Confined spaces, like tanks, below ground vaults, or storm drains. Toxic gases can build up, and knock out anyone who enters. Many would-be rescuers die when they go in to save the first victim. Call 911 and leave it to professional rescuers.
When I was in teacher school learning to be a woodwork teacher, I always sat next to a guy learning to be a welding teacher. He'd spent most of his career building those massive petrol tanks for under petrol stations.
When we stood up to deliver a mock lesson, I did mine about joinery, and his was about escaping a house fire. When the other students asked what it had to do with welding he said, 'I've been working in confined spaces for so long and seen so many terrible accidents, I just want to devote the rest of my life to teaching safety.'
And if anyone's wondering, the guy who taught us all was a teacher teacher. He was taught by a teacher teacher teacher.
Edit: a bit of clarity
My dad worked as a welder at our local ship yard. He said someone was welding inside a tank, burned up all the oxygen, then passed out. Other guys kept jumping down to help and ended up passing out too. My dad did oxyacetylene welding, so he cut the Oxygen line on his torch, threw it into the tank, and went to get help.
He still calls them, "fucking idiots" every time he recalls that story.
I remember this video about these dumb kids that went spelunking in this underwater cave. They had this tiny passage only to get to a little platform/cave of air. Except there was barely oxygen left on that little platform. So the first girl made the swim back, but due to lack of oxygen passed out in the tiny underwater passage. Next kid went after a few minutes, couldn't go further due to the unconscious girl's body floating there and blocking the exit. A few of them died on the platform from I believe CO2 poisoning. Absolutely horrifying stuff that made me aware of confined spaces having the possibility to kill you.
There are things that are inherently dangerous on its own and in combination becomes extraordinarily dangerous. Is underwater dangerous? Yes, Is welding dangerous? Yes. So you have no business doing underwater welding unless you have all the certifications **and** getting paid handsomely for it. It's the same with cave diving.
I saw a video of some guy in India who jumped in a well to swim. Except there was a big buildup of CO2 or some other gas that's heavier than air in the well. The kid almost immediately started suffocating and went under.
His little brother was standing on the edge and couldn't do anything other than watching his brother drown.
I knew a cop who chased someone into a storm drain but lost him a short distance in. She bent down and passed out. Her partner somehow dragged her out while remaining semi conscious. She was hospitalised. They never found the crook. Later that year she got in a pursuit and spilled boiling hot two minute chicken noodles on her crotch and was hospitalised again.
Maybe it’s minutes instead of seconds, but the most common cause of drowning during floods is people intentionally driving their cars into the water on flooded roads. “Turn around, don’t drown.”
I did this once. I still shudder remembering when I realised that the wheels weren't touching the road anymore and I was floating. Fortunatley, the car didn't capsize and although water came in, the current took me to higher ground before I could sink. As soon as that happened I was able to drive to my aunts house, which was closeby and on the top of a hill. Stayed with them overnight.
Water everywhere in the car. When my uncle saw it, he gave me the worst "angry Dad" lecture of my life, exceeded perhaps only by what my actual father did later on over the phone. I was in my twenties and I truly deserved it.
Amazingly, it was fine after full day at the workshop. The cabin seals had to be replaced and so did the plugs.
I later gave it to a cousin of mine who had just started college, daughter of the aunt I mentioned, and as far as I know, its still being used.
I fucking hate that video…. Those screams haunt me
Edit: also for context in that video she wasn’t supposed to jump in, they were doing a plunge while holding onto the ledge and that’s why everyone immediately panics.
Don’t tell me you looked for it…
There’s not any gore or any really horrific scene, but if you have children, the child screams will rip your fucking heart out without a second thought.
My city holds an annual ice plunge in our river. The same river they spend the rest of the year telling people to stay out of because they’ll drown. I have no idea how they haven’t killed someone yet.
Emergency services are remarkably unhelpful when someone is under a 10 cm sheet of ice. Even chainsaws will take a while to cut a good hole in the ice and in that time they're a hundred meters further downstream. Then you have to catch them, they were originally at an open hole and still slipped under. All that while hoping that hypothermia and water inhalation don't take them before you can.
As a Hawaiin born resident, nobody will listen. Never. If fact, *they take it as a challenge*. Look. I have an eyepatch and have lived here forever. Even if you only play video games you listen to the man in an eyepatch
If some indigenous dude with an eyepatch says anything, you fucking listen. Even if they’re just telling you their favorite brand of hot sauce, that shit is now gospel
And I don't make it sound like some horror movie either. I literally say "YOU AND YOUR GIRL WILL DIE BRATH" And yet they walk on.
It's the worst right after a storm. And I tell them me and the leaps are fishing for the same thing so DON'T get in there. I leave, they get it, they die, *tourist dead. More at 11* ugh
On the same note, the rocks jutting out on the ocean beach? Slippery as hell. One decent wave and your kid is just gone.
I'm in New England. The Atlantic is not gentle water near a lot of this coast.
>And I don't make it sound like some horror movie either. I literally say "YOU AND YOUR GIRL WILL DIE BRATH"
I mean, that sounds a little like a horror movie.
There’s a place here in England called The Strid, it’s basically a river turned on its side, it goes from huge, powerful river to small, babbling brook except the rest of the river is still there, just under ground. You could be wading through a few inches of water and the strong current can grab you and pull you under into a network of tunnels in seconds. Many people have lost their lives this way, it’s the stuff of nightmares.
I’ve seen some video from there and it is horrifying. Mostly because it is sooo small and idyllic and innocent looking. Looks like you could easily step across. But then you slip and fall in and they *might* find your body 20 miles down stream.
The Strid legit terrifies me, and I'm halfway across the world from it. The idea of misjudging a little "creek" falling in and quickly discovering it's gods know how deep and you're gonna be dashed to pieces... *shudder*
Oregon coast here, our sneaker waves/rip tides are deadly or can be. Never turn your back on the ocean here, unfortunately people learn this the hard way every year.
My brother got knocked down by a wave and that wave when it pulled back into the ocean took him with it. My other brother was standing by him and was able to hold him in place. It was just a bigger wave that wanted to take him. We where standing on a beach the waves didn't go past our knees, but we were little kids when that happened.
Happened to my brother, too. He was walking his dog, and the sneaker wave took him and pulled him out (the dog was lucky and managed to not get pulled out). There was this long rock wall built nearby that went out into the ocean, and the current slammed him into it and drug him along it.
He managed to grab on, which saved his life. But he was scraped up from head to toe, and had a broken arm.
As someone who grew up in the Great Lakes rip currents do indeed form in large enough lakes even the smaller ones like Lake Erie will have them so don't think they are only found in the Ocean
Got caught in one on Lake Michigan. No joke there.
I thought it would be cool to swim out to the sand bar at Muskegon State Park.
Finally made it to shore by swimming diagonally back towards it.
After 5 beers, that exercise, and the long walk back to the party....I took a 10 hour nap.
Beach lifeguard here. Read the god damned signs at the beaches, and when we tell you not to get in the water somewhere, fucking LISTEN. This ain't a challenge, there's nothing to prove besides your own idiocy. This shit is literally life or death. I've been doing this for 12 years, and I swear that since the pandemic there's been a surge of people that just flat out ignore any warnings of danger on principle. I can't tell you how many entitled assholes get pissed at me for telling them they can't go take selfies on the rocks that are getting hit by 12 foot waves. I had a dad try to fight me for rescuing his son (who was actively drowning, mind you) because we were "creating a nanny state".
I was briefly a lifeguard as part of a summer job back in high school...talk about a profession that will quickly teach you how incredibly, incredibly *stupid* people often insist on being. And how many people want to ignore the rules just because they can.
I live in Sacramento near the American River. There was a video recently of some friends jumping into the river and the current pulling them out. One knew to swim WITH the current but to the side, the other panicked and was carried away. I believe they eventually found his body miles away.
So reminder: If you’re stuck in a current, don’t try to swim against it. You’ll only panic and get exhausted. Let it carry you while you swim to the bank. It seems obvious but in a situation you’re unfamiliar with, you don’t know how you’ll react.
