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Saw the post asking people for mising their plane stories and made me wonder if peoples lives where saved by missing some event so here I am asking

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I guess it didn't necessarily save my life, but I decided not to go to a party where the host was shot in the head by some random gang bangers who showed up. Victim was a friend of mine and invited me. I didn't feel like going out tho. He didn't even die. But he wasn't really the same person after that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A similar situation myself, I was supposed to go see a concert at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio in 2004, but backed out because I was a senior in high school and my parents refused to let me skip school on a Thursday to go to a concert 2hrs away on a Wednesday night.
There was a shooting that night that killed Dimebag Darrell.