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Escape rooms are a strange chance to see what people will do when they're left up to their own wits. Usually it ends with idiots smashing props with hammers, smuggling tools in and trying to escape through very real air ducts and sewers. Escape room employees see some weird stuff.

People are really bad at escaping from escape rooms. They'll totally miss obvious clues, disregard warnings to not break things, and even bring in their own tools to escape more effectively. One wonders why you'd deliberately sabotage your own experience you've paid money to have, but sometimes you just have to let people do dumb things.

In modern life, we're not really faced with life-or-death challenges anymore. Most things are already worked out for us, and if they aren't, we can solve things pretty quickly. So what happens when people are put in the closest situation to life-or-death scenarios we'll have in this modern world: escape rooms? Well, let me just say that things get weird. It seems like humans have lost the resourcefulness and quick thinking that we once needed to survive. I don't need to say any more. Just read on. Or if you're all for the direction humanity is heading in, take a look at the pet drama that's hot on AskReddit right now. You read that right.