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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.
Kathrin Pukowsky 8 months ago
Similar thing happened in my class. Chemistry teacher called a classmate to the front and had him imitate her shaking a test tube with a flick of the wrist to show class how to safely mix chemicals. Teacher turned her back on him for a moment to answer a question, classmate tried to be funny by using his thumb as a stopper and shaking the test tube like crazy behind the teacher's back with a fat grin on his face. She didn't notice. He fessed up five minutes later when his thumb kept turning redder and redder and felt weird/painful. He had given himself a second-degree chemical burn.
Panda Bear 8 months ago
I had kids like this in my classes. I don’t think they were truly stupid, they just did stupid stuff to get attention.
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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.
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Those things HURT. I grabbed one once as a kid, though to be fair I actually did not know it was electrified.
Peeka_Mimi 8 months ago
I was putting my tazer in my purse and didn't have safety on. I tazed myself. That's a pain I'll never forget.
phantomhit 8 months ago
My friends and I were rolling over a fallen tree. From my angle all was fine, but from theirs a big root was seen. They argued I should move, but I was stubborn. ...They said I bounced.
VikingAbroad 8 months ago
That one kid, that wanted to touch the fence, but insisted his buddy held his hand bc he was a little scared to do so... 😂😂😂🤦
Plant Wizard 5 months ago
We have an electric deer fence around our farm. Its surprising just how many people either ask if they can touch it or just go ahead and do so!
#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.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
After 2 strikes?!?! That should be a one and done.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 7 months ago (edited)
I agreed to take a meeting with a new printing company owner. I told my boss I had no intention of switching, but as a favor I met with this creep. I'm pretty busty, but I dress very modestly, especially in the business world. This guy shows up and I shake his hand. He proceeds to stare at my b***s and when I asked him a question, he answered my b***s. I finally tilted my head so we made eye contact and said, "They don't speak, Ed". He pretty much turned purple and I said - I'm done here. As I walked away (no, there was no meeting) I could hear my boss practically falling off his chair from laughing so hard.
Mimi M 8 months ago
Aaaand this is the definition of the word 'creepy', boys and girls.
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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.
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
It creates a really unpleasant atmosphere for women colleagues. But also, get on with your job. Watch p**n in your own time.
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Panda Bear 8 months ago
If you can’t go a full work day without watching p*rn you need to see a professional. That ain’t normal.
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Paul C. 8 months ago
Four of us shared a computer for our work (basically used for work allocation to each of us) Walked in to find one of them watching p0rn. Went to HR because if discovered, all four of us would have lost our jobs. His mate in IT tipped him off that there was a check on computer use after this and he jumped ship before they sacked him.
Zaach 8 months ago
My first manager at the IRS was frog-marched out for watching child pron at work
John Stark 8 months ago
But it’s okay on a work laptop after hours, right? Asking for a friend…
Pheebs 8 months ago (edited)
One guy got in trouble for constantly setting the background on his computer to scantily clad models, like just shy of nudity. Kept doing it, but the HR at that place kept changing so people gave up. This dude had multiple levels of annoying - clipping his finger nails on to the floor by his desk, listening to music with headphones by turning the volume to max and laying the headphones on the desk - the bg picture was the smallest. One good thing about the company was regular audits of computers to prevent software pirating and such. Like, IT had running monitors on all computers, not even secret monitors either. They made sure everyone knew not to do dumb s**t. The guy ended up getting fired because he was downloading torrents of newly released movies to an extra drive connected to his work computer, and then watching said movies during work hours.
#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".
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
I'm from the US, I call them 'Darwin award' winners.
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Panda Bear 8 months ago
Do not pet the fluffy cows. They want to k**l you. Yes you specifically. They mentioned you by name.
Jaya 8 months ago
They wouldn't have bothered to learn my name if they didn't wanna become friends with me. I'm gonna go and pet my new fluffy friend! :)
Load More Replies... Glen Ellyn 8 months ago
People like this, when they read the warning signs, must think, "Oh, they don't mean me." 🙄🤦🏻♀️
Inigo Montoya 8 months ago
Ooh look at the nice warm bubbly pool! Let's go for a soak!
