Stupid Stunts

[81critter]

I was riding my street bike when i lost control on some grit. I hit a power pole. Broke my back in 5 places, a few ribs, road rash. spent the winter in the hospital doing rehab and getting better. My foots paralysed now. Im sooo lucky tho coulda lost my life.

[jensen]

when I was 9 or so me and a couple friends were out wandering in the forest in early spring. we came across a small "cave" and decided to investigate so climbed down this 2 foot diameter hole until I was about 4feet deep or so, when some thing opened its eyes. I was so close I could feel its breath on my face. a little spooked I climbed out and told my friend about the the dog I saw in the cave. we tried calling it out for a minute or so and when that didn't work we decided that we would try and stir it out by poking it with sticks after a while we gave up on that to. we were standing there trying to figure out what to do now when that big old black bear come crawling out of his den stood up on two feet and let out a Howell we were so scared all we could do is stand there screaming witch lucky spooked him off. needles to say we weren't aloud to ply in the forest any more.

[FishingMOM]

Bringing it back for Omega.

[omega50]

Thanks FM
Lived next to the railway tracks in Whip-an-egg in the late 60's.
Took a percussion track bomb I found/stole from the marshalling yard to a school dance and put it under
a chair leg on a dare and waited for the fat girl to sit on the chair.

For this I am deeply sorry. Thankfully a teacher found it before anyone sat on it and the dance was evacuated and the police where called.

I was 10 years old and never caught.

Years later I realize that someone could have lost a limb or worse.

[TBark]

Those red rolls of caps for cap guns, they came in tubes and you could break off 3 rolls I think. We'd stand one of those rolls up on edge, and just smack it with a hammer, man it would blow that hammer right back over your head, the trick was to hang on to it. Most of the time the hammer would shoot out of your hand and sky-bound.

TBark

[TheKi]

set my leg of fire, straddled a bull bear back crashed a quad fell out a tree crashed my bike going 40mph down center street because(all this year).

[Redfrog]

[winger7mm]

Geez I thought that attaching a bunch of bungee cords together with one wrapped around the waste and jumping out of a tree to "bungee" jump was dumb but after reading a few of these, its no wonder kids these days are babied

[Lefty-Canuck]

Originally Posted by TBark

Those red rolls of caps for cap guns, they came in tubes and you could break off 3 rolls I think. We'd stand one of those rolls up on edge, and just smack it with a hammer, man it would blow that hammer right back over your head, the trick was to hang on to it. Most of the time the hammer would shoot out of your hand and sky-bound.

TBark

Haha...too funny.... my brother did that in the back yard on a cement block and the hammer came back and the claws smoked him in the forehead....

LC

[32-40win]

Went down a hill in New Westminster and the brakes on my bicycle wouldn't stop me, one of the front caliper rubbers had fallen out. Went across 2 major road intersections without getting splattered.
Went down a hill in Burnaby and t-boned a little gray Epic on my bicycle, landed on the guy's hood.
Went down Fraser St. in Vcr and a fella stepped out from in front of a parked van, That one hurt both of us, him worse. Had to give his hat a pull to start him up again.
Got chased by angry drivers every summer when the crabapples came out in the orchard along Marine Dr.. Sawdust haulers and Motorways vans were favorite targets.

[jim 1367]

This is a Canadian site, Right? Cause you all sound like a bunch of good old boys from down south. You know the ones where their famous last words were "Hey Ya'll, pass me another beer and then Ya'll watch this" I thought getting towed behind a snowmobile at 50mph on ice skates would rank up there but now I see I have lead a very boring life.

[FishingMOM]

Originally Posted by jim 1367

This is a Canadian site, Right? Cause you all sound like a bunch of good old boys from down south. You know the ones where their famous last words were "Hey Ya'll, pass me another beer and then Ya'll watch this" I thought getting towed behind a snowmobile at 50mph on ice skates would rank up there but now I see I have lead a very boring life.

Yes this is Canadian.
We have more wide open spaces to explore and get into trouble in.

[Arn?Narn.]

I recall heading out on the north atalntic in a dingy with plastic paddles...
the wind came up and with 2 minutes I had carcked off both paddles and the air in the dingy was compressing...

Scaling cliffs with rocks coming out from above and noting but ocean and rocks below (my sister actually fell fromone and had be rescued with ropes, and stretcher and gear,...she lost her sense of smell and spent along time in the hospital)

I once tried to swim from a government wharf to a beach accross the cove.... got cramps half way...

Shot a sea duck once and was on my belly on a big slanted rock trying to reach him with my finger tips...swooooop...right into the ocean, mid february and in the dark...

Stupidest thing was once watching a buddy try and prove himself by chugging a flask of london dock...

it was funny for about 15 minutes...

