33 Mistakes People Made That Should’ve Killed Them

For everyone who dies while doing something incredibly dangerous, there’s someone else who did the exact same thing and lived to tell about it. But as these Redditors will tell you, playing with a fuse box or drunkenly pissing off the edge of a cliff is always a bad idea, even on the off-chance you don’t die.

One Redditor’s father refuses to learn this lesson, however. He was drunk at Yankee Stadium and tried to jump over the fence, but wound up being punctured by an iron spike instead. He was rushed to the hospital and bleeding so profusely that everyone thought he’d die of blood loss. Thankfully, he made it. And yet, this brush with death hasn’t stopped him from attempting other dangerous stunts. Case in point: He’s broken his ribs while riding a motorcycle without a helmet on. In fact, the Redditor is “surprised he hasn’t died yet.”

Thankfully, many other Redditors seem to have sworn off dangerous and stupid stunts for good, and have shared the error of their ways as cautionary tales. As a word of warning: Don’t stick your head out the window of a moving train — there might be another one zooming past you.