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[–] STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 3 points 13 minutes ago

I stole some bullets from my workplace once.

I was unloading a truck at work one day, many years ago. One of the items on my trailer was a pallet of rifle ammunition. Whoever loaded this trailer on the other side of the country did a shitty job of it; plastic wrap was shredded, several boxes were torn open, the cardboard "do not stack" cone was crushed under the weight of a car engine, among other things. When I managed to exhume this pallet from the trailer, the plastic gave way, spilling dozens of boxes and hundreds of loose bullets all over my trailer and loading dock. While I was cleaning up the mess, I impulsively pocketed a few bullets for myself. Nobody ever asked me about it. I don't even own a gun. But I have a few bullets.

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 15 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I have scars around and on my genitals. When I was young my mom told me that I had surgery just after I was born. Now as an adult, I think I may have been born with some sort of intersex condition but I am afraid to talk to my parents about it.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 points 33 minutes ago (2 children)

Probably not, from someone who worked in pediatric urology and endocrinology. They don't tend to do surgery until you are older because you need to be old enough to determine what your gender identity is very clearly, which is not clear sometimes with intersex conditions. It's a really bad decision to make too early. Probably what you had was an undescended testicle or hydrocele or something.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 14 minutes ago

They don’t tend to do surgery until you are older

Yeah, today. But not 40 years ago.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 2 points 19 minutes ago

It’s a really bad decision to make too early.

You say that like parents wouldn't make the decision and find a doctor to do it.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 19 minutes ago

I...what the fuck! Exact same with me, and I've always kinda felt like I'm stuck between sexes.
I just never thought about this possibility...

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

When I was 13 I helped the local burnout mow lawns. He was late 20's and hung out with us teenagers from the same block. Got us weed, bought us beer. The 16yo guys I looked up to were friends (?) with him, he'd hang in the backyard fort of the lead 16yo, and he basically ran the local lawn mowing cartel of all us kids. I wanted money and it was easy and fun, hangin' with the boys. We shoveled walks in the winter.

One snowstorm morning he wasn't at the fort where we'd meet so I volunteered to run across the street to his house. Knock. Knock loud. Try the door, he didn't mind if we came in his basement entrance to his parent's house. It's dark, light on in the bathroom. 13yo me saw his first dead body that day; full bathtub with slit wrists and neck.

E: oh, reason for suicide seemed to be that he had a DUI wreck a couple months prior where a young girl (like 7 or 8) didn't die but wouldn't ever be the same... like couldn't walk or brain damage or something. He couldn't handle what he did, I guess.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

Damn. You understood the assignment. Also, I was sure that story was going somewhere else horrifying.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 50 points 2 hours ago

When a friend of mine was a little kid, someone drove past, jumped out of their car, and ran over and grabbed him trying to kidnap him.

He was just confused about what the guy was even doing, but grabbed onto a chain-link fence and wouldn't let go, so the guy was yanking him and yelling at him to let go, but he was able to hold on. Eventually the guy gave up and ran back and sped away. While he was being yanked on the fence, he was worried because the ball he'd been playing with was rolling down the hill, and he was worried it would go somewhere he wouldn't be able to find it and he would lose his ball.

When the guy left, he went and retrieved his ball, psyched that he was able to get it back. He thought no more about it and kept playing, and then later that day told his mom about what happened.

She lost her mind. For some reason, he thought she had also been worried about the ball, and he kept telling her he'd been able to get it back after, so it was all good.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 58 minutes ago)

Okay, so I have a mechanical heart valve. One time, while I was in the basement of my childhood home with one of my brothers, I was close to him as he was playing The Godfather PS2 (I'm pretty sure it was that game). It was pretty quiet, so he somehow heard the ticking of my valve and his mind went to some sort of explosive like a pipe bomb being close by.

[–] AHorseWithNoNeigh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm, in fact, not a horse. I only pretend to be one on the Internet.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

Nice try Ed.

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I once billed a man, just to see him cry.

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 3 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

That must've been quite the bill.

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 1 points 5 minutes ago

The bill in question

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 19 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I can't own a gun because the call of the void is too strong.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -2 points 34 minutes ago

They have buses everywhere, man.

[–] Snailpope@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Since I most likely won't out live my wife, and she doesn't want to live without me, we have agreed on a murder/suicide when we are getting up there

[–] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 3 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

✔️ Scary

✔️ Unsettling

[–] shani66@ani.social 24 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

My dad threatened to kidnap me and an... Uncle, i think, held me at gun point when i was a baby. I had a surprisingly violent childhood, don't remember any of it tho. Not many other 'scary ' or unsettling facts i can think of I'm afraid, if those even count.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm curious, why do this over two different comments?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Because I couldn't get it to accept two images in the same post and I couldn't find a gif of this scene and I'm dumb

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 41 minutes ago

and I’m dumb

This is an acceptable excuse. Carry on.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 32 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 hours ago
[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

Through a tube.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Your body will not let you drown yourself.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Thank God! I'm a pretty stupid sometimes

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

Why did you both say the same thing minutes apart?

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I’m thankful for such systems. My mind is pretty stupid.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Why did you both say the same thing minutes apart?

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 2 hours ago

Looks like chance to me. We're both pretty old, established accounts with highly different history for your consideration. Also consider that federation may take a few minutes. It's possible neither of us saw each other's comments at time of posting.

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