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50 Times People Took A Pic Of Something Without Fully Realizing Just How Dangerous It Was
Train once sang that there are a thousand ways to die. But we think that might be a gross underestimate. Besides the obvious causes of death like accidents, illnesses, diseases, crime and old age, there are a load of lesser-known life risks lurking around us on earth. Sometimes, people encounter them without even realizing it. They make it out alive, and only afterwards, get to truly grasp the grave danger they were in. A few of these folks even take photos of what could have been their last moments.
Bored Panda has put together a list of truly terrifying times people had an unknowing brush with death. From naive tourists taking selfies in a Chernobyl claw surrounded by deadly levels of radiation, to people casually holding creepy crawlies that could send them 6 feet under in a matter of minutes… Some of these photographs might have you treading a lot more carefully the next time you walk out the door.
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#1
We Found A Giant Round Today. Weighs 125 Lbs And Has The Markings 62-Tbt95 And U.s.s.a.f. Any Ideas What We’re Dealing With?
I don't think carrying around unexploded ordnance is considered a very great choice.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Depending on which country they are in.. authorities may never show for things like this. In my country at least
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Pieter LeGrande 7 months ago
Need to open it to find out more: perhaps a hammer at the ends might provide an answer.
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Dixie Girl 8 months ago
I live near an army base that is out in the woods. Every year we hear a story of someone finding one of these and losing their life or at minimum a body part.
Glen Ellyn 8 months ago
125 pounds and he just hoisted it up on his shoulder? Strong does not mean smart.
Vincent Bevort 8 months ago
I am not from the USaa but the code ussaf would want even me to leave it alone
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#2
The Guy That Mows My Lawn Sends Me Snake Pics When He Finds Them So I Can ID For Him. He Sends Me This Today
It is a cottonmouth.
I told him he’s insane and to not pick snakes up if he can’t ID them. Also he’s extremely lucky lol. Lord have mercy the man thought it was a ball python!!!
Grudge-holding Treefrog 8 months ago (edited)
He needs to be taught the head-shape rule. If its head is shaped like an arrow head, it’s most likely venomous. Most being the key here, as there are many exceptions. To be safe, just leave them be
WindySwede 8 months ago
My rule is, if snek - do not tuch! 😅 (even if just Swe snek here)
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Mason Kronol 8 months ago
If you are too busy looking for nope ropes you might not notice a drop bear.
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Spidercat 8 months ago (edited)
If there is a single row of scales leading to the ãnal plate (underbelly of snake at point where body meets tail) then it is venomous. If there is a double row then it is non venomous. The head shape is not a perfect system and neither is the presence of heat pits. The only perfect system is the plate scales...that said. Please don't pick up ANY snake. If you think a non venomous snake can't hurt you then fück around and find out. Get bitten by a Boa and see how much damage a non venomous snake can do.EDIT: Because BP censored ãnal.
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
My brother in Christ, if you're close enough to be looking at a snake's a*****e, we passed the venomous or not sign a ways back.
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Oddly Me 7 months ago
I think so. Maybe his family was part of the Pentecostals that held, and danced with snakes in church.
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solace in rage 7 months ago
I grew up playing with these in the creek behind my house. We called them water moccasins. I've seen them strike a couple times when cornered and scared, they mostly just want to be left alone though.
#3
Casually Letting Your Kid Pick Up One Of The World’s Deadliest Creatures
Broccoli 8 months ago
thats a whole new level of stupidity..trying to handle a possibly venomous creature…without being able to assess the risk or identify the species
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Even if it wasn't deadly, they also thought it was a good idea to harass and manhandle wildlife just to get a "cute" picture. It's so scummy.
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Toika Gao 8 months ago
From Wikipedia: "The blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to k**l 26 adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis begins. No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available."
The Doom Song 8 months ago
My mum taught my brother and I not to pick up anything from the ocean unless it was in the kiddie "touch pool" at the aquarium!
PeepPeep the duck 8 months ago
That’s good advice, my dad was a passionate scuba diver, so we were taught by the beach how to and what not to touch. Weirdly though he forgot to mention cone shells, the amount of cones I picked up as a kid 😂
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With these little guys, you might not even feel the sting. You'll just suddenly find yourself sprawled face-down, completely paralysed.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
I'll take my pics from a distance, thank you very much.
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TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 8 months ago
ohhhh shoot, blue ringed octopus. I read a book about these in 2nd grade and made up my mind right then and there to never go swimming in Australia
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
That right there is a Southern Blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa), one of four blue-ringed octopus species. And they're all extremely venomous, even the dead ones can k**l you. If it's brightly colored, don't pick it up.
Colin Matthews 8 months ago (edited)
Oh lord- These are just so staggeringly, lavishly venomous. Its hard to describe how toxic that venom is & they only show off their rings when stressed...literally one tiny nip away from death in 3-4 minutes.
The earth is filled with beautiful creatures, big and small, and it can be tempting to pick something up to take a closer look. But for the sake of your life, it's always best to err on the side of caution. Ask a guy known as 'Frank.' He was snorkeling in Egypt's Red Sea when he came across a colorful shell that he considered taking home as a souvenir.
"I thought I just found a very pretty seashell and was thinking about taking it home as a souvenir, but I noticed it's still alive, feeling some weight and movement inside, so I decided to at least take some pictures of it," he wrote on Reddit.
Little did Frank know that his "souvenir" contained a toxin that can paralyze or even end a human life within a few short hours. The cone snail can take down its (smaller) prey in a matter of seconds.
#4
Just Why?!?
putting a very sharp crystal right where their airbag would pop out during a crash.
Al Padilla 7 months ago
Many years ago, had a diabetic patient with a gangrenous, infected leg. She refused antibiotics or surgery, and died with a Jesus picture she Scotch taped to her dead leg.
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Roberta Surprenant 8 months ago
Cadillacs used to have a cone like that in middle of steering wheel. They changed that after Sammy Davis Jr impaled his eye in a crash.
Panda McPandaface 8 months ago
Sorry - I kind of repeated yours before I read through.
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David 8 months ago
Can you imagine being an autopsy doctor verifying cause of death and pulling that out of someone's chest and thinking _ "WTH?"
Panda McPandaface 8 months ago
Oh I doubt it. There are no limits on human stupidity.
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#5
Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? (Traffic Lights Mixed With Red & Green Christmas Lights)
Ms.GB 8 months ago
"Nobody ever died from a little Christmas cheer!"....wanna bet?!
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M Jank 8 months ago
That's a couple of towns over from where I live. All I can say is that Hammond is ...umm...trying
#6
Bought Like 5000$ Worth Of Crystals And Rocks Of An Old Guy. He Told Me To Never Keep This Outside Of This Container. The Rock In Question Is Extremely Heavy For Its Size. What Could This Be
That's probably Uranium, you yutz! When the old rock guru dude tells you to keep it in the box, keep it in da box? It's just alpha particles, but you don't want a whole lot of bombardment over time...
Elchinero 8 months ago
Uranium is an element ... not a mineral ("rock") , Uraninite? Probably NOT an issue to handle it. (MSci Geology, Az State)
Šimon Špaček 8 months ago
It may be uranite. It is quite common here. Funny thing, it was called "smolinec" which means "bad luck stone", but not because it would be radioactive or cause people to die, but because it was often found in silver mines, and it meant that the silver vein ended.
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TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago
Alpha particles aren't strong enough to pierce a piece of regular paper, dust inhalation or ingesting mterial would be the biggest danger
CatD 7 months ago
When I was a kid I got a mineral set from a garage sale with a bunch of different minerals, including one with uranium.
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Ozymandias73 7 months ago
Saying "don't keep it outside the box" is like saying " don't push this big red button." Some idiot is going to do what you told them NOT to do.
It was only long after his trip that the man learned just how lucky he was to be alive. "I actually had no idea about that thing being potentially deadly until months later when I randomly stumbled upon a picture of a very similar cone snail online, the texture was very distinctive, and I remembered that's what I held," he told DailyMail.com.
Frank then googled cone snails and the penny dropped. He shared a post online titled "How lucky I am to be still alive?" and included the photo of him holding the creature in his bare hands. Mortified netizens were quick to comment, with some warning him never to pick up anything in the sea again.
#7
What Is This? Dog Brought In From Outside
it's rat bait. Get your dog to a vet immediately, take the bait with you. I hope your pup will be okay and didn't ingest too much. Some people are absolute bastards and poison dogs on purpose, so I'm hoping that's not the case.
Zaach 8 months ago
When I was about 11 a neighbor poisoned my dog Marty; Marty was the 3rd dog that was killed on purpose.
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
Neighbor poisoned my cat. He sure had to replace a lot of car parts over quite a few years.
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OneHappyPuppy 8 months ago
On the 21st of the past December someone poisoned our 3yo dog. This hits home, I hope the pup is ok
winterwidow87 8 months ago
I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope the bastãrd who did it gets some well deserved karma.
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the sixthgirl 8 months ago
Someone in my neighborhood put out poison of some kind and I spent my Saturday morning picking up 13 rat corpses from the yard, the sidewalk and the neighbor's yard. (I didn't want any coyotes or other wild scavengers to also get poisoned.) I had never set eyes on a single rat in the neighborhood before that day, which I guess tells you how ubiquitous they really are. Also, that day left me with a bit of mild PTSD.
Michelle C 7 months ago
Yup. Some people have no regard for others or this was a tragic accident because they do have a rat problem.
Shortstuff 5 months ago
We had a whole lot of cats in our area poisoned with rat bait...including ours. 😡
Jane Alexander 7 months ago
Beware neighbors who use that new rat poison that drives rodents out of the house searching water. One craweled into our yard dying, dog was curious, only sniffed it, did that head-shaking thing but recovered. A thousand hells on the neighbor who put our beloved boy at risk!
#8
Wild Carrots? Found On The Beach Of Southern Zealand, Denmark
it's actually water hemlock, which is incredibly poisonous.
DelvianBlue 8 months ago
I was curious so I read about it. It may already be too late for this person. Apparently there are some water hemlock species that can poison you through the skin, and people have died by touching them.
MadRatter 7 months ago (edited)
Not in Denmark. This type of hemlock will only k**l (ffs "unalive you") if ingested. We do have plants that can give you a nasty rash if touched and burns if the area is exposed to sunlight, but our deadly plants have to be ingested.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 8 months ago
Ohhhh my god as a forager this makes me sooo annoyed. NEVER pick something you haven’t 100% ID’d, ESPECIALLY if you know what you’re looking for has toxic lookalikes.
Stygtand 8 months ago
Today i learned that the island i have lived on all my life is called zealand in english.
Lene 7 months ago
As a kid I found it very odd that Sjælland was Zealand. And for a bit I wanted New Zealand to be called Ny Sjælland in Danish. 😄
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Gabby M 8 months ago
TBF if they took a photo, they certainly would have eaten it. Society today is the stupidest as they come.
