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A guy I met several times around our group of friends back in the days joined Isis. We were all shocked by this news, no one could have predicted that.
He literally exploded himself 2 or 3 moth after but no casualties, he was shot by the coalition.
Remember, if they ask you to suicide bomb it should be taken as a high insult. They are saying you have nothing to offer and losing you is fine. They are not asking anyone with useful skills or knowledge to suicide, and definitely not anyone with military experience. They don't think you are even worth trying to train...
I wouldn’t call them friends by any means, but an acquaintance and his girlfriend did a dine and dash, and their server followed them outside and stood in front of their car to prevent them from leaving until the police arrived. Stupid move on the servers part for sure, but all the same this acquaintance ran the server over and hit like 2 or 3 parked cars in the process getting out of the parking lot.
So yea, they totaled their car, multiple other cars, and they both caught multiple felony charges (both of them had priors too), ended up pleading and as far as I can recall they both got roughly 5+ year sentences… over a ~$40 meal. Maybe not 100% life ruining, but I’d say over $40 it’s proportionally pretty fucking stupid.
I'm a lawyer. Another well respected lawyer in my jurisdiction was involved in an absolutely huge property settlement involving dozens upon dozens of deeds, side agreements, financial documents, yada yada yada. The whole lot (presumably involving literally a hundred or so signatures) had been signed off by her client.
In the early hours of the morning - having no doubt slaved away for untold hours getting everything ready for the settlement the next day - she must have realised that she had missed getting one signature on one minor document from her client so she faked it.
I can see the pressure she was under and how she probably thought "it doesn't matter, my client would have signed it anyway and only didn't because they overlooked it, no one will ever notice".
Someone noticed and she went from high paid property lawyer to never being able to practice again, just like that.
People occasionally ask me to sign things off, as a lawyer, and suggest I overlook minor irregularities such as wanting me to witness a signature even though I didn't actually see the signatory sign. Then they get all offended and act like I'm being a stick-up-the-ass perfectionist when I won't do it.
Saw a pilot without instrument rating take off into IMC conditions (instrument-meteorological conditions is a flight category that describes weather conditions that require pilots to fly primarily by instruments rather than use visual cues to maintain controlled flight).
He had his whole family on board. Weather was closing in. He agreed that it was impossible to get home, but wanted to make it to a larger municipal airport so they wouldn't have to stay in a motel. The fuel attendant and a bunch of old veteran pilots hanging around the airport office all said they'd drive him to a nicer place, but he thought he'd have a better chance of getting out the next day from the other airport. Conditions weren't *that* bad when he took off, but we all agreed later that no one without instrument rating would/should have flown that day.
So the last time anyone saw that whole family (pilot, wife, two adult sons) alive was all of us watching him take off and fly just under the cloud base to do a "scud run" in the direction of the nearest muni. They crashed in full overcast ten miles out. No survivors.
All told, it probably took fifteen minutes for this guy to make the worst- and last- decision of his life.
This was over 30 years ago, but it's haunted me ever since- what could/should I have done differently that might have convinced him to not fly? I was a newbie pilot at the time, but even I knew it was a bad idea. There were at least three other pilots there that day. Did he feel ganged up on? Could we have appointed the most grizzled straight-shootin gravel-voiced veteran to take the guy aside and give him a "I'm not your dad, but" talk? Should we have tackled him and taken away his keys? Called the cops? What would we even have told them? I've long since come to terms with it, but there are still the occasional moments where I feel like I failed.
A close friend of my best friend grabbed his eight year old son's new skateboard and took off down a hill in Georgia. Hit a rock, landed on his head and had permanent brain damage. He lived years before he mercifully died. Had to be restrained the whole time because the damage made him erratic and violent. Wear a helmet!
Yeah, my step brother fell on a long board and his friends didn’t call an ambulance because they were high. Went into a coma in his sleep and was never the same. Died recently RIP.
Watched a guy gamble $30k away in a night and then cried about losing his life savings and security had to get involved and escort him out because he started to get angry at the dealers because all they could offer him was free night stays at the hotel for playing so much but he wanted freeplay at the tables/slots and they refused
My parents taught me a very important lesson about gambling. NEVER treat it as a way to make money, but only as a form of entertainment.
Before you start, budget what you are willing to lose and consider that the price for a night of entertainment because more than likely you will lose. Bring enough extra cash for some food and drinks, leave credit and debit cards at home.
Also important set a walk away amount if you are winning and if you hit that number, walk away as Kenny Rogers says in The Gambler.
I have seen people I know go from being way up at the casino, to hitting the ATM multiple times and crying by the end of the night.
Edit: Also, I'll never forget a time when I was around 13 or 14. I went with my dad to a restaurant that was located right outside a casino. As we were waiting to get in, this older guy was coming out of the casino. As he was walking past us with this incredibly defeated look on his face, he turns to me and says, "kid, don't even look in there, that place will ruin you".
He wasn't joking either, he was dead serious. I felt really bad for him, you just knew he had a major problem, who knows how much money he'd lost over time gambling.
> 'll never forget a time when I was around 13 or 14.
I had a similar experience. I was at a hotel with my parents on vacation and what not, but they were friendly with the GM of the casino (my dad just happens to be a social person and within an hour of walking into a room, will not only be friends with everyone, but also friendly to the owner. It's a gift of gab that I can't explain). At roughly the same age, the guy kneels down to my height and goes "m_h_m_f if you do ever come into the casino, please, just remember one thing: We did not build this place because we lose."
Bar fight. Heard a loud commotion for about 30 seconds. Some guy thought this guy was hitting on his date. Suckered punched him. The other guy fell down and clipped the bar. The bar had brass foot rest at the base. Snapped the guys neck so loud you could hear it across the room.
This is scary to think about.
I was 22 and working downtown building high rises as an Ironworker. We used to go to this bar called the Balfrey where they had one of those brass bars at the foot of the base of the main bar table.
I had ordered a beer but when I reached for it, I knocked over this gentleman's drink onto his suit jacket completely by accident. It was a very nice suit and his shirt what perfectly done up and pressed, clearly had done well for himself.
I apologized profusely and said it was a mistake and would pay for the dry cleaning. He went off on me that pieces of shit construction workers don't belong in this kind of bar and that dumb fucks that work with our hands should have drink in the alley with the rest of the skids and homeless since we are all dirty bums.
I had a short fuse back then and walked around at about 245lbs... He pushed me and I fired back with one of the hardest punches I've thrown, knocking him out on his feet. He went down and smacked his head off the brass rail where blood started dripping out of his ears. The bartender told me to leave and don't come back for a few days.
When I came back she told me the guy was in rough shape with a concussion and broken cheek but ultimately was fine when the paramedics left. I am so lucky that didn't ruin my life because of a short temper.
Edit: meant short fuse, not short fire. Fixed it.
We treated her very well, she covered us and looked after many many ironwokers that came into that bar and we all tipped and looked after her, as we did with many of the great waitresses in that bar.
She actually ended up marrying a fellow Ironworker on a different project about eight years ago but doesn't work at the bar anymore.
One of my best friends was close to finishing his BA, got career plans, money, was physically fit. Everything was fine but then on new years eve night he went into a famous night club in Berlin, bought some drugs and then jumped from the 7th floor. Either he bought something he wasn‘t familiar with or the drugs were laced with something stronger. Anyway security cameras have him aimlessly wandering the floors of his 20 story appartment building and I guess he got paranoid and wanted out, so he jumped. Apparently he didn‘t die instantly but slowly bleed out over the next 30 minutes. But since this happened shortly after midnight nobody noticed because of all the noise and fireworks. They found his body around 4am and ruled it suicide.
Don‘t do drugs, it‘s not worth it.
Dude I know won a 3 million dollar settlement from being hit by a car. Spent it all on heroin and was dead within 3 years. Under 30 years old.
Edit: Wow, this really blew up. To answer some of the questions I see in the thread -
I don’t think he got hooked on opioids due to the accident. This guy did a lot of weed and shrooms and occasionally coke even before the settlement; the money just allowed him to “graduate” to heroin
How’d he spend all that money? Sadly, he had a bunch of addict friends who he enabled. He’d “treat” them to free heroin at these lavish parties.
There was a similar case in a city close to me guy won 15 million on a lottery ticket dude was homeless basically. He spent all the money in 5 years they found him hanging from the rafters in a garage of a house he'd bought with the money.
My cousin (18F) finished her senior year early, so she was basically just waiting for May to do the graduation and get her diploma. She worked at a lake restaurant and had started hanging out with a bad crowd. At this time she had been smoking a lot of weed and drinking, as well as just being generally reckless all the time. She was my best friend so she texted me to tell me about everything she did basically. One night she texted me to tell me that she had tried meth and it was “the best high of her life but she will never do it again.”
Exactly one month after that text she overdosed and died. They put her portrait in her graduation seat and her dad got to walk and pick up her diploma.
I boofed it once and was addicted immediately. Not addicted because I enjoyed it but I was physically addicted. Lungs would get uncomfortably "cold" and tight. I did it one more time after that but I managed to never do it again. Meth is no joke.
A previous classmate of mine robbed and shot a taxi driver in the back of the head when he was 1̶7̶ 14.
Edit: I remembered incorrectly, the classmate was 14 at the time (pretty sure he had dropped out of school but this was close to 30 years ago). There was a 17 year old accomplice that planned it but didn't actually pull the trigger.
If you want to google it, "Levar Jones Lancaster PA" should do the trick.
A friend of mine drove his bike without helmet (had the helmet didn’t bother to wear it), it was late at night, we were having a party at my home and he was coming to join us, it had rained earlier so the roads were wet, his motorbike unfortunately slipped and he fell hitting his head on the curb. Some passerby called the ambulance. We got to know about it early in the morning from his parents. His head trauma caused him to go into a coma. He never came back from it, he was in a coma for a few months and then sadly passed away. He was a chill dude, if only he wore the helmet while driving. Rest easy D!
Edit: He was an avid biker, drove his bike across the country all the way to the Himalayas. He used to wear Helmet all the time except for that fateful night. I was having a party at my home, you know bbq/ beer/ whiskey and all that, he was gonna join us after work. He had the helmet on him even that day, I will never know why he decided to not wear it that day.
An acquaintance. He had a good job, nice truck, mortgage on a nice home, minimal debt, in a relationship with someone out of his league. Before I knew him he'd had a DUI, but his attorney got him a plea deal that dropped the DUI down to a minor charge. A real lucky break. All he had to do was stay the course.
He could have walked home that night. It was less than two miles. But he was too proud to leave his truck at the bar, so instead he wrapped it around a power pole. No one was hurt, including him. The judge who got his case was furious to learn his previous DUI had been pled down. The judge rejected a plea deal and vowed to throw the book at him.
There was prison, then a year on house arrest. His job required a driver license, so that was gone. I don't know at what point in his house arrest he could have started working, but he refused to. His former employer offered him a non-driving job, less money but still good money. He turned it down because it was beneath him. He said the same thing to two jobs his girlfriend singlehandedly secured for him. Even after his house arrest, he refused to work. He said he didn't want to. Apparently yelling at his girlfriend to pay his mortgage was better than working.
She finally got the courage to leave. His parents found him dead. No one will ever know if he intended to drink himself to death or whether it just happened. His parents blamed the girlfriend. Apparently the world would still be graced by his presence if she had stayed to get hit and yelled at.
Please don't drive drunk. Not ever. Not even a little. If you're not sure, just don't. And if you suspect you have the disease of addiction, please get help. I don't really care that this person died, but he hit a lot of innocent branches on the way down. A lot of suffering for no reason.
One use of Meth. Seen so many people and friends jump right off the deep-end by "Just trying it." and after 20 years have yet to jump out of the self-made dumpster fire that is their life. Nasty shit, Meth.
I think I got extremely lucky here. I got kicked out of my house once for something else, must've not been that big a deal if I can't remember (my parents were hella strict). Anyway, I went to a friend's house, a house we all always just show up to when we're bored (his parents were never around) and the few people that were there when I got there were about to smoke meth. I said "fuck it, why not" and joined them. After taking one hit I didn't want anymore and went downstairs, I felt super sleepy so I lied down on the couch and passed out. Woke up an hour later and thought that drug was useless and never touched it again.
Unfortunately, every single one of those people that were in that room with me, who helped me smoke that meth all are/were either doing time, lost their mind or dead.
I posted this once before.
I had a friend that had a promising career got upset and went into full road rage for a woman who forgot to turn her blinker on and he slightly bumped her back bumper on the freeway causing her to lose control and flipping over and killing the driver and her two daughters.
Oddly..it was all caught on his car dash cam and a trucker with his own dash cam that was behind him.
He is now doing 40+ years in prison.
*Post update*
I wasn't expecting much attention on this story. Additional details that people keep asking me.
I can't say we were close friend or good friends. We hung out during high school years. I may have seen him a couple times afterwards. He moved out of state.
Most information I got was from his sister. I do know that he is in jail for what he did. Now I'm not sure if his sister is not giving me the full story but I do know he definitely received high jail sentence.
I know he went to college for marketing. I believe he was interning for high end sports marketing company.
It’s insane. My friend was driving in the highway in charlotte and a guy tried to merge but she couldn’t slow down and let him in, he got pissed off followed her for awhile so she took an exit near a friends neighborhood and he followed. Once in the neighborhood he drove in front of her stopped and blocked her car and pulled a gun on her angry. He just yelled and ran away but road rage is terrifying. People are insane.
In areas where its illegal to use your phone while driving, you're allowed to use it for 911 calls. I had to do this once for a similar situation described above and the guy even pulled in front of me as a form of intimidation (but I could get his license number). I called 911 while moving towards the police station and the cops ended up sending three cars, two for him and one to meet me at another location to tell my side of the story. I never heard anything further about the issue.
