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Life is full of choices we make every day. Most of them are small, like deciding what you want to eat for dinner or what flavor of toothpaste to buy. But others, the big ones, have the power to completely redirect the course of your life.
Recently, people in this popular Reddit thread were sharing stories about exactly that. But instead of discussing their own experiences, they reminisced about the wrongdoings of others, which left their lives completely in shambles.
Scroll down to find the most chilling ones that might make you reconsider your own big choices.
Bored Panda also got in touch with No_Potential6463, the person who started this discussion in the first place.
You can find our conversation with them below!
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#1
Mom had an affair and abandoned our family for said affair partner when I was a baby. Thought the grass was greener. Turns out the guy she left for was a raging alcoholic who just never could clean up. Pawned her jewelry for booze after he lost his job, hired escorts, the works. Put my mom through hell. Ended up dying of liver failure and my mom is alone now. I think the guilt and shame has caught up to her. I’m not angry anymore. She made a mistake, but it has been one of the biggest lessons in my life. My dad has never spoken one bad word of her in my 35 years of life. He’s incredible and I’m thankful everyday he raised my brother and I.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
I cannot imagine a universe where I just walked away from my children. OP is an incredible person with an equally incredible father to have made such peace with this.
David 1 year ago
There was a case near me where a woman abandoned her family of several kids to move with her affair partner (husband only found out when the wife said she was leaving him) across the country. Her husband filed for divorce and full custody and she couldnt even bother to show up in court for her kids so he got full custody. A few years later she came back and tried to sue for custody of her kids. Not only did she lose, but her then 12 year old daughter, who since 7 had not seen her mother told the court if they ever made her see her mother again, she would kill herself. Interestingly the father never bad mouthed his ex-wife to the kids, however her own parents who disowned her and were involved in the kids lives were the ones who who did that.
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CaptainFluffy 1 year ago
The story is awful and I am in no way condoning this behaviour, but just wanted to point out that societal condemnation for women leaving the family is a thousand times greater that for men. And men engage in this behaviour astronomically more often that women do. Not trying to take anything away rom the OPs story but men are not judged the same.
Mrs Irish Mom 1 year ago
The grass is not always greener and thank god i learnrd that lesson years before hubby and kid.. i go to work and miss my kid i couldnt be withoit them for all the money or men in the world
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 1 year ago
Imagine falling in love so desperately that you even walk away from your kids and then have it all turn into a nightmare. I do feel incredibly sorry for this woman, and I'm glad the kids got an awesome father who raised them.
rainbowbrite141 1 year ago
My dad did the same a few years ago. Came home one day and told my mom, whom he'd been married to for 37 years, that another woman was 8 mos pregnant with his child. We all left. I know he regrets it because he keeps trying to get in contact but I don't care. I never plan on speaking to him again.
similarly 1 year ago
When my Mom was a toddler, her mother abandoned the family: husband and three kids. When I was a toddler, my Mom abandoned me and my brothers for around 6 months or so before coming back, divorcing my Dad, and taking us kids. While I will always love my Mom, there are times I think we would have been better off if she'd just stayed gone. She might have wanted my brothers, but I think she might rather I'd not been born at all, and I think that probably makes two of us.
Amanda Hunter 1 year ago
Booze, he was brilliant, and had a great career but started drinking to ease stress. He lost everything and died from ethanol poisoning.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
OP's dad is a good man; his/her mom is an idiot to have left him.
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#2
Back when I was delivering pizzas in a fairly nice area, some kid put six rounds of .380 auto in my chest to steal my camero. Later found out this kid had a full ride at UF, straight A student, from a very wealthy family. Just started rolling with a bad crowd I guess. Got caught when he brought the car home, and the next morning it went out on the news. His own dad turned him in. Aside from some wicked scars, I made a full recovery.
Corvus 1 year ago
I'm not sure the "bad crowd" was the sole reason for this. He probably had a predisposition towards violence way before he joined the bad crowd.
E.V. 1 year ago
Right, or he wouldn't have joined in the first place. He just wanted to have company.
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Glad OP made a full recovery, and glad the kid's dad turned his son in. I can't imagine how difficult that must've been.
Papa 1 year ago
Full recovery after taking six rounds in the chest? Was he wearing a bullet proof vest?
Vylnce NA 1 year ago
380 is not a powerful round. Depending on the ammo used, marksmanship, shape/weight of the target person, and availability of emergency services, it's possibly survivable. Firearms are not always as deadly as people believe.
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WonderWoman 1 year ago
It was the influence of that notoriously bad crowd, yup, the kid wasn't a complete AH, just met the wrong people/s Good for his father. Hope the AH is still serving his sentence.
#3
Friend graduated with me from pharmacy school, we were all set to start making 130k+ a year for the rest of our lives.
He sold 2.9 million dollars of oxycodone to an undercover DEA agent like 3 months into his first job. What a total idiot.
19 year prison sentence, lost his license, obviously, so now he'll be a 45 year old unemployable felon when he gets out instead of a respected healthcare professional with a good wage.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Oxycodone/contin has ruined countless lives. The sad thing is, as a pharmacist, this guy knew exactly just how horrible this stuff can be and still made this decision.
Ace 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure that everybody involved in the illegal sale and distribution of these drugs is fully aware of the consequences of what they do.
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Virgin Panda 1 year ago
I was on it for chronic spinal problems. My old GP took me off it, so I turned to alcohol and became addicted to that. Moved to a new area and my new GP who I had when I was younger got me counselling, new meds and I'm now 14 months sober. Oxy can help some people if used correctly. It's the ones who abuse it who have ruined it for everyone else.
Jp@nda 1 year ago
The ones who abuse it? Nobody starts out wanting to abuse anything.. The majority of people who become addicted to prescription pain pills do so because they were in some type of accident and were prescribed them and over time became addicted and then were cut off by doctors with no follow up care so they turn to drugs on the streets.
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Peter Trudell Jr 1 year ago
I think Glen Frey put it best. "Its the lure of easy money. It's gotta very strong appeal."
Steve Hall 1 year ago
What pharmacy has $2.9 million dollars of any drug in stock, much less one that is controlled by the government.
Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
Why, why would he do that? He had to know he'd get caught? Such a waste when he could have had a very comfortable life.
Sonja 1 year ago
I'm not a Christian, but the seven deadly sins have some truth in them. Gluttony, vanity, greed, lust, sloth, rage and envy are poisonous attributes that lead people to destroy their lives if they're not aware of their dangers. I'm not taking about the normal amounts of those attributes, of course occasional indulgence, healthy self care, ambition, attraction, relaxation, justified anger and a normal desire to gain nice things are not problematic.
We reached out to redditor No_Potential6463, to find out what inspired them to take such a question to Reddit. "I want to avoid making mistakes in my life. I think there’s a lot to learn from the stories people have told, which serve as a reminder of the dangerous choices that must constantly be avoided."
#4
This is from someone who wrote into an advice column but it has stuck with me lo these many years.
The guy wrote about how he had begged his wife to swing with the couple next door.
She was **deadset against it but he pestered her about it for a couple of years** and she finally, **reluctantly**, agreed.
When the time came, the guy was very disappointed to find the neighbor’s wife was not as “tight” as he had anticipated. Meanwhile his neighbor was giving his wife what looked to be an out of body experience.
It made him EXTREMELY angry and resentful of his wife for enjoying it so much. I think he said something like “I can’t even look at her without wanting to punch her in the face.” The columnist told him off and advised him to file for divorce.
The guy wrote an update stating a few months after the “swinging” occurred, the neighbors divorced and his wife left him for the guy next door. They married soon after.
He felt blindsided and betrayed.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
“He felt blindsided and betrayed” - he had no cause to feel this way at all!
Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
I normally do try not to post highly judgemental comments but I just gotta say that idiot had it coming... What an asshat
Erla Zwingle 1 year ago
Sure, on the one hand I think it's really distressing, but on the other hand I think it's hilarious. If your wife doesn't want to "swing," BELIEVE HER.
DarkViolet 1 year ago
Break out the tiny violins and the cheese to accompany the whine. 🙄
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There's a video of a guy who goes to slash the tires on a bus. Bus tires hold a hell of a lot more energy than car tires so instead of a hiss when he stabs the tire, his arm gets blown off and his body is thrown to the ground.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
*Note to self- do NOT stab bus tires* Well, there goes my plans for Wednesday night.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Really? What I got from that is do it from a distance ;)
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Comedy Clumbers 1 year ago
I've seen that video. Like a bomb exploded. Physics doesn't much care about appropriate levels of punishment for stupid.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
One reason I am terrified of driving next to Semi trucks, if the tire blows, your are f****d.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
One of my brothers drove a Semi doing Interstate long hauls for several years. If it's on the highways at that speed, you have a much higher chance of being f****d then on a standard surface street. City streets the speeds are lower with more traffic congestion so it can do a lot of damage but decreases the chance of fatality.
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detective miller's hat 1 year ago
When I was a kid living in Ireland, I remember seeing a guy over-inflate a tractor tire and it blew and threw him like 10 meters across the road. I was PETRIFIED of putting air in car tires after that until my uncle explained to me that regular car tires wouldn't do that.
Robert T 1 year ago
I hate to upset your new found security, but car tyres are quite capable of killing a person. A young lady died when her partner removed a damaged tyre and she sat with it on her lap as it wouldn't fit in the boot/trunk. The tyre exploded. Always deflate a damaged tyre fully before transporting it. And keep your face well away from tyres when inflating them!