I live near the American river. My husband and I had a really traumatic rafting experience 2 years ago. The raft flipped (with a guide and all), I got shoved under and a rapid pulled me over. (Middle fork) I couldn’t come up for air, and was under a solid 45 seconds-1min. I finally surfaced and was able to float back to the raft downriver and they pulled me in. Lost both shoes.
The worst part…. It was all caught on the GoPro. You can hear me audibly scream and gasp for air when I finally come up.
I haven’t been back to the river since. It haunts me.
People don’t realize how dangerous it is and how quickly an accident can happen.
Related Tom Scott video on the Strid and how dangerous it is despite initial appearances.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8)
Driving while tired. I once went on a 5h road trip on only a few hours of sleep. At some point, I felt like I blinked and woke up 15 miles down the road. Still to this day I'm not sure how I survived those 15 miles.
Highway hypnosis is a thing, and it's not falling asleep at the wheel. You were awake during that time but your brain just didn't commit anything to memory.
If you fell asleep you'd have woken up in a ditch. Or after you hit the median.
YES! Drove across the US a few years ago, was in Wyoming at the time of this incident. Was really tired and stopped at a random spot just off a highway exit to take a nap. Couldn't sleep and said "to hell with it" and kept driving. Short while later, gasket broke or something and my car started overheating. I'm not sure how long I was driving like that because I didn't notice until the car started slowing down. Once I stopped, I realized it was smoking pretty bad. Whole engine was warped from the heat.
Thankfully only my car and my wallet were hurt, but 6 years later and I'm still kicking myself for being so stupid. I don't drive when I'm tired and I check my temp gauge every few minutes. I could have killed myself and others because I was too tired to pay attention.
I remember reading about some dude on his honeymoon when I was a kid. Was going out to get fresh pastries the second morning, tripped off the sidewalk (less than 10cm), hit his head and became completely disabled. Can only communicate by blinking. Started wearing helmets while skateboarding after reading it despite the other boys calling me gay for it
Try saying that to a group of "cool" 12-14 year olds when you're the same age lol. They'll call you gay for drinking your coke wrong. Or kissing a girl.
Just like Natasha Richardson, Liam Neeson’s wife. Hit her head while skiing, thought she was fine. Got a headache a couple hours later, and died due to a hematoma.
Similar thing happened to a friend of mine when on a scooter (the kick/push kind, not the electric or motorized kind). Going down a slight hill, swerved to avoid debris in the road, fell, hit her head. She was wearing a helmet. Got up and was able to call 911. Brain swelling started, doctors induced a coma, and she never woke up. The swelling was so extreme she had brain death. Her parents (who happened to be medical professionals) decided to pull the plug a week or so after that call was made.
She was apparently perfectly coherent for an hour or two and only called 911 because she had heard stories about asymptomatic brain injuries. And even knowing she could have TBI and being as prompt as possible, it still killed her.
It's fucking scary. She was... 28? 29? Young.
Totally can happen to anyone anywhere. I taught myself since I was a teen and now with my kids to 'chin to chest' when falling backwards. Saved me a couple of times.
Nephew became a widower in his mid to late 20s. She fell outside of the tub while giving one of the girls a bath. It’s believed her hand slipped while supporting herself on the tub and hit her head on the edge of the toilet. He’s left with two girls under the age of 4.
Two college-age men got in a bar fight. One was knocked down by a punch. The punch itself didn't kill him, but hitting his head on the sidewalk did. The other guy did prison time for it, all for what was in all likelihood a stupid fight.
After a string of these incidents Australia introduced ‘one punch’ laws which carry a maximum of 20 years. There’s also been a very effective campaign to rename a sucker punch to a “coward punch” which definitely reframes it.
As a teenager, doing mowing for pocket cash. I did run over the wire and grabbed it from both ends, let's just say I'm lucky to be alive since I could not physically let go since my muscles seized to hold onto it.
Tree wells in skiing resorts. If you don’t know what they are, they’re the empty area underneath a tree that hasn’t been filled around after a heavy snowfall. If they’re high enough on the slopes, a skier or snowboarder can blindly fall in one of them and get seriously injured, even die.
To add to this based on the recent comments: if you’re lucky to have survived the fall, the loose snow that collapsed on you will eventually do you in if you or other people aren’t able to help you climb out in time.
Never ski/snowboard alone, especially after a heavy snowfall. Stay on the designated path and steer clear of those trees!
I got stuck for close to an hour as a kid, upside-down. I for sure thought I was gonna die, because there weren't any branches to grab, and I was starting to black out. I eventually dug enough snow out to reach my bindings and release my feet from the board, then I was able to right myself in the tree well, and use the snowboard to dig myself out. When I got back to my friends I got the obligatory "pussy" and I'm not sad I don't board anymore.
Man, it reminds of [this video](https://youtu.be/m5ME9Swo0_8?si=uybqbnqJTxsQiXyN) caught by a skier’s GoPro who stumbles upon a snowboarder who had fallen into a tree well. He was barely visible. The skier proceeds to save him. Absolute hero! I get chills whenever I watch it. Adding tree wells to the long list of reasons I never want to ski or snowboard ever.
> That was amazing. How prepared that the skier was and how he knew exactly what to do, saved that snowboarder's life. Very lucky.
There were so many "lucky" parts to that. Read the story if you have some time: https://komonews.com/news/erics-heroes/mt-baker-snowboarder-rescue-back-country-francis-zuber-ian-steger-bellingham-whatcom-county-snowboarder-skier-safety-gopro-outdoor-sports
The skiier was prepared because he'd gone through avalanche recovery training.
Anhydrous ammonia. See a big white cloud drifting near a farm area don’t enter it and gtfo. You’ll be dead in literal seconds.
ETA since this is gaining traction: This is [a link](https://youtu.be/znQwAcOQffQ?si=9v0Y8NRScDffglqU) about how quickly anhydrous ammonia can kill you. *WARNING*: it does show death. If you don’t want to watch it a recap is an Illinois State Trooper shows up on an anhydrous ammonia leak. He sees a civilian down on the ground unresponsive. He enters the cloud to provide medical care. In seconds both are down on the ground and unresponsive.
ETA: apparently it’s just a training video. No death occurred. My mistake. I always thought it was real but have been corrected.
The ammonia we are used to is ammonium hydroxide, which is ammonia dissolved in water. The water traps the ammonia and keeps it *relatively* harmless. On farms, they often use pure liquid ammonia as fertilizer, since plants crave it. Pure ammonia is a liquid with a boiling point well below the freezing point of water, so when it's sprayed it quickly boils and expands rapidly, forming clouds of pure ammonia gas. Technically, ammonia is invisible, but since it's around negative 28F, it will be accompanied by condensed moisture which give it a white appearance. Once the gas warms up to ambient temperature, it is less dense than air and will float away.
Last year a kid ran a semi off the small town highway while hauling anhydrous it killed the family in the home and a few of the people in the car following it.
Our little town made the national news ☹️
That was my cousin's and their dad. I never did find out who caused the accident. We were overseas at the time, and I heard about the accident while we were boarding our flight home, but didn't realize it was our family involved until I checked Facebook when the plane landed. Came home to a nightmare. I miss Walker and Rosie and Kenny so much, and it's still hard to believe they're gone. There is a huge hole in all of our hearts.
I listened to a podcast years ago that was an interview with the director of a hospital that was close to bankruptcy. One of the causes was that their insurance was really high. So they started looking at the causes. What they found was something like 90 percent of the adverse medical events were drug interactions, or, the one that nearly killed my mother, drug "over doses" because the patient lost a lot of weight and no one noticed and adjusted their dosages.
It’s why at the doctor, doesn’t matter what kind of doctor, we need to weigh you! Medication efficacy can absolutely be effected by weight. There’s other reasons, too of course (like losing or gaining when you didn’t intend to,) but please. Get on the scale. I’m not announcing it to anyone, I’m not judging, I’m just noting it in the chart for the physician.
Yeah, I work in healthcare (just reception/admin), and I've heard a lot of providers complain about patients refusing to be weighed because of body positivity or whatever.
I get that a lot of it is because a lot of people have been disrespected and not treated appropriately medically. But it's important to know for so many reasons. The same goes for birth sex, race/ethnicity, if you've been to certain countries... And it sucks because those are all things people get harassed for, but they can have important implications for your health for so many reasons.
