Stupid things I did before I knew better

[monkey]

At Sandman's request...

My brother and I used to stand on opposite side of a residential street. When a car would come, we would pretend we had an invisible rope we well pulling between us. We loved it when cars would slow down and try to figure out what we were doing. Of course, then we would run off.

Your turn...

[only1alphafemale]

Very stupid thing ......when we discovered that a can of hair spray, made a really good blow torch when paired up with a match..... :( Thank goodness we were never hurt and one didnt blow up on us !!!

[Michelle]

found out that a can of aqua net hairspray will paralyze a spider on the carpet and if put a glass over it and wait till the next day it makes it harder to get the hairspray glued spider of my mother carpet...

[Mysteefied]

when I was a teenager, a friend and I had a bingo dauber fight at her mothers house, one of the daubers (the red one) came open and went alll over the floor, we tried to get it out with BLEACH!! LOL needless to say, we learned a valuable lesson that day...well, several, and we both worked for awhile after that to pay for the carpet repair.

[monkey]

Anyone ever do a "Flaming Groovie"? We took a bunch of dry cleaner bags and tied them together into a long "rope". Then we hung them from something very high and over a big bucket of water and light the bottom end on fire. As it burned up the "rope" and hit the knots, a large ball of screaming fire would drop into the water.

[only1alphafemale]

Anyone ever do a "Flaming Groovie"? We took a bunch of dry cleaner bags and tied them together into a long "rope". Then we hung them from something very high and over a big bucket of water and light the bottom end on fire. As it burned up the "rope" and hit the knots, a large ball of screaming fire would drop into the water.

:grin: Uhhhhhh....Nope Monkey~! That may be a "Monkey" exclusive...:D

[Newcomer]

How come it's only the women that admit to doing stupid things ?

[only1alphafemale]

Hehe.....:cool: because males are to embarassed to admit things like trying to "shoot" bee's or flies off of the rose bushes with their unique plumbing? and a stream of urine??? perhaps???? :rofl: my brother did the above AND also tried to pee on cars as they drove down our little dirt road...... :ROFL:........(he was only 3 at the time btw....lol ) :)

[monkey]

How come it's only the women that admit to doing stupid things ?

Perhaps because men do too many to remember???

[Mysteefied]

I think Monkey has it dead on! LOL

[only1alphafemale]

I think Monkey has it dead on! LOL

:rofl: I do to Myst ~ :D

[Newcomer]

Perhaps because men do too many to remember???

I think I set the men up for that one LOL.

I have a story that I can tell.

You know how in the movies (Westerns) you would see some guy pour a trail of gunpowder from the big stash of Dynomite and then light it and it slowly burns its way into where the stash is and then it all explodes? Well not all gunpowder works that way LOL

When I was younger I had a can of Black gun powder that was just sitting around not being used and I figured I would do one of those Bonanza TV special effects. I poured a pile in the center and then slowly spiraled my way out from the center making a spiral of about 8 ft in size. I then took a lighter and touched it to the end of the line and POOF in one big flash the whole thing went instantly, I turned my head away as it went up. I lit part of my hair on fire and singed my right eye lashes and eyebrow but luckily I did not get burnt other than a slight 1st degree flash burn on my right arm. Aparently there is a big difference between slow burn gun powder grain and fine gun powder. Lesson learned.

[Kahlua Kid]

We had a parking lot behind our house growing up - we were around 5 or 6 and we'd take ripe apricots off our backyard tree and hit them like a baseball with a bat over the block wall into the parking lot. Uh - thankfully we NEVER broke out someone's window or damaged a car (or my mother would have definitely had an unpleasant visit at the front door). We were the only house with an apricot tree for miles around!

[Nas]

Anyone ever do a "Flaming Groovie"? We took a bunch of dry cleaner bags and tied them together into a long "rope". Then we hung them from something very high and over a big bucket of water and light the bottom end on fire. As it burned up the "rope" and hit the knots, a large ball of screaming fire would drop into the water.

Not exactly. We would take a dry cleaner bag and make it into a hot air balloon by using tin foil for a basket. We'd hold the bag over the 55 gallon drum trash fire until it started to float, then soak a handful of cotton balls in rubbing alcohol, put them in the tin foil basket, set them on fire, and let the thing take off into the air.

