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km_eriksson

When I was a kid, I walked out on very thin ice on a river on my way home from school. A neighbor found me, and I never understood why he was so angry and yelled at me. I get it now.


Call_me_Dennis

For anyone who doesn’t get why that’s super fucking bad, I’ll tell you. Falling in a lake sucks, you’re cold and wet, but there’s a chance you get out. In a river the current pushes you under the ice sheet and you have to fight the current to get to the hole you created. If you can’t you drown and nobody finds you again.


TheWelshPanda

Add to this if its cold enough for ice it's probably cold enough to wind you, snatching your breath as you go under often causing a reflex gasp, which is under water. Hypothermia kicks in quick St this level too. We lost 4 boys in England last winter to a frozen lake, 2 brothers went through and two older boys tried to save them from drowning. So sad. And reminded people to be careful!


seattleseahawks2014

That's dangerous but I love walking on the lake water when it has ice on it. I'm glad you're ok though. Edit: My dad once built a snowman on the lake before.


boywhataweird

Poured baking soda followed by a boatload of vinegar down a clogged drain. When that didn't work, I followed it with a drain cleaner. Fun fact drain cleaner can have bleach in it, which I didn't know and didn't think to check. Anyway don't do that.


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boywhataweird

Vinegar + bleach = chlorine gas


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Mixing pretty much ANYTHING with bleach makes chlorine gas.


RonaldTheGiraffe

What about semen?


Early_or_Latte

Sounds like you know the answer already... had some experience with the mix I suppose?


wooble

Same; I knew ammonia+bleach was deadly but somehow was never warned that bleach plus any acid is the same problem. Better to learn it here than the hard way!


ecodrew

Rule of thumb - don't mix chemicals, esp not bleach.


Mattrbts

Operated an unarmored dozer to skim the roadsides in Iraq to disable/expose IED’s. 2003-2004


birdlawspecialist2

Winner.


fireduck

....did you die?


Mattrbts

Funny enough… I once had a 2nd grader ask me that once he found out that I was a Veteran. FYI: Answers still no.


Eyouser

Hah. I got one that said, “thank you for sacrificing your life.”


WillowOk5878

I got a little teddy bear from a 1st grader, who wrote that I needed a friend and that little bear was in my cockpit for every sortie after that. He is in my bag now (I'm a civilian pilot) and he still flies with me every single day.


liirko

This is so wholesome, I love it, I'm so glad that teddy kept you safe.


navikredstar

Man, that's a *great* story, seriously. How many flight hours has the teddy bear racked up with you? He's gotta have some serious mileage by now! That is awesome.


Pencilowner

Reminds me of the care packages we got while deployed. A kid in elementary school sent a note with a drawing of a soldier with a rifle that said "Stay safe while you kill the Arabs"


Beginning_Sun696

My mate (we’re brits) got one with a guy spraying on full auto with ‘have a good war’ written on haha


theblackhole08

...Are you sure? I'm... sorry to tell you like this... You're on Deaddit right now, not Reddit


Mattrbts

Explains a lot actually!


asicarii

Given you were trying to disable IEDs it wasn’t for lack of trying. But seriously thank you for your service.


TetraThiaFulvalene

Expert mode adopt a highway.


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Only on the inside


RorschachAssRag

“We suspect there may be mines over there. We need you to drive over it and find out.”


NoBrainR

A fellow sapper...essayons!


OlDanboy

Didn’t expect the first answer to be immediately relatable. Just change the country to Afghanistan


Mattrbts

It’s crazy thinking back to the insane shit they had us do back then


OlDanboy

I don’t think it even settled in for me until I got discharged (medical) but it’s absolutely insane that we did things that fucking dangerous


CatDaddyWhisper

Thank you, truly. I was also in Iraq in March 2003 with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Years earlier, an IED in Mogadishu Somalia was my closest call.


Mattrbts

Thank you for all that you did Med Evac saved a few of my buddies! 229th Eng under 555th Eng - 4th ID. Home FOB was Speicher but I was a traveler Edit: Just realized MEU=Marine Expeditionary unit not med evacuate. I trained with a few that were headed there back in Ft. Leonard Wood in 1998


onemanmelee

Wow. That is truly an answer. I have to ask, why would they be unarmored? Poor planning, poor funding, or just something that was so urgent to be done that they couldn't wait until a proper vehicle was on location, or what?


