#8 (Black cats and Halloween): on November 5, 2007, I saw a black cat wandering around a remote area where I daily hike. On the third day of seeing this cat, I approached him and took him home (and had him neutered and vaccinated, etc.). I wondered, given the time frame, that someone "adopted" him just for a prop for a Halloween party, then dumped him afterwards. Their loss... he was the best cat I ever had.
I found my kitty in the backyard he was the runt of the litter, it took twice as long for him to grow but today he is 12 lbs!! Black cats are the best. I plan to continue rescuing and care 🥰❣also my coo coo neighbor suggested I was a witch because I was talking about cats 🤔 so the superstitions continue 🤦♀️
@@DecibelAlex Thats horrific,there are so many dangers to cats,I'm very sorry. I would always hope they were taken in by someone nice. I have lost several cats to unknown circumstances,lots of male cats wander a bit too far from home,just curious was it a male?I had a male tuxedo cat and he would be missing for months,I think someone unknowingly kept and fed him that whole time,later on I would see him sitting in multipe neighbor's windows. That cat had little old ladies cooking for him! Man I miss that cat a dog killed him in the end R.I.P a pit bull escaped an abusive home,and in the end they put 4 dogs down sad sad story,but in the end we do the best we can with the time we're given,sorry for the sob 😢😭
Gobs...it's a mystery we don't have nightmares about these critters...they undoubtedly bother us, but not enough that our subconscious becomes bothered! This is the best sign we're okay!
I actually had a spider crawl in my ear a few moments after I had settled down to sleep at 11:30pm. At first, I thought the tickling sensation was just a piece of my hair that needed tucking out of the way. But when I felt it move inside my ear, I knew better. After waiting in the ER for over 4.5 hours, they finally removed it by putting some castor oil in my ear canal to which the spider objected & tried to hightail it out of there only to be caught by some tweezers. I was wrecked the next day & skipped work. Ever since, I have been slightly paranoid & now sleep with my hair in a ponytail that allows my hair to cover my ears.
Just Listen...during this nonsense, and I mean after the true effect of this virus was discovered everything should have opened back! I'm starting, sorry! I bet RUclips became the most visited site online! It has for me!
If you think what people do to cats is bad you should see what they do to disabled people. By "they" I mean social services etc. I represent people with disputes with social services and the DWP (UK welfare system). The number of deaths I know of due to abuse from both organisations is horrifying. Country wide it is in the tens of thousands.
@@gordonlawrence1448 Any form of abuse to humans or animals stinks. It deserves harsh penalties. The innocent and less able should be protected as precious for the sake of a better society, and simply because it would be RIGHT.
@@gordonlawrence1448 Peaceful protest, vote them out of office, make a whole lot of noise about the problem, get people involved, do exposes, don't give up. Do the right things yourself, and teach the young especially your own to do the same. Teach by example. Volunteer time doing the RIGHT thing. Report those that don't wherever and whenever you can. Might make some difference.
I'll take half the quantity. I have taken in 4 black cats over the years because it is all the fashion to get one then toss it out. The cats then hide in my backyard until I feel bad and take them in.
Escalators are perfectly safe if you ride them correctly. Problem is, kids and young adults who play on them and thinking they're fun. Or people trying to run up the down escalator, etc. The steps aren't meant to be walked up, their edges are super sharp and the steps are slick (usually from machine oil & grease, etc). If you stumble, you're going to cut yourself open. I've seen it happen dozens and dozens of time at the mall I worked at. 19 year old kids thinking they're cute trying to run up the escalator and stumbling, taking a nice little chunk out of their forehead. You wanna lose an eyeball? Have at it. My only complaint was the poor janitor who had to clean up all that blood...
@@timothyneiswander3151 When I was a kid, I had a brief moment of being social when normally I preferred to be indoors and decided to join the other kids in the neighborhood for a game of tag that evening. The instant I went outside, I saw a black cat under someone's car. My animal loving self wanted to pet it but let it go; we weren't allowed to have pets and the last thing I needed was it getting attached. Except...I have no idea what compelled me to go outside very early the next morning, before the sun had even risen. I opened the door, clicked my teeth a few times and to my utter surprise, the cat was there and came up to me! Holy crap, I was stunned! I...took it in with me. I petted it in my room for a while before letting it back out but through my bedroom window. Our front door was easily visible from the landlord's office. In my head, I named it Princess, as a twelve year old does (had I thought about it, I would've named it Luna, like from Sailor Moon. Yes, even less original, lol). The cat began to know my bedroom and so I could call it in the middle of the night. But the landlord found out somehow. I remember coming inside one day and he was in our house, asking my mom about it. Naturally I lied, I had no idea what he was talking about. And I didn't keep the cat inside for longer than an hour and never beyond my bedroom. But still. I wouldn't see Princess again after that. One of the neighborhood kids claimed the landlord had shot the cat behind the administrative building of the apartment complex but I'd like to not believe that. Also, hindsight being 20/20, Princess was a boy so Prince would've been a better name for him :) I so wish I could've adopted him.
My long skirt got caught in an escalator in a department store once when me and my grandson were shopping. I got free but then fell all the way down the stairs in front of everyone. My grandson was traumatised by it (he was a toddler at the time) but I wasn’t really hurt, just a few bruises. I think that the shop clerks almost had heart attacks.
I would be traumatized if I saw that, and youre just a name for me, plus Im an adult! Glad it didnt end any worse than that, but boy, your grandson *must* remember it forever and then some.. I love maxi-dresses, you better believe Ill be paying special attention to escalators, starting this summer. Whooh, full-body shivers. Thats scary!
How did it get caught? Probably a dumb question but aside from tripping getting off the escalator, I'm not sure where the other danger spots are. I've also not been on an escalator in ages so there's that too, lol.
Minerva Lynch - Im sure! That kind of memory lasts a lifetime. Im still real happy you both are ok today. Ill be thinking about your tumble for a long time, I just know it.
The same goes for kittens (baby rabbits) during Easter . They do make wonderful house companions but like any adolescent animal, are a lot of work. Most people either release them into the wild after a few weeks where they have no chance of survival, or if they are fortunate they end up in an animal rescue ( chances in either situation of survival is slim.)
And ducklings and chicks. People dont realize that without a mother to teach them to drink, eat, survive, they dont stand a chance. It took me 3 days to get my first baby duck to eat food and it was terrifying. Its disappointing that these babies are cheap and easy to buy around Easter.
OMG my dad stuck his head out of a car window and had some sort of hard shell bug hit him in the ear. It just made his ear bleed, but my mom got a nice 'told ya so' over on him.
The baby monitor one is though far more serious then it might seem at the surface. That someone tries to stalk or scare one's children is a valid issue. But the unsecured device also offers a direct unsecured connection into your home network. This connection can in turn be used to exploit various other unsecured devices in your home, and even setup more ways to enter your network unannounced. (Typically via things like printers, and IoT devices.) These devices also tends to communicate with one's other devices, like computers, phones, network storage, etc. And from there, your personal files can be at risk, not to mention any legal documents and bank credentials you might be storing on your devices. There is also the fact that your various network devices can also turn into hosts for a botnet. Botnets are usually used for DDoS-ing web services among other things. But can also be used for illegal file sharing and the like. That someone can watch you through the baby monitor is frankly only the tip of an iceberg.
@@evilsharkey8954 well, although security holes can happen- if the breach is due to user error (i.e not bothering to set their own password, or protect any reset feature) then it's not a fault of the device itself. After all, you can't blame your door locks for not working, if you leave the key in the lock.
A current employee of mine applied, was interviewed, offered the job, and just a few days before he started was bit by a brown recluse... 6 weeks LATER he was finally able to start his new position after several weeks in the hospital and several more in rehab/physical therapy!! Brown Recluse bites aren’t anything to mess around with!
Yeah, was kinda thinking the same thing. If a little kid turns out to be an adult psychopath hell-bent on murdering your family, I'd say it's pretty justified to get them the hell out of your house.
