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I used to believe that I would try anything once. Skydiving? Sure! Foods that I’ve never heard of? Bon appétit! But as I’ve gotten older and wiser, I’ve realized that there are actually plenty of things that I will gladly never touch.   

Redditors have recently been discussing some of the things that the vast majority of us should never mess around with, so we’ve gathered some of their replies below. From substances that can be incredibly addictive to experimenting with tools that might make you lose a limb, enjoy reading through all of these things to avoid. And be sure to upvote the risks that you’re not willing to take either!

#1

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Antibiotic resistance.

YoussefA2000:

Definitely This!
As a Pharmacist I deal with a TON of people who just "Stopped taking Antibiotics after they felt well" and are currently wondering why they are coughing up mucus and sneezing again..
CONTINUE YOUR ANTIBIOTICS AS MENTIONED ON THE LABEL OR UNTIL THE DOC SAYS STOP. NEVER STOP THEM ON YOUR OWN GODDAMIT!

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy)
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5 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, sometimes they are lucky and the infection has been dealt with and they keep the unused antibiotics to use the next time ... or even worse, give to a friend who says they have a similar issue. YIKES!!!

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#2

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Mushrooms…. If you don’t know which one is which, don’t. Just don’t. Some of those are a painful way to die. So I hear.

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#3

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Wild animals. Leave them alone. Yes, including feeding them. Yes, including the “cute” ones.

SquidMilkVII:

Bear cubs are #1 on this list. Too many people think they have nothing to worry about, that the cub can’t really do much to them. The cub isn’t the one who’s gonna rip your lungs out of your esophagus.

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Huddo's sister
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6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kangaroos are high up there too, because they do look so cute (and there are sanctuaries where you can feed them etc) but if they get spooked you can definitely be killed.

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#4

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With "Get Rich Quick" schemes.


It is either a scam, of questionable legality, or carries extremely high physical/mental/emotional/financial risk.


The adage "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" applies.

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#5

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Fireworks. I can't unsee the liveleak video of a kids hand turning into high velocity sausage meat.

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Huddo's sister
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6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why they are banned (for personal use) in most of Australia. My dad misses 'bonfire night' when they used to get them, at the same time as telling me about how his brother lit one and put it in his pocket once and it was very close to being a serious injury!

#8

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Knee-deep flood waters can pick up a car and move it.

Don't try to drive through water if you can't see the bottom.

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Huddo's sister
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6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every time we get flood waters there are people stupid enough to try driving through it and it ends in tragedy

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#9

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With If you don't know what you are doing, electrical wiring. There is a lot of powers in those wires, and humans are very conductive.

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy)
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5 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't mess with electrical stuff. Me and electricity have an agreement - I don't mess with it; it doesn't try to kill me.

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#10

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Bleach as a household cleaner. Mixed with the wrong stuff and you’re dead.

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Nonna_SoF
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6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Vinegar and bleach is chlorine gas. Ammonia and bleach is chloramine gas. Acetone and bleach is chloroform.

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#11

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With The ocean.

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Diolla
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3 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to be an avid swimmer and would generally spend a lot of time in the water. Until that one day I got caught in an undertow away from the beach. Luckily I remembered what to do to get out of it, and I made it back to the beach, but ever since then I fear the sea. Am just back from Benin where nobody swims in the ocean because it will kill you.

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#12

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Horses, they will kick you back to Valhalla.

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Pernille
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6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ABIT the same deal as with the ocean. Learn to read the signs of danger and horses are absolutely lovely animals, cows on the other hand! I am weary of cows, but it is only because I don't understand them, and I can't read their body language.

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#13

People’s kids. You want to see dude who’s never had a speeding ticket suddenly become capable of murder? Mess with their offspring.

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#14

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Carbon monoxide! I'm a inspector, and carry a detector with me at all times. It definitely has saved my life before. It's literally everywhere and can kill you instantly.

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Bay Bo
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6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At all times?! And you're still alive?! Satire comment, sorry

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#15

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Garage door springs.

gotoajetsgame:

Absolutely right. I had one snap about 10 years ago and it sounded and felt like a car crashed into my garage

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#16

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Gun safety. Messing around gets really bad, really fast.

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Anni
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2 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is something I have absolutely never have had to give thought to. I also never had to be afraid to go to school or go through metal detectors. Sad for those who do, because an accident in messing around with a gun is far less likely than direct intent :(

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#17

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Stone fish.

I have experienced some phenomenal pain in my life but that sting will be burned into my psyche for the rest of my life.