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LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
Not necessarily water hemlock, but definitely poison hemlock.
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Tourists In Chernobyl, Sitting In An Excavator Claw Used After The Disaster. (It Has Deadly Levels Of Radiation)
BrunoVI 8 months ago
Turns out it's fake. I tried to find out who they were from the original source, and I found the identical picture.... minus the two women. Then I looked closer, and yeah, you can totally see the cropping on the right side (their left) of each of them.
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Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 7 months ago
That's so funny you say that!!! My passionate hobby is collecting uranium glass and radium clocks. It's a well known mantra amongst collectors that it's fine to look at the pretty glow... Just don't lick it!!!
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Aside from the obvious stupidity of ignoring the safety issues, why would you be smiling in a place of such a tragedy?????
Verena 8 months ago
Same mindset of those dancing on the railtracks in Auschwitz.
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Analyn Lahr 8 months ago
Why are they posing like that anyway? I mean, not only is it unbelievably stupid, it's also disrespectful, I think.
Pencil 8 months ago
Does everyone just automatically believe everything they see on the internet? Like it doesn't occur to anyone that random people can't just wander unsupervised and unprotected around the world's most radioactive place? Chernobyl is highly restricted and this picture is fake.
Offbeat Quinoa 7 months ago
You kind of can wander around like this in Pripyat:Chernobyl. When I went, it was me, my bf and one tour guide. She let us do things that the group tours weren’t allowed to do, like climb a 16 storey apartment building to stand on the roof so we could see the reactor 2km away, the same way locals did when it exploded in 1986. It was very humbling. The only protective equipment we had were raincoats and rain boots that we brought ourselves. We didn’t do anything disrespectful like this though, and our guide was careful to keep us from touching anything highly radioactive (like the fire fighter’s equipment in the hospital.) We could have if we were stupid enough, though.
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The cone snail isn't the only deadly creature lurking in the ocean. You might remember daredevil conservationist Steve Irwin. The Australian made a living recording his dangerous encounters with animals in the wild. He was known for his fearless escapades with crocodiles, snakes and other scary creatures that many of us wouldn't approach with a ten-foot pole.
But in the end, it was a stingray that ended Irwin's life. The stingray's barb pierced his chest more than once, before swimming away and leaving him for dead. The "Crocodile Hunter," as he was fondly known, had been filming a documentary at the time of the shocking tragedy.
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How Lucky I Am To Be Still Alive? Red Sea, Egypt
This is a textile cone snail, Conus textile. All cone snails are venomous and this species is one of those known to be dangerous to humans. Deaths are rare, about 30 are known to have occurred among all cone snail species, but likely underreported. So yeah, it was a bad idea to just pick it up, especially underwater where it was very likely alive.
Maples Dad 8 months ago
Well considering they posted a photo and paragrap of their story, I'm gonna take a walk kn the really wild side and say that yes they survived.
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The Doom Song 8 months ago
We get taught at very early ages in primary school all about the dangerous animals that can k**l you. I remember they had a little glass tank with one of these guys in it
B 8 months ago
Maybe leave nature alone to just get the hell on with it. What if some species came into your home and picked you up and prodded you and stuff? Not cool.
Dee Rutherford 8 months ago
Or…just don’t touch live things anywhere unless it’s your pet.
Load More Replies... TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 8 months ago
cone snail. even I know what this is just from watching a episode of octonauts, that right there is a no-no animal
Lila Allen 7 months ago
I swear that show has educated an entire generation.
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Italian-Swiss Panda 8 months ago
I will never understand why some divers/snorkelers/swimmers think it's ok to touch and/or pet the underwater living world. Have some respect, idiots.
Tessa 7 months ago
Exactly! Why the need to touch creatures or organisms? It is damaging!
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24 Hours Underground , We Drank Mine Water
Well, silver lining, you might get a disease named after you!
Just a boring person 8 months ago
Just Why? Aren't you able to bring your Own bottle of water?
Susie Elle 8 months ago
Only if you ran out of water and have no way of purifying it. I'd rather risk the runs but living long enough to be rescued and treated than dying of dehydration while trying to prevent a possible stomachache.
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
It’s not the runs that that you have to worry about. More like nickel or mercury poisoning.
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Breadcrumb. 8 months ago
Ive hiked with people who drank from a stream claiming it was healthy..I asked them "what if there is a dead deer upstream?" Why would you risk it, idiots.
Pyla 8 months ago
I think the conventional wisdom is that the heavy metals fall to the bottom. The Silver Valley in ID has lots of people on the water and the biggest issue is the algae blooms from nitrogen run off
Sheila Swanepoel 7 months ago
Heavy metal refers to atomic weight, not necessarily fall to the bottom weight.
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Michelle C 7 months ago
Only if you’re truly desperate should you be risking this. Purify it first otherwise!
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Found In The Florida Everglades
That is a puss caterpillar.
It is a NOPE; DO NOT TOUCH bug.
It’s bristles are venomous; it’s actually one of the most venomous insects in North America.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
The Everglades is not known for being a nice place for a nature walk anyway. It's full of snakes, gators, crocs, etc. (Yes, there are crocs in the US - only in the Everglades though)
Vee Lyons 8 months ago
There's something to be said for dreadful British weather, at least creatures like that are unknown to us.
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The Big Bad 8 months ago
Why do I think there is going to be a lot of Florida men in this list?
Susie Elle 8 months ago
If it's a furry insect, I don't touch, lmao. I once sat on a hairy caterpillar by accident and it had me itching awfully bad for days
Stephanie Did It 8 months ago
Very, very common in Texas as well. They like oak and elm trees, and sometimes drop out of them. I stepped on one and thought I was standing on a lit cigarette. Then the stomach cramps lasted for hours.
CatD 7 months ago
They also like locust trees and come in green and golden asp form.
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Stingrays and cone snails are among dozens of venomous sea creatures. The act of injecting venom or toxins into a human or animal via a bite, puncture or sting is called envenomation. According to the Divers Alert Network (DAN), envenomation is "always due to direct contact with an animal (or parts of it like drifting jellyfish tentacles)." While envenomations are rare, they can be life-threatening.
"There are two possible mechanisms of injection: active, such as jellyfish or cone snails, or passive like lionfish or sea urchins," notes the DAN site. "Injuries typically occur during shore entries or exits, incidental contact or deliberate attempts to handle a specimen."
#13
Why Is This Hose Nailed To The Wall?
That is a nail through a live gas line, that is super bad.
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
shut the gas off upstream of the nail, then call the plumber
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Riley Quinn 8 months ago
My ex accidently cut through the exterior gas line causing the room I was in to fill with fumes. As I very cautiously left the room and gathered the cats up to go outside, he shut the feed off at the tanks.
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
RUN away and call the gas company to come turn it off until it's fixed.
#14
Petting The Animals
Scott Rackley 8 months ago (edited)
I've come upon cubs once, scared the w*****s out of me. They didn't notice me as they were terrorizing some small tree. I backed up and got out quietly. Lol, now w i l l i e s is censored, jfc
Portentia9 8 months ago
Overly-excessive censorship is beyond re-tarded and is clearly making the masses re-tarded. But, that's the plan. "An individual is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals". The powers that be do not want intelligent, independent thinkers. They are uncontrollable. It's in plain sight all day every day.
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Susie Elle 8 months ago
Unless these people went hiking while ignoring the warnings on cub-season, this is just a very unfortunate run-in
Spittnimage 8 months ago
Nobody's petting animals. Don't get ahead of yourself. He's standing still, probably thinking what do I do now?
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
Bad, bad, bad idea. Momma bear is very close by. Stay there and you'll meet her in a second.
Lyoness 8 months ago
This is just f*cking stupid. When that Mum comes around the corner you are going to be maimed at the very least.
Stannous Flouride 7 months ago
But even worse is that mama bear will probably be put down if she attacks him..
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Gifted A Candle Containing Minerals Which Produce Toxic Gas When Heated
Sunny Day 8 months ago
Hey! My mother-in-law likes me! She's always offering to make her special mushroom stew for me.
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So... pyrite and wax can make a fireball? Why am I learning that only now, it may be the answer to fireball sling ammo.
Jrog 7 months ago
"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" [Abraham Lincoln]
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I dont know 8 months ago (edited)
Why do I feel like the person who made that candle had the knowledge that it's practically an explosive?
Jrog 7 months ago
The balancing of the equation is wrong though. I think they wanted to write 2FeS₂ + 11/2 O₂ → Fe₂O₃ + 4SO₂ but missed the "/" and that doesn't really make sense anyway. The correct one should be 4FeS₂ + 11O₂ → 2Fe₂O₃ + 8SO₂
Jrog 7 months ago (edited)
Also, it's not "explosive": it's exothermic, but not nearly enough in those quantities to start a fire or "explode". Those are a few grams of pyrite, and it would take about 100 grams reacting at the same time to heat 1 liter of water to the boiling point. The energy content there is comparable to a small chocolate snack. It would be enough to melt the wax in the candle, but without igniting or boiling it. The biggest danger is the SO₂ (sulphur dioxide) that is lightly toxic and dangerous in far larger quantities than shown here.
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weatherwitch 6 months ago
Sort of pretty you get on Etsy from sellers who'd never Think about any other aspects than the glitter cutesy ❤️ I do like Etsy but some stuff is insane!
The words 'venom' and 'poison' are often used interchangeably, but there is a difference. Both mean a toxic chemical produced naturally by an animal. But the way they are delivered is not the same.
Venom is introduced via a wound. Think of stingrays, cone snails or snakes, or any animal that uses its teeth, sting, spines or claws to inject its prey or protect itself. "Poison is different as there is no wound involved. It can be absorbed into the bloodstream through the skin, inhaled or ingested," explains Dr Ronald Jenner, a venom evolution expert at the Natural History Museum.
Jenner has a simple way of telling the difference between the two: "If you bite it and you die it's poison, but if it bites you and you die, that's venom."
#16
Was Cleaning Webs Off My Porch…
And this lady just dropped herself down from my light fixture right next to my flip flopped foot. This is the BIGGEST black widow I’ve ever seen in person.
Martinna Jaap 8 months ago
I found a live female black widow spider in some grapes I bought from Walmart. She could have bit me at anytime when I took the grapes out of the bag and into the colander to wash them. I ended up giving her to a spider enthusiast and she kept her for almost 2 years. We couldn’t release her because she wasn’t from where I live and I refused to k**l her. She wasn’t actually quite sweet.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Most black widow species aren’t that aggressive! I used to catch them on the playground in elementary school. Brown widows, however, have become invasive where I live, are pushing out the native black widow species, and they ARE aggressive and will bite with very little provocation.
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CK 8 months ago
Most spider bites happen when you don't see the spider. If you brush against it because you didn't know it was there, or worse, put on clothes they crawled into, then from their point of view it's self defense.
