I used to believe that I would try anything once. Skydiving? Sure! Foods that I’ve never heard of? Bon appétit! But as I’ve gotten older and wiser, I’ve realized that there are actually plenty of things that I will gladly never touch.
Redditors have recently been discussing some of the things that the vast majority of us should never mess around with, so we’ve gathered some of their replies below. From substances that can be incredibly addictive to experimenting with tools that might make you lose a limb, enjoy reading through all of these things to avoid. And be sure to upvote the risks that you’re not willing to take either!
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Antibiotic resistance.
YoussefA2000:
Definitely This!
As a Pharmacist I deal with a TON of people who just "Stopped taking Antibiotics after they felt well" and are currently wondering why they are coughing up mucus and sneezing again..
CONTINUE YOUR ANTIBIOTICS AS MENTIONED ON THE LABEL OR UNTIL THE DOC SAYS STOP. NEVER STOP THEM ON YOUR OWN GODDAMIT!
Also, sometimes they are lucky and the infection has been dealt with and they keep the unused antibiotics to use the next time ... or even worse, give to a friend who says they have a similar issue. YIKES!!!
What is most alarming is the recent bug going around in kids, that can only be treated by a Z-Pak. In other words, the last effective antibiotic.
I also blame antibiotic resistance on the casual use of antibiotics. For example, Neosporin on a cut.
While casual human use is important, the main cause of resistance is the use of antibiotics on chicken, pig and cattle industrial farming
Load More Replies...I ended up in the hospital once because a dr. prescribed me the wrong one, and to high of a dose. I ended up extremely dehydrated among other things. The put me in isolation, ran some tests and then prescribed me a completely different antibiotic to fix what the first one did, which I did finish. I think sometimes you have to literally trust your gut if you feel something is wrong about what you're taking.
Joining political cults of personality.
The shear number of people that think someone in power never lies TO THEM, and has a magic wand to do whatever they want. What does it take to wake them up?
They did wake up. Kamala ran on not being Biden, then said she wouldn't change a thing Biden did. One of those is a lie.
Load More Replies...Look where Trump Derangement Syndrome got us. The MAGA cult will be the death of us all.
America chose fascism. Let's sit with that thought for a while. The majority of American voters chose to elect a Hitler, a Mussolini, a Franco, a Pinochet, a Putin. People freely chose that. Be sure to remind them once the fruit of their decisions begins to drop. And try to stay safe.
Which genocide happened under Trump? When you make these comparisons you lose all credibility, like Hilary, Biden and Kamala
Load More Replies...The 4B group from South Korea is starting to gain traction in the U.S. Some folks here may want to look up Worth Fighting For dot org. For its leaders this situation with Trump is far from being their first rodeo. Some of #47's intentions can be tied up for years with lawsuits and if he starts with the removal of undocumented - and now also naturalized U.S. citizens - it's thought that a general strike might be a proper reaction to that nonsense. A friend from the U.S. recently told me that the administration-to-be's most powerful weapon is despair. Without that, people may actually fight back.
This sentence should be added to the list. It’s like something a child would write. You may as well have written, “No, you’ smell of poo.”
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Wild animals. Leave them alone. Yes, including feeding them. Yes, including the “cute” ones.
SquidMilkVII:
Bear cubs are #1 on this list. Too many people think they have nothing to worry about, that the cub can’t really do much to them. The cub isn’t the one who’s gonna rip your lungs out of your esophagus.
Kangaroos are high up there too, because they do look so cute (and there are sanctuaries where you can feed them etc) but if they get spooked you can definitely be killed.
Reminds me of when Phil Dunphy got punched by a kangaroo on modern family
Load More Replies...Raccoons are another high on the list. Look cute. Only about 4 times the size of an alley cat - with teeth and claws to match. 9/10 times you're fine interacting with them, but if they're feeling scared or territorial, you're in intensive care.
Saw quite a few bears when I was working in NW Ontario. they usually ran off so no problem. Only time we were worried was on a survey across a small island. Dumped some gear behind a bush before lunchtime, came back later and there were fresh bear tracks in the mud. Momma bear and a cub. Never saw them and it was a small, wooded island but certainly had a sore neck by the end of the day.
Don't forget about deer. They may remind you of Bambi, but getting stomped by those hooves will remind you why it's a bad idea to try and cozy up to a doe and her fawn.
A friend of mine was a curator at the Monroe (Louisiana) Zoo. She said that most people got their ideas about wildlife from Disney
A menopausal woman. We are feral.
We've been through 30 to 40 years of pain that isn't taken seriously, vigilance about reproducing, and mansplaning. We've just had enough nonsense.
We burn with the fire of a thousand suns, and you don't want it aimed at you 😁
It might seem feral to you, but we are just tired of all the c**p that gets handed out to us, all the time since were 3-4 years old. So, if we let loose, learn to live with it.