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Tonyah Mcanelly 8 months ago
Some of the people are darwin award nominee's and some are award winners.
David 8 months ago (edited)
Not just 'fall through'. There have been at least a couple who jumped in intentionally. One man did it in the moment trying to save his dog. Regrettable but you can kind of see where someone might not have thought it through in a panic. But I believe I read of another man that was just acting like it was a hot spring / hot tub and he was going to take a dip.
Teressa Reeves 8 months ago
If you survive the acid eating you while you're breathing, the burns can still k**l you. Totally horrifying
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#6
Co-sign a car loan for a friend.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
For real! I wouldn't co sign a loan for anyone except my wife.
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Tonyah Mcanelly 8 months ago
I work as a receptionist at a dealership I see this happen all too often. The friend quits paying the car note. You get stuck with the bill and bad credit. you try to put the entire deal in your friends name but you cant do it because they magically dissappeared and they have to be there with you whan you take your name off the deal. . Then you pay off the car and the title goes to the undeserving friend. However, If you know where the friend lives you can legally take the car if you have a key .
#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!
Shark queen 🦈🦈🦈 8 months ago
It's not exactly the same but it's somewhat similar and that is if you get a mouthguard for sports you boil it in water and then you bite down on it and you hold it there. So you wouldn't be putting your hand in it but it'd probably be the closest you could get to the experience without being or needing to go to the hospital.
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Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Had guy where I used to work get blowback from a 'cold plug'. Soft material blasting out on a 'purge'. He was happy he was wearing PPE(late 80's).
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 months ago
Is that really something you have to be told: Do not stick you hand in the MOLTEN - that should be the end of the conversation.
#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 $16k. But after six months of having the bmw it breaks down badly and it's back to him getting a ride from people to work. Four people out of the six of our friend group told him to get a Honda or Toyota as a first starter car and he said "no I'm worth more than that. I want something nice"Now three years later hes still paying on the bmw that hasn't been driven in 2 1/2 years
hardrad2009 8 months ago
My 22 years old cousin did exactly the same. He bought BMW for 10 grands and then spent 15 for repairs during next 12 months.
Paulina 8 months ago (edited)
Same with my brother in his 20s 🤦♀️ Insisted on BMW. First one crashed on an unfortunate ice patch. Undettered, bought another one, bit older and cheaper, that broke down and was in and out of a shop for two years. Still bought BMW again 🤦♀️ I have no idea if he managed to ever repay the money he borrowed from family, but it took up until him having a kid to finally get him to buy sensible car 😂
Load More Replies... Miki 8 months ago
In PL we said that BMW stands for: "będziesz miał wydatki" which translates to "you will have expenses".
BrownEyedPanda 8 months ago
I've heard BMW translate to "break my windows," depending on the neighborhood.
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detective miller's hat 8 months ago
I've known a lot of people like this. Meanwhile my cheap as$ Toyota is approaching 350,000 miles.
Papa 8 months ago
But some are more prone to it than others, and cost more to fix.
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Nina 8 months ago
Yeah, I wanted a VW Polo as my first car, but didn't have VW Polo money. So I I got a Suzuki Swift and it was a really nice car.
Sarah 8 months ago
I remember abt 10 years ago Jeremy Clarkson on his car TV programme Top Gear and the team gave Suzuki Swift very good review
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Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
Foreign car, really expensive to get the parts and the mechanics that fix it are even more expensive.
Load More Replies... David 8 months ago
Vanity cars are just dumb if you don't have vanity money to throw at them. BMWs are well known to be expensive to maintain due to specialized parts / labor. My half brother had a BMW for a while when we were both much younger. As I recall, he had some grumbles about maintaining it. I do know he doesn't have one now. LOL.
