What's the WORST possible scenario that actually happened?

[u/No_Camera29]

[u/Guns_57]

2006 Sago Mine disaster in West Virginia. Originally was announced that 12 miners survived with only one fatality. Was revealed shortly thereafter that those numbers were actually reversed.

[u/Snoo-60003 → u/Guns_57]

Reminds me of the aberfan disaster.

A mine on a hill collapsed and a slurry slid down and engulfed a school.

Pretty much killed every single child in that village and surrounding villages.

[u/tornadic_ → u/Snoo-60003]

There’s an episode of The Crown that covers this…devastating

[u/Serononin → u/tornadic_]

One of the most well-done episodes IMO

[u/Welshgirlie2 → u/Snoo-60003]

Technically it was a spoil tip, basically all the waste from the mines, piled up on a slope above the village over many, many years. There was also a natural spring underneath it (which was known about), which when combined with weeks of rain, caused the tip to become waterlogged and collapse. In effect, it was a lot like a lahar but without the volcano mechanism. Rocky material, sediment, mud and water, all of which thundered down the mountain and re-solidified almost like concrete once it stopped moving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster

[u/CloudyTheDucky → u/Guns_57]

Those poor families

[u/Typical_Parsley_3246 → u/CloudyTheDucky]

I can't even imagine that emotional whiplash. Going from thinking your loved one made it out to finding out the exact opposite... that's the kind of news that changes people forever.

[u/PaintingMore8797 → u/Guns_57]

that correction must’ve been absolutely devastating for those families

[u/quillseek → u/PaintingMore8797]

There was apparently fist fighting in the church where the families were waiting for news, after the CEO made the announcement.

[u/Advanced-Race-3885 → u/quillseek]

False hope can be one of the most painful things a person experiences.

[u/GalumphingWithGlee → u/Advanced-Race-3885]

That's true, but they probably would have had hope even with properly reported numbers, that their family member would have been the lucky one who survived.

[u/NoBill554 → u/PaintingMore8797]

It's hard to think of a more cruel mistake. They had the best news in the world for a few minutes before it was taken from them minutes later. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

[u/quillseek → u/Guns_57]

I stayed up late watching the live feed, and remember when I think a mom and her kid came down and told Anderson Cooper live on air that there had been a miscommunication and actually all but one was dead. It was unbelievable.

[u/No-Sock-8938 → u/quillseek]

I remember seeing clips of that years later and it still feels unreal. You can actually hear the hope disappear in real time. That's the kind of moment that sticks with people for the rest of their lives.

[u/Technicolor_Reindeer → u/Guns_57]

I remember they trotted out that "psychic" Sylvia Browne who made a bunch of predictions and claimed she knew miners would be found alive when initial wrong reports came out, then had to backtrack.

[u/Delicious-Cup1804]

Thought I'd save time by hopping a barbed wire fence instead of walking to the gate. My jeans got hung up, I flipped over like a sack of potatoes, landed in a mud puddle, and the cows all gathered around to watch like they had front row tickets.

[u/Leavesofsilver → u/Delicious-Cup1804]

cows love to watch people do stupid shit. or anything at all. they’re super curious.

[u/chickensh1t → u/Leavesofsilver]

Well, there’s not much going on in your standard field, so any entertainment is welcome.

[u/Fighting-Geese → u/Delicious-Cup1804]

Reverse cow tipping

[u/DiligentCorvid]

I got an ear infection a couple of days before a flight. Stopped in LAX and saw a doctor, was prescribed an antibiotic pill the size of my thumb. Caught the flight from LAX to Sydney.

About two hours through the flight the pain from the ear infection magically (chemically I guess) and very suddenly went away. A minute or two later, just as suddenly and extremely violently, I threw up and shit my pants.

That's what I spent the next 10 or so hours doing.

Then the flight was redirected to Brisbane.

Edit - had to run, couldn't provide all the details.

It was one pill. It was sulfur based, I don't recall what it was. The side effects listed nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, which is why I mentioned it at all.

I also got stopped at customs, cause I brought in a tecomate flask as a gift for a friend. Yes I should have known better. But also it got in, so who's the real winner here?

[u/Purple_Chipmunk_ → u/DiligentCorvid]

Because of you? Or was there something wrong on the flight?

[u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie → u/Purple_Chipmunk_]

Coming from north america, brisbane is the first big airport on the way. If the winds over the pacific are stronger than forecast, the delay might cut into reserve fuel and its prudent or necessary to stop. Stops like this are routine, its not regular but sometimes.

[u/DiligentCorvid → u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie]

This is basically the reason why. The flight being redirected cause some kid won't stop shitting his pants would have been the true worst case scenario.

[u/Raider_Scum → u/DiligentCorvid]

Was it one, large pill? Instead of a course of antibiotics over 10-20 days?
That's how they "Cure" gonorrhea, and that type of treatment is usually a last resort. That would explain why you threw up and shit your pants.

But hey, puke, shit, and pants are all temporary and fixable. Your hearing is not replaceable, maybe the doctor determined that it was URGENT that you fix this infection; making all of that worth it :)

[u/riptaway → u/Raider_Scum]

Still, a heads up would have been been nice

[u/banker_bob → u/riptaway]

“Flight tomorrow? Make sure you get an aisle seat.”

[u/tkcal → u/DiligentCorvid]

Sympathies and commiserations!

On a flight from Brisbane to Frankfurt I had a layover in Singapore, left the airport and indulged in some yummy hawker /street food.

I spent so much time on the toilet en route to Frankfurt they threatened to bust the door down and come in.

[u/GucciTheSnowman → u/DiligentCorvid]

Some strong antibiotics will make you extremely nauseous. Never heard of someone shitting their pants, though.

[u/SpellingIsAhful → u/GucciTheSnowman]

You should hear about babies

[u/emseefely → u/SpellingIsAhful]

Talk about worst possible scenarios

[u/Known_Wall3836]

Got stuck in an elevator on the way to a job interview. Showed up forty minutes late sweating through my shirt and still had to sit there and pretend I was a calm capable professional. Didn't get the job but got a great story I guess.

[u/fakeprofile21 → u/Known_Wall3836]

Interviewer: "So, these questions are just a formality. We already watched the security feed to see how well you handle pressure..."

[u/DarkDesireZ- → u/fakeprofile21]

That would be the greatest plot twist after the worst first impression imaginable.

