What's The Quickest Way Someone Messed Their Life Up ?

[@idkatthispoint-s9s]

Moral of the story: Don't leave everything for a love interest.

[@ledam2654]

That was the moral of 2 stories out of like 40. There was a lot of crazy lessons here.

[@manadex822]

Especially if you only met them a few months ago

[@thejaiganticbridge5479]

Some of Those don't even count as love interest. Dude met the girl at a party and was gone in a matter of days. That ain't love and any movie claiming otherwise is lying

[@chuckshartz2722]

@@thejaiganticbridge5479 when we went into Iraq in 2003, we had a dude who got married just 2 days before receiving the word to load up from Pope Air Force base, which is adjacent to Fort Bragg in North Carolina. They were scrambling last minute having his new "wife" placed on separate rations... all the spousal benefits that comes with a legal and binding marriage... The real kicker to this was that she was a Fayettenamese stripper at a place called Sharkey's on Bragg Boulevard (not to be confused with Sparkey's, which is just down the road from Sharkey's). He had known her for a total of not even 2 weeks!!! And yes, it all went badly for JP as one could imagine... but he didn't know that until our 9th month in after receiving a letter from the North Carolina Highway Patrol one day... The letter was over 3 months old by the time he received it. And in the letter it said that his Mercury Cougar was found abandoned along Highway 87 one night and has been on the impound ever since. And everyone knows how much impound fees stack up to formeach day a vehicle sits unclaimed. She was also cleaning him out every payday too, since he ALSO had given her full power of attorney...

[@thejaiganticbridge5479]

@@chuckshartz2722 ho boy, that's rough

[@nightowlmystic9387]

So my neighbor, I knew him since I was little. A year younger than me. I never talked to him that much only when his cousin who was my age was around. A few weeks ago, a married couple were killed by one of the drivers that was doing an illegal street race. A few days after the incident did I found out that it was my neighbor who happened to drive the car and crashed into the married couple’s car. He is 17 and is going to spend a very long time in jail for two counts of involuntary manslaughter. Honestly I don’t feel any pity but just pure hatred. Why? Because the married couple have 7 year old twins and they aren’t going to see their mom and dad again. Edit: thank you for the reply. I’m fine. You should say sorry to the loses of the family that died or prayers if your religious. I never knew the victims it was just on the news. My neighbor who is now in jail is the one I knew. Never really talked to him at all. Hardly seen him.

[@nolanmythbuster]

I'm sorry for your loss! The girl I was madly in love with started doing meth, started hiding that lifestyle and all the drama around it from me. She turned into a completely different person, different temperament and base of reality, she was unable to care about anything but herself. I was ghosted by her when I found out she had an affair behind my back. 2 years later and I still struggle to not look her up, because it's just all bad news. Homelessness, multiple first degree felony burglary charges (the lawyer said she's clearly mentally ill- all she did was try clothes on because she didn't have any), multiple cases of drunk in public, often because people called that a woman can be heard screaming walking through neighborhoods, well she ran from court and now has 2 felony warrants. She was never like that before, but did struggle with PTSD and didn't go to therapy. It's devastating how someone can change. Meth can take a perfectly healthy brain and ruin it, meth on someone who is already mentally ill and you get something you couldn't imagine.

[@ezrasirman7414]

I’m sorry for BOTH of your losses

[@Gary4DLC]

Wow... And for something like this of all things. People can ve stupid sometimes.

[@yoshiboy314]

​@@Gary4DLCI agree

[@teeyahgriffin5947]

I’m sorry for ur loss, Byt think about it this way, When god says it’s time for us to come back home to him they will see their mom and dad again 😊 (Ik this doesn’t help but I try to see the positive in the negative)

[@badgerbadger-badger-Poppy]

On the one about motorcycle helmets, there was this guy who attended a bike rally to protest New York's (then) newly instated law that required motorcycle helmets. He crashed and died of a traumatic brain injury. Doctors said that a helmet would've saved his life

[@ChogeRandom]

Oh the irony

[@wrestlingfan3117]

And the ones who organized it said that people should not always wear helmets, idk if that’s the right way to describe but it sums up to We’re idiots who felt we shouldn’t be told to by people who are trying to keep us alive.

[@groofromtheup5719]

All the stats I've seen suggest that helmet use makes death per Mike ridden more likely. I believe helmets do make crashes more survivable, but also more likely

[@shadybaby281]

😓

[@DinnerForkTongue]

The State rests its case.

[@TheTwin12321]

Story 1: I am a chemistry teacher. One year I did chromatography with my students. For this they had to take an M&M, put it in a beaker with a few drops of water and then shake until all the colour was off the M&M's. When I explained all of this (and the next steps), I kept on repeating: you do NOT eat the M&M's. One kid always questioned everything I said. I didn't mind, he was respectfull and just curios as to why it was that way. So he came up to me, asking me why he couldn't just eat it. I explained about the dangers of not knowing if the beakers were actually clean, since students clean them themselfs. He seemed to understand and walked off. He asked the two other teachers helping me out as well, who gave the same answers. In total he had asked 4 times. 2 weeks later he came up to me, to tell me he had secretly eaten the M&M's. He had fallen ill the next morning and was sick for two weeks. (We didn't miss him those two weeks, since it was a 2 week break anyway.) I now tell this story to all students who keep asking these type of questions!

[@sirkermitthefirstoffrogeth9622]

4:00 TF?! HE TRIED TO GET HER OUTTA THERE! He was a good friend! What was he gonna do drag 20 y.o female out?! That would end badly. I'm sorry for his lost but she risked it and she died! Not only that she insulted him for trying to get her on the right path in life. Damn!

[@LocseryuOfficial]

surivours guilt is potent shit man

[@oksure9261]

Yeah. It’s like telling a dude not to run into open traffic but he really wants to because he thinks it’ll be fun. It’s sad, but sometimes if someone is really determined to do something idiotic, you just gotta let them deal with the consequences. They did the best they could, regardless. Sad that the only way I can think of (I assume they tried to help when possible) to help her was to literally assault/kidnap her when she met the dude.