Susan Raskin 7 months ago
morons who buy stuff for status? no sympathy. And don't come to me to bail you out. Live within your means
Inservio Smurf 7 months ago (edited)
In your defense, that nation specifically set the system up to cause this mentality to manifest in the majority of the population, because it makes them SO much more vulnerable to advertising, that it has a measurable effect on revenue.
#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
Tara L. 7 months ago
I used to work with this idiot who would always do the opposite of anything a woman told him to do, he was a huge misogynistic a-hole. So the other women & I would often tell him "don't touch that" "don't put your hand in there" etc knowing he'd do the opposite & get hurt. He never caught on & was later fired for having so many accidents at work they thought he was scamming them for workers comp 😂
RedHairedDragon 8 months ago
We used to have halogen lights in my old kitchen, over the kitchen counter. Saw one burn out, went to change it. Good that I had an immediate supply of child water
Philly Bob 7 months ago (edited)
Had my fingers too close to an old flashcube when taking a photo years ago. Flash of light and searing pain at the same time.
Sophia Pandia de Delphia 7 months ago
No, 3rd degree burns. Ya know, the worst. No matter what body part.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
That's one hell of an assumption to make given that, so far, none of the posters have provided their own gender. Still, we now know your agenda.
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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.
Rinso The Red 8 months ago
For some reason, teacher was letting us light Bunsen burners in the lab with matches. Buddy thought he'd be badass and tried to light one on his zipper. It lit alright, but the head broke completely off, and stuck to his zipper. Of course, his natural reaction was to swat at the source of heat...
Load More Replies... David 8 months ago
He must have blasted a lot. I have done this and it feels weird but wasn't that bad. Moderation is the key to everything I guess. I was playing around with it a bit after seeing some videos how crooks used it to make steering wheel locks brittle so they could bap them with a hammer to break them off. I did not desire to steal cars but I was curious about the process. Mind you, years before I'd worked with liquid nitrogen in the navy so I had a clue not to be too stupid with it.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
Also depends on the spray. There may be differences in brands trying to avoid things like the one in this post.
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Tracey Stammers 2 months ago
I had a patient who often used deodorant spray on her arms as a method of s*******m.
Inservio Smurf 7 months ago
Do not warn thse people. You are subverting natural selection. Just let it happen and be proud your parents raised a winner.
Richard Iachetta 8 months ago
He could have paid attention in science class but didn't. He learned the hard way. I'll bet this is one of the few lessons he won't forget
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
What, you don't think anyone could do something this stupid? Have you read any of the examples in this article? There are millions of people who are exactly this stupid in the world. And almost as many who are even stupider.
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#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.
Crystalwitch60 8 months ago
N likely still has the burn marks to remind him to lol ooofffff 🤦♀️
Load More Replies... David 8 months ago
One of my friend's daughters kept trying to touch the stove burners when she was little, in spite of being told repeatedly. So one day my friend let the burner cool down until it was uncomfortably hot but not "injury" hot at let her feel it. She jerked her hand away yelling HOT! and after that she didn't try any more. She was only 3 or 4 at the time and it was the only way mom could think of to get the message across since words were not working.
Paul C. 8 months ago
That's just like the cigarette lighter in older cars. A real learning process for a lot of kids!
Anonymouse 8 months ago
Had a friend in high school who burned himself several times wondering, "it is not red anymore, is it still hot?" yes, yes it was...
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Tina Girard 8 months ago
When I was very little, I was fascinated by the glowy thing at the end of the stick in my grandpa's mouth. Had to touch it. Yep, it was a cigarette and, as small as I was, I still remember the burn.
trollingergirl 8 months ago
Been there, done that. And my right hand, too. Took weeks to heal.
#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.
Kathrin Pukowsky 8 months ago (edited)
I feel bad for the drivers of those cars. Friend of mine had a drunk guy stumble out from between parked cars right in front of him. Impossible to brake or swerve in time. Thankfully my friend was going the very low speed limit (30km/h, ~18mph), but the guy's leg was broken. My friend was terribly shaken over the incident.
Papa 8 months ago
I don't know that it would have mattered. Drunk people with stupid ideas often don't listen to sober friends.
