First Responders, What Is the Dumbest Accident? | Professionals Stories #69

[@beanboy5963]

What I have learned: Wear a helmet, put your seatbelt on, and for the love of god don't touch lawnmowers.

[@sandvichspencer6956]

Also don't get drunk or do drugs.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

...that plus never under-estimate a toilet plunger's hidden ability to kick your ass

[@JPaterson8942]

Lawn mowers are scary!

[@kingarthur1367]

Well there goes my weekend plans

[@jonnypena7651]

And even if you use seatbelt, don't drive like the you are biggest Dbag that ever existed.

[@vladimirenlow4388]

18:49 A friend of my dad's died almost exactly like this, although he was drunkenly trying to break into his girlfriend's house. Apparently he still thought he could persuade her to come back to him, never mind how many times he'd beaten her up. Way too many people in our community blamed _her_ for his death.

[@godofchaos9571]

Poor girl. Imagine having an abusive boyfriend then people blame you for his death when he was literally breaking into your house

[@Karma-zx8qe]

So goof is a loser drunk, beat the girlfriend, then B and Es her house, dies, and SHE gets blamed???

[@vladimirenlow4388]

@@Karma-zx8qe Exactly. It's garbage. You know it, I know it. But the goof in question had family in the area was well-known in the community--he had his own band and once played backup for a big-name country music star. Some people couldn't see through that to understand the truth. Sadly, it happens all the time with minor variations.

[@felicityggreene7831]

I first learned how to drive a riding lawnmower when I was three. My older brother used to pay me to do his chores.

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

My dad had me riding his riding lawn mower when I was 16-18 years old as practice for driving, LOL.

[@chriscarpenter3370]

Wut

[@Wi-Fi-El]

You're the exception, not the rule. Most people shouldn't use a lawnmower before age 13-14, especially not a ride on mower. If I used a lawn mower at 8 I'd have maimed myself most likely

[@AccidentallyOnPurpose]

I started using a riding lawnmower at 9. I was a horseback rider and was very careful in general, so parents figured I could handle a lawnmower. Used to mow my grandma's acres of land for money, would take me hours.

[@Chiller-pc1dv]

That sounds like child endangerment...jesus christ that's dangerous.

[@sirbacon761]

EMT here: Had a patient try to cut a length of twine with a table saw. The twine got stuck and yanked the guys hand towards the blade, knuckles were cut open down to the bone. I saw him at the site a few weeks later, and he still had all his digits.

[@KnakuanaRka]

Talk about overkill.

[@alimatloob2850]

There was this guy who while riding his motorcycle was hit by a car, the Car hit the side of the motorcycle and the rider was sent flying several feet ahead, I saw him as he hit the road, headfirst and tumbled like a bouncing ball before stopping when he hit the curb.... Luckily he was wearing a thick jacket AND Helmet, so only suffered slight injuries, nothing that couldn't be shaken off, but I saw the video it happened on a street a frequently ride by (I also have a motorcycle), if he didn't have his helmet then it was guaranteed that the impact would have smashed his skull open, so please dear readers, even if they make you look stupid just WEAR a helmet.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

My GF and her brother saw a guy on a motorcycle go down way ahead of them on the 405 freeway (caliorniua) no one else stopped but them. They pulled the guy to the side out of the traffic but he was dead already. People out there doing risky shit like this, think not only of yourself and losing your own life! You will affect the lives of scores of people, your relatives, coworkers, dozens of others, even your pets if you have them. There was more than one time i didn't do something potentially self-lethal because i didn't want to distress my mom, or leave my pets with no one to care for them so they'd have to die along with me -

[@jukebox0310]

honestly full motorcycle gear looks epic

[@heartofthewild680]

Also, it’s not just the vehicles with wheels you need to wear a helmet for. There’s a reason the stable I ride at won’t let you on the horse without one.

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

@@jukebox0310 Ikr? That's the extra stupid part of it - motorcycle gear looks rad as hell

[@beastmaster0934]

He probably just got scuffed up a bit, maybe some scrapes on his arms and legs. Still hurt like hell (especially when on cement) but other than that, completely unharmed.

[@TheExvangelicalCat]

4 year old me: Why won't my mom let me put my feet on the dash? It's not fair! 28 year old me: ... Fuck so that's why my mom told me not to do that. Thanks mom!

[@MartinFinnerup]

This is exactly why taking the time to explain the WHY of an instruction, is often a good idea. Kids are usually smart enough to understand, and an instruction with associated reasoning will stick much better. This goes double so for many neuro-divergent people.

[@TheExvangelicalCat]

@@MartinFinnerup I'm pretty sure my mom did explain it but I was a little kid. The idea of being literally bent in half is not as horrific to a small child as to an adult.

[@kaseysewick1691]

I remember being at the beach and there’s a huge rock(atleast 20ft tall and trees growing on top) that sits in the middle of the whole strip, we were walking down when I saw a huge group of people running to the bottom of the rock. Within 2 minutes an ambulance arrived on the street and they started running across the field to what turned out to be the EMTs son. He was skateboarding on the top of the rock and skates off the side , falling and breaking bones , cracking his head open and you wouldn’t have even known this was his mother as she went into work mode and just worked as hard as possible to get all of him on the stretcher and hold his head while they ran back to the truck. I’ll never forget it because it amazed me how stupid he was , and how sad that must’ve been for the mom, but how professional she remained knowing her kids life was at stake. It was brutal and one of the worst.