Honestly I am still confused by the last one. Was she actually a child or not? Because he said that the mental hospital said she was 30. But later the family gets in trouble for abandoning a child. So idk what is going on with that one.
You think that's bad. You should look up the pictures and videos of people whose gums have become infested with maggots. There are many videos of bugs being removed from ears, as well. They usually end up getting broken apart in the process and have to be pulled out piece by piece. Or consider the fact that 42 million Americans are infected with pinworms, which are worms that live in your digestive tract and spread through fecal contact and unclean hands after defecating. That's 14% of Americans. In other areas it's 29% in Denmark, 39% in Thailand, 50% in the UK and a whopping 61% of india, which in itself is over half a billion people with worms in them. And it has nothing to do with social class. Though children tend to get them more often because they put their fingers in their mouths a lot. Oh yeah, there's also the 20% of americans who have bed bugs to consider, too.
For that last story, the parents had 2 bone density tests done. One determined that she was about 8 years old and the second test performed a few years later found that she was about 11 years old. Despite these results, they still managed to get her age legally changed to 22. It seems like they were overwhelmed by all of her health issues, and tried to find a way to make her someone else's responsibility.
I had two black cats bud and doyle ,lol yes after bio some when they were kittens they would run and bump into each others other's head.i Never let them out around Halloween because all the stories ,and human facts are always worse than fiction
We have 3 black kitties and the circumstance of their adoption was luck each time, the first 2 we adopted following a random conversation with my washing machine delivery man and our third little terror was abandoned on the street as a kitten and followed me home.
I dunt have a black cat, and never have. But, I have had cats throughout my life. Currently I have a dog. I can't even imagine someone doing something so unforgivable to any of them. Pets are such wonderful additions to our lives. They are a pure source of love. I can't imagine life without them.
My family rescued rabbits, and just after Easter we always got a few who were bought for "props" for church plays and Easter parties, or bratty kids who thought they wanted one until the bunny chewed up cords and clothes.
A lot of people have animals as an accessory. Leather jackets, furr coats, fake eyelashes from mink furr, a tiny turtoise in a plastic keycord, jewelry from ivory... even fish like goldfish or koi karpers are accessorries to show of. Chiwawa's are the defenition of animal accessory, why else would you dress your dog like most people do and carry it around in a chanel bag?
I have two black cats, and they are some of the most loving creatures put on this Earth. Let me find someone harming a black cat.... I'll teach them what true horror is.
John Linde Bless you JOHN CATs are mankind's most selfless caretakers, I never knew how wonderful they were until I saw one cat taking care of it's friend who was a Bluebird who had only one leg. I have 2 furred companions, a torty and a tabby (mother & daughter).😸😽👍🏻
Well it seems enough idiots belive best prop for that which costume is a live black cat that shelters had to not alow adoption!! Is that serious lvl of stupidity 🤮
I know this is an 'older' video, but thank you so much for (always? usually?) listing the topics in the description. Have a huge bug phobia to the point of panic attacks at times but I was able to watch the other topics and just skip over the cockroach and spider ones.
#2 was my local top 40 station, and it affected them so much that they ended up switching to a different frequency shortly afterwards. The woman in question drank 5 gallons of water in a couple hours, if I'm remembering right.
I don't know if it's the same case or not, but i've heard of another radio station content about who could drink the most water in a short amount of time. This lady drank over a gallon or something, and then got a severe headache and died before getting to the hospital.
Yeah I've watched a bunch of videos of Chinese escalators and lifts killing their citizens. One particularly distressing one showed a mother sacrificing herself for her young daughter. She luckily pushed her child away from danger just before falling into the mechanism as they'd just stepped off at the top.
Escalators!!! I knew they were dangerous! My laces from my trainers had come undone, which I hadn’t noticed. I was in a shop going down the escalator. My lace got trapped in it causing my trainer to come off. I then fell forward and landed on my elbow! I managed to stop the escalator, the music in the shop and around half a dozen staff ran over to check on me! I felt like a right idiot!! 😂😂😂 I laugh now but I was in shock at the time!!
I'm from Sacramento where the radio station held the contest. They literally switched channels from 107.9 to 106.5 to distance themselves even further from the drinking water contest.
Escalators: when I was about two, my mom was heavily pregnant and realized I had managed to get away from her. She looked around and saw me riding the escalator on the outside, there was nothing blocking people from standing on the step outside the escalator and riding ti up. But, at the top was a plexi glass wall preventing people walking off the edge and falling. She said she watched in horror as things seemed to go in slow motion, me heading up the steps towards this wall. A man we didn't know saw my plight, threw his shake (Mom remembers this detail explicitly) and ran over to the escalator. I let go of the rail and fell off at the top before hitting the wall, but the man caught me. After that, Mom put me on a child harness. I was never afraid of escalators for that reason, but because I'm afraid of heights and get dizzy in them, but I never forgot this story growing up, as Mom would repeat it whenever we got near an escalator. it made me realize there were more dangers than tripping and getting your hoodie strings caught and choking to death.
on the baby monitors: I was a volunteer fireman. In the 1990's I purchased a scanner that had a feature that moved up and down the different radio frequency's and stop when ever you picked up something. We picked up neighbors cordless phones and baby monitors. The Baby monitors amplify lower noises, so you could hear conversations in other rooms and even out side. With the cordless phones you could listen to some very personal conversations.
I had never had a fear of escalators until I took my daughter to the National Zoo in Washington DC via metro (subway). The thing was at least 100 stories tall 😉. Going up wasn’t bad but coming down, Lordy, held on to that rail for dear life. It was at that time that I realized that the stairs and the rail don’t travel at the same speed! But we got to see the Pandas!
#1 I’m pretty sure there was a horror movie made that was inspired by that situation. It at least featured an adopted Eastern European girl who turned out to be a full grown serial killer with dwarfism. It must have come out something like ten years ago.
Nevermind the baby monitor, what about cell phones and companies listening to your cell phone through apps, even when it's not on. Just the other day I was at the doctor and he recommended a product to me, and sure enough the next day I was seeing ads for it on websites. Or when my Mom and I were talking about going to a specific furniture store and a day or so later I started seeing ads for that store. Or when I was talking about legal problems I had and started seeing ads for legal services. I know it's possible that they can do targeted ads like these based on your search history, but I assure you I didn't look any of these things up before receiving these ads. When I first started noticing it, I thought I was going crazy. It literally sounds like something a crazy person would say. "companies are spying on me by listening through my phone". But after many friends of mine reporting simliar things I realized it's very real. Which begs the question, what's to stop them from watching you on your camera? What's to stop some pervert at said company from watching women undress or shower? Or even worse? And why the hell is nobody doing anything about this?
My favorite was when a work buddy pointed out to me that one of the things I'd been nattering on about near him popped up in his ads, when it was very much not something he'd be interested in. I made sure to mention something... very inappropriate for work around him for the next few weeks, just to see if I could get some more questionable search results to come up.
My elder daughter and I were on an escalator when her shoelace got caught. We furiously struggled and successfully removed her foot from the shoe, which then got destroyed. An old lady working in the store shrieked that we could've stopped it by hitting the emergency stop button. I asked where it was located. She pointed to a button down underneath the rail, next to the floor. "How is anybody supposed to easily see THAT?" The shocked look on her face signalled the end of her presumptuous attitude.
@@adamkrueger1257, not in a panic situation. It was an inch or two from the floor, facing downward. Not easily seen or accessible. As for the shoes, WHAT?
As someone who has as one of her main goals in life to be a crazy cat lady, I would adopt every single black cat out of every single shelter in the country if I could take care of them all.
The girl who used to shoe my horse got bitten on the hand. Her hand was so bad she was out of work for 6 months. Their venom has nasty toxins that can cause tissue necrosis.