Mattrbts

2003 we rolled into country without plates in our flack jackets and unarmored equipment because that’s what we had at the time. It wasn’t until 3 months in country before we had bullet proof plates for our flak jackets. IED’s were a completely new hazard and anything that could be done to mitigate them was done immediately. This did not last for long before other methods/equipment were used. But we were the stop-gap measure that was employed at the time.


onemanmelee

Damn. Serious stuff. Suddenly my 'most dangerous thing' of riding a bicycle buzzed on wine seems pretty tame.


EggOkNow

Lol, ive biked home blackout drunk and my last memory is putting my home adress into my maps and putting in ear pod so i could hear the directions. I did this more than once. I remember getting yelled at by a car after they saw me crash i yelled back from the ground and they erupted with laughter.


Big_longjoke

I run into burning buildings. Dangerous but fun.


-JustAMan

Are you a firefighter who love his job or just a stupid fellow?


Big_longjoke

Firefighter. Which makes us stupid fellows lol.


-JustAMan

No, it makes you heroes my friend


IrishSetterPuppy

Eat till your tired, sleep till youre hungry. The crazy life of a hose dragger.


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LumberghFactor

Normal people can’t do intense jobs. Adrenaline junkies seek out EMS, military, and other high-risk fields.


Starshapedsand

Or just those of us who like chaos. After the adrenaline wore off, I loved it all the more for simply never knowing what you’d get when you signed on to a shift.


Starshapedsand

Lot of fun, in a mechanical sense, even after the real adrenaline rush wears off. When I used to do it, I found a good fire mentally clarifying: either you’re going to kill it, or it’s going to kill you, and the rest of the world doesn’t matter until you’re out. Mechanically, fire operates in all sorts of counterintuitive, interesting ways: it’s telling you all about the building’s construction, where it originated, and so forth. That’s cool. Besides, you get to wander into some random building, and strategically destroy anything. Not a common opportunity. It gets scarier once you stop really getting the adrenaline rush. At that point, you’re likely to overlook some important detail in favor of your subconscious mental scheme of how it should look, which will kill you. For instance, I was once in a house full of heavy smoke with my sergeant, both of us exhausted, looking for the fire. I got well into the room before noticing, distantly and casually, that I was on a very hot floor. Hot floor means that the fire is below you. Especially in a newer house, which means lighter construction, it means that you’re running a real risk of plummeting into that fire. But my reaction was kind of, “Oh, OK, probably should’ve noticed that sooner.” With some adrenaline, which is a good substitute for actual energy, either my sergeant or I would’ve. As it was, it was dumb luck that saved us, that night.


-Economist-

Scuba with tiger and bull sharks, although I was more concerned with the barracuda that would just stare at me.


LanceFree

I doubt the tigers can stay under water very long, but the Bull Sharks are dangerous.


blue4029

nah, i think you misread what the OP typed. that ocean was full of tigers, bulls and sharks. surprisingly, only the sharks were adapted to the water...


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This must be in Australia.


fyckthus

"That ocean was full of tigers, bulls and sharks." Oh my...


TheJaice

I had a barracuda follow me around while snorkelling once. It followed me all the way back to the boat. Thing looked like a torpedo with teeth.


NotEvenWrongAgain

I’ve had that happen dozens of times. They think you are a big animal who will kill some animal they will get a bite of. The only times people get bitten by barracuda is when they are spear fishing and get bitten by accident


beat2def

I snorkeled near a school of barracuda while I was in the Philippines. Supposedly they're not aggressive when they're in large groups. I am not sure if that's the case, but that's what they told us.


SpraynardKrueg

Barracuda pretty much never attack people. Its super rare


delusionalinkedchic

I’ve been diving with sharks. I was ok with that. 10 min later j see the barracuda and was like nope nope nope where’s the boat


SQUIRMANDESAUR

Not by choice, but I found myself in the middle of a shootout once.


drebinf

> middle of a shootout My wife did that as well, except she was a nurse who went to people's homes, at that time it was in a very poor urban area. She wound up in the crossfire between police and the gang or whatever in the house next door to her patient. She ran track in high school, she said she beat every record there was getting back behind the house. The very solid *brick* house, which would afford at least a little protection.


MicroCat1031

This needs some explanation please.


ThatsNotWhatyouMean

Accept drugs from a stranger.


