34 Times People Avoided Warnings and Did Something Dumb Anyway

‘Do not stick your hand in liquid molten plastic’
34 Times People Avoided Warnings and Did Something Dumb Anyway

Anytime you see a warning label, you probably can’t help but wonder, “Is this here because some bozo tried to do this?” The following Redditors can attest that in many cases, even those warning labels don’t work, resulting in bozos trying to do whatever the hell they were expressly warned against. 

One Redditor’s bozo was a new hire at the aquatics store. The kid was getting the rundown on managing the coral vats and was told to be very cautious around the halogen lights. Basically, he was very plainly told, “Don’t touch the light, it’s very hot.” The warning was barely out of the Redditor’s mouth before the new hire touched the light, seared his skin and produced a sizzling sound that’s lived with the Redditor for almost 20 years. 

Other Redditors have shared the other easily avoidable mistakes people were advised against, including a guy who burned himself with compressed air, a guy who burned himself with molten plastic and a guy who — you guessed it — burned himself on an oven.

Spodson 2mo ago Told a new guy on a framing crew not to pin his saw's blade guard back. Не told me his father told him only pussies keep the blade guards unpinned. Three hours went by before he learned. The scars on his leg proved he was, in fact, not a pussy. 38 Reply ...
reverandglass 2mo ago | told her not to really swing the hammer, if she missed she'd cut herself on the glass still in the old window frame. Not 5 seconds later, take me to the hospital! It was only a 2 inch gash near her thumb, but she did need stiches. That was my gf. For the rest of our relationship, whenever she was about to do something stupid, I'd say, Look at your thumb! and she'd stop to think. 36 Reply ...
Mr_Bourbon 2mo ago We're out at one of those fajita places that bring them out on the sizzling platter. Server sets a SCREAMING hot plate down in front of my buddy, and says careful not to touch the plate it's extremely hot. Не immediately touches it to see and burns himself. 39 Reply ...
bzaroworld 2mo ago I've been a server for 4 and a half years and anytime I tell someone, careful with this plate, it's hot they proceed to burn their fingers on it. Why!? Did you think I was making it up to mess with you? Even if I was, why would you risk it? Did you think I was challenging you to see how long you can touch it? I will never understand people who do this. - 86 Reply ...
Rocknocker 2mo ago Explore abandoned mines. Then | have to go in and drag them/their carcasses out. 63 Reply ...
cloudstrifeuk 2mo ago I told my mother to not send money to a friend she had met on Facebook who works on an oil rig and needs 10k to complete his visa to come visit. She did anyway. There is a reason I am now no contact. 49 Reply ...
mctalkin 2mo ago Stick their hand in a running machine after telling them it will amputate appendages without hesitation and now missing the tip of their middle finger. 51 Reply ...
originaltogemonster 2mo ago Edited 2mo ago 12 year old me, kicking a rubber ball right after my mom told me to stop before I break something. The ball hit about three walls and landed on a glass angel statue that fell down and exploded into a million pieces. I swear time slowed down. 46 Reply ...
Machomann1299 2mo ago Don't swim across that river, there's crocodiles in it just hire a ferry. Bro didn't feel like paying the ferry fee of like 3 bucks and tried to swim across the river. Low and behold a croc grabbed his foot and twisted it off. Не lived btw. 88 Reply ...
Souleke_sounix 2mo ago We where out and drinking with some friends. In the group was this guy and he was drunk as fuck and was saying he could jump over a car. We laugh not thinking anything of it. All of a sudden he runs in to traffic and jumps towards a car. Got hit and got thrown across the street where an other car hit him again. No need to say, he was in the hospital for a long time. Never saw anything stupider than that - 382 Reply ...
TarHeel2682 2mo ago Expressly told a patient not to smoke for 48 hours after an extraction (told him this before scheduling him too so he already knew) as that would all but guarantee a dry socket. They didn't make it 5 feet out the door before lighting up. They were my first patient 3 days later with a painful dry socket 115 Reply ...
