【海外の反応】「絶対押すな」ボタンを好奇心で押して即後悔した海外民、エピソードがガチで地獄すぎたwww

When I was a kid I pressed the hazard light button in my dad's car. He proceeded to gasp and say it was the self-destruct button and the blinking sound was the timer. I've never recovered from that panic and I don't think he's recovered from my reaction.

I found out the hard way that if you just lift the plastic cover over the fire alarm in school gyms even a little bit, it will go off.

Silent Alarm

I was working in the box office of a movie theater. Nobody told me what the button was.

It wasn't instant regret. It was several minutes later when a shit ton of cops showed up that I learned what the button was.

I was part of a security/safety team walkthrough at a large refinery. One of the people in our group of 6 people, for whatever completely asinine reason decided to press the large red button in what was essentially a security guard shack where the rail line entered the plant.

The button was labeled “PRESS FOR EMERGENCIES ONLY” in big red bold letters.

She pressed it. Then she realized what she did. Excessively loud alarms went off all over the plant. People were climbing down from various heights where work was taking place, folks were headed to their designated mustering areas.

The end result of this was that the whole group ended up being questioned by various plant safety, security, and leadership. We had to write up a detailed report of what we saw. We were then questioned and it was recorded. This lasted a good 4 hours.

They quickly figured out who did it and that there was no real reason for it. She ended up being fired when she returned to the office the next day. We lost a day of our work and had to extend our time there one more day. Folks knew it happened with our “team” and gawked, commented, and asked out it the rest of the time.

Thankfully, no product was lost. No injuries happened and no assets were lost or damaged. But what a shocking pain in the ass.

Maybe doesn't count bc it was intentional, but I was in an escape room and this button was on top of a desk, and we found it fairly early on. It's was under like a lock cover so it took us a little to find that key and little 12 y/o me was me wanted to push it real bad so I did. But on the underside of the lock cover it read something like ,"this is only here for fun," by pressing the button a hand on a string then fell from the ceiling and scared the absolute life outta me, I was SCREAMING. Not to mention they got a picture of my reaction 😭 absolutely humiliating

I lived in a house that's been divided into multiple apartments.

My apartment was in the basement.

My closet had a lever in it that was totally unmarked. When I moved in, I asked about it, but the person showing me the apartment said they didn't know and it was probably just there because they didn't want to open the wall and remove it.

One day, about 3 years later, I let the impulse win. I pulled the lever.

I immediately heard an odd pipe sound, followed by the sound of water spraying the wall. From the inside

It was a water cutoff valve and an old pipe burst from the increased pressure on closing the valve while water was running. Think it's called "water hammer" or something.

It caused a lot of damage.

My dad played football while I was growing up, with my siblings and I always dragged along and left to our own devices. At one particular away game, I was wandering around the back of the club building and found a random switch on the wall – I pressed it out of curiosity. Turns out it was connected to the siren. I immediately turned it off and ran away, while hearing a bunch of people nearby saying things like "wtf, it's not half time yet".

I have no idea why the controls for the siren were in such an accessible and unmonitored place, or what possessed me to press it. But hey, shit happens I guess!

My 'do not touch' button was the 'update now' button on my grandma's Windows XP desktop

As a child I was fascinated by my little brother's bathtub. It was one of those portable ones you could put in the sink. It made no sense to me how the drain could be connected to the house when they kept moving the tub around the place.

So one day when they were drying him off I opened it to investigate. It drained all over the living room carpet.

OK, it was not button, but still counts. I grew up in soviet union. Back then working folks in big cities where required to participate in annual parades to glorify working class and communist party. My dad took me with him to such parade. People were carrying balloons filled with hydrogen. One of his colleagues who was standing next to us got such balloon. He gave it to me. As we where standing my dad and other folks were smoking. They warned me not to touch the cigarette with the balloon because it will explode. That had exactly opposite effect on me and I touched it. It did explode with quite a fire ball, causing light temporarily panic around us. That probably was my first step to becoming a chemist.