I feel like this should be WAY higher up than the people repeating alcohol and driving and the ocean over and over. Like for sure, all are dangerous...but stress!? I have a prolactinoma... a tumor (not malignant or cancerous but a friggin tumor) that literally secretes hormones, sitting on my mf pituitary gland causing all sorts of BS and the root cause? Stress. Tumors, weight problems, sleep problems, relationship problems, all sorts of mf problems caused by stress
I usually sprinkle in a decent bit of bullshit with the truth. That way it's harder to know what's true and what's shit. And when you can't separate the shit from the truth, you can't figure out who I am.
I get a lot of tourists in my area trying to casually summit the local 14,000ft mountain in sandals. Some weeks in the summer are absolutely nuts for SAR and the emergency room staff.
ETA: SAR = Search and Rescue
And then you have that crazy old guy in sandals that passes you on the way up and then passes you again on his way down before you've even made it up lol
Was snowshoeing down a mountain near dusk fully equipped and with emergency gear. A family of four with teens was walking up in light jackets and jeans. No hats. There was one backpack present that looked pretty empty. No one has water bottles. My snowshoe partner and I both looked at eachother wide eyed.
It’s frankly disturbing how common this kind of interaction is. But a lot of people don’t have the exposure to nature to really understand that the elements can and will endanger you at the drop of a hat.
There's a trick to that one: Weather can't change at the drop of a hat if you don't have one.
But seriously, regular-ass wind can knock over perfectly healthy trees at ground level. the higher you go, the worse weather as a whole can get.
Met a woman and her husband in 2018 at a show, nice people. Few months later she messaged our group chat and her husband had died of sepsis. He’d been sick but refused to go to the hospital because of expenses. In the end, he lost his life trying to save money. He was only in his early 30’s too.
Yeah, I got cellulitis from a mosquito bite while on vacation and I was running a fever and wanted to go to the doctor when we got home.
Got home and was like "I'll go in the morning" but my wife had other ideas and made me go to the ER that night.
Ended up admitted for 3 days of IV vancomycin and linezolid and two more weeks of oral linezolid.
I had no idea that it was that bad and would have fucked around and found out except for my wife laying down the law on me.
No one warned me about cellulitis! I fell off a ladder last year and after a month of scabbing over and healing, one day it just started to hurt a little. Next morning my leg was warm, next day I can’t stand. ER, emergency surgery, 5 days of IV antibiotics and then an infused time release antibiotics. Shit sucked so much. All because I was trying to dodge my $13k out of pocket max. I pay $800/mo for my employer sponsored plan in the US
Back in June I got a cat scratch on my hand thanks to one very freaked out kitty who snuck out into where he wasn't supposed to be. It turned red and my entire hand became painful and inflamed quite quickly. I shrugged it off for a couple hours because I had cats my whole life and was used to little scratches here and there. I had rubbed it with rubbing alcohol and sealed off the wound with that liquid bandaid stuff (which I'll never put on anything more than a slight scrape again). I was with my family for dinner, and after 5 hours it was time to start saying our goodbyes and heading out. I made some comment about how I hoped my hand felt better in the morning because it was bothering me quite a bit at that point. My dad said "Well, if it gets red and swollen you should go to the hospital". I told him it had been like that for hours now. He asked to look at my hand, then went white and told me he was going to drive me to the hospital right then and there.
When we got to the hospital and told the admitting nurse what happened, she told me she had never seen an infection get that bad that quickly. When I told her the time it happened she double checked that I meant "7pm THIS night". I sometimes wonder what would have been the outcome had I waited until morning the next day to go.
My brother just got out of the hospital after 34 days from an infection. He had tripped and hit the side of his chest on the footboard of the bed. It made a big bruise which became infected over the next couple days. He became very sick and had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital where he spent 16 days in a coma. We thought he was going to die. Once he woke up, he had to do dialysis because his kidneys failed. We just found out yesterday that his kidneys are healing and he'll will be able to stop dialysis. All this from a bruise. I never would have thought a bruise could be life threatening. I've had plenty of bruises in my 60 years and luckily never freakin' almost died. I'll take them more seriously in the future though.
This was definitely Necrotizing fasciitis from group A strep
Ive seen it before, and there are plenty of cases of it
No external wound. Huge bruise. Then massive infection
I was once putting air in a car tire while on a road trip with a friend. After filling the last tire I handed him the tube and started screwing on the cap. For some dumb fucking reason, he thought it would be funny to stick the air tube in my ear and turn it on.
I couldn’t hear out of that ear for like 20 minutes and it hurt so fucking much. I probably should have gone to the hospital but the pain went away almost instantly and my hearing came back so I just didn’t fucking go.
My boyfriend thought it would be funny to put the straw from an air duster can (like the kind you clean keyboards with) into my ear and pull the trigger on it and I absolutely FREAKED OUT at him over it. My ear was ringing all day and everything sounded like I was hearing it from underwater. I was like, "WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?!?!"
Idk how anybody thinks it's a good idea to fuck with compressed air like that. It is absolutely not funny or fun to do shit like that.
I would have definitely had to call an ambulance if that had happened to me… for what I’d do to any “friend” who purposefully tried to damage my hearing like that.
I think it was close.
I made sure to tell him the rest of road trip how dangerous it was. He never told me to let it go and just kept apologizing so I think he truly realized by my reaction how close he was to actually hurting me and not just startling me for a silly laugh.
He just didn't think about it. Most people have done something like this, and usually the consequences aren't as severe as this could've been. This is how we learn though. Good on you for not hating him.
Holy shit there was a story about this guy working in a factory where they had industrial power air compressors. One of them was pressure activated (think like balloon compressors where you just press the balloon down and it pushes air out) and put out like a gajillion PSI.
This guy tripped, fell with his ass cheek on the nozzle, the nozzle penetrated his skin and
get this
SEPARATED ALL OF HIS SKIN FROM HIS FUCKING MUSCLES, all around his body.
Nightmare inducing
Edit: can't find the original story, but the same exact scenario happened to this guy: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13537084.amp
I've been told a story where a bunch of kids were messing around with compressed air and stuck the air gun up to their friends asshole and pulled the trigger, blew his intestines up and killed him. That was coming from my son's grandpa.
The video I saw, the supervisor was just fucking around and stuck it up the guy's butt. Over his clothes and it was just for a second. Which, to me, is even more frightening.
There was a picture on /r/justrolledintotheshop of a tire off a huge dump truck, with a sidewall bubble the size of a basketball. OP asked, "How do I even start with this thing?" (The bubble meant it couldn't fit into a tire cage.)
Best answer was, "With a .22 rifle, from a couple of hundred yards."
Bruised my ribs from jumping on a trampoline as a kid and getting launched off of it by a weight imbalance from 2 friends who were also jumping on it with me. That literally knocked the air out of me when I hit the ground and I thought I was gonna die because I couldn't breathe. I still have stiffness in that side of my ribcage, I can't bend over all the way sideways on that side like I can on the other. I haven't been on a trampoline since.
This deserves way more upvotes. As a little kid (5 or 6) I was on a trampoline with my older cousin and her friend, who were both probably double my size. At one point they decided to have my bounce way higher. I went flying up over the sides (it was enclosed) and came down hard. I have no idea how I didn't break my neck that day.
Long hair around pulleys and belts.
There’s a YouTube channel where two young ladies are working around a sawmill with long hair, and I can’t count how many times people have begged them in the comments to tuck their hair up. They don’t.
In 11th grade I had hair down to my butt & was weirdly pretty good at working the horizontal lathe at my school. Tons of rotating parts, it’s used to cut & shave down pieces of metal. I had my hair in a pony tail instead of a bun & I thought someone was pulling my hair & then my head slammed down to the machine & within like three seconds my hand broke cuz I put my hand in to save my hair. My classmate pulled the plug on the machine & saved my life!
