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Has anyone here ever been shot? How about shot at?

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I got shot but didn't die.

I got shot 5 times but I'm still breathin'
Livin proof theres a god if you need a reason.

 
Originally posted by: Captante
Been shot numerous times with BB & pellet guns, once hit with rock salt from a shotgun while trespassing on a farm riding dirt-bikes, had several hand-guns pointed in my face by street drug dealers & was shot at once after ripping off drugs from a street-dealer (he missed), & had cops mistakenly pull guns on me a couple times as well.

All of this happened roughly 25 years ago when I was a total lunatic... closest I've come recently is target practice at a rifle range.

How did you rip off the street dealers?
 
Well, when I was in college I was hanging out with a bunch of friends in downtown Burlington, VT, in the old North-end (the ghetto part of town, kind of), and somebody took some potshots at the house we were at. Can't say they were directed at us, but one of them hit the house about 7 feet away from where we were standing on the porch.

Also, I was dating this girl whose dad was....protective, to say the least. He caught me up in her room one night, and I had to go out the window onto the roof of their porch, and took off into the woods. I didn't hear anything, but she told me the next day that he had grabbed his shotgun and fired at me.
 
Been chased by a bunch of drunks when we were in high school.. these guys were probably 20 and having a bonfire up on some deserted land, where an asylum once existed.. we were up there to have a few brews.. instead we decided to sneak through the woods and see what was up with these other guys.. they heard us, and were not happy.. chased us.. I heard a couple shotgun blasts, probably into the air, but who knows. Thank God that thick pine forests are PITCH DARK because I just hid by a tree, not far from a path they were walking on.. I heard them dangling some chains too, telling us to come out. and then eventually one of my friends was able to get ahold of the cops who came up there, and got on the speaker telling us it was ok to come out.

Haha.. I still remember that night.. and seeing one of the guys in the back of the cop car and one cop telling another "we found numnutz over there with a ratchet".
 
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