РараНор69 2mo ago Do not stick your head into that jets intake Jets don't have reverse gears. You have to push them back manually, there are places to grab them. You have to teach people to not do that, but there are really dumb people that don't listen, and suffer the consequences. 108 Reply ...
_Rizz_Em_With_Tism_ . 2mo ago Stuck a key in the outlet...not once, but twice. My mother thought after the first time I wouldn't need to be told again. Same key, but different outlet. Might explain why I became an aircraft mechanic/avionics technician. Now I'm trying to switch from mechanical engineering to electrical engineering. Then again I was always that kid. Had to touch the hot stove, and to see if the fence was really electrified. 115 Reply ...
ccx941 2mo ago I was in a class for cooking/baking. One of the students with me got her oven mitt soaking wet after she put it under running water because it caught on fire. I told her, not to use that mitt replace it before you grab something from the oven. She didn't listen and got a bitch of a steam burn. (And dropped our pie.) They weren't in class again and the next semester that class wasn't offered. 109 Reply ...
Afraid_Ad_1536 2mo ago When | was in college there was this idiot that, despite being told multiple times that it was a bad idea, decided that he just HAD TO grab onto the electric fence around his friends property. I'm told that the noise that came out of him was hilarious. Yes. I was that idiot. 335 Reply ...
DrownEmTide 2mo ago I was a prep cook in a college town restaurant kitchen. One of the other cooks was in the university's ROTC program and was bragging about his fire proof nomex gloves. Не decided to show off what they could do by donning a glove and submerging his hand in a pot of boiling water. Nomex is a fire-resistant fabric. It is neither heat resistant nor water proof. 103 Reply ...
wetfootmammal 2mo ago Edited 2mo ago | used to work at a restaurant that specialized in soup. We always kept it on the burner on the stove so it would be piping hot when it was served. Every time I would bring it to the table I would say the same thing: Bon Appétit! Here's your soup. Now be careful because it's piping hot. And every. Single. Time. They would say: ОК! And then immediately take a sip of it and go. Ah! Thats..That's... really.... Hot? Yes.. Yeah, | know. I just told you that. 527 Reply ...
Simple_Knowledge6423 2mo ago Wearing gloves while using a table saw. Не didn't want to get any splinters, and | believe he didn't, though I did have to sift through a pile of sawdust to find his severed thumb for the paramedics, you win some you lose some I guess. 155 Reply ...
AJDrake405 2mo ago When I was a manager at an oil change place we had this kid who was a total idiot. (My boss told me everyone deserves a chance) Не pulled the wrong plug and drained a transmission. We told him several times to not pull a plug unless he was 100% sure it was the oil drain plug. Не drained about 6 more transmissions before I finally had enough and fired him 145 Reply ...
TennoHBZ 2mo ago When I was 5 years old, my dad poured some sort of strong and relatively toxic deep cleaning liquid on our wooden dinner table to remove a stain. Не jokingly told me not to taste it, and left the dining room for a moment while the deliciously green liquid was dissolving the stain. | stared at it for a while and proceeded to lick it. 1.1K Reply ...
Johnnytestikal 2mo ago | had a friend looking for his first car and he wanted a BMW or Cadillac, which was pretty crazy considering we both worked the same job making less than $30K a year. After searching for two months, he finds a 2011 BMW 335i for $16k. But after six months of having the bmw it breaks down badly and it's back to him getting a ride from people to work. Four people out of the six of our friend group told him to get a Honda or Toyota as a first starter car and he said no
2mo ago Echolmmediate5251 My cousin was living with us and the milk he purchased for himself was several days out of date. Hey Nate, just a heads up that this milk is really expired so make sure you don't use it. Then I left it in the fridge so it didn't stink up the trash before I could walk it to the outdoor trash bins. Не immediately got up from the couch, walked in the kitchen, opened it and took a sip. Then immediately started heaving into the sink. It was straight up CHUNKY. Не could have just taken a
