"Fun" Times

So, yeah. I do some strange things for recreation, and recently it almost killed me:

http://staff.washington.edu/obadiah/Colchuck/Colchuck.htm

Anyone else got good near-death experiences to share?

Cool story. Too bad it had to be true. I have never done any REAL big climbing (never needed crampons even) I can't imagine 5.7

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
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Near-death experiences? I haven't done enough... Almost fell over the edge of the grand canyon, but that's about it.

Not too much to tell, I rolled a 94 Plymouth Acclaim off a road at 55mph.

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

No time tonight but, my son always says to me "Dad, tell me some of the stupid things you did as a kid"

He know from past experience that that question always leads to fits of uncontrollable laughter. Seems children have a tough time imagining their parents as children... Let alone accident prone ones.

I once wrapped the tail hairs of a year old bull calf around my hand and hit the bull on the ass with a stick.... Never do that. :eek:

Nite-nite folks.
XXXOOOXXX

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The best things in life, aren't things.

I once wrapped the tail hairs of a year old bull calf around my
hand and hit the bull on the ass with a stick.... Never do that. :eek:

The snarkpit doesn't have a suggestive-enough smiley to portray how hard i'm laughing right now . So, what happened?

I ran, really fast.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

see that fellas?...ya cant get that kind of experience from a book... :wink:

Doc B... :dodgy:

When I was 4 I inserted a rusty nail into an electric plug. My right
forefinger got fried from its tip, so I guess I was lucky... :biggrin:

For US citizens: Do not try this at home!

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

When I was 4 I inserted a rusty nail into an electric plug. My right
forefinger got fried from its tip, so I guess I was lucky... :biggrin:

For US citizens: Do not try this at home!

Believe it or not I did the very same thing at the same age :biggrin:
It's my earliest memory.

lol. Had you not done it, maybe you would remember before then.

I stuck a nail in a US socket once, I was trying to adapt a large computer fan to a 110v outlet. lol.

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

lol. Had you not done it, maybe you would remember before then.

The base voltage in here is 230V. :biggrin: Here's a little fact for you: The
amount of electricity that kills human being is 30mA(milliampers), but
of course that amount must go through your heart before its bye bye
time.

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

Bah. My life is too boring to have anything life threatening in
it :/ I have enough trouble catching foot balls without running
for cover.

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

pfftt....the screwups ive committed in my life are too numerous to count....

lets see....12 years old, blowing up model cars with firecrackers.....one popped, and lit the thing on fire in the backyard....i thought, "cool"....ive seen my dad get the barbecue going many times by squirting the lighter fluid in there.....hmm....i grabbed a gas can, dumped some gas on the model.....and man, that flame jumped right into the can.....i reacted by tossing it across the back yard, watching the burning gas flying everywhere in the yard....i about s**t myself.....and then mom to the rescue....saw the glow in the dusklight, ran to the yard hose and commenced to hosing down the yard.....yay mom....

she grounded me for a month... :/....but my dad said "he wanted to kill me"....does that qualify? :heee:

Doc B... :dodgy:

ps, i have a bunch of em....

I was hiking up a slightly less intense mountain than tracer, and I stopped to get somethign to drink, One of my friends was heading up the trail towards me, so I stepped to the side of the trail into some brush. Almost istantly I heard some really loud rattling. I didn't know what it was at first, but then my friends starting running yelling "Sh*t! rattlesnake." It seems that I had come inches away from stepping on a rattlesnake nest with two full grow snakes in it. Luckily they just rattled instead of bit. I probably would have died if they bit me becuase I was in teh middle of no where on top of a mountain. Probaly the scariest thing that ever happened to me. I was in New Jersey too, which isn't supposed to have rattle snakes.

I was on the hiking on the AT and ran out of food. but we camped
with some kids who cooked about 10 pounds of mac n/ cheese so we were
able to eat, and the next day we got off the trail and into town.

something about being out in the middle of nowhere and having no food is a bad feeling tho.

Me and my girlfriend were cycling, and we stopped to cross the road. I swear, there was nothing to be seen near, so we thought it was safe. While we're crossing, some tuned-up VW playing techno music accelerates immensely, and misses my girlfriend's bike at 2 inches. I was so scared, pissed and happy nothing happened.

If I ever see that guy again, I'll piss on his car seats. After I kill him.

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

Me and my girlfriend were cycling, and we stopped to cross the
road. I swear, there was nothing to be seen near, so we thought it was
safe. While we're crossing, some tuned-up VW playing techno music
accelerates immensely, and misses my girlfriend's bike at 2 inches. I
was so scared, pissed and happy nothing happened.

If I ever see that guy again, I'll piss on his car seats. After I kill him.

I first read: "I was so scared, I pissed my pants happily." I guess I should sleep more... :biggrin:

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

My dad has almost been killed by his parents for various reasons. One of them was for bringing home a Zeppelin album :biggrin:

I was hiking up a slightly less intense mountain than tracer, and I stopped to get somethign to drink, One of my friends was heading up the trail towards me, so I stepped to the side of the trail into some brush. Almost istantly I heard some really loud rattling. I didn't know what it was at first, but then my friends starting running yelling "Sh*t! rattlesnake." It seems that I had come inches away from stepping on a rattlesnake nest with two full grow snakes in it. Luckily they just rattled instead of bit. I probably would have died if they bit me becuase I was in teh middle of no where on top of a mountain. Probaly the scariest thing that ever happened to me. I was in New Jersey too, which isn't supposed to have rattle snakes.

