Dumbest thing you have ever done

[FLATHEAD]

Was watching the wife use the mixer in the kitchen and I couldnt help but think about the dumbest thing I ever done. When I was a kid about 8 or 9 my older sister dared me to stop the mixer with my hand.( evil girl)Being the kind not to back down from a dare I tried it. This mixer was the kind with the twin beaters that rotated and meshed with each other so as not to touch. Anyhow my fingers went into the thing and it did stop. Lucky for me the thing was not turning max rpm. My fingers were pointed every which way and it hurt like %$#@. Then my dad had to come out and realese the beaters to free my hand and boy was he pissed That hurt even worse. Except for some cuts and some bad bruseing I was not in to bad of shape. The same couldnt be said of my sister when my pop got done with her. <br /><br /> What have you done that was really stupid?

 

[JB]

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The wisest thing I ever did (so far ) was marry a lovely young lady.<br /><br />The DUMBEST thing I ever did was divorce her 30 years later.

 

[11 footer]

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Maby that lovely lady reads this forum, who knows you might still have a chance <br /><br />11

 

[Bigfun]

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I took trike pilot lessons and before one flight I forgot to fasten my helmet strap. At 500' the helmet went thru the prop. The instructor took control and landed in a field. dumb...dumb...dumb! there are probably a lot more i'm just too dumb to remember.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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The dumbest thing that comes to mind right off hand is I was fishing and hooked a fish, jumped up on the side of the center console to fight it better and stepped off the side. <br />Needless to say it got away cause I was worried about saving my stinking self.

 

[BassMan283]

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Well, where to start?<br /><br />When I was about 17, I had this 58 Ford 2-door. I lived about 10 miles out in the country. Had a flat one day and took it to town to get fixed. Went to my favorite station, opened the trunk, took the tire out, handed it to Art (owner), pulled the keys out of the lock, threw them in the trunk and slammed the lid. Art says, 'Did I just see you do that?'<br /><br />He said the best way to get them was take out the back seat, so he gave me a screwdriver and a pair of pliers and I went to work retrieving the keys.<br /><br />By the time I had the seat back in again, he was done with the tire. I opened the trunk, put the tire back in, pulled the keys out of the lock, threw them in the trunk and slammed the lid.

 

[RICKRICK1]

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When I was about 12 or 13 my sister really made me mad and I went out to the storage shed and got about 25 or 30 mouse traps, you know the spring loaded ones. That night I snuck in to her room and placed them armed all over the room. Guess who I caught thats right MOM. Boy did dad wear my back side out.

 

[GF]

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The dumbest thing i ever did was when i was 17 and just got my drivers licience. I had no money so a bunch of us would go out at night and steal gas. I sipioned the town payloader and topped up my dads new 1968 chevelle, (with diesel fuel) <br />was he ever pissed!!!!

 

[11 footer]

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I was in 3ed grade. I made up my mind I had to get that ball out of the spray paint can. I took a can of red paint, that was empty. Pulled out my dads power drill. Then I drilled a whole on the can, I did this in the gaurge with my moms 1985 Town Car near by. BAM, red paint all over the celling and the car. In my eyes everything, Dad was pissed when he came home to that.<br /><br />PS. I did get that little marble <br /><br />11

 

[wishinIwasFishin]

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yer it's good to hear some of your storys.<br />thought I was the only one to do silly thing like one day at home I was helping dad feed the cows (i was about 14)and was getting the hay out of the hay shed which we had just started to use so the hay that we were getting was about 20-25 feet off the ground and we were dropping it onto the back of the ute and as I dropped one bale down and tured to get the next one there to my horror was a king brown snake (about 6 ft long. one of Australias most deadly snakes) sitting up and looking very interested in why I was destroying his house I got such a shock and in my hast to put some distance beteewn use I forgot that I should probly use the ladder to get down instead of just walking off the edge <br /><br />cheers daryl<br /><br />ps sorry to hear about the shuttle too guys(sad day)

 

[BR549]

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I poked a stick at a hornet's nest to see if it was occupied. It was.

 

[OBJ]

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I stuck my finger in a light socket one time to see if it was hot......it was.

 

[mellowyellow]

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told my wife I hated her new hair-do

 

[Bear]

