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* "Hayloft Hanging Hazard": a 5-year-old girl is playing on a rope swing in her family's barn. The swing has two loops as a handhold foothold. Unfortunately, the former is right at her head height, and as she's getting trying to get a hold on it, [[AdultFear she loses her footing...]] Her father returns to the barn to find his daughter having accidentally hung herself and tries to untie her while his wife phones for help. Worst is that the hanging caused their child to vomit and the father is left trying to clear her throat to help her breathe again:

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* "Hayloft Hanging Hazard": a 5-year-old girl is playing on a rope swing in her family's barn. The swing has two loops as a handhold foothold. Unfortunately, the former is right at her head height, and as she's getting trying to get a hold on it, [[AdultFear she loses her footing...]] footing... Her father returns to the barn to find his daughter having accidentally hung herself and tries to untie her while his wife phones for help. Worst is that the hanging caused their child to vomit and the father is left trying to clear her throat to help her breathe again:



* A family leaves for the day, and an electrical fire starts leaving [[AdultFear the family's dog in the house by itself]]. The reenactment shows the dog frantically looking for a way out before [[TearJerker lying down underneath a toy wagon]].

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* A family leaves for the day, and an electrical fire starts leaving [[AdultFear the family's dog in the house by itself]].itself. The reenactment shows the dog frantically looking for a way out before [[TearJerker lying down underneath a toy wagon]].



* The AdultFear of "Sister Saves Siblings." A fire starts in the house while a young girl is babysitting her four younger siblings, three of who are asleep when the fire starts. She's then forced to leave them to shelter in the family car and run for help to her mother's house. Her mother leaves her to call 911, runs to the house, finds it going up in flames and an ''empty'' car.

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* The AdultFear of "Sister Saves Siblings." A fire starts in the house while a young girl is babysitting her four younger siblings, three of who are asleep when the fire starts. She's then forced to leave them to shelter in the family car and run for help to her mother's house. Her mother leaves her to call 911, runs to the house, finds it going up in flames and an ''empty'' car.
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Added extra details (Saw that scene when I was five years old and it scared me sh*tless.)


** Similarly "Escalator Trapped Boy" is a good wake-up call for kids not to mess around near escalators.

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** Similarly "Escalator Trapped Boy" is a good wake-up call for kids not to mess around near escalators. If the kid's screams won't get you, the description of his skin getting ''caught in the mechanism'' will.

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* "Teen Hides From Intruders": Imagine being 13 years old and home alone, and all of a sudden, '''BAM!''' A scary chick (nicknamed "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast War Bitch]]") and her boyfriend [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGVxgqrP--k break into your house.]]

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* "Teen Hides From Intruders": Imagine being 13 years old and home alone, and all of a sudden, '''BAM!''' A Two scary chick (nicknamed people -- one of whom is nicknamed "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast War Bitch]]") and her boyfriend Bitch]]" -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGVxgqrP--k break into your house.]]



--> '''Jacqui:''' If they saw her and went for her, I didn't know if she could actually run and get away. I didn't know if Sharon was going to be badly hurt or even killed.
** Another incident with an intruder hanging around the house while two sisters are home alone. The older one, on the phone with the dispatcher, finally hears him break the door down and come inside the house and then the line cuts off. Turns out the suspect had come right into the room where the girls were and pulled the cord out of the wall.

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--> ---> '''Jacqui:''' If they saw her and went for her, I didn't know if she could actually run and get away. I didn't know if Sharon was going to be badly hurt or even killed.
** * Another incident with an intruder hanging around the house while two sisters are home alone. The older one, on the phone with the dispatcher, finally hears him break the door down and come inside the house and then the line cuts off. Turns out the suspect had come right into the room where the girls were and pulled the cord out of the wall.



-->'''Dispatcher:''' "Do you have anything you can use as a bandage? Paper towels?"
-->'''Laurie:''' "Nooo! Toilet paper!"
-->'''Dispatcher:''' "Ah that won't work..."

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-->'''Dispatcher:''' "Do Do you have anything you can use as a bandage? Paper towels?"
-->'''Laurie:''' "Nooo!
towels?\\
'''Laurie:''' No!
Toilet paper!"
-->'''Dispatcher:''' "Ah
paper!\\
'''Dispatcher:''' Ah,
that won't work..."



--> "I'm being attacked by killer bees!"
--> "What is that, sir?"
--> "I'M BEING ATTACKED BY KILLER BEES!"