[@TripnotizeVM]

Emotions aren't always logical especially with women, she was with a guy who she fancied a lot and was blinding by the rose tinted glasses. Of course what she said was insulting but I'm sure deep down she knew that too

[@shadybaby281]

Wow....

[@sirkermitthefirstoffrogeth9622]

@@shadybaby281 what?

[@thatpolskadude]

Story 24 isn't him fricking up his life, its the dumb cops that fricked up his life. Like, have you HEARD of a breathalyzer? It's this wonderful thing that measures if your drunk or not! The technology we have today! My condolences

[@mybodyisamachine]

Nah, it was the nurse who didn't suspect a punctured lung after surviving a car accident (unless the cops didn't disclose that info to the nurse)

[@sharkfan0902]

They also might not have a breathalyzer not all departments can afford them it's not funded

[@oksure9261]

@@sharkfan0902 Then it’s whoever I can blame for them not being funded. I’m not exactly sure who, but it’s their fault.

[@americandissident9062]

@@sharkfan0902 police departments get LOTS of funding. Don’t let them fool you. No matter what happens, they always say they don’t have enough cops or gear or money or guns. But they’re all receiving military gear and equipment. MRAPs for the cops all over the country.

[@mattbrown580]

@@sharkfan0902 those government owned mental scum bags have enough money given them to by hardworking people. they don’t need shit they just need to tear down and reform the whole entire justice system. The people police departments look to hire are literally control freaks and narcissists

[@pixlbelle8081]

My stepdad’s older brother. Not so much over a few minutes but over several years of neglecting himself and his health. Diabetes up the wazoo to the point of him having his foot amputated from how drastically his type-2 developed. Worse yet, he’s now a 58-year-old retired cop who insists on living with his 80-something mother and having her take care of him, despite cops in Chicago having pretty good coverage for medical needs and other such things for retirement. The only thing keeping him alive is sheer spite. Oh, he also verbally abuses said mother, which we only found out after a recent visit from my parents. My stepdad is waiting for his shitty brother to finally die.

[@juliane.mfarias9285]

Wait, he just dosent want to do anything remotely healthy?

[@pixlbelle8081]

@@juliane.mfarias9285 yep. No matter how much his doctors, family, and friends were urging him to change he just refuses. But the last I’ve heard about him, he’s planning on moving out somewhere so he won’t be a problem to his mother anymore, thank god. I also forgot to mention he’s a massive Trump fan, despite literally being a Mexican immigrant.

[@janerecluse4344]

@@pixlbelle8081 That always drives me crazy. I'm white than sour cream and I know Trump is a bad idea, for fuck's sake.

[@joefrogalaska9994]

This story scares me because I'm type 1 and love sugar I try to resist with carb free things it does help but my favorite is expensive

[@ricky-sanchez]

@@janerecluse4344 lol white like sour cream.🤣

[@DonBoy22]

Story 01 reminded me of Being in science class one day, & the teacher had just handed out small dishes of a white powder like substance, then went back into the supply cupboard. When she came back out one boy at the back of the class shouted it was salt. The teach congratulated him for figuring it out then asked how he did it. I TASTED it was the response. The teacher was very unhappy.

[@bigrandomun9267]

2 kids who were already troublemakers independently brought a BB gun and C-class drugs. Teacher caught both of them and police searched their homes. One of them got kicked out by his parents and lives on a side-street outside the local shopping centre. The other one got excluded and lost all of his friends for bringing C-class drugs to school just so he can show them he actually had those drugs.

[@f1wwwagonburner132]

I joined the Marine Corps in 07 and a few weeks in a recruit punch a drill instructor. With in the week, the offending recruit was dishonorable discharged from the Marines Corps. Also, it was done in front of the battalion of recruits. He was made an example of what happens if you hit a DI. If you don't know what that means, a dishonorable discharge is worse than a felony.

[@minetieplays2092]

16:38 "florida woman blames lack of a career on obama" caught me so off guard it genuinely made me laugh

[@tablescissors]

so out of step, much cooler to blame everything on Trump now lol

[@trumpetmasta92]

Some guy I went to school with was an absolute soccer prodigy, constantly had conversations with college scouts seeking his skills however he was still young but they kept in touch with him. He was still a freshmen. As we got to be junior and seniors he just stopped coming to school preferred to smoke and skip, classes all the time. Turns out he had scholarship offers for him for some major colleges but when they saw he stopped coming to school, they all got pulled. Now he still plays soccer out of school and is still amazing at it, but goes home early for his construction job he got. Not bad, but he could have been a pro player in many people’s opinion.

[@tablescissors]

I've seen addiction ruin so many people's lives, to the point of death, and so often it was pointless (more hedonism than trauma).

[@conorstabler6093]

This is why I will never do drugs or go to stupid school parties.

[@FourthIdentity-gu2zk]

I thought the same thing but you'd be surprised how much a lack of social connections will ruin your life just as bad. Can't get a good job or promotions without social connections unfortunately

[@WestGarbage6]

it amazes me how a person who commits murder (still horrible) gets a 20+ year sentence, but somebody who r@pes multiple actual children and has over 150 pictures of cp on their phone can get as little as 5 years, in my opinion I think the minimum sentence there should be something like 50 years, or life.

[@mxn0chr0maxic85]

My mom married my (now ex) stepdad two years ago. Keep in mind, I am 14 years old. One day, I took a shower, and as I got out, I found said stepdad's phone on the bathroom counter, camera pointing directly at me. Apparently, he had recorded me, a 14 year old girl, taking a shower. He has not been tried yet. Update: He's getting a trial soon. Update 2: Videos corrupted, hoping that there's enough other evidence to convict. If not, they're gonna charge him with tampering with evidence. Update 3: My mother and him are officially divorced, but his mom is being awful an is refusing to give us what he owes us from the divorce. Police won't help.

[@PKpanzerkrieger]

Sick to read it ...

[@possumorb3770]

That's just not right...

[@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307]

So....who cares?

[@delusion5867]

That's disgusting, hope he gets a decent sentence

[@lindac6919]

Whatta creep! I hope you are safe my dear. There are people who care.

