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Many of us did stupid things as kids. But for some people, the stupid acts don’t stop when they reach adulthood. Just like kids, they have to be told “no” in order not to do something extremely foolish, yet even that doesn’t always prove effective.
An abundance of stoopid things people—young and old—have done in their lives was recently discussed by members of the “Ask Reddit” community. One user asked them, “What’s the stupidest thing you’ve seen someone do despite being expressly told not to do it?” and the community delivered.
Scroll down to find stories ranging from hilarious to concerning (but mostly hilarious), and see for yourself just how many stupid ideas and how little common sense some people have in everyday situations.
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#1
When I was in grade 8 we had a science class were we were supposed to be describing the properties of chemicals. We were shown how to waft the hand over a vessel to get a smell, not to taste it, etc and then were given a beaker of liquid to write observations about. We were constantly warned to follow the protocols we were taught.
One kid grabbed his beaker, drank it down, and said it's water. He was immediately kicked out of class and later that day I heard the teacher talking about how at the last minute he decided to use water as a first chemical instead of an acid because of how stupid this one kid would be. He wasn't wrong.
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#2
When I was in college there was this idiot that, despite being told multiple times that it was a bad idea, decided that he just HAD TO grab onto the electric fence around his friends property. I'm told that the noise that came out of him was hilarious.
Yes. I was that idiot.
#3
Had an ex-boss who was expressly told by HR to quit with his sexual harassment; he had "two strikes" by then.
He then decides to specifically mention my breasts in a public conversation. He was gone within the hour.
#4
One that happens entirely too often.
Tell the new guy do not watch p**n on the company computers.
Then I get a call from my boss saying the new guy got himself fired for watching p**n.
Seriously people, if it is on their network they can see it. Incognito mode will not save you.
#5
Leaving the boardwalk in those areas of Yellowstone where you could break through the surface into a scalding hot spring.
Also in Yellowstone, approaching a bison "because they're so cute".
#7
Safety video: "Do not stick your hand in liquid molten plastic."
5 minutes on plant floor
Supervisor to Me: "Hey, take Johnny to the hospital because he stuck his hand in molten plastic and has 3rd degree burns."
That was the end of Johnny. I never saw him again.
Sara Frazer 8 months ago
When my younger sister broke her hand in high school part of her physical therapy was putting her hand in warm melted wax. I always wanted to try that... so if I was presented with a vat of molten plastic, the intrusive thought would be there, but heck no! That's different!
#8
I had a friend looking for his first car and he wanted a BMW or Cadillac, which was pretty crazy considering we both worked the same job making less than $30K a year. After searching for two months, he finds a 2011 BMW 335i for $16k. But after six months of having the bmw it breaks down badly and it's back to him getting a ride from people to work. Four people out of the six of our friend group told him to get a Honda or Toyota as a first starter car and he said "no I'm worth more than that. I want something nice"Now three years later hes still paying on the bmw that hasn't been driven in 2 1/2 years
hardrad2009 8 months ago
My 22 years old cousin did exactly the same. He bought BMW for 10 grands and then spent 15 for repairs during next 12 months.
#9
I worked in an aquatics store, and I told a new hire to be careful when working in the coral vats because the halogen lights got stupid hot (this was before LeDs and they were out the way of customers) so I told him not to touch. As soon as the words left my mouth, he stuck his fingertips on the light. Had to get him to A&E (accident and emergency or the ER for the Americans), and almost 20 years later, I can still hear the sizzle of skin
#10
The tech next to me was using canned air to clean a dusty computer. I noticed he was tilting the can to the side really far to get into the fans so I told him to be careful because if you tilt it too far it'll spray sub zero temp liquid that can freeze-burn your skin. He said "really?" and then immediately turned the can upside down and sprayed directly into his palm. I was just speechless while he clutched his hand and cursed.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
Reminds me of the time a classmate put an asthma puffer (inhaler) onto his arm, against the skin, and pressed it multiple times. He had a mark for at least a week.
#11
It was me.
I saw a red hot burner, asked my mom what red feels like. She responds telling me not to touch it that it's very hot and will hurt me badly. I then decided I wanted to see what red felt like.
#12
We where out and drinking with some friends. In the group was this guy and he was drunk as f**k and was saying he could jump over a car. We laugh not thinking anything of it. All of a sudden he runs in to traffic and jumps towards a car. Got hit and got thrown across the street where an other car hit him again.
