Call *that* stupid?

[swee'pea99]

Inspired by another thread....

What's the dumbest thing you've ever done?

To get us started, I once mowed the lawn, went over the power lead, which stopped the flymo, picked up the lead, saw the copper, thought 'I wonder if that's still live', and prodded it with my finger.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Inspired by another thread....

What's the dumbest thing you've ever done?

To get us started, I once mowed the lawn, went over the power lead, which stopped the flymo, picked up the lead, saw the copper, thought 'I wonder if that's still live', and prodded it with my finger.

And your hair has never quite been the same since!

Me?

Probably the day I trespassed on the railway at a location which shall remain nameless for obvious reasons and almost fell onto a live 3rd rail.

I learned THAT one quickly!

 

[Cheddar George]

" That looks like the head of a plasterboard nail stuck in my tyre " i thought looking at my perfectly inflated front car tyre. Before i could stop myself i had reached down and pulled it quite easily out of the tyre ............... pfffffffft ! Bugger !

(A very small part of my brain triumphantly remarked "told you so - a plasterboard nail ! ")

 

[Scruffmonster]

Fitting pedals after several beers. Felt tight so I kept winding, and winding. Pedal is now threaded. Right foot will not clip in nicely and 'wobbles' my heel with every revolution.

I've done dumber things but this was last night.

Commute sucked this morning.

 

[musa]

new houses were being built in my area, so decided to a have rock throwing fight with mates...

 

[postman]

i could not get a garden fire going.So i soaked it in nitromores a paint stripper.Knelt down put the match to the paper.Whoosh a mushroom cloud of grey smoke.Me inside it.Could not breath flung myself backwards and out of the smoke.All this happened in seconds.Very scary.

 

[ianrauk]

I once decided to jump off a moving No. 14 bus in Archway,... just as the bus sped up. It bloody well hurt slamming my body into a parked car.

I once leant out of a 1st floor window in a block of flats seeing how far I could lean out whilst holding on. Of course I lost my grip and fell out of the window. That hurt also. Luckily my fall was cushioned by bushes. But they were thorny buggers whcih ripped me to shreds.

Have done the 'put fingers in light bulb socket to see how it felt'. That was not very nice.

Have also through the lead on the garden strimmers. A wonder I didn't electrocute myself.

 

[ceepeebee]

Just arrived on a beautiful island called Ko Tao off the coast of Thailand, found some accomodation, marvelled at naturee's bounty and went for a walk along the beach.....in bare feet..... hopped from one rock to another...... foot slipped, scraped across a bunch of dead coral (that stuff is worse than razorwire) and I went base over apex. My head missed a rock covered in same coral by about an inch and I landed smack on my chest on a thankfully smooth rock.

result:
bruise all along sternum
3 stitches in arm wound (coral scrubbed out)
6 stitches on sole of my foot, which needed 2 local anesthetic as the nurse went off to answer the phone after doing the first - these were injected in the webbing between my little toe and the next by the way

and

a week without being able to go in the water, on a tiny island surrounded by some awesome diving. Oh and a frankly mind-bending cocktail of antibiotics and pain killers.....

 

[ColinJ]

As a teenager, I was trying to work out which duff light had stopped the Christmas tree lights working. For some obscure reason, I thought that probing the light sockets with a small electric motor's leads was the way to do that ....

100 milliseconds later, there I was, thrown across the room, slammed against a wall, arms and legs quivering violently from a massive electric shock, blinded by the flash, molten motor in my hands!

 

[frayBentos59]

At school I decided to steal my friends shoes whilst he was wearing them and throw them away as far as possible and have him hobble around the yard. I saw an open 3rd floor window and thought it would be hilarious to try and throw them through. whilst my friend was on the floor I tied the shoes together and hurled them towards the open window. Not being accustomed to throwing such an object my aim was a little off, the shoes smashed through a window on the second floor hitting the deputy head who was sat right next to it. Glass in his beard and a pair of shoes to the face. Only one of us found it funny

 

[Scruffmonster]

I once trusted the weatherman... never to be repeated

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Before labelling made sense, tried to connect up a USB lead connector to a PC motherboard while running. Hmmm, didn't know 12 volts could cause flames?

Back in the 1980's moved a PC 6 inches while running. Hard disk jolted a little bit, £500 damage.

Riding along a ridge on wet grass. Turned wheel which then slipped from under me sending me down the banking. Stopped, sat up. Hmm not too bad. Then bike landed on the back of my neck.
Ouch!!

 

[accountantpete]

Started a heavy session with a few glasses + of French Marc. Unlike the others I avoided a hospital visit to get my stomach pumped but enjoyed a peaceful night sleeping it off in a rosebush until I awoke to find the temp was -3 and scrambled some logic back into my brain to get inside.

 

[Scruffmonster]

Cycling in January on 700x23 semi slicks, on an icy road with a mate;

"How much grip do you reckon we've got, I bet we can't even stop from 10mph"
'Give it a go'

Brakes touched, front gone, heavy onto my hip and elbow, rear mech bent.

Eejit.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I once decided to jump off a moving No. 14 bus in Archway,... just as the bus sped up. It bloody well hurt slamming my body into a parked car.

Once on a large trampoline, about 5 feet tall to start with, I decided that I would jump off and land on a crashmat nearby.

I went to make the jump and gave it a spirited bounce to get properly airbourne, flew through the air several feet still higher, sailed straight over the mat and landed with a crunch (from the bottom of my spine) on the hard wooden floor of where we were.

Moral of the story? (Except for don't try it I mean) Don't over estimate how much bounce you need, your spine is kind of important!

Just arrived on a beautiful island called Ko Tao off the coast of Thailand, found some accomodation, marvelled at naturee's bounty and went for a walk along the beach.....in bare feet..... hopped from one rock to another...... foot slipped, scraped across a bunch of dead coral (that stuff is worse than razorwire) and I went base over apex. My head missed a rock covered in same coral by about an inch and I landed smack on my chest on a thankfully smooth rock.

I once fell off a small cliff whilst on holiday in Germany, landing badly and giving my head a good bash (not that my head is important of course).

I spent the rest of the holiday with a truly cracking headache and trying to explain to people that I had fallen and not been in a fight as it obviously looked!