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The fate of four missing US soldiers in Lithuania continues to capture international attention as the search for their whereabouts intensifies.
As of last Tuesday (March 25), efforts to retrieve an armored vehicle at the Pabradè military training area, northeast of Vilnius, are ongoing, with the M88 found submerged around 5 meters deep after becoming stuck in a swampy area.
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of four US soldiers in Lithuania deepened when the wife of one of the missing soldiers, Sergeant Edvinas Benas Franco, came forward with alarming details about the operation her husband was involved in.
Contrary to earlier reports, which suggested the soldiers were engaged in a routine exercise, Georgia Franco asserts that her husband was unexpectedly pulled into a dangerous rescue mission and was sent out without the necessary support.
The wife of one of four missing US soldiers said her husband was pulled into a dangerous rescue mission without proper assistance
Image credits: Sean Gallup / Getty (Not the actual photo)
In an emotional interview with local media outlet 11 Alive, Georgia Franco explained that her husband, being in charge of driving the M88, was in charge of military retrieval missions, specifically those involving military equipment.
Recounting the harrowing final text messages she received from her husband, Georgia explained that he had been unexpectedly pulled into a rescue mission—a task far more dangerous and urgent than his usual operations.
Image credits: Anadolu / Getty
“He told me that they were going on a rescue mission, and they do this all the time because he worked specifically with the M88, which is essentially a military wrecker,” she told the local outlet.
Image credits: U.S. Army (Not the actual photo)
Then, around 7:14 AM local time, there was a glimmer of hope after Sergeant Franco informed her that they were closing in on the people they were supposed to rescue. Sadly, those were the final words she ever received from her beloved husband.
Georgia Franco is calling for an investigation, hoping for those in charge of the mission to answer for her husband’s disappearance
Image credits: DSakaliene
Holding back tears of sorrow and anger, Georgia described how her husband’s sudden involvement in the rescue mission struck her as highly unusual and called the military out for negligence.
Image credits: DSakaliene
According to her, during such operations, soldiers are typically accompanied by other vehicles for safety and support. Yet, in this case, Sergeant Franco and his team were sent out alone, a decision she believes put them at unnecessary risk.
“They shouldn’t have been there alone; the ‘88’ should never be alone, and they sent them alone,” she remarked. “So we’re fighting for accountability. We’re fighting for justice because our whole life has been turned upside down.”
Until the very last minute we shall not lose hope, we will do everything to find the missing soldiers. Lithuania, just like US, does not leave our own behind. And for us 🇺🇸 troops are our own — they are OUR soldiers and friends.
Together with U.S. Ambassador Kara C. McDonald… pic.twitter.com/IqqSeGfhXG
— Dovilė Šakalienė (@DSakaliene) March 27, 2025
Georgia then shared a heartbreaking detail, pointing out that her husband had always kept in touch, even in the midst of busy and complex operations, sending her a loving, daily “good morning” text.
“No matter what was going on, he always sent me a ‘good morning’ message,” she said.
Local authorities haven’t ruled out the possibility of the soldiers being alive, as only the vehicle was found
Image credits: 11Alive
As the rescue efforts continue, Georgia Franco’s statements cast doubt on the military’s handling of the mission.
The wife is now calling for a full investigation into those responsible for the decisions that led to her husband’s disappearance.
At present, the fate of the four soldiers remains uncertain, as only the vehicle they were in has been located.
“The M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle the four missing US Soldiers were operating during a training exercise has been located in Lithuania,” the US Army said in a statement.
Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene visited the training site late on Wednesday and informed that no bodies had been found.
“That’s why it would be wrong to say that the soldiers are dead,” she explained.
Image credits: Scandinavian Backlash/Unsplash (Not the actual photo)
Search and rescue teams were at the scene today (March 28) using heavy excavators to remove silt from the body of water where the M88 was found.
“I am still hoping for a miracle.” President Gitanas Nauseda followed up with a statement.
“Although many skeptics would probably say that there is nothing to hope for in these circumstances, I want to believe.”
“Sending prayers.” Netizens took to social media to sympathize with the grieving wife
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The fate of four missing US soldiers in Lithuania continues to capture international attention as the search for their whereabouts intensifies. As of last Tuesday (March 25), efforts to retrieve an armored vehicle at the Pabradè military training area, northeast of Vilnius, are ongoing, with the M88 found submerged around 5 meters deep after becoming stuck in a swampy area. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of four US soldiers in Lithuania deepened when the wife of one of the missing soldiers, Sergeant Edvinas Benas Franco, came forward with alarming details about the operation her husband was involved in. Contrary to earlier reports, which suggested the soldiers were engaged in a routine exercise, Georgia Franco asserts that her husband was unexpectedly pulled into a dangerous rescue mission and was sent out without the necessary support. The wife of one of four missing US soldiers said her husband was pulled into a dangerous rescue mission without proper assistance Image credits: Sean Gallup / Getty (Not the actual photo) In an emotional interview with local media outlet 11 Alive, Georgia Franco explained that her husband, being in charge of driving the M88, was in charge of military retrieval missions, specifically those involving military equipment. Recounting the harrowing final text messages she received from her husband, Georgia explained that he had been unexpectedly pulled into a rescue mission—a task far more dangerous and urgent than his usual operations. Image credits: Anadolu / Getty “He told me that they were going on a rescue mission, and they do this all the time because he worked specifically with the M88, which is essentially a military wrecker,” she told the local outlet. Image credits: U.S. Army (Not the actual photo) Then, around 7:14 AM local time, there was a glimmer of hope after Sergeant Franco informed her that they were closing in on the people they were supposed to rescue. Sadly, those were the final words she ever received from her beloved husband. Georgia Franco is calling for an investigation, hoping for those in charge of the mission to answer for her husband’s disappearance Image credits: DSakaliene Holding back tears of sorrow and anger, Georgia described how her husband’s sudden involvement in the rescue mission struck her as highly unusual and called the military out for negligence. Image credits: DSakaliene According to her, during such operations, soldiers are typically accompanied by other vehicles for safety and support. Yet, in this case, Sergeant Franco and his team were sent out alone, a decision she believes put them at unnecessary risk. “They shouldn’t have been there alone; the ‘88’ should never be alone, and they sent them alone,” she remarked. “So we’re fighting for accountability. We’re fighting for justice because our whole life has been turned upside down.” Until the very last minute we shall not lose hope, we will do everything to find the missing soldiers. Lithuania, just like US, does not leave our own behind. And for us 🇺🇸 troops are our own — they are OUR soldiers and friends. Together with U.S. Ambassador Kara C. McDonald… pic.twitter.com/IqqSeGfhXG — Dovilė Šakalienė (@DSakaliene) March 27, 2025 Georgia then shared a heartbreaking detail, pointing out that her husband had always kept in touch, even in the midst of busy and complex operations, sending her a loving, daily “good morning” text. “No matter what was going on, he always sent me a ‘good morning’ message,” she said. Local authorities haven’t ruled out the possibility of the soldiers being alive, as only the vehicle was found Image credits: 11Alive As the rescue efforts continue, Georgia Franco’s statements cast doubt on the military’s handling of the mission. The wife is now calling for a full investigation into those responsible for the decisions that led to her husband’s disappearance. At present, the fate of the four soldiers remains uncertain, as only the vehicle they were in has been located. “The M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle the four missing US Soldiers were operating during a training exercise has been located in Lithuania,” the US Army said in a statement. Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene visited the training site late on Wednesday and informed that no bodies had been found. “That’s why it would be wrong to say that the soldiers are dead,” she explained. Image credits: Scandinavian Backlash/Unsplash (Not the actual photo) Search and rescue teams were at the scene today (March 28) using heavy excavators to remove silt from the body of water where the M88 was found. “I am still hoping for a miracle.” President Gitanas Nauseda followed up with a statement. “Although many skeptics would probably say that there is nothing to hope for in these circumstances, I want to believe.” “Sending prayers.” Netizens took to social media to sympathize with the grieving wife The post Mystery Of Vanished US Soldiers Deepens As Sergeant’s Wife Claims It Wasn’t A “Training Mission” first appeared on Bored Panda.Mystery Of Vanished US Soldiers Deepens As Sergeant’s Wife Claims It Wasn’t A “Training Mission”
The fate of four missing US soldiers in Lithuania continues to capture international attention as the search for their whereabouts intensifies.
As of last Tuesday (March 25), efforts to retrieve an armored vehicle at the Pabradè military training area, northeast of Vilnius, are ongoing, with the M88 found submerged around 5 meters deep after becoming stuck in a swampy area.
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of four US soldiers in Lithuania deepened when the wife of one of the missing soldiers, Sergeant Edvinas Benas Franco, came forward with alarming details about the operation her husband was involved in.
Contrary to earlier reports, which suggested the soldiers were engaged in a routine exercise, Georgia Franco asserts that her husband was unexpectedly pulled into a dangerous rescue mission and was sent out without the necessary support.
The wife of one of four missing US soldiers said her husband was pulled into a dangerous rescue mission without proper assistance
Image credits: Sean Gallup / Getty (Not the actual photo)
In an emotional interview with local media outlet 11 Alive, Georgia Franco explained that her husband, being in charge of driving the M88, was in charge of military retrieval missions, specifically those involving military equipment.
Recounting the harrowing final text messages she received from her husband, Georgia explained that he had been unexpectedly pulled into a rescue mission—a task far more dangerous and urgent than his usual operations.
Image credits: Anadolu / Getty
“He told me that they were going on a rescue mission, and they do this all the time because he worked specifically with the M88, which is essentially a military wrecker,” she told the local outlet.
Image credits: U.S. Army (Not the actual photo)
Then, around 7:14 AM local time, there was a glimmer of hope after Sergeant Franco informed her that they were closing in on the people they were supposed to rescue. Sadly, those were the final words she ever received from her beloved husband.
Georgia Franco is calling for an investigation, hoping for those in charge of the mission to answer for her husband’s disappearance
Image credits: DSakaliene
Holding back tears of sorrow and anger, Georgia described how her husband’s sudden involvement in the rescue mission struck her as highly unusual and called the military out for negligence.
Image credits: DSakaliene
According to her, during such operations, soldiers are typically accompanied by other vehicles for safety and support. Yet, in this case, Sergeant Franco and his team were sent out alone, a decision she believes put them at unnecessary risk.
“They shouldn’t have been there alone; the ‘88’ should never be alone, and they sent them alone,” she remarked. “So we’re fighting for accountability. We’re fighting for justice because our whole life has been turned upside down.”
Until the very last minute we shall not lose hope, we will do everything to find the missing soldiers. Lithuania, just like US, does not leave our own behind. And for us 🇺🇸 troops are our own — they are OUR soldiers and friends.
Together with U.S. Ambassador Kara C. McDonald… pic.twitter.com/IqqSeGfhXG
— Dovilė Šakalienė (@DSakaliene) March 27, 2025
Georgia then shared a heartbreaking detail, pointing out that her husband had always kept in touch, even in the midst of busy and complex operations, sending her a loving, daily “good morning” text.
“No matter what was going on, he always sent me a ‘good morning’ message,” she said.
Local authorities haven’t ruled out the possibility of the soldiers being alive, as only the vehicle was found
Image credits: 11Alive
As the rescue efforts continue, Georgia Franco’s statements cast doubt on the military’s handling of the mission.
The wife is now calling for a full investigation into those responsible for the decisions that led to her husband’s disappearance.
At present, the fate of the four soldiers remains uncertain, as only the vehicle they were in has been located.
“The M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle the four missing US Soldiers were operating during a training exercise has been located in Lithuania,” the US Army said in a statement.
Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene visited the training site late on Wednesday and informed that no bodies had been found.
“That’s why it would be wrong to say that the soldiers are dead,” she explained.
Image credits: Scandinavian Backlash/Unsplash (Not the actual photo)
Search and rescue teams were at the scene today (March 28) using heavy excavators to remove silt from the body of water where the M88 was found.
“I am still hoping for a miracle.” President Gitanas Nauseda followed up with a statement.
“Although many skeptics would probably say that there is nothing to hope for in these circumstances, I want to believe.”
“Sending prayers.” Netizens took to social media to sympathize with the grieving wife
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The fate of four missing US soldiers in Lithuania continues to capture international attention as the search for their whereabouts intensifies.
As of last Tuesday (March 25), efforts to retrieve an armored vehicle at the Pabradè military training area, northeast of Vilnius, are ongoing, with the M88 found submerged around 5 meters deep after becoming stuck in a swampy area.
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of four US soldiers in Lithuania deepened when the wife of one of the missing soldiers, Sergeant Edvinas Benas Franco, came forward with alarming details about the operation her husband was involved in.
Contrary to earlier reports, which suggested the soldiers were engaged in a routine exercise, Georgia Franco asserts that her husband was unexpectedly pulled into a dangerous rescue mission and was sent out without the necessary support.
The wife of one of four missing US soldiers said her husband was pulled into a dangerous rescue mission without proper assistance
Image credits: Sean Gallup / Getty (Not the actual photo)
In an emotional interview with local media outlet 11 Alive, Georgia Franco explained that her husband, being in charge of driving the M88, was in charge of military retrieval missions, specifically those involving military equipment.
Recounting the harrowing final text messages she received from her husband, Georgia explained that he had been unexpectedly pulled into a rescue mission—a task far more dangerous and urgent than his usual operations.
Image credits: Anadolu / Getty
“He told me that they were going on a rescue mission, and they do this all the time because he worked specifically with the M88, which is essentially a military wrecker,” she told the local outlet.
Image credits: U.S. Army (Not the actual photo)
Then, around 7:14 AM local time, there was a glimmer of hope after Sergeant Franco informed her that they were closing in on the people they were supposed to rescue. Sadly, those were the final words she ever received from her beloved husband.