My brother was bit by one several times while he slept. Like 3 distinct bites down his left rib cage. Took months for them to heal and one of them left a big hole that eventually filled in with scar tissue but it is still a deep dibit in that spot.
I actually had a spider crawl in my ear a few moments after I had settled down to sleep at 11:30pm. At first, I thought the tickling sensation was just a piece of my hair that needed tucking out of the way. But when I felt it move inside my ear, I knew better. After waiting in the ER for over 4.5 hours, they finally removed it by putting some castor oil in my ear canal to which the spider objected & tried to hightail it out of there only to be caught by some tweezers. I was wrecked the next day & skipped work. Ever since that night I've been slightly paranoid & now sleep with my hair in a style that covers my ears.
Omg. I have issues with flies trying to get in my ears at night. I now sleep with the blanket properly covering my exposed ear. I've also had teo centipedes crawl on my face in the middle of the night leading to insomnia for a few days lol I'm so thankful my pets have trained me to sleep dead still in one spot lol
My dad got bit by a brown recluse around 7 years ago, he still has a deep brown scar on his wrist from the surgery they did on him to remove all the dead stuff. He took about 3 weeks to go to the hospital. Pretty chill about it, just walked out the door, "Going to the hospital, might be dying, later"
I think fifty people die because of rabies a year in developed nations. It's still a scourge in poorer parts of the world, like so many other diseases we have forgotten.
When I was little I saw an episode of Rescue 911 where a young boys clothing got caught in an escalator and they had to to call the fire department to get him unstuck. To this day I always step over the bottom or top of an escalator just in case 😅
Yep, that's the RUclips video I saw. I was thinking the same thing. But most of the time escalators are harmless. Been riding them since a kid in the 80s.
the RUclips videos show the true meaning of how dangerous escalators are. It’s not just about people slipping or getting caught from shoes or clothing. The medal plank also could brake as you walk off the stairs and you could fall into it and get torn apart or crushed. Same as elevators except you could fall to your death, get your head chopped off or cut in half trying to climb out. That’s why I’d rather take the stairs. Just looking at RUclips videos of those incidents had me traumatized. Yeah it really o it happen in places like China or poor sides of places but you never know. I’d rather not take my chances though.m
THE ONE YOU ONLY NEED TO WORRY ABOUT okay then look at some RUclips videos of people literally dying and news stories of elevator deaths. There’s graphic videos bud. What more proof do u need?
When I was a kid I used to sit on escalators all the way to the bottom despite warnings from my Mom that I might get hurt. Well my shorts did indeed get caught at the bottom of the escalator and began to ‘pull me in.’ I got out quickly but my shorts were ripped and I got some cuts, scrapes and red marks that looked like teeth. Never again have I sat on an escalator. So I totally believe someone could get seriously hurt or even die on one.
Ten years of being a first aider in a large department store means I have seen a lot of escalator related injuries. One person hesitated as they stepped on but couldn’t step back off so their leg bent back awkwardly and they broke their femur. Another time a small child caught their fingers along the side of the stairs. The fingers remained attached, but were really badly cut up. And taking shopping trolleys on them (those with steps as opposed to the flat kind) is just stupid and potentially dangerous.
My friend works at a doctor's office. She says every year they treat dozens of brown recluse bites. Some patients have to come back every week for a month to get them properly cleaned and checked. It's soooo gross.
Benson I met someone with a botfly on (in, really) his forehead. You could see it move. Very disturbing to look at, but it didn’t seem to bother him. He laughed and called it his “friend.”
I've got a picture of my wife in a witch costume holding a black cat. The cat's name is Chassis, and I rescued her from under a car at a gas station. Unbeknownst to the driver, she had jumped up there when it was parked and rode for 47 miles trapped in the car's chassis (I'm bad at names). She was about 3 months old, dangerously overheated, dehydrated, and had burns on her little paws from the car's muffler. I had to wash the soot off and nurse her injuries, but she recovered quickly. She's 3 years old now and is an excellent costume accessory/family member.
A cat as a prop? Please ask your researchers to try carrying a cat that doesn't know them to a location the cat has never been. Then get close to another person and show off that prop. I'm sure the cat will LOOOOOOOOVE all the attention. lol xD
#4 I once had a flea in my ear. That sucked. And another time got a whole bunch of red ants inside my motorcycle helmet. They stung all at once as I rode off into the sunset. That also sucked.
I have bad escalator anxiety because I always feel like they're going to catch my feet. And I did security for a geek convention in my town (it wasn't really anime or gaming or anything specific it was just a conglomerate giant convention of nerd interests) and they kept telling us to make sure that everyone had shoes on and especially to not let people use the escalators barefoot or with socks because in a previous year someone had lost toes. Traumatized for life, phobia confirmed.
I was an expat in China and Kazakhstan for several years, and let me just say VPNs are the BEST! Just with my Netflix account, by changing country i could see every single BBC show (instead of the limited selection on the US version). Also, my father-in-law was bit by a brown recluse in New Orleans about 10 years ago, and he was sick by the end of the day, and hospitalised with necrosis within 24 hours. It took him a few months to recuperate, and he nearly lost his leg... it had been in his shoe, and he never even knew he'd been bitten. The doctors spent days thinking he'd caught some bacterial infection, so it kept spreading due to ineffective treatment. Look for the two little holes!
Water intoxication kills in the same way as "binge and purge" kills. Your electrolytes become imbalanced which can cause your heartbeat to become irregular or absent.
Perfect timing since I just had a marathon of four of the “Final Destination” films. I know I saw a horror story on “I Survived” back in the day about an escalator incident but I haven’t been able to find it since then. Love all the channels, content and the podcast, Simon 😎😁
Regarding sticking your head out of windows: There was an item many years ago of a dense fog in Italy where two drivers stuck their heads out their car windows to better peer into the fog. They were traveling in opposite directions on the same road and both were knocked unconscious when their head collided.
I was born in '98, definitely no WiFi enabled baby monitors back then. But the old monitors had a different problem. Two different baby monitors and receivers could still connect if in range of eachother. My mum figured this out, while home alone with me, when she heard "aww, come here, come to mummy" coming from our baby monitor, when she'd just put me down to sleep and gone downstairs. My mum sprinted upstairs to find me on my own, in my cot. There was, however, a family with a baby girl who's garden and house backed onto ours.
4 - There are also earwigs. Again, they don't generally hide out in human ears but it has happened, hence the name. I detest them especially, even though they're not really harmful (not even their pincers). I think part of it is the nasty smell they exude. Only bug I detest more is the centipede, which is a much nastier customer (even though North American varieties are relatively harmless).
I believe it was in the late 1970s when I lived in the small UK London suburb of Edmonton. One Christmas Eve a train pulled into the station late that night when the guard noticed someone leaning out of the window. When he checked he found the victim headless. Just before the previous station, the train passes under a bridge with very little clearance between it and the train. The drunk passenger is thought to have leaned out and struck his head.
We have a couple sections of older track here in New England cities where the old stone underpass bridge clearance is so small, something like 3" (or 7.5 cm) the higher speed trains have to slow down to avoid hitting them coming out of curves. One of the reasons that after welded steel track improvement even the fastest US trains aren't very fast.
Some advice I received was to tell my children. If they get lost in a store or mall, they should find a Mom with kids. A security guard may be someone posing as a security guard. Better safe than sorry.
The escalator one is totally true. A woman in Montreal (where I live) in 2014 got her scarf stuck in an escalator getting out of the Metro. She bent down to try to free it, and got her hair stuck. Some onlookers managed to free her. She was still breathing but went to cardiac arrest and died. I remember hearing this story but never looked up the details of how she died exactly. This video motivated me to look it up, and now I know.
Have a fear of escalators, and yeah people make fun of me for. when I was little my mom told me my shoelaces were going to get stuck at the top of the escalator. Now I have to jump on it off an escalator. The flat escalators at Ikea scare the bejesus out. That's a NOPE for me!
