Eureka! The idea just pops into your mind, and it seriously feels like the best thing that happened today. For a brief moment, you ask yourself what could go wrong, but nobody was born with a degree in risk management.
One doesn’t need a study to state that 99% percent of those ideas are dumb. And that means you are left to deal with the consequences. Luckily, there’s a place to learn what not to do, known as the subreddit r/Whatcouldgowrong.
It teaches you a valuable lesson, which is basically that if there’s any chance the thing can go wrong, it most likely will. Spare yourself from post-What-could-go-wrong misery just like 3.9 million wise members of the group.
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What Could Go Wrong If I Complain To Costco
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Always check who can read your posts. Such mistakes have caused a lot of drama.
Bored Panda reached out to redditor u/Peanutbuttered, who is the creator of the internet-famous subreddit r/whatcouldgowrong, to find out more about their community. The redditor told us that after their friends introduced them to Reddit many years ago, they loved the concept of different subreddit communities allowing you to customize the content you wanted to see.
“I sat there thinking about ideas for a subreddit—at this time, it had seemed like every category had been thought of already. I thought it would be funny to make a content community where the only things submitted were just gifs of bad ideas with unfavorable outcomes.” u/Peanutbuttered clicked the button to make it go public, and the rest is history.
What Could Go Wrong If I Park In That Space "For The Umpteenth Time"
A skilled scaffolding crew takes minutes to built this while an unskilled man could take hours to dismantle it.
What Could Go Wrong If I Threaten To Shoot Up A Supermarket
What Could Go Wrong If You Park Your Car In A Non-Parking Zone At The Supermarket
The community now has 4.0m members and gets submissions every day, but the creator of r/whatcouldgowrong said that it’s not up to them to approve the posts. “Reddit works by community voting, but we along with our content robots remove anything that doesn’t meet the rules,” they explained.
As r/whatcouldgowrong began to evolve, Reddit included it in a collection of popular subreddits where they “revamped the idea behind 'default communities,'” explained the creator. They said that since then, r/whatcouldgowrong “started to show up on the home page more often, which brought in more people.”
“The content is all pretty much the same, but the people participating in the discussion section of each post is no longer WCGW subscribers, but a combination of subscribers and general people from the rest of Reddit,” explained u/Peanutbuttered.
What Could Go Wrong If I Decide To Let My White Dog Out After I Mow My Lawn
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What Could Go Wrong If I Just Feed This One Monkey
The creator of the community also said that their favorite submission is the one where “a guy is rolling down a hill in a shopping cart, and what happens is about what you’d expect. This is my favorite post because it inspired me to create the page.”
Even though u/Peanutbuttered is aware that their subreddit is for quick entertainment, it still provides a lesson to learn. “My hope is that people who are thinking of attempting a stupid stunt will rethink their decision or maybe recall a post they saw on /r/whatcouldgowrong. Then they’ll think, 'maybe I should not do this,'” the redditor said.
In fact, u/Peanutbuttered concluded that in a perfect world, r/whatcouldgowrong wouldn’t exist “because people would know what is smart to attempt and what isn’t.” But since that’s not the case, at least, they hope the subreddit can help to prevent an injury or save a life.
What Could Go Wrong If You Use A Walmart Bag When Bleaching Your Hair
What Could Go Wrong If You Keep Your Feet On The Dashboard And Get Into A Car Crash
What Could Go Wrong If I Wear A Click Pen In My Hair
What Could Go Wrong If I Put A Heavy Casket In My Trunk Without Securing It
What Could Go Wrong If You Hoard
in the other picture, they broke my bones, in this picture they broke my heart😢
What Could Go Wrong If I Post My Pic With A Full Map Of The Prison Behind Me (2 Days Later, A Terrorist Group Attacked And Freed Everyone There—happened In Nangarhar, Afghanistan)
True story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13184920#:~:text=More%20than%20470%20inmates%20at,Sarposa%20jail%20were%20Taliban%20insurgents.