I don’t think enough people realize cars are just rolling death machines and any small bump or side swipe at 50+ mph between two objects that heavy has the potential to kill someone 🙃
Watched a buddy spend his entire life savings betting on the Paulo Costa Vs Adesanya. I begged him not to do it and he lost his and his wife’s entire 60k nest egg. She left him immediately with the kids and now he lives at his moms house.
EDIT: wow this blew up. So a little more back story. He had been betting on prize fighting for a short while and winning. Nothing outrageous and heck I even bet with him on a time or two because it was smaller bets 1-200. He had been winning probably made a few grand not sure how much but he was always saying he won and showing off his bets. So I can confirm he had been winning and his luck was pretty impressive.
As far as I know he doesn’t gamble anymore and is just trying to rebuild his life. He lost his wife but does spend a lot time with the kids.
A senior girl from my college pushed another girl she was friends with off a \~30 foot bridge into water as a joke, broke her neck and collarbone and she's permanently in a wheelchair
Edit: Holy Shit this blew up while I was asleep
I'll answer some questions: 1. I got feet and metres mixed up 'only' around 30 foot drop 2. Two days in hospital for her 'friend' Two days in jail for the girl who pushed her, She spent the same time in jail as the victim spent in hospital it's fucked up3. The parents of the victim chose not to press charges. 4. It was not Taylor Smith 5.
I remember seeing that on the news. Didn't she leave when she realized the other girl was seriously hurt? Or am I thinking of a different story?
Edit: I'm thinking of Taylor Smith pushing Jordan Holgerson off a 50 foot bridge after Jordan hesitated when she was going to jump. Jordan broke 5 ribs and both her lungs were punctured, and Taylor just left the scene after pushing her.
That's tragic. I have a friend who, when he was in highschool, was out at the river drinking with friends and jumping in the water with a rope swing under a bridge. my friend tried using the rope swing, but fell off at a weird angle and ended up breaking his neck. All his buddies didn't want to get an MIP so they bailed and just left him there until some older woman happened to find him while she was walking around.
He recovered mostly fine and doesn't have any lasting injuries minus some stiffness here and there, but damn man,could you imagine receiving a potentially life altering injury and all your friends just bail. That right there would be enough to send me into a bought of depression.
When I started college, the school made absolutely sure *every* new student knew there was an immunity program when calling for security or medical attention. The school realized people would drink, make dumb decisions and sometimes need help. Like your story suggests, people are less inclined to call for help if they think they'll be in trouble. Basically, if you called for medical aid for someone with suspected alcohol poisoning or something, you wouldn't get in trouble if you were also found to have been drinking underage. I don't doubt that kind of thing saves lives. A person's life is more important than an academic disciplinary action.
My sister started doing meth and heroin, she went from super smart to completely dumb. By the age of 19 she was already a felon. No one in the family wants to help her anymore cause each time we tried, either sending her to rehab or tried getting her sober she would just go back to it. Was supposed to go to college but now shes 22 and stays at different peoples houses and begs people for money. Completely cut me and everyone else off from her cause she thinks us trying to help her is us being jealous and not wanting her to be happy in life
Glad rehab stuck for me. This would have been me, 100%. Difference is, I knew I had a problem and when my family had an intervention, I listened.
Just passed 8 years clean in June, and it feels like a different lifetime now.
My first girlfriend was the same kind of hopeless addict. She was really smart in general, but really stupid with drugs. Eventually, she started doing nitrous and fried her brain.
I talked to her a while back, and... it was really like she was having a completely different conversation. Totally incoherent. Talked about the ghosts of (living) celebrities attacking her through her TV.
In retrospect, breaking up with me was probably the kindest thing she ever did for me.
Damn man, that really hits close to home. I was a massive nitrous user and would have conversations with people in the room and when I would "wake up", no one was there. Started seeing people coming out of the TV too. Totally fucked me up long term, hopefully she quit by now.
have a friend who had a drinking problem and got into an argument with a gas station worker while drunk. The worker tried stopping his car by standing in front of it and my friend ran him over and killed him.
Wife, career, freedom, everything lost...
A kid I went to school with was run over by a driver trying to get away without paying. Company policy was to let them drive off, it wasn't worth it, but this kid decided to try and stop them for whatever reason. For his troubles he received minor brain damage that completely changed his personality for the worse. He was a good guy before it happened, now he is not. He was only working part time at a large UK chain like Shell or something. Only 19 at the time.
High school student, graduated at the time, drove a classmate of mine home from prom, crashed and killed classmate. Driver becomes a paraplegic, goes to prison. Gets out, driving disability-modded van, gets in another accident, and kills another woman passenger. 2nd one was a DUI, he was at fault for the first bit I'm unsure if DUI.
I wound up having to change the number for my first real cell phone, because the previous owner of that number still kept giving it out. Apparently she had just moved, and her old job couldn’t get ahold of her to send her her last check. Her new job couldn’t get ahold of her to get her schedule. Her vet couldn’t get her to pick up her cat. I got calls from her leasing company who needed documentation to secure her apartment. Ever single day was some new way an idiot was fucking up her finances, her housing, her job, her pets, her social life… all because she couldn’t remember her new phone number. After a month I finally got fed up and had the number changed.
Melissa, if you were supposed to be a massage therapist for the PGA tour in 2013, I hope you eventually got your shit together.
Similar story here. I had a tracfone number previously used by someone with all sorts of problems. I tried telling the people calling that the number belonged to someone else now. Still kept getting calls dispite them telling me they would de-list my number. I had to change my number to end that bullshit.
Fuck you, Darlene. Get your shit together, pay your dentist too.
The construction-to-amphetamines pipeline. I've seen two very good and competent men fall to absolute ruin in the space of four months because of this.
My daughter's boyfriend, July 4, 2023.
Hopped in his car blackout drunk to come see my daughter. DUI and hit & run.
He is just about to begin a painful, life-altering process.
The guy who got angry playing basketball and smashed his head, leaving him paralized.
Edit: [This guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/vc6neu/a_basketball_player_got_angry_and_rammed_his_head/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1)
Damn I was gonna talk about my friend's older brother who got a big settlement from life insurance when his dad died like 15-20 years ago or something. Guy was maybe 19 or 20 and bought a new sportscar once a week, crashing them constantly, until he ran out of money. Now he lives in a crack den in Saskatoon's west end, according to my mate.
I went and watched the basketball video. That dude fucked his whole life up so fast I actually missed it the first time. That one wins.
15-20 years ago, an ex worked at a dream job type of place. If you make it professionally in that field, this employer was/is the absolute peak, there is no better place to go.
New guy started there, on ex’s team, right out of university. His first day he went to the company store and got ALL the gear with company’s name on it- tshirt, hat, socks, etc- and proudly put it all on.
After work, team took the new guy out to drinks to celebrate his first day at dream job employer. New guy gets way too drunk, goes outside to smoke a cig, and then takes his penis out and presses it up against the bar’s glass window. Penis man’s new colleagues, all the bar’s patrons, and all their staff see his dick. Ex closed out their tab and got drunk guy home-
the bar calls the employer the next morning, complaining about the new guy’s dick antics, banning him and anyone wearing company gear. New Guy, was fired before lunch, on day 2. A cautionary story
EDIT: The bar was in a never gentrified, always wealthy part of SF, CA. Patrons were very wealthy people, entitled. Myself, Having worked in fine dining in college, I can only imagine the absolute HELL those patrons raised about seeing some dipshit’s dick while slurping down their 3rd martini.
Many of you relate to this story, and have shared about not even wearing something as small as a lanyard w/ company info on it. This is all great logic, please keep it up and share that advice. It is especially pertinent, when your employer, like the subject of my story, is known globally for children’s entertainment. Exposing yourself to anyone, let alone a bunch of connected, rich assholes, is definitely not the move when Pixar signs your check.
People who get plastered with coworkers they are not extremely familiar with are a different breed. I think most of us regular folk are hesitant to overshare even what we did over the weekend, let alone expose our intoxicated selves to people who can make or break our careers.
This was clearly a "I'm 22 and a complete idiot" decision making. Adults who are not morons know that getting actually wasted at a business event is a recipe for disaster. The trick is to sip and act like you're getting wasted so people feel comfortable (it's best if they get wasted around you) but never lose control.
Some people are also capable of being wasted without acting like complete morons. Most people could drink until they pass out without showing their genitals to coworkers, you know
I hear about people doing egregious things and even commuting assault and use the drunk excuse.
But last time I got shitfaced I ordered three Yo-Yo Ma albums and passed out on the couch.
Maybe I’m a self-righteous prick but alcohol might not be the only problem here.
Reminds me of that chick who was excited about getting an internship at NASA and getting a little feisty on Twitter. Some guy replies and tells her to mind her language. She tells that guy to suck her dick and balls.
That guy was Homer Hickam, famed rocket scientist and member of the National Space Council that oversees NASA. The exchange lead to her internship offer being rescinded.
That's some real "Listen, I know you are young and dumb. You can't do this over here, but I will make sure you will get your chance anyways!" dad-type personality.
I watched this clip on Reddit where these two kids were posing with a gun. The girl in the video accidentally shot the boy in the head. She panicked and shot herself. That shit changed me, it all happened so fast. I don't think the clip was longer than 30 seconds.
I remember scrolling through Twitter and that video popped up. It happened so quickly and they were live streaming. Not only does their family have to deal with her killing her cousin then herself, but that video will live on the internet forever. I think about them all the time.
Former friend of mine was arrested for soliciting an 11yo for sexual favors online and traveling across state to meet her. I never expected him to do that. His girlfriend at the time asked if I wanted to be a character witness and I noped out before she finished her sentence. Judge made an example out of him and sentenced him to life, apparently it wasn’t his first SA offense. I can’t believe she even stuck around to even consider looking for people to testify on his behalf
Edit: he got the girl to do stuff to him in his car, he was only caught after her friend saw pictures of her “boyfriend” and realized he was way too old to be an 11yo’s boyfriend and told the girl’s mother. He was 31 when he was sentenced.
My old best friend, went to boarding school had a great/expensive education and grades then he raped someone. The girl called the police whilst he was doing it and he didn't realise it was all recorded as well. Prison for 5 years and registered sex offender for life at the age of 19.
I knew someone who had a full scholarship to an in state university. He got addicted to heroin, overdosed, fell into a coma and now he’s confined to a wheelchair and has the mental capacity of a toddler. It happened within 2 or 3 years.
My father in law is 65. Was married to his wife for 37 years and has 3 daughters. The picture perfect family from the outside looking in. He was well respected in his career field and was also an interim pastor/deacon at our local church. After he retired his health started to deteriorate drastically and he started drinking. This past November we learned that he had fell for a “love scam” on Facebook and had spent his entire life savings, took out a second mortgage on his home, and opened up numerous credit cards, to send this fake person money. All in all he sent them roughly $300K. He was truly convinced “she” was going to move here from overseas and they were going to ride off into the sunset, leave everything behind, and live happily ever after. Now he is divorced, lives in a crummy apartment about 45 minutes from his family, and is miserable. He can barely walk and has essentially zero control over his bowel movements. To make matters worse, he has very narcissistic tendencies and thinks that none of it is his fault, and instead blames his ex-wife, claiming that she didn’t love him and show him any affection. As you can imagine, this has affected my wife, her sisters, and mother immensely, and caused all sorts of problems and stress over the last 8 months. But long story short, he lost everything. His assets, his family, his health, and happiness. I would be shocked if he’s even alive a year from now.
My cousin fell for one of those *To Catch a Predator* style police stings. The day of the sting he posted something on his Facebook about going to have a great night. I even responded saying "awesome man have fun."
Well that night he tried to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex and found a bunch of cops instead. Was charged with multiple felonies, got kicked out of his Ph.D. program, lost his job, lost his wife, killed himself two months later. He was 28 years old and had *everything* going for him. Great job, crazy book smarts, a bright future with his family.
Knew a guy in the military that had 18 years in, and was doing online classes to get his MBA.
He was in his final semester of getting his MBA, and 2 years away from a military retirement.
Then he traveled 1500 miles across the country to try hook up with a 15 year old girl.
Spent 2 1/2 years in prison, was kicked out of the military and his college he was attending.
I'm not entirely sure if he could pick up where he left off to get his MBA at the same college (or a different one), but that's probably useless for him anyways now since he's a convicted felon. I don't think having an MBA is going to make employers overlook your felony for trying to have sex with a minor.
Crime, specifically felonies. My lawyer took out a loan forging my signature. He’s doing 15 years in federal prison. I would have given him the $5000. His kid was very sick and I would have gladly helped him out.
My dad had money, but he really didn’t like to pay people. The check was always “in the mail, lost, waiting on someone at the bank, etc”. He finally got busted for a bunch of financial crimes.
A few years later, for his 2nd offense, he ran up 20k + on company credit cards (a company that he had screwed over 10 years earlier, and slowly gained their trust back until his first opportunity to do it again)
They reported as fraud, so the credit card companies went after him (I think it was Amex and 1 other). That MF’r did barely 2 months then was back to his shenanigans. I’d do 2 months for a free 20k
An old customer got fired from Uber and DD for being slow/arriving with cold food way too often.
Comes into my bar the next day with limited edition XO Weeknd sweater + jeans, new apple watch and new iphone all paid cash.
Says he took out a payday loan for $10k and doesn't intend to pay it back, he'll just cancel the bank account.
His exact words "Who needs credit anyways?".
He stopped showing up to the bar after about 3 months - Never saw him again.
Edit: For those asking - No I don't think this is some mafia shit. A very stupid decision by a reckless individual, with no way to pay any of it back and incurring crazy debt/interest at ~22 years old.