Even none WiFi enabled baby monitors can be listened in on by a scanner or CB, what makes it worse is they will be all local to where the person is listening in on and the microphones are so sensitive they can pick up conversations in next room and further.
I worked with a guy who had his neck broken twice. First time was when he was in his early 20s, as a passenger, standing up in a convertible (drunk). He hit the mirror on a freight truck, and was thrown from the car. The 2nd time was from having a box fall on him in a warehouse.
Wolf spider bites, though not generally dangerous in any way to humans, can also turn patches of skin black but in this case it always heals and eventually goes away. They are closely related to wolf spiders and up until the 90's hospitals still kept on hand and administered anti venom for their bites.
My mom grew up in the Midwest in a farming town. The mean grumpy man 2 farms over South East. He ALWAYS drove with his left arm out the window. One day an 18 wheeler was driving over the middle dividing line and was too close to the farmers truck. Well that arm came off at the shoulder. By the time he healed, relearned blo how to do most things one handed ect, fitted with a fake arm and finally having mastered that also. Did you guess ? In the passenger seat of his truck, being driven home after 18 months....Honest to your deity....his right arm was out the window, pretty much the whole town was in his front yard AND watched-as again an 18 wheeler got very close AND again he lost an arm because of "hand-surfing" ! This was sometime between 1947-1960 in Tillman County Oklahoma.
my fear of escalators started very early, i was a small child when crocs became popular and of course i was at the mall rockin my new crocs and then there was a panic from the other side of the building because a small boy had gotten his crocs stuck in the escalator and he sadly lost his toes. i refused to go near any kind of machinery after that.
So for the escalator thing, I used to work retail and one day while cleaning on the second floor, I heard a loud bang, almost like a gunshot. All the customers and I dropped to the ground and a second later we hear this lady screaming to help her up. The escalator had jammed at the top and broken and the lady was clinging to the open part. A couple close by ran over and helped her up. It was terrifying.
Several people have survived rabies. The first was a child bitten by a bat in 1970. He was vaccinated for rabies promptly, but he developed the disease anyway. He spent about three months in St. Rita's Hospital in Lima, OH. Doctors aggressively treated each symptom as it appeared, and he made a full recovery. He is still living now at age 57. My grandmother was a nurse at Charity Hospital in New Orleans in the 1890s. A child was brought in with rabies. The doctor smothered the child.
My boy scout troop used to have annual chug a hug contests, where we would compete to see who could drink their hug the fastest. After the lady died in that hold your wee for a wii contest national BSA put out a ban on drinking contests and we had to stop.
I have definitely been bitten by a brown recluse and I have a hole in my arm ! It was super fun getting the pockets of infection scraped from my bone and muscle!
I have a (controlled) fear of escalators for a few reasons: They're still called escalators when they're going downward. I hate the feeling of moving downward at a walking pace outside of my control. It feels like a low level nightmare. People who want to push past me when we're all heading the same way. British public service adverts from the 80's. Those wellington boots on the escalator and the scream! I saw a kid a few years ago brushing their shoes against the brush bit beside the tread. My heart was in my mouth!
A friend of mine had to keep a large sum of cash in the house overnight. She and her husband discussed several hiding places before selecting one. Within minutes She got a phone call from a woman who lived several houses away. She told my friend that she and her husband heard entire conversation over the baby monitors.
There was a kid on my bus in elementary school (I was in 5th grade and the boy was younger than me and I didn't know him) and he kept sticking his hands out if the bus windows... One day a rock took one of his fingers off... That was the most terrifying thing I have ever seen/experienced and I can't even begin to imagine how that poor kid felt...
#8 (Black cats and Halloween): on November 5, 2007, I saw a black cat wandering around a remote area where I daily hike. On the third day of seeing this cat, I approached him and took him home (and had him neutered and vaccinated, etc.). I wondered, given the time frame, that someone "adopted" him just for a prop for a Halloween party, then dumped him afterwards. Their loss... he was the best cat I ever had.
Put your mind at ease. If he was "adopted" temporarily from a shelter he would have been neutered already.
I found my kitty in the backyard he was the runt of the litter, it took twice as long for him to grow but today he is 12 lbs!! Black cats are the best. I plan to continue rescuing and care 🥰❣also my coo coo neighbor suggested I was a witch because I was talking about cats 🤔 so the superstitions continue 🤦♀️
our black cat disappeared around halloween.. I think someone kidnapped him :(
@@DecibelAlex Thats horrific,there are so many dangers to cats,I'm very sorry. I would always hope they were taken in by someone nice. I have lost several cats to unknown circumstances,lots of male cats wander a bit too far from home,just curious was it a male?I had a male tuxedo cat and he would be missing for months,I think someone unknowingly kept and fed him that whole time,later on I would see him sitting in multipe neighbor's windows. That cat had little old ladies cooking for him! Man I miss that cat a dog killed him in the end R.I.P a pit bull escaped an abusive home,and in the end they put 4 dogs down sad sad story,but in the end we do the best we can with the time we're given,sorry for the sob 😢😭
Could it have been an adult cat when it was adopted by the Partier? I thought shelters spay and neuter cats if they're old enough.
Shelters also do not let kittens & puppies be 'adopted" after Thanksgiving, OR bunnies before Easter.
What does Thanksgiving have to do with kittens and puppies...
Kyle Farr Christmas presents.
Depends where you live
Yep, my family rescued rabbits, and after Easter we got a bunch every year.
Can I adopt a turkey before Thanksgiving?
That was more footage of bugs in ear canals than I was hoping to see today.
Completely skipped that entire section, not the least bit interested in seeing any of that. I already hate bugs enough.
I have a phobia of bugs going in my ears so I wear over-ear headphones as much as I can, especially outside.
I imagine there are worse places for them to “burrow”.
Gobs...it's a mystery we don't have nightmares about these critters...they undoubtedly bother us, but not enough that our subconscious becomes bothered! This is the best sign we're okay!
I actually had a spider crawl in my ear a few moments after I had settled down to sleep at 11:30pm. At first, I thought the tickling sensation was just a piece of my hair that needed tucking out of the way. But when I felt it move inside my ear, I knew better. After waiting in the ER for over 4.5 hours, they finally removed it by putting some castor oil in my ear canal to which the spider objected & tried to hightail it out of there only to be caught by some tweezers. I was wrecked the next day & skipped work. Ever since, I have been slightly paranoid & now sleep with my hair in a ponytail that allows my hair to cover my ears.
I really enjoy your videos across your channels. Thanks for giving us all something to enjoy during this social isolation period!
Y you û6y
Just Listen...during this nonsense, and I mean after the true effect of this virus was discovered everything should have opened back! I'm starting, sorry! I bet RUclips became the most visited site online! It has for me!
Punishment for hacking baby monitors: forcing the hacker to listen to a baby screeching at high decibels, on a constant loop for 8 hours.
Then again, hackers are the punishment parents choosing convenience over their children's security get.
Only 8 hours?
While washing dirty diapers by hand.
Also in Solitary confinement wo any other distractions stripped naked and basically "semi tortured" like the usg likes to do at Gitmo and Diego Garcia
Clockwork Orange style)
The cat one made me hate people even more.
Same. I'm glad my sweet black cat was asleep and didn't hear that horror story.
If you think what people do to cats is bad you should see what they do to disabled people. By "they" I mean social services etc. I represent people with disputes with social services and the DWP (UK welfare system). The number of deaths I know of due to abuse from both organisations is horrifying. Country wide it is in the tens of thousands.
@@gordonlawrence1448 Any form of abuse to humans or animals stinks. It deserves harsh penalties. The innocent and less able should be protected as precious for the sake of a better society, and simply because it would be RIGHT.
@@ekramer2478 The problem is that when it's the government doing it what recourse do you have?
