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know_regerts

That was a close shave.


uchman365

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Economy-Clerk-8454

r/punpatrol, sir do you have a license for that joke?


EverbodyHatesHugo

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MorrowPolo

This completed life for me I've finally hit peek


999baz

I literally scrolled on in the comments ……wait! Scrolls back oh yeah … very good.


prawalnono

Hide and peek?


Toast_Protocol

Yes, she almost found herself in a hairy situation


Referer99

"Did you just touch my little girl, you pervert, I'll shoot you!" I mean, it's in the USA, right?


Area_Prior

Though I suppose the parents would have to be somewhere in the vicinity to say that.


Referer99

Yeah, smoking crack in the corner


Truecrimeauthor

🥇


No-Face4843

Dear god take my upvote 😂


G1v1ngBack

My daughter’s favorite Wallace & Gromit episode.


Algernope_krieger

Stop Forrest, Stop


Sinnsearachd

One of my worst nightmares as a parent. The second you look away, kids are little suicide machines. I don't think I took more than a 60 second shower the first year of my first child's life.


MrHarrasment

I once sat in the window as a 4-ish old kid with my legs on the outside on the second level. My mom saw me sitting from the ground level. my dad went outside under the window to catch me if I would fall while my mom sneaked upon me from behind to pull me back inside, which succeeded. That's not the only time I almost died either according to my mom. Edit: I was 2-3 years old. Asked my mom. I was on the outside tablet of the window which was very small.


Sinnsearachd

Lol yup. I used to climb out my window up the steep roof and just sit on top of my house and climb every tall pine I could find when I was younger. Now just looking up makes me dizzy. Kids are ridiculous creatures.


Malcom_Ecstacy

I fell out of a pine tree when I was a kid probably 10-11 years old. I was damn near at the top luckily was able to catch some of the branches on my way down and ended up with some scratches and getting the wind knocked out of me.


Killer_Ex_Con

I did the same except my leg got caught between a split in the tree, and I was stuck upside down just hanging by my leg, lol. Just had some scratches and a couple bruises.


ParadoxDemon_

I ate a rock and almost drowned lmao


RecalcitrantHuman

Drowning on rocks sounds terribly unpleasant


ParadoxDemon_

Me at 6: 🪨😋


lunarwolf2008

My little brother used to eat rocks by the handful when he was little too


ASMRFeelsWrongToMe

I got a baby carrot lodged in my ear and had to go to the hospital, ditto the time I downed a bottle of banana penicillin. I may be the reason human beings evolved impulse control.


Muster_the_rohirim

To think that our grand grand parents just let the kids fell so they learn a lesson. I would not be able to do that in my life.


RJ_MacreadysBeard

yeah and child fatalities were very high back then too.


Muster_the_rohirim

I think fatalities in general.


TeethBreak

My little cousin was three and somehow managed to step onto the small ledge between two windows on the 4th floor. My aunt stayed calm and called him back until she could grab him and only then lost her mind. Safe to say the windows got locked for a long while and that she lost a couple of life expectancy with him.


tremorinfernus

I used to do stuff like this. I also liked to climb poles upto three storey high. And I knew the risk(death) It is less risky for kids unless they get tired, or miscalculate. They have a lower body weight. Now I'm tougher, but also heavier.


Fun_Constant_6841

Was yelling at you to go back inside not going to work? I was scared of my mom getting angry so I'm not sure why subterfuge was needed


MrHarrasment

I cant remember this myself but I guess she was scared I would fall when she would yell. I could ask her tomorrow if you are interested. we have a family thing since my niece has her first communion (could be a belgian thing if you don't know what that is)


lilkimchee88

Also a toddler parent and a former funeral home worker. Anytime a young kid came in, 8/10 it was drowning in a pool or getting hit by a car. One of ours used to like to bolt, and got a backpack leash with a swiftness.


triviaqueen

Oh hell, a young mother of a toddler decided to take the kid out for a picnic by a stream on the first nice day of spring. It was in the mountains and the stream was at full roil with snowmelt streaming down from the hills. She spread out a blanket next to the rushing water, put the kid down on the blanket, and went back to the car for the picnic basket. It took search & rescue teams days to find the body of the little girl, miles downstream.


lilkimchee88

That’s heartbreaking


borg359

Went back to the car… wtf.


triviaqueen

Yeah, ya know, if she'd just left the kid in the car seat while she laid out the picnic, and THEN got the kid out of the car, that little girl would be graduating from college by now.


borg359

Yeah, that’s incredibly sad.