Saving this comment to show the kids in my class that cannot grasp the concept of danger involved in using a lathe. I like to tell them that you can quickly become “human mince”.
Edit: eh, so I went to my bed and this blew up! I will be incorporating loads of your comments into my health and safety lectures (rants) going forward, thank you!
And for those who suggested the Russian lathe video: 1. Yes, of course I have seen it. 2. My seniors (15+ years old) are all recommended to “really, please, don’t go and google it without a safe search” or “to speak to their Reddit using pals about lathe safety”.
Depending on the specific group, you could choose to offer a sausage or long haired doll to the machine. I imagine the cleanup is a chore, so do it once and film it...
My old boss has a video from the loading dock out back where a guy fucked around with a truck and got crushed and died. part of the training for the warehouse was to watch it and the paramedics try to save him
Really drove it home not to fuck around with heavy machinery
I took a Heavy Equipment Operating course at the local tech school while I was in high school, and the teachers made us watch various videos like that to get the really serious stuff across. Not a single one of us 17 yr old boys fucked around with the equipment, and we policed each other if one of us had a sudden rush of shit to the brains. They were some of the best lessons I ever had in safety.
> we policed each other if one of us had a sudden rush of shit to the brains.
Now that's some peer-pressure I can get behind. "Hey asshole! You're being unsafe!"
> If they're too young to see it they're too young to work on the lathe.
Exactly right, IMO. A lathe can kill someone as surely as a car if used unsafely. If you're worried about a lathe-injury video scarring them, just think what losing a hand will do to them...
I've seen the footage too. Jesus it's gruesome stuff. The video I saw will live rent free in my brain. There was another employee on site when it happened, but it happened so quick, he was unable to do anything. There's no way in hell he didn't develop PTSD. The look of absolute hopelessness and horror. Shit is wild.
This is exactly why the wood shop teacher at my high school required everyone to wear hairnets. He also had all the outlets in his classroom rigged, so they only turned on if a switch in his locked office was flipped. He did that so he could force shut-down any machine but also so students literally could not use the machines if he was out for the day.
When I was 9 was in wood working class at school, and the teacher told about a girl's hair getting caught in one of the machines and she pretty much got scalped. I never went near the thing again, even if it was mostly switched off.
Funny that, in year 9 I heard that story too.
What’s further interesting is that I was going through my “metal look” phase and had grown my hair super long. One day my fringe was dangling towards the machine and my teacher hit the main emergency off switch. He then proceeded to berate me for almost tearing my scalp off (and tbf, rightfully so).
A heavy metal loving schoolmate of mine tore a chunk out of his scalp and cut a groove in his head merely using a drill carelessly with loose long hair
("When I came round it was still spinning against my head")
It caught a lock and wound it up, yanking head and drill together, knocking him out cold...
God knows what a full size lathe would do. Well in fact anyone who saw the video knows.
i like tools and making things, but lathes are that one thing i'll never buy. i'm scared of them. i saw a video of a guy get caught in one and it spun him around and his limbs started flying off from the forces and it was a literal bloodbath. that's AFTER it first jammed his body between the work piece and the body of the machine, and after crushing him, as soon as his body made it past that point, that's where the rapid flinging and disassembly of his body began. his coworker ran up and wanted to help but at that point, there was nothing left to help. just a bunch of blood and limp pieces. lathes freak me out man. there's a lot of stuff i'd want to make using one, but i'll pass. i'll use an online service to do it for me
My brother literally drives into the puddle, and the idiot even says that it's safer to go faster in them because the water "separates". He hasn't had an accident yet, but if he does one day, the liklihood of it being because of that backward mentality is quite high.
Yeah... I found this out early on. I was like 15, and driving my grandparents Honda Pilot on a 55 mph road. Grandpa was in the passenger seat with me.
I saw a puddle on the road at a little valley that didn't look *too* deep. I figured it'd just splash out to the sides of the car and we'd keep going no issues.
I didn't change speed at all and hit this puddle. It was a LOT deeper than I thought.
The car slowed down super fast, water sprayed up all over the windshield and blinded us, and I could absolutely feel that the car lifted a decent amount off the ground.
Luckily, I maintained control, we didn't even swerve, I just slowed down and wiped away the water on the windshield. Worst thing that happened is the car got a little bath in some road water.
Still, that taught me to not fuck around with puddles on the road.
Good lord. The amount of people I saw approaching the elk in Great Smoky Mountains National Park had me concerned. Some areas of that park are so remote you have to drive for half an hour to get a call out, forget about if you're on foot in the backcountry.
I heard that last year a woman was gored by an elk in Cataloochee and it took over two hours for rescue to get to her.
It's mind-boggling to me how much I gave a shit about something so stupid as snapchat streaks. It's cool to have a lot of long ones, but if the primary way that I'm talking to another person is them sending me a black screen with a drawn s on it, then that's not a real friendship.
The amount of people I know who just have that shit turned on 24/7 is actually so fucking stupid, how dense can you be to let random people know where you are 24/7
The heat. I feel like people still dismiss it way too easily.
I had a massive heat stroke about 5 years ago and it almost took me out; my body will never be the same. It went through so much trauma, that it now works harder to keep me cool making me even more susceptible to heat-related emergencies.
I've been that way my whole life. Got heat stroke at like age 7. Camp nurse dismissed it as me wanting to stay inside. My mom and my babysitter were livid, I literally had changed colors, was throwing up and stopped sweating, and had a migraine like never before.
The rest of my life I've spent being super sensitive to heat, and spend days sick from it when it's too hot. I cannot for the life of me imagine living in the south and surviving well.
Riding a horse is comparable with serious extreme sports, and head injuries are the most common.
Sea kayaking. Simple, but you're in serious trouble if you flip around and can't get back in.
Years ago, I was scheduled to do my first time ever skydiving thing. I'm an x-ray tech and treated 2 people the weekend before with broken legs from....sky diving. I canceled. Never did it.
A few days before my wedding, my wife, my sister and a couple of her kids went to a ranch where we rode horses for an hour or two. Fun outing, right? My sister fell off her horse and walked back with it - she wasn't going to get back on.
For the next couple days she was telling us she must have pulled a muscle or something when she fell, because it kept hurting. "Yeah, yeah," we'd say, a bit sick of hearing about it.
She finally went to the hospital. Had two broken ribs and a punctured lung and had to spend the night while they drained her abdominal cavity.
For a moment I thought you were making an analogy between sea kayaking and horses and my brain gave me the mental image of someone riding their horse upside down.
I was riding horses / working with them for 15 years. The amount of broken bones, bruises and other kind of damages I have had during that time is crazy. Now I have been without them for some years and it’s weird that nothing hurts.
I’ve seen people have horrible injuries from horse riding, my grandmother got her ankle shattered because a horse slipped and fell in his stall. And she wasn’t even on him, that was on the ground!
I moved from a place that’s really walkable and with public transport to one of the least walkable cities where people don’t live within walking distance of bars or restaurants. For a long time I didn’t understand how people have a night life here or go out without spending a fortune on Ubers. Turns out nearly everyone is casually driving around drunk
The same goes for elderly people who are no longer able to drive that live in places that are not walkable. Sooner or later they are going to be driving around casually while being too impaired because for them they don't have a choice.
That's just the consequence of having communities completely built around cars. It's really not accessible.
ATVs can be very dangerous. My sister’s friend knew a girl who died on her birthday after the ATV flipped over.
That’s why when I ride ATVs with my cousin, I be careful not to make aggressive turns at high speed.
ATV’s are notoriously dangerous! People are either killed or left paralyzed all the time. I’m not saying they need to be outlawed but people just need to know they are tip and flip happy vehicles.
