Stupid thing that didn't kill you? - Page 2

ajuhdg · #16 12-10-2003, 12:18 AM

I still feel like an idiot to this day...

I was on a camping trip down along the Guadalupe with a big group of people. The camp site had this very high railroad that went over the river. All the guys went up and started jumping off from it into the water...which was VERY shallow. I wanted to go, but they said I couldn't because I was a girl. That made my decision, and I crawled up the scaffold and tried to position myself on the bridge. It was really slippery from all the guys being wet and doing it over and over. I slipped and fell off the bridege, and landed butt first in the water. I hit a nerve at the base of my spinal cord and was temporarily paralyzed from the neck down. I couldn't kick or move my arms! The river started pushing me down and I my face was just barely sticking out! I screamed, and my cousin's b-friend had to jump in and pull me out!

I recovered feeling, but had THE nastiest bruise on my tailbone! That was the stupidest thing I've ever done! UGH! Just thinking about it makes me sick!

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James · #17 12-01-2005, 06:26 AM

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Rio_Kohitsuji · #18 12-01-2005, 07:03 PM

When I was a freshman in high school I went along w/my marching band on a ski trip. Well, I was flying down a slope in front of the lodges when a rock (or something) made my skis twist and made me flip around 3 times in the air while losing my skis and my poles. I landed right on my back shocked as hell. The worst thing about it is that my parents saw the whole thing and thought I had broke my back or neck.

After that, I could move for 2 weeks

Tickled Pink 2 · #19 12-01-2005, 07:41 PM

When I was a kid, I wanted a tree swing. So I tied a rope to a swing and proceeded to swing. I got really high in the air - like towards heaven high! - and the durn thing popped. So, little me flew thru the air and did a nice bellyflop on the ground. I thought I'd died. That was the first time I'd ever knocked all the wind out of me and I couldn't breathe for what felt like ages.

Anyhoo, after I told my mom about it - I went back the next day, retied the rope, and did it again (until my spoil sport older cousin came out and threw it away b4 I killed my fool self).

KSUViolet06 · #20 12-01-2005, 08:17 PM

I hurt my back in HS, so my mom told me to take some Advil. Those weren't working fast enough for me, so I snuck 3 of her endocets that she took fer her leg injury. I got nauseous and passed out.

KillarneyRose · #21 12-01-2005, 10:25 PM

I was probably 8 or so and the older kids in my neighborhood had rigged a really cool "swing". They secured a rubber garden hose from a tree branch and you could hold onto the hose and swing out over a 30 foot deep or so ravine.

My cousin and I decided we wanted to try it out so we went down when no one else was there and I grabbed onto the hose, pushed off and went swinging out into the wild blue yonder.

Unfortunately, my 8 year old arms were not strong enough to hold me and I couldn't grip the hose between my feet so when I started to slip down I held on tighter until I was finally able to get back to land and jump off.

I looked at my hands and they were a bloody mess. The friction of the rubber hose on them as they slid down it ripped many layers of skin off of my fingers and palms. Wow, that hurt! Understatement, there.

Better bled than dead, though, I guess

aephi alum · #22 12-01-2005, 10:54 PM

I've done more than one stupid thing in my life. Some of them involve alcohol; some of them involve driving; some of them, I admit, involve both.

I'm known for taking chances and driving in snowstorms when sane people stay home. Three years ago, the day after Christmas, I was headed in to work when I skidded out on the interstate, did a 180, and hit a guard rail. Smashed up the car pretty good, but I walked away without a scratch, and didn't hit anyone else. (My insurance considers you a good driver if no accidents in 3 years, so my good-driver discount comes back next month!

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Two years ago, I had the brilliant idea of driving from Boston to western Connecticut in the middle of a snowstorm. The snow wasn't really sticking to the pavement yet when I set out. So I was going along at maybe 50, with people doing 70+ whipping by me, when I suddenly saw an array of about 40 cars in front of me - 4 or 5 car pile-ups, cars that were spun out, cars in ditches on both the median and right side of the highway, etc. I hit the brakes and lost control of my own car. ABS? BS.

