I'm 5'4" (162cm). I have to drive with the seat so close to the wheel that, if the airbag deploys, I'm at least getting a broken nose.

Holy f*ck that’s terrifying.

Job satisfaction is knowing you fitted the turn signal perfectly at the factory. Feeling unappreciated is realizing you work at BMW

I think it's called secondary drowning. It not something a lot of people are aware of.

It definitely does happen when you have a lot on your mind and you're trying to remember everything, or just get lost in thought and feel like you're running a routine errand you don't normally have your baby with you. I think the daycare worker is being smart. Doesn't hurt anyone to make yourself not forget. That makes you self-aware and caring about the little ones that are in your care. Why would anyone shame anyone for taking preventative actions?!

Mao did a few things that caused famine. Just look up "the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to improve production (I think of steel or iron?) C'mon, let's all build a smelter on our back yard! When leaders do stupid things lots of people die.

If you dive high enough, the water alone can cause serious injury upon impact. For a good split second it's like hitting a solid surface. I'm pretty adventurist and love thrills. One thing that's not on my bucket list is cliff diving. Does anyone check the depth and incline of the cliff before jumping off?

I don’t get why people don’t do this. It’s so easy and comes at no cost to you.

And eyes glued to a screen, probably with ear buds in.

Similarly, getting stranded in the Outback and leaving your car to find help and dying from thirst in the oppressive heat

If I remember correctly, he was a lawyer who had done this demonstration multiple times, thus weakening the frame.

Dang... I was hoping your were posting from the other side. I was going to ask you to tell my puppies there that I love them.

Just had a similar conversation about amusement rides tonight. Guy approached me in Wal-Mart to comment on my theme park hoodie. He works at the park; I worked there years ago. He goes "man, running rides is so easy, a monkey could do it." Sure, until you lean into that mentality, get careless and kill a kid. I had exactly one close call (not even out of carelessness, but it would have been Very Bad if I wasn't paying attention) and have been militant about ride safety ever since.

It means you're about to be hit by lightning. Run to shelter!

Need to make more dryers like the one I have, it won't start unless you clean the lint out everytime.

If someone has been stabbed with a knife or has another stabbing wound that has the item in PLEASE DONT PULL IT OUT!!!

I once had a coworker who told me she mixed bleach and ammonia. I told her that made a deadly gas and it shouldn't be done. She said they opened windows when they used it. She acted like I was crazy for thinking that was stupid.

He wasn’t just on his phone, he was flicking through a dating app. Didn’t notice the stopped traffic, it was horrendous..

Female heart attack survivor here... The chest pain I experienced was fairly mild and felt more like heartburn. I also felt lightheaded and really tired, and felt an overwhelming sense of impending doom. (Mine was a 90% blockage in the right coronary artery. Oddly, all my other arteries were absolutely clear.)

My mom's house burned dowcn from oily rags combusting.

Saw a weather reporter standing outside in a hurricane in Florida get hit in the head by a flying Stop sign. Pretty stupid way to get ratings!

As a cyclist I always stop when I notice a truck about to make a right turn even if I have the right of way, I’d rather be late than flat. I also stop if cars do the slowly rolling forward thing instead of stopping at a crossing: either stop or go on, don’t friggin’ roll at me!

Another ill-informed assumption. Very few medications actually react badly with alcohol, vanishingly few of them will do serious harm. Yes, there are some where the effects of alcohol can be increased, but the main reason that most meds (and particularly most antibiotics) carry an 'avoid alcohol' warning is that a person drinking too much might vomit or forget to take it. Source:pharmacologist.

And not RESPECTING the weather. Mother Nature is one fierce lady.

What, being a former paramedic ends lives? That's crazy!

There was a news story last year about a guy who thought it would be a good idea to brandish a handgun during his (frequent) attacks of road rage. He thought it was funny to make the occupants of the other think that were about to die. One day he followed a driver that had pissed him off somehow, and pulled his gun out as he was getting out of his car. The other driver had a gun too. Mr. road rage was shot and killed. Guess what country this happened in?

I have never seen a CO detector anywhere in my nation.

Seriously, don't be embarrassed to get things checked out. Health care professionals have a whole other level of what is weird or gross. Don't believe me? Google weird things doctors have had to pull out of people's bums. Whole other level.

I always had another nurse check dose and type of insulin before giving, ALWAYS

The Wikipedia entry claims there were 2 underinflated tyres when the aircraft departed. There's no mention of air being used in lieu of nitrogen: "Prior to departure, the lead mechanic had noticed that the "No. 2 and No. 4 tyre pressures were below the minimum for flight dispatch",[7] and attempted to inflate them, but no nitrogen gas was readily available. The project manager, unwilling to accept a delay, disregarded the problem and readied the aircraft for dispatch.[5] As the aircraft was taxiing, the transfer of the load from the underinflated No. 2 tire to the No. 1 tire on the same portside axle resulted "in overdeflection, overheating, and structural weakening of the No. 1 tire".[7] "The No. 1 tire failed very early on the take-off roll," followed almost immediately by the No. 2.[7] The latter stopped rotating "for reasons not established", and the subsequent friction of the wheel assembly with the runway generated sufficient heat to start a self-sustaining fire"

My grandfather once broke an arm slipping on ice, but he saved the pizza.

Was walking with my son down the stairs. He was above me but he tripped I caught and cocooned him on the way down. He's probably more resilient than me but still think I made the right choice.

It may sound kind of terrible but I was once taught by a safety instructor that if you are holding a glass (he used of water as an example) in your hand and you begin falling downstairs, throw the glass towards the top of the stairs. This is so that you have both arms to protect yourself but also don't land on broken glass when you reach the bottom.

My fiancée's grandfather died while trying to put a window in his house. He was on a ladder when the wind caught his window. He didn't let go of the window when the wind caught it and caused him to fall. He would have been able to stay safely on the ladder if he had dropped the window.

My uncle sat in his lawn chair near the river, it tipped backwards to the river, and as he was tipping over, he handed his drink my aunt, " save my drink.... SPLASH!" He was fine, and his drink survived.

I had a similar accident on my bike. Apparently it’s a common occurance that you tighten your grip to whatever you are holding rather than react with your hands. Had I reacted with my hands and not gripped the steering wheel tighter, I would not have the facial scar I have today. It’s instinct. It’s a totally different thing if your hands are empty. Then you’re likely to grab the first thing you can

In Italy we say " a falling knife has no handle ".. sometime you have to fight with yourself and your instinct not to grab the wrong thing .. sometime you have to let break the thing

I dropped a boxed B-Day cake trying to save it from sliding in the box … I pasted it all back together with kool-whip no one noticed!

Throw that glass and grab a railing!

Friend fell down the stairs (drunk) while holding an open bottle of Jack. I kid you not, not a single drop was spilled even though he was a***ole and elbows all the way down.

My brother rolled his car 3 times (at once, not different times). When he landed upright on the wheels he was still holding his coffee cup.

Tripped outside a bar holding my drink and smoke. Hurt myself but never dropped my drink or broke my ciggie hehe

You can replace the glass, but not so easy to replace a damaged body part.

I once heard of a guy who worked as a server. He was trained to "toe" a dropped glass by moving his foot under it to break the fall. He quit and went to work for a steel place, where he instinctively "toed" a dropped steel plate.

Did anyone else have nightmares after watching that documentary, "Free Solo," about the climber Alex Honnold who does it without ropes?

More Americans, in America, were killed by vending machines during the Iraq/Afghanistan War than by terrorists.

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I remember seeing that on one of those Air Crash Investigations shows