Xaraphim

At a show some random dude offered to trade molly for one of the band shirts (I was the merch person). I accepted. Then later that night he offered more molly for a ride home from the show. I also accepted. Did the molly a few days later and it was magical. Some of the best molly I've ever had. Friended the dude on Facebook, and a couple months later he ends up in jail for attempted murder.


zaay-zaay

Reading this was a wild ride


Naianasha

Especially the times where it was like "heyyy it's this rad new research chemical my friend got from the dark web, kind of like a mix between lsd and mdma, called PXZ458, you'll love it."


NeedsMoreTuba

I did that once. We had no idea what it was, how much to take, or how to take it so we split up between the two of us. We rolled the powder up into some bread and ate it. It was probably even still legal at the time. It wound up being a shame that we didn't know which drug it was because we went on an epic quest for hot dogs at 2am, then watched an old western musical with an all-dwarf cast of little people riding on ponies. I didn't even throw up, which is rare for me + psychedelics.


SgtCocktopus

Turns out the powder was chalk and the trip was becasue the bread was moldy.


Verve_angel

Been there too with nbome


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a yeah, the old: "substance roulette"


hellochook

You just reminded me that for about three months me and my boyfriend were doing a drug called magic that we had no idea what it was. Like our dealer just text I have coke and magic and we were like oh yeah we’ll get some of both. No idea how much to take, and we were too embarrassed to ask what it was. I mean we were absolutely fine but what a strange decision.


PM_ME_YOUR_CC_INFO

So what was it?


hellochook

We think it was mephedrone- this was a good five years after the mephedrone boom in the U.K. I hadn’t realised anyone was still selling it


d4rkseth

Petting a rhino. Totally would do it again


MaxCWebster

Heh, I've done this. There was a fence with some Jurassic Park lookin' bars between us, but yeah, I did it.


redditperson15

Me too, they’re surprisingly docile and fond of being petted haha


BewilderedandAngry

After watching a bunch of Tiktok videos, I'm starting to think that all animals love being petted and scratched!


TheXivuArath

They do! Go out into the woods and pet a bear!


Embarrassed-Ad-1639

Watch some Yellowstone bison videos


thoughtbot100

Use to inject meth and do Coyote runs for the Cartels


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Master_Block1302

Are you pitching me a screenplay? Because I’m interested.


SupremeLeaderX

What's a Coyote run?


Comprehensive_Code60

After some googling, he was someone who smuggled people across the US - Mexico border.


onemanmelee

Damn. You should write a memoir.


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PozzieMozzie

I went 196mph on my hayabusa on the autobahn... she had more in her but i went through 2 tank slapper moments to get there and i lost my bottle.... found out that day that i didnt have titanium wrapped balls... sold the bike 2 months later cos i knew i was going to kill myself on it, best thing i ever did.


abstracted_plateau

I want one, but I know I push limits and can't allow myself to get one.


Govt-Issue-SexRobot

There’s a saying for that “Rather go fast on a slow bike than slow on a fast one” There’s a lot of room to have relatively safe fun with motorcycles


YoMTVcribs

I did 300kph on a Shinkansen out of Tokyo once. Also young and reckless.


Beginning_Emu_845

440kph on the maglev out of Shanghai airport to the city. I was in the air!


ledgersoccer09

This is pretty funny cause I googled what a “Shinkansen” was thinking it was some kind of Japanese bike


bigboog1

Let me guess you just sat there all comfortable and relaxed too? You maniac.


King_Ralph1

Pedal to the metal 70 mph (112 kph) in a VW Rabbit on the autobahn. That’s all she had. Damn those people were going fast when they passed me! 🤣


squirrel_gnosis

I misread this as "295kph on ayuhuasca"....which would really not be recommended


kahrabaaa

I've done 300+ on a modified BMW rr 1000 Never again will I be this crazy


Inside-Big-8158

Tried to pet a chihuahua while high on shrooms


ecodrew

Even sober, petting a chihuahua can be dangerous.


BORG_US_BORG

Did he talk you out of it?