[@prestonrodenkirch8412]

Best thing about motorcycle riders that don't where a helmet: They're usually so young they haven't had any kids yet. Thank you Darwin

[@黒キツネ-九零二一零]

Story 4: so you mean to tell me, that he lost a full ride scholarship, a free MacBook, and a free dorm for 4 years…OVER A DAMN BLUNT?! This hurts from here. I hope that joint was REALLY worth it. edit: i was saying that that weed could've waited until a college party or after he graduates or something. if he graduated, he could've smoked all he wanted. priorities

[@I_Hate_Youtube_Handles]

Colleges be petty

[@Snomal]

if it was like a type of EDP shit yeah I would understand? But a more better ciggie? Ffs

[@aorusaki]

That's brutal and cruel on the side of the college. Not even a 2nd chance :/. This student doesn't really learn anything from this, they're just going to see the world as unforgiving. They won't stop doing drugs they'll just try to hide it better next time. It would have been better if they sent the kid rehab AND let him keep going to college. Everyone makes mistakes he was just the unlucky one to get caught.

[@KnakuanaRka]

@@aorusaki Yeah, that’s totally disproportionate; it’s not like they killed someone or anything.

[@aurorialgaming1935]

@@aorusaki The world IS unforgiving. I'm not one for arguing the "weed is good or bad" on this, but plain and simple you break the rules the consequence is in writing.

[@girl1213]

Story 12 Oh boy. Some boys tried this trick to get my nephew in trouble. Thankfully the police quickly realized my nephew was innocent because the idiots didn't know him as well as they thought. They were suspended, had to pay a large fine, and lost a lot of good college opportunities last I heard. All because they didn't like the fact my nephew could beat them at Halo.

[@The_Joshuan_Empire]

That's pretty god damn funny if you think about it!

[@girl1213]

@@The_Joshuan_Empire Now yes, back then no.

[@360entertainment2]

That’s horrible, I’m glad those kids got dealt with!

[@summerdais325]

Story 1: The kid was in AP Chemistry. Starting day 1 in laboratory chemistry classes, you're taught the basics of handling chemicals safely. They also likely have a basic knowledge of the chemicals they're working with. I was a science nerd but of the biological sciences.

[@the_real_skateboard]

the "Hey kid wanna see something cool" story was so fucking funny i can't, but i can't help but feel bad for the cop who got his head bashed in.

[@VJP8464]

10 years ago I saw a woman who was a first grade teacher ruin her life by drunkenly mauling me with her car at a bus stop. Got a 15 year sentence, but was eligible for parole a while ago, idk if she’s out by now You could maybe say I unintentionally got everything ruined by happening to sit there that day, but I don’t wanna have a victim mentality, even though my recovery took everything just to get by, everyone I thought I could rely on flaked, it’s continuing even today because of the complicated permanent damages, my medical bills have reached $1.6 million recently, and I only just recently got compensation after a decade of waiting over the equally complicated legal problems of the situation, all the while my health insurance wants over $200,000 back because I “didn’t hurt myself, someone else did”, and therefore I couldn’t take a single penny of the initial meager $50k the teacher’s insurance had for 10 years

[@phyrr2]

I'm sorry man, it's stories like yours that show how the world REALLY works. Friends and family suddenly disappear, the system never works how you need it, and in the end you're left with a gaping void of all sorts of issues afterwards, maybe to never feel whole again. But you've got the right attitude ditching the victim mentality. That's the thing that prevents people from moving on and leading a fulfilling life after such a thing. No matter how hard life is with the cards we're dealt, we still have a choice on how we react to everything. I've personally known a few people who had similar circumstances, one in particular who practically chose to "live a good life" almost out of spite against the world (and the crappy people involved or who wouldn't help when it came down to it). Acceptance is so damned hard, but it's the only thing that lets us move forward.

[@lindac6919]

Wow. I'm really sorry. I hope things get better.

[@colleenross8752]

Anyone who steals a child's innocence should be locked up for life

[@AlexRising_]

“A friend of mine asked me if I wanted to try crack with him, I was busy and declined.” ⚰️

[@RoostyNY]

I had a bully in high school , who was always dick to people who wasn’t athletic or in his clique. About 3 years ago I come to find out that he got into a knife fight with his roommate over music being too loud. In “self defense” he disemboweled his roommate and nearly killed him. He’s in prison now

[@Jun-Kyard]

Roommate skill issue

[@jjsweetwandi7042]

the last story hits me. A friend of mine got bullied in an online game. she loved the game she loved her friends there, but the bullieing from a whole group of people + the bullieing from her IRL family (Her sister called the cops on her for walking on the same sidewalk) were just too mutch. she ended her suffering last year. She would have been 30 this month. And it's not getting easier. You think of who they could have become, what you would have done toghter. For me I lost my GF, a friend and alot of joy for the game. All happend because, one single person had a problem with her. and couldn't stop dragged more people in and all went from bad to hell. May she rest in peace ♥

[@Synth466]

My dad's cousin and his wife were hit and killed by a drunk driver. Rest in peace, Ali and Naomi I didn't get to meet yall but you sounded like great people.

[@mattyice1151]

I have a cousin with "Whitney Houston syndrome". Most talented dude you could ever meet. Good basketball player. Straight A student. College grad. Funny as heck, hot girlfriend.. Dude has shady friends tho that got him into drugs, guns and what not. Now he's in jail with a mental illness and his friends are nowhere to be found. Growing up I would've never thought he'd end up like this, it's really sad. For me he's always a lesson to stay clean and avoid drugs, especially pills and stuff.. it can mess you up bad

[@ldarrow]

4 kids at my high school got into a really bad accident a few weeks before their senior year started. The driver was drunk and high, that is bad enough and would have messed his life up but it gets much worse bc one of the passengers died and the other 2 were both injured and in the hospital for awhile. The drive was 18 and they tried him as an adult, he spent some time in prison but even tho he’s out he’ll probably never fully put his life back together after that. Never ever ever get into a car with someone under the influence behind the wheel, please find a safe ride. And if you are drunk or high please never get behind the wheel, you can unexpectedly ruin or forever change your life or the lives of others in an instant.

