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When I was going to college my summer job was working for the city. I had the greatest job in the world. I was in charge of the 6 public swimming pools in town. What I would do is go to each poo twice a day and take a vile sample of the water and take it to City Hall.

Well we had a tornado go through town and was taken off my easy pool job and was assigned to the tree clean-up crew. I was throwing branches into the chipper and got tangled up and I got virtually 2 inches to the blades I am sure I would have been seriously injured or dead if I would not have caught myself in time.:scared
 

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Nearly drowned at the beach when I was 4 or 5.

Nearly fell out of the back up a pickup doing about 65 down a highway when I was about 20.
 

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Upstairs watching sports on the big TV.
V.C. (Viet Cong) mortar attack

V.C. (Viet Cong) mortar attack

Dec 1970 Mekong Delta...

The game was V.C . lob 4-5 Mortars at us a few times a week (A hooch-maid had paced off our compound) we call in Huey choppers and Black Ponies.

V.C. would retreat into deep underground tunnels.
While they were blasted with rockets and mini-guns, we would sit on top of sand bagged-bunkers drinking beer (PBR) watching the fantastic fireworks..amazing looking back, how dumb you are at 20 years old.

...doubt if they ever killed any, lots of taxpayers dollars expended for zippo...

My close call was showering one night, hearing "Whomp-KERRACK" and seeing small holes in the shower area where light was suddenly visible from the outside.
Grabbed my M-14, helmet and flack jacket and a pair of pants and dove into outside bunker...mosquitoes had a feast.
 
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2006 post C6/C7 posterior discectomy... One week after the surgery, I developed a horrible infection and my neck swelled to 24 inches!! Spent a week in the hospital and 7 more at home on IV antibiotics because I had staph (MRSA). I was very, very ill!
 

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Where it is real F ing COLD
1988 nfc championship game vikings vs Washington

1999 nfc championship game vikings vs Atlanta

2002 nfc championship game Vikings vs Giants

2010 nfc championship game vikings vs Saints

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All seriousness, I was a little boy of maybe 6 watching cartoons and I was eating a hard candy and it became lodged in my throat. I did not know the heimlich and neither did my grandma but she gave me back blows that you wouldn't believe and stuck her finger all the way down my throat and got it out.. And then she cracked my ass for eating the hard candy without permission. Just think her adrenaline was such that she had no choice but to give me a good crackin
 

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Dec 1970 Mekong Delta...

The game was V.C . lob 4-5 Mortars at us a few times a week (A hooch-maid had paced off our compound) we call in Huey choppers and Black Ponies.

V.C. would retreat into deep underground tunnels.
While they were blasted with rockets and mini-guns, we would sit on top of sand bagged-bunkers drinking beer (PBR) watching the fantastic fireworks..amazing looking back, how dumb you are at 20 years old.

...doubt if they ever killed any, lots of taxpayers dollars expended for zippo...

My close call was showering one night, hearing "Whomp-KERRACK" and seeing small holes in the shower area where light was suddenly visible from the outside.
Grabbed my M-14, helmet and flack jacket and a pair of pants and dove into outside bunker...mosquitoes had a feast.

I thank you for your Service to our Country.
 

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Dec 1970 Mekong Delta...

The game was V.C . lob 4-5 Mortars at us a few times a week (A hooch-maid had paced off our compound) we call in Huey choppers and Black Ponies.

V.C. would retreat into deep underground tunnels.
While they were blasted with rockets and mini-guns, we would sit on top of sand bagged-bunkers drinking beer (PBR) watching the fantastic fireworks..amazing looking back, how dumb you are at 20 years old.

...doubt if they ever killed any, lots of taxpayers dollars expended for zippo...

My close call was showering one night, hearing "Whomp-KERRACK" and seeing small holes in the shower area where light was suddenly visible from the outside.
Grabbed my M-14, helmet and flack jacket and a pair of pants and dove into outside bunker...mosquitoes had a feast.

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Dec 1970 Mekong Delta...

The game was V.C . lob 4-5 Mortars at us a few times a week (A hooch-maid had paced off our compound) we call in Huey choppers and Black Ponies.

V.C. would retreat into deep underground tunnels.
While they were blasted with rockets and mini-guns, we would sit on top of sand bagged-bunkers drinking beer (PBR) watching the fantastic fireworks..amazing looking back, how dumb you are at 20 years old.

...doubt if they ever killed any, lots of taxpayers dollars expended for zippo...

My close call was showering one night, hearing "Whomp-KERRACK" and seeing small holes in the shower area where light was suddenly visible from the outside.
Grabbed my M-14, helmet and flack jacket and a pair of pants and dove into outside bunker...mosquitoes had a feast.

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