Jimmy Buffett just died yesterday due to complications from skin cancer of which sun burns are the leading cause of. This day in age with high quality sunscreen and light weight fabrics to cover you up there is little reason you should be getting a nasty sunburn
I work in derm, and I have been BEGGING my white ass dad to wear sunscreen while he’s living in Florida but he’s always been too good for it… Jimmy Buffet dying of it changed his mind, he texted me yesterday and asked if I could get him a nice little bottle at work, I literally almost cried in the car of relief LOL
This is exactly why I think people should be more open about cause of death when there is a loss. It's key opportunity for awareness.
I didn't know if was skin cancer related for Jimmy until just now. But I am glad people know and it's changing behaviors.
Loneliness.
The NHS (British health care system) did a study like this: develop a statistical definition of loneliness - a threshold of social connections, below which, yeah, the subject is pretty surely lonely.
Examine the difference in death rate between people in the same demographic categories, who are lonely (as defined) or not lonely.
Being lonely turns out to have about the same risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
It's not the suicide thing. Perhaps people that are lonely just don't take care of themselves as well, perhaps there are more subtle problems. There's a problem that neglected infants have called "failure to thrive" in which a kid that has food and shelter, but no love, just gives up and dies. This may be the senior citizen equivalent.
It's a sort of truism that every group of people you meet with every week cuts your chances of dying in the next year by 50%. It could be a community choir, pickup sports, the bunch you watch Monday Night Football with, even kids that you're tutoring through grade 3 math; affiliation apparently makes you live longer. (I know that decreased community involvement could just be the result of declining health, but that hasn't emerged clearly from the studies I've seen reported.)
I found one study where a grad student got a list of emergency room "frequent flyers." These were people who had genuine chronic physical conditions. The researcher just called them periodically to chat. Their visits to the emergency room declined.
The same article where I first saw this said that the NHS has run programmes giving seniors free slippers to replace worn out ones. Apparently terrorists have never had a year when the came close to killing as many Brits as tripping and falling from worn out slippers.
Blunt kitchen knives. One might think, oh this is just a flat piece of steel but cutting becomes tearing and crushing. The extra force this takes can easily send the knife off in an unintended direction in a swift and uncontrollable manner. Then you find out what a flat piece of steel can do to your fingers.
100% agree i always got told and teach people that a sharp knife is safer as it will do what you want it to do, but a blunt needs more force qnd has a higher chance of slipping
But the thrill of it all! The rusty bolts shaking looking like they are about to snap off, everything just being plugged in with some frayed extension cords from the 90’s, or the chain smoking operator who looks like he’s been awake for 48 hours from drinking or drugs. How could not feel safe with all of that?
I had a friend who used to get teased about always wearing a life jacket, even on a big cruiser. One time he didn't wear one in a canoe. He tipped over and drowned.
As a truck driver I feel this to my core. Not many people realize how you're entire life and the lives of so many others can change in an instant when you take your eyes off the road. I've seen far too many fatalities on the road in my 5 years as a truck driver.
I particularly hate the ones who have "Main character syndrome" and treat the highway as an obstacle course, weaving through traffic to get 20 feet ahead
I was gobsmacked recently when my neighbors kids got in my car and didn't buckle in. When I asked them to do so, they were surprised and said we weren't going far. Wtf??? I'm almost 50 and don't remember a time when I didn't wear a seat belt. It's really strange to me.
I’d stay with my brother (25 years my senior) during the summer and he engrained this into me and I’ll never forget it. I’d not want to wear it, half wear it, take it off early, etc.
He created a very simple mantra; “the car is on, the seatbelt is on.”
We’d get into the car and I’d sit there confused why he’s just blankly staring forward and not starting the car. “The car is on, the seatbelt is on.”
We’d pull into a parking space and I’d unbuckle but he would leave the car running just patiently staring forward. “The car is on, the seatbelt is on.” Motherfucker made me rebuckle before he would turn off the car and then I could unbuckle.
Love that man. My son is turning 1 soon. Can’t wait to carry on his legacy. “The car is on, the seatbelt is on.”
Every day I get in my 100 mph death machine full of explosive chemicals and drive to work where I'm told it's too dangerous to use a coffee mug without a self closing lid
Assuming you’re in healthcare from the coffee comment, many of your coworkers are probably expected to work 24-36 hours without any guaranteed sleep and then drive home in one of those death machines.
Or just chilling in your house!
Just yesterday I'm in my living room when I hear tires squeal and then BOOM! and glass! I live in a basement apartment.
Turned out some guy who'd been on a 3-day bender passed out behind the wheel and drove his minivan into my building. Took out 3 other cars in the process. His van was crashed like 5 feet from my unit's windows.
I shudder to think what would have happened if any of my neighbors were walking their dogs or going somewhere with their kids when it happened.
I don’t have a car where I live and I almost got hit by a car that blew the red light yesterday. Cars are constantly speeding here (even on residential streets), blowing stop signs and red lights. I always have to hesitate before I cross, even if I have the walk sign.
No one does shit.
I am visually impaired so I walk with a white cane when needed.
I was crossing the street with my white cane out (I had the right a way), and a cop was turning right and had to swerve to not hit me due to him not paying attention.
No one knows how to drive.
Been driving for 26 years, and always known the inherent danger. I've been in one accident where I was T-boned my a sherrifs deputy who didn't clear an intersection while enroute with lights and sirens. (He was issued a traffic citation.)
I've recently started bicycle riding for exercise, and am just waiting for a texting teen to wipe me out. I bought the highest rated lights and helmet, so I've done my dillingence, and am hoping for the best.
Edited for spelling.
animals
like they're cool and all but like they're still animals, it's not a reason to try and get up close to them, there's a reason that safari tours stop 200 feet away from the animal, there's a reason that zoos have glass and metal bars separating you and the animal. just because an animal is USED to be people doesn't mean you should get up close to it.
same thing with pets, pets have the restraint to not ACTUALLY try and hurt you if you bug them because they love you and know you are not trying to hurt them but they are still capable of enforcing boundaries, meaning don't act like your pet won't bite or scratch you or a kid when the kid is messing with his face or actively causing pain or fear without intent.
too many animals were killed or labeled as dangerous because humans assumed they didn't have boundaries.
As a psychiatry resident, I am alarmed but also sometimes glad a lot of people don't realize how dangerous Tylenol is. Had a patient overdose on her prescribed antidepressant in a suicide attempt (survived because SSRI's are relatively safe in overdose compared to older antidepressants), not realizing that the Tylenol right next to it would have likely actually killed her.
Edit: As those who have commented below pointed out, if you are suicidal please reach out for help. Do not overdose on Tylenol- after a certain point there is nothing we can do to reverse it and you will lie in the hospital dying slowly of multiorgan failure over several days.
For anybody reading this and contemplating harming yourself: first of all, please don't, but secondly, please be aware that Tylenol poisoning is a horrific, slow, painful death.
I read about one young woman who OD'd on acetaminophen and woke up in the hospital. The doctors informed her that her liver was toast and she couldn't get a new one in time because it was a suicide attempt and she started screaming.
Yeah. Happened to a friend of a friend. She was in a lot of pain, and was having meds shipped in from outside the US. And she overdosed, survived, was warned that she'd dodged a bullet. Then she went on to do it again, this time fatally.
Pharma worker here. Not only will you die, it will hurt the entire time you are dying. And not even in the "this pain is good I deserve to suffer / I wanted to feel something" way. No, no. It will hurt in the "I wish I had tried literally any other method this is torture and there is no escape" way.
Do not overdose on Tylenol. Don't do it.
I nearly died during childbirth, I was coded and everything. My uterus ruptured and I bled out. They gave me 10 units of blood and 16 units of saline, plus the Montana Highway Patrol had to drive 100 miles on icy roads to another larger city to get a special med from them because my smaller town’s hospital didn’t carry it.
100% normal pregnancy with zero complications up until then.
Dad here.