I don't understand the logic of women thinking they are advancing feminism by stating that our hormones make us aggressive and unpredictable, or even worse - useless - be it pmt, pregnancy, or menopause. I've been through all of them, as have my many of my female friends, and it simply isn't true. We just get on with our lives, deal with the physical symptoms as best we can, yes of course if you want a younger generation to look after you (from medical staff to tv producers, farmers to road resurfacers) when you're old then you can suck it up and be supportive to what women have to deal with so this can happen, but the idea that we all become totally unreasonable and aggressive and touchy and difficult and can't do our jobs properly is just feeding into a very established sexist trope. Why do women do it?
No excuse but definitely a cause. I'm a pretty stable person but I was crying at dog food commercials. Estrogen flux is hits women like PCP.
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Drinking + driving.
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Driving + texting too, it’s also much more dangerous.
The penalty for texting while driving is too lenient. After the third offense, should be a minimum of six months in jail, suspension of license for one year, and being responsible for paying back the taxpayers for your jail time. Maybe that will put a dent into this extremely dangerous activity.
Saw a comment a few days ago. They did not say where they lived but texting carried the same penalty as a DUI. Should be the same everywhere.
Load More Replies...I lost my whole family from a drunk driver. My 2 young sons, my husband, and my dog.
Yeah, I can't believe the people I see talking/texting on their phones while driving. MORONS! Drump voters.... but I repeat myself.
That gut feeling to stay away from certain people, places, situations. Trust your gut.
My gut makes me suffer when I eat cheese, why would I trust a cheese hater? /s
Knee-deep flood waters can pick up a car and move it.
Don't try to drive through water if you can't see the bottom.
Every time we get flood waters there are people stupid enough to try driving through it and it ends in tragedy
I didn't get swept away, but I remember in one downpour being shocked at how deep a "puddle" turned out to be. That tip, "don't try to drive through water if you can't see the bottom" sounds good, but the problem is that while driving in rain, I've *never* seen the bottom of a puddle.
Load More Replies...It was a different situation. People did not try to cross a flooded road. The roads were ok one minute and covered in two metres of water, mud, stones, trees and assorted rubbish the next minute. There was nowhere to escape. In some areas, the rainfall was more than 500 litres per square metre in a few hours. The shopping centre in one of the affected towns flooded in less than 15 minutes, with eighty *million* litres of water. No, I didn't make a mistake. 80 million litres of water in fifteen minutes.
Load More Replies...The street by my work floods a lot. Every so often we gather at the windows to watch the idiots try to drive through. Sometimes they come floating back again.
If you wouldn't want to walk through it, don't drive through it! Cars float in much less water than you do.
Did that once. Fortunately my car was heavy enough to not float away, but it took weeks for the seats to dry out. Never again!
"Get Rich Quick" schemes.
It is either a scam, of questionable legality, or carries extremely high physical/mental/emotional/financial risk.
The adage "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" applies.
The only real way to get rich is either to be born into it, or constant hard work.
If you don't know what you are doing, electrical wiring. There is a lot of powers in those wires, and humans are very conductive.
I don't mess with electrical stuff. Me and electricity have an agreement - I don't mess with it; it doesn't try to kill me.
I refuse to work on energized circuits. I get a smirk from "real men", or was that smirk electrocution?
Load More Replies...I am scared of doing anything major with electrical wiring. But I have replaced outlets and switches, after much reading about the many details ... and flipping the breakers off, and using voltage detectors, and wearing rubber-soled sneakers (after being shocked mildly twice *blush* though that grounding wire had had no business being connected to hot!).
More people get injured falling off a chair trying to do that.
Load More Replies...That's not really true with basic household wires (unless you're dealing with high voltage for oven/stove/EV-charger). 110 or 220V shouldn't cause any issues unless you already have major underlying conditions. I still don't recommend electrocuting yourself but I've done it various times when I forgot to flip the breaker, and nothing happened besides a painful tingling in your fingers for a few minutes. Minor electric work used to be commonly done by almost every household. Nowadays, the vast majority of people is terrified for no good reason.
True. And I must add, being shocked teaches you to pay better attention next time. It's a horrible feeling.
Load More Replies...Just a technicality, but the problem with electricity is that humans are NOT very conductive. If they were, the current would just flow easily directly to ground. It's the RESISTANCE that the human body presents that can result in serious burns. A highly conductive lightning conductor dumps the electricity harmlessly straight to ground. A not-very-conductive tree, for example, if struck by lightning can catch fire or even explode. But all the warrnings are still valid; don't mess with electricity if you don't know what your doing - and if you DO know what you're doing, take every precaution.