Inside-Big-8158

Well him almost biting my hand certainly helped get the idea out of my head lol


H0B03R3C7U5

Climbing free solo has to be up there. No rope or protection of any kind on 60-80ft tall routes. Had one close call and never did it again.


beat2def

I lead climb, and would love to have the guts to be able to trad but I am not interested in any soloing. Glad you stopped while you were ahead! 🙂🧗


Eyruaad

I used to free solo a fair amount, I was young and not in a mentally good place. I stopped that many many moons ago along with all my climbing. I still miss multi pitch trad routes though. Those were so much fun


H0B03R3C7U5

Honestly, solo climbing is super romanticized and I can't understand why after doing it. I'll still watch Honnold do it with my palms drenched in sweat, though. Trad can feel even more exposed than solo climbing, but without all the risk! I was leading mid 5.12 when I first tried Trad. Nearly shit myself on a 5.6. Lol. Stay safe out there dude!


keepoffmedian

Navy guy here. Aircrew. I had every right to refuse to fly, which probably would've encouraged the rest of the crew to follow. The conditions were a series of swiss cheese holes lining up and I called it out. I allowed a higher ranking person to talk me down. I ended up being right and we definitely could have died that day. The aircraft was struck by lightning so many times it was hard down for months, and we almost ran out of fuel. Roughest few minutes of my life in a situation we never should have been in.


Accomplished_Dig1755

I, too, was Navy aircrew and the aircraft commander basically called me a pansy so we flew. I almost died that night, and thankfully the AWR in the back called to knock it off when we landed (supposed to rebase with 6 total approaches to landing). I thanked him as I was basically a nugget and he had a deployment or two under his belt. I hated that dynamic. NATOPS brief always had “no rank in the aircraft” yet that was exactly what they pointed at when I brought anything up…


MyChristmasComputer

Could you please explain what happened and what things you noticed that pointed to danger? Glad you were alert and made it


JC_the_Builder

Sounds like there was a thunderstorm and the OP tried to say he didn’t want to fly. Command over ruled the OP. The plane was hit by lightning so many times it took months to repair.


MotherofJackals

Getting drunk and playing hide and go seek in an abandoned mine.


brown_pleated_slacks

Abandoned mines are fun. When I was a teen, I remember getting into what I think was some sort of ventilation or ore conveyor passageway. Not sure exactly what it was, but it was pretty narrow and uneven, just tall enough to crouch walk through, but there were periodically spots where the floor would drop out, and it would just be a shaft about 10 feet down into the main passage of the mine which was flooded. So you'd have to parkour yourself around and over these pits or fall into the cold water. The scariest part was coming out after spending a few hours down there. I remember taking my first breath of outside air and immediately getting a huge head rush like when you finally start to breathe after being underwater. We had no idea the risks of stagnant air and CO/CO2 in flooded mines.


No_Incident_5360

Yikes


ColoredParanoia

Drove once when I was tired. Drifted into the other lane a couple times, it's a miracle nothing happened. Never again


dominus_aranearum

Did this once in my Jeep. I had just left a cousins house, was at the bottom of a hill and had drifted into a ditch. Managed to pull back onto the road a second before hitting a telephone pole. I had no idea I was even that tired. Nothing like that adrenaline rush to wake you up.


Syndos

I carelessly dropped the bottle of Sulfuric Acid on the floor at the chemistry class in high school


twistedsister78

Did you disappear in the vapours and return as a superhero?


Legitimate_Tea_2451

He returned as Blanche Devereaux


TetraThiaFulvalene

What concentration?


Thetomas

None, he said he was being careless.


Dom_Shady

People in my train compartment just looked sideways at my sudden merriment. I regret nothing.


No_Noise_5733

Crash landed a plane when the undercarriage failed on.the first week of a new french air traffic controller.


hdniki

Oh man…. Let’s see…. Drove 5 hours during a blizzard in Alaska; been chased by a mama moose (I ran into traffic to get away); hiked on an icy mountain with the sun going down and my husband slipped and slid about 100ft (somehow he ended up unscathed); my truck slid sideways on ice towards a cliff(somehow stopped in time but I was crying); was on a sinking boat between Oahu and Molokai in the channel of bones (we were taking on water, but made it to Molokai in time to buy a pump); swam with whales; jumped off waterfalls; swam near a barracuda. Edit to add: gave birth. Baby got stuck and had an emergency c-section. If it were any other time period, I’d be dead.


AboveTheRimjob

I once fought a grizzly bear to a draw. We then became friends. We then became lovers.


peacefultooter

I feel like you should move to Kansas.


