that a time or ten I realize how close to death I came that day.:laughing:
 
The opposite of wrong place wrong time, but good enough story to tell that kinda fits. In Vegas for a bachelor party, buddy gets hammered drunk and wanders off. Next morning we all wake up and he’s still gone, he was supposed to be on an 8am flight home to LA, Dude ended up sleeping in a group of trees off the strip and stumbles into the hotel lobby with no shoes and only his shorts. Turns out the shuttle he was supposed to get on at LAX to get home wrecked and exploded, zero survivors.
 
neilur said:
The opposite of wrong place wrong time, but good enough story to tell that kinda fits. In Vegas for a bachelor party, buddy gets hammered drunk and wanders off. Next morning we all wake up and he’s still gone, he was supposed to be on an 8am flight home to LA, Dude ended up sleeping in a group of trees off the strip and stumbles into the hotel lobby with no shoes and only his shorts. Turns out the shuttle he was supposed to get on at LAX to get home wrecked and exploded, zero survivors.
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Sounds like the beginning of some Final Destination shit.
 
Was in a taxi with friends after a long night drinking back in high school. We realize nobody has cab money so we decide to bail. I'm on the window seat, and jump out the door when I decided it was going slow enough. Before I hit the ground I see flashing lights. Cab was being pulled over for cutting through a parking lot to avoid a stoplight. Unlucky timing. Cops getting ready to arrest us when over the radio comes a shooting involving an officer. They tell us to find a way to pay the cab driver and go. Lucky timing.

The one girl with us ended up giving the driver a carton of cigarettes for payment.
 
not2hye

I have a buddy who owns a repo business, he was making his rounds late at night, stops at a gas station, goes to back into a parking space, like a right turn, as a lady is walking across the parking lot, she stops, looks in her purse, then continues walking and gets pulled down under his duals and killed.

The cops do a full on investigation, his truck is legit, he's clean as a whistle, and using all of the cameras they replay everything, she perfectly tracked all of the blind spots, including pausing to look in her purse.

Not at fault at all, but it really fucked him up. He let his business fall apart for a year or better. It's rough to see a 6'4" 320lb dude on the verge of tears telling a story
 
Projectjunkie said:
not2hye

I have a buddy who owns a repo business, he was making his rounds late at night, stops at a gas station, goes to back into a parking space, like a right turn, as a lady is walking across the parking lot, she stops, looks in her purse, then continues walking and gets pulled down under his duals and killed.

The cops do a full on investigation, his truck is legit, he's clean as a whistle, and using all of the cameras they replay everything, she perfectly tracked all of the blind spots, including pausing to look in her purse.

Not at fault at all, but it really fucked him up. He let his business fall apart for a year or better. It's rough to see a 6'4" 320lb dude on the verge of tears telling a story
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Trying to pull an insurance scam? Or just all of the right things happened for the wrong thing to happen?

If I remember right, the dude who hit the swather was higher than a kite at the time. Not really anyone’s fault but his own in that situation. Buddy was following all of the rules and still opened up a whole bunch of legal nightmares for himself, before even mentioning getting the medical stuff covered for himself.
 
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