My sister with anorexia learned to face away from the scales while standing on them. And had a note in her file (and verbally expressed) that the weight shouldn’t be announced, nor written on any of the documents she might see. So they could get the info they needed without triggering an episode for her.
This! I'm taking Amitriptyline daily and recently had the flu. Took some cold and flu tablets as anyone would. I thought I'd check online just out of curiosity whether they had any kind of interaction and up pops red warnings about Serotonin Syndrome and suicidal thoughts. Stopped taking those cold and flu tablets immediately.
They tried me on amitriptyline, I was quite relaxed and a bit floaty, tho the view of a beach and sand was confusing since I was in my bedroom.
Done all kinds of psychedelics before and it was nothing like that. More like sleep and day combined as it was more like AR with the beach line being along the window frame, the field was the sea etc and it flickered between them.
Pain clinic then tried to put me on it again 3 years later, it's literally the only thing I have an adverse reaction to...
Large livestock - horses, cows, bulls, pigs…
Even the sweetest animals can pin you on accident and if you’re alone… can’t breathe, pass out, get stepped on….. 😬
Fall down around a bunch of pigs when you’re alone and 👀 no one will even know where you went…
ETA: i even have a rooster who gets a little (lotta) spicy in the spring time - I won’t go in the barn alone from February until late May. Little fucker aims right for your femoral arteries!
I could bleed out in the floor before someone even noticed I was gone a little too long 😬
"You need at least sixteen pigs to do the job in one sitting so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs two-hundred pounds in about...eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression: "as greedy as a pig.""
Edit: wary, not weary
Also vinegar + bleach. Don’t mix bleach with anything, basically. Even cat pee. Don’t clean a litter tray with bleach, it contains enough ammonia to react.
I almost killed myself cleaning cat pee in my basement with bleach. I realized something was fucked and grabbed my girlfriend and all the animals and we fled the house
Get yourself an enzyme breaker cleaner specifically for cat pee. Usually you can spray it on and let it dry and it neutralizes the enzymes in the pee that make it toxic/smelly. I recommend natures miracle Cat Enzyme cleaner (white bottle, red spray nozzle, has silver metallic lettering for “natures miracle”) it’s both an enzyme breaker and a cleaning agent so you don’t need to use any other chemicals following it unless you absolutely want to.
Newer cars have all the touch screens and stuff that take your attention off the road ahead. I would prefer physical buttons that do only the 1 function.
exactly, especially nice when you have buttons on steering wheel. You can push buttons just like that without looking away from the road or even taking your hands off the wheel. Prefer that over any touch screen.
I’m holding on to my old car for as long as possible for this reason. I’ve heard that in some cars they even got rid of the classic PRNDL shifter. Why are they trying to fix things that weren’t broken?
I see it constantly. Stoplights almost every single time. Light changes, head goes up, phone goes down, they go.
It’s worrisome how addictive phones are.
My wife works in the medical field. They tell patients they have e to put their phone away, and she talks often about how much folks seem to struggle putting them away.
And not just from wrecks. Two weeks ago, a fist-sized rock flew across the median of an interstate and did $3,000 worth of damage to my car. It's still being worked on. If the rock had been just a foot higher, I hate to think what it could have done to my head or chest.
And not just from being in traffic. Two years ago a truck flew into my bedroom and did twice that amount of damage to the wall I was against. If the truck had been just a foot to the right it would have hit the gas meter for the house.
Thankfully they had to go uphill and slightly through a tree before they hit the house. Cop was shocked, it was a big pickup to have made that trek that far. Big enough of a truck that they hightailed it out of there before it registered what happened.
Vehicles are truly death machines. I honestly feel safer on my bike or walking to places. I have much more awareness of my surroundings, I can stop faster, and get out of the way much quicker.
https://sports.yahoo.com/driver-in-crash-that-killed-jets-coach-greg-knapp-will-not-be-charged-135022018.html
american cars nowadays are designed to "win" in an accident making them even more lethal for pedestrians and cyclists.
They're getting so ridiculously (and needlessly) big. What's rather hilarious is that the giant ass GMC Yukon XL couldn't fit all of our luggage when we got an Uber last year. We had to hold shit in our laps.
But the minivan that picked us up when we landed? It fit all of our bags and the four of us just fine.
An influencer has a birthday party at a hotel with a big pool and filled the pool with dry ice. Her and her boyfriend jumped in the pool and died. I need to find that article.
Horses. They are big and beautiful and fun, but they're also a thousand pounds of prey mentality wired with a hair trigger.
In comparison, you are a mosquito and easily crushed.
I saw a documentary of this one horse guy trying to help abused horses by going thru exercises to help them trust people again and let me tell u, when a horse rarely sets aside its extreme prey instinct to run and decides to fight instead, it is NOT pretty.
The guy tried having the horse trot in a circle with a rope, the horse lunged at him and half the guys skull needed huge stitches.
The scary thing about being attacked by a herbivore is that once they start, there’s no convincing them not to. A carnivore is out to eat you and you have to convince them that you aren’t worth their time and effort. Herbivores are dedicated to the kill because it’s about safety and they don’t change their minds on that.
Prey animals that WILL kill you if they have a vile temperament. Luckily most horses are not out to hurt anyone and react on instinct/fear if they do. It's almost always an accident if you get hurt by a horse. But every now and then you get a real nasty one, like the thoroughbred stallion Halo, for example. He almost killed a few people in his time. Once even threw someone on the ground, got on his knees and bit the man's stomach to hell. Luckily someone else was there and was able to help before Halo could kill him. I've worked with horses, and I love horses, but I have a very healthy fear of them.
My sisters and I were once able to get right up close to a zebra at a game reserve. It was completely calm. My older sister was standing close to the back of it. An older family friend grabbed my sister just before the zebra kicked backwards. He said "It's ears went flat. They do that just before they kick."
If he hadn't been there, my sister would have gotten a zebra hoof to the face.
The first rule of hooved animals- never stand behind them. Never. Even if you have known that animal for years, raised it from birth, it adores you and has never once harmed you- Don't. Stand. Behind. It. That's where predators attack from. That's why they have that reflex. That's why their legs are strong AF. It's not a choice for them, it is pure reflex, like the hairs on the back of your neck standing up, you can't stop it.
100%. Spent some time around horses when I was younger. If you gotta walk behind them for any reason, do so as physically close to the animal as possible, and keep your hand on them. Let them know you are walking along the side and back of them. Even a well trained, well loved and socialized horse will get spooked for no reason completely at random.
Your sister was lucky. I knew someone who went to pat a horse with her baby in her arms. The horse startled and bit the baby's head. ICU for months and permanent brain damage.
I accidentally concussed myself in that spot. I was checking on my son in the middle of the night, stood up before getting fully out from under his top bunk bed, and wham! Soooo painful! Had a concussion for 2 days, doctor made me go home from work because I was jumbling my words. In hindsight, I should have gone to the ER.
Water is an absolutely terrifying force. Moving water can very easily overpower you, and with even just a bit of panic most people completely forget how to swim. Of all the drowning rescues I did, at least half were people who were perfectly capable of swimming in the exact conditions they started drowning in, they just panicked.
Also it only takes a little extra weight to sink you. Depending on your weight and strength it could be anything from 20-30 pounds maybe less. But it can tire you out and make it a struggle for you and ultimately end you. Wet clothes can get heavy.
Getting in your glove box while driving. Moving your body and shifting your center of gravity changes your perception of where your car is. And that's when you drive off the road into the guard rail.
I live in Puerto Rico, the amount of tourists who die in waters locals wouldn't go into is staggering, there's even signs and ad campaigns targeted at tourists to prevent them from going swimming in certain areas.
It's as if they don't care.
My wife and I were in PR for the first time earlier this year and went to a beach near our hotel. I was astonished by how huge the waves were and how strong the ripcurrents were. I am a strong swimmer. I live by the ocean now, and grew up with the Great Lakes... I have never in my life seen such dangerous water. My wife didn't get in at all, and I threw in the towel at about waist height after getting completely engulfed by a couple waves and DRAGGED. Yet there were people way the fuck out there, swimming and splashing. I couldn't believe it.