[@nillypc42]

I had a friend in my school (it was a school that was populated with Muslim students like me and non-Muslim teachers). We were outside doing recess one day(it was snowing, but the sun came out that day) and one of my friends decided it was an excellent idea to throw a piece of ice at a stop sign. This man got a strength of an anime protagonist and chucked the rock just barely over a car. He got suspended for a week because of it and before he left he told me, "See you in a week!". It may not be "messed up my life", but it just comes to show this man would do anything. Also, a note is that both of us were good boys in class.

[@petergriffin613]

Two stories. Around my freshman year, this kid who was an absolute jackoff in all respects (insulting teachers, threatening literal elementary schoolers and so on) got an F in music class (don't ask me how), so he does the next logical step, begins loudly swearing in class and calling the professor insults that no reasonable person would ever think of saying to someone who has authority over them. He then began crying and begging the professor not to say anything to the principal. For this, he got thrown out of school the following day. No idea what happened to him after that because he was genuinely such an asshole that no one wished to keep in contact with him. Another one is when me and a friend were taken to the principal's office regarding some political posts we made online that were considered inflammatory. Nothing xenophobic, just making fun of a random local politician from my country (not American). I apologized and said that I had no clue that it could be misconstrued as offensive or inflammatory, while my buddy, in his infinite wisdom, yelled at the principal, called her senile, and told her a bunch of other shit. I attempted to calm him down, but he refused to listen. I got off free. The principal had to call a meeting with all the professors to determine whether he was to be expelled or just suspended.

[@EarlFaulk]

To be fair that can be annoying. Oh you dared to make fun of someone's ideas and they have a darker skin color than you? THATS RACIS!

[@teslainvestah5003]

0:29 NO, NO! You do not EVER blame a teacher when a student breaks the first rule anyone ever learns about chemistry! Nothing from the lab goes into your body _ever!_ That's like blaming the teacher of a cooking class for a student grabbing a knife and stabbing themselves in the chest. It's not your teacher's job to look at you and guess whether you're suicidal, it is truly impossible to tell by looking. You can always hide it. That kid hid that he was mortally stupid, nobody could've stopped it but him.

[@sanguineaurora8765]

My mother's friend's son (who is 20) wanted to prove his manhood by beating up his mother's boyfriend. (His mother is mid 40's and her boyfriend is late 40's...) So he stalked him and got into an argument, where he hit him in the head with an iron stick. Man died. And the boy is now serving 25 years. He was a successful university junior with a loving girlfriend and a perfect internship in a dream company who were going to hire him as soon as he graduated. A moment of idiocy.

[@ProfMannion]

The fentanyl patch one is extra sad. Those patches used to crack and release too much of the medication and overdose people who didn't even abuse them. You would just take as directed, overdose and then be labeled a drug addict when you ODed into the hospital or died if no one found you.

[@SarafinaSummers]

Or worse, could crack and release on a caregiver. Or a first responder. That's why those types of patches are no longer available, iirc. Which kinda pisses me off a little, because if made well, they work better than the adhesive matrix patches. At least for my body type.

[@ProfMannion]

@@SarafinaSummers As a former first responder no. There was no risk to anyone but the patient. First responders are the ones pointing out that all these police "exposures" to fent in the field is BS. Those cops are panicking or using. EMS is around way more ODs and mystery powders then cops and we don't have that problem. We are literally on top of the stuff all day, so when you see a cop fall out on body cam it's copiganda. I am sorry you can't get the medication that works best for you.

[@vexile1239]

Worse yet, be a violent criminal who deliberately takes fentanyl engages in crime (multiple times) unalives due to od as the cops are arresting you triggering riots and be treated as some kind of messiah posthumously

[@sinarodl663]

A guy at my school lost his life in a motorcycle accident. Before that, he had a loving girlfriend, was very well liked by his whole class - he was the class clown but in a wholesome way - and did very well academically. He only lost his life because he couldn't properly control his new Kawasaki just yet and most likely didn't wear a helmet. He crashed face first into an ambulance on the 31st of October 2021. I went to the memorial my school did for him and even now, almost two years later, the "shrine" (don't know a better word) for him is still standing. He wasn't even 18 yet.

[@giantmess4335]

People who don't usually do drugs need to stay aways from them ESPECIALLY when you are trying to match ounce for ounce with someone who usually does do drugs, and anybody deciding that fentanyl is your drug of choice get what you deserve when the consequences hit.

[@cristalschroeder4485]

That’s not a college prank that’s trying to be the joker. Hey kid you wanna se a magic trick 😂😂😂😂😂😂that got me so much

[@fatboysgarage7984]

I've got one. One of my football coaches from junior high was hit and killed by an idiot who was drunk and high on a combination of heroine and weed. The idiots parents said it was the coaches fault for jogging at 5 in the morning. When his funeral was held, his wife gave a speech about forgiveness, acceptance, and moving on. Because of her, he didn't get a single second of jail time. But because of what happened, he can't drive, find a job, or even talk to anybody without being demonized. He screwed up his life, the coaches wife's, and their sons life. Not to mention all of the people who miss him because he made a positive impact on their lives. The really sad part is he was only 32.

[@prestonrodenkirch8412]

STOP BLAMING THE DAMN TEACHERS FOR EVERYTHING. BY HIGHSCHOOL KIDS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.

[@GiordanDiodato]

that motorcycle story reminded me of some guy protesting a mandatory helmet requirement for motorcycle riders by riding without a helmet and got into an accident where he died. Had he been wearing the required helmet, he could have lived.

[@LordBloodraven]

My family doctor. I'm allergic to penicillin. I went in for an infection and he prescribed me with amoxycillin (its active ingredient is penicillin). Anaphylaxis set in while I was driving and I crashed my car. I had a broken femur, multiple broken ribs and multiple lacerations and burns to my face and hands (from the glass and airbag). The ER doctors saved my life but my family doctor had to close down his practice when word got around town he missed something so glaringly obvious on a medical history. His malpractice insurance finally paid out for his screwup after I graduated.

