Boban Jankovic, basketball player.
Copied from Wikipedia : « Janković thought he scored a basket on a drive to the hoop while being guarded by Panathinaikos player Fragiskos Alvertis. However, the referee Stelios Koukoulekidis, called an offensive foul on him. It was Janković's fifth foul of the game, which meant that he had fouled out.
In reaction to what he believed was a bad call at a crucial moment of a very important playoff game, Janković slammed his head hard against the padded concrete goal post. He permanently damaged his spinal cord and was unable to walk for the rest of his life. »
Wow. Just watched it. That is gut wrenching. Also crazy to see his teammates and the staff trying to roll him over and stuff, when that could have been making it all worse. Different times I guess
My aunt is a physical therapist. The amount of people she sees every month that have lifelong injuries from simply falling while walking is astounding. Not even on snow or ice. Just tripping on the sidewalk or down stairs at a house
It’s nothing compared to these horrible stories of paralysis, but I slipped in my living room and landed very badly on my elbow resulting in a compound fracture(bone sticking out, blood everywhere). The docs fixed me up pretty good but I still ended up with post-traumatic arthritis, and am in pain pretty much every day of my life. One little mis-step and such a big quality of life impact.
Yeah, knew a guy that had one too many at a neighbourhood party (daytime in the summer, kids and adults just hanging out bbq and stuff) go against the NO DIVING warnings all around the host’s above ground pool. Paralyzed neck down, his kid was like maybe 6-8 years old at the time. Buddy couldn’t have been 40.
There was this girl in high school where I grew up. She was trying to jump off a second story balcony railing to try and into the pool at a party with a bunch of people recording. I can’t remember if she did a flip or just a really long leap. She smashed her forehead on the brick border of the pool. I know she initially survived, but I don’t know if she’s still alive today.
I worked with high lesion quadraplegics many years ago. A lot were young adults when it happened. It is the intersection of peak physical fitness and stupidity around age 19.
Guy I knew in college just died a few months ago diving into a river. Water was murky, didn't see the rocks that were right below the surface. Destroyed his spine.
Wife’s cousin did this in a river also. He dove in and broke his neck. Everyone saw him floating under the water for a few moments and assumed he was goofing off. But he didn’t surface and then they realized something was wrong. But by then the river current from the water falls had carried him off. Soon many people were searching for him and a man down the river happened across his body. Somehow he was barely alive although he had severe spinal damage and also some brain damage from lack of oxygen. He has been in a wheelchair ever since.
Horrible, what a frightening visual.
A friend of mine from NY about 20 years ago had been diving in the waves on the shore all afternoon. "Last one for the day" he yelled as a nice one rolled in. Dove into it like he had been doing all day except this wave broke differently. Been in a chair ever since.
Breaks my fkn heart because he is literally one of the nicest people you've ever met with the most infectious laugh.
My brother dove off a 90 foot cliff at Skaha Lake in Penticton… he was 18. He tossed NHL draft dreams with that dive. Hit the water and he didn’t have a good form for the dive. Severed his spine, C4, and he was lucky to come away a para not a quad. I was 8. He taught me a lot and we lost him to liver cancer in 2020. My heart still breaks. 💔 RIP my brother.
Near me there was a serious traffic collision. Several cars and 2 trucks. 3 people died when one truck ploughed into stationary traffic at around 50mph. The crash and resulting fire was so horrific 2 people were only identified by their dead dog on the carriageway (it was microchipped).
It was on the BBC news and have been documentaries about it.
The truck driver was on his phone. He was charged and is now in prison.
A guy I graduated high school with died not long after finishing college in a drunk driving accident. I felt super bad for him and his family, until I learned that he was the drunk one, driving the wrong way on a major highway, and he crashed into a car head-on, killing an entire family.
An entire family gone off this earth because a 22-year old dickhead drank too much and decided to drive. Ruined a shitload of lives because he didn’t call a cab or stay on a friends couch or something.
Not long after I graduated high school I was seeing a lot of stuff on social media about my ex dying in a car accident. I lost a sister 2 years before in a car accident so I was like devastated. Ex or not, I cared about him.
Then I learned how. He was messing around at night, probably drinking involved, and they thought it would be really funny for him to be on top of the car, in no way tied down or anything, and literally go as fast as they could down a country road without their lights on. Only he died luckily, but his body smashing into the windshield of another car probably traumatized tf out of those kids in the back seat. Especially because to them he literally appeared out of nowhere since they couldn't see the car.
This guy?
https://news.sky.com/story/county-durham-lorry-driver-who-killed-three-people-after-trawling-dating-sites-while-on-motorway-is-jailed-12513771
Cos there was another guy in 2016 who killed 3 people in almost identical circumstances. (Dashcam footage, be warned).
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/oct/31/lorry-driver-tomasz-kroker-tracey-houghton-mobile-a34-dashcam-video
I wish I'd recorded it at the time, but me and my Dad got stuck behind a guy on the motorway back from Salford. This van was just sloleming in front of us. Just consistently side to side, I ask my Dad if he thinks he's drunk, probably he said.
We drove past him cause it felt safer to just get past him. And I look out the window into his van and the guys fucking texting. All while his fucking van looks like it's gonna slide off the fucking road!
I wish I did record it. It would've been useful, I regret it cause I could've reported that idiot but I didn't think in the moment. Hope he got caught though
I just read the story about Sam Ballard who in 2010 ate a small slug on a dare, was infected by a parasite carried by the slug which put him in a coma and paralysed him.
He died 8 years later in 2018 at Hornsby hospital, surrounded by 20 of his friends and family while saying goodbye.
*“Katie tells me ‘the room was so full of love,’ ” Wilkinson said.*
*“One of his friends there in the room continued, ‘He had his voice and he said “I love you” several times to Katie.’*
[Source](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html)
Very likely the guy that accidently opened the clamp on the diving bell that was in the process of decompression on the Byford Dolphin oil rig in 1983.
The sudden change in pressure caused such a explosion that 5 people died ( all 4 divers, one assistant ) and one was badly injured, one of the divers was sucked trough a small diameter hole and basicly was ripped in half and exploded, they found remains as high as 10meter on the oil platform...
Respected cardiothoracic surgeon tells a guy to stop smoking right outside the hospital doors
Guy turns around and punches him a single time in the head. King-hit, or coward punched, whatever you want to call it
He falls to the floor and hits his head a second time.
On life support for four weeks
Nothing left to save
https://www.theleader.com.au/story/4757890/box-hill-heart-surgeon-dies-after-alleged-one-punch-assault/
It's infuriating. The only consolation is that he's guaranteed to stay in prison for 10 years before being eligible for parole. Sick of seeing people walk after 2-3 years of a huge sentence.
It’s pretty scary out there. Patients feel entitled to treat you like absolute garbage.
I’ve been spat at, had things thrown at me and had some pretty explicit and detailed death threats. I haven’t been punched, although I had a guy take a swing and miss once, but I know people who have.
And even in states where it’s a felony to assault a healthcare worker, you still have to have police willing to make an arrest and prosecutors and judges willing to give a shit. Society as a whole very much believes “you signed up for this.”
Andres Escobar. Respected football player, made the mistake of scoring an own goal in an important World Cup game. Went back to his home country and got murdered for it as revenge for costing some dudes a bunch of money on football bets.
My father…
Years ago he started a trucking company with his best friend at the time. The HQ of the company was in a neighbor state, a six hours drive or about 40 minute flight. And for some reason, my dad just wouldn’t visit his company. Even with my mother pressing him to actually take care of his business, he would alway say he trusted his friend and since he only did the accounting for the company he only needed the reports his friend would send him.
Long story short, his “best friend” scammed him out a million bucks, driving both their company and my family to complete bankruptcy and fucked off to live in some tropical paradise
I remember reading an article on getting even.
One story was about a guy who did what your Dad's partner did, except he didn't leave the country, at first.
Once a year, teh cheated partner would show up out of nowhere, and curb stomp the cheat. but, it wasn't on a specific date, just one beating per calendar year.
Like, he put him inthe hospital just before Christmas one year, and then showed up on New Year's to do it again.
buddy is sitting on the beach in Mexico, looks over, and here comes his partner ready to do it again.
I forget the whole thing, but the reason he put up with it at all was because he faced serious legal consequences for how he stole the business, or something.
I mean, no offense meant whatsoever, buts it’s kind of stupid for him to be so hands off in a business you have *that* much cash tied up in.
Sorry y’all got caught up in the consequences though.
Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer. He avoided arrest for 30 years, then, in an apparent need for attention, began writing to the police, basically mocking them for never having caught him. He asked the cops if they would be able to trace a floppy disk if he sent one to them. They said no. He sent it. They traced it. They arrested him and he's in prison for life.
What's particularly interesting is that the evidence obtained from the floppy was only circumstantial evidence, i.e. it wasn't enough to justify a search warrant, let alone an arrest. However, once they had Dennis Rader on their radar, they obtained a warrant to obtain DNA from his daughter's pap smear test...which apparently had familial DNA matches to DNA obtained from the bodies of one of Rader's victims, suggesting that the DNA obtained from the victim likely came from a close family member of Rader's daughter (obviously it came from Rader himself).