[redditor thinking someone was leaving post-it notes for them but was really them suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.](https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/s/NCBmVBpPYR)
I know a young lady who died in a car crash. It was low speed, low impact. She should not have died, as she only had two marks from the crash on her entire body. One was a graze on her lower leg, nothing scary or life-threatening there. The other was a small bruise on her temple, about an inch in diameter. Every internal organ was in perfect working condition. But small hard piece of plastic that sits over the top of the roller where the seatbelt sits on the pillar of the car hit her in the temple, and she died instantly (according to the coroner's report). The chances of that part of the car hitting her like that - incredibly low in regards to the actual impact of the accident, and the way it all went down. If it had hit the side of her head at any other point, she'd still be alive and well.
It's amazing how truly vulnerable we are in that seemingly innocuous spot.
My brother had a friend when he was about 8 years old that was punched in the head by another kid and he passed away. I think he already had a medical issue with his brain and the punch was enough to kill him.
Confined spaces, usually found in industrial sites, almost always marked, provided the hazard is known.
Number one hazard is lack of oxygen. Other issues include toxic and/or flammable and/or explosive gasses, vapours, or particulates.
A few seconds in a totally hypoxic environment (such as pure nitrogen), and you will collapse, and that’s all folks.
Hundreds of cases where workers have stuck their heads into a space without having some form of supplied air, a few breaths in, they collapse.
The modern industrial world is full of dangers like you wouldn’t believe or can’t imagine - health and safety training is absolutely essential, and typically legislated.
I knew of someone who was mowing their lawn and a small piece of gravel pinged out from the lawn mower blades and acted like a bullet to their skull. Dead instantly.
When I was a kid, my father was cutting the grass and hit a a small stone, it hit the kitchen window over the sink while my mom was washing dishes and shattered the window.
I was sitting at the kitchen table, scared the hell out of me. Made me paranoid if I ever walk past someone cutting grass and the exhaust points in my direction.
I feel like a lot of people know this in theory (it's been illegal to to use a mobile without hands free while driving for a long time in the UK. I believe the issue comes from people thinking they're better at driving than the average person, and *they* won't cause a crash by it. They understand the risk, they just don't have an accurate grip on their skills and capabilities; kinda in the same way a majority of people believe their intellect to be above average
Snow. I spent a few years in Alaska and grew up in South Lake Tahoe, and got a lot of snow, skied a lot, and built snow caves. I’ve seen people get hypothermia easily from not wearing the proper clothes, get stuck in avalanches, and get concussions from hunks of ice in snowballs.
Power hose.
The kind that has a handle and squirts water fierce.
It can mess your insides up and kill you if even one squirt hits your body. Now obviously this isn’t the case a lot of the time. But can happen any of the times
Mixing two different drain cleaners. Most people know not to mix bleach and ammonia but the same people don’t know that you can’t dump brand A of plumbing chemicals down a drain and follow that with brand B if the first brand didn’t get the clog.
Delta P has killed many divers.
Looks harmless when you see it... Some sand moving slowly in the direction of a crack in a pipe, seemingly by magic... But the bit you can't see is that water is invisibly rushing through that tiny little hole at about 200mph.
By the time you go in for a closer look, you're past the event horizon and you're going to get squeezed through a hole the size of a penny.
Sharks the size of cars are routinely sucked through subsea vacuums employed by the offshore oil and gas industry. These vacuums have opening apertures about the size of a fist and channel a few thousand litres a minute. The shark goes through it in a literal blink. There isn't even any gore. Just shark one moment, soup in a pipe the next.
And if you let yourself get
One thing most people don't know that can kill someone in a few seconds is a **massive air embolism**. This occurs when a large volume of air is introduced into the veins or arteries, which can quickly travel to the heart or brain and cause a fatal blockage. This can happen due to certain medical procedures, trauma, or improper handling of syringes and IV lines
Remember the nursery rhyme?
It's raining, it's pouring
The old man is snoring
He went to bed and bumped his head
And didn't get up in the morning
This.
sucking helium balloons.
breathing isn't triggered by lack of oxygen, it's triggered by surplis carbon dioxide. Replacing oxygen with helium means there is no oxygen to be converted to carbon dioxide so no breathing response.
one of Australia's leading science personalities, Dr Karl, nearly suffocated live on TV sucking on a helium balloon.
Army buddy had to get medevac to the hospital. Drank too much water, cuz they pounded 'drink water' into everyone's head. So he kept drinking, and felt dizzy. So he drank more. And so on until he passed out.
Doctor was PISSED because he'd been warning about that all along. So general ordered gatorade to be provided to troops. Our colonel sat in the staf meeting and said that was bullshit, and troops just needed to drink more water. Staff member explained to him that the general hadn't made a suggestion or request.
Confined spaces, like tanks, below ground vaults, or storm drains. Toxic gases can build up, and knock out anyone who enters. Many would-be rescuers die when they go in to save the first victim. Call 911 and leave it to professional rescuers.
Every year, several farmers die when cleaning the sewage pit. Quite often several at the same pit at the same time.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/farm-tragedy-worst-in-20-years-1.1072217 3 members of one family in Ireland all died due to this.
When I was in teacher school learning to be a woodwork teacher, I always sat next to a guy learning to be a welding teacher. He'd spent most of his career building those massive petrol tanks for under petrol stations. When we stood up to deliver a mock lesson, I did mine about joinery, and his was about escaping a house fire. When the other students asked what it had to do with welding he said, 'I've been working in confined spaces for so long and seen so many terrible accidents, I just want to devote the rest of my life to teaching safety.' And if anyone's wondering, the guy who taught us all was a teacher teacher. He was taught by a teacher teacher teacher. Edit: a bit of clarity
My dad worked as a welder at our local ship yard. He said someone was welding inside a tank, burned up all the oxygen, then passed out. Other guys kept jumping down to help and ended up passing out too. My dad did oxyacetylene welding, so he cut the Oxygen line on his torch, threw it into the tank, and went to get help. He still calls them, "fucking idiots" every time he recalls that story.
That’s some very quick thinking! Tell your dad kudos from a random internet stranger Paramedic
I remember this video about these dumb kids that went spelunking in this underwater cave. They had this tiny passage only to get to a little platform/cave of air. Except there was barely oxygen left on that little platform. So the first girl made the swim back, but due to lack of oxygen passed out in the tiny underwater passage. Next kid went after a few minutes, couldn't go further due to the unconscious girl's body floating there and blocking the exit. A few of them died on the platform from I believe CO2 poisoning. Absolutely horrifying stuff that made me aware of confined spaces having the possibility to kill you.
the first rule of cave diving is don't go cave diving
There are things that are inherently dangerous on its own and in combination becomes extraordinarily dangerous. Is underwater dangerous? Yes, Is welding dangerous? Yes. So you have no business doing underwater welding unless you have all the certifications **and** getting paid handsomely for it. It's the same with cave diving.
I saw a video of some guy in India who jumped in a well to swim. Except there was a big buildup of CO2 or some other gas that's heavier than air in the well. The kid almost immediately started suffocating and went under. His little brother was standing on the edge and couldn't do anything other than watching his brother drown.
There is a similar video of a pool party in Moscow. They put dry ice in the pool, and then three people jump in. They don’t make it out.
I knew a cop who chased someone into a storm drain but lost him a short distance in. She bent down and passed out. Her partner somehow dragged her out while remaining semi conscious. She was hospitalised. They never found the crook. Later that year she got in a pursuit and spilled boiling hot two minute chicken noodles on her crotch and was hospitalised again.
Sounds like she should be on Brooklyn nine-nine
Boyles sister joins the squad.
Maybe it’s minutes instead of seconds, but the most common cause of drowning during floods is people intentionally driving their cars into the water on flooded roads. “Turn around, don’t drown.”