A good percentage of the time it burned up or came down before the fire in the basket was extinguished. Not Safe! The only saving grace here is that I only recall doing this during the winter - - in Alaska.

Oh - a repressed memory just came back to me. We also threw aerosol cans (and .22 bullets!) into that trash fire! I don't know why I'm still here, to tell you the truth.

[jjcheyenne]

Back when I was a senior in high school, my parents bought me a 1967 Firebird right before graduation. I was leaving the parking lot of Clovis High when I saw a guy I had a big crush on. I wanted to show off my car. I peeled out, burning rubber. The back end fishtailed and I almost hit a parked car! STUPID!! And VERY embarassing.

[monkey]

Great stories! C'mon boys, you've gotta have some to contribute. Or is Newcomer the only one brave enough?

[Newcomer]

Ok, Here is another one. When I was in high school I was in a frinds car as the passenger and we were driving about 25 mph in front of the school and I saw a hitchhiker walking on the side of the road the same direction as we were going with his back to use with his arm & thumb out. I though it would be fiunny if we passed real close and I slapped his hand. So I stuck my arm out the window and as we made our pass I slapped his hand. ------ OMG It about broke my arm and it sent him into a spin around of about 3 times before he hit the deck. he never saw who I was but I looked back and made sure he was ok as he got back up cussing at us. I had a sore arm & hand for weeks.

[Nas]

Ok here's another (from a male)

My sister was to have her 16'th birthday party, but the pool heater thermostat was fried. A pool guy bypassed everything until the part could be ordered, and pointed out that if I just turned on the gas - here - and struck a match - here - it would light the burner.

So, on the morning of the party I did just that. Now, when I flipped on the gas I heard it come out not as a "hiss," but more of a "whaaaaa." I didn't think anything of it at the time, because I was just following instructions. I reached in my pocket to find my cigarette lighter, struck it, and held it to the base of the burner (think of your home water heater, but multiplied about 4 or 5 times).

KA BLAM!!!! I SAW THE FIREBALL COMING TOWARD MY EYEBALLS and managed to close them in time, but still burned off all of my eyebrows, singed the bangs on my forehead, nearly set my beard on fire, and got a contact burn on my chest where my shirt was unbuttoned.

I came stumbling out of the pool heater shed to see my mother and sister running out of the house to find out what had caused such an explosion. Upon seeing me alive and apparently OK for the most part, they both started laughing hysterically (thanks). They laughed even more after I left 3 walls of the shower covered with little pieces of singed hair. They stopped laughing when they realized how much pain I was in.

They don't let me light water heaters any more.

And don't even mention clothes dryers.

[Nas]

OK - OK

I can't leave the "clothes dryer" comment unanswered.

When I was very young, my Grandfather nearly set the house on fire when he tried to get grease and oil out of his blue jeans by soaking them in gasoline.

After he died, and I <S>was old enough to know better</S> should have been old enough to know better I got a lot of Henry's roofing tar on my blue jeans. But I figured I had learned from his mistake, and I would not ever put gasoline soaked jeans in the dryer. Instead, I soaked them in gasoline, and got most of the tar off, then put them in the washer. After a while, I wondered if I needed to soak them again, so I opened the lid of the washer and

KA BLAM!!! I SAW THE FIREBALL COMING TOWARD MY EYEBALLS and managed to close them in time! You see, when I opened the lid to the washer, the little light came on inside. And there was so much gasoline fumes floating above the water it made a wonderfully explosive combination.

Luckily this time wasn't nearly as severe as the last, since I really didn't burn myself (much), though my wife did come running into the laundry room to see what had caused our house to rock from such an explosion.

I'm fortunate they even let me light my own cigarettes anymore. And not a single Thanksgiving goes by without loads of laughter from them. Yeah. Loads.

[Sandman]

:rofl: This thread was a great idea!!!

I'm trying to get enough courage to post my own story...

...maybe tomorrow. :lol:

[Newcomer]

:rofl: This thread was a great idea!!!

I'm trying to get enough courage to post my own story...

...maybe tomorrow. :lol:

Which one Sandman? the Jeep in the hole or one of the other ones LOL :D