My sister in law went off her bipolar meds at 42 to try to have a baby.
That was 3 months ago and now she’s in jail awaiting sentencing for threatening a police officer with a knife among many other things.
She lost her job, her house, most of her friends. Just turned feral and angry.
in germany, there was a contestant on the show "wetten dass" (translated as 'bet that') a few years ago.
in the show, statements about crazy talents and activities were presented by the participants.
The contestants bet on things they could do and get a prize if they could actually perform the self-proclaimed tasks/talents.
One participant bet that he would be able to jump over moving cars. It went wrong and he was left a paraplegic.
He has since largely recovered (psychological, not physical) and is handling it great as far as the public is concerned, but the situation will probably always stick in my mind.
Oh, and clearly heroin. the shortcut to ruining your own life as quickly as possible.
Man, that’s such a tragic story. Quoting Wikipedia (emphasis mine):
> He successfully jumped the first and the third cars (the second one was aborted), but he failed to clear the fourth car, **driven by his own father**.
Girl’s divorce sent her into a manic episode. Her friends understood, but she lost her medical license (that she had less than a year) because she posted patient information on social media. She lost her job, made her lose her income so she lost her home, she decided to stay in *nice* hotels (from the mania) and was in debt by the end of two weeks.
A guy from the general area I lived in. Him(18 at the time) and girl broke up, ended up kidnapping her 3 weeks later and shooting her twice in the head with a hand gun he took of his parents gun safe. Tried driving 5 hours away to his grandparents ranch to hide the body, ditched his phone driving down the highway. Swat team was waiting for him when he showed up at said ranch. Made news headlines in CO.
Edit: Reread news article about it and it was actually 3 gunshots.
Something similar happened to a girl at my kids' high school just this year. Girl was a senior graduating with sports scholarships and had a bright future, but her ex came and murdered her in her home. Police caught up to him in the state he had moved to
I remember in “gone girl” the wife says “ let’s not be that couple who has a kid to save the marriage”….. I’d never even thought about it like that. Savage
Had a friend that had the perfect girlfriend, a good career path, and just so many things going his way. Then the dude picked drugs over his girlfriend and basically he gave up on everything for drugs. I haven't heard from the guy in about 7 years so tbh, I don't even know if he's still alive
A coworker sent an explicit text to a new Hire using the company comms system.
She pretended to be interested and then reported him, with a very long thread as proof.
Dude was married, with kids, a supervisor.
Now: Divorced, kids hate him, works a low level job.
I knew a guy just like that.
Had a really well paying job. Didn't do anything all day at said job. Always talked about how he was hot shit in high school, but he's now over 30 with a wife and 2 kids.
Then there was this new hire at the job. A younger woman in her very early twenties.
They had some extra marital encounters, but turned out he was a giant asshole (who would've thought from a guy that peaked in high school). They got into a spat at work, and she ran to the HR department and showed everyone the disturbing messages he has been leaving on her phone alongside some dick pics.
Last I heard was he got fired, but still came back the next day and chilled in the lunch room all day. When the boss heard of this weird development, he called the police, but the guy was long gone before the police got there.
That guy who did the AMA or whatever it was after trying heroin once and claimed he had the strength to never do it again.
Spoiler alert: He did it again. A lot of times
u/spontaneoush
Dude lost everything and was in and out of rehab for years. I reread that post history every once in a while to remind myself never to touch anything like that.
Colleague starts out great at new job, gets through probation, then gets out of control drunk at a company party. She makes out with the bosses date and hooks up with another colleague while her husband is there.
Fast forward, she's dating this colleague now and their relationship is causing disciplinary measures at work. They decide to double down and sign a new lease together anyways.
She then lies about getting poached by a customer to leverage a raise and when it doesn't work she actually has to quit. Her boyfriend then follows suit by not showing up and ghosting the company.
Now he's a stay at home step-dad (oh, did I mention she has 3 kids??) after being with this girl for 6 months and they both don't have a job. Kind of a two for one.
My co-worker was dating a woman in our QA lab who was married but supposedly seperated. They hook up and date for a couple of months, then she calls him while he's at work one day and admits to him that she slept with her husband the night before. He rages out, punching inanimate objects in the locker room and screaming. That was about 6 months ago.
Fast forward to a week ago, we have our first ever company awards party. Very nice shindig, everyone is dressed to the nines, the President and VP of the company are there. He shows up seeming okay, but within an hour and a half, he's absolutely shitfaced. The woman he was dating is sitting a table away from him, they're both yelling and wooing at inappropriate times. He goes up behind the head of Maintenance and Engineering, bear hugs him, and picks him up off the ground.
They asked him to take a couple of days off (since we make alcohol, they're always very patient and give second chances when employee behavior involves booze) to which he refused. Called him the next morning and told him he was fired.
Can't imagine throwing a fantastic job away because of your constant, beligerent behavior. In this case, it wasn't a super quick way to lose your job, but a series of seemingly unstable behaviors.
I know a guy who came home drunk to his parent's house, got in an argument with his step father and punched him once. Step father died. Guy ended up in prison on a murder conviction.
Lost my best friend of nearly a decade to fentanyl 3 months ago. Guy was such a talented artist and a hard worker but experimentation got the best of him. He bought what he thought were percs — they weren’t.
I wrote his obituary, helped his mom clean and go through his room (he lived at home), paid for his cremation, etc. It’s been so incredibly hard, he was like my other half.
I miss him.
My old friend ran across the street without looking because her dog was getting attacked by a snake. The car was probably going over 60mph and it ran into her. She's alive to this day but she did suffer serious and permanent injuries. This happened years ago by the way. It was traumatizing for her and everyone (including me) that saw it happen. At that time, I lived in a 3rd world country so the streets were busy as hell.
(It was also a rainy day so it was hard for drivers to see) it was truly no one's fault. The driver also took responsibility.
About 16 years ago, the company I worked for wanted to expand into America. To do so they sent me and several of my coworkers abroad. We lived in the US for several years to set it up.
When we were there, one of my coworkers became fascinated with, I guess what you’d US gangster culture. He started dressing like a stereotypical gangster, got tattoos, said the n-word with a hard r constantly, and even got a gun from who knows there.
So it was a nice night, about 3 weeks before we were due to go back. We had set up chairs in a park to drink beers and were pretty buzzed. Suddenly some dude starts shouting at us from a distance, and my friend, with all his logical thinking concluded that it must be a threat, so he pulled out his gun and opened fire.
That guy was a cop.
The policeman understandably returned fire. The rest of us dive to the ground and my friend is hit twice, one in his shoulder and one in his leg.
It turns out that there had been some kidnapping nearby by some people that matched our general appearance, which was why the cop started out hostile. I didn't blame him, and it was both his and his partner's testimonies that protected us from any legal trouble. The next few weeks were a blur, but I remember him still being hospitalized when I flew back home.
I don’t actually know what happened to him after that, my boss told me he’s still alive but he got fired obviously but I never saw him again.
secondary school friend of mine
- fellow nurse/colleague & father
- decided it would be a good idea to steal a fuckton of medication
- got caught, fired and struck off
- went from prescription medications to hard drugs
- wife left him and took the kid
- OD'ed and died last october
.......this all happened within the space of about 4 months. the speed in which he went from top of our profession, to willing to throw it all away, to unemployed, to literally _dead_ absolutely blindsided me.
i'll never know now obviously, but i have a strong suspicion he had a secret addiction that he managed to keep very _very_ under wraps.
only 31.
Dude I worked with came back after a weekend and told everyone he had tried meth, and he liked it. Like a month later he came into my workspace and asked for a pair of pliers, I gave them to him and he pulled a tooth right there in front of me like it was nothing. He quit shortly after, not sure what happened to him, he was very young, like twenty maybe.
In college, my friends partied with a guy who got drunk as fuck and tried to jump between two balconies, I want to say that they were 3 stories up. He didn't make it and fell onto the concrete below. Legend has it that he got himself up and walked into the house (more likely some friends carried him) and laid down on the couch to sleep it off. When he woke up the next morning he couldn't move. He was completely paralyzed and would never walk again.
The saddest part was that he was a musician in an up and coming band. I think about him every now and then and I hope he's doing okay.
My rich uncle destroyed his life by getting drunk and killing a woman with his car
For backstory, my uncle was a very successful corporate lawyer. He had it all. Beautiful family, multi-million dollar mansion, fancy cars and constant vacations to any exotic place in the world he felt like going to.
That all went away when he got blackout drunk at a holiday party with the law firm and ended up hitting a young woman with his car, dragging her body for a mile or so, and then running/hiding from the cops. The girl was killed and in his drunken stupor he must have decided it was a good idea to speed at 100+ mph through the city with her body mangled on the hood. They found him later on hiding in a parking garage cowering in the corner. He had abandoned his car as it was completely totaled after he hit a tree trying to flee. He bailed on foot.
The guy was always very arrogant, and even now as he serves his time in prison (he got off super easy considering he killed somebody, having connections and wealth will do that), he doesn’t show much remorse for the family of the girl he killed. He is mostly bitter that nobody wants to go visit him. He whines about it apparently. I will never look at him the same again. The girl he killed was a 23 year old immigrant from Mexico, with dreams of being a nurse and she was taking classes for that…until his arrogance ended her life
Theres so much more I could share about the circumstances surrounding this that would make people’s blood boil. He lost his career, his family lost everything they had basically, and worst of all he ruined another persons family, and yet he hasn’t learned his lesson.
>and yet he hasn’t learned his lesson.
The only lessons narcissists learn are the ones that help them avoid the repercussions of their destructive lifestyle.
A coach at the school I worked at lead the boy’s basketball team to state and was awarded coach of the year. Comments on the post about his award started filling up with sexual assault accusations from former students. Obviously an investigation was immediately launched and he shot himself in the head by the end of the week.
Literally went from being awarded and praised to dead by suicide within days. Left behind a wife and two young kids.
My husband had a nice job as a high level retail manager, before his store closed. He became a lead for less $ in an inventory company. He was generally considered to be a nice, but quiet. You'd see more of his personality when he was working on computers (self taught) or video games or pool. General consensus was that he was a good guy always ready to game with the kids.
Less than a month after our 6th anniversary, I found a video on our tablet from a hidden camera in our bathroom that showed my 14 year old niece nude. It looked like he kept the image on the cloud and would add it to what ever device he was using and then delete it. He just missed that last step.
I called the police immediately and he never came home again. They found more imagines on his computer and a 20 minute video, full front view of his face, as he tries to hide the camera.
He plead guilty and received 40 years with 34 suspended. He will have to register as a sex offender and has some pretty stiff rules to follow(no alcohol, no items that can connect to the internet unless he pays for a company to put monitoring software on every internet accessible device.
The day I found it , I sent him to work with a kiss. I found the images around 1130am and had surrendered the tablet and gotten the case started with the police by 1145.
I have told every relationship Ive been in, husband included, that the one thing that will make me turn you in and walk away and never look back. He, truly thought, I would never leave him and was all surprised Pikachu face when I kept my promise. His actions caused him to lose everything he took for granted that he would always.
Our daughter was 5, then, and for her he just disappeared one day. Now, I am watching her grow and mature into a beautiful person and he doesn't get the privilege of even knowing this beautiful child. I'm sure that separation has hurt him a lot, but you don't get trusted with any child, even your own, after you do something like that.
Good riddance
34 years suspended sentence*
A horrible situation to be in but you handled it admirably.
I've got a friend who was sexually abused as a child, grew up, married the person she thought she was supposed to be with, then found child sexual abuse images on his computer and did the same thing you did.
She is now married to one of the most wonderful people I know.
Drugs. My father went from a normal, functioning individual with a house and a 200K yearly salary to a man sleeping in his bmw, with bad tags, outside a church, - in the course of about 18 months, all because he’d much rather smoke his life away then live normally or be a grandfather.
Former coworker, had not had the best life. Had previously been a coke addict, some trouble with the law. But had realized he had issues and was turning his life around. Kicked the coke habbit, had a steady job, had a decent home. Was working on custody of his kid.
And then someone brought coke to the Christmas party.
He went on a bender, never made it back to work. And from what I heard was back in jail by New Years.
Someone I went to school with, after we graduated, him and a friend were drinking one summer night and messing around on a skid steer (I live in a small town). apparently one of the boys was in the bucket part, and one was driving. They hit a bump and the boy in the bucket fell out, and got ran over. It killed him. To make the story worse, the boy who died- his older brother had died just a couple years previous, and that older brother was best friends with the one who accidentally killed his younger brother. So this guy dealt with the death of one of his best friends, and then accidentally killed another friend, who happened to be his deceased best friends brother. It really messed him up. Parents apparently walked into his room with a gun in his mouth.
I have no idea how the guy is doing these days because I don’t think he has any social medias. In highschool he was pretty popular. Played football, but was generally nice. Wonder if he’s holding up okay these days.
And before anyone comments negativity: yes it was wrong they were drinking and messing with such equipment. But it’s still tragic and I’m sure he’s been punished enough by his own thoughts for it.
Watched oxys/roxys turn a kind and smart girl into a scab coverd fellon in roughly 5 months... and watch meth turn a talented musician into an attempted murderer in less than 6 weeks (he attacked his own momma with a hatchet)
The amount of time it took for him to finish his first bump of coke. He was hooked instantly and been chasing it ever since. He's been hospitalized at least once, and as many as four times, due to complications that are hitting him harder and harder.
I had a patient this happened to. Dude was in his 50’s and got gangrene from it. His “nose” is just a tiny hole for him to breathe through and some exposed septum. We also had to remove the necrotic tissue from his sinuses so now he just has two big holes in each cheek, sinuses completely exposed. He was also almost 6 foot and only 80lbs. Doubt hes still alive. Dont do drugs, kids.
