- Two examples from "Stalker":
- The daughter; after literally being sent a stalker's shrine, she responds by saying how romantic it is. When you add to that the repeated threats the guy made on her and her family...
- Her mother, for using her daughter’s picture in her profile and being the one who was actually writing to the stalker.
- The two teenage boys in "Thrill Kill", who don’t realize that playing for the camera in a murder trial against three children is a bad idea. To make matters worse, after they reopen the case, the surviving one tries to invoke Never My Fault.
- The pedophile in "Revenge" has a gun pointed at him by the father of a boy he kidnapped and sexually abused, and feels that that is the right time to taunt the shooter, saying the boy was "The best piece of ass [he] ever had".
- The mother in "Blackout", who was pushed into a pool, continues to taunt her daughter by saying that she'll groom her son just like her brother, leading to her being drowned by said daughter in anger. Though she was already drunk at that point.
- The victim in "Jackals" joins a dangerous biker gang because she's mad at her dad, despite everyone, including them, telling her it's a stupid idea.
- An Arms Dealer in "Time to Crime" is arrested simply for being this, selling a gun to the person who tries to kill him, who just happens to be a 12-year-old-boy.
- The serial rapist in "Justice". One would think Mike would be smarter than to taunt the younger brother of his rape victim (who has a gun aimed point blank at him, by the way).
- The victim in "That Woman" following her friend into the woods for a tryst despite discovering they all planned to kill her.
- The victim in "The Promise" following her friend back into the house, despite the Jerkass frat boys still being in there and her having suggested burning the house down in revenge for their humiliation.
- A guy in "Ravaged" tries to rape the victim in front of her already snarling Rottweiler. And then he is surprised the dog attacked him.
- A lot of victims, when not overcome by rage or concern, continuing to talk to their increasingly furious and/or hysterical would-be killers rather than backing off ("The Dealer", "Libertyville" etc).
- In "8:03 AM", both victims continue to taunt their increasingly unhinged killers with Reason You Suck Speeches even with guns pointed right at them, leading to the expected results.
- In "Bombers", the victim decides to confront the leader of a graffiti crew for snitching, in the middle of the night without backup, in spite of his violent outbursts previously. Unsurprisingly, the victim ends up dead with nobody knowing what happened.
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