• @STUNT_GRANNY
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    319 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 hour ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      524 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…

    • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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      539 minutes ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        320 minutes ago

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

        Yeah, today. But not 40 years ago.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 minutes ago

        Were the standards any different in the 80s? I’ve heard stories of people getting “corrective surgery” in infancy but the cases that I’ve heard are not from the US or are much older.

      • RickRussell_CA
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        225 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    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
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      Damn. You understood the assignment. Also, I was sure that story was going somewhere else horrifying.

  • @[email protected]
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    512 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.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    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.

  • @TwoBeeSan
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    192 hours ago

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

  • Snailpope
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    132 hours ago

    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
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      ✔️ Scary

      ✔️ Unsettling

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

      • db0
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        42 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          111 hour ago

          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
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            547 minutes ago

            and I’m dumb

            This is an acceptable excuse. Carry on.