Mushrooms…. If you don’t know which one is which, don’t. Just don’t. Some of those are a painful way to die. So I hear.
This goes for plants in general. They all have varying degrees of toxicity, some we can tolerate, some we can't.
The ocean.
I used to be an avid swimmer and would generally spend a lot of time in the water. Until that one day I got caught in an undertow away from the beach. Luckily I remembered what to do to get out of it, and I made it back to the beach, but ever since then I fear the sea. Am just back from Benin where nobody swims in the ocean because it will kill you.
I made a stupid mistake once and nearly got caught in a riptide, at 8am on a deserted beach. Safe to say I will NEVER EVER make that mistake again! Scariest moment of my life so far.
Load More Replies...Only a fool does not fear the ocean. Learn to swim, and to recognise dangerous rips, and the ocean is a wonderful thing, be a fool and you might just die. There was a campaign on the telly when I was growing up and it made a great impression on me. I live sailing and swimming and I lived on a boat for two years, but I've never lost the respect.
That is the ocean. It's beautiful. Just imagine the predators lurking beneath.
I live in a beach town and learned early on to respect the ocean. Still, I've gotten stuck outside the surf break and jumped into the water from cliffs I had no business being on. Every year, tourists are killed by our swatch of the pacific. Taking selfies on said cliff, swimming out too far, not respecting a stormy sea.
There is a beach in Kaua'i that has a sign telling you not to get into the water. It has an updated death tally on it. You still sometimes see people getting in the water.
People’s kids. You want to see dude who’s never had a speeding ticket suddenly become capable of murder? Mess with their offspring.
When I was 10 or 11, I witnessed a girl from my class being bullied by 3 guys from our school (~14yo). I stepped in because that's the way I've been raised. The girl ran away, leaving me alone with the guys who started beating me. Luckily for me, she met my mother on her way. When my mother (picture a 40yo, 1,55m for 45 kg woman) reached us, her expression was nuts, her voice wasn't ever hers. She beat the strongest one, was able to catch another one who was ridding a bike and kicked his wheel for him to fall. She found the 3rd one hidden among friends and asked him to come fight her and shamed him when he refused. She was possessed.
I never met your mother, but I like her already!
Load More Replies...I will fight you if it ISN'T my kid, just imagine the ferality that would come out for my own.
Fireworks. I can't unsee the liveleak video of a kids hand turning into high velocity sausage meat.
This is why they are banned (for personal use) in most of Australia. My dad misses 'bonfire night' when they used to get them, at the same time as telling me about how his brother lit one and put it in his pocket once and it was very close to being a serious injury!
I wish they were here. Still getting random bangs and it's no longer Bonfire Night. Upsets and can injure people, pets, wildlife and property.
Load More Replies...They're illegal in Ireland but people still get them from somewhere and someone always gets injured, or worse.
They are a menace, traumatising to wildlife and pets, a fire hazard and pollutant to the environment - not just the smoke but the littering afterwards. In the UK we used to have bonfire night on November 5th, won't bore you with the history behind it suffice to say that most people these days don't even know why it's a thing and it seems from Halloween all the way through to the New Year all bets are off and arseholes set them off randomly. My dog is petrified of them to the point where I think he's going to have a seizure or heart attack. Fireworks should be banned forever
They are pretty but not worth the noise and ashes that fall on you, and the crowds
I once had a firecracker go off in my fingers. Scared me at the time. Fortunately no damage was done.
A classmate almost had someting of that sort happening. He wore a cast for a few weeks, after one of the largest legal ones went off in his hand. Oof ... Those which are called "Polenböller" in germany, because they're usually sold in Poland, are more similar to professional explosives, regarding the energy they release, but are of poor to poorest quality. Short fuses of unknown velocity, ... if you don't really appreciate being complete and alive ... do it elsewhere. Or simply not.
Garage door springs.
gotoajetsgame:
Absolutely right. I had one snap about 10 years ago and it sounded and felt like a car crashed into my garage
Horses, they will kick you back to Valhalla.
ABIT the same deal as with the ocean. Learn to read the signs of danger and horses are absolutely lovely animals, cows on the other hand! I am weary of cows, but it is only because I don't understand them, and I can't read their body language.
Horses bite well, too. I was dragged over a stall door by one. I was one of the last people who would look after hm. It was just a moment of him not recognizing me. ….. I felt like a rag doll…..also saw a horse double barrel a kid to the tune of 20 feet….. yeah they have their moments
Old cowboy saying, "If horses knew how puny humans were, they'd stomp 'em to death."
My horse is NOT a kicker, but he has been raised right and is well-trained. Dogs are far more dangerous, if you ask me.
One trod on my foot when I was 9 and feeding it. Have been wary ever since.
