Most dangerous thing you have done?

[machew]

.... He turned on a sixpence and charged!

How much, and did he take credit cards?

 

[defy-one]

How much, and did he take credit cards?

He charged the contents of my bowel

 

[vernon]

Walked across one of Keston Ponds when it was frozen but only just thick enough.

Nerve wracking innit?

 

[totallyfixed]

At first I thought "what an excellent thread" and then started thinking what crazy dangerous things I have knowingly done versus those that are accidental, it turns out that what has just scared me is that the former outnumber the latter by a considerable margin.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Great white diving at dyer island south africa

being a passenger in a car driven by a portuguese woman

 

[mickle]

Dangerous to me or to others? I once drove my Ferrari at 130mph on a public road.

 

[vernon]

Dangerous to me or to others? I once drove my Ferrari at 130mph on a public road.

When I felt immortal I did an indicated 145mph on my FJ1200 on an empty A1.

I am now notorious for sticking to speed limits and I no longer treat them as minimum speed limits or even aspirational speeds.

 

[Oldspice]

1st Went to school in Manchester, 2nd was deal with an armed robber.
I would rather deal with an armed robber.

 

[Maz]

Great white diving at dyer island south africa

being a passenger in a car driven by a portuguese woman

Give me the Great White any day.

 

[vernon]

To be continued.....

The shock of the cold water was painful and I knew that the odds appeared to be stacked against me. I couldn't swim for one thing. I felt my feet touch the bottom of the pond and I stood up, or rather, I attempted to stand up because I was prevented from standing erect by the ice. Then it dawned on me, if I attempted to stand up forcibly I might be able to break through the ice and thankfully the ice gave way and I found myself gulping in the air and wondering how I was going to get out of the water. Luck was on my side - I was close to one side of the pond near to the fencing that marked the boundaries with the railway embankment and I managed to act as an ice breaker to rech the fencing and pull myself clear after attempting to pull myself onto the surface of the ice failed.

I was covered in mud and decaying vegetation as I waddled home to a good hiding after trying to tell my grandmother that my unkempt appearance was caused by someone throwing a bucket of dirty water over me.

I didn't learn from the experience. The following summer I nearly drowned at Broken Scar Dam on the river Tees when I went over it without boat, kayak, wet suit or life jacket having still not mastered the art of swimming and found myself doing barrel rolls under water for what appeared to be an eternity before being spat out downstream coughing and spluttering and counting my remaining lives.

 

[TheLondonCyclist]

A week after i gained my pilots licence i 'wondered how high i could take a Cessna 152' ... I managed 12,700ft before i bottled it convinced i had the onset of hypoxia...

Have you been higher now?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Fell out of the boot of a car at 50mph on an ww2 runway and landed on my face.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

[QUOTE 2135065, member: 9609"]I think you need to elaborate on that one a little[/quote]

..... It explains why he looks the way he does in the avatar.

 

[neil earley]

being stupid racing on motorway in France against a porchse carrera , I had a suzuki hayabusa bottled out as the speedo needle hit 175 mph he was getting smaller in my mirrors.

 

[PK99]

Accidental: Pirouetting at 60 mph across the central reservation of the A66 30 years ago before there was a central crash barrier. black ice is not nice.

Deliberate: Again 30 years ago, white water rafting on the Zambezi below Victoria falls - long before it was on the commercial scale it is now. seeing a crocodile plop into the water off a rock on a quiet stretch focussed the mind on not falling out!