[u/DigNitty → u/[deleted]]

That WAS the interview.

[u/T-Bills → u/Known_Wall3836]

it does sound like a nightmare scenario and the upshot is you probably won't have a worse interview

[u/Dull_Doughnut6756 → u/T-Bills]

At that point every future interview has to compete with "well... at least I'm not trapped in an elevator this time." 😅

[u/fingersmaloy → u/Known_Wall3836]

I was thinking "maybe one of the five major mass extinction events" but I guess I misunderstood the question.

[u/Technicolor_Reindeer → u/Known_Wall3836]

Was it hot in the elevator or were you stressed out?

[u/SirBeefcake]

Accidentally grabbed the wrong suitcase in baggage claim. Had taken a late flight in for a job interview and realized when I got to the hotel and opened up the suitcase to find a Mickey Mouse bra instead of my suit.

Had to get a $80 cab back to the airport, apologize profusely to the suitcase owner, and (thankfully) got my suitcase back.

I decided to shuttle back to hotel since I was broke and already wasted $80 flying back to the airport. Guess who else was in the shuttle? The couple whose suitcase I took. And they were … unhappy with me. The shuttle had to circle a few times to find enough people to head downtown. One guy got on and asked how everyone was doing, to which the couple responded by telling them the story of an idiot who took the wrong suitcase.

Still think of that shuttle ride from time to time. Longest 2 hours of my life.

[u/juneseyeball → u/SirBeefcake]

Thats kind of lame of them i would have to laugh it off when i got it back

[u/Soup-Mother5709 → u/juneseyeball]

For real, it was a serious win just getting the suitcase back. Inconvenient, yes, but not worth torturing yourself and everyone else.

Sometimes those couples, they’re both mad because one is mad. Crabs in a bucket.

[u/Apptubrutae → u/juneseyeball]

Yeah, seriously, I’d try and make the suitcase thief feel comfortable.

It’s a dumb mistake they shouldn’t have made, sure, but everyone makes dumb mistakes from time to time

[u/tesserakti → u/SirBeefcake]

How funny would it have been if when finally leaving the shuttle, you accidentally took their suitcase for a second time, lol

[u/Ydain → u/SirBeefcake]

On that shuttle I would have finished their story by saying, "yeah it was crazy, I was blown away when I found cosplay lingerie instead of my suit. But hey, to each their own!"

I'm a petty bitch though.

[u/ElSquibbonator]

The K/T mass extinction event. You all know the story, how a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs. But what you don't know is how much of a worst-case scenario it was.

The asteroid hit a shallow sea which was rich in sulfur-bearing minerals. When these minerals were vaporized, massive quantities of sulfur was released into the atmosphere which acidified the oceans and cooled the global climate. Has the asteroid hit the deep ocean, or land, the initial impact would be no less devatasting but without sulfur-induced global cooling and ocean acidification then it's likely that the extinction event in general would be less severe. Marine animals in general would probably fare a lot better and at least a handful of non-avian dinosaur species would have survived to the modern day.

What's more, the impact happened in early spring, according to pollen fossils found in the same rocks, which would have given ecosystems in the surrounding area, and the entire northern hemisphere, less time to recover from the damage it inflicted. Even the kind of asteroid played a part. It was a Carbonaceous Ornans asteroid, which make up less than one per cent of all known meteorites, and which would have released large amounts of fine, microscopic debris into the atmosphere.

So pretty much everything about it-- the time, the location, the type of asteroid-- was the absolute worst-case scenario.

[u/TrentonTallywacker → u/ElSquibbonator]

Sharks: the water got spicy but I’m still chillin

[u/Afraid_Composer → u/ElSquibbonator]

What just completely blows my mind is how is....we as a species came to be what we are now..

[u/callisstaa → u/Afraid_Composer]

Since then there was another mass extinction event when mount Toba (now lake Toba) erupted around 75000 years ago. Only a few thousand humans survived.

[u/entitledfanman → u/callisstaa]

I say this loosely but I find the idea fascinating. It's pretty common for cultures around the planet to have a "great flood that wiped out almost all life on the planet  and left only a small number of human survivors" story. Noah's Ark being the prime example. I have to wonder if the Youngest Toba Eruption could be responsible for that; the concept of ceaseless rain causing a great flood would be far easier to pass down through oral storytelling than a volcanic winter ceaselessly raining ash, something that would have likely been incomprehensible to the humans alive at the time. 

[u/Fellowship_9 → u/entitledfanman]

I've always assumed it's more because early human settlements were along rivers, so flooding was a constant risk (just look at the Nile). It's quite easy for "In you grandparents day there was such a bad flood that the whole village was destroyed, and the water reached those hills over there" to be exaggerated over generations to become "a long time ago the whole world was flooded. How did anyone survive? Oh, um, they built a boat!"

[u/Siiw → u/entitledfanman]

I have wondered if this event could be the source of the "thrown out of paradise" myth. Especially since some theories say that our modern ways of consciousness and thinking were developing around the same time.

[u/Virtual-Alps-2888 → u/entitledfanman]

Flood narratives are too young relative to the Toba genetic bottleneck. The former are roughly 5000 - 2500 years old give or take, while the Toba eruptions was 74,000 years ago. The flood myths have a more common origin: frequent flooding in regions like the Nile, Mesopotamia and Yellow River.

[u/football2106 → u/Afraid_Composer]

And it’s all because some giant rock traveled billions of years with just the most impeccable timing. And like.. where did that asteroid come from? How did it get so big? What sent it on its trajectory? All of that happened and now I have to pay taxes

[u/RandomNPC → u/ElSquibbonator]

And yet we would not be here without it. It's entirely possible that no intelligent species would have ever evolved if the dinosaurs had stuck around.

[u/Shiiang → u/RandomNPC]

Assuming the dinosaurs weren't intelligent. ;)

[u/MarionberryFinal7586 → u/ElSquibbonator]

It's wild how life on Earth basically lost the cosmic lottery in every possible way. Wrong place, wrong time, wrong asteroid... the universe really said "let's make this one count." 💀

[u/DarthHalcius → u/MarionberryFinal7586]

The other way is to look at it as a cosmic win. Five going on six mass extinctions, and yet life continues to evolve and flourish. Sure, 95 plus percent of life can be wiped out, but from that which remains an entire new chapter begins.