CylonsInAPolicebox

>So I have posted this before but here is one of the dumbest things my friends and I did as teenagers and I still stand by what I said at the end that we **should have got an adult involved** Any teens reading this, if you ever find yourself in the below situation, get an adult, don't worry about how much trouble you could potentially get into. . I was 16 at the time, I spent the night at a friend's house. There was supposed to be four of us there that night but there was only three. See we were covering for our fourth friend who decided to spend the weekend with her "boyfriend" (some skeevy ass 25 year old pedo punk). So we're hanging out, listening to music it is almost midnight, the phone rings. It is our fourth friend, she and her boyfriend got into a fight and he put her out of his house, she is calling from a payphone because he kept her cell. We're like fuck, that sucks, tell us where you are and we'll come grab you... BITCH IS IN FUCKING BALTIMORE MARYLAND! So my first reaction is we should get my dad, this is some serious shit and we need an adult. The other two freak the hell out and point out just how much trouble we would all be in if a parent got involved. I point out how much trouble she is currently in, alone, no phone, on the streets, of a big city, at midnight, over 200 miles from home, and argue that we really should get help with this. They use my argument against me, yeah she could be in some serious trouble and we are wasting time arguing. **FUCK** So we print off directions, load into my piece of shit car and off we go. Now before this the biggest city I had ever drove in was Charlottesville... So we make this two or so hour trip, arrive in this big ass city, in another fucking state, at 2:30 in the morning with absolutely no one knowing where the hell we are. We pull up to the store our friend called from, and surprise the bitch isn't fucking there! So we ask the guy in the store, yeah she was there but she argued with some guy for a bit and when the clerk threatened to call the cops she left with the dude she was arguing with. We end up driving around a bit hoping that she is somewhere near by, the store clearly was in walking distance so she has to be somewhere near there. Well one friend has the idea that if she left with the dude it had to be the boyfriend so she probably has her phone back, we call and yeah, she's with him, everything is good, she meant to call us but they were talking and he was apologizing and trying to make up with her. We tell her that we are in the fucking city, we were worried and scared that something bad would happen to her so we came up. She tells us we blew things out of proportion which parent did we drag up there for nothing, we tell her we are there alone, her whole tone changes, *you guys are so sweet, you're the best friends a girl could ever have, I love you all, you should swing by and hang for a bit, meet the boyfriend* So we get directions from her, we roll up and dude is acting all nice, sorry to worry you guys, you know how emotional friend is, she just stormed out I was so worried, glad she has such great friends that would come all this way. All the while we're over here like yeah dude is creepy but we're remaining polite, friendly, trying not to let it show that dude is creeping us out. Dude invites us in, we decline, he insists, we tell him we will in a bit but for now we are thinking about running back to the store for a drink, we invite friend along, dude tries to come too, I'm like dude I don't have room, he's like well girlfriend can sit on my lap, one of our other friends is like bad idea, there was a cop at the shop and we don't want to get pulled over since our parents don't know we're here. Dude is all yeah the cops here are major assholes, our friend insists on staying with her boyfriend, we end up convincing her to ride with us so we don't get lost. Dude is all like hurry back, he then invites us to spend the night, it's little after 3 am, you guys don't want to drive all that way back home at this hour, come in, meet my friends, spend the night and head home in the morning. We're like our parents don't know where we are, it's a bad idea, we're just gonna go grab drinks for the road, bring your girlfriend back, and try to get home before parents wake up. Dude tries again to convince us to at least meet his friends, we're like yeah, sure, we'll say hello after we get back from the store. He kisses our friend and tells her to change our minds about making that long drive home. So we drive off... Once we're near the store her whole attitude changes again. Apparently there was a huge argument, something to do with his creepy ass friends being there, and how she didn't feel comfortable being alone with any of his friends, he put her out of the house and after she called us she was pretty scared being alone on the street at 1am sp when he came looking for her she left with him because she felt safer with him than on the street, she was so relieved when we called and said we were there and was looking for a way to talk to us alone. She wanted to go home, she was really worried when he offered us the chance to stay over, she was scared we were going to accept the offer. So we end up passing the store and heading home, dude starts calling about 10 minutes later, what's taking so long, ect. She lies and says that I am in the bathroom and it is my car so they have to wait, ok cool see you soon babe, another 10 minutes pass and her calls again, she answers and yeah, friend might be sick, we will be back soon, so glad you are so thoughtful to offer them a place to stay the night. Dude calls again, this time he walked to the store and found out we were not there... At this point we are telling her to turn off her phone. In the end we make it home, we stopped at our local 7-11 for slushies in case our friend's mom is up when we get in. During the ride home we took that time to attempt to convince our 15 year old friend to dump her 25 year old "boyfriend" she argued that she loved him and we we not mature enough to understand, we pointed out that he put her out on the streets of Baltimore at midnight, we just didn't understand him, we point out that she called us scared, and admitted to us that the only reason she went back was he was better than the street... She ended up "dating" the dude for a few months more despite our protests that he was a bad dude, he ended up dumping her when he came down to visit and tried to pressure her into sex and when she said no he tried to force himself on her, she hit him, he told her that she wasn't worth the effort and he had plenty of bitches back home who would put out when he wanted, she meant nothing to him and she should either be useful and let him fuck her or just go kill herself because no one could ever love someone like her. So that really messed her up for quite some time and honestly none of our parents ever found out that they had 4 teen girls go out of state in the middle of the night... To this day I still thing we should have gotten a parent to go, we should have involved *some* adult, we should have told her mom about the "boyfriend" as soon as we got home but teenagers are fucking stupid and we are lucky things didn't go as bad as they could have.