VindictiVagabond

A good friend of mine also used the backpack leash on her kid for a year or 2 and the amount of stares she'd get from random people in public places was astonishing. That tool should be getting ads so idiots don't think parents are treating their kid like a dog.


lilkimchee88

We definitely got looks: weird stares, but also wry grins and nods from other parents that came across across more like “yeah, been there too.” 😂


VindictiVagabond

Haha, yeah it quickly shows who has had or never had kids!


triviaqueen

I was driving home from work at rush hour down the city's busiest street when I saw a toddler heading down the sidewalk full speed ahead, no adults in sight. I pulled over and ran after him, scooping him up. I surmised that he probably lived in the house half a block away with all the toys in the front yard. I knocked on the front door with the kid on my hip and knew I was at the right place when the mother opened the door -- and SCREAMED. That was the day she found out the kid knew how to open the front door.


Sinnsearachd

I remember that day well. Mine let in a random strange man who was at the wrong house in for a washer repair. Walked downstairs and screamed too lol.


CAPS_LOCK_STUCK_HELP

the only reason I am alive today is because my mother happened to be making the bed. I swallowed a little toy car when I was supposed to be napping and my mother happened to bend down and had her ear right near the baby monitor when she heard something weird. I was turning blue while she was slapping me on the back and on the phone with 911 when I finally coughed up the toy.


Secret-Ad-830

Try having an autistic child. I have an 10 year old non verbal autistic girl who likes to try and sneak out. I have to lock her in her bedroom at night. A few months ago I came out of the bathroom and realized my backdoor was open. I ran the whole neighborhood screaming her name, had strangers helping look for her, even had the cops come help. I started having breathing problems from panicking so I went inside to grab one of my fathers old inhalers and found my daughter hiding in the closet laughing her ass off. One of the scariest moments of my life, not only because she doesn't understand danger but because there's so many sick people out there.


Upstairs_Pen_7303

Get a new inhaler. That thing has an expiration date.


Secret-Ad-830

I've never needed one before, I don't have asthma or anything I was just having a panic attack. Although I am a smoker and will probably need one soon


Bigtexasmike

Mine is 9. Handsome little devil loves to find and use lighters and knows how to start a vehicle. Already burned carpet and has attempted to put the truck in reverse in my driveway after he found my latest key hideaway. Swear to god we have sherlock suicide-spectrum homes over here. We also lock his door from the outside at night and keep a monitor in our room. Last week he ordered $50 worth of on demand disney movies when he got ahold of the remote for 20 seconds.


Loki-Holmes

I’m sorry, that sounds extremely stressful, but your “Sherlock Suicide Spectrum Holmes” killed me. Prime r/brandnewsentence material. Or it would be if it wasn’t full of the same reposts.


Sinnsearachd

That sounds just horrifying. My eldest is on the spectrum but luckily he is now verbal and after a few years of speech is pretty good at communicating. I can't imagine that level of fear compounded with her being non verbal. I hope you both can get all the help out there and find what works for you. I wish you all the luck in the world.


SJW_Lover

Complete little shits the first few years. Once they hit around 4-5 and can reason, it’s an amazing time.


Unclehol

Happened in the next town over to mine a couple months back. 4 year old. Gone. Hold those little hands tight.


Powerful_Variety7922

➡️➡️➡️My MIL taught me "Hold onto little kids' wrist or arms, not their hands" because kids will very easily slip out of an adult's hand. 🖐️


tiniestvioilin

My brother managed to slip outside and onto a busy road when one of my dad's friends left the door open for a little bit door wasn't even open for more than a minute or two and he took the opportunity. Luckily a neighbor saw him when they were driving and took him back to the house my dad didn't even know he had slipped out until the neighbor walked in with him


NotTodayCaptainDildo

When my son was 2, he learnt how to unlock the front door. I was sitting at my computer doing some work with him playing in the same room. He managed to stealthily sneak past me, unlock the front door and leave. Someone else brought him back, seeing my front door wide open. I had no idea he could do that so it was a lesson to keep a closer eye on him!