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DC 1 year ago
Blown off, here, for sure means "blown away from the tire". The arm actually being torn off ... not really. Physics don't care about a good story.
#6
That guy who ate a slug on a dare, got paralyzed and then died some years after.
Astro 1 year ago
“He had no idea that the slug carried a potentially deadly worm that would put him into a coma that lasted more than a year, paralyze his body and ultimately take his life.” https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html
Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
Okay, avoid slugs at all costs. I'm glad I kill them off in my garden.
Stephanie Barr 1 year ago
Friend ate a scorpion on a dare. He didn't die, but it didn't go well. Nearly did.
Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
I knew gastropods can carry heartworm which is lethal for cats (possibly others, idk) but not lungworm!
When asked if they noticed any patterns or behaviors that tend to result in people ruining their lives, they said, "The most common answer was drugs, especially heroin and meth. Addiction is very serious and can destroy everything someone has worked for."
According to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, over 70,000 people die from drug overdoses in the US annually. And this number is unfortunately growing, with deaths increasing at an annual rate of 4.0%.
#7
Pound a bottle of Jack. Hop in car with girlfriend. Drive 100 mph. Hit tree. K**l girlfriend. Breathe through tube for rest of life. Quadriplegic. He was 16 at the time.
DarkViolet 1 year ago
A poster from my Driver's Training class: "He wasn't even old enough to drink. Now he never will be." Nearly 50 years ago, and I've never forgotten it.
Lesbee 9 months ago
some people have really bad trauma and triggers im in the air force id know
Load More Replies... Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
I have zero pity for him. Drunk driving is the most irresponsible crime and so selfish. My mom was killed by a drunk driver and the ripple effect it had on my family tore us all apart to the point where we haven't spoken in years. That's the thing as a drunk driver who killed someone you know you killed them but you don't see the whole aftermath of what that does to a family.
Jennifer 1 year ago
Second this. I have zero empathy for drunks, period. Don't tell me it's a disease. It's not a disease if you have to make thousands of conscious decisions for it to be a "disease".
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
ugh if I was him I'd ask to be euthanised. what a miserable existence, and having to carry her death on your conscience.
Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
He should not be let out of his hell early. He took away someone's life. Someone's daughter, granddaughter, possibly sister or aunt. He deserves the hell he is living in. What he did shattered more lives than his.
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Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
Early 60's, a drunk driver blew through a stop sign and hit my aunt's car. My aunt and several cousins got killed. He got a slap on the wrist, ended up killing someone else a couple months later. I don't remember what my mom told me happened to him after that.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
My kids were told call if you've been drinking or your ride has. I will get you home. Do not get in a car after drinking or d***s. She was 18 her ride got smashed, she drove him to our house. She handed me the keys to his car because he kept trying to take them from her. He complained at me. I told him he could have them back in the morning. Always tell kids that you will get them home. Just so this doesn't happen.
#8
This isn't like, a single instance where a person f****d up their whole life in one go, but I was there for the domino that brought down the whole house.
Was working at a Gas station. Lady wanted smokes but didn't have her ID. I refused to make the sale, she was upset, got angry, stole a banana. Well, police frequented the store because it was the only one that was open 24hrs in the town. Cop watches her take the banana after her fit and promptly stops her in the parking lot before she can leave. At first, he was just going to have her return the banana as a sorta petty way to get back at her for being a huge b***h about the whole situation with the smokes.
Five minutes later, he's still got her stopped and two more squad cars roll up with their lights on.
Turns out, Lady had 8 warrants in 3 states for various drug and theft charges.
She got taken in, ostensibly extradited to the other states for charges, and raked over the courts over a pack of swisher sweets and a f*****g banana.
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Never commit a misdemeanor while you're trying to get away with a felony
Alex Kennedy 1 year ago
People keep using the word “ostensibly” in this odd way — I do not think it means what you think it means.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
Well “raked over the courts” is a new car crash expression to me.
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Averysleepypanda 1 year ago
I mean, I don't think he was going to make her return the banana because he was petty, I think that's just because she stole it
#9
Dude with a Six-figure IT job stole a $600 laptop *knowing we lojacked ALL laptops.*
He waited a month and then booted it up on his home network. The laptop promptly sent us his IP address and network name...which was his last name.
Boss called him out on it, he broke down and confessed and was fired.
This is not the dumbest part of the story.
He was the *second* person in IT to steal a laptop and get caught and fired. And yes, he knew all about the first guy.
WHAT....the f**k. It has been years and I still can't wrap my head around it.
For your amusement: when we did the final interview with his replacement we did it as a group and each asked him a question and answered any questions he might have. When my turn came I asked him "Do you ever get the urge to just...steal stuff?" and the whole team lost it. Boss was not amused but it all worked out. Guy had a great sense of humor.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Why the heck wouldn't he boot it with a USB drive and format it immediately? Wipe off any dial home software. Or heck even boot it up with no wifi connection present and wipe it that way. Guess his 6 figure IT job wasn't a technical role.
Ace 1 year ago
We're talking about someone dumb enough to steal a laptop from their employer, why would expect anything less dumb at any later stage?
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Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
A co-worker of mine got sent to gaol for stealing a thousand bucks from the store we worked in. What's really gonna make you mad to learn is that the company had, over 5 years, deliberately stolen nearly a billion dollars in wages from employees but not one executive even lost their jobs after it became public knowledge and the government took them to court.
Helen Bennett 1 year ago
They hang the man and flog the woman / That steals the goose from off the common, / But leave the greater villain loose / That steals the common from the goose.
Load More Replies... Corvus 1 year ago (edited)
People can be incredibly stupid at times... like when they do something obviously illegal, record themselves doing it... and then actually post it on social media (as a public post!). And some even have the nerve to be surprised when they get caught. Gee, it's almost like you told the whole world about it, and even provided video evidence.
Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
A colleague of mine who came from a rich family and was earning 6 figure salary stole $100 from an ATM when the actual owner forgot to remove the card after transaction. The ATM was inside our office premises and there were CCTVs everywhere. Got fired immediately
DC 1 year ago
... seems, sometimes 50 bucks the wife don't know of are more precious than 100 bucks she's aware of. Think a sobriety-priest married to a lowkey stoner, ... or so ... but, yeah, I get the point making this stupid. There are other ways, if even needed at all.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
The education department gave our school 40 tablets. They were 'locked' in such a way that you could not put more than three apps on at once - a big inconvenience when seven grades (1 - 7) were sharing them and things had to be put on, taken off for the next grade, etc. We finally get a system going, the department takes them back because they "promised them to a high school". One week after the high school gets them, to no one's surprise the tablets go missing. Kids were just taking them to places that will delete and reformat for you. So come on - if kids in a third world country can figure out how to steal a piece of computer equipment and not get caught, that guy must have been a complete moron.
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
There’s a certain percentage of people who will steal whenever they think they can get away with it. Steal from stores, friends, work whenever they get the chance. They may get caught occasionally but if they are white and privileged, they likely get away with it. This isn’t the first time this guy stole something from his work, it’s just he was careless this time.
Mary Gillis 1 year ago
I work in IT and we had someone within their first week, go the MAC Book Pro cabinet and steal one in full view of the multi cameras that were all in plain view. He was fired the next day.
Nikki Sevven 1 year ago
Before my time, but an older postal worker told me about a coworker who was a couple years from retirement and was making top tier pay. He started stealing the quarters from some sweepstakes mailing. He would take two quarters a day, just enough to buy himself a cup of coffee. Stealing from the mail is a federal felony in the US and if you're a postal worker, you're not only charged under the criminal code, but also under the code of federal regulations that governs federal employees. Ruined his life for his daily 50¢ coffee.
Redditor believes that at first, these stories may seem bizarre and entertaining, but they definitely can help raise awareness, especially for young people who are just entering the world of relationships, drugs, and independence.
Jackson House addiction and recovery centers second this and recommend discussing your knowledge and experience with people around you.
Unfortunately, common stigmas still surround this topic, so spreading awareness in your community or on social media can help combat this and encourage more recovered people to step forward and share their own stories with those who need it the most.
#10
*World of Warcraft*. He had a full scholarship to a very good university that his family could not have afforded otherwise. He started playing WoW 60 hours a week and got expelled halfway though his second year.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Sadly, when addiction is present, some people cannot moderate.
Load More Replies... E.V. 1 year ago
I played WoW for years (moderately) but never once missed work or skipped going out to play. But I used to play with this guy who got his dad to play. Then his dad got addicted to the game, lost his job, got divorced and lost everything. Last time I talked to my friend, his dad was living in a trailer and still jobless and playing WoW. Insane! But I guess if you have that addictive gene, it doesn't matter what it is, you'll get addicted to it!
Heather Evans 1 year ago
This stupid game cost one of my buddies, his marriage and family .. stupid s**t is addictive
Superninjatiger 1 year ago
I forbade my younger step-brother from playing WoW when he started playing computer games. My friends brother got way too into it and I saw way too many fights within her family due to that game, and because I knew how my step-brother functioned I was pretty sure he would get addicted to it and we would catch hell at home. A lot of games can be addictive but WoW was something else in that department, many friends played it and an ex-bf and it sucked.
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Comedy Clumbers 1 year ago
Coworker got himself fired because he just couldn't resist playing WoW at work. We worked at a state agency, fantastic benefits, very stable, sweet job. IN IT. He was found out very easily, got multiple warnings, finally hit last straw when discovered he'd gone to another location, turned off his work phone, and hid in the server room to play WoW *on a production server* that sent multiple notices to us real-time. Escorted away from that server room by security, had to pickup his personal stuff at the public reception desk.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
This is so sad. It's been proven in studies that with the right genetic predisposition, people who become addicted to gaming/ slots/ app poker & so on experience a nearly identical chemical cocktail to somebody doing opiates, IV drugs, etc.