No need to say, he was in the hospital for a long time. Never saw anything stupider than that
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Dude was so wasted he thought he was in a video game. With godmode enabled.
#13
I was chaperoning a field trip where the 7th graders got to shoot compound bows. They were expressly told multiple times to NOT dry fire the bow (pulling back and letting go without an arrow).
One kid literally did that as soon as he was handed a bow and broke it. Luckily these were small/low strength pullback bows so he didn't get hurt, but he sure as heck got benched for the rest of class.
#14
In the Navy, there was this guy who literally sucked at everything he did. You could put him in a 4x4 room with a giant steel ball and he'd find a way to lose it or break it. We were doing elevator testing, very clearly making it go up and down and ensuring people were CLEAR of the shaft before every operation. Obviously you'd get crushed to death hanging around that area while the platform was moving.
We get to the bottom of the shaft and I checked to ensure it was clear. I start walking up to tell the operator it's all clear and they ask "Where's McPhearson?" I look behind me and see he didn't follow me up. I go all the way back down to the bottom of the shaft. Where is this MF? INSIDE the elevator shaft SLEEPING.
I’ve Seen Things 8 months ago
This person is why we have “don’t drink the contents” on car batteries
#15
Not me, but saw a video of a woman tell her husband not to put diesel in their car just because it's cheaper.
Cut to... the car having to get towed.
Nathan Lewis 8 months ago
I've seen the video. The guy is so arrogant and its satisfying watching the woman mock him as the tow truck takes the car away.
#16
I was a prep cook in a college town restaurant kitchen. One of the other cooks was in the university's ROTC program and was bragging about his "fire proof" nomex gloves. He decided to show off what they could do by donning a glove and submerging his hand in a pot of boiling water.
Nomex is a fire-***resistant*** fabric. It is neither heat resistant nor water proof.
#17
I used to work at a restaurant that specialized in soup. We always kept it on the burner on the stove so it would be piping hot when it was served. Every time I would bring it to the table I would say the same thing:
"Bon Appétit! Here's your soup. Now be careful because it's piping hot."
And every. Single. Time. They would say:
"OK!" And then immediately take a sip of it and go.
"Ah! Thats..That's... really...."
"Hot?"
"Yes.."
"Yeah, I know. I just told you that." 😆
#18
Climb into a cardboard baler because he threw his phone in and wanted to check after he already crushed it. I yanked the key out and he was fired immediately
#19
My cousin was living with us and the milk he purchased for himself was several days out of date. “Hey Nate, just a heads up that this milk is really expired so make sure you don’t use it.” Then I left it in the fridge so it didn’t stink up the trash before I could walk it to the outdoor trash bins. He immediately got up from the couch, walked in the kitchen, opened it and took a sip. Then immediately started heaving into the sink. It was straight up CHUNKY. He could have just taken a small wiff of it or even LOOKED at it to tell that it was, indeed, very spoiled.
Sara Frazer 8 months ago
I love the photo choice for this; it's very different from the very boring, very staged stock photos xD
#20
Saw a truck driver get his fuel tank caught on fire hydrant. Everyone yells at him to stop and points at the problem. Driver gets out looks at it, jumps back in and proceeds to try RAM his way through. Ruptures his fuel tank AND breaks off the hydrant.
#21
Wearing gloves while using a table saw. He "didn't want to get any splinters", and I believe he didn't, though I did have to sift through a pile of sawdust to find his severed thumb for the paramedics, you win some you lose some I guess.
#22
I worked tech support for copper phone lines. Had an old German sounding lady on the phone saying her phone was electrocuting her while she was holding it. The phone she was talking to me on. I told her to please stop using the phone and we'd send someone out to see what's going on. This lady just kept screaming about how bad it hurt to hold the phone and how much pain she was in. I was like lol just hang up idk what to tell you, but she just stayed on the phone in agony until I ended the call.
#23
Picking up a box jellyfish and continuing to hold it the entire time it was stinging him.
#24
Pour hot water on their icey windshield.
Like 4 of us going into the corner store told her not to do it, one of the guys told her in Spanish. She looked at us for like a second holding the steaming cup of water. Then broke her windshield by pouring hot water on it.
