Whats the Dumbest thing you ever did

[Greg 03]

Daisy chain third down static line jump out of a C130... among many others in my young paratrooper days.

 

[dcarver]

Got drunk in hotel room with BustaNutJoker.

..,.good thing for me he passed out first and I have the pix!

 

[gixxerjasen]

Gixxer, that reminds me of a "Titus" episode where Stacey Keach as his father let him stick a fork in a socket and the room flashed a hugh orange Glow! I knew you were gonna cave!! That was Hilarious!! Thanks!

Ok then, 10th grade biology class. Still to this day recall what the subject was. RNA replication. Blah. Got bored, figured if I wrapped a paperclip around my pencil and didn't have it touching my fingers that I could safely stick it in the electrical socket on the lab desk. How is this dumb? Because I didn't consider it was a mechanical pencil with a metal shaft running through it. This plug was about six inches above my lap, so you can imagine my terror at having a huge electrical sparkler right there as the paperclip in the socket touched the metal cover plate. Blew the breaker, caused a huge cloud of smoke, and left me dazed and confused for a minute or so. My teacher didn't miss a beat. "Jasen, are you ok? Fine then, back to the lesson!"
She informed me that I would be in her annual safety speech at the beginning of the school year till she retired.

 

[majicmaker]

Ok then! So... You were her "Special" student until she quit teaching? PRICELESS!!! )

 

[exskibum]

Was there ever any doubt that Howie would win this by simply showing up? And he didn't even have to tell the WHOLE story!! IIRC, that includes something about supporting the ex-ex-wife's children from an interim relationship (and their offspring or mates). Guess he's holding that back as a trump card just in case Bust shows up and finally tells us the story of how he got hospitalized for catching the sheep clap.

 

[Bustanut joker]

Hmmmm.. Check sparkplug wires for shorts? dun,Check for gas leaks with a match? dun, also checked the fuel level in a gas can like this...

Have a few beers and target shoot with a 75pound draw bow and let go of the riser instead of the arrow? dun.. Bloodied nose and black eyes.

Pee on an electric fence as a dare? Dun....Spent the night drunk in a motel room with Carver? dun.....

 

[dcarver]

Forgot where I was on the motocross track, leaped into the deep, long, and steep whoop section in 4th WFO instead of 2nd gear 50% throttle. They tell me I had pro speed for the first 500 feet. Then all forward motion stopped. Abruptly. Burned my thigh on the header pipe deep enough I could see the femur bone.

 

[NightShine]

... My Mom saw it happen and never said a word. I was the youngest of five, and if no arteries were severed and you were breathing, she didn't flinch.

Thanks for sharing that. I laughed at your Mom's reaction (or lack of) for a long time...

 

[rbentnail]

Details not necessary- think of any situation where you would pull the pin on a CO2 fire extinguisher, hand it to a buddy and actually say, "Here! Put me out if I catch on fire." Yep, that's a direct quote of me! I am proud to say that I never lost consciousness.....

 

[exskibum]

Details not necessary- think of any situation where you would pull the pin on a CO2 fire extinguisher, hand it to a buddy and actually say, "Here! Put me out if I catch on fire." Yep, that's a direct quote of me! I am proud to say that I never lost consciousness.....

Well, you KNOW that in this crowd that truncated version will lead to speculation. And even though it has no chance of beating RadioHowie's "Dumbest thing" in post #31, was this one of those YouTube sensations where you . . .

are adolescent and intoxicated when you bend over, grab your ankles, stick a roman candle up your ass and have a "friend" (not the safety monitor with the unpinned fire extinguisher) torch it off on July 4 or New Year's Eve?

 

[wheatonFJR]

I won't say what I did, but I am lucky...

I have all my toes...

Not in prison...

Didn't marry her...

Didn't die...

Didn't die...

etc

 

[majicmaker]

Details not necessary- think of any situation where you would pull the pin on a CO2 fire extinguisher, hand it to a buddy and actually say, "Here! Put me out if I catch on fire." Yep, that's a direct quote of me! I am proud to say that I never lost consciousness.....

Well, you KNOW that in this crowd that truncated version will lead to speculation. And even though it has no chance of beating RadioHowie's "Dumbest thing" in post #31, was this one of those YouTube sensations where you . . .

are adolescent and intoxicated when you bend over, grab your ankles, stick a roman candle up your ass and have a "friend" (not the safety monitor with the unpinned fire extinguisher) torch it off on July 4 or New Year's Eve?

The words: "Meth Lab" come to mind. But, let's go with lighting farts and see where this goes Bum!

 

[majicmaker]

I won't say what I did, but I am lucky...
I have all my toes...

Not in prison...

Didn't marry her...

Didn't die...

Didn't die...

etc

You're getting closer Wheaton. You're almost there! Come on..... Dip that toe in the water. You can do it. I know you can.

 

[PhilJet09]

I was in Perth, Australia on shore leave. Went to the biggest night club in town. The place was crawling with smokin' hot babes. I saw the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life facing the band stand. I was behind her. Long beautiful dark hair. A body that brought me to my knees. I walked up to her and asked her to dance. She turned around and it was A GUY!!!!!! He wanted to punch my lights out. That was STUPID!! I look at them from the front before I ask anyone to dance now. :fool: :not_i:

That's one of the funniest things I've read on here...and yes, I've kinda "been there".