Load More Replies... Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
This is why I never played WoW... Im aware that its fantasy gaming crack... And I don't trust myself not to turn into the video game version of Tyrone Biggums
Holly Allen 1 year ago
This reminds me of a guy who did the same thing except he dropped out just so that he could play WoW all the time. Wonder where he is now
#11
A patient of mine when I was a student nurse. 19 years old, male, dove head first into unfamiliar body of water. Instant C3-C4 quadraplegic. I was assigned to him for an entire rotation on the rehab floor. His girlfriend came every evening for a few days, then skipped a day, then skipped a couple, then didn't come again the rest of the time I was assigned to him. He was heartbroken, but she was younger than him and she looked very upset and scared whenever she was there. We had to clean him up after bowel movements (sometimes needed an enema to even have one). One day we were cleaning him, holding him over on his side so we could do it, and he broke down sobbing. It was so terrible. Over the years I've wondered what happened to him. Wish I had made a note of his name so I could have followed up.
Jane Doe 1 year ago
So heartbreaking. And his younger girlfriend? She would’ve been 16/17. Poor girl, too.
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Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
A guy I went to high-school with was doing drills for football practice after school. Tucked his head to sack a guy and went to the ground. Instantly he was quadriplegic. He lived with his parents in a motorized chair before passing away in his late 30s. We stayed in contact and while he was very funny, he never sugar-coated how happy he would be to pass on.
Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
In high school, the team football star broke his neck in a game and became quadriplegic. Senior year.
Load More Replies... StretcherBearer 1 year ago
This happened to a kid I went to school with.nice kid wealthy family but he was literally weeks from graduating and going to school on a basketball scholarship. He dove off a bridge into shallow river below. This was in 90-91.I heard he recently passed. Sad
Nikki Sevven 1 year ago
You shouldn't even jump feet first into an unfamiliar body of water. You don't know what might be lurking underneath. There's a brook in front of my house. Submerged in it is a huge piece of concrete with quite thick rebar sticking up from it. However you jump into the water, if you land on it, you're going to regret it.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
That happened to a Brazilian dancer at Bondi Beach. He dove in to a sand bank and was instantly paralyzed from the neck down. His dance troupe was in Australia on tour to perform. :(
DC 1 year ago
My first two girlfriends were incontinent, the first for her entire life until after any growth was done with, then she, as far as I know, should have had surgery that wouldn't work until any growth was done with. Don't know for sure. The second one acquired this by an accident (basically, she had a bicycle's handlebar stuck throw her lower abdomen, ripping apart a lot of internal structure). She knew I wouldn't make it a problem, she knew about her predecessor, but still tried to hide the fact from me. Because she was scared I'd be disgusted. She knew I wouldn't, but that didn't make the fear disappear, ... he, it seems, had a justified reason for just that fear. But then again, without a lot more detail, we shouldn't judge anyone here. There's a lot to it, and "Love can fix Everything!" is a lie. It can be able to fix everything - but not everytime, not for everyone, ...
#12
Two I didn’t see first hand but I am aware of.
1 - Lad I grew up with, nice lad from a rough family, he was the black sheep. He was intelligent, polite, didn’t fight, didn’t get in trouble, was well liked and so on. Some time around his 19th birthday he was on a night out with friends, got drunk and another lad bumped into him accidentally spilling his drink, his friend he was with got in the other guys face even though he apologised so the guy pushed him away. The nice kid I grew up with punched the guy, he fell, hit his head and died. He got sent to prison for manslaughter. Completely ruined his life, in and out of prison multiple times since, fell into drugs and so on. He was the one who could have escaped his family reputation and gone on to do something with his life but f****d it.
2 - is an ex-girlfriend of mine and this happened before I met her. Studying to be a doctor, smart, beautiful, great sense of humour, proper social butterfly type who people just wanted to be around. There was a birthday party for her friend and she drove there to drop off a present, say hi and had to go home as she had classes the next day. When she was there she obviously declined alcohol but had a glass of lemonade someone offered her and got in her car to go home. Drove the wrong way down a motorway and crashed her car into someone else, causing serious injury to both herself and the other person. Turns out that she’d been drugged at the party. I don’t know the exact ins and out off the top of my head but she basically admitted to guilt and spent 3 months in prison, her plans for life were ruined and she had to start over. Never drove again, never drank again (even though she didn’t drink at the party, she flat out refused to even have a lemonade any more and would take her own bottle of Coca Cola or something in her bag so she could screw the lid on. Got SEVERE anxiety and depression etc.
When she told me I felt so bad for her because some a*****e drugged her and she ended up both injured, with a criminal record, a driving ban and her life ruined.
Corvus 1 year ago
Wow, #2 sucks... someone else drugs you without your knowledge, and then you get the punishment. So unfair!
Panda Bear 1 year ago
The person who drugged her should have faced the consequences she did
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Lee Banks 1 year ago
My dear buddy (on track for Phd) deescalated a bar fight, and offered to drive the guy home. The guy got belligerent, and punched my friend. He hit the sidewalk, and wound up in a coma for several weeks. He didn't come back the same. Dude is paying retributions for the rest of his life, and my friend is a completely different person. Two lives. One moment. It still breaks my heart.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Girl in #2 didn't deserve what happened to her. The turd burglar who drugged her should have to pay dearly for what they did.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Back in the 70's, I knew a young man who had been accepted at a prestigious college, pre-med. Got caught with a joint. One joint. His dream of being a doctor crushed. He became a cop. A rotten, nasty, bully cop.
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
A lifetime driving ban does not happen after one instance of DWI. This sounds a bit far fetched.
Jossh Nine 1 year ago
It doesn't say she got a lifetime driving ban. It says she never drove again. I take it as SHE decided never to drive again...probably PTSD or something.
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carol bland 1 year ago
Don't admit to something you didn't do. Stop immediately if you feel unwell, DO NOT DRIVE.
#13
Narcissist/ egotistical brother-in-law disrespected my mother-in-law and wife (fiancée back then), claimed he was better than everyone else and that his friends were his only true supporters/ family. Moved out of their apartment to "launch his band" and "get out of the s****y and ghetto city" he grew up in.
He's homeless now in the same city.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Might be mental illness but probably he's just a narcissistic personality & still sees himself as the victim in every situation.
C.O. Shea 1 year ago
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental illness.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I didn't make any grandiose announcement about leaving my one-horse town for bigger things. With an Irish goodbye, I quietly left.
#14
when my 27 year marriage was ending, my soon to be ex husband, who did not know how to handle money at all, asked me to make a list of how to keep his bills paid. I did. Divorce involves #1) me taking half the marital assets and b) he has to pay his own bills now. When he discovered this he was very bitter and decided he was just "not gonna do anything that b***h says" as per the list of how to pay his bills. He was sued and had his pay garnished, lost his job, his car, his home and his entire support network all within a year because he didnt want to handle his finances the way I told him to, after he ASKED ME HOW TO DO IT! That one decision ruined his life.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Sounds like a real gem. I can't imagine why you divorced him? What a tool.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
Been working as a paralegal just over 15 years, I have seen THREE men do this after their divorces. Learn how to manage your life people!!
censorshipsucks 1 year ago (edited)
sounds like me. I've learnt the hard way why my ex was a pain with money. currently learning this lesson. Don't buy s**t you don't need.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I handled all the money, made all the purchase decisions, and I tried to teach my ex Excel for his business and personal expenses. Nah, he didn't need it. Since the divorce, he's fallen off the grid, took down his business website, the whole bit. I assume he's holed up in some bedsit on the dole drinking his life away.
#15
A friend of mine freshman year in college, took all the money his dad had given him for college and bought a ring and proposed to his girlfriend, who was a senior in high school. she said she wanted to wait until she graduated, which he took as a no, and in a fit of anger, threw the ring into the nearby lake. His plan was his dad would be so happy he was getting married, that he would reimburse all the money he had given him. Instead, the ring was gone, he had to drop out of college because he couldn't pay, and last I saw, he was working at a convenience store in town.
Even though she said wait, she still tried to get back together with him afterwards, and he said no, you weren't interested when I proposed to you, you won't be interested again.
𝙻𝚞𝚗𝚊⋆𝚝𝚑𝚎⋆𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢 1 year ago (edited)
I think that girl didn’t dodge a bullet, she dodged a world destroying tactical nuke!
Load More Replies... Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
This guy WAS the problem and will probably won't change. Hopefully that girl realizes she dodged a hole in the drywall sized bullet.
Rachel Parker 1 year ago
Can’t imagine why she thought he needed to grow up a bit before getting married.
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Jessica Cooney 1 year ago
Something tells me he was not meant for college. I can't imagine trying to pressure a high school aged person to marry me, like they don't have enough to deal with already.
#16
My roommate in the army got drunk and damaged a door in the barracks. He got an article 15 which is basically a fine. He refused it and got sent to jail for a month or two. In jail, he took a swing at an officer. He got sent to federal prison.
I lost track of him at that point.
If he'd simply signed the article 15, he'd have lost $150 but been fine afterwards.
Never saw someone f**k their life up that quickly before or since.
DarkViolet 1 year ago
Imagine him with live ammo at his disposal. Not good.
Load More Replies... Scott Wilkins 1 year ago
Sadly, that's not uncommon in the military. A lot of testosterone and ego (I was no exception).
