Laugh at ourselves

[Custom Hearse]

I remember the time that I broke the leash on a surfboard. I decided to wait until the next day to purchase a new one. I got out into the wave sets, and on the very first one, I caught a beautiful 6 foot curl. The wave was closing out, so I decided to shoot the board off the peak of the wave. I dove in, and resurfaced, looked around, and couldn't find the board. About a half a second later, I was seeing stars. The board dropped out of the sky, and the skeg(the fin on the back of the board), smacked me on the head... I calmly paddled to shore, packed my gear, and headed straight to the surf shop to buy a new leash.

[mnwildpunk]

Oh ouch that is something I want to try before I die the surfing part not getting hit in the head with a skeg part. Lol.

That story reminded me of the of the time I was flying across the lake in my boat and I hit an underwater rock tore the skeg off and chewed the prop up good thank god the lower unit stayed together but boy is that a sudden stop. Funny thing is we went over that same spot many times before

Edited March 6, 2014 by mnwildpunk

[Pete J.]

Pete J., on 04 Mar 2014 - 10:42 PM, said:

Carrier landing with a bunch of jarhead pilots at the O club in U Tapao. If you know what I am talking about I have already said too much!

Semper Fi, do or die, gung ho, ouhh rahh, aye aye sir!

I never made it there, but I did visit Tan Son Nhut.

I also am a member of the Subic Bay Yacht Club, which is also a story for when the kiddies go to bed.

G

Then you can understand the fun that ensued when the jarheads walked into a bar occupied by a bunch of us Air Force types! All in good fun, and no harm done after a couple of quick trips to the Flight surgeons office for stitches for all.

[Tom Geiger]

I was a pretty cautious kid but I still dreamed up those crazy stunts. For those I had my stunt man, Jimmy McGuire. I'd be wondering if you could ride a tricycle down a flight of concrete steps, no problem to get Jimmy to try it! Then I'd watch him tumble end over end and the trike landing on his head! As he ran off all bloody and crying to his mother, I'd just stand there and think, "Hmmm, so that's what would happen."

[A.R.C.]

This is a great thread! Honestly one of the better threads I`ve been part of on any message board. It`s good to see that no matter where you go in this world, race, creed or color, when it comes to doing dumbass things were all universally stupid.

[mnwildpunk]

You end saying to someone at the end of it well it seemed like a good idea at the time

[1930fordpickup]

First off I posted this in the wrong topic !

20 some years ago I had to make a late Friday afternoon run for work. It was 200 miles round trip from the shop. I was driving an 85 Dodge heavy 3/4 ton truck. I headed out after lunch (not happy about it )but it was my job to deliver the Molds. I had a date so I was a bit heavy on the gas coming home. It was pouring down rain and my dumb butt was passing everyone. Well as I was getting closer to the shop in time to not be late for my date the front and back of the truck decided to swap ends many times at 65 to 70 on the express way . I have no idea how many times it went around,after three times I lost count. Well I backed it into the ditch on the right side ( praise the lord) . No roll over , just took out two reflector poles . Well as I tried to drive up out of the ditch I was a few feet short of making it out. The nicest guy in the world pulled me out , and wound not take money . Man was I shaking like a leaf in a storm. The only thing that happened to the truck was the flat plate for the hitch was bent down a bit. Boy did I have to wash some grass off the side of the truck that night . I never said a word about it .

[1930fordpickup]

Speaking if boats Dave . I was on vacation in Canada fishing. It was a fly in trip. I was driving the boat up a feeder creek . After many times of cleaning the prop of seaweed Bill ( the 65 year old camp clown) was telling me were all the stumps and rocks were at . He was getting tired of the slow speed and kept telling me to go faster . Clear ahead lets go, around a corner and he is waving his arms like crazy at the front , well I turned the tiller the wrong way to wide open. We landed on the top of the rock , the engine wide open with me in the center of the boat and Bill almost out of the front. I shut the engine off and we started to laugh for 5 minutes. This was a 14 foot boat with a 7 hoarse engine stuck on a rock 1 hour from camp . Bill had to get out of the boat to lift the front off the rock while I was in the back .

