DANGEROUS CONTEST by Erica Whitley

Mrs. Whitley

erica_whitley — 2014-05-22 11:46:05 UTC

When I was in college, I did something dangerous when I was driving. I took my eyes off the road. Yes, I did. I was going around a bend, and my camera started falling off the seat. I reached down to steady my camera, and in doing so, I lost control of my car. It skidded off the road, and it's wheels caught in the trench. My car flipped end over end, smashing all four tires and breaking out every window except the front windshield. The top of my car was crunched down except for a space right over the driver's seat, as if my personal angel held the top of the car up just over my head. I was able to climb out the driver's side window, since it was no longer there. I was miraculously okay. I did faint a half an hour later, very dramatically, into the arms of my boyfriend.

Kiana Beltran

2014-05-22 12:08:21 UTC

When i was little i wanted to go out side and play with my neighbors in their pool but my mom said no and I got sent to my room because I threw a temper tantrum . and The neighbors pool was on the side of my house in the alley way so i jumped out the side window into the pool. I landed more towards the side that in the middle . but i made it.

Sarah

2014-05-22 12:10:09 UTC

When i was 14 years old and lived back in Massachusetts me and my brother were driving to go to our Doctors appointment and he ended up falling asleep at the wheel of the car and we ended up hitting the Guardrail on one side of the street and then we went over to the other side and just lightly touched the other Guardrail and then came to a stop.

Kristina

2014-05-22 12:07:17 UTC

When I was little I went to the pet store and said i wanted to see a spider. So...they took the spider out and it freaked out and fell on me. The couldnt catch it it ended up biting me and I had to go to the hospital. after they got it off me. It's been 5 years since that day but i got used to spiders and now have one as a pet :)

austin

2014-05-22 12:07:37 UTC

i was with my dad working on a house and we were just fixing it up for some people and i was talking to there son and there guard dog attacked me and it took a chunk out of my pointer finger luckily my dad was there to kick the dog off me and so my dad took me to the hospital and i got six stiches on my hand

shaheed

2014-05-22 12:07:28 UTC

one of my most dangerous experiences is when i when to the beach and it had rained the day before so no one was really there and it still looked like it was going to pour. but i didn't really care because i loved the beach at the time so me not listing i went ahead of everybody and jumped in the water thinking i was cool wit my spider-man float suit ended up getting pulled deep into the water and i didn't know how to swim so i was drowning and there was barely anyone around so i'm like half way under water creaming for help so my dad seen i was out there and he ran to the water and jumped in and garbed me out just in time so we didn't even stay at the beach we end up just cool-in at a resturant not to far from the beach

Tierney Yellets

2014-05-22 12:09:16 UTC

I think one of the worst experiences I've had is when I was little I was riding a bike with only 2 wheels and the other two were off and i turned a corner and I fell right on my head I was rushed to the hospital and I had to get 3 stitches. It was one of the worst exeriences as I was little.

sx

2014-05-22 12:07:02 UTC

Matt

2014-05-22 12:06:53 UTC

When I was in the 8th grade, I did the stupidest things ever, like where I chose to play...dodge car, dodge car is where you run in the street dodging cars while they are driving during the highway, while me doing this stupid stunt, I was yelled and hollered at by the drivers, while they are driving one stopped and called the police, after the police arrived I ran as far as I could and hid in some bushes, the cop was still looking for me when I saw the cop drive by, I ran towards my house, which was 20 minutes away, after I got home, I realized that there was blood on my foot, I don't know how my foot was bleeding, but it was,I just went to my room bandaged my foot and went to sleep after that scary but funny day.

Mrs. Whitley

erica_whitley — 2014-05-22 12:11:06 UTC

It was a dangerous decision to go camping for the weekend on Hawk Mountain. I didn't stop to think why there were so many hawks. I found out. We loaded our VW bus, nicknamed "The Bread Loaf" due to the brown and orange paint job, full of camping gear and high school students, and headed for the mountain. When we arrived, it was dark. Using flashlights, we navigated to treacherous trail, and made our way towards the top. We found a clearing for our campsite on top of the mountain, near to a cascading cliff rock ledge. We spread out tarps and sleeping bags to sleep under the stars. In our group of twenty individuals, we had only one tent. Soon we had a "rip-snorter" going to roast marshmallows and hot dogs. We stuffed our faces, and sang along to campfire songs, oblivious of the lurking danger below. Slithering and slurking behind us, a copperhead snake made his debut through our camp, promptly changing our laughter into shrieking fear. Somehow, we survived the night, but at the first light of dawn, the crack in the rocks below revealed a bed of copperheads just feet below the surface of where we camped for the night. We high-tailed it out of there as fast as our legs could take us.

Mr. Grisafi

jjgrisafi — 2014-05-22 12:12:36 UTC

In the Spring of 2000 my best friend and I were camping in national parks across America as he drove me out west to live in California. My dangerous experience occurred in Yellowstone National park. We wanted to do some back country camping in a particularly beautiful corner of the park which had several mama and baby grizzly bear sightings recently. In order to get a permit to camp we had to sit through a 30 minute instructional video with a park ranger that taught us how to handle encounters with bears. In the parking lot there was a 1-ton buffalo roaming around. They seem nice until they change their mind and decide to charge. At the trail-head there was brightly colored sign indicating that this was a bear frequenting area. As we were walking down the trail on the lookout for bears we saw a massive bull moose that was staring us down. Needless to say we took an extremely wide path around this majestic but volatile creature. We didn't see any bear that day, but that night, as we stepped out into the meadow to fetch some water to put out our campfire, we heard the howling of at least three different wolves! Theses were definitely not coyotes! We heard and saw them in several other parks throughout the week. This was a much deeper and more pronounced HOWL that only a wolf would make. We immediately returned to our tent were we slept with our axes in our hands ...just in case. The wolves didn't bother us anymore that night, but another camper on the other side of the meadow told us that our friend, Mr. Moose, was about 10-yards away from our tent for about 30 minutes that morning!!!

Tyler G.

2014-05-22 12:08:11 UTC

I was moving blocks of wood at my cabin in the Poconos when all of a sudden a snake latched on to me. I immediately just stood still for about 2 minutes. Then I started to feel lots of pain, then all of a sudden. they let go, The next afternoon, I was shooting archery, and all I heard was a scream from the outside shower. I immediately looked in the back of the cabin, and there was my sister's friend running around the house butt naked. Then I turned around and she was running to the woods with a bear the size of about two tractors running after her. I immediately ran towards the bear, and I picked up a gun from a nearby wood stock circle. Then all of a sudden, my brother-in-law came from behind me and took the gun. I came with him to chase the bear. Then all of a sudden, I took a cut into the woods, and the Bear jumped out on his two hind legs, and tried to maul me. Then the bear took charge at my brother-in-law, but he dodged it, and somehow and it was a surprising move, and my brother-in-law shot it.