Georgia Franco is calling for an investigation, hoping for those in charge of the mission to answer for her husband’s disappearance
Image credits: DSakaliene
Holding back tears of sorrow and anger, Georgia described how her husband’s sudden involvement in the rescue mission struck her as highly unusual and called the military out for negligence.
Image credits: DSakaliene
According to her, during such operations, soldiers are typically accompanied by other vehicles for safety and support. Yet, in this case, Sergeant Franco and his team were sent out alone, a decision she believes put them at unnecessary risk.
“They shouldn’t have been there alone; the ‘88’ should never be alone, and they sent them alone,” she remarked. “So we’re fighting for accountability. We’re fighting for justice because our whole life has been turned upside down.”
Until the very last minute we shall not lose hope, we will do everything to find the missing soldiers. Lithuania, just like US, does not leave our own behind. And for us 🇺🇸 troops are our own — they are OUR soldiers and friends.
Together with U.S. Ambassador Kara C. McDonald… pic.twitter.com/IqqSeGfhXG
— Dovilė Šakalienė (@DSakaliene) March 27, 2025
Georgia then shared a heartbreaking detail, pointing out that her husband had always kept in touch, even in the midst of busy and complex operations, sending her a loving, daily “good morning” text.
“No matter what was going on, he always sent me a ‘good morning’ message,” she said.
Local authorities haven’t ruled out the possibility of the soldiers being alive, as only the vehicle was found
Image credits: 11Alive
As the rescue efforts continue, Georgia Franco’s statements cast doubt on the military’s handling of the mission.
The wife is now calling for a full investigation into those responsible for the decisions that led to her husband’s disappearance.
At present, the fate of the four soldiers remains uncertain, as only the vehicle they were in has been located.
“The M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle the four missing US Soldiers were operating during a training exercise has been located in Lithuania,” the US Army said in a statement.
Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene visited the training site late on Wednesday and informed that no bodies had been found.
“That’s why it would be wrong to say that the soldiers are dead,” she explained.
Image credits: Scandinavian Backlash/Unsplash (Not the actual photo)
Search and rescue teams were at the scene today (March 28) using heavy excavators to remove silt from the body of water where the M88 was found.
“I am still hoping for a miracle.” President Gitanas Nauseda followed up with a statement.
“Although many skeptics would probably say that there is nothing to hope for in these circumstances, I want to believe.”
“Sending prayers.” Netizens took to social media to sympathize with the grieving wife
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Image credits: Flossthief #20 Before I moved into the apartment I’m in now (was in a two bedroom, this one is a three bedroom townhome) a single lady with 4 kids lived here. She was crazy…like wow. Once a month she would wash and display (I assume to dry) her glass p***s collection in the living room window for all the world to see. I was walking by once and asked about them (there were four of them) and she said they were replicas of the men she had been involved with. She was a glass blower/sculptor…. Image credits: trikster_online #21 I used to work in catering and would sometimes do events at people’s homes. One time I was in the restroom and opened a cabinet to look for a roll of toilet paper. The cabinet was completely empty except for a half-eaten ham and cheese sandwich. Image credits: Fantastic-Piccolo922 #22 (76m) 1975, walked into a dude's house and he had a full sized human head floating in a jar of formaldehyde with a lid on it. He was a collector of American old west memorobilia and claimed it was the head of famed outlaw, Joaquine Murrieta. I wasn't about to argue with him. Image credits: Story_Man_75 #23 A life-size cutout of Robert Pattinson. They keep it in a window staring out at the street (my neighbor). Image credits: Zanthrothorpes #24 I was a traveling insurance salesperson last year. Went into a 65ish year old woman’s house(trailer) and she had probably 70-100 life size dolls. So creepy. She also stated she had lupus and was severely disabled but hated drs and hadn’t been to the doctor in more than ten years and took zero meds for it. She definitely had some mental instability when it came to life priorities. Image credits: stapleswtf2017 #25 Frank Sinatra’s face at the bottom of a gold toilet. Image credits: 771springfield #26 Their front room had 3 large padlocks on it, which were carefully removed so we could look into (but not enter) the room. Every piece of furniture was covered in thick plastic, along with the carpet. They didn't use the room, ever. The room was sealed at all times except for when visitors came round where they would be shown the room once and once only. The family members were not allowed into the room either. I asked if they'd recently had the room furnished and was told no, it had been like this for over 10 years. Image credits: MrSpindles #27 I went to a coworker's apartment once, and she has a picture of us two together. She said she took that selfie a year ago but I don't remember it. Image credits: anon #28 A pretty successful friend of mine has a spare bedroom in her house. No furniture or anything in it. It's just the laundry room. As in, when she does laundry...hers, her kids', her boyfriend's, it just gets thrown onto the 6 ft by 4 ft tall pile in the room and when someone wants something they just dig it out. No folding laundry and putting it away. Just, the pile. Image credits: EatYourCheckers #29 A family Bible. A gigantic Bible, like easily 2 feet long, 1 feet wide and 3-4 inches thick. It was on a podium and opened to a random section. I was told not to touch it. No, they were not religious. Image credits: johnwalkersbeard #30 Them using paint buckets as toilet and never disposing of them. They had a room full of s**t buckets. Image credits: soukaixiii #31 Adult-sized nursery. Had an internet friend locally that I was visiting at their place for the first time. Had to use the washroom, asked which room it was - they said on the left. So I went out to the left and opened the first door - as he came running out to say NOT THAT DOOR. There was a BBQ in the middle of the room, so I asked why there was a BBQ. He was surprised - "All of this and you ask about the BBQ?" so I told him "Well yes, everything else fits together. You do what you want in your own home." lol. Image credits: Cyrakhis #32 A bronze n**e statue of herself. Very unsettling. Image credits: anon #33 A shrine dedicated to Ted Bundy. #34 My mother in laws house was the weirdest I have ever been to. She had dozens up on dozens of photographs framed and hanging on the walls. Every single wall. And every single photograph was of herself. Not her parents, siblings or children. Just her - at different points in her life. She even had photographs of herself hanging on the walls of the bathroom. #35 Three adult goats in a bedroom blocked off by a dog gate. There was a foot of sawdust and goat poop (mainly poop) covering the floor. #36 My friend's dad had put up a few framed photos of his wife (my friend's mom) topless in the tub. These were on the bathroom wall. If he wanted photos stashed away for his private use, fine, but their kids and also visitors like myself obviously couldn't help but see them there. #37 A big pile of hair, like years of brushing and pealing the hair from said brush stashed in one big messy pile of dirty hair... ugh. #38 Middle of July with 20 Christmas trees. Said they took a bunch down as they didn't want us to think them weird. #39 I had a client that had a legit boar as a pet. It was massive!! They named it “cherry” because they got it from the cherry auction. I’d be sitting there having a conversation about their child and cherry would come in and start grunting and demanding attention. It definitely ruled the roost. #40 I went to my boyfriend’s parents house to meet them for the first time. I walk to the front door which is on a little porch with a section that had been framed and wrapped in clear plastic. It was dark and I knocked on the door. My boyfriend and his mom greet me, we introduce ourselves and then I hear a voice behind me. I turn around and see a man tucked into a couch in the covered area of the porch with a bunch of water, granola bars and random snack food all over the place. They invite me in and we go inside and close the door, leaving his dad outside. Turns out his parents were separated and my BF’s mom made him sleep and live outside on the porch. #41 On a beach weekend with my friends Italian American family i walked back to the apartment building they jointly owned with several families. I needed to go to the bathroom. No big deal. Well. I went into the rec room and saw a door i thought was the changing room/bathroom. Oh no. I opened the door. The room was lit by a few candles. On the wall was a MASSIVE black and white picture.. Of... MUSSOLINI! IT WAS A FREAKING SHRINE TO IL DUCE! So I go back to the beach and pretend nothing happened. Didn't ever go to the bathroom. I peed in the ocean. On the way back to Los Angeles I bring it up and my friend says, "oh yeah. Just ignore that." But wait. There's more. My friends grandfather had a standing table in the back of Little Joes an Italian place in Chinatown. We would go there get drunk and eat and bill it to his grandfather who he had a pet name for which i won't share. It was in the back against the wall. Years later I'm reading the RJ in Las Vegas and I see that a man who's name sounded familiar to me had died. They said he ran the Vegas mob. I realized the last name was the same as my friends grandfather. So I called him and I said, by any chance was ____involved.. before I could finish he said, why do you think we always sat with our backs to the walls at Little Joes. That's my weird thing in someone's house story. #42 My wife and I were invited to a luncheon In July by one of her childhood friends and we were told to bring jackets and flashlights. After eating, we were lead outside to an outside basement entrance door. Inside we were lead downward for quite a distance where the steps leveled out into an underground cavern. Our hosts revealed that it was a commercial cavern in the 1920s before safety was major consideration. We went on a 2-mile long loop (the middle had like a 40 foot tall ceiling), then back to the entrance and up. Never forget it. #43 I went to a house to pick up a free polaroid camera for my now wife using a website called freecycle. Anyway, it was really deep in rural Wales (I'm Welsh) and the guy who answers the door is a huge bodybuilder. He takes me upstairs to get the camera and into a full-on s*x dungeon, with some sort of swing and harnesses and d**dos and stuff. I was young and terrified and ready to hit him as hard as I could and run, but instead of trying to make me his gimp, he explained the camera didn't get much use anymore and gave me some free film too. He then tried to sell me a life-size Dalek (from Dr Who) that he also had in there for some reason. Probably the oddest interaction I've ever had in my life. We stopped using freecycle after that. #44 The giant illuminated golden arches you see at the top of a McDonalds sign. Stolen. 4 guys, d***s, a toolkit, and climbing abilities. Why? Because they could. The real question was how they got it into the house and how they weren't seen carrying it the half an hour back home. The damned thing was blocking the hallway to the rest of the house. #45 Many years ago we were house shopping. The decor on the first floor was definitely strange, but not really crazy. Then we went into the basement. All I can truly recall was a free-standing wood door and frame in the middle of the floor. A manikin had been cut from head through torso into two halves, and each half was glued on either side of the door, positioned as if a body had run through the door and was exiting the opposite side without making a hole in the door itself. We GTFO right then and there. #46 This was back in high school but I went to my friends house to play since video games and he went to go do something. My phone fell out of my pocket and landed on the floor and I went to grab it and saw oranges everywhere under his bed and they all weren't eaten but looked like they had holes. If you know, you know and that was the list time we played video games at his house. #47 A secret room with a huge closet full of Klan robes. Two sets of robes on display outfitted on mannequins. Display lighting and a big ole flag. #48 A guy I know told me once while passing a house, yea I had to do some plumbing in there and there was a room where the homeowner had a completely cut off silenced room, with a concrete pad he would put his feet into and claim that it was the center of the universe... People in Camden Maine are kinda strange lol. #49 A guy had a .50 caliber machine gun from a crashed W.W.II bomber. The original barrel was bent, and the gun was corroded. He soaked it in home heating oil for a year, then disassembled the gun and completely restored it.(He bought a new barrel over the internet.) He went nuts on the restoration. The wooden grips were replaced with elk horn and he chrome plated some of the parts! It literally looked brand new and a work of art one would see hanging on a wall in an art museum! #50 I think I have the weirdest things… I have a cardboard cutout of my friends they had for their wedding that I jokingly asked if I could take and was met with an enthusiastic yes. For the bit, it’s hilarious! They sit with me in my office and keep me company. Every time my mom or SIL are over and see the cutout it scares them. #51 A guy I dated about 15 years ago lived in a ramshackle old historic home that had not been properly maintained. It would have been lovely if it weren't crumbling and full of mold (and probably a shitload of lead paint as well). The unfinished stone basement had a windowless dungeon in the far back corner, with raw stone walls, no lighting, and a big soundproof door that only locked from the outside. The weirdest part is that he had a low-functioning alcoholic friend who paid him $100 a month to sleep down there. That house was a soap opera of weirdness. #52 When I was very young my dad was planning to purchase an unremarkable sedan and we went to this veritable mansion to pick it up. The owner let us into this sitting room that was filled with rich people stuff, fancy furniture and whatnot. As a child the thing that caught my morbid curiosity was the matching set of four end tables made of elephant legs, complete with toenails. He saw my curiosity and explained to me that two were from a male, and two were from a female and how to tell the difference via the toenails, and two were African, and two were Asian. I just nodded in understanding, but it made me very uncomfortable. #53 A lit shelf of d**dos in their apartment. They claimed they're unused they liked to collect funny ones. I seen people collect knives and guns on display, and in the scheme of things if people collected more dildos instead, maybe it would be a better country. #54 My career was as a social worker and I got to meet some pretty interesting people and see their homes. I’d say I had 2 favorites. One was a sweet old lady who had put foil on the walls of her main living space and had lots of pink plastic flowers as decoration- it really was rather beautiful. Another man had two baby grand pianos in his living room and was able to play them. I love it when people March to their own drummer. #55 Went to a friends house back in elementary school. We were playing with polly pockets and got bored so we decided to play hide and seek. It was my turn to be a seeker. She started counting down as i ran around to find a hiding spot, there was a closet near her parents bedroom and my little 3rd grader brain thought that was perfect. I opened it up and a million tiny eyes stared back at me. It was dolls, tons and tons of dolls. Not even barbies either, realistic looking dolls. I asked her about it and she said they were her moms, creeped me tf out. From then on she stayed at my house. #56 A body. In home funeral and apparently was tradition to sit the deceased in a chair in the home and continue as if he were alive. #57 A mouse cage with 4 mice. 3 of the mice were literally eating the guts out of the 4th. I was delivering them a TV. #58 Dog poop bags in the bathroom. Ex girlfriend's family