mnwildpunk Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Ok what is something really dumb you have done in your life? When I was 16 maybe 17 I decided to jack my ford ltd up to change the rear brakes. It had the old style bumper jack. I picked the worst spot on the drivway to do this. The spot I picked had like a 30° angle upwards (ya you see where this is going) half way through the job I learned about a little thing called gravity lol. thank the good lord I was not near the car at the time. I just remember my mom running out in a panic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I've done way too many stupid things to count, some hugely stupid ones, and remembering some of them makes me cringe. Over the years, I've learned it's actually better to think carefully BEFORE committing to a life-changing course of action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent G Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I volunteered for jump school. 'nuff said? G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quick GMC Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Probably the dumbest one was riding on the back of a car. When I was 16, me and a friend rode on the back of another friend's car. We were draped over the back window, holding on to the sun roof. It was less than a mile from the school to our house. Going around a long sweeping turn, My friend pushed off of me for leverage. I went off the side and the sidewall of the tire nicked my face. I tumbled head over heels and every time I would come around I could see my shoe in the air. By the time I stopped flipping, my shoe was 50 yards away. I could see the bone in my finger, my pants were shredded and I had road rash and there was a pink streak in the road from my burgundy sweater that had somehow went over my head and protected me. The best part about this? I went home and my dad was there. He said what the hell happened to you? I told him I was riding my skateboard down the concrete wash, got speed wobbles and fell down the wash. He said BS, it looks like you fell off a @*&BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH car! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Hearse Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Probably the dumbest one was riding on the back of a car. When I was 16, me and a friend rode on the back of another friend's car. We were draped over the back window, holding on to the sun roof. It was less than a mile from the school to our house. Going around a long sweeping turn, My friend pushed off of me for leverage. I went off the side and the sidewall of the tire nicked my face. I tumbled head over heels and every time I would come around I could see my shoe in the air. By the time I stopped flipping, my shoe was 50 yards away. I could see the bone in my finger, my pants were shredded and I had road rash and there was a pink streak in the road from my burgundy sweater that had somehow went over my head and protected me. The best part about this? I went home and my dad was there. He said what the hell happened to you? I told him I was riding my skateboard down the concrete wash, got speed wobbles and fell down the wash. He said BS, it looks like you fell off a @*&###### car! You didn't happen to live in the San Clemente area by any chance did you? I had 2 friends who sat on the back window frame as I drove. It was either a Plymouth Duster or Dodge Demon I was driving... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quick GMC Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 You didn't happen to live in the San Clemente area by any chance did you? I had 2 friends who sat on the back window frame as I drove. It was either a Plymouth Duster or Dodge Demon I was driving... No, but it was Southern California. Something in the water makes us retarded when we're young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsDano85gt Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I need to go searching for my mustang hood!! i used some pody filler/ putty and the fumes on that stuff i had to put the work outside i also painted a mustang hood as well left them out yesterday night got home at dark and saw my mustang body in the doorjam of he patio doors but no HOOD!! Zoikks!! the wind was whipping last night needless to say i need to bundle up and go outside in daylight searching for my hood lol otherwise i'm going to have a hoodless foxbody!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonW Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I once thought it would look great to cover a wall socket with a gold Benson and Hedges cigarette packet. When I put the plug in, there was a big flash and the power circuit blew. Gold foil conducts electricity! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 No, but it was Southern California. Something in the water makes us retarded when we're young I think that may be universal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I have to get into the wayback machine to answer this one. I still remember to this day what happened. We lived a half block away from a city park. The park had several long, fairly steep sidewalks... like a long, steep driveway. For some reason I thought it would be fun to get to the top of one of those hills. turn my tricycle around, take my feet off the pedals, close my eyes, and roll down the hill. It didn't end well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quick GMC Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I have to get into the wayback machine to answer this one. I still remember to this day what happened. We lived a half block away from a city park. The park had several long, fairly steep sidewalks... like a long, steep driveway. For some reason I thought it would be fun to get to the top of one of those hills. turn my tricycle around, take my feet off the pedals, close my eyes, and roll down the hill. It didn't end well. I don't know what's worse, eating it at the bottom of the hill, or trying to put your foot back on the pedal which is now the churning grinder of death. Oh yeah, I knocked my front teeth out. We made a huge bike ramp and I used my cousins bike. At the time, you weren't cool unless you took the pads off your BMX bike. Being the qualified engineers we were at 10, we propped up some boards at the bottom of a hill. No slope or ramp, just a violent lift off. I caught some SERIOUS air, and ate the handlebars on the way down. I now have 6 veneers and 2 crowns. I'm just lucky my cousin is an oral surgeon or I'd be living in a trash can Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf15 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I have to admit that during my younger years I pulled some crazy stunts , always controlled , mind you , but still nuts ! This one came back to haunt me years later ..... Late teens , we camped out on the banks of French Creek quite often . This particular trip , we took our younger brothers along with us . Spanning the creek was a very tall girder bridge which the local kids all jumped off of , using the deck or the railing as a launch pad . We did it a few times , naturally , I became bored with the same old , same old ..... I started eyeing up the structure and smiling . my blood brother , Bobby , seeing this , said , " Don't even think about it ! " I looked back at him and started to climb , laughing as I went . Remember when I said controlled ? I knew that the creek was at least 25 ft deep dead center of the bridge so that's where I headed ! There must have been 20 of us there that day and you could have heard a pin drop when I went off the top of that bridge in a front layout . I zipped in , went to the bottom , lightly touched the creek bed and launched myself back to the surface . I surfaced to sound of bedlam ! Lol ! That was just the beginning .... I graduated to 1 1/2 somersaults in the open pike position and went on from there ! Fast forward several decades later ..... We had bought acreage up over the hill and went on a sight seeing tour , my dad , my two brothers and myself . We come down off the back half of the property and lo and behold , there is the creek and the aforementioned bridge in all their glory ! The old man stood there gazing up at the bridge and made a comment as to the fact that the bridge stood uncommonly high for that era of construction . The kid brother , darling that he is , then opens his big mouth ! " Hey , Pop , ask your oldest son how high it is , he used to do 1 1/2 ' s off the top of it ! " I tried to hunch my shoulders , but it was to late ! The slap came out of nowhere , right between the back of my ears , echoing through the trees and off the bridge piers . " Dumb *** " was his only comment ! No matter how hard you try to avoid it , the past always comes back to haunt you ! Especially , when you have to deal with big mouthed siblings ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I don't know what's worse, eating it at the bottom of the hill, or trying to put your foot back on the pedal which is now the churning grinder of death. Oh yeah, I knocked my front teeth out. We made a huge bike ramp and I used my cousins bike. At the time, you weren't cool unless you took the pads off your BMX bike. Being the qualified engineers we were at 10, we propped up some boards at the bottom of a hill. No slope or ramp, just a violent lift off. I caught some SERIOUS air, and ate the handlebars on the way down. I now have 6 veneers and 2 crowns. I'm just lucky my cousin is an oral surgeon or I'd be living in a trash can Churning grinder of death. Exactly! Hilarious! You should be a writer, you really have a knack for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I have to get into the wayback machine to answer this one. I still remember to this day what happened. We lived a half block away from a city park. The park had several long, fairly steep sidewalks... like a long, steep driveway. For some reason I thought it would be fun to get to the top of one of those hills. turn my tricycle around, take my feet off the pedals, close my eyes, and roll down the hill. It didn't end well. I bet you were the only kid on the block that had a tricycle with mirrors ! : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I bet you were the only kid on the block that had a tricycle with mirrors ! : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnwildpunk Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 Don I know that slap. Harry I agree he should be a writer I laughed quite hard over the churning grinder of death comment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Hearse Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 No, but it was Southern California. Something in the water makes us retarded when we're young Yup... But I think we were trying to impress the girls with the notion of "let's see if I can do something really stupid, and then show the ladies how cool I was to get up and walk away... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf15 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Don I know that slap. Harry I agree he should be a writer I laughed quite hard over the churning grinder of death comment I'm 57 years old and that slap is still put to use on occasion ! Isn't there a statue of limitations on past transgressions ? As for the " grinding pedals of death " ? Yep ! The shins still bear the scars ! Lol ! You'd think that Schwin and Mattel would have taken our craziness into consideration during development . The bikes always broke behind the gooseneck and the Big Wheel's body always broke right in front of the rear wheels on impact . The serious " air " was always a rush , the one point landing on your head ..... Eh , not so much .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Hearse Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 My biggest wipe out would have to be the time I was riding my BMX bike through the city park. They had a rose garden that had a dirt path that ended at a set of steps. Right before the steps it dipped down, and when you lifted the bike, you could get into the air about 8 feet. At the bottom of the steps, was solid concrete. I peddled the bike as fast as I could, hit the dip, flew into the air like an eagle, and then watched the front tire fall off in mid air... The landing was NOT pretty... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf15 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 It's not always youthful folly ..... Harry ,my next door neighbor's mental chandelier had more than it's share of burnt out bulbs .... It had snowed 30 plus inches and was still coming down like rain ! Several of my buddies and myself took the kids out sled riding . We were sledding down the side street hill , crossing the street , and ending up in my buddy Jim's yard . The wives were down at the bottom of the hill to keep an eye out for vehicles , but as I said , nothing was moving anywhere , vehicle wise . Earlier in the day , the older kids had been snow boarding down the hill on the right side , turning their boards sideways to stop across the street . In doing so , they had turned the right side of the hill into a sheet of ice and formed a large hump at the opposite curb . We were running the kids down the left side when O'l Harry showed up . " Run the right side , Man ! " , he said . I told him it was solid ice with no way to stop at the bottom . " Watch this , Dude ! " he said . He jumped onto a toboggan and was down the hill in a half a heartbeat ! As we watched in fascination , he zipped across the street and then hit the aforementioned hump , launching him into the air , flip and flopping over top the fence in Jimmy's yard , screaming at the top of his lungs as he went . Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ..... Wummmph ! Big puff of snow , total silence ! Except , of coarse , our hysterical laughter . We literally laughed until we cried , I mean , it hurt ! Several minutes later , here comes Harry up the hill , and he's Poed ! " Could'a come and checked on me , man , I could'a been hurt , ya know ? " Jimmy said , " Sorry , Dude , too busy laughing ! " Jimmy's son , Riley , whose cartoon hero at age 4 was Bugs Bunny , looked up at Harry , pointed at him and said " What a Moroon ! " Cue the hysterical laughter track ....... Again ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Great story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disabled modeler Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I once tried to go up a wet muddy hill on a three wheeler(WAY TOO WET)made it to the edge of the top and started sliding backwards fast into a barbwire fence fast enough to knock it down which wrapped itself around me like a blanket after 30 foot or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin T Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Ok I think I might win the stupid idea contest. When I was 12 a good friend of mine dared me to ride down the huge set of hills we had at my old place,but to do it in an old little tikes car. Ya know the red and yellow ones meant for kids 5 and under. By the time I got in both legs were propped out the side windows and my head was sideways against the roof, needless to say I was a tad to large for it. So anyways my friend gives me a good shove and away I go. All is going great till I get to the bottom of the hill and I hit a small trench that we had dug a few weeks back.By the time the spinning and flipping ended the car was on it's roof and I was pretty stuck in it. I ended up having to cut off the roof to get out. Needless to say I learned my lesson that day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthehobbyguy Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Thanks guys for some good laughs. These are some great stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quick GMC Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I am kind of a writer, for far less interesting stuff. The girls were in the car and there was no more room. Proof they are smarter than us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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