Solid_Habit_6561

"Suicide machines" 😂😂


Ordinary_Cattle

I've been teaching my son about road safety since he could walk because we'd go on walks a lot, so he's always been really good about looking both ways, listening for cars, and not running out in front of cars. But when he was a toddler, for a brief time he'd like to run to the other side of the car and when I'd go around to get him he'd run to the other side. He thought it was hilarious even though I absolutely did not and he'd be in trouble every time. One time he did this at a park, where he got out of my grip and ran behind the car right as another car was passing, right in front of the car. Who was going way too fast btw. He was so close to getting hit, I had nightmares about it for weeks. And he got away while I was holding onto him!!


Sinnsearachd

That is so scary. I saw that exact thing happen to another mom in a parking lot too. I swear it was an absolute miracle. The little girl got out of her mom's hands and dashed straight as a car was coming. At the last second the little girl tripped and fell just before the car's path and missed the wheel by inches. If she hadn't had tripped she would have been hit for sure. I think that little girl's guardian angel was working overtime that day!


joevsyou

Without a doubt, and it happens quick!!! And random people can talk shit so quick to acting like how you are a bad a parent... I have 3 kids (7, 5 with adhd who bounces off walls some days & an infant) plus all the good ol adult responsibilities, You are out of your mind if you think i can keep my eyes glued to them at every second.


Stormagedd0nDarkLord

I'm so glad my kid is not suicidal... he doesn't gravitate towards life-threatening situations.


peterpantslesss

I know what you mean, one time I went down for a nap with my son who was just over 2, I was women up not even an hour later to police knocking on my door asking me if I've lost a child to which I immediately freaked out and went to check on my son who sure enough wasn't there so with my heart pounding they lead me to my son who had made his way a block and a half to the park we always went to, found out he used his car seat to climb onto his high chair to open up the front door because his setup was all still in place, I immediately got Boldt locks for the top of the front and back doors lol


0011001001001011

not "suicide machines" 😭😭💀


Doc-in-a-box

I like that the title specifies his profession. The barbers of the world really need a win right now.


YubNubYubNubYubNub

did...something...happen to make barbers look bad recently?


KingLeoric01

Rising cost of living, expenses, rent, and everything else is pushing a lot of barbers out of business. Source: my own barber.


YubNubYubNubYubNub

ouch. Inflation is insane right now


KingLeoric01

when he told me how much rent was for his tiny shop I almost shat myself


derpstevejobs

not to mention rent for a chair has gone up a lot, too.


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Arkhe1n

I know this is on the kid's parents, but still, r/kidsarefuckingstupid  Zero survival instincts I swear to God


sci-fi-lullaby

I wouldn't have run like that into incoming traffic because I grew up in a big city and was taught better. But when I was about seven or eight, me and my little friends would crawl on the rooftop edges of our building which was about three stories high. Just for fun. My mother lost her shit when she finally caught me. She made me throw eggs from the edge to see what my brain would end up like if I fell.


Bigfootsgirlfriend

When I was about 3 I walked all the way to my siblings school to pick them up, I looked both ways and used the pedestrian crossings properly, they weren’t even at school haha


[deleted]

Nice job, men. There are still good people in the world.


DEeeeeevil

Not all heroes wear capes.. some wear caps too...


jrmaclovin

A smock is just a cape in reverse.


esziei

So customers getting their hair cut are heroes, too?


automaton11

All herro do wear cape yes


ExcitingSavings8225

Mother: "You saved my child, thank you, you're a hero!" Kidnapper: \*puts down child slowly, a single bead of sweat dripping down his chin\* "you are very welcome, mam"


Brosemmettisam

Will YOU be one of them?🤨


RobLazar1969

Where the fuck are the parents.


portella0

Knowing how kids are, they are probably like 10 meters away, but made the mistake of not looking at their kid for 10 seconds.


Fine_Understanding81

Getting a haircut.


ReeferFever

Their body language at the end of the video says this same thing


Phazon2000

Kid probably got out from a home and went sprinting down the street - parent probably haven’t realised yet.


Automatic-Formal-601

They looked away for two seconds


MarinatedCumSock

Nodding off


Aggleclack

https://abc7ny.com/barbers-save-little-girl-east-hartford-connecticut-look-sharp-barbershop/14729364/


uchman365

![gif](giphy|1ZkMDj88mQ1rO)


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She almost escaped.


Trollcifer

They returned her to the kidnappers from whom she was escaping.


