Note: personal experience with no witnesses (fortunately) or other corroborating evidence and loooong ago, about 40 years or so.

(I Can no longer participate in the main event now as I have a daughter already. Do you vet all stories for surviving children? because then they failed to remove themselves from the gene-pool... in time!)

I had acquired a bow and some metal (tip & shaft) arrows to go with it. Guess I was about 18 yo as I went "hunting" but I was an awful shot. So I tried something else instead: shooting up into the air so I could easily recover my expensive arrows! Must have been the 3rd or 4th shot, it went up and ... first I did not see anything coming down. Then a tiny DOT, so I guessed it was time to move. I actually found the arrow between my footprints in the sand.. I was real close to giving myself a metal spine I guess.

Maybe it should have been a red flag or something: I stopped my archery practice after this literal near-miss but came up with other interesting ways to nearly die a few more times.

Submitted on 06/18/2011

Submitted by: francis
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James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
We have a category for Personal Accounts, of which yours is highly amusing!! Sounds like a gag right out the old Mel Brooks movie "Men in Tights"! Thanks, Francis!

Candi said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
LOL! This was hilarious!

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