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Dumb things you've done in your lifetime.

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ChairShotMyU said:
Watched the movie Spice world....
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I can only imagine your pain
 
iamanidiot said:
Based on the intellectual prowess you just displayed, it would not be your best interest to inject yourself in anything.
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That's a bad attempt to try and redeem yourself, everyone already knows you're an idiot... your name fucking says so. :thumbsdown:
 
When I was 15/16 I was into taking 2 liter bottles, taking some foil and tucking some down into the neck to create a small pocket. I'd then take apart a bottle rocket and dump the black powder in there. Poke a hole through the cap, screw the cap on and then stick the wick from the bottle rocket into the hole.

I'd then light it and and run. It'd make a loud boom that'd shake your chest pretty good.

Where I was living at the time, the local grocery store had 3 liter generic soda and since the volume of the bottle was larger, the boom was larger as well.

So logic told me that the larger the bottle, the bigger the boom. With this in mind, one day I happened upon a gallon anti-freeze bottle sitting on the top of the trash at a gas station, so I grabbed it and my friend and I drove off to a field.

There was some liquid left in the bottom of the jug but we didn't give it much thought and made our set up and set it off and BOOM!!, man was it loud! But whats this? Holy shit!!! the liquid in the bottom was gas and it shot flaming liquid in a circular direction a good 30 feet around. Worse yet it was a dry summer and it was a grass field with dead grass. I crop circle size ring of fire started to spread and get out of control very quickly.

Since we were in the middle of no where we had nothing on us to put it out so we started running around trying to stomp it out.

By the time we got it all out our shoes were melted and the field was pretty well damaged.

So, um, yeah. Lesson learned.
 
I've done quite a few stupid things, below are some of the more memorable ones:

When I was at School, me and some friends caused a fire in the local woodland. We realised that the fire had gotten out of hand, so we decided to do a runner. The fire brigade was called by a local passerby walking his dog (who must have seen us run off). Eventually, the fire brigade put the fire out.

I decided it was a good idea one night with some friends to see how many cocktails I could drink from the cocktail list in a local night club. I think I made it to about 15 (from what I can remember). Vaguely remember stumbling home and falling over a few times. I then decided the pavement felt comfortable, so decided to have a nap (whilst it was raining). I was woken up a couple of hours later by a passing couple, who managed to escort me home after I explained to them in my very drunken and slurred voice, where I lived. Suffice to say, that it wasn't my greatest accomplishment.

Another drunken escapade when I was 18 years old. I met up with some old school friends at a local pub. Drank lots of whiskey until closing time. We then walked back to a friend's parents house where I was going to call home to get a lift off my parents. It seemed that the affects of the whiskey were delayed, because when I walked up the drive to the house, I fell over into a bush. With some help I righted myself, then went into the house to call for my parents. It took me 45 minutes to dial the right number and call my parents.

I've since learned what my tolerance is for alcohol.
 
Threads like these make me both glad and disappointed that I'm too cautious to do crazy shit like these examples. I've had fun at a few bon fires before that included gasoline, but overall I was pretty careful. I even warned my friend before he started pouring gas on some embers but he didn't listen. Luckily, it was one of those cans where the fire can't get inside the container. The fire of course traveled up the vapors, but only the rim caught on fire and it started melting. That was actually cool though because stomping on the container shot out a nice fireball.
 
Couple of times we would get stoned and drunk and walk down the tracks to a railroad bridge to mess around. We'd try to get as close to the passing freights as we could.

Friend of ours died and me and one other guy split a liter of jaeger in a few hours. I stumbled around and passed out on some infrequently used freight tracks, a nice lady pulled me off. Thanks lady.

Set off a couple of black powder bombs in the woods which we had made.

Jumped off a 20 foot bridge on a dare and broke my foot.
 
Dumbest thing, Got married.
2nd dumbest thing: Let her what she wanted in the divorce.
Smartest thing: Getting divorced.
 
Changed a wall power outlet without shutting off the electricity. Used a set of leather/cloth gloves and 2 pliers to work with. WTF was I thinking?
 
Several years ago I was out of town with my minivan and the brakes started feeling spongy. I pulled over and checked the brake fluid, saw that it was low. I didn't have any brake fluid, but I did have a bottle of transmission fluid. I thought, "Fluid is fluid, right?"

Anyway, I poured the transmission fluid in, and everything worked alright. Until a couple of days later, when I lost all breaking ability while on my way to work. My brake petal went all the way to the floor and barely had any effect on my speed.

The mechanic told me, later, that the transmission fluid had eaten away all the rubber seals in my brake system. That was an expensive lesson to learn.
 
I've been kicking myself all day for this one. I figured I could pull my old trailer up next to the pile of manure/hay I had pushed out of the barn, and push the top part of the pile onto the trailer.

1. Since I scooped it out with the tractor, rather than used a pitch fork and dug it out by hand, it was a lot denser.
2. As I pushed it, because of the slight angle on the bucket, it put some pressure downward as well as 95% of the pressure forward.
3. It's not good to put 3000 pounds unbalanced on one side of a trailer.

End result: I have a rim on my trailer - I knocked it right out of the tire. Tomorrow I have to figure out if I destroyed the rim. Tire, oddly, looks brand new still.
 
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