Once when I was cleaning out my grandmother's apartment postmortem, I was allowed to take her kitchen table home. It had a round, flat top that had a metal base that cut into four sharp metal legs that jutted out every 90°. I flipped it top side down in the back of my car and began bungee cording it to everything I could find. Mom laughed at me and said it wasn't necessary, but I just turned back to her and said "well, it's just in case I hit a deer or something on the way home." I didn't want to be impaled on their table legs in an accident. She didn't think it was so funny when I called her a half hour later, shaken up when a doe jumped into the road in the dark ahead of me. The impact bent the car's radiator into a lovely crescent shape. Always secure your loads when driving, either in the bed of your truck or the back of your car. Anything not bolted becomes a missile.
My dad is a carpenter and moves lots of things in his truck. He always ties things down super good, from different angles. Sometimes he'll stop a little ways down the road to be sure nothing shifted or came loose. Sometimes things move and the rope need to be tightened. He always explained how things could slid forward and hurt us, or fall off and hurt a bystander or cause an accident. He grew up helping his dad move houses, so working all his life, he's seen things and heard lots of stories where people didn't tie things down properly and bad consequences. Newton's laws of physics: an object in motion will remain in motion unless an outside force acts on it... you just gave the perfect example of your car stopping, and it not tied down, that table would have kept on moving. So glad you're ok and shared this post, so hopefully someone else will tie something down for a quick move across town. You may have saved another life.
Heard a frantic pounding on my door at 3 AM while my partner was in the hospital. Had a bad feeling, so I put on my boots and grabbed my cordless circular saw. I planted my boot firmly behind the door to keep it from opening wide enough for a human to enter. When I open the door to ask who's there, he started trying to force his way in. I shouted, "if you breach this door, you will die!" He said, "I'm not afraid of you; I can't even tell if you're male or female!" I responded, "Thanks, that's what I'm going for!" as I spun up the saw. At this point, a neighbor heard the noise and chased the would-be home invader away. Started working on getting a gun the next day.
What I learned from my local cops is that if they're breaking in the daytime, they want your stuff. If they do it at night, they're after you. Stay safe. On another note, my favorite longgun is hands down the Stoeger P3000. Zero recoil, and it's made in the same factory as Benelli. Dirt cheap for the best longgun I've ever owned, it was $400. If you decide to carry in public, carry a knife as well. You can use a knife faster than a firearm.
@@GetDougDimmadomed Every combat expert I've spoken to has warned that knives require special training to not be more dangerous to the user than the opponent in an actual fight. The saying goes, "the loser dies on the scene, and the winner dies on the way to the hospital." That said, I do carry a knife, because I train using old military instructional videos and facsimiles with my nesting partner. I keep it concealed so it can't be taken.
@@GetDougDimmadomedyeah most robberies take place during the day regardless of what fiction says or people think and that’s just at peoples homes if it’s at night it’s most likely at a place of business like a store or something
I would have gave the homeless man more than $10. I probably would have gave him a hundred, he saved me a call to the insurance company and a appointment at the car shop to get my windows fix.
We were told by a family friend to keep blankets in the car. Just in case. God I'm glad we did. Got wrapped up in a barb wire fence on a backroad after losing traction in black ice. Was coming back from a 6hr drive with no heat and I couldn't feel my feet. Was about 15 miles from home but it's 3am and no one in site. Thank god I brought that blanket. Partner put my feet on their stomach because they were turning pale and a light blue. That saved us
@@lightpixie1113 Again, "nonbinary" is an assigned status. Rather than making things convoluted, why not just not be ashamed to call the "partner" a BF or husband, or gf?
I was using an older toaster because the original one we had was broken, but we knew this toaster was okay because we had used it earlier. So I was washing some dishes and wanted to make some breakfast while I was at it so I went to plug in the toaster, forgetting my hands were slightly wet. As I reached for the outlet, I stopped and told myself that I should fully dry off and after doing so, I plugged it in and it sparked violently then started a fire! Before it got worse I thought I could yank the length of the cord to stop it from starting a fire and it worked. It was very ballsy though and I should have probably tried another method than yanking....
Here’s mine (be ready for an essay) I’m an EMT and a few months back, I was working on the ambulance when my partner and I get a call for a rollover crash on a nearby highway. My squad responds and the fire department sends an engine and a battalion chief to assist. The engine got there first, and since the engine crew does have basic life support training, they start assessing the driver before we arrive. When we get there, the captain of the engine comes up to me and says “Hey Andy, there’s only one patient and we’ve checked them out, they were going to sign off” (sign off meaning refuse transport to the hospital). I respond “Alright, I’ll take a quick look at them.” I check the patient, a 47 year old female, and she tells me that she feels ok, no pain anywhere, no dizziness, feeling nothing unusual. I perform my own physical assessment on her and I don’t note anything serious and I was planning on letting her go. However, I then consider the mechanism of injury. Mechanism of injury is the process or event that occurred that caused any present injury, in this case that being the rollover crash. I decide that I’d like to take her to the hospital because of the mechanism and I convince her to go just to be safe. I decide to start heading to the nearest hospital, which is a womens hospital with its own separately functioning emergency room. It’s not a trauma center, but at first I didn’t see any reason to take her to a trauma center. After a few minutes, I get this feeling in my gut telling me, “you should take her to a trauma center, just to be absolutely positively 100% sure that there’s nothing wrong.” So I tell the driver to divert from the womens hospital to “The Med Center.” The Med Center is a large University hospital in the heart of the city I serve with a level 1 trauma center. I knew it would add an additional 15 minutes to our transport time, but I was willing to take it. I also activate a code 2 trauma alert, which is a level of trauma team activation in a hospital that is used for patients with traumatic, but non-life threatening injuries. We arrive at the hospital, transfer the patient, and everything seems well. The Med Center has a patient follow up program, which lets EMS providers know what happened into their patient after they get dropped off. Later that day, I get a follow up report and find out that this lady had actually dissected her carotid artery (the artery in your neck that supplies your brain with blood) and was slowly bleeding out internally and had to be rushed to emergency surgery. I realized that if I had agreed to let that patient refuse transport, she would’ve likely bled out internally later that night. So I had not one, but two “just to be safe” moments. My decision to convince her to go with us and my decision to divert to a trauma center. TL;DR lady gets into a rollover crash, overall seems fine and doesn’t want to go to the hospital. I convince her to go and we find out she is bleeding out internally.
