Kid, excitedly jumping around the room: “The floor is lava!”
Parent: “You know, Billy, if the floor were really made of lava, jumping from furniture to furniture wouldn’t really help you. The volcanic gases alone would be enough to suffocate you. The heat would be no picnic either. You’d be suffering in agony until your final, searing breath.”
Kid stops jumping and stares emptily off into the distance: “I … I think I’m gonna go play alone in my room now.”
Yeah and why doesn’t anyone worry about quicksand anymore?!
Lava is a rare counterexample. It’s way more dangerous than we thought as kids.
Kid, excitedly jumping around the room: “The floor is lava!”
Parent: “You know, Billy, if the floor were really made of lava, jumping from furniture to furniture wouldn’t really help you. The volcanic gases alone would be enough to suffocate you. The heat would be no picnic either. You’d be suffering in agony until your final, searing breath.”
Kid stops jumping and stares emptily off into the distance: “I … I think I’m gonna go play alone in my room now.”
A woman in South Australia recently got stuck in quicksand.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-01/sa-woman-rescued-in-quicksand/106745068
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/woman-caught-in-glenelg-quicksand-amid-sand-carting/106748818
So you can keep it on your list if things to worry about.
I’m not sure it counts since all of Australia is trying to kill you anyway, but there it is, quicksand still a hazard.