had a few dachshunds, and they kinda gave up on potty training them, i'd say they got like 60 percent of the way there. So they'd use the bags to scoop up house poops and throw em in the toilet, flush it, and throw the gross bag in the trash. Nice family, and I liked her a LOT, but it always struck me as *extremely* weird, and it probably wasn't *that* weird, but it did bug me a few times lol. #59 Built home extensions all my life and some that sticks out -A martial arts guy who had a mocked up 4 man fight scene in his lounge, and wanted me to come at him as one of the attackers. No thanks - Topless and n**e photos of the lady of the house in some sort of arty black and white photo, seen so many it just doesn’t surprise me. - A s******r pole set up in the bedroom by the side of the bed. No judgements whatsoever on any of these, we’re all different in our own special way. #60 A large catfish in the only bathtub in friends house. #61 I went to my friend’s house to get ready for a Halloween party. I had a typical Wednesday Addams look, and someone suggested it would be cool if I had a little hand to use as “The Thing.” It turned out her mom had a collection of hand-themed objects ( mostly plastic or ceramic hands) in a room. This made my costume 100% better, and people kept stopping to congratulate me. #62 Toured a condo and they had a communal shower, you know the kind you would see at the YMCA, like 6 shower heads. I picture them having all their buddies over to take a shower together. #63 A machine made for drawing pigeons. #64 My ex’s grandparents house. Had a full finished basement with closet doors that tunneled to other closet doors. Then in the middle of the basement, a child’s bedroom, complete with twin bed and entirely outfitted with children’s decor & toys. No children lived there for decades. #65 My uncle had a whole (real) human skeleton in his office. Just the bones, he kept her in a box that was about the size of a old hatbox. Sometimes the skull would be sitting on his desk alone. He was a Dr, and the skeleton was a premed requirement back the 1960’s. As far as I know he still has her. Don’t know what they’ll do when he passes. #66 A stuffed pet dog that looked out the window at the lake view. Apparently that was his favourite spot. #67 A Friend of My In-laws Shot an Elephant. He made a coffee table out of the ear. It was gross. #68 Someone in the town I used to live in had a pet fox. Well groomed, collared, behaved. Still a fox though. And he was a publican (the man not the fox). So some days you’d be having a pint and there’d just be a fox chilling in the corner of the pub. #69 A freaking well in the bathroom! Granted it’s sealed and everything, but it still gave off the energy that Sadako from the Ring could emerge from it at any moment ya know and it’s creepy as hell. 🥹. #70 I used to do technical support in people's homes. Because of where I lived, the demographics skewed old. Old, and rich. Got a call for a retirement home community-type deal. Most of the...tenants? Patients? Clients? Lived in a three-story community apartment building type thing. But about 30 of them has "casidas," these 2-bedroom house-type condo thingies. Anyway, this call was one of those. Woman was 96 years old and -- I know Reddit will have an issue with this -- but she was as sharp as a tack. She had a gigantic Mac, like 27" screen, and all the times I was over there helping her with s**t, I only had to show her how to do something once. She would lock in and that was that. ...one time, one visit, instead of her home office, she needed help with something in her bedroom. And that's where it got..weird. I walk into the bedroom ready to Handle S**t, and what do I see? A legit, not-kidding, full-on SHRINE to Ronald Regan. Not him as an "actor," but as a politician. The entire corner of her bedroom is dedicated to Ronald RayGun. VERY weird. (This was Northern California, around 2015.). #71 I watched my neighbor's cat when I was a teen- a seemingly normal family: parents and one young daughter. At dusk I fed the cat and walked along the dimly lit hall on my way out. I saw, scratched into the wall next to the basement door it read, "Shhh. You'LL Wake Him". I didn't like that much and ran all the way home on a darkening dirt road, watching my back. Don't like thinking about it but sometimes I still do when I'm home. #72 I went to a friends boyfriends parents house. Never been there before and never met the boyfriend or the boyfriends parents before. Just swung by to drop off baby clothes for my friends newborn. It was just within the last month so it was no where near Christmas, but the whole house was set up like it was Christmas day. There were two 5ft-6ft tall nutcrackers on either side of the front door on the inside. It was weird. Probably the most weird part of the whole thing was that the boyfriends dad was a carbon copy of Steve Martin... #73 A bathroom with its walls decorated with animal bones, teeth (some human?) and false teeth simulating falatio. #74 I used to know a girl that collected oddities. She had a lot of strange things, including: Victorian hair jewelry Preserved cat fetus in a jar Preserved slice of cat brain in a jar Multiple dried alligator tails (she gave me one) A tiny dried octopus Old shoes from the Victorian era Preserved eyeball in a jar of unknown origin. #75 My friend’s grandma had a framed photo of Shrek on the wall, right next to all the family portraits. No one ever acknowledged it. #76 I don't know if it counts as weird but I at least thought it was funny. My neighbor is the neighborhood cat lady. She has at last count 26 cats. She lets her cats roam the neighborhood but everyone knows which cats are hers and she knows every single one of them by name. She has always been into collecting cats. While her daughter has always been into collecting anime paraphernalia. This has turned into there always being a random cat running by/popping up with a Naruto ninja headband on it when you least expect it at any place at any time. #77 My sister had a friend that was way above our social rank, still don’t know why they lived in our neighborhood. Her parents had a silk hand woven rug they had purchased while traveling and took up almost the entire entry hall. So when you went to visit you were not allowed to step on the rug. Shoes off and scoot around the edge of the walls that were covered in expensive art. The whole family did this every day. Do not step on that rug. #78 A whole room with no furniture. Just a single chair in the center and dozens of candles. Nothing was ever said about it. #79 A hoarder's house - maybe not that weird, but it was certainly a shock to me. I was attending a fairly upscale private school, and two classmates (sisters) invited me to their house one day. I went home with them after school and my mom was to pick me up later. Their house was in an expensive neighborhood - a very nice looking place from the outside. But when we went inside I was kind of shocked - I had never seen anything like it, never knew people lived like this. There was stuff piled everywhere with just a little path where you could walk from room to room. The furnishings and decor and artwork were clearly upscale, but it was all buried under layers and piles of just - stuff. Boxes and clothes and papers and I don't even know what - just stuff. Nice house, nice furniture, nice cars, private school (the girls went to MIT later) but living in utter chaos. I'll never understand it. #80 An aquarium full of massive hissing cockroaches. #81 I have two. The first was after my old car was stolen and recovered, I had to have the ignition replaced. My insurance sent me to a guy that worked out of his home. In the main room was a massive, wall-sized portrait of him dressed as a medieval knight with his foot on a dragons head, holding a big sword over his head. On other walls were a variety of swords displayed. He informed me they were all real, and very sharp. His wife told me *all* about them while we waited. Turns out he’s a part-time dragon slayer. He slays the demon dragons that live in the heathens of this world. In people. She had pamphlets. And she started asking me if I felt I had any dragons in me. Needless to say I booked it out of there as fast as I could once he was done with my car The second is a little more mundane, but still something I've never seen before or since: a *huge* vat of dark molasses in my childhood friend's kitchen. Her family was big, 9 or 10 kids iirc. After I spent the night for a sleepover, I was invited to breakfast with the family. Breakfast was either grits or oatmeal, and each kid took a turn ladling a generous portion of the molasses over their meal. I tried a little. I can't remember the flavor aside from it being...unpleasant. #82 This dude must have k**led one of every animal that would have been on Noah's Arch. He had giraffes, lions, a rino, zebra, bears, yeti, mountain goat, house cat, you name it. Blew my mind he amount of time and money this dude dumped into pointlessly k**ling s**t. I'm all for hunting if you are going to eat it or if it's to thin herds but sport hunting shouldn't be a thing. #83 I used to work as a mover. Had a massive job, moving a guy's home including library, gun safes filled with civil war memorabilia (or "War of Northern Aggression" as he'd say), and apparently a gimp mask. This in of itself wasn't so weird maybe, but the guy was retiring as a preacher. Two-day job with five or six of us out each day, zero tip. #84 I just bought a house and part of the deal we got was we had to clean out the belongings from the previous owner which was an elderly woman. Every SINGLE drawer and cabinet had at least one book of matches and teeth flossers. #85 A massive floor to ceiling statue of Anubis. #86 A kitchen FULL of mammy paraphernalia (they were horrifically racist people, but I was also confused as to why they surrounded themselves with what they hated). #87 At my great aunt's house she had used coffee cans on both sides of just about every step leading upstairs, and they were all full of junk. #88 When I was around seventeen, i volunteered as an old folks helper. I would do chores for old people still living at home and sometimes move furniture. One client I had was an old sweet lady in a wheelchair. My job that day was to clean out some dust and vacuum the upstairs. On the wall of her bedroom, there was a taxidermied squirrel with its insides exposed hanging on the wall. I didn't say anything about it, but I was hella freaked out. I just did my job and left and only told my friends at the time. #89 Neighbor down the street owned a wildlife "safari" park in southern California. You'd walk past their yard to/from the school bus and there would be a camel, a zebra... I'd like to say a giraffe, but can't swear to it. They had a manmade koi pond in the front yard with a footbridge over it. Loved that house. #90 I had a coworker that collected clown dolls. She had shelves and shelves of them. They were everywhere. She used to walk around with photos in her camera and would show ppl her favourite ones. “I Almost Had A Heart Attack”: 90 Weird And Creepy Things People Spotted In Someone Else’s House
Crumbl Cookies, once celebrated for its fun, innovative and relatable vibe, has landed itself in hot water after a collaboration with the Kardashian family—a group widely criticized by the brand’s fans for “embodying everything Crumbl supposedly isn’t.” Recognized for its quality and weekly rotation of expertly made cookies, the brand has a long story of collaborating with celebrities to create themed products. This time, they chose Kris Jenner and her daughters to create six limited edition cookies. “The Kardashian-Jenner menu won’t last!” the brand proudly announced, with each cookie being named after a different member of the clan. “Crumbl, read the room,” one user said, echoing the sentiments of many who felt the collaboration did more harm than good for the brand. Crumbl was roasted by fans after announcing a “tone-deaf” collaboration with the Kardashian family Image credits: kimkardashian Others criticized the brand for “aligning itself with women who profit off impossible beauty standards,” arguing the move was counterproductive for a dessert company. “You Kardashian-ified cookies,” another said, accusing the company of “selling out” to a family seen by some as the “poster children for plastic surgery.” Image credits: crumbl Despite the cookies themselves maintaining the quality that Crumbl has been known for, fans were quick to notice changes made to the packaging, which got rid of its signature pink-colored box for a nude-beige tone. “You took something fun and made it boring,” one user wrote. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Crumbl (@crumbl) “This was so unexpected and uncalled for,” read another comment. “Not supporting anything related to their name. This is not a good look for your brand.” Recurrent buyers went so far as to announce a pause to their weekly consumption of cookies, admitting that, while delicious, this week’s offering was worth skipping due to the Kardashians being associated with it. Longtime Crumbl fans feel the alliance is proof that the brand has abandoned what made it special in the first place Image credits: alxjames When cousins Jason McGowan and Sawyer Hemsley opened the first Crumbl Cookies shop in Logan, Utah, in 2017, it was meant to be a fun, scrappy side hustle. @alxjames Yall owe Kourtney an apology 😭😭 #crumbl #crumblcookiereview #kardashiancrumblcookies ♬ original sound – Alx James The two had no baking experience, and relied on friends, family, and strangers to test their recipes. Their idea was simple: create a cookie shop that felt accessible and community-driven, one that anyone could build with a bit of determination. Image credits: allanthedoll Fast forward to today and Crumbl has become a massive brand, with more than 980 stores across the nation and upwards of a reported $1 billion in sales across all franchises in 2024. @allanthedoll It’s giving 2 girls 1 cup #crumbl #kardashians ♬ QKThr – Aphex Twin This week’s high-glamour campaign, complete with luxury branding and packaging, felt for some fans like a stark departure from Crumbl’s more down-to-earth origins. What was initially presented as something “anyone could do” now felt increasingly curated, exclusive, and premium. The brand has used celebrity collaborations, viral marketing, and social media positioning to promote their products Image credits: janemukbangs More neutral netizens, however, felt the move was a natural evolution of the brand’s successful social-media fueled marketing campaigns. The founders used their backgrounds in tech and marketing—McGowan being a tech executive at Ancestry.com, and Hemsley being a marketing student at Utah University—to craft viral social media campaigns that built hype around weekly “cookie drops.” @janemukbangstrying the Kardashians x Crumbl cookies 😍♬ original sound – janemukbangs 😚 That strategy helped propel them to over $1 billion in annual sales and made their cookies a staple of TikTok. Image credits: kimkardashian Not only that, but the brand has collaborated with celebrities and artists in the past—such as Olivia Rodrigo, Jimmy Kimmel, and the Jonas Brothers—making the Kardashian’s just one more in a long list of famous names attached to the brand. “Like they even ate the cookies. What a stupid idea. They are all on Ozempic anyway,” one user said. “I would have absolutely tried [Crumbl] before I learned they are in business with that family of grifting, greedy, tacky, trashy h*es.” “Skip.” Netizens took to social media to express their disdain for Crumbl’s latest weekly batch “They Are All On Ozempic Anyway”: Fans Slam Crumbl’s New Kardashian Cookies As ‘Tone-Deaf’
