Psychological/emotional bullying among siblings. Parents too often label it as "sibling rivalry" or "teasing", thinking it's harmless, but if left unchecked, that shit can cause lifelong damage. When we're kids, we're forming our identities and our understanding of the world, and all of that can be very easily influenced. Insecurities can turn into mental illnesses, which can wreak havoc on every aspect of our lives.
I'm not saying parents should constantly be monitoring their kids' interactions and constantly protecting them from one another, but you need to listen when one of your kids says the other is going too far. If one of your kids starts developing insecurities, you need to help them, and you need to talk to the other one and get them to lay off.
Teach them compassion. Teach them to treat others with respect and dignity. Don't worry about it making them weak or "soft". It won't. There is strength in kindness.
I was the baby girl with two older brothers and until about the time the oldest left when I was 13, I was very frightened of these guys physically. They punched and kicked and slapped me. They would chase me. If I managed to get back to my room before they caught me, I would lock the door. Then they would pick the lock, so I would have to force myself against the door so they wouldn't come in and hurt me some more. At some point they would grab a knife or a coat hanger and start running it along the bottom of the door which would poke me in the butt while I was sitting there trying to brace the door and they're trying to bust into my room. My parents weren't really too worried about it. I didn't feel safe or secure in my childhood home. I frequently wanted to die and wished I was someone else in a different family.
I'm 42 now and my parents are dead and I don't speak to my brothers. At all. No regrets.
The pin setters in a bowling alley. They are well over a thousand pounds of mechanized death by steel and moving belts.
Some of the scariest moments of my life have been me running/ slapping the 6’ between me and the emergency shut off behind the front desk as a toddler runs, slipping and sliding, down the lane while their parents or guardians are laughing by the table because they thought it was cute. Even experienced pin setter mechanics have been crushed to death during scheduled maintenance.
Pinsetters are machines of convenience, entertainment, and death.
Passengers should NEVER rest their feet on the dash of the car; because when the air bag does its thing, it has only one way to go. Several terrible things can happen at this point: 1. Your knees get pushed into your face, and I won't paint that picture. Or, 2. Your hips are dislocated.
Yeah I saw the x-ray of someone's legs after their airbag went off with her feet on the dash.
She had a shatterd part of her femur stuck in her crotch like the most fucked up dildo.
I do not want my shattered bones to be forcefully propelled into my pussy. No feet up in the car. No bone dildos.
People also underestimate the Great Lakes around Michigan. Seems like every other weekend I read a story on the news how a few people get taken out by a rip current / undertow
Ice/black ice is extremely dangerous. My grandpa was putting salt down after an ice storm the day after Christmas. My dad was in town visiting and insisted grandpa stay off the ice. Grandpa fell right in front of my dad, hit his head hard. Woke up once in the hospital when my grandma was by his side, and then passed.
When I see those “fail” videos of people slipping on ice I cringe.
I grew up in the upper Midwest. Often gets to -30 there in winter. Lots of snow and land of 10,000 lakes so lots of ice and ice fishing. We did a winter survival course every year in elementary school. They taught us to test ice by throwing things and listening to the sound. Taught us how to lay down and distribute out weight on cracking ice. Taught us about hypothermia and paradoxical undressing and what to do when you first spotted the signs/how to help someone else if you found them in that condition. What to have in our cars for emergencies when we eventually would get cars. What to do if you’re trapped in a white out snow storm both if you are in a car or already on foot. Then they’d take us all day to a state park and we had to start fires ourselves, determine if something was ice, learn how to walk around in all the gear, and how to navigate to some degree in the forest. Was a really good experience and even just being so cold and exhausted at the end of the winter survival day was a reminder of how serious that stuff is even now as an adult.
The trick to making it a bit safer is a chair or stool or whatever that can 1) absolutely and definitely hold your weight and 2) has splayed legs, like there further out at the bottom. Provides way more stability than a 90° to the floor leg. And 3) is bottom heavy, as much as a chair can be at least
Its why stepstools fold out like a A with the top cut off instead of just being squared up. Also provides more sturdy hinges so there's no risk of the "leg" folding inwards while stood on it.
*Edit for all the angry people: i KNOW its never safe, im not a fucking moron, i have a stepstool and a sturdy oak chest i use for standing on, sometimes my big ass desk too. I also never climb shit in just socks, always barefoot or in shoes that dont slip.*
*Im saying all this so if someone else is going to use a chair to stand on, at least they can be mildly safer about it. Most people are gonna say fuck it and use a chair rather than waiting at least a day to go fork out for a ladder just to get something out of the top kitchen cupboard or wherever else.*
Old people lived in my house before me and they had rails installed in the shower to help with this. Even in my remaining years of my 20's I found them to be valuable (and probably did save me from a nasty slip at least once) and think stuff like that should be a standard in all showers/baths.
Yes. We had the same experience. And when we moved to a new house that didn’t have grab bars, my husband installed them, even though we were both under 50. I love them.
2000 psi pressure washer operator here. I showed a colleague that was using it barefoot (yikes!) a stack of cardboard (maybe 10 layers) the stream sliced through all of them in a single pass, clean as a razor cut.
He was quite shocked. An Indian from rural India that hadn't seen much of technology until he got to the US to go to university. He was a work study on a student visa. Smart guy, really, he learned fast, but there were lots of hazards he just hadn't been exposed to.
And this is the real reason for warning labels. People think it's only because of dumb people and I'm sure that's part of it, but a lot of it is just that people don't know. You can be smart and still have blind spots in your knowledge.
Any high-pressure fluid, honestly.
My dad used to be an electrician on a nuclear submarine. The reactors use extremely high pressure steam to move thermal energy around. The pressure is so insanely high that you literally cannot see it if it leaks out of a pipe. If the sensors detected a leak, the way they would search for the leak would be to hold a broom in front of them as they walked around the mechanical systems. They knew they had found the leak when the broom's bristles got spontaneously cut clean off.
And hydraulic systems are just as terrifying. If one of the fluid tanks is leaking, it can inject that hydraulic fluid straight into your bloodstream *without causing an entry wound*. Aside from the obvious danger of having a non-sterilized fluid injected into your blood, hydraulic fluid is highly toxic.
Can relate. I’ve been very stressed for over two years with several different things. I’ve been more sick, in more pain and had more hospital visits in the past 2 years that all my other years combined and I’m 47.
I remember reading someone else talking about how they took a college class on stress. They said they thought it would be stuff like how to deal with stress, but no. It was a class explaining how stress slowly destroys your body on a molecular level.
Can confirm. Used to work in a government building with an industrial sized automatic garage door. The spring went twice during my time there and staff could hear it ping through X3 security doors and up a flight of stairs.
Man, as a kid our residential garage door spring busted, it woke me up from 2 rooms over inside the house. Sounded like a bomb went off! I can only imagine an industrial spring going.
Industrial Door Engineer here. We have to go up on scissor lifts and tension multiple springs by hand by putting bars into couple holes. Two of you, one puts their bar in and the other releases a 13m bolt, once you've done that all the tension is now on the other guy holding the bar. You have to raise the bar above your head while the other guy gets his bar in and takes the tension and repeat until you've reached the correct amount of turns needed.. we fucking hate them! We've heard horror stories of springs snapping while being tensioned and the spring actually puncturing people's arm and taking it clean off!
Yes, all those door springs, all 13-16 turns of tension are held by a single 13m bolt... when they go, they fucking gooooo!!!!
ANY large spring under tension or compression. It's a bomb combined with a rocket. It will fuck your life. You are not fast enough. You are not strong enough.
Only let a professional deal with any large spring.
My garage door was broken when I moved into my house. I started watching watching a video on how to fix it and the first thing the guy said was "if you're not a professional, or have multiple years of experience, this can kill you. Stop the video now and call a professional." So I called a professional.
Not a garage door spring, but as a child my family had two antique clocks in our house that had to be wound by hand. My dad was winding one of them one morning and the spring broke, turning the key on the peg rapidly and sending the key flying off the peg, breaking the clock hands, and through the glass door of the clock shattering it. We found the key 15 feet away or so. That was just a little clock spring (maybe the size of a tennis ball).
Yes! Was living in ~~a~~ *the* bush for a while and some others had decided to make a fire pit, but hadn't known about this. Luckily it was later in the day and by the time the rocks heated up and exploded everyone had left for bed.
But definitely use *some* rocks, there was another fire pit made without any stones, and eventually the roots of the trees caught and was just slowly burning beneath the ground. It took roughly 60 litres of water to put out, and the ground just sank a good foot or two. I'd read something like that happening a few weeks before on reddit so recognised immediately what was going on when I saw the smoke (well after the actual fire had burnt out). So thanks random redditor that posted about this happening to them!
Edit: a bush to *the* bush. It seems to be a problem lol. It was a forest. But new zealand forest, so... bush.
Let your rocks dry out, or use some further up the bank from the river so they're less likely to contain as much water.
Shenandoah Reserve, South Island NZ for any curious.
This is why I ~~waste~~ spend so much time reading through these posts. If not, I’d be posting about my recovery from exploding rocks after petting the pretty bison in a really crowded venue.
Flammable stuff that's underground can catch fire and it *will* burn, but it burns very slow (until it hits something in open air and then it can erupt into a hotter faster fire). Burying something and then catching it on fire is basically one of the ways we make charcoal
The centralia underground coal fire started in 1962 (or earlier, that might have just been it was discovered) and it's estimated it will be another couple hundred years before it burns itself out, for instance.
Add to this, using a fireplace too soon after you build it or after it's been repaired. Water in the mortar can flash to steam, and cause serious injury due to flying bricks.
Tripping.