If you're mean or non-understanding to horses, they're giving you what you'll deserve. Don't kick them or use whip/bit to "handle" them — instead, use understanding, love, kindness, and you're never gonna get mauled by a horse. Sincerely yours, the man of wise herd of akhal-tekes.
Oh wth ever. Animals are just like us, some are mean as hell no matter how they've been treated. I've been yeeted into a fence 10 feet away for being human and near. I've known horses that despised people from birth that were pampered and spoiled absolutely rotten.
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Dogs.
Do your training, take it seriously; within breed limits, a well trained dog should do its business outside, not jump up, tolerate all handling, sit, recall, go to bed and stay on command, give up toys on a word, stop barking when told to, and walk a proper heel (by your side at the level of your hip, not loose lead in front; the difference is important on an icy day!). Exercise twice a day for an hour each. Socialise from the puppy (dogs, horses, adults of all ages, children, cars, bikes, guns if you want a gundog, the vet, busy streets, public transport, the hoover, you get the idea) Feed dog food (not human food) twice a day and take unfinished food up after 30 mins (stops obesity); do not ever feed scraps under the table. Do not encourage bad behaviour (ignore it).
Any breed can be destructive. Most can seriously hurt people or other animals if they want to. Much of this is avoidable.
Do not make a ticking timebomb for yourself.
This. A thousand times this. My dogs are sweet, housebroken (save for the older one, he's having issues), and generally well-trained, but they're animals first and foremost. They've knocked me down, including when I'm on the stairs or in other dangerous positions. I've gotten bitten a lot, not on purpose, but because cattle dogs are like velcro, I'm clumsy, and my dog gets under my feet.
Sounds like we have the same dog. Cecil doesn't bite but he pinches when we're playing. Little bruises up my right arm.
Load More Replies...This. I have the sweetest, kindest Australian cattle dog. He's well trained but still gets excited. He punches me in the chest if he thinks I'm not getting his "go outside" message. It's not mean spirited. At 70lbs, that's quite the blow. Even for a big girl like me. I know his tell now so it hasn't happened for a while but, yes, train your dog and learn your dog.
Also: PLEASE educate yourself on dog body language. Most “unprovoked bites” had plenty of warning, but people didn’t see it. Your dog does not enjoy having your kids hug, squeeze, poke, sit on, or pull on it. Don’t ask your dog to tolerate more “over touching” than you would. Your kid got nipped in the face because you thought it was cute when he squeezed the dog’s cheeks repeatedly and didn’t stop it, and now you want to dump the dog or have it put down.
The majority of dog attack stories are about pit bulls. Okay, I know I will get a reply from someone saying something like "It isn't the dog, it's the owner" or "If you raise them right, they will behave right." Yeah sure. 🤔
Cab you provide any sources for that statistic? I didn't bother checking how trustworthy the report was, but the first site that popped up on Google says pitbulls account for about 22% of dog attacks and of those that are fatal, 66% are from pit bulls. Neither number is close to 99%
Load More Replies...That's why I don't want dogs, ever. I don't want an animal to obey me, or need me to. I dpn't want to be an animals bos. So that's why I have cats.
The bigger the dog the more damage it can do, eg the woman with two rottweilers that attacked her.
Gun safety. Messing around gets really bad, really fast.
This is something I have absolutely never have had to give thought to. I also never had to be afraid to go to school or go through metal detectors. Sad for those who do, because an accident in messing around with a gun is far less likely than direct intent :(
If you're going to own a firearm please take a safety course. Someone who doesn't know how to handle a firearm is dangerous to themselves and their loved ones.
The only reason for having a gun is for protection, not bragging rights. It's the Clint Eastwood wannabes who are too lazy and cheap to take gun safety courses, purchase a gun lock, and keep the weapon locked up, that pose a danger to the rest of us. On top of that, they give responsible gun owners a bad reputation.
Protection from other morons with guns. Stop the guns, stop the need to protect yourself.
Load More Replies...There was a horrifying piece by John Stossel many, many years ago, wherein they left a made-safe gun in a school where kids were taught incessantly how dangerous guns were, and every last one of the kids just had to hold it. They ended up pointing it at each other over and over again. When kids were more familiar with guns, they handled it much, much better, immediately getting a teacher, etc.
Best advice I've ever heard about gun safety is *always* treat a gun as if it's loaded, even if you KNOW FOR SURE it isn't. The saying "Better safe than sorry" definitely applies here.
It seems that most of these posts are addressing handguns. But I grew up in a house with rifles that were used for hunting to provide food for our family. You better believe I learned gun safety from a very young age. There were even demonstrations of what a bullet could do using water-filled milk jugs. I have no guns as an adult, but I know my gun safety.
Bleach as a household cleaner. Mixed with the wrong stuff and you’re dead.
