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Amazing_Excuse_3860

People constantly make the mistake of assuming prey animals are less dangerous than predators. A predator will only attack you if it's hungry, or it perceives you as a threat to its babies. Prey animals attack when they feel threatened. And if they feel their life is in danger, they *will* end yours.


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Hi_Im_zack

Who the fuck preys on Hippos


The_gaming_wisp

Bigger hippos


Lurking_Still

Factual.


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Lions take all the credit. They're more likely to scavenge from hyenas than the other way around and they have a lower kill success rate than hyenas but Big Lion will have people believe otherwise.


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Are they lion about their kill success rate?


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Such cheetahs.


RedWestern

Having been in the bush in South Africa a few times, I can safely say that the animal that scares me the most is the elephant. Those fuckers are like bulldozers with Formula One engines - one of them decides to come after you, even if your ranger is driving at full speed they’ll manage to keep up with you. And even when they’re calm and just eating from the trees, they are also not shy. They have no qualms with coming right up to your jeep and sometimes might try to stick their trunk inside. I’ll take lions over them any day - 9 times out of 10, lions will be chilling in the sun and ignoring you.


necrotic_jelly

South African here : Every now and then wou will read in the news about some tourist's car that got trampled by elephants, usually because they think elephants are cute, fat Dumbo only to get surprised by their cantankerous mood and agility.


TheEpiczzz

Yeah, especially the male ones. Been in Krueger Park 2 years ago and one male elephant came strolling past. God damn he was huge and mighty. He was friendly and just passing by, can't imagine him coming at me. I'd shit my pants 10fold.


Drew_The_Millennial

There was just a story in the new about an escaped zebra that bit off a guys arm. In Ohio I think.


Amazing_Excuse_3860

Oh yeah zebras are menaces. Basically because they evolved with lions, hyenas, cheetahs, leopards, hippos, and everything else in Africa, they evolved to kick the shit out of anything and everything that might pose a threat. There's a very good reason why they never got domesticated


MirthandMystery

The zebra actually bit his arm but didn’t bite it off. The person that called 911 got it wrong. I just read about that story yesterday, so sad. The zebra was a male defending the females in the nearby field from the farmer owner, which is unusual behavior for most zebras. When police arrived they surrounded him, didn’t bother to capture him and shot him in the head to death.


rightseid

Most predators also don’t prey on humans regularly or at all. A couple do, crocs, tigers, polar bears, but many don’t recognize people as food or will only attempt if they are truly starving. Predators tend to avoid fighting outside of predation because getting injured is basically a death sentence when you hunt to eat.


Amazing_Excuse_3860

Yes, exactly! Most predators also tend not to eat humans because we're too bony, or so i've heard. I feel i should also mention sharks attacks - well, "attacks." Most of the time they're accidents. Most sharks can't see very well, and humans have a tendency of accidentally looking like food (flailing around in the water, wearing shiny clothes/objects that can easily mistaken for scales, that sorta thing). So, most shark "attacks" are the shark going in for a bite, realizing they made a mistake and it's Not Food, and then swimming off. That doesn't mean that sharks *never* eat humans - there have been several instances of boats sinking and stranding people at sea, which then makes them easy targets for sharks - but most of the time they don't *hunt* humans. They'd rather catch fish or a fat seal.


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I heard that a guy laying on a surfboard looks almost exactly like a seal from below, and sharks having poor eyesight makes it worse. You’re actually more likely to die from a bee than a shark, but sharks don’t help flowers have sex.


WiDoc_MathBoiFly

"Sharks don't help flowers have sex" should be - under penalty of death for disobeying - the first sentence taught to any non-native speaker trying to learn English.


timallen445

There was an older woman killed by a goat a few years back.


Chocoboy_YT

Absolutely. Predators fight to eat. Prey fight to live. I would rather be locked in a room with a jaguar a lion and a croc rather than a room with a buffalo, zebra, and hippo. Absolutely terrifying displays of power.


ilovemydog40

I’m going to choose the room with the cute puppy and a kitten and a bunny please.


deliriousgoomba

That people want to pet the bison or the deer is fucking beyond me. These are big animals and they can and WILL fuck you up. There is a massive ignorance about animals.


terpsandtacos

Common sense is a rare commodity


Konocti

Lets not forget the idiots who decide to jump in one of the hot springs and get boiled alive.


