The stupidest thing you ever did

[John Connor]

So I was on the patio having a smoke when I heard a train. I started to remember when I was a freshman in high school one Halloween night what I did. I invited my friend over that night and we were scaring kids and roaming around the front yard as zombies because I made a grave yard. Well, where we lived there were train tracks at the end of the street. We heard the horn from an approaching train and I started running towards the tracks and my friend and Bro followed. I ran onto the tracks and stood there. The train was getting closer and closer and from the left side of me I can see my friend and Bro yelling at me to get off the tracks. But their voices were slightly muffled by the sound of the train. As the train approached with the sound getting loader, the light getting brighter and the engineer blasting on the horn the train must have been about fifty feet in front of me before I ran off the track just in time.

I can only imagine that train conductor had the scare of his life that Halloween night and must have shit his pants. I've done a lot of stupid stuff, but that one ranks up there as #1. D:

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I bet he actually wished he could have been going faster and that he had not been required to use that horn.

 

[brianmanahan]

that explains a lot, actually

 

[John Connor]

I knew I'd get those post's.

 

[brianmanahan]

the stupidest thing i ever did was probably take a picture of my great uncle at his funeral. don't think i'm ever going to hear the end of it. i tell family members if it upsets them that much, just take a pic of me at my funeral for revenge.

 

[John Connor]

LOL!

 

[Exterous]

Reading this thread

 

[IronWing]

So I was on the patio having a smoke when I heard a train. [...]I've done a lot of stupid stuff, but that one ranks up there as #1. D:

I agree.


Actually, I think getting hit by a train is the stupidest way to die. Even auto-asphyxiation or lung cancer from smoking isn't quite as stupid.

And this, just because of its awsomefulness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw

 

[TeeJay1952]

Working in factory. Co-worker comes in with new cross on a chain around neck. I reached over and commented "Nice Chain" while touching said same. Chain broke and cross & chain fall into his coffee mug. If I wasn't me and I know there was no ill intent it looked and sounded so deliberate. I learned never touch anyone. Don't believe seemingly positive circumstantial evidence.

 

[TheSiege]

Got Married

 

[Ns1]

Clicked on this post

 

[IronWing]

I tried to read this paper.

 

[clamum]

Probably started smoking.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I stomped on a golf tee that was placed upside down on an indoor floor in an attempt to break it in half when I was maybe 12 years old... plenty old enough to realize that a golf tee will become more of a nail when you do that. Had to get a tetanus shot after that one.

 

[TwiceOver]

Dropped out of high school after being suspended on the first day of my senior year.

 

[Miramonti]

The stupidest thing I ever did is NOT going to be confessing to have done it on a technology forum.

 

[John Connor]

I tried to read this paper.

Fuck me running. What other bull shit will they come up with? I once read in Wikipedia that gallstones were a product of "global warming/climate change."

It's become one of the most F'ed up religions on the planet! Tom Cruise has Scientology, De capachino has global warming. LOL!

 

[Carson Dyle]

... and you're still a zombie. Go figure.

 

[Rubycon]

Back in 1990, I was wearing a headset and was looking for an audio line in an active transmitter and touched a primary rail with about 190V DC on it.

I thought I ruptured my eardrums. It was so loud I nearly passed out. D:

 

[poofyhairguy]

I sat on the middle of a glass table once.

 

[Bart*Simpson]

Back in 1990, I was wearing a headset and was looking for an audio line in an active transmitter and touched a primary rail with about 190V DC on it.

I thought I ruptured my eardrums. It was so loud I nearly passed out. D:

Similar thing: I was once in a dry, dusty place and a truck went speeding by me way too fast and I took a potshot at it and it blew up. Lucky me I flew about 100 meters from where I'd been standing and when I came to my senses I was more or less intact.

I don't know if anyone remembers ultrasonic alarms but I used to be able to hear them.

Not any more. :'(

 

[Rubycon]

I sat on the middle of a glass table once.

I knew someone that did that. Sort of - does a copier count?

 

[John Connor]

I sat on the middle of a glass table once.

I have a glass table in the front room that used to sit next to the couch, but I have often slept on the couch and when I get up I fear I might one day lose my balance as I almost did a few times and crash into the damn thing. So I moved it to the wall. LOL

 

[thesmokingman]

In HS, I got into a fight with my older step brother. I did an over and under and threw his ass onto the glass coffee table. That was a good night. He deserved it.

 

[lxskllr]

Mental...

Had problems with a road alignment, and called the engineer to work it out. Everything was mirrored from what it should be(This is called a clue!). After going back and forth with him, I have him on the phone, and I'm looking at the plans. I *then* notice everything is north west coordinates, and I entered them as north east(what I use 99.9% of the time). Felt like a raging moron, and apologized to the engineer for wasting his time :^S

Physical...

Was working on an abandoned farm, and was checking out the barn. Saw a rope going up to the hayloft. It had two ends of rope going to the floor with a loop on one end, and through a pulley on the ceiling. I thought putting my foot in the loop, and hauling myself up with the other side seemed like a fun idea. I got about 3' off the floor, my foot in the loop went horizontal, and I fell, cracking my head on the concrete floor. I saw stars, and I'm lucky I didn't split my skull. Physics is funny that way :^(