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--> "I'm --->'''Caller:''' I'm being attacked by killer bees!"
--> "What
bees!"\\
'''Dispatcher:''' What
is that, sir?"
--> "I'M
sir?\\
'''Caller:''' I'M
BEING ATTACKED BY KILLER BEES!" BEES!
*** The responding officer talks about showing up to the scene and getting attacked himself, and how bad it would be for him. "About the same moment, I started thinking, y'know, ''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck YOU'RE allergic to bees]]''..."



-->'''Barbara:''' I heard the whole conversation, and the thing that sent chills down my spine was when he said, "I'm here to solve your problems."

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-->'''Barbara:''' --->'''Barbara:''' I heard the whole conversation, and the thing that sent chills down my spine was when he said, "I'm here to solve your problems."



-->'''Nikki:''' "Jackie, something's happening..."
-->'''Jackie:''' "Wait a minute, honey, the coaches are coming."

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-->'''Nikki:''' "Jackie, Jackie, something's happening..."
-->'''Jackie:''' "Wait
\\
'''Jackie:''' Wait
a minute, honey, the coaches are coming."
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Bee Afraid was redefined; now it covers only individual dangerous/antagonistic bee characters/species.


* "Swarm Save" and "911 Honeybee Horror": Both featuring victims and rescue personnel being attacked and covered by thick swarms of bees. And the [[HellIsThatNoise constant loud buzzing]] -- BeeAfraid!

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* "Swarm Save" and "911 Honeybee Horror": Both featuring victims and rescue personnel being attacked and covered by [[ScaryStingingSwarm thick swarms of bees. bees]]. And the [[HellIsThatNoise constant loud buzzing]] -- BeeAfraid!buzzing]].
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-->'''Jackie Rose:''' It looked like his body was really raw, like there was no skin. [[TearJerker And when he didn't cry, I thought he was gone.]] He lost so much flesh and so much fluid, I thought we were going to lose him at any moment.

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-->'''Jackie Rose:''' It looked like his body was really raw, like there was no skin. [[TearJerker And when he didn't cry, I thought he was gone.]] He lost so much flesh and so much fluid, I thought we were going to lose him at any moment.moment.
* The AdultFear of "Sister Saves Siblings." A fire starts in the house while a young girl is babysitting her four younger siblings, three of who are asleep when the fire starts. She's then forced to leave them to shelter in the family car and run for help to her mother's house. Her mother leaves her to call 911, runs to the house, finds it going up in flames and an ''empty'' car.
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* "Hayloft Hanging Hazard": a 5-year-old girl is playing on a rope swing in her family's barn. The swing has two loops as a handhold foothold. Unfortunately, the former is right at her head height, and as she's getting trying to get a hold on it, [[AdultFear she loses her footing...]] Her father returns to the barn to find his daughter having accidentally hung herself and tries to untie her while his wife phones for help:

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* "Hayloft Hanging Hazard": a 5-year-old girl is playing on a rope swing in her family's barn. The swing has two loops as a handhold foothold. Unfortunately, the former is right at her head height, and as she's getting trying to get a hold on it, [[AdultFear she loses her footing...]] Her father returns to the barn to find his daughter having accidentally hung herself and tries to untie her while his wife phones for help:help. Worst is that the hanging caused their child to vomit and the father is left trying to clear her throat to help her breathe again:
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-->'''Vivian Swanson:''' ''I need an ambulance...'''''I THINK MY DAUGHTER JUST HUNG HERSELF IN THE BARN ACCIDENTALLY!'''''

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-->'''Vivian Swanson:''' ''I need an ambulance...'''''I '' ''I THINK MY DAUGHTER JUST HUNG HERSELF IN THE BARN ACCIDENTALLY!'''''ACCIDENTALLY!''

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* "Hayloft Hanging Hazard": a girl is playing on a rope swing in her family's barn. The swing has two loops as a handhold foothold. Unfortunately, the former is right at her head height, and as she's getting trying to get a hold on it, [[AdultFear she loses her footing...]]