She then stared at it in total disbelief. One of the people who tried to warn her exclaimed in an extremely animated manner. Throwing his hands in the air then dropping them down near his knees “B***H, we f****n’ told you”..then she cried.
#25
When I was a manager at an oil change place we had this kid who was a total idiot. (My boss told me everyone deserves a chance)
He pulled the wrong plug and drained a transmission. We told him several times to not pull a plug unless he was 100% sure it was the oil drain plug. He drained about 6 more transmissions before I finally had enough and fired him
#26
New hire running a press brake, which is a large machine used to bend sheet metal. The new hire was holding the part with one hand and resting his other hand on the bed of the machine.
Three different times he was told to NOT put your hand on the bed. The last time he was told there was a large amount of four letter words used to try an impress upon him that you do NOT rest your hand on the bed.
He would keep his hand away for awhile then go right back to it. He got into a rhythm and he placed his hand on top of the bottom dies rather then the bed. Top dies came down with 35 tons of force and crushed all four fingers off of his hand.
#27
When I was 5 years old, my dad poured some sort of strong and relatively toxic deep cleaning liquid on our wooden dinner table to remove a stain. He jokingly told me not to taste it, and left the dining room for a moment while the deliciously green liquid was dissolving the stain.
I stared at it for a while and proceeded to lick it.
#28
A guy i used to work with in a composites factory was moving a 10 ton mold from one part of a machine to another. The guys working with him told him not to rotate it after putting it down because he would drop it. He immediately rotated it and it fell to the bottom of the machine, breaking lots of stuff along the way. He doesn’t work there any more.
Jay Scales 8 months ago
Some people make it a principle never to listen to what they're told. They are idiots.
#29
Saw a guy attempt to climb a ladder his friend was holding. Not supported by a wall, just his friend holding it.
Just as I passed it started to go wrong and I helped catch the ladder. He got down and we laughed at the close call. I get 10 steps away and he is head first in a hedge with the ladder around his waist.
#30
My daughter, always jumped in front of traffic. Most untrustworthy individual I’ve ever been around. My nerves were shot until she grew out of it in her mid teens. Nobody could convince her not to do it. How’s she’s still alive is beyond me.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
I tried to teach my toddler to stop at corners and look for cars. Then before he was allowed to move again he had to say "no cars". Except he thought that saying "no cars" meant that all the cars would magically disappear. So he'd proclaim "no cars!" and start walking again without actually checking if there were cars in the road. Thankfully he's made it almost a decade without getting run over! I was worried for a while. ;)
#31
Anyone have a 3 or 4 year old?? You could name 5 things everyday..
#32
"Don't swim across that river, there's crocodiles in it just hire a ferry."
Bro didn't feel like paying the ferry fee of like 3 bucks and tried to swim across the river. Low and behold a croc grabbed his foot and twisted it off. He lived btw.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
There's a recent video of a guy paddleboarding in Australia right by a sign that says "Danger, Crocodiles". All these people are yelling at him that he's going to get killed and he responds with "don't tell me what to do". I guess some people are just in a hurry to die?
#33
I did not see this first hand, but the story when through my hospital many years ago. Med school teaches us not to removed penetrating objects without caution under appropriate conditions. A patient presented with a screwdriver in his head. Med student reaches in a pulls it out. Everyone around yells at him to stop. He then proceeds to reinsert screwdriver to patients head!
#34
On an aircraft carrier.
We were using a chain hoist to lift a 25HP electric motor out of a main engine compartment. (About 175 pounds of metal going 60 feet straight up)
An officer pushed past me, the safety observer, past the yellow warning tape, and into the stairwell. He proceeded to stand under the motor and stare up at it.
#35
Lick the radioactive component of a military long range communications device.
#36
One night out with a group of friends, someone challenged another friend to climb on a really high street lamp. He was pretty drunk and not a great climber even in his peak condition. We told him several times to let it go but of course he went "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED" and started climbing the street lamp. To his credit despite being drunk he actually managed to get on top of it. The problem is he had no idea how to climb down and ended up just jumping down from way too high. The result? A broken foot, a broken ankle and 2 friends (me and another) that had to pick him up, walk 1 hour to the nearest hospital and spend the night there with him
Fuhleeheece 8 months ago
Alcohol makes you stupid, and some people are already too stupid to live, so it's like compounding a felony.