[@transsnack]

A drunk guy shot my dad in the butt due to a misfire. My dad went to the bar, got blasted, then went to get the bullet removed. Less funny one, a girl had her feet up at the dashboard of her bfs car while he was speeding. They rear-ended a stalled vehicle so about 85-90 mph. Both died on impact, but when the paramedics cut the girl out they thought she was wearing a scarf. It was her legs. Never put your feet on the dashboard.

[@Chiller-pc1dv]

the butt is a rather dangerous area, as it is rather close to the femoral artery.

[@simplywonderful449]

At 20:30, this is why motorcycles are called "donorcycles" in the organ transplant world. Without a helmet, it's usually head injuries that take their life, which is ideal for donating their organs as the organs can then be retrieved for transplant.

[@elizabethforsyth3054]

have heard that especially as they also tend to be young and in pretty good shape..... sad

[@Sniperification100]

16:51 that sounds exactly like an incident that happened to my former boss. He’s a doctor and was taking in multiple rescue dogs. Two of them were fighting and he got in the middle when one of them impulsively bit him on the chin. He said the dog looked like it felt so bad for what happened and it was unintentional. In order to protect the dog, my boss got a friend who’s a surgeon to come to his house and suture him up. He now has a chin dimple that he didn’t have before. You can’t even tell there’s a scar there lol.

[@amberkat8147]

Wow. He's got such a big heart. I hope he and the are okay, time permitting.

[@toastedwaffle4515]

TLDR- My dad got bit by the same spider twice in the same day and was rewarded with a Hospital vacation. My dad beats every single one of these. He is one of those people who will safely evict any unwanted critter/bug that's made it inside the house; and refuse to kill them. Long story short,one day there was a black widow spider in the bathroom and he decided to just pick it up to move it outside and it immediately bit him causing his arm to jerk and dropping the spider that prominently disappeared. As a precaution mom took him to the ER after being looked at for a few hours they determined he wasn't having a severe enough reaction to warrant additional care and sent him home. When they got back the first thing he did was go to the bathroom, where he saw The *spider, again went to grab it, got bit went back to the ER and with both bites had a bad reaction and had to be admitted. * While there is no way to know for sure it was the same spider, my dad has been doing that his entire life and it's the only time he has ever been bitten.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

you know, maybe it's possible to love critters too much -

[@xdername93]

This ain't TLDR

[@hannah.kate.]

What I wanna know is what happened to the spider afterwards…

[@amberkat8147]

You mean after doing it with his bare hands he didn't then use something else to do it with? And he knew it was a black widow? He certainly has a big heart, but maybe not such a big brain.

[@Amongus-yu7ft]

@@xdername93 he means the top sentence is

[@calvinatdrifterstudio8438]

A lawn mower is more like a chainsaw than a vacuum cleaner....

[@kirakaffee9976]

but there have been people stupid enough to hurt themselves with vacuum cleaners

[@MystMagus]

@@kirakaffee9976 Takes a bit more effort though, generally.

[@MothMizzle]

Not a first responder. A few years ago my next door neighbor tried to start his BBQ grill with gasoline. It was one of those converted oil drum types. The bottom burned thorough and splashed burning gas everywhere. Oh, all this happens on his wooden deck. His nylon pant leg, the vinyl siding and the deck go up in flames. I was outside and saw this all as it happened. I dial 9-1-1 and get transferred to the fire dept. I couldn't remember the neighbor's house number, so I have the dispatcher my address and noted that it was the house next door that was on fire. The dispatcher then asked which house was on fire . . . 🙄. The flames were threatening to set the surrounding oak trees on fire. I told them, "when they get here, I'm sure they'll be able to tell!" (additionally, I only have one next door neighbor, the other house burned down years prior 🤦🏾‍♂️, no, I didn't do it - electrical fire.). After they arrived, the neighbor then limped over to the ambulance, 3rd degree burns from knee to foot.

[@melissaharris3890]

not first responder, and this was 20 years ago. a guy in my area hit a deer with his truck. the deer went through the windshield, hooves first. the deer didn't die instantly. panicking, the deer kept kicking with front legs, hitting the man who probably was knocked out in 3 seconds. when the truck was found, they couldn't tell who bled out first.

[@kranberry3318]

Damn. Where I come from, hitting a deer with your car is practically a rite of passage. Never heard of it going this badly though.

[@melissaharris3890]

@@kranberry3318 here too

[@adelerodriguez2432]

My husband was driving on the highway across the road from a state park one morning. A deer jumped over the median and almost ran into his car on the driver's side. He probably would've killed my husband and died himself. Luckily, my husband was able to veer to the right.

[@nick3006]

@@kranberry3318where are you from?

[@kranberry3318]

@@nick3006 Sussex County in NJ. In Drivers Ed, they teach you to just hit the deer head on bc trying to swerve out of the way can make you hit other drivers.

[@em1osmurf]

17:24 any fall of greater than 6 feet (2 m) we considered possibly lethal. stoopid on your porch, dancin' on your car roof, drunk in a kid's park. dumb way to die. also: had a 4xfatal, teenagers in a range rover in a metro tunnel passing a tractor trailer. when i left the scene, i drove over 4 cell phones on the road, vibrating and playing music, crunching them all. Drive, people.

[@lynneconklin917]

As a student nurse, I did rotations though pretty rural ER. Lots of chainsaw accidents, atv rollovers, many fish hooks embedded in people (not fish), and a couple people gored by bulls.

[@amberkat8147]

But for fish hooks, don't you just need some pliers and wire cutters and something to clean the injury with? Like, push the fishhook until the barbed end exits the skin, snip it off with wire cutters, withdraw the now-barbless fishhook, and clean the wound. Apply antibiotic and bandage as normal. Am I missing anything?

[@lynneconklin917]

@@amberkat8147 some people are just squeamish about pushing the hook through, past the barb to cut it. Especially kids.