Vylnce NA 1 year ago
It's not just testosterone and ego. It's also a total lack of life experience. I went through basic at 21 and the differences between the s**t I did and the s**t the 18 years olds did was amazing. I'd had three years living on my own. Many of them 0.
Load More Replies... El Cucuy 1 year ago
An Article 15 is not just basically a fine. It is a non-judicial punishment given out for a variety of offenses and can take the form of many things: fines, extra duty, restricted duty, a reduction in rank, up to 30 days of correctional custody or any combination of these.
ShadySlytherin 1 year ago
That's a really long sentence to tell us that OP was correct, his buddy got an Article 15 and the correction on the paperwork he was issued gave him a fine, with no extra duty, no reduction in rank and no correctional custody. THIS Article 15 was JUST A FINE
Load More Replies... Laura Williams 1 year ago
Seriously these people just know how to self sabotage like professionals.
RosenCranzLives 1 year ago
That guy had a problem with authority. If it wasn't this, it would have been something else. Not cut out for peacetime, we used to call it.
#17
Guy I went to middle school with met a 13 year old on Fortnite and traveled from Pennsylvania to Georgia to try and hook up with him. Kid understandably got spooked and told the cops, who nailed him in a sting down there when he'd already traveled down. Turns out he had a COLLECTION of CP on his computers. Is currently doing 15 years in federal prison. He had a good job in a private school and was a basketball coach, and well respected before then. The scary thing was that he was also a tutor at a special needs school on top of that, and if he'd wanted to take advantage of that he could have. As an aside, he was a complete douchebag to me since I wasn't one of the popular clique, so any tiny shred of sympathy I'd have for him was never there to begin with. Enjoy prison, chomo.
Sergy Yeltsen 1 year ago
Rock spiders deserve everything they get, and even more. Castration should be mandatory on them.
Pyla 1 year ago
I worked with a survivor of severe domestic violence. Once someone popped off in a conversation that all rapiists should be castrated. She said they use hands and bottles. That person shut up fast.
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DarkViolet 1 year ago
Even if he survives prison (sex offenders get beat down or worse), he has to register as a S.O. for the rest of his life. His employment opportunities are extremely limited, as are his choices of residency. Once a neighborhood finds out that you're a convicted sex offender, anything can happen.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Only 15 years? The guy's a predator; he should be in there for life!
clairebear 1 year ago
Why would you have a shred of sympathy for this person? Pedophiles often take jobs that put them near children. He didn't turn into one suddenly. He just got caught.
Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
Good thing he was arrested. It got him away from children at the schools. Brrr.
Vinny DaPooh 1 year ago
On the bright side, his dance card is gonna be become full once he gets to prison
SilverSkyCloud 1 year ago
i dont know where about this is but in some places pedos are given special private jail/prison wards to protect them from other inmates
#18
Impulsive decision to street race their friends on a country road. Hit a tree and and managed to k**l everyone in the car. From bad decision to death was less than a minute. I didn't so much see it happen, as I got to comfort the best friend of one the kids in the aftermath.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Most kids think they're invincible and it's usually tragedy that teaches them otherwise. Those poor families.
nunya beeswax 1 year ago
There's a back road near the rural school I attended that has a railroad crossing in between two small hills. It does have the white "railroad crossing" X's but there's no signs telling you to slow down. If you hit it even going the speed limit (55), you will bottom out. Well a group of 5 seniors hit it going well over 55mph, went airborne and hit a huge tree head on. The car split in half, all of them died, 3 or 4 were ejected, and one was decapitated.
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
If young people think something is "cool," there's almost no way to stop them from doing something stupid. It's a shame how many people have ruined their lives (and others' lives, too) to be "cool."
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Part of a speech I give teens. You are not invincible, know everything, the world doesn't revolve around ect.
Amanda Trent 1 year ago
This happened to a very promising, young, rookie NASCAR driver in the early 90's. The crash killed him. Messed up his promising future in a hot second.
Amanda Trent 1 year ago
I can't remember his name. It happened in Mooresville, NC in 1993 I believe...? I know it was between 91-93. It happened a couple miles from my aunt's house.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
We raced our muscle cars on the weekends. On an abandoned road with small, controlled fires marking the shoulders. It was dangerous, I'll grant you that, but we weren't risking the lives of innocent people going about their evening. These selfish pr!cks who race in active streets need to not only lose their licenses for years, but do some time, perhaps not in jail, but hours and hours of community service.
#19
Guy wiped out on the road in front of me in his motorbike. His chin got caught on the metal rung used as a step at the back of a truck in front of him.
I'd never seen someone literally lose their head until that moment, and I'll be ok if I never see it again.
Nikki Sevven 1 year ago
I was in Boston and stopped at a stoplight where I had to turn either left or right. A bunch of guys on motorcycles were at the light the other way. When the light turned green, the 'leader' pulled a wheelie and took off at high speed, knowing the road took a sharp turn in about 50m. I knew he was going to crash and he did. There were pieces of both him and his bike all over the road because he had to be a showoff.
Cat Dragon 1 year ago
The only two parts of scarlet nexus I wish was real: the powers and visual censoring when people lose their heads
Courtney Christelle 1 year ago
I’ve never puked before seeing something unpleasant but I think that would do it.
#20
Dude I worked with decided to tell a racist joke to a very high up admin, who was also a black woman, and her lawyer.
Fired, bye career
Lesbee 9 months ago
as a Korean American, the amount of times I've been called a "ching Chong" is INSANE.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Racists never learn. If anything, this bigot is even deeper entrenched in his racist beliefs because he's been "unfairly punished". And yes, telling a racist joke to anyone makes you a racist.
Cadence Thorne 1 year ago (edited)
Could you tell that to my FIL? He firmly believes that because he "doesn't believe the jokes" that it's fine for him to make them.
Load More Replies... Erla Zwingle 1 year ago
Telling a racist joke to a black woman? Heartbreaking that he didn't get the memo that it was never okay and it's googletrons not okay now. Think he learned a lesson? I wonder.
Cadence Thorne 1 year ago
Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to.
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My middle school principal. He had a wife, kids and a house.
He lost it all when he was caught trying to pay a 15 year old for sex that turned out to be an undercover officer. He got charged and was put on probation for 3 years, lost his job, most likely won't ever see his wife or kids again and I doubt any place will hire him
Cjay 1 year ago
Just 3 years of probie for a middle school teacher with at least one child sex conviction!??
DarkViolet 1 year ago
He probably has to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. That right there is a fate worse than death. The only jobs he might get are as a night clerk at a motel, washing dishes, pushing a broom, and cleaning toilets.
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JK 1 year ago (edited)
This isn't a "one mistake" thing, undercover officers can't coerce you into doing/asking for something illegal (that's entrapment), so for this guy to be comfortable approaching someone he believed to be underage AND offer money in exchange for sex - he was well versed in the action. This isn't a one-off mistake, it's a confident paedophile being caught in the act
Asmodeus Hare 1 year ago
Short 21 year old. We have one local officer who was hired because she could pass as 14 year old. She was a fave to lure hebephiles out of hiding because she could FaceTime them.
Load More Replies... Marlowe Fitzpatrik 1 year ago
That's the reason he didn't actually go to jail - the 15year old was not, in fact, 15 years old
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Asmodeus Hare 1 year ago
We have a local cop who was hired explicitly because she looked 14. Luring hebephiles out with live FaceTime. She reportedly have mandatory monthly mental health checks incase the job starts getting to her.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I think certain people should pay a higher price. When cops go dirty, they should serve longer prison sentences. When school admin and teachers molest/attempt to molest children, they should get harsher sentences.
#22
Goody two shoes mom of two lil kids, never a party girl, she’s the one who had 1 glass of wine and called it a night. 40th bday, her friends got c*****e. She’d never tried it. Did a line at home with friends. Fentanyl… Dead. Kids have no mom, and she gets labeled as a junkie.
Susan Bosse 1 year ago
Mom said to me when I was about 14 "idk why people think the first time they do drugs isn't going to be the time that kills them." Never tried them. Too bad she didn't do the same with alcohol. Yes, I know. Alcohol is a drug. I'm four years sober. But thankful I never tried actual drugs. I'd prob be dead.
Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
Thank you. I was wondering. And why on earth would BP decide to hide that??
Load More Replies... WonderWoman 1 year ago
BP cocaine is a banned word? Why? Do you think people are going to run out and do it if they see the word?
Happy Homemaker 1 year ago
I know some sites based in China are banning certain words online. I wonder if BP is based there and that’s why they are banning words now. I noticed it with TikTok originally.
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Not sure I believe this one. I mean do dealers really just hand out fentanyl claiming it's coke? Or mixing it with coke? Seems like a sure fire way to run out of customers.
michael Chock 1 year ago
Dealers are mixing fentanyl with EVERYTHING. It's cheap, super addictive and it only takes a small amount to get addicted. The dealers use it to get people more addicted to their products. Even marijuana bought second hand can be cut with it.
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Vinny DaPooh 1 year ago (edited)
Ooooof. That's a huge mixup. Anyone that did a booger sugar line worth of fentanyl would be dead in minutes
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
It was probably just contaminated with a small amount of fentanyl. It only takes 2mg of fent to kill an opioid-naive person.
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Sunny Johnson 1 year ago
Who decides what words are censored. A twelve-year old? Words are not bad, it's the idiots who designate them as such.
#23
Not me directly.
But I remember a few years ago, a colleague was late for work due to her train being delayed.
She was coming from outside London and someone tried to take a shortcut during morning rush hour; by running over the tracks. A train hit them, they survived but lost their legs.
