Redditors, when have you truly feared for your life?

I was 13, my friends and I had snuck out of the house we were staying at around 11pm after Mt friends parents fell asleep. We walked to the service station and bought some energy drinks and then walked to the park, talking and just mucking around late at night.

As we sat in a dark spot in the park, we saw a van pull up in the car park, the door slid open and about 8 older people jumped out. They started a fire in a bin with a bunch of sticks and leaves, as we watched on from the shadows, they then pulled out a bag and what looked like needles. I thought to myself "fuck this noise" and motioned to my friends that we should leave. As we all silently agree to bail, one of my friends falls over a tree root, crashing to the ground and making a loud noise, like something out of a shitty horror movie.

Immediately the group looked at us as we looked at them, they dropped everything and started running at us, one of them threw a glass bottle of beer that landed at my feet and shattered. I picked my friend up and we legged it separate ways but the group focused on me and ran me down (junkies can be fast). They dragged me back to the fire and the whole time I was thrashing and fighting but I couldn't do anything to 6 (young) adults restraining me. All I could think of was what they might do to me and those needles and not wanting to touch them.

As I am pushed next to the fire the lead guy holds me down, holding a burning stick and waving it at my face, his hand around my throat and he says "you know what I'm about to do to you?" with his friends behind him, looking down at me. I let out a nervous "what?" and after about 10 long seconds of intimidating me he says "nothing" and let's me go. I absolutely fucking ran like my life depended on it, my legs barely able to function under such anxiety, and as I was running past some bushes my friends grabbed me from out of them. I gave them hell for not coming to help me because I absolutely would have done something for them, but ultimately I couldnt blame them because it was scary as fuck.

I never reported it to the police because that would involve telling my parents/our friends parents that we snuck out at night

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