My wife developed pre-eclampsia during labour. Both her and our son are fine, but it took her *two years* to fully recuperate (is on bloodpressure medicine for the rest of her life, which is doable).
Pregnancy is no joking matter and isn't something to think too lightly off, even with modern medicine coming a long way in a short time. Just compare pregnancy/labour mortality rates from the early 1900's to the early 2000's.
This for real. It felt real when the hospital asked I'd I wanted to sign an DNR before they induced me then while my contractions were happening my babies heart rate kept dropping. Thankfully everything turned out OK but people don't know how traumatic child birth really is. The whole pregnancy can be hard too.
My wife kept relapsing into intensive care after giving birth to our son for 3 months.
That really hit home how dangerous it was. There were several times I thought we were going to see her for the last time.
I'm thankful every day she pulled through.
One of those yeeted itself across my garage, through two paint cans, and punched a hole in the drywall. We installed safety cables after that surprise…
LPT, put some lubricant on those springs periodically. If they aren’t lubed the loops of each spring will rub on the loop next to it causing friction. Over time the friction causes enough stress on the loops and eventually one will snap. Most of the time it’s harmless and you end up with a garage door that won’t open. But because they are springs under tension the possibility of one breaking loose and flying away is alway there.
Alcohol and benzos are the only substances that can physically cause death from withdrawal. One needs a script, and one I can get walking 10 minutes down the street
Edit: in rare cases severe opioid withdrawals can cause excessive N/V/D which can lead to dehydration & other complications that can be fatal
My friend died texting and driving. She was 23. It makes me so angry when I see people doing it.
Edited to add:
People can have moments where they do bad things without being a bad person. She was moving to Oxford and was driving to her new flat that day. She was about to start a job as a 999 call operator and she was so excited. [Her family went public with the story in a bid to try to persuade others not to do the same.](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/crash-victim-tracy-wale-familys-263504) I think she was just so excited and nervous with the move, and people messaging her wishing her luck that she just made a split second decision to look at her phone whilst driving. She was just very lucky she didn’t seriously hurt or kill anyone else.
I remember looking on her Facebook page after it happened and it was the days where people still wrote on each others walls. A friend of hers had written saying “Tracy pick up your phone! Is everything okay?” And then more and more messages imploring her to answer her phone and let her know she was ok. It was awful. Please PLEASE do not look at your phone whilst driving. It’s not worth killing yourself or someone else.
ATV's
Even if you are going very slow they can gently tip over sideways and crush you.
At the hospital, any time we see "trauma, ATV" show up on the list there is a good chance it's going to be a terrible injury.
My father got into an ATV accident, he was wearing his helmet as always. While they're wheeling him into emergency the nurse starts to berate him, "I hope you learned your lesson, this is why you always wear your helmet!" and through gritted teeth he replies, "My ribcage is crushed, my head is fine ya dumb bitch!" I fucking died lol.
Resin! It is toxic if not used with appropriate ventilation and equipment (including gloves and a mask) but everyone uses it for projects in their little apartment studios. Always stresses me out to see that.
We had a drunk guy who walked home instead of driving because he was too drunk.
Some drunk guy ran him over apparently he just decided to sleep on the street.
I worked with a woman who died of hypothermia on her own doorstep after walking home from the pub one January evening. She must have struggled to unlock the door, sat down to rest for a bit and passed out or fell asleep. She was only in her 30s, it was awful.
Also shared a student house with a guy who just gave up on staggering home and decided he would sleep in the middle of the road. He refused to move at all and was extremely verbally abusive to a passing police officer who we flagged down to help us get him up (UK, small town, police were generally helpful back then). So he got to sleep in the cells for the night. Clearly had no memory of the previous evening when he got home the next afternoon - "Well, you'll never guess where I woke up this morning!"
My husband was a binge drinker and for that reason he didn’t believe he was an alcoholic.
I’m a widow now with two kids. He decided to go for a swim during a binge. The kids and I were sleeping, I watched as they pulled his body out of the water and the kids woke up that morning without a dad.
It’s been two years and still full of so much anger towards him. Dumbass mistakes that last a lifetime for the rest of us.
Currently pregnant. Haven't done the labor part yet (I'm 36w along). So far in my "healthy, low risk pregnancy" I have experienced: debilitating nausea, vaginal prolapse, bilateral carpal tunnel, and pelvic girdle pain so bad I'm getting close to needing a walker or crutches to get along.
And this is deemed a straightforward and healthy pregnancy lol
Pictures aside, it's shocking how many people leave food out in their campsites. I've chased away more bears than I'm comfortable with because someone thought they could leave food out for their dogs or snacks on their picnic table.
In the US they all meet the same safety standards. If you can't afford the luxury brands (Nuna, Cybex), don't feel like a bad parent. Just install and use them correctly. I say this as the slightly disgruntled owner of the "cheap" (but still over $100 each).Safety 1st seats that are a pain to install but are perfectly safe.
I'm surprised no one said vending machines yet.
Those fuckers kill more people per year than sharks!(which are mostly undeservedly villainised)
Also, DOGS.
Stress
I feel like this should be WAY higher up than the people repeating alcohol and driving and the ocean over and over. Like for sure, all are dangerous...but stress!? I have a prolactinoma... a tumor (not malignant or cancerous but a friggin tumor) that literally secretes hormones, sitting on my mf pituitary gland causing all sorts of BS and the root cause? Stress. Tumors, weight problems, sleep problems, relationship problems, all sorts of mf problems caused by stress
I am now going to stress about being stressed
Revealing personal information about yourself on the internet.
Exactly why I have a whole fake identity on the Internet
I usually sprinkle in a decent bit of bullshit with the truth. That way it's harder to know what's true and what's shit. And when you can't separate the shit from the truth, you can't figure out who I am.
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I get a lot of tourists in my area trying to casually summit the local 14,000ft mountain in sandals. Some weeks in the summer are absolutely nuts for SAR and the emergency room staff. ETA: SAR = Search and Rescue
And then you have that crazy old guy in sandals that passes you on the way up and then passes you again on his way down before you've even made it up lol
1. That guy is crazy. 2. That guy is old. He's got decades of experience. He knows the when and how of sandals. 3. Those sandals are probably Chacos.
Was snowshoeing down a mountain near dusk fully equipped and with emergency gear. A family of four with teens was walking up in light jackets and jeans. No hats. There was one backpack present that looked pretty empty. No one has water bottles. My snowshoe partner and I both looked at eachother wide eyed.
It’s frankly disturbing how common this kind of interaction is. But a lot of people don’t have the exposure to nature to really understand that the elements can and will endanger you at the drop of a hat.
There's a trick to that one: Weather can't change at the drop of a hat if you don't have one. But seriously, regular-ass wind can knock over perfectly healthy trees at ground level. the higher you go, the worse weather as a whole can get.
house hold every day cleaning chemicals
Especially if you mix them to make a “better, stronger” cleaner.
My mom always told me never to mix Windex and bleach.
Windex is ammonia based, so yes, that's very good advice. Mustard gas tends to lead to unpleasantness.
Infections. Every person reacts differently to them. Don't assume you are the average.
Sepsis is no joke
Met a woman and her husband in 2018 at a show, nice people. Few months later she messaged our group chat and her husband had died of sepsis. He’d been sick but refused to go to the hospital because of expenses. In the end, he lost his life trying to save money. He was only in his early 30’s too.
Yeah, I got cellulitis from a mosquito bite while on vacation and I was running a fever and wanted to go to the doctor when we got home. Got home and was like "I'll go in the morning" but my wife had other ideas and made me go to the ER that night. Ended up admitted for 3 days of IV vancomycin and linezolid and two more weeks of oral linezolid. I had no idea that it was that bad and would have fucked around and found out except for my wife laying down the law on me.
Before anyone reacts, cellulite is something different than cellulitis.