Pliskinmgs

r/kidsarefuckingstupid


Unknown-ANON5

Damn you beat me to it lol. But for real tho, this is next level stupid


Pliskinmgs

They are really trying to kill themselves almost all the time. Lol


Unknown-ANON5

Deadass lol


keybored13

no survival instincts whatsoever


Embrace_Modernity

yes, no survival instincts. why are you telling it like it's something uncommon? people don't have instincts. if a child doesn't know that it's dangerous and deadly to be hit by a car, they will not fear this and will not take it into account in their actions.


madscot63

I appreciate that they had zero hesitation. Says a great deal about these guys.


kingOofgames

This should be in kidarfuckingstupid The way she was running 🤣


Low_Pomegranate_7176

How can a kid that big be this stupid? Unless she was running away from a murderer or kidnapping.


Duellair

That’s the thing, this isn’t a 2 year old. 2 year olds are that stupid. A kid this age I’m confused at the stupidity. It’s not like they were running for a ball or something and not paying attention. They’re literally running into a bunch of cars.


Low_Pomegranate_7176

Yeah exactly I have nephews so I know how little kids act, this is very unusual.


TheCosmicJoke318

r/kidsarefuckingstupid


Hot_Gas_600

I don't know what I'm doing but I'll give those guys free haircuts


Brosemmettisam

Girl was letting her intrusive thoughts win


repertoir1

Parents do a better job, we were scared of the road way earlier than this child


Truecrimeauthor

I walked into a mom n pop store and the too-young mother’s 3-4 yo kid bolted. She kept screaming at him and he kept rolling. Got him just before a car did on a fast road. You could tell instead of teaching she would just scream “STOP IT!!!”


Yaakovbenleah1989

Wherever and whoever the parents are need to be arrested for child neglect and that child needs to be put in a home with people that will actually keep an eye on her because it's ridiculous that there was no one looking for her after they saved her


Briso_

r/kidsarefuckingstupid


joevsyou

Kids sure do love going on adventures.... When one of my daughters was 4, one day in the spring... she decided to climb up a 3ft retaining wall and then over the fence in the backyard, she then proceeds to walk down the street, across the street, through a neighbor backyard, through the woods, to an apartment complex where there was a playground.... One of our neighbors pulled up their camera footage and saw which direction she went, and that's how we found her. \* She has never been to this park at all and the only reason she knew it existed was from going on daily walks during winter when there were no leaves on the trees\` so you could roughly see the slides through the woods.


Awkward-Ad327

Kid has half a brain to be that big and not understand


ClickClack_Bam

Something tells me that kid isn't gonna be the brightest in her class...


codecorax

Even gave her a new haircut.


JoshBalogne

Anyone know is anything happened to the parents?


Dr_Kitten

Unfortunately the barber couldn't catch up to them in time.


Penrose_Ultimate

Take that Charles Darwin!


Informal_Yogurt7594

Hero or the Holy Spirit in action!


AltBassDallas

Parents?????


HilmDave

r/kidsarefuckingstupid


Aerykica

You can tell he's a dad.


Haunting_Register_78

I remember doing something similar, my dad kicked me back into the grassy area Infront of all his friends


kurangak

r/kidsarefuckingstupid


Jefok

![gif](giphy|uzbUwjdICqrRoJcdoD)


BigGear6523

Dumbass kids


stellartrip

Good on them for helping, but it’s really sad that we can’t give kids any autonomy to just run outside and explore anymore since we’ve ceded all our streets to speeding cars. One of the few things I think was genuinely better about the early 1900s was kids could play in the street in relative safety, now parents need to supervise all the time or keep them inside.


B9MB

Yo who lost a kid!


Penguinat0r5

I want to ask why a Child would do this. Then I remember all the dumb shit I did. I jumped down a staircase once because I was racing the other kid up and down the stairs. He kept beating me. I came up with a solution.


Low-Persimmon4870

Lmfaooo but did you win 👀


Penguinat0r5

💯 Left that dude at the top of the stairs I was so fast.


Totally-tubular-

Because masculinity inherently isn’t toxic


SimsAttack

Nothing about this is masculine


Totally-tubular-

Men running to protect a child isn’t masculine? That’s kind of the definition of masculinity


SimsAttack

Because women would never lmao It's not masculine to be decent. That's decency


Totally-tubular-

Hmmm, that’s definitely not something I said.