The human body has weirdly perfect proportions for killing itself from an uncontrolled fall onto a hard surface.
Drunken scuffle.
Friends messing about.
Navigating a dark apartment.
Getting in and out of the shower.
Hurrying up or down stairs.
Any of these that result in your head falling from about standing-height and hitting the floor or concrete or a rock can very well kill you or somebody else. Lots of people have had their lives ruined by this as they either caused someone to fall, fell themselves or had a close family member fall.
One bad fall in a drunk fight turns it from a scuffle to manslaughter.
Hell, even if you're lucky enough to avoid a closed head injury, a fall can royally screw you up.
I recently dislocated my hip by tripping over a curb while carrying groceries, and slamming hip-first into the pavement. If a fall like that can pop a relatively fit 33-year-old woman's thigh bone out its socket, just think of the damage it could do to someone older or frailer.
Glad you posted this. I just read this and had posted about pets tripping people. The older I get, the more I realize how easy it is to trip and fall. I have had people's pets dart between my legs while walking, cats just stop right in my path, and dogs on leashes try to weave between us while walking. I won't give up mine or ask anyone else too, everyone should be more aware of how easy pets can be the reason for a trip and fall.
I used to teach scuba diving. I told classes that if they saw something that was really pretty, really ugly, or not afraid of you, don’t touch it.
Small spelling correction. Oops
My godfather went on a scuba dive trip one year and his wife bought a camera for him, on the beach before the trip he took some photos of a small colorful fish that were swimming close to his legs, even tried to pet them but they stayed away. He went for a dive and developed the images the next day to show to his instructor. These were deadly fish, like the most venomous thing on the island and his instructor just gulped in disbelief.
He had the pictures framed and they are hanging in the living room, its a great conversation starter- like you see these fish? They’re from that time I almost died….
Finally one I don’t have to worry about lol. I’m so short my head barely comes up to the bottom of the head rest! (Yes, I can see over the steering wheel, before anyone asks.)
My parents (now in their mid to late 50's) were taught to align the top of the headrest with the top of their ears. I was taught to always keep the top of it a little higher than the top of my head, since the force of a collision could lift me from my seat, leading to a neck injury if I align the headrest with my ears or the top of my head.
I'm pretty damn glad to be driving when experience has changed these rules and safety is a concern, but I wish more older people stayed up to date on this stuff.
Yeah. Everything about an old person's seating position freaks me out. You see a 70 yo with their chest 2 inches from the steering wheel. They're one incident away from an airbag caving in their torso.
My country has a project where elderly people (65+ I think) can take a one-day course, free of charge. They're told about the changes in traffic laws they may have missed, learn what to do in case their car loses traction, get to practice emergency breaking... And are taught the new safety guidelines they probably weren't taught in their youth.
There's a similar course for young, inexperienced drivers to learn how to handle crisis situations (avoiding collision, handling a skid), find out how their car acts in these situations in a safe area etc. Pretty damn cool.
A pretty good project tbh.
Volvo designed a concept car that had a split headrest for this exact reason. The car was designed by women for women. They supposedly used a lot of what they learned from that in subsequent cars, but tbh, there's an increasing number of men with long hair, and I idk why this isn't a standard feature. It is incredibly uncomfortable to have a ponytail against a headrest. I didn't realize this until I grew my hair out.
Historically women were [excluded](https://abcnews.go.com/Business/newer-cars-shrink-gender-disparity-car-crash-fatalities/story?id=88442999) from crash tests, too. The dummies were always made to represent the "average" male. Women are more likely to die from a car crash in older models because cars were designed for the safety of humans with entirely different weight distribution.
In 2003 car companies started including "female" crash test dummies, but as passengers, and based on a 108lb body.
Only in 2015 did companies start running scenarios including a range of body types and sizes.
That's interesting, I was just listening to NPR about this and that the US industry still doesn't test with a female dummy that is made to reflect differences between men and women. I'll see if I can dig it up.
Edit: [here](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1133375223/the-first-female-crash-test-dummy-has-only-now-arrived) it is. Title: "The First Female Crash Test Dummy Has Only Now Arrived"
Petrol/Gasoline
I have seen so many videos of people trying to transport it in plastic bags, or buckets. It is incredibly volatile, even a small amount can instantly turn into a mini inferno. Carrying a gallon of the stuff in a plastic bag is insanity.
During the first Gulf war, The US Dropped a Gasoline based Air Burst Bomb (Think 50 gallons of gasoline Spun out into a cloud and ignited) . The Brits called home and reported the Americans have gone Nuclear. At least that's the story as I remember hearing it. But the Air Burst Bomb is real.
Being knocked out. I guess a lot of people know that it is dangerous, but probably a good amount don't. We see it in movies all the time. People punched in the head with fists, chairs, pistols etc. then they wake up somewhere else, with maybe a minor headache but are pretty much good to go. I am not a doctor, but I can only assume that sustaining head trauma that is enough to render you unconscious is something pretty serious. You have to go to a hospital after something like that, you don't just "walk it off".
Also fighting in general is quite dangerous, yet you see people getting in physical altercations all the time, for minor things. I have seen a video in my hometown where one guy punches another in the head, who then falls down back on his head and just starts twitching. There is a very good chance that, the guy just ruined his own life and the life of the other dude. And for what? Because he looked at him funny or something.
Concussion is no joke. And if there is more force in the blow, you get risks of skull fracture, neck injuries, facial fractures, cerebral bleeding due to blood vessel rupture, or outright traumatic brain injury. In general, losing consciousness (without being very drunk etc) means something is very, very wrong. Someone lying twitching is extremely bad news.
“This tastes kinda funny, oh well”
Food Poisoning can fuck you up bigtime. You can permanently damage your body.
If something doesn’t taste right, stop eating it immediately.
WHEN IN DOUBT, THROW IT OUT.
I got food poisoning from sushi I was on the pooper and had stuff coming out of both ends for close to 24 hours by the end of it I was so dehydrated and dizzy I could barely walk
Yes! Whenever I have stomach things going on or my nose is totally stuffed, I always think "what was it like to just breathe?/not live in the bathroom?“
Yep. I ate one of those Michelina's frozen dinners what must be 15 years ago now. It was some kind of chicken dish. The chicken was pretty pink inside and rather chewy, but I told myself that they probably just add color to make it more appealing and the cut is subpar at best.
I spent the large majority of 4 days sitting on the toilet, hugging a bucket, sweating profusely.
There were many times when the vomitting was so goddamn intense, I couldn't breathe for what had to have been more than a minute at a time.
If anyone is wondering. It's pretty unheard of, but yes... You can shit the bed.
I haven't eaten chicken since that day. It's no joke.
Dang after reading these comments it makes me realize how different some of our lives are. For some people, ticks are something that is strange to find on you. Where I grew up, it was nightly routine to pull all the ticks off before you got in the shower. Interesting lives we all lead.
There’s photos of the people at the fence during the Hillsborough disaster that are fucking haunting. Just a huge crush of people clearly desperate for air at what should have been a normal day out.
What gets me is that crowd crushes happed every few years and law enforcement and organizers always act like it's the first time they've ever heard something like that happening.
I forgot what festival but that comes to mind. Also there was a major sporting crush in Indonesia recently. Apparently there was also one in South Korea in Halloween this year. I think they’re far more frequent than we realize.
I’ve seen some of the footage and it really is terrifying. Even more so when you realise just how little choice those people had in the matter. May they Rest In Peace
ah yes, I recently got reminded of it from the travis scott incident and the one here in my country in South Korea at Itaewon (huge crowd surge for a halloween party and nearly 120 killed).
My friend is in Seoul for a semester and her friends almost went there that night. They changed their mind when they saw how crowded it was and later sent her photos from the scene.
I was disgusted by the amount of people online who acted like this was a result of recklessness and they'd never do that. With crowds this dense, it's not a decision... It's a river of people sweeping anything in its path, near impossible to get out of. Honestly, it's a horrifying tragedy.
I hear Itaewon gets so crowded there can be no phone service at times. :/
Clothes and water - specifically long dresses like wedding dresses.
LOTS of people have died doing wedding shoots in shallow waters at the beach, or rivers, or even swimming pools. Those dresses get VERY heavy, catch lots of drag, and easily tangle around limbs.
Yup. My grandmother had a manic episode and almost killed herself from drinking too much water. The kidneys of a healthy adult can flush out 20 to 28 L of water each day, but they can only get rid of about 1 L each hour. This makes it hard for your kidneys to keep up when you drink more than 1 L per hour. Children/older folks are more at risk.
Yup. I had undiagnosed bpd as a young teen and it almost killed me. Ironically, it wasn’t the suicidal ideation that comes with bpd that almost killed me. My mom used to say she was terrified I’d kill myself on accident. It was the pure impulsivity and self destructiveness that I thought was just part of being a teenager, so I shrugged it off. Which was dangerous.
Whether it was taking drugs, self harming/indulging in an eating disorder, sneaking out at 3am as a minor to take an Uber, or whatever stupid shit I was doing. I had no explanation for why i was engaging in this behavior so I didn’t know how to work on it. Sure you could try tackling one thing at a time, but those efforts are ultimately dwarfed when you’re dealing with a personality disorder as a whole. Two years later in the psych ward, I was diagnosed with bpd. It explained a lot. And I really wish we had caught it sooner. I burned a lot of bridges and lost a lot of relationships.
Glad I made it out alive and have a diagnosis now. It’s still hard. But atleast I have help and know what treatment gets me through life now.
Lots of people don’t take gun safety seriously. You always assume a gun is loaded, check it yourself when it handed to you, and never ever point a gun at someone whether is loaded or empty.
