33 Mistakes People Made That Should’ve Killed Them

‘It was a water moccasin’
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.

gilestowler 6y ago When | was a kid | went to stick my head out of a train window, enjoy the view, get a bit of a breeze in my face. My head was honestly about 1 centimetre from going out the window when another train went past the other way. We all laughed about it at the time but with hindsight it should have been like that scene from The Young Ones. 24 ...
HeathBar112 6y ago | was swimming at a beach in Florida. I put some goggles on and looked under the water for crabs and other cool things. Anyways, I reached down and picked up a moving shell. I looked at it and recognized that it was a Cone Snail. I threw it back down as fast I could and ran out of the water in fear. For those who don't know, Cone Snails have a tube like appendage that can shoot out a small harpoon that has deadly venom. It's extremely dangerous to humans, and | could've gotten stung. 32
Applesintheorchard 3y ago Once I was cleaning the bathroom with the door AND window closed and used bleach and Windex at the same time. The only reason I am not dead is because I felt dizzy and left the bathroom to go sit outside in the fresh air, at which point | realized I was gassing myself to death. 17 ...
StrangeKid16 3y ago Pouring a whole bottle of oil in a pan and putting the stove on high....the pan was sent on fire of course 5 ...
zedsterthegr8 6y ago While making vape liquids, I dropped a full 100mL bottle of 100mg/ml nicotine on my hands (seeped through the surgical gloves and onto my wrists). Even after howering right away, I had the worst fever, stomach pains, and bloody diarrhea | have ever experienced for a week. 45 ...
 6y ago When I was a kid, I was really interested in reptiles (still am) and always wanted a pet snake. I went fishing with my dad one day at the local lake and found a group of gardener snakes. I got real excited and picked one up by its neck. My dad saw me and screamed at me to throw it out, so I tossed it into the lake. It was a water moccasin 32 ...
FrozenTropics . 6y ago Jumped off a stump at Boy Scout camp, caught my neck on a tarp guy line. Just barely missed the stump with my head coming down. 37 ...
The_Safe_For_Work Зу ago Fucking around in a fuse box when I was a kid. I saw that there was a gray box on the side of the house. Mr. Curious opened it up and there were a bunch of long cylindrical fuses. I start poking around, jiggling the things and all of a sudden there was a BANG like a shotgun shell in my face. The hot side made a dead short to ground. The box was old and faulty. Every hair on my head stood up and every pore stung from the sweat beads that popped out. - 35
Thefishy 3y ago When I was a child we were not allowed to play with fire. We felt this was a stupid rule and we knew how to handle fire, and our parents just didn't understand how smart and grown up we were. So we decided to make a small clearing on the ground in the pine straw and lit matches for a few hours in the crawl space under my parents deck...surrounded by pine straw. 22 ...
goblu33 6y ago Cutting a piece of plywood on sawhorses with a skill-saw that had the guard wedged up. Of course that piece of plywood broke before I was finished cutting. The saw fell and landed blade side up still running and I fell on to that. My arm saved my face from getting Sawchucked. 131 ...
 6y ago Driving cross country my partner and I tried to do it in the drivers seat...while going 90 mph. We were successful, but it was inherently dangerous and should have resulted in an accident. - 8 ...
dariankay 6y ago My mother taught me to use a butter knife to get toast out of the toaster. It wasn't until years later my dad saw me doing it and flipped. I always joke that she was trying to perform a very very late abortion - 77 ...
trebud69 4y ago When I was a kid I had this big ole cupboard that went on top of my dresser, nothing holding it in place besides the weight of the cupboard itself. | was around 8 or 9 and I remember grabbing the doors to climb myself up to get some clothes but I fell while grabbing the swinging doors and I pulled the cupboard down with me, it landed on my chest and couldn't breathe. My sister just watched me in shock as I was trying to scream for help and then my dad came and lifted it
exjay 6y ago Many years ago I owned a pub. I went upstairs to the house area to find all the lights were off. I flicked the trip switches to turn the lights back on; which they did. I then heard running water from my со owners fishtank in the lounge, turns out the protein skimmer had flipped over and was spilling water over the wall socket. Instincively (and very stupidly) went to turn off the plug and as soon as i touched it got sent flying over the back of the sofa. Dont know how im still alive to
 4y ago I was about 15 years old when I went to my dad's new girlfriend's house. Her son, who was not the brightest lad, was having some trouble with his tape recorder (this was in the 90's) where the sound would just randomly cut out. In searching for a possible cause, I noticed one of the speaker cables was joined by twisting the wires together - no insulation at all. So I grabbed the wires at the join to see if they were touching. My mistake, this was the power cable, carrying 240 Volts. Long story short: I was electrocuted