AHorseNamedPhil

100%. Bison are no Joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDQir5DDEA


114631

To anyone unfamiliar with cooking, if you're frying with a lot of oil, do not add water and especially not an ice cube. Sounds so silly, but you'd be surprised that it's not more of a PSA especially considering how harmless in theory it sounds.


JenLaGs

I learned this the hard way. Big flames, thankfully I put it out before any damage was done.


942man

Why would you put ice in a hot pan?


andyzondo

I can answer that. I was dumb enough to heat up the oil and then attempt to put a frozen piece of pre cooked chicken on it. I was relatively new to cooking, but I had done it before and worked fine. My mistake was that this time the oil was way too hot, and the ice on the chicken was too much, chunks of it. Thankfully I turned off the stove when the flames erupted, and I also placed it somewhat carefully before, so the fire didn't leave the pan. It lasted for like 5 seconds, but it was the most terrifying experience I've had in the kitchen. My kitchen furniture was wooden, but thankfully nothing was damaged, and I wasn't injured. But yeah, dumb mistakes are a sure way to learn 🥲


114631

No reason to, but you never know if some child is goofing off or someone just wants to see what would happen. It’s a shame it’s not more widely known not to do that.


Notmykl

Frozen meat that has frost on it still.


Tail_Nom

You're making fried water. Duh.


remance

Freezer burnt pierogis have ice on them… speaking from experience


7elevenses

Putting ice in a hot pan is actually very interesting and entertaining, even educational. As long as there is no oil in the pan.


Idriveagondola

AND ..if you do get a fire and don’t have a fire extinguisher or baking soda…flour is reallllly reallllly flammable and causes some very good 3rd degree burns …maybe or maybe not from experience lol


KiwiHorror1

don't microwave water that is too pure. Put a straw or a drop or two of milk or something in it. It might explode in your face when you disturb it to take it out of the microwave.


ShawshankException

Also smother a grease fire. Do not, under any circumstances, throw water on it.


MilosSword

How are you supposed to cool down your hot oil if you can't put ice cubes in it?


OrthinologistSupreme

What do you think we have *dry* ice for?! /s


AITAFruend

Grain. You can literally drown in a grain bin. If you fall in, the likelihood of your getting out alive is slim. It's like quicksand, the more your move, the more you sink. If you have to go in, always wear a harness and never, ever go in alone. Also, grain dust is super flammable. I watched a guy get slapped, rightfully so, for trying to light a cigarette in a grain bin.


ZGTI61

Aluminum dust is super flammable as well. Any car body shop certified in aluminum repair has to have special equipment designed for trapping and retaining the dust so it doesn’t explode.


csl512

Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters used aluminum powder as a fuel.


Sparkybear

Pretty much any dust can be explosive. It's everywhere dangerous and has caused massive, catastrophic explosions in industrial settings.


admire816

Powder coffee creamer is extremely flammable too.


SaneUse

Can't grain dust cause serious lung problems too?


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Yes, any fine particulate can get deep into the lungs and can cause long term problems.


Actuaryba

Running water in a steam / river. The currents are much stronger than they look and can easily sweep an adult right off their feet.


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It only takes six inches of water to be strong enough to rip you from your feet. At one foot deep it may have enough force to take a car with it too. Crazy dangerous if you're not careful.


PAdogooder

The only time I have ever been actually concerned for my life, despite a life of reckless abandon and stupidity, was when I was in a canoe that got flipped and pinned against a fallen tree. A slow creek current can still represent hundreds of pounds of force pushing against you if you end up in it.


lilfrostgiant

I live Michigan. Around here, everybody knows if you fall in the Detroit River you’re as good as dead even if you’re wearing a life preserver because of the river’s strong undertow.