A Canadian television reporter made headlines but for a reason completely unrelated to the news she was covering. Michelle Mackey, a CityNews Toronto reporter, was describing the lively atmosphere outside the city’s Rogers Centre on March 27 when, out of nowhere, a young boy yelled obscene words at her. “F**k her right in the p**y,” the boy yelled, with his guardian, a grown-up man, reportedly laughing alongside him. A clip capturing the disturbing moment was uploaded by Mackey last Monday (April 7), in which she described the incident as “one of the most alarming things” she had witnessed in her career as a reporter. TV reporter goes viral after a young boy yelled an obscene comment at her with the seeming approval of his father Image credits: mich_mack “What looked to be an 8 or 9-year-old boy yelled this at me, with his father by his side,” she wrote. “They proceeded to laugh and walk away.” While she had initially posted a video to her TikTok immediately after the insult was thrown at her on March 27, it wasn’t until she uploaded the clip captured by her accompanying CityNews camera man that she went viral. Image credits: michellemackeytiktok The video struck a nerve with her audience, garnering over 3 million views and 4,000 comments over the course of the week. “Out of respect for the child, I’m blurring their faces. Whether this is yelled at a man or woman, it perpetuates and normalizes misogyny,” Mackey added. “I thought this horrible trend was over.” Image credits: michellemackeytiktok A debate soon erupted in her comment section, with a small number of users arguing that the insult was part of a joke and shouldn’t be taken seriously, while others saw the incident as proof of a much more complex societal issue. @michellemackeytiktokThis was one of the most alarming things I’ve witnessed as a news reporter. What looked to be an 8 or 9-year-old boy yelled this at me, WITH HIS FATHER BY HIS SIDE. They proceeded to laugh and walk away. Out of respect for the child, I’m blurring their faces. Whether this is yelled at a man or woman, it perpetuates and normalizes misogyny. I thought this horrible trend was over.♬ original sound – Michelle Mackey “Ah, misogyny, still teaching our children it’s ok to be violent towards women,” one user said. “For those saying it’s a joke, it’s not. This type of behavior is unacceptable, and you should be ashamed if you think it’s fine,” another wrote. Mackey lamented the father’s role in his son’s disrespectful behavior, describing the experience as “violating” Image credits: michellemackeytiktok Mackey uploaded an update to her story last Friday (April 11) in which she addressed the most commonly asked questions by her viewers. For instance, many of her followers felt the identities of both the boy and his father should’ve been revealed and were confused as to why the reporter chose to blur their faces. “I’m not sure. Maybe I’m just too nice. But I assure you, if that happens again, I will not be blurring out faces,” she said. @michellemackeytiktokThank you so much for the support, I love this community ♥️♬ Club Penguin Pizza Parlor – Cozy Penguin The reporter described the experience as “violating” in an interview with Today, made worse by the tacit approval of the boy’s father. “I waved them back. I just wanted to be able to look that father and kid in the eye and say, ‘Can you say that again to me, looking me in the eye as a human being?’” she recounted. “But they wouldn’t come back. They just laughed and gave me a thumbs up and kept on walking.” The reporter was able to post the clip to her social media with the full approval of her TV station Image credits: mich_mack Mackey carried with her the anger of the experience for days, but it was thanks to her co-workers and social media followers that she was able to move on. “My newsroom is like a family, and they have all rallied around me,” she explained, obtaining the approval of her TV station to distribute the now-viral clip on social media. “I felt like it was important to take the risk and just share this and say, ‘This is happening. Let’s nip it in the bud,’ you know? Like, let’s stop it now.” Image credits: mich_mack While not blaming the child due to his apparent age, she nevertheless felt a message should be sent for parents not to teach children that violence of that or any other nature is acceptable or funny. “I don’t fault the kid. Like, he’s so young,” she said. “I really do fault the adult in this situation for not saying something.” This is not the first time Mackey goes viral for her interactions with children being captured on camera. In August 2023, a young girl captured the hearts of her audience by interrupting the reporter while she was preparing to record, asking her if she could hug her. The video capturing the tender moment has almost 10 million views at the time of writing. “Disappointing.” Netizens took to social media to lament the lesson the boy’s father taught him that day “Misogynistic & Offensive”: TV Reporter Left Speechless By Vulgar Comment From 9YO Boy
- Next Despite the fact that really anyone would agree that first aid is a valuable skill, the reality is that less than half of the population has any experience with it. While a list of facts from the internet is hardly a replacement, it can still be a good idea to at least cover some simple ideas that could actually help someone in need. We’ve gathered some examples of tips, tricks and just facts that could be life-saving in the right circumstances. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite examples and be sure to share your own stories and ideas in the comment section below. #1 Not me but a friend. We decended in a parachute drop. I landed first and when I looked for him he was coming down hard and fast with his chute only partly open. Then right at the last minute he popped his reserve. No sooner did the reserve pop open than he touched down, hard but unharmed. We were all gushing over how brave and lucky he was until he told us he had heard the instructor on the ground screaming at him “deploy your reserve you bloody idiot” Image credits: John Fenn. #2 Lives are saved in the first 5 minutes of an emergency. Those first 5 minutes, before an ambulance arrives in most of the developed world, quite literally can be the difference between life and death. The three things to note are what we refer to as the ABC’s Airway (clear and open, not in anaphylaxis, etc) Breathing (Just if they are breathing relatively adequately. Even a collapsed lung can be delayed for treatment up to 10 minutes) Circulation (heart pumping, no matter rate or blood pressure, not losing a lot of blood from a veinous or arterial bleed) If the person doesn’t have an open airway it can be from a few things that are usually easily rectified Choking on food. Perform abdominal thrusts if the person is conscious and standing (previously known as the Heimlich Maneuver) If they are laying down or unconscious, perform chest compressions like in CPR, with the hands directly between the n****e line, pressing down a few inches in an adult Choking on tongue. If there is no indication of spinal trauma, perform a head tilt chin lift by placing the palm of one hand on the person’s forehead and lifting up and back on the mandible (jaw) at the chin. If there is indication of spinal trauma, perform a jaw thrust maneuver by positioning yourself above the head (when they’re laying down), placing your hands on their cheeks, and lifting the jaw up and forward with your fingers, while making sure not to move the neck at all If the person isn’t breathing, it can be due to a few things Narcotic/o****d overdose Administer narcan Other respiratory depression Begin artificial respirations with a barrier device If the person doesn’t have a beating heart Regardless of cause, begin chest compressions and ventilations if applicable If the person is bleeding out start with direct pressure If that doesn’t work, use a pressure dressing If that doesn’t work, on a limb, use a tourniquet (NEVER USE A TK ON A NECK) On the abdomen, pack the wound (put gauze into it) and call for immediate transport With this basic knowledge and a CPR class, you can be prepared to save lives in your home, office, and social events. I think that everyone should be trained to at least this level by any job on an annual basis, as well as in high school, because trained bystanders quite literally have and will continue to save countless lives because of it. Image credits: Tyler Newcomb #3 General first Aid Tips Firsf of all we need to build a First Aid Kit and keep it handy.. How do I make a first aid kit? A well-stocked first aid kit is a must-have for treating minor injuries at home and on the go. Keep your supplies in a sturdy, clear plastic box so you can see what’s inside. What should be in the first aid kit? Adhesive tape Alcohol wipes Allergy medicine Aloe vera gel Antibiotic ointment Bandages in different sizes Calamine lotion Cold packs Elastic bandages Gauze rolls and pads Hand sanitizer (for your travel first aid kit) Hydrocortisone cream Latex-free gloves Pain relievers like paracetamol ibuprofen Saline wound wash Scissors and tweexers Where should first aid kit be stored? First aid kit should be easy to find in case of emergency. But it should be kept in a high, childproof cabinet, far away from kids’ prying fingers. Keep one full-sized kit in a central spot at home, such as your kitchen or bathroom. Then put a smaller kit in your car or purse for when you’re on the road. How often should it be checked? Items can run out if you use them often, and medicines can expire if you rarely need them, so go through everything in your kit, and replace any empty or out-of-date items at least once in 6 months Management part.. Cuts and Scrapes How to treat a minor cut or scrapes? 1. First, wash up with soap and water so you don’t get bacteria into the cut and cause an infection. If you’re on the go, use hand sanitizer. 2. Stop the bleeding. Put pressure on the cut for few minutes with a gauze pad or clean cloth. 3.Clean the wound. Remove any dirt or debris. Use a pair of tweezers cleaned with alcohol to gently pick out any dirt, gravel, glass, or other material in the wound. Do I need to bandage a cut or scrape? You don’t need to bandage every cut and scrape. Some heal more quickly when left uncovered to stay dry. But if the cut is on a part of the body that might get dirty or rub against clothes, put on a bandage to protect it. Change the bandage every day or whenever it gets wet or dirty. How long should a cut or scrape be covered? Once a solid scab has formed, you can take off the bandage. When do I need to call my doctor? 1. When the cut is deep, long, or the edges are jagged. You may need stitches also if the cut or scrape is from a dirty or rusty object. You may need a tetanus shot. 2. When the injury is from an animal or human bite. 3. You can’t stop the bleeding with direct pressure. 4. You can’t get dirt out of the wound. The cut is on your face or near a joint, like on your fingers. 5. The skin around the cut gets red and swollen or develops red streaks. 6. Pus drains from the cut. 7. You have a fever of more than 100.4 F How do topical antibiotic ointments work? Topical antibiotics are medicines put on the skin to k**l bacteria. Although most cuts and wounds heal without ointment. If you do use an antibiotic ointment, apply it to your skin one to three times a day and then cover with a clean bandage. Nosebleeds How do I treat a nosebleed? Nosebleeds usually look a lot worse than they are. Most of the time you can stop the flow with a few simple steps: 1. Lean the head slightly forward, so blood doesn’t run down the throat. 2. With a tissue or washcloth, gently press the nostrils together to stop the bleeding. 3. Hold the nose for at least 5 minutes. Then check to see if the bleeding has stopped. If it hasn’t stopped, gently squeeze for another 10 minutes. Go to the doctor if: 1. The bleeding hasn’t stopped after 15 to 20 minutes or keeps starting again. 2. The bleeding is fast and there’s a lot of blood. 3. The bleeding is from an injury to your nose or face. 4. You feel fainting or weak. Image credits: Ankit Budhiraja #4 I can tell you about the advice which saved my life. It happened during my business trip to Mauritius. That was the first time that I was going to see the Indian Ocean so I was very excited about the prospect. When we arrived, the very first thing I wanted to do was to put my swimming suit on and take a swim from the hotel beach. I did so. I swam a couple of hundred meters and decided to return. I started moving towards the hotel beach. But it did not work out. I tried different methods but each time waves drove me more and more away from the beach. “That might be a silly ending”, I thought. And that was the point when I recalled what my swimming instructor told me once about swimming in open waters. He said, “Never try to fight waters, by doing so you will get tired very quickly and spend your energy with zero result. Your task is to relax, to feel dynamics of the waves and move in line with them. Imagine you’re a part of it”. I guess it was only the 7th try when I managed to catch a wave and finally swam back to hotel. His casual advice saved my life. I can’t know if it will save yours but you can never know. Just remember: Swim parallel to the shore to escape a rip tide. Image credits: Teo Moritz #5 Splinters How do I remove a splinter? splinter is a fragment of a larger object, or a foreign body that penetrates or is purposely injected into a body. It may be a glass piece or a wooden piece. If the splinter is sticking out of the skin: 1. Wash the skin around the splinter with soap and water. 3. Clean a pair of tweezers with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol. 4. Grab the end of the splinter with the tweezers. 5. Pull it out at the same angle as the splinter went in. 6. Clean the skin again with soap and water. If the splinter is under the skin: 1. Wash the skin around the splinter with soap and water. 2. Clean a needle and tweezers with alcohol. 3. Gently scrape away the skin above the splinter with the needle until you can see the top of the splinter. 4. Grab the end of the splinter with the tweezers and pull it out at the same angle it went in. 5. Clean the skin again with soap and water. Animal Bites and Insect Stings How do I treat animal bites and cuts 1. Hold a towel or gauze to the area to stop the bleeding. 2. Clean the wound with soap and water. 3. Cover it with a clean bandage or gauze pad. When should I see a doctor for an animal bite? 1. For any animal bite, you may need an antibiotic to prevent infection. 2. If the bite was caused by an animal you don’t know, or by any wild animal like a raccoon, skunk, or bat. You may need a tetanus or rabies vaccine. 3. The bite is large, or it doesn’t stop bleeding after you’ve held pressure on it for 15 minutes. It may need to be closed with stitches. 4. If bite may have damaged a bone, tendons, or nerves, because you can’t bend or straighten the body part or you’ve lost feeling in it. 5. The wound is red, swollen, or oozing fluid. How do I treat bee, wasp, and other insect stings? 1. If the insect has left behind a sting, remove it from the skin so less of the venom gets into your body. Don’t squeeze the stinger. You might release more of the venom into your skin. 2. Once the stinger is out or if there is no stinger, wash the area around the sting with soap and water. 3. Hold an ice pack or cool washcloth to the sting to stop it from swelling. 4. Spread calamine lotion or baking soda mixed with water to relieve pain. 5. To prevent itching, use a spray or cream containing hydrocortisone or antihistamine. How do I treat a mosquito bite? 1. Apply firm pressure to the bite for 10 seconds to help stop the itch. 2. Use a hydrocortisone cream 4 times a day to relieve itching. 3. Take an antihistamine if the bite is very itchy. How to know if the insect bite has caused allergy to the body? 1. Dizziness 2. Hives -- red, itchy bumps on the skin 3. Stomach cramps, vomiting, or diarrhea 4. Swelling of the tongue 5. Trouble breathing, wheezing Go to the doctor promptly to ward off chances of anaphylactic shoc. Image credits: Ankit Budhiraja #6 Minor Burns What are the different types of burns? Grabbing a hot pot or splashing boiling water on your skin are just two common causes of burns around the house. When you get a burn, first check to see which type it is. Some are more serious than others. First-degree burns are painful but minor. They turn red and may swell. Second-degree burns form blisters. The skin may be very red and painful. Third-degree burns make the skin look white or charred. The burns may not hurt because nerves have been damaged. When should I see a doctor? 1. You have a third-degree burn. 2. The burn is larger than 2 to 3 inches. 3. The burn is on your face, hands, feet, or over a joint like your shoulder or knee. 4. The burn goes all the way around a hand, arm, foot, or leg. 5. The pain gets worse instead of better. 6. The burn was caused by electricity or a chemical. 7. fluid or pus oozing from the burn. How do I treat burns? For first-degree burns and small second-degree burns at home 1. Place the burned area under running cool water for at least 5 minutes to reduce swelling. 2. Apply an antiseptic spray, antibiotic ointment, or aloe vera cream to soothe the area. 3. Loosely wrap a gauze bandage around the burn. 4. To relieve pain, take paracetamol ibuprofen 5. Never put butter on a burn or pop any blisters that form. You could damage the skin and cause an infection. For a serious third degree burn go to a doctor Sunburn How do I treat a sunburn? 