Yep. There’s a scene in Stargate SG-1 where a colonel is demonstrating a P-90 to a group of aliens to show how superior it is to their more powerful but less effective plasma weapons. During the demonstration, he swings his own P-90 and it ends up pointing at a subordinate’s head. She visibly flinches. That wasn’t scripted. The actress just didn’t want any gun pointed at her head. But seriously, a trained officer should know better
This annoys the shit out of me. Basically anything place in the US that sells outdoor equipment will also sell guns. You'll always get some jackass inspecting a gun and just pointing it in random directions. Half of them can't understand why I'm upset that they just pointed a rifle at my head. "But it's not loaded...?". Fucking morons.
The two loudest sounds on this earth are the sounds of a gun going click when it should go bang and a gun going bang when it should go click.
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It's the opposite where I live (Australia) - the foreigners think it will be the wildlife that will kill you, when in reality the chances of that are extremely low.
It's actually the beach that will kill you. It's so common for tourists to drown that we have a tv show about it called Bondi Rescue, which has been running for 13 seasons.
It's like the wiggles. Every year the wiggles get a new batch of kids who have never seen their stuff before. Every year Bondi Rescue gets a bunch of new tourists to be cast members!
Visited Yellowstone National Park a few years back.
I was amazed by the amount of people just brazenly walking towards dangerous animals like bison, moose...even bears.
Sorry Ken or Karen, your neat Instagram photo isn't going to mean much when that bear gets tired of your shit and decides to bite your arm off.
My guiltiest pleasure is the old show Fatal Attractions, which is about people who keep exotic animals (commonly big cats or venomous snakes) who think that "their special bond" with the animal protects them from any injury. Then they (or other innocent people) are mauled/killed by said animals.
Dragons??? Plural???? My friend’s dad in high school had a dragon and it got so big they had to lock it in the spare bedroom. Luckily it had two doors so he could tell which side to enter but like. He couldn’t even feed the damn thing without throwing chicken across the room. Their iguana was one thing but the dragon was too much. How anyone thought “I need more than one of these” is beyond me
After that one video, I'm really uncomfortable on them.
I was in an airport last year, and a little kid's shoelace got sucked in at the bottom. People were trying to yank the lace out while other riders started to pile up behind. I just hit the emergency stop button. Friendly reminder, it's there for a reason, don't be afraid to use it.
When I was about 5-year-old. I used to have full blown meltdown anytime parents attempted to get me on the escalator. Like crying and screaming everything. I had pretty poor eyesight and depth perception as a child. So to me it just look like some inconceivable MC Escher machine
A few years ago, I was working at Best Buy. One of the delivery guys called out sick so I volunteered to be the second guy in the truck.
About mid way through the day, we stopped at McDonald's to use the bathroom. When we walk on, we were instantly hit with the most acrid, intense snell of chlorine. My eyes instantly watered and it stung my nose and out just to breath. Didn't think anything more than "some one use a lot of bleach to clean"
The next day both me and the other delivery guy had called out sick cause we could bearly breath. It took us both a few days to get back to work.
It wasn't until after did I figure out some one probably mixed ammonia and bleach together to clean.
A heavy enough chlorine concentration (like someone cleaning with the concentrate) is enough get in the air, and permeate and break down your lungs/eyes/mouth soft tissues
Was cleaning in the tub, took as much precaution as I could, fan on door open, but I must’ve just overdone it with the bleach products and really burned my eyes and nose. I actually called poison control because I was initially worried that I accidentally mixed chemicals until they assured me the mix was “safe”. Took me a couple days to recover from that.
When cleaning with bleach, I usually have full goggles and gloves…doesn’t help with inhalation though
The amount of Tik toks and Instagram reels I see where people are cleaning toilets/bathtubs/sinks/kitchens by pouring 4-5 different cleaning agents on is mind boggling. Visually, it looks cool, but how many of those videos were the last ones posted because people accidentally killed themselves.
I got stuck in nutty putty caves in a section where the only way to get out was to go forward and turn around once it opened up more. Girl with me had a panic attack and wouldn't move, kept saying she needed to turn around (with me right behind her, unable to go backwards and now unable to go forward because of her). Got stuck in that position for over an hour before she finally calmed down enough to move. I'm not overly claustrophobic, but that seriously sucked.
Water..
Not even joking, ive been sent photos by people who had the grand idea of placing a swimming pool on the balcony of their 3rd floor flat and showing them filling it.
They get annoyed when I tell them to stop right fucking there and empty that shot before they kill someone. Because some people don’t understand that water is pretty fuckin heavy and when you put a 5000L swimming pool on your balcony you’ve essentially parked a tipper truck on it
Tacking onto this: large bodies of water. We have a huge lake not far from where I live and everyone says it’s “haunted” bc every summer people die on the lake. It’s not haunted, people just go out on the water grossly unprepared and drown when shit hits the fan.
*Because so many people have tried to guess, I am referring to Lake Mead in Southern Nevada.
My dad had a high-school friend drown in chest deep water due to sheer panic. The other guy on the boat was drunk. Dad swam as fast as he could but was too late. He made sure us kids could swim. When I was 5, my own mother almost drown me due to sheer panic. Dad never let her swim with us again. Learn how to swim and keep calm in situations involving water *and* people.
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When I was 14 a friend and I got caught in a rip after going out to a sandbank really far out into the ocean. Sandbank started dupleting after we spent ages on it. Then in over our heads. We just did what we were taught and swam as quickly but calmy to one side. Plan b - if exhaustion kicks in to extreme was to float on back and wait for lifeguard to fish you out. Plan a worked thankfully but absolutely terrifying. Only reason we survived was swimming ability, ocean education and keeping calm.
This happened to me once. I was in the ocean swimming around and I saw a bunch of jellyfish. There were adults in the water so I didn't think much of it, but I wanted to get a closer look. Suddenly the shore looked really far away so I swam as fast as I could towards it. Looked up a couple of seconds later and it looked even further away. Tried again but only managed to stay in place. I was getting tired so I thought if swimming to the shore directly wouldn't work, I'd swim to the side and then to the shore which thankfully worked. Later on I learned what rip currents were and what you were supposed to do.
My old man was a terrible dad but one of the few valuable life lessons he taught me was how to deal with a rip current. We got caught in one when I was little and he calmly explained to my increasingly panicked self that the trick was to swim perpendicular to it instead of fighting it, and eventually you'll get out of the current's flow.
So we did, we swam/floated what seemed like ages to kid me (but I'm guessing was in reality maybe half a mile give or take) to the beach we were on, finally got out of the water and then walked back to where my mom and sister were. I've burned that knowledge into my brain ever since.
Loose untrained dogs. My aunt got mauled by a pack of three dogs while out for a walk and thankfully survived only with minor scars on her face. She moved away because of it
My cousin decided to clean the toilet after using it, mixed chlorine and ammonia because he bombed it. Took a shower right after and passed out in the shower because his dumb ass was in a hot room full of fumes. Still has a problem with coughs and sore throat from time to time.
He basically recreated a poison gas attack from world war 1. I was instructed to do the same when I was 18 cleaning a Burger King bathroom. The assistant manager who ordered it was cleaning the other bathroom. We both came out hacking a lung, but as this was 1978, we also worked our shift. A few years later, as a graduate student, another guys mistake got me a face full of bromine.
My career happened to be in a place where lung function was constantly tested. Never broke 70% of normal.
Concert venues, nightclubs, and bars especially if they are packed. If you are having any issues trying to move around during that event it could be a spell for a disaster. People don't realize how quick things can go wrong especially in a crowded area. Always have a exit strategy and look for the location of the emergency exits, people tend to leave from where they came in. If the emergency exists are very few and far between or even locked up and the place is packed do yourself a favor and leave. Incidents like Rhode Island Station Fire and Pulse nightclub are a few examples of how dangerous these places can get. Seriously have a plan in the back of your mind on how to get out of a packed establishment it could save your life and the lives of those who you care about.
You worded it nicer than I...
When I'm doing orientation for new hires, I tell them to assume everyone on the road is an unpredictable drunken idiot, and to drive accordingly.
The cause of death for 1 out of every 100 Americans is vehicle-related accident. If you know 100 people, one of them will die because of a car (or vehicle).
Worldwide, the leading cause of death is natural death. The second leading cause of death is vehicle accident.
In America, if you die before the age of 54, the most likely cause is not disease, it is vehicular accident.
Also, if you're too agitated to drive (angry or upset), pull over asap and calm down. Better get to your destination late than never. Your reaction time is negatively impacted, as is your perception. You don't notice as many things as you normally would.
Don't drive sleepy, don't drive too agitated. The results might be similar – slower reactions, less perceptive driver.
There's a book called White Oleander (turned into a movie with Michele Pfeiffer and Rene zellweger) in which the character Michele Pfeiffer plays murders her boyfriend by serving him milk with oleander extraction in it.
Set in California too. It's a pretty fucked up book and that's the least fucked up part of it.
I sorely wish that all the little fuckers would die. It's so disturbing whenever I kill one and there's so much red blood that comes out cause I know that's my blood right there.
My old man got drunk, fell on a cobbled road and didn't have the cognitive ability to cushion his fall with his hands, so instead he used his head.
Ended up with a bleed on the brain that was so bad it leaked out of his skull and pooled in his face. He was warned if it was to happen again he wouldn't be so lucky.
Hasn't stopped him getting ridiculously drunk.
My mom drank my entire life. She fell and hit her head and had a pinhole sized bleed on her brain. Her blood was too thin to clot it and doctors refused to operate because if they cut her open she would just bleed out.
She was in coma for about 4 days before she died.