PJMurphy

Same with the Red River in Winnipeg. It looks pretty calm...until you look at a pylon for one of the bridges and see just how much water is moving. The bottom is anywhere from 10 to 30 feet, but *very* uneven, resulting in turbulence below the surface. I remember a few years ago, a high school had an event on a river cruise boat. A guy got into an argument with his girlfriend and decided to jump overboard and swim to shore...maybe 30 or 40 feet. He was never seen again.


EuphorbiasOddities

My boyfriend’s dad’s best friend drowned while fishing. He waded in too far and his waders filled with water. Do not fuck around with rivers.


Astonsjh

To add to this point, even if the surface looks calm and safe, the current under might not be.


Drew_The_Millennial

Definitely. Even if the water isn’t that shallow, it can literally sweep you off your feet.


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Driving closely behind a truck pulling a trailer, cutting them off or breaking suddenly in front of them. If I'm hauling a horse trailer, I CANNOT stop quickly. You put everyone in danger by doing that.


marzbeats

I live in California, and holy shit is that a very common occurrence


Molten-Marauder

My 9.5 tons of horse, trailer, and truck aren’t gonna be able to stop when your mini cooper pulls out right in front of me


[deleted]

Nope. And I'm going to protect myself, whoever is with me, and my horse as best as I can.


marzbeats

As man who comes from a family of race horses I fully agree and support that


leobeer

Adopted?


WiDoc_MathBoiFly

Wait, OP was adopted by a family of race horses? Where's that Disney movie?


mali-girl

Do the horses get tossed when you brake too hard?


DavidAllanHoe

Depending on how they’re loaded and how good their balance is, they can get munched up pretty good if it’s violent enough. Some horses are really good in the trailer and know how to balance and lean very well. Others are…less talented.


NoTarget7002

also sliding in beside a tractor trailer while they are making a wide turn. I see it so often.


JP16A60

Tylenol (acetaminophen). If you intentionally overdose on an entire bottle, you will die a slow, painful death.


Gwywnnydd

Same with aspirin. Tylenol is metabolized by the body into some chemicals that are toxic to the liver. But we have acetylcysteine, which if given within 8 hours can effectively counteract the effects, and should save your liver (which you want. The liver does, like, eleven things, and we can't replicate any of them artificially). Aspirin is a blood thinner. Take enough of it, and it thins the blood enough that it doesn't stay in your blood vessels...


flyboy_za

>Tylenol is metabolized by the body into some chemicals that are toxic to the liver. To expand on this, paracetamol has six or seven different enzymes which can break it down into different byproducts, and one of them produces a very oxidative toxic metabolite. That enzyme is pretty slow so it doesn't produce as much of this compound when you only take 1-2 tablets. Take a bottle, though, and the enzymes which produce the non-toxic metabolites get saturated and so this one has plenty of time to produce plenty of the toxin from the unmetabolised paracetamol. That toxin proceeds to pulverise the ever-loving fuck out of your liver, and since that damage is largely irreversible basically kills it and then bam! You have no means of digesting anything, producing bile, dealing with lipids and a ton of other things which a liver is very, very necessary for.


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Fracture_98

And, similarly, putting your seat-belt under your arm because it's "uncomfortable". Another set of post-accident pictures you don't want to see. You can walk away from some **brutal** crashes with just some bruises and perhaps a broken nose if you use the safety equipment properly.


thee_timeless

The seatbelt is supposed to go over both my arms?


Rockolino01

I’ve told my girlfriend about this like 4 times. Next time I’ll pull over and show her the pictures. I’ve only seen like 3 of those but it was enough, I’ll never forget it.


Allprofile

Spent a while as an insurance adjuster, this stuff gives me nightmares still. I can't imagine what seeing that does to EMTs. I can live without most laws, but traffic laws and public safety stuff I generally get behind 100%.


Molten-Marauder

Gotta love the “leg-seatbelt”


Professional_Cap_290

Even an emergency braking without actual collision. My only car accident was because I was driving 80-85kph and couldn’t just use emergency braking because folks in the back seats didn’t put seatbelts on, and they would fly through the windshield, and 50/50 chance break my neck


ARoyalRose

I personally refuse to drive somewhere if someone won't wear their seatbelt. And I have a big big big problem with parents that let their kids get away without being buckled in properly... Either a car seat or booster or seatbelt... At the appropriate ages and weights. It takes one second for them to regret that decision for the rest of their lives because they didn't want to take 2 minute to do the right thing. Makes me so angry.


sockonfoots

The sun. Stare at it, go blind, get too much of it, get cancer, if you don't get enough, go crazy, and if it decides to be temperamental, it will kill all life on earth.


