JONNY GOMES HAS ALMOST DIED 5 TIMES: *** The following 5 paragraphs are the rightful property of WEEI and Rob Bradfords blog on 06.07.2013 *** The first incident came during Gomes’ freshman year of high school, when a candle tipped over, merged with the fluid inside a nearby lighter and set the sleeping bag the youngster was sleeping in on fire. The nylon material instantly started sticking to Gomes’ skin, trapping him inside the bag for a brief while before he could wrestle himself free. A year later, on Memorial Day weekend, Gomes was involved in a severe car crash that killed one of his best friends, Adam Westcott. It also put Gomes in the hospital for two days while limiting the 16-year-old’s ability to walk for a short time. His senior year of high school, Gomes was camping with some friends when, as he describes it, “an old, crazy moonshiner lit us up with a bunch of rounds out of a shotgun.” He managed to avoid harm by ducking behind a car, and scurrying away. Christmas Eve in 2002 came perhaps the most well-publicized of Gomes’ near-death experiences, a heart attack. It warranted a trip to the hospital, with one of the three arteries that leads to the heart having been pinched. And, finally, came a run-in with a wolf owned by a man who was helping tend to Gomes’ grandmother’s property. “It was 100 percent wolf,” he remembered. “It went right at me.”
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 02:44:51 +0000
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