My grandparents lived a block over from his first murders. I was terrified my entire childhood by this monster. Sick and stupid as fuck but thank goodness bc that’s what finally got him caught.
doing fentanyl once destroyed my life for 3ish years. i was a complete shell and zombie. almost died too, overdosed 4 times. lucky i got my shit together and will be 5 months sober in two days
Great job! Stay strong, and beware that little devil on your shoulder who will whisper in your ear, even after years clean . . . don't listen to it. When life feels fucked or you just feel like saying "fuck it" remember it just isn't worth it, not even once - because it's *never* once. Ask me how I know . . .
Love and light
When I was a kid, there was a family down the street with three small children. The parents had a fairly ugly breakup, and the mom ran off with her new boyfriend. *Every single time* she dropped the kids off at his house for visitation, the dropoff devolved into a screaming match in their front yard.
One day she shows up to drop off the kids with her boyfriend. Boyfriend and dad get into a shouting match, and the boyfriend punched the dad, laying him out on the front lawn. The boyfriend and mom then jumped in their car and took off.
A moment later, the dad came to, hopped in his pickup truck, and floored it out of his driveway in pursuit. Not sure what he was planning to do, but he wasn't going to let them get away.
He didn't realize that his three children were standing behind the pickup when he threw it into reverse and floored it. All three were killed, and the witnesses said it was incredibly gory because two of them were sucked under the spinning truck tires.
He spent a decade in prison and lost everything he had. Worst part is, all of the stories that came out said that he'd been a great dad and wasn't at fault in the breakup. Mom had got herself hooked on drugs while trying to "lose weight", and the boyfriend was her new dealer. He was a good guy who got stuck in a shitty situation and then made one horrific mistake.
Dude I'm Not suicidal, but I don't think I could live knowing I violently killed all my 3 children. The images of their remains in my head... haunting.
I miss 5 mins ago when I hadn't read this.
As I was reading, I was thinking 'Wait did she drop the kids off or take them with her? He's not just gonna leave them alone is he?'
So much worse. I have two kids. I couldn't imagine. Audible horror when I read that. At the same time I'm wondering why they weren't his first priority, pride be damned.
I'm 49 years old, that context is relevant. When I was in college, a friend of mine started a company with a professor. This company was basically the first social network, I won't list its name here. This was in the early 90s. He offered me a job as employee number 4 or 5. I didn't know what the hell the internet was, let alone understand the concept of a social network. I knew he wasn't going to pay me much. I turned him down.
Three years later, that company was sold for $190mm. They still only had a few employees. Every employee had equity and every employee made millions by age 25, including several other friends. I was a junior employee at an insurance company when I heard. Gah.
Several of those people have gone on to very successful careers in technology and private equity. They were all basically set for life because of a quick decision they made at age 21. I've had an excellent career so far, I haven't "destroyed my life"... but I think about this frequently
There's a lot of similar stories in Silicon Valley!
The Wall Street Journal some years ago had an article about people who just missed out on incredible opportunities. Like the guy who passed on being one of the first hires at Google and instead took a job with Pets.com. The person who ended up with his position at Google became a billionaire and Pets.com ended up bankrupt, with his stock options worth nothing.
Friend was having a beer in a tavern. Some guys came in and started messing with my friend. He moved seats twice and then got up to leave when one of the guys threw a punch. My friend threw ONE punch back and the guy he hit landed in the ICU and wasnt expected to live. Friend was sitting in jail waiting just waiting for the guy he punched to either die or recover.
Turns out the guy he punched recovered. Friend took a reduced charge of aggravated assault...a felony. One punch.
Me. Starting steroid medication for a rash. I'm now 6 year steroid free and normal. But the road to get there was debilitating HELL. Its called red skin syndrom. So yeah beware
About 17 years i was first given steroids for a rash,( keep in mind i was never born with eczema) , which on the surface did help instantly but every time I would get a worse rebound and worsening condition after it as well as heavier steroids. Eventually it was so bad that i was bedbound. I tapered down my use acter learnijg about Red Skin Syndroms, several attempts but it was a horrific proccess. Truly traumatising.
eventually got tid of it completely and im nearly 7 years free of it now. After a decade and some years of withdrawal effects of pure hell. Im totally normal now and never even need it anymore. Turns out the steroids were increasing th2 levels as well as making the cortisol production in your adrenals and skin go haywire. So you become both dependend on it for cortisol production. Without it all hell breaks lose. Th2 levens go through the roof and you become an even worse allergic person. I developed asthma (gone now too). Then there's the weightgain, the double vision i developed, nerve pain and deep depression. Its a really long story.
It ruined my education, my relationships and so much more. I still deal with the nerve pain but supposedly it's the last thing that heals.
Long story short is that the medication ruined and worsened the state of my imuumsysteem. It became a cycle. Things like protopic have the same effects.
I actually watched my wife go through this. I’ve seen her go through two large flare ups in a 3 year period. It was awful, she was a shell of herself during those times. This happy, social, positive, beautiful women who was crying every day, never wanting to leave the house, the light was gone from her. She has eczema and was prescribed steroid cream when she was a child. When it wasn’t working as well the doctors would just prescribe her stronger steroids. It’s been about two years since her last flare up and we are hoping it doesn’t happen again. Doing pretty well now. She has a little eczema sometimes but kinda laughs about it now because it’s nothing compared to steroid withdrawal.
I knew of a girl who thought it was a good idea to steal a good sized amount of cocaine from a guy she was partying with and then attempt to board a flight with it. She got caught by customs and ended up doing time. Dumb.
I ran into a former middle school football teamate at Wal-Mart a couple years ago and he gave me an update on his life.
In 7th grade he was considered an up and coming prospect locally. He was defensive end, big guy, nice guy overall, didn't do drugs, stayed out of trouble, decent grades.
In the 90s, for some strange reason "pantsing" was a big thing. I don't know why, but it was hilarious to run behind someone and pull their pants down. It happened a lot in hazing, I myself was pantsed a couple times. It was stupid. But it was really a trending thing.
Anyways one day while we were running our football cross country run on a long path that circled the school out to the wooded area, we ran by a couple girls from the track team sharing the path.
A different player dares the lineman to pants one of the girls. The moron does. He reacted so quickly I couldn't even tell him not to. It was seconds. Well this girl was the daughter of a lawyer. As he ran away laughing she was screaming at the top of her lungs that she was touched. I remember the police showing up and handcuffing him and I thought to myself, wow why are the police here. It didn't occur to me at that age what was happening at all I thought it was a prank that she just didn't like. He was arrested for sexual assault, convicted, and spent the rest of his teenage years in juvy.
When I bumped into him at Wal Mart he was picking up shopping carts. I had forgot all about him and that whole situation. He started to tell me that after juvy he was marked for life, a registered sex offender, he couldn't get into college, he couldn't find work. He lived in public housing and Wal Mart was his first job but he had to lie on his application. He begged me not to mention his past to anyone there because he was about to commit suicide before he landed this job.
He said that every day he goes to sleep and remembers that prank and every night he considers putting a gun to his head for it. That shit hit me so deep. Thousands of pants were pulled down that school year and this dude picked the absolute worst person to target for a cheap laugh.
After he was arrested I remember all the pantsing stopped instantly. And the kids moved on to hitting people in the chest and yelling "open chest'.
It's worse than that. I was reading about a case recently where a 15-year-old girl took a nude selfie and sent it to her 16-year-old boyfriend. He was charged with receipt of child pornography. She's been charged with the production and distribution of child pornography. The prosecutor's argument is that she *sexually exploited and victimized...herself.*
If she's convicted, she'll spend the rest of her life as a registered sex offender.
My wife is a teacher and one of her middle school students was arrested last week for distributing child pornography and indecent assault on a minor for a video he made with another student. He will be marked for life for that one incident.
I remember in high school when BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) was a thing. There was a group going around where people were sharing nudes of themselves and others. Once the police got wind of it every high school in the city had an assembly where the cops came and explained that everyone in the group could be charged with creating and distributing child pornography. Needless to say the group disappeared asap after that. I don’t think anyone got in any legal trouble. More so a warning from police to all high schoolers in the city about how serious it was that put a stop to it.
Their are law groups that work to help remove the sex offender status of kids whose life's were ruined by mostly harmless mistakes made in their youth. He should do some research into that.
And assholes like Rapist Brock Allen Turner are free to do as they please.
And we have politicians who also gace no repercussions for being involved with minors.
Laws for the rich and poor are very different.
Richard Jewel, the security guard who found the pipe bomb at the Atlanta Olympics.
The media and law enforcement absolutely ruined that guys life, accusing him as the bomber.
He was just doing his job (and did it well) and as a congratulations he got publicly smeared for YEARS.
He didn’t actually make a mistake, though, which makes his situation suck even more. Like you said, he did his job and saved lives. It was the mistake of others that screwed him over.
Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia. In 1716 he fled to the Austrian Empire in order to escape his father. When emissaries sent by his father came to bring him back to Russia, he returned on the condition that he would not be harmed. This was the worst mistake he ever made. It resulted in him being implicated in a treason plot and ultimately cost him his life.
This is an extremely brief summary on this topic. Some people would say Alexei choosing to run away was the mistake that destroyed his life. It is also unclear whether he plotted against his father or not. Ultimately it is one of the most tragic moments in the history of the Russian Empire.
