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(#4) Toilet Paper Stands Offer A Cavalcade Of Grisly Possibilities
From Redditor /u/dcxr:
I have a toilet paper stand and the base weighs like 20 pounds. It’s a... mace.
From Redditor /u/perkinjon:
I worked EMS in Florida a while back and had a guy who stood up too fast, passed out, and landed on the toilet paper stand. It went through his eye socket, sinuses, and down the back of his throat. It is by far in my top five WTF calls.
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(#9) Lint In A Dryer Is Fuel
From Redditor /u/Mangi-Mangi:
Lint catchers for your dryer. Causes household fires a lot.
From Redditor /u/willbo2013:
A friend of mine neglected to clean his for like two years and he smelled something smoky one day. Turns out he was like super close to starting a fire. I was incredulous that he hadn't cleaned it for so long.
From Redditor /u/Morug:
A lot of the fire hazard comes from the lint that gets stuck in the catcher area, but not in the lint trap that slides out. Especially if you have sheddy cats, it can work itself into a nice flammable carpet blocking the airflow. You have to clean that out the hard way.
From Redditor /u/SpoopySales:
Lint can build up behind the dryer and in the tube. You have to get behind and clean it out regularly. This is how my parents' dryer caught fire.
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(#13) Mandoline Slicers Are Devilish
From Redditor /u/GreenStrong:
The mandolin slicer is a demon who will serve the kitchen faithfully, but it demands a blood sacrifice.
From Redditor /u/howdytherepartner:
Ironically enough, I got part of my thumb cut off by one of these hell spawns at 13 while making potato chips.
From Redditor /u/Corthane:
I sliced my finger trying to cut carrots with one. And another time while washing it. These are devil devices!
From Redditor /u/DeaddyRuxpin:
The guard on mine is a piece of [junk] and doesn’t hold food so you can never use the guard. So I got Kevlar gloves to use.
The mandolin took a slice out of the Kevlar glove!
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(#15) Throw Rugs Can Trip Seniors Up
From Redditor /u/inferno006:
Throw rugs in senior citizens' houses... They trip on that tiny little edge of carpet or it slides on the floor and now you have an old person with a broken hip...
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(#19) Cabinets And Furniture Have Sharp Edges And Corners
From Redditor /u/I___________:
Any corner. The corner of a table or the corner of a cabinet door. Never leave those doors open. It takes one wrong step to lose an eye. Or one bad fall. That’s why I live in a corner-free house.
From Redditor /u/nakedwithoutmyhoodie:
Can you PLEASE tell my kids this? Every time I say "Close the damn cabinet door!" they roll their eyes and say, "Yes, mother..." like I'm nitpicking or something. I've hit my head on open cabinet doors so many times. It's not smart to leave them open!
From Redditor /u/MemesareMemes05:
My dad was tickling my sister in our office, and I was watching from the hallway... and thought, “Man, I gotta show Mom.” So I turned around and ran. Into the corner of the wall. Knocked myself to the floor, got back up and thought nothing of it.
Went to go run to get my mom again and when I walked in my mom screamed. Gushing blood... I’m totally fine now but if I flip up what little bangs I have there’s a decent-sized gash.
From Redditor /u/emeralds214:
When I was about 4 I was chasing my brother and I was at the perfect height for my face to run straight into the corner of my piano. It was at the very edge of my eye and if it was just a half a inch over I would have lost my eye. But I had to get stitches and I still have a scar next to my eye.
From Redditor /u/BricksInTheWall1991:
When my daughter was 1 or 2, she was jumping on the couch, fell off, and hit the corner of her eye on our coffee table. She had a swollen black eye for like a week.
From Redditor /u/DeliciouslyThick:
When I was a young girl (about 6 or 7), I was running through the house with a blanket around my me like a cape. My younger brother proceeded to step on said blanket, making me fall and hit my temple right on the corner of a huge speaker.
This was back in the '90s when these speakers were wood-framed. I was lucky that it didn’t pierce through my skin... Needed stitches, but being so young and the temple being a very sensitive spot, it could have caused some major damage if I hit it any harder than I did.
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(#1) Flour Is Flammable
From Redditor /u/SirensToGo:
Flour is actually the reason my school gymnasium half [smoldered] in the '70s. It was the end of the year and the students were having a pillow-case-filled-with-flour boxing match where they more or less just ran around in a small room smacking each other with flour. Somehow a spark caught, nobody really knows, and next thing you know the entire room [is smoldering].
From Redditor /u/CptJustice:
My dad told me a story about when he was a kid working at his local [pharmacy] and they had an incinerator to destroy trash, expired meds, etc. The owner told him to get rid of a bunch of stuff, which included a package of flour. Being a kid, he didn't know how flammable it is, and just tossed it right in. It [immediately went up], causing a huge boom and lots of smoke, but thankfully no... real damage (the incinerator was built like a tank).
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Home has always been regarded as the safest harbor. However, a report issued by the World Health Organization stated that flame retardants, plasticizers, bisphenol A and many other substances in household items such as carpets, sofas, home appliances, water bottles, toys, etc., may cause cancer, asthma, and health problems. Issues such as education, there are more potential safety hazards that have not been noticed by adults.
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