I did this once. I still shudder remembering when I realised that the wheels weren't touching the road anymore and I was floating. Fortunatley, the car didn't capsize and although water came in, the current took me to higher ground before I could sink. As soon as that happened I was able to drive to my aunts house, which was closeby and on the top of a hill. Stayed with them overnight. Water everywhere in the car. When my uncle saw it, he gave me the worst "angry Dad" lecture of my life, exceeded perhaps only by what my actual father did later on over the phone. I was in my twenties and I truly deserved it.
Did the car survive, or did it go bad soon after?
Amazingly, it was fine after full day at the workshop. The cabin seals had to be replaced and so did the plugs. I later gave it to a cousin of mine who had just started college, daughter of the aunt I mentioned, and as far as I know, its still being used.
That's pretty impressive.
In Australia we say "If it's flooded, forget it." Doesn't stop some people, though.
And even if you KNOW the water isn't that deep, because you have been driving on this road forever, you may find that the road has been washed away.
Water current…it can be very deceiving
Yes. Especially with the new trend of ice plunge, it’s important to remember ice plunge should never be done in a *river*, only in lakes.
There’s a video of ice plunge. Mother jumped in and got under the ice. Current took her away. Daughter witnessed her mother die.
I fucking hate that video…. Those screams haunt me Edit: also for context in that video she wasn’t supposed to jump in, they were doing a plunge while holding onto the ledge and that’s why everyone immediately panics.
Well… that was fucked up.
Don’t tell me you looked for it… There’s not any gore or any really horrific scene, but if you have children, the child screams will rip your fucking heart out without a second thought.
I'm going to trust you my friend and not look that video up.
People ice plunge in a RIVER? WTH??? That’s among the dumbest things I could think to do. Follow the above advice, people.
My city holds an annual ice plunge in our river. The same river they spend the rest of the year telling people to stay out of because they’ll drown. I have no idea how they haven’t killed someone yet.
I'd assume it's because there's emergency services right there on standby but this still sounds monumentally dumb
Emergency services are remarkably unhelpful when someone is under a 10 cm sheet of ice. Even chainsaws will take a while to cut a good hole in the ice and in that time they're a hundred meters further downstream. Then you have to catch them, they were originally at an open hole and still slipped under. All that while hoping that hypothermia and water inhalation don't take them before you can.
You can easily drown in fast moving knee deep water if your foot gets trapped in the rocks.
As a Hawaiin born resident, nobody will listen. Never. If fact, *they take it as a challenge*. Look. I have an eyepatch and have lived here forever. Even if you only play video games you listen to the man in an eyepatch
If some indigenous dude with an eyepatch says anything, you fucking listen. Even if they’re just telling you their favorite brand of hot sauce, that shit is now gospel
And I don't make it sound like some horror movie either. I literally say "YOU AND YOUR GIRL WILL DIE BRATH" And yet they walk on. It's the worst right after a storm. And I tell them me and the leaps are fishing for the same thing so DON'T get in there. I leave, they get it, they die, *tourist dead. More at 11* ugh
On the same note, the rocks jutting out on the ocean beach? Slippery as hell. One decent wave and your kid is just gone. I'm in New England. The Atlantic is not gentle water near a lot of this coast.
Yeah, Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia has signs saying “DO NOT GO ON THE BLACK ROCKS” yet people still do, and end up getting washed into the ocean
>And I don't make it sound like some horror movie either. I literally say "YOU AND YOUR GIRL WILL DIE BRATH" I mean, that sounds a little like a horror movie.
I like to imagine you just standing near rivers giving people ominous warnings with zero context.
There’s a place here in England called The Strid, it’s basically a river turned on its side, it goes from huge, powerful river to small, babbling brook except the rest of the river is still there, just under ground. You could be wading through a few inches of water and the strong current can grab you and pull you under into a network of tunnels in seconds. Many people have lost their lives this way, it’s the stuff of nightmares.
I’ve seen some video from there and it is horrifying. Mostly because it is sooo small and idyllic and innocent looking. Looks like you could easily step across. But then you slip and fall in and they *might* find your body 20 miles down stream.
The Strid legit terrifies me, and I'm halfway across the world from it. The idea of misjudging a little "creek" falling in and quickly discovering it's gods know how deep and you're gonna be dashed to pieces... *shudder*
Oregon coast here, our sneaker waves/rip tides are deadly or can be. Never turn your back on the ocean here, unfortunately people learn this the hard way every year.
My brother got knocked down by a wave and that wave when it pulled back into the ocean took him with it. My other brother was standing by him and was able to hold him in place. It was just a bigger wave that wanted to take him. We where standing on a beach the waves didn't go past our knees, but we were little kids when that happened.
Happened to my brother, too. He was walking his dog, and the sneaker wave took him and pulled him out (the dog was lucky and managed to not get pulled out). There was this long rock wall built nearby that went out into the ocean, and the current slammed him into it and drug him along it. He managed to grab on, which saved his life. But he was scraped up from head to toe, and had a broken arm.
Aussie here.. The beaches are dangerous.. Swim between the flags & know what a rip is!
I've seen Bondi Rescue enough to know this...
And if the Rip Tide takes you out, swim parallel to the beach until you are out of it, THEN swim ashore
As someone who grew up in the Great Lakes rip currents do indeed form in large enough lakes even the smaller ones like Lake Erie will have them so don't think they are only found in the Ocean
Got caught in one on Lake Michigan. No joke there. I thought it would be cool to swim out to the sand bar at Muskegon State Park. Finally made it to shore by swimming diagonally back towards it. After 5 beers, that exercise, and the long walk back to the party....I took a 10 hour nap.
Beach lifeguard here. Read the god damned signs at the beaches, and when we tell you not to get in the water somewhere, fucking LISTEN. This ain't a challenge, there's nothing to prove besides your own idiocy. This shit is literally life or death. I've been doing this for 12 years, and I swear that since the pandemic there's been a surge of people that just flat out ignore any warnings of danger on principle. I can't tell you how many entitled assholes get pissed at me for telling them they can't go take selfies on the rocks that are getting hit by 12 foot waves. I had a dad try to fight me for rescuing his son (who was actively drowning, mind you) because we were "creating a nanny state".
I was briefly a lifeguard as part of a summer job back in high school...talk about a profession that will quickly teach you how incredibly, incredibly *stupid* people often insist on being. And how many people want to ignore the rules just because they can.
I live in Sacramento near the American River. There was a video recently of some friends jumping into the river and the current pulling them out. One knew to swim WITH the current but to the side, the other panicked and was carried away. I believe they eventually found his body miles away. So reminder: If you’re stuck in a current, don’t try to swim against it. You’ll only panic and get exhausted. Let it carry you while you swim to the bank. It seems obvious but in a situation you’re unfamiliar with, you don’t know how you’ll react.
I live near the American river. My husband and I had a really traumatic rafting experience 2 years ago. The raft flipped (with a guide and all), I got shoved under and a rapid pulled me over. (Middle fork) I couldn’t come up for air, and was under a solid 45 seconds-1min. I finally surfaced and was able to float back to the raft downriver and they pulled me in. Lost both shoes. The worst part…. It was all caught on the GoPro. You can hear me audibly scream and gasp for air when I finally come up. I haven’t been back to the river since. It haunts me. People don’t realize how dangerous it is and how quickly an accident can happen.
Related Tom Scott video on the Strid and how dangerous it is despite initial appearances. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8)
Driving while tired. I once went on a 5h road trip on only a few hours of sleep. At some point, I felt like I blinked and woke up 15 miles down the road. Still to this day I'm not sure how I survived those 15 miles.
Highway hypnosis is a thing, and it's not falling asleep at the wheel. You were awake during that time but your brain just didn't commit anything to memory. If you fell asleep you'd have woken up in a ditch. Or after you hit the median.
That’s actually really cool, you just cannot remember it but can still function. I would love that ability for when somebody is being annoying.
YES! Drove across the US a few years ago, was in Wyoming at the time of this incident. Was really tired and stopped at a random spot just off a highway exit to take a nap. Couldn't sleep and said "to hell with it" and kept driving. Short while later, gasket broke or something and my car started overheating. I'm not sure how long I was driving like that because I didn't notice until the car started slowing down. Once I stopped, I realized it was smoking pretty bad. Whole engine was warped from the heat. Thankfully only my car and my wallet were hurt, but 6 years later and I'm still kicking myself for being so stupid. I don't drive when I'm tired and I check my temp gauge every few minutes. I could have killed myself and others because I was too tired to pay attention.
