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Dumb, and Potentially Lethal Things You've Seen Done

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No Lifer
Prompted by this quote...

0roo0roo said:
yea so many wtf's i bet that guy has had so many brushes with death that its probably amazing he didn't die long ago.
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Any of you see someone do something stupid that defies common sense? I had a friend years ago that wasn't too bright. He had dyslexia pretty bad, and didn't do well in school. I didn't know him in the school days, but I assume he just tuned out. Maybe he was just dumb; I don't know. Anyway, I was standing with him in his garage, and he was getting ready to use a floor jack. It was out of fluid, so he put used motor oil in it. Damned if I'd get under anything heavy that had a jack with dirty oil in it.

This is on top of tons of other dumb things. You have to stand back and marvel that they're still alive. Anyone else know someone like that?
 
I once put Icy-Hot on my balls as a dare. It just so happened that a bunch of girls came into our camp at just that minute, and I was forced to keep it cool while in absolute agony for ~45 minutes.
 
We rode a couch down the biggest hill in our city, with people doing lookouts at the major intersections; when we didn't die from that, we decided to light the couch on fire. Good times.

KT
 
Taking shots of whiskey with live .45 caliber bullets in the bottom...not exactly death defying but not too bright either
 
I had a buddy a LONG time ago when I lived in Los Angleles that I thought was cursed. He literally was so clumsy and awkward he crashed every car he owned drunk but somehow was able to maintain his job as a valet.

He had a bicycle accident one night after losing his license one last time and had tremendous injuries. He bunny hopped a curb going downhill in West LA and hit headfirst into a light pole. He suffered really bad injuries and had some minor brain damage.

I let him live with me for a year since I had a whole house and was single and he sort of became Cato. We used to call him "Hey Dude" Because he never remembered anyone's name male or female and simply refereed to everyone as "Hey Dude"

One day he gets a random letter from a lawyer asking him to be downtown at such and such time.
He freaks out goes into hiding and tries to evade what he things is the cops.

Turns out it was a random Aunt who passed and he was the favorite nephew when he was a kid.

Dude turned his life around buying and selling toys and memorabilia in the middle 90s in the early days of Ebay.

Hey dude Miss ya buddy.
 
Better? I didn't realize we had a the paragraph police to contend with, bro.
 
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ky54 said:
This will take a bit of a set up - on election night 1976 a bunch of us we're piled into one of my buddies room (I was in the service living in the barracks) and we were drinking pretty good wondering who our next CiC would be. Well, as the night wore on I was using my Bic lighter to fill up a turned over glass ashtray and then igniting it. Everyone thought that was pretty cool when one of them says, "hey, I got something we can use" and off he ran down to his room. He came back with one of those huge 10 or 20 (not sure which) liter glass bottles to which we dumped in a full can of lighter fluid. We passed it around and each of us took turns shaking it up anticipating a big fire show. We stuffed a rag in it and we were just about to touch it off when I said maybe we might to put it in the bathroom instead of the middle of the floor. So we put it in the bathroom and we all crowded around. I had stuffed a rag in it so nothing would leak out. I pulled out the rag out and my buddy threw in a match. When it first lit off it looked just like that fire tornado in the "Ten Commandments" (I said I was old ) at which point I pulled my head back just as it exploded. Who knew, right? I mean there was glass everywhere. It completely shredded the toilet and tore open the cabinet under the sink. There were huge pieces of glass imbedded all the way across the room (which was a double) in the sheet rock. It was loud enough to get the watch guy from downstairs to come up and ask what was going on. Unbelievably only two people were hit - one barely into his chest and the other was winged on the top of his forehead.

And that was the start of Jimmy Carter's four years. Little did we know it would be the highlight 😀
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damn, use paragraphs bro.
 
My parents had a riding lawnmower when we were younger. My brother and I decided to use it to have some fun and hooked a sled up to the back of it with a rope. He proceeded to drive in circles at full speed on our asphalt driveway with me in the sled. I was wizzing by a large metal pole that held up our basketball hoop and several large tree trunks at a good pace. My mom was not to happy when she came outside and saw that.
 