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Winnie the Moo
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6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also the f****r in bottom right in the picture is a PAINFUL sting! Damn, my toe went black and the pain crept up my whole leg.

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#18

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Any rotary saw (skillsaw, tablesaw, mitresaw). Honorable mention: chainsaw.

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Gustav Gallifrey
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4 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember our woodworking teacher introducing us to the table saw: "This is the table saw. It does not like you. it does not dislike you. It does not care how many fingers you arrive with, or how many you leave with. That is entirely up to you."

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#19

Kinda basic, but d***s. It is so easy to say you're not addicted and can quit anytime. Then your life is ruined, you're in a debilitating addiction and in a hole that gets deeper every time you try to fill it in.

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LakotaWolf (she/her)
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5 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. I almost went to the bottom of that hole. Drügs were the only thing that shut my brain up and stopped the "bad thoughts", so I became addicted almost immediately during a very dark part in my life. I had my family and my boyfriend trying all kinds of things to help get me clean (boyfriend was the source of 90% of the problems in the first place, though, honestly.) None of their attempts worked, and I ended up on cocaine. The only thing that finally convinced me to get clean was thinking about how my cat depended on me and how I was responsible both to her and responsible for her wellbeing. That helped me get clean. I've been clean for 3 years now. It's scary to think how I had NO idea what was in the cocaine that I was buying and using. I could have gotten a fentanyl-laced batch and simply died. But addiction is INCREDIBLY difficult - don't let my little summary make it seem like it's "simple" and "easy" to quit - it's not. It is an atrocious struggle.

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#21

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Large capacitors.

Taoiseach:

It's a good way to start a career change, as long as you want your new job to be "charcoal briquette"

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#22

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Trains, forklifts, and the people that prepare and serve your food.

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Captain Kakapo
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2 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh no... I'm a forklift driver on a train station and I'm cooking my own food!

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#23

Blue ring octopus.

Avery357:

Just a PSA, blue ring octopuses don't always have blue rings! They only get blue rings when they feel threatened, so avoid any octopus that has not been 100% identified. Heck, avoid all octopuses.

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#24

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Felling trees by yourself that are in range of your home or other property.

_sacrosanct:

This is so true. There's a guy I went to high school with who got paralyzed trying to help some friends remove an old tree that had died. He's in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

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#25

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Somebody with them cauliflower ears.

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Pernille
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6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nah, most rugby players are absolutely lovely people. The mayor of my village is a former rugby player and a very nice man.

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#26

Hippos.

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Diolla
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3 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. Very agressive and deadly. In Southern Ethiopia there is only one lake you can swim in. Because the other ones have hippos in htem.

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#27

Mercury. Welcome to brain damage.

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WoodenLion
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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i'm older. we had a jar of it in class, we used to play with - coat pennies to make them silver, roll it around in your hand, drop it on the floor and watch it splatter etc. same with asbestos rocks

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#28

That gut feeling to stay away from certain people, places, situations. Trust your gut.

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#29

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Peoples emotions. You don’t know what a person is capable of doing until it’s too late.

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Gustav Gallifrey
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4 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most people don't realise, themselves, what they're capable of until it's too late.

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#30

Street pills, or a prescription that isn't yours. Just isn't worth the risk.

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BrownEyedPanda
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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

About THE dumbest thing someone can do is help themself to someone else's prescriptions. You could be allergic to any of the ingredients; it could exacerbate an existing, or otherwise dormant, medical condition; it could permanently disable you, if not outright kill you. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

#31

Fire, gas, electricity.

Advised by my dad and I strictly follow it.

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Excited Panda
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43 minutes ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They all follow the laws of physics (along with gravity). There's no arguing with those laws, they win every time.

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#32

Someone who has nothing to lose.

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Gustav Gallifrey
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4 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They will not be at all afraid of you. Fear can only exist in someone who still holds a vestige of hope. A prisoner at Treblinka extermination camp attacked and killed the commandant with his bare hands, because the prisoner realised that he was going to be killed anyway.

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#33

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Breath play. I know, I like it too, but it's so dangerous, even if you "know what you're doing" even if you're "careful" even if you "never do it alone". It's not even the possibility of dying that's the worst part, it's the possibility of sustaining brain damage due to miscalculations and negligence of your partner(s). Certain methods are worse than others, too. Certain methods can leave lasting negative impacts on your health, like strangling and nooses. Your family will not understand. Your partner might see jail time if they were there. Just don't.

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#34

Dogs.