@@gordonlawrence1448 Peaceful protest, vote them out of office, make a whole lot of noise about the problem, get people involved, do exposes, don't give up. Do the right things yourself, and teach the young especially your own to do the same. Teach by example. Volunteer time doing the RIGHT thing. Report those that don't wherever and whenever you can. Might make some difference.
I knew escalators were bad!!
Also, I'll take all the black cats, cause people suck.
Samantha R Black cats are the best cats.
I'll take half the quantity. I have taken in 4 black cats over the years because it is all the fashion to get one then toss it out. The cats then hide in my backyard until I feel bad and take them in.
I have enough cats, but I have 2 black ones. They are the best behaved. They are my buddies, as is the rest of my buddies. 👍💪
Escalators are perfectly safe if you ride them correctly. Problem is, kids and young adults who play on them and thinking they're fun. Or people trying to run up the down escalator, etc. The steps aren't meant to be walked up, their edges are super sharp and the steps are slick (usually from machine oil & grease, etc). If you stumble, you're going to cut yourself open. I've seen it happen dozens and dozens of time at the mall I worked at. 19 year old kids thinking they're cute trying to run up the escalator and stumbling, taking a nice little chunk out of their forehead. You wanna lose an eyeball? Have at it. My only complaint was the poor janitor who had to clean up all that blood...
@@timothyneiswander3151 When I was a kid, I had a brief moment of being social when normally I preferred to be indoors and decided to join the other kids in the neighborhood for a game of tag that evening. The instant I went outside, I saw a black cat under someone's car. My animal loving self wanted to pet it but let it go; we weren't allowed to have pets and the last thing I needed was it getting attached.
Except...I have no idea what compelled me to go outside very early the next morning, before the sun had even risen. I opened the door, clicked my teeth a few times and to my utter surprise, the cat was there and came up to me! Holy crap, I was stunned! I...took it in with me. I petted it in my room for a while before letting it back out but through my bedroom window. Our front door was easily visible from the landlord's office.
In my head, I named it Princess, as a twelve year old does (had I thought about it, I would've named it Luna, like from Sailor Moon. Yes, even less original, lol). The cat began to know my bedroom and so I could call it in the middle of the night.
But the landlord found out somehow. I remember coming inside one day and he was in our house, asking my mom about it. Naturally I lied, I had no idea what he was talking about. And I didn't keep the cat inside for longer than an hour and never beyond my bedroom. But still. I wouldn't see Princess again after that. One of the neighborhood kids claimed the landlord had shot the cat behind the administrative building of the apartment complex but I'd like to not believe that. Also, hindsight being 20/20, Princess was a boy so Prince would've been a better name for him :) I so wish I could've adopted him.
My long skirt got caught in an escalator in a department store once when me and my grandson were shopping. I got free but then fell all the way down the stairs in front of everyone. My grandson was traumatised by it (he was a toddler at the time) but I wasn’t really hurt, just a few bruises. I think that the shop clerks almost had heart attacks.
Minerva Lynch, ouch! Escalator stairs are sharp!
I would be traumatized if I saw that, and youre just a name for me, plus Im an adult! Glad it didnt end any worse than that, but boy, your grandson *must* remember it forever and then some.. I love maxi-dresses, you better believe Ill be paying special attention to escalators, starting this summer. Whooh, full-body shivers. Thats scary!
Jane Miettinen he’s 11 now but he still brings it up now and then.
How did it get caught? Probably a dumb question but aside from tripping getting off the escalator, I'm not sure where the other danger spots are. I've also not been on an escalator in ages so there's that too, lol.
Minerva Lynch - Im sure! That kind of memory lasts a lifetime. Im still real happy you both are ok today. Ill be thinking about your tumble for a long time, I just know it.
The same goes for kittens (baby rabbits) during Easter .
They do make wonderful house companions but like any adolescent animal, are a lot of work. Most people either release them into the wild after a few weeks where they have no chance of survival, or if they are fortunate they end up in an animal rescue ( chances in either situation of survival is slim.)
And ducklings and chicks. People dont realize that without a mother to teach them to drink, eat, survive, they dont stand a chance.
It took me 3 days to get my first baby duck to eat food and it was terrifying. Its disappointing that these babies are cheap and easy to buy around Easter.
OMG my dad stuck his head out of a car window and had some sort of hard shell bug hit him in the ear. It just made his ear bleed, but my mom got a nice 'told ya so' over on him.
It's like two urban legends in one!
The baby monitor one is though far more serious then it might seem at the surface.
That someone tries to stalk or scare one's children is a valid issue. But the unsecured device also offers a direct unsecured connection into your home network.
This connection can in turn be used to exploit various other unsecured devices in your home, and even setup more ways to enter your network unannounced. (Typically via things like printers, and IoT devices.)
These devices also tends to communicate with one's other devices, like computers, phones, network storage, etc. And from there, your personal files can be at risk, not to mention any legal documents and bank credentials you might be storing on your devices. There is also the fact that your various network devices can also turn into hosts for a botnet.
Botnets are usually used for DDoS-ing web services among other things. But can also be used for illegal file sharing and the like.
That someone can watch you through the baby monitor is frankly only the tip of an iceberg.
Today on the Bench
You can make more babies. What if they hack your credit cards!?!?!?
@@fastinradfordable If I can make more babies, I can make more debt.
It’s not just baby monitors. All kinds of “smart” devices are gaping security holes.
@@evilsharkey8954 well, although security holes can happen- if the breach is due to user error (i.e not bothering to set their own password, or protect any reset feature) then it's not a fault of the device itself.
After all, you can't blame your door locks for not working, if you leave the key in the lock.
A current employee of mine applied, was interviewed, offered the job, and just a few days before he started was bit by a brown recluse... 6 weeks LATER he was finally able to start his new position after several weeks in the hospital and several more in rehab/physical therapy!!
Brown Recluse bites aren’t anything to mess around with!
"...werent running away" she tried to kill you, i think thats a justifiable thing to run away from
Yeah, was kinda thinking the same thing. If a little kid turns out to be an adult psychopath hell-bent on murdering your family, I'd say it's pretty justified to get them the hell out of your house.
Honestly I am still confused by the last one. Was she actually a child or not? Because he said that the mental hospital said she was 30. But later the family gets in trouble for abandoning a child. So idk what is going on with that one.
Skipped right dafuq over the bugs in ears one. Nope. Nooooope.
Mike Hartley Thanks for the heads-up
Yup yup...thank you for the warning!!👍👍
I damn near screamed when it came up.
You think that's bad. You should look up the pictures and videos of people whose gums have become infested with maggots. There are many videos of bugs being removed from ears, as well. They usually end up getting broken apart in the process and have to be pulled out piece by piece. Or consider the fact that 42 million Americans are infected with pinworms, which are worms that live in your digestive tract and spread through fecal contact and unclean hands after defecating. That's 14% of Americans. In other areas it's 29% in Denmark, 39% in Thailand, 50% in the UK and a whopping 61% of india, which in itself is over half a billion people with worms in them. And it has nothing to do with social class. Though children tend to get them more often because they put their fingers in their mouths a lot. Oh yeah, there's also the 20% of americans who have bed bugs to consider, too.
@@VoidHalo Sweet baby Cthulhu!!! Those are stats I knew I didn't need but still couldn't help reading.
For that last story, the parents had 2 bone density tests done. One determined that she was about 8 years old and the second test performed a few years later found that she was about 11 years old. Despite these results, they still managed to get her age legally changed to 22. It seems like they were overwhelmed by all of her health issues, and tried to find a way to make her someone else's responsibility.
My black cat is my baby. He loves snuggling and chin scratches. It hurts my heart that anybody could mistreat a black cat just for fun.
My black cat is very social and loving - and addicted to belly rubs. Those selfish pricks dont know, what theyre missing in their evil.
Mine is now 18, still in fair health, though missing an eye, and still plots to take over the world.