David 8 months ago
This doesn't seem to fit the thread title. Poster DOES appear to know it is a dangerous spider. We used to get them sometimes when we lived in California. I've only seen one once in all the years I've lived in Washington due to (I assume) the colder climate. And that one might have come with us from California.
TiNaBoNiNa 7 months ago
Perhaps the creator feels not immediately squashing it and instead catching it to give to a friend is the dumb part?
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James Blair 7 months ago
They’re all over where I live. Not aggressive and rarely sting. You pretty much would have to turn them over and put your hand directly on them to get them to sting.
Anyone-for-tea? 8 months ago
I have been scrolling cautiously, and closed my eyes and scrolled down until I knew I’d be at the comments! I’m reading all of the titles before I look at the photos on this thread!
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Jason Kennith 7 months ago
Deaths by a female black widow's bite are rare, though they cause extreme pain and muscle spasms. I've encountered a few of these spiders.
JK 8 months ago
Killed one next to my washing machine the other day. A while ago one got its leg stuck in the zipper on my makeup bag. I was half asleep and took me a while to notice it. Smashed it against the wall with my slipper and got ready for work. Found one in my kitchen rubber gloves. Smashed it and thankfully didn't just blindly put on my gloves. It was a clear and semi-venomous spider. If you live in areas like the SW US where they are common, always check your shoes, gloves and hats prior to use.
JLMay 8 months ago
Over 20 years back, a house we rented was inundated with them. We killed over 30+ that year. Fun fact I didn't know was that they sometimes dig holes and live in those. Wind scorpions were also rampant.
DowntownStevieB 8 months ago
While I don't really want to be bitten by a spider, BW's are really not that dangerous to humans.
#17
My Parents’ Breaker Box
“It’s been fine since I shoved all that stuff in it.” -Parental Unit that’s responsible Redneck ingenuity at its finest. It’s been like this for at least 15 years. sigh Yes, it’s finally failing and being replaced. Yes, sparks fly at random times. Yes, I’m disappointed.
Gracie Mae 7 months ago
they're used to stabilize the acidity in the wires, in conjunction with the planks that maintain the pH levels...lol, idk wth!
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Historyherstory (old guy) 7 months ago (edited)
Okay. It does appear to have solid strand aluminum wiring on 110 service. Aluminum is not as conductive as copper and thusly expands and contract when current passes. It is no longer used in residential applications in the US. On a side note, the entry feed at top has appeared to have melted the connection with bus. The wood is holding it secure (so to speak) with the box. Collision course with fire.
TiNaBoNiNa 7 months ago
Translation for laymen: Wire bad. Melting bad. Fire bad.
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geezeronthehill 8 months ago
Electrical code requires breaker boxes to be closed at all times. Fire hazard from sparks shooting out.
#18
Snow Pinwheels! Natures Warning Sign Of Rising Avalanche Risk
Norm Gilmore 8 months ago
I gave an up vote because it is a serious question (though tongue in cheek) From a few centimetres to as big as a car apparently :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_roller#:~:text=They%20can%20be%20as%20small,few%20inches%20or%20centimeters%20wide.
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Lila Allen 7 months ago
Depends. Most are a few meters. If you see a large one, you're probably too late but you could start running in case you make it
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Spencers slave no more 8 months ago
They indicate the snow surface is getting wet and losing strength and increases the risk of wet avalanches according to Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center.
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Fortunately, not all venoms and poisons are fatal to humans. Sometimes the substances are just used as a deterrent. Think hellishly painful but you'll live to tell the tale.
According to the Natural History Museum, the bullet ant has one of the most painful stings of all insects. "The pain can last up to 24 hours, but a human victim is likely to walk away otherwise unharmed," reads the site.
Bees and wasps are another example. While they both sting and inject venom, the insects aren't deadly to humans. Unless you're highly allergic and go into anaphylactic shock.
#19
Heres Me In The Neighborhood Pothole
Going into a sinkhole...
Uncle Panda 8 months ago
"Single efficiency apartment, close to major roads and bus routes. Small pets ok."
#20
Came Home To My Mom Boiling Bleach To Clean A Pan Of Some Burnt In Sugar, Creating A Highly Toxic Gas
Gabby M 8 months ago
Had a neighbor that combined ammonia AND bleach then wondered why they were so sick the next day ... just shakes my head
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Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Standart procedure in my home too... They never listen, because "we have always did it that way"
WindySwede 8 months ago
Had a contractor that f****d up, and mostly said "We have always done it this way" (Run away!) 😬🙈
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Deannamite 8 months ago
Since stores all over sell bleach tabs for toilets, I'm not sure why so many folks are freaking out about your statement. Bleach and pee are getting diluted in water, and nobody's lingering over the bowl to huff that.
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Savannah greenleaf 8 months ago
Yeah my aunt cleaned a toilet with vinegar and ammonia. Her and her husband got admitted to the hospital that day. Do not mix cleaning products!
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
This reminds me of when gasoline was used to wash clothes. We've always been this stupid.
#21
That Looks Terrifying
Evelien Stijger Martens 8 months ago
Ik heb zo'n man en toen kwam hij heel snel van het dak af. Gelukkig niet naar de begane grond, maar het serredal. Hij voelt het 5 jaar kater nog elke dag
Back in the ocean, the box jellyfish produces one of the most potent venoms known to mankind. Some of them take less than three minutes to stop an adult's heart. You'll likely be long gone before any medical rescue personnel can respond.
Miraculously, an Irish travel content creator narrowly escaped death after she was stung by a box jellyfish during a boat trip in the Philippines. The woman, known as Julie, was saved by an Australian nurse and doctor who happened to be on the boat at the time. However, almost a year after the incident, she says she has permanent nerve damage and ongoing gut issues because of the sting.
#22
Round Metal Ball Found Whilst Digging Has A Hole In One Side, Very Heavy Easily 3kg
If there’s a hole in a cannonball it’s for a fuse to light the explosives inside. You should put that down immediately and potentially contact law enforcement about ordnance disposal
Alexia 8 months ago
People are stupid with old ammunition. Some dude found an unexploded WW2 projectile and he took it to the police station by train (!!) 😳
SnackbarKaat 8 months ago
Had a guy here in town collect it and gave schools a tour in his garage stuffed with it! When the police found out, the government had to send deminers to his house lol
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john doe 8 months ago
Ok well this one is completely fine, it's an exploding cannon ball, they were filled with black powder had a fuse of slow match and were lit before being fired, if this one didn't blow it was a dud, these types of cannon balls haven't been used since the 18th century, any black powder in it has decomposed and is completely inert. Totally fine to pick up. People acting like this is some WW2 UXO which you should not mess with, they used TNT and had pressure sensitive fuses, you could set one of those off still.
TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago
Also caution if there is german writting on a bomb, due to TNT shortages they used RDX - 1.4 TNT equivalent in explosive force
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Beak Hookage 8 months ago
My dad knew a guy who did that with a hand grenade him and his friends found when they were kids. He only had one arm, guess why.
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TiNaBoNiNa 7 months ago
It's inert. These haven't been used since the 1800s, and any gun powder they may have contained is long gone.
Load More Replies... Nichole Harris 7 months ago
We've an old cannon ball here.... Found it in the yard. Oh... Bout 55 years ago.... Prolly from the American civil war
Brian Droste 8 months ago
If I found something like that, I would have no idea what it was and more than likely pick it up myself.
Novlette Williams 8 months ago
One family in England had an un exploded WWII bomb holding their front door open.
Forrest Hobbs 7 months ago (edited)
I think I remember that one - from the last couple of years. I tried to find the news article, but failed. I think, Novelette, that the home in question had a Victorian naval shell in the back garden - nicely painted for a back garden prop and everything. Turned out it was filled with explosives (no propellant) and the bomb squad took it away, but without any special precautions. "Not safe, but not likely to blow up without severe provocation" seemed to be the diagnosis.
Load More Replies... Bettye McKee 7 months ago
My brother narrowly avoided being blown up by an unexploded shell that a friend found and was going to bust open with a hammer. My brother was delayed and the explosion occurred before he got there. (Not far from our town was a hill that a military camp used for target practice. There were plenty of unexploded shells to be found by unsupervised kids.)
#23
What Happens To Potatoes After A Year In The Cellar
Rotting vegetation in an unventilated space - it uses up all the oxygen in the air. If you see someone passed out in a confined space, never follow them in, call the fire department.
Renee H. 8 months ago
I heard a story about an entire family that was killed when having gone down the basement to get potato's. When one person did not return another went down to check. And so on and so on. I guess in that country at that time storing potato's on thr basement was common.
AnSi Bae 7 months ago
I was calling b******t until I googled. 4 people died lile this in Russia 2013. I was ready to call BS because in my childhood home we had a underground stone-walled root cellar in the basement of our house. Just a small doubledoor strait out to a dirtfloor. Mice and all. It was very safe and we stored potatoes there and other foods. (I'm not old, the house is built 1915 and I guess before fridges it was great to have. It is cold in there even in the hot summer months)
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Panda Bear 7 months ago
Rotting potatoes make a toxic gas, that’s much more likely than them stealing all the oxygen
UKDeek 7 months ago
Indeed. Enclosed environments, especially underground, can be deadly if there is rusting metal present. As the article said, is someone collapses in a confined space, get out - stay out - call the emergency services.
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Lila Allen 7 months ago
Not really. The shoots need to be about 3 inches and green for them to be planted. At this point these are producing a noxious gas and likely smell unbelievably foul.
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#24
Unsupported/Shifted Load
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Had a tractor trailer pass us on I-65. Tandems vibrating.."slow the hell down", I told my then girlfriend. Just as he got a couple trailer lengths ahead and she asked "why?" the tread let loose from one of the duals and snaked up in the air. "That's why".
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
On one of the family road trips, my dad was passing a semi just as its tire blew. We were fine, thankfully, but I'll never forget that sound - it was terrifying.
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BrownEyedGrrl 8 months ago
My friend's daughter was killed when a tire came off a semi and came through her windshield. Please try to distance yourself from big trucks.
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
Park your vehicle and let that truck travel on while you call the cops. Both those dual tires are going to blow. It would be ugly. That much structural steel would crush any passing vehicles.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
Ive unloaded these at various job sites i was working at. Flat tires were not caused by unsecured or shifting load. Flat tires was because bad tires
quentariel 7 months ago
This is among the worst of this post, because this idiotism probably doesn't harm the quilty one but someone innocent driving behind.
#25
I Almost Fell Into A Sinkhole Under My Porch. I Caught Myself On The Edge Of The Hole, From My Chest Down Was Just Dangling Beneath Me. Below The Opening The Hole Is About 10’ Wide And 15’ Deep
The hole extends to about the middle of my grill. These are not great pictures but it’s dark. I think that’s the foundation.
