Craziest Thing

[kitkatz]

What is the craziest thing you have ever done?    You can just name it and leave us wondering or tell us a story to go with it.


The craziest thing I have ever done is .....

[Sluff]

  I unclasped the Red light on a squad car while talking to a police officer and he never caught me doing it. I was hoping it would fall off once he drove away. That was back before LED's when they had those large Mayberry style lights on top, but two of them on each car.

[Deanne]

What were you talking to the police officer about!?

My crazy things are all pretty tame. I went skinny-dipping in a hotel hot-tub with a friend and a stranger came and got into the hot tub with us. I don't think anything was visible because of the bubbles, but I don't know how he could have missed seeing me grab my bikini top from the side of the hot tub to put it back on before we got out.

I was fired from a job because they thought I was a security risk. I had to set up a network fax machine and to test it, I faxed a file to it without first paying attention to what I was faxing. It was a rant about the place. Since I was a network administrator, they were worried that I would do something damaging to their network with my bad attitude, so they got rid of me. I was harmless, but very underpaid, so I wasn't really sorry to leave. A few days later, I went to visit my parents, told them I'd been layed off and I was packing up to move out of state (from Minnesota to Georgia) with my friend Duane, who they thought was my boyfriend, and by the way, did they know Duane was gay?

[twirl]

I drove a get-away car.

[kitkatz]

We have to hear about that one, Twirl.

[Ohio Buckeye]

I remember when we were teens there was a narrow country road
that had a small hill on it with a very sharp turn right after the hill and we would
go real fast over that hill that would lift you off your seats then have to turn the corner with wheels
squealing.  That was so fun but so dangerous.  I can't believe we took those risks.
My kids never heard about that.
There were so many crazy but fun things.

[kitkatz]

We would ride our horse beside the water flume near our house. One of us would walk the flume, the other ride the horse. One day we were doing this with friends and one of our friends fell in the flume when the top gave way.  We knew better than to go home soaking wet.  So we just kept going until we were dried off.

[twirl]

flume?

not that exciting --- get away car with rival team's mascot

[jbeany]

What, I have to pick just one?

Skydiving; parasailing; hiking out on the ice on the Straits of Mackinac, out to where the cutter had gone thru and stacked up 20 ft high piles of ice so we could climb up and throw snowballs into the open water; driving from Saginaw, Michigan to New York City and back in one day, just to get a meal at my boyfriend's favorite diner.

[paddbear0000]

Well, one thing was when a bunch of us in the neighborhood thought it would be fun to whack a huge hornet's nest (it was almost 3 feet across!) with a big stick to see what would happen. You've never seen teenagers run so fast!

Another, but potentially more dangerous, was when a couple of us from the neighborhood thought it would be fun (noticing a theme here?) to pretend to be pulling a rope across the street. Two of on each side of the road, playing tug of war with an imaginary rope. It was night out and we positioned ourselves at the bottom of a very short, steep hill, which people would usually come flying over. It was hilarious to watch people's reactions when they saw us. They would slam on their brakes most of the time. Some probably had seen the trick before and just kept going. Well one guy slammed on his brakes and skidded through our "rope" and stopped. He came storming out of his car waving a gun! This was out in the country, an hour from any city. It's not like we were in a crime ridden area! By this point we were hiding in the woods by where we were. As soon as someone saw the gun, we took off and never did that again!

[UNIBALLER]

depends on what you consider crazy? skydiving, white-water canoeing, joining the army, cleaning a septic tank by hand, mountain climbing, rappelling out of a helicopter.

[monrein]

Where have you canoed Uni?  I've done 11 whitewater trips, many in northern Ontario (the Missinaibi,  Chapleau/Nemegasendah(sp?),) some in Manitoba (the Bloodvein) or Saskatchewan (the Clearwater) and the most memorable were the Nahanni in the Northwest Territories and the Hood River emptying into the Arctic.  My husband has done more trips than I have (he's the one with the good kidneys)  and he loves the Arctic.
Women don't seem to want to do this much but I'm really glad I did these amazing rivers.  Paddle on!!!!

