Today my friends and I where sitting around doing nothing. So we went to my house. We got bored driving golf balls into my back yard. So we went into the garage. My friend david starts riding my cradle dolly like a skate board. Then a very bad idea hit me. I found a old volvo seat and went to town with the welder. About 10 minutes later we had a volvo seat with four swivel wheels under it. So we rode thing down a big hill. That was fun for a minute. We made the choice to go grab my moms element and a ski rope for a boat. Then we took our good idea to my friend deriks house. He lives on a private asphalt road with 2 very sharp corners. we tied the rope to the car and my friend put on his bran new hjc dirt bike helmet (saved his life). We start slow at first 10 mph. The we stepped it up. 35mph. We take the sharp corner doing 35 and he sling shoted to the side of the car. He let go of the rope right at his apex, so he was hauling ass. This thing has no breaks and there is a another sharp corner coming up. I slam on the brakes and derik flys in front of the element and hits dirt. The whole contraption rolls and he gets sling shoted onto the ashpault. he was just laying there motion less. We thought he was dead. He slowly rolled over and the helmet was shattered. He was also bleeding badly. so after a trip to get 17 stitches and some food we head home. At home we are going over what happened. Then all of a sudden derik falls back covering his face. My buddy david is rolling on the ground laughing his ass off. I didn't know he kicked a football and it hit derik right in the nose. After more blood on the ground from a broken nose I realize all my friends are idiots! Sorry this is sort of a rant. Anybody else have friends/ ideas similar to this? We are all close in age 17 18 and have severely screwed up our bodies. I myself have broken 9 bones.
young and dumb, playing mailbox baseball, friend "hit" one of them heavy cast mailboxes, bat bounced back stuck him in the head, he was out cold hangin out the back window of the car.
another day, we were building a potato gun, it wouldnt spark for some reason, so my friend is like "spray more into it", so got one friend spraying hairspray into it, and he is looking down into it to try and see if its sparking while clicking the hell outa the igniter..... it lit, he had a nice flashburn and no eyebrows for a few days.
another venture, i was sitting at home, get a call from my friend telling me where he is to just drive down the road slow and he will "jump in" my car, me not knowing why goes to pick him up, after passing like 10 cop cars and seeing the police chopper flying over head i hear my backdoor open, him and my other friend jump in and hide down next to the seat, so i calmly drive off and back home, apparently they got caught at his GF's house naked by her dad skinny dipping, dad called the cops with a buncha lies about breaking and entering and drugs and stuff, they never caughtthem, the girls wouldnt give the names :P -- was kinda dumn of me to pick them up with all the cops around id think?
lol dumbest thing i ever done was a few weekends ago. me and my friends went up to the mountins for the weekend to get away. we got there at around 12AM sat morning so i sat down with a bottle of 100 proof and started drinking. when i got up the next morning i was still drunk so i had a few more shots and looked out the back window and saw a speed boat. i asked my friend whats up with the boat. he said it dosent run, so i said were getting it running. so me drunk as hell goes down to the boat and starts fixin it. bout a half hour went by and i got it working so we put it in the water and took it out. my dumbass decides to tie a tube on the back of it after a few more shots i went out drunk tubing. my boy took a turn so did the tube i fell out the oppiset way bounced accross the water like 5 times and fell into that freezing cold water. it was fun as hell though.
Short of that, I fired up an engine and was wondering how quickly the exhaust manifolds heat up. I grabbed one and determined they heat up really fast. I have a tattoo on one palm as evidence.
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11:33 AM
hookdonspeed Member
Posts: 7980 From: baltimore, md Registered: May 2008
Just make sure guys that you check the statute of limitations in your state before posting stuff . Most IIRC are 7 years, unless you killed someone.
I do. And I am sure I haven't done my stupidest thing yet.
Brad
things i posted were when i was like 16, over 10yrs ago, and well, i was already charged with the baseball thing :X the other sutff i did wasnt really illegal, just stupid.
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11:36 AM
IFLYR22 Member
Posts: 1775 From: Tucson, AZ. Registered: May 2007
things i posted were when i was like 16, over 10yrs ago, and well, i was already charged with the baseball thing :X the other sutff i did wasnt really illegal, just stupid.
LOL, I was trying to forewarn others .
Been there, we ripped the bed off of a pickup when I was younger by making a "permanent mailbox wrecker", didn't stand a chance against the telephone pole though, and neither did the bed of the truck it was attached to.
Stupid stuff, i don't even know where to begin, I'll think on it a bit and post later.