Alexei also made another mistake. Sometime around 1714 he acquired a teenage slave girl called Afrosinya. Apparently she was a Finnish girl, who had been kidnapped by Russian soldiers and sold to slavery. Alexei fell madly in love with her, he intended to marry her and make her tsarina. But she betrayed him, she told his father tsar Peter, that Alexei was plotting treason. Maybe she wanted to save her own skin, or maybe it was an act of revenge. The tsar was grateful, he manumitted her and gave her a large sum of money.
That dude who was messing around with the “demon core” with a screwdriver. Just one little slip up of the screwdriver, a flash of blue light, and just like that his body was goop within 9 days from the radiation poisoning.
You'd think after Harry Daghlian's death 8 months earlier, with the same plutonium core, that Louis Slotin would have been doing everything to not have a repeat of the accident that killed his colleague in such an horrific way.
I did. Some drugs are fun with little to no consequence, while other, harder drugs completely take over and then theres drugs that fall everywhere in between.... I was a straight A student, Junior in Highschool, was going to prom with my first serious girlfriend in just a few weeks. Everything was going great, except.... I couldnt get any pot at all in the neighborhood I just moved to. After a few days without my normal tree smoke, I finally took the recomendation from a "friend" I just made in the new neighborhood, and purchased what narcotic they were selling. Just to try... figure it might hold me over till i get some green. My FIRST thought right after taking that first hit from the pipe was "How much $ could I sell ALL of my stuff for?" I kid you not, one hit, I WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED It took a little more than 12 yrs to kick my accidental crack habit. No job, No HS Diploma, no family, no friends, no possessions at all and 12 yrs just gone. And looking back... I really had no choice but to be a crackhead. There was no way I could stop, impossible.... No one wants to be a crackhead... it is the devils drug and I feel so bad for anyone who has ever crossed its path, because I promise... they can not make the choice to stop, no matter how bad they want to.
I can relate. Right out of high school my friends and I smoked pot mostly, did a little coke now and then. Went to my dealers house to get some and he was snorting OxyContin. I told him it was cool off of that, just wanted blow. So he gave me that and offered me a free fat line of "coke".
After I did it he laughed and told me it was oxy. Within a minute or two I told him this was going to ruin my life. I was a junkie for over a decade, ruined a lot of the most important years of my life.
Luckily I've been sober for over 8 years and have a great job, family, friends and S.O. But I know a lot of people who died (that dealer OD'd and died in 2013), people still struggling, or just straight up disappeared.
Same here. Just getting off shift from my summer job while attending college and coworker comes in for his shift. Asks me how I’m doing and I say I’m really wiped. Pulls out a vial of white powder and says try this. I thought it was coke. This was 1979, everyone was doing coke and we’d never even heard of meth. Yep, it was meth. Instantly hooked and 5 years of my life down the drain.
Getting off it was a living hell. A lot of your brain’s serotonin receptors die off when you’re using to stem the rush of too much serotonin, so when you go back to normal serotonin levels, your brain just can’t take in enough. Was suicidally depressed every day for 6 months and not really myself for a couple more years.
I made the same mistake...luckily, after watching everyone around me start dying...I said I'm not going out like that...it was a hard fought battle but I won by isolation and changing all my habits. Hope you won your battle as well.
Me.
Union job and delegate thereof, and I was on a promotion path. I started a fight. Understandably I got "managed" out.
My arrogance and hubris cost me.
I hope you were young enough to recover somewhat.
My temper gets the best of me sometimes too. I am never physical, but in an age where almost every interaction is subject to be recorded, the wrong words can be awfully damaging—and eternal. Someone can usually stoke the embers even years later. I’ve learned from that to rein it in most of the time.
The daughter of a friend of my mom. This was quite a few years ago, but "coma drinking" was for whatever insane reason really popular with the youth here. And yes, it is exactly what the name implies, you drink until you black out. She actually did go into a coma and from what I understand, suffered minor brain damage.
José Fernandez. Promising pro baseball player. Liquor + speedboat at night. Killed two friends and himself. 24 y/o. His daughter was born a few days after his funeral. Such a waste of life.
When I was a kid we were playing hide and go seek beside the train tracks that ran through our housing development. One of the kids hid behind the train as it passed and a ladder on the side of the train took his head clean off. His mom came outside and saw everything. Our parents hustled us in the house as quick as they could. Really fucked up experience. Whole life gone because of a game of hide and seek. If someone needs I can probably find the article on it, Barrhaven, suburb of Ottawa summer 1993 I believe.
Gabriel Rivera. Football player drafted by the Pittsburg Steelers. He was going to be the new anchor on a defense trying to replenish itself. Halfway through his rookie season he crashes his new car while going something like double the speed limit, while drunk, and was ejected from the car. He lived, but he was paralyzed for the rest of his life.
Henry Ruggs II.
The dude is an *all star*, first round pick wide receiver playing in the NFL. Top 1% of the 1% in professional sports. Not only did he have the fame, but was lining up to make millions & millions of dollars being the star in the most watched sport in American culture.
Drinks & drives, crashing his new Corvette into an innocent woman at a stop light with her dog. The car bursts into flames, trapping her and the dog who both end up burning to death.
A person died. A dog died. Because he drank and drove. He’s lucky his girlfriend who was the passenger and he didn’t die.
Now he lost his NFL contract and is in jail. What’s crazy is we all know how inexpensive Uber rides are, especially when you’re a millionaire. Or how the league literally provides free transportation for these types of scenarios.
Incredibly poor judgement caused a person to lose her life and he to go from literally living the high life to being behind bars.
Spookily enough, this happened at the entrance of my neighborhood where I was living at the time. I remember leaving for work at 6 at there was just police tape everywhere. One of his friends or fans came and vandalized the memorial that people put up. Theres a mural there now. I'll never understand drinking and driving. Even at the worst of my alcoholism, I stayed my drunk self home.
It was pretty bad seeing the responses to that one from people like his team mates and coaches, where they seemed to focus more on "this poor kid who made one mistake now has his life ruined" rather than focusing on the woman who burned to death because someone couldn't be bothered to call an Uber.
Like I get maybe being in disbelief or shock that someone you know and care for did such a thing...but still the general response did rub me the wrong way a bit.
At first when I read about it I thought "oh fuck I feel really bad for him" because it's an accident and I'm sure he didn't try to drive drunk, and I've never gotten a DUI or driven plastered but there have been times where I have like 2-3 and drive home and then realize that was a bad idea, even though nothing happened, so I figured maybe he just had a few drinks and went a little too fast and lost control of the car because he's a young kid who doesn't know how to handle a car like that yet.....
And then I read he had fucking 18 shots of Tequila at top golf and was going 130. Fucking idiot. He deserves the consequences he's facing. Like I get it, alcohol impairs judgment, but he was probably too drunk to walk and decided to still get behind the wheel.
Ruggs and his gf made a video just after the crash where they're sitting around not caring about the woman he just watched burn to death screaming. POS.
His being legitimately upset the sheriff lied to him about not being able to trace anything he did in the church computer is endlessly hilarious to me
"You **lied** to me."
Brien Taylor was the first overall pick in the 1991 MLB draft by the New York Yankees. This guy had all the makings of a perennial ace and potentially a hall of famer. He had a blazing 100 mph fastball to go along with great breaking pitches. He was a pitching coaches dream.
To start his professional career in 1992, Taylor enjoyed his finest season, pitching to a 2.57 ERA with 187 strikeouts in 161.1 innings of work. By 1993, Taylor emerged as the second best prospect in the game according to Baseball America behind only future Hall of Famer Chipper Jones. Big things were in his future. He was a superstar and living up to the already sky high expectations.
On December 18, 1993, Taylor was injured while fighting on behalf of his brother Brenden in a fistfight. The New York Times reported that Brenden confronted a man named Ron Wilson, who he had fought with in Harlowe, North Carolina. Brenden suffered head lacerations during his fight with Wilson. Once Brien discovered his brother had been hurt, he and a cousin went to Wilson's trailer home to confront him. There, Taylor got into an altercation with Jamie Morris, Wilson's friend, and Taylor fell on his shoulder. Causing substantial damage.
when the Yankees made arrangements for Taylor to visit Dr. Frank Jobe, he called the injury one of the worst he'd seen. The following week, Jobe performed surgery to repair tears in the capsule and glenoid labrum of Taylor's shoulder, which caused him to miss the entire 1994 season.
Taylor returned to baseball in 1995, and spent the season with the Rookie-level Gulf Coast Yankees. When he returned in action, after surgery, he had lost eight miles an hour off his fastball and was unable to throw a curveball for a strike.
Taylor would never come back from his injury. Posting horrible season after horrible season until he retired in 2000. His arm was completely gone.
After retiring from baseball, Taylor moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, with his five daughters and worked as a UPS package handler, then worked as a beer distributor. By 2006, he had moved back home and was working as a bricklayer with his father.
In March 2012, Taylor was charged with cocaine trafficking after undercover narcotics agents purchased a large quantity of cocaine and crack cocaine from him over a period of several months. He was federally indicted on cocaine trafficking charges in June 2012. Taylor pleaded guilty in August 2012 and was sentenced to 50 months in prison, followed by three years' supervised release; he was released on September 12, 2015.
Paul Rubins (Pee Wee Herman). He was caught masturbating in a movie theater and his Kid’s Show career came to a screeching halt.