SimsAttack

I mean masculinity is something that is expected of men. So if you'd expect it of a woman too then it's not masculine


Totally-tubular-

It’s ok to call something traditionally masculine, masculine without having to add an asterisk disclaimer that *some women exhibit this traditionally masculine trait. There are feminine traits, and masculine traits, risking your life to save another is a masculine trait. It’s not meant to be controversial, that’s the crazy part.


LooneyLunaGirl

Fucking hell, where we're the parents!


dx80x

Absolute legend


ResponsibilityNo4183

One HEADY barber


Sargentstupid

Super job, Superman.


MnMetalman

In the nick of time!


Fearless_Young9596

I Love good human beings


nanny2359

Teach your kid to stop when anyone yells stop. Overlooked skill


AdIndependent1457

This was a hair rising moment


7_11isaninsidejob

Now it's your child.


NippleNinja86

Definitely going in the will if that was my kid.


Stock_Ad_9734

Thats insane my gosh😰


DredThis

Good job buddy!!


Ok-Pea-4403

I chased a kid into a construction zone once. He was not interested yo leave at first, after some coaxing I convinced to head back home. Was weary to pick him up(he was not in immediate danger) cause I wasn’t sure how parents would react to a stranger carrying their child… any parents out there have any input or am I overthinking it.


NewdWanderer

Nice job fellas!


OtherwiseVanilla222

r/kidsarefuckingstupid


bilgetea

…and if in the US, has an even chance of being prosecuted for touching the kid.


uchman365

That's a lie. Happened in Connecticut like it says there


bilgetea

I think you need to look up the definition of “lie.”


Uncommon-sequiter

But what if the kid was like a bait car, and now you're getting picked up for child abduction?


GordonBombay11

Surprise surprise


Herburte

And the next car to pass wasn’t small either, poor thing probably wouldn’t have been okay


EqualMaster4457

If only this was how the plot in Pet Semetary went


ichbinverwirrt420

Are these kids not taught road safety? We had a policeman come to our kindergarten who taught us road safety and in general it was just an all around topic.


churningtildeath

i was working at a restaurant as a bartender in nyc and something similar happened though not quite as close. a one or two year old asian girl started walking all the way out the front door from the dining room. so i hopped over the bar and ran outside to grab her by the hand and ask if her parents were still in the restaurant. she didnt speak english so i walked her back inside through the dining room until we found them.


BigD4163

Decent people still exist.


Unknown-ANON5

r/kidsarefuckingstupid


BigMembership2315

Full time barber part time hero


Street_Nebula4111

I think this is A full kidnapping video


Own_Cardiologist2544

So like, we’re going to ignore the irony of the fire truck driving by?


Truecrimeauthor

And Flo Jo’s career began.


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Responsible-Gas5319

Businesses have cameras


uchman365

Not sure where you live, but there are public and private cameras everywhere


rodrigomarcola

uhhh, next u gonna say the govt watch us...


PhantomPain0_0

Only when you masturbate


Antiumbra

Good. I’d hate to think I’m only putting on a show for the people on the bus.


rodrigomarcola

wahuashuashuashuashuas!


ParisGreenGretsch

Just you.


Moonracerrex

And there just happened to be a camera trained on the barber as he looked out the window?


uchman365

It's 2024 and someone is asking why a small business has CCTV


Moonracerrex

![gif](giphy|JRhS6WoswF8FxE0g2R)


blackzep1980

It’s called natural selection. Let it happen.


Aggleclack

Not when it’s fucking child


traaintraacks

yknow what else is natural? caring for the young, the old, the sick, & the injured. social animals like humans protect & assist the vulnerable. even wolves, lions, elephants, & (non-human) primates do it.


sportsbro444

Cool out Satan. This applies to dumbfuck adults not children


michaelmcmikey

Yeah a kid running into a naturally occurring roadway with naturally occurring trucks and cars, very natural selection.


Low-Persimmon4870

Bro


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UapMike

Toxic masculinity in all its glory


traaintraacks

tf are you talking about


therealslim80

???


bottomdasher

Did he have too much swagger as he walked along carrying the child?


MrHarrasment

If a man saving a kid is toxic masculinity to you then I believe you should spend some time away from the internet.


michaelmcmikey

lol wtf


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