[@tsherwoodrzero]

This was from my mom. When her and my dad were together in the late 70s, my dad and uncle were pretty drunk out at his house in the middle of backwoods nowhere Indiana, late at night. They saw a fence and my uncle, through inebriated confidence, tried jumping it. He didn't make it, and didn't know it was a barbed wire fence. So my dad helps him back in the house and my mom sees his pants ripped and covered in blood. After inspecting what happened, they put my uncle in the back of my mom's 1960s Buick station wagon and my mom drives him to the hospital which is 30 miles away in another county. Now imagine this. The first 5 MILES are on unimproved backwoods county dirt roads, and you're laying, not sitting in the back of a wagon from the 60s, bleeding from your nuts being ripped open on a rusty, dirty barbed wire fence in the dark while drunk, and it's an HOUR before you're at the hospital, PRAYING the wait isn't too long, all without any painkillers beyond Tylenol. Now imagine explaining what happened and HOW it happened. How my mom described it was "hanging out", today they call that "de-gloved"

[@robertmaybeth3434]

I guess you're lucky you're even around to write that comment lol

[@amberkat8147]

@@robertmaybeth3434 It's their uncle, not their father, that this happened to.

[@nellinightshade3358]

'don't drink and drive'; 'nothing will happen to me'!... every dozy drunk that gets behind the wheel. and, sadly. often nothing does happen to them... but, they happen to an innocent party.

[@MystMagus]

People don't view driving with the sense of responsibility it should in general, but drunk drivers are legitimately despicable in how they endanger people for no good reason.

[@bluexwings]

My previous manager rescued dogs (mostly small handicapped/ancient dogs but the occasional pittie). This one large pittie mix she'd worked with for some time decided it was pissed at another dog for stealing a toy, and when she went to break it up, the dog bit her in the face. It basically ripped off her eyebrow, and tore open her cheek. It's a wonder she didn't lose her eye. She still rescued dogs though, and said it was a risk she took breaking up a fight. (working with dogs myself I learned this too- there are safe ways to do it, but getting injured is always a risk)

[@bluexwings]

True. She wasn't between them, but I think she grabbed the dog who bit her's collar. I met her working at a dog boarding place/ daycare and while we didn't have many fights (we had a screening process for new dogs), they would occasionally happen. All employees had to learn how to break them up safely. My only bites there were overzealous treat grabs, but I had a couple close calls. The truth is you just never know when it might be the day they accidentally lash out at you by accident. Working with dogs with complex emotional scars makes things much more difficult, as well. The best thing you can do is try to diffuse things and separate them before they get too intense in the first place.

[@QueenSunstar]

Worst one for me. Guy was between train cars, working on fixing something. Train shifted and he slipped, landing face up under the train car. My battalion chief decides let’s send someone underneath to assess the guy. So, I basically had to army crawl under a train car to reach the patient. There’s not a lot of space under there. I was chosen due to my tiny size. Patient walked away with a mild concussion, broken cheek, broken eye socket, and a twisted neck. Getting out? The car was disconnected from the train which was moved up the track a bit. Next, the car was jacked up a bit so the patient could be pulled out.

[@sturmovik5448]

It shouldn't have been able to shift. There are serious and detailed rules about how to secure trains/cars before letting people go "in between", for this exact reason.

[@QueenSunstar]

@@sturmovik5448 That’s just it. It shouldn’t be able to shift, but it did.

[@mysticfire5850]

When I was around 10 my brother and two of his friends get high decide they want to campfire cook some hotdogs decided the abandoned lot next door full of dry knee high grass was the best place to do it I was woken up at 4 in the morning to someone shaking my shoulder and hollering "Hey! Hey! do you guys have any buckets?!" So my little sisters were hauling buckets of water from the bathroom and the kitchen to my brother and his friends while I was manning the hose trying to keep the fire from getting into our yard it was almost summer and we didn't have air conditioning so I was literally in a sleeveless t-shirt and my underwear barefoot and coughing at the smoke about half an hour into it I demanded to know when the fire fighters were suppose to get there my brother admitted he hadn't called them cause he didn't want mom to know he was high my sister promptly called I was going to but some of the fire jumped into our lawn and the dumbest friend in the group decided to put it out by sitting on it and literally lit his ass on fire my brother had to take him to the ground and I had to put him out about ten minutes after that the fire department showed up and had it out in 15 minutes flat dumb ass had to go to the hospital to treat the second degree burns on his ass both my sisters had to breath in oxygen for a few minutes and they had to wrap my feet up cause they had minor burns and cuts from me running around outside and the guy in charge yelled at my brother until my mom got home then they both yelled at him until he started crying And the icing on the damn cake for me a guy I went to school with walked by and told everyone about my damn mickey mouse underwear

[@robertmaybeth3434]

You kids were doing the work of three grown men! Larry, Moe and Curly.

[@mysticfire5850]

@@robertmaybeth3434 oh god they do fit tat trio of idiots

[@em1osmurf]

most stories on this channel are BS, but yours rings hilariously true! i'm 70, and my granddaughter had to have "commando" explained. she gave me disney adult-size Goofy undershorts for my birthday.

[@isitnewyears]

The dude deciding to sit on the fire to put it out made me laugh.

[@realulli]

Moral of that story: never leave home wearing undies you're not comfortable with people seeing you in!

[@scottthomas6202]

A lot of disaster stories start out with " I was drunk, and..."