I had two black cats bud and doyle ,lol yes after bio some when they were kittens they would run and bump into each others other's head.i Never let them out around Halloween because all the stories ,and human facts are always worse than fiction
We have 3 black kitties and the circumstance of their adoption was luck each time, the first 2 we adopted following a random conversation with my washing machine delivery man and our third little terror was abandoned on the street as a kitten and followed me home.
I dunt have a black cat, and never have. But, I have had cats throughout my life. Currently I have a dog. I can't even imagine someone doing something so unforgivable to any of them. Pets are such wonderful additions to our lives. They are a pure source of love. I can't imagine life without them.
Never, have I ever considered getting a live animal as an accessory.
same... UNTIL NOW!
Me either. Who does that? What the f#*k is wrong with people?
My family rescued rabbits, and just after Easter we always got a few who were bought for "props" for church plays and Easter parties, or bratty kids who thought they wanted one until the bunny chewed up cords and clothes.
Andi Ward that's because you are a moral person, which is increasingly rare.
A lot of people have animals as an accessory. Leather jackets, furr coats, fake eyelashes from mink furr, a tiny turtoise in a plastic keycord, jewelry from ivory... even fish like goldfish or koi karpers are accessorries to show of. Chiwawa's are the defenition of animal accessory, why else would you dress your dog like most people do and carry it around in a chanel bag?
This channel has changed so much over the years, the quality has really gone up and simon has changed so much too.
You missed the perfect sponsorship segway! Should have brought up the NVP with the baby monitor story😂
I have two black cats, and they are some of the most loving creatures put on this Earth. Let me find someone harming a black cat.... I'll teach them what true horror is.
John Linde Bless you JOHN CATs are mankind's most selfless caretakers, I never knew how wonderful they were until I saw one cat taking care of it's friend who was a Bluebird who had only one leg. I have 2 furred companions, a torty and a tabby (mother & daughter).😸😽👍🏻
John Linde My black cat is a total ditz. Which is why his name is Ditzy.
I have 2 black cats as well, venom and Luna, they're seriously the sweetest. They just want to cuddle and eat.
I had a black cat that lived ti be 20.4 years! Best cat evah
"If you're especially stupid" ..Gold 😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂 silly
A cat is for life, not just for halloween... >:(
Well it seems enough idiots belive best prop for that which costume is a live black cat that shelters had to not alow adoption!! Is that serious lvl of stupidity 🤮
I know this is an 'older' video, but thank you so much for (always? usually?) listing the topics in the description. Have a huge bug phobia to the point of panic attacks at times but I was able to watch the other topics and just skip over the cockroach and spider ones.
The thing that made me nervous about sticking one's head out of the train had to do with the wires that were close by. Think Final Destination. Ugh!
Thank you for another great video. Stay safe out there everyone
So, my sister and I have just been binging all your shows, across all your channels the last few day's. Great work, we haven't gotten bored yet.
#2 was my local top 40 station, and it affected them so much that they ended up switching to a different frequency shortly afterwards. The woman in question drank 5 gallons of water in a couple hours, if I'm remembering right.
AxeMichi, Damn. 5 gallons is a plenty silly amount to drink even in a week.
I don't know if it's the same case or not, but i've heard of another radio station content about who could drink the most water in a short amount of time.
This lady drank over a gallon or something, and then got a severe headache and died before getting to the hospital.
Shortly, as in a decade afterwards. 107.9 KDND "The End" went off the air in 2017. The format was moved to 106.5 KUDL "The End".
@@Arch3an
Check out the channel Chubbyemu. There's a video where he discusses just such a case.
Chinese escalators seem to have an appetite for people.
Yeah I've watched a bunch of videos of Chinese escalators and lifts killing their citizens. One particularly distressing one showed a mother sacrificing herself for her young daughter. She luckily pushed her child away from danger just before falling into the mechanism as they'd just stepped off at the top.
@frank hargreaves I hear they like pangolins too.
CHIGGS 58TH . Change often to “always “
@@davekennedy6315 this one was horrible.
@@davekennedy6315 You've watched videos... Of people dying horribly?
Escalators!!! I knew they were dangerous! My laces from my trainers had come undone, which I hadn’t noticed. I was in a shop going down the escalator. My lace got trapped in it causing my trainer to come off. I then fell forward and landed on my elbow!
I managed to stop the escalator, the music in the shop and around half a dozen staff ran over to check on me!
I felt like a right idiot!! 😂😂😂
I laugh now but I was in shock at the time!!
Don't know how things are with Covid-19 in Prague, but please stay safe, Simon and family.
I was with you until the cockroaches. That is a huge pile of NOPE for me.
I'm from Sacramento where the radio station held the contest. They literally switched channels from 107.9 to 106.5 to distance themselves even further from the drinking water contest.
Escalators: when I was about two, my mom was heavily pregnant and realized I had managed to get away from her. She looked around and saw me riding the escalator on the outside, there was nothing blocking people from standing on the step outside the escalator and riding ti up. But, at the top was a plexi glass wall preventing people walking off the edge and falling. She said she watched in horror as things seemed to go in slow motion, me heading up the steps towards this wall. A man we didn't know saw my plight, threw his shake (Mom remembers this detail explicitly) and ran over to the escalator. I let go of the rail and fell off at the top before hitting the wall, but the man caught me. After that, Mom put me on a child harness. I was never afraid of escalators for that reason, but because I'm afraid of heights and get dizzy in them, but I never forgot this story growing up, as Mom would repeat it whenever we got near an escalator. it made me realize there were more dangers than tripping and getting your hoodie strings caught and choking to death.
on the baby monitors: I was a volunteer fireman. In the 1990's I purchased a scanner that had a feature that moved up and down the different radio frequency's and stop when ever you picked up something. We picked up neighbors cordless phones and baby monitors. The Baby monitors amplify lower noises, so you could hear conversations in other rooms and even out side. With the cordless phones you could listen to some very personal conversations.
I had never had a fear of escalators until I took my daughter to the National Zoo in Washington DC via metro (subway). The thing was at least 100 stories tall 😉. Going up wasn’t bad but coming down, Lordy, held on to that rail for dear life. It was at that time that I realized that the stairs and the rail don’t travel at the same speed! But we got to see the Pandas!
#1 I’m pretty sure there was a horror movie made that was inspired by that situation. It at least featured an adopted Eastern European girl who turned out to be a full grown serial killer with dwarfism. It must have come out something like ten years ago.
Orphan
Nevermind the baby monitor, what about cell phones and companies listening to your cell phone through apps, even when it's not on. Just the other day I was at the doctor and he recommended a product to me, and sure enough the next day I was seeing ads for it on websites. Or when my Mom and I were talking about going to a specific furniture store and a day or so later I started seeing ads for that store. Or when I was talking about legal problems I had and started seeing ads for legal services. I know it's possible that they can do targeted ads like these based on your search history, but I assure you I didn't look any of these things up before receiving these ads.
When I first started noticing it, I thought I was going crazy. It literally sounds like something a crazy person would say. "companies are spying on me by listening through my phone". But after many friends of mine reporting simliar things I realized it's very real. Which begs the question, what's to stop them from watching you on your camera? What's to stop some pervert at said company from watching women undress or shower? Or even worse? And why the hell is nobody doing anything about this?
Nobody cares, it’s so crazy, I’ve always asked the same question.. why isn’t anything being done
My favorite was when a work buddy pointed out to me that one of the things I'd been nattering on about near him popped up in his ads, when it was very much not something he'd be interested in.
I made sure to mention something... very inappropriate for work around him for the next few weeks, just to see if I could get some more questionable search results to come up.
on android phones you can turn off targeted advertisement
I hate that so much, I make a mental note every time to boycott the product in question. Forever, if I can help it.
When I was young I fell down a escalator and got my finger nearly cut off my ring finger on my right hand. I still dont have 100% of the use back
My elder daughter and I were on an escalator when her shoelace got caught. We furiously struggled and successfully removed her foot from the shoe, which then got destroyed. An old lady working in the store shrieked that we could've stopped it by hitting the emergency stop button. I asked where it was located. She pointed to a button down underneath the rail, next to the floor. "How is anybody supposed to easily see THAT?"
