Mythbusters 2005 Episode 42: Steel toe-cap amputation:
Myth: Steel-toe boots are more dangerous to your toes than normal boots when a heavy weight is dropped on them. Whereas a normal boot would just crush your toes, a steel toe would curl and crumple in, cutting your toes off.
BUSTED
Using similar tests to those used to test steel toe boot certification, Adam and Jamie determine that your toes are much safer with steel toe boots than without. There was no toe-cutting curling of the steel toe, and even using a blade attachment didn’t work, only glancing off the steel toe to cut right above where it ended.
They found that the cap actually will curl in and cut off your toes, if you basically drop a car-weight from a height bumper-first on the toes. Without the steel cap, this would have destroyed the toes completely, but under this scenario the toes were only cut off instead and (if the accident had been real) the toes could have been sewn back on.
HornetCorset:
I had a game where the players looted everything.
I used to not really loot everything... until Living Greyhawk. "Ok, after the 4-hour play session, the module is over and you all earn negative 20 gold." "Wait, what?" Next module: "I want the poor lifestyle where I roll in the dirt and have a -2 modifier to every social interaction and live on whatever food I can scrounge from the trash." "Ok, now that the module is over, you only lost 3 gold total." "Didn't I find anything to sell?" "Well, you could sell that +1 magic weapon you found for 500 gold." "It would cost me 2000 gold to replace it later!" After that, we started looting everything. "Oh, the hobgoblins are wearing dirty scraps? We take them and use craft: sewing with mend and prestidigitation to get them back into salable condition!"