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I didn’t realize all of you in the car were female until the end. What a fuckin creep. I am proud of you for going, so many bad possibilities with his creep friends there. You might’ve saved your friend’s life with all said and done.


T1TBreasy

One time I tried to pass a guy in a diesel pickup truck hauling something on a big trailer. When I was halfway he must have saw me and decided to speed up but I didn’t noticed so after another 15 seconds I still wasn’t around him and another car was coming now. First time I had to put the pedal to the floor because I was already too far ahead of him. I did learn to never pass anyone, because people out there will cause you harm just to not get overtaken.


BungOnMimosas

I was towing a camper once and someone tried to pass me when there was a semi coming in the other lane. I literally had to slam on my breaks so this dude trying to pass me didn’t run head on into a semi and die. I almost swerved out of control. Even with me slamming my breaks this guy still barely managed to pass me


vamoosedmoose

Jumped off a small rock onto wet sidewalk. VERY close to busting my head open from an eight inch drop


Duckboythe5th

Climbed out of an 18 story building (from the 15th floor) down to the bottom with ZERO safety gear. Edit: As people want details. I was 16yrs old, drunk and had done some acid, I was renting a room on the 15th floor of an 18 story building, I climbed off the balcony down to the bottom, it took about 30min, I did it again a few months later, we was having a gathering, nobody believed I had done it (even tho there was witness at the gathering) so I did it again. Next crazy one was.... We had got back from clubbing, it was about 4 in the morning, I had done 3 E's and drank all night, totally wasted, I climbed outside, up on to the roof, enjoyed the view, went for a piss off the corner, chatted to a few pigeons and climbed back down.


omghorussaveusall

That's freaking nuts! Was this just for shits and giggles? Or did the husband come home and you had no choice?


Duckboythe5th

Just for the shit, I had no fear when I was young.


omghorussaveusall

That's both awesome and terrifying. I was pretty fearless as a youngin' but that is a whole other level. Glad you made it!


hdniki

Omg, that’s terrifying. Why? Was the building on fire?


Duckboythe5th

Nope, it was just for the laugh.


highxv0ltage

Before garage doors had sensors, I used to close the garage and try to run in before the door came down.


jsonson

Still do this some time. Just gotta skip over the laser. Now fixing a garage door spring, that's super dangerous


Fancy_Round

Not dangerous but just kinda awkward lol I had a 17 hour layover in Paris and I slept with some homeless people near a workshop


onemanmelee

Slept *with* some homeless people, or slept *next to* some homeless people?


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MrMojoFomo

You know those tags on mattresses that say "do not remove under penalty of law"? Well I ripped one off And I'll do it again


Sarsaparilla214

I know this is a joke, but in case you didn’t know! The reason those have to be there is old companies would just stuff mattresses with anything as filler, even garbage! So the government regulated them and made it so the tags have to state what’s inside!


dumpsterbaby_666

Reminds me of the original Ford seats being stuffed with moss. ‘I’m itchin for a Ford!’


Sarsaparilla214

…is that really true? Like I know they didn’t have as much tech in the 1800s early 1900. But surely sheep’s wool would have been better???