#37
Stuck a key in the outlet…not once, but twice. My mother thought after the first time I wouldn’t need to be told again. Same key, but different outlet.
Might explain why I became an aircraft mechanic/avionics technician. Now I’m trying to switch from mechanical engineering to electrical engineering.
Then again I was always that kid. Had to touch the hot stove, and to see if the fence was really electrified.
Glen Ellyn 8 months ago
I do recall making the same dumb move when I was very young - maybe 4 or 5 years old. Luckily, all I got was a bit of a buzz but it was enough to learn to never do that again. Months later, I stopped one of my younger brothers from trying the same stunt.
#38
Expressly told a patient not to smoke for 48 hours after an extraction (told him this before scheduling him too so he already knew) as that would all but guarantee a dry socket. They didn't make it 5 feet out the door before lighting up. They were my first patient 3 days later with a painful dry socket
MalayDragon 8 months ago
I assume this is a Dentistry thing, might be helpful to specify that.
#39
I was in a class for cooking/baking.
One of the students with me got her oven mitt soaking wet after she put it under running water because it caught on fire.
I told her, not to use that mitt replace it before you grab something from the oven.
She didn’t listen and got a b***h of a steam burn. (And dropped our pie.)
They weren’t in class again and the next semester that class wasn’t offered.
Bored Seagull 8 months ago
Unfortunately the Reddit post doesn't elaborate on how the girl managed to set her oven mitt on fire.
#40
Investing in Hawk Tuah girl memecoin.
#41
I shot a 12-gauge shotgun with one hand. The gun flew out of my hand and almost hit my best friend in the head
#42
During the peak of the DC Snipers spree someone I went to school with pulled the fire alarm to get out of a quiz. This is a few days after the middle schooler was shot. All of us evacuate our onto the field and line up. Then someone notices there are people with rifles on top of the building next door. People the teachers, administration, and apparently local cops have no idea about. Naturally we start booking for the treeline. Turns out they were FBI HRT snipers who just didn't notify anyone they were there. A whole series of poor choices were made that day, pretty sure the other student got expelled for putting the entire school in danger. I guess technically no one told them not to pull the fire alarm while someone is all over the area shooting people including children at school, but it's the kind of thing that shouldn't need to be said.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
That was a scary time. One of the more amusing things though was we were told not to walk in a straight line while in public, like a parking lot, etc. (It supposedly made it harder to get shot I guess?) So anytime I went somewhere there were people zig zagging around like everyone was drunk. :)
#43
Not the most stupid but the most frequent:
There's a particular kind of IT request that I've had to talk people through a lot over the last three years. Probably about one time in ten we will get most of the way through the under-two-minute process and I'll get to the bit where I start to _really very slowly and clearly_ say:
"Ok, now it's REALLY IMPORTANT that you do NOT click the submit button until you have-"
and then I watch in horror as their cursor immediately darts down towards the submit button, clicking it viper-like as if they're going to win a prize as I am then forced to continue with
"...have changed the selection in the next drop-down box to [specific thing] because otherwise this [sharing tool] which you have now requested will actually only be available to you, and will not be created in the version that allows you to share it. At all. Ever.
And since we don't have the access permissions to just delete the variety of things you have just created, you need to:
1. Wait up to 24 hours for the confirmation email to arrive with the details you need so you can...
2. Lodge a ticket with the service desk asking them to delete the thing you have created before you...
3. Choose a new and different name for the thing you're creating, because now you've used it, even though you'll delete it, you can never re-use the same name twice, so now you can...
4. Go and start painfully rewriting your process and planning documents to refer to whatever the new name of this will be, and resend all the communications emails you sent out to the people who were meant to be using this thing too.
TL;DR: There is a specific type of person out there who - no matter how carefully and clearly you explain what they need to do - will just continuously click around on random things they can see on their screen until they make an unfixable error even as you repeatedly say "Please stop clicking things!". I do not know why but these people show up at all ages and in all kinds of different workplaces but the approach is exactly the same and it's mystifying.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 8 months ago
Stop saying "Please." That makes it a request. It needs to be a command.