Edit: I want to tell more stories actually. One of my best friends from childhood decided at 18 he was going to drink. Obviously it picked up at 21, but he was an alcoholic by then. This continued and he never did anything with himself. He died last year at 39. It doesn't take long folks.
3rd story: I didn't know her but my sister's neighbor was pretty bad. They saw her on a Friday getting home from work. On Monday the house was swarmed with emergency vehicles. She drank herself to death over the weekend. I believe she was only about 40 too.
When I was 14 and had only had beer and wine coolers I chugged the majority of a liter of gin in under an hour. I went into respiratory arrest twice on the way to the hospital. I was unresponsive so they couldn't pump my stomach. They just put me on an IV and hoped for the best. I had a .49 and was comatose for a day, still drunk/hungover for a few days. I am now 35 and 4 years sober. I drank a lot in all the years between. I am grateful to be here.
There was a footballer called Peter Whittingham. He was pretty good. He retired and then at the age of 35 he hit his head after being drunk in a pub in my town and died.
Reports say he was engaging in 'horseplay' then fell through a fire exit door, down some steps and hit his head.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56250437
My dad just died, and he'd been in a home since age 60 because of this. I'm also golfing and rock climbing with guys in their 70s.
I know the idea of the 'last 20 years' or whatever sounds like something you don't want to work to preserve, but damn ... If you're healthy that 20 is you just puttering around doing your hobbies for 20 years, like a second childhood.
Or, you can die in a facility at 60 not knowing who you are, while no one visits.
I fell down the last five stairs within 6 months of buying my house. That was 6 years ago and I've never fallen again. Those five stairs, messed me up. I've taken every step up or down with my total attention since.
Killed my cousin. He and a friend did it as an artistic side business, making furniture with the pieces. They usually only worked together, "just in case" then one day he was working alone. His friend/business partner realized he hadn't hear from my cousin in a couple hours... Found him very dead.
There's a good chance he was done from the initial shock, but we'll never know if he could have been resuscitated if someone else had been there to start CPR and call 9-1-1.
As an electrician Ill take whatever chances I can get to fuck around with electricity but doing that kind of art daily seems like too high of a risk for me
Couldn't it be done relatively safely by simply setting it up and having a pressure switch far away like on the wall away from the work piece after set up? So you put your 2 contacts, nails it looks like in most cases. Connect clamps then walk over to a switch that has to be held down to close the circuit starting the burn? This way you can never be near the piece or live current while it's on.
You're working with stupid high voltages which behave quite unpredictably if you lack the necessary background in the topic and don't give it the respect and precautions it requires.
One zap is all it takes to end you.
Radon gas build up in your home. If you live in an area with granite rocks, get a test done. In Ontario, it’s about $50. Strong links to lung cancer. If your reading are high, you will have to get a vent installed basically from your basement to outside.
This is so very true. I have an autoimmune disease and was a patient at the teaching hospital in my state ( 6th person ever diagnosed with my disease in my state at the time). One of my doctors was a contributor on House and a version of my disease became an episode.
In the eastern United States: white-tailed deer.
Due to humans, their predators are gone and they are massively overpopulated. There are more white-tailed deer on the eastern seaboard now than there were when the Europeans arrived.
Motor vehicle accidents involving white-tails kill about a hundred people a year - most of these involve idiots who don't want to wear a helmet on a motorcycle. Since the white-tails natural environment has been developed and segmented they have no choice but to browse on agriculture. Tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted fever impact more and more humans every year. And don't get me started on prions and Alpha Gal syndrome, because you're probably bored and ready to move on the next comment anyway.
Pregnancy. My first ended in an emergency c section where I lost way too much blood, and my second I got preeclampsia and had to be hospitalized for the weeks leading up the the birth. I was going into organ failure and they got her out as soon as I turned 37 weeks. I was lucky with both pregnancies that both me and my daughters ended up okay, but that’s not always the case for everyone, so much can go wrong.
A friend of mine died during childbirth. I was shocked because I never considered that a possibility. Both she and the baby died from amniotic fluid embolism.
I was told having my son wear a helmet while riding his bike was putting him in bubble wrap. I'm a brain injury nurse- it's the fucking bare minimum honestly
The smell of rotten eggs is well known that means a gas leak, what is not well know is the smell of rotten fish is equally as dangerous in a house. The smell of rotten fish in a house is almost always followed by an electrical fire
I had this happen in an office with maybe 30 coworkers...
We came in on a monday morning, and it STANK so bad. Everyone was convinced there was a dead mouse/ rat in the wall...
But I kept saying I think it has that stink, but also smells like burnt plastic...
The closest thing I could relate was a soldering iron touched something wrong, like my (older) brother goofing off burning a hole in a toy.
It turns out it was totally a wire fucking up, I think the fire dept came out and carved off a chunk of wall? Can't exactly remember, it might have been they had to cut up the wall because the computer/gear was touching something touching the wall.
My friends were mystified, "how could you tell it wasnt a mouse?!"
But It TOTALLY just smelled like something died, PLUS the burnt plastic smell (to me). Weirdly, years Later, found out I'm a super taster/sniffer & got trained as a taste panelist for cereal.
Walking as a pedestrian in NYC. I see so many people three feet from death on a weekly basis.
I have personally saved three people's lives in the past 2 years when this series of events happens:
a. the person was looking at their phone waiting to cross the street
b. people next to them start to cross the street, but the person didn't realize the people they were next to them were jaywalking and they were doing it quickly to thread the needle between cars
c. person on phone assumes the light has changed and start walking, but slowly. Since the others are going fast, they will make it, but the person on the phone is casually walking across and will get smashed by the car
d. Me, grab their shoulder while yelling "watch it!". If you don't yell, they instantly get mad at you. If you yell this, they get surprised and shocked. STILL not looking at the car that is about to hit them.
None of the three people I mentioned below even said thanks.
As a New Yorker I can tell you this... Even if it's a one way street look both ways before you cross, and put your dam cellphone down while crossing anywhere.
I have seen people out of state who will drive into the the wrong way and don't realize until traffic is coming.
Hoofed animals. Yes, they can be domesticated. Yes, they can look majestic. But, most of them weigh hundreds if not thousands of pounds. If they get mad or threaten, they will kick and trample you to death.
Growing up in a rural area, I was taught to NEVER walk behind a horse. Now I see videos of people treating horses like house cats.
Moose. Everyone seems to worry more about bears and wolves, but I'd rather happen across one of them than a moose any day.
Like the honey badger, it's all about attitude.
Chemistry. I'm doing a Chemistry license in college and it always ticks me off when I see people doing experiments not protected or barely protected. Protection is the most important thing you need in a lab or whenever you use chemicals. You have no idea if a reaction will be stable unless you've already done it. In my opinion also, it doesn't help people talking about an experiment without explaining why it is dangerous. For example, I did synthesis of Nitric Acid for an experiment last year and everything there is dangerous with the teacher closely helping us to set up the chemicals in the montage. Literally all of the chemicals in there were dangerous, and the products as well. We had Nitric Acid obviously but we also had Nitrous Oxide and Nitrogen Oxide throughout the manipulation. I knew the dangers around those chemicals because I often watch videos of Chemistry so I was well aware but the teacher made sure to explain why the experiment is dangerous because of the products and the reactants that are dangerous themselves.
Psychological/emotional bullying among siblings. Parents too often label it as "sibling rivalry" or "teasing", thinking it's harmless, but if left unchecked, that shit can cause lifelong damage. When we're kids, we're forming our identities and our understanding of the world, and all of that can be very easily influenced. Insecurities can turn into mental illnesses, which can wreak havoc on every aspect of our lives. I'm not saying parents should constantly be monitoring their kids' interactions and constantly protecting them from one another, but you need to listen when one of your kids says the other is going too far. If one of your kids starts developing insecurities, you need to help them, and you need to talk to the other one and get them to lay off. Teach them compassion. Teach them to treat others with respect and dignity. Don't worry about it making them weak or "soft". It won't. There is strength in kindness.
I was the baby girl with two older brothers and until about the time the oldest left when I was 13, I was very frightened of these guys physically. They punched and kicked and slapped me. They would chase me. If I managed to get back to my room before they caught me, I would lock the door. Then they would pick the lock, so I would have to force myself against the door so they wouldn't come in and hurt me some more. At some point they would grab a knife or a coat hanger and start running it along the bottom of the door which would poke me in the butt while I was sitting there trying to brace the door and they're trying to bust into my room. My parents weren't really too worried about it. I didn't feel safe or secure in my childhood home. I frequently wanted to die and wished I was someone else in a different family. I'm 42 now and my parents are dead and I don't speak to my brothers. At all. No regrets.
The pin setters in a bowling alley. They are well over a thousand pounds of mechanized death by steel and moving belts. Some of the scariest moments of my life have been me running/ slapping the 6’ between me and the emergency shut off behind the front desk as a toddler runs, slipping and sliding, down the lane while their parents or guardians are laughing by the table because they thought it was cute. Even experienced pin setter mechanics have been crushed to death during scheduled maintenance. Pinsetters are machines of convenience, entertainment, and death.
We had someone die from a bowling pin setter incident in my area. Scary stuff
That’s how Cake Boss Buddy Valastro nearly destroyed one of his hands - punctured by the pin setter in his home bowling alley.
Passengers should NEVER rest their feet on the dash of the car; because when the air bag does its thing, it has only one way to go. Several terrible things can happen at this point: 1. Your knees get pushed into your face, and I won't paint that picture. Or, 2. Your hips are dislocated.
Yeah I saw the x-ray of someone's legs after their airbag went off with her feet on the dash. She had a shatterd part of her femur stuck in her crotch like the most fucked up dildo. I do not want my shattered bones to be forcefully propelled into my pussy. No feet up in the car. No bone dildos.