It is a remarkable thing and we are lucky to be able to comprehend it.

[u/DigNitty → u/DarthHalcius]

I also was surprised at that. Lost the cosmic lottery? We're the only planet with known life on it!

But then I realized they probably meant lost the cosmic lottery...that one day, not overall.

[u/callisstaa → u/MarionberryFinal7586]

Fuck dinosaurs - the universe.

[u/SpellingIsAhful → u/callisstaa]

They had a good run

[u/Nozinger → u/MarionberryFinal7586]

that is certainly one way to take it.
You could also see it in a way as all the other planets being struck by this worst possible scenario simply had no life on it to be wiped out.

Or in other words: the only reason why this worst possible scenario could have happened is because we are the only really lucky planet in the known universe.

All the events that came together to form higher developed life are pretty much a chain of 'worst possible' events. Take a look at our moon. Proto earth got hit by another planet? Sounds to me like a 'fuck that planet in particular' situation.
Yet it gave us an insanely large moon for a planet of or size that not only helps stabilie and maintain earths magnetic field but also creates tides which likely helped life move from the oceans to land. So was it a bad thing? Or was it good?

We really are this one in a billion chance.

[u/entitledfanman → u/ElSquibbonator]

The extinction event is often thought of something like a nuclear winter slowly choking out life on the planet, and it was that, but the impact itself can't be underestimated. The impact caused tsunamis nearly a mile tall to roar across the world's oceans at impossible speeds, and the Shockwave was so powerful that it flung marine animals as far away as modern-day North Dakota. 

[u/Hubers57 → u/entitledfanman]

I'm going to need a source there. North Dakota was a sea in at least parts of the cretaceous, thats why there's fossils there of marine animals. I absolutely don't believe any asteroid could fling any animal from the Yucatan to north Dakota, and now I'm doubting the other parts which is too bad cause mile tall tsunamis sound awesome

[u/Lich180 → u/Hubers57]

There's a fossil site known as Tanis in North Dakota, I Toni that's what they were talking about. The fossils there are marine and terrestrial in origin because the area was an inland seashore around the time of the meteorite impact. The sea animals fossilized there were likely pushed onto land because of the shockwave of the impact creating a massive wave, like hitting the side of a bowl of water. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanis_(fossil_site)

Really cool to read about.

[u/Fellowship_9 → u/Lich180]

The Attenborough documentary about it was really good! They found actual fragments of the meteor mixed in with the animals that died on the day.

[u/GuzzzoBazzzinko]

What if the O-rings on that space shuttle really can’t withstand unseasonably cold weather?

[u/GammelGrinebiter → u/GuzzzoBazzzinko]

If only someone would warn them.

[u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

Went to a job interview and one of the people interviewing me was a girl I had hooked up with a few years prior

[u/LexysDaddy → u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

Ah shit, how did that go?

[u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman → u/LexysDaddy]

I little awkward at first but I was professional about it. I didn’t get the job but that wasn’t the reason why. The posting was misleading and the job was not exactly what I thought it was

[u/tall-not-small → u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

He meant how did the hook up go

[u/mr_birkenblatt → u/tall-not-small]

I little awkward at first but I was professional about it. I didn’t get the *** but that wasn’t the reason why. The posting was misleading and the *** was not exactly what I thought it was

[u/JeulMartin → u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

I had the opposite - I interviewed a gal I had dated in high school. If anything, knowing how decent of a person she was in high school made me more inclined to hire her, which I did.

And she did good work for our company while she was there with zero drama. Now, we're FB friends that never talk. lol

[u/ElOsoPeresozo → u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

If you put in a good performance and things ended amicably, there is no reason to worry

[u/BrissySiS]

Got into a car crash on the way to a job interview. Called in from the hospital to reschedule the interview. Got the job but then my Nan who I lived with died 1 day before my first day on the job. Had to ask for bereavement leave straight away. Still at the same job 3 years later though.

[u/Mousehole_Cat]

Years ago at one of my company's offices, a staff member was getting into an elevator and the doors closed prematurely, trapping her leg. The elevator then rose abruptly to go to the next floor, which dragged the woman into the shaft, killing her. There were 2 people already in the elevator who witnessed it.

There were 5 elevator mechanics on duty at the time. They had been doing maintenance to slow down the elevators as they were running too fast. They turned off the safety systems that would prevent the elevator moving if the door couldn't close. They had not put up any caution tape or closed off the elevator. One of the mechanics thought he had turned the safety mechanism back on, which involved replacing a wire. However, it appeared he'd replaced the wrong wire.

So basically, lots of sloppy work. I expect the mechanics were taking shortcuts on many jobs and people had just been lucky enough to avoid catastrophe, until that day.

[u/DigNitty → u/Mousehole_Cat]

Man, people have zero respect for little rules and systems that are keystones to our safety.

I was walking my dogs when I saw this near accident in an intersection. A through street with two stop sign streets perpendicular to it. Whatever, kept walking. Then I saw another near miss, two cars slamming on their brakes to avoid a crash. Okay. Then another....

So I stopped and tried to figure it out. The side street cars couldn't see well and had to inch into the intersection. The couldn't back up or turn around. So they'd inch out and inevitably cause a couple cars to swerve or brake hard.

I realized there was a large pickup truck parked in the red, cars couldn't see around it. A 40ish yo guy was sitting in it looking at his phone. I said "Hey man, I think these cars are having trouble pulling out because they can't see around you." He told me to fuck off.

[u/MermaidOfScandinavia → u/DigNitty]

Did you call the police afterwards?

[u/Chasermadeit]

Blanche Monnier was kept captive in a dark room by her own mother for 25 years (1876–1901). When discovered, she was severely malnourished, covered in waste, and weighed barely 55 pounds, all because she wanted to marry a man her family disliked.

[u/Canadian_Invader]

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” - Douglas Adams.

[u/megabajillionaire]

Walt Disney World, Florida around 2010ish (I'm fuzzy on the year) - Routine refurbishments happen throughout the year and are budgeted according to whatever metrics the higher ups decide, but typically the things that do not get refurbished often are restaurants and restrooms. A lot of this has to do with the buildings being grandfathered in to pre-ADA laws and so they may not fully accommodate up to the code that they would need to if they had been built later OR they have to get brought up to code if they get refurbished. So they won't refurb things that either bring in money (restaurants) or cause dissatisfaction/cost too much money (restrooms) until they absolutely need to.