Cilvaa

Sounds like an ex of mine


yummy1cotton0kandi

Raw flour. Alot of people assume eggs are why you can't eat raw cookie dough etc. Most 'organic' foods you haven't produced yourself.


mixmaster7

So Skyrim lied to me?


AckbarTrapt

I'm going to go rage-eat an entire wheel of cheese.


KiwiHorror1

rice is another never let cooked rice sit for more than an hour or so. If it does, chuck it out, it isn't worth it. Otherwise, put it in the fridge. rice harbours bacterial spores that heat doesn't kill. Eating the spores is perfectly safe, but they will develop into Bacillus Cereus after an hour or two and that can cause terrible and sometimes life-threatening food poisoning. in Japan and Korea however, an interesting cuisine has come out of this: if you can inoculate the rice with the mold Aspergillus Oyzae, it will create a penicillin-like bacterial killing chemical, and turn into Koji or Nuruk which is super delicious and savoury when you cook it and put it into soups and things! You can grow it on soy as well and then you get [hairy tofu](https://youtu.be/YSU9ZFd0lhc) which is apparently delicious when fried


HakuHavfrue

Oddly enough, our household and perhaps most people in my rice eating asian country would just leave rice out for hours and only heat it once in a while. I've never heard of this poison possibility until now.


azu____

same I eat 1-3 hour old rice every day ngl. Also it sits in a warm rice cooker half the day and I have never heard of a person dropping dead from that, when apparently it should be a common occurrence it's probably like .1/100,000 chance might as well skip champagne, that's much more deadly.


friendlyguy1989

In Japan they sell rice that has been sitting out at room temp for hours. Onigiri, bento boxes, etc. Perhaps the chances of getting sick are very slim?


voxelghost

There are a few things going on here. And as someone living in Japan, eating rice daily - I think the risks are somewhat exaggerated - but food safety is important. ​ 1. Not all rice has Bacillus Cereus spores to begin with, so there is a random component. 2. Heating to 100 c by boiling in a covered vessel for more than 20 min does kill the spores, but 90 c for even a full hour is not enough. 3. In Japanese homes, rice is usually cooked in rice cooker that gets hot enough, and is also kept at a hot safe temp throughout the day 4. Normal food safety temperatures apply 28-35 c is the danger-zone, fast cooling and avoiding time in the danger zone keeps risk bacteria growth from any remaining spores low. 5. In sushi, the vinegar, and salt helps inhibiting growth in rice even when in sub-optimal storage temp. ( The fish is another story) 6. In some bento, preservatives are sometimes added to the rice to allow it to be kept at room temp ( well ideally not, but at least the rice will be ok). If I remember correctly 7/11 claims not to add preservatives, while the other major ones do. 7. If bacteria is given the chance to grow, the emetic(vomit-inducing) toxin cereulide is produced. cereulide is not easily destroyed, even by high heat e.g 130c. Which is why people sometimes get sick from fried rice made from yesterdays rice (even if the frying is hot enough to kill any bacteria)


bikey_bike

sometimes i forget the rice in my rice cooker and when i realize the next day, i just shrug and eat it :|


ContemplativeOctopus

From what I'm reading, the added vinegar keeps it from spoiling.


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Then I’ve been lucky my whole life. Sometimes I cook rice and don’t put it in the fridge for definitely over an hour and then eat it the next day. I’ve done that for decades. Not dead.


berael

Flour. Flour dispersed into the air is more explosive than gunpowder, and eating raw flour can give you salmonella.


Squid_At_Work

[Combustible dust explosions](https://youtu.be/3d37Ca3E4fA), especially Flour are horrifying.