[Custom Hearse]

I was a pretty cautious kid but I still dreamed up those crazy stunts. For those I had my stunt man, Jimmy McGuire. I'd be wondering if you could ride a tricycle down a flight of concrete steps, no problem to get Jimmy to try it! Then I'd watch him tumble end over end and the trike landing on his head! As he ran off all bloody and crying to his mother, I'd just stand there and think, "Hmmm, so that's what would happen."

DANG Tom! I wish I had thought of that. I'd probably wouldn't be feeling as much of old age as I do now, AND, I could've started some fool... I mean kid on a career path to being a stunt man when he grew up!!!

[Tom Geiger]

Since we've graduated to stupid car tricks...

When I was 17 my best friend was Gregg. He was one of those guys who didn't know squat about anything, but would tell you something with such confidence that you believed him. Gregg had bought a 1967 Mustang that had been sitting for a while. It needed a transmission and he got it for $100 or so. He needed to get it home, about 15 miles, and decided to tow it with his '66 Impala. Of course he has no proper gear to do so. He pulls a seat belt out of the car and bolts the two mounting ends together. he then wrapped one end around the Impala rear bumper and the other end around the Mustang front bumper. Then he simply buckled it. When I questioned this, he confidently told me that seat belts were made to withstand 5000 pounds of pressure. And I believed him.

So the plan was that he'd tow the Mustang and I'd ride in it. I was the brakes. Anytime needed, he'd give me the "brake" signal out the drivers window. So we tried this on the development street going maybe 15mph. It worked. So we headed out onto the main road. Now I anticipated going maybe 15-20mph. With the seat belt length, I was so close to the Chevy I couldn't see the tail lights. Gregg gets going and starts going faster and faster and I'm getting nervous. A car pulls out ahead of him and I hit the brakes. That worked. Now he's getting more and more stupid confident. He hits 40-45mph and we're sailing. The Mustang didn't have a battery so I didn't have a horn to beep at him. So I'm trying to drag him down a bit with the brakes, which only had him trying to go faster. I'm in a panic and he thinks this is funny.

We get up to the corner where we need to make a right turn in town. He signals for me to brake, but I've heated up the brakes so much from trying to slow him down, I don't have enough brake to slow this freight train down enough to make the turn. He does it anyway. There is a huge SNAP and the seat belt has broke. Now I'm sailing free from the Impala and I manage to steer the car through a pharmacy parking lot and I hit the curb at the end of it. Dragging the brakes all the way. As I hit the curb with a bang, a mouse nest that was in the sagging headliner drops down on me and baby mice scramble.

What we didn't realize was there was a cop sitting on the corner who saw the whole thing. He comes up to the Mustang and sees me sitting there covered in mouse nest and just starts laughing. He yells at the two of us as to what idiots we were and called a tow truck (as Gregg should have done to begin with) to take the car the rest of the way home. No tickets, no accidents and no injuries or death. Amen.

[Custom Hearse]

Ya "squeeked" by on that one Tom...

[mnwildpunk]

Oh my word Tom thank you so much for the huge belly laugh. It was a great way to start the morning! A seat belt is a new one to me I have seen chain, rope extentsion cord, even a tire to push the car in front but the winner of the dumbest idea award goes to my buddy Charlie who tried making a rope out of duct tape and tow a car with a 10 hp lawn tractor. I hate using this pharse but it is only thing that fits "EPIC FAIL!!!!"

Edited March 7, 2014 by mnwildpunk

[Tom Geiger]

Ya "squeeked" by on that one Tom...

Yea, pretty much used up one of my 9 lives on that episode!

[mnwildpunk]

Ya "squeeked" by on that one Tom...

good pun nice and subtle

[Harry P.]

I was a pretty cautious kid but I still dreamed up those crazy stunts. For those I had my stunt man, Jimmy McGuire. I'd be wondering if you could ride a tricycle down a flight of concrete steps...

Funny, but reading your post I got a flashback memory... I tried the same thing! The building we lived in when I was a kid had a basement that was five concrete steps down from ground level (yes, after all these years I specifically remember five steps)...

Anyway, what I found out that day was that, no, you cannot successfully ride a tricycle down a flight of concrete steps!

What was it with me, tricycles, and stupidity? Between the concrete steps and that fiasco at the city park, it's a wonder that I had the nerve to ever ride a bike again!

[Ju Ju]

For some reason I find it more enjoyable to laugh at other people more than laughing at my self.