I may need to call the wife and get her opinion lol.
Brad
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11:54 AM
hookdonspeed Member
Posts: 7980 From: baltimore, md Registered: May 2008
I few years ago it was happening along the country road we live on. The postal inspectors got involved and the kids were caught. The two under age kids had to pay restitution, got heavy fines and probation. The kids that were over 18 were charged in federal court and went away someplace not very nice. The postal inspectors don't play around when it comes to the US mail.
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12:59 PM
hookdonspeed Member
Posts: 7980 From: baltimore, md Registered: May 2008
driving like 25mph hanging out of a car window trying to hit the mailbox, taking a gamble on its not one of them"solid" ones that will wreck your day, its a thrill...
we always made sure to avoid the fancy designer ones, as they are rather expensive and sometimes handmade,,, that and some of htem are just damned cool :P
edit: yea, i know bout the fines and all, i wouldnt dare do it now that im over18...
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blackrams Member
Posts: 33143 From: Covington, TN, USA Registered: Feb 2003
One winter me and my buddies took the hood off a old Caddy and tied up behind a 4wd pickup and headed out into the snow coverd field, I bet we had that thing up to 50 mph before we made the first turn and realized that it would cause the "sled" to start passing the truck and putting slack in the rope. The driver wasnt watching close enough and never slowed down, when the slack in the rope was taken back up it come out from under us sent it flying and smashed the taillights out of the truck. We also found out if you whip around in figure 8s with to long of rope you get ran over. Did I mention we did all this in the dark?
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reverend Member
Posts: 131 From: Xenia Ohio USA Registered: Aug 2008
A long time ago, I was helping my Dad cut down some trees at my aunt's house. He climbed up a tree and tied a rope from the treetop to the trailer hitch on the pickup. Dad told me to get in the truck and keep tension on the rope while he cut the tree. He told me that when he yelled go, I was to floor the gas and take off. I was about 13 and not a good driver with a stickshift. When Dad yelled go I floored it and dumped the clutch. Stalled the engine. The tree landed on the truck tailgate. I threw a wheelie with a stalled engine. It was funny at the time and we both laughed, hard. If the tree was 5 feet taller I would have been crushed.
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$Rich$ Member
Posts: 14575 From: Sioux Falls SD Registered: Dec 2002
100 plus over the speed limit on the highway in a car and on a bike (no helmet)
in the car,.... slowed down to about 40 and the tire blew, if it would have blew a few sec earlier im sure i would not be here
on the bike it was while passing a Hi-PO
ive lied to my wife once about sleeping with one of her co-workers (we were not together or married at the time, but she asked about it after we were married... never lie to your wife....
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12:16 AM
NEPTUNE Member
Posts: 10199 From: Ticlaw FL, and some other places. Registered: Aug 2001
I'm pretty sure this is fiction. But it seems to fit here, and I hope you all enjoy it:
"We have the standard 6 ft. Fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city. To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a single wire along the top of the fence.
Actually, I got the biggest cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence. I then used an 8 ft. Long ground rod, and drove it 7.5 feet into the ground.
The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground,the better the fence works.
One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapoWal-Mart 6 hp big wheel push mower. The hot wire is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way.
It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all.
Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand and the 1.7 giga-volt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover. Time stood still.
The first thing I notice is my pecker trying to climb up the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs & Stratton rolled over,I could feel the spark in my head. I was literally at one with the engine. It seems as though the fence charger and the piece of **** lawnmower were fighting over who would control my electrical impulses.
Science says you cannot crap, pee, and vomit at the same time. I beg to differ. Not only did I do all three at once, but my bowels emptied 3 different times in less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back and BAM BAMBAM you just crap your pants 3 times. It seemed like there were minutes in between but in reality it was so close together it was like exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand.
At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can't let go. I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences..... but Dad always had those piece of crap chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9 volts and just kinda tickled.. This one I could not let go of. The 8 foot long ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the permadamp Ark-La-Tex river bottom soil. At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas.' Damn!,' I think, as I remember I just filled the tank!
Now the lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it. Covered in poop, pee, and with my vomit on my chest I think 'Oh God please die...Pleeeeaze'. But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy cam idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam rat motor waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot.
So here I am in the middle of July,104 degrees, 80% humidity, standing in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day..... He left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own stupidity had created.
I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire...I woke up laying on the ground hours later... The lawnmowerwas beside me, out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was sunburned.
There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot where the wire had laid while I was on the ground still holding on to it. I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing had somehow let go of the wire. Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things:
1- Three of my teeth seem to have melted.
