Kris Dunn and Doug McDermott <| sep |> Thanks for the suggestion . Pennsylvania . I know there is the whole Castle Law thing I think ? but that could possibly open up a whole can of worms with legal issues . Trust me , I ' ve thought about it though . <| sep |> The closest I ever came to death was a few years ago while camping . It ' s a long story so stick with me . My wife and I aren ' t avid campers or anything but we ' re on a road trip and wanted to save money so we picked up a tent , some basic gear and left Boston headed west . We stopped at a campground west of Pittsburgh and set up shop . We ' re both really into star gazing and we ' re excited to finally get a chance to see some good stuff , being that far in the middle of nowhere , but unfortunately it was cloudy and overcast the whole night and we didn ' t see squat . About 2 am the first night we were there , I got up and had to pee and about halfway to the public bathroom , got lazy and just peed on the nearest tree . Right when I was done , I noticed the tree looked kinda scratched up but didn ' t think anything of it at the time . I walked back to the tent and as soon as I layed down , a bolt of lighting and a clap of thunder woke my wife up , who is deathly afraid of lightning . So now we ' re both up and I ' m trying to convince her that we ' re safe in the tent and won ' t get struck by lightning . Just then , we hear the most ferocious , loud , aggressive ROAR I have ever heard in my life just outside our tent . It was at this point where I realized that scratched up tree sorta reminded me of our cats scratch post and we were right in the middle of mountain lion country . Then I realize I was armed with only my stupid 4 inch Bear Grills switch blade knife I got at Target and the only thing between me and that mountain lion was a thin polyester tent . So with my wife freaking out about the lightening and the mountain lion and me only freaking out about the lion , I decide the only way we ' re surviving this night is if we book it for the car and sleep there . I slowly open the tent , don ' t see any lion , and we b line to the car safely . At this point the thunder and lightening is starting the pick up and my wife and still freaking out , so we decide to look up the nearest hotel on my phone and just drive there . Luckily we found one like 10 miles away , but being as though this is mountainous farm country , the GPS said it would take us at least a half hour . Now we ' re driving through country back roads , in a lightening storm with bolts hitting in open fields a just yards away from the road , up and down mega hills , literally dodging fallen branches at 3 am as the rain really picks up . We got to the hotel around 4 am and got a sleep a few hours after we calmed down and before checkout time . When we got back to the camp site the next day , we realized the tree about 5 fey away from our tent was also scratched up so evidently we were sleeping in the middle of this cats living room . Tldr I was almost mauled by a mountain lion , struck by lightening or died in a car crash one time .