One Wrong Move: 50 Shocking Stories of Lives Shattered in an Instant
Lost his left hand at the wrist, finger on right hand, burst both eardrums. Was wearing a heavy leather jacket and years later was still pulling the remains of the motar & pestal out of his chest. Jacket might have saved his life. He recalls seeing the fire start and waking up on the far side of the room, the room the on fire.
Small town. My mom was the ER charge nurse when he came in.
Had a friend back in high school who was nice but kind of a pushover. We went to the same college but he started drinking too much and transferred to a smaller school back home.
One night he got blackout drunk and decided to drive home. He ran over 5 international students that were walking home on the side of the road, including his own roommate. K****d 3 of them instantly and hospitalized 2.
He was so drunk he didn’t even realize what he’d done. He woke up the next morning to the cops banging down his door.
Edit: Yikes this exploded. And I got the number of deaths wrong initially. Apparently 2 made it out the hospital. And yeah, he was able to mow down all 5 without stopping. He was one of those country boys driving a big-a*s pickup truck…
Here in Utah a few years ago an immature mother decided to take her daughter’s side in a spat her daughter was having with one of her friend’s.
Mom decided to photoshop a picture of the friend’s head onto a photo of a n**e woman. Then she proceeded to print out 50 copies and hang them up all over the daughter’s school.
The police didn’t care that the images were fake. They charged her as if she was posting real n**e pictures of the girl — 50 individual felony counts. I wonder if that stupid woman is still in prison.
Bride at my cousins wedding got caught by grooms father f*****g the best man.
She’s homeless now. Reputation was destroyed and she got fired for something else.
Im sure this will get buried but growing up I was best friends with 2 brothers. They always rough housed and what not no big deal. Both of them are in the bed of a truck and start pushing each other and one pushed the other of the bed of the truck. His brother is pretty much a vegetable now and has no movement from his neck down. It was crazy just messing around caused that. the other brother drank him self to d***h over the next 8 years because he was so messed up on what happened.
My cousin who is lucky goes to the casino and hits like 10 jackpots that night. Has like 36,000 in his name. Since then he’s gone broke and is currently in rehab for overdosing twice. I called it when I said he’d od this year. Worst part is he tried shooting up and hit a nerve so half his body is limp,might have to amputate his arm.
19 year old guy drunk 1 night during winter.
Gets wasted in a bar, thrown out by the bouncer, gets mad at the bouncer and starts calling him stuff. He argues he wants his jacket, doesnt get it, was told to come back when hes sober. Takes a p**s on the outside of bar, police sees it, he gets pissed at the police, shows them the middle finger, kicks one officer in the thigh.
Charged with violence towards a police officer, pissing in public, showing finger to police and drunken misorderly(?) conduct.
2000$ fine, 1 year jailtime, can never travel to i.e. USA, never study for lawyer, police, doctor, teacher etc, never join the military.
I worked in surveillance at a casino. Many staff were partying together for one guy’s birthday, which is normal, but the next day, one of the bartenders was still partying hard and had to be asked to leave.
A moment later I get a call from the pit boss that said bartender was on the roof and I was to summon the police to have him removed [without relying too heavily on gravity]. While on the call, I received another call to make that an ambulance as the man had jumped from the 40′ peak of the roof to the pavement below, shattering all bones around and below his waist.
Found after the fact that he’d been on a cocktail of recreational d***s and was on the roof to claim a $20 wager that he wouldn’t jump. I saw him years later still wheelchair bound.
I live in South Florida and know of at least three stories of people who dove into the ocean or intracoastal waterway Head first thinking the water was deeper. Seconds later their friends had to fish them out of the water because they had broken their necks.
This is particularly prevalent in places where people dock up boats near sand bars, and then party. They dock at high tide and a few hours later the tide is going out and they (drunk or half drunk) fail to account for that.
This happened to a friend of a friend just 2 months ago. Paralyzed from chest down.
Before I get into this you gotta understand what our high school waivers are. Some people here aren’t built for college, so we have career classes here (carpentry, electrical, engineering, graphic arts, culinary arts etc). If you take these classes you basically become an apprentice in those fields and you can choose to not take the language and art classes necessary for college. The newly found class period openings are replaced with your Career class, and you leave the waivers classes.
So in high school there was this 10/10 girl who was stunning and absolutely brilliant. She had a full ride to whatever school she wanted literally anywhere, and she chose to be a surgeon. She got into an argument in my Spanish class, threw a tantrum down to the guidance office and signed the waiver. In about 5 minutes she threw a way more money (like $300k) and future than anyone else had at the school in years.
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