@@djtreq In my area it’s pretty common, about half of the hospitals offer it. I think it’s a good program because it helps me understand if there’s something I could’ve done differently for different incidents and things like that.
I was driving in a vehicle with one of my friends and we went and stopped somewhere. I think it was McDonald's. When we hop back in the vehicle and we were going to drive back to his place I noticed his seat belt wasn't on. I told him to put it on and he argued with me about it and I told him all right then let me out if you're not going to put it on. I know it seems meaningless to argue about something so trivial but I've had family members put in the hospital and nearly die because they weren't wearing one and I swore I'd never drive in a vehicle or drive a vehicle where everyone wasn't buckled up. But we came up to a stoplight he put it on and when the light turned green no more than half a car distance in front of us someone blew through the red light going about 25 over the speed limit and only just barely missed us. It would have hit him nearly had on because of the guy making a turn and cutting in front of us. If he hadn't been wearing his seat belt you would have gone through the windshield easily from his momentum keeping him still but the vehicle getting jerked. He's always wanted a seat belt After that
I got an extended warranty when my car was at 40k miles. The warranty extended out 100k miles from time of getting it. It cost me $5,000. So far, it's saved me over $8,000 in repairs. The most recent one was a 2 grand repair and I only had to pay labor of 250.
My brother and I went to see a movie. I got baked beforehand, so much so that I was still pretty stoned when the movie was over. I wanted him to drive home even though we'd discussed me driving on the way back because I knew my reaction time would be slow. I felt kinda lame but figured let's just be safe rather than sorry. A truck in front of us on the highway lost a fridge out of the back of their truck. My brother miraculously swerved and missed it. I know for sure I would have hit it. I still think of that day sometimes. Gives me shivers.
Story #7, I would not have left that company, I would have made those corrupt jerks leave the company instead. You followed the rules and they lied about it, not just to your face, but to the faces of other people, for at least FIVE YEARS. Moreover, I am sure that a lot of various governmental organizations would absolutely just LOVE the amount of fraud and other crimes that your company did to people, OP. I would love to see the looks on their faces in the courtroom once the class action lawsuit begins.
Whenever I catch strep throat, it feels less severe than a common cold. So just to be safe, I always check my tonsils if/when I have a persistent sore throat. The one time I delayed treating strep got me hospitalized for an abscess so I don't take chances on that these days. One time I even noticed strep before the distinct white spots showed up because I was recovering from a flu and stopped getting better when I was supposed to be on the mend.
When I was a kid I went on a rollercoaster that goes upside down. I checked my seatbelt right before they started the ride and it wasn’t locked. I screamed and they locked it for me.
Saved my emails with a particular coworker because they were shady. Tried to blame me for something they were responsible for, claiming the project was mine. The boss had a bad memory, so she believed her at first. Especially since she was dating an IT guy, and he deleted my emails. Pulled out the separately saved emails. It was her project, according to our communication. She and her IT bf were both fired.
My family and I went to a friend's underground ttornado shelter while they were away only for the tornado to go nowhere near our house but to go directly, I mean dead-center over the shelter. When we walked outside, the friend's house was moved off its foundation _toward the shelter_ and our van had been lifted and placed back down. There were trees blocking the roads everywhere. When we got back home the only thing that was damaged was our porch because a small tree fell, right next to our glass porch doors that weren't even scratched. Insurance covered the tree's damages which helped pay for the house, van, and more. Mission failed successfully.
One time when I was a kid, my mom was driving me home down the interstate after we both had been on the road for a very long time. We were both tired, and she wanted me to get some rest. I decided to stay up until we got home. She started straying off the road lines and dozed off while going 80+. I was barely able to wake her up in time to avoid plowing into the car in front that was stopped for a traffic jam.
True story, I was in Germany for a week with my highschool classmates on a field trip. My teacher says it might rain but had almost a 10 percent chance. My friend said don't bother bringing an umbrella but I did anyway. While exploring the shops a man tried to approach us asking if we were Americans and we said yes, he tried to tell us good shops to visit. I said no thank you and he tried to herd us like livestock out the door. I pulled out my umbrella from my backpack (it was in the cup holder) and I extended it and got it in both hands like a bat while getting my stance to swing. Mind you this was in public and he was not expecting an outburst like the one I was about to give. "We're not just Americans WE'RE TEXANS AND WE DON'T FALL FOR THIS SORT OF C***!!!" he left quickly without a word. I still have that umbrella for luck and safety.😂
Everyone said I was over re acting when I locked the car doors while waiting in parking lots, in a Walmart parking lot someone yanked on the back door so hard that they fell on their butt, (thanks to it being locked) I hope he broke his #$%^ing hand, he just kind of limped away while I took pics of him for the police.
I'm an old man and I lock my doors as soon I enter my car in parking lots too-too many car jackings in the city. Good precautions and situational awareness.
@@Bajongus That is _not_ Karma! It is using good judgement! That's the point of the whole video. 🤦🏼♂️ Good or bad things don't just happen to you, people can do things to control them.
I got on a different bus than my usual one because I had a gut feeling to catch it. Turns out, my original bus had a tire pop and the bus ended up swerving and hitting a tree, injuring 6 people on the bus. I heard my neighbors talk about it the next day because one of their roommates (who lives in my building and works around the same time as me) was hospitalized with minor injuries.
Back in my younger days of house parties and underage drinking I used to have a sixth sense about parties getting busted. Every time I'd get to a point where I'm like "You know what, this is fun and all, but just to be safe let's quit while we're a head and bail." And every single time, within 15 minutes the cops show up and the place gets busted. If it weren't for the fact that enough people knew me to know that I wasn't a narc, I probably would've been suspected of being one.
When I was a kid probably 9, my dad was pulling me and a friend on sleds behind a snowmobile in a field (think like Tubing but on the snow instead of a lake) and I was like “ya know what I should probably have a helmet on.” So we stopped, I grabbed one. And not 5 minutes later I fell off the sled on got my head ran over by my other buddy on his sled lol. It was totally fine. Glad I put it on!