EJN 7 months ago
You should have authorities come and do a ground evaluation. Sinkholes are indications that the ground is unstable so they can multiply in number or in size. Some are big enough to swallow homes. Don't wait. If it shows instability in the ground below your home, get out immediately.
Leah Brown 8 months ago
It's most likely an old rusted out septic tank. I found one of those in my backyard too!
Jennifer Clayton 8 months ago
If I gotta do a pull cup to survive, just bury me and leave flowers.
Jane Alexander 7 months ago
The parking lot gave way and my friend was left with one leg above ground and the other dangling in air in a big hole. No lawyer in the small town would take the case because the construction guy was a Big 'shot' (not my spelling) in that small town. May he rot!
Bettye McKee 7 months ago
When my daughter was small (about three) she fell into an abandoned septic tank on a neighboring property. Her arms on the top of the hole kept her from falling farther and we were able to lift her out.
Pieter LeGrande 7 months ago
Sinkhole, old well, disused min shaft? Just keep the hell away and get it fixed.
#26
Daughter Found These In A Graveyard
Destroying angels are among the most toxic known mushrooms; both they and the closely related death caps (A. phalloides) contain amatoxins.
The Darkest Timeline 8 months ago
Well, if you ate them in the graveyard, at least you’d already be in the place you’re going to end up
Stannous Flouride 7 months ago
Good manners would require you dig a 2m hole before ingesting them.
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Identify first, pick later - if possible. No need to rip out mushrooms only to realise you need to throw them away. And if you aren't sure what they are, just leave them anyway.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
We have had two cases of mushroom poisoning in Australia widely reported in the media, in the last few years. One a (allegedly) purposeful poisoning by a family member and the other someone at a wellness/meditation retreat who drank a 'tonic' which had poisonous ones in it. There were lots of notes on foraging websites after, pleading people not to eat anything unless you are certain which species it is.
David 8 months ago
I believe I have picked these in my woods. But only to look at. Handling them is not dangerous, only ingesting them. And I don't forage mushrooms to eat because there are too many close look-a-likes.
Nancy Parker 7 months ago
But don't let a toddler handle them, they might then suck their fingers and be very ill!
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Diplodocus Dinosaur 7 months ago (edited)
They damage the cells in the liver, kidneys and intestines.
Load More Replies... Jason Kennith 7 months ago
The destroying angel mushroom is truly terrifying. It more or less destroys your DNA, putting whoever ate it in a "walking ghost" phase, where the person feels fine after the initial cholera-like symptoms, but they're dying fast.
Diplodocus Dinosaur 7 months ago
What a beautiful name for this deadly mushroom. I only knew it by its Swedish name Vit flugsvamp, "white fly mushroom". In Sweden we say: never pick any mushrooms that are white. It is a simple safety rule that's easy to follow.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 8 months ago
I love foraging, it’s one of my favorite things, I leave mushrooms the f**k alone. Pretty to look at, cool to learn about, not gonna touch em.
#27
Need Help Removing Stains From My Fireplace
I don't know about cleaning the soot on the front but you might need to get your flue checked out or your chimney cleaned. Doesn't seem like you have adequate flow through your chimney.
Offbeat Quinoa 7 months ago
A flea and a fly in a flue Were imprisoned, so what could they do? Said the fly, "let us flee!" "Let us fly!" said the flea. So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Christina A Davis 7 months ago
I grew up with a wood burning fireplace. YOU HAVE TO HAVE THEM PROFESSIONALLY EVERY YEAR.
Ron Man 8 months ago
This is a heat stain, not a soot stain. The chimney's fine. You won't be able to clean it off because it's not ash/soot/smoke.
ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 7 months ago
That's certainly no heat stain. It's soot.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Also the chimney may be too short for prevailing winds. May need to extend for draw.
Lila Allen 7 months ago
Try,,, call expert and hope like hell you don't die of CO poisoning before he arrives
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#28
Anybody Know What Kinda Octopus Is This? Found Here In Kiana, Australia
This guy holding a blue-ringed octopus. Blue-ringed octopuses, comprising the genus Hapalochlaena, are four extremely venomous species of octopus that are found in tide pools and coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans, from Japan to Australia.
Beak Hookage 8 months ago (edited)
Yes, it's a deadly octopus you should not be going anywhere near, you moron. Also, when the pretty blue rings appear that means it's P.ISSED.
Sylvia Baker 8 months ago
I don't think I'd pick up any unidentified creature in Australia.... just sayin'
Load More Replies... The Doom Song 8 months ago
To tourists visiting Australia..... DO NOT PICK THESE UP THEY CAN K**L YOU WITHIN MINUTES!
PeepPeep the duck 8 months ago
I’m wondering if they are picking them up before they turn colours or annoying them to the point of showing their rings and then picking it up?. It’s the most dumbfounding thing, I don’t understand why there’s so many blue ring pics 😂
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Spacey Stacey 8 months ago
If you have to ask that means you don't know and if you don't know, for your own sake don't touch!
Ece Cenker 7 months ago
Australian. It's an Australian octopus, and THAT is enough to leave it alone!
#29
The Baldest Tire I Have Ever Seen Just Rolled In. Its On Display In The Showroom Now
helloit'sme 8 months ago
we have mandatory annual vehicle inspections here. if you fail to bring in your car before the deadline you'll be fined and not permitted to use that car. if you do bring in your car and it fails the inspection you have to arrange to make all necessary repairs. keeps everyone a bit more safe
Deep One 7 months ago
When I was in high school we ran em until they popped - known as may pops once the fabric showed all the way around. Then in college ran em until they became hummers - that's when enough wire is sticking out that the tires hum. Luckily now I can afford to replace them once the tread is almost gone.
#30
Cutting Holes Through Joist For Hvac?
We are putting a new floor and contractor cut holes through joist?(not sure if I am using the right word) to connect hvac?
Does this seem correct from structural integrity perspective?
Upstaged75 8 months ago
NO! Again, never cut the joists! Unless you want you floors to sag and possibly collapse.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
People are morons sometimes. The integrity of those joists have been severely affected.
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Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
Well now they need to be replaced because there's no structural integrity left
Kit Black 8 months ago (edited)
You don't replace them - you sister them. You don't want to tear out the joist. You want to put an identical one up against it. EDIT - But you shouldn't be being downvoted because you weren't aware of that. You're absolutely right about the structural integrity!
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MagicJacket 8 months ago
Oh no. That will make a good contractor shiver. Need to make it right! mike-holme...ddb7ec.jpg 
LA Murphy 8 months ago
Just wow. I am not that surprised considering I lived in an apartment where they decided to just side over the dryer vent and just slap the vent exhaust cover over the topt of the siding without cutting a hole. The prior tenants who lived there for 2 years never wondered why their clothes never dried. The entire thing was packed with lint and could have caused a fire at any time. Half-assery runs amok.
Verena 8 months ago
Here, yes. However, statics are a crazy thing, and they are often done to enhance strength and save material costs. Weirdly enough a steel beam with holes in it can carry more weight than the same without holes. Calculations and practice prooves this.
Historyherstory (old guy) 7 months ago
True, but in this case they are not even engineered joists, so this strictly verboten. TGIs have precalculated areas for plumb/electric..but 6 inch flex duct...not sure. Certainly, do not put the 125 gallon salt water there. :)
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My Parents Came Back Home To This. Almost Burned Their House Down With This Concave Mirror
Ace 8 months ago
Err, I have one in a bathroom that has been known to sit on the window ledge, so yeah, me, for one.
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Jeremy James 8 months ago
Reminds me of the story about the guy buying a crystal ball at a New Age shop. The salesperson said, "Now remember, you must always keep it covered when not in use." The guy asked, "Because of spirits?" She said, "What? No! Because if the sun hits it weird it will burn your house down!"
Kim Karlotta 7 months ago
yeah, this doesnt quite belong with the list of people picking up animals they dont recognize with their bare hands...
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Game Guy 8 months ago
This problem famously happened to a car in the 80s, the "Chrysler TC By Maserati." It had a fancy crystal-looking convex window in the back pillar with the car's logo etched into it. Convex glass is also known as a lens, so owners would park out outside and come back to find a line burned into the interior tracing the sun's movement in the sky.
Nicole Weymann 8 months ago
Reminds me of the haedlines about the "walkie scorchie" building in London - and that idiot architect made this mistake twice (previously in Las Vegas, IIRC, with vivid descriptions of flip flops laminated to the floor)
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Paddy McCarthy 8 months ago
They built a whole skyscraper in London that did similar. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23944679
rullyman 8 months ago
The fun thing about that (other than the fact I got engaged there), is that the same architect built a building with the same problem in Las Vegas. He didn't think sunshine in London would be a problem.
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Joanne Mendonza-Earle 8 months ago
There's a burn mark on one of the kitchen windowsills from a glass paperweight my mom used to keep on it!
Norm Gilmore 8 months ago
I got called to a house (Electrician) where they could smell burning in a room. Just before I got there they found a decorative glass ball was sitting in just the right position to scorch the carpet!
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Shortstuff 5 months ago
Anything that reflects... crystals, glass....dont put on or near a window.
#32
Safe To Say I Switched Lanes Immediately After This Photo
Earonn - 8 months ago
You took a photo and also switched lanes? YOU were driving and taking photos? Dear OP, you are as dangerous and as stupid as that guy in front of you.
camomooey 8 months ago
It could have been his passenger taking the picture. He doesn't say he took it.
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Beak Hookage 8 months ago
The origin story of the evil mass k1ller tyre from that really weird movie about the k1ller tyre.
Amused panda 8 months ago
I mean, I wouldn't want to be in the lanes to the left or right of it either.
ocean todd 8 months ago
Lucky he has all those tires, since the back left tire is about to go! 😂
#33
My Husband Was Working In The Crawlspace Of Our 1901 Home And Almost Crawled Into This Uncovered Well
MistBorn 8 months ago
Probably the reflection from his flashlight, at least I hope it is
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Janos Schumacher 8 months ago
Uncapped wells are no joke. You run into them up north in MN. You're supposed to pour concrete but sometimes it's just a sheet of plywood. Keep an eye out or you're going down. They're more common than you think.
#34
Taxi Ride To Airport
Does this count? I felt I was on the wrong side of a claymore mine the whole ride though the van may have been old enough not to have a passenger side airbag... Still...
Earonn - 8 months ago
But no smoking, eating, or drinking, yeah because THAT's the problem in this car....
Queencat523 7 months ago
"what if you get into a car accident?" "oh, that will never happen to me"
#35
Dude Accidentally Bought Something A Lot More Radioactive Than Expected
Ms.GB 8 months ago
It makes me think about the story of the radium girls.
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David 8 months ago
This isn't that dangerous to own. Obviously I wouldn't drink out of it. Radium emits mostly alpha radiation which is pretty weak and won't penetrate your jeans or cardboard. For comparison, radium is what was used for years to make watches / gauge dials glow in the dark. Airplane cockpits used to be full of it due to all the instruments. It did cause eye damage to commercial pilots staring at it all day, but the small amount of radium on my old diver's watch isn't going to hurt me. INGESTING it though is bad. "CPM" (counts per minute), measures frequency of radiation, not its strength.