[@plastiqueneurosis]

I had a boss who used to be addicted to M3tH. She supposedly had been sober the whole time she was employed, but one night she went on a 48 hour bender and skipped work and stole $500 from our safe to get more. She went on the run for a few months before she was caught across the country living large with pounds and pounds of illegal substances in her house alongside unregistered firearms with the serial numbers filed off, and multiple other symbols of being a drug lord like guard dogs and boobi traps around the property.

[@jdout]

For some reason meth peoples ability to create illegal trafficking/drug empires never ceases to amaze me

[@Tzimisce00]

pre-release drug program at a minimum-security prison, first time only 6 months in a not really prison to do, dude used suicidality as a way to skip the psych line, sadly zero tolerance means he was getting sent to the behavioral unit for a few days, he decides to have a fit kick my desk, throw some shit, ended up getting 5 years in a medium for it.

[@Mark73]

When you're interested in someone and they offer you heroin, the proper reaction is _losing your interest in them._

[@manasvijain8304]

This is why you’re always supposed to check the floor before doing cliff jumping like in story 5. Where I live, we have the 5 Great Lakes and whenever I go to the beach for cliff jumping I always check the floor to see if there’s enough room for doing this.

[@torakuro1444]

Moral of the story, don't be a simp. Be smarter than that.

[@Imnotgivingmynametoamachine]

Here's the thing about the opioid epidemic. Yes it's bad. It continues to be bad, but doctors have gone too far in the other direction. A few years ago, I had an appendectomy. It went fine and all, but afterwards, they gave me 5 hydrocodone. I had enough pain killers for 2 days and was layed up, almost unable to move for 3 weeks. Over prescribing os bad, but under prescribing also sucks. And before anyone asks, no I am not a drug user. Not even weed and I haven't had a drop of alcohol in well over a year.

[@mostar1219]

I remember when I was younger there was this Read 180 story involving some kid surfing on top of a train that was something for us to read with the moral being "don't give in to peer pressure"

[@funfactsandfactsthatarefun5007]

I used to know a girl, she had a dozen guys. One of them found out about it beat her up so bad she ended up at a hospital on Guerrero street

[@bonsaidryad9869]

Haha what a story Mark.

[@thekiller7994]

You could say that again

[@kitkong5075]

That is what you say to your gf to make sure she doesn’t cheat on you

[@verylostdoommarauder]

Although I don't know the long term effects, I've heard a story that some kid on a Washington DC trip jokingly said a threat while going through security at the Capitol. He was held by federal security and had to have his parents drive 6 hours to pick him up.

[@moose3306]

Wear protection on a motorcycle. A sudden gust of wind blew my mom into the path of an oncoming semi truck and the fact that she was wearing a helmet and leathers saved her life. She did break quite a few bones but she lived and still walks.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

Reminds me of a friend I had in middle school and part of the way through high school. We had a lot in common early on but then over the course of 8 months he went from cool band nerd to edgy metalcore fan. I actually ask him what's the deal with the aesthetic change. It was like he had suddenly become a completely different person. Went from making fun of teen parents to wanting kids before he graduated. Liked thrash metal and grunge then suddenly hated it and started liking nu-metal, bands he was making fun of months before. Was critical of religion but still went along with it to being antitheist. Stuff like that. He got all defensive and was half yelling at me saying how this was the person he always wanted to be but never had the freedom to live it. I was like you know I wanted to help you but I can't when you're acting this way. A few years later he dropped out with his gf. She got pregnant by him so they got engaged. Well after she had the kid she bailed along with the kid, broke off the engagement, and the cherry on top is that he now was to pay her child support despite dropping out. Wouldn't be surprised if he's dead now. He was honestly a good guy but got caught up with the wrong crowd who just wanted to use him and he was vulnerable to it because someone he thought was cool noticed him.

[@freeman_-]

Just last year in school we had a student throw away his shot to get into the NHL (was getting scouted at the time) because of racist remarks towards natives (Chippewa in this case) people in a group chat with his hockey team. The team primarily consisted of natives since there’s a rez pretty much right next to our town. He got kicked out of the team the next day.

[@thekiller7994]

What an idiot

[@AdiG1]

I knew this kid as he was the younger brother of my friend at the time. My friend and I would fade as friends, not on any bad terms - our friendship just faded out slowly, and I would befriend the younger brother. We would hang out at times when school was out - ride bikes around the neighbourhood, go to the play park that was around the corner from us, build robots from a subscription magazine, played Pokémon on Gameboy, etc. We never kept in touch after my family and I moved across the country. About a year or two later, my mum gets a phone call from an old neighbour and family friend. After it finished, she calls me down from my room and asks "Do you remember [kid's name]?" I said I did and asked why. He had been caught or reported for raping a younger boy. Not only did he fuck his life over, he FUCKED the lives of his older brother and mother so bad that they couldn't show their faces around the town anymore and (apparently) fled the country to Australia. I would name the guy, but I don't want to cause anymore undeserved stress for his mother or brother as they have to live with the fact that the youngest is a paedophile, even if they are protecting him Edit: Actually, fuck it. His name is Aaron Thompson. Don't defend a paedophile, even if they're family

[@AdiG1]

I also knew a man while working at my first retail job at the age of 19/20. He didn't seem like anything out of the ordinary. He was a cashier, liked watching and quoting Beavis and Butthead, the basic chatty-man things. The only difference between him and everyone else working at the shop was he had cerebral palsy to the point where he could walk, but limps as he goes. After a year there, the store goes under liquidation and we all get made redundant, which was a shame because I liked my colleagues, bar one bitchy girl and an arse of an assistant manager, but they're another short story each. Some years later, I live with my friend and her partner at the time. I visit my parents for my birthday and my mum asks if I remember a man called [colleague's name] from my first job. It didn't immediately click as I'd not spoken with him in years. My mum pulls up his photo and I recognise it. The photo was connected to an archived news article online for the local paper that he had been arrested and charged with possession of child porn. I look him up on Facebook and he had a profile. One image was of a tree in the countryside with a caption above it reading something like "My favourite place to be". As you can imagine, it had scathing comments underneath, calling him out on his conviction. Usually along the lines of "What, so you can hang yourself later, you dirty nonce?!"