@@TheNoiseySpectator Nah, remember how I said it was my dad and my friend? I started racing motocross at age 6 so I already had helmets lying around, and most likely just didn't wanna get yelled at by my mom lol.
Usually I don't get extended warranties on computers, but one time I got a one year one for $30 for my wife's first laptop because she was taking it to school and back. Near the end of of her first semester the hard drive crashes and the 90 day free exchange period had passed so the hard drive replacement was covered under the extended warranty. Now I always get a one year extended warranty, if it covered parts and labor, for a laptop and smart phones since they get dropped or mishandled at some point, unlike desktop PCs.
Moose test: in 1995 I “retired” from the Navy with 23.5 years in uniform. In 2012 I am driving for harvest getting off 2 hours after sunset. This one night I come up behind a 10-wheel truck on a back road and look around it to see if anything is coming. There are no lights. I start around and as I get to the front of the tandems I see the Mack bulldog on a light blue hood. I reverted to the training I got in boot camp on the fastest way to get to a new heading and went off the road at a 45 degree angle and as I stopped with my back end 5 feet off the road the oncoming truck went between me and the other truck. I had never used the maneuver while in the Navy. I got out of my car and paced the distance to the road. Then got back in backed up onto the road and went home. The maneuver is to turn the wheel all the way until you are coming to the new heading, then reverse the wheel and instantly center the wheel.
I'm a med student, when I was in the gynecology and obstetrics rotation in my fifth semester, the professor allowed us to go see births when there were one, clinical rotations last 3 weeks and during that time we had only had one birth, which I chose not to attend so I could enter an operating room for the first time in my life and see a couple of surgeries. After that I kept insisting to the professor that I wanted to see a birth, that she could call me at any time and I would go to the hospital, but during that time there were no births, the last day of the rotation arrived, a classmate and I only had to attend to take the final exam so it was not necessary for us to bring disposable surgical gowns or anything like that, but just in case I brought all the supplies and just before starting the final exam, the professor asked if we had brought the supplies, there was a birth that we could go in to see after the exam if we had them, I was able to go in to see the birth and it was one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever had, it's very likely that I will aspire to specialize in gynecology and obstetrics thanks to that
Woke up on the morning I had to pick my mom and sister up from the airport, I was feeling nervous and almost smoked a bowl to calm my nerves, on the way home from the airport I was in a rollover collision that took the other driver's life, had I smoked a bowl as I had considered and I would have spent time behind bars for dui resulting in death, and I avoided that by deciding that sobriety was for the best
☺️ Now, may I interest you in giving it up all together? You don't really know in everyday life from one hour to the next What you will need to be ready to cope with.... 🤔
I bought a used copy of Pokémon heart gold from GameStop and I bought the protection thing normally I don’t but something in my gut said buy it. So I did and it quit working day on of me owning it. They tested and replaced it no problem. Now I always buy the warranty or protection plan
This happened to a cousin My mom and I always insist on seatbelts and a cousin was coming home from working third shift at a local restaurant and he fell asleep at the wheel but he put his seatbelt on and that’s why I saved his life he came out OK just a little banged up and a huge bruise on his chest
This is a funny/ unbreakable/ out there experience. Literally in the blm2 marches. Started a mini motorcade bc im not sitting behind marchers going at 10 mph. Then after me on a moped, the other a crotchrocket, and the last a fat boy harley. We went the 3 di f directions beyond the marchers. Didnt see which went where bc im not wrecking at night. Ik it sounds far fwtched but imagine what its like being in that shit. Its annoying,i honked to get ppl to move at 7 mph it was god awful.
Holy shit, i looked at your website, and those rugs look awesome. A little tip from me, show some of the finished rugs in the advertisement, helps to show how amazing they look.
Buying a dashcam that records audio. I was involved in an accident recently, nothing serious just a fender bender. But the guy that hit me claimed that I turned too sharp when in fact he turned too wide. He also tried to claim I was distracted when turning but I wasn’t playing any music and I wasn’t talking to my passenger at the time. You can also clearly hear my blinker. I did everything right and it still ended up in a collision, no biggie things happen. Insurance is going through an investigation and everything will work out.
Was more because I already had a ride but if I didn't have one to a party in the mountains in highschool I'd have been one of four or more people that got multiple broken bones, fracture and internal organs punctured from a car crash/roll over.
Not surprised about the Subaru story. Always get the warranty if you're buying a Subaru. They're known for chewing through head gaskets and having stupid mechanical defects.
"Amazing"? "Indescribable"? This is not about watching a star explode, or a volcano destroy a mountain. Is that depth of human cruelty a source of awe for you?
Hey rufus & team, i was wonderin if y'all could ever put the game your playin in the description? i would love to know the games you guys are playing cuz they all look really fun to play. also keep up the great work! my fav reddit channel out there!
In the late 1970s when I was a young teenager, my parents gave me a fiver which was quite a lot of money in those days, and told me, this is your way home and out of trouble. I kept it for years, and tried to give it back, but they said spend it on your children. So fast forward to when my children were young teens, this time with a £20 note. My grandchildren have mobile phones, so no longer relevant. But that fiver in my show or bra or wherever but not in my purse was a good thing. RIP Mom and Dad xxx
Seatbelting my bags of groceries. Do you know how much it sucks to have pickle relish, eggs and more fly off and spray the inside of your car? No? How about if you're BORROWING? Wanna find out how much goodwill you have with someone after you take their car and paint it vomit green with a dash of sprinkled cheese? No? Good. The seatbelts are there for a reason, folks. Tie those bags and cases up.
On my way back home from school, on a ride with my transport lady's daughter, I had the random thought that we were going to crash. I put my phone inside my bag just to be safe, and kept myself behind the driver's seat. Lo and behold, we crashed the front of the car. Nobody got harmed and the damages were on the metal casing of both cars. Both of the motorists were school transport, so the main worry was with us, the kids.
8:35 and that is why we don't have flying cars. If that happens in your car, you will just stop. If you are flying when that happens, you crash and may die, or kill someone else. 🙁
Got my ex-wife to sign a prenup before we got married. She cheated, got pregnant by another man, DNA test proved I wasn't the father. Saved me over $1 million.