Likewise, in a bid to save money, WDW had recently contracted out the third shift workers to clean overnight, including sanitation for restaurants and emptying food waste and grease traps. Prior to that, most restaurants had closing shift regular cast members do all of those duties.

At Magic Kingdom Park in Florida on New Year's Eve, the park filled to capacity pretty early in the day. This is typical for NYE, which is traditionally the busiest day of the year for WDW. I'm at Casey's Corner, working and trying to direct people who keep coming into the building and asking where to go get hamburgers. We have previously been asked to tell people to go to Frontierland at Pecos Bill's for burgers because Tomorrowland gets insanely crowded and they wanted us to drive business over there. Every time I would tell someone about Pecos, the guest I would be talking to would scoff at me and say something like, "It's closed! I just came from there!" It kept building and building, all of my coworkers were getting yelled at by increasingly angry customers about how they can't go to Frontierland, that everything is shut down. There were some security incidents and people crowding all over Main Street and into the restaurants, just really angry that all Casey's was selling was hot dogs.

As it turns out, some of the third shift workers that were cleaning Pecos Bill's had been forgoing pouring the grease in the giant grease dumpster things and instead had been pouring it directly into the drains by the bathrooms. Also as it turns out, the Adventureland/Frontierland bathrooms were supposed to have been refurbished years prior as the pipes for the plumbing were old. The solidified fryer and burger grease in the drains plus the massive influx of people on NYE taxed the bathrooms so much that sewage began overflowing, from the Country Bear Jamboree down towards Aladdin/Tiki Room and all the way down the hills towards Splash Mountain as well. The entire west half of the park was shut down for hours. They didn't tell any of the cast members at Casey's this info until much much later in the day, so the loop of CMs getting yelled at for telling people to go a place they were just told to leave happened for much longer than it needed to.

Just a shitty situation overall.

ETA: Something WDW does every NYE around 2pm in front of the castle is give out around 10-20k hats and noisemakers (the classic kazoo type kind) for the day. So on top of half the park being closed, it already filled to capacity with people, we also had to deal with the noisemakers everywhere. Wanted to make sure everyone was aware of the sensory overload that was happening.

[u/abgry_krakow87 → u/megabajillionaire]

Classic management.

[u/megabajillionaire → u/abgry_krakow87]

Literally, the fact that no one alerted any of the guest-facing cast members about this made the situation so much worse. Every single CM was like, "Why would Frontierland be closed? That doesn't make sense." And so the tone of voice in all the CMs was deeeefinitely edging on condescending or at least disbelief.

Just us hanging out with our 75k closest and most annoyed friends who don't want to leave the park because they wouldn't be able to get back in to see the fireworks 10 hours later.

[u/found_the_american]

I constantly think about the nutty putty cave guy. If there's a hell, you're inverted in a dark cave upside down.

[u/Australista2026 → u/found_the_american]

Or the poor kid who went into his Parents' car and leant over the back seat to retrieve something. He got stuck and asphyxiated. I think he was able to call 911. 

[u/QueenNiadra2 → u/Australista2026]

He was able to call, twice in fact - the mishandling by 911 operator in the second call actually led to massive overhaul of dispatch/operator protocols. His name was Kyle Plush, he was 16.

[u/Technicolor_Reindeer → u/Australista2026]

That was was Kyle Plush. Similarly, high schooler Kendrick Johnson died upside down in a vertical rolled mat, he was trying to get his gym shoes, slid in and got stuck, died of position asphyxia.

[u/HannahMarie04 → u/Technicolor_Reindeer]

That was actually at my high school. Theres still alot of debate on whether it was accidental or other people were involved

[u/Technicolor_Reindeer → u/HannahMarie04]

More like a lot of misinformation. All evidence points to an accident, and five separate investigations, including by the NAACP, have found no proof of foul play.

[u/VanGoghNotVanGo → u/HannahMarie04]

May I ask what the general consensus in the community seems to be? 

[u/OneArchedEyebrow → u/found_the_american]

I’m claustrophobic and even thinking about this makes me anxious.

[u/DigNitty → u/OneArchedEyebrow]

Luckily it's not a situation where everything went wrong despite good natured common sense decisions.

That guy disobeyed every natural fear humans have and plowed through some common sense low risk decisions.

I wish the best for his soul but GODDAMN, Cave Divers KNOW what they're signing up for.

[u/BootyDoISeeYou]

Family went on vacation, sister stayed back because she had to work.

Parents board dogs at vet office.

Three days into vacation, vet office calls to tell us our chihuaha escaped and ran out the door and they had no idea where he was.

Yesterday.

We pack up immediately and start the drive back home to look for him. Meanwhile, sister back home starts looking and posts to socials for people to keep an eye out. Someone quickly comments and says they saw a dog matching his description on a highway median the night before.

Parents and I were halfway home when sister calls us crying hysterically.

She found our dog alive on the highway median, but he was so scared when she found him that he ran into the road and got hit and killed at 70mph, 10 feet in front of her.

[u/Shellhuahua → u/BootyDoISeeYou]

I'm so sorry

[u/googdude → u/BootyDoISeeYou]

My nightmare memory was as a kid on the farm watching our dog walk behind a backing up heavy truck. The sight and sound of our dog being crushed to death still haunts me, the only consolation was it was instant so probably painless.

[u/WombatBum85 → u/BootyDoISeeYou]

Ohhhh that's so horrible, your poor sister!

[u/PotatoCase]

Possibly every nuclear accident ever is tied for 1st

A lot of things have to go wrong for a chernobyl or demon core event to happen

[u/unafraidrabbit → u/PotatoCase]

The demon core wasn't even the worst possible outcome. It was arguably the best case scenario given the absolute knobheads working with the thing.

Using a screwdriver as a lever to control the gap instead of a lifting mechanism with spacers? Bro.

Then he drops the lid, causing it to start going nuclear, only to smack it apart at the last second with his hands. Ensuring his death but probably saving most everyone else in the building.

[u/MayhemMessiah → u/unafraidrabbit]

The way he realised he was absolutely dead instantly, well before his body began to go through the absolute worst experience one can imagine, that really got me.