#44
Stabbing a hole through some cardboard with a screwdriver and hitting their hand
The idiot was me
#45
Bunch of my cousins and I were ice skating on our grandparents' pond. We were using hocky skates, and my second youngest cousin was trying to jump over a folding chair while doing a 360. I said, "Bro, don't do that. you're going to break an ankle." He said, 'No, I won't! Watch, I'm gonna get it this time!" Then, on that very attempt, he proceeded to break his ankle. We all laughed because at first we didn't realize he broke his ankle. Then, once he tried to skate it off, he immediately had a stabbing pain and needed to take off his skate. We literally watched the swelling start. Blew up like a balloon. Then it was off to the hospital.
#46
11 years in the Army, I've seen it all.
Still remember from Basic that Kentucky kid who just couldn't grasp the concept of not mixing uniforms with civilian clothes.
Kim Kermes 8 months ago
I'm still having nightmares about showing up in the wrong uniform or my hat having disappeared. I've been out 40 years last month.
#47
My friend asked me to "hold his beer", so I did. He then jumped off of a cliff face and seriously injured himself.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 8 months ago
Anyone who says 'Hold my beer' before doing something stupid should have those words on their gravestone.
#48
I've been a server for 4 and a half years and anytime I tell someone, "careful with this plate, it's hot" they proceed to burn their fingers on it. Why!? Did you think I was making it up to mess with you? Even if I was, why would you risk it? Did you think I was challenging you to see how long you can touch it? I will never understand people who do this.
Joseph Miller 8 months ago
I kinda did this. I wasn't finished with my salad, so I told them "Just put it down". They didn't. I told them again. They didn't. I finally took it from them and put it down myself. I guess I should have noticed that they were wearing oven mitts to hold the plate. At least a 2nd degree blister on my thumb.
#49
20 years ago I was deer hunting with a buddy. He had borrowed a gun from a friend while I had my own. We had come back to the parking lot from the woods to take a break and get some lunch.
The gun he had was a lever action, a temperamental one at that. You must swing the lever in full - all the way out, all the way back, no exceptions. Doing this ejects the prior shell with the out, and loads the new shell with the back action.
Reloading to head back into the woods he loads the magazine and cycled the action so a bullet was in the chamber. Now he halfway opens the lever to peek and make sure the round is in the chamber. But this causes a jam, and he didn’t know enough about guns to clear the jam. So I had to basically halfway disassemble this gun I don’t even own to fix it, put it back together, and show him exactly what he should do rather than what he did.
So he reloads it, cycles a round into the chamber, and f*****g peeks AGAIN. I was like dude, why did you do that? So I fix it again, tell him again you cannot open this action halfway, it’s not a bolt action. If you open it halfway and then close it the gun will jam. The only way to look in the chamber is to fully cycle a round.
So we go through this again, I fix this g*****n gun a third time, and he F*****G DOES IT AGAIN!! It was that day I realized what a true moron was.
#50
Parents: hey hey why are you smacking that with a stick?
Youngest brother: Because told me too?
Parents: Common you can't use that excuse, you can't do everything tells you to do. You can't jump off a bridge if he told you to jump of a bridge.
Older Brother: Hey, jump off that bridge.
Younger brother runs a a head, jumps off bridge, and disappears from view
Think 2 or 3 feet off the ground over a drainage ditch in a park with loose rocks for the water to trickle through. He should not have disappeared.
Broken Ankle.
Completely Hilarious until we realized we had to go to the hospital.
#51
“Do not stick your head into that jets intake”
Jets don’t have reverse gears. You have to push them back manually, there are places to grab them.
You have to teach people to not do that, but there are really dumb people that don’t listen, and suffer the consequences.
M O'Connell 8 months ago
You aren't allowed to anymore, but MD-80s can do their own pushback (much to the chagrin of ground crews).
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Beak Hookage 8 months ago
I had one of those puzzle rings where you have to carefully align each ring to make a whole ring you can then wear. I tried and tried but just couldn't do it. Then I bumped into an old friend who knew how to do it, and soon had it in one piece and wearable. Then, well after we had parted ways, a certain person who shall remain nameless asked to see the ring. I took it off, holding the rings together between finger and thumb, and said okay but you gotta hold it like this or it will fall apart again. Guess what Einstein immediately failed to do. The ring has never been reassembled and I'm still irritated with them.