Plot twist on story 4, the homeless man hero was actually the one who smashed all the windows of the other cars and that 10 dollars OP paid him was actually to spare it from him (I'm not saying this as fact, just as unsubstantiated theory)
You are using a definitive verb tense, like you know this for certain. ☹️ Are pathologically Cynical assumptions part of the way you think about the World around you, and everyday life? How did the bumb get bruised up, if not defending the car?
Im not a particularly religious person, but its stories like the ones in the comments that make me think Intuition for safety is the closest thing to being warned by a personal guardian angel
Everyone was giving me crap for wearing my safety helmet around the satellite equipment. Then it fell on me ... would have crushed my skull had I yielded to peer-presure
Story 1: Why exactly could OP not explain? The kid was old enough for OP to send him the screenshots and explain. I see no reason for OP to not explain things when his son first said he was upset with the lack of time with his father.
His mom would've definitely either intercepted that, twisted things to still make the dad seem like the villain or punish her son for wanting more time with his dad after seeing her true colours. Remember, he's under her roof so she holds most of the cards.
I was 7 ish and was playing on a swing thing and my dad did not put the pad so i was like "dad put the pad on!" "Put the pad on" So he did and 3 minutes later the swing broke i almost broke my skull that day.
A thing that saved my butt was when i warned my gf about a friend me and her know because i knew he was up to something so i warned her to tell me before assuming things on her own and what do you know from my experiences i Called it he was trying to persuade her i was cheating and such when i figured out he liked her on top of bad habit of lying to people because shes asked me is this true?! Which individually me i promised her i wouldnt break up with her and i told her i wouldnt especially this easily. Dont like seeing my lovely girls heart be manipulated. Right now it actual reminds me of kirito from sao she isnt your armor she isnt your shield she isnt your sword.
Not quite saved my life, ok it didn't, but I got crazy lucky to have ran out of toilet paper and gone for a easy run of the mill run for more toilet paper... A few days before we all start taking COVID seriously and everyone was stockpiling it for some reason.
Story #4, the OP, his friends, with the exception of the sober girl, the drunk guy that was honest, and his girlfriend, all honestly need to lay off the booze, and the drunk guy, as well as his girlfriend, honestly need to get jobs provided to them by the OP so that way, the OP and his friends can do the drunk guy and his girlfriend an even bigger favor to their lives because they need to have second chances at living, especially with the drunk guy stopping the crackhead auto thief.
This sounds stupid as hell but, i always carry one of those tape recorder things that rewinds. I see to many woman or even guys at times who make a huge loe about something amd get you accused a pedo. Havent gotten yse yet vut u will one day
The first message. That's pretty common. Most women, not ALL don't really want the kids after a breakup, they only want them because the father does and they hate him. They want to do the most damage to him by jeep him away from his kids. They're hate towards their ex also falls on the kids because it's hateful to keep kids away from their father that loves them. Just like it's hateful to keep kids away from a mother that loves them. Every single one of my friends went through the same thing I went through. We all had moms that kept us from our fathers because they hated us and him.
It's not that interesting of a story, but I still look back on it fondly. In job corps, we were at that week 3 where we would shadow 3 different trades. One day, I shadowed culinary. Unfortunately the trade instructor wasn't there yet. Also unfortunately, that meant 90% of everyone there used this to screw around and goof off. At one point, the culinary students broke out these massive tubs of ice cream and let anyone who wanted some to help themselves. I was one the few who turned down the offer. Eventually the trade instructor arrived. Instantly everyone who was shadowing that day with a bowl of ice cream in hand was sent away. I and one other girl was allowed to stay. About 10 minutes later, the trade instructor decided to send us back too. Before we left, I asked if this was because of what happened or for another reason. He said it's because he was late and we did nothing wrong. About 20 mins later, everyone shadowing culinary was put in a room and chewed out by someone whose specific job I can't remember. The person who was sent back the same time I was spoke up and mentioned the question I asked and said to contact culinary to back us up. Her and I were the only two who didn't get into any trouble. Not only was I glad I asked for that clarification earlier, I was ever so grateful for her to bring it up because my anxiety ridden @$$ wasn't gonna let me bring it up.
Once when I was cleaning out my grandmother's apartment postmortem, I was allowed to take her kitchen table home. It had a round, flat top that had a metal base that cut into four sharp metal legs that jutted out every 90°.
I flipped it top side down in the back of my car and began bungee cording it to everything I could find. Mom laughed at me and said it wasn't necessary, but I just turned back to her and said "well, it's just in case I hit a deer or something on the way home." I didn't want to be impaled on their table legs in an accident.
She didn't think it was so funny when I called her a half hour later, shaken up when a doe jumped into the road in the dark ahead of me. The impact bent the car's radiator into a lovely crescent shape.
Always secure your loads when driving, either in the bed of your truck or the back of your car. Anything not bolted becomes a missile.
My dad is a carpenter and moves lots of things in his truck. He always ties things down super good, from different angles. Sometimes he'll stop a little ways down the road to be sure nothing shifted or came loose. Sometimes things move and the rope need to be tightened. He always explained how things could slid forward and hurt us, or fall off and hurt a bystander or cause an accident. He grew up helping his dad move houses, so working all his life, he's seen things and heard lots of stories where people didn't tie things down properly and bad consequences.
Newton's laws of physics: an object in motion will remain in motion unless an outside force acts on it... you just gave the perfect example of your car stopping, and it not tied down, that table would have kept on moving. So glad you're ok and shared this post, so hopefully someone else will tie something down for a quick move across town. You may have saved another life.
That homeless dude is unironically more dedicated than a good quarter of the population
Plot twist: he smashed all the other cars
that would be pretty big brain@@renakunisaki
I hate this is a thing, but you can do this where I'm at, and it's not only safer than the outside parking complex, it's cheaper, too.
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Man, I would've given that homeless guy a Hundred Bucks for that job he did. He's a real one.
I know. Bit tight
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Me too. As well as other stuff like toiletries, and food.
Heard a frantic pounding on my door at 3 AM while my partner was in the hospital. Had a bad feeling, so I put on my boots and grabbed my cordless circular saw. I planted my boot firmly behind the door to keep it from opening wide enough for a human to enter. When I open the door to ask who's there, he started trying to force his way in. I shouted, "if you breach this door, you will die!" He said, "I'm not afraid of you; I can't even tell if you're male or female!" I responded, "Thanks, that's what I'm going for!" as I spun up the saw. At this point, a neighbor heard the noise and chased the would-be home invader away. Started working on getting a gun the next day.