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BassMan283, roflmao! <br />

<br /><br />When I was 19 I changed the rear tyre of my Honda 500. The tyre didn't came out to the rim all the way no matter what I tried. So I went for a test ride on my favorite road. In a corner I went in too fast. No trees or big stones, just gravel and grass. Somehow I made a small dent in the gastank by the helmet. Got a nose bled and a broken clutch lever. I was fine (I thought). Got the bike started and went home.<br /><br />When I got home I washed off the drips of blood from the bike and went to bed. That was quite early, it was in the afternoon. I had a headace (from the concussion). The thing was my parents wasn't fond of me and my brother riding bikes at all. So telling them about the small crash was not a very good idea. <br />Any one had a concussion? Anyway, I woke up about one hour later feeling sick. I couldn't go to the bathroom. I didn't want them to hear what was going on and start asking questions. So I went down to the basement. I had two choices, the bathtub or the washing machine. I didn't want to mess up the bathtub so I opened the washing machine and threw up! <br /><br />I went up again. First I had to close the door to the basement. I couldn't find the door. (It was wide open.) So I got a chair from the kitchen and placed it in the doorway and went to bed and slept for 18 hours.<br /><br />Well, my dad was home all the time. Watching what I was doing. I don't remember was he was thinking. After all he was glad I wasn't drinking and driving or doing any drugs. He took care of the washing machine while I was sleeping <br />Mother wasn't told until much later. <br /><br />Some of my friends really like to remind me of this story. That's alright. It was me who told them. <br /><br />My brother was almost killed in a motorcycle accident a few years later. (Cerebral haemorrhage.) He had another crash just 10 months later but not a even a scrath on his helmet. We where wild back then. But none of his accidents was his fault. That is another story. He is fine today. Our Mom too <br /><br />We did some racing in the streets. Soo stupid thing to do but we got away with it. Everyone did'nt. <br /><br />One more, short one. I had a Suzuki DR 500 (SP 500 in US). One sunday morning going to work in the city I was pulling first gear wheelies between the redlights. Great fun! Now let's change to second gear while the front wheel still is in the air. Wow! No to high. It is to high! Ok now what? Footbrake! To late. Me and my bike side by side doing 50 mph. Got up on my feets running before I did stop. Hope no one saw that. Sure, only about 50-60 people. Bike was fine, rear light was gone of course. Got it started right away and ready for take off. When I let out the clutch I noticed the front wheel (not the handlebar) was pointing far left. A lamppost took care of that.<br /><br />Still got my '80 Kawasaki KZ750E. 75,000 miles on the clock by me. The '81 Suzuki 500 I drove for 15,000 miles. Mostly during the winter. The '73 Honda 500 about 40,000 miles and also had a german '73 Zündapp 125 cc for 20,000 miles.<br /><br />I got two kids so no more wild stuff for me. <br /><br />Play it safe you all!

 

[crab bait]

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as a kid ,, we used to run head first into trees .. the hardest & the most won the days contest.. i won the title 'KING KNOTSALOT'many a time...dont believe me,, just feel my head...

 

[roscoe]

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After reading these stories, I think I'll stop taking the advice I find on this site. <br /><br />I have NEVER done anything like this.<br /><br />Well, ok, for starters I bought the wrong house...for in the wrong place...for the wrong WOMAN!<br /><br />Put car in reverse and floored it at 40mph.<br /><br />Decided to sit back and eat a sandwich while fishing, threw new rod and reel in lake to get it out of my way??<br /><br />Drove snowmobile head-on into the only tree in a field?<br /><br />Plugged vacume into extention cord in the dark, misaligned plugs and current ran thru my hand to complete curcuit. THEN did it again to show dad the funny sound the vacume would make with me as part of the wiring. Got a much bigger jolt the second time.<br /><br />The list goes on and on, but I'm trying to forget these things.

 

[Scoop]

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I changed a tire on my Mom and Dad's car. It was a 1975 Oldsmobile 98 (big car). I forgot to put a block on the front wheels and jacked up the back with its bumper jack. I got the wheel off and the car started to roll forward. I grabbed a hold of the car and held it on the jack while screaming for my Mom. She finally heard me and came out to put a block in front of the wheels.<br /><br />I was doing some of my standard fire tricks one night. I had a small burning can of gas in my hand which I threw in back of me before it got too hot to hold. Unfortunately it bounced and hit the full 5 gallon gas can behind me. A little leftover fuel spilled out onto the 5 gallon can and immediately lit on fire. Luckily the 5 gallon can was fully closed and I put the fire out. I know it was all stupid, but what was the most stupid? Lighting the 5 gallon can on fire, or running towards it and trying to put the fire out?

 

[miloman]

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I was about 10 maybe 11 a bunch of us kids thought it would be fun to make rockets. We dug a hole about 12 in to a side of a steep hill fit into the hole old tin cans that were about 10 inches put gas stolen from the lawnmover into the bottom of the can inserted empty arosol cans lite the gas made a cannon. First few great then on one it shot out hit a parked police car who was watching us the whole time. need I say more!<br />Cliff by my parent cottage about 15 feet high deep water great place to jump off did it a million timeas as a kid. last summer as an adult I jumped off feet first need I tell you how the boys felt

 

[Bart Sr.]

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ROSCOE...Keep jolting yourself and you'll forget!!!!!!

 

[ebbtide176]

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lmao - MYellow<br /><br />went to get the last of the boxes from moving. they were at a friends. loaded into the back of my pickup. driving home, it started raining. drove into garage, pulled down attic ladder, started taking the boxes up. <br />-got all up there, even though i had no flooring then, just sitting them on the joists. saved the heaviest for last. it was full of lead it seemed like. stepping across on the rafters, the box started falling apart. this caused me to misstep, and fell thru the sheetrock! one leg down, did the splits like an olympic gymnist, however my body had never been to that limit... it took me 10 minutes to get up. i spoke in a higher tone for 3 days. <br /><br />had great fun framing out a new square between the rafters and mudding it back in...