I dunno why but that’s always haunted me. Especially when I am running late, and there is the temptation to drive faster or take a risk of some kind. It’s not worth it.
Alexandra 1 year ago
The poor traindriver! He has to go and see what's going on and to be confronted with that....the same with people who off themselves by jumping in front of a train. Spare a thought for those who are obliged to get out and check.
Kate C 1 year ago
A good friend of my sister was an engineer and drove a train on the the very busy Northeast corridor route. He had two people, at two different times, commit suicide in front of his train. Both times he could clearly see their faces but, of course, there was no time to stop. He ended up having a nervous breakdown after the second incident and never worked again.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
5 minutes late is better than dead. We think at the time it's important, it's not. Stay safe everyone
Well then 1 year ago
When I was a kid we were leaving my mothers' job (nurse at Nemours) early one morning after getting my stitches removed. Got stopped at the tracks, arms down, lights flashing. She was went around them. Very scary day for a 10 yr old and I will forever have the disfiguring scar on my face to remember it.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
Being a traindriver must be terrifying especially since there's many people who die to them.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
A few years ago I saw a young kid run out into the road from between two parked cars, right into the path of a large suv. The sounds haunt ya.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
My husbands Best Man was almost late for our wedding because his train coming into town hit someone that was walking on the tracks. He made it like 30 minutes before the ceremony.
Hugh Crawford 1 year ago
read an article many years ago that really stuck with me, "your job isn't worth your life"
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Grew up in a small town with unmarked railroad crossings on the back roads. We would automatically stop and look both ways before proceeding, but some people couldn't judge the distance/speed of the train, and, well, they're no longer with us.
John Canovan 1 year ago
I agree. I had someone who decided to commit suicide right in front of me. Was 19 years old and a tourist. You never get over it.
#24
I knew a funeral director who took a ring from the hand of a deceased person at the cemetery after the family had left the graveside and before the body was lowered into the ground. He did some jail time and lost his license and livelihood.
Mabelbabel 1 year ago
I work in pathology, so I'm regularly in the mortuary. Patients dying on the wards are brought down to the mortuary by the hospital undertakers and then the family's undertaker collect them from the mortuary. We regularly get accused of stealing patients valuables, either the mortuary staff or the hospital undertakers, or occasionally the nurse who did last offices. In every incident we've investigated, it's been family members pulling rings off the body and taking off necklaces. Usually its estranged families where people had fallen out, and or thinking "That ring was promised to me so I'll take it but not tell them, they won't notice." We had one case where the girlfriend on the side removed a man's jewellery-the wife didn't know he had been unfaithful, it was an awful way for her to find out
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
My dad is paranoid that someone will steal all his beautiful gold dental work when he dies.
Angie E 1 year ago (edited)
He'll be dead it won't matter by then but damn that would be a disgusting act. I got all of my mothers jewelry back after her cremation and wasn't even expecting it because I wasn't around before they took her away. Thank God most funeral employees aren't theives.
Load More Replies... The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
It wasn’t his first time, it was just the time he got caught.
Libstak 1 year ago
How? Usually the coffin is lowered and everyone throws a rose or dirt on the coffin with a parting prayer? This seems odd, the lowering of the coffin is the point of attending the burial.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
When we buried my grandfather and grandmother we learned from the cemetery staff that our family tradition of at least one person staying behind until the casket is fully buried is unusual.
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#25
A woman I worked with got her nursing license and got a job a month later ( where I worked) she proceeded to steal a bunch of pills that day and was fired and lost her license.
DarkViolet 1 year ago
I will never understand it. How somebody can go to college and specialty schools for years, pull all-nighters to study for exams, literally live off of bread, water, and air, work hours that would put Dracula on tranquilizers, get their diplomas and licenses, and get their dream job, only to literally torch themselves by doing something beyond stupid. Someone PLEASE explain why.
Libstak 1 year ago (edited)
With something like medicine, there is alot of weird humour and coping behaviours due to the trauma they deal with, it creates a false perspective if you let it. What seems obviously bad to us is nothing compared to seeing torn up bodies, missing limbs, half their head blown away etc. Joking about drugs and getting off their face, having a long drug assisted nap are really common, some actually cross the line without even having a clue they are now doing something wrong.
Load More Replies... Cecil 1 year ago
"She proceeded to " emphasizes that she did one thing then another. It links the two actions. Not sure why that makes you mad
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#26
Kid was messing with me in high school, I stood up for myself. Teacher broke it up. Kid rounded up his boys and tried to run up on me same day at lunch. Two of the three guys he was with were old team mates of mine and backed off immediately, third guy left too. Kid pulled a knife on me in front of the resource officer, got tased and sent off to juvie. He's been in and out of prison since and on hard drugs. That was 16 years ago. Edit: honestly I should be the last person defending this guy but the assumptions of mental health issues or just being on the path to drugs and alcohol are nonsense. This guy was a decent baseball player and I don't know of any substance use in school, no mental health issues to speak to other than being an a*s and was during a time where I'm sure both our hormones were raging. I know I had issues with my behavior at that age. I'm not sure why he picked on me or how it got that far that fast but you all are just jumping to conclusions that aren't inline with what I know is true. This guy just made a big mistake and it seems to have snowballed his life away, it's not an uncommon situation. I now work in behavioral health and I've seen it a fair few times. Could he have had these issues and I didn't know? Sure but as the guy who was there it doesn't feel like it. The prison system in this country does not help people.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
I could not agree more that the prison system here kills any kind of chance (for most people) to get ahead once you're out.
Vinny DaPooh 1 year ago
Our prison system is all punishment and zero rehabilitation. There's no money in making them model citizens.
Load More Replies... MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago (edited)
Why do some people always try to defend things like this saying that they had mental illnesses or something? Even if there was literally no evidence to it?
Anon822209 1 year ago
Whether he had a mental illness is almost definitely irrelevant anyway. Except in very rare cases, mental illness does not make you somehow not responsible for your actions. And if a court *does* rule you unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity (RARE), it's not like you go skipping home to sit on your sofa and binge Netflix.
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Negatoris Wrecks 1 year ago
A diagnosis isn't an excuse and using it as such perpetuates harmful stereotypes
HighNMightyBigshot 1 year ago
Why is it always whyte people who have mental health issues instead of crappy parents, home environment, or just a plain a-hole?
Vinny DaPooh 1 year ago
I too was bullied in school as I was a year younger than everyone and hadn't gone through the growth spurt yet. Probably didn't help that I would dish it back when people threw insults at me. It drives me crazy when everyone has to psychoanalyze bullies these days. Well you need to forgive them because they have X mental condition (not talking about anyone that has mental impairments that keep them from learning right and wrong). Maybe they had a bad life at home. Maybe they.... HARD STOP. NO. You can look for explanations all you want but they get no slack cut them because they're going through something. That is a horrible precedent for their life when they realize they can viciously bully and assault people with no consequences when they pull out their victim card.
Sergy Yeltsen 1 year ago
He pulled a knife on you and that is "not an uncommon situation"? You should be giving thanks it wasn't a gun like other school tragedies. It's normal to have moody behaviour at the ages I think you are referring to. It is NOT normal to use weapons or firearms to sort it. In a schoolyard. At all. Ever.
BlackestDawn 1 year ago
I don't think they are referring specifically to "pulling a knife" when saying "not an uncommon situation" but rather that someone does something that snowballs into ruining their life.
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Scott Rackley 1 year ago
The prison system in the country is not supposed to help people. It's supposed to sequester people who won't obey the law from those who will. I'm fine with that.
#27
Taking out his motorcycle and thinking he doesn't need a helmet because he's just going a couple blocks.
Apachebathmat 1 year ago (edited)
Seen many a body after a crash without a helmet, friends, I beg you, don’t take the risk, you will never withstand the impact, if your injuries are life changing then you’re lucky, most die with horrific damage that is impossible to recover from. One example I will never forget is a young man whose right hip ball joint came out under his left armpit!
Me Oh My 1 year ago (edited)
One of my most vivid memories is when my mom and I drove past a motorcycle accident scene. The person's bike was on the curb, they were on the lawn, and their head was a good 30 feet away. That cemented my desire to stay as far away from motorcycles as possible. ETA: Spelling
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DarkViolet 1 year ago
What do ER staff call motorcyclists who don't wear helmets? Organ donors.
Jill Bussey 1 year ago
Crash helmets for m/cycles are compulsory in UK. It should be the same for push bikes too.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
In the US there are only 3 states that do not mandate helmets. Those that do only have to have USDoT certification. This certification is not good enough. Mine is FIM certified, quite pricey, but worth it. I hear the brits have the SHARP system but I've never encountered one for sale in the US.
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David of the TwoTrees 1 year ago
I live in the state of Illinois, USA. We are one of three states that do not have mandatory helmet laws. It's insane. "The government can't tell me what to do!". That is fine. When you crack your head open, you will pay out of pocket for your medical bills. Why should society pay for your stupidity? I've lost 4 good acquaintances to motorcycle deaths in my 62 years, one a pretty good friend.
Zilla 1 year ago
Im in IL too....and with our jackass Governor I'm not surprised he hasn't mandated helmets. Our Hov is worthless.
Load More Replies... Happy Homemaker 1 year ago
There’s a guy who lives in my apartment building who is an example for needing motorcycle helmets. Gary Busey is another example.
Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
I hate that Wisconsin doesn't make it law to wear helmets. But we're the home of Harley Davidson and they have lawyers lobbying against it. Not a great business model to lose customers to death. But.... again Harley f*****g Davidson.