isurelovemylife 2mo ago A guy i used to work with in a composites factory was moving a 10 ton mold from one part of a machine to another. The guys working with him told him not to rotate it after putting it down because he would drop it. Не immediately rotated it and it fell to the bottom of the machine, breaking lots of stuff along the way. Не doesn't work there any more. 597 Reply ...
Ok_Spell_4165 . 2mo ago One that happens entirely too often. Tell the new guy do not watch porn on the company computers. Then | get a call from my boss saying the new guy got himself fired for watching porn. Seriously people, if it is on their network they can see it. Incognito mode will not save you. 940 Reply ...
ConsultantForLife 2mo ago | was chaperoning a field trip where the 7th graders got to shoot compound bows. They were expressly told multiple times to NOT dry fire the bow (pulling back and letting go without an arrow). One kid literally did that as soon as he was handed a bow and broke it. Luckily these were small/low strength pullback bows so he didn't get hurt, but he sure as heck got benched for the rest of class. 1.8K Reply ...
2mo ago tryinandsurvivin Climb into a cardboard baler because he threw his phone in and wanted to check after he already crushed it. | yanked the key out and he was fired immediately 1.9K Reply ...
Ulfgeirr88 2mo ago I worked in an aquatics store, and I told a new hire to be careful when working in the coral vats because the halogen lights got stupid hot (this was before LeDs and they were out the way of customers) so I told him not to touch. As soon as the words left my mouth, he stuck his fingertips on the light. Had to get him to A&E (accident and emergency or the ER for the Americans), and almost 20 years later, | can still hear the sizzle of skin - 1.1K Reply ...
MiasmaFate 2mo ago Pour hot water on their icey windshield. Like 4 of us going into the corner store told her not to do it, one of the guys told her in Spanish. She looked at us for like a second holding the steaming cup of water. Then broke her windshield by pouring hot water on it. She then stared at it in total disbelief. One of the people who tried to warn her exclaimed in an extremely animated manner. Throwing his hands in the air then dropping them down near his knees BITCH, we fuckin' told you..then she cried.
Grub-lord 2mo ago . Edited 2mo ago | worked tech support for copper phone lines. Had an old German sounding lady on the phone saying her phone was electrocuting her while she was holding it. The phone she was talking to me on. I told her to please stop using the phone and we'd send someone out to see what's going on. This lady just kept screaming about how bad it hurt to hold the phone and how much pain she was in. I was like lol just hang up idk what to tell you, but she just stayed on
ЬРАМ stanley_leverlock 2mo ago The tech next to me was using canned air to clean a dusty computer. I noticed he was tilting the can to the side really far to get into the fans so I told him to be careful because if you tilt it too far it'll spray sub zero temp liquid that can freeze-burn your skin. Не said really? and then immediately turned the can upside down and sprayed directly into his palm. | was just speechless while he clutched his hand and cursed. 1.3K Reply ...
somedoofyouwontlike 2mo ago It was me. | saw a red hot burner, asked my mom what red feels like. She responds telling me not to touch it that it's very hot and will hurt me badly. I then decided I wanted to see what red felt like. - 2.4K Reply ...
Hammerhil 2mo ago When I was in grade 8 we had a science class were we were supposed to be describing the properties of chemicals. We were shown how to waft the hand over a vessel to get a smell, not to taste it, etc and then were given a beaker of liquid to write observations about. We were constantly warned to follow the protocols we were taught. One kid grabbed his beaker, drank it down, and said it's water. Не was immediately kicked out of class and later that day I heard the teacher talking about how at the
TimeWear6053 2mo ago Safety video: Do not stick your hand in liquid molten plastic. 5 minutes on plant floor Supervisor to Me: Hey, take Johnny to the hospital because he stuck his hand in molten plastic and has 3rd degree burns. That was the end of Johnny. I never saw him again. 1.5K Reply ...
 2mo ago When | was 9, my Mom told me my EpiPen is for allergic reactions only, and not a toy. I decided that | wanted to test it and pressed down on it....on the wrong side and impaled my thumb. EpiPens are expensive. My mom was pissed. 38 Reply ...

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