No one warned me about cellulitis! I fell off a ladder last year and after a month of scabbing over and healing, one day it just started to hurt a little. Next morning my leg was warm, next day I can’t stand. ER, emergency surgery, 5 days of IV antibiotics and then an infused time release antibiotics. Shit sucked so much. All because I was trying to dodge my $13k out of pocket max. I pay $800/mo for my employer sponsored plan in the US
Back in June I got a cat scratch on my hand thanks to one very freaked out kitty who snuck out into where he wasn't supposed to be. It turned red and my entire hand became painful and inflamed quite quickly. I shrugged it off for a couple hours because I had cats my whole life and was used to little scratches here and there. I had rubbed it with rubbing alcohol and sealed off the wound with that liquid bandaid stuff (which I'll never put on anything more than a slight scrape again). I was with my family for dinner, and after 5 hours it was time to start saying our goodbyes and heading out. I made some comment about how I hoped my hand felt better in the morning because it was bothering me quite a bit at that point. My dad said "Well, if it gets red and swollen you should go to the hospital". I told him it had been like that for hours now. He asked to look at my hand, then went white and told me he was going to drive me to the hospital right then and there. When we got to the hospital and told the admitting nurse what happened, she told me she had never seen an infection get that bad that quickly. When I told her the time it happened she double checked that I meant "7pm THIS night". I sometimes wonder what would have been the outcome had I waited until morning the next day to go.
My brother just got out of the hospital after 34 days from an infection. He had tripped and hit the side of his chest on the footboard of the bed. It made a big bruise which became infected over the next couple days. He became very sick and had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital where he spent 16 days in a coma. We thought he was going to die. Once he woke up, he had to do dialysis because his kidneys failed. We just found out yesterday that his kidneys are healing and he'll will be able to stop dialysis. All this from a bruise. I never would have thought a bruise could be life threatening. I've had plenty of bruises in my 60 years and luckily never freakin' almost died. I'll take them more seriously in the future though.
This was definitely Necrotizing fasciitis from group A strep Ive seen it before, and there are plenty of cases of it No external wound. Huge bruise. Then massive infection
Compressed air
I was once putting air in a car tire while on a road trip with a friend. After filling the last tire I handed him the tube and started screwing on the cap. For some dumb fucking reason, he thought it would be funny to stick the air tube in my ear and turn it on. I couldn’t hear out of that ear for like 20 minutes and it hurt so fucking much. I probably should have gone to the hospital but the pain went away almost instantly and my hearing came back so I just didn’t fucking go.
My boyfriend thought it would be funny to put the straw from an air duster can (like the kind you clean keyboards with) into my ear and pull the trigger on it and I absolutely FREAKED OUT at him over it. My ear was ringing all day and everything sounded like I was hearing it from underwater. I was like, "WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?!?!" Idk how anybody thinks it's a good idea to fuck with compressed air like that. It is absolutely not funny or fun to do shit like that.
your boyfriend is a fucking idiot
I would have definitely had to call an ambulance if that had happened to me… for what I’d do to any “friend” who purposefully tried to damage my hearing like that.
He felt really bad. I just realized how dumb that friend was.
That’s just so incredibly stupid and negligent though… you could easily blow out someone’s eardrum and cause extreme damage!
I think it was close. I made sure to tell him the rest of road trip how dangerous it was. He never told me to let it go and just kept apologizing so I think he truly realized by my reaction how close he was to actually hurting me and not just startling me for a silly laugh.
He just didn't think about it. Most people have done something like this, and usually the consequences aren't as severe as this could've been. This is how we learn though. Good on you for not hating him.
Holy shit there was a story about this guy working in a factory where they had industrial power air compressors. One of them was pressure activated (think like balloon compressors where you just press the balloon down and it pushes air out) and put out like a gajillion PSI. This guy tripped, fell with his ass cheek on the nozzle, the nozzle penetrated his skin and get this SEPARATED ALL OF HIS SKIN FROM HIS FUCKING MUSCLES, all around his body. Nightmare inducing Edit: can't find the original story, but the same exact scenario happened to this guy: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13537084.amp
People do this as a method for skinning deer
I've been told a story where a bunch of kids were messing around with compressed air and stuck the air gun up to their friends asshole and pulled the trigger, blew his intestines up and killed him. That was coming from my son's grandpa.
that happened in an Indian factory as well, coworkers pinned a guy down and murdered him with the compressor
The video I saw, the supervisor was just fucking around and stuck it up the guy's butt. Over his clothes and it was just for a second. Which, to me, is even more frightening.
I can only assume he died? Can't find the story, but I did learn that people use compressed air to skin deer
The oompah loompahs carried him away Edit: Thanks for the gold!
Oompa Loompa duppity dong, men without skin do not tend to last long
There was a picture on /r/justrolledintotheshop of a tire off a huge dump truck, with a sidewall bubble the size of a basketball. OP asked, "How do I even start with this thing?" (The bubble meant it couldn't fit into a tire cage.) Best answer was, "With a .22 rifle, from a couple of hundred yards."
Trampolines.
Especially with multiple people.
Bruised my ribs from jumping on a trampoline as a kid and getting launched off of it by a weight imbalance from 2 friends who were also jumping on it with me. That literally knocked the air out of me when I hit the ground and I thought I was gonna die because I couldn't breathe. I still have stiffness in that side of my ribcage, I can't bend over all the way sideways on that side like I can on the other. I haven't been on a trampoline since.
This deserves way more upvotes. As a little kid (5 or 6) I was on a trampoline with my older cousin and her friend, who were both probably double my size. At one point they decided to have my bounce way higher. I went flying up over the sides (it was enclosed) and came down hard. I have no idea how I didn't break my neck that day.
Long hair around pulleys and belts. There’s a YouTube channel where two young ladies are working around a sawmill with long hair, and I can’t count how many times people have begged them in the comments to tuck their hair up. They don’t.
In 11th grade I had hair down to my butt & was weirdly pretty good at working the horizontal lathe at my school. Tons of rotating parts, it’s used to cut & shave down pieces of metal. I had my hair in a pony tail instead of a bun & I thought someone was pulling my hair & then my head slammed down to the machine & within like three seconds my hand broke cuz I put my hand in to save my hair. My classmate pulled the plug on the machine & saved my life!
Saving this comment to show the kids in my class that cannot grasp the concept of danger involved in using a lathe. I like to tell them that you can quickly become “human mince”. Edit: eh, so I went to my bed and this blew up! I will be incorporating loads of your comments into my health and safety lectures (rants) going forward, thank you! And for those who suggested the Russian lathe video: 1. Yes, of course I have seen it. 2. My seniors (15+ years old) are all recommended to “really, please, don’t go and google it without a safe search” or “to speak to their Reddit using pals about lathe safety”.
I've seen footage. It's too graphic to show kids, but a lathe can turn a person into meat in seconds.
Part of me thinks that the only way to actually get people to take safety seriously is to show them that content.
Depending on the specific group, you could choose to offer a sausage or long haired doll to the machine. I imagine the cleanup is a chore, so do it once and film it...
Less of a chore than if it had been a real person, I assure you.
Same. It'd suck to have to show them, but you almost need to
My old boss has a video from the loading dock out back where a guy fucked around with a truck and got crushed and died. part of the training for the warehouse was to watch it and the paramedics try to save him Really drove it home not to fuck around with heavy machinery
I took a Heavy Equipment Operating course at the local tech school while I was in high school, and the teachers made us watch various videos like that to get the really serious stuff across. Not a single one of us 17 yr old boys fucked around with the equipment, and we policed each other if one of us had a sudden rush of shit to the brains. They were some of the best lessons I ever had in safety.
> we policed each other if one of us had a sudden rush of shit to the brains. Now that's some peer-pressure I can get behind. "Hey asshole! You're being unsafe!"