Veronica Jean 1 year ago
Once met a cool guy on a dating app and everything seemed to go smoothly. We made plans to meet up, but when he found out i lived just over state lines he said he refused to come see me because my state 'enforces the helmet laws and I refuse to wear a helmet.' Immediately all interest died. The pig-headedness of that statement the third biggest turnoff i've ever experienced.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Oh, just like you don't need seat belts if you're going a short distance?
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
Yeah, only time I've ever gotten a concussion was a car accident and one of the very few times in my life I wasn't wearing a seatbelt (new seat cushions- couldn't find the belts and figured there'd be little traffic at that time of morning, 2-3am, and we were 9 miles away from my dorm).
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A friend became a manager where she worked, so her work friend became her employee. Dude was older than her by like 15 years and obsessed with her, but she had no idea. She was a friend of his family, an auntie to his kids, she would have brunch with his wife regularly. At one point, he got his hands on her keys while she was working and he had a copy made of her house key. He waited years for the opportunity to break into her house when she was away on holiday and he was seen by a neighbour, who called her. He went from married with a happy family and a steady, government job to divorced and unemployed, he lost his house and custody of his kids in the divorce and now lives in a one bedroom apartment in another town.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
It's so hard because I just feel nothing but loathing for 98% of these and it's making witty comments difficult to come by.
Vinny DaPooh 1 year ago
Right?!? Kind of hard to make snarky comments on these without coming off as a douchecanoe
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Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
What was he doing in her house? Snooping, installing spyware. So creepy.
SilverSkyCloud 1 year ago
swiping her things, like underwear, toothbrush and hair brush
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#29
My cousins wife. She was a neighbor of his since they were pretty young, and we all knew her from when she was a little girl. She grew into a beautiful woman, they started dating, married ( I was their best man), and had beautiful twin girls. They had a very nice suburban home. She somehow got involved in the Denver m**h scene. Abandoned her husband, her kids, and was living under an underpass somewhere in Denver, just a shell of her former self. Then we got word that she had died. Heartbreaking.
Scott Wilkins 1 year ago
How many lives has "math" destroyed? It's senseless...just like unnecessary censorship.
Isa Wan 1 year ago
I always knew that math is dangerous! See, this is the proof for it!
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
The Denver math scene must be pretty horrible, begging strangers to help solve differential equations and threatening passers by with imaginary numbers and puzzles involving watermelons
Happy Homemaker 1 year ago
I have brain damage from a heat stroke so I appreciate your filling in the blanks. I don’t know why you were downvoted for it. Some days I can do it and some days my brain refuses to cooperate. Have an upvote from me.
Load More Replies... You stole that from Robocop 1 year ago
I know someone who had their own business was doing really well and got into meth. Lost the business, had everything in storage get stolen, lost her teeth, hit utter rock bottom. Dragged herself up, got implants, trained in psychology and is now a drug councillor, she's a lovely person and doing really well
#30
Guy in my high school went hill jumping (speeding in a really hilly area outside DC, hit the steep hill fast enough and its like a ramp and you get some air) and flew over a hill into the back of a car stopped behind a bus. Mom and kids in the car were k***ed.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Two years ago a street racer here lost control and slammed into a woman and her two kids. The kids survived but they get to grow up without a mom. The guy drove off and it took the local cops a whole year to track him down. I hate street racers. It's all fun and games until someone loses a mom.
Agfox 1 year ago
A guy who finished at our secondary school the same year as me was driving & hit a mother & baby, who was in a pram. He didn't stop, drove home & shot himself - he was 18 or 19. Fortunately, both the mother & her child escaped serious injury. He was intelligent, friendly, well-liked & had a job as a cadet journalist. This was almost 60 years ago & I wonder what his life would have been like had he not panicked & driven off
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
I’d do the same thing. I couldn’t live with thinking I’d accidentally killed people, nor could I survive jail. My guilt would eat me alive. Handguns are illegal in NYC, but it’d prolly be a piece of cake to overdose on something. Poor man; I’m leaking imagining his guilt and misery. 😰
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Amity_Calamity 1 year ago
Around a year ago some dumb high school kids were street racing on a large street going insanely fast, they hit a car with a mom, a dad, and twins, and the mom and dad both died. The twin girls were like 8 at the time. Our family friend knows them and is pretty close with the girls. The whole thing was so tragic.
Cathy Jo Baker 1 year ago
Dear Bored Panda: I daresay most of us reading BP are adults and are used to seeing words like KILLED, COCAINE, DEAD, etc. Please stop the ridiculous censoring.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
This event happened in my town in the 80's. (Great Falls, VA if you're interested. A suburb if DC. Very near my house too.) The 2 little girls went to my school and one was in my brother's class. And the mom wasn't killed, she was injured but survived. Both girls died instantly. I still live in the area and pass where the accident happened frequently. I think about it every time. :(
I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
I used to live near Fairfax VA, Oakton to be exact. This happened way before I lived there, so sad and I'm sorry you're frequently reminded of this when you pass by the area.
Load More Replies... Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
When I was in high school my district closed campuses at lunch after a car with 5 kids in it went over a hill with railroad tracks at high speed, lost control and hit a metal utility pole so hard it cut the car in half. They were on there way back to school from McDonald's when the accident happened and all 5 died instantly and they were all Juniors and Seniors. Accidents had happened before but it was the first time there were fatalities so the school district freaked and closed all of the high school campuses.
Nukerwithaperiod 1 year ago
I was told this by my mom who saw this story. Recently a man was going way over the speed limit, proceeded to run a red light graze a car and run down a mom and her daughter, mom died at the crash and the kid went to the hospital and died there. The dude int the car ran 4 more red lights, he got arrested and is being charged with 2 counts of "accidentall" manslaughter and much more stuff
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Like I commented earlier, as a former weekend street racer, never use an active street. I risked my life, but it's my life. I knew as a teenager that I had no right to risk other lives.
#31
A well-respected pastor in my town got caught having an affair. He had a wife and 2 kids. Wife left him, girlfriend left him, wife got the house in the divorce, he lost his job and only sees his kids twice a month. It’s all completely his own fault and I don’t necessarily feel bad for him, but man, you have never seen a more broken shell of a person. When he’s not with his kids the little time he gets with them, he stays holed up in his apartment, doing the work from home job he managed to get. He keeps completely to himself, barely goes out, is super quiet when he has to be out, and looks really rough. He’s like a ghost just floating around. The few friends who go and check on him every once in a while say that his kids are probably the only reason he’s still alive
Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
Should have thought of his kids before he started the affair
Fall F. 1 year ago
Yeah, should have, and it was all his fault. He made a mistake, but I think a second chance should be available for him too. I mean, a therapy may help him to come in terms with the consequences of his actions, and trying to build a new life.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
A colleague of mine also had a pastor (well, minister - theological degree) for a husband. He not only cheated on her, but then tried to get his kids on his side saying his ex had chosen to divorce him (which she 100% had). But then he refused to pay maintenance (child support) and sometimes my colleague and her kids didn't even have food. She would call his church and ask them to do something (our courts are a nightmare), and they said they couldn't do anything because "he says that he asked God for forgiveness and God forgave him". So my friend and her kids were going hungry while his arsehole was living it up with his mistress, and his church was enabling him! His daughter wrote him off, and he's never even seen his grandchildren. Good.
Mrs.C 1 year ago
If he's a fit and willing parent, he should have 50/50 custody. An affair makes you a lousy spouse, not an unfit parent.
brittany 1 year ago
several factors go into that, not just their ability to parent. such as where he moved to, does it allow the kids to still get to school on time, is it even in same district? if not then they could be required to attend two different schools or switch schools entirely unless a primary residence is established. his job could also be a factor in regards to hours. honestly if he wanted to sleep with someone else, he should have divorced first. at least then he wouldnt be a cheater
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Con O Cuinn 1 year ago
Tbh, when I hear a religious figure was embroiled in a sex scandal, I'm always relieved if it was with a consenting adult
Kenneth Smith 1 year ago
Former pastor here: It's easier than you think. That's why I built accountability on top of accountability into my ministry and still have a policy of complete openness with my wife about anything that makes either one of us leary. I know what I'm capable of. I didn't even want the temptation, and I was very public about that. I have never been unfaithful to my wife, but I also know that the moment I believe myself incapable of it is the moment it will happen. The time to say no is before the question is even asked.
Chris Davis 1 year ago (edited)
😱 Wow a pastor, married & having an affair with another woman? I'm honestly shocked, I thought they only abused young children
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
The priest got a classmate of mine pregnant. She was 13. He merely got moved to another parish because that's how Catholics deal with pedos.
#32
Former Redditor SpontaneousH. He took h****n for an AMA to prove it wasn't as good/bad as everyone said. He got hooked and blogged his whole downward spiral. He got rehab and was better last i heard, but it went from "dude, bad idea" to 'you can't stop watching the tragedy unfold before you" in no time
Greg Baughman 1 year ago
Thanks... it's too early in the morning for my brain to decode that one.
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Mabelbabel 1 year ago
Ask Me Anything. Reddit does various AMA with actors, celebs, writers, filmmakers etc where Redditors ask them questions and they answer in real time. They also do informal AMAs where anyone can ask-usually it's someone with an interesting job, or interesting medical condition, or odd hobby
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#33
Knew a military guy who solicited sex on gov't computers and lost his wife and home after he was caught. Investigators found evidence of fraud and other stuff on his PC so he was charged for that too. While confined to quarters, he set a fire that could've endangered dozens so he caught even more charges. All of this he could've avoided just by using his personal phone/computer. I think society is probably better off w/ him getting caught though
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
While my ex husband was over seas, I caught him talking to a (male) sergeant about meeting up for sex.