Lila Allen 7 months ago
Yeah but why risk it... can't you just find some non poisonous trinkets
Load More Replies... Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 7 months ago
I collect uranium glass. That Geiger counter is in cPM and that's not very radioactive at all! I have much spicier airplane instruments. Plus it's alpha waves and the mantra is, enjoy the Glow, just don't lick it!
Thiago Gonsalves 7 months ago
Just wondering if in a hundred years people will refer to us about something we're eating/drinking today.
Nicole Weymann 8 months ago
Special interest collector, history enthusiast, science nut ... there's all kinds of "hoarder/hamster" hobbies out there.
Load More Replies... typepy type on a rectangle 8 months ago
That is a radiation jar for meds (long time ago). What you would do, is put uranium or some amount of radiatory object inside, then add water, and you would (very *supposedly* cured).
Lorraine R 8 months ago
See the article link posted above for more info on the Revigator. Here's a quote: "It was lined with carnotite (Hydrated Potassium Uranyl Vanadate), a uranium ore which, like any uranium or thorium ore, emits radon gas at a steady rate as a decay product of the uranium."
Load More Replies... Christine Wild 7 months ago
At one time They actually sold bottled uranium "water you know for your health
Magpie 8 months ago (edited)
Once there was a bloke called Eben Byers who drank radium daily: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-drank-so-much-radium-his-skull-literally-disintegrated If you want to see what radium actually did to his jaw, you can google the picture. Not for the faint hearted, I must say.
#36
What's This Dapper Little Guy My Friend Found In Coastal(Ish) North Carolina?
Cuddling with a Red Velvet Ant.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
It's called an ant but it's actually a parasitic wasp. They sting like fire.
Becky Samuel 8 months ago
Aka cow-killers because the pain can cause cattle to panic and stampede.
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Joe Reaves 8 months ago
Don't pick up any creature you don't recognise but this goes double for invertebrates, sea creatures, and snakes (because random mammals and birds and reptiles that aren't snakes may make you regret it but they're unlikely to be venemous)
April Pickett 8 months ago
Oh, it's pretty! I wanted to hold it, said the guy in the emergency room.
CatD 7 months ago
It is pretty, but with critters that's a warning label.
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Toujin C'Thlu 8 months ago
Saw one of these while walking at a local park. Thought it was pretty cool because I'd never seen one IRL. Didn't pick it up because I knew what it was capable of
Terri Robinson 8 months ago
I had one sting me on my upper rear thigh, OMG! Hurt like forever!! Worst than a bee sting!!
#37
Yesterday In Indi
Bettye McKee 7 months ago
I would pull off at the next exit and have a cup of coffee before continuing.
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#38
Dialysis Venous Chamber Missing A Filter That Prevents Blood Clots From Entering Patient’s Blood Stream Causing Stroke Or Heart Attack
EJN 7 months ago
Before you hook up the various necessities, you are supposed to look them over to very that they are intact and that you have all that is needed. If you don't, it becomes a problem for you and the patient.
AmyBcat 7 months ago
Yeah. Speaking as an RN, after 35 years experience? In a dreamy pinky fluffy perfect world...
Load More Replies... martymcmatrix 8 months ago (edited)
As someone who lacks any talent, I'm at least allowed to do one thing unattended / unsupervised - performing hemodialysis treatments with all the trimmings.....destructs during the production of the blood tubes happen from time to time, but there is not a very close examination of every tube before it's getting used, it's rather like it's gonna be found out in vivo, and I haven't yet experienced any large-scale product recalls...what surprises me is that the venous particle filter is normally where the patient's blood begins to clot, but here it is missing though, and from a purely mechanical point of view, it is rather unlikely that a patient will have large ammounts of clotted blood getting re-infused, 'cause usually at the very second upper venous pressure alert the couriosity of the staff should get triggered anyway......🙋🏽 🤷🏽 🤔
CatD 7 months ago
I worked dialysis for 3 years and never saw a missing filter.
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Bewarethere@gmail.com 7 months ago
What hospital? We have a to know to protect ourselves against the system
#39
The World's Most Dangerous Plant
Pink kitty 8 months ago
I wonder how many people have touched it to see if the sign is true or not?
Lara Verne 8 months ago
Honestly, it's not very secure. I wonder if they didn't replace it with fake plant
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ggus44 8 months ago
It is there to prevent the plant from escaping, not from people touching it 😝
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Awkward lady 8 months ago
I think it is, yes. But don't expect me to confirm it by touching it!
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Spidercat 8 months ago
Gympie Gympie isn't necessarily deadly. But one guy kïlled himself as he couldn't handle the pain.
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Pieter LeGrande 7 months ago
Wouldn't have said most dangerous, but certainly very unpleasant. I had a friend who went skinny dipping in a forest pool walked over a small version a couple of foot high. He spent the next few years scratching his privates. Painful and embarrassing.
SnackbarKaat 8 months ago
The most dangerous plant is a water lilly! 1 minut under it and most ppl are dead!
#40
Aio BF Went To Sleep With Fan Heater On Full Power, On It's Back On The Bed With A Paper Bag On Top
It was actually a brown amazon delivery bag, newspaper is just to show how it was left. He'd just passed out right next to it. Am I overreacting or could this have burnt our entire house down and k****d us both if i hadn't gone to check on him? This is not the first time something like this has happened.
Joe Reaves 8 months ago
Most fan heaters these days have a cut off so that if they're tilted beyond a certain point they turn off. I presume this one doesn't.
Alex Boyd 8 months ago
It doesn't look old enough not to have that feature; it's been mandatory for decades. I wonder if the boyfriend found a way to defeat it, or girlfriend is making things up for clout?
Load More Replies... Bewarethere@gmail.com 7 months ago
Leave him before you guys have a kid cuz things aren't going to change with this man. Good luck!!
Sophia Pandia de Delphia 7 months ago (edited)
Maybe they never planned to have a kid. She should still leave him but not because of kids. Stop tossing that out and assuming every couple will have kids.
Load More Replies... Cathy Carey 7 months ago
When I was a teen there was this house that was vacant and there were parties there every weekend. I was there one night after people started passing out and this one girl passed out over a heater that was on like full blast. I pushed her off and probably kept alot of people from getting burned. Sorry to brag a little but this brought that really good memory to mind.
Dog Mom to Zoe 8 months ago
My mother put her underwear OVER a small heater I put in the spare bedroom for her. She has dementia so didn't understand the danger. I just give her tons of blankets because turning on the heat would be too much for me.
Dragon Lady 7 months ago
What Joe said but also most fan heaters have a warning on them saying DO NOT COVER!!!!!
weatherwitch 6 months ago
There are so many cheap imports that don't met standards, that could have been disastrous
#41
Found This Little Guy In A Fender Well Today
The car technician who found this cute lil' guy in a wheel well, only to find out that it's an American dagger moth (which can cause some painful skin rashes when handled).
Mike F 8 months ago
I had one of those little sweethearts fall out of a tree then down my back under my tshirt. One of the most miserable summers of my life. The itching and burning was horrible..
Nikole 7 months ago
Yes! I grew up in a big city, but I knew this even as a kid!
Load More Replies... SweetCheesySpaghetti 7 months ago
I was riding my bike home from work last week and one of these fell out of a tree and onto my shirt. I have never so calmly panicked in my whole life.
#42
Anyone Who Works With Earth Knows The Dangers Associated With Improper Shoring And Excavation Types. Make Sure Your Loved Ones Are Safe From This Trend
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Kids die at beaches all over the world from holes like this. At most places in the US it's against the rules/law to dig so deep. Looks like beach patrol is about to make them fill it back in.
WindySwede 8 months ago
And here is 'Practical Engineering' to show why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kQXOTcEB_E
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Verena 8 months ago
Tourist season has started here. We know that 2 to 4 people will not return home due to this stupidity, and additional deaths and injuries caused for native animals, people, dogs and horses, even after the hole is filled up. The sand is loose, a sudden soft spot causes broken legs. The "best" idea one family had: Digging a 1m deep canal from the dunes to the water. No emergency vehicle could pass.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Many years ago there was a horrible incident in Ocean City, MD, where a woman fell in a hole someone dug and died as she tried to climb out. The sides collapsed in on her. They passed a law that no one could dig a hole deeper than the knees of the shortest person in their party. This is so dangerous. I still have the occasional nightmare about being trapped and having the wet sand covering me and getting in my nose and mouth....
April Pickett 8 months ago
Thank you so much for the description of dying in a sand hole. You really got my heart thumping.
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Lowrider 56 8 months ago
Every summer there are reports of kids dying from digging these holes
Divado 7 months ago
Speaking from experience the last sound you hear is a sort of CRUMP followed by absolute black and absolute silence. Then the realisation you cannot move...followed by terror. Fortunately my thighs and knees were outside of the hole and I just managed to extract myself, but it was as close as I ever want to get.
Javelina Poppers 7 months ago
Got a feeling that ranger hopping out of the UTV is about to have their behinds for lunch.
#43
My Dad Found All These Red Mushrooms, As Far As I’m Aware This Bunch Is Poisonous. He Said That If You Boil Them Twice And Dry Them Off They’re Hallucinogenic?
martymcmatrix 8 months ago
They are hallucinogenic, if dosed correctly...but I can't recommend the effects they create...🙅🏽 🍄 🤷🏽
Jane Alexander 7 months ago
I've heard you can't 'dose' them because they change strength so quickly
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Some local idiots tried getting high off these things. They barely survived.
Broccoli 8 months ago
thats a whole new level of stupidity..trying to consume a possibly poisonous fungus…without being able to assess the risk or identify the species
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
In this case, they know, and that's EXACTLY why they want to eat them
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Karl 8 months ago
I've tried them - after drying them in the oven. They're "interesting" in that unlike normal psychedelic shrooms, they don't expand the mind - if anything, they lowered my IQ for the duration of the trip which felt like sedation, unpleasant sweating and looped thoughts. Glad when it wore off. There are far more pleasant ways to get high.
#44
Poor Man’s Car Lift To Find The Power Steering Leak
Michael Largey 8 months ago
The Darwin Award is one of the few awards always given posthumously.
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les 8 months ago
dont really see a problem here. the blocks of wood can hold a lot of weight and the fact there are handles show it has been used many times. if the blocks were on the ends it would be weak but not on the sides
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
I agree that the cribbing is well done, but it's much safer and more rigid to support the vehicle frame, rather than the tires.
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#45
Found This Old Looking Bottle Of Picric Acid At The Back Of The Chemicals Rack
Extremely old bottle of picric acid, when dried up tends to explode.
Chuck 8 months ago
Not true. I've been wearing gloves since the first post.
