30 of the Worst ‘I Didn’t Think This Through’ Moments

‘I once set wheat storage on fire’
30 of the Worst ‘I Didn’t Think This Through’ Moments

A lot of disastrous situations start off because one person thought something would be “interesting.” A Redditor recalled the time him, his cousin and his uncle all thought it “would be interesting” to see a firecracker explode underwater. In what appears to be a moment where the three of them shared one brain cell, they put the lit firecracker in a glass jar to hold it upright as it went off. A second later, shattered glass exploded everywhere. 

In fairness, it probably was interesting — if not really stupid and dangerous, too.

Other Redditors have remembered the times they took one dumb thought to its natural conclusion, including a guy who managed to run himself over.

luv2belis 8y ago 9 I'll preface this by saying I was 14. I stayed over at a friends house and forgot to bring my contact lens solution. My thinking was, saline is kinda salty right? So I put my lenses in a cup mixed with water and salt. The next morning when I put one of them in... + 8K ...
Jefferncfc 8y ago Edited 8y ago When I was like 7 I was in a hotel where a clown was performing and he asked if any children wanted to go to the front and tell a joke to everyone. I volunteered and excitedly went to the front and realised I had no joke ready so I just decided to freestyle and said 'what do you call a man telling jokes to people in a hotel in Devon, south England?' (which is where we were at the time) everyone was just like 'uh... a clown?' But I still didn't know what
emc5280 e 8y ago . Edited 8y ago Shot an arrow straight up in the air & lost sight of it. edit: I survived. It landed about 30' away & well planted in the earth. I wish I could say I was 10... I was 22. + 13K ...
ZomgKazm 8y ago I had shaved but at my work I saw there was still one hair left to the side of my mouth. I tried burning it off with a lighter and instead burned of half my eyelashes. So on one side my eyelashes were half their normal length. + 3.4K ...
eternalguardian 8y ago My, my cousin, and my uncle all thought it would be interesting to see a firecracker explode in water and watch since the fuses were chemical and still went down even in water. It only took about a second after we dropped it into a glass jar that I had the thought, What if it breaks the glass? Sure enough, Pop! and glass splinters and tiny partials everywhere. Three people couldn't put that together that this was a dumb idea. 2K ...
Cbolive 8y ago . Eating a ghost pepper with 3 of my other good friends. I love those guys and the video was hilarious. But dear god it was so hot, I'm not accustomed to hot foods, and it completely annihilated my stomach, I felt like I was shitting fire 2.2K ...
 e 8y ago When we were playing tag, and I ran across the road so I wouldn't get tagged. Yeah, kids? Don't do that. Having a car smash your leg doesn't hurt, but you'll really wish you hadn't done that. + 5.8K ...
jackOrias 8y ago e I jumped off a moving bus and landed on my face. Not smart. + 6.1K ...
WowHelloHi 8y ago asking a girl to marry me after the first date + 6.4K ...
waseemmalik456 8y ago When I was 15, I went to a summer school program. Some kid said he'd pay me $50 to bring a screwdriver to school and unscrew all of the outlets and leave them hanging out, exposing ground wire. As stupid as I was, and as I was only trying to fit in, I did it. I got away scot-free though, thank god. One thing I'll never do is listen to someone who's taller than me. + 1.9K ...
 8y ago I was throwing rocks trying to hit the metal thing on top of the chimney. As I am on my about 105th rock my dad comes out all pissed telling me I just broke something out front. Shit there are cars out there I thought and I ran out front. I didn't see anything and went back inside. My mom woke up and had to go to work. She goes into her new Nissan Murano and opens up the sunroof shade and broken glass falls everywhere. 1K ...
sirdigbykittencaesar 8y ago OK, this was my ex-husband, but he was a dickhead, so I'm going to tell it. So, my ex was a PhD-level engineer working at the highest technical levels for a defense contractor. Не had actually spoken at the UN about some of the stuff he was working on. As much of a dick as he could be, he was admittedly a genius. Christmas, 1998 we go to the tree place, pick out the perfect tree, and prepare to take it home by tying it on top of our Honda Accord. Which he did by rolling down
bluelinen 8y ago I was in grade 2, the teacher asked who knew how to dance? There were a couple of girls who took dancing lessons, back then they were the little girls with curly ringlets and skirts always that bit shorter than the rest of us wore. For goodness knows what reason I stuck up my hand too. The teacher told me to come up to the front of the class and demonstrate. I hadn't a clue what to do, so I kind of pranced around for a few embarrassing moments until she told me to go back to