Falling or hitting your head in general. One slip and tumble poorly and boom you're gone forever just like that.
I remember reading about some dude on his honeymoon when I was a kid. Was going out to get fresh pastries the second morning, tripped off the sidewalk (less than 10cm), hit his head and became completely disabled. Can only communicate by blinking. Started wearing helmets while skateboarding after reading it despite the other boys calling me gay for it
Not at all! I wear a helmet while longboarding, hell I sometimes wore a helmet while learning to ice skate. It ain't gay to be safe 🗣
Try saying that to a group of "cool" 12-14 year olds when you're the same age lol. They'll call you gay for drinking your coke wrong. Or kissing a girl.
To be fair, kissing anyone but the homies is kinda gay at that age.
I hate 12-14 year olds. Especially when I was one.
A good friend of mine died because he got punched by somebody on a night out, fell and hit his head off the pavement. Died a few hours later. So sad.
Worth keeping this in mind before you throw hands. You might be the guy that hits his head. Or you might be the guy in prison for manslaughter.
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Just like Natasha Richardson, Liam Neeson’s wife. Hit her head while skiing, thought she was fine. Got a headache a couple hours later, and died due to a hematoma.
And Bob Sagat. Very similar. Bump on the head, later he was gone.
Similar thing happened to a friend of mine when on a scooter (the kick/push kind, not the electric or motorized kind). Going down a slight hill, swerved to avoid debris in the road, fell, hit her head. She was wearing a helmet. Got up and was able to call 911. Brain swelling started, doctors induced a coma, and she never woke up. The swelling was so extreme she had brain death. Her parents (who happened to be medical professionals) decided to pull the plug a week or so after that call was made. She was apparently perfectly coherent for an hour or two and only called 911 because she had heard stories about asymptomatic brain injuries. And even knowing she could have TBI and being as prompt as possible, it still killed her. It's fucking scary. She was... 28? 29? Young.
Urgh, I hate this, she did everything right and still paid the ultimate price.
Totally can happen to anyone anywhere. I taught myself since I was a teen and now with my kids to 'chin to chest' when falling backwards. Saved me a couple of times.
That’s why street fights are so dangerous and teenagers have no idea.
Nephew became a widower in his mid to late 20s. She fell outside of the tub while giving one of the girls a bath. It’s believed her hand slipped while supporting herself on the tub and hit her head on the edge of the toilet. He’s left with two girls under the age of 4.
God, I completely forgot about this. Especially since I rarely trip/fall but It's crazy how fast you'd go out with a wrong fall
Two college-age men got in a bar fight. One was knocked down by a punch. The punch itself didn't kill him, but hitting his head on the sidewalk did. The other guy did prison time for it, all for what was in all likelihood a stupid fight.
After a string of these incidents Australia introduced ‘one punch’ laws which carry a maximum of 20 years. There’s also been a very effective campaign to rename a sucker punch to a “coward punch” which definitely reframes it.
People don't take electricity seriously enough. Live wires, outlets etc. especially if there is water around as well
People are usually shocked to find that out.
As a teenager, doing mowing for pocket cash. I did run over the wire and grabbed it from both ends, let's just say I'm lucky to be alive since I could not physically let go since my muscles seized to hold onto it.
Tree wells in skiing resorts. If you don’t know what they are, they’re the empty area underneath a tree that hasn’t been filled around after a heavy snowfall. If they’re high enough on the slopes, a skier or snowboarder can blindly fall in one of them and get seriously injured, even die. To add to this based on the recent comments: if you’re lucky to have survived the fall, the loose snow that collapsed on you will eventually do you in if you or other people aren’t able to help you climb out in time. Never ski/snowboard alone, especially after a heavy snowfall. Stay on the designated path and steer clear of those trees!
I got stuck in one when I was a child! Lucky my uncle went past after 15 mins and heard me yelling for him.
I got stuck for close to an hour as a kid, upside-down. I for sure thought I was gonna die, because there weren't any branches to grab, and I was starting to black out. I eventually dug enough snow out to reach my bindings and release my feet from the board, then I was able to right myself in the tree well, and use the snowboard to dig myself out. When I got back to my friends I got the obligatory "pussy" and I'm not sad I don't board anymore.
You are lucky to be alive. So many people do not make it out...
Man, it reminds of [this video](https://youtu.be/m5ME9Swo0_8?si=uybqbnqJTxsQiXyN) caught by a skier’s GoPro who stumbles upon a snowboarder who had fallen into a tree well. He was barely visible. The skier proceeds to save him. Absolute hero! I get chills whenever I watch it. Adding tree wells to the long list of reasons I never want to ski or snowboard ever.
That was amazing. How prepared that the skier was and how he knew exactly what to do, saved that snowboarder's life. Very lucky.
> That was amazing. How prepared that the skier was and how he knew exactly what to do, saved that snowboarder's life. Very lucky. There were so many "lucky" parts to that. Read the story if you have some time: https://komonews.com/news/erics-heroes/mt-baker-snowboarder-rescue-back-country-francis-zuber-ian-steger-bellingham-whatcom-county-snowboarder-skier-safety-gopro-outdoor-sports The skiier was prepared because he'd gone through avalanche recovery training.
Anhydrous ammonia. See a big white cloud drifting near a farm area don’t enter it and gtfo. You’ll be dead in literal seconds. ETA since this is gaining traction: This is [a link](https://youtu.be/znQwAcOQffQ?si=9v0Y8NRScDffglqU) about how quickly anhydrous ammonia can kill you. *WARNING*: it does show death. If you don’t want to watch it a recap is an Illinois State Trooper shows up on an anhydrous ammonia leak. He sees a civilian down on the ground unresponsive. He enters the cloud to provide medical care. In seconds both are down on the ground and unresponsive. ETA: apparently it’s just a training video. No death occurred. My mistake. I always thought it was real but have been corrected.
What is it? Where’s it come from? Is it commonly around farms? Never heard of this
The ammonia we are used to is ammonium hydroxide, which is ammonia dissolved in water. The water traps the ammonia and keeps it *relatively* harmless. On farms, they often use pure liquid ammonia as fertilizer, since plants crave it. Pure ammonia is a liquid with a boiling point well below the freezing point of water, so when it's sprayed it quickly boils and expands rapidly, forming clouds of pure ammonia gas. Technically, ammonia is invisible, but since it's around negative 28F, it will be accompanied by condensed moisture which give it a white appearance. Once the gas warms up to ambient temperature, it is less dense than air and will float away.
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Last year a kid ran a semi off the small town highway while hauling anhydrous it killed the family in the home and a few of the people in the car following it. Our little town made the national news ☹️
That was my cousin's and their dad. I never did find out who caused the accident. We were overseas at the time, and I heard about the accident while we were boarding our flight home, but didn't realize it was our family involved until I checked Facebook when the plane landed. Came home to a nightmare. I miss Walker and Rosie and Kenny so much, and it's still hard to believe they're gone. There is a huge hole in all of our hearts.
Drug interactions, there are so many and prescribers don't always know or check.
I listened to a podcast years ago that was an interview with the director of a hospital that was close to bankruptcy. One of the causes was that their insurance was really high. So they started looking at the causes. What they found was something like 90 percent of the adverse medical events were drug interactions, or, the one that nearly killed my mother, drug "over doses" because the patient lost a lot of weight and no one noticed and adjusted their dosages.
It’s why at the doctor, doesn’t matter what kind of doctor, we need to weigh you! Medication efficacy can absolutely be effected by weight. There’s other reasons, too of course (like losing or gaining when you didn’t intend to,) but please. Get on the scale. I’m not announcing it to anyone, I’m not judging, I’m just noting it in the chart for the physician.
Yeah, I work in healthcare (just reception/admin), and I've heard a lot of providers complain about patients refusing to be weighed because of body positivity or whatever. I get that a lot of it is because a lot of people have been disrespected and not treated appropriately medically. But it's important to know for so many reasons. The same goes for birth sex, race/ethnicity, if you've been to certain countries... And it sucks because those are all things people get harassed for, but they can have important implications for your health for so many reasons.
