waltappel 1 #101 October 23, 2006 QuoteStuck my neighbor's baby rabbits in with the daddy rabbit because I thought he was lonely -- Turned out I guess he was only hungry. Yuk!!!!! Quote Dumbest thing I did was tell a kid who was hitch hiking to jump on the hood, and I'd give him a ride to his house 5 blocks away. I floored it and he held on by the windshield wipers as I went 70 mph on a side street. Dumb *and* evil--a twofer for sure!!!! By the way, did he make it home in one piece and did you turn the windshield wipers on while he was holding on to them? Walt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #102 October 23, 2006 Dumbest thing I did as a kid, well, teenager. Rock climbing without rope or gear. To this day I should have been killed. Jumping out of a plane was pretty tame after that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kbordson 8 #103 October 23, 2006 QuoteDumbest thing I did as a kid, well, teenager. Rock climbing without rope or gear. To this day I should have been killed. Jumping out of a plane was pretty tame after that. Done that... but it was a nice chimney and the quickest way to get back up the cliff to rapell back down. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ROK 0 #104 October 23, 2006 QuoteI ate a bottle of sleeping pills and stopped breathing on the way to the hospital - emergency tonsillectomy, stomach pumped, and a 2 day stay. I walked over hot stove burners with bare feet. Pissed in a cup and told the neighbor girl it was lemonade (yes, she drank it). Was hanging upside down on the merry go round, fell, turned over and the hanging bolts cut open the back of my head. I slammed my middle finger in the car door on a dare from my brother. I'm sure there are more.... I was the youngest and had to be the toughest to keep up with my brother and his friends. Oh, I liked to stick my tongue on frozen things.... yeah, I am missing chunks of my tongue. For some reason I was attracted to the electrical fences on the farm - I would have to test them out. __________________________________________________ I want to party with you! We used a variation of the afore mentioned arrow trick. We'd shoot them straight up and who ever looked up before it hit, lost... I tried to jump the big ditch next to my house with a Yamaha 60 mini enduro and smacked into the other bank and knocked myself out before landing in the water. In the service, we ended up in a place with really high salt towers. We'd jump off with our boots on, and when we hit the water, the boots would blow off of our feet. The worse has got to be repelling down a cliff with a keg of beer and drinking it before climbing out (stupid...stupid) g Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,534 #105 October 23, 2006 While I never did this, I did have a friend who said he used to shoot arrows up in the air, and then run around trying to catch it with a board he held up over his head. Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cacrinklaw 0 #106 October 23, 2006 All of the normal (just being a boy) stuff. Firework fights, BB guns, bow and arrows, bumper shagging in the winter behind a bus going down a steep hill. But the most insaine thing ever was jumping off my garage with my uncle's parachute that he brought back from Viet Nam. No matter how many times we (my 2 older brothers and I) BURNED IN, it never inflated. We always thought it was just about to but it never did. After about 20 tries and and 1 broken ankle we decided that it was just not gonna work. Thought about using the big pine tree up the hill but could not find a good launching point. So now I jump out of airplanes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Amazon 7 #107 October 23, 2006 I used to scare the hell out of my grandmother by taking my little sailing dingy about 30 miles offshore to go fishing...This was when I was about 10 year old and on. Oh it was an OLD school cedar on ash with a canvas outer skin... and was about 10 ft long. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites steveorino 7 #108 October 23, 2006 Quote Dumb *and* evil--a twofer for sure!!!! By the way, did he make it home in one piece and did you turn the windshield wipers on while he was holding on to them? Walt Worse! We blew by his house --- he was too scared to jump -- we were going 60 mph by then. Then we sped across a busy street w/o looking. When we stoped - he jumped off and walked the mile or two home. steveOrino Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites waltappel 1 #109 October 23, 2006 QuoteWorse! We blew by his house --- he was too scared to jump -- we were going 60 mph by then. Then we sped across a busy street w/o looking. When we stoped - he jumped off and walked the mile or two home. Note to self: If going somewhere with Stevorino, *insist* on doing the driving. Walt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites tempretired 0 #110 October 23, 2006 I was giving my sister a ride on my Dirtbike (motorcycle). Thought I'd be cool and do a wheely with her on the back. She wasn't holding on and fell of the back then slid across the asphalt on her feet, knees, and face. I wasn't worried about her because my father was going to kick my ### and I was too busy thinking of a story to tell him what happened to her. Since I was giving her a ride to a place that she wasn't supposed to be, I told her to tell him that she was riding it by herself and lost control. Obviously, he didn't believe a word of it and kicked my ###. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites ROK 0 #111 October 23, 2006 I just remembered another one... This big kid named Jeff use to beat my friend and I up on a regular basis in 7th grade. We got tired of it and devised a plan to get him back. We took a twelve gauge shot-gun shell and emptied out the lead shot. We chewed gum and placed it in the shell and reclosed it. The next day we headed out early and hid near the path in the woods by Jeff's house. Of course the intention was to shoot him with the sticky gum. Well, he never showed that morning. We went back home and fired it at the barn. That wad of sticky gum went straight through the wooden wall Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites MotherGoose 0 #112 October 23, 2006 Almost everything I am reading here sounds like the average weekend at my DZ . . . hmmmmmmYou think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites warpedskydiver 0 #113 October 23, 2006 Skitching for those of you who don't know that is: items needed: 1ea. automobile or truck, bus etc. 1ea. idiot Step one:attach Idiot to rear bumper via hands, squat down in a nearly seated position. Step two: the vehicle starts moving and the aforementioned idiot slides along behind said vehicle on idiots feet.Step three: When you see DRY PAVEMENT ahead instead of white snowy streets...LET GO OF THE CAR! enough said? Sometimes the car would be going quite fast and even if you let go you just might hit the dry pavement anyways. Oh and by the way the drivers did not know we were doing this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Amazon 7 #114 October 23, 2006 Hell we used to tie some ropes onto my 4x4 pickup truck and go skiiing behind it down the road up in one of the passes Kinda like waterskiing but.. well you get the idea... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites tempretired 0 #115 October 23, 2006 Talk about DZ stories. I'm sure this isn't the first. We geared up a guy in a harness/container with an old round. Then, we tighed him to the DZ pick-up and did a little parasailing. As the pick-up gathered speed, his run became a moonwalk and then on the third or fourth bounce, the rope broke as he was about 8 feet in the air. The wind then dragged him backwards until he finally came to rest. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Next Page 5 of 5 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0
Amazon 7 #107 October 23, 2006 I used to scare the hell out of my grandmother by taking my little sailing dingy about 30 miles offshore to go fishing...This was when I was about 10 year old and on. Oh it was an OLD school cedar on ash with a canvas outer skin... and was about 10 ft long. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steveorino 7 #108 October 23, 2006 Quote Dumb *and* evil--a twofer for sure!!!! By the way, did he make it home in one piece and did you turn the windshield wipers on while he was holding on to them? Walt Worse! We blew by his house --- he was too scared to jump -- we were going 60 mph by then. Then we sped across a busy street w/o looking. When we stoped - he jumped off and walked the mile or two home. steveOrino Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
waltappel 1 #109 October 23, 2006 QuoteWorse! We blew by his house --- he was too scared to jump -- we were going 60 mph by then. Then we sped across a busy street w/o looking. When we stoped - he jumped off and walked the mile or two home. Note to self: If going somewhere with Stevorino, *insist* on doing the driving. Walt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tempretired 0 #110 October 23, 2006 I was giving my sister a ride on my Dirtbike (motorcycle). Thought I'd be cool and do a wheely with her on the back. She wasn't holding on and fell of the back then slid across the asphalt on her feet, knees, and face. I wasn't worried about her because my father was going to kick my ### and I was too busy thinking of a story to tell him what happened to her. Since I was giving her a ride to a place that she wasn't supposed to be, I told her to tell him that she was riding it by herself and lost control. Obviously, he didn't believe a word of it and kicked my ###. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ROK 0 #111 October 23, 2006 I just remembered another one... This big kid named Jeff use to beat my friend and I up on a regular basis in 7th grade. We got tired of it and devised a plan to get him back. We took a twelve gauge shot-gun shell and emptied out the lead shot. We chewed gum and placed it in the shell and reclosed it. The next day we headed out early and hid near the path in the woods by Jeff's house. Of course the intention was to shoot him with the sticky gum. Well, he never showed that morning. We went back home and fired it at the barn. That wad of sticky gum went straight through the wooden wall Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MotherGoose 0 #112 October 23, 2006 Almost everything I am reading here sounds like the average weekend at my DZ . . . hmmmmmmYou think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
warpedskydiver 0 #113 October 23, 2006 Skitching for those of you who don't know that is: items needed: 1ea. automobile or truck, bus etc. 1ea. idiot Step one:attach Idiot to rear bumper via hands, squat down in a nearly seated position. Step two: the vehicle starts moving and the aforementioned idiot slides along behind said vehicle on idiots feet.Step three: When you see DRY PAVEMENT ahead instead of white snowy streets...LET GO OF THE CAR! enough said? Sometimes the car would be going quite fast and even if you let go you just might hit the dry pavement anyways. Oh and by the way the drivers did not know we were doing this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #114 October 23, 2006 Hell we used to tie some ropes onto my 4x4 pickup truck and go skiiing behind it down the road up in one of the passes Kinda like waterskiing but.. well you get the idea... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tempretired 0 #115 October 23, 2006 Talk about DZ stories. I'm sure this isn't the first. We geared up a guy in a harness/container with an old round. Then, we tighed him to the DZ pick-up and did a little parasailing. As the pick-up gathered speed, his run became a moonwalk and then on the third or fourth bounce, the rope broke as he was about 8 feet in the air. The wind then dragged him backwards until he finally came to rest. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