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K 7 months ago
Not that this guy died.... BUT.. This is a good example why vehicular manslaughter laws should be based on circumstances.. you hit and k**l someone who was walking down the side of the road understandable.. you hit and k**l someone who throws/walks themselves directly into oncoming traffic.. come on.. should not be any question who is at fault. Literally this happened to someone I knew and he had to spend so much money on lawyer to help clear him.. don't even know how it ended. Hopefully justice was on his side.
#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.
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
Woah, people have lost eyes dry releasing and their bow snapping/exploding under the pressure.
Ace 8 months ago
Err, why does the lack of an arrow cause the bow to snap? Genuinely curious.
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Sophia Pandia de Delphia 7 months ago
Yes, my god, and we do love it!!!! We still laugh at Peter and his bow this far in.
Load More Replies... Laura A Ivett 7 months ago
Guarantee that stupid kid is still doing stupid s**t as an adult. You just can't fix stupid
#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
Julia H 8 months ago
What's bad...I'm betting there's a story behind the warning ⚠️
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Bored Seagull 8 months ago
Doesn't make McPhearson a bit less stupid, but in my opinion the process of leaving the shaft unattended while claiming it to be all clear is unsafe in itself.
David 8 months ago
McPhearson is an idiot, but it also sounds like they were not following proper procedures. When I was in the navy, any time you had an access open to a normally inaccessible / dangerous space, you were supposed to have a watch stationed to log every person entering / leaving the space. It was a bit of an extra pain, but the whole point was to avoid stuff like this or some person getting bolted into a void tank when they replaced the cover. (or passed out from fumes)
Regina Holt 8 months ago
And still in the Navy? How did he last that long without being kicked out?
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Or the guy in USCG sparking up a bowl during diesel refueling. Cap'n was disappointed...keel haling was no longer a thing.
#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.
Louise Clarke 8 months ago
The only thing worse is putting gas in a vehicle with a diesel engine.
Definitely a Human 8 months ago
No. Regular petrol in a diesel engine just won't burn. It's a pain to drain the system, but it won't damage it. Diesel in a petrol engine will explode and damage the engine.
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Ahnjunwan 8 months ago
Is the thing for putting it in your tank not bigger for diesel than fuel in this country? In my country it is to avoid exactly this to happen
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 8 months ago
That's such a satisfyingly simple and elegant solution! What country is it, please?
Load More Replies... Glen Ellyn 8 months ago
These days, in my part of the world, diesel is more expensive than regular gas.
Roland Nijveld 8 months ago
Here in the Netherlands Diesel is always cheaper but also costs more in tax
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Boris Long-Johnson 8 months ago
I’m guess by the word “gas” (for a liquid too) this is the USA or at least NA. Here in the UK you can’t put diesel in a petrol car because the nozzle is a different size - you can do it the other way round though.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
I thought the nozzles for diesel were larger, to prevent this from happening.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Must have been a LOOOOOONG time ago. Diesel is .20 higher than gas now.
#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." 😆
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
I mean, if it happens literally every single time perhaps people really don't want their soup that hot?
The Other Guest 8 months ago
Well, which would you prefer - soup that is held at 135F (the minimum required by law where I live), or soup that has a darn good chance of giving you food poisoning?
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JB 8 months ago
That's when you switch up what you say, like, "This will destroy your mouth." or "the last five people didn't believe me when I said it was piping hot and got burned. Will you?"
KatSaidWhat 8 months ago
TBF, I know my nuclear temp food is hot, I can see it steaming and YET, like a Darwin, I will absolutely try and eat it anyway.
JoNo 8 months ago
Would be best to say "very hot" or "boiling hot" because not everyone may know what the word "piping" means.
Noltha 8 months ago
Or just serve the soup "normal" hot, so people can start eating without risk of burning their mouths.
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Tom De Paul 7 months ago
I microwave everything using defrost mode (on mine = 33% power) I practice delayed gratification and never get hot spots.