Vinegar and bleach is chlorine gas. Ammonia and bleach is chloramine gas. Acetone and bleach is chloroform.
Who could be so deeply and utterly stupid to suggest you can drink bleach safely? Oh, don't say anything 😂
Show me the quote where Trump says that. Seriously, I'd love to see it.
Load More Replies...Good idea shlthead. Tell all the twisted mfr's how to make that stuff.
Sometimes I'm just surprised I'm still alive. Younger me was quite casual with cleaning products
Bleach + Vinegar = Chlorine gas. This can lead to coughing, breathing problems, burning and watery eyes. Chlorine gas and water also combine to make hydrochloric and hypochlorous acids. Bleach + Ammonia = Chloramine. This can cause shortness of breath and chest pain. Bleach + Rubbing alcohol = Chloroform. Another highly toxic combination!! Hydrogen peroxide + Vinegar = peracetic/ peroxyacetic acid. This combination can be highly corrosive.
Bleach in very hot water is also dangerous. It releases a mini toxic cloud that can kill you.
Any rotary saw (skillsaw, tablesaw, mitresaw). Honorable mention: chainsaw.
I remember our woodworking teacher introducing us to the table saw: "This is the table saw. It does not like you. it does not dislike you. It does not care how many fingers you arrive with, or how many you leave with. That is entirely up to you."
Before I got a desk job I mostly worked in the wood shop here. Occasionally someone would ask to use one of the saws. I had a standard response. "If you get any blood on it, you clean that up first. Then we'll take you to the doctor." (Before anyone gets their panties in a wad, I was joking, and they all knew it.)
Load More Replies...When doing a course on chainsaw use the instructor told us “there are no insignificant chainsaw injuries”
We had a chainsaw on a stool in the garage and I accidentally backed into the 'off' chainsaw. Yeah. So the urgent care almost flipped out before they read the entirety of my statement "Why are you here" and I wrote that I got cut by a chainsaw (but it was off) Still ended up being a nasty little injury and IT WAS OFF!
Load More Replies...There was always that one kid in shop class who cuts off the top of their finger because they're messing around.
Yep. My neighbor's table saw jammed on the wood. His response was to push harder. Sliced off his thumb and half his pointer. Eight-year-old grandson saw the whole thing.
Very timely! I recently got a nice table saw injury. Not from the blade, thank bloody bog. I'm getting my stitches out tomorrow.
Chainsaws are very dangerous, specially if the person using it wears a hockey mask.
Nah, the guy in the hockey mask uses machetes. It's the guy in a mask made of human skin that likes chainsaws, but he doesn't leave Texas.
Load More Replies...Turning machines, too. I once shot off the tightening T-wrench, landed 20 m off. First I thought I had shot it into a ceiling window, as upon looking up, spotted one there. No, a coworker did that one years before, told me nobody had yet seen it. Visible from one spot only, at my then-turning machine (one of those hand-operated than intern-students and apprentices are taught at). Rained through the roof there at special wind conditions, and nobody had cared to go up and inspect.
First thing to practice with a chain saw is the "toss it away" motion, if your feet get tangled, or a limb starts coming down, etc.
Someone who has nothing to lose.
They will not be at all afraid of you. Fear can only exist in someone who still holds a vestige of hope. A prisoner at Treblinka extermination camp attacked and killed the commandant with his bare hands, because the prisoner realised that he was going to be killed anyway.
This is absolute nonsense. Fear of death is a basic instinct. Oh - and I would like to know your source for that story.
Load More Replies...That's gonna be a lot of us in the US in about 2 years. Walk on eggs around us, people, walk on eggs.
I'm sure your new chinese or russian overlords (or whomever places the highest bid) will treat you nice.
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Stone fish.
I have experienced some phenomenal pain in my life but that sting will be burned into my psyche for the rest of my life.
Also the f****r in bottom right in the picture is a PAINFUL sting! Damn, my toe went black and the pain crept up my whole leg.
There's tales of Pacific islanders who were poisoned by stone fish, and who drowned themselves, just to stop the pain.
It's nature's way of saying, You got in my personal space. Don't let it happen again.
Lived right on a beach as a child and was always worried about these critters.
Kinda basic, but d***s. It is so easy to say you're not addicted and can quit anytime. Then your life is ruined, you're in a debilitating addiction and in a hole that gets deeper every time you try to fill it in.
Yep. I almost went to the bottom of that hole. Drügs were the only thing that shut my brain up and stopped the "bad thoughts", so I became addicted almost immediately during a very dark part in my life. I had my family and my boyfriend trying all kinds of things to help get me clean (boyfriend was the source of 90% of the problems in the first place, though, honestly.) None of their attempts worked, and I ended up on cocaine. The only thing that finally convinced me to get clean was thinking about how my cat depended on me and how I was responsible both to her and responsible for her wellbeing. That helped me get clean. I've been clean for 3 years now. It's scary to think how I had NO idea what was in the cocaine that I was buying and using. I could have gotten a fentanyl-laced batch and simply died. But addiction is INCREDIBLY difficult - don't let my little summary make it seem like it's "simple" and "easy" to quit - it's not. It is an atrocious struggle.