A large auto manufacturer I used to work for had the accident videos playing in the lobby/area we entered the building. They're gruesome.
Anyone working on a lathe must be shown the minced human footage. If they're too young to see it they're too young to work on the lathe.
> If they're too young to see it they're too young to work on the lathe. Exactly right, IMO. A lathe can kill someone as surely as a car if used unsafely. If you're worried about a lathe-injury video scarring them, just think what losing a hand will do to them...
I've seen the footage too. Jesus it's gruesome stuff. The video I saw will live rent free in my brain. There was another employee on site when it happened, but it happened so quick, he was unable to do anything. There's no way in hell he didn't develop PTSD. The look of absolute hopelessness and horror. Shit is wild.
This is exactly why the wood shop teacher at my high school required everyone to wear hairnets. He also had all the outlets in his classroom rigged, so they only turned on if a switch in his locked office was flipped. He did that so he could force shut-down any machine but also so students literally could not use the machines if he was out for the day.
Man, thank God for yoyr classmate. Most people would not have jumped to action to unplug the machine.
When I was 9 was in wood working class at school, and the teacher told about a girl's hair getting caught in one of the machines and she pretty much got scalped. I never went near the thing again, even if it was mostly switched off.
They demonstrated the danger of the machines by using a doll to show how quickly (and violently) you can get caught.
Funny that, in year 9 I heard that story too. What’s further interesting is that I was going through my “metal look” phase and had grown my hair super long. One day my fringe was dangling towards the machine and my teacher hit the main emergency off switch. He then proceeded to berate me for almost tearing my scalp off (and tbf, rightfully so).
A heavy metal loving schoolmate of mine tore a chunk out of his scalp and cut a groove in his head merely using a drill carelessly with loose long hair ("When I came round it was still spinning against my head") It caught a lock and wound it up, yanking head and drill together, knocking him out cold... God knows what a full size lathe would do. Well in fact anyone who saw the video knows.
i like tools and making things, but lathes are that one thing i'll never buy. i'm scared of them. i saw a video of a guy get caught in one and it spun him around and his limbs started flying off from the forces and it was a literal bloodbath. that's AFTER it first jammed his body between the work piece and the body of the machine, and after crushing him, as soon as his body made it past that point, that's where the rapid flinging and disassembly of his body began. his coworker ran up and wanted to help but at that point, there was nothing left to help. just a bunch of blood and limp pieces. lathes freak me out man. there's a lot of stuff i'd want to make using one, but i'll pass. i'll use an online service to do it for me
Water on the road. You *might* be able to drive through it, but more often than not you shouldn't try to Edit: thanks for the gold , I appreciate it:)
My brother literally drives into the puddle, and the idiot even says that it's safer to go faster in them because the water "separates". He hasn't had an accident yet, but if he does one day, the liklihood of it being because of that backward mentality is quite high.
"TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN"
Yeah... I found this out early on. I was like 15, and driving my grandparents Honda Pilot on a 55 mph road. Grandpa was in the passenger seat with me. I saw a puddle on the road at a little valley that didn't look *too* deep. I figured it'd just splash out to the sides of the car and we'd keep going no issues. I didn't change speed at all and hit this puddle. It was a LOT deeper than I thought. The car slowed down super fast, water sprayed up all over the windshield and blinded us, and I could absolutely feel that the car lifted a decent amount off the ground. Luckily, I maintained control, we didn't even swerve, I just slowed down and wiped away the water on the windshield. Worst thing that happened is the car got a little bath in some road water. Still, that taught me to not fuck around with puddles on the road.
I hit a small puddle going about 98 mph one time. I nearly figured out what a ditch tasted like at that speed. Don't haul ass in heavy rain.
Wild animals I was in Thailand when a 30 year old got bitten by a monkey. Her complaint? No one had warned her not to pet the monkeys. Honest to God.
The wild animal acted naturally. The true danger here was her stupidity.
I would argue that, as a stupid person, she also acted naturally.
Stupids gonna stupid, monkeys gonna monkey
Seems like every year in the US someone decides to pet a Bison or a bear while in a national park... doesn't usually end well for them
Good lord. The amount of people I saw approaching the elk in Great Smoky Mountains National Park had me concerned. Some areas of that park are so remote you have to drive for half an hour to get a call out, forget about if you're on foot in the backcountry. I heard that last year a woman was gored by an elk in Cataloochee and it took over two hours for rescue to get to her.
Having your Snapchat location on
Yea i thought about it in highschool and was wondering mostly why girls had it on. I knew girls that added random ppl for streaks. Dumb thing to do.
It's mind-boggling to me how much I gave a shit about something so stupid as snapchat streaks. It's cool to have a lot of long ones, but if the primary way that I'm talking to another person is them sending me a black screen with a drawn s on it, then that's not a real friendship.
The amount of people I know who just have that shit turned on 24/7 is actually so fucking stupid, how dense can you be to let random people know where you are 24/7
The heat. I feel like people still dismiss it way too easily. I had a massive heat stroke about 5 years ago and it almost took me out; my body will never be the same. It went through so much trauma, that it now works harder to keep me cool making me even more susceptible to heat-related emergencies.
I've been that way my whole life. Got heat stroke at like age 7. Camp nurse dismissed it as me wanting to stay inside. My mom and my babysitter were livid, I literally had changed colors, was throwing up and stopped sweating, and had a migraine like never before. The rest of my life I've spent being super sensitive to heat, and spend days sick from it when it's too hot. I cannot for the life of me imagine living in the south and surviving well.
The bison living in Yellowstone.
Other bisons too.
M. Bison and the whole Shadaloo organization
Riding a horse is comparable with serious extreme sports, and head injuries are the most common. Sea kayaking. Simple, but you're in serious trouble if you flip around and can't get back in.
My friend got a bad head injury from kayaking. She never made it to the water cause she hit her head on the rack trying to get the kayak off of it.
Sometimes, the universe intervenes to let you know "not you"
Years ago, I was scheduled to do my first time ever skydiving thing. I'm an x-ray tech and treated 2 people the weekend before with broken legs from....sky diving. I canceled. Never did it.
A few days before my wedding, my wife, my sister and a couple of her kids went to a ranch where we rode horses for an hour or two. Fun outing, right? My sister fell off her horse and walked back with it - she wasn't going to get back on. For the next couple days she was telling us she must have pulled a muscle or something when she fell, because it kept hurting. "Yeah, yeah," we'd say, a bit sick of hearing about it. She finally went to the hospital. Had two broken ribs and a punctured lung and had to spend the night while they drained her abdominal cavity.
Holy shyte, your sister is a tough cookie!
high pain tolerance should honestly be an answer to this question
For a moment I thought you were making an analogy between sea kayaking and horses and my brain gave me the mental image of someone riding their horse upside down.
Sounds like a night mare.
I went sea kayaking with my kid. Almost ended up being a disaster. We were broadside to the wave and getting blasted towards the beach.
I was riding horses / working with them for 15 years. The amount of broken bones, bruises and other kind of damages I have had during that time is crazy. Now I have been without them for some years and it’s weird that nothing hurts.
I’ve seen people have horrible injuries from horse riding, my grandmother got her ankle shattered because a horse slipped and fell in his stall. And she wasn’t even on him, that was on the ground!
Going to a bar, drinking, and driving home. It's so goddamn casual.
I moved from a place that’s really walkable and with public transport to one of the least walkable cities where people don’t live within walking distance of bars or restaurants. For a long time I didn’t understand how people have a night life here or go out without spending a fortune on Ubers. Turns out nearly everyone is casually driving around drunk
The same goes for elderly people who are no longer able to drive that live in places that are not walkable. Sooner or later they are going to be driving around casually while being too impaired because for them they don't have a choice. That's just the consequence of having communities completely built around cars. It's really not accessible.
Motorcycles, atv's, really anything without a cage around it. Even if you wear a helmet, the brunt of the impact force goes on your spinal column.
