bholdr
05-31-2005, 05:23 PM
i was talking with an old freind about our days in college, and we brought something up that i hadn't thought about for a long time. it's a pretty screwed up story about a dude that almost died at a party we threw once.
i used to live in a house full of partiers in bellingham, wa. we brewed our own beer and often thew keggers for all of our freinds in the neighborhood. unfourtunatly, our next door neighbor was a preecher, and he would often call the cops at midinght if he could hear anything. well... he left town for a weekend, so we took the chance to throw a party that was probably way too big for the house. about 200 people and three bands showed up- we had made some special batches of beer in anticipation of the party, and my buddy levi had anawesome recipie for some 10% punch that tasted like kool-aid (for the ladies that weren't into dark, strong beer).
everything went very well until about four am, when some of the stragglers found the trampoline in the preecher's back yard. they quickly climbed the fence and were bouncing away when i found them. i had to yell at them to get the hell out of the guys yard, and they did, except for one drunk guy that HAD to do 'one more trick'. the trampoline was a round one about ten feet in diameter.
he tried to do a front flip, and fuked it up royally... he over rotated and fell foward on the landing, which wouldn't have been a big deal, except that the pad that covers the springs and the metal tubing that was the frame had been removed. he could have hit his face on the tubing, but came up short- and what happened was probably the most screwed-up, terrifying thing i've ever seen. as he fell foward, his head slipped between two of the springs, his chin hooked under the surface of the trampoline, his neck braced against the tubing, and, in slow motion, he continued to rotate foward, past vertical. i was DEAD SURE that i was watching him break his neck and die, but, luckily, his legs fell on the fence, and he was able to suspend himself like that until i could climb over the fence and pull him out. i'd guess that he came within 1% of snapping his neck like a match head... jesus.
i had forgotten about that...
anyone else got some messed up accident stories? i have a few more, but that's the worst that doesn't involve somebody dying.
i used to live in a house full of partiers in bellingham, wa. we brewed our own beer and often thew keggers for all of our freinds in the neighborhood. unfourtunatly, our next door neighbor was a preecher, and he would often call the cops at midinght if he could hear anything. well... he left town for a weekend, so we took the chance to throw a party that was probably way too big for the house. about 200 people and three bands showed up- we had made some special batches of beer in anticipation of the party, and my buddy levi had anawesome recipie for some 10% punch that tasted like kool-aid (for the ladies that weren't into dark, strong beer).
everything went very well until about four am, when some of the stragglers found the trampoline in the preecher's back yard. they quickly climbed the fence and were bouncing away when i found them. i had to yell at them to get the hell out of the guys yard, and they did, except for one drunk guy that HAD to do 'one more trick'. the trampoline was a round one about ten feet in diameter.
he tried to do a front flip, and fuked it up royally... he over rotated and fell foward on the landing, which wouldn't have been a big deal, except that the pad that covers the springs and the metal tubing that was the frame had been removed. he could have hit his face on the tubing, but came up short- and what happened was probably the most screwed-up, terrifying thing i've ever seen. as he fell foward, his head slipped between two of the springs, his chin hooked under the surface of the trampoline, his neck braced against the tubing, and, in slow motion, he continued to rotate foward, past vertical. i was DEAD SURE that i was watching him break his neck and die, but, luckily, his legs fell on the fence, and he was able to suspend himself like that until i could climb over the fence and pull him out. i'd guess that he came within 1% of snapping his neck like a match head... jesus.
i had forgotten about that...
anyone else got some messed up accident stories? i have a few more, but that's the worst that doesn't involve somebody dying.