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* "Hayloft Hanging Hazard": a 5-year-old girl is playing on a rope swing in her family's barn. The swing has two loops as a handhold foothold. Unfortunately, the former is right at her head height, and as she's getting trying to get a hold on it, [[AdultFear she loses her footing...]]]] Her father returns to the barn to find his daughter having accidentally hung herself and tries to untie her while his wife phones for help:
-->'''Vivian Swanson:''' ''I need an ambulance...'''''I THINK MY DAUGHTER JUST HUNG HERSELF IN THE BARN ACCIDENTALLY!'''''
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* A man cuts his wrist with a woodsaw in "911 Woodshop Trauma."
--> "Do you have anything you can use as a bandage? Paper towels?"
--> "Nooo! Toilet paper!"
--> "Ah that won't work..."

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* A man acidentally cuts his wrist with a woodsaw in "911 Woodshop Trauma."
--> -->'''Dispatcher:''' "Do you have anything you can use as a bandage? Paper towels?"
--> -->'''Laurie:''' "Nooo! Toilet paper!"
--> -->'''Dispatcher:''' "Ah that won't work..."
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* "Bathtub Baby Burn": A toddler named Leslie is given a bath by his older sister and is accidentally scalded by the boiling hot water. Minutes later, his screams are heard "AH! THE WATER'S TOO HOT!". When his older sister Misty runs into the bathroom, Leslie's skin is severely burnt from the chest area down and practically melting. Misty's description: "It was just floating in the water, and it looked like toilet paper floating in the water but it was really his skin." His mother Jackie feared that a child that severely burned didn't look like a little boy anymore. She was also afraid to hold her own injured child because where do you grab a child that was burned ''from the chest down?'' Worst is that the doctors said that if they had waited ''three seconds longer'', he would've died from severe burns of the bath water.

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* "Bathtub Baby Burn": A 15-month old toddler named Leslie RJ is given a bath by his older sister 4-year-old Leslie and is accidentally scalded by the boiling hot water. Minutes later, his screams are heard "AH! ''"AH! THE WATER'S TOO HOT!". HOT!"''. When his other older sister Misty runs into the bathroom, Leslie's RJ's skin is severely burnt from the chest area down 75% of his body and practically melting. Misty's description: "It was just floating in the water, and it looked like toilet paper floating in the water but it was really his skin." His mother Jackie feared that a child that severely burned didn't look like a little boy anymore. She was also afraid to hold her own injured child because where do you grab a child that was burned ''from the chest down?'' Worst is that the doctors said that if they had waited ''three seconds longer'', he would've died from severe burns of the bath water.burns.
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-->'''Jackie:''' "Wait a minute, honey, the coaches are coming."

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-->'''Jackie:''' "Wait a minute, honey, the coaches are coming.""
* "Bathtub Baby Burn": A toddler named Leslie is given a bath by his older sister and is accidentally scalded by the boiling hot water. Minutes later, his screams are heard "AH! THE WATER'S TOO HOT!". When his older sister Misty runs into the bathroom, Leslie's skin is severely burnt from the chest area down and practically melting. Misty's description: "It was just floating in the water, and it looked like toilet paper floating in the water but it was really his skin." His mother Jackie feared that a child that severely burned didn't look like a little boy anymore. She was also afraid to hold her own injured child because where do you grab a child that was burned ''from the chest down?'' Worst is that the doctors said that if they had waited ''three seconds longer'', he would've died from severe burns of the bath water.
-->'''Jackie Rose:''' It looked like his body was really raw, like there was no skin. [[TearJerker And when he didn't cry, I thought he was gone.]] He lost so much flesh and so much fluid, I thought we were going to lose him at any moment.
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* "Riding Lawn Mower Rescue", twins Josh and Jeremy hitch a ride on Mandy's riding lawn mower with their toy wagon. Once the ride got rocky with the kids chanting "faster, faster!", Mandy continued moving the lawn. Josh ran after her while she couldn't hear him coming due to how loud the mower blades were and he slipped due to the wet grass, causing him to slide under the riding lawn mower and ''get his foot lacerated off!'' His shoe lying bloodied on the grass and his screams for help. Mandy narrates "It was just like the skin exploded off of his knee". Then the scary music starts up as Mandy carries the injured Josh into the house for aid. The mother of Josh expressed her fear of how she was afraid that her child would bleed to death before the ambulance got there in time. You could hear her brother scream and cry in the background. Then it's revealed that his injuries from the riding lawn mower extended from his leg to his stomach and fingers.