The shocked look on her face signalled the end of her presumptuous attitude.
Common sense says tire shoes better if you're gonna get on the escalator and I thought everyone knew the button was there.
@@adamkrueger1257, not in a panic situation. It was an inch or two from the floor, facing downward. Not easily seen or accessible.
As for the shoes, WHAT?
I thought everyone knew where the panic button is
@@BaronessErsatz
the button is there so you can kick it or push it if you're stuck lying against the floor
@@DecibelAlex, funny but I don't recall any mention of that EVER and I never saw any signage to indicate its location!
Omg! The black cat thing broke my heart. I couldn't imagine doing that to an innocent animal.
As someone who has as one of her main goals in life to be a crazy cat lady, I would adopt every single black cat out of every single shelter in the country if I could take care of them all.
Simon: “Cockroaches and Spiders sometimes take up residence in people’s ear canals.”
Me: **screams** ARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH! 😳😳😳
as long they don t make too much noise...
I saw another animal, but until this day I'm not sure what kind of insect it was
seeing Drew Peterson was a throwback. a local dive i used to go to for karaoke was one of his regular hangouts.
I've been bitten by the brown recluse! And yes the necrosis did set in, super nasty!
The girl who used to shoe my horse got bitten on the hand. Her hand was so bad she was out of work for 6 months. Their venom has nasty toxins that can cause tissue necrosis.
My brother was bit by one several times while he slept. Like 3 distinct bites down his left rib cage. Took months for them to heal and one of them left a big hole that eventually filled in with scar tissue but it is still a deep dibit in that spot.
I almost lost my leg from a brown recluse bite on my foot weeks hospitalized months recovery.
I actually had a spider crawl in my ear a few moments after I had settled down to sleep at 11:30pm. At first, I thought the tickling sensation was just a piece of my hair that needed tucking out of the way. But when I felt it move inside my ear, I knew better. After waiting in the ER for over 4.5 hours, they finally removed it by putting some castor oil in my ear canal to which the spider objected & tried to hightail it out of there only to be caught by some tweezers. I was wrecked the next day & skipped work. Ever since that night I've been slightly paranoid & now sleep with my hair in a style that covers my ears.
Omg. I have issues with flies trying to get in my ears at night. I now sleep with the blanket properly covering my exposed ear. I've also had teo centipedes crawl on my face in the middle of the night leading to insomnia for a few days lol
I'm so thankful my pets have trained me to sleep dead still in one spot lol
I had a similar experience and have slept with ear plug ever since. PTSD I guess
My dad got bit by a brown recluse around 7 years ago, he still has a deep brown scar on his wrist from the surgery they did on him to remove all the dead stuff. He took about 3 weeks to go to the hospital. Pretty chill about it, just walked out the door, "Going to the hospital, might be dying, later"
Sounds like me.
Me: Well I guess it ends here, wish me luck or not I heard that's bad luck. Eh.
So me.
2:00 Gotta love how he’s so chill bout calling those train people stupid
Back in the 90's the walkie-talkies our daycare used picked up a baby monitor. No idea if the monitor could receive our teacher-teacher communication.
I think fifty people die because of rabies a year in developed nations. It's still a scourge in poorer parts of the world, like so many other diseases we have forgotten.
According to the CDC it's at least 59,000 per year, so just a few orders of magnitude off.
@@zarasbazaar And like 2 die from it in America each year. Asia and Africa account for almost all those deaths.
When I was little I saw an episode of Rescue 911 where a young boys clothing got caught in an escalator and they had to to call the fire department to get him unstuck. To this day I always step over the bottom or top of an escalator just in case 😅
Happened to me...my long dress got sucked in by an escalator, fortunately, I was able to pull it out before it was too late.
There was also that one woman in Asia I believe who fell through a faulty escalator trying to save her child and died.
Yep, that's the RUclips video I saw. I was thinking the same thing. But most of the time escalators are harmless. Been riding them since a kid in the 80s.
There’s an old story like that my mom would tell about a father in a US department store trying to save his daughter and both getting ground up.
the RUclips videos show the true meaning of how dangerous escalators are. It’s not just about people slipping or getting caught from shoes or clothing. The medal plank also could brake as you walk off the stairs and you could fall into it and get torn apart or crushed. Same as elevators except you could fall to your death, get your head chopped off or cut in half trying to climb out. That’s why I’d rather take the stairs. Just looking at RUclips videos of those incidents had me traumatized. Yeah it really o it happen in places like China or poor sides of places but you never know. I’d rather not take my chances though.m
THE ONE YOU ONLY NEED TO WORRY ABOUT okay then look at some RUclips videos of people literally dying and news stories of elevator deaths. There’s graphic videos bud. What more proof do u need?
When I was a kid I used to sit on escalators all the way to the bottom despite warnings from my Mom that I might get hurt. Well my shorts did indeed get caught at the bottom of the escalator and began to ‘pull me in.’ I got out quickly but my shorts were ripped and I got some cuts, scrapes and red marks that looked like teeth. Never again have I sat on an escalator. So I totally believe someone could get seriously hurt or even die on one.
Ten years of being a first aider in a large department store means I have seen a lot of escalator related injuries. One person hesitated as they stepped on but couldn’t step back off so their leg bent back awkwardly and they broke their femur. Another time a small child caught their fingers along the side of the stairs. The fingers remained attached, but were really badly cut up. And taking shopping trolleys on them (those with steps as opposed to the flat kind) is just stupid and potentially dangerous.
My friend works at a doctor's office. She says every year they treat dozens of brown recluse bites. Some patients have to come back every week for a month to get them properly cleaned and checked. It's soooo gross.
#4 @ 8:41
This makes me think of botflies. The videos of them getting removed... Something taking up residence under your skin makes my skin crawl.
Benson I met someone with a botfly on (in, really) his forehead. You could see it move. Very disturbing to look at, but it didn’t seem to bother him. He laughed and called it his “friend.”
I've got a picture of my wife in a witch costume holding a black cat. The cat's name is Chassis, and I rescued her from under a car at a gas station. Unbeknownst to the driver, she had jumped up there when it was parked and rode for 47 miles trapped in the car's chassis (I'm bad at names). She was about 3 months old, dangerously overheated, dehydrated, and had burns on her little paws from the car's muffler. I had to wash the soot off and nurse her injuries, but she recovered quickly. She's 3 years old now and is an excellent costume accessory/family member.
3:45 But the real question is can hackers listen to and creep on my WiFi by using a baby?
My internet browsing is NOT suitable for children! 😰🤣
A cat as a prop? Please ask your researchers to try carrying a cat that doesn't know them to a location the cat has never been. Then get close to another person and show off that prop. I'm sure the cat will LOOOOOOOOVE all the attention. lol xD
#4 I once had a flea in my ear. That sucked. And another time got a whole bunch of red ants inside my motorcycle helmet. They stung all at once as I rode off into the sunset. That also sucked.
I have bad escalator anxiety because I always feel like they're going to catch my feet. And I did security for a geek convention in my town (it wasn't really anime or gaming or anything specific it was just a conglomerate giant convention of nerd interests) and they kept telling us to make sure that everyone had shoes on and especially to not let people use the escalators barefoot or with socks because in a previous year someone had lost toes. Traumatized for life, phobia confirmed.
I was an expat in China and Kazakhstan for several years, and let me just say VPNs are the BEST! Just with my Netflix account, by changing country i could see every single BBC show (instead of the limited selection on the US version).
Also, my father-in-law was bit by a brown recluse in New Orleans about 10 years ago, and he was sick by the end of the day, and hospitalised with necrosis within 24 hours. It took him a few months to recuperate, and he nearly lost his leg... it had been in his shoe, and he never even knew he'd been bitten. The doctors spent days thinking he'd caught some bacterial infection, so it kept spreading due to ineffective treatment.
