The Biggest Bullets People Ever Dodged

Sometimes, we truly never know how lucky we are.

Particularly when we might be disappointed to have missed out on something, only to learn after the fact that it was something of a miracle we did.

As the saying goes, we "dodged a bullet".

This could be for something trivial, like being late for a concert owing to traffic, only to find out it was a real stinker, or having to cancel a trip, only to discover how terrible the weather was the whole time you would have been there.

In other cases, the bullet you dodged may have been an actual life or death situation.


Redditor LegitimateShift8 was curious to hear the times when people thank heaven and earth that the managed to dodge a bullet, leading them to ask:
"What was the biggest bullet you dodged?"

Miracle Survival!

"My dad was a truck driver in the oilfield in Canada."

"He worked a lot of long hours and every single day."

"So on weekends he would bring me and my younger brother on some of his jobs."

"We were on location and my little brother, 3 yrs, and me, 10 yrs, were waiting for him playing in cab of truck."

"My little brother opened the passenger door and my little arms closed it."

"Jobs done, we start our trek home going about 35 km/hr and the door flies open and I get sucked out of truck."

"I remember doing about 10 back flips as I tumbled out."

"Hitting the ground on my back a few times and rolling my way to a stop."

"I stood up before the truck was even stopped in absolute shock."

"Next thing I see my dad looking for me and he burst into tears."

"First time I ever seen him cry."

"I’m 33 now and he still won’t talk to me about it."

"Luckily the rig was in a farmers field."

"So when we were leaving I landed on softer dirt."

"Not a single scratch on me."

"Dad thought he ran over me with trailer."

"Don’t think we ever went to work with dad again."

"I work for the company now."- Paydayson

Near Kidnapping

"Years ago I lived in Vancouver and liked to go for long walks, beautiful city to do so."

"I was heading to a friends first to drop something off and and cut through a neighborhood with a lot of south east asian immigrants, the ones I got to talk to were mostly from Vietnam."

"I was aware of a van behind me but it was mid day and there were people out, so it was only a passing thought."

"A lady was working in her garden and as I approached her house she started to look behind me."

"Then she came out onto the side walk and started talking to me in her native language."

"I understood none of it but her body language was agitated."

"She kept gesturing to me to come with her up their walkway."

"As I looked behind me I see three men getting out of the van, which is now parked just behind me."

"By this point the woman has a good grip on my arm and and has me dragged almost to her porch."

"She kept talking to me and pointing to stuff in her garden and i just listened, nodded, and kept a good eye on the men and van."

"I don't remember how long we were there but the men finally left."

"Both myself and the woman let out huge sighs of relief."

"She then patted me on the arm, said something, and then went back to her gardening."

"I booted it to my friends house."

"On the news the next day was the story of a woman who was kidnapped."

"The victim was grabbed on the next street over from the woman's house, not long after my encounter with her, by 5 men in a van."

"The men were distinctive and the description of the men and van fit the ones I had see."

"That woman saved me from something horrible and I am forever thankful."- grainia99

Near Fatal Illness

:A few years ago I had pneumonia, but my whole family insisted that it was just post nasal drip, which runs in the family."

"After a week or two I woke up in the middle of the night when I couldn't feel my arm."

"After I got to the ER the doctor said that it was the worst he'd ever seen and he was surprised I wasn't dead."

"I had 3 lbs of mucus cut out of my lungs and another two weeks in the hospital siphoning out the rest."

"For three months afterwards I could barely walk half a mile without starting to pass out and I still can't run for more than 200-300 yards without collapsing."- Deadthrow742

Near Fatal Collision

"Around 30,000 pounds."

"I was driving with my wife in town one snowy evening and we had pulled up to a stop light."

"I happened to glance up at the rear view mirror and saw a city bus heading towards us."

"And rotating sideways."

"I hit the gas and pulled ahead into the intersection and left into the turning lane, and less than a second later, the bus went sliding through right where our car was."

"It came to a stop on the other side of the intersection and fortunately didn't hit anything, but one second or two feet difference and we would've had some nice spinal injuries."- LackingUtility

Barely Safe Landing

"Many years ago, my flight had just landed at Chicago O'hare and the plane was taxiing when the pilot suddenly slammed on the brakes."

"People were literally thrown forward against the seat in front of them."

"A few seconds later, another plane, taking off I think, went screaming by right in front of us."

"No explanation was given, though our imaginations provided a lot of gory details."- khendron

Timing Is everything

"Not changing jobs in early 2020."

"Would have been a short lived promotion after early restructuring and layoffs."- LegallyBodacious

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It's never helpful to look back with regret.

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