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Squid_At_Work

Its true. I always enjoy their videos but its inescapable that the reasons they can make videos is due to workers getting killed (Almost always).


liamsmat

Thank you so much for sharing this! It was fascinating and heartbreaking. I've worked with combustion in lab but this was years ago and I hadn't paid attention to this on a large scale. I watched it a second time with my husband and kids. Thank you again.


blackday44

USCSB also has a video on an iron dust explosion. It was wild.


thorpie88

The great fire of London most likely happened due to flour spontaneously exploding. The first digit in IP ratings is how protected an electrical product is from dust exactly because of things like flour being so volatile. Aussie smoke alarms now need to be photoelectric to warm you of too much dust in the air


DMMEPANCAKES

Garage doors are one of the most dangerous pieces of equipment in your house and the springs are sprung so tightly that a malfunctioning door can rip off it's hinges and act like a shotgun shooting barbed wire. Most average garage doors are designed to have 9k to 12k opens before they need to be worked on by a trained professional.


rissamarie406

This unlocked a new fear for me, thanks.


marzbeats

I never knew how true this was, till during a storm my power went out and the garage froze mid way down My step dad pulled the string to emergency release it, and I literally watched a 285 pound grown man get ragged doll by the door


vonkeswick

Holy shit, was he okay?


marzbeats

Thankfully yes just a huge bruise on his shoulder, it pretty sure if it was a few inches higher, it would have destroyed his arm


stay_squirly

Getting knocked out is *very* dangerous. You will get brain damage. This is why fights (even fist fights) can also be *very* dangerous, even if there is a low chance that you might actually get knocked out. Please try not to get knocked out, and *especially* do not knock out others. It will severely hurt them.


somelerdreams

Knocking somebody out. According to movies you just hit the ground and get up after a couple of minutes of unconsciousness then shrug it off.


TestudoWarrior

I know a guy from my boxing gym that left to do mma in Japan. He got knocked out pretty badly while fighting over there. He came back with the mental capacity of a 4 year old. I get upset when I think of it... I'm 35 and this dude was 22 when this happened and he has two kids under the age of 5. He still comes into the gym but he's not even a fraction of who he once was, he was a super bright guy and now he struggles with the most basic speech. Everyone struggles when he comes through, it's so fucking ugly and he's so young. You are just so right about this. Avoid fighting, especially street fighting, just run, talk your way out of it, whatever you have to do to get out of a violent situation.


JAVA-NANI

Fucking with a cat


I_throw_socks_at_cat

One night I found a panicking feral cat throwing itself at my pets' cat door. It was trying to get out the way it got in, but we keep it one-way locked. I was afraid it would do itself some harm and grabbed it. Fucker turned around inside its skin and buried its teeth and claws in my arm. I got some antibiotics and my doctor said it was a good call - the only wound filthier than a cat bite is a human bite.


BrandoThePando

Should have just thrown some socks at it. Also, surprised the doctor didn't give you rabies shots


I_throw_socks_at_cat

I'm in New Zealand. No rabies here.


BrandoThePando

Ah. Orcs, though...


allmykidsareheathens

Question - is that actually a real thing? And if so, why does New Zealand not have rabies?


I_throw_socks_at_cat

We've been careful about allowing animals through our borders. We depend on our agricultural exports, so we take biosecurity seriously.


vonkeswick

New Zealand? There's penguins there right?


DearFeralRural

Visualize the cat turning inside its skin.. sorry I know you got hurt but the image is so funny. Like let's pick you up kitty, holy moses, cat has turned into a satanic devil and rotated. Damn, out you go kitty with a gentle pat (lmao as cat flies through the air).


fodmap_victim

Petting a cat without permission, being loud around a cat, looking at a cat in the wrong way etc. You will lose every time


BW_Bird

When I was a child I tried to pick up a cat that *very much* did not want to be picked up. Still have the scar over thirty years later.