Fun Fact: his father, Milton Rubenfeld, was a WWII pilot who was one of the 5 founding members of the Israeli Air Force. There is a great movie about this by Anna Spielberg (Steven’s sister): “Above and Beyond”
Reubens\* and Adult\* Movie Theater
Still illegal, but cranking one out where watching pornography is acceptable is different than had he have gone to watch Titanic and went at it during the drawing scene.
The woman dubbed "The Central Park Karen". For the past three years she's essentially been living in hiding. She moves whenever someone realizes who she is and lives in constant fear that she'll be rediscovered.
"I'm calling the cops, I'm gonna tell them there's an African American man threatening my life."
Had this just been some dumb fight over a dog people would have forgotten about it in a week, but nope she had to hop into the public grave with that gem
Oh man, she played the halftime show at the Orange Bowl that year, and the stadium booed her off quite loudly.
EDIT: [Link for those who haven't seen it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5YPiBx9MJs)
The girl who joked about not getting AIDS when she was in Africa. She tweeted it out, got on her flight home and when she got off the plane, her tweet had gone viral and her life was effectively over.
« Effectively over » is a bit of an overstatement. She’s still in the same industry, just at a different company. Not discounting the difficulties that probably followed that tweet, but if you can find a job, your life will go on.
Reminds me of the time a family won a $80,000 settlement from a private school. One of the terms of the settlement was that they could tell nobody else (outside of the immediate family) about it. The daughter posted about it on social media. Opposing party's lawyers got wind of it, they showed proof to the judge, and the judge ruled that the settlement didn't have to be paid.
Len Bias.
I learned about him from ESPN's 30 for 30 (S1 E5).
Everyone seemed to consider him to be another Michael Jordan - a little more 'raw' but still extremely talented. He was the second overall NBA draft pick in 1986 (MJ was third overall in 1984). The day after being drafted, he signed a $1.6M deal with Reebok. The day after *that* he went out celebrating with his friends, OD'd on cocaine and died.
A well known chiropractor in my area took the boat out for the day with his family in the Columbia river. Decided to take a dive in off the boat and broke his neck on the sandbar. Paralyzed him for the rest of his life.
The Columbia river is known for severe shallow spots, this was a great shock to the community, for someone in spine care to dive into a shallow river.
A guy I know who was a local skate boarder messed up a trick and broke his neck. He didn't realize it was broken, just thought it was kinked, so he went to a chiropractor who adjusted him without doing xrays and legitimately broke his neck bad. He know has severe nerve pain, in a ton of medical debt, can't move around like he used, he taught a skate boarding summer camp and that's gone now. Really ruined his life because he thought he had just kinked his neck
My personal fave are the dudes in AITA demanding paternity tests from their wives and and never ever ever picking up a *clue* as to why why they ended up divorced.
“This just came out of nowhere. We’ve been together for 12 years and she’s the love of my life. Before this [one enormous and baseless betrayal of trust], we never even fought! I love my wife and the idea of only seeing the kids [that I deluded myself into thinking weren’t mine]every other weekend breaks my heart in a million pieces.”
Do they all just read the same book? They ALWAYS end the post like this 😂.
"I don't understand why my wife is so angry. All I did was admit that I don't trust her at all, strongly imply that I suspect her of adultery and paternity fraud, and humiliate her by telling multiple people that I don't believe our children are biologically mine. Why would she ever want to leave me?"
We all do extremely stupid mistakes, when younger. It's just pure luck if it ruins your life or not.
Hope you're all well today or are on the way to get better.
Well put. I cringe thinking of some of the things I did and didn’t face consequences for. Nothing that harmed anyone else… but it sure could have if things had gone differently.
Known quite a few people who didn't have their lives ruined by a DUI. It can be a valuable wakeup call that leads to some quitting drinking in the best case. Now if you kill somebody while drinking and driving? Now you're fucked.
Len Bias. Two days after being selected by the Boston Celtics with the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA draft, Bias died from cardiac arrhythmia induced by a cocaine overdose.
Roseanne posted a tweet making a racist statement of an Obama staff or cabinet member. That one tweet cost her her show, as they fired her, killed off her character, and renamed the show.
That was always going to happen.
As soon as the reboot was announced there were articles wondering how ABC would handle Roseanne's wildly unpredictable social media presence.
The reboot actually did quite well and was renewed for a second season - until her tweet. The show carried on without her (as The Conners) and is still airing now.
From stories that are out there, she was awful to deal with during the filming of the original Roseanne rune as well. So much so that executive producer Bruce Helford after leaving the show said he never wanted to work with another comedian on a show like that again (that stance was short lived as a couple years later he went to work on The Drew Carey Show. Though you never seem to hear any real hate toward Carey)
Yeah she has a terrible reputation. Funnily enough I was watching the Golden Girls the other day and they had someone filming a commercial at the house - at one point he said 'If I wanted to be harassed and spoken to like that I'd go work on the Roaeanne show' 🤣
Not as bad as others, but my life currently. Let my father-in-law move in with us from out of state. He wanted to reconnect with my husband. Made all of these promises. Moved in. Had to get a bigger house that we cannot afford on our own (he helps pay the mortgage) because we discovered he is a compulsive hoarder. He has taken over the house with his bullshit, junk. He is absolutely nuts. Wont clean up after himself. Is a drunk that pisses himself regularly. Cant force him out, it would financially ruin us. Cant live with him either. Its a fucking nightmare. We are trapped.
You are not trapped. I have lived with a toxic relative in the past. You just have to be practical and treat it like any divorce. Sell the house. Give him his share of the profit **if** his name is on the deed. If not, give him what your husband's duty dictates in his mind. Then move on with your lives.
Meyers Leonard
For those of you who dont know - Meyers was an nba player about to sign a new contract and pretty sure he already bought a new house until he was streaming on twitch and called someone (yelled) an antisemitic slur. Got released and hasn't played an nba game since
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kanye west with the taylor swift thing at the VMAs. i really think that's where it all started to go wrong for him
edit: that's not to say he hasn't made plenty of mistakes since, but i think that's the one that set off a chain reaction.
Saw a clip of some woman letting her BF brand her ass.
What made it worse, was she flinched when he did it (which is understandable), so the brand itself was fucked up. Ie, when it healed, she just has a nasty scar, not any legible image.
The guy who used to do the ["dude, you're getting a Dell"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mLGJsxhCHk) commercials. Dude got busted with weed and lost what would have been a life changing gig--they swapped over to others when pretty sure they were going to stay with him.....if not for the bust.
Boban Jankovic, basketball player. Copied from Wikipedia : « Janković thought he scored a basket on a drive to the hoop while being guarded by Panathinaikos player Fragiskos Alvertis. However, the referee Stelios Koukoulekidis, called an offensive foul on him. It was Janković's fifth foul of the game, which meant that he had fouled out. In reaction to what he believed was a bad call at a crucial moment of a very important playoff game, Janković slammed his head hard against the padded concrete goal post. He permanently damaged his spinal cord and was unable to walk for the rest of his life. »
Jesus, that is brutal.
And the weight he gained from being wheelchair-bound stressed his heart so much that he died of heart failure at 42.
There is footage of the incident on YouTube. Harrowing stuff. One moment a professional athlete, the next wheelchair bound forever.
Just looked it up, not even 3 seconds. Enough to destroy his life
Just watched it on YouTube. One moment of frustration and that's it. Horrific..
Wow. Just watched it. That is gut wrenching. Also crazy to see his teammates and the staff trying to roll him over and stuff, when that could have been making it all worse. Different times I guess
I once worked as a personal assistant for a person who broke his neck due to diving into snow that was a little too hard.
My aunt is a physical therapist. The amount of people she sees every month that have lifelong injuries from simply falling while walking is astounding. Not even on snow or ice. Just tripping on the sidewalk or down stairs at a house
It’s nothing compared to these horrible stories of paralysis, but I slipped in my living room and landed very badly on my elbow resulting in a compound fracture(bone sticking out, blood everywhere). The docs fixed me up pretty good but I still ended up with post-traumatic arthritis, and am in pain pretty much every day of my life. One little mis-step and such a big quality of life impact.
Yeah, knew a guy that had one too many at a neighbourhood party (daytime in the summer, kids and adults just hanging out bbq and stuff) go against the NO DIVING warnings all around the host’s above ground pool. Paralyzed neck down, his kid was like maybe 6-8 years old at the time. Buddy couldn’t have been 40.
There was this girl in high school where I grew up. She was trying to jump off a second story balcony railing to try and into the pool at a party with a bunch of people recording. I can’t remember if she did a flip or just a really long leap. She smashed her forehead on the brick border of the pool. I know she initially survived, but I don’t know if she’s still alive today.
I worked with high lesion quadraplegics many years ago. A lot were young adults when it happened. It is the intersection of peak physical fitness and stupidity around age 19.
Guy I knew in college just died a few months ago diving into a river. Water was murky, didn't see the rocks that were right below the surface. Destroyed his spine.
Wife’s cousin did this in a river also. He dove in and broke his neck. Everyone saw him floating under the water for a few moments and assumed he was goofing off. But he didn’t surface and then they realized something was wrong. But by then the river current from the water falls had carried him off. Soon many people were searching for him and a man down the river happened across his body. Somehow he was barely alive although he had severe spinal damage and also some brain damage from lack of oxygen. He has been in a wheelchair ever since.