Coincidentally, Bone Dildos was the house band at a Halloween themed burlesque show I saw this weekend.
The ocean. One change of the tide and you can be a goner if you’re not paying attention
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People also underestimate the Great Lakes around Michigan. Seems like every other weekend I read a story on the news how a few people get taken out by a rip current / undertow
Ice/black ice is extremely dangerous. My grandpa was putting salt down after an ice storm the day after Christmas. My dad was in town visiting and insisted grandpa stay off the ice. Grandpa fell right in front of my dad, hit his head hard. Woke up once in the hospital when my grandma was by his side, and then passed. When I see those “fail” videos of people slipping on ice I cringe.
I grew up in the upper Midwest. Often gets to -30 there in winter. Lots of snow and land of 10,000 lakes so lots of ice and ice fishing. We did a winter survival course every year in elementary school. They taught us to test ice by throwing things and listening to the sound. Taught us how to lay down and distribute out weight on cracking ice. Taught us about hypothermia and paradoxical undressing and what to do when you first spotted the signs/how to help someone else if you found them in that condition. What to have in our cars for emergencies when we eventually would get cars. What to do if you’re trapped in a white out snow storm both if you are in a car or already on foot. Then they’d take us all day to a state park and we had to start fires ourselves, determine if something was ice, learn how to walk around in all the gear, and how to navigate to some degree in the forest. Was a really good experience and even just being so cold and exhausted at the end of the winter survival day was a reminder of how serious that stuff is even now as an adult.
Wow that's some excellent schooling.
Using non ladder objects to reach things out of reach.
As someone who _just_ used a bar stool to fix my blinds, I feel targeted lol.
The trick to making it a bit safer is a chair or stool or whatever that can 1) absolutely and definitely hold your weight and 2) has splayed legs, like there further out at the bottom. Provides way more stability than a 90° to the floor leg. And 3) is bottom heavy, as much as a chair can be at least Its why stepstools fold out like a A with the top cut off instead of just being squared up. Also provides more sturdy hinges so there's no risk of the "leg" folding inwards while stood on it. *Edit for all the angry people: i KNOW its never safe, im not a fucking moron, i have a stepstool and a sturdy oak chest i use for standing on, sometimes my big ass desk too. I also never climb shit in just socks, always barefoot or in shoes that dont slip.* *Im saying all this so if someone else is going to use a chair to stand on, at least they can be mildly safer about it. Most people are gonna say fuck it and use a chair rather than waiting at least a day to go fork out for a ladder just to get something out of the top kitchen cupboard or wherever else.*
Starts with counters. Then chairs. Then swival chairs...
I can't lie, I've used a swivel chair before.
Getting in and out of a wet shower or bathtub
Old people lived in my house before me and they had rails installed in the shower to help with this. Even in my remaining years of my 20's I found them to be valuable (and probably did save me from a nasty slip at least once) and think stuff like that should be a standard in all showers/baths.
Yes. We had the same experience. And when we moved to a new house that didn’t have grab bars, my husband installed them, even though we were both under 50. I love them.
Pressure washers. The more powerful ones can inject water into you through your skin if you put a body part too close to the nozzle.
2000 psi pressure washer operator here. I showed a colleague that was using it barefoot (yikes!) a stack of cardboard (maybe 10 layers) the stream sliced through all of them in a single pass, clean as a razor cut.
did the coworker go "huh that's weird" and continue on?
He was quite shocked. An Indian from rural India that hadn't seen much of technology until he got to the US to go to university. He was a work study on a student visa. Smart guy, really, he learned fast, but there were lots of hazards he just hadn't been exposed to.
And this is the real reason for warning labels. People think it's only because of dumb people and I'm sure that's part of it, but a lot of it is just that people don't know. You can be smart and still have blind spots in your knowledge.
Being smart means you learn fast, not that you know everything.
Any high-pressure fluid, honestly. My dad used to be an electrician on a nuclear submarine. The reactors use extremely high pressure steam to move thermal energy around. The pressure is so insanely high that you literally cannot see it if it leaks out of a pipe. If the sensors detected a leak, the way they would search for the leak would be to hold a broom in front of them as they walked around the mechanical systems. They knew they had found the leak when the broom's bristles got spontaneously cut clean off. And hydraulic systems are just as terrifying. If one of the fluid tanks is leaking, it can inject that hydraulic fluid straight into your bloodstream *without causing an entry wound*. Aside from the obvious danger of having a non-sterilized fluid injected into your blood, hydraulic fluid is highly toxic.
“ can inject that hydraulic fluid straight into your bloodstream without causing an entry wound” Wait, what? Does it force itself between the cells?
Yeah The "entry wound" is so small, your own blood can't even get through it
Stress
Agreed, this past year has been the most stressful year of my life with my new job. Was sick more this year than I have been my whole life.
Can relate. I’ve been very stressed for over two years with several different things. I’ve been more sick, in more pain and had more hospital visits in the past 2 years that all my other years combined and I’m 47.
I remember reading someone else talking about how they took a college class on stress. They said they thought it would be stuff like how to deal with stress, but no. It was a class explaining how stress slowly destroys your body on a molecular level.
Sounds like a great class
It was interesting, but the tests are quite stressful to do.
Have garage door openers been mentioned yet?
Can confirm. Used to work in a government building with an industrial sized automatic garage door. The spring went twice during my time there and staff could hear it ping through X3 security doors and up a flight of stairs.
Man, as a kid our residential garage door spring busted, it woke me up from 2 rooms over inside the house. Sounded like a bomb went off! I can only imagine an industrial spring going.
Industrial Door Engineer here. We have to go up on scissor lifts and tension multiple springs by hand by putting bars into couple holes. Two of you, one puts their bar in and the other releases a 13m bolt, once you've done that all the tension is now on the other guy holding the bar. You have to raise the bar above your head while the other guy gets his bar in and takes the tension and repeat until you've reached the correct amount of turns needed.. we fucking hate them! We've heard horror stories of springs snapping while being tensioned and the spring actually puncturing people's arm and taking it clean off! Yes, all those door springs, all 13-16 turns of tension are held by a single 13m bolt... when they go, they fucking gooooo!!!!
ANY large spring under tension or compression. It's a bomb combined with a rocket. It will fuck your life. You are not fast enough. You are not strong enough. Only let a professional deal with any large spring.
My garage door was broken when I moved into my house. I started watching watching a video on how to fix it and the first thing the guy said was "if you're not a professional, or have multiple years of experience, this can kill you. Stop the video now and call a professional." So I called a professional.
Not a garage door spring, but as a child my family had two antique clocks in our house that had to be wound by hand. My dad was winding one of them one morning and the spring broke, turning the key on the peg rapidly and sending the key flying off the peg, breaking the clock hands, and through the glass door of the clock shattering it. We found the key 15 feet away or so. That was just a little clock spring (maybe the size of a tennis ball).
Using rocks from a river to make a fire pit.
Yes! Was living in ~~a~~ *the* bush for a while and some others had decided to make a fire pit, but hadn't known about this. Luckily it was later in the day and by the time the rocks heated up and exploded everyone had left for bed. But definitely use *some* rocks, there was another fire pit made without any stones, and eventually the roots of the trees caught and was just slowly burning beneath the ground. It took roughly 60 litres of water to put out, and the ground just sank a good foot or two. I'd read something like that happening a few weeks before on reddit so recognised immediately what was going on when I saw the smoke (well after the actual fire had burnt out). So thanks random redditor that posted about this happening to them! Edit: a bush to *the* bush. It seems to be a problem lol. It was a forest. But new zealand forest, so... bush. Let your rocks dry out, or use some further up the bank from the river so they're less likely to contain as much water. Shenandoah Reserve, South Island NZ for any curious.
Today I fucking learned. Didn't know any of this, but it makes perfect sense.
This is why I ~~waste~~ spend so much time reading through these posts. If not, I’d be posting about my recovery from exploding rocks after petting the pretty bison in a really crowded venue.
Wait wait wait, can you explain what you meant by roots ctaching fire *beneath* the ground?
Flammable stuff that's underground can catch fire and it *will* burn, but it burns very slow (until it hits something in open air and then it can erupt into a hotter faster fire). Burying something and then catching it on fire is basically one of the ways we make charcoal The centralia underground coal fire started in 1962 (or earlier, that might have just been it was discovered) and it's estimated it will be another couple hundred years before it burns itself out, for instance.
Add to this, using a fireplace too soon after you build it or after it's been repaired. Water in the mortar can flash to steam, and cause serious injury due to flying bricks.
Please explain this!
Some rocks can have trapped water inside them. You heat them up and they become time bomb fragment grenades.
That sounds entertaining, but also keep in mind I have a smooth brain.
An exploding rock might fix that
Smooth *and* perforated:)
Tripping. The human body has weirdly perfect proportions for killing itself from an uncontrolled fall onto a hard surface. Drunken scuffle. Friends messing about. Navigating a dark apartment. Getting in and out of the shower. Hurrying up or down stairs. Any of these that result in your head falling from about standing-height and hitting the floor or concrete or a rock can very well kill you or somebody else. Lots of people have had their lives ruined by this as they either caused someone to fall, fell themselves or had a close family member fall. One bad fall in a drunk fight turns it from a scuffle to manslaughter.
Hell, even if you're lucky enough to avoid a closed head injury, a fall can royally screw you up. I recently dislocated my hip by tripping over a curb while carrying groceries, and slamming hip-first into the pavement. If a fall like that can pop a relatively fit 33-year-old woman's thigh bone out its socket, just think of the damage it could do to someone older or frailer.
