35 Times People Wondered How Someone So Clueless Was Still Alive

Making mistakes is an inevitable part of being human. From childhood onward, we all make blunders, but what truly matters is how we learn from them. This process refines our survival skills, helps us minimise risks, and enables us to adapt to our environment.

Current generations enjoy far greater advantages. With unprecedented access to information and widespread public awareness campaigns, we are better warned about potential dangers. Nevertheless, people still engage in remarkably careless behaviours that put them in easily preventable, life-threatening situations, as seen on the ‘Oops, That’s Deadly‘ subreddit. The gallery below highlights some surprisingly reckless individuals, prompting us to wonder how they’ve managed to survive this long—and for how much longer they can continue to do so.

#1 I Don’t Think That’s A Pet, You Shouldn’t Invite It Into Your Car

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#2 I’m Allergic To Cats And He Scratched Me

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#3 Had Both My Bathrooms Flooded With Poison Gas

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Yes so I live in Turkey currently and my house has a septic tank, and apparently a government worker came by to check it because we have had way too many mosquitoes this year, and apparently there were thousands of them in there and he freaked out and pumped an unnamed horrible dense oily gas poison into my septic tank.

Bathrooms here have a drain in the floor so that when you’re cleaning it you can just squeegee the water right into the drain. And houses with septic tanks, it’s assumed that you will be using said drain on a frequent basis so that there is a water lock keeping nasty methane smells and also in this case poison gas from seeping up into your house. But I don’t use it so that s**t came right in.

An hour after this was done, my amazing teammate of a cat woke me up and let me know there was a problem. The air purifier in my sitting room was going insane, and there was this dense horrible chemical smell as I left my curtained bedroom.

I immediately aired out the area, but this stuff is so persistent that some of it hung around underneath my bed and I had to use a two fan combo to get it out in the middle of the night. Same deal for my downstairs bathroom, both my bathrooms just have one small window for ventilation and that’s it. I actually had to take care of the downstairs bathroom the next morning and the gas was still there.

So yeah, thanks for letting me ramble, hope I don’t get cancer, hope my cats don’t get cancer. I’m glad those mosquitoes are gone though, the biggest among them were a solid centimeter long and they would shake off being smacked, you have to roll them to break their wings and legs or they get back up and keep flying while flipping you off.

Here’s a photo of my 13-year-old kitty Cutie, who let me know there was something going on. I rescued him 3 years ago and I adore him so so much. The best boy

#4 This Person Glued Rocks And Crystals To Their Steering Wheel Airbag Effectively Making A Claymore That Points Directly At Their Face And Chest

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#5 The “Snow” In The Wizard Of Oz Movie Was 100% Pure Asbestos

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#6 A Small Mistake Right?

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#7 Safe To Say I Switched Lanes Immediately After This Photo…

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#8 Finally Found Where My Lint Trap Is

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Lived in my apartment for 3 years and ignorantly thought I didn’t have a lint trap in my dryer. Found out it’s under the handle on the top of it, but since it was hard to pull up, I figured it was something else and I didn’t want to break it and get management mad at me. Finally figured out that if I pull it towards me, it’ll come out. Got lucky today. So glad I got some radioactively bright red towels that clogged the inside of my dryer and proved to me that I do indeed have a lint trap I need to manually clean.

#9 Seen On Fb- Luckily The Person Receiving The Fish Recognized The Issue, But The Packagers Clearly Didn’t!

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#10 Saw This Winner Parked At The Gas Station. And Yes, All 4 Looked Like This

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#11 Lake Algae. Rip

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#12 Last Image Of Arthur Bitencourt (7) On August 3 2023 In Paraná, Brazil

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The boy jumped into a pile of limestone on the side of the road. Shortly after his father took this photo, Arthur collapsed and passed away due to being poisoned from the dust.

#13 Casually Letting Your Kid Pick Up One Of The World’s Deadliest Creatures

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#14 This Deadly Spider’s Venom Can Give You A 5 Hour, Extremely Painful, Throbbing Erection. And K**l You And Your Family

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#15 Was Cleaning Webs Off My Porch…

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#16 Cuddling A Copperhead, What Could Go Wrong? Stolen From A Facebook Group

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#17 The Guy That Mows My Lawn Sends Me Snake Pics When He Finds Them So I Can ID For Him. He Sends Me This Today

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I told him he’s insane and to not pick snakes up if he can’t ID them. Also he’s extremely lucky lol. Lord have mercy the man thought it was a ball python!!!

#18 My Parents Came Back Home To This. Almost Burned Their House Down With This Concave Mirror

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#19 Lily Pollen On My Cat’s Face (Don’t Worry, She’s Okay)

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Bought some roses and didn’t notice there were two lily buds in there that had not bloomed. Cat found them before I did.

#20 Unsupported/Shifted Load

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#21 Never Eat A Wild Carrots. This Is Hemlock

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#22 Contractors Hate This One Simple Trick

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Not inevitably deadly, but I suppose a building collapse is possible, should one roll a refrigerator across the floor there or something.

#23 Oops

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#24 Best Snow On Earth

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#25 My Cousin Borrowed My Stepdad’s Car And Brought It Back Like This

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#26 Tourismts In Chernobyl, Sitting In An Excavator Claw Used After The Disaster. (It Has Deadly Levels Of Radiation)

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#27 Woman Taking Selfie Gets Too Close To Bison At Yellowstone

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#28 Parents Wanted To Show The Cool Snail They Found While On A Vacation To Egypt

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The snail in the video is a cone snail. It his highly venomous and has a stinger that carries it’s venom. With bigger ones having potent enough venom to k**l humans.