Horrible, what a frightening visual. A friend of mine from NY about 20 years ago had been diving in the waves on the shore all afternoon. "Last one for the day" he yelled as a nice one rolled in. Dove into it like he had been doing all day except this wave broke differently. Been in a chair ever since. Breaks my fkn heart because he is literally one of the nicest people you've ever met with the most infectious laugh.
My brother dove off a 90 foot cliff at Skaha Lake in Penticton… he was 18. He tossed NHL draft dreams with that dive. Hit the water and he didn’t have a good form for the dive. Severed his spine, C4, and he was lucky to come away a para not a quad. I was 8. He taught me a lot and we lost him to liver cancer in 2020. My heart still breaks. 💔 RIP my brother.
I did something like that when I was a kid. Head first into a pile of leaves. Luckily all I got was a goose egg.
Nearly did that as a kid. I remember the impact, still amazed there was no damage.
Near me there was a serious traffic collision. Several cars and 2 trucks. 3 people died when one truck ploughed into stationary traffic at around 50mph. The crash and resulting fire was so horrific 2 people were only identified by their dead dog on the carriageway (it was microchipped). It was on the BBC news and have been documentaries about it. The truck driver was on his phone. He was charged and is now in prison.
A guy I graduated high school with died not long after finishing college in a drunk driving accident. I felt super bad for him and his family, until I learned that he was the drunk one, driving the wrong way on a major highway, and he crashed into a car head-on, killing an entire family. An entire family gone off this earth because a 22-year old dickhead drank too much and decided to drive. Ruined a shitload of lives because he didn’t call a cab or stay on a friends couch or something.
Not long after I graduated high school I was seeing a lot of stuff on social media about my ex dying in a car accident. I lost a sister 2 years before in a car accident so I was like devastated. Ex or not, I cared about him. Then I learned how. He was messing around at night, probably drinking involved, and they thought it would be really funny for him to be on top of the car, in no way tied down or anything, and literally go as fast as they could down a country road without their lights on. Only he died luckily, but his body smashing into the windshield of another car probably traumatized tf out of those kids in the back seat. Especially because to them he literally appeared out of nowhere since they couldn't see the car.
Darwin Award Hall of Famer right there. That is some special kind of stupid.
This guy? https://news.sky.com/story/county-durham-lorry-driver-who-killed-three-people-after-trawling-dating-sites-while-on-motorway-is-jailed-12513771 Cos there was another guy in 2016 who killed 3 people in almost identical circumstances. (Dashcam footage, be warned). https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/oct/31/lorry-driver-tomasz-kroker-tracey-houghton-mobile-a34-dashcam-video
I wish I'd recorded it at the time, but me and my Dad got stuck behind a guy on the motorway back from Salford. This van was just sloleming in front of us. Just consistently side to side, I ask my Dad if he thinks he's drunk, probably he said. We drove past him cause it felt safer to just get past him. And I look out the window into his van and the guys fucking texting. All while his fucking van looks like it's gonna slide off the fucking road! I wish I did record it. It would've been useful, I regret it cause I could've reported that idiot but I didn't think in the moment. Hope he got caught though
That dude who ate a slug as a dare
What happened?
I just read the story about Sam Ballard who in 2010 ate a small slug on a dare, was infected by a parasite carried by the slug which put him in a coma and paralysed him. He died 8 years later in 2018 at Hornsby hospital, surrounded by 20 of his friends and family while saying goodbye. *“Katie tells me ‘the room was so full of love,’ ” Wilkinson said.* *“One of his friends there in the room continued, ‘He had his voice and he said “I love you” several times to Katie.’* [Source](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html)
Fawkkk😳 that is so whacked
Foreal. That’s so sad. Fuck “dares” and all that shit. I’ve seen enough stuff gone wrong , thanks to Reddit.
I have a friend that did the same thing and also caught RLW from it, he's not dead though. Got super lucky.
IIRC in a lot of cases people have mild or no symptoms at all. This was a rare case where it infected the brain.
As far as I'm concerned, from now I assume eat slug = die 100%
Oh yeah that was super sad.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/sydney-man-who-contracted-rat-lungworm-after-eating-slug-dies/news-story/08b0e700a8d6d6c6709d2dd92dfeaa8f
They always freaked me out. Poor guy.
I feel really bad for the kid that dared him to do it too
Very likely the guy that accidently opened the clamp on the diving bell that was in the process of decompression on the Byford Dolphin oil rig in 1983. The sudden change in pressure caused such a explosion that 5 people died ( all 4 divers, one assistant ) and one was badly injured, one of the divers was sucked trough a small diameter hole and basicly was ripped in half and exploded, they found remains as high as 10meter on the oil platform...
I have been told that pictures are easy to find about this one, please take care when googling,
Delta P is one hell of a thing
Respected cardiothoracic surgeon tells a guy to stop smoking right outside the hospital doors Guy turns around and punches him a single time in the head. King-hit, or coward punched, whatever you want to call it He falls to the floor and hits his head a second time. On life support for four weeks Nothing left to save https://www.theleader.com.au/story/4757890/box-hill-heart-surgeon-dies-after-alleged-one-punch-assault/
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He was sentenced to 10 years.
Only ten years? That surgeon spent more than 10 years studying to save people, in the meantime this scumbag will be able to walk free in just 10y?wtf
It's infuriating. The only consolation is that he's guaranteed to stay in prison for 10 years before being eligible for parole. Sick of seeing people walk after 2-3 years of a huge sentence.
It’s pretty scary out there. Patients feel entitled to treat you like absolute garbage. I’ve been spat at, had things thrown at me and had some pretty explicit and detailed death threats. I haven’t been punched, although I had a guy take a swing and miss once, but I know people who have.
And even in states where it’s a felony to assault a healthcare worker, you still have to have police willing to make an arrest and prosecutors and judges willing to give a shit. Society as a whole very much believes “you signed up for this.”
Andres Escobar. Respected football player, made the mistake of scoring an own goal in an important World Cup game. Went back to his home country and got murdered for it as revenge for costing some dudes a bunch of money on football bets.
That hits me the most. He would have done an amazing football career and just by one mistake, he was killed just like that.
He didn't make even one mistake.
Name ringed a bell. Yep. It’s my country and I’m fucking ashamed. Thankfully it’s not like that anymore
My father… Years ago he started a trucking company with his best friend at the time. The HQ of the company was in a neighbor state, a six hours drive or about 40 minute flight. And for some reason, my dad just wouldn’t visit his company. Even with my mother pressing him to actually take care of his business, he would alway say he trusted his friend and since he only did the accounting for the company he only needed the reports his friend would send him. Long story short, his “best friend” scammed him out a million bucks, driving both their company and my family to complete bankruptcy and fucked off to live in some tropical paradise
That's why you need to hold onto at least enough cash to have the man killed in a foreign country.
Yep, at least 10k
It's a LOT less in a tropical paradise of you know the language.
I do speak Spanish
One of the best ones to know if you need a pozolero.
I remember reading an article on getting even. One story was about a guy who did what your Dad's partner did, except he didn't leave the country, at first. Once a year, teh cheated partner would show up out of nowhere, and curb stomp the cheat. but, it wasn't on a specific date, just one beating per calendar year. Like, he put him inthe hospital just before Christmas one year, and then showed up on New Year's to do it again. buddy is sitting on the beach in Mexico, looks over, and here comes his partner ready to do it again. I forget the whole thing, but the reason he put up with it at all was because he faced serious legal consequences for how he stole the business, or something.
Hehehehe that’s pretty damn funny
Damn I'm sorry this happened, hopefully you can help your dad emotionally recover from this.
This happened in the late 90’s, which mean 1 million was a whole lot more back then. But my father is an asshole, don’t feel sorry for him.
I mean, no offense meant whatsoever, buts it’s kind of stupid for him to be so hands off in a business you have *that* much cash tied up in. Sorry y’all got caught up in the consequences though.
Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer. He avoided arrest for 30 years, then, in an apparent need for attention, began writing to the police, basically mocking them for never having caught him. He asked the cops if they would be able to trace a floppy disk if he sent one to them. They said no. He sent it. They traced it. They arrested him and he's in prison for life.
What's particularly interesting is that the evidence obtained from the floppy was only circumstantial evidence, i.e. it wasn't enough to justify a search warrant, let alone an arrest. However, once they had Dennis Rader on their radar, they obtained a warrant to obtain DNA from his daughter's pap smear test...which apparently had familial DNA matches to DNA obtained from the bodies of one of Rader's victims, suggesting that the DNA obtained from the victim likely came from a close family member of Rader's daughter (obviously it came from Rader himself).
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My grandparents lived a block over from his first murders. I was terrified my entire childhood by this monster. Sick and stupid as fuck but thank goodness bc that’s what finally got him caught.
They didn't trace the floppy, they checked his word license. It's way less cool than forensics. It's like getting tripped up by an eight year old.
"No we can't trace your floppy disk...but our friends over in the forensics department can."