Then he fell, split his head, had a little seizure and we all freaked the fak out!!!!!!

Did som crazy stuff when I lived in Jasper... one invloved a weapons drawn approach from multiple officers...

I remeber one time, we were at a college bar when a hockey team when arrived,...they were half drunk and pretty rowdy... one bumbed into me and put his cigarette through my new shirt... I told him to appologize,..and then he fell a step to the side and stepped on my grilfriends leg,...I asked to appologize to both of us...

he said I will be right back, and he returned with what must have been 12 guys and 3 or 4 were pretty good sized.

The big fellow said, "what's your problem"...I told him about my shirt and his buddy.... he told me "he did you a favor, your shirt is *** shirt" as his buddies laughed and puched in on me.

I said fine... I head butt him and managed to throw 5 or 6 of the best connecting punches I have ever thrown...must have been 4 guys on the floor and a couple golding their noses....

A full on brawl ensued, lights all turned on in the bar, music turned off, 5 ot 600 people drinking and running like crazy while about 50 or 60 were on the dancefloor going crazy,..chicks and all.

How no one was killed, I will never know.. I remember watching a guy fall backwards down the 20 step flight of stairs and then hit his head on the exit door....

Just some crazy stuff...

Watched a buddy hang a guy out the 3rd story window of the Chateau Jasper ready to drop him...


I have often wondered how I ever managed to make it...

thinking back, and this what scares me as I now have my own kids,...
I din't see the danger it,... never a second thought...

You go out and fight with guy and that's that,..but what he falls backwards and hits his head, or you getcharged with assault,.etc. etc.

What if you do fall off the cliff, or go through the ice on the sled,...etc etc.

I find myself talking more and more like Dad all the time...lol

[Loki610]

Helping dad clear out beaver dams on irrigation ditches during a thunderstorm.

At age 6 playing in a field close to the treeline and 100 yards from the house, building castles in the slush, didn't notice the cougar sneaking behind me until the next door neighbour who had been watching from the window sent a 30-06 bullet whizzing downrange and close past me to stop the cougar 20 yards behind me! still have the skin and it doesn't have much of a face anymore!

Drunken boxing at beerfest in edmonton

Getting into a fight without realizing that the one guy has a knife! and its not a pocket knife! (400 stitches and staples)

Riding the GT down a steep hill and hitting the barbwire fence at the bottom.

having sword fights with dried out canada thistle or fresh stinging nettle.

pulling the bullets out of .22lr shells and using the powder as a fuse to light off the primer and firing the casing across the basement.

riding bikes down steep hills and using the speed to do jumps off the curbs, and the one time hitting a telephone pole while still in the air! Destroyed the front end of the bike and shattered a knuckle!

[Toirtis]

Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

Later in my adolescence, experimented with making most high explosives known to Man, in my basement lab. One in particular, involved dissolving some of my mother's silverware in nitric acid, to extract the silver. Silver Fulminate. Google that.

Grizz

Sounds all too familiar. I remember a particular afternoon when I realised that making a half liter of nitroglycerine is much more easy than disposing of it...

[Spidey]

- x3 for pellet gun tag (I had the crack barrel and loved it when the guys with the CO2s ran out of air!)

- x3 for lawn dart chicken

- driving golf balls down main street late a night

- playing the "get-the-big-mutherin-Charlet-bull-to-charge-you-and-first-one-to-move-loses" game.

- dressing up as ninjas in College dorms and opening any door that was left unlocked at 2am and proceeding to whale on unsuspecting sleeping freshmen with pillows (I'm probably going to hell for that one....) I think some foreign students withdrew after that incident

- bumper surfing at 50kms/hour in winter

- Taking a creative writing class at U of A and walking around 97th Street on a friday night at 1:00am looking for "inspiration" - thankfully a prostitute took pity on us and escorted us the heck out of there (pardon the pun)

[jpietrzak1979]

Well god knows I should have died ages ago lol....

Hit in the head with a baseball bat (accidental)
Kicked in the head by a horse
Cliff diving in unknown areas and just missing the rocks
Riding a disingigrating raft of seaweed and logs being taken out to see on a rip tide lol
jumped from window A to balcony B three stories up over top of a power line
ditched my motorcycle near a cliff in the mountains... then recovered it and drove myself to the hospital while in shock
ice fishing with wet feet lol.... i didn't get frost bite on ALL my toes

errr... well not all of these are from when i was a kid but you get a feeling of a recurring pattern here...

[nanuk-O-dah-Nort]

had a skanky crack-ore walk by me in my car and ask me for a light.

I said I only had the lighter in the ashtray. So she got in....

we had unprotected sex right there.

good thing I was medicated with ample alcohol, or I probably would have contracted a deadly form of STD

(I no longer drink and drive, and got married since, so don't do those other things anymore!)