Posted: 1/17/2014 8:05:15 AM EDT
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Post a short story of the stupidest thing that you have done.
I have done way more stupid stuff than anyone should have survived. One comes to mind. Jumped off roof of house into pool feet first in middle of winter. It was night, pool appeared to be normal and full of water. Just below surface was pool cover. I went through the pool cover and was under the pool cover in completely black water. Swam to side and was able to get out because when I hit the cover before i ripped through it. it yanked loose whatever was holding the cover down. Just one instance of when I was luckier than I should have been. |
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Toss up between two: Rappel off the roof of the 34 story building in NYC my mother lived in..... with 10 stories of rope. NYPD ESU was called out. Made the Daily News.... Purchased a rubber US Navy raft from Canal Street surplus store, blew it up & launched it from Battery Park on hot August day. Fell asleep and wound up in shipping channel in the harbor. Saved by US Coast Guard cutter. Also made the Daily News... I shouldn't really be alive right now. Grace of God and all.... |
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This has turned into a "I should not be alive thread". Most I think would get me a ban hammer or arrested. These will not but are near the top of my fucking stupid list;
Played Russian Roulette once in high school when drunk. Walked into a Black Panther club house in Oakland. It was their monthly gathering. I'm white as two snowflakes banging a cotton ball. Got married. I would rather risk another game of roulette than do this again. I sure hope the apple falls very far from the tree. 
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Much earlier in my life my dad told me to never swim in the jacuzzi by myself (I was maybe 7). Concrete jacuzzi was about 8 feet in diameter so I could actually lay down on the bottom. I did just that and my back got stuck to the drain and I panicked. After I broke free I went into the house and the outline of the drain was on my back. Drowning would have sucked and I never told my dad because that would have resulted in the second opportunity for me to die that day.
Tried to pass a tanker truck on Malibu Canyon Road (one lane each way) in Commifornia after a night of underage drinking at a club. One side of the road is mountain wall, other side is a cliff. Luckily I ended up crashing into the Mountain wall. |
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Got married. I would rather risk another game of roulette than do this again. LOL. My father-in-law, WWII vet, always said he prefers to run around with married women because then the worst thing that can happen is you get shot. If you run around with single women the worst thing that could happen is you get married. He's been shot, and he's been married, and he'd rather be shot. |