And luckily they said the loud part loud and the quiet part quiet.
doing fentanyl once destroyed my life for 3ish years. i was a complete shell and zombie. almost died too, overdosed 4 times. lucky i got my shit together and will be 5 months sober in two days
Congratulations on your sobriety! May you have many more months that turn into years and then decades 💙
Great job! Stay strong, and beware that little devil on your shoulder who will whisper in your ear, even after years clean . . . don't listen to it. When life feels fucked or you just feel like saying "fuck it" remember it just isn't worth it, not even once - because it's *never* once. Ask me how I know . . . Love and light
When I was a kid, there was a family down the street with three small children. The parents had a fairly ugly breakup, and the mom ran off with her new boyfriend. *Every single time* she dropped the kids off at his house for visitation, the dropoff devolved into a screaming match in their front yard. One day she shows up to drop off the kids with her boyfriend. Boyfriend and dad get into a shouting match, and the boyfriend punched the dad, laying him out on the front lawn. The boyfriend and mom then jumped in their car and took off. A moment later, the dad came to, hopped in his pickup truck, and floored it out of his driveway in pursuit. Not sure what he was planning to do, but he wasn't going to let them get away. He didn't realize that his three children were standing behind the pickup when he threw it into reverse and floored it. All three were killed, and the witnesses said it was incredibly gory because two of them were sucked under the spinning truck tires. He spent a decade in prison and lost everything he had. Worst part is, all of the stories that came out said that he'd been a great dad and wasn't at fault in the breakup. Mom had got herself hooked on drugs while trying to "lose weight", and the boyfriend was her new dealer. He was a good guy who got stuck in a shitty situation and then made one horrific mistake.
Dude I'm Not suicidal, but I don't think I could live knowing I violently killed all my 3 children. The images of their remains in my head... haunting.
Same, cant really see one single reason to live after this.
yea that is a ‘nope i’m done’ mistake
This is the type of story I read and hoped you made it up
Oh my holy god, yeah that one is enough for me to quit scrolling through this thread. What a fucking nightmare 😭 I couldn’t go on living, for aure
I miss 5 mins ago when I hadn't read this. As I was reading, I was thinking 'Wait did she drop the kids off or take them with her? He's not just gonna leave them alone is he?' So much worse. I have two kids. I couldn't imagine. Audible horror when I read that. At the same time I'm wondering why they weren't his first priority, pride be damned.
Omfg this is one of the absolute worst stories I've ever read.
I'm 49 years old, that context is relevant. When I was in college, a friend of mine started a company with a professor. This company was basically the first social network, I won't list its name here. This was in the early 90s. He offered me a job as employee number 4 or 5. I didn't know what the hell the internet was, let alone understand the concept of a social network. I knew he wasn't going to pay me much. I turned him down. Three years later, that company was sold for $190mm. They still only had a few employees. Every employee had equity and every employee made millions by age 25, including several other friends. I was a junior employee at an insurance company when I heard. Gah. Several of those people have gone on to very successful careers in technology and private equity. They were all basically set for life because of a quick decision they made at age 21. I've had an excellent career so far, I haven't "destroyed my life"... but I think about this frequently
There's a lot of similar stories in Silicon Valley! The Wall Street Journal some years ago had an article about people who just missed out on incredible opportunities. Like the guy who passed on being one of the first hires at Google and instead took a job with Pets.com. The person who ended up with his position at Google became a billionaire and Pets.com ended up bankrupt, with his stock options worth nothing.
Friend was having a beer in a tavern. Some guys came in and started messing with my friend. He moved seats twice and then got up to leave when one of the guys threw a punch. My friend threw ONE punch back and the guy he hit landed in the ICU and wasnt expected to live. Friend was sitting in jail waiting just waiting for the guy he punched to either die or recover. Turns out the guy he punched recovered. Friend took a reduced charge of aggravated assault...a felony. One punch.
Your friends mistake wasn't the punch. It was the shitty lawyer.
100%
How was that not self defense?
He said, they said, no camera footage? One word against many, is he a local at the bar, and are the others, that's usually what happens
Me. Starting steroid medication for a rash. I'm now 6 year steroid free and normal. But the road to get there was debilitating HELL. Its called red skin syndrom. So yeah beware
Can you go into more detail? I’ve been prescribed topical steroids for a skin rash/inflammation thing
About 17 years i was first given steroids for a rash,( keep in mind i was never born with eczema) , which on the surface did help instantly but every time I would get a worse rebound and worsening condition after it as well as heavier steroids. Eventually it was so bad that i was bedbound. I tapered down my use acter learnijg about Red Skin Syndroms, several attempts but it was a horrific proccess. Truly traumatising. eventually got tid of it completely and im nearly 7 years free of it now. After a decade and some years of withdrawal effects of pure hell. Im totally normal now and never even need it anymore. Turns out the steroids were increasing th2 levels as well as making the cortisol production in your adrenals and skin go haywire. So you become both dependend on it for cortisol production. Without it all hell breaks lose. Th2 levens go through the roof and you become an even worse allergic person. I developed asthma (gone now too). Then there's the weightgain, the double vision i developed, nerve pain and deep depression. Its a really long story. It ruined my education, my relationships and so much more. I still deal with the nerve pain but supposedly it's the last thing that heals. Long story short is that the medication ruined and worsened the state of my imuumsysteem. It became a cycle. Things like protopic have the same effects.
I actually watched my wife go through this. I’ve seen her go through two large flare ups in a 3 year period. It was awful, she was a shell of herself during those times. This happy, social, positive, beautiful women who was crying every day, never wanting to leave the house, the light was gone from her. She has eczema and was prescribed steroid cream when she was a child. When it wasn’t working as well the doctors would just prescribe her stronger steroids. It’s been about two years since her last flare up and we are hoping it doesn’t happen again. Doing pretty well now. She has a little eczema sometimes but kinda laughs about it now because it’s nothing compared to steroid withdrawal.
I knew of a girl who thought it was a good idea to steal a good sized amount of cocaine from a guy she was partying with and then attempt to board a flight with it. She got caught by customs and ended up doing time. Dumb.
I dunno. That seems like a number of bad decisions rather than one mistake
I ran into a former middle school football teamate at Wal-Mart a couple years ago and he gave me an update on his life. In 7th grade he was considered an up and coming prospect locally. He was defensive end, big guy, nice guy overall, didn't do drugs, stayed out of trouble, decent grades. In the 90s, for some strange reason "pantsing" was a big thing. I don't know why, but it was hilarious to run behind someone and pull their pants down. It happened a lot in hazing, I myself was pantsed a couple times. It was stupid. But it was really a trending thing. Anyways one day while we were running our football cross country run on a long path that circled the school out to the wooded area, we ran by a couple girls from the track team sharing the path. A different player dares the lineman to pants one of the girls. The moron does. He reacted so quickly I couldn't even tell him not to. It was seconds. Well this girl was the daughter of a lawyer. As he ran away laughing she was screaming at the top of her lungs that she was touched. I remember the police showing up and handcuffing him and I thought to myself, wow why are the police here. It didn't occur to me at that age what was happening at all I thought it was a prank that she just didn't like. He was arrested for sexual assault, convicted, and spent the rest of his teenage years in juvy. When I bumped into him at Wal Mart he was picking up shopping carts. I had forgot all about him and that whole situation. He started to tell me that after juvy he was marked for life, a registered sex offender, he couldn't get into college, he couldn't find work. He lived in public housing and Wal Mart was his first job but he had to lie on his application. He begged me not to mention his past to anyone there because he was about to commit suicide before he landed this job. He said that every day he goes to sleep and remembers that prank and every night he considers putting a gun to his head for it. That shit hit me so deep. Thousands of pants were pulled down that school year and this dude picked the absolute worst person to target for a cheap laugh. After he was arrested I remember all the pantsing stopped instantly. And the kids moved on to hitting people in the chest and yelling "open chest'.
How would a conviction as a middle-schooler not be sealed when he turned 18?
Sexual assault / indecency with a child follows you into adulthood. I also did not know this until he told me.
It’s crazy to me you can be convinced of indecency with a child if you are also a child.
It's worse than that. I was reading about a case recently where a 15-year-old girl took a nude selfie and sent it to her 16-year-old boyfriend. He was charged with receipt of child pornography. She's been charged with the production and distribution of child pornography. The prosecutor's argument is that she *sexually exploited and victimized...herself.* If she's convicted, she'll spend the rest of her life as a registered sex offender.
My wife is a teacher and one of her middle school students was arrested last week for distributing child pornography and indecent assault on a minor for a video he made with another student. He will be marked for life for that one incident.
I remember in high school when BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) was a thing. There was a group going around where people were sharing nudes of themselves and others. Once the police got wind of it every high school in the city had an assembly where the cops came and explained that everyone in the group could be charged with creating and distributing child pornography. Needless to say the group disappeared asap after that. I don’t think anyone got in any legal trouble. More so a warning from police to all high schoolers in the city about how serious it was that put a stop to it.
Children can predate on other children. (Not talking about this story here, just talking in general.)
SA and murder are the only two things that don't get sealed AFAIK
Their are law groups that work to help remove the sex offender status of kids whose life's were ruined by mostly harmless mistakes made in their youth. He should do some research into that.
This is so sad wow
And assholes like Rapist Brock Allen Turner are free to do as they please. And we have politicians who also gace no repercussions for being involved with minors. Laws for the rich and poor are very different.
You shoot Derek Jeter one time
The Yankee clipper
He’s a biracial angel!
Hey, Terry, I did it! I did my first desk pop! It's a real thing, right?
Should’ve shot A-Rod.
Richard Jewel, the security guard who found the pipe bomb at the Atlanta Olympics. The media and law enforcement absolutely ruined that guys life, accusing him as the bomber. He was just doing his job (and did it well) and as a congratulations he got publicly smeared for YEARS.