Richard Iachetta 8 months ago
Some people have trouble learning from verbal instructions, physical lessons work much better for them. Lesson learned, painful but learned. Thank goodness that the world is full of such people, I need a good laugh all the time and they provide it
Tom De Paul 7 months ago
Isn't lava 1200 - 2000 degrees? Words have meaning.
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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
Ahnjunwan 8 months ago
Cardboard baler does not work if the door is not closed as far as i remember from earlier post
quentariel 8 months ago
Depends on a model, unfortunately. It's why we got huge signs telling not to clim in under any circumstances. Next to it is a huge emergency stop button.
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#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
Crystalwitch60 8 months ago
Idiots lmao , I’m 60 n even if it’s in date I,ll still sniff it to make sure before I use it for cooking , same with oat milk as I can’t drink dairy , my 23 yr old daughter n 20 yr old son do as well , the one time my Lass didnt it was off 🤢omg was she ever sick one mouthful , I had told her to check it 😂
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Maggie Fulton 8 months ago
I pour the expired milk into the toilet, then rinse the jug with water until it’s clean enough to toss in the trash.
Binny Tutera 8 months ago
My dad, when the milk or cottage cheese or something like that was expired, would smell it and try to make us smell it too: “Smell this! It’s spoiled!” No thanks dad.
KatSaidWhat 8 months ago
This is why I no longer trust milk that has been open more than 3 days - and I just had a flashback.
Andrew Bome 8 months ago
This is what everyone says when trying someone that is beyond the "best before" date; look at it and sniff it. That will tell you if it is safe to ingest.
#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.
disarrae 7 months ago
unless it's an angle grinder, then the gloves stay on!
Load More Replies... Tom Brincefield 8 months ago (edited)
My dad worked for years as a machinist. He knew someone who didn't take off his wedding ring. A lathe took it off for him, along with the finger and the extensor muscles back to the elbow.
BrownEyedPanda 8 months ago
The glove can get caught by the blade and drag it into the danger zone--hand and all. The result is severed fingers.
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Bill Swallow 8 months ago
Or a band saw. In other news, always stop the tractor's power take-off before trying to unjam a corn picker. That's how my Dad ended up with seven fingers and d**n near bled to death.
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#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.
Trillian 8 months ago
Maybe she couldn't? Muscles cramp when there is electricity running through them.
Skogsrået 8 months ago
I don't think you can talk while being electrocuted that bad.
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M O'Connell 8 months ago
Telephone system ringing current is typically 90V AC at 20Hz, but at very low current with circuit protection, you'll also find -48VDC (zero at ground reference) between tip and ring in North American systems. If you stuck your tongue in a phone jack while the line was ringing you would definitely feel it, but nothing like what's being described above.
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Krd 8 months ago
Nope. Electrocution doesn't mean it's fatal. You can be electrocuted and live. Google it, takes 2 sec.
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Picking up a box jellyfish and continuing to hold it the entire time it was stinging him.
Ace 8 months ago (edited)
Not always, but yes, they can be., depends on which exact species amongst other things. It's fair to suggest that in this case it was perhaps actually a different type of jellyfish.
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KatSaidWhat 8 months ago
With apologies to box jellyfish, I wish more idiots would pose and hold them.
#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.
Forrest McCanless 8 months ago
I'm 62 - my dad is 88 - we've ALWAYS DONE THIS - zero issues ever
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
Depends on how hot it is and if the window has defects.
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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
JK 8 months ago
Wouldn't want to be that car owner. I hope they were honest about it. Or at least used the correct fluid to replace it.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
This confuses me. T****y fluid is usually drained by dropping the pan, There IS no plug that I ever recall or heard of.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
T r a n n y as a shortcut for transmission is censored? Is there a delicious dirty meaning to this word that I don't know?
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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.
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
OK, how in the hell was placing his hand on the bed rail even possible? You don't have a light curtain?