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murmelinpaiva 8 months ago
I got picric acid on my hands in lab years ago. It's bright yellow like mustard, and it takes about 6 months to wear off.
Eliyahu Rooff 7 months ago
During my years as a firefighter, we found a similar bottle of picric acid in the attic of the chemistry department at a local college. With the inside of the stopper being covered with a crystalline precipitate, we dealt with it the easy way: had the State Patrol bomb squad take care of it.
Lila Allen 7 months ago
Our science teacher was cleaning the back room and found a chunk ( maybe golf ball sized) of sodium just sitting out on a shelf directly under the fire sprinklers. We got a half day that day as hazmat had to come get it
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$400 For A Night Airbnb Refuses To Turn Heat Above 58 Degrees
Yes, this is actually dangerous! I'm surprised more people aren't pointing this out. You're 100% supposed to vent your range! Gas combustion byproducts (carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, etc.) can be deadly or harmful to health. This is NOT healthy. If it's generating carbon monoxide, that's potentially deadly! At a minimum, with perfect combustion, you're flooding the house with carbon dioxide. At modest levels, CO2 creates a "stuffy room" feeling, worsens concentration, performance, and sleep. Really high concentrations of CO2 can even be hazardous to health or deadly. If you're properly venting your range, you're sending most all gas combustion byproducts out, but you're bringing in cold makeup air. Hence, a gas range/oven does NOT work for heating. Someone may say they cook all the time without venting. That's not good, but what's over an order of magnitude worse is running all the burners overnight. I didn't used to vent properly while cooking, but after seeing air quality sensor readings from my own home, even when just boiling water, I've been a convert.
Becky Samuel 8 months ago
Poorly ventilated kitchens with gas appliances are a very strong contributing factor to respiratory diseases like COPD and asthma. The smaller the kitchen, the higher the risk.
Nicole Weymann 8 months ago
Not everybody is all that fond of hotels 🤷 For anything more than three nights or so I prefer my "own" place.
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Carla Phillips 7 months ago
Well, now I'm surprised I survived childhood. My mom used our oven must cold mornings to make it warmer. We did have a vent hood, but still scary looking back
Nikole 7 months ago
It’s okay (I think) if it’s only done for a short time.
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Is This Raccoon Rabid? I Had To Move It And I Got Bit
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Doesn't matter which kind of wild animal bites you, you go and receive rabies shots ASAP
Nancy Parker 7 months ago
In fact even if you think it didn't bite you, in the case of a bat. The tiniest nick can transmit the disease.
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Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Why do people post first then seek help after? If there even is an after.
TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago
We don't know when they posted it though, could have been after the trip to the hospital
Load More Replies... Pieter LeGrande 7 months ago
just open the doors and scare it out. No need to get within touching distance.
Load More Replies... and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 8 months ago
That’s the skeeviest looking raccoon I have ever seen. Definitely looks rabid.
#48
Yhese Weird Blue Creatures Washed Up On The Beach Let's Mess With Them For Likes
Upstaged75 8 months ago
That's a blue glaucas! It's a sea slug that eats jellyfish and is quite venomous.
Kira Okah 8 months ago
Blue dragon. They eat Portuguese man o' wars and store the toxin to sting with as a defence, effect is the same as a sting from a man o' war.
#49
Seems A Little Dangerous
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
Definitely. They'd be toast by now in such a small cage.
Load More Replies... Jules 8 months ago
This is utterly despicable. The people responsible for torturing this poor tiger should be removed from this planet as they don't deserve to live here. And shame on the parents of the kids for indulging in this shameful s**t.
Al Fun 7 months ago
Just remove the divider and the kids will be promptly removed from this planet.
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Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
This is an old fake from the 80s. My son brought it back from school because the PTA was having snitfits.
Bananaramamama 7 months ago
I have no idea about the legitimacy of this photo, but I can absolutely tell you that about 30 years ago my siblings and I took a photo with a tiger at a local festival. Two stretched over his back and me and my brother essentially "scruffing him". We were all super young, we didn't know better. But every time I look at that photo I'm reminded that my father chose to pay for the tiger photo because (and this is a haunting quote) "the other option was the grizzly bear and he looked irritated".
weatherwitch 6 months ago
Given the tiny cage size that poor Tiger was likely badly mistreated. Teeth removed, maybe drugged, poor bástard 😞
Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago
Tht poor beautiful tiger in that TINY cage.... : ( Hate seeing that
#50
World's Luckiest Man And World's Chillest Coral
Mike F 8 months ago (edited)
Red touches black, friend of Jack. Red touches yellow, k*ll a fellow.
Alley Cat 8 months ago
I can never remember this so I just avoid all snakes with this color palette. Probably a good idea anyway, just let snakes be.
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kiteman 8 months ago
Very poisonous but extremely docile and rarely bite humans. Still, dumb af to pick up any wild snake.
That Persistent Lint 8 months ago
If black and red are connected, leave it alone... if there is a color in between (yellow or white) leave it alone and count yourself lucky
#51
I Work At A Greenhouse, This Is Growing In The Courtyard. Employees Debated On Whether To Keep The Pretty Flowers Or Chop It Down...it Took Me 3 Seconds To Go, That's Deadly (Hemlock)
Cindy Brick 8 months ago
Really?? Looks like Queen Anne's Lace to me -- a very common wildflower. Or weed, as my farmer dad was fond of saying. Never was poisonous -- but I didn't try eating or drinking it, either.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 8 months ago
Queen Anne’s lace has a red/black spot in the middle, and the clusters are much less spread out. The leaves are also a different shape and density.
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I Was Chosen By A Baby Bat This Morning
Yea. First thought: "that's no baby"... followed shortly by "oh, it probably has rabies or at least something if its acting this way"
Anony Mouse 8 months ago
Throw it in a pot. Add some broth and a potato…. Baby you got a stew going on.
#53
Daughter Just Ate This... What Is It?
Person who had to rush her daughter to the hospital after the kid ate the berries from this bittersweet nightshade plant that was growing through the fence from the neighbor's yard. Thankfully, the kid turned out fine.
Dawn Woolley 7 months ago
Not dangerous, just painful. When I was a toddler I saw a little bush with green, yellow and red fruits. So pretty so I picked one and chewed it. Big mistake, it was a chili bush with the chilies at various degrees of ripeness. It's one of my earliest memories and I still vividly remember the pain and howling that ensued.
Bianca Saville 7 months ago
Exactly the same happened to my daughter when she was around 18 months old.We were watching her but she grabbed and got the berry in her mouth. We got the berry out but had her checked out ay A&E just in case.
#54
My Roommate Left A Teflon Pan With Only Olive Oil On The Burner For An Hour And It Turned Blue
Roommate just created fluorine gas inside a house.
Ace 8 months ago
No, he did not. You cannot get fluorine gas from PTFE. Some unpleasant gases, but not deadly. (And possibly carcinogenic with long-term exposure.)
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
While true, you can have the explosive TFE left behind
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I Have Reached The Point Where I Can't Even
Mavis 8 months ago
This is a walk off the job issue. No way anyone should have to clean something so unsafe.
Earonn - 8 months ago
After taking photos and sending them to the respective authorities.
Load More Replies... Scott Rackley 8 months ago
If I walked up and saw that I'm firing everyone there.
Load More Replies... Šimon Špaček 8 months ago
I worked with some machinery and the basic rule is "disconnect power that can k**l you BEFORE you touch it". It may be electricity, steam, compressed air,... doesn't matter, you turn it off and lock it and you have somebody watching that nobody is turning it on.
David 8 months ago
Agree. In the navy we used dual lockout so if either one (valve / breaker / etc) was accidentally turned on, component did not start. And in many situations there was a physical lock/device that held the breaker open.
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Liz Siemens 8 months ago
My husband works in a potash mine and he has to put an actual keyed lock on the controls anytime he is doing any type of maintenance on a miner. I’m thankful they take it seriously! It already freaks me out that he spends his work day a kilometer underground. No thanks!
Kirsty 7 months ago
At the recycling centre we had to clean inside machinery at the end of every shift, we had similar. There was 20 of us going in all under belts and bits, every one of us took a key out of the board on the way in. You physically cannot start the machine without every single key. 2nd week there someone handed their key to a friend while inside the machine, immediately fired.
Load More Replies... David 8 months ago (edited)
Standard procedure in the military and I suspect most industrial situations is dual lock out. So for example, breaker/switch for this machine and an upstream breaker. Or when we were working on a pump that didn't have an available second breaker, the electrician physically disconnected the power wires to the pump. A part of me wonders if this was a joke photo because both the red and green buttons say PULL to start / Push to stop. But sadly, probably isn't.
#56
We Found A Cute Hat For My Dog In The Woods
Hope you gave your pup a good scrub. Brugmansia are toxic.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Yikes! There’s one of these plants right outside my physical therapy place. It’s in full bloom so I got sort of close to take a photo of it. Glad I didn’t touch it XD
Clown fish 7 months ago
You'll be fine as long as you don't eat it. It's poisonous to eat not touch. Now if you see some hogweed keep well away from it
Load More Replies... luci (he/fae) 8 months ago
it's the seeds and leaves that are toxic, not the flowers. still shouldn't do that. or hold the dog like that.
#57
Apparently "No Smoking" Is Too Hard To Read
Johnnynatfan 8 months ago
That cigarette is not going to do anything that the flame from a grill cant do. Think about it for a second. The tank is not that far from an open flame while you're grilling and that's fine but a smoldering cigarette on the other side of a metal cage is going to cause some kind of explosion or fire? That does not make any sense logically. The no smoking is just a cover your a*s thing.
#58
This Person, Who Didn't Thought About Hazardous Gases, Or Lead, Or Mercury, Not To Mention The Risk Of Being Horribly Burned, Before Cooking A Pizza On Volcano
#59
Oopsies Daisies
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
Juvenile rattlers are relatively more venomous than adults. Particularly dangerous to dogs
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Because they don't regulate their venom when they bite so you get a bigger dose. Adults snakes don't dump all their venom with one bite.
Load More Replies... kiteman 8 months ago
Even non venomous snakes bite and can be very painful. It’s really poor judgement to handle any snake at all.
CatD 7 months ago
I've been bitten by an adult Great Plains Rat snake and I've had worse kitten scratches.
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 8 months ago
They don’t grow until they get a little older
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ROSESARERED 8 months ago
In Australia we don't touch snake, give them space and let them move on. Deadly ropes are too common here, and death will follow if they are not respected and left alone
#60
My Sister Called And Asked Why Her Dryer Kept Stopping
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 8 months ago
When I was in college I worked part time with the maintenance crew and our #1 call was dryers that weren't work. 80% of the time they were clogged with lint. I really don't understand how people are this ignorant.