1. Always wear sunscreen when you’re outdoors to protect your skin from the sun. If you stay outside for too long without protection, you can get a red, itchy burn that may blister. As soon as you spot a sunburn, head inside to treat it. 2. Soothe your burned skin with a cool, damp washcloth. Or take a cool shower or bath. Pat your skin dry afterward. Be gentle -- your sunburn may be sore. 3. Apply an aloe vera lotion. Or use a hydrocortisone cream to relieve the itch. 4. Do not use lotions that contain petroleum, benzocaine, or lidocaine. These ingredients can irritate the skin even more. 5. A sunburn can dry out your body. Drink extra water so you won’t get dehydrated. 6. Cover your burned skin with clothing and a hat to protect it when you go outside. See a doctor if you have blisters on the sunburn, or you get a fever or chills. Don’t pop the blisters. They could get infected. P****n Ivy and Other Poisonous Plants How do I treat a rash from p****n ivy or other poisonous plants? When you touch p****n ivy or p****n oak or sumac the rash that appears on your skin is caused by an oil in the plant. The rash may itch and blister. But it should go away on its own within a few weeks. Treat the rash and itch at home with these steps: 1. Wash your skin. To get as much of the oil off as possible, clean your skin with soap and lukewarm water. 2. Wash everything. Clean anything the plant touched -- your clothes, gardening tools, even your pet. The oil can stick to these objects and cause a rash if you touch them again. 3. Apply calamine or hydrocortisone cream. These products will also relieve the itch. 4. you should take an antihistamine or steroid medicine by mouth. 5. Don’t scratch! Though the rash might itch, resist the urge to scratch or pick at the blisters. When should I get medical help for p****n ivy, oak, or sumac? Go to the doctor if you have developed allergic symptoms. 1. Trouble breathing or swallowing 2. Rashes or blisters on a large part of your body, or on your face or genitals 3. Swelling, especially of the eyes 4. An itch you can’t relieve, no matter what medicine or lotion you use 5. A fever over 100 F 6. A rash that hasn’t gone away after a few weeks Image credits: Ankit Budhiraja #7 Sprains and Strains Sprains and strains are very common injuries of muscles, ligaments and tendons How do I treat sprains and strains? For a mild sprain or strain: 1. Rest the limb to give it a chance to heal. 2. Hold ice on the area for 20 minutes at a time, four to eight times a day, to bring down swelling. Don’t use heat -- it could make the area swell even more. 3. Wrap an elastic bandage or splint around the sprain or strain. 4. Put a pillow under the injured body to keep it raised 5. Take over-the-counter medicines such as ibuprofen to relieve the pain. For a more severe sprain or strain, where there’s a lot of pain, swelling, and you have trouble moving around, see the doctor. Apart from this, prepare yourself for an emergency by 1. Keep a fully stocked first-aid kit in your home and car. 2. Have up-to-date copies of each person’s medical history in your home and car. 3. Past an emergency contact sheet next to each phone in the house. This is an emergency Contact Sheet format: FOR AN EMERGENCY: DIAL 100 Police: Fire: Hospital name: Phone: Doctor’s name: Phone: Dentist’s name: Phone: Pharmacy name: Phone: Health insurance plan: Emergency Contact of a family member Image credits: Ankit Budhiraja #8 There are a few basics: 1. Know how to reach emergency services and know where you are. In the US it is 911 but if you travel it will be different. Stop taking video and call 911. Follow the instructions of the dispatcher and don’t hang up until the dispatcher does. The dispatcher can talk you through hands only CPR and some other basic treatments. 2. Remain calm, you lose the ability to think rationally when you are panicked. You can have your breakdown later if needed. 3. Know when to help and know when to leave.Sometimes it is better to call 911 than try and do it your self. When in doubt call for help. That is why they are there. It is easier to put out a kitchen fire than the whole house because the homeowner tried to put it out themselves. 4. Take a CPR and First Aid course. There are many places to find one. the local fire department, Red Cross, hospital, your parks and rec department or local school or community college. 5. Know where your closest AED, first aid kit and fire extinguisher are and how to use them. Make sure they are in date and well stocked. The acronym for using a fire extinguisher is PASS - Point, Aim, Squeeze and Sweep. Make sure it is the right type for the fire you are trying to put out. 6. Always know an alternate way out of where ever you are. The closest exit may be blocked or dangerous. 7. Have an emergency plan and practice it, especially if you have kids. Make it a game and make sure they know to never go back in the house after a toy or pet. Set up a safe meeting place. 8. Make sure you have working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and you change the batteries when needed. Depending on the model at least once a year. So new smoke detectors have 10 year batteries. Replace your smoke detectors every 10 years. If I think of any more I’ll add them later. Image credits: Paul D. Cissel #9 In case, you find yourself trapped in snow and you are dehydrating at much faster rate with no water in your bottle..... Do Not Ever Consume Snow. Albeit, it makes sense for one to think that snow contains water and it might save you from dying, but you're wrong. Your body is already losing energy. A body can digest snow only after its system first converts it in liquid. With limited energy in body, you don't want burn your calories to convert liquid from snow. What to do? Fill your bottle with snow and place it inside your jacket. Do not make contact with skin by thinking it'll melt snow faster. Fundamental law of thermodynamics will take place; heat will flow from hot to cold body. Thus, you'll start draining your energy. Maintain a layer or two between pocket and skin. Also, you should try to think ahead of time by filling bottle with snow when its about half or less. Kind of preemptive strike. Hope someone will rescue soon. Staying calm and positive are equally crucial. Image credits: Uddhav #10 Whenever thinking about providing any first aid remember thsi algorhym 1. make sure it is safe for you to engage (also make sure throughout your effots in helping never do anything unsafe for you. 2. Try to ascertain what the problem is 3. Knowing what the problem is will let you decide what you need ie:first aid kit, 911 or an AED 4. If a person in step 2 is unresponsive check to see if they ae breathing for 5–10 seconds 5. If not breating immediately begin chect compressions. Image credits: Lenny Nathan #11 There are many skills which can help in any kind of emergency. First and foremost call the paramedics and inform them your complete location and address. CPR is the crucial think one should know. Other then this, any kind of emergencies like breathing problem, and choking. Injuries are worsen in workplaces while waiting for a doctor or paramedic to arrive. With basic first aid training like wound the bandage on the wound or stop bleeding from a cut which sometimes cause a person to faint. Image credits: Micheal McAdam #12 1. Stop bleeding by applying direct pressure on the wound. Open wounds and cuts can result in serious blood loss and can be life threatening. 2. Protect broken bones until the professionals arrive. Broken bokes can be very dangerous, especially in your back or close to an artery. 3. Good hydration will prevent heat stroke. Make sure you have enough fluid with you on your adventure so that you can regularly hydrate. 4. Learn and practice the Heimlich Maneuver - you can prevent someone from choking to death on a piece of food. First aid is a necessary skill which I believe everyone should know. More and more people are venturing outdoors and partaking in extreme sports. It is especially important for them to have done first aid training. Extreme sports include abseiling, trail running, river rafting, mountain biking, sky diving, bungy jumping, etc. Any sport that gets the adrenaline rushing through your veins at a fast rate is considered an extreme sport. Knowing how to care for a wound until the emergency services arrive can be the difference between life and, in extreme cases, death. You will be in good stead when you empower yourself with an accredited first aid course. Image credits: Craig Black #13 If the driver of the taxi you have hailed is behaving suspiciously, this little trick may just save your life. Make a call or pretend to make a call to someone, anyone (doesn't matter). In the course of the conversation, enunciate the digits of the taxi numberplate (could just be the last 4...as long as the driver hears those digits) The cabby has no clue what the purpose behind the call is; all he knows is that his taxi is now identifiable by a contact of the passenger. Odds are he won't try any stunts on that ride. Image credits: Abhinav Deshmukh #14 1. Escape a sinking car. If a car accident involves the car falling into a lake or pond, then the people inside obviously need to escape. What people usually do is try to open the door of the car under water which is nearly impossible due to water pressure. One should instead hit the car windows hard with either the metal seatbelt buckle or a knife. This allows one to escape and float to the surface. 2. Escape being tied up. If someone’s kidnapped and tied up, this trick can prove to be life-saving. This is a simple trick that magicians use to escape being tied and complete the magic tricks. All you need to do is clench your fist tightly to expand the muscles of your wrist so when you’re being tied up this will make your hands larger and the rope will be less tighter around the hands after you relax them. And that’s how you can make your Great Escape! 3. Make a weapon out of keys. If you’re walking alone at night and have a threat of getting attacked or being robbed of, then fear not because you have your own secret weapon. Just hold your keys between your fingers and make a brass knuckle out of them. And voila, your weapon’s ready! 4. Cut things with cigarette. Imagine if you’re stranded in the woods and need to cut kindling for fire or maybe attack someone in case of danger. Here’s an awesome self-defense tool made out of cigarette! All you need to do is take a cigarette and light the filter and let it burn for a second or two. Then lick your fingers to wet them and press the filter down to make a flat aim for the cigarette. This will make it razor sharp and you can cut almost everything. So next time you want to smoke, think of something better! And there you go, what feels life-threatening to many is now an adventure for you!! Image credits: Ayesha K #15 During an Earthquake Get under a sturdy table or other piece of furniture. If there isn’t a table or desk near you, cover your face and head with your arms and crouch in an inside corner of the building. If outdoors, Stay away from buildings, street lights, and utility wires. If in a vehicle, stop as quickly as possible and stay in the vehicle. During a Stampede Keep your hands up by your chest, like a boxer – it gives you movement and protects your chest. If you fall and cannot get up, keep moving by crawling in the same direction of the crowd, or if that is not possible, then cover your head with your arms and curl up into the fetal position (do not lay on your stomach or back, as this dangerously exposes your lungs). During a Flood If you get caught in flood then, your body direction should be in parallel with flow legs in the direction of water flow. Use head as a rudder to steer your direction & legs to kick the obstacles which came across to clear the path. Sticking out to any floating objects keeps yourself away from drowning & chance of looking out for help. During a wildfire Stay low to the ground. Cover your nose and mouth with a wet cloth, and hold it there until you get to safer grounds. Look for nearby areas that are free of trees and brush. Places which have already burned are sometimes the safest place to go, if you do not have any other options. However, you should ensure that the area is completely extinguished before proceeding, as lingering fires could cause burns and breathing problems. During a plane crash Choose to sit in the tail of the aircraft. Keep your seat belt on at all times. Read the safety card and listen to the pre-flight safety speech before take off. During Emergency, Put your oxygen mask on before assisting others. Brace yourself against the seat in front of you. If you don’t have a seat close in front of you, bend forward and put your chest on your thighs and your head between your knees. Cross your wrists in front of your lower calves, and grab your ankles. In the case of a crash in water, put on your life jacket but do not inflate it. Stay low as you escape, to duck under the level of smoke. Get out of the airplane as quickly as possible through nearby exit. While crossing a road in the dark Unlock your mobile screen & wave it while crossing the roads in dark, as the vehicle drivers may not see you if you cross without it which might lead to accidents too. Spread the word. Save lives ! :) Image credits: Vamsi Krishna Namala #16 Well, all of the answers here are about life saving techniques for Homa-Sapiens, but we also have other living beings on this planet. This technique is meant for plants. Whenever I go for any trip which is longer than 2–3 days and have no one to water my plants, I insert water-filled bottles with their open end inside soil. Soil sucks the water gradually according to its need (pressure built by roots) and plants can survive for 1 week. If you are wondering that why there are pens inserted into pots, then yes that is another life saving hack for plants to keep them safe from “nosy Pigeons” Image credits: Abhishek Singh #17 You know what i can bet 7/10 don't know how to use fire extinguisher. There fire extinguisher placed in public places but it is of no use if you don't know how to use it. It is really simple and it will just take 5 minutes to learn. Learn how to use it. It may save your life. I am providing step by step guide here. You will just have to follow P. A. S. S rule 1. Pull the safety pin Every fire extinguisher has a pin inserted into the handle that prevents the fire extinguisher from being discharged by accident. Grab the ring and pull the pin out from the side of the handle. Now that the extinguisher is ready to discharge, hold the device so the nozzle is pointed away from you. 2. Aim the hose at the base of the fire.Hold the lower handle lever (the carrying handle) with one hand and grab the hose or nozzle with the other hand. Point the hose directly at the base of the fire, because you have to put out the fuel that’s burning. Do not aim the hose at the flames. With carbon dioxide extinguishers, keep your hands away from the plastic discharge horn, which gets extremely cold. 3.Squeeze the lever. To release the extinguishing agent, squeeze the two levers together with one hand while you aim the hose at the base of the fire with the other. Apply slow and even pressure when you squeeze the levers. To stop discharging the extinguisher, release the levers. 