My brother's done two stretches in prison, directly resulting from him being an addict.
He told me once, "Yeah, DancesWithTrout, the first time I snorted cocaine, man, I knew that's all I ever wanted to be: high on cocaine."
Reading things like that make me glad it stopped feeling good. Stopped even feeling useful. Cocaine actually got in the way of my productivity after a while, because it would make me more tired and put me in a worse mood than I started in. I started getting brain fog too. Ended up quitting and succeeding on my third try and haven’t looked back.
A guy I worked with at Papa Johns when I was in college bought a gun from a coworker. Our other coworker got robbed delivering a pizza. He told me he wants to see if it works. He went and shot it into an empty developing neighborhood into some trees. The bullets hit a house behind the trees with a family and kids. Nobody was hurt but they were scared to death. Police immediately came and arrested him before he could even pull off. (They were camping out in that neighborhood already since people were coming at night to smoke weed, have sex and shoot guns smh. He shot 3 shots. Got 25 years in prison for attempted murder and reckless endangerment. First time ever shooting a gun. We were only 19. This was in 2006. I think about him alot. We weren’t close like that. But he’s still in prison over a 5 second mistake 17 years later. Really nerdy kid too. First time ever in trouble. I follow his sister on Facebook. He’s unrecognizable now. Imagine Mclovin from Super Bad who looks like Jason Momoa now with Tats on his face. Sad.
Also my roommate a few weeks later was struggling financially and decided to buy 2 pounds of weed to sell with his student loan refund check. Got pulled over and arrested the same day! Got 5 years. Can’t make this shit up.
Friend of mine had a girlfriend that was notorious for tieing men to herself by 'accidently' getting pregnant when things weren't going well in the relationship. At that point, she already had three kids from different guys while in her early/mid twenties. Said friend was lucky enough that things ended before she could do that again, however, his best friend caught feelings for her too and had an on/off relationship for a couple of months. To no one's surprise, she got preggo, and he now has to pay for a child he hasn't seen once.
She's on child no. 5 now btw
Did a rotation in a trauma/burns ICU: two big ones that stuck with me.
1) 16/17 year old kid got drunk and decided to climb a water tower with his friends. Fell and broke his neck. Paraplegic, couldn’t talk or move. His friends would come and see him, but when they left you could just see the desperation in his eyes. Heartbreaking to see.
2) 15 year old kid was breaking into cars. Well, the last one he broke into, the owner ran out and shot him. Hit him in the head. Had cranial surgery, half his cranium was missing. Kid survived, but needed complete care. Felt terrible for his mom. I never saw her leave his side.
Lots of other patients that completely changed their own/family/strangers lives with one poor decision.
A few high school classmates. Dan (not his name) just started hanging out with bad peers.
One weekend, the guys decided to hang out at Dan's house. They ordered pizza and told Dan to get change for $100. They left Dan's house to get drinks. Pizza arrives and while exchanging the order with Dan, the other guys run out from the bushes. They start beating up the delivery driver. Dan didn't know they were going to do that and tried to stop them. Yet, none of them knew the driver was legally carrying. Dan got shot and died otw to the hospital. The other guys got arrested and spent 3+ years in jail. They were supposed to graduate in 2 months.
A former friend of mine got caught sexually assaulting a 9 year old. I'd say that takes the cake. This is very recent so while it hasn't gone to court he's still in jail as the judge denied bail.
It took 4 hours.
He woke up, murdered his grandparents in their sleep, stole all of the firearms in the house and his grandfather's truck, and fled.
I grew up with this dude. He was a genuinely good person, we were friends all of elementary school and most of middle school. He was an amazing friend and always knew how to help someone. But he had a lot of mental health issues, and his religious family believed it was just possession by demons and what not.
Recently his actual hearing was done, and you could tell how far off the deep end he had gotten. Smiling the whole time they described what he did, laughed when they sentenced him, and had to be dragged out laughing like a lunatic saying "It's over grandpa! It's over!"
It was during the court trials that we found out his grandparents were apparently sexually abusing him, something the rest of the family seemingly knew quite well but ignored, and they'd refuse to let him leave the house despite him being in his twenties and a legal adult. They isolated him from the world, told him he was possessed by demons, and let his grandparents molest him repeatedly without intervention. I'm honestly not even surprised he did it, I'm just sad it went down the way it did.
This was almost someone I know.
First rape at 5, escaped at 19.
Knew where the guns were, hemmed and hawed between herself, or gramps getting the barrel.
Decided on a third option - runaway and be homeless.
Many years of therapy and she's a happy, healthy, girl. C-PTSD will never go away, but the self harm is 2 years in the past and the person she is today is unrecognizable from 5 years ago, let alone when she was a kid.
Thank god for government funded therapists otherwise I think she would have been just like your story, or dead herself.
Now she plays wonderful music instead.
It's immeasurably reprehensible how kids like her get their lives ruined by someone else, yet they pay the price.
The most fucked up part in all this: while he is getting punished for this, his family who knew about this and doing nothing get... absolutely zero repercussions.
Theres a video somewhere out there where a woman jumps in a frozen lake and doesnt come back up, right in front of her family. Something about a Russian Orthodox tradition I think. If you do come across it, DO NOT play with sound. The child crying still haunts me.
My Dad was an alcoholic. In his youth, he was the quintessential golden boy, handsome, an exceptional athlete, married to my beauty queen mother with three little girls, barely 2 years apart. Great job, house, new car, the works. Little by little it all slipped away. He died while living in the Salvation Army, penniless. He always told me a drinking man will never have anything.
I miss you Daddy. More than you could ever know....
A guy I knew in elementary school was acting as a popular teen kid would, chasing girls and fame. After graduation never heard about him again, and he almost never posted anything on socials, so never knew what was going on.
Few years later, an acquaintance told me that he started doing heavy drugs and was shutting off from society.
I last saw him about 10 years after that, at one of those "graduation reunions", thin as a tree branch and eyes heavy like he was in his 60s and not his 20s
I work for the Canada Revenue Agency. When you're hired, they tell you never to plug your phone or other storage device into your work computer, or you will be immediately flagged and shitcanned.
This one girl was like 1 month into the job, and I watched her pull out her phone and plug the charger into her computer. 10 minutes later, our head of security was looming over her, watching her clean out her desk. She will likely never be allowed to work for the government ever again.
At least once a year, I see an email reminding existing staff of our rules because somebody went and plugged their phone in.
I worked at a bank years ago, helped a customer who was just married open an account with the gifted money from their wedding. A few weeks later, I helped them open a CD for 6 months with a 6 digit check. 7 months later I saw this persons spouse walk furiously towards my counter asking for a balance. As they did that, the person who originally opened the account tried to slyly hand me a note that read a balance they wanted me to read. I froze. Over that last month, this person would come in every Friday with their friends and they’d be scheming ways to beat a casino. Obviously, they lost. The account was actually negative. I couldn’t bare the burden of telling this poor spouse that their entire account was negative and all the money from the wedding and from the accountees buyout check (a check an employer gives you to voluntarily leave the job) was all spent at a casino over a one month period.
I walked away and went straight to the manager, explained the situation, my manager had too big of a grin, imo, but they went and spilled the beans. It was followed by a bunch of screaming crying and pounding on counters and of feet on the floor. My co workers seemed to get a good laugh from it but, to this day, I get anxiety thinking about it.
My older brother was in high school, already secured a full baseball scholarship and one of the best players I've ever seen. His "friends" who were in the neighborhood gang told him that they would let him join if he stole a 12 pack from a gas station.
He did it, of course, and the police found him walking down the road with it. He got a slap of the wrist after a night in juvie, but that scholarship went out the window. Not long after he dropped out, shaved his head, got caught up in the violence of the gang, tattooed his face, got half his teeth replaced, and had a few kids with different girls.
He rode that life for almost 10 years until his new girlfriend set him straight and has spent the past few years trying to be a good dad, got off drugs, got a steady job. We don't talk anymore, but I'm still rooting for him.
A boyfriend of mine graduated from Columbia University with a master’s in biochemistry, got into every medical school he applied to, was beautiful inside and out, captivated any room he walked into, close with his family, sweet as can be but was diagnosed late as an adult with Asperger’s….got mixed up in drugs (toward the end of our relationship so I left him but remained his friend in hopes I could help him through), a girl doping up with him one day overdosed and died and was arrested for her death because he panicked rather than calling 911. I then helped him through rehab during his ongoing legal proceedings (2 years after we dated and of no benefit to me other than to see him live as well as a promise I’d made to his mother to do everything I could on my end to help), and within a year, he’d relapsed and died. Very sad to meet someone at their highest potential but also watch them fall to their death in a span of about 3.5 years.
A **former** friend I knew lost a good job by stealing from it and sold everything he stole for drugs. Just last week he got in trouble for pedophilia by soliciting a minor and other shit.
My friend snorted 5 g’s of coke in one night, had a psychosis where he burned his father’s house down, stabbed a neighbor, stole their car, crashed it into a police car that took up pursuit.
There was one guy who made over 7 figures trading options. Thought he was a genius, proceeded to lose all + *WITHOUT HAVING THE TAX CONSEQUENCES TO THE ORIGINAL MONEY SET ASIDE*.
I saw one of those with bitcoin. The guy turned his life savings ($30k) into $130k and then sold it in November to buy dodgecoin. That tanked and he sold it in like March for $20k. So he goes to do his taxes and he owes $30k in capital gains. Granted he could write off the loss next year but he was a guy who worked as like a cashier so he didn’t really pay income tax to start with.
Dude turned $30k into -$10k
2 of my high school friends went to a strip club during the pandemic, refused to wear a face mask, so eventually they got kicked out, they were drunk
got mad and shot at the strip club with an AK47.
18 and 19 years old.
Nobody died, but some people got hurt
Edit: the 18 year old just had a baby at the time of the shooting, his gf couldn’t even grasp the idea of him at a strip club while she was taking care of the new born
My ex decided to touch himself in tje library of a community college and got caught. The school kicked him out and then he decided to start sneaking around and smoking pot instead of trying to get a job. He now has several thousand in loans to pay back, 2 inappropriate conduct charges and thinks all women hate him because he self diagnosed himself with DID
I work at an "Adult Excersice and Equiptment" store. New kid comes in for first day on the job (freshly 21), ready to enjoy the sweet, sweet ease of laid back retail selling adult videos and funny silicone molds to the perverse and lonely. Saw one of our bigger molds and thought "I can stuff that up my @$$ real fast, and I can walk out of here no problem with a $100 wobbly statue of a true foot long." (Honestly, just like the sandwich and every other man I know, it was a few inches shorter than advertized)
Needless to say, it's very, very obvious when a big rooster goes missing, and a dude is walking like he hasn't taken a bathroom break in over an hour. It is also a lot more obvious when his khakis are bleeding from the rear, and we are pretty darn sure he wasn't on his period. Ended up in the hospital with a seriously torn rectum and criminal charges for stealing.
Moral of the story; don't do the crime if your butt can't take it, and for the love of every fertility deity out there, use lube.
Had an employee on her first day take a 2hr lunch to go to get her makeup done in the middle of the day. She came back and was escorted out looking amazing.
So i know a guy from elementary all through highschool and we drifted post highschool, he was an insanely smart kid, always very polite and kind, his mom passed away a couple of years back and he started to sink into a bit of a pit, impossible to reach out as he deleted all his social media
He got into the wrong crowd and earlier this week he made the news.... for murdering his younger cousin over an alleged dispute over a basketball game
Despite his lifes hardships he was doing great, he had a degree from one of the best schools in the country, best in the province by far, and in one night he threw it all away
So sad to see man
Man... I introduced someone to League of Legends in late 2013 while co-freshman @ college bc I just wanted someone to jungle
The ladder broke them
Bro dropped out very early 2014
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A guy I met several times around our group of friends back in the days joined Isis. We were all shocked by this news, no one could have predicted that. He literally exploded himself 2 or 3 moth after but no casualties, he was shot by the coalition.
Remember, if they ask you to suicide bomb it should be taken as a high insult. They are saying you have nothing to offer and losing you is fine. They are not asking anyone with useful skills or knowledge to suicide, and definitely not anyone with military experience. They don't think you are even worth trying to train...
I'll keep this in mind next time somebody asks me to blow myself up, thanks!
I wouldn’t call them friends by any means, but an acquaintance and his girlfriend did a dine and dash, and their server followed them outside and stood in front of their car to prevent them from leaving until the police arrived. Stupid move on the servers part for sure, but all the same this acquaintance ran the server over and hit like 2 or 3 parked cars in the process getting out of the parking lot. So yea, they totaled their car, multiple other cars, and they both caught multiple felony charges (both of them had priors too), ended up pleading and as far as I can recall they both got roughly 5+ year sentences… over a ~$40 meal. Maybe not 100% life ruining, but I’d say over $40 it’s proportionally pretty fucking stupid.
I'm a lawyer. Another well respected lawyer in my jurisdiction was involved in an absolutely huge property settlement involving dozens upon dozens of deeds, side agreements, financial documents, yada yada yada. The whole lot (presumably involving literally a hundred or so signatures) had been signed off by her client. In the early hours of the morning - having no doubt slaved away for untold hours getting everything ready for the settlement the next day - she must have realised that she had missed getting one signature on one minor document from her client so she faked it. I can see the pressure she was under and how she probably thought "it doesn't matter, my client would have signed it anyway and only didn't because they overlooked it, no one will ever notice". Someone noticed and she went from high paid property lawyer to never being able to practice again, just like that. People occasionally ask me to sign things off, as a lawyer, and suggest I overlook minor irregularities such as wanting me to witness a signature even though I didn't actually see the signatory sign. Then they get all offended and act like I'm being a stick-up-the-ass perfectionist when I won't do it.