Look for the two little holes!
loved how he said "people get their head smacked" at 2:27 had me laughing
The cat one made me tear up 😭
Water intoxication kills in the same way as "binge and purge" kills. Your electrolytes become imbalanced which can cause your heartbeat to become irregular or absent.
I believe I heard that it decreases the oxygen level in the blood. Not sure where I heard that, though.
@@electricheadboy That's if you breath too much water! ;-)
My biggest fear of escalators is falling and hitting my head on the metal edge of the steps, not getting caught in it.
Perfect timing since I just had a marathon of four of the “Final Destination” films. I know I saw a horror story on “I Survived” back in the day about an escalator incident but I haven’t been able to find it since then. Love all the channels, content and the podcast, Simon 😎😁
Escalator,: working fine absolutely nothing wrong with it
Me: dies without even using it
Regarding sticking your head out of windows: There was an item many years ago of a dense fog in Italy where two drivers stuck their heads out their car windows to better peer into the fog. They were traveling in opposite directions on the same road and both were knocked unconscious when their head collided.
I was born in '98, definitely no WiFi enabled baby monitors back then. But the old monitors had a different problem. Two different baby monitors and receivers could still connect if in range of eachother. My mum figured this out, while home alone with me, when she heard "aww, come here, come to mummy" coming from our baby monitor, when she'd just put me down to sleep and gone downstairs. My mum sprinted upstairs to find me on my own, in my cot. There was, however, a family with a baby girl who's garden and house backed onto ours.
4 - There are also earwigs. Again, they don't generally hide out in human ears but it has happened, hence the name. I detest them especially, even though they're not really harmful (not even their pincers). I think part of it is the nasty smell they exude. Only bug I detest more is the centipede, which is a much nastier customer (even though North American varieties are relatively harmless).
I always get nervous as hell on escalators
I believe it was in the late 1970s when I lived in the small UK London suburb of Edmonton. One Christmas Eve a train pulled into the station late that night when the guard noticed someone leaning out of the window. When he checked he found the victim headless. Just before the previous station, the train passes under a bridge with very little clearance between it and the train. The drunk passenger is thought to have leaned out and struck his head.
We have a couple sections of older track here in New England cities where the old stone underpass bridge clearance is so small, something like 3" (or 7.5 cm) the higher speed trains have to slow down to avoid hitting them coming out of curves. One of the reasons that after welded steel track improvement even the fastest US trains aren't very fast.
Some advice I received was to tell my children.
If they get lost in a store or mall, they should find a Mom with kids. A security guard may be someone posing as a security guard.
Better safe than sorry.
I'm pretty sure I've seen reports of a "Mom with kids" who didn't exactly get her collection the traditional way.
The escalator one is totally true. A woman in Montreal (where I live) in 2014 got her scarf stuck in an escalator getting out of the Metro. She bent down to try to free it, and got her hair stuck. Some onlookers managed to free her. She was still breathing but went to cardiac arrest and died. I remember hearing this story but never looked up the details of how she died exactly. This video motivated me to look it up, and now I know.
During Easter, people do the same with rabbits. Buying them or whatnot then ditching them after Easter pics are taken.
Have a fear of escalators, and yeah people make fun of me for. when I was little my mom told me my shoelaces were going to get stuck at the top of the escalator. Now I have to jump on it off an escalator. The flat escalators at Ikea scare the bejesus out. That's a NOPE for me!
i'm scared of escalators too. i'm not sure why, they just freak me out.
“Family of cockroaches found in man’s ear” Excuse me while I go throw up for an hour at the very thought of that ever happening to me
Escalators can absolutely kill, a technician working on one was pulled into one on a building site I was at
My sister got her shoelaces caught in an escalator when she was a toddler and my parents yanked her away before her shoe got eaten by the gears.
Even none WiFi enabled baby monitors can be listened in on by a scanner or CB, what makes it worse is they will be all local to where the person is listening in on and the microphones are so sensitive they can pick up conversations in next room and further.
7:42 Some guy in Nova Scotia just did this last week, killing 22 across the province. He even had a very realistic RCMP car.
I worked with a guy who had his neck broken twice. First time was when he was in his early 20s, as a passenger, standing up in a convertible (drunk). He hit the mirror on a freight truck, and was thrown from the car. The 2nd time was from having a box fall on him in a warehouse.
You missed Escalator catastrophic failure, it is by far the scariest thing people take for granted.
A friend of mine in high school died from hanging out of a car window when his head hit a sign.
Wolf spider bites, though not generally dangerous in any way to humans, can also turn patches of skin black but in this case it always heals and eventually goes away. They are closely related to wolf spiders and up until the 90's hospitals still kept on hand and administered anti venom for their bites.
My mom grew up in the Midwest in a farming town. The mean grumpy man 2 farms over South East. He ALWAYS drove with his left arm out the window. One day an 18 wheeler was driving over the middle dividing line and was too close to the farmers truck. Well that arm came off at the shoulder. By the time he healed, relearned blo how to do most things one handed ect, fitted with a fake arm and finally having mastered that also. Did you guess ? In the passenger seat of his truck, being driven home after 18 months....Honest to your deity....his right arm was out the window, pretty much the whole town was in his front yard AND watched-as again an 18 wheeler got very close AND again he lost an arm because of "hand-surfing" ! This was sometime between 1947-1960 in Tillman County Oklahoma.
my fear of escalators started very early, i was a small child when crocs became popular and of course i was at the mall rockin my new crocs and then there was a panic from the other side of the building because a small boy had gotten his crocs stuck in the escalator and he sadly lost his toes. i refused to go near any kind of machinery after that.
A lot of people fall down escalators, get cut up badly, and later bleed out. This has happened multiple times where I work.
Cockroaches and spiders in your ears. That is truly the stuff of your worst nightmares.
So for the escalator thing, I used to work retail and one day while cleaning on the second floor, I heard a loud bang, almost like a gunshot. All the customers and I dropped to the ground and a second later we hear this lady screaming to help her up. The escalator had jammed at the top and broken and the lady was clinging to the open part. A couple close by ran over and helped her up. It was terrifying.
Several people have survived rabies. The first was a child bitten by a bat in 1970. He was vaccinated for rabies promptly, but he developed the disease anyway. He spent about three months in St. Rita's Hospital in Lima, OH. Doctors aggressively treated each symptom as it appeared, and he made a full recovery. He is still living now at age 57.
My grandmother was a nurse at Charity Hospital in New Orleans in the 1890s. A child was brought in with rabies. The doctor smothered the child.
Life long scares on my hands from my hand getting caught where the escalator handrail goes under
when I was around 5
My boy scout troop used to have annual chug a hug contests, where we would compete to see who could drink their hug the fastest. After the lady died in that hold your wee for a wii contest national BSA put out a ban on drinking contests and we had to stop.
I have definitely been bitten by a brown recluse and I have a hole in my arm ! It was super fun getting the pockets of infection scraped from my bone and muscle!
I have a (controlled) fear of escalators for a few reasons:
They're still called escalators when they're going downward.
I hate the feeling of moving downward at a walking pace outside of my control. It feels like a low level nightmare.
People who want to push past me when we're all heading the same way.
British public service adverts from the 80's. Those wellington boots on the escalator and the scream! I saw a kid a few years ago brushing their shoes against the brush bit beside the tread. My heart was in my mouth!
A friend of mine had to keep a large sum of cash in the house overnight. She and her husband discussed several hiding places before selecting one. Within minutes She got a phone call from a woman who lived several houses away. She told my friend that she and her husband heard entire conversation over the baby monitors.
There was a kid on my bus in elementary school (I was in 5th grade and the boy was younger than me and I didn't know him) and he kept sticking his hands out if the bus windows... One day a rock took one of his fingers off... That was the most terrifying thing I have ever seen/experienced and I can't even begin to imagine how that poor kid felt...