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We all know what danger is since our young days. After all, since our childhood, parents, guardians, and other adult figures have taught us about what is dangerous—what should not be done because it can hurt us.
This includes stuff like hot ovens, online safety, stranger danger, and many other things like that, more or less, depending on their lifestyle. Basically, we’re teaching kids the same thing Ace of Base once sang about: “ You'll be living in danger.”
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What we mean is that, from our young days, we have to come to terms with the fact that every day, we face certain danger. And most of the time, we do come around it. In fact, we usually get used to this fact so much that we even kind of forget about it.
And so, we go around each day oblivious to how dangerous everything is for us. For example, take any point from today’s list. After all, that’s the topic of it – things a common person doesn’t even realize are that dangerous.
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Tailgating. Riding the bumper.
My god, just back off before we are both gone. Where the hell do you need to be anyway?
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noshoes77 replied:
92% of all drivers buckle up.
The 8% who don’t account for about 50% of all traffic fatal accidents.
Two quick stories:
A few years back my nephew was in an accident where he hit a car that was parked on the narrow entrance ramp of the interstate in St. Louis; its hazard lights were off and there were no street lights. He was going 60 and totaled his car. His mother’s was stunned he walked away with no serious injuries- he was wearing his seat belt.
Last month 5 students at a school in my district ran into a tree- driver was brain ceased to function and was gone four days later, one boy has significant spinal swelling and is paralyzed, the others all have broken bones and neck injuries- none of them were wearing their seatbelt.
Let’s take driving, for instance. It’s no secret that it’s a very dangerous activity, to the driver themselves, to the passengers, or just passersby. And it’s not like it poses one kind of danger – it poses a lot of them, depending on varying circumstances, which makes it even scarier.
Distracted drivers, poor health conditions, bad weather conditions, and pollution that strains visibility are just a few of the things that make driving dangerous. While car accidents are among the most common injuries in day-to-day life, they’re far from the only ones.
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One unlucky time and it could be game over.
There are plenty of other ways life can hurt you. Here, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information from 2016 and 2017, accidental falls make up a whopping 32% of all injuries that reach emergency room visits or even hospitalizations.
Granted, this data isn’t the most recent, but the world in the last decade didn’t change that drastically for it not to be at least somewhat similar to today. Basically, you can fall in your own home or outside due to weather conditions and end up contributing to this statistic.
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Long-term stress literally reshapes the brain, raises blood pressure, destabilizes hormones, and weakens the immune system.
People walk around like it’s “normal” to be that tense. It’s not.
So, it’s always useful to think about things like a non-slip mat in the shower and non-slip shoes, if you’re living where it tends to get icy. And still, we hate to break it to you—even these things don’t guarantee 100% success in avoiding such dangers.
Overall, no matter what you do, danger is still always looming. Yet, that doesn’t mean you can throw caution to the wind and be reckless – that will only put you in more needless danger.
Do you know of any other examples of things that are daily dangers? Please share with your fellow Bored Panda readers in the comments!
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…so…walking on the sidewalk.
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