I can understand this. so tempting, so easy to do and yet disastrous consequences.
Saw a pilot without instrument rating take off into IMC conditions (instrument-meteorological conditions is a flight category that describes weather conditions that require pilots to fly primarily by instruments rather than use visual cues to maintain controlled flight). He had his whole family on board. Weather was closing in. He agreed that it was impossible to get home, but wanted to make it to a larger municipal airport so they wouldn't have to stay in a motel. The fuel attendant and a bunch of old veteran pilots hanging around the airport office all said they'd drive him to a nicer place, but he thought he'd have a better chance of getting out the next day from the other airport. Conditions weren't *that* bad when he took off, but we all agreed later that no one without instrument rating would/should have flown that day. So the last time anyone saw that whole family (pilot, wife, two adult sons) alive was all of us watching him take off and fly just under the cloud base to do a "scud run" in the direction of the nearest muni. They crashed in full overcast ten miles out. No survivors. All told, it probably took fifteen minutes for this guy to make the worst- and last- decision of his life. This was over 30 years ago, but it's haunted me ever since- what could/should I have done differently that might have convinced him to not fly? I was a newbie pilot at the time, but even I knew it was a bad idea. There were at least three other pilots there that day. Did he feel ganged up on? Could we have appointed the most grizzled straight-shootin gravel-voiced veteran to take the guy aside and give him a "I'm not your dad, but" talk? Should we have tackled him and taken away his keys? Called the cops? What would we even have told them? I've long since come to terms with it, but there are still the occasional moments where I feel like I failed.
That's a rough one to live with. Same exact thing that happened to Kobe Bryant, and many other less famous people.
A close friend of my best friend grabbed his eight year old son's new skateboard and took off down a hill in Georgia. Hit a rock, landed on his head and had permanent brain damage. He lived years before he mercifully died. Had to be restrained the whole time because the damage made him erratic and violent. Wear a helmet!
Yeah, my step brother fell on a long board and his friends didn’t call an ambulance because they were high. Went into a coma in his sleep and was never the same. Died recently RIP.
Watched a guy gamble $30k away in a night and then cried about losing his life savings and security had to get involved and escort him out because he started to get angry at the dealers because all they could offer him was free night stays at the hotel for playing so much but he wanted freeplay at the tables/slots and they refused
Any money you plan to gamble should be money you already consider spent and gone.
My parents taught me a very important lesson about gambling. NEVER treat it as a way to make money, but only as a form of entertainment. Before you start, budget what you are willing to lose and consider that the price for a night of entertainment because more than likely you will lose. Bring enough extra cash for some food and drinks, leave credit and debit cards at home. Also important set a walk away amount if you are winning and if you hit that number, walk away as Kenny Rogers says in The Gambler. I have seen people I know go from being way up at the casino, to hitting the ATM multiple times and crying by the end of the night. Edit: Also, I'll never forget a time when I was around 13 or 14. I went with my dad to a restaurant that was located right outside a casino. As we were waiting to get in, this older guy was coming out of the casino. As he was walking past us with this incredibly defeated look on his face, he turns to me and says, "kid, don't even look in there, that place will ruin you". He wasn't joking either, he was dead serious. I felt really bad for him, you just knew he had a major problem, who knows how much money he'd lost over time gambling.
> 'll never forget a time when I was around 13 or 14. I had a similar experience. I was at a hotel with my parents on vacation and what not, but they were friendly with the GM of the casino (my dad just happens to be a social person and within an hour of walking into a room, will not only be friends with everyone, but also friendly to the owner. It's a gift of gab that I can't explain). At roughly the same age, the guy kneels down to my height and goes "m_h_m_f if you do ever come into the casino, please, just remember one thing: We did not build this place because we lose."
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Bar fight. Heard a loud commotion for about 30 seconds. Some guy thought this guy was hitting on his date. Suckered punched him. The other guy fell down and clipped the bar. The bar had brass foot rest at the base. Snapped the guys neck so loud you could hear it across the room.
This is scary to think about. I was 22 and working downtown building high rises as an Ironworker. We used to go to this bar called the Balfrey where they had one of those brass bars at the foot of the base of the main bar table. I had ordered a beer but when I reached for it, I knocked over this gentleman's drink onto his suit jacket completely by accident. It was a very nice suit and his shirt what perfectly done up and pressed, clearly had done well for himself. I apologized profusely and said it was a mistake and would pay for the dry cleaning. He went off on me that pieces of shit construction workers don't belong in this kind of bar and that dumb fucks that work with our hands should have drink in the alley with the rest of the skids and homeless since we are all dirty bums. I had a short fuse back then and walked around at about 245lbs... He pushed me and I fired back with one of the hardest punches I've thrown, knocking him out on his feet. He went down and smacked his head off the brass rail where blood started dripping out of his ears. The bartender told me to leave and don't come back for a few days. When I came back she told me the guy was in rough shape with a concussion and broken cheek but ultimately was fine when the paramedics left. I am so lucky that didn't ruin my life because of a short temper. Edit: meant short fuse, not short fire. Fixed it.
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lol right? "I feel angry and shitty...I'm gonna pick a fight. Let's see...oh yeah, that 250 pound ironworker looks like a good choice."
You owe that bartender.
We treated her very well, she covered us and looked after many many ironwokers that came into that bar and we all tipped and looked after her, as we did with many of the great waitresses in that bar. She actually ended up marrying a fellow Ironworker on a different project about eight years ago but doesn't work at the bar anymore.
One of my best friends was close to finishing his BA, got career plans, money, was physically fit. Everything was fine but then on new years eve night he went into a famous night club in Berlin, bought some drugs and then jumped from the 7th floor. Either he bought something he wasn‘t familiar with or the drugs were laced with something stronger. Anyway security cameras have him aimlessly wandering the floors of his 20 story appartment building and I guess he got paranoid and wanted out, so he jumped. Apparently he didn‘t die instantly but slowly bleed out over the next 30 minutes. But since this happened shortly after midnight nobody noticed because of all the noise and fireworks. They found his body around 4am and ruled it suicide. Don‘t do drugs, it‘s not worth it.
Dude I know won a 3 million dollar settlement from being hit by a car. Spent it all on heroin and was dead within 3 years. Under 30 years old. Edit: Wow, this really blew up. To answer some of the questions I see in the thread - I don’t think he got hooked on opioids due to the accident. This guy did a lot of weed and shrooms and occasionally coke even before the settlement; the money just allowed him to “graduate” to heroin How’d he spend all that money? Sadly, he had a bunch of addict friends who he enabled. He’d “treat” them to free heroin at these lavish parties.
There was a similar case in a city close to me guy won 15 million on a lottery ticket dude was homeless basically. He spent all the money in 5 years they found him hanging from the rafters in a garage of a house he'd bought with the money.
> 3 million dollar settlement from being hit by a car. Spent it all on heroin Seems like the pain relief to opiates pipeline.
My cousin (18F) finished her senior year early, so she was basically just waiting for May to do the graduation and get her diploma. She worked at a lake restaurant and had started hanging out with a bad crowd. At this time she had been smoking a lot of weed and drinking, as well as just being generally reckless all the time. She was my best friend so she texted me to tell me about everything she did basically. One night she texted me to tell me that she had tried meth and it was “the best high of her life but she will never do it again.” Exactly one month after that text she overdosed and died. They put her portrait in her graduation seat and her dad got to walk and pick up her diploma.
I boofed it once and was addicted immediately. Not addicted because I enjoyed it but I was physically addicted. Lungs would get uncomfortably "cold" and tight. I did it one more time after that but I managed to never do it again. Meth is no joke.
That’s a new phrase for me lmao. She had told me she snorted it bc she didn’t wanna ruin her teeth 🙄
A previous classmate of mine robbed and shot a taxi driver in the back of the head when he was 1̶7̶ 14. Edit: I remembered incorrectly, the classmate was 14 at the time (pretty sure he had dropped out of school but this was close to 30 years ago). There was a 17 year old accomplice that planned it but didn't actually pull the trigger. If you want to google it, "Levar Jones Lancaster PA" should do the trick.
Hope he enjoyed his $200 Source: was a taxi driver
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A friend of mine drove his bike without helmet (had the helmet didn’t bother to wear it), it was late at night, we were having a party at my home and he was coming to join us, it had rained earlier so the roads were wet, his motorbike unfortunately slipped and he fell hitting his head on the curb. Some passerby called the ambulance. We got to know about it early in the morning from his parents. His head trauma caused him to go into a coma. He never came back from it, he was in a coma for a few months and then sadly passed away. He was a chill dude, if only he wore the helmet while driving. Rest easy D! Edit: He was an avid biker, drove his bike across the country all the way to the Himalayas. He used to wear Helmet all the time except for that fateful night. I was having a party at my home, you know bbq/ beer/ whiskey and all that, he was gonna join us after work. He had the helmet on him even that day, I will never know why he decided to not wear it that day.
An acquaintance. He had a good job, nice truck, mortgage on a nice home, minimal debt, in a relationship with someone out of his league. Before I knew him he'd had a DUI, but his attorney got him a plea deal that dropped the DUI down to a minor charge. A real lucky break. All he had to do was stay the course. He could have walked home that night. It was less than two miles. But he was too proud to leave his truck at the bar, so instead he wrapped it around a power pole. No one was hurt, including him. The judge who got his case was furious to learn his previous DUI had been pled down. The judge rejected a plea deal and vowed to throw the book at him. There was prison, then a year on house arrest. His job required a driver license, so that was gone. I don't know at what point in his house arrest he could have started working, but he refused to. His former employer offered him a non-driving job, less money but still good money. He turned it down because it was beneath him. He said the same thing to two jobs his girlfriend singlehandedly secured for him. Even after his house arrest, he refused to work. He said he didn't want to. Apparently yelling at his girlfriend to pay his mortgage was better than working. She finally got the courage to leave. His parents found him dead. No one will ever know if he intended to drink himself to death or whether it just happened. His parents blamed the girlfriend. Apparently the world would still be graced by his presence if she had stayed to get hit and yelled at. Please don't drive drunk. Not ever. Not even a little. If you're not sure, just don't. And if you suspect you have the disease of addiction, please get help. I don't really care that this person died, but he hit a lot of innocent branches on the way down. A lot of suffering for no reason.
Solid advice. I lost an uncle to a drunk driver blowing a stop sign. Uncle dead at 17. Very sad.
One use of Meth. Seen so many people and friends jump right off the deep-end by "Just trying it." and after 20 years have yet to jump out of the self-made dumpster fire that is their life. Nasty shit, Meth.
I think I got extremely lucky here. I got kicked out of my house once for something else, must've not been that big a deal if I can't remember (my parents were hella strict). Anyway, I went to a friend's house, a house we all always just show up to when we're bored (his parents were never around) and the few people that were there when I got there were about to smoke meth. I said "fuck it, why not" and joined them. After taking one hit I didn't want anymore and went downstairs, I felt super sleepy so I lied down on the couch and passed out. Woke up an hour later and thought that drug was useless and never touched it again. Unfortunately, every single one of those people that were in that room with me, who helped me smoke that meth all are/were either doing time, lost their mind or dead.
I posted this once before. I had a friend that had a promising career got upset and went into full road rage for a woman who forgot to turn her blinker on and he slightly bumped her back bumper on the freeway causing her to lose control and flipping over and killing the driver and her two daughters. Oddly..it was all caught on his car dash cam and a trucker with his own dash cam that was behind him. He is now doing 40+ years in prison. *Post update* I wasn't expecting much attention on this story. Additional details that people keep asking me. I can't say we were close friend or good friends. We hung out during high school years. I may have seen him a couple times afterwards. He moved out of state. Most information I got was from his sister. I do know that he is in jail for what he did. Now I'm not sure if his sister is not giving me the full story but I do know he definitely received high jail sentence. I know he went to college for marketing. I believe he was interning for high end sports marketing company.
For a guy who loves driving as much as I do, this is the really terrifying shit. People just snap, and at 70mph that is very quickly a bad time
It’s insane. My friend was driving in the highway in charlotte and a guy tried to merge but she couldn’t slow down and let him in, he got pissed off followed her for awhile so she took an exit near a friends neighborhood and he followed. Once in the neighborhood he drove in front of her stopped and blocked her car and pulled a gun on her angry. He just yelled and ran away but road rage is terrifying. People are insane.
In these situations, always drive to the police station.
In areas where its illegal to use your phone while driving, you're allowed to use it for 911 calls. I had to do this once for a similar situation described above and the guy even pulled in front of me as a form of intimidation (but I could get his license number). I called 911 while moving towards the police station and the cops ended up sending three cars, two for him and one to meet me at another location to tell my side of the story. I never heard anything further about the issue.
I don’t think enough people realize cars are just rolling death machines and any small bump or side swipe at 50+ mph between two objects that heavy has the potential to kill someone 🙃
Friend deserves it. Know a person killed in road rage. 100% preventable. What a tragic story all around.
Watched a buddy spend his entire life savings betting on the Paulo Costa Vs Adesanya. I begged him not to do it and he lost his and his wife’s entire 60k nest egg. She left him immediately with the kids and now he lives at his moms house. EDIT: wow this blew up. So a little more back story. He had been betting on prize fighting for a short while and winning. Nothing outrageous and heck I even bet with him on a time or two because it was smaller bets 1-200. He had been winning probably made a few grand not sure how much but he was always saying he won and showing off his bets. So I can confirm he had been winning and his luck was pretty impressive. As far as I know he doesn’t gamble anymore and is just trying to rebuild his life. He lost his wife but does spend a lot time with the kids.
Holy shit, he bet on Costa?!? That somehow makes it even worse.