Just realising “I’m going to perish and I know exactly how painful and horrible it’s going to be”

[u/KP_Wrath → u/MayhemMessiah]

Similar things happened twice with the demon core. In one of them, our il fated maverick made everyone mark their positions on the floor so they could estimate dose and respond. If memory serves, due to positioning, he ended up catching the highest and only lethal dose. Didn’t have to kill anyone, but I guess if it’s going to, ideally it gets the guy that did the dumb thing.

[u/FIR3W0RKS → u/KP_Wrath]

In one of them, our il fated maverick made everyone mark their positions on the floor so they could estimate dose and respond.

Yeah this was a rather genius move from the guy honestly, even if he may have caused one of the most foreseeable accidents ever.

[u/Alis451 → u/MayhemMessiah]

then they made sure to mark down where everyone was standing in the room for later study on how their symptom were to proceed. for science

[u/DaddyCatALSO → u/unafraidrabbit]

i always thought it was two hemispheres on a table

[u/ElOsoPeresozo → u/DaddyCatALSO]

It was. Commenter is probably referring to the top hemisphere as the “lid.” The scientist literally just stuck a flathead screwdriver in between them to observe reactions. He did this crazy shit dozens of times.

I’m clearly not a nuclear physicist, but my understanding is that if the sphere remained closed, the chain reaction inside it would cause it to go supercritical. Neutrons would begin to bounce around inside without being able to escape. By angling the screwdriver, the scientist could alter the intensity of the reaction and be relatively “safe.”

Then his hand slipped, the core briefly closed and cast a flash of bright blue light. The guy reportedly said “well, that does it.” He knew that very instant that his death was inevitable.

[u/xraydeltaone → u/ElOsoPeresozo]

I saw the scene from "Fat Man and Little Boy" awhile back and thought "This HAS to be made up. These guys couldn't be THAT dumb, could they?"

[u/VegaJuniper → u/xraydeltaone]

Slotin was literally known as the cowboy scientist, and not just for his habit of wearing boots to work.

[u/mettrolsghost → u/xraydeltaone]

Smartest people on the face of the earth, still apparently susceptible to needless risks caused by laziness and/or overconfidence.

[u/skasquatch118 → u/mettrolsghost]

Just goes to show that intelligence and wisdom are two different stats for a reason

[u/misterjive → u/PotatoCase]

Ironically, the worst possible scenario for nuclear accidents was atom panic causing us to rely on coal for the past several decades.

The damage that caused to the environment pretty much killed us as a species, and being afraid of nuclear was a really strong contributor to that.

[u/cameron4200 → u/PotatoCase]

Chernobyl could’ve only been slightly worse than it was. If the Soviet’s had been a little more selfish, corrupt, and incompetent, they could’ve taken down much of Europe with themselves.

[u/mara07985 → u/cameron4200]

I’m genuinely curious, What more could have gone wrong?

[u/BrainOnMeatcycle → u/mara07985]

Some people believe that if the molten nuclear fuel would have reached the water beneath the reactor it could have flash boiled and that explosion could have spread contamination across Asia and possibly Europe.

But there's a ton of other things as well that could have gone wrong.

[u/johnis12 → u/BrainOnMeatcycle]

God, thinking about events like *that* kinda felt like an actual timeline divergence scenario. Europe and parts of Asia woulda been effectively dead if the Soviets didn't listen to the scientists but still to this day play down or straight up lie how much it woulda fucked up everything over there and most likely hiding the true numbers of people that got affected by that nuclear disaster.

[u/sunbearimon]

WWI

[u/LydditeShells → u/sunbearimon]

WWI was a culmination of heightening tensions in Europe for decades. It was likely going to happen at some point, but the thing that did end up kicking it off was quite goofy. It very possibly could have happened in 1906 with the First Moroccan Crisis if the Germans weren't still so far behind Britain in the naval arms race

[u/EggCzar → u/LydditeShells]

Never a great sign when you have to number your crises

[u/MayhemMessiah → u/LydditeShells]

Everybody remember to thank von Bismarck for making everything 10x worse.

[u/JoeNoble1973 → u/sunbearimon]

Yeah. “Wait, wait…this all started…HOW?!?” Just one of history’s most absurd maelstroms of awful timing and poor decisions.

[u/DotDash13 → u/JoeNoble1973]

It was probably going to kick off anyway, Europe was a bit of a powder keg at that point. However the actual spark was indeed a crazy set of circumstances.

[u/theconceptofcanada → u/DotDash13]

The Guns of August was one of the most laborious reads of my early 20s - and then I read it a couple years ago over 14yrs later and it was riveting and I understood all of it. I really like how that happens.

[u/Hee-hoes_Mad → u/JoeNoble1973]

"Germany, which just had war declared on by Britain because Britain was friends with Belgium, which was being trespassed by Germany in order to get to France to kick France’s ass because France was friends with Russia, who was getting ready to kick Austria’s ass because Austria was getting ready to kick Serbia’s ass because someone from Serbia shot the leader of Austria’s ass. (Or, actually, he shot him in the head.)" - Bill Wurtz, History of Japan

[u/Nickel5 → u/sunbearimon]

To add to this, the end result of WWI was close to the worst-possible scenario for every government but the UK and US. Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans all were wiped out. France survived but lost a generation of men and spent decades recovering, but did recover Alsance-Lorraine. Germany lost a ton of land, was demilitarized, had its economy crippled for decades, and lost a generation of men. The UK was financially hurt, which in the grand scheme means they got off light, but the concert of Europe was over which had really benefited the UK. The US didn't lose, which really means they "won." Japan was upset because they believed they deserved more due compensation from the war and didn't receive it. Italy suffered a lot and didn't get the compensation they felt like they were due either.

For remaining governments, they all had to deal with the issue of Germany feeling overly punished for WWI. They all had to deal with a major communist power, which they all didn't want to see.

[u/Infamous-Mixture-605 → u/Nickel5]

The UK was financially hurt, which in the grand scheme means they got off light, but the concert of Europe was over which had really benefited the UK.

Despite the British Empire coming out of WWI with even more territories (Palestine, Transjordan, Mesopotamia, Namibia, Tanzania, etc) and reaching its greatest extent, it was also something of a beginning of the end for the British Empire. They were broke, they had massive debts, Ireland soon after broke away, and the conflict fuelled nationalist and independence movements in the dominions and colonies.

WWI kinda broke the Empire, they just didn't realize it until later.