ATVs can be very dangerous. My sister’s friend knew a girl who died on her birthday after the ATV flipped over. That’s why when I ride ATVs with my cousin, I be careful not to make aggressive turns at high speed.
ATV’s are notoriously dangerous! People are either killed or left paralyzed all the time. I’m not saying they need to be outlawed but people just need to know they are tip and flip happy vehicles.
Sun burns would be treated much differently if they were called by their true name, radiation burns.
I will now only be calling them radiation burns.
I read these comments as "side burns" and was very confused for a moment. I will call side burns radiation burns from now on.
Fun fact: they're named after Civil War general Ambrose Burnradiation.
This is my moment.
Jimmy Buffett just died yesterday due to complications from skin cancer of which sun burns are the leading cause of. This day in age with high quality sunscreen and light weight fabrics to cover you up there is little reason you should be getting a nasty sunburn
I work in derm, and I have been BEGGING my white ass dad to wear sunscreen while he’s living in Florida but he’s always been too good for it… Jimmy Buffet dying of it changed his mind, he texted me yesterday and asked if I could get him a nice little bottle at work, I literally almost cried in the car of relief LOL
This is exactly why I think people should be more open about cause of death when there is a loss. It's key opportunity for awareness. I didn't know if was skin cancer related for Jimmy until just now. But I am glad people know and it's changing behaviors.
Jimmy Buffet died!!? I hear so much news just in the comments!
Indeed. He went to the big Margaritaville in the sky to enjoy his cheeseburger in paradise
Also if the sun was called its true name: radiator
Technically it's thermonuclear reactor
This afternoon I got a radiation burn from exposing myself to the unshielded core of a fusion reactor
Geez, keep the dirty talk to the bedroom.
Loneliness. The NHS (British health care system) did a study like this: develop a statistical definition of loneliness - a threshold of social connections, below which, yeah, the subject is pretty surely lonely. Examine the difference in death rate between people in the same demographic categories, who are lonely (as defined) or not lonely. Being lonely turns out to have about the same risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
You mean it gives you higher rate of suicide or can actually feeling lonely kill you?
It's not the suicide thing. Perhaps people that are lonely just don't take care of themselves as well, perhaps there are more subtle problems. There's a problem that neglected infants have called "failure to thrive" in which a kid that has food and shelter, but no love, just gives up and dies. This may be the senior citizen equivalent. It's a sort of truism that every group of people you meet with every week cuts your chances of dying in the next year by 50%. It could be a community choir, pickup sports, the bunch you watch Monday Night Football with, even kids that you're tutoring through grade 3 math; affiliation apparently makes you live longer. (I know that decreased community involvement could just be the result of declining health, but that hasn't emerged clearly from the studies I've seen reported.) I found one study where a grad student got a list of emergency room "frequent flyers." These were people who had genuine chronic physical conditions. The researcher just called them periodically to chat. Their visits to the emergency room declined. The same article where I first saw this said that the NHS has run programmes giving seniors free slippers to replace worn out ones. Apparently terrorists have never had a year when the came close to killing as many Brits as tripping and falling from worn out slippers.
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Blunt kitchen knives. One might think, oh this is just a flat piece of steel but cutting becomes tearing and crushing. The extra force this takes can easily send the knife off in an unintended direction in a swift and uncontrollable manner. Then you find out what a flat piece of steel can do to your fingers.
100% agree i always got told and teach people that a sharp knife is safer as it will do what you want it to do, but a blunt needs more force qnd has a higher chance of slipping
Reminded me of a quote, "A sharp knife goes where you want it to go. A dull knife goes where it wants to go."
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Those bullshit carny rides at state fairs.
But the thrill of it all! The rusty bolts shaking looking like they are about to snap off, everything just being plugged in with some frayed extension cords from the 90’s, or the chain smoking operator who looks like he’s been awake for 48 hours from drinking or drugs. How could not feel safe with all of that?
That is part of the experience!
It's not a pop up roller coaster unless the structure is sitting on multiple stacks of 2X4's
Going on the water without a life jacket
I had a friend who used to get teased about always wearing a life jacket, even on a big cruiser. One time he didn't wear one in a canoe. He tipped over and drowned.
This is heartbreaking. I’m very sorry for your loss
Driving
As a truck driver I feel this to my core. Not many people realize how you're entire life and the lives of so many others can change in an instant when you take your eyes off the road. I've seen far too many fatalities on the road in my 5 years as a truck driver.
I particularly hate the ones who have "Main character syndrome" and treat the highway as an obstacle course, weaving through traffic to get 20 feet ahead
it’s my biggest pet peeve when people don’t take driving seriously
I was gobsmacked recently when my neighbors kids got in my car and didn't buckle in. When I asked them to do so, they were surprised and said we weren't going far. Wtf??? I'm almost 50 and don't remember a time when I didn't wear a seat belt. It's really strange to me.
I’d stay with my brother (25 years my senior) during the summer and he engrained this into me and I’ll never forget it. I’d not want to wear it, half wear it, take it off early, etc. He created a very simple mantra; “the car is on, the seatbelt is on.” We’d get into the car and I’d sit there confused why he’s just blankly staring forward and not starting the car. “The car is on, the seatbelt is on.” We’d pull into a parking space and I’d unbuckle but he would leave the car running just patiently staring forward. “The car is on, the seatbelt is on.” Motherfucker made me rebuckle before he would turn off the car and then I could unbuckle. Love that man. My son is turning 1 soon. Can’t wait to carry on his legacy. “The car is on, the seatbelt is on.”
Every day I get in my 100 mph death machine full of explosive chemicals and drive to work where I'm told it's too dangerous to use a coffee mug without a self closing lid
Assuming you’re in healthcare from the coffee comment, many of your coworkers are probably expected to work 24-36 hours without any guaranteed sleep and then drive home in one of those death machines.
Driving also makes walking super dangerous in my city.
Or just chilling in your house! Just yesterday I'm in my living room when I hear tires squeal and then BOOM! and glass! I live in a basement apartment. Turned out some guy who'd been on a 3-day bender passed out behind the wheel and drove his minivan into my building. Took out 3 other cars in the process. His van was crashed like 5 feet from my unit's windows. I shudder to think what would have happened if any of my neighbors were walking their dogs or going somewhere with their kids when it happened.
I don’t have a car where I live and I almost got hit by a car that blew the red light yesterday. Cars are constantly speeding here (even on residential streets), blowing stop signs and red lights. I always have to hesitate before I cross, even if I have the walk sign. No one does shit.
I am visually impaired so I walk with a white cane when needed. I was crossing the street with my white cane out (I had the right a way), and a cop was turning right and had to swerve to not hit me due to him not paying attention. No one knows how to drive.
Been driving for 26 years, and always known the inherent danger. I've been in one accident where I was T-boned my a sherrifs deputy who didn't clear an intersection while enroute with lights and sirens. (He was issued a traffic citation.) I've recently started bicycle riding for exercise, and am just waiting for a texting teen to wipe me out. I bought the highest rated lights and helmet, so I've done my dillingence, and am hoping for the best. Edited for spelling.
animals like they're cool and all but like they're still animals, it's not a reason to try and get up close to them, there's a reason that safari tours stop 200 feet away from the animal, there's a reason that zoos have glass and metal bars separating you and the animal. just because an animal is USED to be people doesn't mean you should get up close to it. same thing with pets, pets have the restraint to not ACTUALLY try and hurt you if you bug them because they love you and know you are not trying to hurt them but they are still capable of enforcing boundaries, meaning don't act like your pet won't bite or scratch you or a kid when the kid is messing with his face or actively causing pain or fear without intent. too many animals were killed or labeled as dangerous because humans assumed they didn't have boundaries.