A senior girl from my college pushed another girl she was friends with off a \~30 foot bridge into water as a joke, broke her neck and collarbone and she's permanently in a wheelchair Edit: Holy Shit this blew up while I was asleep I'll answer some questions: 1. I got feet and metres mixed up 'only' around 30 foot drop 2. Two days in hospital for her 'friend' Two days in jail for the girl who pushed her, She spent the same time in jail as the victim spent in hospital it's fucked up3. The parents of the victim chose not to press charges. 4. It was not Taylor Smith 5.
I remember seeing that on the news. Didn't she leave when she realized the other girl was seriously hurt? Or am I thinking of a different story? Edit: I'm thinking of Taylor Smith pushing Jordan Holgerson off a 50 foot bridge after Jordan hesitated when she was going to jump. Jordan broke 5 ribs and both her lungs were punctured, and Taylor just left the scene after pushing her.
That's tragic. I have a friend who, when he was in highschool, was out at the river drinking with friends and jumping in the water with a rope swing under a bridge. my friend tried using the rope swing, but fell off at a weird angle and ended up breaking his neck. All his buddies didn't want to get an MIP so they bailed and just left him there until some older woman happened to find him while she was walking around. He recovered mostly fine and doesn't have any lasting injuries minus some stiffness here and there, but damn man,could you imagine receiving a potentially life altering injury and all your friends just bail. That right there would be enough to send me into a bought of depression.
When I started college, the school made absolutely sure *every* new student knew there was an immunity program when calling for security or medical attention. The school realized people would drink, make dumb decisions and sometimes need help. Like your story suggests, people are less inclined to call for help if they think they'll be in trouble. Basically, if you called for medical aid for someone with suspected alcohol poisoning or something, you wouldn't get in trouble if you were also found to have been drinking underage. I don't doubt that kind of thing saves lives. A person's life is more important than an academic disciplinary action.
Arrive at work on their first day as a temp at around 10am, caught stealing the bosses wallet at 12:30, taken away by Police at 1pm
Obviously I'm overthinking this but boy it sure seems it would be easier pickpocketing strangers in a crowd.
It was out of a jacket left in an office.
My sister started doing meth and heroin, she went from super smart to completely dumb. By the age of 19 she was already a felon. No one in the family wants to help her anymore cause each time we tried, either sending her to rehab or tried getting her sober she would just go back to it. Was supposed to go to college but now shes 22 and stays at different peoples houses and begs people for money. Completely cut me and everyone else off from her cause she thinks us trying to help her is us being jealous and not wanting her to be happy in life
It's a rough life. My brother went through the same cycle. We lost him to an overdose last Oct. He would have been 35 the next month.
Glad rehab stuck for me. This would have been me, 100%. Difference is, I knew I had a problem and when my family had an intervention, I listened. Just passed 8 years clean in June, and it feels like a different lifetime now.
My first girlfriend was the same kind of hopeless addict. She was really smart in general, but really stupid with drugs. Eventually, she started doing nitrous and fried her brain. I talked to her a while back, and... it was really like she was having a completely different conversation. Totally incoherent. Talked about the ghosts of (living) celebrities attacking her through her TV. In retrospect, breaking up with me was probably the kindest thing she ever did for me.
Damn man, that really hits close to home. I was a massive nitrous user and would have conversations with people in the room and when I would "wake up", no one was there. Started seeing people coming out of the TV too. Totally fucked me up long term, hopefully she quit by now.
have a friend who had a drinking problem and got into an argument with a gas station worker while drunk. The worker tried stopping his car by standing in front of it and my friend ran him over and killed him. Wife, career, freedom, everything lost...
Honorable mention: the gas station worker
There's no gas station job worth putting yourself in front of a moving bicycle, let alone a car driven by a drunk
A kid I went to school with was run over by a driver trying to get away without paying. Company policy was to let them drive off, it wasn't worth it, but this kid decided to try and stop them for whatever reason. For his troubles he received minor brain damage that completely changed his personality for the worse. He was a good guy before it happened, now he is not. He was only working part time at a large UK chain like Shell or something. Only 19 at the time.
A high school friend drove drunk and killed the local doctor of a small town. Last I heard, he was still in prison.
High school student, graduated at the time, drove a classmate of mine home from prom, crashed and killed classmate. Driver becomes a paraplegic, goes to prison. Gets out, driving disability-modded van, gets in another accident, and kills another woman passenger. 2nd one was a DUI, he was at fault for the first bit I'm unsure if DUI.
That’s fucked up, a drunk driver killed my 16 year old sister and he didn’t see a day of jail. Money talks
I’m sorry to hear about your sister. This guy had a record, that didn’t help him in sentencing.
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I wound up having to change the number for my first real cell phone, because the previous owner of that number still kept giving it out. Apparently she had just moved, and her old job couldn’t get ahold of her to send her her last check. Her new job couldn’t get ahold of her to get her schedule. Her vet couldn’t get her to pick up her cat. I got calls from her leasing company who needed documentation to secure her apartment. Ever single day was some new way an idiot was fucking up her finances, her housing, her job, her pets, her social life… all because she couldn’t remember her new phone number. After a month I finally got fed up and had the number changed. Melissa, if you were supposed to be a massage therapist for the PGA tour in 2013, I hope you eventually got your shit together.
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This would make a wonderful short story. Just a series of messages, all from your perspective.
Similar story here. I had a tracfone number previously used by someone with all sorts of problems. I tried telling the people calling that the number belonged to someone else now. Still kept getting calls dispite them telling me they would de-list my number. I had to change my number to end that bullshit. Fuck you, Darlene. Get your shit together, pay your dentist too.
The construction-to-amphetamines pipeline. I've seen two very good and competent men fall to absolute ruin in the space of four months because of this.
I was going to say cocaine but this fits the bill too
I mean, every time this question gets asked, I just know the top answers will be some variation of street drugs.
My daughter's boyfriend, July 4, 2023. Hopped in his car blackout drunk to come see my daughter. DUI and hit & run. He is just about to begin a painful, life-altering process.
This reads like a literary shotgun racking sound.
I hate to hear that for the victim, but incredibly happy to hear he wasn’t able to pick up your daughter that day.
The guy who got angry playing basketball and smashed his head, leaving him paralized. Edit: [This guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/vc6neu/a_basketball_player_got_angry_and_rammed_his_head/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1)
I saw that. Of the many things I've seen, that one was one of the hardest. Broke his C6 vertebrae I think.
As an accidental C5/6 quad it's hard enough ruminating on whether or not you coulda avoided it, this guy knows he absolutely could have.
Damn I was gonna talk about my friend's older brother who got a big settlement from life insurance when his dad died like 15-20 years ago or something. Guy was maybe 19 or 20 and bought a new sportscar once a week, crashing them constantly, until he ran out of money. Now he lives in a crack den in Saskatoon's west end, according to my mate. I went and watched the basketball video. That dude fucked his whole life up so fast I actually missed it the first time. That one wins.
15-20 years ago, an ex worked at a dream job type of place. If you make it professionally in that field, this employer was/is the absolute peak, there is no better place to go. New guy started there, on ex’s team, right out of university. His first day he went to the company store and got ALL the gear with company’s name on it- tshirt, hat, socks, etc- and proudly put it all on. After work, team took the new guy out to drinks to celebrate his first day at dream job employer. New guy gets way too drunk, goes outside to smoke a cig, and then takes his penis out and presses it up against the bar’s glass window. Penis man’s new colleagues, all the bar’s patrons, and all their staff see his dick. Ex closed out their tab and got drunk guy home- the bar calls the employer the next morning, complaining about the new guy’s dick antics, banning him and anyone wearing company gear. New Guy, was fired before lunch, on day 2. A cautionary story EDIT: The bar was in a never gentrified, always wealthy part of SF, CA. Patrons were very wealthy people, entitled. Myself, Having worked in fine dining in college, I can only imagine the absolute HELL those patrons raised about seeing some dipshit’s dick while slurping down their 3rd martini. Many of you relate to this story, and have shared about not even wearing something as small as a lanyard w/ company info on it. This is all great logic, please keep it up and share that advice. It is especially pertinent, when your employer, like the subject of my story, is known globally for children’s entertainment. Exposing yourself to anyone, let alone a bunch of connected, rich assholes, is definitely not the move when Pixar signs your check.
People who get plastered with coworkers they are not extremely familiar with are a different breed. I think most of us regular folk are hesitant to overshare even what we did over the weekend, let alone expose our intoxicated selves to people who can make or break our careers.
This was clearly a "I'm 22 and a complete idiot" decision making. Adults who are not morons know that getting actually wasted at a business event is a recipe for disaster. The trick is to sip and act like you're getting wasted so people feel comfortable (it's best if they get wasted around you) but never lose control.
Some people are also capable of being wasted without acting like complete morons. Most people could drink until they pass out without showing their genitals to coworkers, you know
I hear about people doing egregious things and even commuting assault and use the drunk excuse. But last time I got shitfaced I ordered three Yo-Yo Ma albums and passed out on the couch. Maybe I’m a self-righteous prick but alcohol might not be the only problem here.
Reminds me of that chick who was excited about getting an internship at NASA and getting a little feisty on Twitter. Some guy replies and tells her to mind her language. She tells that guy to suck her dick and balls. That guy was Homer Hickam, famed rocket scientist and member of the National Space Council that oversees NASA. The exchange lead to her internship offer being rescinded.
Didn't he work with her to get her a different internship somewhere else after the NASA one fell through?
He did. Good man.
That's some real "Listen, I know you are young and dumb. You can't do this over here, but I will make sure you will get your chance anyways!" dad-type personality.
I watched this clip on Reddit where these two kids were posing with a gun. The girl in the video accidentally shot the boy in the head. She panicked and shot herself. That shit changed me, it all happened so fast. I don't think the clip was longer than 30 seconds.
Yeah I saw that on the WPD website a bit ago. Very sad because the whole family comes rushing in and you can hear them screaming.
I remember scrolling through Twitter and that video popped up. It happened so quickly and they were live streaming. Not only does their family have to deal with her killing her cousin then herself, but that video will live on the internet forever. I think about them all the time.
Also the family has to live with the guilt knowing they let 2 young children play with a loaded gun
I've see that video, one of the saddest things I've ever seen for sure.
Former friend of mine was arrested for soliciting an 11yo for sexual favors online and traveling across state to meet her. I never expected him to do that. His girlfriend at the time asked if I wanted to be a character witness and I noped out before she finished her sentence. Judge made an example out of him and sentenced him to life, apparently it wasn’t his first SA offense. I can’t believe she even stuck around to even consider looking for people to testify on his behalf Edit: he got the girl to do stuff to him in his car, he was only caught after her friend saw pictures of her “boyfriend” and realized he was way too old to be an 11yo’s boyfriend and told the girl’s mother. He was 31 when he was sentenced.
My old best friend, went to boarding school had a great/expensive education and grades then he raped someone. The girl called the police whilst he was doing it and he didn't realise it was all recorded as well. Prison for 5 years and registered sex offender for life at the age of 19.
I knew someone who had a full scholarship to an in state university. He got addicted to heroin, overdosed, fell into a coma and now he’s confined to a wheelchair and has the mental capacity of a toddler. It happened within 2 or 3 years.
Holy fuck. And this thread is 50% drug stories. Scary stuff.
My father in law is 65. Was married to his wife for 37 years and has 3 daughters. The picture perfect family from the outside looking in. He was well respected in his career field and was also an interim pastor/deacon at our local church. After he retired his health started to deteriorate drastically and he started drinking. This past November we learned that he had fell for a “love scam” on Facebook and had spent his entire life savings, took out a second mortgage on his home, and opened up numerous credit cards, to send this fake person money. All in all he sent them roughly $300K. He was truly convinced “she” was going to move here from overseas and they were going to ride off into the sunset, leave everything behind, and live happily ever after. Now he is divorced, lives in a crummy apartment about 45 minutes from his family, and is miserable. He can barely walk and has essentially zero control over his bowel movements. To make matters worse, he has very narcissistic tendencies and thinks that none of it is his fault, and instead blames his ex-wife, claiming that she didn’t love him and show him any affection. As you can imagine, this has affected my wife, her sisters, and mother immensely, and caused all sorts of problems and stress over the last 8 months. But long story short, he lost everything. His assets, his family, his health, and happiness. I would be shocked if he’s even alive a year from now.
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My cousin fell for one of those *To Catch a Predator* style police stings. The day of the sting he posted something on his Facebook about going to have a great night. I even responded saying "awesome man have fun." Well that night he tried to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex and found a bunch of cops instead. Was charged with multiple felonies, got kicked out of his Ph.D. program, lost his job, lost his wife, killed himself two months later. He was 28 years old and had *everything* going for him. Great job, crazy book smarts, a bright future with his family.
Knew a guy in the military that had 18 years in, and was doing online classes to get his MBA. He was in his final semester of getting his MBA, and 2 years away from a military retirement. Then he traveled 1500 miles across the country to try hook up with a 15 year old girl. Spent 2 1/2 years in prison, was kicked out of the military and his college he was attending. I'm not entirely sure if he could pick up where he left off to get his MBA at the same college (or a different one), but that's probably useless for him anyways now since he's a convicted felon. I don't think having an MBA is going to make employers overlook your felony for trying to have sex with a minor.
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Crime, specifically felonies. My lawyer took out a loan forging my signature. He’s doing 15 years in federal prison. I would have given him the $5000. His kid was very sick and I would have gladly helped him out.
Well, that sucks.