[UNIBALLER]

I haven't canoed since I moved to Ontario. When I lived in NB I canoed all the time, once I canoed from Quebec down the St John river to the Bay of Fundy where I lived, most of my white water canoeing  was on run-off of the St John and many other spots I found by chance. For about 2 years before I was posted to Ontario I was a tour guide for cruise ships that used to dock in Saint John and I would take tourists out to little lakes but mostly take them open ocean canoeing or kayaking to go whale-watching and to see various other sea-life. It was great times and I do miss it some days. To me there is nothing more peaceful than being alone on the water hearing nothing but the waves and the water dripping off of your paddle. My next canoe trip will be the Rideau Canal as soon as I moved back to Kingston and can get the free time to do it.

[skyedogrocks]

Back in high school, my ex-husband (who was my boyfriend at the time) and I got caught by a police officer doing the wild thing behind a local school.     Thank GOD they didn't take us away or notify our parents!

[willieandwinnie]

skyedogrocks, you bad girl you.  When I first went to live with my Grandmother at 11, her neighbor raised bunnies (no, not our  ) for food. One night, I climbed out my bedroom window and let them all free. I think they knew who did it but I never got in trouble. Thank goodness.

[UNIBALLER]

LOL I did the same thing to my neighbours rabbits, but I have a feeling our motives weren't the same 

[willieandwinnie]

UNIBALLER you are  .

[UNIBALLER]

I can be when needed or somebody deserves it

[st789]

My very close friend and I got caught picking pears from one of my friend's neighbor.  We thought no one see it.

[Bajanne]

For me, one of the craziest things I ever did was walk through a subway platforml in New York after 11 p.m. with my little nephew to go to my brother's house after a visit to Coney Island.  There was no one there and I was scared out of my skin. I still get scared when I think of what could have happened.

[okarol]

It's nice when you are young and spontaneous. This happened when I was 23 years old. My room mate and I worked for a motorcycle racing company in Southern California. She came home one day and said we had a chance to fly to Daytona Beach that night on a 12 seat airplane - for only $75 round trip. We were excited because that meant we would get to see our racers compete in the Daytona 200 race the next day. We hurried to get ready, went to the airport late in the evening and boarded the plane. It was the smallest plane I had ever been and it was pretty scary for me. A problem came up about 1/2 hour into the flight. I cannot remember what the reason was, but the pilot told us he had to take the plane much higher than normal (head winds? storms? I don't remember the explanation.) The result was that the cabin pressure wasn't satisfactory, and it was incredibly cold. I felt like my head would explode and I have never shivered so hard in my life! I think I was on the edge of hypothermia, all I could do was shiver and sleep and wake with a start every time the plane hit turbulence. It was awful! We made it to Florida early in the morning and someone gave us a ride to town. The situation is crazy because we went there knowing we had no place to stay over Saturday night! We hoped it would somehow work out, and didn't realize the entire town would be booked!! We ended up sleeping (somewhat) on someone's sofa in their hotel and we got to see the race on Sunday, then got to the airport that night to fly back. It was a lot of fun, but I was so tired I was delirious. A few weeks later one of the Florida motorcycle dealers sent me this page from the Daytona newspaper, and it's the only proof we made it to Daytona Beach for 2 days!
 

[KR Cincy]

What a story! And what a great tush!!   

[okarol]

 

[Ken Shelmerdine]

August 1970 In an UNKNOWN Rock Band. Couldn't afford the cost of damage to a TV so we chucked the hotel room's transistor radio out of the hotel 3rd floor window! Very high on an illegal substance at the time.

[Darthvadar]

I absailed down a cliff face... Im my wheelchair!...

Never claimed to be sane!...

Darth...