2- I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek (not the left, just the right).
3- Poop, pee, and vomit when all mixed together, do not smell as bad as you might think.
4- My left eye will not open.
5- My right eye will not close.
6- The lawnmower runs like a sumbitch now. Seriously! I think our little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was better than new after that.
7- My nuts are still smaller than average yet they are almost a foot long.
8- I can turn on the TV in the game room by farting while thinking of the number 4 (I still don't understand this?).
That day changed my life. I now have a newfound respect for things. I appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make sure the fence is unplugged before I mow.
The good news, is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check before I mow." __________________ Don, has something like this this ever happened to you?
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12:20 AM
87antuzzi Member
Posts: 11151 From: Surrounded by corn. Registered: Feb 2009
I got drunk and passed out peacefully on a couch at a party and woke up the next morning 200 miles away in a public restroom naked just outside chicago.
Yes they left me there.
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hookdonspeed Member
Posts: 7980 From: baltimore, md Registered: May 2008
I got drunk and passed out peacefully on a couch at a party and woke up the next morning 200 miles away in a public restroom naked just outside chicago.
Yes they left me there.
LOMFL, sounds like something we woulda did
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hookdonspeed Member
Posts: 7980 From: baltimore, md Registered: May 2008
Electric fence shockers don't put out a continuous shock. They are pulsed. They used to have what appeared to be a flasher, now it's all solid state. It's about a 1/2 second on, 1 second off repeating pulse. It hits you once and you are almost forced to release it.
We used to test the 12 volt ones by grabbing them with our bare hands. Not a big deal. It's made to startle, not burn or hurt.
John Stricker
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Neptune.....I don't even know what to say....
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Wichita Member
Posts: 20708 From: Wichita, Kansas Registered: Jun 2002
try having 1, breaking up, go back to the GF you had before her, breakup, find out that your 2 ex's started dating, they breakup, and you get back together with her and have another.... true story...
if you knew my real name you could do a state court case search for the protective custody order i had to file that would prove she really is crazy :X shes a good bit better now, she takes the right pills everyday.
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Marvin McInnis Member
Posts: 11599 From: ~ Kansas City, USA Registered: Apr 2002
try having 1, breaking up, go back to the GF you had before her, breakup, find out that your 2 ex's started dating, they breakup, and you get back together with her and have another.... true story...
if you knew my real name you could do a state court case search for the protective custody order i had to file that would prove she really is crazy :X shes a good bit better now, she takes the right pills everyday.
Ok, she's crazy. But what's YOUR excuse? (I assume this story is about you?)
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buddycraigg Member
Posts: 13620 From: kansas city, mo Registered: Jul 2002
A few years ago when we had our first winter in TN on our first farm, no tractor.
We had several hay rolls sitting up against a fence line and needed to move one into the barn a few yards away.
Well the rolls were frozen, not only solid but solid to the ground.
So I took the old Ford Courier pickup we had and just hit one and loosened it from the ground.
We then tried to roll it by hand, well that worked until it hit the flat spot. We did this a couple of times and I decided in one of my brilliant ideas that I would just roll it with the pickup.
I hit it the first time and it rolled over to the flat spot and stopped.
I hit it the second time and it did the same thing.
After the third time I decided that I needed to hit it a lot harder and it might roll over past the flat spot.
So I backed the truck up and got a good running start and hit it. , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Well you know what?
I drove that truck right up onto that hay roll, the wheels on the courier were just wide enough that they straddled the hay roll and the truck just drove right up.
All I could see out the windshield was Blue sky, and all I could think about was just how far is this truck going to go?
Well the hay roll, rolled and the truck went right along with it, until the rear wheels came off the ground and the rear bumper dug itself into the ground.
Melanie had to get me a ladder to get out of the cab.
I have always told you guys I ain’t no farmer.
I guess that proves it.
Steve
------------------ Technology is great when it works, and one big pain in the ass when it doesn't. Detroit iron rules all the rest are just toys.
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$Rich$ Member
Posts: 14575 From: Sioux Falls SD Registered: Dec 2002
I got drunk and passed out peacefully on a couch at a party and woke up the next morning 200 miles away in a public restroom naked just outside chicago.
Yes they left me there.
thats frickn awsome how did that work out for ya?
one of my best friends lived in a frat house in college, and they were know for the best partys and such,... there was a random passed out guy in their house he woke up to dried silicone in his but crack
. Most IIRC are 7 years, unless you killed someone.
