Icon134 0 #26 March 21, 2008 Quote BLIND PACKING CONTESTS!! They're even fun to watch for people like me who don't pack. it's even more fun to watch people screw with the blindfolded packers. Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #27 March 21, 2008 We use to build stuff and break stuff...in the weirdest ways possible. Once we hooked up an old Mo-par starter motor to one of the hangar couches...servo steerable wheels on front 6in. wagon wheels in the rear with geared chain drive from an old bicycle. I think we had 4 or 5 ~ 12 volt car batteries to power it...what a ball driving that thing down the runway at 20-25 MPH...and the look on the landing pilots faces when ya had 4 people drinking beer on a couch taxiing along side them. Then we had 'Buick Bowling' going on for a while...There was an old 66 Buick beater car everyone used to run errands at the airport...after enough liquid refreshment we would park it sideways at the end of the runway, a bowler would start at the opposite end of the runway, zip it up to triple digits and toss a bowling ball out the window as they passed the last turnout to the taxi way...about 200 yards or so from the Buick. The idea was to lay the ball down as low to the concrete as possible, they bounce pretty good if ya just drop it...losing accuracy....lotta skill involved in getting a hit, try it one handed at 100 MPH while hard on the brakes sometime!I bet that old car took 50 hits one particularly windy Sunday afternoon! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 9 #28 March 21, 2008 Quote BLIND PACKING CONTESTS!! BLIND!!!!??? Packing Contests!!??? What do you do!!?? Poke people's eyes out so they cannot see!!!!??? Usually its blindFOLDED packing contests!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bolas 5 #29 March 21, 2008 Quote Quote BLIND PACKING CONTESTS!! BLIND!!!!??? Packing Contests!!??? What do you do!!?? Poke people's eyes out so they cannot see!!!!??? Usually its blindFOLDED packing contests!!!! They're hard core in Texas... Not everyone can play with the big dogs... SDD, where "you'll poke your eye out" isn't a warning, it's a command. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
poe62 0 #30 March 21, 2008 It's easier to steal their beer that way. Can't peek. ~Nikki http://www.facebook.com/poe62 Irgity Dirgity Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flynghllfsh22 0 #31 March 21, 2008 1) Get naked and chase people around while trying to get them to hug you. 2) Electric 8-ways. 3) KAP-3. 4) Volunteer to help clean out the loft, find someones long forgotton "penis pump", feign disgust when you realize what it is, then play the accompanying "instructional" video on the DZ television for all to see and enjoy. 5) Give someone a catchers mitt and talk them into "catching" the potatoes you will be shooting at them with the potato gun. 6) See how fast you can drive your car down the runway but don't apply the brakes until you are on the grass at the end. 7) Spend the day collecting firewood, which you will be soaking with generous amounts of avgas at sunset, and stacking it in the fire pit. 8) Give the new guy, or the drunk guy, a lighter and talk him into lighting the avgas soaked mountain of firewood that you spent the day collecting. Make sure everybody else stands back. etc, etc, etc...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #32 March 21, 2008 Quote What happened to drinking beer as a "fun thing to do at the DZ!!!????! What ever happened to drugs, sex, and rock&roll?"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #33 March 21, 2008 Quote Quote BLIND PACKING CONTESTS!! BLIND!!!!??? Packing Contests!!??? What do you do!!?? Poke people's eyes out so they cannot see!!!!??? Usually its blindFOLDED packing contests!!!! I thought perhaps the seeing-eye dog was doing the packing."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #34 March 21, 2008 Damn!! You had all the weirdest fun! "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brenthutch 444 #35 March 21, 2008 Its gotta be CAP3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #36 March 21, 2008 Quote If you're not jumping because of high winds I recommend taking an old round, tying it to someone, then tying that someone to the golf cart and take off in the golf cart. That's always funny to watch. Swap the round for a square, the cart for a truck. Twice as funny for half as long-and you get to see the pretty helicopter at the endYou are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #37 March 21, 2008 Walkmonauti!"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scootstevens 0 #38 March 31, 2008 What is CAP-3 [KAP3] ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #39 March 31, 2008 1. Burn Bolas' car. 2. Steal Spence's golf cart. 3. Puddin' Rasslin' 4. Naked Pond Races for jumps 5. Rope swing from the inside top of the hangar 6. Bungee launching horizontally across the wet grassMy reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #40 March 31, 2008 Quote 1. Burn Bolas' car. 2. Steal Spence's golf cart. 3. Puddin' Rasslin' 4. Naked Pond Races for jumps 5. Rope swing from the inside top of the hangar 6. Bungee launching horizontally across the wet grass 7. Getting road rash out the door on a speed star... oh wait, this is the FUN list... my bad. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DavidB 0 #41 March 31, 2008 "Back in the day..." We had a couple fun things to do, aside from those mentioned above, on windy or low ceiling days at Lakewood (NJ). These also apply to after-hours as well, of course! The LZ was a 700 foot sand circle carved out of the scrub pine, so it lent itself to some unique fun. There was always the ever-popular BOTTLE ROCKET WARS. We'd pick sides, everyone would get a dozen or a hundred bottle rockets (depending on how many the pyromaniacs would bring) & you can guess at what happened. My favorite was "BOWL PATROL!!!" Typically this happened a few after dark, but did occasionally happen during daylight. Basically, whoever drove a "beater" car, or a rental, would drive out to the bowl & either chase each other around at high speeds, or see how many we could cram into a car & still get it airborne. We once crammed 8 or 9 people into this little mid-80's Toyota 4WD station wagon (I forget what model) & tried to get it airborne. We couldn't. When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bolas 5 #42 April 1, 2008 Quote 1. Burn Bolas' car. 2. Steal Spence's golf cart. 3. Puddin' Rasslin' 4. Naked Pond Races for jumps 5. Rope swing from the inside top of the hangar 6. Bungee launching horizontally across the wet grass Ya gotta let people smash it and drive it off the back of a moving trailer with no fluids other than gas in it too. My car didn't get burned. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #43 April 1, 2008 Quote [...My car didn't get burned. ...as of yet...beware what the future brings. My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #44 April 1, 2008 Quote [7. Getting road rash out the door on a speed star... oh wait, this is the FUN list... my bad. I got a chuckle out of it, though j/k-you were pitiful limping around-but at least you had decent beerYou are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #45 April 1, 2008 Quote Quote [7. Getting road rash out the door on a speed star... oh wait, this is the FUN list... my bad. I got a chuckle out of it, though j/k-you were pitiful limping around-but at least you had decent beer I appreciated the beer. Helped numb the pain down some. Took a few home to drink there, but I left the rest in the fridge by the rigging loft entrance. Now I have some nice blue/green colors showing down the back and side of my left leg. Muscles and bones are still sore as hell, but as long as I keep moving around, the pain stays to a minimum."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #46 April 1, 2008 Quote but as long as I keep moving around, the pain stays to a minimum. Good, turtle said that he prefers it when you move around a littleYou are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #47 April 1, 2008 QuoteI appreciated the beer. I was talking about what you brought-not that heineken crap that I dragged inYou are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brenthutch 444 #48 April 1, 2008 QuoteWhat is CAP-3 [KAP3] ? A drinking game that uses an old east block AAD (KAP3) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