This will take a bit of a set up - on election night 1976 a bunch of us we're piled into one of my buddies room (I was in the service living in the barracks) and we were drinking pretty good wondering who our next CiC would be. Well, as the night wore on I was using my Bic lighter to fill up a turned over glass ashtray and then igniting it. Everyone thought that was pretty cool when one of them says, "hey, I got something we can use" and off he ran down to his room.

He came back with one of those huge 10 or 20 (not sure which) liter glass bottles to which we dumped in a full can of lighter fluid. We passed it around and each of us took turns shaking it up anticipating a big fire show. We stuffed a rag in it and we were just about to touch it off when I said maybe we might to put it in the bathroom instead of the middle of the floor. So we put it in the bathroom and we all crowded around. I had stuffed a rag in it so nothing would leak out.

I pulled out the rag out and my buddy threw in a match. When it first lit off it looked just like that fire tornado in the "Ten Commandments" (I said I was old ) at which point I pulled my head back just as it exploded.Who knew, right? I mean there was glass everywhere. It completely shredded the toilet and tore open the cabinet under the sink. There were huge pieces of glass imbedded all the way across the room (which was a double) in the sheet rock. It was loud enough to get the watch guy from downstairs to come up and ask what was going on.


Unbelievably only two people were hit - one barely into his chest and the other was winged on the top of his forehead.
 
i sloppily hooked up a microwave oven transformer + capacitor + diode hoping to get 2kV to start a HeNe laser tube. wouldn't start no matter what i did. years later i found out it needs 8kV start, 2kV constant
 
Walking across a heavily trafficked 4-lane road (2 each way) at night time, while it's raining, with traffic flowing both ways.

Oh wait, some idiot did that to me tonight and i had to swerve out of his way.
 
AFurryReptile said:
I once put Icy-Hot on my balls as a dare. It just so happened that a bunch of girls came into our camp at just that minute, and I was forced to keep it cool while in absolute agony for ~45 minutes.
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😱

My story is that I tried to burn so excess gasoline from a rag, but did it in Garage without proper circulation.. Well? I came out of that one pretty stinky and fucked up(eyes, throat, stomach, and skin).
 
PottedMeat said:
i sloppily hooked up a microwave oven transformer + capacitor + diode hoping to get 2kV to start a HeNe laser tube. wouldn't start no matter what i did. years later i found out it needs 8kV start, 2kV constant
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Man I hate when I do that
 
The 1st time? 1st weekend I was 16, 2 quarts of beer, driving on the wrong side of the road, bitching that someone was blinding me with their headlights.😱

The Grace of God was the only thing that kept me, and others, alive. Fortunately, I straightened up when I got married at 32.😱😱😱
 
Rescued a kitty on the shoulder smack dab in the middle of mile long freeway over pass. The stupid thing was, one friend (the driver) notices, then waits until she exits the overpass. She then orders my friend and I to hoof it up the overpass to get the kitty.
Nothing like SoCal drivers at 70 mph whooshing by inches from you.
 
If counting things accidentally done, I've had a class terrarium over my head with a hole only slightly larger then my neck.

What does eating fish more then a day old count as?

Oh and driving... people always forget the obvious.

But really living is the most lethal, no one has yet figured out how to get out of it alive.
 
PottedMeat said:
i sloppily hooked up a microwave oven transformer + capacitor + diode hoping to get 2kV to start a HeNe laser tube. wouldn't start no matter what i did. years later i found out it needs 8kV start, 2kV constant
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Fortunately for you (and the tube) it did NOT fire! With that much current once breakdown occurs it would not end well. 😉

If you have a 2kV DC supply, current limited to around 10-20mA (actual running current depends on tube - most 8 inch 1mW tubes don't need nearly as much as the four foot 40mW monsters.) you can get it fired by generating ionizing EMF with static electricity near the side of the tube. An unbreakable (trade name for hard plastic) comb and a kitten will work. A piezoelectric ignitor removed from a propane barbecue will also produce enough to do it. My favorite way to get a tube kick started where the ignitor has failed is use a 1W+ VHF/UHF handheld. Place the antenna near the tube and transmit while running power is applied. Works great. 😀
 
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