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* "Riding Lawn Mower Rescue", twins Josh and Jeremy hitch a ride on Mandy's riding lawn mower with their toy wagon. Once the ride got rocky with the kids chanting "faster, faster!", Mandy continued moving the lawn. Josh ran after her while she couldn't hear him coming due to how loud the mower blades were and he slipped due to the wet grass, causing him to slide under the riding lawn mower and ''get his foot lacerated off!'' His shoe lying bloodied on the grass and his screams for help. Mandy narrates "It was just like the skin exploded off of his knee". Then the scary music starts up as Mandy carries the injured Josh into the house for aid. The mother of Josh expressed her fear of how she was afraid that her child would bleed to death before the ambulance got there in time. You could hear her brother scream and cry in the background. Then it's revealed that his injuries from the riding lawn mower extended from his leg to his stomach and fingers.fingers.
* "Softball Slugger Save": a 14-year-old girl named Nikki ends up being hit hard in the temple by a stray softball. Her friend being concerned due to hearing a loud CRACKING noise when she got hit in the head. Nikki claims she was fine. But then her pupils were milky and unresponsive. Then this conversation just before her arm started twitching and Nikki began having a epileptic seizure due to the severe head trauma:
-->'''Nikki:''' "Jackie, something's happening..."
-->'''Jackie:''' "Wait a minute, honey, the coaches are coming."
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* "Riding Lawn Mower Rescue", twins Josh and Jeremy hitch a ride on Mandy's riding lawn mower with their toy wagon. Once the ride got rocky with the kids chanting "faster, faster!", Mandy continued moving the lawn. Josh ran after her while she couldn't hear him coming due to how loud the mower blades were and he slipped due to the wet grass, causing him to slide under the riding lawn mower and get his foot lacerated off! His shoe lying bloodied on the grass and his screams for help. Mandy narrates "It was just like the skin exploded off of his knee".

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* "Riding Lawn Mower Rescue", twins Josh and Jeremy hitch a ride on Mandy's riding lawn mower with their toy wagon. Once the ride got rocky with the kids chanting "faster, faster!", Mandy continued moving the lawn. Josh ran after her while she couldn't hear him coming due to how loud the mower blades were and he slipped due to the wet grass, causing him to slide under the riding lawn mower and get ''get his foot lacerated off! off!'' His shoe lying bloodied on the grass and his screams for help. Mandy narrates "It was just like the skin exploded off of his knee". Then the scary music starts up as Mandy carries the injured Josh into the house for aid. The mother of Josh expressed her fear of how she was afraid that her child would bleed to death before the ambulance got there in time. You could hear her brother scream and cry in the background. Then it's revealed that his injuries from the riding lawn mower extended from his leg to his stomach and fingers.
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* "Riding Lawn Mower Rescue", twins Josh and Jeremy hitch a ride on Mandy's riding lawn mower with their toy wagon. Once the ride got rocky with the kids chanting "faster, faster!", Mandy continued moving the lawn. Josh ran after her while she couldn't hear him coming due to how loud the mower blades were and he slipped due to the wet grass, causing him to slide under the riding lawn mower and get his foot lacerated off! His shoe lying bloodied on the grass and his screams for help.

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* "Riding Lawn Mower Rescue", twins Josh and Jeremy hitch a ride on Mandy's riding lawn mower with their toy wagon. Once the ride got rocky with the kids chanting "faster, faster!", Mandy continued moving the lawn. Josh ran after her while she couldn't hear him coming due to how loud the mower blades were and he slipped due to the wet grass, causing him to slide under the riding lawn mower and get his foot lacerated off! His shoe lying bloodied on the grass and his screams for help. Mandy narrates "It was just like the skin exploded off of his knee".
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* "Sibling Stabbing" where three kids were home alone watching TV the older sister got a VHS tape they could watch but she had trouble opening it so the middle sister grabbed a large knife to help her cut it open as the young brother walks into the kitchen to throw away a paper towel as the younger sister came with a knife her older sister told her that she didn't need it anymore so as the younger sister returned the knife she accidentally stabbed her young brother with a knife while she wasn't watching where she was going and the brother cries and screams for help! The crying and screaming makes this episode even worse!

