71 Shocking Moments When Trusting Their Gut Literally Saved Lives—You Won’t Believe #37
It was a f*****g mess. I booked it to the bus depot and stayed out of camden for a couple months. T was fine that night but died a couple months later in other gang s**t. F*****g gang s**t.
As a kid, the torch from the Beijing Olympics was being run through an area near where we lived. We went to a viewing spot where they were holding a barbecue, so there were a lot of people gathered there.
Now it’s important to remember that China was under a lot of scrutiny for human rights a**se. As such, there were a number of pro-China supporters who had brought flags and such to the viewing. The whole thing had a bit of a tense atmosphere, but so far nothing bad happened.
Then, shortly before the torch was due to arrive, a bus-load of anti-China demonstrators rocked up. They started silently walking out holding signs condemning the abuse. And the pro-China crowd absolutely lost it. There was a barricade separating the two groups, and we were between the barricade and the pro-China crowd. I distinctly remember a group of them running towards the barricade throwing water bottles and such, oblivious to the fact that they were about to trample a kid.
My folks and I ran and left the area, watching the torch in a less crowded spot down the road.
Driving a friend home after a group dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings. We pull into friend’s apartment and I notice a car following us. They pull in the apartment and park beside us. We sit a coupe of minutes just talking when I realize the guy in the next car who is alone still hasn’t got out. I told my friend something didn’t feel right. We back out and the car follows us. I knew a bunch of back road and hit those quick enough to lose the guy. One he was gone I took my friend back home and watched her go in safely.
Alabama.
My wife (we were engaged at the time) and I were considering moving there because her dad had his business there and was offering to provide us lodging and jobs to come work for him.
He’s a great guy, but we stayed with his at-the-time business partner who turned out to be a virulent, vocal, unapologetic racist who was also quick to yell at his wife. He also looked like a d**n ogre, which didn’t help. Between him, the food (still scarred by the memory of a Chinese buffet outside of the Muscle Shoals/Florence region…) and the general feel of the place, we both just looked at each other on the second night and agreed we couldn’t do it. We packed our bags that night, and the next morning she feigned illness and we took off as fast as we could. It meant giving up the prospect of easy work and affordable housing, but it was worth it.
At 10th grade our teacher had the subject coordinator or vice principal or principal to have a regular inspection of how she handles her classes.. so this usually means we and the teacher would have to do something out of the ordinary unlike simply in the classroom and have discussions on the lessons. This is Science so, we had to have a lesson with chemicals. To the lab we go. Yay…
Like the usual at first, safty and everything. Lesson starts.. yada yada. This is where I had the “We need to leave now!” moment: she brought some chemicals in.. sulfuric acid and a base which I forgot.
These were the things that bothered me
1. She put the sulfuric acid first in the beaker.. a lot of it. The only other beaker aside from the one holding sulfuric acid.
2. She had forgotten to wear her googles onto her eyes and left it on her head as there was an intoduction to the lesson at first
3. I remembered that some acid / base combinations react violently on some specifications
4. There was no water near around her
5. As she put in the base on the beaker it reacted slow at first but I notice it to start making smoke 5 minutes in.. note that she also put a bit more of it han she should.
While everyone was amazed at the sudden pop of colorful smoke or something, I was watching the beaker closely and gut instinct said that I had to leave the room no matter what. (note I was in front so I am really close) I cannot say that I have to go to the bathroom to leave and I cannot disturb her while she discuss infront as someone at the back (principal of the school) is observing. I ran out of the lab. 10 seconds in and then.. BOOM! Like a gun shoot.
They had to leave the lab and some of those in front had to wash off the sulfuric acid off with water in the rest rooms and at the back of the lab with clean running water. The teacher however suffered some damage to here eyes.. luckily enough none of the sulfuric acid went to here eyes, but some glass shards did.. she was sent to the hospital after she was washed.
I got famous tho.. the guy who run.
Edit: TL;DR
I ran out of an exploding chemical reaction from a lab presentation back at 10th grade. Teacher got her eyes hurt.
Literally just happened this past Friday night-saturday night. Dallas TX. Me and a buddy were out at a club, k**led a bottle of blue. Went to another club, got a bottle of crown and met some new people. They wanted to go to some after party at one of the chicks condo. So me and my boy talked it over because we didn’t know them. We figured, f**k it, we got eachother back. Whole night goes fine, everyone f****d up. Nobody driving home. Whatever. We stay up all the way until Saturday evening. 2 chicks in the bathroom for a minute then they ask one of the other dudes to go in there. I don’t think much of it. None of my d**n business. Assumed it was d**g related. He comes out like maybe 10 minutes later. Doesn’t say s**t, just walks out on the balcony. They ask another dude to go in there. While 2nd dude is in there, first dude says “y’all know whats going on?” I said do i wanna know? He goes, CPS about to take her kids so she asking us to beat her a*s so she can blame the BF. I’m like wtf?! Second dude comes out of the bathroom and he confirms the story. Now every d**n body is looking for their keys and s**t to dip the f**k out. While thats going on I can hear smacks and crying/whimpering coming from the bathroom. Chick got her friend to bust her in the face with a shoe like 30 times. She came out with one of them masks that is like a full pullover covering her face. Said some s**t about how she had just washed her face and looked like s**t. While her eye and cheek were already swelling up. I got the f**k outta there soon as I could. That b***h was crazy.
Double story!
#1: the gun in the park
I used to live in queens. not a bad neighborhood, but not a perfect one either. one time me, my sister, and my stepdad were at the local park playing tag or something. in the distance there were two kids who were arguing about something. then, randomly, out of nowhere, some guy comes up to those kids and pulls a gun on both of them. my stepdad immediately rushed us the f**k out of there, and that was the moment we decided: “we need to move.” luckily, police came and apprehended the guy and no one got hurt.
TL;DR : while at the park, someone pulled a gun.
#2: the bomb in the air vents.
still in queens, I went to an elementary school that, for the most part, was pretty uneventful. one day though, the fire alarm went off. everyone thought it was a drill, but after being rushed out and brought to the nearest church/school thing, and after seeing fire trucks, we all quickly realized that this was the real deal. supposedly someone was smelling bomb fumes and instantly got the kids out of there and called the fire dpt. I’m not sure if there was actually a bomb there or not, but I was definetly scared as f**k. we stayed in the church/school thing until 5, and went home immediately afterwards.
TL;DR : someone smelt a bomb at school and we all dipped.
We lived out in the country in backwoods Missouri. We had very few neighbors and they weren’t within walking distance, nor was it walking distance from town. Our rental house was an old historic farmhouse.
I was home alone and was showering upstairs. The stairs led directly into the master suite and were old, hardwood, and creaky. The bathroom itself was directly over the front door and you could hear the front door open and close while in the shower.