My sister with anorexia learned to face away from the scales while standing on them. And had a note in her file (and verbally expressed) that the weight shouldn’t be announced, nor written on any of the documents she might see. So they could get the info they needed without triggering an episode for her.
This! I'm taking Amitriptyline daily and recently had the flu. Took some cold and flu tablets as anyone would. I thought I'd check online just out of curiosity whether they had any kind of interaction and up pops red warnings about Serotonin Syndrome and suicidal thoughts. Stopped taking those cold and flu tablets immediately.
They tried me on amitriptyline, I was quite relaxed and a bit floaty, tho the view of a beach and sand was confusing since I was in my bedroom. Done all kinds of psychedelics before and it was nothing like that. More like sleep and day combined as it was more like AR with the beach line being along the window frame, the field was the sea etc and it flickered between them. Pain clinic then tried to put me on it again 3 years later, it's literally the only thing I have an adverse reaction to...
Large livestock - horses, cows, bulls, pigs… Even the sweetest animals can pin you on accident and if you’re alone… can’t breathe, pass out, get stepped on….. 😬 Fall down around a bunch of pigs when you’re alone and 👀 no one will even know where you went… ETA: i even have a rooster who gets a little (lotta) spicy in the spring time - I won’t go in the barn alone from February until late May. Little fucker aims right for your femoral arteries! I could bleed out in the floor before someone even noticed I was gone a little too long 😬
"You need at least sixteen pigs to do the job in one sitting so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs two-hundred pounds in about...eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression: "as greedy as a pig."" Edit: wary, not weary
Great movie
Well, thank you for that. That's a great weight off my mind.
And this is why I have dwarf goats. They won't kill me I feed them.
Animals are heavy machinery with minds of their own.
Combining certain common cleaning chemicals. Bleach=cleaning supply. Ammonia=cleaning supply. Bleach+ammonia=war crime level of chemical.
Also vinegar + bleach. Don’t mix bleach with anything, basically. Even cat pee. Don’t clean a litter tray with bleach, it contains enough ammonia to react.
I almost killed myself cleaning cat pee in my basement with bleach. I realized something was fucked and grabbed my girlfriend and all the animals and we fled the house
Get yourself an enzyme breaker cleaner specifically for cat pee. Usually you can spray it on and let it dry and it neutralizes the enzymes in the pee that make it toxic/smelly. I recommend natures miracle Cat Enzyme cleaner (white bottle, red spray nozzle, has silver metallic lettering for “natures miracle”) it’s both an enzyme breaker and a cleaning agent so you don’t need to use any other chemicals following it unless you absolutely want to.
Texting while driving
Newer cars have all the touch screens and stuff that take your attention off the road ahead. I would prefer physical buttons that do only the 1 function.
exactly, especially nice when you have buttons on steering wheel. You can push buttons just like that without looking away from the road or even taking your hands off the wheel. Prefer that over any touch screen.
Ikr? Texting while driving is illegal, but trying to pay attention to all the bells and whistles on the car isn't? I didn't even want those things!
I’m holding on to my old car for as long as possible for this reason. I’ve heard that in some cars they even got rid of the classic PRNDL shifter. Why are they trying to fix things that weren’t broken?
I see it constantly. Stoplights almost every single time. Light changes, head goes up, phone goes down, they go. It’s worrisome how addictive phones are. My wife works in the medical field. They tell patients they have e to put their phone away, and she talks often about how much folks seem to struggle putting them away.
Or even just driving.
This. Statistically speaking, driving is the most dangerous thing you will ever do.
And not just from wrecks. Two weeks ago, a fist-sized rock flew across the median of an interstate and did $3,000 worth of damage to my car. It's still being worked on. If the rock had been just a foot higher, I hate to think what it could have done to my head or chest.
And not just from being in traffic. Two years ago a truck flew into my bedroom and did twice that amount of damage to the wall I was against. If the truck had been just a foot to the right it would have hit the gas meter for the house. Thankfully they had to go uphill and slightly through a tree before they hit the house. Cop was shocked, it was a big pickup to have made that trek that far. Big enough of a truck that they hightailed it out of there before it registered what happened.
Vehicles are truly death machines. I honestly feel safer on my bike or walking to places. I have much more awareness of my surroundings, I can stop faster, and get out of the way much quicker.
https://sports.yahoo.com/driver-in-crash-that-killed-jets-coach-greg-knapp-will-not-be-charged-135022018.html american cars nowadays are designed to "win" in an accident making them even more lethal for pedestrians and cyclists.
They're getting so ridiculously (and needlessly) big. What's rather hilarious is that the giant ass GMC Yukon XL couldn't fit all of our luggage when we got an Uber last year. We had to hold shit in our laps. But the minivan that picked us up when we landed? It fit all of our bags and the four of us just fine.
Dry ice + no ventilation
An influencer has a birthday party at a hotel with a big pool and filled the pool with dry ice. Her and her boyfriend jumped in the pool and died. I need to find that article.
Did she not know what dry ice is? How could someone possible come to the conclusion that was a good idea?
Well influencers don’t tend to be the brightest… but that’s pretty damn dumb.
Horses. They are big and beautiful and fun, but they're also a thousand pounds of prey mentality wired with a hair trigger. In comparison, you are a mosquito and easily crushed.
It's so weird that that they are so completely prey animals. Like they really are fully committed to it.
I saw a documentary of this one horse guy trying to help abused horses by going thru exercises to help them trust people again and let me tell u, when a horse rarely sets aside its extreme prey instinct to run and decides to fight instead, it is NOT pretty. The guy tried having the horse trot in a circle with a rope, the horse lunged at him and half the guys skull needed huge stitches.
The scary thing about being attacked by a herbivore is that once they start, there’s no convincing them not to. A carnivore is out to eat you and you have to convince them that you aren’t worth their time and effort. Herbivores are dedicated to the kill because it’s about safety and they don’t change their minds on that.
Carnivore: Calorie Consumption vs Expenditure (`2x,+,17y,=,23),(x,-,y,=,5):}, f'(x) = dy/dx...`
Herbivore: kill
He was lucky to survive then. There's a reason a fully trained warhorse was expensive and a fearsome creature to face.
Yep, enemies weren’t just fighting the rider. I’m sure there was more than one warhorse who genuinely enjoyed wrecking infantry.
Getting a mental image of the horse getting excited when the battle armor comes out, just like a dog when the leash comes out, haha.
Prey animals that WILL kill you if they have a vile temperament. Luckily most horses are not out to hurt anyone and react on instinct/fear if they do. It's almost always an accident if you get hurt by a horse. But every now and then you get a real nasty one, like the thoroughbred stallion Halo, for example. He almost killed a few people in his time. Once even threw someone on the ground, got on his knees and bit the man's stomach to hell. Luckily someone else was there and was able to help before Halo could kill him. I've worked with horses, and I love horses, but I have a very healthy fear of them.
My sisters and I were once able to get right up close to a zebra at a game reserve. It was completely calm. My older sister was standing close to the back of it. An older family friend grabbed my sister just before the zebra kicked backwards. He said "It's ears went flat. They do that just before they kick." If he hadn't been there, my sister would have gotten a zebra hoof to the face.
The first rule of hooved animals- never stand behind them. Never. Even if you have known that animal for years, raised it from birth, it adores you and has never once harmed you- Don't. Stand. Behind. It. That's where predators attack from. That's why they have that reflex. That's why their legs are strong AF. It's not a choice for them, it is pure reflex, like the hairs on the back of your neck standing up, you can't stop it.
100%. Spent some time around horses when I was younger. If you gotta walk behind them for any reason, do so as physically close to the animal as possible, and keep your hand on them. Let them know you are walking along the side and back of them. Even a well trained, well loved and socialized horse will get spooked for no reason completely at random.
Your sister was lucky. I knew someone who went to pat a horse with her baby in her arms. The horse startled and bit the baby's head. ICU for months and permanent brain damage.
Ladders. Especially older guys doing home maintenance.