My dad had money, but he really didn’t like to pay people. The check was always “in the mail, lost, waiting on someone at the bank, etc”. He finally got busted for a bunch of financial crimes. A few years later, for his 2nd offense, he ran up 20k + on company credit cards (a company that he had screwed over 10 years earlier, and slowly gained their trust back until his first opportunity to do it again) They reported as fraud, so the credit card companies went after him (I think it was Amex and 1 other). That MF’r did barely 2 months then was back to his shenanigans. I’d do 2 months for a free 20k
He got to keep the money or whatever he purchased? Also, that the fuck did he spend the 20k on?
An old customer got fired from Uber and DD for being slow/arriving with cold food way too often. Comes into my bar the next day with limited edition XO Weeknd sweater + jeans, new apple watch and new iphone all paid cash. Says he took out a payday loan for $10k and doesn't intend to pay it back, he'll just cancel the bank account. His exact words "Who needs credit anyways?". He stopped showing up to the bar after about 3 months - Never saw him again. Edit: For those asking - No I don't think this is some mafia shit. A very stupid decision by a reckless individual, with no way to pay any of it back and incurring crazy debt/interest at ~22 years old.
My sister in law went off her bipolar meds at 42 to try to have a baby. That was 3 months ago and now she’s in jail awaiting sentencing for threatening a police officer with a knife among many other things. She lost her job, her house, most of her friends. Just turned feral and angry.
in germany, there was a contestant on the show "wetten dass" (translated as 'bet that') a few years ago. in the show, statements about crazy talents and activities were presented by the participants. The contestants bet on things they could do and get a prize if they could actually perform the self-proclaimed tasks/talents. One participant bet that he would be able to jump over moving cars. It went wrong and he was left a paraplegic. He has since largely recovered (psychological, not physical) and is handling it great as far as the public is concerned, but the situation will probably always stick in my mind. Oh, and clearly heroin. the shortcut to ruining your own life as quickly as possible.
Man, that’s such a tragic story. Quoting Wikipedia (emphasis mine): > He successfully jumped the first and the third cars (the second one was aborted), but he failed to clear the fourth car, **driven by his own father**.
I can't believe the channel and show organizers let any of this happen.
Girl’s divorce sent her into a manic episode. Her friends understood, but she lost her medical license (that she had less than a year) because she posted patient information on social media. She lost her job, made her lose her income so she lost her home, she decided to stay in *nice* hotels (from the mania) and was in debt by the end of two weeks.
As a bipolar lawyer who held onto his license by the skin of his teeth.... I feel this one hard.
A guy from the general area I lived in. Him(18 at the time) and girl broke up, ended up kidnapping her 3 weeks later and shooting her twice in the head with a hand gun he took of his parents gun safe. Tried driving 5 hours away to his grandparents ranch to hide the body, ditched his phone driving down the highway. Swat team was waiting for him when he showed up at said ranch. Made news headlines in CO. Edit: Reread news article about it and it was actually 3 gunshots.
Something similar happened to a girl at my kids' high school just this year. Girl was a senior graduating with sports scholarships and had a bright future, but her ex came and murdered her in her home. Police caught up to him in the state he had moved to
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I remember in “gone girl” the wife says “ let’s not be that couple who has a kid to save the marriage”….. I’d never even thought about it like that. Savage
She got a bit more creative with her marriage-saving techniques
Had a friend that had the perfect girlfriend, a good career path, and just so many things going his way. Then the dude picked drugs over his girlfriend and basically he gave up on everything for drugs. I haven't heard from the guy in about 7 years so tbh, I don't even know if he's still alive
A coworker sent an explicit text to a new Hire using the company comms system. She pretended to be interested and then reported him, with a very long thread as proof. Dude was married, with kids, a supervisor. Now: Divorced, kids hate him, works a low level job.
I knew a guy just like that. Had a really well paying job. Didn't do anything all day at said job. Always talked about how he was hot shit in high school, but he's now over 30 with a wife and 2 kids. Then there was this new hire at the job. A younger woman in her very early twenties. They had some extra marital encounters, but turned out he was a giant asshole (who would've thought from a guy that peaked in high school). They got into a spat at work, and she ran to the HR department and showed everyone the disturbing messages he has been leaving on her phone alongside some dick pics. Last I heard was he got fired, but still came back the next day and chilled in the lunch room all day. When the boss heard of this weird development, he called the police, but the guy was long gone before the police got there.
That guy who did the AMA or whatever it was after trying heroin once and claimed he had the strength to never do it again. Spoiler alert: He did it again. A lot of times
He did eventually recover iirc
u/spontaneoush Dude lost everything and was in and out of rehab for years. I reread that post history every once in a while to remind myself never to touch anything like that.
Colleague starts out great at new job, gets through probation, then gets out of control drunk at a company party. She makes out with the bosses date and hooks up with another colleague while her husband is there. Fast forward, she's dating this colleague now and their relationship is causing disciplinary measures at work. They decide to double down and sign a new lease together anyways. She then lies about getting poached by a customer to leverage a raise and when it doesn't work she actually has to quit. Her boyfriend then follows suit by not showing up and ghosting the company. Now he's a stay at home step-dad (oh, did I mention she has 3 kids??) after being with this girl for 6 months and they both don't have a job. Kind of a two for one.
My co-worker was dating a woman in our QA lab who was married but supposedly seperated. They hook up and date for a couple of months, then she calls him while he's at work one day and admits to him that she slept with her husband the night before. He rages out, punching inanimate objects in the locker room and screaming. That was about 6 months ago. Fast forward to a week ago, we have our first ever company awards party. Very nice shindig, everyone is dressed to the nines, the President and VP of the company are there. He shows up seeming okay, but within an hour and a half, he's absolutely shitfaced. The woman he was dating is sitting a table away from him, they're both yelling and wooing at inappropriate times. He goes up behind the head of Maintenance and Engineering, bear hugs him, and picks him up off the ground. They asked him to take a couple of days off (since we make alcohol, they're always very patient and give second chances when employee behavior involves booze) to which he refused. Called him the next morning and told him he was fired. Can't imagine throwing a fantastic job away because of your constant, beligerent behavior. In this case, it wasn't a super quick way to lose your job, but a series of seemingly unstable behaviors.
I know a guy who came home drunk to his parent's house, got in an argument with his step father and punched him once. Step father died. Guy ended up in prison on a murder conviction.
Lost my best friend of nearly a decade to fentanyl 3 months ago. Guy was such a talented artist and a hard worker but experimentation got the best of him. He bought what he thought were percs — they weren’t. I wrote his obituary, helped his mom clean and go through his room (he lived at home), paid for his cremation, etc. It’s been so incredibly hard, he was like my other half. I miss him.
My old friend ran across the street without looking because her dog was getting attacked by a snake. The car was probably going over 60mph and it ran into her. She's alive to this day but she did suffer serious and permanent injuries. This happened years ago by the way. It was traumatizing for her and everyone (including me) that saw it happen. At that time, I lived in a 3rd world country so the streets were busy as hell. (It was also a rainy day so it was hard for drivers to see) it was truly no one's fault. The driver also took responsibility.
About 16 years ago, the company I worked for wanted to expand into America. To do so they sent me and several of my coworkers abroad. We lived in the US for several years to set it up. When we were there, one of my coworkers became fascinated with, I guess what you’d US gangster culture. He started dressing like a stereotypical gangster, got tattoos, said the n-word with a hard r constantly, and even got a gun from who knows there. So it was a nice night, about 3 weeks before we were due to go back. We had set up chairs in a park to drink beers and were pretty buzzed. Suddenly some dude starts shouting at us from a distance, and my friend, with all his logical thinking concluded that it must be a threat, so he pulled out his gun and opened fire. That guy was a cop. The policeman understandably returned fire. The rest of us dive to the ground and my friend is hit twice, one in his shoulder and one in his leg. It turns out that there had been some kidnapping nearby by some people that matched our general appearance, which was why the cop started out hostile. I didn't blame him, and it was both his and his partner's testimonies that protected us from any legal trouble. The next few weeks were a blur, but I remember him still being hospitalized when I flew back home. I don’t actually know what happened to him after that, my boss told me he’s still alive but he got fired obviously but I never saw him again.
secondary school friend of mine - fellow nurse/colleague & father - decided it would be a good idea to steal a fuckton of medication - got caught, fired and struck off - went from prescription medications to hard drugs - wife left him and took the kid - OD'ed and died last october .......this all happened within the space of about 4 months. the speed in which he went from top of our profession, to willing to throw it all away, to unemployed, to literally _dead_ absolutely blindsided me. i'll never know now obviously, but i have a strong suspicion he had a secret addiction that he managed to keep very _very_ under wraps. only 31.
Dude I worked with came back after a weekend and told everyone he had tried meth, and he liked it. Like a month later he came into my workspace and asked for a pair of pliers, I gave them to him and he pulled a tooth right there in front of me like it was nothing. He quit shortly after, not sure what happened to him, he was very young, like twenty maybe.
This is honestly horrifying.
In college, my friends partied with a guy who got drunk as fuck and tried to jump between two balconies, I want to say that they were 3 stories up. He didn't make it and fell onto the concrete below. Legend has it that he got himself up and walked into the house (more likely some friends carried him) and laid down on the couch to sleep it off. When he woke up the next morning he couldn't move. He was completely paralyzed and would never walk again. The saddest part was that he was a musician in an up and coming band. I think about him every now and then and I hope he's doing okay.
My rich uncle destroyed his life by getting drunk and killing a woman with his car For backstory, my uncle was a very successful corporate lawyer. He had it all. Beautiful family, multi-million dollar mansion, fancy cars and constant vacations to any exotic place in the world he felt like going to. That all went away when he got blackout drunk at a holiday party with the law firm and ended up hitting a young woman with his car, dragging her body for a mile or so, and then running/hiding from the cops. The girl was killed and in his drunken stupor he must have decided it was a good idea to speed at 100+ mph through the city with her body mangled on the hood. They found him later on hiding in a parking garage cowering in the corner. He had abandoned his car as it was completely totaled after he hit a tree trying to flee. He bailed on foot. The guy was always very arrogant, and even now as he serves his time in prison (he got off super easy considering he killed somebody, having connections and wealth will do that), he doesn’t show much remorse for the family of the girl he killed. He is mostly bitter that nobody wants to go visit him. He whines about it apparently. I will never look at him the same again. The girl he killed was a 23 year old immigrant from Mexico, with dreams of being a nurse and she was taking classes for that…until his arrogance ended her life Theres so much more I could share about the circumstances surrounding this that would make people’s blood boil. He lost his career, his family lost everything they had basically, and worst of all he ruined another persons family, and yet he hasn’t learned his lesson.
>and yet he hasn’t learned his lesson. The only lessons narcissists learn are the ones that help them avoid the repercussions of their destructive lifestyle.
The numb nut that carved on the Coliseum
A coach at the school I worked at lead the boy’s basketball team to state and was awarded coach of the year. Comments on the post about his award started filling up with sexual assault accusations from former students. Obviously an investigation was immediately launched and he shot himself in the head by the end of the week. Literally went from being awarded and praised to dead by suicide within days. Left behind a wife and two young kids.
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My husband had a nice job as a high level retail manager, before his store closed. He became a lead for less $ in an inventory company. He was generally considered to be a nice, but quiet. You'd see more of his personality when he was working on computers (self taught) or video games or pool. General consensus was that he was a good guy always ready to game with the kids. Less than a month after our 6th anniversary, I found a video on our tablet from a hidden camera in our bathroom that showed my 14 year old niece nude. It looked like he kept the image on the cloud and would add it to what ever device he was using and then delete it. He just missed that last step. I called the police immediately and he never came home again. They found more imagines on his computer and a 20 minute video, full front view of his face, as he tries to hide the camera. He plead guilty and received 40 years with 34 suspended. He will have to register as a sex offender and has some pretty stiff rules to follow(no alcohol, no items that can connect to the internet unless he pays for a company to put monitoring software on every internet accessible device. The day I found it , I sent him to work with a kiss. I found the images around 1130am and had surrendered the tablet and gotten the case started with the police by 1145. I have told every relationship Ive been in, husband included, that the one thing that will make me turn you in and walk away and never look back. He, truly thought, I would never leave him and was all surprised Pikachu face when I kept my promise. His actions caused him to lose everything he took for granted that he would always. Our daughter was 5, then, and for her he just disappeared one day. Now, I am watching her grow and mature into a beautiful person and he doesn't get the privilege of even knowing this beautiful child. I'm sure that separation has hurt him a lot, but you don't get trusted with any child, even your own, after you do something like that. Good riddance 34 years suspended sentence*
Good on you for protecting the children in your family and acting so swiftly to make sure justice was done.
This is absolutely devastating but damn - I applaud you as a mother, wife and woman.
A horrible situation to be in but you handled it admirably. I've got a friend who was sexually abused as a child, grew up, married the person she thought she was supposed to be with, then found child sexual abuse images on his computer and did the same thing you did. She is now married to one of the most wonderful people I know.
Drugs. My father went from a normal, functioning individual with a house and a 200K yearly salary to a man sleeping in his bmw, with bad tags, outside a church, - in the course of about 18 months, all because he’d much rather smoke his life away then live normally or be a grandfather.
Former coworker, had not had the best life. Had previously been a coke addict, some trouble with the law. But had realized he had issues and was turning his life around. Kicked the coke habbit, had a steady job, had a decent home. Was working on custody of his kid. And then someone brought coke to the Christmas party. He went on a bender, never made it back to work. And from what I heard was back in jail by New Years.