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* "Sibling Stabbing" where three kids were home alone watching TV the older sister got a VHS tape they could watch but she had trouble opening it so the middle sister grabbed a large knife to help her cut it open as the young brother walks into the kitchen to throw away a paper towel as the younger sister came with a knife her older sister told her that she didn't need it anymore so as the younger sister returned the knife she accidentally stabbed her young brother with a knife while she wasn't watching where she was going and the brother cries and screams for help! The crying and screaming makes this episode even worse!worse!
* "Riding Lawn Mower Rescue", twins Josh and Jeremy hitch a ride on Mandy's riding lawn mower with their toy wagon. Once the ride got rocky with the kids chanting "faster, faster!", Mandy continued moving the lawn. Josh ran after her while she couldn't hear him coming due to how loud the mower blades were and he slipped due to the wet grass, causing him to slide under the riding lawn mower and get his foot lacerated off! His shoe lying bloodied on the grass and his screams for help.

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* An episode wherein a man cracks and shoots his wife five times and his daughter once (not intentional, but she was in the way). The call is nothing but incoherent screaming for the first couple minutes from all the kids who are in the kitchen while their dad is in the hallway outside even saying she is going to die. The man has absolutely no remorse, even calmly piping up in the police car to say he shot his wife five times.

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* An episode wherein a man cracks and shoots his wife five times and his daughter once (not intentional, but she was in the way). The call is nothing but incoherent screaming for the first couple minutes from all the kids who are in the kitchen while their dad is in the hallway outside outside, even saying she is going to die. The man has absolutely no remorse, even calmly piping up in the police car to say correct an officer that he shot his wife exactly five times.times.
** The sixteen-year-old son on the phone has to take the gun off his father. Fortunately the man seems to give it up pretty easily but the fact is a teenage boy had to do this while his bleeding mother is in a chair at the table, unable to run away.
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** At one point one of them comes into the room and Sharon can't get fully under the bed to hide, so has to lie there beside it, listening to her dog barking at them and hoping they stay too distracted by it to notice her. Jacqui, the dispatcher, warns her that if they ''do'' see her, to run like anything for the door.
--> '''Jacqui:''' If they saw her and went for her, I didn't know if she could actually run and get away. I didn't know if Sharon was going to be badly hurt or even killed.
** Another incident with an intruder hanging around the house while two sisters are home alone. The older one, on the phone with the dispatcher, finally hears him break the door down and come inside the house and then the line cuts off. Turns out the suspect had come right into the room where the girls were and pulled the cord out of the wall.
** Before coming into the room, he takes their father's gun off the wall. The older sister later tells her mother that he put it to her head.
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* One episode had a married woman with two young daughters on the phone with a dispatcher threatening suicide while they were all out of the house. As the dispatcher pleads with the woman not to do it and as police are close by to stop and help her, all of a sudden we hear a [[JumpScare "BAM!"]] and the woman cry out in pain and dead silence. Finding her, they discovered that she shot herself in the stomach with a ''shotgun.'' As they rush her to the hospital and into surgery, we see how pale and lifeless she is. [[spoiler: She ultimately survived, but her situation could have easily gone either way.]]

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* One episode had a married woman with two young daughters on the phone with a dispatcher threatening suicide while they were all out of the house. As the dispatcher pleads with the woman not to do it and as police are close by to stop and help her, all of a sudden we hear a [[JumpScare "BAM!"]] and the woman cry out in pain and dead silence. Finding her, they discovered that she shot herself in the stomach with a ''shotgun.'' As they rush her to the hospital and into surgery, we see how pale and lifeless she is. [[spoiler: She ultimately survived, but her situation could have easily gone either way.]]]]
* "Sibling Stabbing" where three kids were home alone watching TV the older sister got a VHS tape they could watch but she had trouble opening it so the middle sister grabbed a large knife to help her cut it open as the young brother walks into the kitchen to throw away a paper towel as the younger sister came with a knife her older sister told her that she didn't need it anymore so as the younger sister returned the knife she accidentally stabbed her young brother with a knife while she wasn't watching where she was going and the brother cries and screams for help! The crying and screaming makes this episode even worse!

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** A similar situation happened in "Garage Door Kid" this time to a boy who was messing with the door control, showing the same message.

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** A similar situation happened in "Garage Door Kid" this time to a boy who was messing with the door control, showing conveying the same message.


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** For that matter any episode involving an accidental shooting or stabbing shows the danger of playing around with a gun or knife.
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** A similar situation happened in "Garage Door Kid" this time to a boy who was messing with the door control, showing the same message.
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* "Garage Door Daughter" was an episode that would easily scare kids out of playing around near garage doors. A girl tries to slide out from under a garage door as it closes and gets pinned underneath it.
** Similarly "Escalator Trapped Boy" is a good wake-up call for kids not to mess around near escalators.

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