Real People Who Truly Dodged a Bullet

Have you ever just barely escaped tragedy by the skin of your teeth? Ever been inches from a big mistake and managed to avert catastrophe at the last second? These people have. Here are some true stories of real life times when people dodged bullets and just barely avoided big trouble.

Staying Put

I was about 11 and my dad wanted me to come along with him to pick up some furniture about 30 minutes away.

I made a huge stink about it, basically being an annoying little male adolescent turd, saying how I wanted to stay at home and play, I’d be really good, it was boring, etc.

He finally got fed up and stormed out and told me to STAY PUT and he’d back soon. About an hour later, he comes home in a police car, pretty shaken up, and just reached over and hugged me hard.

Turns out that he was driving down the highway and traffic got busy ahead, and this semi truck in the lane over tried to stop too late and jack-knifed.

When it was coming to a stop from swerving all over the road, it fell over on the passenger side of the car, right where I would have been if I had gone along with him. The car was totaled (obviously), with the entire passenger side crushed down flat. Actually, he was lucky HE made it out alive.

He never made another big deal about me coming along if I really said I didn’t want to go. Story credit: Reddit / bbergman1

Gremlin Guardian Angel

There were a few days where all my appliances were breaking down. First the clothes washer, then the air conditioner, then the dishwasher.

Then one morning, before leaving for work, the refrigerator stopped cooling. I was in a terrible mood on my commute to work, and then I had a flat tire in the middle of rush hour traffic.

I pulled over to the shoulder. Normally I would have got out immediately and started changing it – I can change a tire in 5 minutes, it wouldn’t have even made me late, but everything breaking in the days leading up to this flat had me defeated.

I rested my head on the steering wheel a few seconds and said out loud “why me” when, almost as an answer, I was hit from behind.

Traffic has slowed because of my pulling over, and an ambulance driver transporting a patient between hospitals decided to go around the traffic by driving in the breakdown lane.

Damage to my vehicle was minor, but if it had been any other day I would have been taking my jack and spare out at that moment and been crushed between my car and the ambulance.

Everything worked out great. I got a 5 figure settlement from the ambulance company as they were clearly at fault hitting a car in the breakdown lane (it was a non-emergency transportation of a patient.).

And when I got home that day, all the appliances were miraculously working again. Story credit: Reddit / MarkHirsbrunner

Cross That Bridge When You Come To It

I was once the last person to cross a bridge before it fell….looked in my rear view to see what the noise was to see open air where there shouldve been road…and some white faced people who were just about to cross as well.

Story credit: Reddit / Dazzling-Role-1686

The Bat Man

I was bullied pretty badly in middle school by this one kid. Before I could finish 7th grade, my parents and I moved to another state. On my last day in middle school, the kid who bullied me was unusually nice to me.

Found out after my last day in middle school in that town that my bully beat a teacher with a metal baseball bat.

Apparently he was gunning for me, and got frustrated that I didn’t show up and decided to just take it out on a teacher. Last I heard, he went to Juvie for that.

Story credit: Reddit / YoureInMyWaySir