4.Sweep the hose from side to side. To extinguish all the fuel, slowly sweep the hose back and forth over the base of the fire as you discharge the extinguisher. Move closer to the fire as the flames die down. Continue discharging until the fire goes out Image credits: Nayan Zinzala #18 IF by Rudyard Kipling — If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs. There is NO greater skill in an emergency than being able to keep a clear head and preventing the panic from taking hold. None. One technique that was taught to me was mentally adjusting your beret. What that means is that when you see everything in front of you turn to a big pile of c**p you stop and take a big deep breath. Imagine adjusting a beret that's on your head. This has saved my backside on countless occasions. When my brain and body initially scream RUUUUUUN and AAAAAAAARRRGGGGHHH. Taking just those few extra seconds to catch your breath will allow you to make sense and can allow you to make quick crucial decisions. Image credits: Scott Pritchard #19 In a nuclear explosion, most of the damage and death is caused by the shockwave the blast creates, not the fireball which has a comparatively small radius. One day you may find yourself outside or looking out a window to see an extremely bright flash. As bright as if you were staring straight at the sun. Do not attempt to locate the source of the flash. You have maybe 8-10 seconds to respond if you're far enough away from the fireball. Lay face down on the ground and put your thumbs in your ears and fingers over your eyes. Breathe through your teeth. Since you're laying face down the shockwave will mostly pass over you. (If you're standing up it can cause your lungs, eardrums, and other organs to explode.) Once the shockwave passes over you, you need to find shelter immediately. I said before that most death from the explosion is caused by the shockwave. Well, FAR more death is subsequently caused by nuclear fallout AFTER the blast. Do not attempt to travel anywhere. Just get underground. If you're next to a complete stranger's house or a business, don't hesitate to go inside and hide out under as much concrete and steel as possible. You need to remain in this location for the next 48 hours. This is critical. Even if you survive the blast if you attempt to go home and spend just 20 minutes outside traveling you will more than likely die of radiation sickness. Radioactive material after a blast decays exponentially, and you will be safe to try and find your loved ones after 48 hours. If you don't wait this out, you definitely won't be alive to find them. Image credits: Khushi Patil #20 By chance you happen to walk along in an area with dense vegetation,where poisonous insects live, apply odomos over the skin exposed.No insec tcan stand the smell of odomos. If a bee hive is disturbed accidentally and bees start swarming all over , pull up your shirt and cover your face fully with cloth(shirt).The bee cannot sting through cloth. At least to save face which has vital organs,eyes,mouth,nose and ears,face must be completely covered with cloth.When you go trekking in wild forest area, you can take a shawl.After covering,just sit instead of standing so as to enclose your entire volume under cloth cover.This way you can save yourself from bee sting. Image credits: Jaya Sharma #21 If you choke on food while there's no one else around to help, you can dislodge it by making yourself fall on a hard edge, like the edge of a table or the upper edge of a chair back. Make sure it hits you right below the ribs. This imitates the effect of the Heimlich maneuver. Image credits: Wisnu Nugroho #22 If you're in a car that ends up in a river or lake and is sinking rapidly, don't waste your energy and panic trying to get the windows and doors open (you won't be able to.) Stay calm and wait for your car to hit the lake/riverbed. When it fills up with water, the doors should pop open with ease due to the pressure equalising and you can make your escape. You're much more likely to drown by panicking and thrashing around trying to break put. Image credits: Cedric Coe #23 Not my life, but it helped me save my dad's. We were canoeing in Georgia and our canoe got hung up on a cypress knee. As I was trying to backstroke our way off it, my parents (Mom in front, Dad in the center) were talking to a guy who wanted to help. He handed my mom a rope and their plan was to yank us free. I looked up just a moment before he revved his boat's engine. I yelled, “Nooo… glug glug glug” because obviously you should NEVER yank a canoe!! We all fell into the drink. I remember hitting the spongy bottom and pushing back up. I surfaced with my glasses still on. My mom did, too. A split second later, she started screaming for my dad. He hadn't come up. Into my head popped a boating safety article I had read in Redbook magazine at least ten years earlier: if your boat capsizes, and someone is missing, look under the overturned boat. I calmly reached under, found a skinny elbow, and pulled him down and out. He was wearing shoes or something that floated, which was making it hard for him to keep upright. In the frigid water, disoriented and going into shock, he didn't think to get out from under, instead he was trying to get that little pocket of air between the water and the canoe, and he wasn’t able to. My mom later asked me how I thought of that. It just came to me, a little bit of trivia I never would have imagined using. I'm so glad I react to stress by slowing down to a zen-like calm! Image credits: Carol O'Leary #24 The moment my father yelled “Duck!” saved my life. I was 16. It was a quiet Saturday morning. My father was teaching me to drive on the interstate for the first time. We took the brand new Dodge Colt E that he had bought me onto I-40 Eastbound in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. Suddenly, he yelled “Duck!” and I thankfully did. At that moment, a tractor trailer that had been on the opposite side of the interstate and crossed the median slammed into our car. The truck driver had fallen asleep. The impact took off the roof of the car, chopped off my headrest, and removed the back half of the car. Without ducking, I would have been decapitated. It was a good two months before I had the nerve to drive a car again. Thank you, Dad, for saving my life. He’s in heaven now. #25 You are in a lift on the 19th floor of a building. Suddenly the lift cable snaps or becomes disconnected. You are about to die. The lift is going to fall straight down its shaft at high speeds. In a few seconds, the lift will be demolished. You are at a high risk of death. You have maybe a 1% chance of surviving. Cable operated lift is connected with several cables except hydraulic lift. If the main cable in the cable operated lift is disconnected or snapped, simultaneously remaining supporting cables are disabled because these can not carry the sufficient weight of the lift. As a result, the lift will fall down quickly. On the other hand, there is a central hydraulic pillar in the hydraulic lift which maintains the balance of lift box. If the hydraulic pillar is ineffective, then supporting chains which is connected with the hydraulic lift help to save the lift from fall down quickly. Surprisingly, these chains only reduce the falling speed of lift somewhat but these does not carry the lift for long time. Basically, generator or cable failure may result in a lift malfunction. One group of researchers at the MIT center for Biomedical Engineering suggest that, at this situation don't panic and jump. Try to be calm and quiet. When we stand up, the whole weight of our body are carried on our feet. So, if the lift had been fallen down from 19th floor to ground floor due to cable malfunction, your legs will be fractured or highly injured or other severe injured may occur. You may die. So, the best solution of save your life is to lie in the center on the lift floor as early as possible. Stretch your hand and leg wide as much as you can. The body position should be flat on the floor. Your whole weight of body will be shared by different parts of your body. The pressure will be passed through different organs of the body equally. But remember one thing, you must lie flat on your back on the floor and if it is possible, cover your face and head by something for getting rid of injury. If there are more people in the lift and shortage of space, at least it is better to sit down altogether. As a result, you will have maximum chance to survive despite some injuries. So, when the lift is landed due to cable disconnected on ground floor with high speed, at least this useful trick will save your life. Image credits: Shovan Chowdhury #26 Do this when you find an ATM card… Call the toll free number and give your contact details. The bank will call the card holder through the ATM card number provided by you and will redirect to contact you. Later the card holder can come and collect it. Many don't know what to do with it when found. Same happened with us but after few minutes my friend User-10785306998583678879 called the number and the owner contacted us and took it back. Sure it was life saver. How? The guy when came to collect the card told that he admitted his mother in hospital yesterday. While going he lost his ATM and couldn't find anywhere in the dark. It made his day as he was badly in need of money So please do care to call the toll free number. Image credits: Ajay M Koyimuttal #27 Life saving hack Please Please do not get down from bus or train until aand unless it has completely stopped. Few days before I got down a moving bus although I was safe , just few bruises but then I realised that any mishappening could have occured because my small mistake. This seems to be very basic but it can save your life . Image credits: Anonymous #28 Stop. Think. Act. You almost always have more time than you think you do because your brain is going a zillion miles per hour. Take the time and figure out what the real danger is, prioritize your response, that roll into action. Image credits: David VomLehn #29 Well in any life threatening situation it would be helpful to know how to use a first aid kit. Also, if somehow you’re involved in a shooting (victim) - Note that the event of this happening is incredibly unpredictable. However, how you handle the gunner and the situation depends on yourself, but you should probs find cover, whether you’re inside or not, finding protective cover is your main priority. Secondly, never directly engage with the shooter. Whether you know them personally, vaguely, or they’re a familiar family member. If a fire of any time occurs, it would be best knowing your main evacuation routes at school/work etc. You should create a barrier between yourself and the fire, and going into another room will give you more time to assess the situation and your next move. Next, if you have a wet cloth or something, keep it over your nose and mouth to prevent you from inhaling any toxic smoke from coming into the room. Also, remember to stay near the ground because where it’s clear and cold, as heat tends to rise! In case of a flood, keep at least a weekend’s supply of water and food that won’t spoil easily over time. - and a supply of medical stuff. When some crazy nuthead decides to rob you in the street, your house, school, or at the workplace, it is crucial for you to stay calm. Don’t make any sudden movements, and follow every demand to reduce the chances and odds of you being abused or worse, m******d! And If you do survive the incident, be sure to tell the police as much information about the robber (s) as you can remember. Remember what they wore, looked like, traits, characteristics. This one may seem unlikely, and trust me it is, however, the odds of being stuck in a falling elevator are 1 out of a million. BUT, in the event of it occurring here are some dos and don'ts. Lay on the floor of the elevator, spreading your legs as far as you can to take up as much room as possible. Put one arm behind your head to protect it from the rising pressure and the other arm over your face to protect yourself from debris. DO NOT squat or try to balance yourself by bending your knees, this will do more damage than good! DO NOT try to jump at the moment of impact or else you’ll find yourself with two broken legs or even worse, being paralyzed from the intense pressure of the falling elevator. An obvious one is to have your phone fully charged, duh? A fully charged phone can be the single greatest tool that gets you out of those scenarios… alive. These are only a couple of some helpful life threatening situation tips, but I hope it gave you a better understanding. - Expect the unexpected… Image credits: Zali Michael #30 You just do. Your brain knows what to do and only lets you think logically. If you have anxiety issues normally you won’t during an emergency. I have panic and anxiety issues and I panic when nothing or very little is wrong or at the fear of something happening. I also am very disorganised and unable to think of how to handle situations strategically without it taking me a fair amount of time to work it out. However during emergencies this all changes. My head is so clear and so calm and I am so orderly. This is normal. During emergencies we go into fight flight mode and emotion is dulled because you don’t need your emotions to be at the forefront of your mind right now, they will just hinder you and take up brain power that should be used for problem solving. That blood surge you feel is your heart getting more oxygen and nutrients to your body and brain so you can think and act fast. make sure you have an emergency go bag. Everyone should have one. Fill it with 2 weeks of basic supplies including food, first aid, matches etc. that way you just grab that one bag and leave. Image credits: Hayley Kolinski #31 I was seventeen and my friends and I went to Mexico to party. My friends and I got separated in a club because of this huge fight and the police escorted a lot of people outside including me. My friends were still in the club and didn’t know I was outside (this was before cell phones) and I had given my friend my ID and wallet. I ended up hitchhiking back across the border to a gas station (it’s now 3:00 am). I still need to get home because no one is answering their answering machine (yes machines!) so I hitchhike with a trucker heading to LA (ugh!). We’re heading down the freeway and things get out of hand fast. Years before I’d seen in a movie where a girl pretended she was going to be sick and puke when a man was coming on to her so that’s what I did and FAST! He didn’t buy it at first but eventually pulled into a gas station. I walked in normally so the man wouldn't think I was trying to get away and told the attendant this man was keeping me against my will and he hid me in a counter. The driver came in looking for me and I could hear the gas station attendant saying “no, there’s no on one here.” After a long while he left. 911 was called and the police gave me a ride home (it was an hour ride) and the whole way home they asked “are you ever going to do this again??”. They insisted on speaking to a parent but little did I know that my little sister had seen the police car pull up, had put a sheet around her head and pretended to be my mom while talking to the police. What a cool sis! Yeah-the 80’s were a different time but I did learn my lesson. Image credits: Cathleen Alborn #32 “You’re always sick when I call. You should see a doctor”. This was from my wife’s grandmother. Nonsense was what I thought; as a guy, my mental image of myself is that I’m always healthy and don’t need to see a doctor. Turns out, there’s an adult-onset immune thing, pretty rare, so that slowly your immune system stop making immune globulins and therefore I was always getting colds. And, in retrospect, always had a fever, and always had congested lungs, and always had inflamed sinuses. And, as it turned out, some of those colds were actually pneumonia. Luckily, there’s a treatment, and now I can breathe through my nose again, and wake up in the morning and not spit up phlegm. And I’m likely to live beyond 42 (the actual average age of death for this condition). (If you think you’re always sick, and you might have this, rest assured, you almost certainly don’t. It's rare enough that there’s only one clinic in Seattle that handles it, and they take in patients from several of the surrounding states). #33 I once heard that people who fall in the water sometimes drown while wearing a life jacket. They get disoriented and try to swim to the surface, but instead swim downward. (I don’t know if this is actually true, but it’s true that I heard that.) Then it happened to me. I was riding a waverunner and went over a wave and unexpectedly nosed the waverunner into the face of the next wave. I was ripped from the seat, and my first thought while underwater was, relax, let the lifejacket bring you to the surface. Had I not heard that tidbit of information, I could have had a really bad day. As it was, the incident left me stiff and sore, with a concussion from hitting the water at high speed. #34 Not mine, but possibly a few men and women’s in the lab across the hall. I heard the description of phosgene during military training while in college. I have never been exposed to it and had no idea how accurate the description was, or whether it was even feasible to describe a smell verbally. One of my colleagues was a smoker. A woman in the lab next door regularly popped in, dragging him out into the stairwell to serve as a smoking companion. One day, she opened our door, popped her head in and began her routine smoking call, addressing my lab mate. She abruptly paused in the middle of a word, fainted and fell on the floor while grasping at the door handle. The door swung fully open and let in a whiff of rotten hay. It took me a few seconds to connect the goings-on and the description of phosgene I heard in college. I commanded everyone nearby to open the windows and stick their heads out, called the institute’s fire crew, opened the door to the lab