27 Things You Didn’t Realize Can Kill You in Seconds

‘People have died playing with dry ice’
27 Things You Didn’t Realize Can Kill You in Seconds

When we think of threats to life and limb, we usually pull up a familiar armory in our mind. SharksSniper rifles. Poorly affixed window air conditioners. All of which are indeed deadly. You may be giving your fragile human body entirely too much credit, however. There’s plenty of seemingly innocuous things entirely capable of sending you to the Sea of Reeds posthaste.

A thread on Reddit collected, hopefully not from firsthand accounts, things that can kill a person in no time flat. Substances, events and items that can end a life just as quick as John Wick, with none of the excitement. 

Read on to make sure your obituary doesn’t have to explain you spent time in a scarcely ventilated room with a bunch of rusty objects.

NefariousnessSlight 1y ago Using a massage gun on your neck... While handheld massage guns are generally safe to use on muscles, using them on the neck can be dangerous. The high vibrations produced by massage guns can injure unprotected areas of the neck, and in rare cases, can cause soft tissue damage or stroke-like symptoms.
Amplith 1y ago Slipping in the shower...
AcadiaRemarkable6992 . 1y ago Relying on other motorists to respect your right of way in traffic. There are cemeteries full of people who had the right of way.
clopticrp . 1y ago Carbon Dioxide. People have died playing with dry ice.
LittleMsSavoirFaire . 1y ago Enclosed spaces. Don't assume it's the air you're used to down there
Maanzacorian 1y ago horses we've lived with them for so long that unless you spend regular time around them, you don't know just how unbelievably dangerous they are. It's a good thing they're so stupid or we'd be fucked. Movies have people believing they're these docile creatures that live to serve humans. Those are the ones that have been trained extensively. They are otherwise 1500 pounds of dumb panicky hair-trigger muscle.
esoteric_enigma a 1y ago Inhalents. I tried them once in high school. 2 weeks later a kid at another school died from using them THE FIRST TIME. A couple weeks after that, I was offered them again. I told them fuck no and asked if they hadn't heard about the dead kid. They looked at me and seriously replied, Oh yeah, it's okay. Не used the wrong brand. Не used the blue bottle, instead of the purple bottle.
Edward_the_Dog . ly ago texting while driving
el_monstruo . 1y ago Water. People often do not respect water and how it can quickly kill you.
breakthro444 . 1y ago Things under huge amounts of tension. Boat lines, garage door springs, various other cables or springs used in industrial settings. These can send you back to the character select in an instant.
Capacitors. Maybe most people don't interact with them, but for those that do (DIY electronics repairs), a typical PSU in a home computer have capacitors that can kill you. Shocking, I know.
broccoli_octopus . 1y ago Large herbivores. They've evolved defenses to make large predators rethink their life choices. They will mess you up.
Sea_Risk_2637 . 1y ago So I was trying to look up a DIY mixture to remove mold/mildew recently. A surprising number of sources (including an Al tool) suggested mixing bleach and vinegar.
SketchtheHunter . 1y ago Hey, that small invertebrate you found by the sea? Please leave it alone.
bellebutterfield . 1y ago Falling from regular standing height
Intelligent-Block457 . 1y ago I stopped two German or Austrian tourists from touching a poisonous frog in Colombia. They had no idea. They were inches away with their phones. I hadn't spoken German in years, but man my panic reaction brought those words to the tip of my tongue real fast. Don't mess with wildlife, especially outside your own habitat.
UniqueBeauty29 . . 1y ago A ruptured aneurysm can kill you in seconds. It's often sudden and without warning, making it extremely dangerous and usually fatal if not treated immediately
TemperatureTop246 . 1y ago carbon monoxide. well, minutes, but still.. it's odorless and colorless. most likely, you won't even know.
CanaDoug420 . 1y ago fistfight. One wrong punch and you're in prison for killing a dude
 1y ago Moving water. It's freaking dangerous. Water is heavy so when it's moving it has a lot of energy. It might not feel too bad walking through knee deep flowing water but if you fall the water will have more area to push on. You may not be able to get yourself on your feet again.
 . 1y ago . Edited 1y ago Mixing a lot of stuff with benzos. Alcohol. Opiates. Other benzos. Etc.
myspamhere . 1y ago Garage door springs. let a pro fix it
remes1234 . 1y ago Rust. If you run into a hole in the ground with rusty stuff inside, that does not get good ventilation. Dont go in. Rust is iron combined with oxygen. And it can eat all of the oxygen in the air. And fun fact, your body cant tell how much oxygen is in the air, but does sense carbon dioxide is there. So you dont know you are going until you are dead.
thefuzzybunny1 . 1y ago a Edited 1y ago Maternal hemorrhage. I am routinely shocked by expectant mothers who want to give birth at home, arguing that they can always transfer to the hospital if there's a problem. No, no they can't. If the wrong type of bleeding begins, they'll be dead before the ambulance gets there.
Cat_o_meter . 1y ago Edited 1y ago If you get hit in the chest at a specific part of the heart's cardiac rhythm, dead. If you accidentally massage your carotid and have a vagal sensitivity, dead. If you have a genetic predisposition for certain arrhythmias and get startled, dead. The heart is a tricksy thing Eta this is very rare. However, if you have any family members who have died unexpectedly and young and have a history of fainting for no reason get an EKG asap.
sksksksksksksss 1y ago Hi I'm in EMS. Please wash your hands before you eat stuff, so many people come in contact with so many other people who have illnesses that can be contracted by eating with unclean fingers. Even if you've been around people you know all day you never know who they've been around, and sometimes it's not even illnesses rather random germs AND I KNOW THIS IS OBVIOUS TO SOME PEOPLE but next time you see a local EMS crew eating food with their funny colored gloves on it's because we've made a habit even if we hadn't
ohfuckthebeesescaped . 1y ago Brake-checking a semi (you'd think it'd be obvious but поре)

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