Ever get out of any tight jams using your alertness, wits and intuition? I'm not talking about cutting your arm off because it's pinned by a boulder and your water is gone, more like getting the hell out of the house undetected as everyone else is being busted for marijuana possession, minor in possession of alcohol, etc.

When I was 17, I was at a major school party at some kids house (whose parents were gone on vacation of course) which was busted. I happened to be seated in the living room glancing out the window at just the right time to notice some vehicles pull up down the street which looked out of the norm. Nobody would listen to me when I said I had a bad feeling- even if they could understand me over the blaring music and fog of pot smoke. I knew I had about 60 seconds to get out of there before it was too late. I knew going out the back door wasn't a viable option. I went to a back bedroom, kicked the screen out of the window, slid down between the house and some shrubs and crawled over to the corner of the property. I could already hear the radio chatter coming from the cops who were moving in all directions towards the house. I looked around knowing I had one chance and one chance only. Then I stood up and ran as fast as I could for as long as I could, straight through backyards and over fences until I was about 2 miles away. Then I borrowed a bicycle :D and rode home. Everyone at that party basically went to jail.

My parents remarked the next afternoon how proud they were I wasn't involved in that affair and how embarassed so-n-so's parents were to have to pick their son/daughter up at the cop shop.... I still get pangs of guilt but I guess I eventually will get over it.:p

woowh. well done bridge. intelligent thinking. :)

good shit dude...you should be in the cia with escapes like that :D lol.

ummm.. does laying on the living room floor under a blanket between couches until the cops go away count? not quite the same situation though...

maybe you should have told your friends that you saw some suspicious looking vehicles and that they might be cops instead of telling them about your feelings. jmo(just my opinion)

I dont know if this qualifies, but I once saw an old lady start to fall on the escalator, and without thinking bounded from the down escalator that I was on, to the the up escalator she was on and caught her.

I remember being really proud I had instincts, and they were pretty good too :D

^Go superman

-little voice from somewhere unknown- ..help save me..

hehehe.

im not really poking fun, id love to have instincts like that. or maybe i wouldn't becuase i would always feel guilty if i didnt follow them.

I saw that my 4 year old neighbor was edgy so i took his Oreo cookies and waved them in front of his face...i knew he was going to cry and he did... i am sorry i know that's nothing to be proud of but i couldn't stop laughing.:(

*stares at Bridge in amazement*

Impressive! I must say that you are very perceptive.

And it was probably a good idea that you didn't warn your 'friends'. The more people with you, the more easily noticed you are!

Don't feel guilty. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. Your friends chose to go to that party and screw up. I am surprised that your friends would go to jail, though.

Oh, and can you repeat this on tape? It would be great material that I could use to blackm... errr, yeahhh. :D

I have gotten out of a few tight jams with some brilliant lies (brilliant because no one ever discovered I had lied :D)

Originally posted by shutupandshave
I dont know if this qualifies, but I once saw an old lady start to fall on the escalator, and without thinking bounded from the down escalator that I was on, to the the up escalator she was on and caught her.
hehe
I just know I would have let her fall, I would have loved every second too, I'm sick like that.

I made a miraculous escape like yours bridge but not the same intuitive aspect, cops actually knocked on the door at a party and yelled "police open up!" and heaps of us just got up and sprinted out the back yard.
Behind the house was like a full on jungle going up a mountain and we were all hiding in it in the bushes as the cops stood in this chicks back yard and shined spotlights up the mountain trying to find us. Heaps of people got caught, these cops were pretty good, one came so close to me and just turned around when he was a few yards from walking on my legs and then I army crawled through these bushes and sprinted up and over the mountain to the other side where there was a pretty steep wall going down to a road, I had to scale down that and then I just walked home.
All this while really fucking drunk and stoned I might add. I was so freaking exhausted afterwards.

It turned out to be a huge waste of effort though because one of my friends just stayed in the house and all the cops did was tell him to go home, Smartass:mad:

Lucky, Lucky . . . :)

Originally posted by Bridge
Ever get out of any tight jams using your alertness, wits and intuition?

Throughout the entire span of my teens and twenties.

Originally posted by one_raven
Throughout the entire span of my teens and twenties.

...what I was thinking... and my next thought:

THE WAY IT SHOULD BE!

You're not the guy who used to post as The Raven in Houston during the 1980s were you?

Thats a kick ass story...i have one very similar to yours.....i would comment but it places me on state property:D ........lets just say this......security guards......abandonedsomthing(use your imagination).....being chased down long, long, dark tunnel.....busting out...treading through swamp....speeding away......great fircking time!!!:D