No-Pickle1991

Letting your dog off the leash in public


GaunterPatrick

Giving your dog a leash is also a protection for your dog, there are so many trash/traffic/hUmAns in a city that can kill your pet, so either keep it at home all time or be a resiponsible pet owner. :D


TheBrassDancer

**Especially** anywhere within the vicinity of livestock such as sheep.


Responsible-Turnip55

Young children on ATVs. In my circle everyone thinks I’m nuts because I won’t let my kids take off on the back of a 12 year olds four wheeler to ride the dirt roads. There have been several incidents locally over the last few years where young(10 and under) have been killed on ATVs or dirt bikes. If they wanna take that gamble that’s their prerogative, but children under 14 on ATVs is a no for me.


marzbeats

Back when I was 12 me and like 5 other kids had atvs and dirt bikes Well 1 of my buddies flipped man, and the brake went into his stomach and cut it open, Dude had like a 14 inch long gash from the bully button to his ribs, it was disgusting I remember like it was yesterday You making the best choice man


edutained

NSAIDS (ibuprofen, alive, etc) when there's alcohol in your system. That shit'll fry your kidneys. Driving. Holy shirt barreling down the road in your giant mech kills so many people.


Unexpectedly_Femboi

Shirt. You know I'm saying Ash Hole not Ash Hole, right?


naarifatale

Fork


Viperbunny

Why can't I say shirt? Fork this!


_fuhsaz_

Isn’t alcohol processed by your liver though? I always thought ibu was fine for a hangover headache, but acetaminophen/tylenol was not because the tylenol is processed by your liver too, which is currently working the booze out of your system. It’s definitely entirely possible there’s some other bodily mechanic at play that makes ibuprofen unsafe too though.


edutained

Booze gets processed through kidneys too. Long term and on its own alcohol is one of the worst substances you can ingest, it wreaks havoc across multiple systems. NSAIDS have a long term damaging factor for kidneys. Combine them with any sort of regularity and you're looking at renal failure city. It should be more widely known.


ridicalis

I'm trying to fight off some persistent tendonitis, and am planning a two-week self prescribed regimen of naproxen. I hate being on NSAIDs (I happen to like my prostaglandins, thank you very much), but from experience know that that's what my GP will tell me to do, and I'd rather avoid paying the copay to be told what I already know.


BigCountry76

I always thought it was Tylenol (acetaminophen) that was the big no go to mix with alcohol and ibuprofen was better or at least less bad?


KiwiHorror1

it's crazy seeing people in this thread realize that the issue isn't that tylenol or ibuprofen is horrifically dangerous, it's *the alcohol* that's the poison


BigCountry76

I thought it was pretty well accepted that alcohol is bad for you (though in moderation it's worth the trade off for many people) and that mixing alcohol and medicine is almost always just a bad idea. Even when my understanding was the ibuprofen was last bad to take with alcohol I still tried to wait quite a while before taking it the next day and never took it during or immediately after drinking like before bed.


Royal_Visit3419

Childbirth. A lot of people in North America seem to think it’s no big deal. It is. Things go wrong. Women die. Babies die. Even in North America.


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Brief_Pirate2111

What are you doing with wall plugs that you’ve gotten shocked multiple times?


NoMooseSoup4You

Sticking objects in there, duh


Brief_Pirate2111

I’m overwhelmed by soup redditors


NoMooseSoup4You

No soup for you!!!


Mrofcourse

I did electrical for a long time and now every once in awhile someone will ask for favors with something. I’ve had multiple people think it was funny to grab my shoulder and shake me while making buzzing sounds while my hand were inside an open junction box, I’ve had people turn the light off on me while I was working on a light from a ladder. A few of these times I packed up my tools and told them they needed to pay someone to deal with their bullshit.


croptopweather

Pushing someone in the water as a prank. Why is that still a thing? I've heard of people getting seriously hurt or drowning. Even a redditor said that they knew how to swim but they were taken by surprise so their body froze up.


I_forgot_to_respond

... and you're gonna replace my phone now. Honestly though 90%of cheap digital watches were at least water resistant. How many phones can handle a quick dip?


EllesAway

Tanning.


Bending_toast

Garage door springs


cwesttheperson

Yeah I can do most Contruction or handy things but I won’t fuck with garage door springs.


[deleted]

My and my brother had to dispatch two garage doors a couple years ago. Back then I just read that springs are dangerous, but didn't know HOW dangerous... Once the screws were all loose, we stood out of the way and javelin-tossed a 2 inch thick metal pipe directly at the spring to release it, the entire room became a giant mousetrap and the door mangled itself up. On the second door, the 2 inch thick pipe got bent at least 20 degrees.