What I learned from my local cops is that if they're breaking in the daytime, they want your stuff. If they do it at night, they're after you. Stay safe.
On another note, my favorite longgun is hands down the Stoeger P3000. Zero recoil, and it's made in the same factory as Benelli. Dirt cheap for the best longgun I've ever owned, it was $400.
If you decide to carry in public, carry a knife as well. You can use a knife faster than a firearm.
@@GetDougDimmadomed Every combat expert I've spoken to has warned that knives require special training to not be more dangerous to the user than the opponent in an actual fight. The saying goes, "the loser dies on the scene, and the winner dies on the way to the hospital." That said, I do carry a knife, because I train using old military instructional videos and facsimiles with my nesting partner. I keep it concealed so it can't be taken.
@@GetDougDimmadomedok Leon😂, on a serious note though you got a point about knives
mostly true only if they are new to knives or the other person has one as well.
@@GetDougDimmadomedyeah most robberies take place during the day regardless of what fiction says or people think and that’s just at peoples homes if it’s at night it’s most likely at a place of business like a store or something
That first story is incredible. Thank god he managed to take his son back, especially because he stopped taking his meds when he was with him
Even better that since he’s 18, His mother can’t stop h from going to live with his father
But here's the thing he could of told he's son earlier what was happening but didn't why did he do that despite knowing that he's son was suffering
I would have gave the homeless man more than $10. I probably would have gave him a hundred, he saved me a call to the insurance company and a appointment at the car shop to get my windows fix.
I was thinking the same thing! I honestly don't know how to feel about him just giving him more booze instead...
We were told by a family friend to keep blankets in the car. Just in case. God I'm glad we did. Got wrapped up in a barb wire fence on a backroad after losing traction in black ice. Was coming back from a 6hr drive with no heat and I couldn't feel my feet. Was about 15 miles from home but it's 3am and no one in site. Thank god I brought that blanket. Partner put my feet on their stomach because they were turning pale and a light blue. That saved us
"partner"? Were you on a business trip?
What is so bad about calling him Your husband or bf, or whatever he was?
@@TheNoiseySpectatorcause they could be nonbinary?
@@lightpixie1113 Again, "nonbinary" is an assigned status.
Rather than making things convoluted, why not just not be ashamed to call the "partner" a BF or husband, or gf?
@@TheNoiseySpectator if they are nonbinary calling them partner is respecting their prounouns
I was using an older toaster because the original one we had was broken, but we knew this toaster was okay because we had used it earlier. So I was washing some dishes and wanted to make some breakfast while I was at it so I went to plug in the toaster, forgetting my hands were slightly wet. As I reached for the outlet, I stopped and told myself that I should fully dry off and after doing so, I plugged it in and it sparked violently then started a fire! Before it got worse I thought I could yank the length of the cord to stop it from starting a fire and it worked. It was very ballsy though and I should have probably tried another method than yanking....
Here’s mine (be ready for an essay)
I’m an EMT and a few months back, I was working on the ambulance when my partner and I get a call for a rollover crash on a nearby highway. My squad responds and the fire department sends an engine and a battalion chief to assist. The engine got there first, and since the engine crew does have basic life support training, they start assessing the driver before we arrive. When we get there, the captain of the engine comes up to me and says “Hey Andy, there’s only one patient and we’ve checked them out, they were going to sign off” (sign off meaning refuse transport to the hospital). I respond “Alright, I’ll take a quick look at them.” I check the patient, a 47 year old female, and she tells me that she feels ok, no pain anywhere, no dizziness, feeling nothing unusual. I perform my own physical assessment on her and I don’t note anything serious and I was planning on letting her go. However, I then consider the mechanism of injury. Mechanism of injury is the process or event that occurred that caused any present injury, in this case that being the rollover crash. I decide that I’d like to take her to the hospital because of the mechanism and I convince her to go just to be safe. I decide to start heading to the nearest hospital, which is a womens hospital with its own separately functioning emergency room. It’s not a trauma center, but at first I didn’t see any reason to take her to a trauma center. After a few minutes, I get this feeling in my gut telling me, “you should take her to a trauma center, just to be absolutely positively 100% sure that there’s nothing wrong.” So I tell the driver to divert from the womens hospital to “The Med Center.” The Med Center is a large University hospital in the heart of the city I serve with a level 1 trauma center. I knew it would add an additional 15 minutes to our transport time, but I was willing to take it. I also activate a code 2 trauma alert, which is a level of trauma team activation in a hospital that is used for patients with traumatic, but non-life threatening injuries. We arrive at the hospital, transfer the patient, and everything seems well. The Med Center has a patient follow up program, which lets EMS providers know what happened into their patient after they get dropped off. Later that day, I get a follow up report and find out that this lady had actually dissected her carotid artery (the artery in your neck that supplies your brain with blood) and was slowly bleeding out internally and had to be rushed to emergency surgery. I realized that if I had agreed to let that patient refuse transport, she would’ve likely bled out internally later that night. So I had not one, but two “just to be safe” moments. My decision to convince her to go with us and my decision to divert to a trauma center.
TL;DR lady gets into a rollover crash, overall seems fine and doesn’t want to go to the hospital. I convince her to go and we find out she is bleeding out internally.
Is that type of patient follow up program common? Seems like it would be helpful for feedback to learn how your assessments and decisions played out.
@@djtreq In my area it’s pretty common, about half of the hospitals offer it. I think it’s a good program because it helps me understand if there’s something I could’ve done differently for different incidents and things like that.
I was driving in a vehicle with one of my friends and we went and stopped somewhere. I think it was McDonald's. When we hop back in the vehicle and we were going to drive back to his place I noticed his seat belt wasn't on. I told him to put it on and he argued with me about it and I told him all right then let me out if you're not going to put it on. I know it seems meaningless to argue about something so trivial but I've had family members put in the hospital and nearly die because they weren't wearing one and I swore I'd never drive in a vehicle or drive a vehicle where everyone wasn't buckled up. But we came up to a stoplight he put it on and when the light turned green no more than half a car distance in front of us someone blew through the red light going about 25 over the speed limit and only just barely missed us. It would have hit him nearly had on because of the guy making a turn and cutting in front of us. If he hadn't been wearing his seat belt you would have gone through the windshield easily from his momentum keeping him still but the vehicle getting jerked. He's always wanted a seat belt After that
I got an extended warranty when my car was at 40k miles. The warranty extended out 100k miles from time of getting it. It cost me $5,000. So far, it's saved me over $8,000 in repairs. The most recent one was a 2 grand repair and I only had to pay labor of 250.