Jip van Neerven 7 months ago
I mean.. His hand wasn't on the bed when the accident happened? 🥹🫣
Richard Iachetta 8 months ago
Was there a big fine for the company from OSHA. All press brakes, punch presses and other equipment are supposed to be configured so that you need two hands on controls to make them operate
Giulio Verdekiwi 7 months ago
Shouldn’t this machine been operated with the buttons to prevent that?
#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.
Marleina Hershberg 8 months ago
He JOKINGLY told you not to taste it?? DELICIOUSLY green liquid?
CP 8 months ago
It is the liquids fault for looking so delicious. Who doesn't want to eat... green liquid?
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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. ;)
Lila Allen 8 months ago
Mine just could not accept that he couldn't swim. Would walk straight in and jump. Was fished out multiple times. I had to put his flotation gear on in the car before going in because nothing convinced him he couldn't swim yet
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Alex Boyd 8 months ago
This type of kid is where the child leash proves its worth. Gives them a shot at surviving long enough to develop impulse control.
David 8 months ago
Alex. Agree. My oldest grandson was a leash kid. Especially after jumping out in front of a city bus because he saw something shiny in the crosswalk. It was a close call. He knew the rule to keep one hand on the stroller his younger siblings were in, was doing great at following that rule - until he wasn't.
Load More Replies... Glen Ellyn 8 months ago
I will never forget the time when I grabbed my younger brother by his sleeve right before he stepped in front of a moving car. I was about 10 and he was about 3 or 4 - he was at that age when he hadn't really learned to look before crossing the street.
#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!
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I'm guessing the patient didn't survive and neither did the guy's career
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Never pull a penetrating object out of a wound, it's stopping the blood flow.
Kathrin Pukowsky 8 months ago
I take it that the med student had not yet fully extracted the screwdriver since others told him to "stop". So the reinsertion was "just" the med student pushing it back into its original position. I like to think that because if the med student had fully extracted the screwdriver and then moved to put it back in, I would wonder why he wasn't violently tackled to the ground before he could reinsert it.
#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.
For All Pedernity 8 months ago
There's proof of that in the White House. And a whole lot of other places.
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#35
Lick the radioactive component of a military long range communications device.
DeoManus Argentem 8 months ago
Had an employee come up to me saying there was sugar all over the trunk of the car she pulled to clean, asking me if she had to clean it herself (or send to detail - where we send cars projected to take more 20 minutes, because they were timed on each car pulled). I went to take a look and asked her how she knew it was sugar... "Marie tasted it!" Geez, could have been anything, smh.
Kathrin Pukowsky 8 months ago
I once licked a roll of undeveloped film. You know, back in ye olde days when you needed film to take photographs. It tasted astringent and the film blistered afterwards. Wish I could say I was five years old, but I was twelve. I was jsut curious what it would taste like. My decision-making skill still needed some work back then.
#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.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Dry socket is something that can happen after wisdom teeth removal. So yes, Dentistry.
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Johnnynatfan 8 months ago
I had my wisdom teeth pulled while I was in the navy the same day two of my buddies did. I followed the instructions perfectly and those two jerks where smoking and drinking beer and sodas the same day. I got dry socket and a swollen face and they were fine. That sucked
Leonard Henderson 2 months ago
You: "Don't smoke for 48 hours." Them: "Mate, if I could go 48 hours without smoking, do you think I'd still be smoking?"
#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.
Pheebs 8 months ago
Probably a gas stove. I seem to remember my home ec class had gas stoves in middle school.
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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
Steve 8 months ago
What a f**king moron. I wouldn't want to be around that clown when he has a gun. He probably points loaded weapons at people.
Candice Robinson 8 months ago
Watch enough tv & movies & you think you can do that. Looking at you, John Wick.
#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. :)
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Kangaroos do that - keep changing direction while fleeing from a predator to throw them off. Unfortunately they also try to do this with cars, which makes them ridiculously easy to hit. And when you hit a roo, both you and your car are going to know it.