[@TimSter15]

4 guys and a girl with bright futures ahead of them and strong grades tried to take a fairly sharp corner at over 100mph. They'd been drinking a lot and there's a video of them on snapchat egging the intoxicated driver on and of the speedometer. They failed the corner. The tiny car went through a fence like paper and smashed into the wall of a house. The car caught fire and anyone who hadn't been killed from the high impact would have suffocated. All 5. Gone. That was back in the summer of 2022. There are 2 similar incidents that happened over a decade ago involving a lot of land with empty fields and a tree. At least 2 cars have spun out and hit that tree, killing the passengers inside.

[@Ludovicus1769]

It’s really annoying me how many people keep confusing prison for jail. You don’t just get in jail for murder or rape, you go straight to prison.

[@colleenross8752]

Story 30: Gold star for honesty. Wishing you great things

[@shmoo9200]

My friend told me a story that in her old school a guy thought it would be a good idea to go and get high at lunch. He jumped the fence to leave school and came back after lunch high, this time when he jumped the fence his ring got caught on the spike and he ended up degloving his finger and snapping off the top of it. He was so high he barely felt it and picked the remainder of his finger up to show a teacher.

[@runaway7610]

jesus christ

[@shmoo9200]

@@runaway7610 I saw a picture of it. It was gross.

[@IndigoPearl96]

It didn’t so much ruin her life but she still had to try and get stuff fixed. I met her in the 6th grade she was already in a bad situation with an abusive Christian mother and an abusive step-dad. Mom used religion to guilt trip her about being gay and pass off the abuse as her punishment. My mom and I let her stay over a few times, one time she HAD to run cause of her stepdad. All the while she took her trauma out on me and SA’d me. She tried to start shit at school and that was enough for me to call her out and I went to the counselor for her bullying me. My mom went in, mentioned she was homeless, and she was kicked out of school according to her. Bad reason to get kicked out but fuck her. Just because you’re going through Hell doesn’t excuse you trying to drag others to your Hell or taking it out on them. I’m somewhat okay, I moved away from that town and I don’t have to worry about her trying to stay at my place to keep her safe. Why didn’t I tell my mom? I didn’t realize it was SA and thought it was normal because I never learned proper Sex Ed plus I doubt she’d believe me

[@CazBCraven]

I had a friend that got high with some of his friends and was dared to microwave his manhood (like that episode of south park). He got testicular cancer of course. He and is mother got into some really bad debt because they kept trying to sue people over the incident but were uncessful. I don’t remember how many years later but the cancer progressed and he died.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

11:20 Reminds me of a teenager in Toronto recently attempting to surf the roof.of a subway car. He died about a week after hitting its head off of something.

[@calynw5653]

I'm extremely frugal with my money because I've seen people in my family and close friends going balls-to-the-wall with their money lose everything within a short time. And sadly a lot of them pertain to drugs, alcohol and/or gambling.

[@Arak_Drakoniz]

I’m not gonna be condescending about this person fucking up because she didn’t come off at all as a bad person and I really felt bad for her. I’m certain she knew what she was doing to herself. About a decade ago, I had just finished a show with my band and packed up all our shit but stayed to watch one more band play. I went outside for air and some girl is hanging around outside as well. She was eating something out of a ziplock bag, I assumed it was candy. We introduce ourselves and start talking. She goes on about how amazing her life with her friends was and how she misses them, making it sound like she’s probably never gonna see them again. She mentioned that she had been homeless and crashing on people’s couches for almost a year. At some point, she offers what’s in the bag to me. I asked what it was and she told me it was E, to which I politely declined. Throughout the course of 20 minutes, I saw her take at least 4. I didn’t say anything and to this day, I wish I did and had stopped her. My band came outside to tell me that we’re leaving and she and I said bye to each other. She hugged me for a good 20 seconds, ran her fingers through my hair and thanked me for listening to her. I’m almost certain she died. I didn’t tell my band about it and they just thought she and I were just old friends. I actually have a video uploaded from that night when my band was playing.

[@Mohammed_Aly]

This one happed in my school before I reach high school by 2 years, there was this popular guy, everyone liked him, even the teachers, he's very silly, friendly and plays a lot of football (soccer to all Americans reading this) so nothing bad about him. He and his friends wanted to go to the beach mid school semester, so on the day they were leaving, 1 car was not gonna fit so they got like idk 2 taxis or 2 uber drivers, you get what I mean, and they all said to the 2 drivers "Whoever reaches out destination first gets a big tip" yeah idk what were they thinking, this can go horrible in many ways and guess what, the drivers accepted. So they began racing each other just for the big tip, then at some point while driving, there was a lot of cars, not enough to make traffic but still quite a bit, so the drivers still wanting the big tip, they started doing very deep turns trying to get ahead of the cars in the way, both at some point did a turn too deep, the car was not stable, drivers lost control then hit a barrier, who did not have their seat belt on, got thrown out of the car and hitting the ground and barriers very hard, that popular guy broke his neck and died, the other was severely injured but survived cuz he landed on the sand (the high way was in a desert). Everyone at school got very sad that when we tried to start our school day, the cheer amount of sad people has made the school to send everyone back home and no school for the rest of the week. What a way to fuck with your life, your parents, friends and the school

[@Fuzz32]

Had a kid at my high school. Nice guy, football player, had a full scholarship to play ball at some 2A school in Georgia. Got caught selling drugs (OxyContin) and got arrested, expelled and lost his ride. Last I heard he was working a minimum wage job at a hardware store and living with his parents. He’d be around 36 now.

[@CoffeeFruits-World]

Love your stuff, man! Maybe you could do a video on the saddest things seen in casinos next?

[@MainlyFact]

Great suggestion!

