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You ever do anything stupid that coulda got you killed?

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Our basement flooded during a thunderstorm. I stood on the steps and looked across the floor. There, beneath more than a foot of water, rested a surge protector to my computer and the red light was still on. The outlet was halfway up the wall. I took off my shoes and socks and walked across the basement to the outlet and pulled the plug. It was only then that it dawned on me how stupid I was. Made it back to the steps and just shook.
 
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Laying on my belly, hanging over the edge of a Huey and writing notes, while checking out a construction site in the Army (I was in combat engineers, technical engineering supervisor). I always used to wrap a spare seat belt from one leg to the bottom of those frame seats "just in case" the pilot made a turn and I was left hanging face down.

"Just in case" happened.
 
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A couple of us climbed up on a bridge running over top of Lake Norris in TN. When we got out of the boat the depth finder said 16 feet. So we all jumped in. Once we got in the water and started to swim we realized that about 5 feet over from where we entered the water there was a rock shelf at about 4 feet.
 
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Too many times to count. Cats ain't got shit on me, I've used up more than 9 lives in my 33 years. Probably the first one that is actually my oldest memory is when I was about 3-5 years old and decided one day to walk away from home and go swimming in a neighbors pool down the street. I don't know how I didn't drown. I to this day remember climbing into the pool in the deep end and holding onto the wall. It's kinda creepy.
 
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I was attempting to save a stranded pack of mountain climbers from the top of Mt. Everest. On the way up I got into a verbal fight with a pack of arctic mammoths over which was a better side dish: onion rings or tater tots. (I argued for the onion rings...fucking mammoths) Anyway, they wouldn't let me walk away until I admitted that tater tots were the tastier sidekick. Fuck that, I threw down. So it's on, you know, I'm duking it out with arctic mammoths! Well they used the tag team strategy and I was already worn out because I was still in like -65 degree weather. (windshield included of course) Call me a pussy, but I fled the fight and continued on my rescue mission. The excitement of the story declines here-- just a boring save and rescue. Did some acid on the way down, but no biggie.

Sorry for wasting your time.
 
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Decided to light the propane grill when I was like 11. Didn't know what I was doing. Turned both gas knobs up to the max, took one of those click lighters...........almost blew the house up. Burnt all the hair off my right arm.
 
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Too many to count!

When I was 10 years old, I was riding my dirt bike at the babysitters house. Every day I would stop at the edge of the road to make sure that cars weren't coming before crossing into the field. She lived way out in the middle of nowhere, so there was never a car coming.

One day I decided not to stop and just ride on across. A truck going 55 mph hit me broadside. It totaled his truck and my motorcycle. My brother said that I flew about 15 feet in the air and landed on my head. I don't remember anything other than seeing the truck about 2 feet from me.

I got up and walked away with nothing but a scratch on my knee. Somebody was watching that day...
 
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people say everytime I do this....of which I do a couple of times a month weather permitting....

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I also rode down I-95 outside of Daytona Beach in the early 90's on my bike (crotch rocket) at 130+ ...........Stood on top of my buddies Jeep (drunk) acting like I was surfing.....I know there are plenty more but it was when I was young and a big drinker :biggrin:
 
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Scuba diving craziness!

Scuba to 110 ft off St Lucia.

Did the "infamous Christianstad pier jump" on St Criox. (At night, in the rain, off a 30ft pier, to dark water. ) :crazy:

Got stuck in a shipwreck, in the darkened hold, in 60ft of water.

Rescued another diver, out of air, in the BVI, in the Atlantic Ocean, off Tow Rock, in 70ft of open water, in a rain storm.

Motorcycle craziness.

Numerous top speed runs. 120-130mph.

Went (unintentionally) off road on a Triumph. :biggrin:

Numerous stop light races , in traffic.

Car craziness.

Car roll over contest. (With two friends and an unsuspecting german shepard.)
 
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While at OSU we used to play car tag at the graceland shopping center parking lot.

You take two vehicles, four people, and a bunch of nerf footballs.

The goal was to have the passenger hit the other car with a football driving at insane speeds in the parking lot.
 
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The only time I really thought I was going to buy it was when boogie boarding in the Outer Banks and getting caught in an undertow that took me pretty far out from shore. Fortunately, I'm a pretty strong swimmer, but making it back in was some work.

As far as just plain stupid things that didn't really scare me -- there's been quite a few times where I've seen 150+mph in a car, had two wrecks on racetracks (one at 90 and the other at around 110), and general nonsense like that.
 
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I inherited my older sister's 64 VW Beetle. There was one particular road in Cambridge where there was a sudden rise on the road surface that was sufficient, at top VW speed possible on that road, to get the entire VW off the ground as you hit that rise. The problem was that 1) it was a narrow road, 2) you could not see oncoming traffic, and 3) at the rise the road also made a 35 degree turn, so that you came to rest in the oncoming lane.

Me and my little brother got airborne dozens of times. Very retarded thing to do looking back on it.
 
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JoJaBuckeye;722185; said:
I inherited my older sister's 64 VW Beetle. There was one particular road in Cambridge where there was a sudden rise on the road surface that was sufficient, at top VW speed possible on that road, to get the entire VW off the ground as you hit that rise. The problem was that 1) it was a narrow road, 2) you could not see oncoming traffic, and 3) at the rise the road also made a 35 degree turn, so that you came to rest in the oncoming lane.

Me and my little brother got airborne dozens of times. Very retarded thing to do looking back on it.
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Beeham run?? If so, we were still doing that 15-20 years later.
 
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