Stupid Things You Almost Did But Did Not ...

[HB of CJ]

Me first ...

I was playing around with the gel alcohol hand sanitizing liquid after washing my hands. I bought a bunch of tea candles at the good will store and I wanted to play around with them also.

I grabbed the dinky alcohol hand wiping bottle and squeezed a bunch of it into the candle base with the idea of experimenting with the gel as an expedient fire starter using the candle.

Then I gushed a bunch onto my hands and rubbed them. Almost then struck a stick match to light the gel pile on the candle base. It would have lit my hands up like a fire fountain!

Yikes. But I did not do it. Almost! A mental moment. Have you also almost done stupid dumb things? Burning hurts.

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[Stomper]

I see where you messed up.... you should have squeezed the alchohol gel into your mouth!

 

[308]

Jumped off a moving train and almost got run over by the same as I went tumbling along the tracks. 13yrs old...not so smart as I thought I was

 

[Stomper]

Jumped off a moving train and almost got run over by the same as I went tumbling along the tracks. 13yrs old...not so smart as I thought I was

We seldom are at that age.... even if we always answered back with, "I know", or "yeah butt".

 

[slimmer13]

Her name was Tara

 

[308]

^^Or Psych Nurse Dawn

 

[Mygrainman]

Her name was Tara

^^Or Psych Nurse Dawn

we all have at least one "Dawn" or "Tara"...
Thanking God for unanswered prayers.

 

[Oathkeeper1775]

Drowned in cold German water.

The indignity of a Ranger being saved by an SF diver is a small price to pay in exchange for living a longer life....

 

[Mygrainman]

Drowned in cold German water.

The indignity of a Ranger being saved by an SF diver is a small price to pay in exchange for living a longer life....

I smell a hellofa story in there somewhere

 

[Mistman]

Almost went off the edge of a road into a river @ night on a dirt bike. My light sucked and I couldn't tell the road split to go over a bridge. Would have been about 15 ft down into the rocks. In the morning I saw where my bike skidded sideways to a stop about a foot from the edge, I was hauling. Needed a lot of whisky and water to get to sleep that night!

 

[No_Regerts]

I was pumping gas when I saw a spider on my gas cover. I took the cartridge off my taser and was gonna zap him when I remembered the gas vapors...

 

[Kruel J]

I was pumping gas when I saw a spider on my gas cover. I took the cartridge off my taser and was gonna zap him when I remembered the gas vapors...

 

[Kruel J]

Let's just say it involved alcohol (the kind you drink), a good buddy passing out and his really attractive wife and I staying up and having a few too many. Now THAT one was tough to walk away from.

 

[HB of CJ]

Jumping off from or trying to jump onto slow moving freight trains is a bad idea. Slow is relative. They are always moving faster than you think. It is a eyeball to ear to brain short out thing.

As a RN I cared for a very young homeless on-the-road man who tried to catch a slow moving freight train. Mis timed it badly. Both legs right below the crotch. Almost bled out. He was 18.

 

[WWShooter]

Sad to say, I've pretty much followed through on all of the stupid things I've thought about.

Three ex-wives, bankruptcy, broke my left leg twice doing stupid stuff while (somewhat) intoxicated, totaled two motorcycles and a car or two. And those are just the headlines.

 

[clearconscience]

I charged a 5.56 into a 300blk barrel and pulled the trigger.
Thank God it couldn't or didn't go into battery enough for it to work.

 

[Kruel J]

I charged a 5.56 into a 300blk barrel and pulled the trigger.
Thank God it couldn't or didn't go into battery enough for it to work.

Ah, you would have been fine there. The case would swell and you'd get a pretty tame reaction really.

 

[Kruel J]

 

[Caveman Jim]

I was pumping gas when I saw a spider on my gas cover. I took the cartridge off my taser and was gonna zap him when I remembered the gas vapors...

Your squad car?
That would have been a mountain of paperwork, eh....

 

[Mygrainman]

Ah, you would have been fine there. The case would swell and you'd get a pretty tame reaction really.

I found a box of 7x57 mauser that had obviously been fired through a 8x57 bore in with my grandfathers stuff after he passed.
He never had either one.. so it must have been something Grandma bought at garage sale, but since over half the box was "chamber formed" who ever it was must have figured a mauser is a mauser. Beyond the obvious gas and safety issues...Can't imagine it was very accurate.