26 Stupid Ways People Almost Died

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Eric Lund
Oct 20, 2021 10:00 AM EDT

Granted there aren't any "smart" ways to accidentally slip and fall into a vat acid, here are some extremely avoidable and terribly absurd situations people escaped with their lives. In summary, don't fall asleep while driving, make sure electronic devices are unpluggled while taking them apart, and for god's sake look both ways before crossing the street. Here are some life-ruining bullets people dodged as well as various things that can be surprisingly dangerous.

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    Font - yogurtpimple- 15h When I was in middle school my teacher said that if you consume large amounts of salt in a short span you will die. I didn't believe him, so I dissolved 3 cups of salt in water and tried consuming it in 10 min as an experiment. Luckily, I thought death tasted bad so I stopped.
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    Smile - KingFisher0424 - 19h S Almost got my head squashed by a car due to a small pebble making me fall on the main road
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    Font - kdubbsd · 18h · edited 16h 3 5 35 2 7 Went to go visit a friend in Gloucester Mass in winter back in high school far from my home. I was planning on staying overnight at their house but their mother who I now know has mental health problems wouldn't even let me in the house because the father"wasn't home" working a night shift. Friend said sorry bro and closed the door. Almost froze to death waiting outside in 10 degree Fat night. A cab driver saw me slumped on a bench and woke me up. Let
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    Font - bomb-diggity-sailor · 18h · edited 7h 2 S2 & 3 More Swam under a shipyard pier at night (solid concrete above me) and lost my sense of direction. Got lucky and found my way out. Edit: Thanks for all the upvotes, awards, and words of encouragement. To add more detail - A friend and I were "assault swimmers" attacking a ship for a training exercise at night. We would swim from pier pylon to pylon underwater. Take a breath, go under, push off, and swim ~20' to the next pylon, surface and rep
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    Human body - disneyisinatlantis · 17h 2 2 S2 & 2 More , I snorkelled too far out into the ocean, and it wasn't because it was a riptide, I just got distracted by pretty fish
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    Smile - Soft-Caterpillar-618 · 19h 3 2 Drove on an interstate during a hurricane and watched all the cars around me get submerged
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    Rectangle - guppied - 19h · edited 13h 3 7 & 10 More Stuck my head out the car window bc I wanted to see why dogs loved it. My grandpa didnt notice, rolled up the window, and I choked. He freaked out when he heard the cat like noises (ironic) I was making while my neck was trying to squeeze through the small opening of the window, but kept raising the window in his panic. Eventually he got it and I was left with a red mark on my neck and no closer to understanding dogs.
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    Eye - taioshin14 - 18h - edited 5h 24 3 4 Being sleepy on the road. Don't. Find a spot and sleep a bit.
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    Smile - outtsideyerhouse · 17h S 4 2 Grown adult and choked on mozzarella cheese. Was only alone for 20 minutes. Can't imagine the obituary
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    Font - cmoorecubs · 17h 9 S 2 I was at a Waterpark in Texas with one of those super tall, straight down slides. They had multiple signs saying things like "DO NOT PUSH OFF BEFORE SLIDING DOWN!" me being an 18 year old idiot and wanting to race my friend, I decided to push off. That extra push started my slow-motion, airborne flight over the slide. I was then staring 100ft down at concrete and my other friend who had his jaw open. What felt like minutes later, I smacked back down onto the slide a
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    Font - bdx22 · 17h S 2 I walked into a back room freezer of a grocery store. The huge door was designed to close automatically. I knew this and went in and did what I was there to do. After 30 seconds, I couldn't catch my breath. I thought maybe I was just working to hard so I stopped and took several huge breaths, nothing. I felt like I was drowning out of water. I had to move as quickly as I could back outside of the freezer and feel to my knees gasping when I got out. It was only afterwards I
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    Human body - seefith · 18h Came very close (about two inches) to backing into a warehouse rack full of two ton coils of sheet metal when I didn't realise that my forklift was in reverse.
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    Font - ZeSavageCabbage 20h · edited 14h Choked on a life saver EDIT: No the hole In the center is not for breathing. Life Savers have holes in them because the inventor, Clarence Crace wanted to create a unique candy. Back in 1912 (109 years ago)
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    Font - Pellem01 · 18h I'm Italian but have been living in the UK for two years Guess who looked at the wrong side of the road while a Bus was coming trough? Everytime I went back to Italy I risked my life for the same reason by getting used to drive to the left and viceversa
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    Font - plrbear237 - 18h I stuck my head in a random beaker to sniff something in chem lab, I have been very good about wafting since
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    Font - LilCRapTherapist - 15h I coughed. Dislocated my C1-C2 vertebrae and spent 6 months in a body halo. Idk how close to death that counts, but be careful when you cough.
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    Font - Abalone_Admirable - 17h e 3 I didn't look before I crossed the street. Walked backwards while talking to my friend got hit by a van. I wasnt wearing my medic alert bracelet to warn the paramedics and hospital that I'm allergic to demorol, because "it looks dumb and gets caught on my backpack, besides what are the chances I'd ever be given that?" The chances, it turns out, are pretty good if you get hit by a van going full speed hard enough to nearly rip your foot off at the ankle. I survi
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    Font - pseudosiren - 19h Unplugging the washing machine with wet hands. My hand slipped onto the prongs while they were still partially in the outlet, and I think my heart stopped for a second before I yanked the plug free. Definitely do not recommend.
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    Smile - aceh40 · 17h e S 2 I almost drowned in the sea as a kid. A current pushed me away from the shore. Lifeguards saved me and were slapping my face. I thought it was a punishment but they were resuscitating me.
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    Mammal - gijoey959 - 17h Taking apart a dryer completely to clean it out and get it running smoothly again, dropped a screwdriver onto an exposed wire... huge arc and zap sound. I had left it plugged in (up until I realized the incredibly smooth-brained move I had pulled)
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    Font - Sircherd - 18h - edited 15h I just had a cherry picker that was 871 pounds tip over 4 inches off my trailer edge to the loading dock and absolutely crush me. Was the only person and spent the longest 3-5 seconds of my life with almost 900 pounds crushing my back into my knees, thinking "this is exactly how people die under vending machines" before I mustered up all my strength and rolled out from under it. Didn't end up getting paid for that delivery...
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    Font - indelady - 15h I was at a Pink Floyd concert at the old Tampa Stadium, was going to get a beer. I got crushed against a wall,at the bottom of a stairway, when a rush of people came up the breezeway. I couldn't move,or breathe,probably 100 or more people in a log jam. I'm not a big person,started to panic, looked up and a guy looked over the rail above me. He started yelling to me to reach for his hand,he leaned way over and grabbed my hand and pulled me up.Like 8 or 9 feet, and over the r
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    Font - granitefeather · 17h Almost asphyxiated on Trader Joe's bagel bites today. The melty cheese basically Spiderman web blasted itself over my windpipe opening. After I partially recovered, I almost tweeted "this can't be how I die," but I still had more bagel bites to eat and didn't want to tempt fate.
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    Font - woodsman127 · 18h · edited 15h smoking a cigarette after I spilled GASOLINE on my shirt. I was at work.
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