[@ejbrown215]

idk if this is that uncommon but a drunk driver ran into the side of my house at 9 am on a Tuesday morning. she passed out at the wheel and got thrown through the windshield on impact. the wall she crashed into was on the same side of the house where my dad was sleeping, and at first my mom didn't know if she had crashed into the room where my dad was or not.carrying me across the house screaming for my dad because she thought he was dead is more than enough to make me never touch alcohol

[@adelerodriguez2432]

I am from Long Island, NY. There have been a lot of instances of drivers running into buildings-stores, houses, etc.

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

Dang, I didn't even notice at first that the one who lost their legs to the lawn mower was EIGHT YEARS OLD until the commentator reiterated it.

[@nathanielturner2577]

OSHA rules are there for a reason people!!! It’s to protect workers from death and/or life changing injuries.

[@m_m3543]

I have a bike and love my bike but if it comes to it being too hot to wear any gear I just won’t ride, I’ve heard so many bad stories.

[@metleon]

My mom told me that in ERs, there's a condition called 'bagel hand'. It's when you hold something in one hand (usually a bagel) and cut it with a knife in the other. People just cut straight through the bagel and into their hand. This clearly happens pretty often, because people came up with a term for it.

[@amberkat8147]

I did that once while cutting strawberries. I cut a bunch that way just fine, but on one I pushed just a bit too hard.

[@hedera1332]

My dad accidentally knocked himself out on one of the big beams in the roof of the factory he worked at (he was up there checking out a bit of machinery or something). It was just above his line of sight so he didn't see it. Had to go to the hospital with a concussion and had a massive lump on his head for days afterwards. He used to work as a chef when I was a little kid (3 or 4) and one day one of his co-workers accidentally cleaned a stove or something with the wrong cleaner. When my dad started up the appliance it cause a massive surge of flames that burned the heck out of both of his arms. I still remember them being completely bandaged up and a nurse having to come and visit him to change them despite me being so young. He's fine now (thankfully).

[@DrGandW]

I may be absentminded but at least I automatically wear my seatbelt as soon as I get into the car on reflex

[@wrex1377]

A guy looked for a propane leak on a bbq grill with a lighter, then called the fire department when he found it. The fire was out by the time we got there. He had no eyebrows.

[@Ghajestis]

some of these legit make me feel uncomfortable thinking about them

[@oron61]

15:07 That's some Garden of Eden level parenting right there. Leave the gun out for the kid to play with.

[@samsimington5563]

Similar circumstance happened to one of my three brothers. He was climbing a ladder in the former barn he lived in and I guess he slipped and fell off, landing on the concrete floor. He broke several vertebrae and pretty badly messed up his face but miraculously survived. He's recovered now but I imagine he was in a shit load of pain when he landed. This happened several months ago.

[@DaydreamingSwede]

That first story made me worried as fuck, I know now that its a "dumbest accident" list but I looked away and completely forgot about it when I started the video again

[@skullcat635]

My brother climbed our neighbors flagpole when we were kids. When he slid down a hook ripped through his pants and tore up his balls. None of the male doctors at the ER would even look at him and he was embarrassed by all the lady nurses seeing his junk. He still gets teased about it

[@josi4251]

2:00 I am relatively fearless. Grew up rural and unafraid of spiders, snakes, Bigfoot, you name it. Dodged FARC and narcos and kidnappers in Colombia. However, I am afraid of lawnmowers, sewing machines, and fish hooks. There are very good reasons why this is so. Let's just say there are stories.

[@leogol6045]

The microwave cement guy: TGFbro 😂😂😂

[@ryanchristopherson374]

Small western town. An open canal runs by a street with concrete barricades to regulate flow/erosion. 8 inches thick by seven foot tall by ten foot wide. A friend and I are waiting for our rides after closing at work. A massive blue ford LTD pulls up crammed full of kids, one or two of which might have been 21. They roll up to my friend and ask him if he wants to go to a party. He talks with them for a while, then declines, saying his mom is on the way. They drive off. Two days later, my older brother (who is a cop at this point) is over for dinner while his wife and kids are off visiting her side of the family for the weekend. He's quiet, which is really odd for him. Mom notices and asks him if he's okay. He swallowed what was in his mouth and took a drink, then started talking. The blue LTD did indeed go to an apparent rager of a party. No one knows if anyone there was sober by the end. LTD gets loaded up, tears off screaming for hell down this road, leaves the roadway, and slams into a concrete barricade at easily over 65mph. First officer on scene sees the car mostly rolled over, so he's looking at the passenger side of the car, doors almost looking to the sky. No sound coming from the car or the passengers, so he grabs the rear passenger door and jerks it open, to be staring into the face of his daughter. As soon as other officers were on scene, he fully lost it. Was off-duty immediately, and driven home. No survivors in the crash, everyone's blood tox came back off the charts. He retired early a month after the funerals.

[@danderson8431]

WOW!!!!

[@pyroman6000]