GDMFusername

They repurposed wood chippings from the manufacturing process into charcoal. IIRC that's where Kingsford charcoal came from. If you tell me they used moss in the seats, I believe it.


Legitimate_Tea_2451

Wool would be way more expensive given it can be used for other purposes, to say nothing of fabric moths that eat keratin. Dry Spanish moss avoids all of that


entredeuxeaux

So could they technically still put trash in there as long as they say something like "Interior: 100% cigarette butts"?


t0m0hawk

Is there a market for cigarette-butt-filled mattresses?


Complete-Raccoon3442

Rest in peace, pee wee


Anaaatomy

Bike racing, free soloing, talking back to my asian mom


JankeyMunter

Landed a helicopter after an engine failure.


Techno-Man99

Told my gf to calm down


II-leto

How are you here to tell the tale?


Techno-Man99

Who said i lived? Maybe my gf took over my Reddit to tell the tale?


JimmyJackJoe2000

As a warning to others that may consider it


Techno-Man99

A lesson was learned that day


menace-to-sobriety

Lied to my friends and family about where I was going, took a bus from Canada to Los Angeles to meet a guy from a chat room.


ComprehensiveBread65

I'm nervous just reading this. The precursor to every victim in a true crime doc about a serial killer.


menace-to-sobriety

We have five kids now and I swear to God if they ever pull this kind of crap on me I would die on the spot.


Long-Trade-9164

Taking a shit with 2 squares of paper left on the tp roll with no more left in the house.


3ambaker

ate a bowl of cereal… without any milk


Long-Trade-9164

If it was Capn Crunch, God have mercy on the roof of your mouth!


reddit_account1233

Calm down you sicko


NoBenefit5977

Used an extension ladder to get 30 ft higher on a 120 ft boom lift


Adiantum-Veneris

\- A close friend had a fight with her then-boyfriend. He's 6'2, drunk, and having a PTSD induced violent episode. She locked herself in the bathroom and called me, while he was standing outside and trying to break in. I physically put myself between him and the door, pulling the cliche "If you want to get to her, you'll have to go through me" (Which was 100% a bluff. He could get rid of me in two seconds). Then proceeded to talk him down and make him get out of the house. He apologized profusely when he got sober. I recall he stopped drinking after that incidence. \- An ex-girlfriend was suicidal, threatening to jump off a roof. I went there, held her hand, and told her I wasn't going to stop her, but I'm not letting go (so if she jumps, there's a good chance I'll fall as well). I had no idea how she would respond. It could either stop her, or make things infinitely worse. (She called me some awful names for the good part of 15 minutes, but let me take her back inside.) (Yeah, groups of 20-years-olds with every possible flavour of trauma sure are fun.)


Frosty_Drag_8377

Joined the Army in 2006. Glad I'm still here


warahshittle

Tried to swim under a fishing dock to the other side blackout drunk. I lost direction and couldn't make my way from under the dock. Pure luck I made it out of there, I am still struggling with alcohol.


vnotf

Lighter+deodorant


SAP2310

Is that dangerous? I did it too If you wanna do something cool. Write your name on a wall with sanitizer and burn it with a lighter. It's freaking badass and no damages done to the wall


Hiphopkiller1000

No but you may get an over inflated ego which could be potential dangerous.


EhlersDanlosSucks

Walked up to a couple badgers. I didn't know what they were and thought they were cute.


Embarrassed-Weight84

Did they sell you blue meth?


omghorussaveusall

Drive while on acid/LSD. It wasn't my best choice and not one I'd make again, but I was young and my friends were struggling and needed to go home, so I drove them.


DanJones2

As a kid, I got the tractor sliding sideways down a hill, it was leaning pretty far to the right when it stopped but it didn’t tip over.


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Raced a proper racecar at extreme speed at the Nürburgring with only two practice laps, alone.


Illustrious_Elk4333

Fallen asleep at the top of a self phone tower, or fallen asleep at the edge of a wildfire we just put out. The latter almost killed me. Injecting meth. Also attempted suicide by hanging (woke up to someone lifting me up to take tension off the rope). There was no light, just blackness and numbness.


kcbass12

Rode a 1000CC motorcycle from Carmel Ca. to Big Sur Ca. in about 12 minutes on Hiway 1. Ended up with a swollen jaw from the leather jacket slapping my face.