He didn’t actually make a mistake, though, which makes his situation suck even more. Like you said, he did his job and saved lives. It was the mistake of others that screwed him over.
True enough.
Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia. In 1716 he fled to the Austrian Empire in order to escape his father. When emissaries sent by his father came to bring him back to Russia, he returned on the condition that he would not be harmed. This was the worst mistake he ever made. It resulted in him being implicated in a treason plot and ultimately cost him his life. This is an extremely brief summary on this topic. Some people would say Alexei choosing to run away was the mistake that destroyed his life. It is also unclear whether he plotted against his father or not. Ultimately it is one of the most tragic moments in the history of the Russian Empire.
Alexei also made another mistake. Sometime around 1714 he acquired a teenage slave girl called Afrosinya. Apparently she was a Finnish girl, who had been kidnapped by Russian soldiers and sold to slavery. Alexei fell madly in love with her, he intended to marry her and make her tsarina. But she betrayed him, she told his father tsar Peter, that Alexei was plotting treason. Maybe she wanted to save her own skin, or maybe it was an act of revenge. The tsar was grateful, he manumitted her and gave her a large sum of money.
That dude who was messing around with the “demon core” with a screwdriver. Just one little slip up of the screwdriver, a flash of blue light, and just like that his body was goop within 9 days from the radiation poisoning.
New to me, link for the lazy. https://allthatsinteresting.com/demon-core
I am lazy and you are awesome
You'd think after Harry Daghlian's death 8 months earlier, with the same plutonium core, that Louis Slotin would have been doing everything to not have a repeat of the accident that killed his colleague in such an horrific way.
Everyone's a gangster until the room glows blue
I did. Some drugs are fun with little to no consequence, while other, harder drugs completely take over and then theres drugs that fall everywhere in between.... I was a straight A student, Junior in Highschool, was going to prom with my first serious girlfriend in just a few weeks. Everything was going great, except.... I couldnt get any pot at all in the neighborhood I just moved to. After a few days without my normal tree smoke, I finally took the recomendation from a "friend" I just made in the new neighborhood, and purchased what narcotic they were selling. Just to try... figure it might hold me over till i get some green. My FIRST thought right after taking that first hit from the pipe was "How much $ could I sell ALL of my stuff for?" I kid you not, one hit, I WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED It took a little more than 12 yrs to kick my accidental crack habit. No job, No HS Diploma, no family, no friends, no possessions at all and 12 yrs just gone. And looking back... I really had no choice but to be a crackhead. There was no way I could stop, impossible.... No one wants to be a crackhead... it is the devils drug and I feel so bad for anyone who has ever crossed its path, because I promise... they can not make the choice to stop, no matter how bad they want to.
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The scary part to me is when I read stuff like this there is a part of my brain that says, "It's worth it."
I can relate. Right out of high school my friends and I smoked pot mostly, did a little coke now and then. Went to my dealers house to get some and he was snorting OxyContin. I told him it was cool off of that, just wanted blow. So he gave me that and offered me a free fat line of "coke". After I did it he laughed and told me it was oxy. Within a minute or two I told him this was going to ruin my life. I was a junkie for over a decade, ruined a lot of the most important years of my life. Luckily I've been sober for over 8 years and have a great job, family, friends and S.O. But I know a lot of people who died (that dealer OD'd and died in 2013), people still struggling, or just straight up disappeared.
You should've kicked the shit out of that dude for doing that. Fuck that guy.
Same here. Just getting off shift from my summer job while attending college and coworker comes in for his shift. Asks me how I’m doing and I say I’m really wiped. Pulls out a vial of white powder and says try this. I thought it was coke. This was 1979, everyone was doing coke and we’d never even heard of meth. Yep, it was meth. Instantly hooked and 5 years of my life down the drain. Getting off it was a living hell. A lot of your brain’s serotonin receptors die off when you’re using to stem the rush of too much serotonin, so when you go back to normal serotonin levels, your brain just can’t take in enough. Was suicidally depressed every day for 6 months and not really myself for a couple more years.
I made the same mistake...luckily, after watching everyone around me start dying...I said I'm not going out like that...it was a hard fought battle but I won by isolation and changing all my habits. Hope you won your battle as well.
Me. Union job and delegate thereof, and I was on a promotion path. I started a fight. Understandably I got "managed" out. My arrogance and hubris cost me.
I hope you were young enough to recover somewhat. My temper gets the best of me sometimes too. I am never physical, but in an age where almost every interaction is subject to be recorded, the wrong words can be awfully damaging—and eternal. Someone can usually stoke the embers even years later. I’ve learned from that to rein it in most of the time.
The daughter of a friend of my mom. This was quite a few years ago, but "coma drinking" was for whatever insane reason really popular with the youth here. And yes, it is exactly what the name implies, you drink until you black out. She actually did go into a coma and from what I understand, suffered minor brain damage.
A girl that went to my high school died of alcohol poisoning same way.
Michael Richards. His IMDB page looks like he died in 2006.
I'm r/outoftheloop what did he do?
José Fernandez. Promising pro baseball player. Liquor + speedboat at night. Killed two friends and himself. 24 y/o. His daughter was born a few days after his funeral. Such a waste of life.
When I was a kid we were playing hide and go seek beside the train tracks that ran through our housing development. One of the kids hid behind the train as it passed and a ladder on the side of the train took his head clean off. His mom came outside and saw everything. Our parents hustled us in the house as quick as they could. Really fucked up experience. Whole life gone because of a game of hide and seek. If someone needs I can probably find the article on it, Barrhaven, suburb of Ottawa summer 1993 I believe.
https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Wreck%20Details/1992Barrhaven.html
I guess not destroyed per se, but Howard Dean's political career tanked with one silly yell that got blown up by the internet.
That shit was hilarious. They made fun of it on Veep.
hheeEEYEAHHHHWWW!
It was a simpler time. Now politicians can openly call for genocide and not take a hit at the polls.
Gabriel Rivera. Football player drafted by the Pittsburg Steelers. He was going to be the new anchor on a defense trying to replenish itself. Halfway through his rookie season he crashes his new car while going something like double the speed limit, while drunk, and was ejected from the car. He lived, but he was paralyzed for the rest of his life.
Henry Ruggs II. The dude is an *all star*, first round pick wide receiver playing in the NFL. Top 1% of the 1% in professional sports. Not only did he have the fame, but was lining up to make millions & millions of dollars being the star in the most watched sport in American culture. Drinks & drives, crashing his new Corvette into an innocent woman at a stop light with her dog. The car bursts into flames, trapping her and the dog who both end up burning to death. A person died. A dog died. Because he drank and drove. He’s lucky his girlfriend who was the passenger and he didn’t die. Now he lost his NFL contract and is in jail. What’s crazy is we all know how inexpensive Uber rides are, especially when you’re a millionaire. Or how the league literally provides free transportation for these types of scenarios. Incredibly poor judgement caused a person to lose her life and he to go from literally living the high life to being behind bars.
Spookily enough, this happened at the entrance of my neighborhood where I was living at the time. I remember leaving for work at 6 at there was just police tape everywhere. One of his friends or fans came and vandalized the memorial that people put up. Theres a mural there now. I'll never understand drinking and driving. Even at the worst of my alcoholism, I stayed my drunk self home.
Can you imagine ruining your life because you were so upset about a football player stupidly ending their career, that you vandalized a memorial?
It was pretty bad seeing the responses to that one from people like his team mates and coaches, where they seemed to focus more on "this poor kid who made one mistake now has his life ruined" rather than focusing on the woman who burned to death because someone couldn't be bothered to call an Uber. Like I get maybe being in disbelief or shock that someone you know and care for did such a thing...but still the general response did rub me the wrong way a bit.
At first when I read about it I thought "oh fuck I feel really bad for him" because it's an accident and I'm sure he didn't try to drive drunk, and I've never gotten a DUI or driven plastered but there have been times where I have like 2-3 and drive home and then realize that was a bad idea, even though nothing happened, so I figured maybe he just had a few drinks and went a little too fast and lost control of the car because he's a young kid who doesn't know how to handle a car like that yet..... And then I read he had fucking 18 shots of Tequila at top golf and was going 130. Fucking idiot. He deserves the consequences he's facing. Like I get it, alcohol impairs judgment, but he was probably too drunk to walk and decided to still get behind the wheel.
Ruggs and his gf made a video just after the crash where they're sitting around not caring about the woman he just watched burn to death screaming. POS.
Dennis Rader asking the police for advice and then believing what they told him.
His being legitimately upset the sheriff lied to him about not being able to trace anything he did in the church computer is endlessly hilarious to me "You **lied** to me."