Congratulations on your 3 years of sobriety. That’s a huge achievement!
Load More Replies...The ones people miss all the time are alcohol and cannabis. I don't care what you say, you CAN get addicted to cannabis. Booze? I just like a glass of wine with dinner, I can't have a problem! But you start with one glass of wine with dinner then end up with one before dinner, one with dinner and one after, every day. You move to a large glass and a stronger wine and this means you are drinking the equivalent of half a bottle of spirits within an hour - every day..
It took me a minute to realize this was about d r u g s, not fancy s**t shaming.
Am I the only one that translated that incorrectly the first time I read through the post?
I hate when this word is censored cuz this could very well have meant d!cks
Cigarettes are the d**g I wish I had never tried. Stage 2 emphysema at age 53 is not something I’d wish on anyone.
Wow, they covered up the word D R U G S. wtf guys.
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Hippos.
People think they are cute. So they think they are not dangerous. Just look at when they have there mouths wide opn. Think of the power in those jaws. They more than likely can crush a person with no,problem.
Carbon monoxide! I'm a inspector, and carry a detector with me at all times. It definitely has saved my life before. It's literally everywhere and can kill you instantly.
What makes carbon monoxide so dangerous is the fact that the human body prefers it over oxygen.
Displaced oxygen kills you. You breathe low concentrations of CO all the time. Nitrogen will also displace oxygen and kill you
CO replaces oxygen in the blood. CO2 displaces oxygen. The level of CO people normal breath daily is <0.0009%.
Load More Replies..."kill you instantly" But the writer has been exposed to it and didn't die.
Blue ring octopus.
Avery357:
Just a PSA, blue ring octopuses don't always have blue rings! They only get blue rings when they feel threatened, so avoid any octopus that has not been 100% identified. Heck, avoid all octopuses.
Stop eating them too. They're a lot smarter that most of dumb azz's that voted for...
Peoples emotions. You don’t know what a person is capable of doing until it’s too late.
Most people don't realise, themselves, what they're capable of until it's too late.
"Still waters run deep" is so true for a lot of people. Which, in my opinion, is why it's a bad idea to fool around with someone else's SO. You can never tell how the wronged party will react. Some of those episodes of "Cheaters" have gone horribly wrong, with someone getting stabbed (the host), or shot to death. It's just not worth it.
Large capacitors.
Taoiseach:
It's a good way to start a career change, as long as you want your new job to be "charcoal briquette"
I cringe when I see YouTube videos pop up in my feed for things you can do with a old microwave
Storm surges. Stay off the shore in bad weather!
And don't go in/around storm water drains. Flash flooding can happen so quickly.
Shouldn't go around storm drains anyways, just ask Georgie... oh wait.....
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Street pills, or a prescription that isn't yours. Just isn't worth the risk.
About THE dumbest thing someone can do is help themself to someone else's prescriptions. You could be allergic to any of the ingredients; it could exacerbate an existing, or otherwise dormant, medical condition; it could permanently disable you, if not outright kill you. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
It's no longer safe buying druugs on the street. Street dealers no longer care if they're killing off their customer base.
Of course they do. If they kill their customers, who will buy their d***s?
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Felling trees by yourself that are in range of your home or other property.
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This is so true. There's a guy I went to high school with who got paralyzed trying to help some friends remove an old tree that had died. He's in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Trees fall on my house all the time. They haven’t broken through yet, but I’m getting the feeling it will be soon.
Trains, forklifts, and the people that prepare and serve your food.
Oh no... I'm a forklift driver on a train station and I'm cooking my own food!
Well... if you ever develop a grudge against yourself, you're in trouble. Look into the mirror and growl, "I know where you live."
Load More Replies...Seriously, never mess around on a level crossing. I was told by someone who works for the railways that people get killed on them every year. If it was possible to dispense with all of them it would be done, because they are so dangerous, but it just isn't possible. Use them 100% correctly and very conservatively, and you'll be fine, but there is far less room for pushing it a bit than people realise
Pulling money out of your retirement accounts before you retire.
Here in Australia, the rules were relaxed during COVID. Some people will regret their actions down the track.
I don't know, some of them might still be happy that they had money to - you know - survive?
Load More Replies...F that. The way things look, we'll never be able to retire, might as well have fun while we're young
Depends what you do with that money. Put it in something that generates a residual income which surpasses your retirement income? Brilliant!