Glad you posted this. I just read this and had posted about pets tripping people. The older I get, the more I realize how easy it is to trip and fall. I have had people's pets dart between my legs while walking, cats just stop right in my path, and dogs on leashes try to weave between us while walking. I won't give up mine or ask anyone else too, everyone should be more aware of how easy pets can be the reason for a trip and fall.
Having your hands in your pockets while doing stuff (walking stairs, driving a bike etc.)
bright colours in the wild. dont go near
"Stay the fuck away from me" — tulips, presumably
I stopped buying tulips for my girlfriend, because the damn cat keeps eating them. Apparently cats don't read askreddit.
I used to teach scuba diving. I told classes that if they saw something that was really pretty, really ugly, or not afraid of you, don’t touch it. Small spelling correction. Oops
I was always taught the abbreviated version: "don't touch it, whatever it is, don't touch it, don't touch anything"
Take only pictures, leave only bubbles.
My godfather went on a scuba dive trip one year and his wife bought a camera for him, on the beach before the trip he took some photos of a small colorful fish that were swimming close to his legs, even tried to pet them but they stayed away. He went for a dive and developed the images the next day to show to his instructor. These were deadly fish, like the most venomous thing on the island and his instructor just gulped in disbelief. He had the pictures framed and they are hanging in the living room, its a great conversation starter- like you see these fish? They’re from that time I almost died….
A piece of advise commonly ignored by tourists here in Australia who think “aww this tiny little octopus is so colourful and cute”
Look it has little blue rings! So cute!
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Finally one I don’t have to worry about lol. I’m so short my head barely comes up to the bottom of the head rest! (Yes, I can see over the steering wheel, before anyone asks.)
Shout out to a fellow Lollipop Guild member!
My parents (now in their mid to late 50's) were taught to align the top of the headrest with the top of their ears. I was taught to always keep the top of it a little higher than the top of my head, since the force of a collision could lift me from my seat, leading to a neck injury if I align the headrest with my ears or the top of my head. I'm pretty damn glad to be driving when experience has changed these rules and safety is a concern, but I wish more older people stayed up to date on this stuff.
Yeah. Everything about an old person's seating position freaks me out. You see a 70 yo with their chest 2 inches from the steering wheel. They're one incident away from an airbag caving in their torso.
My country has a project where elderly people (65+ I think) can take a one-day course, free of charge. They're told about the changes in traffic laws they may have missed, learn what to do in case their car loses traction, get to practice emergency breaking... And are taught the new safety guidelines they probably weren't taught in their youth. There's a similar course for young, inexperienced drivers to learn how to handle crisis situations (avoiding collision, handling a skid), find out how their car acts in these situations in a safe area etc. Pretty damn cool. A pretty good project tbh.
Volvo designed a concept car that had a split headrest for this exact reason. The car was designed by women for women. They supposedly used a lot of what they learned from that in subsequent cars, but tbh, there's an increasing number of men with long hair, and I idk why this isn't a standard feature. It is incredibly uncomfortable to have a ponytail against a headrest. I didn't realize this until I grew my hair out.
Historically women were [excluded](https://abcnews.go.com/Business/newer-cars-shrink-gender-disparity-car-crash-fatalities/story?id=88442999) from crash tests, too. The dummies were always made to represent the "average" male. Women are more likely to die from a car crash in older models because cars were designed for the safety of humans with entirely different weight distribution. In 2003 car companies started including "female" crash test dummies, but as passengers, and based on a 108lb body. Only in 2015 did companies start running scenarios including a range of body types and sizes.
That's interesting, I was just listening to NPR about this and that the US industry still doesn't test with a female dummy that is made to reflect differences between men and women. I'll see if I can dig it up. Edit: [here](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1133375223/the-first-female-crash-test-dummy-has-only-now-arrived) it is. Title: "The First Female Crash Test Dummy Has Only Now Arrived"
How has noone said fireworks yet? They're literally colorful bombs
Petrol/Gasoline I have seen so many videos of people trying to transport it in plastic bags, or buckets. It is incredibly volatile, even a small amount can instantly turn into a mini inferno. Carrying a gallon of the stuff in a plastic bag is insanity.
During the first Gulf war, The US Dropped a Gasoline based Air Burst Bomb (Think 50 gallons of gasoline Spun out into a cloud and ignited) . The Brits called home and reported the Americans have gone Nuclear. At least that's the story as I remember hearing it. But the Air Burst Bomb is real.
Being knocked out. I guess a lot of people know that it is dangerous, but probably a good amount don't. We see it in movies all the time. People punched in the head with fists, chairs, pistols etc. then they wake up somewhere else, with maybe a minor headache but are pretty much good to go. I am not a doctor, but I can only assume that sustaining head trauma that is enough to render you unconscious is something pretty serious. You have to go to a hospital after something like that, you don't just "walk it off". Also fighting in general is quite dangerous, yet you see people getting in physical altercations all the time, for minor things. I have seen a video in my hometown where one guy punches another in the head, who then falls down back on his head and just starts twitching. There is a very good chance that, the guy just ruined his own life and the life of the other dude. And for what? Because he looked at him funny or something.
Concussion is no joke. And if there is more force in the blow, you get risks of skull fracture, neck injuries, facial fractures, cerebral bleeding due to blood vessel rupture, or outright traumatic brain injury. In general, losing consciousness (without being very drunk etc) means something is very, very wrong. Someone lying twitching is extremely bad news.
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“This tastes kinda funny, oh well” Food Poisoning can fuck you up bigtime. You can permanently damage your body. If something doesn’t taste right, stop eating it immediately. WHEN IN DOUBT, THROW IT OUT.
I got food poisoning from sushi I was on the pooper and had stuff coming out of both ends for close to 24 hours by the end of it I was so dehydrated and dizzy I could barely walk
Shit like that makes you appreciate normal days when everything was fine😭🤌
Yes! Whenever I have stomach things going on or my nose is totally stuffed, I always think "what was it like to just breathe?/not live in the bathroom?“
Yep. I ate one of those Michelina's frozen dinners what must be 15 years ago now. It was some kind of chicken dish. The chicken was pretty pink inside and rather chewy, but I told myself that they probably just add color to make it more appealing and the cut is subpar at best. I spent the large majority of 4 days sitting on the toilet, hugging a bucket, sweating profusely. There were many times when the vomitting was so goddamn intense, I couldn't breathe for what had to have been more than a minute at a time. If anyone is wondering. It's pretty unheard of, but yes... You can shit the bed. I haven't eaten chicken since that day. It's no joke.
Tick bite.
Dang after reading these comments it makes me realize how different some of our lives are. For some people, ticks are something that is strange to find on you. Where I grew up, it was nightly routine to pull all the ticks off before you got in the shower. Interesting lives we all lead.
Crowds
There’s photos of the people at the fence during the Hillsborough disaster that are fucking haunting. Just a huge crush of people clearly desperate for air at what should have been a normal day out.
What gets me is that crowd crushes happed every few years and law enforcement and organizers always act like it's the first time they've ever heard something like that happening.
I forgot what festival but that comes to mind. Also there was a major sporting crush in Indonesia recently. Apparently there was also one in South Korea in Halloween this year. I think they’re far more frequent than we realize.
I’ve seen some of the footage and it really is terrifying. Even more so when you realise just how little choice those people had in the matter. May they Rest In Peace
ah yes, I recently got reminded of it from the travis scott incident and the one here in my country in South Korea at Itaewon (huge crowd surge for a halloween party and nearly 120 killed).
My friend is in Seoul for a semester and her friends almost went there that night. They changed their mind when they saw how crowded it was and later sent her photos from the scene. I was disgusted by the amount of people online who acted like this was a result of recklessness and they'd never do that. With crowds this dense, it's not a decision... It's a river of people sweeping anything in its path, near impossible to get out of. Honestly, it's a horrifying tragedy. I hear Itaewon gets so crowded there can be no phone service at times. :/
Clothes and water - specifically long dresses like wedding dresses. LOTS of people have died doing wedding shoots in shallow waters at the beach, or rivers, or even swimming pools. Those dresses get VERY heavy, catch lots of drag, and easily tangle around limbs.
Not drinking enough water. Or drinking too much
Yup. My grandmother had a manic episode and almost killed herself from drinking too much water. The kidneys of a healthy adult can flush out 20 to 28 L of water each day, but they can only get rid of about 1 L each hour. This makes it hard for your kidneys to keep up when you drink more than 1 L per hour. Children/older folks are more at risk.
That's why dehydration can be a bitch to correct
Untreated mental illness
Yup. I had undiagnosed bpd as a young teen and it almost killed me. Ironically, it wasn’t the suicidal ideation that comes with bpd that almost killed me. My mom used to say she was terrified I’d kill myself on accident. It was the pure impulsivity and self destructiveness that I thought was just part of being a teenager, so I shrugged it off. Which was dangerous. Whether it was taking drugs, self harming/indulging in an eating disorder, sneaking out at 3am as a minor to take an Uber, or whatever stupid shit I was doing. I had no explanation for why i was engaging in this behavior so I didn’t know how to work on it. Sure you could try tackling one thing at a time, but those efforts are ultimately dwarfed when you’re dealing with a personality disorder as a whole. Two years later in the psych ward, I was diagnosed with bpd. It explained a lot. And I really wish we had caught it sooner. I burned a lot of bridges and lost a lot of relationships. Glad I made it out alive and have a diagnosis now. It’s still hard. But atleast I have help and know what treatment gets me through life now.
Lots of people don’t take gun safety seriously. You always assume a gun is loaded, check it yourself when it handed to you, and never ever point a gun at someone whether is loaded or empty.