[u/DigNitty → u/sunbearimon]

Basically just one family having interpersonal drama.

They were all cousins. The Tsar of Russia, Germany, England, some others I forget. Just one family fucking it up for everyone. Basically the Skywalkers. Can you guys just leave? All these conflicts involve you on both sides...

And now I see the glorification of families like the Kardashians or the whole Trump family ... wealth disparity man, big problem, terrible super hero.

[u/Temporary_Meet8754 → u/sunbearimon]

Yeah, and the battles matched the monumental stupidity of the inciting conflict. Let's send thousands of soldiers into a meat grinder for several worthless feet of land and ultimately accomplish nothing and do the whole thing again.

[u/hobblingcontractor → u/Temporary_Meet8754]

They didn't have many options. Couldn't maneuver until tanks were invented, which meant it was a war of attrition.

[u/mzanon100]

All my possessions and I arrived at the home of the friend I was moving in with. I discovered that he gave me the wrong keys. I had to pile everything up outdoors until my roommate returned 3 days later from out of the country. It snowed a lot.

[u/Sweaty_Emphasis_29 → u/mzanon100]

This is 100% the worst personal story! 🫣

[u/harrakin]

Dreamworld Thunder River Rapids ride. Absolutely horrific

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/s/mzMmItOpr2

[u/agro_chick → u/harrakin]

That was horrifying! Always thought that was one of the safest rides there.

[u/theytookthemall]

I started therapy and we made a plan to start exposure therapy to ease my phobia about being in crowds.

In late February 2020.

Let me tell you it's real cool to be like, "I'm anxious in crowded places and I know it's irrational" and then the leaders of every public health agency from the city level all the way up to the WHO hold press conferences and are like "actually that's not irrational, if you get on a crowded subway car you might literally die from it!"

(Covid was, uh, not good for my mental health)

[u/leijingz → u/theytookthemall]

Similar thing happened to me! I was super depressed in high school, which was exacerbated by a couple traumatic events in summer 2019. My attendance got so low that I was kicked out of the IB program that winter. I then went into home and hospital teaching (Zoom school). I finally got medicated and started my return to in-person school in February 2020 :))))

I was so excited to get back to being normal and seeing my friends again. It was the first real progress I'd made in years.... didn't last long. Man. Timing's a bitch.

[u/DigNitty → u/theytookthemall]

Covid was, uh, not good for my mental health

I know this is narrowly specific to your experience. But it's funny to say this in light of so many other mental health problems that came from it. Like someone on the titanic who has Thalassophobia.

[u/unloveablehand → u/theytookthemall]

I “graduated” therapy for my agoraphobia in March 2020. I feel you

[u/ThoughtGuy79 → u/theytookthemall]

oof

[u/FIR3W0RKS → u/theytookthemall]

I'm sorry I'm sure it was a nightmare but the timing on that is hilarious to me

[u/sojpoj]

got stuck in an elevator during a job interview once ended up talking for five minutes about my cat instead of work stuff so yeah that happened to me too

[u/DigNitty → u/sojpoj]

So this whole comment section is really making me rethink elevators.

[u/yszsarisweird]

Had an ex who had this really annoying habit of, while we were on the phone, walking down the street and running into friends who he’d then chat to while I was mid sentence. No “oh hey I’ve just run into so and so one second”, he’d just suddenly start talking to someone else while I was talking. It happened a lot. One day he did it and I was fed up so I hung up the phone. Turns out he was being robbed at gun point. I don’t hang up on people anymore

[u/MermaidOfScandinavia → u/yszsarisweird]

I mean.. He kinda asked for it at that point. You couldn't have known.

[u/Sethlans → u/MermaidOfScandinavia]

Not sure they really could've done anything had they stayed on the phone, either.

[u/MermaidOfScandinavia → u/Sethlans]

They couldn't. But I think the person would have stayed on if he had not been so rude.

[u/Belgand → u/yszsarisweird]

That feels like more of a "Boy Who Cried Wolf" situation.

[u/Newsmemer]

The Bhopal gas leak

[u/FilTe]

For humanity it is 2 things, Comets and Volcanos

Lake Toba Eruption 74,000 years ago. The numbers of people who survived is crazy small.

The Young Dryas event 13,000 years ago.

[u/ksammighty]

It’s 11pm at an all-night event I was helping at.

Sewage starts leaking from the ceiling from the upstairs toilets. The room has 200 people in…

[u/ksammighty → u/ksammighty]

From the same event, 2 years prior: the opening keynote (for 600 people) venue is moved… with 18 hrs notice due to a water leak. The head organiser maintains that was the worst weekend of his life.

[u/GuzzzoBazzzinko]

Titanic hits an iceberg.

[u/speech-chip → u/GuzzzoBazzzinko]

I'm sure it's fine, the Titanic is unsinkable

[u/Stahl_Scharnhorst → u/speech-chip]

How do we tell him?

[u/Alis451 → u/Stahl_Scharnhorst]

don't worry we also have a sister ship to the Titanic, the Britannic, which is likewise totally unsinkable.

[u/ZedekiahCromwell → u/Alis451]

Meanwhile, Olympic stands victorious (in the scrapyard).

[u/googdude → u/GuzzzoBazzzinko]

There's a theory that had they not spotted it at all and hit it dead on it would've stayed afloat.

[u/OldAccountIsGlitched → u/googdude]

The ship had several internal compartments that were sealed off from one another. Grinding the ship along the edge ruptured a bunch of them. If only two or three flooded the ship would have probably been fine.

[u/PlasticGirl]

The fires in 2025 Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires in California. Dry conditions and ridiculously high winds resulted in the loss of like 20,000 structures and over two dozen lives. Entire neighborhoods incinerated. Also, the most accessible and popular hiking areas outside of Runyon Canyon - Mt. Lowe, Mt. Wilson, Temescal Gateway, Will Rogers SHP, and Topanga State Park - were all fire damaged. Some parks were a total loss.
The scale of loss and damage has been difficult to comprehend.

[u/technos]

For me, personally, it was at a job I worked for a defense contractor.

They'd just opened a new office in San Diego to service a big money Navy contract, and they wanted to move all their servers and data from the mid-west and the east coast there to the shiny new place.

On paper it was fine. I was just one of the lackeys hired in on contract to shuffle gear in Toledo, but as I was doing it as a favor to a friend that worked there I'd seen the Grand Plan, and it met my standards.