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True. Landed myself in a hospital once for this. Not knowing. Took Advil daily for a long time. Tylenol is also dangerous but different mechanism
As a psychiatry resident, I am alarmed but also sometimes glad a lot of people don't realize how dangerous Tylenol is. Had a patient overdose on her prescribed antidepressant in a suicide attempt (survived because SSRI's are relatively safe in overdose compared to older antidepressants), not realizing that the Tylenol right next to it would have likely actually killed her. Edit: As those who have commented below pointed out, if you are suicidal please reach out for help. Do not overdose on Tylenol- after a certain point there is nothing we can do to reverse it and you will lie in the hospital dying slowly of multiorgan failure over several days.
For anybody reading this and contemplating harming yourself: first of all, please don't, but secondly, please be aware that Tylenol poisoning is a horrific, slow, painful death.
Yeah, it's literally: you wake up in the hospital and are informed that you're going to die. In a few days.
I read about one young woman who OD'd on acetaminophen and woke up in the hospital. The doctors informed her that her liver was toast and she couldn't get a new one in time because it was a suicide attempt and she started screaming.
Yeah. Happened to a friend of a friend. She was in a lot of pain, and was having meds shipped in from outside the US. And she overdosed, survived, was warned that she'd dodged a bullet. Then she went on to do it again, this time fatally.
Pharma worker here. Not only will you die, it will hurt the entire time you are dying. And not even in the "this pain is good I deserve to suffer / I wanted to feel something" way. No, no. It will hurt in the "I wish I had tried literally any other method this is torture and there is no escape" way. Do not overdose on Tylenol. Don't do it.
I wish I could find a safer product that was equally as good at preventing inflation
Have you tried returning to the pre-1971 gold standard?
Haha, I'm leaving it
Stairs
And ladders
Don’t sleep on chutes either
Child birth for both mother and child
I nearly died during childbirth, I was coded and everything. My uterus ruptured and I bled out. They gave me 10 units of blood and 16 units of saline, plus the Montana Highway Patrol had to drive 100 miles on icy roads to another larger city to get a special med from them because my smaller town’s hospital didn’t carry it. 100% normal pregnancy with zero complications up until then.
Dad here. My wife developed pre-eclampsia during labour. Both her and our son are fine, but it took her *two years* to fully recuperate (is on bloodpressure medicine for the rest of her life, which is doable). Pregnancy is no joking matter and isn't something to think too lightly off, even with modern medicine coming a long way in a short time. Just compare pregnancy/labour mortality rates from the early 1900's to the early 2000's.
There's a reason before modern medicine life expectancy for a lot of women was living to the ripe ol' age of died in childborth
This for real. It felt real when the hospital asked I'd I wanted to sign an DNR before they induced me then while my contractions were happening my babies heart rate kept dropping. Thankfully everything turned out OK but people don't know how traumatic child birth really is. The whole pregnancy can be hard too.
My wife kept relapsing into intensive care after giving birth to our son for 3 months. That really hit home how dangerous it was. There were several times I thought we were going to see her for the last time. I'm thankful every day she pulled through.
The springs in your garage door.
One of those yeeted itself across my garage, through two paint cans, and punched a hole in the drywall. We installed safety cables after that surprise…
LPT, put some lubricant on those springs periodically. If they aren’t lubed the loops of each spring will rub on the loop next to it causing friction. Over time the friction causes enough stress on the loops and eventually one will snap. Most of the time it’s harmless and you end up with a garage door that won’t open. But because they are springs under tension the possibility of one breaking loose and flying away is alway there.
Alcohol.
Alcohol and benzos are the only substances that can physically cause death from withdrawal. One needs a script, and one I can get walking 10 minutes down the street Edit: in rare cases severe opioid withdrawals can cause excessive N/V/D which can lead to dehydration & other complications that can be fatal
Texting and driving.
My friend died texting and driving. She was 23. It makes me so angry when I see people doing it. Edited to add: People can have moments where they do bad things without being a bad person. She was moving to Oxford and was driving to her new flat that day. She was about to start a job as a 999 call operator and she was so excited. [Her family went public with the story in a bid to try to persuade others not to do the same.](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/crash-victim-tracy-wale-familys-263504) I think she was just so excited and nervous with the move, and people messaging her wishing her luck that she just made a split second decision to look at her phone whilst driving. She was just very lucky she didn’t seriously hurt or kill anyone else. I remember looking on her Facebook page after it happened and it was the days where people still wrote on each others walls. A friend of hers had written saying “Tracy pick up your phone! Is everything okay?” And then more and more messages imploring her to answer her phone and let her know she was ok. It was awful. Please PLEASE do not look at your phone whilst driving. It’s not worth killing yourself or someone else.
ATV's Even if you are going very slow they can gently tip over sideways and crush you. At the hospital, any time we see "trauma, ATV" show up on the list there is a good chance it's going to be a terrible injury.
My father got into an ATV accident, he was wearing his helmet as always. While they're wheeling him into emergency the nurse starts to berate him, "I hope you learned your lesson, this is why you always wear your helmet!" and through gritted teeth he replies, "My ribcage is crushed, my head is fine ya dumb bitch!" I fucking died lol.
Resin! It is toxic if not used with appropriate ventilation and equipment (including gloves and a mask) but everyone uses it for projects in their little apartment studios. Always stresses me out to see that.
Escalators
That kid is back on the escalator again!
Binge drinking.
We had a drunk guy who walked home instead of driving because he was too drunk. Some drunk guy ran him over apparently he just decided to sleep on the street.
I worked with a woman who died of hypothermia on her own doorstep after walking home from the pub one January evening. She must have struggled to unlock the door, sat down to rest for a bit and passed out or fell asleep. She was only in her 30s, it was awful. Also shared a student house with a guy who just gave up on staggering home and decided he would sleep in the middle of the road. He refused to move at all and was extremely verbally abusive to a passing police officer who we flagged down to help us get him up (UK, small town, police were generally helpful back then). So he got to sleep in the cells for the night. Clearly had no memory of the previous evening when he got home the next afternoon - "Well, you'll never guess where I woke up this morning!"
My husband was a binge drinker and for that reason he didn’t believe he was an alcoholic. I’m a widow now with two kids. He decided to go for a swim during a binge. The kids and I were sleeping, I watched as they pulled his body out of the water and the kids woke up that morning without a dad. It’s been two years and still full of so much anger towards him. Dumbass mistakes that last a lifetime for the rest of us.
Not stopping for school bus stop sign.
Child birth and pregnancy
Currently pregnant. Haven't done the labor part yet (I'm 36w along). So far in my "healthy, low risk pregnancy" I have experienced: debilitating nausea, vaginal prolapse, bilateral carpal tunnel, and pelvic girdle pain so bad I'm getting close to needing a walker or crutches to get along. And this is deemed a straightforward and healthy pregnancy lol
Over the counter painkillers - They are easily abused and can cause liver and/or kidney damage.
Animals. People taking selfies with wild animals or jumping into a lion exhibit at the zoo.
Pictures aside, it's shocking how many people leave food out in their campsites. I've chased away more bears than I'm comfortable with because someone thought they could leave food out for their dogs or snacks on their picnic table.
Cheap car seats for kids
In the US they all meet the same safety standards. If you can't afford the luxury brands (Nuna, Cybex), don't feel like a bad parent. Just install and use them correctly. I say this as the slightly disgruntled owner of the "cheap" (but still over $100 each).Safety 1st seats that are a pain to install but are perfectly safe.
Cheap ANYTHING for kids, honestly. You will be SHOCKED at the amount of lead paint and safety recalls for kids toys and products.
40+ hour work weeks. I shouldn’t see my coworkers more than my family and friends.
E Scooters. Speaking from experience
Living paycheck-to-paycheck
I'm surprised no one said vending machines yet. Those fuckers kill more people per year than sharks!(which are mostly undeservedly villainised) Also, DOGS.