32 Folks Who Could Have Met Their End Due To Their Own Stupidity, As Shared Online

Used to work night security at a well known ski resort. They had issues with one of the ski lifts, that resulted in passengers being stuck on the lift for an extended period. Once they finally got everyone down, they offered free medical treatment via ambulance to anyone who thought they might need it, as it was colder than normal for the season that year. The passengers were of course allowed to refuse. Well, partway through my shift, I saw noticed a car. Not unusual. It had a sticker allowing it to park, so I drove by. On my next pass about an hour later, I saw that it had a driver sitting in it. We didn't usually look for anyone in it, as there usually isn't, which is why I didn't look earlier. I went to speak with him to see if he was okay. I noticed the window was down. Then I saw that his skin was completely blue. I checked for a pulse but couldn't find one. So I called 911. Dude froze to death after he got off the ski lift.

Bet you never went to visit that 'friend' again. If you've lived with a person who has a mental Illness like that - you know not to invite people over.

'Bro' sounds like a bit of a dxck.

Let me try to understand this. You visited a friend without, apparently, letting him know upfront. You had no means or plan to get back home, and NO DAMN MONEY with which to get back home ? Is that about right?

To be clear, dry ice doesn't remove oxygen, it sublimates into gas CO2 and pushes the oxygen (and other air) out of a space. CO2 is heavy, so there are places on earth (caves, depressions) where a slow leak of CO2 (usually from something like a volcanic source) has increased the concentration enough to push most of the oxygen out and you can suffocate while breathing normally.

It doesn't remove the oxygen. But dry ice is just frozen carbon dioxide. Which the body is happy to use instead of oxygen.

There should have been a warning about the dry ice. I never knew it impacted oxygen. Such strange qualities.

Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide that never turns into a liquid it turns from a solid into gas😬😵🥺

Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. It doesn't "remove oxygen out of the air". What it does is sublimate (go from solid directly to gaseous form) and because carbon dioxide, while a normal component of air, is heavier than oxygen, it lowers the oxygen level at the bottom of the enclosed space that is a freezer.

It's been 11 years since i stopped driving due to a sleep disorder. Microsleeps would come out of nowhere... And I wouldn't know I was asleep until I was waking up. I was diagnosed after a car accident and stopped driving after realizing medication wasn't helping when driving. I joined an online support group and it is Terrifying to realize how many people fall asleep behind the wheel Regularly and do Not hang up their keys. Yeah, it sucks to lose that freedom (especially in a town without public transport)...but it's better than being dead or killing someone. Sleep does not care what you are doing... It will take you whether you like it or not...And no matter what you do to try and fight it. Be careful out there everyone! 💞

CDL training states that sleep depravation is literally as bad as drunk driving. Both sides feel like they are in control, and don't realize what is going on until they are awake/sober. Fell asleep on icy roads with empty busses (thank god) and learned to pull over and take 10 min to wake up rather than fall asleep again.

Towing a lightweight travel trailer on a bright sunlit day, resisted my common sense telling me to stop and take a little walk and a break from. Woke up on the opposite shoulder and got control and stopped. No traffic in either direction. Got going again but quickly found a safe place to take a break.

Truck drivers complain about this all the time that they're not rested enough to drive but the company says "nope keep going". It's bad when someone driving a car falls asleep. How much worse when a driver falls asleep behind the wheel of an 18 wheeler. Real scary.

Ever been in that situation where you were about to fall asleep at the wheel but just caught yourself? You didn't catch yourself, you were asleep and then woke up. You don't know how long you were out. Do NOT let yourself get into this state. As soon as you are tired, stop and get some rest - a 15min nap will refresh you enough for a while longer. Better late than "late".

Yeah, not funny to do this. Took a tour at the grand canyon and that is one of the first things the guide told us,"don't pretend to slip and fall because the chances are you will do so while pretending". Apparently A LOT of tourists actually die this way. My brother pretended to push me over the edge and, rightfully, got his ass chewed out

This kind of thing is happening everywhere there is scenery and high risks. People feel they need content for social media and take horrible chances. They have accidents that then also endanger rescuers or they die.

After working at a national park, most people leave their brain at home. ALWAYS had to pull people off of fences and back from the edge of a sheer drop. No picture is worth it, even your last. Life is not TV -- no rerun, no second chance after stupid.

Occasionally someone does that and does fall into the canyon. A friend who worked there saw a young child doing the "look at me Mom!" thing and then fell backwards off the South Rim. For anyone's info, the body the park rangers go to recover is not quite a body after falling that far onto rocks.

I have a terrible fear of heights (and vertigo) that has only gotten worse as I have gotten older. I wouldn't even GO to the Grand Canyon. In fact, just looking at this photo makes me feel sick to my stomach.

Friend recently passed after refusing to go to the doctor, urgent care, ER. Her husband begged her to go an finally physically made her go. She was to weak to fight. Died three days later.

The long wait, the noise, bad news, the sick & injured looking like death in the crowded lobby.

This was my experience. Everyone else, got better after 5 days, but by day 12 I had not slept or eaten in three nights, with diabetic sugar in the 400's, while my period never ended. It was my low oxygen (80-90) that convinced me finally go to hospital. Three days on oxygen and lost my hair 3 months later.Thankful I could get onto Medicaid and only saw a few bills before they took over.

60 days on a ventilator in the US is over $1 million dollars.

Pneumonia is no joke. I've never had it, but my mom did when I was in elementary school. My mom was a hard-working single mom who at one point worked 5 jobs to keep us going, but for that week, she did NOTHING. It's the only time in my life I can ever remember her doing literally nothing but stay in bed and rest.

Some of us humans get easily distracted by pretty things, it's ok but we need to extra exercise our situational awareness

currents are scary. I know a women who was there one minute and gone the next. Never found her. This was out in the Straight of San Juan de Fuca. She was a highly experienced diver.

Don't be stupid! Pay attention!

I did this on the Great Barrier Reef and didn’t make allowances for how far I’d gone and the movement of the boat. I had to swim across open water to reach the boat- about 100 metres away- and half way across the guy swimming in front of me shouted out “watch out for the shark’ and sure enough there was a very large shark about 15 metres below me. I’d already been bitten a week earlier so I swam a personal best.

Same! Off Molokini in Hawa'ii. I came up and could barely make out our boat or party.