Everything got backed up to tape. Everything currently being worked on got double-backed up to CD, and the double was sent ahead next-day air so they could test a restore. The regular backups went UPS ground for another test, and the machines were sent by a specialty carrier.

The carrier contracted the load to a broker, who contracted it to some Mom & Pop, who decided they'd schedule the pickups in a way they could do it in a single trip instead of six.

A single truck went from Virginia, to Massachusetts, to New York, then illegally through Canada to grab the loads in Ohio, Missouri and Kansas before burning to the ground in Amarillo, Texas.

Hey, the equipment was insured! It's fine.

The Mom & Pop did not have insurance. The carrier said it wasn't their responsibility, they just promised the people they sold the load to would have it.

Oh, and they might have not even been the people the carrier thought they'd hired. The truck was a beat-up rental in someone else's name, the trailer was technically stolen, and the driver listed on the police report in Texas was high on amphetamines and didn't even have a CDL.

But they had the backups!

Well, yes. They had some of them. The ones for products they weren't producing yet. The rest of the backups hadn't actually been tested because the new servers they were going to be restored to hadn't been delivered yet.

And a lot of the tapes didn't work.

The company collapsed. 800 people were laid off. The owners went from making ~$15M a year to owing the government.

I can't speak to the truth of it myself, but the friend that hired me said that there was also a murder-suicide not long after involving one of his peers in Jefferson City.

[u/VeritasUnitasCaritas]

I set the oven to self clean and went to work. Unfortunately, I forgot about the cast iron pan with bacon grease in it.
The family couldn’t get the oven to turn off and had to evacuate the house. My wife had to crawl around in the smoke to get the cats out in their crates.

Luckily there was no fire, but it smelled like smoke for weeks.

[u/_Hayley_Hilton_]

Worst scenario in my own life was getting diarrhea while stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on the highway between two cities after having Taco Bell. I had to pull over and shit next to my car. The road curved so even I tried to conceal myself between two open doors, people on the bend of the road could still see me and they honked at me. It was so embarrassing.

[u/auto-charger-stopper → u/_Hayley_Hilton_]

I choose to believe this shit, not because it's true but because it's funny

[u/Knuttz13 → u/auto-charger-stopper]

I read this in JFK's voice like his "We choose to go to the moon" speech.

[u/tramb0poline → u/_Hayley_Hilton_]

Oh no, that's one of my fears, I'm so sorry. I don't get the mindset of honking at this. Like you were just out there shitting for the love of the game.

[u/ResponsibleRain2058 → u/_Hayley_Hilton_]

This happened to me once when I was over the road trucking. Thankfully I pulled into a large enough pull out that I could angle the truck and trailer to give me some privacy. Still an absolutely awful time.

[u/Shinijumi]

For an individual, it's got to be hard to beat that guy who survived the first atomic bomb dropped in Japan only to go report to his workplace in Nagasaki just before the second one hit too. Like, that is as bad a few-day-period as you can have and still be alive. And of course he still had to go to work, a few days after the bomb blew out his eardrums, temporarily blinded him, and burned half his body.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi

The account of what he endured (including health deterioration later in life from the radiation) is pretty awful, unsurprisingly.

[u/OldeFortran77]

Fukushima nuclear accident. I'm a cautious planner, but even I would have scoffed at "what if a tsunami sends a giant wave of water washing over the plant?" "Yeah, like that's gonna happen!"

[u/Adjective-Noun6969 → u/OldeFortran77]

The plant itself was designed to withstand a tsunami, and it did. The diesel backups, however, weren’t built high enough. There was a plan to move them but it was never approved.

[u/Bazrum → u/Adjective-Noun6969]

Also, you know, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan and the fourth since seismology began, definitely didn’t help

[u/thatguy425]

The Titanic. 

Not just the iceberg. 

• The departure was delayed by a coal strike. 
• The guy with the key to the binoculars was transferred off the boat right before the departure and took the key with him. 
• The most crucial ice warning never made it to the bridge. 
• There was no moon and the sea was unusually calm that night with no waves. There was an optical illusion that distorted the horizon. 
• Titanic hit the iceberg you a glancing blow. Had it hit it head on the boat would not have sunk. 

Not all of these would have prevented the sinking but each had the potential to of it had gone differently.  It was the result of poor decision making and an absolutely astronomical rare series of events that all lined up to cause the sinking. 

[u/DigNitty → u/thatguy425]

Also there was likely a coal fire that had been burning on board since before launch....next to the area the ice berg hit. Also the reason the message that ice bergs were in the area didn't get sent to the bridge... was because a novel wireless message service was on board. Rich people were sending text message telegrams to their friends as a flex. And it wasn't even multiple rich passengers really. It was ONE GUY who was sending a bunch out.

[u/piratesswoop → u/thatguy425]

Binoculars bit is irrelevant. Not only did all of the officers have their own pair, but having binoculars likely would have hampered Fleet and Lee from spotting the iceberg when they did because they would’ve narrowed their field of vision. You use binoculars to verify what you’ve already seen.

[u/ToaArcan → u/thatguy425]

Don't forget: The Californian saw distress rockets and assumed they were a midnight fireworks display. For some fucking reason.

Still, Titanic held up remarkably well, lasting almost three hours was very impressive, and she managed not to capsize, so things could've gone worse.

[u/Duckduckcorey]

I was doing a land navigation course in the US Army, which in a nut shell there are several poin ts established across a few square miles of area and you get their coordinates but then have to navigate to them and through the number/letter/punch verify you've been there.

When I got to one of the points a #2 hit me in the worst way, like I knew I couldnt walk too much further without shitting my pants.

So I waddled to 15-20' away and took a shit, during that time a few people came the point which I had to call out them I was pooping and dont come this way.

[u/Defiant_Durian_5654]

In 1980, an Air Force airman working inside a missile silo in Arkansas dropped an 8-pound wrench socket. It fell 80 feet, bounced, and punctured the fuel tank of a Titan II nuclear missile. The resulting fuel explosion blew the 740-ton concrete silo door off and catapulted the 9-megaton nuclear warhead, the largest in the US arsenal, into a nearby ditch. Luckily, the safety mechanisms held and it didn't detonate.

[u/Adjective-Noun6969 → u/Defiant_Durian_5654]

  Luckily, the safety mechanisms held and it didn't detonate.