[@userdeletedvd1d455]

Someone listens to these during work, and don’t know what the story ends or starts, and i get kinda confused too, could you make a noise like a bell or static noise or anything just so we know it ended? Thanks

[@hamzahdzulfiqar8173]

Me and a friend did the same kind of thing like the first story, in chemistry class we found a beaker glass of H2O with a warning sticker on it, then proceeds to jokingly inhale it thinking it was just water, after inhaling for a few times i started to realize that the labelling was a little bit scratched off, it was not a H20, it was H202, i had terrible headaches afterwards

[@karencahill4798]

Hydrogen peroxide- I’m reminded to never to drink that. Thanks. hahaha Kids🤓🧐

[@Tarrabyte]

2 things. 1. I've been watching your videos for a while and I have to say, I find it rather amusing that you never cuss in these and keep them PG with your wording. Keep it up. 2. I had a buddy, I've not seen in almost 10 years because he was hanging around with the wrong people. Long story short, he was at the bowling alley with some friends, one was 14, he was an upstanding guy but also a horn dog. the 14 year old wanted to get with him that night but he said, "No you're too young" she didn't like that, told her dad that he molested her, which he is a big time cop in ATL and he got my friend arrest. He's been in prison for false rape for almost 10 years now. I don't know when I'll see him. I've talked to his mom throughout the years and I've been on his side and we've tried to get him out of prison with no avail because go figure, no one wants to listen to him because of this. I've known the guy for years and can say that none of it's true. At least I really hope she's lying. Plus, it was a public place. AFAIK my sister can also vouch for him.

[@shawn.the.alien423]

I had a girl try to get me to sleep with her when I was 23 and she was 15 (I was friends with her brother). I immediately got ahold of him and told him what happened. He told his parents before she went to them saying I molested her. So they knew the truth before anything could happen. That was luck.

[@Terratetradon]

They have to be PG. KZbin rules

[@creamsouda3338]

9:18 SERIOUSLY???? A MINIMUM OF 5 FUCKING YEARS FOR SA AND RAPE????? BUTPEOPLE GET CHARGED SM WORSE FOR DRUUGS AND MURDER?? im not tryna say murder and drugs r ok but. SERIOUSLY??? this system is so fucked

[@Coldest054]

WARNING NSFW: One kid in my high school cohort (graduated now), was known as the kid who did stupid things, for example, drank half a bottle of vodka before a significant test and had to leave halfway during said test as well as rumored as being involved with c* and paid for a red room (he got my school's full suspension wich was 2 weeks whilst it was investigated). Last year, it was rumored that he had innapropriately touched some people over several occasions. Once the rumor got out, we did not see him again until exams. Last I heard, he apparently had a warrant for his arrest.

[@LordKaraOfficial]

we would take a shortcut on the way to the study center from our bus stop. A certain guy who had anger issues, tried to make me go to the other shortcut. where nobody usually goes. I said no, and he kept insisting. I kept declining. He then got mad and went off the bus. He was later embarrassed at the study center by his mom and punched the bathroom wall. Later I found he he got arrested for r*ping a girl. I coulda been one of those people. My god am I glad I didn't go. Sad I wasted time with an ex that didnt show love to me. at all...

[@WPUpioneer]

I knew a guy that dated this girl that was a former army MP. And when I tell you this story, you'll see why I said former. She was a closet extreme feminist and one day her and the guy I know got into an argument, and she shot him in the shoulder with her service pistol. He survived, she was dishonorably discharged and last I heard was in prison. Not sure where though

[@kensprivateinvestigation2128]

Buddy of mine got a text from his on/off again GF that had just cheated on him wanted to meet up to talk about things. They started arguing and she pulled a knife on him. He's a marine and easily disarmed her. Unfortunately she had the other guy she was sleeping with hiding close by and he attacked. My buddy ended up stabbing and killing the guy. He still has about 17 years left in prison and the girl got off Scott free even though she talks regularly about how she set them both up because she likes when guys fight over her.

[@scottthomas6202]

A lot of disaster tales start out with the words " I was drunk and....."...

[@Lizzie_the_female_knight21]

so not me but a friend, we will call her Sara, she was one of our best volleyball players in the game but one day this woman decided to play a "prank" on our teacher, Mr. snow ( not really his name but he talks about where he was from that had a lot of snow so it fits but anyways) she came up behind him and smacked the backside of his head pretty hard and he fell face first into his computer ( where we were being graded and scores of our games were on) and the computer was completely destroyed and covered in blood and Mr. Snow had to be in the hospital for a week ( mind you Sara was around 6'7ft tall and she had some severe strength issues I kid you not for someone who was just a freshman and was 15) and Sara was suspended for that same week and was kicked off of our team and lost her scholarships left and right and was giving classes of to control her strength and the difference between a prank and hurting someone ( I don't know where she is now and what she does but I hope she had learned her lesson that day)

[@Nelsea7190]

Once at an arcade a person asked me if I want to make fast money, I asked what was it. He pointed to unattened taxi just outside of the building. A prompt NOPE to that idea.

[@cyanidejack1013]

Story 30: the sda part is they over prescribed for acute pain. Those of us with long term chronic pain can't get the medication we need. So now we have people who are addicted and people who are in constant pain. No one wins

[@someweirdoguy6633]

First story, I am baffled that that guy was smart enough to even test into AP Chem in the first place.

[@killswitch6786]

That joker impression was scary accurate @3:18

[@CharlesGriswold]

Opioids can be nasty. I'm lucky in that being super high on them doesn't really feel that good to me. Alcohol, on the other hand... yeah. I'm really careful with alcohol. It would be easy for me to get hooked on that stuff.

[@XxGreenkolaxX]

Had an ex who manipulated the crap out of me took me years of therapy to finally get my head on straight from that but I’ve been dealing with depression for a while now and found out within one semester of her first year in college she lost a full ride scholarship

[@Merciprada]

he made it to ap chem and then snorted something as a joke... how can you get into chem with that knowledge..?

[@Smellbringer]

Not me, but someone I was a very casual acquaintance of. Also it's been a few years so the details are kinda hazy. When I was going to community college in the next town over I had to take the bus. While riding home this nice handicapped girl would always ride and got a special exemption for the intercity bus to let her out in front of her house. This girl is sweet as can be but she's in a wheelchair and can barely talk. It felt like that, despite being probably in her 30's, me and the other 20 somethings were talking to a child. Eventually the bus driver, who knew what was going down, told us this girls life story. She had been a high school athlete with scholarships ahead of her when, at around 17-18, she was either involved in a car accident or hit by a drunk driver (again, hazy memory). She obviously survived but she was left with permanent brain damage and partial paralysis.

