i tried your reduced code, 100% copy - no change and it crashes. I might run it 20 times with no crashes, but then the crashes happened like before.

Even once i got a very strange error message on the terminal:

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Number found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm lin
+e 13, near "over 4"
        (Do you need to predeclare over?)
Semicolon seems to be missing at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm line 16.
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 17, near "<GLOB_NOSORT> is"
        (Missing operator before is?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 18, near ") rather"
        (Missing operator before rather?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 24, near ") returns"
        (Missing operator before returns?)
Can't locate object method "_init_implementor" via package "URI::http"
+ at D:/Perl64/lib/URI.pm line 137.
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 25, near "&File::Glob::GLOB_ERROR will"
        (Missing operator before will?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 26, near "&File::Glob::GLOB_ERROR is"
        (Missing operator before is?)
Number found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm lin
+e 29, near "over 4"
        (Do you need to predeclare over?)
Semicolon seems to be missing at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm line 32.
Semicolon seems to be missing at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm line 36.
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 41, near ") has"
        (Missing operator before has?)
Operator or semicolon missing before &File::Glob::ERROR at D:/Perl64/l
+ib/File/Glob.pm line 43.
Ambiguous use of & resolved as operator & at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.p
+m line 43.
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 45, near ") deviates"
        (Missing operator before deviates?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 45, near ") behaviour"
        (Missing operator before behaviour?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 46, near ") will"
        (Missing operator before will?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 47, near "continue processing"
        (Do you need to predeclare continue?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 47, near "<GLOB_ERR> flag"
        (Missing operator before flag?)
Number found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm lin
+e 54, near "over 4"
        (Do you need to predeclare over?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 60, near ") isn't"
        (Missing operator before isn't?)
Semicolon seems to be missing at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm line 66.
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 67, near "use of backslash"
        (Do you need to predeclare use?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 68, near ") solution"
        (Missing operator before solution?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 68, near "use forward slashes"
        (Do you need to predeclare use?)
String found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm lin
+e 70, near "match "normal practice""
        (Do you need to predeclare match?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 70, near ""normal practice" on"
        (Missing operator before on?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 71, near ") only"
        (Missing operator before only?)
String found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm lin
+e 72, near "metacharacters '['"
        (Do you need to predeclare metacharacters?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 77, near "use the real"
        (Do you need to predeclare use?)
Array found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm line
+ 89, at end of line
Semicolon seems to be missing at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm line 90.
Array found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm line
+ 91, at end of line
Array found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm line
+ 92, at end of line
Array found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm line
+ 93, at end of line
Semicolon seems to be missing at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm line 93.
Number found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm lin
+e 96, near ") 1989"
        (Missing operator before 1989?)
Bareword found where operator expected at D:/Perl64/lib/File/Glob.pm l
+ine 96, near "1993 The"
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No idea where that pop up from. It only happened once in all the times trying.

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