LesserFollies on 8/11/2006 at 16:05
When I was about 10 I heard something about spraying perfume on light bulbs to disperse the scent, so I sprayed some directly on a LIT bulb. Of course the damn thing exploded and I was left in sudden darkness with bits of glass on my face. Scared the shit out of me; I thought I'd gone blind. I'm still a bit antsy about changing light bulbs to this day.
heretic on 8/11/2006 at 16:55
Quote Posted by fett
Ever stood on the very top part of a folding ladder trying to reach something? Yeah, I won't do that shit again.
Or in my case sawing several hefty size limbs off of a tree that would not leave my goddamned house alone. Turned out ok, but had a (couple of) close calls. In the end, my hatred for carpenter ants won out.
Without a doubt the most hairbrained thing I can recall doing was parking my truck in neutral without realizing it, on a nice downhill slide no less. What kept it in place while I initially started walking to the house I will never know. About halfway to the porch and I heard something moving...then I just turned around and stood there as it rolled about 20 ft and hit my neighbors truck. This all happened very fast, but in my head I pictured trying to jump in the car and hit the brakes which was quickly decided against when I saw my idiot self being smashed by the door.
Of course that would have made for a better story I suppose.
Lightfall on 9/11/2006 at 07:57
I did the same thing once but with a happier ending. The hill was extremely shallow so the car wasn't moving fast, but the street ended in a cul de sac so I knew no good would come of letting it go. I managed to fish my keys out of my pocket and get the right one in the door while running next to it. Lept inside and slammed on the brakes but since I wasn't seated properly I thunked my head on the windshield as it seized. I suspect that was just my car delivering the "you're an idiot" smack I had coming.
Gillie on 9/11/2006 at 14:18
I read this story this morning.. It belongs here in the
Blackman's thread.
What a really stupid thing to do. Something happens every Year from the 5th November. Some may find the story funny the injurys are not though!
Hospital For Man Who Fired Rocket From His BacksideA man is in hospital with severe internal injuries after trying to launch a powerful firework rocket from his backside.:eek: :wot:
A man is in hospital with severe internal injuries after trying to launch a powerful firework rocket from his backside.
Safety campaigners say they have never come across such a bizarre incident but it is thought the man, 22, could have been copying a scene from the controversial film Jackass: The Movie which shows a similar prank.
The incident in Sunderland was captured by a gang of youths and the fuzzy mobile phone footage shows a blinding white flash followed by hysterical laughter.
Rest of the story here!.
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/09112006/344/rocket-prank-leaves-man-hospital.html)
pavlovscat on 10/11/2006 at 01:58
Starting a posting war about politics with certain other persons on this forum. :nono:
Really, for me it was getting busted DUI in Baton Rouge where they automatically hate you more if you are from New Orleans, especially if you are stinkin' drunk. I might have made it safely away after hitting a curb going fast enough to rip off the right front wheel & strut and punch it through the car's floor, but, when the cops arrived, I was on my knees at the front of my car (where the wheel was gone) begging my car to forgive me for wrecking it. Then, I almost threw up in the nice lady cop's car. :eww: She said my face was green, so they put me on the ground, kneeling, with my hands cuffed behind my back, to puke my guts up in what would have been a humiliating scene if I hadn't been likkered up to twice the legal limit. Thank God I didn't kill anybody! That was the end of my drinking & driving career.
Jennie&Tim on 10/11/2006 at 02:59
About eight years ago my husband was cutting down a big maple tree which was dropping branches on a neighbor's fence and shed. I sat under the catalpa next to the maple with Tim in my lap, thinking I was far enough away from it to be safe. CRASH.
Interesting experience: without thought I rolled over so Tim (about four to six months old at the time) was under me, with me on my elbows; as the tree-top crashed on top of me. Fortunately, I was nearly right and all the branches near me were the small ones on the very top; nobody was hurt, but my husband was near panic for a minute until I told him we were fine.
Not sure if I should count it, since I was too young to know better; when I was five I pulled out the bottom drawer in an empty wooden dresser to climb on top of it; and managed to pull the whole thing over on myself. I still have a little dent in my head from that one. A bit later and my brother and I got into the medicine cabinet and I drank a bottle of mecurochrome and had to have my stomach pumped. Not a pleasant procedure, I never repeated it. Lucky I didn't feed to to my brother, he's two years younger and that much more vulnerable.
Scots Taffer on 10/11/2006 at 04:28
Stupidest thing I've ever done?
Interpreted her nnnnhh-hhhnn as mmmmhh-hhhmm.
Lightfall on 10/11/2006 at 08:09
Murcurochrome, scourge of unwatched children throughout the world! God that stuff is evil.
This one happened before I was born, but it's a favorite anecdote in my family. My brother of about one year was hobbling around in one of those kiddie rollaround thingies. My sister, three-ish, came into the room and saw him heading straight for the basement door. Using flawless kid logic, she decided he might get hurt running into it, so she graciously saved him from certain doom... by opening it.
Luckily it was one of those stairways that has a landing only a few steps down, so he didn't get his gourd thumped too hard. Nevertheless, it's a convenient moment to bring up whenever he does something odd.
Ghostly Apparition on 10/11/2006 at 13:49
Quote Posted by Lightfall
Murcurochrome, scourge of unwatched children throughout the world! God that stuff is evil.
This one happened before I was born, but it's a favorite anecdote in my family. My brother of about one year was hobbling around in one of those kiddie rollaround thingies. My sister, three-ish, came into the room and saw him heading straight for the basement door. Using flawless kid logic, she decided he might get hurt running into it, so she graciously saved him from certain doom... by opening it.
Luckily it was one of those stairways that has a landing only a few steps down, so he didn't get his gourd thumped too hard. Nevertheless, it's a convenient moment to bring up whenever he does something odd.
A friend of mines kid was being watched by a nanny one day. His son about a year or so was in one of those roll around things when he decide to go for the back door, which was open. The back door leads to a porch with two concrete steps leading to a cement walkway. I was standing about 20 feet away when I saw the kid come out the back door in his walker. He got to the edge of the stairs and when it went over it did a complete flip and landed on its wheels at the bottom of the step. Kid was completely unhurt but shaken up and crying. Totally amazing as i expected him to get seriously hurt.
Kid had his first E ticket ride at a year old.
Lightfall on 14/11/2006 at 08:16
I suspect he was only crying because he didn't get some sort of "TADA!" trumpet fanfare followed by applause. I know I'd be disappointed.