Man, you guys bring up all my surpressed memories. There's like one snake in Austria that's actually highly toxic. I happened to nearly step on it. My father (who is the only one who actually knew what kind of snake it was) screamed something and I held my foot about 10 cm above the thing. It was in the middle of nowhere, too. I think things like that always happen in the middle of nowhere.

i don't think i've really done anything that brought me that near to death, though i have caught baby copperheads (one of the 2 types of venemous snakes in south Missouri) with only a glove and a stick, which is a really stupid thing to do
baby venemous snakes are worse than adults because they can't deal out their venom in doses but let it all go at once, never been bit once though

My snake has no teeth :smile:

My snake has no teeth :smile:

I think ladies will appreciate that... :razz:

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

I knew someone would make a dirty joke :smile:

But really, I have a corn snake.

...no more dirty jokes.

we caught a ring neck snake last week and made it our pool mascot but then someone left it out in the sun on the pool deck and it got fried

Yummy.

Actually I've heard snake tasted like chicken...

Aside from voluntarily sliding down a tall hill, amidst brush and
thistles, I have had no mishaps in my years of hiking and climbing, but
then I've never climbed a mountain. But then again again, there are no
mountains worth climbing in my area. D-man!

As far as snakes are concerned, I've been forced to kill a rattler my
brother provoked. Rocks and maintaining my distance, shouldn't
have done that, but I got out OK.

As far as stupid kids stuff, I've done a lot, here are the most tragic.

#1

I can't even remember when this happened, but I was allegedly
five. My mom was cleaning something using boiling hot
water. Being a stupid kid, I plunged my hand into it. To
this day I still have burn scars on my right hand, one a little bigger
than a dime, the other roughly the size of a nickel. Stupid kids.

#2

Playing Tarzan, as kids are prone to do, I missed a branch, falling
wrist-first onto a tree branch, breaking my left wrist. You'd be
surprised how hard those things are!

#3

We have a zip-line at my house, and I was using it. Suddenly I
had the bright idea of putting my finger in-between the wheel and rope
of the zip-line. My right index finger had a good deal of sking ripped
off, and I started screaming learned a lesson. Stupid kids.

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying

Well, I was snowboarding, hit a bit of a glitch, ended up backflipping off the side of a run, and landed sitting down. However, my upper body still had some momentum going, and I flew forward and smashed my face into the edge of my snowboard. Now any snowboarder knows that a good board has a super sharp edge, as mine did. I smashed up my face, broke my nose, fractured my cheek, and worst of all bloodied my board.

1 surgery later and I'm good as new! Still have a scar on my nose where the edge hit me good though.

I consider this a near death experience even though the person who almost died wasn't me.

Here's the situation: An easy/flat ski trail winds around the bend of a mountain. On the right side of the trail the mountain goes down about 10 or so feet, and then acends up rapidly, and on the left side of the trail the mountain goes down to the bottom in a bowl. Thus it forms a natural sort of jump that goes across the trail.

Me and my friends thought it would be a cool idea to hike up the right, ski/snowboard down, jump across the trail and land on the far side. All was going well, and we were pulling cool tricks and getting lots of air.

After a couple tries, when I was going down and gaining speed, all of a sudden a guy comes skiing around the bend. I was going fast and didn't see him until the last second, so I didn't have time to react. Anyways I took the jump right when he was passing by, and my skis passed about 2 inches in front of his nose traveling at probably 35+ miles/hr. A second sooner and his head would have been impaled on my skis. )-:

Weird thing is, after I landed and came back to talk to him, he wasn't angry at all, he thought it was cool. The conversation went something like this (dont remember the exact words):
Him: "Whoa, that was way cool dude!"
Me: "I almost killed you there..."
Him: "Yeah rock on."
And then he kept skiing down the easy trail, while I was pretty shaken up by the experience.

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I have been struck by a car on more then one occasion

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Nickelplate is my dad

Maybe you should stop walking in front of them :razz:

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...or look before you go. :razz:

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

French Toast said:
Actually I've heard snake tasted like chicken...

Considering that the snake evolved first, I am speculating that the taste similarity is all snake in origin. :biggrin:

Another "Dad, tell me some of the dumb things you did as a kid..." story.

Up to age 10, I lived in Phoenix. Just before we moved, my dad was a superintendent for a trailer park. The land lord wanted to replace all the mattresses from every trailer. Lucky us, the kids got the old ones to play with.

We took 15 or 20 odd mattresses and piled them under a very tall tree and thought, "Jumping won't be to bad, the things are really soft"

Well, to make a long story short, we were only partially correct. Soft was OK, if you landed center. If you landed off center, the cushion tended to thrust you sideways with a large amount of unspent energy... The second landing on the dirt was... Less comfy. :eek:

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The best things in life, aren't things.