Not all danger is obvious at first glance. In fact, it is usually the things that appear harmless when they really are not that cause the most damage.
Most of us have been in situations like these. You go on doing something that seems like some good, clean fun, only to quickly realize that the stakes are a lot higher than you imagined. Well, when one person asked other Redditors to share these stories and the experiences that came with them, they were eager to do so. Scroll down to see what they wrote!
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#21
More a near miss…
Working in a s****y kitchen at about 20 years of age. I was carrying a 30ltr drum of oil in a cardboard box and positioned myself in front of the fryer and drop the box down onto another upturned drum to refill the fryers. These were 30ltr fryer dumps each and currently were full of cooking fries.
The oil drum just clipped both handles and landed safely. Had it of hit both handles full on…. I can only imagine both fryer baskets flipping up and forward covering me in 180 degree oil and hundreds of nice little burny potato sticks.
I think about it still at 37.
46points
#22
Riding on ice chunks down the river in the spring. We are so lucky we didn’t fall in and get crushed by giant ice.
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46points
#23
Pre-internet, in the prior century, I wanted to beat a snowstorm while on a cross-country drive. Weather started out as nothing special - turned into a blizzard with white-out conditions. I couldn't see the freeway surface, then I couldn't see in front of the car. I was behind an empty logging truck (it had poles sticking up in the air that I could see). The truck kept going and I stayed [closely behind] for the next hour and a half until I could see the road surface again. White-knuckle driving. Really (young) stupid judgement, on my part.
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45points
#24
Drinking excessively and passing out alone regularly.
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40points
#25
The amount of bullying my friends and I did in high school. We made it up to this one kid and he really enjoyed his graduation day for it, but the reality is we shouldn’t have been f*****g with these kids to begin with.
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39points
#26
We had a small boat when I was growing up. In my early teens me and my friends used to go out in it all the time, and no one ever wore life jackets. Storms form quite fast in the area I grew up in, and we were caught out more than once. .
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38points
#27
Driving with my teen friends who regularly got in auto accidents and drove over the speed limit. Regularly smooshing in like 6 people in a car even. No one was buckled. So bad. .
37points
#28
Going to the old Buster Brown shoe stores in the early to mid 70's and using their X-ray machine to look at the bones in our feet. Link.
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36points
#29
Broken glass in food. If you break a glass or ceramic cup or bowl near food, don't f**k around with it and eat it. It will f**k up your insides if you eat enough of it.
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35points
#30
Put on my bike helmet and rammed my head into a tree to make my friends laugh.
Everything from the shoulders up hurt after that.
33points