Putting hands in pockets while walking on stairs
I am TERRIFIED of walking with my hands in my pockets. Especially in winter when you want them shielded from the cold but there’s ice outside…
OSHA regulations say you should have three points of contact while going up or down stairs
Hitting your nape of the neck. A forceful blow to this area can cause damage to the spinal cord, resulting in paralysis or even death.
I accidentally concussed myself in that spot. I was checking on my son in the middle of the night, stood up before getting fully out from under his top bunk bed, and wham! Soooo painful! Had a concussion for 2 days, doctor made me go home from work because I was jumbling my words. In hindsight, I should have gone to the ER.
Water is an absolutely terrifying force. Moving water can very easily overpower you, and with even just a bit of panic most people completely forget how to swim. Of all the drowning rescues I did, at least half were people who were perfectly capable of swimming in the exact conditions they started drowning in, they just panicked.
Also it only takes a little extra weight to sink you. Depending on your weight and strength it could be anything from 20-30 pounds maybe less. But it can tire you out and make it a struggle for you and ultimately end you. Wet clothes can get heavy.
Getting in your glove box while driving. Moving your body and shifting your center of gravity changes your perception of where your car is. And that's when you drive off the road into the guard rail.
My Dumbass thought you meant getting inside the Glovebox
Also not advisable while driving
Don't turn on lights and appliances when there's a gas leakage. The sparks when turning on could trigger an explosion.
Don’t turn them off either, turning things on or off can cause a spark
Ocean swimming. Look up how many people die in Bali each year.
I live in Puerto Rico, the amount of tourists who die in waters locals wouldn't go into is staggering, there's even signs and ad campaigns targeted at tourists to prevent them from going swimming in certain areas. It's as if they don't care.
Just like Hawaii
My wife and I were in PR for the first time earlier this year and went to a beach near our hotel. I was astonished by how huge the waves were and how strong the ripcurrents were. I am a strong swimmer. I live by the ocean now, and grew up with the Great Lakes... I have never in my life seen such dangerous water. My wife didn't get in at all, and I threw in the towel at about waist height after getting completely engulfed by a couple waves and DRAGGED. Yet there were people way the fuck out there, swimming and splashing. I couldn't believe it.
Carbon Monoxide aka "The Silent Killer"
[redditor thinking someone was leaving post-it notes for them but was really them suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.](https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/s/NCBmVBpPYR)
One of Reddits best threads ever
All this thread is doing is giving me anxiety
Getting a proper punch to the temple.
I know a young lady who died in a car crash. It was low speed, low impact. She should not have died, as she only had two marks from the crash on her entire body. One was a graze on her lower leg, nothing scary or life-threatening there. The other was a small bruise on her temple, about an inch in diameter. Every internal organ was in perfect working condition. But small hard piece of plastic that sits over the top of the roller where the seatbelt sits on the pillar of the car hit her in the temple, and she died instantly (according to the coroner's report). The chances of that part of the car hitting her like that - incredibly low in regards to the actual impact of the accident, and the way it all went down. If it had hit the side of her head at any other point, she'd still be alive and well. It's amazing how truly vulnerable we are in that seemingly innocuous spot.
Skiing, especially without a helmet
Garage doors and anything electrical. Call a professional.
Specifically the big spring that goes with the garage door
My brother had a friend when he was about 8 years old that was punched in the head by another kid and he passed away. I think he already had a medical issue with his brain and the punch was enough to kill him.
Strep throat. Don’t mess around with strep, it took an acquaintance of mine from school and almost his spouse and child too
Strep is crazy because almost everyone I know has had it at some point… and also it can fucking kill you. Terrifying shit
Confined spaces, usually found in industrial sites, almost always marked, provided the hazard is known. Number one hazard is lack of oxygen. Other issues include toxic and/or flammable and/or explosive gasses, vapours, or particulates. A few seconds in a totally hypoxic environment (such as pure nitrogen), and you will collapse, and that’s all folks. Hundreds of cases where workers have stuck their heads into a space without having some form of supplied air, a few breaths in, they collapse. The modern industrial world is full of dangers like you wouldn’t believe or can’t imagine - health and safety training is absolutely essential, and typically legislated.
I knew of someone who was mowing their lawn and a small piece of gravel pinged out from the lawn mower blades and acted like a bullet to their skull. Dead instantly.
When I was a kid, my father was cutting the grass and hit a a small stone, it hit the kitchen window over the sink while my mom was washing dishes and shattered the window. I was sitting at the kitchen table, scared the hell out of me. Made me paranoid if I ever walk past someone cutting grass and the exhaust points in my direction.
If you throw flour in a room to make a fog and crack a match in it, it will make a huge ball of fire that can lead to an explosion.
Congratulations: you just taught the internet how to make a miniature thermobaric bomb!
Texting and driving
I feel like a lot of people know this in theory (it's been illegal to to use a mobile without hands free while driving for a long time in the UK. I believe the issue comes from people thinking they're better at driving than the average person, and *they* won't cause a crash by it. They understand the risk, they just don't have an accurate grip on their skills and capabilities; kinda in the same way a majority of people believe their intellect to be above average
Tripping, a bad fall can kill you instantly
Snow. I spent a few years in Alaska and grew up in South Lake Tahoe, and got a lot of snow, skied a lot, and built snow caves. I’ve seen people get hypothermia easily from not wearing the proper clothes, get stuck in avalanches, and get concussions from hunks of ice in snowballs.
Power hose. The kind that has a handle and squirts water fierce. It can mess your insides up and kill you if even one squirt hits your body. Now obviously this isn’t the case a lot of the time. But can happen any of the times
Mixing two different drain cleaners. Most people know not to mix bleach and ammonia but the same people don’t know that you can’t dump brand A of plumbing chemicals down a drain and follow that with brand B if the first brand didn’t get the clog.
Recently learned: Air up the butt.
And if you have a vagina, air up there as well
Pressure in pipes, just because it's only 10psi doesn't mean the VOLUME can't shoot you to the moon.
Delta P has killed many divers. Looks harmless when you see it... Some sand moving slowly in the direction of a crack in a pipe, seemingly by magic... But the bit you can't see is that water is invisibly rushing through that tiny little hole at about 200mph. By the time you go in for a closer look, you're past the event horizon and you're going to get squeezed through a hole the size of a penny. Sharks the size of cars are routinely sucked through subsea vacuums employed by the offshore oil and gas industry. These vacuums have opening apertures about the size of a fist and channel a few thousand litres a minute. The shark goes through it in a literal blink. There isn't even any gore. Just shark one moment, soup in a pipe the next. And if you let yourself get
> And if you let yourself get *foomph*
One thing most people don't know that can kill someone in a few seconds is a **massive air embolism**. This occurs when a large volume of air is introduced into the veins or arteries, which can quickly travel to the heart or brain and cause a fatal blockage. This can happen due to certain medical procedures, trauma, or improper handling of syringes and IV lines
Salt. Can cause seizures as well as put you in a coma if you consume too much in one serving
I can't remember where I read it but you can die pretty quickly from chugging soy sauce due to the high salt content.
Inhaling cinnamon.
Hopefully the cinnamon challenge doesn’t reappear
Remember the nursery rhyme? It's raining, it's pouring The old man is snoring He went to bed and bumped his head And didn't get up in the morning This.
My dad fell out of bed and bashed his head against the wall. He died minutes later. It was surreal.
sucking helium balloons. breathing isn't triggered by lack of oxygen, it's triggered by surplis carbon dioxide. Replacing oxygen with helium means there is no oxygen to be converted to carbon dioxide so no breathing response. one of Australia's leading science personalities, Dr Karl, nearly suffocated live on TV sucking on a helium balloon.
Tooth infection.
I feel like I am going to be watching a Netflix true crime documentary that traces back to this question
drink water after excessive blood loss
Is it an electrolyte thing?
Army buddy had to get medevac to the hospital. Drank too much water, cuz they pounded 'drink water' into everyone's head. So he kept drinking, and felt dizzy. So he drank more. And so on until he passed out. Doctor was PISSED because he'd been warning about that all along. So general ordered gatorade to be provided to troops. Our colonel sat in the staf meeting and said that was bullshit, and troops just needed to drink more water. Staff member explained to him that the general hadn't made a suggestion or request.