Hey! 1 year ago
That's one way to find out your husband is bisexual and not faithful. I'm guessing he was your husband at the time.
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Sheila who? 1 year ago
I guess it would have been completely OK thennnnn......ya think? These folks want to be caught
#34
Smart Type-A student going to medical school, abused Adderall to keep up with the work load.. turned into a c*****e addiction, then m**h, then death. She was a wonderful person before all that
Corvus 1 year ago
Lots of drugs with "*" in their names - chemistry is advancing so fast these days :P
Upstaged75 1 year ago
You can say cocaine here. It came that way from Reddit.
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Scott Wilkins 1 year ago
Back when I w*s in ********* I used to ***** with a ***** who **** with ****. S*d really.
pasej41913@bustayes.com 1 year ago
Cocaine and meth. The words you're looking for are cocaine and meth.
pandabeth 1 year ago
Have zero idea why you got down voted, this is correct, for folks who wonder
Load More Replies... Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
That's how addiction works. Most addicts didn't start out horrible people. Most of them had dreams, friends & families.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I was on Adderall/amphetamine for a few years for my ADHD. Had a friend over visiting and, after she left, I realized she'd swiped my bottle. Insurance wouldn't cover costs, I couldn't afford them, went thru withdrawals, and lost a friend that week.
#35
When I worked in food service, one of the kitchen guys backflipped into a shallow lake and hit the back of his neck on the protruding supports for an old dock. I believe he was instantly rendered quadriplegic. That was maybe 15 years ago and I have no idea if he's still around, but he was a really nice guy, maybe late teens or early 20s. Saddest s**t I've ever had happen to anyone I knew.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I imagine every small town has a similar story. We lost a couple of small children and several teenagers in swimming accidents. Sometimes drugs and alcohol were the cause, others were just bad luck.
#36
Gambling addictions! The UK is plagued by constant adverts for gambling sites, so many different types, and now you don’t have to leave your house or look anyone in the eye while you do it.
Vaguely knew a guy who blew all of his (and his wife’s!) savings in the course of a single evening. All online while she was sat in the room. The addiction had been there for a while, but that was the big one. I’m pretty sure he spent more than they actually had. Lost everything - she left him and the rumours were that he was gonna lose his house. I left that job a while later, so no idea what became of either of them, but I doubt it was good.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Those sites should be illegal. I work with a guy whose on the verge of losing everything from some slots app on his phone. Not even legal here so there's that added risk, as well.
Samantha Angell 1 year ago
Every time I see the "Gambling problem? Seek help" from like 3 different gambling platforms in one commercial break I want to scream. And honestly, I feel the same about alcohol. Hard enough without it being thrown in your face and flashing the word *FREE* over and over again...
Load More Replies... Corvus 1 year ago
Ugh, we have lots of these ads in my country as well. Sure, they mention that "gambling isn't just innocent fun, but can turn into an addiction" but I doubt these warnings reach the ears of the addicts.
Superninjatiger 1 year ago
My country has a website where you can ban yourself for certain amounts of time so you can't gamble online, not in stores and casinos. Only thing you can do during the time you are banned is to prolong it, otherwise you're locked out til the time is up. There's been a lot of problems with online gambling and even laws have been changed due to it.
Load More Replies... Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
It's the same here in Australia. Smoking and alcohol ads are banned, but gambling ads are everywhere - especially during sports games.
LargeMarge 1 year ago
It's like they are going to get you hooked on something. Here in the states, you will see advertisements for smoking more than gambling, but you will see them. You see the smoking advertisements on bill boards, but not commercials, that was banned years ago. Same thing with gambling, but you will see commercials every blue moon about that, if ever. You are most likely to see gambling adverts at the gambling site. We used to have the gambling river boats, which I miss, 20+ years ago. They were fun, but a lot of people lost money and it was heavily advertised back then. Rarely see it these days.
Load More Replies... Erla Zwingle 1 year ago
I live in Venice, Italy and read a lot of history. Gambling was a huge problem in the glamorous days that make everybody think Venice was such a great place in the 1600's-1700's. A woman woke up one morning, her husband was gone but he left a note. He'd sold her and the children on a losing bet.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I've been addicted to a variety of substances, still addicted to tobacco even tho it's killing me. But, I never understood gambling until I did some research and found out it similarly affects the brain in the "reward system" - the area control by the neurotransmitter, Dopamine.
Don Adams 1 year ago
Back in 1977, worked in a pet store next to an OTB (Off Track Betting) location. Place allowed you to play the ponies without having to go to the.actual track. Saw so many cases of how gambling can ruin a person. Man comes out to say he won $600 on the Trifecta, 20 minutes later all wagered away. Wife comes in a car driven by the landlord - man lost the rent money before 6 pm on Friday. Made me see how dangerous gambling can be, and I swore I would never gamble with money I couldn't afford to lose. Almost 65 now, still haven't found money I couldn't find a use for.
Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
Same in Ireland, after 9pm the TV is full of gambling ads, and phone apps all the time. There has been talk of bans etc but the vested interests (particularly in horse and dog racing) are lobbying hard as they "lose their livelihoods". Makes me sick.
#37
Married guy. Kids. Retail store manager. Idk 45 or 50yo
Impregnated 19 yo. Wife left him. Started drinking at work. Gambling. Girlfriend left him. Started sleeping in office. Lost job. Don’t know what happened to him after that.
Happened in about a year. F****d it royally
Alexandra 1 year ago
Most people don't realise, or don't want to realise, that it really doesn't need much before you end up living under a bridge in a cardboard box. Sure, it won't happen to you, but I think most homeless people thought that as well.
Xenia Harley 1 year ago
Same goes with needing public assistance to get back on your feet. I worked with people who got public assistance and the stories, makes you realize that any one of us can end up needing help!
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#38
My ex wife. We had three small kids. Happy life single family home brand new Camry. Met an old friend, started doing speed, left me and the kids 6 months later. Fast forward 20 years. She is still a loser. Kids are grown. Don't want to visit her.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
Speed is bad for you if you aren't prescribed it! (If what I'm thinking of counts as speed)
JK 1 year ago
You're thinking of medical amphetamines, which is what speed is kind of based off. It's entirely manmade with chemicals, sort of similar to what Americans class as "meth" (which is confusing, cos in the UK "meth" is the short/slang term for "methodone" which is what they give heroin addicts to get them off of heroin). But it's a "dirty" drug, can be cut with really nasty stuff, can be highly addictive, it's basically poor man's cocaine - source: my sister's a junkie (lucky me)
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Not really that fast but fast enough for how badly she ruined her life. Woman I knew got a near half a million windfall. She filed to divorce her husband, bought an expensive house, met a new guy became his sugar mama, got engaged to him after learning she was pregnant. All of that was in less than a year. In less than a year she had no money left, made no investments except for the house. Her ex was suing her for full custody and attempted parental alienation, and her young fiance no longer wanted to marry. And it wasn't because she was broke (there were still things to sell) but because she had became abusive towards him. Btw ex-husband did get full custody because go figure she had been abusive towards him and report from the new fiance really helped out. I think she got supervised visits.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
My first thought, as well. This must have been more than 10 years ago lol.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Knew a man who got an impressive inheritance when his parents died, quit his job to become a musician. Spent all his time writing his cr@ppy music on expensive instruments he didn't play well and had his food and alcohol delivered from another town because he never left the house. He blew thru the money and, oddly, never became a renowned musician.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
If this happen in the US and today and took a lump sum and after taxes you might able to buy a house but would not have any money to live on.
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
Half a million?! And her house was only one of her splurged?! You give me that and I'm paying off this house (I have one of the smallest houses in my town), doing much needed renos and I would have less than 20% left! How do you manage to get a very expensive house for under half a million??!?
#40
Knew a guy that was caught with an underage teen. He was married with kids. Was.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
I hope he was in a horrible accident that rendered him impotent. Piece of $&/#.
Gary Geracci 1 year ago
ANY male old enough to make babies out to be castrated when they go with underage girls or any kid for that matter!
#41
friend got a quarter million from a lawsuit. spent it all that year
Mattis 1 year ago
That is not to ruin his/hers life, that is making som hard priorities and decisions based on fun. If you start at 1 to end at 1 nothing is gained, nothing is lost.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Quarter of a million. You could easily spend that on a house. I think OP needs to clarify a bit more on this one.
Austin L 1 year ago
I had this same thought; hypothetically me too cause that big house payment is the first thing to go.
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Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
This is far more common than people realize. Happens with newly signed athletes, lottery winners, etc.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
Quarter of a Million isn't really that much money nowadays, also depends on what he spent it on. If I won that much, it would be gone in a year cause I'd put it towards a house.
#42
I know a guy who was only 6 months away from being done with his 4 years in the Navy. He left and ran off with a girl. That's AWOL or whatever it's called now, and a serious offense. I don't know what became of him.
Pat Curran 1 year ago
AWOL (Absent Without Leave) is correct. But if the servicemember stays away long enough it becomes desertion, which is even more serious. In the past, if it happened during wartime it was punishable by death, but I think deserters now just get prison time.
Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
In the Navy it is not called AWOL. Its called UA. Unauthorized Absence.