across the hall and noticed thin white smoke emanating from the sink area. After the building was evacuated and all rooms aired, it turned out that the woman who fainted mid-sentence had been running a protein purification job, dumping her waste fractions and spent reagents into the sink. Simultaneously, someone in the lab on the upper floor was busy cleaning glassware with a corrosive concoction of potassium dichromate and acids, dumping it into the same drain. It reacted with the products of the protein job, producing phosgene, among other things. The cast iron drain pipe had long been corroded through. It let the gaseous products into the room. It didn’t help that the smokers in both labs couldn’t smell anything until it was almost too late. The hazmat guy on the fire team had a phosgene indicator badge. He confirmed that phosgene was the main trouble-maker, and it was also consistent with the condition of those affected. Everyone survived, and I learnt that the rotten hay analogy was spot-on. #35 When I was a child and young adult I had keen interest in water sports. Almost drowned three times. My parents and various adults taught me to be wary of currents in the sea and weirs in the river. Doing my SCUBA diving training, rip currents and currents in general were mentioned. Fast forward ten years or so! We went for a late afternoon dive, just off Dubrovnik, Croatia. Vicious current took me to the open sea, towards Italy. Sea was about 3 to 4 Beaufort which means there were lots of crests. People in the boat were looking for me, I was whistling in my whistle, but no luck! At that moment it was a choice, should I drop my bottles and weights or not (I never used buoyancy compensator! Yes, yes, I know…). Then my training pitched in. Never drop anything if absolutely not necessary! Check! Never swim directly in the current! Check! So, what did I do? I dived down to about 30 m, wouldn’t go deeper because I was worried to eventually have to do decompression in open water and started to swim underwater at about 45 degrees to the current. After about 10–15 minutes saw the bottom and started my way up following the slope. My orientation and course was impeded from the beginning because one of my otherwise excellent Mares Concorde fins was longitudinally split and the outer half was missing (Yes, yes, I know…). I managed but it was a tight call! #36 I was once running to catch a bus in downtown Minneapolis. I came to the curb just as my light turned red, and in my haste I assumed I could safely run across the street. I stepped into the street and I heard a guy behind me gasp loudly and say almost in a moan, “Oh no!!”. This snapped something in me and I jumped back onto the curb just as a big bus roared by. #37 I was walking back to work from my lunch break near Chinatown in San Fransisco. Walk sign was on and I was mid-way through the intersection. Approaching the red light was a two-decker, open top tourist bus with plans to turn right. It was in motion and didn’t fully stop. I barely registered it as I was almost to the safety of the sidewalk. I heard someone scream but I didn’t look, I immediately took a very big hop-step forward and felt the heat of the bus brush past my neck. Then more yelling as pedestrians around me scolded the bus driver for almost hitting me. But I was too in shock to do anything more than keep walking. The scream definitely alerted me that something was wrong and I’m grateful my response was to step forward and not stop and see what the scream was about. I didn’t have time for that. Not sure I would have been hit hard enough to be in mortal danger but it would have hurt. #38 The knowledge to distinguish between a poisonous and a non poisonous snake can be a critical life saving hack. Snakes are found throughout the world except in Antarctica, Iceland, Ireland, Greenland and New Zealand. Most snakes are found in tropical regions. Snakes are found in many habitats including in the water, forests, deserts and grasslands. Differentiating between venomous and non-venomous snakes: There are about 2,900 species of snakes. Of these, 375 are venomous. Given below are some useful tips to identify whether a snake is poisonous or not. Look at the head: Most venomous snakes have triangular shaped heads, though not all. This is a good rule of thumb, but it does have exceptions. Due to the venom gland, the head of a venomous snake is shaped triangularly. Sometimes it can take a diamond-like form. The head of a non-venomous snake, on the other hand, has a rounded shape. However, some non-venomous snakes, mainly water snakes, when they become aggressive, spread their body in order to look more threatening to an enemy or a prey, and their head starts to look triangular because their jaws protrude outward. See the eyes: The eyes of a venomous snake look like cat’s eyes, with pupils like vertical slits. Non-venomous snakes, on the other hand, have circular eyes, somewhat similar to human eyes. Eyes, however, cannot always be a full-proof telltale sign of a venomous/ non-venomous snake. In the summer season, in the United States, most venomous snakes become nocturnal, and their eyes change to the nocturnal variation. That is, they look like circular eyes because pupils need to be adjusted by the visual system of a snake in order to see things properly. Watch for the tail: The tail of non- venomous snakes has a double row of scales on the end of the tail (from the anus to the very end.) There is a visible line that separates the two rows. Venomous snakes, on the other hand, have a single row of scales on the end of the tail. If you do not see the line separating two rows of scales, this is a telltale sign that a snake is poisonous. The heat sensors: Venomous snakes have heat sensing pits that work like a heat detector to identify the whereabouts of a prey. Heat sensing tips are situated between the eye and the nostril of the snake. Some non-venomous snakes also have a heat sensing pit, but most do not. Hope this information helps. Visit snake parks or see images of snakes to relate with it. But please remember, it is always advisable to seek expert advise before venturing into a place where you are likely to encounter snakes. Take all necessary precautions. Thank you! #39 Mine probably isn’t as extreme as others but here goes… when I was in 7th grade, I was going through I really rough time. I was in a ton of pain due to a condition called CRPS (which is rated higher than childbirth without pain medication, cancer pain, and amputation without anesthetic on The McGill Pain Index), losing friends, and losing my ability to walk. I didn’t want to live. It was too much pain and too much trouble. I begged doctors to amputate my leg, because at least then there would be an end to the pain. They said no. I tried to find hope again, but it was hard, and we were fighting with insurance. A simple word that has saved me so many times on so many days is “Hi”. Other notable mentions include: just a smile, compliments, and “I believe you”. It turns out that all I really needed was to feel like I mattered. #40 I was in the hospital, receiving an infusion of potassium through a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line. The phlebotomist came by for my morning lab work … at about 5:40 in the morning. At about 6:10, the light came on. The resident came in. The charge nurse came in. “What’s going on?” I asked. “You’re hyperkalemic [you’re potassium is too high].” “10 units of IV regular insulin and 50 gms of glucose [50% solution] NOW! How high is it?” “7.5” They had drawn it from above where the potassium was infusing. I remembered the treatment from 20+ years earlier, during my cardiac anesthesia fellowship. #41 While learning how to pilot, just after soloing, I was sent out (solo) to practice recovery from stalls and turning stalls in our local practice area. I'm not sure about these days, but back then (~1982) they didn't teach spin recovery to private pilots. They had taken up the attitude of a properly trained pilot won't ever get into a spin. I had read an article in some flying magazine just prior to this flight and it outlined how the FAA had been talked into stopping the requirement for instruction on spin recovery, because too many potential pilots found that "maneuver" too intimidating/scary and quit the training. I'm not sure if the FAA gave in because of what Cessna did or not, but apparently the Cessna 150 (typical training aircraft at the time) was designed to automatically get out of a spin, IF you let go of all the controls. And that is totally not logical. But I remembered that, thank goodness. So while (badly) practicing a turning stall, I indeed fell into a spin. I remember yelling at myself, almost as if I was the instructor, to let go of everything, and I obeyed myself! What happens then is the plane automatically goes into a steep dive instead (due to the plane’s aerodynamic design) , and that, I could pull out of on my own and obviously did so, or I wouldn't be writing this! I went back to home base, shaking like a leaf, and told my instructor, and he decided, rightly so, that we should go do spin recoveries on our next lesson. Which we did, and they are bit scary, in my humble opinion! #42 This person wasn’t trying to save my life, but I think she did. It was in a school PE class. We had a trampoline - I wasn’t on it, but was one of the people ‘standing in’ as we called it, round the sides - one person at each short end, and two on the long sides. The person on the trampoline was a male sports teacher. Another teacher came up to us, and told me to take a message to somebody or other. There was a wall behind me, so I had to duck under the trampoline to get to her, and as I straightened up, the teacher on the trampoline landed awkwardly - perhaps on the springs or the edge - and the whole trampoline jerked across the floor and crashed into the wall where I had been standing, leaving a big hole in the wall. I’m sure if I had still been standing there, it would have gone right through my ribs - I can’t believe I would have survived that. 42 Surprisingly Useful First Aid And Safety Tips Everyone Should Know
- Previous Pictures don’t only speak a thousand words; they also elicit strong emotions. They can move you to tears, bring an ear-to-ear grin on your face, or send frightening chills down your spine. These images are about the latter. Seeing them at first glance likely won’t induce the instant creeps, but reading about their backstories may do that. Some were taken moments before disaster, while others were just downright disturbing. Scroll away and see for yourself. #1 A group of thirteen years old girls went camping in America in July 1945. They swam at a river in Ruidoso, New Mexico. The girl in front of the picture is called Barbara Kent. What the girls did not know is that nearby, the Manhattan Project detonated a nuclear bomb as a test… In an article, Kent described what happened that day: “We were all just shocked … and then, all of a sudden, there was this big cloud overhead, and lights in the sky,” Kent recalls. “It even hurt our eyes when we looked up. The whole sky turned strange. It was as if the sun came out tremendous.” A few hours later, she says, white flakes began to fall from above. Excited, the girls put on their bathing suits and, amid the flurries, began playing in the river. “We were grabbing all of this white, which we thought was snow, and we were putting it all over our faces,” Kent says. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. And we all thought, ‘Well, the reason it’s hot is because it’s summer.’ We were just 13 years old.”[1] The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot steel tower 40 miles away at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, in Jornada del Muerto valley. The site had been selected in part for its supposed isolation. In reality, thousands of people were within a 40-mile radius, some as close as 12 miles away. Yet those living near the bomb site weren't warned of the test. Nor were they evacuated beforehand or afterward, even as radioactive fallout continued to drop for days… Barbara Kent and all her friends developed cancer. Every single one of the girls you see in that photo, died before the age of thirty. The only one who lived longer was Kent. And she, too, developed and survived several bouts of cancer. People often forget of the heavy price paid not only by those the atomic bombs were dropped on in Japan, but even by those who lived nearby as they were first developed. Image credits: Jean-Marie Valheur #2 This picture seems pretty innocuous, but if you look a bit closely, you can begin to see the terror that is deep within; at first, it just looks like several people of a different culture sitting around on a porch. However, when you look closely, it appears that a human foot and hand sit in front of the man. The man was a rubber worker in Congo, who, unfortunately, did not meet his quota for the day. As punishment, his young daughter was k**led and all that was left was her foot and hand given to the man as a reminder of what would happen when you don’t perform well at work. Even when that wasn’t enough, the other part of his daughter was cannibalized. This is truly a horrifying image. Image credits: Simon-Lee Lambert #3 Baby dolphin dies after swimmers pass it around. And there wasn't even one nice human being to say how WRONG this is. Makes me really sad every time I see it on social media. Image credits: Lilly Brant #4 Wedding rings retrieved from the Jewish victims of the H*******t… Image credits: Abhik Kumar Mohanta #5 Photo of scratch marks on the walls of an Auschwitz gas chamber. Image credits: Dante Caloia #6 Tsunami before striking Hat Rai Lay Beach in southern Thailand. Image credits: Sneha Mathews #7 A CCTV footage shows 2-year-old James Bulger, who was abducted by 10-year-old Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. They would later torture and m**der James and leave his body on a railway line. Image credits: Sam Lee #8 This photo of what looks like a few people in jumpsuits walking out of a building. In actuality it’s the last moment the crew of Challenger was photographed, a few hours before their launch. Their shuttle exploded just a minute after launch, but they didn’t die then- evidence indicates they died a few minutes later when the capsule hit the ocean. Image credits: Andromeda321 #9 This creepy yet normal seeming photo was the last picture of the 18-year old Jolee Callan before her boyfriend shot her two times in the head and pushed her down the cliff. Image credits: Abhik Kumar Mohanta #10 Douglas Spedden was a six-year-old boy when he boarded the RMS Titanic with his parents. A photograph taken by Roman Catholic Priest Frances Browne shows Douglas Spedden playing the topper on the deck of the “Unsinkable Ship”. Days later, the vessel would go down. Spedden would be among the survivors. However, on August 6, 1915, Spedden was k**led at the age of nine in an automobile accident near his residence in Maine. This was the first documented case of a fatal motor collision in the state. Image credits: David Frigault #11 On the morning of 17 January, Muhammad Yusuf Pujwala (the father of Asia Bano (was sitting outside his home in Kathua, Kashmir, when one of his neighbours came sprinting towards him. He told Muhammed Pujwala, they had found his eight-year-old daughter, Asifa Bano. Her body was found in the bushes of a forest. The 8 year old’s legs were broken. Her fingers were black and blue. Asifa was confined in a local temple for several days and given sedatives that kept her unconscious. The charge sheet alleges that she was "r**ed for days, tortured and then finally m**dered". She was strangled to death and then hit on the head twice with a stone. The worst thing is, she isn’t the only girl and she won't be the last. Image credits: Sofia Lindemann #12 Before the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland. Almost immediately after this photo was taken, a bomb was set off in the red car beside the boy on his dad's shoulders. The father and child survived miraculously, but the photographer and 28 others died, while around 220 were injured. Image credits: [deleted] #13 This photo. Looks innocent enough right? Unless you know the backstory. The man in the middle is Darren Vickers. Vickers abducted, r*ped, m*rdered, and dismembered 8 year old Jamie Lavis. Then a few days later showed up at the Lavis home saying he wanted to help find the missing boy. He became friends with the grieving parents and even moved in with them. The parents started to trust him over the police. He began grooming Jamie’s 10 year old brother and interfered in the investigation into Jamie’s disappearance. The police knew it was him the whole time but couldn’t prove it. One day Vickers approached some children and asked them to help him look for Jamie in the woods. The children ran home and told their parents who phoned police. This finally gave the police an area to search for Jamie’s body and they found the clothes he was wearing the day he went missing along with a few bones. The rest had been tossed in the river. They charged him with m*rder and the Lavis family was finally able to bury their boy. Image credits: Lisa Mohr #14 At first you think she's just a cute old lady cooking outside. Obviously the topic is who is this lady and who was she, what did she have in that cauldron. Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian serial killer. Better known as The Soapmaker of Correggio, she killed three women in the town of Correggio, Reggio Emilia, between 1939 and 1940, and turned their bodies into soap and pastries using caustic soda or sodium hydroxide. Image credits: José Alberto #15 It is the last known picture of Chester Bennington, leader of the rock band Linkin Park, with his family. Less than 24 hours later, he committed suicide. It reminds me of the overwhelming power that depressive states have on human being, totally annihilating the very soul of this artist, who could not overcome whatever black and silent abyss prevented him to feel the love of his 6 children and the one of tens of thousands fans adoring his concert performances. Che la terra ti sia lieve, Chester, you left great art and a painful void. Image credits: Stefano Gelati #16 This is a series of photos taken by two Dutch hiking women (Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon) before their disappearance in Panama. Image credits: Johnny S #17 Into the jaws of death, 1944 US Army 1ID in their beach assault of Omaha sector of the Normandy landings, not a horrific photo for its content, but a horrific photo because we know what followed, an emotional and awe inspiring photograph. Truly, the greatest generation. Image credits: Hai Ling #18 The picture was actually found on the camera of two vacationers who were swept away in the 2004 tsunami, which resulted in over 230 000 deaths. Image credits: [deleted] #19 The happy man in the middle is Kevin O’Higgins. He has just been married to the lovely lady in front of him. On his right is his best man, Rory O’Connor. This was taken in October 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. O’Higgins, and O’Connor were leading figures in the Irish nationalist cause. Now flash-forward a year. Much has changed since then. Two and a half years of warfare has finally dragged the British to the negotiating table, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922 essentially made Ireland an independent nation, apart from one crucial point; the King would still be our head of state. Of course, some in the nationalist movement took exception to this. Took so much exception, in fact, that they decided that those who supported this Treaty were traitors, and deserved to be treated as such. O’Higgins, being the fine and moral man that he was, supported the Treaty. O’Connor, being the fine and moral man that he was, rejected the Treaty. So one thing led to another, and before you know it, the nationalist movement had split, and the two sides were tearing each other apart in the Irish Civil War. In December 1922, four anti-Treaty leaders who had been captured earlier in the war were executed, in reprisal for the k*****g of a pro-Treaty leader the day before. The name of one of those men? Rory O’Connor. The name of the man who signed their death warrants? Kevin O’Higgins. When later accused of personal vindictiveness in carrying out these executions, O’Higgins responded: “Vindictiveness! Great heavens! One of these men was a friend of mine.” Image credits: Jimmie Byrne #20 When this selfie of three happy teenagers was taken, two of the girls had approximately 10 seconds left to live. The third girl lived for three more days but the injuries were too severe. They are standing right by the wind and noise from a passing westbound train and can not hear a second train coming in from the opposite direction. At right is the halo from that train and the railroad track. Life is incomprehensibly fragile. Image credits: Vidar Bonsak #21 Remember when it was in the news that a Russian ambassador had been murdered in Turkey? Here he is moments before his death. That man anxiously standing behind him? His assassin. Image credits: Elias Fredericks #22 In 1870, the American bison was hunted wildly by European colonists and nearly extinct. On a flat area, uncountable American bison skulls were piled up. Image credits: Forrest Harris #23 The above seemingly innocent picture is a big clue to a crime scene. That selfie is taken by Antoine with her friend Brittney Gargol (right), who was later found dead on the side of the road in 2015. What’s more is there was a belt, just near Brittney’s deceased body. The police could not solve the crime, because they could not find the owner of that belt. By now, almost everyone reading this would have guessed that Antoine was the owner of that belt. The police noticed the belt in Antoine’s facebook post, and hypothesized that Antoine had used the best as the murder weapon. Their theory proved to be correct, Antoine pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was convicted. She received seven years in prison. Thank god for facebook, as well as cameras. Image credits: Mohnish Agrawal #24 The Thousand Yard Stare This is 27-year-old Italian Corporal Antonio Metruccio of the 3rd Eagle Company, 66th Regiment aircraft Trieste. Corporal Metruccio was asked to pose for the camera by a photographer moments after a 72-hour long continuous (three straight days) firefight in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan. In that fleeting moment, he couldn’t muster even a faint smile after a heavy encounter with the enemy, but rather he could only show a very haunting Thousand Yard Stare, which characterizes shell shock. Bala Murghab is located in Badghis Province of northwestern Afghanistan, near the border of Turkmenistan where gun and drug smuggling in addition to Taliban activities are known to take place. The Thousand Yard Stare is an acute stress reaction characterized by a limp, blank, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary soldier who has survived some terrible fighting. However, it can also occur to persons who have undergone other types of trauma. By the looks of it, Corporal Metruccio had seen death at close range determined to claim his life and the life of his comrades. His Thousand Yard Stare shows death is real. Image credits: Raymond Martinez #25 Not so scary? Just women and kids sitting and “busy” in their lives while two guys are just smiling for a selfie. But wait! This picture requires some background to know how scary it is. The pic was taken from Syria and the “smiling guys” are soldiers of Bashar al Assad who have captured all these women and kids from Eastern Ghouta (their men already sent to detention centres) and what happened with those poor women and kids, one never knows; but based on the long history of tortures and systematic use of rape as both a lust of the soldiers and a “weapon” to terrorize other civilians daring to get the freedom from Bashar, whenever I think of this image, it gives me nightmares. Image credits: Talha Khan #26 This picture was taken just a few minutes before both brothers were struck by lightning in the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1975. Luckily for both Michael and Sean, they survived the lightning strike. Image credits: Ok_Sun3327 #27 This 17-year-old boy, Tyler Hadley, looks like he must be chilling at a party, right? However this photo was taken just sometime after Tyler m**dered his parents, cleaned the house and called his friends over to party. Their bodies were hidden in the bedroom when this photo was taken. Image credits: Greyswand #28 One of the most tragic incidents in history was the Chernobynl powersteam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the environment, with the deposition of radioactive materials in many parts of Europe.This picture show how an old armchair with a doll’s head sits in what was once a kindergarten in the Chernobyl zone. Image credits: Thors #29 On April 26, 1865, the Sultana began sailing up the Mississippi River with hundreds of passengers, and upwards of two thousand Union prisoners who had been freed following the end of the American Civil War. The photograph above — taken as the ship was leaving dock — is the only known image of the Sultana taken in her two-and-a-half years of service. Within hours of her departure a boiler would explode. Over a thousand people, and perhaps upwards of sixteen-hundred people would be k**led. Image credits: David Frigault #30 This story is about coworkers and friends. Five men whom at first did not know each other but grew to trust each other and have unwavering faith in each other as was needed in any dive team that worked on oil pipelines. The photo above seems unassuming… All 5 men looking at the camera without an idea of what would become of their lives. This is the Paria diving incident… The incident claimed the lives of Christopher Boodram’s colleagues; Fyzal Kurban, Yusuf Henry, Kazim Ali Jr and Rishi Nagassar. These men worked for Land and Marine and Construction Services (LMCS) and were repairing a defective portion of Paria Fuel’s Sealine 36’s riser off the Port of Pointe-a-Pierre on February 25 when the deadly accident happened. A Delta P event aka a Differential pressure event happened shortly after lunch that day and caused all of these divers to be sucked into the an oil pipeline. The Delta P event happened when the divers removed an inflatable plug, causing a vortex and inevitably led to the deaths of four men with only one surviving (Chris). Image credits: Montego Cruz #31 This photo of Travis Alexander was found on a damaged camera, was taken by his girlfriend, Jodi Arias. Couples like to take pictures, what else could it be? This photo was captured just minutes before she stabbed and shot him to death. Image credits: https://qr.ae/pA8pcV #32 This one. It's a wedding reception, people are dancing and celebrating, not a care in the world. In a few seconds, the floor that they're dancing on will collapse and they will fall two stories. Many of them will die. This is from the wedding hall disaster that occurred in Jerusalem in 2001. I watched this incident when it was first reported on, one time, and it scared me in a way that I've never been scared before. It scared me more than watching 9/11. Watching those faces turn from being joyous to terrified, the sounds go from a locomotive of happy chatter to a chorus of helpless screams, for just a second before they all disappeared, shook me to my core. To this day I cannot bring myself to watch the incident again, my fingers won't dare press play. Image credits: Scott Eden #33 The 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens was the deadliest volcanic event to take place in U.S. history. It caused over $1 billion in damages and k**led around 57 people. These are pictures taken by Robert Landsburg, who was a photographer from Oregon. He had traveled to Mt St Helens on multiple occasions in 1980 to take pictures of the mountain before the eruption. Image credits: Henri Bergeron #34 This is Jeremy Worthy. Whilst kayaking in Batemans Bay on the south coast of New South Wales, Worthy was live streaming on Facebook. Only, whilst live streaming, viewers had the unfortunate experience of watching Jeremy plead for his life. He was struggling to deal with a heavy swell that was pushing him away. Jeremy was found dead (by drowning) after. Image credits: Kyle Dring #35 This picture shows an overcrowded graveyard and the skeletons dug up from their graves and became a popular photo-op for tourists, here in the picture, American Soldiers. Image credits: Thors #36 Ayano Tokumasu, a person in a red sweater in the background, lost her footing while posing for a picture and fell into Niagara Falls. Image credits: [deleted] #37 The photograph above shows nine men from the “Eight-Nation Alliance” taken in 1900, shortly after the suppression of the Qing Dynasty-initiated Boxer Rebellion — United Kingdom, United States, Australia, India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Japan respectively. Apparently, the intention had been to make the British soldier the tallest in the photograph to demonstrate their genetic superiority, only for the Americans to snuff this mandate by sending a taller man from their country — prompting the British to place a tall hat on their man. According to some claims, everybody in the above photograph, except the American, would die a violent death, with the British soldier dying during the First Battle of Ypres in 1914, the Indian being hanged for treason in 1915, and the Japanese soldier dying in an air raid in 1944 among other examples. Image credits: David Frigault #38 This is a photograph of Michael Rockefeller. If you don't recognize his first name, you certainly recognize his last. Michael's great-grandfather was John D. Rockefeller, the world's wealthiest person. Michael's father was Nelson Rockefeller, Vice-President of the United States. His uncle, Winthrop Rockefeller was governor of Arkansas and his first cousin, Jay Rockefeller, was governor of West Virginia. Greatness was the low bar every Rockefeller had to surpass. For Michael, who had recently graduated from Harvard with honors, greatness was inevitable. But, as it is with most of the aristocracy, there is a quest for adventure before having to confine oneself to the governor's mansion or capital building. Michael decided to study and collect the art of the people in New Guinea, one of the islands near Indonesia. In his 40-foot canoe (13-meters) and three miles (five kilometers) from shore, Michael's adjoined pontoon capsized. His two guides swam ashore to get help. After two days of waiting, Michael decided to brave the waters. He jumped out of the canoe he was sharing with a Dutch anthropologist and started swimming. The picture above may have been Michael's last. He disappeared. Hundreds of reporters went to New Guinea to find out what happened. Private detectives were hired. Planes, helicopters, ships and thousands of locals scoured the island and the sea hoping to find something…anything. Rumors were spreading like wildfire. Fifty-seven years later, the most disturbing rumors were confirmed by a National Geographic research team. Two missionaries who had lived with the natives and spoke their language came forward to tell the story, as did several members of the community. Dutch cololonialists had k**led four natives in 1958. Vengeance had to be taken. Michael had survived the swim. Pulled ashore, his body was pierced with spears. His head was removed and the brains eaten raw. The rest of Michael's body was boiled in a pot before being consumed by the natives, each sharing in the meal. His thigh bones were made into daggers, and the bones from his lower legs were made into fishing spears. The smiles of the three natives in the picture appear to be in anticipation of Michael's fate. Image credits: Scott Goldman #39 The Remains from the Titanic The Titanic was a famous cruiser that was dubbed “unsinkable” due to its compartment design that were able to keep the ship afloat so long as only five air tight compartments are flooded with water. On the fateful night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic collided with an iceberg and more than five compartments were filled. The ship sank and took 1496 lives with it. In this image, we see the clothing of someone who sank with the Titanic. Officials believe that they still contain remains of the victims though some argue that the bodies of the victims are gone due to the water pressure. Image credits: Phillip Gabriel Alcantara Mercado #40 This is one of the most celebrated pictures of the post-war era shot in 1945, celebrating USA victory in the Second World War. While it may seem very romantic and merry, some people claim that this is a picture of a s*xual a*sault. The sailor and the nurse are not actually a couple. It’s the first time they met and the sailor simply spun her and kissed her. The sailors actual future wife, is standing right beside him, out of the frame. The identity of the nurse hasn’t been identified, and her opinion on this is still unknown. But it’s worth knowing the backstory of this picture. Image credits: John Galew 40 People Share The Scariest Photos They’ve Seen That Looked Normal To Them At First
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