The Ultimate Price
In the blink of an eye, your whole entire life can change. One second, you’re walking out of 7-11 with a lottery ticket, and the next, you’re a multi-millionaire on your way to Ibiza. On a private jet. There’s no telling what tomorrow will bring. All it takes is a single viral video and suddenly you’re getting interviewed by Stephen Colbert. Not all of life’s surprises are so pleasant though. Just as quickly as things can take a turn for the better, you can also find yourself plummeting towards rock bottom. These people witnessed someone ruin their whole life in an instant, and they’re sharing their tragic stories as a warning to us all.
Stolen Explosives
The man that killed my grandfather had never so much as had a speeding ticket. He was married with kids and fell behind on rent. My grandfather that was in his 80’s worked for the company that rented this guy his home for extra money. Grandpa couldn’t reach him about his rent so went and did a welfare check. The guy panicked and murdered my grandfather. Destroyed more than one life in a matter of 30 seconds.
Pasture Surfing
Third-hand story from a former co-worker: one of the other Marines at the base where he was stationed in the 90s stole plastic explosives from the test range and tried to sell them at a bar that was literally line of sight from the base. The first person to show any interest was an NCIS officer. That guy might still be in Leavenworth.
He was gonna be the one to put our dinky little private school on the map by going to the NFL as a kicker.
He fell off a picnic table that was being pulled behind a pickup truck at a party. (Pasture Surfing)
By the time I saw him again a year later he could almost feed himself without assistance.
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A Deadly Mistake
From Redditor u/SuperToaster09:
Childhood friend thought his wife was cheating on him with one of her coworkers. So he goes to the guys house, waits for him to get off work, and jumps him with a metal bar thing. Left him laying with permanent brain damage, drove down to some old abandoned buildings by the docks and ended it. They had a kid and another on the way.
She wasn’t cheating on him. Dude had major insecurities.
From Redditor u/dspjst:
Guy I went to high school with was kicked out of his college ROTC and moved back home. After some time off living at home his dad walked into his bedroom and went off about him being a lazy a** and needing to do something with his life.
He decided he was going to take his gun and rob a bank.
Supposedly the gun wasn’t loaded. But he DID successfully rob the bank and get away. Some time went by; he moved out of his parents’ house and started living it up.
He eventually told someone he trusted. That person turned him in. He was arrested and charged. He got a count for every person who was in the bank because he had a gun.
You can decide if he ruined his life when he decided to rob the bank or when he decided to tell someone that he did it.