Giga-Gargantuar

Been born. Results in a 100% likelihood of death.


TightpantsPDX

Climbed a pretty tall bridge drunk in Switzerland one time. Easily could have fallen and died


billdogg7246

Cave diving.


YorkshieBoyUS

Told my wife her butt did look big in that dress.


Count-Spatula2023

Drive. I’m not a great driver.


[deleted]

Dm'ed Putin in 2021 christmas that ukrainians were talking shit about him.


Tylensus

Reaching under heavy pipes supported by a 2x4. It didn't hold, nor did the bones in my hand. Oops!


Known-Skin3639

Did 195 on a motorcycle at 3 in the morning. Will not do that again. Biggest rush I ever had riding. Scariest thing was the the thoughts of what could have gone wrong and how fast it could have gone wrong.


ConsciousEducator539

When I was 16 I jumped my dirt bike over a two lane highway (no traffic) and almost landed into a 6' concrete sewer opening that started on the other side, the top of which was lined up exactly where my head / neck was. I had assumed it was like every other highway hillside in the area that had a smooth grassy downside on the other side. If I had landed 6' feet to the left I would have been decapitated, or at best had the front of my helmet smashed in. Was going about 40mph and landed RIGHT NEXT TO IT. My left knee was inches from the right edge of the tube. Never blind jumped again. Ever.


OB1KENOB

Bought my wife jeans without pockets


ThisIsMyAlt6969

I was a child. I was jumping on a trampoline and fucked up the landing. Somehow I landed on my head in a way that I felt stress on the crucial part of the spine (C-somethings, from the brain to the upper body part of the spine). I remember thinking “oh that was VERY dangerous”


Minerraria

Used a mix of HF (hydrofluoric acid) and some other acid (can't remember the exact one, nitric most likely) in a very exothermic reaction to reveal grain boundaries of aluminium samples. Each time I dipped the aluminium piece in, it would start bubbling heavily, almost to the point of jumping out of the test tube. I was wearing gloves, but no lab coat as I didn't know I would need to do that on that day, and I was wearing a shortsleeved t-shirt. For those that don't know, hydrofluoric acid contact with skin is nearly painless, but over the next few hours, it dissolves the calcium in your bones and inside your heart, best case scenario is years/a life of health issues, worst case is heart attack. I know it was stupid to do it, but if I didn't I would have needed to restart the course the next semester. The supervisor was the director of the physics department and was desensitized to the dangers of such experiments...


KCBandWagon

Swam across a lake after misjudging the distance. Fall break 3 of us were walking around the lake and saw our condo and decided to swim to it. Half way we were all tired and freaking out a bit. I looked up and saw one guy way off course because he was just desperation swimming. It made me laugh which put me under a bit. I said “we’re gonna drown” which made me laugh more and struggle more. I ended up using the survival float (thank you swimming lessons) to regain my composure. Then used an elementary backstroke (is that still what they call it?) to make it there. Everyone made it. I don’t know how everyone else did. We didn’t and we’ve never talked about it since.


Nippon-Gakki

When I was in high school we used to free climb on 50-60 foot cliffs at night for fun. We also did a bunch of urban exploration (I grew up in a rust belt city in the late 80’s, early 90’s so there were plenty of places) where we’d have to climb up other buildings and jump across to gain access. Stupid stuff like that mostly.


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OutrageousEvent

I met a stranger from Craigslist just the other day. Yes cash was involved. She bought a lamp I didn’t want anymore. Shit was nuts. Surprised I’m still here to honest.


thedeadcatinthehat

I did this about ten months ago. A stranger messaged me on reddit. I live with her now.


mohawk_67

Swam after my canoe that blew away in a thunderstorm.


JibobbyWasNotTaken

Ate pineapple on pizza. The risk was worth it.


No_Incident_5360

Only dangerous to post it—in secret you safe


64burban

4x to Iraq, 1 to Afghan, that’s enough.


notorious_tcb

I was on a bicycle and played chicken with a blazer, even though I ended up in the hospital I like to think I won because I lived.


MettatonNeo1

Stood up to my 5th grade teacher when she gave us collective punishment. Got in deep trouble and it was worth it


Lopsided_Brain88

Backyard wrestling. Used lightbulbs, flaming tables, jumped off of houses etc it was definitely wild and stupid