Alan Jay Weiner 8 months ago
My wife and I have those as wedding bands. Mine is 8 rings; hers is four. I used to be able to do mine but I've long since forgotten how to do it. Although now my knuckles are swollen from arthritis so I couldn't get it off anyway. (We're going on 33 years of marriage, btw)
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Rachel Reynolds 8 months ago
Every time I set a plate of hot food in front of my boys (ages 15,13,10) I say "This is hot. It came right from the oven. The food is hot. Don't eat it yet. The food is hot" At least one of them will immediately try to eat the still steaming food and burn their mouth.
Ace 8 months ago
Well yes, that's kinda the point. Didn't you read the title?
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CP 8 months ago (edited)
I once accidentally used paint s******r instead of paint thinner to clean my hands. That hurt. Edit: Oh BP censors, S T R I P P E R, if people needed that.
John Dilligaf 8 months ago
This happened to my uncle, not me. He was an industrial electrician and one day he's working on a circuit. He had gone to the box, disconnected the breaker and tagged it out like he was supposed to. Big Red tag saying DO NOT ENERGIZE CIRCUT. Some fool came along and closed the circuit breaker. Uncle says all ever remembered was a picking himself up off the floor on the opposite side of the room. Fool was very quickly fired. Probably for his own safety before Uncle could lay hands on him.
Chewie Baron 8 months ago
I remember a foster brother who was well, let’s say ‘lacking in common sense’ is the politest way to phrase it. He offered one evening to make hot drinks for everyone, and a few wanted hot orange (basically hot water with orange cordial, perfect for kids in winter). After a few minutes we hear this weird banging in the kitchen. I go to investigate and I see the kettle jumping and it’s making very strange noises. Inside were two whole oranges and no water. That’s what he thought was how you made a cup of hot orange. He was also 17.
Deborah B 8 months ago
30 odd years ago we had a sewing class in school (as well as cooking, woodwork, etc). There was this one kid I swear had intrusive thoughts, no impulse control, and negative survival instincts. The other tech classes would watch him like a hawk every second, but the sewing teacher thought he'd be okay as long as he wasn't allowed to touch the scissors or the sewing machines. She just removed the power cord from the machine at his table, and hadn't given them scissors yet and he'd be fine for 30 seconds, right? first 2 minutes of "label the parts of the sewing machine on your worksheet" and he manually turned the hand wheel and put the needle thru his left thumb. Right through the thumbnail. Funny kid, but he would sincerely promise to try to keep his hands behind his back and not move, and in under a minute he'd be standing on his desk and trying to put his hand in the extracter fan because "It's making a noise."
jasper 8 months ago
I work at 911. Talked to 2 different people in a week who had lost fingers in their lawnmowers. WTH?
Julia H 8 months ago
Id10t spouse came close. He lifted the side door of the mower while it was still running. Got a pretty good cut tho
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Snowkit 8 months ago
Real one: Assembly says don't wear flip flops bc some of the classroom chairs rock back and forth bc some of the classes are used for some emotional support groups or whatever for kids who have a really hard time with their emotions. Well the very next day the class idiot, lets call him max, wears sandals and PROCEEDS TO ROCKK IN THE CHAIR AND CRUSHES HIS TOE. not even like broken bone, he popped his two like a mother fluffing balloon! BLOOD AND PUS EVERYWHERE. This year this incident was mentioned in assemblyes abt school saftey. Another one I didn't witness but my substitute teacher told me why she was subbing. In a previous period after being warned not to bc the spaces between the desks are narrow, a kid trips my teacher and breaks her Leaghi against the metal bars of the table. You can find the stupiedest kids in school. Also pls excuse my spelling I'm to lazy to fix it lol.
SBocker78 8 months ago
Worked in a state data center. There were Emergency Power Off buttons throughout in case someone gets electrocuted or there was a fire. One day a tech is onsite to fix a malfunctioning door and proceeds to lift a plastic cover box with an alarm and press the big, red, clearly labeled button. He shut down half of the government services for the state. It took hours to get everything turned back on and another week of 24hr days to get most of the errors and failed drives fixed. He said he thought it was a "door open" button.
LauraDragonWench 7 months ago
When I was little, I was allowed to swim in the neighbor's pool with my older sister keeping an eye on me. I would've been around 4 or 5 years old, and I'm sure I was warned about it, but this one time I was feeling exceptionally thirsty. So I grabbed up the nearest bottle and started drinking from it. That bottle contained muriatic acid. My sister saw me after I took a single swig, yanked the bottle away, and immediately stuck the hose in my mouth. Five minutes later I'm in my kitchen with my mom practically funnelling an entire gallon of milk into my stomach. When I later visited the doctor, he praised my sister for her quick reaction and for not making me immediately vomit, which probably would've been most people's first reaction. And, yup, I've still got a happy intestinal system. 😁 I think that was the first and last time I pulled a stupid.