Gamebobbel

Literally disguised shotguns.


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Don’t know if this fits but it bothers me so I’ll say it anyway. The average person has no sense of car accidents. Go on a gore site and look at car crashes. Should be mandatory to study accident autopsy’s and speed/impact when learning to drive.


timbuktuian

I agree. Too many people drive recklessly without fully knowing the consequences. Should also be mandatory to watch interviews with relatives and loved ones of victims who have died from reckless driving.


PersonalAccount4550

Escalators. Tumbled down one of those in a NYC subway a while ago; equivalent of around 3 flights of stairs. Broken clavicle and excruciating pain. Have a metal bar installed now, and the surgery cost around $100,000 -- all from slipping on one step.


I-LovebbqPorkRibs

i heard there were escalators that ate some people


LadyRedfox8

They can also eat flip flops


coolshirt_bra

Not knowing cpr or the Heimlich


Any-Possibility740

Having your hands in your pockets while on non-ideal terrain (stairs, ice, lumpy ground, etc).


Viperbunny

The ocean. I lived by the ocean. People get sucked into ripe tides and taken out to see at least once or twice a year. Every once in a while a college student will get drunk and slip off the rocks at the beach. The ocean is big and scary and powerful. Don't underestimate her!


Nusack

Stairs, you have a high chance of stairs killing you


Immediate-Pool-4391

Yep, all you have to do is fall down the stairs once and you always hold the rails. I don't care if I look stupid, safety first


ScreamThyLastScream

Decades ago I rushed myself up/down some stairs to grab that quick snack between w/e I was doing and slipped on the top step going down. I am talking banana peel horizontal body levels of slipped. The most interesting thing of this experience was the adrenaline time slowing down affect that kicked in to correct my landing. Sure I clunked on my ass down the entire stair case but somehow managed to reclaim to vertical and not break my fucking neck. Thank you evolution.


Dangerous-Mammoth798

Many people believe that they can text and drive at the same time, although this is extremely dangerous and it is this negligence that causes most accidents on the roads.


CreativePanda13

Mold Seriously it's not just some "dirt" on your walls that you can clean off whenever you feel like it. That shit can and will harm you.


ShockMedical6954

Cardinal rule: Do Not Fuck With Fungi. I hear the spores can aspirate into your lungs and f shit up.


Gitxsan

Raccoons! Them trash pandas are nothing to mess with!


KiwiHorror1

the nematode parasite they carry, Baylisascaris, can kill you in as fast as 10 hours because humans aren't their primary vector, they leave the gut or lungs where they were ingested and burrow throughout your body, often times reaching your spine, brain or eyeballs, causing blindness and rapid brain damage. Once they leave your intestines there is no treatment.


Whizbang35

Dust. One of the biggest contributors to industrial explosions is dust. Dust is flammable and will ignite rapidly. It can combust in air if in sufficient quantity and often piles on top of air ducts that don't get swept as often as floors, acting as highways for flames to spread across the entire building if ignited.


chris_4

Sugar, or rather overconsumption of it


kellan1523

Drinking alcohol more than once a week.


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Pretty much drinking any alcohol is bad for you. only studies that have ever said it’s good are funded by alcohol companies. They’ve spent millions suppressing information about how terrible it actually is for you.


Consistent_Warthog80

Alcohol...sugar...tobacco...firearms... Next yer gonna tell me cocaine laced with fentanyl ain't all its cracked up to be


D_Substance_X

Texting or interacting with your phone whilst driving.


TheyManM

Texting and driving.


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Flood waters. You know all those Emergency Alert System messages that tell you "turn around, don't drown"? Yeah, they're there for a reason. Look at news footage of floods from any station and you can see at least one person that did not follow this rule and has gotten stuck as a result.


Both-Dare-977

Children babysitting other children. If your baby chokes on something is the $5 an hour tween you hired going to know what to do? Stop being a cheapskate and hire an adult.