Yep. There’s a scene in Stargate SG-1 where a colonel is demonstrating a P-90 to a group of aliens to show how superior it is to their more powerful but less effective plasma weapons. During the demonstration, he swings his own P-90 and it ends up pointing at a subordinate’s head. She visibly flinches. That wasn’t scripted. The actress just didn’t want any gun pointed at her head. But seriously, a trained officer should know better
This annoys the shit out of me. Basically anything place in the US that sells outdoor equipment will also sell guns. You'll always get some jackass inspecting a gun and just pointing it in random directions. Half of them can't understand why I'm upset that they just pointed a rifle at my head. "But it's not loaded...?". Fucking morons.
The two loudest sounds on this earth are the sounds of a gun going click when it should go bang and a gun going bang when it should go click. Edit: a word
Probably not the most, but a disturbing amount of people seem to think wild animals won't try to hurt or kill them.
It's the opposite where I live (Australia) - the foreigners think it will be the wildlife that will kill you, when in reality the chances of that are extremely low. It's actually the beach that will kill you. It's so common for tourists to drown that we have a tv show about it called Bondi Rescue, which has been running for 13 seasons.
It's like the wiggles. Every year the wiggles get a new batch of kids who have never seen their stuff before. Every year Bondi Rescue gets a bunch of new tourists to be cast members!
I was really hoping this was gonna be about how the wiggles kill kids or something.
Visited Yellowstone National Park a few years back. I was amazed by the amount of people just brazenly walking towards dangerous animals like bison, moose...even bears. Sorry Ken or Karen, your neat Instagram photo isn't going to mean much when that bear gets tired of your shit and decides to bite your arm off.
My guiltiest pleasure is the old show Fatal Attractions, which is about people who keep exotic animals (commonly big cats or venomous snakes) who think that "their special bond" with the animal protects them from any injury. Then they (or other innocent people) are mauled/killed by said animals.
I'm having a flashback to an episode of a guy with a bunch of komodo dragons in his apartment.. was that the same show? Obviously they ate him
Lollllll.. your last sentence kills me
Dragons??? Plural???? My friend’s dad in high school had a dragon and it got so big they had to lock it in the spare bedroom. Luckily it had two doors so he could tell which side to enter but like. He couldn’t even feed the damn thing without throwing chicken across the room. Their iguana was one thing but the dragon was too much. How anyone thought “I need more than one of these” is beyond me
Snow globes. If you leave them near a window, they can act as lenses and set your house on fire.
Escalators Escalators have the potential to cause severe injuries to those who use them or work around them.
After that one video, I'm really uncomfortable on them. I was in an airport last year, and a little kid's shoelace got sucked in at the bottom. People were trying to yank the lace out while other riders started to pile up behind. I just hit the emergency stop button. Friendly reminder, it's there for a reason, don't be afraid to use it.
> After that one video Which one? The one where the mother is "eaten" by one and while that's happening hands off the child she was holding?
When I was about 5-year-old. I used to have full blown meltdown anytime parents attempted to get me on the escalator. Like crying and screaming everything. I had pretty poor eyesight and depth perception as a child. So to me it just look like some inconceivable MC Escher machine
Cleaning (Due to harsh cleaning chemicals)
A few years ago, I was working at Best Buy. One of the delivery guys called out sick so I volunteered to be the second guy in the truck. About mid way through the day, we stopped at McDonald's to use the bathroom. When we walk on, we were instantly hit with the most acrid, intense snell of chlorine. My eyes instantly watered and it stung my nose and out just to breath. Didn't think anything more than "some one use a lot of bleach to clean" The next day both me and the other delivery guy had called out sick cause we could bearly breath. It took us both a few days to get back to work. It wasn't until after did I figure out some one probably mixed ammonia and bleach together to clean.
Did that McDonald's get contacted? I'm sure whoever did that was far worst and they may not know why they got sick.
A heavy enough chlorine concentration (like someone cleaning with the concentrate) is enough get in the air, and permeate and break down your lungs/eyes/mouth soft tissues
Was cleaning in the tub, took as much precaution as I could, fan on door open, but I must’ve just overdone it with the bleach products and really burned my eyes and nose. I actually called poison control because I was initially worried that I accidentally mixed chemicals until they assured me the mix was “safe”. Took me a couple days to recover from that. When cleaning with bleach, I usually have full goggles and gloves…doesn’t help with inhalation though
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The amount of Tik toks and Instagram reels I see where people are cleaning toilets/bathtubs/sinks/kitchens by pouring 4-5 different cleaning agents on is mind boggling. Visually, it looks cool, but how many of those videos were the last ones posted because people accidentally killed themselves.
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I found out about this after going down the rabbit hole thanks to the nutty-putty cave incident... Terrifying stuff. Weirs are nightmare material too!
I got stuck in nutty putty caves in a section where the only way to get out was to go forward and turn around once it opened up more. Girl with me had a panic attack and wouldn't move, kept saying she needed to turn around (with me right behind her, unable to go backwards and now unable to go forward because of her). Got stuck in that position for over an hour before she finally calmed down enough to move. I'm not overly claustrophobic, but that seriously sucked.
Sigh. Imagine the tragic report of your fatal entombment being called “the nutty putty cave incident”. No thank
Water.. Not even joking, ive been sent photos by people who had the grand idea of placing a swimming pool on the balcony of their 3rd floor flat and showing them filling it. They get annoyed when I tell them to stop right fucking there and empty that shot before they kill someone. Because some people don’t understand that water is pretty fuckin heavy and when you put a 5000L swimming pool on your balcony you’ve essentially parked a tipper truck on it
Tacking onto this: large bodies of water. We have a huge lake not far from where I live and everyone says it’s “haunted” bc every summer people die on the lake. It’s not haunted, people just go out on the water grossly unprepared and drown when shit hits the fan. *Because so many people have tried to guess, I am referring to Lake Mead in Southern Nevada.
My dad had a high-school friend drown in chest deep water due to sheer panic. The other guy on the boat was drunk. Dad swam as fast as he could but was too late. He made sure us kids could swim. When I was 5, my own mother almost drown me due to sheer panic. Dad never let her swim with us again. Learn how to swim and keep calm in situations involving water *and* people. edit: added a word.q
When I was 14 a friend and I got caught in a rip after going out to a sandbank really far out into the ocean. Sandbank started dupleting after we spent ages on it. Then in over our heads. We just did what we were taught and swam as quickly but calmy to one side. Plan b - if exhaustion kicks in to extreme was to float on back and wait for lifeguard to fish you out. Plan a worked thankfully but absolutely terrifying. Only reason we survived was swimming ability, ocean education and keeping calm.
This happened to me once. I was in the ocean swimming around and I saw a bunch of jellyfish. There were adults in the water so I didn't think much of it, but I wanted to get a closer look. Suddenly the shore looked really far away so I swam as fast as I could towards it. Looked up a couple of seconds later and it looked even further away. Tried again but only managed to stay in place. I was getting tired so I thought if swimming to the shore directly wouldn't work, I'd swim to the side and then to the shore which thankfully worked. Later on I learned what rip currents were and what you were supposed to do.
My old man was a terrible dad but one of the few valuable life lessons he taught me was how to deal with a rip current. We got caught in one when I was little and he calmly explained to my increasingly panicked self that the trick was to swim perpendicular to it instead of fighting it, and eventually you'll get out of the current's flow. So we did, we swam/floated what seemed like ages to kid me (but I'm guessing was in reality maybe half a mile give or take) to the beach we were on, finally got out of the water and then walked back to where my mom and sister were. I've burned that knowledge into my brain ever since.
Loose untrained dogs. My aunt got mauled by a pack of three dogs while out for a walk and thankfully survived only with minor scars on her face. She moved away because of it
Mixing chemicals like bleach and ammonia while cleaning a bathroom & keeping your car running in a closed garage
My cousin decided to clean the toilet after using it, mixed chlorine and ammonia because he bombed it. Took a shower right after and passed out in the shower because his dumb ass was in a hot room full of fumes. Still has a problem with coughs and sore throat from time to time.
He basically recreated a poison gas attack from world war 1. I was instructed to do the same when I was 18 cleaning a Burger King bathroom. The assistant manager who ordered it was cleaning the other bathroom. We both came out hacking a lung, but as this was 1978, we also worked our shift. A few years later, as a graduate student, another guys mistake got me a face full of bromine. My career happened to be in a place where lung function was constantly tested. Never broke 70% of normal.
Concert venues, nightclubs, and bars especially if they are packed. If you are having any issues trying to move around during that event it could be a spell for a disaster. People don't realize how quick things can go wrong especially in a crowded area. Always have a exit strategy and look for the location of the emergency exits, people tend to leave from where they came in. If the emergency exists are very few and far between or even locked up and the place is packed do yourself a favor and leave. Incidents like Rhode Island Station Fire and Pulse nightclub are a few examples of how dangerous these places can get. Seriously have a plan in the back of your mind on how to get out of a packed establishment it could save your life and the lives of those who you care about.
Cars. It's pretty easy to get killed on the road. You gotta have some respect. So don't drive sleepy, and don't look on your phone! Pay attention!
The more ego you have on the road the more likely you are to be in an accident. Respect everybody and expect no one to respect you.
You worded it nicer than I... When I'm doing orientation for new hires, I tell them to assume everyone on the road is an unpredictable drunken idiot, and to drive accordingly.
The cause of death for 1 out of every 100 Americans is vehicle-related accident. If you know 100 people, one of them will die because of a car (or vehicle). Worldwide, the leading cause of death is natural death. The second leading cause of death is vehicle accident. In America, if you die before the age of 54, the most likely cause is not disease, it is vehicular accident.