Geese.
Swans. They can beat you to death with their wings. Geese bites hurt like all hell. Was bitten on the thigh when I walked past a hidden nest. Then chased another 25 feet. Thank God for the nest it didn't chase me further.
Jim Gaffigan joked that instead of building a wall between us and Mexico to stop immigrants, we should put up a net between us and Canada to stop the geese.
Canada geese were almost extinct at one time. They should have let them go. Noisy aggressive pooping machines.
That last sentence? You talking about birds or toddlers?
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As a former lift operator, do not f**k with a lift with damaged hydraulic lines on the boom/mast. Refuse. That fluid is under enough pressure to shoot through your skin.
This goes for any hydraulics. I can confirm, I used to be a hydraulic mechanic.
Also the machinery can fail and lose pressure and something can come crashing down on someone.
A schoolmate's neighbour had a hydraulic line on his tractor cut by some stupid attempt to ... I don't know really what he was trying to attempt, but the jet of oil cut three of his fingers clean off. We collected them, in a bag, that bag in another, ice around, all that, but they couldn't sew them back on. Safed a few minutes a few times, cut off something forever.
Breath play. I know, I like it too, but it's so dangerous, even if you "know what you're doing" even if you're "careful" even if you "never do it alone". It's not even the possibility of dying that's the worst part, it's the possibility of sustaining brain damage due to miscalculations and negligence of your partner(s). Certain methods are worse than others, too. Certain methods can leave lasting negative impacts on your health, like strangling and nooses. Your family will not understand. Your partner might see jail time if they were there. Just don't.
You might know it better as, erotic asphyxiation. I had to look it up, I never heard it called breath play.
Load More Replies...Pierce my nipples and balls. Use a strap-on. But don't ever try to suffocate me! Kinks should be exciting, not the cause of death.
Fire, gas, electricity.
Advised by my dad and I strictly follow it.
They all follow the laws of physics (along with gravity). There's no arguing with those laws, they win every time.
Each of those, plus wind and water can be your friend or your enemy, depending on the situation.
The one thing they have in common? They. Don't. GAF. They don't care about your net worth, how high up you are on the Fortune 500 list, if you have a Hollywood star. Break any one of the rules regarding how to handle them, and expect to end up disfigured, disabled, or no longer among the living. No exceptions.
Mercury. Welcome to brain damage.
I had two high precision mercury manometers in a lab where I used to work. 8lbs of mercury in one and 16lbs in the other. They were never a problem it was the few mercury thermometers that I'd get to clean up with a water trap equipped vacuum pump. Then it was monitoring the air and mopping down with HGX. I was also subjected to annual blood work to check for mercury. The long term impact is quite nasty. I always tested clean.
Rotating machinery when you are wearing long, open hair. Or long and/or loose clothing.
May I add giving WIDE berth to a raised load. Just one person killed is too many. Person in the plant I worked at was killed by a falling object from 15 feet.
Don't wear jewelry around moving machinery either. Husbands that are loyal to your wives. Take off your wedding ring. I have heard of husbands that refused to take their wedding rings off and working round like table saws and nearly get their fingers ripped off because they refused to take their wedding rings off. They can get caught in moving machinery.
Someone else’s partner/spouse.
Your health.
Money can be re-earned, items replaced. But once your health is gone, the material things don't seem to have much significance.
I know. After a stroke and two bouts of COVID, my health is about one-third what it was before.
Load More Replies... Fractal wood burning. Just don't.
Crowbarscout:
Saw a video on how many deaths have been attributed to people cheaping out on actual setups and all the jury-rigging that happens.
Damn.
Saw that video as well. 34 deaths at that point and the video is at least 2 years old.
This video, perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzosDKcXQ0I
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Maintaining a credit card balance month after month.
Never run from the K-9.
I was part of a group being told about military police patrol dogs. I suggested a scenario where a nap in a corner resulted in waking up 'after hours' and then being confronted with a dog 'off the leash'. Advice: the handler will be close by. The dog is trained to keep you on the spot. Stand VERY still until the handler arrives.
I have a question: as someone who is terrified of dogs, I always stand super still when one comes too close, but can I scream or is that bad if there's a K-9?
Load More Replies...Many military dogs (according to the military here) are 'unsuitable' to be rehomed as pets after retirement and have to be put down. Police dogs can be pets, service dogs can be pets so it makes me wonder what they have actually trained military dogs to do that makes them so dangerous..
Running from the cops in general is a bad idea. K-9s are probably safer to be still/close to, they're trained to hold, not maim, unless its in self-defense.
Just look up police bodycam videos on YouTube, where K-9s are used.
Load More Replies...Official police dogs are the only ones with the actual designation of K9.