 

[PhilJet09]

Soooooo, are you looking for a list, chronologically from youngest to oldest??Holy cow, think of the sub categories:

Dumbest thing I ever did:

On Skis

On a horse

On a bull

At home

At school

On water

On a motorcycle

In a car

At the movies

At the mall

In a hospital

On a bicycle

With a firearm

With a chainsaw

With a Bridgeport Mill

With a lathe

With fire

That doesn't even cover all of them, buy it's a start. Then there's "at work," which has its own sub categories:

In the office

In a work vehicle

On a work trip

In a pool (seriously...don't ask)

On a motorcycle

In the dark

During the day

With a girl (not necessarily this job. I've had others)

Involving alcohol

Again, the list is voluminous.

Sheesh...The more o think about it, the more I'm thankful/amazed I'm still alive and not too badly permanently injured.

Some of it really hurt, most of it taught lessons when the realization we/I could have been killed set in, some of it cost a LOT of money, some of it was worth doing cuz it was fun as Hell. Some of it I wouldn't repeat if I was paid millions, and some of it, I'd do again just to see if I still can.

Almost NONE of it is good to tell my mother or the internet about.

^^^^most honest man on the internet^^^

 

[PhilJet09]

Hmmmm.. Check sparkplug wires for shorts? dun,Check for gas leaks with a match? dun, also checked the fuel level in a gas can like this...Have a few beers and target shoot with a 75pound draw bow and let go of the riser instead of the arrow? dun.. Bloodied nose and black eyes. mg2:

Pee on an electric fence as a dare? Dun....Spent the night drunk in a motel room with Carver? dun.....

A life well spent.

 

[majicmaker]

Hmmmm.. Check sparkplug wires for shorts? dun,Check for gas leaks with a match? dun, also checked the fuel level in a gas can like this...Have a few beers and target shoot with a 75pound draw bow and let go of the riser instead of the arrow? dun.. Bloodied nose and black eyes. mg2:

Pee on an electric fence as a dare? Dun....Spent the night drunk in a motel room with Carver? dun.....

A life well spent.

That's five lives, Dun! Just four to go! )

 

[rbentnail]

Details not necessary- think of any situation where you would pull the pin on a CO2 fire extinguisher, hand it to a buddy and actually say, "Here! Put me out if I catch on fire." Yep, that's a direct quote of me! I am proud to say that I never lost consciousness.....

Well, you KNOW that in this crowd that truncated version will lead to speculation. And even though it has no chance of beating RadioHowie's "Dumbest thing" in post #31, was this one of those YouTube sensations where you . . .

are adolescent and intoxicated when you bend over, grab your ankles, stick a roman candle up your ass and have a "friend" (not the safety monitor with the unpinned fire extinguisher) torch it off on July 4 or New Year's Eve?

The words: "Meth Lab" come to mind. But, let's go with lighting farts and see where this goes Bum!

LMAO! No hablo

.

 

[bwv]

As a child:

15 years old... shaved the "red stuff" off the tips of almost a whole box of matches (the big box) PACKED the resulting dust and chunks into an empty C02 cartridge (one of the spent bb-pistol ones that i had sawn the end cap off of) stuck it in a perfectly sized piece of aluminum tent pole i cut down to about 2 feet long... I held the pipe in my bare left hand, stuck the cartidge carefully in the end of it ... trying to get it to light... thinking all the while.. this is going to be a really cool little rocket motor (picture estes model rockets...) ... I couldnt get it to light with a match stuck in the end.. tried for a long time.. no joy... got the propane torch out... what happened next was almost indescribable... a loud bang, followed by my ears ringing so loudly i could hear nothing else, standing in a dense cloud of white dust.. no tentpole.. .no cartidge.. nothing in my hand.... the flame on the torch in my other hand blown out... the ringing in my ears lasted so long i never heard the pipe or cartridge land (if they did...) .

I spent about ten minutes looking for holes in me... i spent the next five looking at the hand that i still had...you know... the bare one i was holding the pipe in...not a mark on it... when the ringing stopped and the dust cleared... i looked for the pipe... never found it. It is likely in space.

I mowed that two and a half acre lawn for 5 more years of my life... wandered the 7 acres of woods surrounding my moms home for years after the event.. never any sign of any bit of it...

As a teen... too fast, too hot, too loud, too many... not goin there...and i cant remeber most of it anyway... Lets just say I smile a lot now as..dare i say it....an adult...

As a young, almost adult (maybe 22)

Working at NAPA... a good customer with an excavation company brings in a bent shaft from the stabilzer leg ram on a big backhoe... askes me to straighten it in the 55 ton press with an air over hydraulic pump that we had.. i said nope.. hardened, he said come on.. done it before... it wont break... .. so.. i did.

It began bent by i'd say an inch over 2 feet or so between the v blocks... i slowly watched the guage rise... got it straight... released it.. it sprung back... again.. and again.. till it was only about a 1/4 inch of bend across 2 feet.. i said done.. the guage was heading uphill too fast each time..customer said ok.. just one more push... so.. i did... it broke. it was now 2 peices, about 18" long by 3" in diameter... one went across the shop and landed in a pile of shavings under the head resurfacer, the other put a 2 inch dent in the thick steel tank on the parts washign machine.

Fortunatly my hands were not in the way, and the pieces flew the way they did....

 

[PhilJet09]

Had a newbie hold on to the magneto leads to test it while I spun it...almost got fired for that one, but it was funny as hell. Flew skydivers for a couple of years and actually accommodated some of the "special" requests"...could have lost my pilots licenses for that. Crashed while towing banners for a shady advertising company because the engine quit on me at an MIS race. Broke a few vertebrae, that kinda sucked.

BTW, I wouldn't change a thing!

Apparently, on a motorcycle I'm pretty conservative.