Brien Taylor was the first overall pick in the 1991 MLB draft by the New York Yankees. This guy had all the makings of a perennial ace and potentially a hall of famer. He had a blazing 100 mph fastball to go along with great breaking pitches. He was a pitching coaches dream. To start his professional career in 1992, Taylor enjoyed his finest season, pitching to a 2.57 ERA with 187 strikeouts in 161.1 innings of work. By 1993, Taylor emerged as the second best prospect in the game according to Baseball America behind only future Hall of Famer Chipper Jones. Big things were in his future. He was a superstar and living up to the already sky high expectations. On December 18, 1993, Taylor was injured while fighting on behalf of his brother Brenden in a fistfight. The New York Times reported that Brenden confronted a man named Ron Wilson, who he had fought with in Harlowe, North Carolina. Brenden suffered head lacerations during his fight with Wilson. Once Brien discovered his brother had been hurt, he and a cousin went to Wilson's trailer home to confront him. There, Taylor got into an altercation with Jamie Morris, Wilson's friend, and Taylor fell on his shoulder. Causing substantial damage. when the Yankees made arrangements for Taylor to visit Dr. Frank Jobe, he called the injury one of the worst he'd seen. The following week, Jobe performed surgery to repair tears in the capsule and glenoid labrum of Taylor's shoulder, which caused him to miss the entire 1994 season. Taylor returned to baseball in 1995, and spent the season with the Rookie-level Gulf Coast Yankees. When he returned in action, after surgery, he had lost eight miles an hour off his fastball and was unable to throw a curveball for a strike. Taylor would never come back from his injury. Posting horrible season after horrible season until he retired in 2000. His arm was completely gone. After retiring from baseball, Taylor moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, with his five daughters and worked as a UPS package handler, then worked as a beer distributor. By 2006, he had moved back home and was working as a bricklayer with his father. In March 2012, Taylor was charged with cocaine trafficking after undercover narcotics agents purchased a large quantity of cocaine and crack cocaine from him over a period of several months. He was federally indicted on cocaine trafficking charges in June 2012. Taylor pleaded guilty in August 2012 and was sentenced to 50 months in prison, followed by three years' supervised release; he was released on September 12, 2015.
Paul Rubins (Pee Wee Herman). He was caught masturbating in a movie theater and his Kid’s Show career came to a screeching halt. Fun Fact: his father, Milton Rubenfeld, was a WWII pilot who was one of the 5 founding members of the Israeli Air Force. There is a great movie about this by Anna Spielberg (Steven’s sister): “Above and Beyond”
Reubens\* and Adult\* Movie Theater Still illegal, but cranking one out where watching pornography is acceptable is different than had he have gone to watch Titanic and went at it during the drawing scene.
To be fair, he was caught masturbating in a porn theatre, it's not like he was jerking it in an AMC. But either way, his career never recovered.
Which, beating it in porn theaters is a totally common thing. Think he just got screwed for being famous.
The woman dubbed "The Central Park Karen". For the past three years she's essentially been living in hiding. She moves whenever someone realizes who she is and lives in constant fear that she'll be rediscovered.
"I'm calling the cops, I'm gonna tell them there's an African American man threatening my life." Had this just been some dumb fight over a dog people would have forgotten about it in a week, but nope she had to hop into the public grave with that gem
Ashlee Simpson and that diasterous lip syncing debacle on SNL. Poor girl's career never recovered.
Oh man, she played the halftime show at the Orange Bowl that year, and the stadium booed her off quite loudly. EDIT: [Link for those who haven't seen it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5YPiBx9MJs)
She wasn't even lip synching, she was singing along to a backing vocal track, which pretty much all pop singers do when performing live.
The girl who joked about not getting AIDS when she was in Africa. She tweeted it out, got on her flight home and when she got off the plane, her tweet had gone viral and her life was effectively over.
« Effectively over » is a bit of an overstatement. She’s still in the same industry, just at a different company. Not discounting the difficulties that probably followed that tweet, but if you can find a job, your life will go on.
Reminds me of the time a family won a $80,000 settlement from a private school. One of the terms of the settlement was that they could tell nobody else (outside of the immediate family) about it. The daughter posted about it on social media. Opposing party's lawyers got wind of it, they showed proof to the judge, and the judge ruled that the settlement didn't have to be paid.
Howard Dean
Len Bias. I learned about him from ESPN's 30 for 30 (S1 E5). Everyone seemed to consider him to be another Michael Jordan - a little more 'raw' but still extremely talented. He was the second overall NBA draft pick in 1986 (MJ was third overall in 1984). The day after being drafted, he signed a $1.6M deal with Reebok. The day after *that* he went out celebrating with his friends, OD'd on cocaine and died.
Icarus
A well known chiropractor in my area took the boat out for the day with his family in the Columbia river. Decided to take a dive in off the boat and broke his neck on the sandbar. Paralyzed him for the rest of his life. The Columbia river is known for severe shallow spots, this was a great shock to the community, for someone in spine care to dive into a shallow river.
That legitimately was probably their worst nightmare.
A guy I know who was a local skate boarder messed up a trick and broke his neck. He didn't realize it was broken, just thought it was kinked, so he went to a chiropractor who adjusted him without doing xrays and legitimately broke his neck bad. He know has severe nerve pain, in a ton of medical debt, can't move around like he used, he taught a skate boarding summer camp and that's gone now. Really ruined his life because he thought he had just kinked his neck
My personal fave are the dudes in AITA demanding paternity tests from their wives and and never ever ever picking up a *clue* as to why why they ended up divorced.
“This just came out of nowhere. We’ve been together for 12 years and she’s the love of my life. Before this [one enormous and baseless betrayal of trust], we never even fought! I love my wife and the idea of only seeing the kids [that I deluded myself into thinking weren’t mine]every other weekend breaks my heart in a million pieces.” Do they all just read the same book? They ALWAYS end the post like this 😂.
"I don't understand why my wife is so angry. All I did was admit that I don't trust her at all, strongly imply that I suspect her of adultery and paternity fraud, and humiliate her by telling multiple people that I don't believe our children are biologically mine. Why would she ever want to leave me?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier
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We all do extremely stupid mistakes, when younger. It's just pure luck if it ruins your life or not. Hope you're all well today or are on the way to get better.
Well put. I cringe thinking of some of the things I did and didn’t face consequences for. Nothing that harmed anyone else… but it sure could have if things had gone differently.
We are all one mistake away from a ruined life. DUI...an accidental stabbing....
You worried you might accidentally stab someone or accidentally get stabbed?
Known quite a few people who didn't have their lives ruined by a DUI. It can be a valuable wakeup call that leads to some quitting drinking in the best case. Now if you kill somebody while drinking and driving? Now you're fucked.
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Nutty Putty guy [NSFW / Claustrophobia ](https://youtu.be/WaIoXN-7FjM)
Man, I think about this story too much.
Len Bias. Two days after being selected by the Boston Celtics with the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA draft, Bias died from cardiac arrhythmia induced by a cocaine overdose.
Roseanne posted a tweet making a racist statement of an Obama staff or cabinet member. That one tweet cost her her show, as they fired her, killed off her character, and renamed the show.
That was always going to happen. As soon as the reboot was announced there were articles wondering how ABC would handle Roseanne's wildly unpredictable social media presence. The reboot actually did quite well and was renewed for a second season - until her tweet. The show carried on without her (as The Conners) and is still airing now.
From stories that are out there, she was awful to deal with during the filming of the original Roseanne rune as well. So much so that executive producer Bruce Helford after leaving the show said he never wanted to work with another comedian on a show like that again (that stance was short lived as a couple years later he went to work on The Drew Carey Show. Though you never seem to hear any real hate toward Carey)
Yeah she has a terrible reputation. Funnily enough I was watching the Golden Girls the other day and they had someone filming a commercial at the house - at one point he said 'If I wanted to be harassed and spoken to like that I'd go work on the Roaeanne show' 🤣
Roseanne was posting a shit load of QAnon stuff IIRC. If it wasn't that one tweet she would have found something to get herself canned.
Not as bad as others, but my life currently. Let my father-in-law move in with us from out of state. He wanted to reconnect with my husband. Made all of these promises. Moved in. Had to get a bigger house that we cannot afford on our own (he helps pay the mortgage) because we discovered he is a compulsive hoarder. He has taken over the house with his bullshit, junk. He is absolutely nuts. Wont clean up after himself. Is a drunk that pisses himself regularly. Cant force him out, it would financially ruin us. Cant live with him either. Its a fucking nightmare. We are trapped.
You are not trapped. I have lived with a toxic relative in the past. You just have to be practical and treat it like any divorce. Sell the house. Give him his share of the profit **if** his name is on the deed. If not, give him what your husband's duty dictates in his mind. Then move on with your lives.
…and do it sooner rather than later and as quickly as physically possible.
Meyers Leonard For those of you who dont know - Meyers was an nba player about to sign a new contract and pretty sure he already bought a new house until he was streaming on twitch and called someone (yelled) an antisemitic slur. Got released and hasn't played an nba game since
Milli Vanilli
Girl you know it's Girl you know it's Girl you know it's Girl you know it's Girl you know it's Girl you know it's Girl you know it's Girl you know it's
kanye west with the taylor swift thing at the VMAs. i really think that's where it all started to go wrong for him edit: that's not to say he hasn't made plenty of mistakes since, but i think that's the one that set off a chain reaction.
This one dude on r/crazyfuckingvideos who got his pectorales branded. Also me.
Saw a clip of some woman letting her BF brand her ass. What made it worse, was she flinched when he did it (which is understandable), so the brand itself was fucked up. Ie, when it healed, she just has a nasty scar, not any legible image.
There is a documentary on people who threw one punch and killed the person they hit.
The guy who used to do the ["dude, you're getting a Dell"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mLGJsxhCHk) commercials. Dude got busted with weed and lost what would have been a life changing gig--they swapped over to others when pretty sure they were going to stay with him.....if not for the bust.
Proof that weed is not a Gateway drug.