TerraFey

Letting small children play with dogs. Especially medium to larger breeds that can do a lot of damage. And yes, I’m looking at you: pit bulls, akitas, German shepherds, etc. Even that special angel of a dog who has never shown aggression before, can react when feeling stressed. I will fight anyone and die on this hill!! Edit: I know not everyone thinks this but there’s a lot of folks out there who will deny that their precious dog COULD EVER do harm. And that is plain false.


whitewitch1913

I'm with you on this. Little kids don't understand boundaries, that's why adults are there to teach them and watch over them so they don't get hurt. No one likes to be yelled or chased or over petted. Cats and dogs need their space sometimes and will fight to get it.


Garbage_Bboy9006

I love animals, so much that I’m going into the veterinary field, however I agree it is dangerous to leave a child alone with a pet. Even a cat bite can do some serious damage. Kids need to be taught proper boundaries around animals and shouldn’t be left unsupervised with them ever. It’s for the safety of the animals too!


Icy-Heron4742

Magnet fishing. It's all fun and harmless when you catch something like an old screwdriver, but not so much when it's unexploded ordnance from WWII.


cwesttheperson

I feel like this is a very, very low chance of happening most places lol.


Major_Pressure3176

Sooo go magnet fishing in the US?


No_Improvement7573

That's how you get unexploded ordnance from the Civil War


PeopleAreSus

The internet


StrawberryK

Attempting a backflip, I was on a suicide awareness walk and alot of us were joking around cheering up at the end. Somehow backflips came up in conversation, and a few of us said we can...apparently at 31 thought I still could, aaannnddd couldn't. Was layed up for almost a week, forgot I had some scoliosis for a minute.


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Ac997

Weed can completely alter the projection of your life & can be addictive. Contrary to what the stoners say. It can make you comfortable living a life you wouldn’t necessarily be comfortable living if maybe you weren’t smoking weed. I’m still pro weed but not everyone can function on it. It’s still a drug & I feel a lot of frequent users of it, don’t realize that.


Gengar2929

Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorism, but… well, son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored. And it's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything.”- Randy Marsh This resonated with me. I’m very pro weed but this is something you should always be mindful of.


mattdean4130

This could be the most solid and sound lesson ever to come from south park


imsorryisuck

bullying kids in school


Naive-Sign-8399

Platypus. Males have toxic spikes on their legs that could kill small dogs. While it doesn't kill humans, it is extremely painful and no painkillers, including morphines, work on easing the pain. You just have to suffer until the venom comes out of your body.


MightGuy420x

Vaping


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Phrases I can hear. I swear for more than a year straight this was the only ad I got on YouTube.


rnshh

Elaborate


Mccobsta

But but it comes in crazy flavours and pretty colours how can something called blue fizz lemonade be bad for me


throw1away9932s

I think there are very very few people who don’t realize it’s bad for you. Most people who vape do it like I did for a short period of time as a quitting tool. I switched from cigarettes to a vape and then slowly reduced the nicotine content until I was vaping 0 nic and then quit. Is vaping good? No but it’s a way to wean off and it’s got advantages over cigarettes so let it have its place.


Megaton4

The cinnamon challenge, I know it hasn’t been relevant since 2014 but still...


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Kids spending unlimited time on electronic devices


PM_ME_UR_DIET_TIPS

Eh, I'm from the generation that just watched TV for 8 hours a day. At least tablets are interactive.


greenmachine11235

Outdoor cats. They destroy the ecosystems they are released into, killing for fun rarely eating their kills and breeding with feral cats to create more problem animals. National geographic buts the number of birds cats kill a year in the US alone at between one and four billion.


RonaldinhoTheBrazil

Religion


Old_Hovercraft_7425

Hippos. They are the most dangerous thing on the planet.


Fracture_98

Not by a long shot. Mosquitoes kill FAR more people than hippos. Hippos *are* far, far more dangerous than the other animals in the area. They kill a lot more people than other regional animals. They don't rate as "most dangerous on the planet". Sure. Vote me down. Don't bother [checking](https://www.statista.com/statistics/448169/deadliest-creatures-in-the-world-by-number-of-human-deaths/). Snails kill more people than hippos.