16 People Share the Biggest Bullet They've Ever Dodged

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Eric Lund
Jul 16, 2018 4:00 PM EDT

These people had some real close calls, but by chance, circumstance or skill managed to get out (pretty much) unscathed.

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  • 01
    Text - Uber Toonces 2.2k points 3 hours ago My college gf was a solid 10/10 and great in the sack Everyone thought we would get married. But I never felt like I could trust her. She never cheated on me, it was just intuition. I broke up with her when I graduated and everyone thought I was crazy. She ended up marrying a guy who was rich. They went on vacation in a foreign country (which shall be nameless) and she put drugs in his luggage. He got busted at customs and spent a couple of months in j
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    Text - AmishHoeFights 1.9k points 4 hours ago The choice: A) Stay in a dead, remote town of 600 people because I liked (but did not truly love) the woman I was with, after the shop I worked at closed down. She had a good income (nurse), did not want to move, and was fine with me earning less developing my own business interests... or B), break it off and move to a huge city and roll the dice. I chose B, and my girlfriend ended up fired for drug abuses (stealing them from work). I never suspected
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    Text - Downvotesdarksouls 1.9k points 3 hours ago Leaving work one day and I let someone else merge in ahead of me. We both get to a Traffic light and stop. The light turns green and we both start driving through the intersection. A SUV comes throught the guard rails and off the overpass just past the intersection and lands ON the car ahead of me. The car is flattened. If I had been more agressive that would have been me.
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    Text - CipherInTheKnow 1.6k points 6 hours ago Buying the wrong house. Put an offer on a house that needed some work. Offer was refused. House sold a year later for $100,000 less than my offer. Bullet dodged
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    Text - Deplete1 1.3k points 6 hours ago Was walking outside and thinking about how my class just went. Looked down and another step in front of me is a completely uncovered, open, unprotected manhole. I'm certain if I'd have maintained my path, I'd have fallen into it.
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    Text - hmfiddlesworth 913 points 3 hours ago Got offered my dream job running an offshore aquaculture facility. Had to choose between the job and my SO's future (long story). I reluctantly declined the job. A few months later i heard the facility was dealing with a serious disease issue and had no chance of being sustainable. Hadi taken the job, i would have most likely being single living in a tiny seaside shit-hole town, the job would have sucked, and i would have only worked there for max thr
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    Text - edited 1 hour ago kizzle69 660 points 4 hours ago Getting dumped by my high school sweetheart. I thought I loved her and, I am pretty sure I did. She was beautiful, kind and, sweet. Sadly, she got new friends and she completely changed. I gave her freedom and tried to not be pushy about not hanging out with them. It ended with her cheating on me. I was pretty hurt and, thankfully, I realized she was growing up and what interested her was not what interested me anymore. I ALMOST stayed wit
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    Text - moonshinevodka 408 points 4 hours ago My appendix exploded, one hospital rejected me and told me to go home and use some low key painkillers. Got driven to another hospital immediately rushed for an operation. If I spent another day at home I would have died. I could have also ended up with a major scar from my ribs to the lady parts. So lucky but so shook.
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    Text - 4 hours ago .edited 17 minutes ago thefinisher14 872 points Moved out of an apartment complex this year where I did not have renters insurance. It burned down 4 days later.
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    Text - Obelion_ 410 points 3 hours ago Didn't lend money to a "friend" because I was broke, few months later he disappeared with several thousands he had stolen from my other friends
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    Text - saintsandkings 1.2k points 6 hours ago I dated a girl for about 3 years. I decided to leave becuase I thought she was gonna get me in trouble, turns out i was right. We were teenagers and experimenting with drugs, anyways she wasn't happy about me leaving and reported me to the police for giving her drugs. A good lawyer and 18 months of probation saved me from doing 5-99 in prison for distribution
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    Text - ghunt81 186 points 3 hours ago Signed up for a timeshare and financed $10,000 over the course of 10 years. Came to our senses later that evening and cancelled it the next day. Would have probably been shackled with that crap for the rest of our lives had we not.
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    Text - 6 hours ago Devonai 1.2k points The US Army almost deployed me here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prison I was an infantryman, not a prison guard. I later ran into one of the guys from my company who had gone, and holy shit. I feel bad for him but thank god I missed that
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    Text - njgreenwood 158 points 3 hours ago Death, twice. First time I was 21 and was having stomach pains, like screaming in shear agony type stomach pains. But I didn't think it was anything crazy, I've always had stomach issues. Finally after a couple of days I went to the ER and that had to do emergency surgery. Found out I have diverticulitis and one of the nodules had popped, spilling bile into the rest of the stomach and had infected my appendix as well. Doctor said I had about 12 hours lef
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    Text - j_ag1739 127 points 3 hours ago We were all set and ready to put an offer on a house. Did the paperwork with the realtor, signed the check, put down the offer. The realtor was super pushy but the room was 90 degrees and we weren't thinking straight. After signing the papers we go to see the house again with my in laws and notice a TON of issues we hadn't seen before. Got really anxious, big issues like plumbing, a huge wrap around deck that needed work, etc but we were stuck now. Got a ca
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    Text - Anklebender91 1.1k points 4 hours ago About 5-6 years ago I was three days away from proposing to my ex when I caught her cheating This Friday I get to marry my best friend. I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.
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