Poppy 8 months ago
When I worked at the same office as my sister she was showing me how to change the toner in the photocopier. We got the new toner cartridge out of the packaging, she told me to keep it in the upright position as it will empty everywhere, wherein I proceed to rotate it towards me and I end up in a cloud of black toner covering me from chest to foot. The floor was coated too. I don't know why I was dumb enough to do it.
Pixie T 7 months ago
When I was about 3 I drank white spirit ( turpentine substitute). My mum took me to A&E and they flushed my system with saline and made me drink milk. I must have liked the taste as 2 weeks later, despite my mum moving the white spirit to on top of the kitchen cupboards I climbed up and drank it again, this time she just gave me lots of milk and didn't take me to hospital.
Janine Randall 7 months ago
Used to work around liquid nitrogen (freezes things instantly). Urban legend had it some smart guy was "joking around" and said he could get his hand in and out before any damage. No. No he did not.
Denise DeSerio 8 months ago
My father once had the bright idea to have me scrub the concrete floor at work with a mixture of bleach and ammonia. I (teenager) said we couldn't do that as it is EXTREMELY poisonous, as it creates chloramine gas, which can k**l you. I even pointed out the labels on each bottle that warned not to mix one with the other. He insisted I do it anyway. That's the closest I've come so far to literally dying.
Corvus 8 months ago
Reminder: No one is forcing you to read it. You came her by your own free will ;)
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Beak Hookage 8 months ago
I had one of those puzzle rings where you have to carefully align each ring to make a whole ring you can then wear. I tried and tried but just couldn't do it. Then I bumped into an old friend who knew how to do it, and soon had it in one piece and wearable. Then, well after we had parted ways, a certain person who shall remain nameless asked to see the ring. I took it off, holding the rings together between finger and thumb, and said okay but you gotta hold it like this or it will fall apart again. Guess what Einstein immediately failed to do. The ring has never been reassembled and I'm still irritated with them.
Alan Jay Weiner 8 months ago
My wife and I have those as wedding bands. Mine is 8 rings; hers is four. I used to be able to do mine but I've long since forgotten how to do it. Although now my knuckles are swollen from arthritis so I couldn't get it off anyway. (We're going on 33 years of marriage, btw)
Load More Replies... Rachel Reynolds 8 months ago
Every time I set a plate of hot food in front of my boys (ages 15,13,10) I say "This is hot. It came right from the oven. The food is hot. Don't eat it yet. The food is hot" At least one of them will immediately try to eat the still steaming food and burn their mouth.
Ace 8 months ago
Well yes, that's kinda the point. Didn't you read the title?
Load More Replies... CP 8 months ago (edited)
I once accidentally used paint s******r instead of paint thinner to clean my hands. That hurt. Edit: Oh BP censors, S T R I P P E R, if people needed that.
John Dilligaf 8 months ago
This happened to my uncle, not me. He was an industrial electrician and one day he's working on a circuit. He had gone to the box, disconnected the breaker and tagged it out like he was supposed to. Big Red tag saying DO NOT ENERGIZE CIRCUT. Some fool came along and closed the circuit breaker. Uncle says all ever remembered was a picking himself up off the floor on the opposite side of the room. Fool was very quickly fired. Probably for his own safety before Uncle could lay hands on him.
Chewie Baron 8 months ago
I remember a foster brother who was well, let’s say ‘lacking in common sense’ is the politest way to phrase it. He offered one evening to make hot drinks for everyone, and a few wanted hot orange (basically hot water with orange cordial, perfect for kids in winter). After a few minutes we hear this weird banging in the kitchen. I go to investigate and I see the kettle jumping and it’s making very strange noises. Inside were two whole oranges and no water. That’s what he thought was how you made a cup of hot orange. He was also 17.
