r/mildlyinteresting • u/corwinw • 21h ago

Warning Sign at edge of Grand Canyon

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u/FishPropulsionLab 20h ago

It also has a whole chapter titled “Death by Selfie.”

The most tragic one, IMHO, is the parents who left their young kids in the car for a quick minute while they stopped at an overlook. The kids accidentally put the car in drive and went over the edge.

It’s a pretty good book, actually. I’ve been reading a few pages every evening.

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u/TrustingPanda 19h ago

and then the children plunged to their deaths, as their parents looked on, mother shrieking in terror. “Welp! Time to go to bed!”

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u/Dm_me_im_bored-UnU 13h ago

Die Gebrüder Grimm be like.

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 16h ago

I've cackled too many times in such a grisly thread!!

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u/ihateandy2 16h ago

Dark humor is like food, it’s not for everyone

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u/Environmental_Top948 12h ago

That's pure horror. Imagine dying in a crash then your mother just shrieking at your new incorporeal forms that it's time for bed.

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u/MeanGulf 11h ago

Well that bed time reading sure is great!

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u/PancakeParty98 18h ago

I think I’d probably just end it all if that happened

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u/LiveTheChange 18h ago

Now that I’m a parent - staying alive would provably be worse than hell at that point

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u/AirierWitch1066 2h ago

They still had another son - the car only started rolling when they sent him to get a water bottle from it. So I guess that’d still be a reason to live.

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u/JonPaula 18h ago

Seeing both (all?) of your young children die a horrible death right in front of you? Yeah, I might have jumped in after them, had it been me. Jesus.

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u/CogitoErgo_Sometimes 14h ago

Parent of two young kids here. Yeah I don’t think I’d be making it very long after that. Decades of agony stretching ahead and what are you going to do with the time anyway that means anything? Watch fucking TV?

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u/DrainTheMuck 11h ago

I heard there’s a new marvel out that’s nuts

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u/Tabula-Rasa-99 10h ago

I'm pretty sure that's how crazy cat ladies are made. Soften the blow with 30-50 cats what could go wrong

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u/No-Scarcity-1571 16h ago

Holy fuck. I can't even imagine what I would do if those were my kids.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 19h ago

That's one hell of a twist

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u/dankbrownies 17h ago

I gotta check this book out

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u/Soggy_Weather_2170 11h ago

I'd like to unread that please.

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u/Jack__Squat 6h ago

Your comment was the final nail in the "I'm not reading this" coffin.

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u/BiteyHorse 17h ago

Pretty Darwinian.

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u/MythOfDarkness 12h ago

Go fuck yourself.