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Almost murdered: The harrowing tale of one Lions player's trip to Haiti

ALLEN PARK -- What would you think about if you were about to die?

Lions tight end Hakeem Valles was sitting there, hogtied on the floor of some backwoods house in Haiti. He was blindfolded. All he could hear was screaming and screaming and oh my God so much screaming. But he couldn't understand any of it. They were speaking -- screaming -- in Creole. He heard gunshots. He peed his pants. He thought he was going to die.

"I thought that was it, man," Valles said. "My life flashed before my eyes. It was (bleeping) crazy, man.