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#43
Miss sleep and a whole host of problems show up...from having impulse control issues, accidents, lack of motivation, mood problems, procrastination, and poor decision making
LAWLAWLAW 1 year ago
I'm on a crazy 12hr day/night shift 4 day pattern that messes with my sleep, tell me more please pandas
alberta mountainmum 1 year ago
I did that rotation working coal mines. It literally takes years off your life
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Bonesko 1 year ago
I think this describes me and about 80% of the human population 🙄
Load More Replies... #44
Someone married the wrong guy just because they had a child. Definitely life spiralled down afterwards.
Susan Teter 1 year ago
Just because you slip and fall on/into someone's penis/vagina...IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO MARRY THEM!!! There are PLENTY of people who grew up just fine without their parents being married!!!
#45
A liberal arts degree
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
Ok, liberal arts degrees here are how you get social workers, historians, librarians, most non-acting roles in theatre and a host of other important careers. The maga fool who posted this doesn't know what they're on about.
Scott Wilkins 1 year ago
I think they're financially useless but I don't know about ruining your life. That's a bit harsh.
lawrence Andrew 1 year ago
Perhaps took out lots of students loans to enjoy getting the degree. Spared no expense including travel. Now pay off the loans.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
This one is stupid, a liberal arts degree can be used for many different jobs, even high paying jobs. Even a quick google search can show you that.
What do you think ?
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
summary. Don't dive into water. Avoid motorbikes and wear a helmet. Don't do drugs. Don't drink and drive. Don't steal. Don't have affairs. I think that's about it?
Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
In the UK we have a TV show called 24 hours in police custody. There was one episode where a guy came in to report that he had recieved a letter blackmailing him for £1000 after he had visited a sex worker. In the show, you see the police investigate, and it turned out to be a detective on their team who had blackmailed the guy, so essentially he was investigating his own crime. Detective went to prison, lost his job etc. All for £1000. There was another episode where a very prestigious surgeon staged a robbery in his own house to make a false insurance claim. Also, ended with prison time and losing his career. It never ceases to amaze me that people will risk everything.
Cecil 1 year ago
That cop had probably done the same thing many times without getting caught
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Sweet Taurus 1 year ago
My Uncle, was arguing with my Aunt, had been drinking, took off from the house on my little cousin's bmx bike. Jumped from the side walk to the street and the tubeless tire came off the rim. He went head first into the pavement. Ended up being life flighted with 2 brain aneurisms, had a bad concussion,broken collar bones and broken crystals in his ear. Because of the concussion he had damage to his brain, became depressed, was just a shell of someone I knew. Ended up taking his own life less than 6 months after the bike accident.
Gwyn 1 year ago (edited)
My friend in high school, she was so smart, always got straight A's and got a full scholarship to university. I thought then she would really make it big. Her parents were always overprotective.... So when she went to university I think she couldn't cope, she really wanted a boyfriend, got depressed, couldn't adjust. Failed out, lost her scholarship, moved back home. Took low pay receptionist job, no opportunities to move up in a small company. 5 years later I offered her to come room with me (I had just bought a house) - she didn't like her life and felt she was going nowhere. Figured it was a safe way for her to spread her wings and try again. But her parents offered to buy her a little house down the street from them if she stayed, so she took their offer. 20 years later she is still at the same job, same home, minimal pay, lonely, sells MLM on the side. She does have responsibility for her own life but I feel like her parents really had a large hand in it.
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
I grew up with/graduated HS with two guys who did a great job f*****g up their lives. One was a firefighter who ended up being convicted of arson (apparently this happens more than people know). The other guy was a superstar in the huge school marching band, treasurer of the band I control of thousands of dollars as a STUDENT, college music major, kept good relationships with the entire HS music department and returned to join as a music teacher. Finally got found out for sexually propositioning female students and harassing them, they find all kinds of inappropriate cp material related to his students on his school and home computers, and he ended up going to jail. Good.
Dak Janiels 1 year ago (edited)
My best friend of 15 years- fit, smart, great corporate job making upper middle income; he and I worked out religiously. He started dating a sketch and very "plastic" woman who liked to pop pills (oxys). I warned him but he said he wasn't doing it, was smart and getting her help. 1 year later I had to contact his mom to help get him in rehab. Came out clean, sober and working on his body and job as good as ever. 2 + years later, his mom dies, my wife and I are his emotional support, and a month later his ex heard his mom died and calls him. She gets her hooks into him again and after a year I stop hearing from him and he barely responds when I reach out. Not long after, he has a stroke and a car accident both within a month - due to pills. After he recovers, he gets warned from his job that they may have to let him go (he was on leave of absence for previous rehab and now he had the stroke and accident needing time off for care) taks every pill he has and 30 minutes later walks into traffic. Dead. Never thought it would happen to him; all it takes is one bad choice to lead to more.
Kalon Suszko 1 year ago
This happened to an ex girlfriends brother about 15 years ago. Him and his newlywed wife were on his motorcycle driving through the Pocono mountains, when a deer suddenly jumped out in front of them. Both flew off the bike, him skidding off to the side, he notices his wife in the road but cannot move. So he manages to crawl back, while injured, to her and grab her arms trying to pull her off the road. At that same time a drunk driver comes swerving down the road and runs over his wife, killing her, while her arms were in his hands. He was never right after that, became an alcoholic and opiate addict, lost a successful career, and wound up committing suicide 5 years later. The night my ex GF called me telling me the story when the accident happened still haunts me. All because of a deer and a drunk driver....
Dingooo 1 year ago
Not a bad choice just bad luck. I don't hate deer but there are just too many of them around.
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censorshipsucks 1 year ago
summary. Don't dive into water. Avoid motorbikes and wear a helmet. Don't do drugs. Don't drink and drive. Don't steal. Don't have affairs. I think that's about it?
Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
In the UK we have a TV show called 24 hours in police custody. There was one episode where a guy came in to report that he had recieved a letter blackmailing him for £1000 after he had visited a sex worker. In the show, you see the police investigate, and it turned out to be a detective on their team who had blackmailed the guy, so essentially he was investigating his own crime. Detective went to prison, lost his job etc. All for £1000. There was another episode where a very prestigious surgeon staged a robbery in his own house to make a false insurance claim. Also, ended with prison time and losing his career. It never ceases to amaze me that people will risk everything.
Cecil 1 year ago
That cop had probably done the same thing many times without getting caught
Load More Replies... Sweet Taurus 1 year ago
My Uncle, was arguing with my Aunt, had been drinking, took off from the house on my little cousin's bmx bike. Jumped from the side walk to the street and the tubeless tire came off the rim. He went head first into the pavement. Ended up being life flighted with 2 brain aneurisms, had a bad concussion,broken collar bones and broken crystals in his ear. Because of the concussion he had damage to his brain, became depressed, was just a shell of someone I knew. Ended up taking his own life less than 6 months after the bike accident.
Gwyn 1 year ago (edited)
My friend in high school, she was so smart, always got straight A's and got a full scholarship to university. I thought then she would really make it big. Her parents were always overprotective.... So when she went to university I think she couldn't cope, she really wanted a boyfriend, got depressed, couldn't adjust. Failed out, lost her scholarship, moved back home. Took low pay receptionist job, no opportunities to move up in a small company. 5 years later I offered her to come room with me (I had just bought a house) - she didn't like her life and felt she was going nowhere. Figured it was a safe way for her to spread her wings and try again. But her parents offered to buy her a little house down the street from them if she stayed, so she took their offer. 20 years later she is still at the same job, same home, minimal pay, lonely, sells MLM on the side. She does have responsibility for her own life but I feel like her parents really had a large hand in it.
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
I grew up with/graduated HS with two guys who did a great job f*****g up their lives. One was a firefighter who ended up being convicted of arson (apparently this happens more than people know). The other guy was a superstar in the huge school marching band, treasurer of the band I control of thousands of dollars as a STUDENT, college music major, kept good relationships with the entire HS music department and returned to join as a music teacher. Finally got found out for sexually propositioning female students and harassing them, they find all kinds of inappropriate cp material related to his students on his school and home computers, and he ended up going to jail. Good.
Dak Janiels 1 year ago (edited)
My best friend of 15 years- fit, smart, great corporate job making upper middle income; he and I worked out religiously. He started dating a sketch and very "plastic" woman who liked to pop pills (oxys). I warned him but he said he wasn't doing it, was smart and getting her help. 1 year later I had to contact his mom to help get him in rehab. Came out clean, sober and working on his body and job as good as ever. 2 + years later, his mom dies, my wife and I are his emotional support, and a month later his ex heard his mom died and calls him. She gets her hooks into him again and after a year I stop hearing from him and he barely responds when I reach out. Not long after, he has a stroke and a car accident both within a month - due to pills. After he recovers, he gets warned from his job that they may have to let him go (he was on leave of absence for previous rehab and now he had the stroke and accident needing time off for care) taks every pill he has and 30 minutes later walks into traffic. Dead. Never thought it would happen to him; all it takes is one bad choice to lead to more.
Kalon Suszko 1 year ago
This happened to an ex girlfriends brother about 15 years ago. Him and his newlywed wife were on his motorcycle driving through the Pocono mountains, when a deer suddenly jumped out in front of them. Both flew off the bike, him skidding off to the side, he notices his wife in the road but cannot move. So he manages to crawl back, while injured, to her and grab her arms trying to pull her off the road. At that same time a drunk driver comes swerving down the road and runs over his wife, killing her, while her arms were in his hands. He was never right after that, became an alcoholic and opiate addict, lost a successful career, and wound up committing suicide 5 years later. The night my ex GF called me telling me the story when the accident happened still haunts me. All because of a deer and a drunk driver....
Dingooo 1 year ago
Not a bad choice just bad luck. I don't hate deer but there are just too many of them around.
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