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Post by imec on Aug 30, 2009 17:20:05 GMT
stupidest thing you ever did?
I've done too many to count. Hit a starters pistol blank with a hatchet - it stuck in my finger and had to be removed by a doctor. Hit a dock while on an inner-tube being towed by a fast boat - broke my leg in two places - would have died instantly if I was riding on my belly. Did a really stupid maneuver passing some cars on a motorcycle when I shouldn't (between very fast vehicles going in both directions on a twisty road). The list goes on...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 18:19:08 GMT
Many, many stupid things...
Where do I start, probably one of the stupidest was dating a notorious criminal..., bad boy, and ending up falling in love with him. Dare I carry on?....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 18:30:22 GMT
I tried to walk down a street in Johannesburg and paid the price.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 30, 2009 19:10:52 GMT
Imec - I cringe at the thought of how you broke your poor leg...ouch!
Deyana - tell us more!
K - poor you. Perhaps you didn't believe just how dangerous it is to walk in certain areas in SA.
As for me - I rode an retired race-horse that hadn't been exercised in a long time...and I broke 2 vertebrae
ouch ouch
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 19:33:08 GMT
spindrift, I daren't, some things are best left to history.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 30, 2009 22:09:59 GMT
I understand  |
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 30, 2009 22:30:28 GMT
This was when I was young, young. I would wait for my mom and dad to go to sleep. Then I would very carefully open the screen to my bedroom window, and step out the convenient electric meter. then I would quietly go to the detached garage on an alley at the opposite end of the house, quietly put up the garage door (no electric then) roll the small car that we had, (the key was always in it, don't ask me why)out in the alley, start it, and take off. I would drive to my best friend's house, where she had done the same thing, sneaking out. The problem, you see, I was not quite 15 and had no drivers license. She would drive because she was 16 and had a license. We would go "cruisin" and then about 1:00 a. m. we would head home and do the reverse.  One night we had been having an exceptionally cool time and I nearly got caught. Luckily the car was my mom's and Dad, who had a Mobil Service station always drove the truck to and from work and he parked out in the front. I just barely made it home, cause he would get up at 5:00 a. m. jumped in bed, pulled the blanket all the way up, I was still in my clothes when I heard his alarm go off. Oh, what stupid things we do!!!! |
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Post by rikita on Aug 31, 2009 7:23:29 GMT
can't really think of anything... hm maybe when i got into the car of someone i knew via the internet only, and met up with, and after half an hour we decided to go to the beach - i guess had he been the wrong person that'd have been dangerous, but he wasn't, so we really just went to the beach.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2009 14:28:39 GMT
The problem, you see, I was not quite 15 and had no drivers license. I can totally relate to that t63! I was living in a small town in BC, and, (as noone was willing to teach me to drive, and because I couldn't afford the professsion lessons), I decided I was going to teach myself to drive! And so I did, I'd take that big 'ol car up and down the road, around town, (luckily is was a small sleepy little town). Sometimes I'd take our dog, and the poor thing nearly ended up going through the from window a few times.  And the weirdest thing is I actually passed first time too! One of the more crazier things I've done.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2009 21:16:20 GMT
This doesn't necessarily qualify as "stupid" but the guy who lived through it must have found it scary as shit! |
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 3, 2009 4:51:02 GMT
Poor guy -- he really followed up trying to find out what happened to the two boys behind the falls. It is pretty amazing that such a flash flood area would be all tricked out to tempt people to hang out, swim, etc.
(EXTREMELY cool blog!)
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Post by rikita on Sept 3, 2009 6:48:38 GMT
scary indeed... wonder about the flood though - is that common in some areas, that there is suddenly that much more water?
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One night we had been having an exceptionally cool time and I nearly got caught. Luckily the car was my mom's and Dad, who had a Mobil Service station always drove the truck to and from work and he parked out in the front. I just barely made it home, cause he would get up at 5:00 a. m. jumped in bed, pulled the blanket all the way up, I was still in my clothes when I heard his alarm go off. 