As a firefighter, the worst accidents were always caused by stupidity... Pulling out in front of a loaded dumptruck on a 55mph road? Yup. They learned nothing tho- all were killed in the most gruesome fashion instantly. Passing someone just before the crest of a blind hill- on that same 55 mph road? Yup. 3 cars totally destroyed, one woman killed, the passer broke BOTH femurs, plus many more injuries- and was trapped in a deep ditch. Bleeding like a stuck pig, screaming his lungs out- till he passed out- then the medics screamed at us. Gas everywhere. All to save a few seconds. Another car turned right INTO a passing car at an intersection. Not cut her off- drove right into the side of her. The driver of that blazer was 19. She got shoved off the road into a culvert, wher she rolled several times we got there, and the vehicle was straddling the ditch. Roof caved in over to the right- driver leaning out the window to yhe left. She was alive, but not alert. Medivac chopper called immediately, and we had to cut her out. She lived, andade a full recovery, bit it was touch and go for awhile. Serious head injuries. The other driver was not injured, but totally distraught- they knew it was their fault. Injured girl was a family friend of one of our crew. Sometimes it sucks being a ff in a small town... We also had a guy plow into a K9 Deputy at an intersection. Deputy was injured and had to be rushed to the hospital. Dog was okay- but really spooked. Had to get another K9 cop to come coax it out of yhe vehicle, and secure it, before he'd let us help his handler. NOT a good scene... Kids drag racing rolled a car FULL of teens- like 14-15 yr old teens. Sent everyone to the ER. ONE girl took the place of another to keep jer out of trouble. We noticed, lol. Had to respond to the party she was now at, and convince her to get looked at. Oh, and one of the 14 yr olds? The DAUGHTER of pur driver- a city cop. (Sergeant in fact). He was not amused. The list goes on and on, lol. Like the time the Chief's brother kicked over a 5 gallon gas can while doing a brake job on his shop truck. Goes and shuts pff the power, then decides he needs fans to speed up the ventilation. So he turns it back on WOOOF!!!! BIG fireball! Lost his entire shop, several work vehicles, and his race car. Nearly lost his house. We started seeing smoke several miles before we got there - he smoked out half the village. Nothing but fire when we arrived. We saved his house.

[@stargrl77]

thx for this comment. im a student driver but ill always make sure to be safe👍

[@dolphingoreeaccount7395]

I almost saw an accident happen once. But I LITERALLY missed it by blinking. The cars were going like 5 MPH at a stop sign though. Didn't even see a dent.

[@CreepersNeedHugs]

9:48 Ah, yes. His hands. _That’s what hurts the most after falling 30 feet down into concrete??!_

[@CreepersNeedHugs]

A story: guy survives falling 30 feet (3 stories) and landing on his hands Another story: guy survives falling 50 feet (5 stories) and landing on his head *That* story: guy dies after falling 12 feet (1.2 stories) *THAT* story: guy dies after shard of glass pierces his biceps when trying to break into someone’s house (like how tf do u even do that tho?) _That_ story: guy dies because he shoved an egg up his ass

[@reasonsvoice8554]

I dont disagree with owning guns But please take some gun safety lessons people please It may save a kid or friend in your life

[@CreepersNeedHugs]

6:00 TL;DR: If you’re ever homeless, don’t sleep under the trash on garbage day or the night before it. Or be under the trash at all. Period. That’s what happens.

[@rjthehalfbloodedeldrich2242]

When I was a senior in high school a group of freshmen and sophomores were going to a public pool in the next town over. They were driving a pickup truck, so 2 people inside the car and 3 people in the truck bed (which is illegal in the US). As they're driving the kids in the back are messing around and threw a sandal which accidentally hit the driver, so the driver takes his eyes off the road for a second to tell them to knock it off. As he's turned around he accidentally pulled the steering wheel with him, so he tried to get back on the road but overcorrected himself and lost control and the truck went over a small fence. As the truck went over the fence one of the kids in the back fell out just in time to get crushed between the fence and the tires. The truck got stopped by crashing into a tree and I can't remember which but either the driver or passenger went through the windshield. The kid who ejected died on the way to the hospital, and the other kid died a few days later. Didn't know any of the kids involved, but I still warn people to wear their seat belts even in the back seat, and to not ride in a truck bed while the things moving, there's a reason why it's illegal.

[@filipebarroqueiro7262]

Not my story but one of my teachers told my class this to explain why he stopped being a paramedic and went into teaching. He responded to a multiple car scene. Drunk driver. 6 lane highway Drunk driver going 150km an hour in the middle lane starts swerving slams into one car with so much force it flips the car containing a husband, a wife and 2 kids. Driver (husband) killed on impact when the car flipped.Wife died in hospital 2 days later. One of the two kids died on impact, and the "lucky" survivor of that car ended up being a paraplegic.at the age of 7 and an orphan. The drunk driver loses control of the car that swerves to the other lane hitting an SUV. The SUV didnt flip but unfortunately the 9 year old girl had the window rolled down and had her face turned to face the window. On impact well you can probably figure out what happened when the drunk drivers car slammed into that door going at those speeds. Mercifully she was killed on impact however that was the part of the crash he was sent to tend to. He said he had seen a lot of injuries and a lot of accidents but it took him years to get that image and the screams of the parents out of his head and he could no longer deal with things like and that and with therapy he eventually went into teaching. How does this fit the topic? 2 things. First is obviously the stupidity of the drunk driving. 2nd is that after killing 4 people including 2 small children and permanently crippling another after his car eventually flipped over the drunk driver walked out of the accident with nothing worse than a broken arm and a concussion from hitting his head on the roof of his car. Some research later he learned the drunk decided to take the cowards way out before he would stand trial and put a bullet through his brain. Great teacher who im sad to say was let go at the end of the year due to budget issues (they were scrapping that department and he was a recent hire) but last i heard hes been working at the next school ever since. A great teacher with great stories to tell in spite of this particular one.

[@captainmanic1959]

In 2010 I was the first person with any official capacity on the scene just after a woman committed suicide by jumping off of her ninth floor balcony. I prefer not to describe what I saw that day, but in 2022 I can see it in my mind as vividly as I did the day she killed herself.

[@chalkwarrior5542]

13:16 that guy was like "tis but a scratch"

[@brick4353]

that 8 year old on the lawnmower.... i was using a lawn mower by the time i was 4, of corse with supervision, but still..... how tf did i survive my childhood

[@kirakaffee9976]

maybe you just rode it on the lawn and not flipped it on the road where additional traffic was around?