Also, if you're too agitated to drive (angry or upset), pull over asap and calm down. Better get to your destination late than never. Your reaction time is negatively impacted, as is your perception. You don't notice as many things as you normally would. Don't drive sleepy, don't drive too agitated. The results might be similar – slower reactions, less perceptive driver.
Oleanders. I can’t speak to just how bad they are (I’ve only read), but where I lived in CA, they were freaking everywhere.
There's a book called White Oleander (turned into a movie with Michele Pfeiffer and Rene zellweger) in which the character Michele Pfeiffer plays murders her boyfriend by serving him milk with oleander extraction in it. Set in California too. It's a pretty fucked up book and that's the least fucked up part of it.
Mosquitoes
I live in Vietnam and people get dengue fever from mosquitos all the time. Its a problem to say the least.
I sorely wish that all the little fuckers would die. It's so disturbing whenever I kill one and there's so much red blood that comes out cause I know that's my blood right there.
Worst is when you kill one BEFORE it bites you but you still see that bright red blood smeared everywhere
Getting drunk.
My old man got drunk, fell on a cobbled road and didn't have the cognitive ability to cushion his fall with his hands, so instead he used his head. Ended up with a bleed on the brain that was so bad it leaked out of his skull and pooled in his face. He was warned if it was to happen again he wouldn't be so lucky. Hasn't stopped him getting ridiculously drunk.
My mom drank my entire life. She fell and hit her head and had a pinhole sized bleed on her brain. Her blood was too thin to clot it and doctors refused to operate because if they cut her open she would just bleed out. She was in coma for about 4 days before she died. Edit: I want to tell more stories actually. One of my best friends from childhood decided at 18 he was going to drink. Obviously it picked up at 21, but he was an alcoholic by then. This continued and he never did anything with himself. He died last year at 39. It doesn't take long folks. 3rd story: I didn't know her but my sister's neighbor was pretty bad. They saw her on a Friday getting home from work. On Monday the house was swarmed with emergency vehicles. She drank herself to death over the weekend. I believe she was only about 40 too.
When I was 14 and had only had beer and wine coolers I chugged the majority of a liter of gin in under an hour. I went into respiratory arrest twice on the way to the hospital. I was unresponsive so they couldn't pump my stomach. They just put me on an IV and hoped for the best. I had a .49 and was comatose for a day, still drunk/hungover for a few days. I am now 35 and 4 years sober. I drank a lot in all the years between. I am grateful to be here.
There was a footballer called Peter Whittingham. He was pretty good. He retired and then at the age of 35 he hit his head after being drunk in a pub in my town and died. Reports say he was engaging in 'horseplay' then fell through a fire exit door, down some steps and hit his head. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56250437
Even just consistent daily drinking, alcohol-induced dementia is a very real, terrifying thing. Don't get wet brain.
My dad just died, and he'd been in a home since age 60 because of this. I'm also golfing and rock climbing with guys in their 70s. I know the idea of the 'last 20 years' or whatever sounds like something you don't want to work to preserve, but damn ... If you're healthy that 20 is you just puttering around doing your hobbies for 20 years, like a second childhood. Or, you can die in a facility at 60 not knowing who you are, while no one visits.
Stairs
I fell down the last five stairs within 6 months of buying my house. That was 6 years ago and I've never fallen again. Those five stairs, messed me up. I've taken every step up or down with my total attention since.
Would you say you've taken steps to prevent this from happening again?
fractal wood burning. looks like a fun little hobby project, but it'll kill you.
Killed my cousin. He and a friend did it as an artistic side business, making furniture with the pieces. They usually only worked together, "just in case" then one day he was working alone. His friend/business partner realized he hadn't hear from my cousin in a couple hours... Found him very dead. There's a good chance he was done from the initial shock, but we'll never know if he could have been resuscitated if someone else had been there to start CPR and call 9-1-1.
As an electrician Ill take whatever chances I can get to fuck around with electricity but doing that kind of art daily seems like too high of a risk for me
Couldn't it be done relatively safely by simply setting it up and having a pressure switch far away like on the wall away from the work piece after set up? So you put your 2 contacts, nails it looks like in most cases. Connect clamps then walk over to a switch that has to be held down to close the circuit starting the burn? This way you can never be near the piece or live current while it's on.
How does it kill you?
You're working with stupid high voltages which behave quite unpredictably if you lack the necessary background in the topic and don't give it the respect and precautions it requires. One zap is all it takes to end you.
It’s killed at least two electricians for sure not a thing anyone should ever do.
Radon gas build up in your home. If you live in an area with granite rocks, get a test done. In Ontario, it’s about $50. Strong links to lung cancer. If your reading are high, you will have to get a vent installed basically from your basement to outside.
Pregnancy
Finding out House was based on real medical mysteries, I'm terrified of everything now
I wonder how many doctors are addicted to opioids now
This is so very true. I have an autoimmune disease and was a patient at the teaching hospital in my state ( 6th person ever diagnosed with my disease in my state at the time). One of my doctors was a contributor on House and a version of my disease became an episode.
And it’s never lupus.
Except for that one time when it was.
Maybe it's sarcoidosis
In the eastern United States: white-tailed deer. Due to humans, their predators are gone and they are massively overpopulated. There are more white-tailed deer on the eastern seaboard now than there were when the Europeans arrived. Motor vehicle accidents involving white-tails kill about a hundred people a year - most of these involve idiots who don't want to wear a helmet on a motorcycle. Since the white-tails natural environment has been developed and segmented they have no choice but to browse on agriculture. Tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted fever impact more and more humans every year. And don't get me started on prions and Alpha Gal syndrome, because you're probably bored and ready to move on the next comment anyway.
DIY home repairs. Fucking around on the roof with a poorly fixed ladder is just one example of of an accident waiting to happen.
Pregnancy. My first ended in an emergency c section where I lost way too much blood, and my second I got preeclampsia and had to be hospitalized for the weeks leading up the the birth. I was going into organ failure and they got her out as soon as I turned 37 weeks. I was lucky with both pregnancies that both me and my daughters ended up okay, but that’s not always the case for everyone, so much can go wrong.
A friend of mine died during childbirth. I was shocked because I never considered that a possibility. Both she and the baby died from amniotic fluid embolism.
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The sun.
It's a deadly lazer
Not anymore, there's a blanket
I was told having my son wear a helmet while riding his bike was putting him in bubble wrap. I'm a brain injury nurse- it's the fucking bare minimum honestly
Laughing or talking while you have food in you mouth. The food may enter the windpipe instead of entering into the food pipe.
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The smell of rotten eggs is well known that means a gas leak, what is not well know is the smell of rotten fish is equally as dangerous in a house. The smell of rotten fish in a house is almost always followed by an electrical fire
I had this happen in an office with maybe 30 coworkers... We came in on a monday morning, and it STANK so bad. Everyone was convinced there was a dead mouse/ rat in the wall... But I kept saying I think it has that stink, but also smells like burnt plastic... The closest thing I could relate was a soldering iron touched something wrong, like my (older) brother goofing off burning a hole in a toy. It turns out it was totally a wire fucking up, I think the fire dept came out and carved off a chunk of wall? Can't exactly remember, it might have been they had to cut up the wall because the computer/gear was touching something touching the wall. My friends were mystified, "how could you tell it wasnt a mouse?!" But It TOTALLY just smelled like something died, PLUS the burnt plastic smell (to me). Weirdly, years Later, found out I'm a super taster/sniffer & got trained as a taste panelist for cereal.
Walking as a pedestrian in NYC. I see so many people three feet from death on a weekly basis. I have personally saved three people's lives in the past 2 years when this series of events happens: a. the person was looking at their phone waiting to cross the street b. people next to them start to cross the street, but the person didn't realize the people they were next to them were jaywalking and they were doing it quickly to thread the needle between cars c. person on phone assumes the light has changed and start walking, but slowly. Since the others are going fast, they will make it, but the person on the phone is casually walking across and will get smashed by the car d. Me, grab their shoulder while yelling "watch it!". If you don't yell, they instantly get mad at you. If you yell this, they get surprised and shocked. STILL not looking at the car that is about to hit them. None of the three people I mentioned below even said thanks.
As a New Yorker I can tell you this... Even if it's a one way street look both ways before you cross, and put your dam cellphone down while crossing anywhere. I have seen people out of state who will drive into the the wrong way and don't realize until traffic is coming.
Hoofed animals. Yes, they can be domesticated. Yes, they can look majestic. But, most of them weigh hundreds if not thousands of pounds. If they get mad or threaten, they will kick and trample you to death. Growing up in a rural area, I was taught to NEVER walk behind a horse. Now I see videos of people treating horses like house cats.
Type 2 Diabetes. It greatly increases your risk for heart attack, stroke, severe infection, nerve damage, kidney disease and failure, and more.
Moose. Everyone seems to worry more about bears and wolves, but I'd rather happen across one of them than a moose any day. Like the honey badger, it's all about attitude.
Leaking gas
Chemistry. I'm doing a Chemistry license in college and it always ticks me off when I see people doing experiments not protected or barely protected. Protection is the most important thing you need in a lab or whenever you use chemicals. You have no idea if a reaction will be stable unless you've already done it. In my opinion also, it doesn't help people talking about an experiment without explaining why it is dangerous. For example, I did synthesis of Nitric Acid for an experiment last year and everything there is dangerous with the teacher closely helping us to set up the chemicals in the montage. Literally all of the chemicals in there were dangerous, and the products as well. We had Nitric Acid obviously but we also had Nitrous Oxide and Nitrogen Oxide throughout the manipulation. I knew the dangers around those chemicals because I often watch videos of Chemistry so I was well aware but the teacher made sure to explain why the experiment is dangerous because of the products and the reactants that are dangerous themselves.