Just For Fun!!!

I think this one qualifies for "crazy" and "stupid" in one shot.

Back when I was a sophomore in High School (MANY years ago), I rode my bike darn near everywhere. My buddy and I would cruise along and use the driveway flares (where the driveway sloped back up to the regular curb) to jump our bikes. Keep in mind, these weren't BMX or even Mountain Bikes. At that time, no one had even heard of Mountain Bikes. We all rode 10 Speed road bikes. One day, my buddy and I were riding along, hopping our bikes in the usual manner, when Dave commented that he knew this place where we might be able to get a real good jump with the bike. It was a spot where an orange grove was just above the street, and a very short, very steep dirt trail led up from the street to the grove. This was about a three foot climb in maybe two to three foot of forward distance, with a long run of straight street leading up to it. I said, "I'll try it!"

The last thing I remember is turning around up the street to make a run for this naturally steep ramp. The next thing I remember is waking up in the ambulance. According to Dave, I went about 6 feet into the air (on a 10 Speed Road bike, mind you, not balanced for flying), came down on the front wheel, went over the handlebars, landed flat on my back, and laid there laughing after the bike bounced over me. I passed out very quickly thereafter. Dave flagged down a Jeep that had a CB radio installed, and the driver radio'ed REACT for the ambulance. This was LONG before Cell phones.

I wish I could remember the whole thing. It sounded like one great ride, right up until that bad landing...

When i was in college my buddies and I always seemed to have an affinity for throwing things. My freshman year we built a homemade water balloon launcher out of some elastic bands our swim team used for training, duct tape, and a washcloth. All i can say about that is that frozen waterballons and frozen oranges really leave dents in cars ;). Also my freshman year i was infamous for putting cheerios on top of peoples ceiling fans so that when they turned them on the cheerios spread out all over the floor.

The oddest thing i ever did in college was during my sophomore year. Our Physics club built a mid-evil seige engine called a trebuchet. For those of you that dont know what that is, it is a very large catapult used for throwing boulders, dead animals, etc. Ours was constructed out of tree trunks and had a 700 pound counter weight. Theoretically it would throw a 20 pound watermelon half a mile, but we never did find the remains of the watermelon ;)

Of course you could always ask Chris (Andariel) about waskels ..... LMAO

Trebuchets are cool! French siege weapon yeah? I saw a discover channel thing where a dude built one and threw a volkswagon like a hundred yards with it it was pretty sweet. Also once on monster garage they used one to hurl packages from a mail truck.

Growing up in the 60's was never boring. My brother and I use to do many stupid, but fun things. We would fold strips of aluminum foil over fishing string and run it across the road at night. When a car would come along we would pull on the string (one of us on each side of the road) and when the headlights of the car hit the aluminum strips, well lets just say there were many a car swerving and slamming on the brakes.

Other times we would throw toilet paper over power lines, then light them on fire....Made for a great light show.

Stupidest thing we use to do, though it was fun at the time, was to jump into the Barge Canal from the drawbridge just after a barge passed. It would tow us for a good long ways. Very dangerous thing to do because it could have pulled us under into the propellers of the tug but we never thought of that then.

well, i havent done much, and some of it might seem.....i dunno the word, but not so great.
most of it in malls

me and my best friend once got int a huge fake fight just to get a scene and we had security gaurds come and make us stay away from each other

ive gone to random people and store employees saying thigns such as :

"Are you making fun of me becasue i'm black?"

"what, you folowing me cuz im black?"

and other such things, but the fun part is becasue im white....lol

another fun thing to do in the mall, take an alka selter, bite down on it, and fall to the floor pretending to have a seizure





ive never done anything really illegal...yet, but im only 13, and i know i probably will do something.

well, i also take like, sewing needles, and pierce random body parts, ive pierced my ear a lot, but ive always taken it out, so my parents dont yell at me, but i do have my ear pierced twice by a proffesional

ive pieced the webby part of skin in between your thumb and index finger

the excess skin at your ankle

and a bunch of oter random parts that you wouldnt normally see a piercing

ive never had any be permanant other than my ear, i just do it, let someone see it, then take it out



* i wouldnt do this if i were you, theres an easy chance of it getting infected, and the needle is most likely not sterile, if you want it done, go to a place *



edit- BTW, the one that hurt the most was my ear, surprisingly...but not even that really hurt, i dont get hurt that easily

We'll this one time at band camp...... :wink:

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We'll this one time at band camp......

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Ewwwwwwwwww....................................lol

My best friend and I used to drive her '83 Ford Tempo around all night. She would pick me up around 10 or 11, whenever her stupid boyfriend passed out from being too "high". We had many nights of fun; hanging out and drinking with friends in the cemetery.
I really can't think of anything nutty I've done that I would want to post. It could always come back to haunt me!