Do your training, take it seriously; within breed limits, a well trained dog should do its business outside, not jump up, tolerate all handling, sit, recall, go to bed and stay on command, give up toys on a word, stop barking when told to, and walk a proper heel (by your side at the level of your hip, not loose lead in front; the difference is important on an icy day!). Exercise twice a day for an hour each. Socialise from the puppy (dogs, horses, adults of all ages, children, cars, bikes, guns if you want a gundog, the vet, busy streets, public transport, the hoover, you get the idea) Feed dog food (not human food) twice a day and take unfinished food up after 30 mins (stops obesity); do not ever feed scraps under the table. Do not encourage bad behaviour (ignore it).

Any breed can be destructive. Most can seriously hurt people or other animals if they want to. Much of this is avoidable.

Do not make a ticking timebomb for yourself.

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A girl
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2 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This. I have the sweetest, kindest Australian cattle dog. He's well trained but still gets excited. He punches me in the chest if he thinks I'm not getting his "go outside" message. It's not mean spirited. At 70lbs, that's quite the blow. Even for a big girl like me. I know his tell now so it hasn't happened for a while but, yes, train your dog and learn your dog.

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#35

Storm surges. Stay off the shore in bad weather!

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Huddo's sister
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6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And don't go in/around storm water drains. Flash flooding can happen so quickly.

#36

As a former lift operator, do not f**k with a lift with damaged hydraulic lines on the boom/mast. Refuse. That fluid is under enough pressure to shoot through your skin.

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#37

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With The production database.

Taoiseach:

All my coder friends were horrified when that Twitter whistleblower said that the company had no real control over who could push changes to prod. People were pushing to prod piecemeal, totally on their own, with no documentation or coordination. It sounds like utter bedlam.

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#38

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Fighting with someone who's clearly better than you.

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QueerAxolotls
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2 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a martial artist, yep. I may be a black belt, but I'm RUNNING if someone tries to fight me. There's no way to know what they're capable of.

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#39

Your health.

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BrownEyedPanda
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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Money can be re-earned, items replaced. But once your health is gone, the material things don't seem to have much significance.

#40

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With People with connections to criminal gangs or mafia.

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#41

Pulling money out of your retirement accounts before you retire.

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy)
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4 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here in Australia, the rules were relaxed during COVID. Some people will regret their actions down the track.

#42

Rotating machinery when you are wearing long, open hair. Or long and/or loose clothing.

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K- THULU
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3 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And if you're pushing wood through a bandsaw use another piece of wood to do it FFS.... seen a guy punch the blade when the wood slipped.... not nice...

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#44

In a sluggish economy, never, ever f**k with another man’s livelihood.

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#45

Pressure vessels.

redbirdrising:

I recently went down a rabbit hole of diver deaths on Youtube. Saturation diving deaths were particularly brutal.

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#46

Fractal wood burning. Just don't.

Crowbarscout:

Saw a video on how many deaths have been attributed to people cheaping out on actual setups and all the jury-rigging that happens.
Damn.

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Diolla
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3 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Saw that video as well. 34 deaths at that point and the video is at least 2 years old.

#48

Radiography sources. They say ‘Drop and Run’ for a reason.

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#49

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Maintaining a credit card balance month after month.

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#50

Never run from the K-9.

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Gustav Gallifrey
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4 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was part of a group being told about military police patrol dogs. I suggested a scenario where a nap in a corner resulted in waking up 'after hours' and then being confronted with a dog 'off the leash'. Advice: the handler will be close by. The dog is trained to keep you on the spot. Stand VERY still until the handler arrives.

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#51

If you don't know what you are doing or are not sure internal components of anything. The amount of damage that you can do (even when you just unplug 1 cable) is very very pricey.

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#52

“A Painful Way To Die”: 55 Things People Would Probably Regret Messing Around With Pizza rolling machines. Get your finger in the wrong spot, and they'll rip it right off without even slowing down.

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#53

Mexican cartel.

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#54

A person who cheated, infidelity.

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#55

When the cops pull you over, just follow their rules, I'm from Nassau County NYC, just put your hands up and don't give them a reason to pull their weapons. I carry a legal knife on the subway showing all the time and they don't bother me. Just follow their rules. I'm a convicted felon and know that they will make up charges to put me away, that's why I don't give them a chance.

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Orysha
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3 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes you follow their rules and they k;ill you anyway.

#56

The IRS.

Legitimate_Myth_3816:

A coworker of mine likes to say the IRS is the American KGB.

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