Deborah B 8 months ago
30 odd years ago we had a sewing class in school (as well as cooking, woodwork, etc). There was this one kid I swear had intrusive thoughts, no impulse control, and negative survival instincts. The other tech classes would watch him like a hawk every second, but the sewing teacher thought he'd be okay as long as he wasn't allowed to touch the scissors or the sewing machines. She just removed the power cord from the machine at his table, and hadn't given them scissors yet and he'd be fine for 30 seconds, right? first 2 minutes of "label the parts of the sewing machine on your worksheet" and he manually turned the hand wheel and put the needle thru his left thumb. Right through the thumbnail. Funny kid, but he would sincerely promise to try to keep his hands behind his back and not move, and in under a minute he'd be standing on his desk and trying to put his hand in the extracter fan because "It's making a noise."
jasper 8 months ago
I work at 911. Talked to 2 different people in a week who had lost fingers in their lawnmowers. WTH?
Julia H 8 months ago
Id10t spouse came close. He lifted the side door of the mower while it was still running. Got a pretty good cut tho
Load More Replies... Snowkit 8 months ago
Real one: Assembly says don't wear flip flops bc some of the classroom chairs rock back and forth bc some of the classes are used for some emotional support groups or whatever for kids who have a really hard time with their emotions. Well the very next day the class idiot, lets call him max, wears sandals and PROCEEDS TO ROCKK IN THE CHAIR AND CRUSHES HIS TOE. not even like broken bone, he popped his two like a mother fluffing balloon! BLOOD AND PUS EVERYWHERE. This year this incident was mentioned in assemblyes abt school saftey. Another one I didn't witness but my substitute teacher told me why she was subbing. In a previous period after being warned not to bc the spaces between the desks are narrow, a kid trips my teacher and breaks her Leaghi against the metal bars of the table. You can find the stupiedest kids in school. Also pls excuse my spelling I'm to lazy to fix it lol.
SBocker78 8 months ago
Worked in a state data center. There were Emergency Power Off buttons throughout in case someone gets electrocuted or there was a fire. One day a tech is onsite to fix a malfunctioning door and proceeds to lift a plastic cover box with an alarm and press the big, red, clearly labeled button. He shut down half of the government services for the state. It took hours to get everything turned back on and another week of 24hr days to get most of the errors and failed drives fixed. He said he thought it was a "door open" button.
LauraDragonWench 7 months ago
When I was little, I was allowed to swim in the neighbor's pool with my older sister keeping an eye on me. I would've been around 4 or 5 years old, and I'm sure I was warned about it, but this one time I was feeling exceptionally thirsty. So I grabbed up the nearest bottle and started drinking from it. That bottle contained muriatic acid. My sister saw me after I took a single swig, yanked the bottle away, and immediately stuck the hose in my mouth. Five minutes later I'm in my kitchen with my mom practically funnelling an entire gallon of milk into my stomach. When I later visited the doctor, he praised my sister for her quick reaction and for not making me immediately vomit, which probably would've been most people's first reaction. And, yup, I've still got a happy intestinal system. 😁 I think that was the first and last time I pulled a stupid.
Poppy 8 months ago
When I worked at the same office as my sister she was showing me how to change the toner in the photocopier. We got the new toner cartridge out of the packaging, she told me to keep it in the upright position as it will empty everywhere, wherein I proceed to rotate it towards me and I end up in a cloud of black toner covering me from chest to foot. The floor was coated too. I don't know why I was dumb enough to do it.
Pixie T 7 months ago
When I was about 3 I drank white spirit ( turpentine substitute). My mum took me to A&E and they flushed my system with saline and made me drink milk. I must have liked the taste as 2 weeks later, despite my mum moving the white spirit to on top of the kitchen cupboards I climbed up and drank it again, this time she just gave me lots of milk and didn't take me to hospital.
Janine Randall 7 months ago
Used to work around liquid nitrogen (freezes things instantly). Urban legend had it some smart guy was "joking around" and said he could get his hand in and out before any damage. No. No he did not.
Denise DeSerio 8 months ago
My father once had the bright idea to have me scrub the concrete floor at work with a mixture of bleach and ammonia. I (teenager) said we couldn't do that as it is EXTREMELY poisonous, as it creates chloramine gas, which can k**l you. I even pointed out the labels on each bottle that warned not to mix one with the other. He insisted I do it anyway. That's the closest I've come so far to literally dying.
Corvus 8 months ago
Reminder: No one is forcing you to read it. You came her by your own free will ;)
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