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It might be time to look for a new place to live if this is gonna become a regular thing. Bob, Carol and Angie have a lot to work through. For some crazy roommate stories, here's times people discovered their roommate was a psycho, and here's a guy who battled his terrible subletter who tried to pin him with damages.

Any day where nothing particularly unusual happens should be regarded as a pretty good day when you realize all the misfortune that can put a cramp in people's style. Like, maybe your bus was late, but at least it didn't get sucked into a giant sinkhole. The universe can get creative when it uses unfortunate moments to throw folks for a loop.

Everyone's high school experience was a little different. Some kids were incredibly dumb. Sometimes a cool teacher did someone a solid. Other times, like these ones, things went off the rails. It always seemed like all the craziest stuff happened at the school that you didn't go to. 

If we know anything about this world, there will be unfortunate times when life make things complicated. Some will be mundane, like getting stiffed on french fries. Some will be bananas, like having a roof fall through your car. Seeing misfortune big and small might put things in perspective.

Australia is a land of beauty, wonder, bird eating spiders, venomous snakes, hundred pound lizards, and straight up balls of scary looking goo that's ready to kill you at any gleeful opportunity. There are a lot of things to avoid in Australia, and it's a running gag on the internet of how dangerously nope-tastic the whole continent can be.

It's good that parents are interested in the safety of their children, but holy crap this is some whack-ass behavior. This lady was caught leering like a ghoul through the window of her son's friend's house because she hadn't seen him in a few hours. Reminds us of this hyper-controlling helicopter mom who wanted to track her kid at college.

Chella Phillips, a resident of the Bahamas, manager of a dog refuge, and self-advertised "crazy dog lady" has taken in nearly a hundred stray dogs in order to protect them from the looming Hurricane Dorian. It's staggering seeing so many dogs in one place, and it's obvious the situation is a complex one, but with the alternative being leaving the dogs out in the storm to fend for themselves, this is a pretty impressive undertaking. In the lighter world of taking in stray animals, we've got a craigslist fail here of a sorely mistaken animal lover who thinks they've adopted a stray cat.

We all just want to get through a regular, uneventful day, but sometimes life makes things complicated. Sometimes even small things, like dropping a pan of kebabs, can be the most defeating feeling you've had in months. Sometimes it's something bigger, like accidentally overloading a semi-truck and destroying it. These things are all disappointing, but at least they don't happen to you every day,

We've seen petty onion-based arguments with mother-in-laws, but this is a whole 'nother level. In this advice column, a woman was suspicious that her mother in law was trying to poison her. Prudence said she should get her husband to switch plates at a family function and see if the mother in law had any objections. The following-up details how he didn't believe her, so she switched the food anyway, and while it was confirmed that the mother-in-law had it out for her, the plan didn't make her husband believe her. If your mother-in-law is crazy enough to be a serial poisoner, maybe you should be wary of your husband as well.

We can't think of a worse pet sitting situation out there. This lady doesn't even promise the small amount of money she offers, deliberately withholds information about the dog's condition until after the sitter would have agreed, and then calls her weak for not wanting to totally derail her life for a hundred bucks. Absolutely phenomenal. We've seen people make insane lists of rules before, like this bride's friend who made a list for a bachelorette party.

In recent years there's been a campaign to make bars less predatory by employing code language like asking for an "angel shot." The idea is that it's a discrete way to get the bar staff to get a patron out of a potentially dangerous situation. The idea is generally thought of as a tool for creeped-out women to get away from men, but occasionally the reverse will happen.

Every school had a few of those kids that would do absolutely anything to get people's attention. Sometimes it was making up insane lies, other times it was pulling their lunchmeat out at a birthday party or drinking during a test. Either way it often led to some kind of school scandal. What ever happened to those kids, anyway?

People can be very particular, selfish creatures. Sometimes we think we'll be good with someone before realizing that our other quirks will get on their nerves so terribly that they never want to see us again. Some reasons are overly petty, some malicious, and some outright bizarre. Some people outright try to screw over their Ex. Lawyers, legal assistants and other people have collected some real weird reasons some folks had to get a divorce.

These lucky people all found themselves less than seconds, or in some cases inches away from complete and utter destruction. It really makes you feel deep thoughts about the delicate balance in which all our lives hang. And also it's effin' wild. For stupid people who things didn't perfectly work out for, check out these utter morons who deserve darwin awards.

Thank goodness for reflexes. These videos would look a whole lot different if not for some quick thinking or just straight up luck. Honestly, most of these are just luck. Here's to monster trucks and trains having effective breaks. For more close calls, check out these close calls where people escaped ruin by moments.