What Could Go Wrong If I Open My Restaurant Against State Orders
Losing the liquor license sound like a death sentence to a restaurant.
What Could Go Wrong If I Don't Strap Down The Boat
I feel like this should be the equivalent of running the red light and his boat licence should be revoked
What Could Go Wrong If I Leave The Car Window Down In Bear Country
When they went in the cabin, it was a car. When they came out of the cabin, it was a bear's Lego set.
Windows up or down, must have left food in their car. No Bear would go in a car if they didn't think food was in it.
The bear was likely this destructive because he couldn't find the food. There might not have been anything there, but there was a lingering smell.
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Never leave any food, gum, mints, hand sanitizer, perfume, fragranced personal care items, trash, or empty food containers in your car in bear country; it is like ringing a dinner bell and inviting them to come dine. -- This is the all too common result of thinking your car in bear proof.
Yup. Windows down or up, unlocked or locked a bear *will* get in your car if it smells something attractive. Same with your cabin. Lock that sh*t in an airtight container behind very secure doors.
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really good thing she took the kid with her. That is horrifying. I wonder how long it took to accomplish that amount of destruction.
I've heard of the "elk test" for cars but this seems to go a bit too far lol
Did you leave your lunch in there? Boy, was he pissed off!
This can happen even if you leave the car windows up. If a bear wants in your car, they are getting in your car and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Although there are ways to lessen the risk, don't leave food/drink in the car, roll up the windows, remove any garbage/food wrappers and lock your doors.
This would happen even if you left the car windows up, and ANY food in the car.
No cooler, no food, nothing that looks like a cooler, no strong food or spicy smell, does not matter in the least if the window is open or closed, bears know what looks like what and can pull your door off easily without a second sniff.
Well, could be worse, you could have been unable, to undo your seat belt !!!
No need to leave the windows down for them. They can bite through a file cabinet, they can bite their way into your car. Shall I tell you of Mary? Mary was a bear near the USAF base in Nenana, Alaska. She got into the commander s office one day, knocked the red phone off the hook and growled into it. Back in the 'lower 48' folks were freaking, finally got a hold of someone on the base who discovered Mary and the mess she had made in the commander s office. Top secret papers all over the floor. Now, anybody with a lick of sense would have filled a mop bucket with food, tied a rope on it and led her out of there. So, what did they of 'military intellegence' do? They turned a water hose on her, scared the sh*t out of her, litterally! She sh*t all over everything.
Remember this photo when you are tempted to take food into your tent!
Yep. Take those public service leaflets, signs, notices seriously. Bears are nasty when they are hungry.
You don't even have to have the window down. If a bear sees something he likes in your car, he'll/she'll break the window to get at it. There was a ranger station in the Sierras that had great polaroids they took of broken-into cars as a warning. Effective!
Never ever leave the window down in bear country if vehicle is not attended our if you're not bear by because more than likely you have food or have had food in the vehicle.. Unless you put food in the trunk and even then not guaranteed safety
Do you remember that bear that you honked at on the road coming in here? Well he found you.
Bodacious bears. We covered it. "We know a thing or two, because we've seen a thing or two" We are Farmers. Pam Pam Pam Pam pa pa paaaaaa!
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Reminds me of when I worked for Pizza Hut in high school and threw out 55 gallons of over proofed dough every night.
What Could Go Wrong If You Attempt A No-Hand Wakeboard In Your Robes While Drinking Tea
What Could Go Wrong If I Fly A Drone Inside The House
I see a new fashion style in your future...Short hair for sure
What Could Go Wrong If You Park A Car For Days Illegally Under A Tree Full Of Egrets And Herons
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And thus was born a new superhero VENOM-SNOT! Able to paralyse bad guys by holding a nostril and blowing a poison snot dart out of the other!