[@brick4353]

@@kirakaffee9976 I flipped it twice by the time I was 10 and right by a very busy road

[@kirakaffee9976]

@@brick4353 well then, just dumb luck i guess 😏

[@realulli]

Child of the 70s? ;-) Those memes are there for a reason... ;-)

[@annasstorybox7906]

So many of these are people trying to repair or investigate on mashinery without making sure it's switched off, power supply is cut or safeguards are applied... There is a reason why a key topi of safety training with guns is to always make sure its unloaded before disassembly or checking for the reason of a jam. This can be applied to electrical equipment: always cut the power and make sure that it cannot be put on again by accident or negligence! Can be applied to mashinery: Switch it of completely and cut power before cleaning, inspection or maintenance that involves getting body parts in between moving parts or even close to such... My boyfriends father once worked as an engineer and had worked on developing a mashine that produced plastic fuel tanks for trucks. The mashine worked by inflating a tube of plastic with high pressure to press it into the mold thus creating the tank. During operations sometimes inflation failed and leftovers stayed in the mold. Instead of shutting down the mashine and using the maintenance hatch a worker crawled into the mashine through the hole where completed tanks were ejected. He somehow got stuck and wasn't able to get back out in time and the mold shut and he got squished all over the interior of the mold by the severe pressure used to inflate the plastic. Keep in mind that the mashine was fenced off inside that factory to avoid accidents, had signs and all... But apparently there is no way to safeguard stuff from idiots.

[@realulli]

You build an idiot-proof system. Just after you succeed, mother nature comes around and builds a better idiot.

[@etf2848]

Apple sauce is pretty good. *sips dads root beer* yep pretty good

[@desert_moon]

As an EMT-Intermediate/FireFighter/Search and Rescue mantracker, I've seen a lot of crazy stuff lol.

[@kylerdavis6828]

My brother wearing a helmet is most likely the only reason he's still alive today. He was riding his bike down our grandparents driveway and there was a large truck just to the left of the driveway which blocked the view of my brother seeing the truck speeding around the corner and from the driver seeing him. He was 6 and spent about a week in a special children's hospital and our granny who was literally walking out the door to watch him said when the truck stopped it was literally on his arm and part of his helmet was wedged under the tire. His jaw was broken in 4 places and dislocated and he had a moderate concussion his jaw was still wired shut for a week or two after leaving the hospital and he was in a c-collar for like a month afterwards bc of how badly strained the muscles and ligaments in his neck were. Almost 5 years later he's perfectly healthy and loves to tell the story and show off his scars but we still have the very beat up and dented helmet he was wearing as a reminder why we always wear helmets

[@jaycooper2812]

Responded to a motor vehicle crash where 4 kids in a stolen Caddilac crashed head on into a cement mixer. It took me an hour and a half to find the last kids head. The medical examiner took 3 days to get all of the body parts in the correct caskets. All 4 kids were decapitated and there were arms and legs torn from the torsos. All 4 weren't wearing seat belts.

[@nicholasnguyen5181]

My dad had a concussion; (I think); back when he was babysitting my toddler cousin, and he forgot that my mom had waxed the floors… . Because of that; I heard a loud smack, and saw that my dad face planted right on the floor between the hallway, living room, and by the front door. I was trying so very hard to not laugh, but it was too hilarious not to since I’m thinking about it just now XD

[@vincetovar4472]

More like this please!

[@Connor4x4]

Seatbelts are important

[@rowanwarner222]

When i was at summer camp, we cooked our meals in the fire one night, and they were wrapped in tinfoil. So me being extremely smart reached directly into the center of the fire and took out the tinfoil wrapped food with my bare hands. I stuck them in the lake and put bandaids on the burns. I still have little scars today.

[@iannajor1690]

MEAT CRAYON?!?!?!?!

[@tricorvus2673]

The one at 6:09 about the lady having her legs up on the dash, and then there was a crash. Yeah, I used to do that, then my now ex husband told me a story like that and boy it cured me wicked fast of doing that.

[@xWatexx]

Don’t forget that Earth’s gravity is an acceleration of 9m/s^2, which means that if it takes even one second to fall, you’re going 10m/s. That’s 22mph. Imagine a block of cement hitting your head at 22mph.

[@Amongus-yu7ft]

Lmao the first guy… what a genius

[@Stammerjohan95]

4:40, you have a patient with an open tib fib fracture, positive LOC, trouble remembering the event and repetitive questioning. Shes got a brain injury for sure

[@evangelos4346]

One time I was riding my bicycle to school in frost weather, and the ice made me slip and fall. Thankfully I caught myself with my leg. I still fell down fully, just a lot slower. I was wearing a helmet but even then it was quite the reminder of why I should be wearing it.

[@amberblyledge7859]

WEAR HELMETS EVERYONE. Especially on horses. I was saved by one.

[@justbrowsing9706]

Boyfriend's uncle was a tow truck driver that responded to accidents. Woman in the passenger seat had her feet on the dash board with the window down. Accident occurs, and one leg goes out the window, the other stays inside the car. As expected, she was split down the middle up to the torso, dead on arrival.

[@chrishankins9744]

Im happy when they say they died instabtly, because it means they didnt have to suffer, and i feel terrible

[@Babbleplay]

First story, burning truck of pumpkins. Exact thing happened here, only it was eggplants, and no lighter involved; he just tried to keep driving with gas leaking and a bit of metal from under truck scraping the asphalt.

[@loganicfilms1388]

10:04 This one gets a pass. Bee allergies are serious. Maybe his was serious enough to warrant this response?