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Wildest Thing I've Ever Seen
Addition was added onto this house around 2006, contractor built a roof over top of the chimney for the oil furnace. I'm shocked it took until now to find. Attic is LOADED with soot as expected. We replaced entire chimney and terminated through roof as it should be.
robert copher 8 months ago
Carpenter needs to sued and lose license for such shoddy and dangerous work!
#62
Finally Found Where My Lint Trap Is
Lived in my apartment for 3 years and ignorantly thought I didn't have a lint trap in my dryer. Found out it's under the handle on the top of it, but since it was hard to pull up, I figured it was something else and I didn't want to break it and get management mad at me. Finally figured out that if I pull it towards me, it'll come out. Got lucky today. So glad I got some radioactively bright red towels that clogged the inside of my dryer and proved to me that I do indeed have a lint trap I need to manually clean.
Boris Long-Johnson 8 months ago
No - genuinely some of the old vented driers didn’t, at least in the UK. They just vented all the fluff out of the flexi hose you lobbed out of the window when you were using it. Nowadays I suspect they all do - our heat pump based drier has two, one you empty every time and one that you do when the screen tells you (I think it’s off some sort of counter).
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
My daughter complained her clothes at the private student housing she was at weren't getting dry. Pulled the vent hose, and it was solid lint as the thru wall vent was 5' above dryer. She and the other 3 kids were lucky.
The Doom Song 8 months ago
Oh my God. I used to live with someone who never cleaned the lint trap. I didn't even use the darn thing and I'd empty it every other day
#63
My School Blocked All Of The Emergency Exits Instead Of Fixing The Alarm
John Dilligaf 8 months ago
A call to the fire marshal and then maybe a quick blasting out on local social media should fix that real quick.
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
"Please just stay inside and die. Thnx and sorry for the inconvenience!"
Stephanie A Mutti 8 months ago
I two times got trapped in a county jail emergency fire escape [on the civilian side, I am a lawyer visiting clients] because the County locked the fire escape doors at the exit point. The first time I thought maybe they just didn't know. The second time,,, smh
David 8 months ago
This doesn't seem THAT bad considering it appears to be something you could just flop over and exit out the door if there was a real emergency. It seems to be there just to stop kids ignoring the sign on the door. That's way better than those places that literally chain/padlock the door.
#64
I Don’t Think That’s A Pet, You Shouldn’t Invite It Into Your Car
Igor914624 8 months ago
Was it looking for a delivery from the Acme corporation?
Load More Replies... CatD 7 months ago
The look on his face is, "I'm not telling them I'm not a dog".
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Tropical Tarot 8 months ago
No it's not. I saw the story a while back. It was hit or dazed and quiet. It gradually got back to normal at the vets. They knew it was a coyote and called the proper authorities to take care of it.
Load More Replies... and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 8 months ago
Oooh… one of the main signs of rabies is being out during the day and not afraid of people.
#65
This Tea Is Made With A Toxic Plant That Can K**l You And It’s Being Sold On Tik Tok
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
In the dosage suggested here, would cause heart to almost explode
Load More Replies... Not-a-Clue (she/her) 8 months ago
"But it's NATURAL, therefore must be good for you." (My mum. Not sure how we all survived)
The Doom Song 8 months ago
Okay I actually don't know what this is.... can someone please explain
Tropical Tarot 8 months ago
Lily of the valley is toxic to humans. It's being sold as a healing tea.
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Just Sitting In The Woods, 30 Feet Off The Edge Of The Bike Trail
Anonymouse 8 months ago
In my old neighborhood, some kids found a bunch of old glass jars with liquid in them, had a awesome time throwing rocks at them and the colored gasses were sooo cool when they broke... Turned into a haz mat situation once adults found out...
#67
Magnesium Shavings On Fire From Welding Sparks…
Fire, fire! Mag puts out an insane amount of heat. Not much you can do but let it burn out.
TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago (edited)
Yeah clever idea - if you want to cause an explosion
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This Tiny Cute Bat I Found Last Night
Just so everybody knows: you don’t need to be bitten by bats to get rabies or any other virus they have, being scratched is enough. Note that most of the time you don’t feel or see the scratch. Also, when symptoms start to declare, it is too late and you are 100% dying. Getting a preventive shot might be for nothing but it takes 1 hour of your life max instead of… just putting an end to it.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
Rabies is actually quite rare in bats. There was a coincidental run of bats with rabies in the 80s because two women got bitten and died, and then nothing for ten years. Bats are very useful animals - they eat their weight in mosquitos every night - and quite gentle.
TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago
They can also carry up to 500 different pathogens, and while rabbies might not be as common as believed they should still be treated like zombies in the movies - any scratch or bite has to be treated
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Mary Kelly 8 months ago
you should not pick up bats b/c of what they can do to you, but what you can do to them....they don't need your diseases....they do the night shift of the pollen when the bees are in bed...and they eat a c**p load of bugs....love them, but don't touch them
Bartlet for world domination 7 months ago
Bats don't care about our diseases, they have a mother of an immune system. But yes, leave them be.
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To Watch The Eclipse
Saw this on someone’s Snapchat story after the eclipse.
#70
Handrail With Gaps And Sharp Edges
#71
B**b I Found, Dug This One Up In West Flanders Belgium
The Doom Song 8 months ago
well I hope you left it where you found it unlike the idiot from the other pic
Joke Vermote 3 weeks ago
We have a special service who collects them and difuses them here in Belgium. It is indeed a common occurence. My parents have 2 in de foundations of their house, they were redeemed safe and are incapsuled in the concrete.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 8 months ago
You censored BOMB? B O M B BOMB? I thought it was b o o b. Idiots.
#72
A “Bugfluencer” Putting A Brown Recluse On Her Wrist
Spidercat 8 months ago
I hope they got bitten. I have zero sympathy for any of these morons. I'm on the side of the animals.
Anders Andersson 3 weeks ago
A friend of mine, archaelogist in Egypt, got bitten twice by one of those whilst in an old tomb. Got necrosis which went on for weeks/months...
Paloma Vita 7 months ago
One of these once climbed in my boot while I was visiting friends and then bit me twice on the ankle. I never took off a boot as quickly in my life! I ended up feeling super dizzy and had heart palpitations for hours (after walking ten blocks home all uphill).
#73
My Mom Sent Me This Pic Of My Step-Dad Today
#74
There Was A Snake Hid In My Boots
Watch out for those ones, they are called Saw Scaled Vipers and are pretty dangerous. Tho, you should be able to just grab ur boot and drop the snake somewhere else, and u can both be on your way.
#75
A Quick Shower Before Going Home From Work
Zaach 8 months ago
KBR built showers for the troops in Iraq - the shower had a 2 inch lip to stop the water leaking. In 13 of the showers built, they installed an outlet below the top of the lip. No one was punished for the deaths of those 13 troops
Ron Man 8 months ago
Actually 3 people died, and KBR was punished. While the investigation found no criminal negligence, they were punished in the civil suits brought by the families of the victims.
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2x6 Load Bearing Studs Drilled For 4" Pipe
Long story short miscommunication and misinformation led to walls being drilled for 3" pipe. Simpson does not make a 3" stud shoe. Any ideas how to repair studs without removing plumbing?
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 8 months ago
Of course they can, just look at the picture!
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#77
Window Cracks At 38,000 Ft
Upstaged75 8 months ago
It looks like just the inside part is c*****d. There's another thick pane on the outside part of the plane. Still disconcerting though!
Wintermute 8 months ago
crac ked? That's not even a bad word in any sense. Offensively inoffensive, BP.
Load More Replies... Rachel Reynolds 8 months ago
I took a little Egypt Air puddle jumper from Cairo to Sharm El Sheikh. I had an emergency exit row seat, which was awesome. The door appeared to be held shut by duct tape and little puffs of cloud leaked through. I was 100% sure I was going to die.
#78
12 Feet Deep No Box Or Shoring Is A Daily Thing In This New Company
I've had 5 walls collapse that had three steps they love building in a wash
Johnnynatfan 8 months ago
If you are in the US call OSHA. Dont b***h about it and keep working in there.
#79
To Prevent Tourists From Entering A Dangerous Area
Upstaged75 8 months ago (edited)
The sign doesn't apply to those people I guess? So many idiots.
#80
Gas Fireplace At My Parents House Does This To The Siding
Something is out of whack, gas shouldn’t produce soot. Don’t use it until it’s inspected.
Ace 8 months ago (edited)
Doesn't look like soot, more that the hot exhaust gases have degraded/burnt the plastic siding material, which sounds to me much worse than if it were soot. It definitely should not be like that. ETA I don't know what's normal or allowable in the US, but that vent looks to me like it's intended for extractor fans such as you might have on your cooker hood. A gas fire should have a proper chimney that vents well clear of any wall or roof structure.
Koalalover 8 months ago
Yeah it's not soot, it's scorching the cladding panels which look like plastic or timber.
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Parents With Toddler Move In, Deliberately Plant Datura
Upstaged75 8 months ago
I looked it up: Datura is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family. They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil's trumpets or mad apple. Other English common names include moonflower, devil's weed, and hell's bells.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
When I was young my dad got very concerned about a plant that was growing over the side of a bridge near our house because it looked like devil's trumpets. Thankfully it was that, just a harmless flower.
Load More Replies... Lowrider 56 8 months ago
Yea, I had a couple friends eat some Jimsonweed seeds. Both of them wound up on a mental ward.
Load More Replies... and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 8 months ago
Always do research before planting anything. I’ve always wanted a bleeding heart bush, but we have dogs, so that’s a no-no.
Jaya 8 months ago
Don't most people with a vegetable garden have some nightshades in it? Like potato, eggplant, tomato?
Load More Replies... Magenta Blu 8 months ago
It's a common type of plant where I grew up. Just don't eat it and everything is fine
#82
Im A Maintenance Guy And Found This In One Of Our Storage Units. Are Those Copper Bars Lethal? Feel Like This Should Be Covered. Wasn't Going To Go Near It To Find Out
Tim Fawcett 8 months ago
Yup - live distribution bus bars - not only will they k**l you if you touch them, they are on the consumer side so you will get charged for the electricity that kills you.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Given the 2 studs on top, and 1 on the bottom, is there a cover missing?
Load More Replies... Ace 8 months ago
They're probably earth connections, so should not be live in any way. Still a cowboy job to fit the cover like that when they've had to cut the side of the unit to make it fit. All else apart it would be very easy for mice or other rodents to get in there, and they just love to chew electrical wire insulation. What could possibly go wrong?
Norm Gilmore 8 months ago
I don't think so. I don't know the circumstances around this but these look to be 3 phase bus bars and neutral bar which would normally be protected by a cover, and the cover is not removed until a new compartment is to be added on as an extension (this is why they would be deliberately left long)
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My Sister Accidentally Left Some Salt Water In Her Ceramic Mug Overnight And Salt Crystals Seeped Through
here seems to be some misinformation about what's happening with the pottery here. When fired above 2300°F (∆8-∆10), the clay is no longer porous, and can safely be used for dishware. This was not fired at those temps, we can see that it's porous, and can hold onto moisture and bacteria. Some glazes contain toxic elements but that wouldn't be as easy to just visually identify.
