What Is The Dumbest Thing You Have Ever Done?

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you weren't that delta pilot who landed on the wrong runway???

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This was in Massachusetts, when I was a kid. He had a small water pump in the garage. It had a pulley and fan belt operation, and I decided it would be a good idea to stick my hand in there. It ripped off most of the nail on my 3rd finger (the new nail grew over the little piece that remains, and is still visible to this day) and took the top of my middle finger off, which (upon hearing my idiot child screams) my family had the wisdom to preserve on ice, so it was re-attached, and you can see the diagonal scar across it.

That and dating Paula Gibson. But the water pump may have been the worst decision of those two.

They just don't admit it.

about the dumbest thing I'd ever done. Then they told somebody... Then they told somebody... Then they told somebody...
So I ain't gonna repeat here.

But the second dumbest was telling my good sense to shut up and go away because I really wanted to believe that the tan line around his finger came from carrying his key ring while walking on the beach.

good girlfriend & fiance, but awful wife, and I saw it coming, too.

It ended up costing me money and 6 months of a whole lot of hassle get out of that one.

A friend of mine had their car towed illegally while we were in Arizona,

Property Owner Said: "We didn't have your car towed, call the police"
Police Said: "This is not our problem, take it to small claims court"
Towing Company Said: "Fuck Off" "How y'all think your gonna get home" "you have a nice stereo and we aren't responsible for lost or stolen property ya know..."

Sooo... determining the security at the tow lot to be minimal and the front gate usually unlocked, in the absence of the drivers the only human occupant was an enormous dude who could barely walk. So we just went in and took the car figuring that even if armed we would be long gone before the sweaty and wheezing fat fuck even got to the door to start shooting at us. One of us went under the fence and when they were in the car we opened the gate and he took off.

Never saw the attendant, we think he was pissing behind the trailer when we made our escape.

it wasn't dumb at all! : )

my dad STILL brings it up,

Your friend was just reclaiming his property! ;)

Impressive though and pretty slick...ballsy and crazy as all hell, but smooth nevretheless!

Fortunately this happened in Arizona where all the towing company could do at that time was put a lien against the car, in California it would have been "theft of service" and in Texas we could have just gone in and shot the fuckers.

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I wanted to make my friend think I fell out of the back of his truck, so I was going to jump out at a stop light, but we didn't hit any. So the block before his house, when he slowed down to turn, I jumped out. But the truck was going faster than I thought. When my feet touched the ground, I could move them fast enough to keep up with the momentum I had from the truck, so I ended up rolling across the street, up over a curb, and into some rose bushes. My friend hadn't noticed I jumped, so I had to pick myself up, dust myself off, and limp to his house.

An incident pretty high in the running involved a rather battered looking police badge, in a country where I did not speak the language...it came out all right, though, after a few days....

"A good friend will be there in the morning to bail you out of jail. A great friend will be sitting beside you, saying, 'How the hell did we get caught?'"

And was in the emergency room about 15 minutes later.

because I wanted to learn more. Naive, very naive. Freshman in college, in an overbooked Latin class (one year course would fulfill 2 year requirement). I volunteered to move to a new section opening up. My roommate didn't raise his hand, knew far less at the end of the course than I did, got a B. Me? The hotshot professor fresh from Columbia graduate school gave me an F (which by the way I deserved - I was horrible in foreign languages). One of many dumb moves in my life. Took me 11 semesters of German to get my 2 years in. So, who's perfect?

I have lost endless hours of life to this unproductive activity.

by filling my mouth with butane and then blowing the gas at a lit bic lighter.

What can I say, I was bored...

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

It certainly made me the center of attention, in the middle of a fraternity meeting...

after being specifically told that the waters were off-limits...


4th of July, Tanqueray gin...and youth add up to really stupid actions...

spent the rest of the day in the brig.

1982: Marrying ex #1
1998: Marrying ex #2

Oh, you just asked for ONE??





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It's not even worth pirating... could have bought half an iMac instead...

I'm having trouble narrowing it down to a top ten list.

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you just haven't been trying hard enough!

Near the top of my list: Bought a Time Share.

Next time I decide to waste $10,000, I'll just bring some weinies and set fire to a pile of one-dollar bills. At least I'll get a good meal out of it.

It was two full flights with a small landing halfway. I thought I could stop at the landing, but it didn't even slow me down. I rode two full stories down and tried to hit the ground running which failed. I smashed into a wall at the other side of the hallway at the bottom. Some bruises, but nothing serious. My friend who watched me do it thought it was the funniest thing he saw all month.

he didn't seem to know English and I didn't know German.I don't remember much about it. In hindsight, it was probably my first manic episode.

I also consider watching a solar eclipse with no eye protection one of the stupidest acts done.

When you have BP, doing stupid stuff goes with the territory.

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Sorta glad I pulled it off in hindsight, but I expect to be shot if I do that again.

We thought it would be wide enough for both the train and the both of us. Moments after we got out of the tunnel (at least a mile, we didn't see daylight in the middle), we heard a train coming our way from behind. It was so wide, we would have been crushed against the sides of the tunnel. This was on the border of the Chech Republic and Poland.

Too bad the list can contain only one fuck-up. A year ago on my birthday I drank a bottle of Goldstrike (cinnamon flavoured poison with gold leaf flakes in it) and then tried to ride my bike home. I fell off (downhill) and busted my chin open. Took just two stitches - I was damn lucky. But I teach traffic safety to highschool kids...

1. Not taking flying lessons when my father offered to pay for it
2. Thinking I knew everything and college (corollary: Advisors are idiots)
3. Thinking that drug and alcohol use would increase my popularity
4. Choosing a vocation rather than a career
5. Etc.
6. And so it goes
7. I'm tired

A buddy of mine, Jack, was getting married. The night before the wedding, him, another guy Dave and I all went out drinking. We got Jack passed out drunk... gone... out like a light... oh man, it was bad. So... we did the only thing we could think of. We took all his money, wallet and identification and put him on a train to DC. Boy, were people pissed at us :D

apartment for the bachelor party. The problem was my brother lived in so-so neighborhood in the city and the cops got called, showed up, and got VERY involved in the proceedings. They weren't pleased to find out it was a prank.

After I gave everyone in the room a full ration of what I thought about the operation, and the management, the next question was:
"Tyler, are you drunk?"

I was. Next, I was unemployed. One good thing though, I quit drinking about a year later and the job situation has improved tremendously.

Whatever it was didn't have any lasting effects on my life.

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with an opium dealer

I'll bet THAT was fun!

One thing is for sure. Whichever one it was, from a long list of possible answers, it undoubtedly involved a woman.

blacked out and found myself about 1.5 miles away from my apartment, naked and without my glasses.

Did I mention it was on the Ohio State Campus and that I had to somehow cross High Street with out getting arrested.

But that wasn't the dumbest thing.

No the dumbest thing was not realizing I had a drinking problem at that point in my life...

:(

I was an insane teen and 20 something.