macaroniguap 6y ago one time i was waiting for my friends to pull up, it was dark out, so a car finally pulled up, and honestly a little too close to the next door house but i didn't think much of it. proceeded to get in the car only to be welcomed by 3 or so senior college students (maybe older, i was 17 at the time). luckily they were nice and just said wrong car chief, be safe tonight. i hop out the car, laughing even though that could've been way worse then what occurred. my friends pull up
BeeStuff 3mo ago | almost walked in front of a speeding bus on the busy streets of Chicago. Fresh out of high school, sleep deprived, iPod in, walking to work. Just kept walking until someone behind me grabbed my backpack handle and pulled me back, followed by the whoosh of a speeding bus seconds later. I looked back and there were a bunch of people behind me but no one in the crowd said anything or even looked at me. Never found out who saved me but thanks Chicago stranger from 20 years ago! 2.4K Reply ...
jj700991 6y ago When | was four | went to a hotel swimming pool with my brother and | said I could swim so I jumped in the deep end like any four year old but then | started drowning my ten year old brother jumped in and saved my ass 1.2K ...
PoontangSaints_69 6y ago Christmas Eve many many years ago and I couldn't sleep so | took two sleeping pills, was impatient so I decided to take two more heavy duty allergy medication ontop of the sleeping pills. Being a young, naive boy, I had no idea the consequences of mixing medicine like that. Thats maybe 3x the normal dosage for a 12 year old. I felt extremely off for the following week or so 2.4K ...
Mangled15 6y ago . Edited 6y ago running like a maniac to school while not looking forward. one of my neighbors left their gate open and WAM! I cracked my head open, and bleed everywhere on the sidewalk. I would like to personally thanks the nice old lady who helped me stand up and walked with me a few houses down to my home. she may have saved me from dying of blood loss.
mssDMA 6y ago 0 Edited 6y ago Playing with the laundry chute in my childhood home when | was around 5 years old. My cousins and I took turns dropping things down the chute while someone else stood at the bottom and dodged them. For the most part it was things like washcloths, stuffed animals, a clothing item, etc. Just so happened that when | stood under the chute, my cousin dropped a 5 lb dumbbell down and I, expecting something harmless, didn't get out of the way. That ended the game real quick. I now part my hair in
Skerivo 6y ago E Edited 6y ago My dad got trashed and tried to jump over the fence at Yankee Stadium with his friends. Не failed and an iron spike punctured him. Не remembers being rushed to the hospital and bleeding everywhere. Everyone thought he was going to die of blood loss. Didn't die but he also made several more stupid mistakes such as riding a motorcycle without a helmet and breaking several ribs etc etc. Honestly he is still stupid and I'm surprised he hasn't died yet. Edit: With to without 5.3K ...
 6y ago Edited 6y ago I nearly fell into a fucking volcano leaning on a rope fence Edit: Holy shit this comment blew up. Right, more context, | was 8-9 at the time, and I managed to catch myself on that same fence after I nearly keeled over it (I never let go of stuff when I fall). This was in Italy, hence the lack of actual safety procedures. - 9K ...
MW2713 6y ago Pissing off a cliff, wasted on Jack Daniels. My girlfriend at the time pulled me back by my sweatshirt, or that would've been it. 16K
healthyharvestdotcom 6y ago As teenagers we used to smoke pot in the garage in the car with it running for hours. No idea how we didn't kill everyone in the house multiple times over 8.4K ...
readerofthings1661 . 6y ago Tubing behind a speedboat. Pulled myself too far forward. It submarined and popped up in the air. I was flung forward and got tangled in the towrope. 8.7K ...
 6y ago 3 years old. Love M&Ms. Find blue ones behind stove. Yum. Rat poison. 6.6K ... -
FRUITY Crush GotMyOrangeCrush 1 6y ago . Edited 6y ago ORANGE Retensioning a garage door spring and the tension tool popped out. The door crashed with enough force to crack the pavement.
Leelch 6y ago Edited 6y ago I remember organizing my room when I was 10 or so. I had a lava lamp on the verge of falling of my cabinet, I didn't notice until I heard a loud shatter on my floor. For some reason my brain thought it would be a good idea to pick up all the shards. I jabbed my foot with a huge piece of glass and passed out from the pain. Woke up in a hospital bed thinking it and realized the shard was gone from my foot (was stitched back up) and getting relieved
KnuckledeepinUrethra 6y ago One time when I was young and carefree I was riding a motorcycle for maybe the second time, like 30 mph, and just had some wires in my brain misfire. I was like, I wonder what would happen if | crossed my arms and held the left handlebar with my right hand the right with my left? I'll tell you what happened. I just narrowly missed oncoming traffic and smacked right into a wall. - 32K ...
fufflaren . 6y ago | stumbled through a bush which had a 1 meter drop after it where | fell down. | landed on my back at the only place down there which didnt have a iron pole sticking out of the ground. 30K ...
Kobo56 6y ago Climbed onto one of those underpasses that allow river water to flow through when I was like, 5. Got swept in the current and taken down the river. Only reason I survived is my dad saw my long hair barely under the current and jumped in to save me. I 6K ...
longcatcsw 6y ago Putting a glass plate on a burner I didnt realize was on. Walked into the kitchen right as it was exploding into flying shards of glass. 21 ...

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