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What Could Go Wrong If My Neighbor Uses The Longest Possible Drill Out There
Just as well no one was standing there. Next time place a bottle of Tomato sauce on the floor&when they drill, they will find the blood like stuff might give them pause for thought
What Could Go Wrong If I Put My Pizza On A Plastic Board And Cook It In The Oven
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What Could Go Wrong If I Forget Sunscreen
Your a pale skinned Ginger haired person, Never Forget Your Sunscreen Ever Again! Skin cancer, here you come
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Yeah I don't think I'll ever forget that X-ray from the car accident! Omg
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What could go wrong when you call in a bomb threat? A girl from my high school found out. She was supposed to be on ISS (In School Suspiension), starting after a break. She decided that she didn't want to. She and her stupid a*s friends came up with a "brilliant" plan and called the school to report a bomb. These hardened criminals forgot about little details - like caller ID and security cameras. If that wasn't bad enough, she had just turned 18, meaning she could be tried as an adult. She definitely got the extended vacation she wanted - 5 years of it in one of our lovely barred, lockdown hotels.
Albert Einstein said the two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity. These pictures seem to prove the latter.
It has been a learning curve for me. Don't put fake blood on a lorry trying to go under a low bridge or you will flood the engine. Don't get out of motor to feed the monkeys or the bears wreck your car. Never park between trolleys or scaffolding or under bird infested trees. Do not use plastic or hide plastic in the oven, to hold hot oil or to throw ashes into. Stay away from dogs faces but get them to chew up the sofa. Tell mama her food is C**p and I've thrown all her dough in the bin! Avoid hair raising experiences.Oh yeah, don't be an on line karen to stores.
What makes me even sadder is how the educational system is letting people like this matriculate through school then graduate.
Well, we all make mistakes, if you say, no not me, wait for your turn, on the positive side, it's nice to learn, from others mistakes, I have made a few, no, not telling !!!
Why are most of my comments from yesterday deleted now? I didn't write anything offensive or politically incorrect. I really don't get this site anymore. This is not ok. Maybe I should just say goodbye to all commenting and social media, because this makes me feel like I am a bad person for no reason whatsoever. Whenever I am "cancelled" like this without explanation "bye-bye", I am not commenting anymore.
Yeah I don't think I'll ever forget that X-ray from the car accident! Omg
Load More Replies... What could go wrong when you call in a bomb threat? A girl from my high school found out. She was supposed to be on ISS (In School Suspiension), starting after a break. She decided that she didn't want to. She and her stupid a*s friends came up with a "brilliant" plan and called the school to report a bomb. These hardened criminals forgot about little details - like caller ID and security cameras. If that wasn't bad enough, she had just turned 18, meaning she could be tried as an adult. She definitely got the extended vacation she wanted - 5 years of it in one of our lovely barred, lockdown hotels.
Albert Einstein said the two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity. These pictures seem to prove the latter.
It has been a learning curve for me. Don't put fake blood on a lorry trying to go under a low bridge or you will flood the engine. Don't get out of motor to feed the monkeys or the bears wreck your car. Never park between trolleys or scaffolding or under bird infested trees. Do not use plastic or hide plastic in the oven, to hold hot oil or to throw ashes into. Stay away from dogs faces but get them to chew up the sofa. Tell mama her food is C**p and I've thrown all her dough in the bin! Avoid hair raising experiences.Oh yeah, don't be an on line karen to stores.
What makes me even sadder is how the educational system is letting people like this matriculate through school then graduate.
Well, we all make mistakes, if you say, no not me, wait for your turn, on the positive side, it's nice to learn, from others mistakes, I have made a few, no, not telling !!!
Why are most of my comments from yesterday deleted now? I didn't write anything offensive or politically incorrect. I really don't get this site anymore. This is not ok. Maybe I should just say goodbye to all commenting and social media, because this makes me feel like I am a bad person for no reason whatsoever. Whenever I am "cancelled" like this without explanation "bye-bye", I am not commenting anymore.