 8y ago When I was 15 I had the amazing idea to build a cannon out of pvc pipe, gorilla glue, and duct tape, and use a crushed up model rocket engine as gunpowder. Thankfully it didn't explode, but it did send a ball bearing hurdling at terminal velocity into the park across the street and sound like a rifle going off in a residential neighborhood. + 892 ...
bstampl1 . 8y ago When I was a kid, I got hungry and figured I'd heat up a frozen pizza in the oven. I didn't take the plastic wrap off the pizza before cooking it. 0/10 - would not eat or breathe its fumes again 337 ...
Wackydetective 8y ago I've always had very long hair. When I was 14, it was completely healthy and past my ass. So, I decide to let my sister give me a perm. So, it comes out and my hair shrinks which I didn't know would happen. So, I go into the bathroom and start brushing it out. My mom walks into the bathroom and screams, WHAT. HAVE. YOU. DONE? My hair was so fucking big and frizzy. She had to take me to her friend who owned a black hair salon and she almost wept having to cut off my
POI_Harold-Finch 8y ago в Once i set wheat storage on fire. It was in driest form, right before they had gotten grains out. i just wanted to fire around 10 pieces but forgot that it catches fire quickly. fire found its way to burn a lot. it took 15-20 local people hard work to control it. Farmer suffered a lot of loss and yet gathered courage to forgive me. + 620 ...
 8y ago Working on a laser printer. I was taking it apart and wanted to understand what the different boards did (I was like 15), so I plugged them in one at a time to see what changed... While the printer was plugged in. There are spots on the power board that are live at 1000+ volts. My left hand touched one of them while my right was holding onto the metal case. It took me about 5 seconds to realize what happened because the shock put me offline for a moment, pretty sure I very nearly died, the
Tisarwat 8y ago Edited 6y ago Went boating on a river with some friends midsummer. The weather was so beautiful that although we hadn't planned to, we all decided to take a swim. So I jumped in fully clothed, only to remember that I can't actually swim. Worked out fine. Friends held me afloat while a picture was taken then I dragged my way back onto the boat and sunbathed until I was dry again.
 . 8y ago When i got the toast from the toaster with a fork 312 ...
Cab00se600 E 8y ago e I accidentally told these students at the school I work at how to get past the guard dog + 306 ...
idreamofpizzza 8y ago In high school, had to write a 20 page research paper in 8 hours (my normal level of procrastination). Got stressed and ate an entire bag of sugar free life savers. I contemplated going to the emergency room that night. I guess I prepared myself for child birth... 204 ...
Alexdomz 8y ago It was at the end of 9th grade, my friend and I were karate chopping pencils in half at school. Then I got an idea to chop them in half with my shoe. Therefore I stomped on the pencil and it went half way in my foot and I had to get multiple surgeries and strong iv antibiotics... + 196 ...
SpacelsTooFarAway 8y ago This happened when I was like 15. I was running through some grass and tripped. Now, I did not trip enough to fully fall down at first, but rather just enough to be off-balance enough that I was guaranteed to fall in a couple seconds. So I thought to myself, Hey, if I run faster, my feet will catch up to the upper half of me and I'll be back upright. So I kept running faster. And promptly plowed my face into the ground. 170 ...
roadruler 8y ago e I was backing into the garage and instead of adjusting how I was backing in/out of the garage, I put my hand on the side mirror to protect it from the stucco wall and kept backing up.. I ended up scratching up my hand pretty badly. 23 ...
ringzero- 8y ago I found an old, but still sealed, epipen in my car. I never used one before and i was curious how it worked. Well, long story short I thought it was a 'clicky top' type of pen and I pressed down where the needs in comes out, and it went right through my thumbnail. At that moment I immediately thought of GOB and I've made a huge mistake. 32 ...
WhiskyEchoTango 8y ago e I was a kid helping my dad paint the basement floor. I painted myself into the corner. My dad just laughed at me, went and got my mom, SHE laughed at me. I started to cry, then my mom made my dad go get me. 35 ...
 e 8y ago . When I was 8 I put my index finger under sewing machine needle and for whatever reason I spinned the wheel the needle obviously poked my finger and got stuck I guess I didn't think that through. 102 ...
hiroshima23 8y ago . I was adjusting the carburetor on my truck to get the idle right. The biggest issue occurred when it was in gear. So I blocked the tires and dropped it in D, adjusted the carb until it purred pretty like. Then I revved the engine with the accelerator cable and ran over myself. + 256 ...
ChristaWhite e 8y ago e I tried to pull my broken car down a hill with my working car using only a rope. Now I have 2 broken cars. + 19K ...

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