[@amberkat8147]

Except bees have no reason to sting you if they don't think you're a threat. We got a wasp in the car on a long road trip, it was mostly in the back window right behind me. We stayed clam and kept going. Poor thing gave up and died like bees do once we got too far from that area, so it was probably a communal type of wasp. No one panicked so no one attacked the wasp and got stung, no one crashed the car, and no one tried to dive out of the car while it was on the highway. Literally all you have to do is stay calm avoid putting your hand where the bee is. Then stop your car, roll down the windows, and wait for the bee to leave. You can leave too, of course, if you don't want to wait for the bee to realize it can go now. My Dad's afraid of bees and wasps. He slipped on wet grass while running from a wasp, tore his rotator cuff, and needed surgery. Thing is, where he was there are ALWAYS wasps during the day in late summer to fall- they eat the pears that fall from the tree there. I still don't understand why he was out there in the first place when he's so afraid of them.

[@dylanrivera2244]

Not a paramedic, but I saw this one parent at school with no arms, I later found out that when he was a kid, he had the genius idea to grab onto an electric fence.

[@teelesynclair5902]

Wear helmets, when I see cyclists without them I'm like WTFeck, head injuries are no laughing matter. I don't know what happened to me but I blacked out, and on the way down I walloped my head off of one of those heavy, metal, rectangular shaped door handles which lots of shops have. My friend says he turned around and found me on the pavement convulsing, eyes rolling back into my head, foaming at the mouth and totally unresponsive. My head was pouring blood, it formed a 1ftx1ft puddle, my friend photographed the scene to show me. I literally have 0 memory of the incident, I remember coming around and I felt panicked, I thought I had been attacked like one minute I was going to collect my pizza with my friend and the next, I was on the floor, gushing blood and totally in shock. I felt extremely drunk despite being totally sober when I came around, like my world was tiltng, and spinning plus my head was throbbing, I felt like I was gonna puke too. We had to go to the hospital. I had split my head open, exposing my skull 💀. I can't remember, my recollection is hazy, most of the details were told to me by my friend but I think I needed to get stitches internally and externally, I had cut right through the different layers of my head. I got local anaesthetic and I honestly didn't feel much pain getting stitched up, I do remember my doctor asking me, "can you feel this?" , I felt tapping but no pain, then the doctor informed me that he was tapping my skull bone with his finger. My friend showed me a picture of my head he had taken, it was weird seeing my head torn open and actually bone exposed, I also chipped my skull. The wound was just over 3 inches long. I am basically 6ft tall, and I was walking slowly when I had my accident and hitting my head from my height made such a bloody, horrible mess and injury. I could have died, if I hit my head 3 inches to the side it would have been a different story is what a doctor told me. Therefore, if you were going faster, as is the case with cyclists, you could quite easily end up past tense from just a simple fall. Factor in collisions with moving vehicles and you certainly could end up with absolutely horrific injuries. I would never allow a loved one to get on a bicycle without a helmet. I'm left with a huge scar and a dented skull which can be easily felt with your fingers. I remember being too terrified to go to sleep after my accident because I was scared that I may not wake up, I didn't allow myself to sleep for 24 hours. Please wear helmets and make your kids wear them too, head injuries are no joke.

[@RealQuin]

when I was a kid (8ish?) I was with my brother (13ish) and my cousin (idk his age, older than my brother tho), throwing random crap on the bonfire just to see what would happen. One of them threw in a half full aerosol can. I hid behind cousin's truck because even at that age I knew how dumb it was to burn a spray can. It exploded like a goddamn firework. Dad came running, saw none of us were hurt and proceeded to ream them out for being morons. Wonder what would've happened if they went with their original plan of burning bullets?

[@jordandennis6794]

The kid with his butt out the window got his. I'm sorry

[@SevenGC89]

in 2017 I received a life saving kidney/liver transplant, the only hospital willing to take my case close to me (Western NY) was in Cleveland Ohio so when I was recovering for 3 months in hospital my Mom was put up a the Ronald Macdonald house where families of patients can stay for free. She was talking to different families and met a women who was there because her daughter tried to commit suicide by shooting herself in the head from under the chin and ended up taking her whole face off and blinding herself (her story ended up going nationwide because she ended up being the first face transplant or one of the first) and she was like 2 rooms down from me, crazy world.

[@rainingwhenidie]

When I was a baby, one of my mom's family members died in a motorcycle accident. He went head first into a stop sign and he wasn't wearing a helmet. I'm not sure if it would've saved him, but it's why I'm never riding one. I know there's always a risk of crashing in any vehicle, but at least cars have walls, seatbelts, and airbags. It always scares me when I see someone riding a motorcycle, especially without any protective gear. I may die young, but I'm not gonna die on one of those. I can't imagine how messed up his face got. I just hope he died on impact. Honestly it's terrifying how fragile humans are. Your entire life can just end. Like a fly going splat on a window...

[@robertmaybeth3434]

Not sure what's worse and/or funnier, the idiot driving around hopped-up on "whip-its" (I thought that was a Devo song) or the guy that kicked his own ass with the toilet plunger. (Oh wait, the FRICKEN toilet plunger, but, frick that you frickers)

[@seanrosenau2088]

22:26 Who TF cuts veggies on a freaking string instrument?

[@hardcoreheaven4153]

Mandolines are a completely different thing from mandolins Also, I've cut myself on one before too while trying to cut potatoes (I also made the mistake of not using the guard), it was one of my multiple kitchen-related accidents (earliest I can remember was cutting myself while trying to carve a pumpkin, I still have the scar from that on my left index finger; I also managed to spill boiling water all over my right forearm and a portion of my right leg after accidentally dropping a pot of pasta before)

[@justbrowsing9706]

Pt 2 Boyfriend was driving home from my house around 10pm. The road back home is a 2 lane road, one going north and one going south. It is a passing lane road. Boyfriend is going a little above speed limit (50 in a 40) and a man on a motor bike decides to go around. Man on bike doesn't realize there is a car coming the opposite direction. Head on collision with an elderly woman, with the bike going well over 60mph. Poor guy died on impact, right beside my boyfriend. He was only 18 years old.

