Adventures
Well, not many people would have jumped. But I did. This past week I went hiking through the painted desert out in New Mexico. Being the strong-headed, arrogant hole that I am, I went out without checking the weather reports or local news, or anything. Having never been out there before, I also didn't know that the lack of other hikers should have been strange to me. So I'm out there exploring and it gets dark real quick. It starts raining and I start panicking. I'm running around trying to find high ground and not get turned around and I come across these guys moving crates from one truck to another. I tried to quietly remove myself but I must've been seen because I heard a lot of yelling and then a couple pops, so I just started booking it. They come after me with the trucks and I'm hiding behind boulders and shrubs and whatever. I saw this building a ways off and that's gonna be my only chance so I wait for them to pass me again and I make a run for it. Yeah, that didn't work. One of the trucks pulls up next to me and this guy with a beard leans out and tries to take aim on me with some rifle, but their bouncing all over the place so he let's a burst go and I'm near crapping myself because I realize he's shooting at me with an m-16. I take a hard right,all I see is nothing, but what else am I gonna do? So I'm running and their slowing down to get a better shot probably and suddenly I see this pit in front of me. It's these ravines that are formed by rains just like this one. I look around to see how far they are and both trucks are creeping in on me. They got me in their headlights and I hear someone yelling something. I hear someone say "shoot him" or something and I just reflexively jumped into the ravine. Yeah, that's not like a river at all. I kept getting sucked under and scraping across the rocks. I must have blacked out or something because I woke up with the sun in my eyes and me half-buried in a quickly drying mudhole. My leg was broken in two places and my left wrist doesn't work anymore (the doctor I saw said the tendons all snapped, I'm going to go find out about surgery on Monday). That was hell of its own having to dig myself out of there and drag myself in circles until some hikers found me.
Getting shot at wasn't like I thought it'd be. It didn't register until I was in the emergency room.
I was shot at.
Getting shot at wasn't like I thought it'd be. It didn't register until I was in the emergency room.
I was shot at.