UKGrandad 8 months ago
This one is BS. For one thing, a mug-full of water will not evaporate overnight. For another, the mug is glazed inside and out, so regardless of how porous the clay body might be, the glaze is non-porous. That mug has been plunged into a concentrated salt solution, drained, and left to dry somewhere hot.
Šimon Špaček 8 months ago
I had similar crystals on our pickle pot (or how is it called. It is a pot for making sauerkraut). I add salt in the water lock, because when I use just water, there was mold forming in it. The water evaporates (surprise), so you have to refill it from time to time, but salt made some weird crystals and few times those crystals reappeared after washing it and letting it dry (it needs few week to show).
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Wolf In La Jolla
This man and woman were walking their pet wolf down Girard street on 2/15/24, the man uses a rope as a leash. This is the second time I’ve seen this wolf in La Jolla which is surprising because it’s illegal to keep wolves as pets in California.
I’m aware that it’s legal to own wolfdogs who are under 25% pure wolf in CA, however I’ve heard from someone who spoke to the owner briefly that this wolf is 100% wolf.
The third picture was taken by a friend who spotted the wolf in La Jolla around a year or two ago.
How are they allowed to do this? It’s completely dangerous to have a wolf walking around town, especially amongst children and other dogs. Even if she is behaved the majority of time, it just feels like an accident waiting to happen.
Kira Okah 8 months ago (edited)
Waaay too small for a pure wolf, wolf hybrid for sure. Wolves are HUGE.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Yep. That’s not a purebred wolf. The ears are rounded, which does speak to some wolf DNA, but absolutely not 100% wolf. I’ve been to a wolf sanctuary. Wolves are HUGE.
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RedMarbles 8 months ago
Multiple people on Reddit are claiming this is a female named Artemis and they have met her. They describe her as really sweet. The owner claims 90%+ wolf content, but hopefully he's exaggerating.
Mark (it/urgh) 7 months ago
Too small for a wolf, you obviously don't know just how MASSIVE wolves are.
Liserhawkie80 8 months ago
Are you asking what's worse, an ACTUAL wild animal or a domesticated dog? Ignorant.
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Source? Because that’s BS. Wolves are not domestic animals. When raised by humans they will view humans as part of their “family”, but they will still play and behave like wolves, which means if you do something that they consider “out of line”, they WILL bite, as that is what they would do to another packmate that crosses the line. So, while a wolf raised by humans might not go and eat the neighbor’s toddler, it is NOT a domesticated animal and will NOT behave like a domestic dog.
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Staying In A Airbnb And See This, Water And Electricity,
Ace 8 months ago (edited)
It didn't. Not as bad as some others on here, at least there's no shower.
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My Grandmothers Cooking Spoon From The 50’s
Made beans and other home-cooked meals for over 60 years with a distinct hole in it. You can pretty much be 100% sure that has lead based enamel coating it.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
You can pretty much be 100% sure that the little amount of lead that MIGHT be dropped in your food will not k**l you.
Kenneth Smith 8 months ago
There is no amount of lead that can be considered safe for consumption. None.
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Is This The Problem I Think It Is?
Am I crazy to think there shouldn’t be stored this closely at a Home Depot?
Confused Capybara 8 months ago
The world is lucky Nile Red hasn't turned to crime...
Load More Replies... Mark (it/urgh) 7 months ago
That's why we have these things called "labels." They're truly groundbreaking.
#88
Was Cleaning My Mils Basement When I Came Across This
Dave Platt 8 months ago
That's a Staticmaster 500, used for removing dust and static electricity from vinyl LP records. There's a fine soft brush attached to that sliding tab. Underneath the metal grid at the top is a strip coated with polonium, a radioactive (alpha-emitting) isotope with a short half-life. The alpha particles it emits will ionize the air for a few inches in front of the grid, and this allows any static electricity on the LP to drain away while the brush removes dust particles. The useful lifetime of the brush is only a couple of years... this one has a use-by date of 1970. By now the polonium has decayed through many half-lives and is probably inert... but it would still be a good idea to dispose of this as potentially hazardous material.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
"do not touch" But people just HAVE to OPEN it and hold with bare hands. Great
#89
Vodka Bottles Full Of Petrol On A Street Corner In Bali, Like You Do
Pretty sure Michael Bay just audibly moaned somewhere.
Matthew Currie 8 months ago
Very common all over Southeast Asia. Most people ride small displacement motorcycles, and gas stations are few and far between. Just about every little store in Cambodia or Vietnam will have gas decanted into liter bottles.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
Common in Egypt, too. Poor countries are better at recycling, but they have to be.
Load More Replies... Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Same in practically all Latin America. For some people it is the only way to get fuel, so???
Fellfromthemoon 8 months ago
I think the problem is that we NEVER PUT A DANGEROUS CHEMICAL INTO PACKAGING INTENDED AND LABELED AS FOOD. Sorry for the yelling. People die (really) because someone thinks they can store dangerous stuff in water bottles.
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Who’s Ready For Some Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Šimon Špaček 8 months ago
It may be mist or some smoke. We had smoke like that when our washing machine died (it was the first clue something is wrong, few thin clouds of smoke that were just sitting (floating), not moving.
Zaach 8 months ago
Carbon monoxide is odorless and colorless and is lighter than air so it pools
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
We studied CO for hazmat training. Same density as air, so it will not pool. It will permeate the entire air column.
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The Chromebooks My School Has Us Use, Almost Every One Is Like This
Might be hard to tell but the battery is stolen, one of them had the bottom plastic beginning to crack.
#92
That’s Deadly
From the bulb to the stem to the petals, daffodils contain a toxic chemical called lycorine. The daffodil bulb contains the highest amounts of lycorine. Lycorine is highly poisonous, and can be fatal if ingested in a large enough amount.
Kira Okah 8 months ago (edited)
Placed in the veg section - where someone could mistake them for a spring onion, or not know what they are and assume that they are edible because they are with food.
Load More Replies... Rebecca Ferguson 8 months ago
Bunched like that they look like bunches of asparagus. Really dumb.
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
Rodents won't eat them, so I surround my delectable tulip bulb plantings with daffodils. What do the rodents know?
Mark (it/urgh) 7 months ago
My mate ate daffodils once, all the blood vessels in and around his eyes burst. Was hilarious until he got rushed to hospital and injected with adrenaline.
Mary Kelly 8 months ago
if you eat them, you will likely vomit long before they k**l...also, they are bitter tasting...that's why they are "deer and rabbit proof"
Cindy Brick 8 months ago
Probably this is why I've never heard of or seen a dish with daffodils in it.... but they sure look purty in a vase. (Doofus)
Kira Okah 8 months ago
I'd first try looking in the flower section for flowers, not the vegetable section.
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This Lad Is Going To Introduce A New Prion Disease To Humanity
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
“I soaked a nicotine-filled pillow in wild deer blood! It will make your brain strong!”
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Michelle Carlson 8 months ago
Oh it's neurotropic allright. Not the kind you're going to want though
#94
A Shelf Full Of Enough Lead Paint To K**l 4 People
Rachel Reynolds 8 months ago
Yes. Everyone who comes over has to pick five glasses to lick. If its a man, thay also have to pick a piece of uranium glass to set over their c****h for the duration of the visit.
Load More Replies... Anthony Elmore 8 months ago
I recognize several of the glasses in this pic and specifically remember drinking from them as a child extensively. Great...
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
Which are on THE OUTSIDE and therefore can't touch the drinks. You really think the government wouldn't close fast food places down if there's a chance they're harming kids? Or that us parents would put up with it?
Rafael 8 months ago
Lead paint was in walls that would not even get near your food, and yet you know how well that went. Also, you might be putting too much faith in the government (and parents as well). I wouldn't be surprised if the next wave of political conspiracy negationism started to lobby for the rehabilitation of lead.
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What do you think ?
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Growing up in Australia, I was given a book that helps you learn to identify a whole bunch of venomous creatures, with details on what will happen if you get stung or bitten. So I soon knew to keep away from coneshells, blue-ringed octopi, stonefish, various snakes, etc. More kids should be given books of that sort. I was also taught that if walking in long grass during warm weather, I should stomp to frighten snakes away. They can feel the vibration in the earth and they don't like it.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 months ago
And Vegemite behind your ears when bushwalking to deter drop bears.
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Lynchamigsakta 8 months ago
Poisonous? Venomous? Completely harmless? Don't pick up or "pet" wild animals, what is wrong with people? Respect wildlife it's not there for you to play with
Gavin Johnson 8 months ago
Why are people offering advice? Don’t you know how superheroes are created? It’s not drinking milk or eating chocolate that does it, we need venomous animals, radiation and poisonous plants to do their work and bring about the next generation of superheroes.
Shortstuff 5 months ago
Thank god that in New Zealand, we have nothing that will sting, poison, eat, or try to k**l you!
Fiona Aitch 7 months ago
The self-righteousness of the commenters is what irritates me. Some know what they're talking about but most just want to sound superior.
GamelovesAyleah 7 months ago
Yea I would never pick up wild animals cause I’m afraid they will attack me!!
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 7 months ago
i wish other people had this common sense to not pick up the "cute yellow frog" or the "octopus with the pretty blue rings" because nature can be dangerous when colorful
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Growing up in Australia, I was given a book that helps you learn to identify a whole bunch of venomous creatures, with details on what will happen if you get stung or bitten. So I soon knew to keep away from coneshells, blue-ringed octopi, stonefish, various snakes, etc. More kids should be given books of that sort. I was also taught that if walking in long grass during warm weather, I should stomp to frighten snakes away. They can feel the vibration in the earth and they don't like it.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 months ago
And Vegemite behind your ears when bushwalking to deter drop bears.
Load More Replies... Lynchamigsakta 8 months ago
Poisonous? Venomous? Completely harmless? Don't pick up or "pet" wild animals, what is wrong with people? Respect wildlife it's not there for you to play with
Gavin Johnson 8 months ago
Why are people offering advice? Don’t you know how superheroes are created? It’s not drinking milk or eating chocolate that does it, we need venomous animals, radiation and poisonous plants to do their work and bring about the next generation of superheroes.
Shortstuff 5 months ago
Thank god that in New Zealand, we have nothing that will sting, poison, eat, or try to k**l you!
Fiona Aitch 7 months ago
The self-righteousness of the commenters is what irritates me. Some know what they're talking about but most just want to sound superior.
GamelovesAyleah 7 months ago
Yea I would never pick up wild animals cause I’m afraid they will attack me!!
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 7 months ago
i wish other people had this common sense to not pick up the "cute yellow frog" or the "octopus with the pretty blue rings" because nature can be dangerous when colorful
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