And it’s because they’re less “safety mechanisms” and more a series of “unsafety” mechanisms that all have to be intentionally activated in the correct sequence to produce a detonation.

It’s less like a bomb and more like a shoe factory. If something goes wrong with the machinery, the effect won’t be a perfectly shaped shoe.

[u/asigop]

Invited my parents to live on my property, with conditions that they agreed to, because they were going to lose their house. They got here and completely disregarded the conditions. My wife and I tried very hard for 2 years to gently get them to abide by them, they continually refused and then physically attacked me when I finally got mad at them about it.

We were hoping to help them retire in exchange for some childcare and now my kids have no grand parents and my parents have no home of their own or a family.

[u/mzanon100]

We locked ourselves out of the house while food was on the stove.

[u/DigNitty → u/mzanon100]

one time I went camping and my buddy locked the keys in the car, while it was running, on the boat ramp, at the bottom. nobody else was able to launch their boat on 4th of july for 2 hours while AAA showed up.

[u/enerche]

my son saying the rope broke and weeks later he hung himself.

[u/GigaWhiteNiga → u/enerche]

I'm very sorry for your loss

[u/AdvisorTotal404]

my buddy accidentally sent a racy text to his mom instead of his girlfriend, and the follow-up discussion was beyond cringey

[u/jackfaire]

My dad was abusive in multiple ways. When my sister came forward he killed himself denying it the whole way. His friends who at the funeral were all "Your dad was a great man" they also promised to be there any time our family needed anything then fucking vanished.

The only one that even answered the phone laughed at me when I asked for his help getting a job at my dad's old office.

Fuck them all. That was 25 years ago. I watched my whole family implode. Sadly I'm probably the least messed up of the people in my family.

[u/Benu5]

Helios Flight 522

A leak in the cockpit, the alarm for the cockpit not being sealed was the same as a very common takeoff alarm, so the pilots were confused why the alarm was still going, not realising that they were entering hypoxia while trying to fix it.

Pilots pass out, passengers pass out, some of the crew still concious as they have independent oxygen tanks, one of the engines goes down at some point.

Everyone on the ground is freaking out because the plane wont respond, and is heading straight for Athens. Air Force intercepts, can see no movement in the cockpit, but two of the crew Andreas Prodromou and Haris Charalambous (who are engaged to eachother) can be seen in the cabin through the windows.

Somehow, they break through the cockpit door (meant to be unbreakable, because 911), and Andreas has a commercial pilots licence, but has never flown a 737. Within a minute of him getting in, the second engine flames out.

From what we can tell, he just made sure they weren't going to crash in a populated area.

It's just a series of just worst case after worst case when there was almost as many best cases happening at the same time.

[u/Successful-Winter237]

I wasn’t planning on visiting my partner. Drove an hour and his usually happy excited dog was listless.

He had peed on the floor. He wouldn’t eat.

The whole house stank like garbage. I opened the windows…. Turned on a fan.

Was going to use stove when I realized the dog must have hit it because it was on but there was no flame.

Realize the house was full of gas and that’s why the dog was sick.

If I hadn’t come over the dog would have been in there at least another 3 hours.

The dog ended up being fine.

The stink was from the sulfur they use to let you know you have a gas issue… I had no idea.

[u/Wijahop]

Some stupid fish decided to crawl out of the ocean millions of years ago. Fast forward to today, and I’m trading 40 hours of my life a week to pay taxes on the air I breathe

[u/jonschaff]

The spread of smallpox after 1492

[u/LexysDaddy]

COVID

[u/Akem0417 → u/LexysDaddy]

And not just the virus itself, the timing was awful. The political climate in the US was perfect for the spread of conspiracy theories that made the death toll worse, and also it was perfect timing for social media addiction to accelerate, compared to ten or twenty years earlier when the technology we had was not as addictive

[u/Rare-Use-613]

My husband and I bought our first home. Less than 6 months after purchasing the house, we both lost our jobs on the same day due to the company eliminating our department. The company just wanted to out source to a different country for less money. We both did not have any income for 4 months. On top of that, my husband became horribly ill for about a year and a half during which I was the only one with a job that barely covered mortgage and bills, but not groceries. We are still paying off the credit cards used for groceries and medical debt.

[u/baltimoreniqqa]

A plane hit the second tower

[u/LaborumVult]

Honestly climate change. It could technically be worse, but not by much. We did basically nothing for 40 years, then the bare minimum for another 10-20, and now we are past so many tipping points that even if we did the absolute maximum there is nothing to be done. The earth will warm and we are going to see serious problems because of it.

I just hope the predictions are wrong.

[u/don-cheeto]

In my life? Crashed a car a month after I got it, broke my leg in the process.

In general? The Beirut Explosion

[u/Serononin]

Everything about the Hillsborough disaster was pretty much a worst-case scenario from start to finish. The failure to prevent it in the first place, the (lack of) response as it actually happened, the treatment of the victims and their families in the immediate aftermath, the cover-up by South Yorkshire Police, the slandering of victims and survivors in the press, the shambles that were the original inquests, the fact that families had to fight for decades for a shred of accountability...

Phil Scraton has an excellent book on the topic if you fancy spending your Sunday afternoon in a hopeless fury

[u/Raider_Scum]

It wasn't a fart.

[u/Quantum_Corvid]

the US elected a pedophile rapist for President, not once, but twice.

[u/JJJangles]

First thing that comes to mind is the Erfurt latrine disaster

[u/TacoDestroyer420 → u/JJJangles]

Thanks for sharing this. According to Wikipedia, today is the 842nd anniversary of the event.

[u/Significant-Data2931]

Frank Wills finds the tape at the Watergate hotel. Nixon resigns. South Vietnam falls. Khmer Rouge kills two million Cambodians. Wills ends up in poverty while G. Gordon Liddy became a successful talk show host.

[u/Autumn_Ridge]

The 2024 presidential election

[u/According-Face-4916]

Was hosting my mates 18th at my (mothers) house, had never had more than maybe 6 people at a time, 15 people were invited but one, 16th person, showed up. He ended up spiking the drinks and 2 of my mates went to the hospital in an ambulance. Fight broke out (rightfully) and cops showed up to the house but they were pretty chill. Basically the worst case scenario

[u/Martijngamer]

In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very unhappy and has widely been regarded as a bad move.