Load More Replies...In a sluggish economy, never, ever f**k with another man’s livelihood.
Fighting with someone who's clearly better than you.
As a martial artist, yep. I may be a black belt, but I'm RUNNING if someone tries to fight me. There's no way to know what they're capable of.
My husband is a legionaire veteran but he doesn't look dangerous or scary but man are people wrong!
Load More Replies...I always thought that "pick on someone your own size" was bad advice. Pick on someone smaller...also, kicking them when they're down does seem to be a good tactic.
When i was a tae-kwon-do student, i (25 y.o. male) had a 13 y.o. female opponent for full-contact sparring (with helmets and pads). She was a black belt holder. Even with pads and helmet, her punches and kicks really hurt! 'Smaller' targets are not always 'safer' targets.
Load More Replies... Pressure vessels.
redbirdrising:
I recently went down a rabbit hole of diver deaths on Youtube. Saturation diving deaths were particularly brutal.
Have you seen what happens when a pressure cooker explodes?
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Somebody with them cauliflower ears.
Nah, most rugby players are absolutely lovely people. The mayor of my village is a former rugby player and a very nice man.
They have been fighting and hit on the ears, often repeatedly. It's a sign they are capable of doing real damage to you
That is a very big generalisation. Not all fighters have cauliflower ears, more likely on Rugby players and the majority of those players are pretty chilled and very nice people. They probably have more self control than most people due the the extreme confrontational aspect of their various sports.
Load More Replies...My mom has these from playing rugby-she could absolutely mess someone up, but contact sports people are generally chill. You need to be somewhat laid-back to be up close and personal with people like that.
I would say this is more common with wrestlers (Now the WWE kind). It is damage done to the ear from years and years of training. If you see someone with this, they have spent a good portion of their lives training in a sport that involves a LOT of grappling and contact that simulates fighting. It also is a sign that that person cared more about that sport than they do their appearance. So it is a clear indication that they probably know what they are doing and that they can handle themselves in a physical altercation.
When the cops pull you over, just follow their rules, I'm from Nassau County NYC, just put your hands up and don't give them a reason to pull their weapons. I carry a legal knife on the subway showing all the time and they don't bother me. Just follow their rules. I'm a convicted felon and know that they will make up charges to put me away, that's why I don't give them a chance.
Good advice, but "Nassau County NYC?" I'm from Kings County myself, which is an actual borough.
Pizza rolling machines. Get your finger in the wrong spot, and they'll rip it right off without even slowing down.
The production database.
Taoiseach:
All my coder friends were horrified when that Twitter whistleblower said that the company had no real control over who could push changes to prod. People were pushing to prod piecemeal, totally on their own, with no documentation or coordination. It sounds like utter bedlam.
The ticket I have to open and the tests in Stage i have to run and the approvals I have to get... There're reasons
It's a geeky, lower-stakes version of "safety regulations are written in blood."
Load More Replies... The IRS.
Legitimate_Myth_3816:
A coworker of mine likes to say the IRS is the American KGB.
Lots of people like to say things. That doesn't make those things true.
As a US tax payer you don't have to give them anything. The downside is they will make you wish you did.
A person who cheated, infidelity.
I know BP doesn't agree, but there are far worse things than cheaters. I'll take my chronic cheater ex over my pedophile ex ANY day.
If you don't know what you are doing or are not sure internal components of anything. The amount of damage that you can do (even when you just unplug 1 cable) is very very pricey.
As an advocate for the ‘Darwin will have his way’ collective I wholeheartedly endorse anyone who wishes to test their ability to overcome the odds. Want to see if the warning sign is right? Go ahead. Want to prove everyone else wrong and tackle that bear? Go right on and give it a tickle. Think that automated machinery can detect a human in its path? Go on, put yourself in harms way. You are doing the world a favour by removing yourself from the gene pool. You are the person to become the next ‘example for others to be aware of’, thank you for your services to humankind, we are getting stronger without you.
Follow EVERY safety rule when using power tools. Yes, you do need to take your wedding ring off and put it in your pocket. If you still won't do that, go to Google Image Search, and look up "degloved finger".
As an advocate for the ‘Darwin will have his way’ collective I wholeheartedly endorse anyone who wishes to test their ability to overcome the odds. Want to see if the warning sign is right? Go ahead. Want to prove everyone else wrong and tackle that bear? Go right on and give it a tickle. Think that automated machinery can detect a human in its path? Go on, put yourself in harms way. You are doing the world a favour by removing yourself from the gene pool. You are the person to become the next ‘example for others to be aware of’, thank you for your services to humankind, we are getting stronger without you.
Follow EVERY safety rule when using power tools. Yes, you do need to take your wedding ring off and put it in your pocket. If you still won't do that, go to Google Image Search, and look up "degloved finger".