Load More Replies... Pheebs 8 months ago
Hmm. About 10 years after the dc snipers thing, someone at a marketing company thought it a great idea to create a PERSONALIZED ad about “targeting” customers. The whole thing was meant to be sent to prospective clients, with the client contact featured as the target, and it was all centered around a sniper tracking them. While this was before the major escalation is mass shootings in the US, we’d had Columbine, we’d had DC. Those two alone should have been more than enough to make them think twice. The only savings grace is they never sent it out. After internal pushback (read: “are you f*****g insane??”), they had a test audience give feedback. *Surprise Pikachu* face when said test audience, which included family, called them all morons who really should pay attention to the real world if they want effective marketing. One had never even heard of the dc sniper.
Johnnynatfan 8 months ago (edited)
So its not dumb to pull a fire alarm for no reason? Also no other country has serial killer except the US huh?
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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.
David 8 months ago
Seems like "DO NOT CLICK ON SUBMIT" should be part of the lecture BEFORE they do the process so their brain has time to process it. That said, having worked in IT for years, I too have experienced "clicker people". Life got a lot easier when technology / bandwidth advanced to where we could just remote control the PC. But back when we were walking them through things over the phone, ever so often you'd get the user who would click on something without reading it, then get flustered and click on something else, and something else, and compound the problem as you are trying to tell them to please just stop clicking on anything and wait and explain to me what they see on screen. Once in a while, fixing the problems caused by the 'spaz-clicking' took longer than fixing the original problem they called in about.
Saint_Zipcodus 8 months ago
Suggestion - maybe it'll save you a few nerves: Instead of starting with the thing that needs to be avoided, instead tell the customer what needs doing first. So, more like this: "Use the drop down menu and choose xyz." Paaaaause. Then: "Now click the Submit button."
Anonymouse 8 months ago
agree with @IORN - instead of saying don't click submit, you should be saying, click the drop down menu.
Theora Fifty-five Johnson 2 weeks ago
Stop saying SUBMIT button. Say Take your hands off the mouse and keyboard until I tell you the next step. Sating a word makes people do that thing.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Then the "submit" option should NOT be available UNTIL NEXT SELECTION IS COMPLETED!!
#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.
Lost Panda 8 months ago
I feel that... I still have moments when my phone goes off that I'm expecting the first shirt... I have to tell myself that doesn't exisit in the real world (out almost 10)
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Had an Airman steal a TV from a dorm room. He took it to his dorm, two doors down... Few days later invited the guy he stole it from over to watch basketball on said TV... Cue Court Martial
MalayDragon 8 months ago
Sounds like the kind of guy to pull the pin on a grenade and then proceed to just launch the pin instead.
#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.
Glen Ellyn 8 months ago (edited)
There are a number of places where beer just doesn't mix with the activity. 🤦🏻♀️
#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.
Damdifino 8 months ago
I worked as a saute cook for over nine years. I'm still mostly immune to burns now, so whenever a server brings me an item and warns me that it is hot -- as long as it's not metal -- I usually grab it anyway and set it down for them while the restaurant worker looks on mortified and waiting for the scream of agony. I then give them a sweet, sweet smile and go right back to eating my salad.
#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.
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
I've only ever been around a gun that wasn't in a display case ONCE. My dad had a rifle he was selling. Being a curious kid, I decided to look inside the muzzle. That got me one of the sternest lectures of my life as dad (who had proper firearms training from the Army) told me never, EVER do that with any gun because if it goes off, you will die. That one lesson stuck with me for the rest of my life, though so far I've never encountered another firearm. One would think you wouldn't be allowed access to guns if you haven't fully absorbed that lesson at least, but I guess one would be wrong on that score.
#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).
In urban environments, common sense and creativity blend beautifully to solve everyday dilemmas. While perusing the anecdotes shared by the Reddit community, it becomes apparent how crucial imaginative solutions are to address societal issues.
A remarkable example is how creative use of art can draw attention to infrastructural problems in a way that simple protest might not achieve. This insight could inspire others to employ more creative approaches to engage with their surroundings.
What do you think ?
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.
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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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.
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