Thankfully I didn't hit anyone or anything, got the car under control, navigated through the pile-ups, and continued on... at about 20, in the right lane, shaking like a leaf. But I got home. And then had a stiff drink.

For the record, in both of these cases, I was sober. Also, on both occasions, I was driving my husband's car. I think it doesn't like me.

UofISigKap · #23 12-01-2005, 11:09 PM

Of course there are the "boy was that ever dumb" drunk stories, but I think my best stupid story has to do with scissors and me.

When I was about four years old, I was playing school. "School" was over, so I picked up a small stack of books and a pair of those all metal blunt tip scissors and proceeded to run down the hall. Running and scissors, as legend would have it, don't mix. I tripped on a bump on the carpet and fell forward impaling my forehead on them. Of course a hospital visit and many stitches ensued. Fortunately the scar has faded enough that people don't notice unless I point it out or wrinkle my forehead.

USCTKE · #24 12-01-2005, 11:48 PM

the week before I had to move into my dorm room my freshman year me and some friends from home drove down some dirt road (the entire area I live in is nothing but a big forrest)...I drank just about everything in sight that night (about 6 Bud lights, half a bottle of rum, some Wild Turkey, some Captan Morgan and something else that I am forgetting). We started around 7...I was absolutely trashed by midnight...puking by 1...wanting to pass out by 1:30 but my friends wouldnt let me...so around 4 I decided I that I was tired of being cover in puke (at least my pants were) so I decided to drive home...why was this a bad idea...well one because I had almost no clue where we were...I had followed a friend out there and wasnt exactly positive on how to get back home...and two was because I was still drunk (in my defense I had sobered up a lot, but I was still too intoxicated to be driving). I set my cruise control at 45 for the entire way home except for when I was going through town...luckily I didnt hit anything or anyone...even though I had to come up with some kind of excuse to tell my mom why I was coming home at 4:30 when they werent expecting me back until sometime the next afternoon...the worst part was my dad woke me up at 8 that morning to go finish getting the crap I needed for my dorm room...plus one of my friends decided to take pictures of me puking...which I still havent lived down

KSigkid · #25 12-02-2005, 03:30 PM

It didn't necessarily almost kill me, but...

I was playing in a summer league game while in high school, and was facing a guy who had hit me in the head with a pitch earlier in the season. The pitch had knocked me out for a couple of seconds, so I wasn't all that happy about it. I'm not a cocky guy, but I made a comment before the game that I hoped I'd hit a line drive back up the middle when I got up to the plate.

Turns out he heard that little comment, and threw at my head AGAIN on the first pitch. This time he missed, but that was the first and last time I talked trash to an opposing pitcher. In high school the guys threw hard enough to do serious damage, and I wasn't really in the mood for any concussions (or worse).

Tom Earp · #26 12-02-2005, 07:27 PM

Two:

H S. Riding in a pickup Truck through a Mall. Not bad, but the Security Dude chased us. Damn Near Fell out of the Truck Bed!

College. Jumping off of a girder bridge into swolen river on a damn dare.

Lindz928 · #27 12-02-2005, 07:28 PM

My ex-boyfriend.

Tom Earp · #28 12-02-2005, 07:33 PM

OOps. Post College.

Slipped coming out of Hot Tub in Vail after We shot all of the Champagne Corks on top of the Hotel where The Trip I was running stayed in. Ended up in the Vail Person Vets.

UKTriDelt · #29 12-02-2005, 07:39 PM

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AOX81 · #30 12-02-2005, 11:29 PM

Me, my brother, and my ex-boyfriend used to make Works bombs and throw them out of car windows out in the middle of the country. One day we were out on some back road making a bomb and a cop came up behind us. I obviously couldn't throw it out the window because we would get in trouble and I was so nervous that I couldn't get the damn lid off of the pop bottle. The bottle was expanding rapidly and I threw it in the front seat. Luckily my brother god the lid off before it exploded. Damn near shit myself, lol.