[@darklightmagus1222]

😔 This is why you sit down your kids when they hit double digits and have straight up talk of advice. Let them know that their decisions as they keep getting older affect more than just their lives but the lives of those around them and some of those choices are irreversible. Let them know there are laws and rules for a reason. Not all laws and rules have a good reason and probably shouldn't be followed but there are consequences to not doing so and you must accept all punishment that comes with it. You may fight against a policy, rule, or law that is in place. Know that you might lose. Life isn't all about making choices between good and bad. Sometimes it is between bad and worse.. Other times it is a bad move now with rewards later (new job and having to move). And other times it's a joyful decision now and a bad choice later (drugs and addiction). Let them make mistakes. Let them have fun. But always remind them of the consequences. An example: Your child wants to skate. You don't allow them to skate unless they wear a helmet and pads. You arrive a little early on pick up time and find your child skating without their safety gear. You ask them if they remember the condition they agreed to to be allowed to skate. Then ask if their friends taunted or coerced them into not using their safety gear. Then punish them by revoking being allowed to skate for X month(s) for not wearing their safety gear. Add punishment to not be able to hang out with skater friends for about 2 weeks for listening to them if the child did this because of them. Explain that you don't want to see them get seriously hurt from skating which is why you insist on wearing gear. Tell them to use their free time without their friends to think about whether they still want to be friends with people who make fun of their friends for wanting to be safe or for encouraging friends to take risks that can seriously injure them.

[@louiseogden1296]

The motorbike guy is sad. I've definitely met people who have had head injuries but are thought to be drunk, but never heard that kind of sad story.

[@cornsquatch]

A track star at my highschool took a leak on a stop sign down by the track. Reported by passing cars, caught an indecent exposure charge on school property. Lived so close to school he had to move, as he is now a registered sex offender.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

FOBTs (Fixed Odds Betting Terminals) are hugely controversial in the UK, there are already moves in progress to restrict their use and some are trying to have them banned entirely. The odds are 'fixed' in that they use probability and aren't influenced by actual events like regular gambling (sports etc.) might be.

[@FennecTECH]

Ah yes. Lets snort the random chemicals in college.

[@anthonyluclarocque1765]

Car surfing, play stupid games win stupid prizes

[@tonyblake7569]

Some sentences just don't make sense. Like the guy that may get 10 years for robbing the pizza guy, ok great. But then there's the other guy that had what, 150 child p pics on his phone, and r**ed the one guy, later found out there was others, was only going to get 5 years before they found out about the others? That guy should get way worse than the pizza robber.

[@happenstancially4132]

Had a frequent that met someone online whom was married with children, they flirted a bit and he packed his life up to move out there, they broke up a couple weeks after, and about a year later, he found another married woman to flirt with. Just for context, he was on several medications for mental health and had stopped taking them, leading to some terrible life choices… Edit: I’m told that he had quite a few instances of this over the last decade or so.

[@gashlam]

19:03 this is real like if you dedicate your time to jrotc in high-school and you don't make it as far as you wanted or deserved it hits hard and I saw people do crazy things like if being super straight laced to make it and you don't it just means you can do whatever you want because it doesn't matter anyways.

[@keithboyd9582]

While working for a major car rental company at one of the largest airports in the country this guy came over to us while we were outside checking in cars that the guy left his phone in his car and now the phone is gone (car was still there in the lot). Manager and supervisor asked all of us if we knew anything and then went inside to watch the surveillance cameras. While inside me and 2 other employees were talking about it and 1 told us "all they have to do is check who was the guy that checked out the car and they got him." The other guy's face went white. He started stuttering and quickly left. Few minutes later I hear the same guy admitting to the theft, gave his phone back to the customer, got fired and was made to stay there while our boss called the police. The phone was one of those new iPhone

[@14Footy14]

my dad showed me age of empires two when I was a kid and I loved it. We’d have lan parties with my brother. Great game. Shame it took someone over so much though

[@muguen801]

Story time: I Work at a small neighborhood hospital in the front desk. Patient finds my personal Instagram account and start messaging me asking for stuff related to her daughter. I answer her questions and politely remind her that my personal social media isnt part of my job and i would prefer to limit the interactions in other ways (i.e. official phone number, online chat and in person at the hospital) Bitch got mad, called her husband, guy come in, knife in hand and spiting threats, mind you, in a room full of mothers and childrens, police where called, guy get arrested. Funny thing is, when he was handcuff and on the ground, calls for me and says "are you siriusly gonna let them arrest me? i was just mad, im cool now", wich i replied that i didnt do anything to get that kind of reaction and it wasnt in my hands anymore since the moment that police where called. Guys loses it again and continius spitting shit to the police. He even told the police to not search him becouse he had "stuff" on him. Turns out he is a low lvl dealer, wanted in 2 states, ended up spending 4 days in jail and corners office told me that he is going to spend 6 month in a medium security prison. Good Stuff. Saddest thing is that the kid per se is 5 y/o and present in all of this.

[@eduardmihai5760]

Story 3 Me: Oh look. People ruining their life from betting. Nothing new Me at the end of the story: What the f?!

[@somerando86]

10:44 People who commit that type of crime should get no plea deal. When you do something like that, you need to be locked away for the rest of your life at the very least.

[@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307]

Why. That's not as serious as murder

[@Ammiethyst]

Why?

[@YourLifeWasting]

Story 24 isn't about the cops it's the incompetence of the nurse that inspected him this nurse working in a jail should have known these symptoms by then of a punctured lung.

[@russbarton]

friend of mine got busted for 72 counts of GSI = gross sexual imposition his plea deal was 50yrs in prison or got to court and get 250yrs

[@loganbombard374]

I love that you use your own voice, a great one for narration yet still say the typos allowed. Really speaks to your integrity in keeping these stories original :)

[@rmt3589]

7:47 Took way too long to realize that she didn't cheat in the videogame she was playing with the guy she met.