My brother and I went to see a movie. I got baked beforehand, so much so that I was still pretty stoned when the movie was over. I wanted him to drive home even though we'd discussed me driving on the way back because I knew my reaction time would be slow. I felt kinda lame but figured let's just be safe rather than sorry. A truck in front of us on the highway lost a fridge out of the back of their truck. My brother miraculously swerved and missed it. I know for sure I would have hit it. I still think of that day sometimes. Gives me shivers.
Can't say no to a free fridge though
Story #7, I would not have left that company, I would have made those corrupt jerks leave the company instead. You followed the rules and they lied about it, not just to your face, but to the faces of other people, for at least FIVE YEARS. Moreover, I am sure that a lot of various governmental organizations would absolutely just LOVE the amount of fraud and other crimes that your company did to people, OP. I would love to see the looks on their faces in the courtroom once the class action lawsuit begins.
Story 4 is definitely heart-warming and heartbreaking
Whenever I catch strep throat, it feels less severe than a common cold. So just to be safe, I always check my tonsils if/when I have a persistent sore throat. The one time I delayed treating strep got me hospitalized for an abscess so I don't take chances on that these days. One time I even noticed strep before the distinct white spots showed up because I was recovering from a flu and stopped getting better when I was supposed to be on the mend.
Aw, Stray, a.k.a., the dystopian future exploration game with kitties! (I love cats, by the way).
When I was a kid I went on a rollercoaster that goes upside down. I checked my seatbelt right before they started the ride and it wasn’t locked. I screamed and they locked it for me.
Saved my emails with a particular coworker because they were shady. Tried to blame me for something they were responsible for, claiming the project was mine. The boss had a bad memory, so she believed her at first. Especially since she was dating an IT guy, and he deleted my emails. Pulled out the separately saved emails. It was her project, according to our communication. She and her IT bf were both fired.
May I ask what is your profession?
My family and I went to a friend's underground ttornado shelter while they were away only for the tornado to go nowhere near our house but to go directly, I mean dead-center over the shelter. When we walked outside, the friend's house was moved off its foundation _toward the shelter_ and our van had been lifted and placed back down. There were trees blocking the roads everywhere. When we got back home the only thing that was damaged was our porch because a small tree fell, right next to our glass porch doors that weren't even scratched. Insurance covered the tree's damages which helped pay for the house, van, and more.
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Always smell something before eating/drinking anything...
No.
One time when I was a kid, my mom was driving me home down the interstate after we both had been on the road for a very long time. We were both tired, and she wanted me to get some rest. I decided to stay up until we got home.
She started straying off the road lines and dozed off while going 80+. I was barely able to wake her up in time to avoid plowing into the car in front that was stopped for a traffic jam.
True story, I was in Germany for a week with my highschool classmates on a field trip. My teacher says it might rain but had almost a 10 percent chance. My friend said don't bother bringing an umbrella but I did anyway. While exploring the shops a man tried to approach us asking if we were Americans and we said yes, he tried to tell us good shops to visit. I said no thank you and he tried to herd us like livestock out the door. I pulled out my umbrella from my backpack (it was in the cup holder) and I extended it and got it in both hands like a bat while getting my stance to swing. Mind you this was in public and he was not expecting an outburst like the one I was about to give. "We're not just Americans WE'RE TEXANS AND WE DON'T FALL FOR THIS SORT OF C***!!!" he left quickly without a word. I still have that umbrella for luck and safety.😂
Everyone said I was over re acting when I locked the car doors while waiting in parking lots, in a Walmart parking lot someone yanked on the back door so hard that they fell on their butt, (thanks to it being locked) I hope he broke his #$%^ing hand, he just kind of limped away while I took pics of him for the police.
Karma’s a beech.
I'm an old man and I lock my doors as soon I enter my car in parking lots too-too many car jackings in the city.
Good precautions and situational awareness.
@@Bajongus That is _not_ Karma! It is using good judgement!
That's the point of the whole video. 🤦🏼♂️
Good or bad things don't just happen to you, people can do things to control them.
I got on a different bus than my usual one because I had a gut feeling to catch it. Turns out, my original bus had a tire pop and the bus ended up swerving and hitting a tree, injuring 6 people on the bus.
I heard my neighbors talk about it the next day because one of their roommates (who lives in my building and works around the same time as me) was hospitalized with minor injuries.
Back in my younger days of house parties and underage drinking I used to have a sixth sense about parties getting busted. Every time I'd get to a point where I'm like "You know what, this is fun and all, but just to be safe let's quit while we're a head and bail." And every single time, within 15 minutes the cops show up and the place gets busted. If it weren't for the fact that enough people knew me to know that I wasn't a narc, I probably would've been suspected of being one.
When I was a kid probably 9, my dad was pulling me and a friend on sleds behind a snowmobile in a field (think like Tubing but on the snow instead of a lake) and I was like “ya know what I should probably have a helmet on.” So we stopped, I grabbed one. And not 5 minutes later I fell off the sled on got my head ran over by my other buddy on his sled lol. It was totally fine. Glad I put it on!
A nine year old wanted to put on a helmet?
Was it cold out, and you wanted another way to keep your ears warm?
@@TheNoiseySpectator Nah, remember how I said it was my dad and my friend? I started racing motocross at age 6 so I already had helmets lying around, and most likely just didn't wanna get yelled at by my mom lol.
Usually I don't get extended warranties on computers, but one time I got a one year one for $30 for my wife's first laptop because she was taking it to school and back. Near the end of of her first semester the hard drive crashes and the 90 day free exchange period had passed so the hard drive replacement was covered under the extended warranty. Now I always get a one year extended warranty, if it covered parts and labor, for a laptop and smart phones since they get dropped or mishandled at some point, unlike desktop PCs.