[@gentlemanzackp6591]

this guy got hit by a jacobsen F series something at golf course, before you go, huh how? Well, he was a groundskeeper at the course, he parked at the slight incline, didnt put on brakes, he was trying to get a deck down since the jacobsen was kinda old as hell. while he was trying to force a forward deck down. Doing that it made the jacobsen rock aft and fro, so it rolled backwards. Idiot tried to run around the back and stop it. The jacobsen was easily 2500?-3500 pounds machine, his ankle and legs was promptly ran over. Idiot was okay though. Good thing was the decks was off ground. the blades barely shaved his body. (it wasnt PTO powered blades, rather a helical push type) He got up start limping toward the runaway jacobsen. My friend joked that " in my mind i could imagine that old guy running after a smoking golf cart from film Falling Down, except this time, its the idiot trying to chase after a runaway mower with broken ankles" Oh and jacobsen buried itself into treeline.

[@CreepersNeedHugs]

> As soon as someone is described as a "KZbinr" i instantly assume they're not all that bright You have insulted me!

[@CreepersNeedHugs]

"So many people have their lives ruined by speeding or driving drunk." In other words… "So many people have their lives ruined by their own actions." (Psst! It’s their fault!)

[@Janie_Mattia]

The child in the sports car probably puked because of fear or had some unseen injury. (hopefully not)

[@samsimington5563]

Okay why the absolute hell would you cut buns open with a saw? They never not come presliced so you can just separate the bun halves by pulling them apart with your hands. This is true for both burger and hotdog buns

[@CreepersNeedHugs]

13:06 I do not feel bad for him at all. I have absolutely no sympathy for people who don’t wear seatbelts, then die in a car crash. Wear your fucking seatbelt. Moral of the story: wear your seatbelt, or I don’t give a shit that you died. Edit: good thing I comment on youtube and not Reddit… this comment would not fly on reddit

[@kirakaffee9976]

how many dead people will give a shit if you give a shit that they are dead is questionable tho 😏

[@lestupidunicorn]

i used to work at a waterpark with slides and pools and shit, late 30s-early 40s completely sober dad of 3 on holiday from a foreign country jumped head first from one of the slides into the kids' pool. blood everywhere, his skull split open, nearly drowned by the time they got him out. fucking stupid im just worried for those 3 kids' safety

[@purplealice]

GIve an eight-year-old a push-type lawnmower - kids are the only ones who have the energy to use those things.

[@zorakj]

Oooh, that last one made me so angry at the driver-at-fault I flipped off the screen for 10 seconds.

[@ladyfatass7470]

Me.. Dislocated my right knee while drunk 5 or 6 years ago.. Then fracturing my right ankle 2 months or so .. While drunk..

[@lonku4788]

Not a first responder, not even possible to save them. A bunch of burnt bodies of people that Approached a crashed truck carrying a gas pipe which exploted. Still don't know why they decided to get close.

[@nicomaichenitsch9047]

The amount if people i saw dying because of stupidity is insane. Sad to but at one point you just think to yourself if life is even worth anything to people.

[@candie1230]

Guy I went to school with thought it was fun to train hop!!! The train won and he lost an arm and a leg. I see him around town from time to time in his wheelchair.

[@humanperson3779]

One of my highschool friends jumped off of a haybale at a party, landed wrong, and broke his leg so bad it had to be amputated. Not even particularly stupid, just bad luck

[@SHA_Navneet_C]

Why would you open buns with a circular saw

[@sgtwhisker26]

I sprained my ankle by standing up wrong 😑

[@Ribbital]

7:08 for those who don’t know I-95 is a highway from Providence to Miami

[@addyxinwonderland1473]

18:22 this guy talks like he's a cop

[@jonnaas]

The first one i expected to be really gorey, but no it was fucking pumpkins

[@pyroman6000]

Nothing wrong with teaching your kids about responsibility, and the value of a dollar, by having them mow the lawn at a young age. Provided you TEACH them how to do it, supervise them, and don't allow them to act like idiots or take dumb risks. Obviously, you do this on a case by case basis, with those who jave earned your trust. Same for other potentially hazardous activities. They need to develop common sense and wisdom- which they never will, if you make them live in a bubble. We were always after Dad for things to do to earn our own pocket money! And having a hobby farm, and refusing to pay someone to do stuff you could do yourself, meant there were always things to be done. Mom was perfectly happy to pay us to clean the house, too lol. (She hated cleaning, and worked as a teacher- so win/ win.) You learn quick, not to be stupid- because stupid hurts! And means a LOT of extra unpaid work fixing what you screwed up. That said, mooning was always fun! What a great way to: a).express your low opinion of someone, b) give somebody a hard time, in good fun, or c) embarass your friends! Whomever got a goant stick up their butts, and decided it needed to be treated as a sex crime, needs a public horsewhipping- followed by being mooned by everyone. Anyhow, nack to the scheduled video... Ill quit rambling now.

[@nathanielturner2577]

I wonder if leaving a flaming truck on the side of the road a crime? I mean he left but he left it there so he could treated ASAP for his burns. Whether or not he is a criminal up for debate but there is doubt the guy is STUPID. LOL

[@Califishing831]

The kid that puked in the last one probably had a concussion.