Dumbest (most unsafe) thing you've ever done?

kingoflawns · May 13, 2006

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Feb 2002 2:00 am, plowing sidewalks with my B7500 & 2019 power angle front blade. I broke the drivers side mounting pin, as i pushed the broken half pin out with my left index finger the plow shifted & my finger became the pin! Im on my knees now ,stuck in my tractor plow, very cold, already have heard the bone snap, that pins & needles feeling is gone & now i cant feel the finger at all! Just as im about to pull my finger off (freaking out) i said to myself take 3 deep breaths and think, it was only after i took this little breather that i realized i had my nextel on my belt. I called a couple of guys i was plowing with & they got me out & got me to the hospital. Snow plowing is a dangerous gig, i was 30 hours without sleep and my thinking was not clear when i put my finger in there!

ronjhall · May 13, 2006

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I can think of many dumb things that I have done. But the one that is always fresh in my mind, is me hitting my left hand middle finger with a 3 lbs dead blow mallet. I was setting landscape garden wall blocks in place. Just put that finger right in the way of that mallet for no reason at all. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Do not think it will happen again. Finger still gives me a pain every time I pickup any kind of hammer. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

deere755 · May 14, 2006

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I also have done my share but I remember being a young teen ager and all my neighbors and I had motorcycles that we would ride on some trails near our home since none of us where old enough to ride on the road. We came up with a game where we would get off our bike and hide in the brush with a flashlight and wait for one of the others to come by. When they got right up on us we would stick a bright flashlight in there face and blind them causing them to wreck and then get up and do it all again. I don't remember any of us getting hurt in all the years we did this. At least not seriously.

BlueRidge · May 14, 2006

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How about playing Army with your friends?

In a nearby cemetary...

With BB guns!

No, no eye protection. Why do you ask? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

JimMorrissey · May 15, 2006

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My older brother used to do the same thing, except he got blamed (not sure if it was him or not, there was something like 12 kids all aiming at one another) for hitting a kid in the corner of his eye. The family sued my parents and won. It was an ugly time for us and the kid. His eye was never the same.

On that same level there. We used to have "nail fights" where we'd go to a new home being built and start throwing 16 penny nails at one another while we hit and ducked behind the stud walls. Hard to believe in hind sight.

JimMorrissey · May 15, 2006

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My older brother used to do the same thing, except he got blamed (not sure if it was him or not, there was something like 12 kids all aiming at one another) for hitting a kid in the corner of his eye. The family sued my parents and won. It was an ugly time for us and the kid. His eye was never the same.

On that same level there. We used to have "nail fights" where we'd go to a new home being built and start throwing 16 penny nails at one another while we hit and ducked behind the stud walls. Hard to believe in hind sight.

masscity · May 15, 2006

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I have many, but this is about my friend and his son. My friend is at work and he gets a call from his son. Son say Dad help me I'm pinned under my car. Dad is 25 minutes away and asks what happened. Apparently the tires were still on it, but the car came off of the jack. My friend doesn't panic or call 911, he asks his son if he can reach the jack, son says yes, Dad says jack the car up. Son crawls out happy as heck, a little sore, but ok. I've known this guy for 10 years and I've never seen him get excited.

masscity · May 15, 2006

Re: Dumbest (most unsafe) thing you\'ve ever done?

I have many, but this is about my friend and his son. My friend is at work and he gets a call from his son. Son say Dad help me I'm pinned under my car. Dad is 25 minutes away and asks what happened. Apparently the tires were still on it, but the car came off of the jack. My friend doesn't panic or call 911, he asks his son if he can reach the jack, son says yes, Dad says jack the car up. Son crawls out happy as heck, a little sore, but ok. I've known this guy for 10 years and I've never seen him get excited.

mrutkaus · May 15, 2006

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I was in a car that a guy on a bike passed doing that, I'll never forget it. Luck conquers all. For a while.

Mike

mrutkaus · May 15, 2006

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I was in a car that a guy on a bike passed doing that, I'll never forget it. Luck conquers all. For a while.

Mike