Moose test: in 1995 I “retired” from the Navy with 23.5 years in uniform. In 2012 I am driving for harvest getting off 2 hours after sunset. This one night I come up behind a 10-wheel truck on a back road and look around it to see if anything is coming. There are no lights. I start around and as I get to the front of the tandems I see the Mack bulldog on a light blue hood.
I reverted to the training I got in boot camp on the fastest way to get to a new heading and went off the road at a 45 degree angle and as I stopped with my back end 5 feet off the road the oncoming truck went between me and the other truck.
I had never used the maneuver while in the Navy.
I got out of my car and paced the distance to the road. Then got back in backed up onto the road and went home.
The maneuver is to turn the wheel all the way until you are coming to the new heading, then reverse the wheel and instantly center the wheel.
What is "Harvest Getting"?
Putting on a seat belt in a car. I even had a seat belt on my scooter that saved my life Remember--seat belts save lives!!😊
I'm a med student, when I was in the gynecology and obstetrics rotation in my fifth semester, the professor allowed us to go see births when there were one, clinical rotations last 3 weeks and during that time we had only had one birth, which I chose not to attend so I could enter an operating room for the first time in my life and see a couple of surgeries. After that I kept insisting to the professor that I wanted to see a birth, that she could call me at any time and I would go to the hospital, but during that time there were no births, the last day of the rotation arrived, a classmate and I only had to attend to take the final exam so it was not necessary for us to bring disposable surgical gowns or anything like that, but just in case I brought all the supplies and just before starting the final exam, the professor asked if we had brought the supplies, there was a birth that we could go in to see after the exam if we had them, I was able to go in to see the birth and it was one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever had, it's very likely that I will aspire to specialize in gynecology and obstetrics thanks to that
Woke up on the morning I had to pick my mom and sister up from the airport, I was feeling nervous and almost smoked a bowl to calm my nerves, on the way home from the airport I was in a rollover collision that took the other driver's life, had I smoked a bowl as I had considered and I would have spent time behind bars for dui resulting in death, and I avoided that by deciding that sobriety was for the best
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Now, may I interest you in giving it up all together?
You don't really know in everyday life from one hour to the next What you will need to be ready to cope with....
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@@TheNoiseySpectator I'm working on it, just quit cigarettes so I need a little time to get used to my mind without crutches
Story 8 in a nutshell: we're trying to contact you regarding your car extended warranty~
Fun fact about you: you whisperingly read this.
Always be prepared. Even when its an AI. I deal with that shit daily
I bought a used copy of Pokémon heart gold from GameStop and I bought the protection thing normally I don’t but something in my gut said buy it. So I did and it quit working day on of me owning it. They tested and replaced it no problem. Now I always buy the warranty or protection plan
This happened to a cousin My mom and I always insist on seatbelts and a cousin was coming home from working third shift at a local restaurant and he fell asleep at the wheel but he put his seatbelt on and that’s why I saved his life he came out OK just a little banged up and a huge bruise on his chest
This is a funny/ unbreakable/ out there experience. Literally in the blm2 marches. Started a mini motorcade bc im not sitting behind marchers going at 10 mph. Then after me on a moped, the other a crotchrocket, and the last a fat boy harley. We went the 3 di f directions beyond the marchers. Didnt see which went where bc im not wrecking at night. Ik it sounds far fwtched but imagine what its like being in that shit. Its annoying,i honked to get ppl to move at 7 mph it was god awful.
Holy shit, i looked at your website, and those rugs look awesome. A little tip from me, show some of the finished rugs in the advertisement, helps to show how amazing they look.
Buying a dashcam that records audio. I was involved in an accident recently, nothing serious just a fender bender. But the guy that hit me claimed that I turned too sharp when in fact he turned too wide. He also tried to claim I was distracted when turning but I wasn’t playing any music and I wasn’t talking to my passenger at the time. You can also clearly hear my blinker. I did everything right and it still ended up in a collision, no biggie things happen. Insurance is going through an investigation and everything will work out.
Loved story 1
Was more because I already had a ride but if I didn't have one to a party in the mountains in highschool I'd have been one of four or more people that got multiple broken bones, fracture and internal organs punctured from a car crash/roll over.
Great stories. What video game is this? With the cat?
Game name is Stray
A life jacket on lake Lanier I was the only survivor out of 5 in a boat crash.
Not surprised about the Subaru story. Always get the warranty if you're buying a Subaru. They're known for chewing through head gaskets and having stupid mechanical defects.
Especially the turbo ones, according to subi forums.
First story gives me indescribable feelings. Just amazing
"Amazing"? "Indescribable"?
This is not about watching a star explode, or a volcano destroy a mountain.
Is that depth of human cruelty a source of awe for you?
Hey rufus & team, i was wonderin if y'all could ever put the game your playin in the description? i would love to know the games you guys are playing cuz they all look really fun to play. also keep up the great work! my fav reddit channel out there!
I think its funny to imagine the homeless guy is the one who broke into all the other cars lmao
Avoiding the bowling alley in lewiston. No joke it used to be the only safe place to bring the kids in lewiston. 😢😢😢
If someone has no room to explain himself, he can't be guilty
In the late 1970s when I was a young teenager, my parents gave me a fiver which was quite a lot of money in those days, and told me, this is your way home and out of trouble. I kept it for years, and tried to give it back, but they said spend it on your children.
So fast forward to when my children were young teens, this time with a £20 note.
My grandchildren have mobile phones, so no longer relevant. But that fiver in my show or bra or wherever but not in my purse was a good thing. RIP Mom and Dad xxx
Slam Dunk Case "Sings the Slam Dunk Anime OPENING LOL"
Seatbelting my bags of groceries. Do you know how much it sucks to have pickle relish, eggs and more fly off and spray the inside of your car? No? How about if you're BORROWING? Wanna find out how much goodwill you have with someone after you take their car and paint it vomit green with a dash of sprinkled cheese? No? Good. The seatbelts are there for a reason, folks. Tie those bags and cases up.
OMG STRAY
"The moose test" is mandatory in my county to be able to take the driving test and get your licence
What is your Country?