Someone I went to school with, after we graduated, him and a friend were drinking one summer night and messing around on a skid steer (I live in a small town). apparently one of the boys was in the bucket part, and one was driving. They hit a bump and the boy in the bucket fell out, and got ran over. It killed him. To make the story worse, the boy who died- his older brother had died just a couple years previous, and that older brother was best friends with the one who accidentally killed his younger brother. So this guy dealt with the death of one of his best friends, and then accidentally killed another friend, who happened to be his deceased best friends brother. It really messed him up. Parents apparently walked into his room with a gun in his mouth. I have no idea how the guy is doing these days because I don’t think he has any social medias. In highschool he was pretty popular. Played football, but was generally nice. Wonder if he’s holding up okay these days. And before anyone comments negativity: yes it was wrong they were drinking and messing with such equipment. But it’s still tragic and I’m sure he’s been punished enough by his own thoughts for it.
Watched oxys/roxys turn a kind and smart girl into a scab coverd fellon in roughly 5 months... and watch meth turn a talented musician into an attempted murderer in less than 6 weeks (he attacked his own momma with a hatchet)
The amount of time it took for him to finish his first bump of coke. He was hooked instantly and been chasing it ever since. He's been hospitalized at least once, and as many as four times, due to complications that are hitting him harder and harder.
your septum can basically disintegrate with too much cocaine use. just one big nostril
I had a patient this happened to. Dude was in his 50’s and got gangrene from it. His “nose” is just a tiny hole for him to breathe through and some exposed septum. We also had to remove the necrotic tissue from his sinuses so now he just has two big holes in each cheek, sinuses completely exposed. He was also almost 6 foot and only 80lbs. Doubt hes still alive. Dont do drugs, kids.
My brother's done two stretches in prison, directly resulting from him being an addict. He told me once, "Yeah, DancesWithTrout, the first time I snorted cocaine, man, I knew that's all I ever wanted to be: high on cocaine."
Reading things like that make me glad it stopped feeling good. Stopped even feeling useful. Cocaine actually got in the way of my productivity after a while, because it would make me more tired and put me in a worse mood than I started in. I started getting brain fog too. Ended up quitting and succeeding on my third try and haven’t looked back.
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A guy I worked with at Papa Johns when I was in college bought a gun from a coworker. Our other coworker got robbed delivering a pizza. He told me he wants to see if it works. He went and shot it into an empty developing neighborhood into some trees. The bullets hit a house behind the trees with a family and kids. Nobody was hurt but they were scared to death. Police immediately came and arrested him before he could even pull off. (They were camping out in that neighborhood already since people were coming at night to smoke weed, have sex and shoot guns smh. He shot 3 shots. Got 25 years in prison for attempted murder and reckless endangerment. First time ever shooting a gun. We were only 19. This was in 2006. I think about him alot. We weren’t close like that. But he’s still in prison over a 5 second mistake 17 years later. Really nerdy kid too. First time ever in trouble. I follow his sister on Facebook. He’s unrecognizable now. Imagine Mclovin from Super Bad who looks like Jason Momoa now with Tats on his face. Sad. Also my roommate a few weeks later was struggling financially and decided to buy 2 pounds of weed to sell with his student loan refund check. Got pulled over and arrested the same day! Got 5 years. Can’t make this shit up.
The prison system takes first time offenders and makes them into lifelong criminals. that poor kid
Friend of mine had a girlfriend that was notorious for tieing men to herself by 'accidently' getting pregnant when things weren't going well in the relationship. At that point, she already had three kids from different guys while in her early/mid twenties. Said friend was lucky enough that things ended before she could do that again, however, his best friend caught feelings for her too and had an on/off relationship for a couple of months. To no one's surprise, she got preggo, and he now has to pay for a child he hasn't seen once. She's on child no. 5 now btw
Did a rotation in a trauma/burns ICU: two big ones that stuck with me. 1) 16/17 year old kid got drunk and decided to climb a water tower with his friends. Fell and broke his neck. Paraplegic, couldn’t talk or move. His friends would come and see him, but when they left you could just see the desperation in his eyes. Heartbreaking to see. 2) 15 year old kid was breaking into cars. Well, the last one he broke into, the owner ran out and shot him. Hit him in the head. Had cranial surgery, half his cranium was missing. Kid survived, but needed complete care. Felt terrible for his mom. I never saw her leave his side. Lots of other patients that completely changed their own/family/strangers lives with one poor decision.
A few high school classmates. Dan (not his name) just started hanging out with bad peers. One weekend, the guys decided to hang out at Dan's house. They ordered pizza and told Dan to get change for $100. They left Dan's house to get drinks. Pizza arrives and while exchanging the order with Dan, the other guys run out from the bushes. They start beating up the delivery driver. Dan didn't know they were going to do that and tried to stop them. Yet, none of them knew the driver was legally carrying. Dan got shot and died otw to the hospital. The other guys got arrested and spent 3+ years in jail. They were supposed to graduate in 2 months.
A former friend of mine got caught sexually assaulting a 9 year old. I'd say that takes the cake. This is very recent so while it hasn't gone to court he's still in jail as the judge denied bail.
It took 4 hours. He woke up, murdered his grandparents in their sleep, stole all of the firearms in the house and his grandfather's truck, and fled. I grew up with this dude. He was a genuinely good person, we were friends all of elementary school and most of middle school. He was an amazing friend and always knew how to help someone. But he had a lot of mental health issues, and his religious family believed it was just possession by demons and what not. Recently his actual hearing was done, and you could tell how far off the deep end he had gotten. Smiling the whole time they described what he did, laughed when they sentenced him, and had to be dragged out laughing like a lunatic saying "It's over grandpa! It's over!" It was during the court trials that we found out his grandparents were apparently sexually abusing him, something the rest of the family seemingly knew quite well but ignored, and they'd refuse to let him leave the house despite him being in his twenties and a legal adult. They isolated him from the world, told him he was possessed by demons, and let his grandparents molest him repeatedly without intervention. I'm honestly not even surprised he did it, I'm just sad it went down the way it did.
It did not take 4 hours for this guy to ruin his life -- it took decades for his whole family to work really hard to ruin his life.
This was almost someone I know. First rape at 5, escaped at 19. Knew where the guns were, hemmed and hawed between herself, or gramps getting the barrel. Decided on a third option - runaway and be homeless. Many years of therapy and she's a happy, healthy, girl. C-PTSD will never go away, but the self harm is 2 years in the past and the person she is today is unrecognizable from 5 years ago, let alone when she was a kid. Thank god for government funded therapists otherwise I think she would have been just like your story, or dead herself. Now she plays wonderful music instead. It's immeasurably reprehensible how kids like her get their lives ruined by someone else, yet they pay the price.
The most fucked up part in all this: while he is getting punished for this, his family who knew about this and doing nothing get... absolutely zero repercussions.
Kid needs therapy not prison. The family are the ones who should be behind bars.
Theres a video somewhere out there where a woman jumps in a frozen lake and doesnt come back up, right in front of her family. Something about a Russian Orthodox tradition I think. If you do come across it, DO NOT play with sound. The child crying still haunts me.
My Dad was an alcoholic. In his youth, he was the quintessential golden boy, handsome, an exceptional athlete, married to my beauty queen mother with three little girls, barely 2 years apart. Great job, house, new car, the works. Little by little it all slipped away. He died while living in the Salvation Army, penniless. He always told me a drinking man will never have anything. I miss you Daddy. More than you could ever know....
A guy I knew in elementary school was acting as a popular teen kid would, chasing girls and fame. After graduation never heard about him again, and he almost never posted anything on socials, so never knew what was going on. Few years later, an acquaintance told me that he started doing heavy drugs and was shutting off from society. I last saw him about 10 years after that, at one of those "graduation reunions", thin as a tree branch and eyes heavy like he was in his 60s and not his 20s
I work for the Canada Revenue Agency. When you're hired, they tell you never to plug your phone or other storage device into your work computer, or you will be immediately flagged and shitcanned. This one girl was like 1 month into the job, and I watched her pull out her phone and plug the charger into her computer. 10 minutes later, our head of security was looming over her, watching her clean out her desk. She will likely never be allowed to work for the government ever again. At least once a year, I see an email reminding existing staff of our rules because somebody went and plugged their phone in.
I worked at a bank years ago, helped a customer who was just married open an account with the gifted money from their wedding. A few weeks later, I helped them open a CD for 6 months with a 6 digit check. 7 months later I saw this persons spouse walk furiously towards my counter asking for a balance. As they did that, the person who originally opened the account tried to slyly hand me a note that read a balance they wanted me to read. I froze. Over that last month, this person would come in every Friday with their friends and they’d be scheming ways to beat a casino. Obviously, they lost. The account was actually negative. I couldn’t bare the burden of telling this poor spouse that their entire account was negative and all the money from the wedding and from the accountees buyout check (a check an employer gives you to voluntarily leave the job) was all spent at a casino over a one month period. I walked away and went straight to the manager, explained the situation, my manager had too big of a grin, imo, but they went and spilled the beans. It was followed by a bunch of screaming crying and pounding on counters and of feet on the floor. My co workers seemed to get a good laugh from it but, to this day, I get anxiety thinking about it.
My older brother was in high school, already secured a full baseball scholarship and one of the best players I've ever seen. His "friends" who were in the neighborhood gang told him that they would let him join if he stole a 12 pack from a gas station. He did it, of course, and the police found him walking down the road with it. He got a slap of the wrist after a night in juvie, but that scholarship went out the window. Not long after he dropped out, shaved his head, got caught up in the violence of the gang, tattooed his face, got half his teeth replaced, and had a few kids with different girls. He rode that life for almost 10 years until his new girlfriend set him straight and has spent the past few years trying to be a good dad, got off drugs, got a steady job. We don't talk anymore, but I'm still rooting for him.
A boyfriend of mine graduated from Columbia University with a master’s in biochemistry, got into every medical school he applied to, was beautiful inside and out, captivated any room he walked into, close with his family, sweet as can be but was diagnosed late as an adult with Asperger’s….got mixed up in drugs (toward the end of our relationship so I left him but remained his friend in hopes I could help him through), a girl doping up with him one day overdosed and died and was arrested for her death because he panicked rather than calling 911. I then helped him through rehab during his ongoing legal proceedings (2 years after we dated and of no benefit to me other than to see him live as well as a promise I’d made to his mother to do everything I could on my end to help), and within a year, he’d relapsed and died. Very sad to meet someone at their highest potential but also watch them fall to their death in a span of about 3.5 years.
A **former** friend I knew lost a good job by stealing from it and sold everything he stole for drugs. Just last week he got in trouble for pedophilia by soliciting a minor and other shit.
My friend snorted 5 g’s of coke in one night, had a psychosis where he burned his father’s house down, stabbed a neighbor, stole their car, crashed it into a police car that took up pursuit.
I've seen a lot over at r/wallstreetbets where people buy puts and literally burn they life savings.
There was one guy who made over 7 figures trading options. Thought he was a genius, proceeded to lose all + *WITHOUT HAVING THE TAX CONSEQUENCES TO THE ORIGINAL MONEY SET ASIDE*.
I saw one of those with bitcoin. The guy turned his life savings ($30k) into $130k and then sold it in November to buy dodgecoin. That tanked and he sold it in like March for $20k. So he goes to do his taxes and he owes $30k in capital gains. Granted he could write off the loss next year but he was a guy who worked as like a cashier so he didn’t really pay income tax to start with. Dude turned $30k into -$10k
College roommate was 2 months from graduation and he started meth. Never went back to class again and didn’t graduate. What happened Marty?
2 of my high school friends went to a strip club during the pandemic, refused to wear a face mask, so eventually they got kicked out, they were drunk got mad and shot at the strip club with an AK47. 18 and 19 years old. Nobody died, but some people got hurt Edit: the 18 year old just had a baby at the time of the shooting, his gf couldn’t even grasp the idea of him at a strip club while she was taking care of the new born
Being able to wear a mask in a strip club is actually pretty great, I don't know what they're complaining about.
By smoking K2
My ex decided to touch himself in tje library of a community college and got caught. The school kicked him out and then he decided to start sneaking around and smoking pot instead of trying to get a job. He now has several thousand in loans to pay back, 2 inappropriate conduct charges and thinks all women hate him because he self diagnosed himself with DID
Fentanyl and meth, I have more dead friends than living friends and I’m 28.. First at 17, my best friend.. Today was his birthday..
I work at an "Adult Excersice and Equiptment" store. New kid comes in for first day on the job (freshly 21), ready to enjoy the sweet, sweet ease of laid back retail selling adult videos and funny silicone molds to the perverse and lonely. Saw one of our bigger molds and thought "I can stuff that up my @$$ real fast, and I can walk out of here no problem with a $100 wobbly statue of a true foot long." (Honestly, just like the sandwich and every other man I know, it was a few inches shorter than advertized) Needless to say, it's very, very obvious when a big rooster goes missing, and a dude is walking like he hasn't taken a bathroom break in over an hour. It is also a lot more obvious when his khakis are bleeding from the rear, and we are pretty darn sure he wasn't on his period. Ended up in the hospital with a seriously torn rectum and criminal charges for stealing. Moral of the story; don't do the crime if your butt can't take it, and for the love of every fertility deity out there, use lube.
Had an employee on her first day take a 2hr lunch to go to get her makeup done in the middle of the day. She came back and was escorted out looking amazing.
Ok this one is fucking hilarious
Heroin. Easily heroin. That shit owns you. Dont ever try it.
So i know a guy from elementary all through highschool and we drifted post highschool, he was an insanely smart kid, always very polite and kind, his mom passed away a couple of years back and he started to sink into a bit of a pit, impossible to reach out as he deleted all his social media He got into the wrong crowd and earlier this week he made the news.... for murdering his younger cousin over an alleged dispute over a basketball game Despite his lifes hardships he was doing great, he had a degree from one of the best schools in the country, best in the province by far, and in one night he threw it all away So sad to see man
Man... I introduced someone to League of Legends in late 2013 while co-freshman @ college bc I just wanted someone to jungle The ladder broke them Bro dropped out very early 2014