What stupid self-inflicted injuries have you seen that could have been easily avoided?

I was a firefighter and we were called to a vehicle fire at midnight in a rural area.

We get there and sure enough there's a pickup truck fully engulfed in flames.

This wasn't the usual engine compartment fire. The whole truck was roaring.

I was the nozzle man at the time on my engine,

which meant my job was to be the guy spraying water on the fire. As I got closer to the pickup,

I noticed a gosh awful smell. I was relatively new, so I couldn't place it, but I just knew it was

putrid. My heart immediately sank when I remembered there was a missing girl case in our

area. People often stash evidence inside cars and then burn the whole thing to get rid of the evidence,

guns, clothes, even bodies. As I'm putting out the fire, I'm dreading what I'll find. Something was in

the truck bed. The fact that the truck's owner wasn't on the scene made me more nervous. Fast forward in the fires out, turns out the truck bed. The fact that the truck's owner wasn't on the scene made me more

nervous. Fast forward in the fires out, turns out the truck bed was filled with a dozen pumpkins,

thankfully no bodies, but we had no idea where the driver was. A few days later we heard from the

cops that just before we showed up at the fire, a lone guy arrived at the ER with massive

full-body burns. Turns out that

as this guy was driving his pumpkins to a nearby farmer's market, he hit something in the road.

His gas gauge went to empty and he smelled gas coming from his truck. The hero of this story

crawled under his truck to assess the damage and used the only light source he had, a bick

lighter. Someone saw the fire and drove him to the ER. Some separate passerby was the one who

actually called in the fire. In short, if you think you have a gas leak, don't use your lighter

as your light source. Can't decide, so I'll take two. Worst injuries, the bikers who thought going 300 kilometers an hour on the German autobahn was a good idea because it's legal.

Those ones are too far gone to even be organ donors, at least for the larger parts.

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