@@TheNoiseySpectator Sweden it is called risk 2 there is also a risk 1 that is in a classroom setting talking about other risks while driving
On my way back home from school, on a ride with my transport lady's daughter, I had the random thought that we were going to crash. I put my phone inside my bag just to be safe, and kept myself behind the driver's seat. Lo and behold, we crashed the front of the car. Nobody got harmed and the damages were on the metal casing of both cars. Both of the motorists were school transport, so the main worry was with us, the kids.
8:35 and that is why we don't have flying cars. If that happens in your car, you will just stop.
If you are flying when that happens, you crash and may die, or kill someone else. 🙁
The moose test is just a part of Swedish drivers license class lol
Got my ex-wife to sign a prenup before we got married. She cheated, got pregnant by another man, DNA test proved I wasn't the father.
Saved me over $1 million.
Dayum that's lucky
Bringing my bookbag with me everywhere in school even if i seemed suspicious or was judged because of it. It is odd but it is true
Plot twist on story 4, the homeless man hero was actually the one who smashed all the windows of the other cars and that 10 dollars OP paid him was actually to spare it from him
(I'm not saying this as fact, just as unsubstantiated theory)
You are using a definitive verb tense, like you know this for certain. ☹️
Are pathologically Cynical assumptions part of the way you think about the World around you, and everyday life?
How did the bumb get bruised up, if not defending the car?
Im not a particularly religious person, but its stories like the ones in the comments that make me think Intuition for safety is the closest thing to being warned by a personal guardian angel
As a religious person I can confirm this is the closest physical thing in earth to that
What's the game called?
Stray
id have so paid that homeless guy mkre 😭
When you said the video was sponsored by YOU respect
I REALLY wanted to find this video again.
Paying off my house before I got married!…. She actually thought she would just automatically get half of everything!…. She thought wrong!…. 😂
In story 7 he just calls them out everytime they try firing them so they have to back off
I saw nft rug and I had to resist the chaotic evil so I wouldn't screenshot it
it's Stray!!!
I made multiple backups of some files. Turns out one of the backups failed and i wasnt notified.
He saved your car literally and he still onlyhave him $10 more? Wow...
Everyone was giving me crap for wearing my safety helmet around the satellite equipment. Then it fell on me ... would have crushed my skull had I yielded to peer-presure
4:19 is an ad
I would 100% hire that homeless guy to work for me
9:49 what iff I cant pass the moose test? Do i just dislike the video? Im already subscribed.
Story 1: Why exactly could OP not explain? The kid was old enough for OP to send him the screenshots and explain. I see no reason for OP to not explain things when his son first said he was upset with the lack of time with his father.
Have you ever tried talking to someone over the internet that doesn’t want to talk, especially someone who really doesn’t like you?
His mom would've definitely either intercepted that, twisted things to still make the dad seem like the villain or punish her son for wanting more time with his dad after seeing her true colours. Remember, he's under her roof so she holds most of the cards.
One: he needs the kids number, two he needs to get contact, three do it without mom noticing
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I was 7 ish and was playing on a swing thing and my dad did not put the pad so i was like "dad put the pad on!" "Put the pad on" So he did and 3 minutes later the swing broke i almost broke my skull that day.
Story #2, that is another reason why handguns prevent crime.
In story 7 it sounds like they wanted to fire him for some reason
It's not uncommon for middle management to try to get rid of high performance employees out of fear that they'll take their jobs.
why does this narrator sound like Doug Eiffel from Wolf 359??
A thing that saved my butt was when i warned my gf about a friend me and her know because i knew he was up to something so i warned her to tell me before assuming things on her own and what do you know from my experiences i Called it he was trying to persuade her i was cheating and such when i figured out he liked her on top of bad habit of lying to people because shes asked me is this true?! Which individually me i promised her i wouldnt break up with her and i told her i wouldnt especially this easily. Dont like seeing my lovely girls heart be manipulated. Right now it actual reminds me of kirito from sao she isnt your armor she isnt your shield she isnt your sword.
Not quite saved my life, ok it didn't, but I got crazy lucky to have ran out of toilet paper and gone for a easy run of the mill run for more toilet paper... A few days before we all start taking COVID seriously and everyone was stockpiling it for some reason.
SUBsequent
Story #4, the OP, his friends, with the exception of the sober girl, the drunk guy that was honest, and his girlfriend, all honestly need to lay off the booze, and the drunk guy, as well as his girlfriend, honestly need to get jobs provided to them by the OP so that way, the OP and his friends can do the drunk guy and his girlfriend an even bigger favor to their lives because they need to have second chances at living, especially with the drunk guy stopping the crackhead auto thief.
..... I think you may have missed the point of the story.
This sounds stupid as hell but, i always carry one of those tape recorder things that rewinds. I see to many woman or even guys at times who make a huge loe about something amd get you accused a pedo. Havent gotten yse yet vut u will one day
The first message.
That's pretty common. Most women, not ALL don't really want the kids after a breakup, they only want them because the father does and they hate him. They want to do the most damage to him by jeep him away from his kids. They're hate towards their ex also falls on the kids because it's hateful to keep kids away from their father that loves them. Just like it's hateful to keep kids away from a mother that loves them.
Every single one of my friends went through the same thing I went through. We all had moms that kept us from our fathers because they hated us and him.
It's not that interesting of a story, but I still look back on it fondly.
In job corps, we were at that week 3 where we would shadow 3 different trades. One day, I shadowed culinary. Unfortunately the trade instructor wasn't there yet. Also unfortunately, that meant 90% of everyone there used this to screw around and goof off.
At one point, the culinary students broke out these massive tubs of ice cream and let anyone who wanted some to help themselves. I was one the few who turned down the offer.
Eventually the trade instructor arrived.
Instantly everyone who was shadowing that day with a bowl of ice cream in hand was sent away. I and one other girl was allowed to stay.
About 10 minutes later, the trade instructor decided to send us back too. Before we left, I asked if this was because of what happened or for another reason. He said it's because he was late and we did nothing wrong.
About 20 mins later, everyone shadowing culinary was put in a room and chewed out by someone whose specific job I can't remember.
The person who was sent back the same time I was spoke up and mentioned the question I asked and said to contact culinary to back us up.
Her and I were the only two who didn't get into any trouble.
Not only was I glad I asked for that clarification earlier, I was ever so grateful for her to bring it up because my anxiety ridden @$$ wasn't gonna let me bring it up.