1 8

2 Now then as I was saying....

3 LOL, I had just posted a comment about needing a new thread when the system locked up and P.A. was giving us a new thread. 

4

PA: may I suggest a topic for the next AoS Ongoing Weekend Home Improvement Series™?

 Pool Boys behaving badly

5

what was the most dangerous/stupid thing you ever did that could/should have killed you, but you managed to walk away from

I drove my morcycle through the Alameda/Oakland tunnel drunk at > 100 mph and inching closer and closer to the wall as I hit the bumps between sections.

Also drove up Mt. Talmapias (?) drunk hitting the curves so hard I was drawing rooster tails from the stand dragging.

Used to be crazy on a bike.

6 Pool Boys behaving badly

Wasn't that a pron DVD?

7 LOL, morcycle = motorcyle

8 Home made napalm.

9 Steyn on "Losing In Fall OK With Democrats If It Means They Win Health Care"

Is it worth reducing the next generation of Americans to indentured servitude to pay for this poor New Yorker's dentured servitude? Yes. Because government health care is not about health care, it's about government.

Once you look at it that way, what the Dems are doing makes perfect sense. For them.

10

"Wasn't that a pron DVD?"

If you say so.  I wouldn't know about things like that any more

11 what was the most dangerous/stupid thing you ever did that could/should have killed you, but you managed to walk away from

Face first over a motorcicle with no helmet.

Oh, and, sex with a soul-stealing woman.

12 Speaking of BACKSTABBING... {the old thread was too long, so I waited. >>> It isnt the slip fit failing so much as the light duty nature of the recep. I've had TWO fail in dishwasher hookups and both were screw attached, if it can be back-slip wired it's LIGHT DUTY and WILL burn up eventually. >> Same goes for plumbing in walls, Only one who is sure they wont be around uses ANY sort of plastic pressure/ supply plumbing in walls!!! Use copper where you cant get to it, PEX where you can. NEVER use plain PVC in hidden locations. Same for 'slip fit pipe couplings' - if it's temporary fix, fine. BUT... It WILL fail someday, dont care how much it costs.

13 I have since learned napalm is a portmanteau for naphthenic and palmitic acid. Interesting shit.

14 Three friends and I took hallucinogenic mushrooms and climbed up a cliff-face free-hand, while legitimate climbers on either side of us in full climbing gear - ropes, pitons, helmets, the whole shebang - were yelling at us, calling us idiots.

A couple times we froze in terror on the cliff-face, unable to retreat, and too fearful to make the necessary stretch for the next handhold. We should have fallen to our deaths or at least required the assistance of rescue helicopters. But somehow, we inched our way to the top, and lived to laugh about it.

That was about 25 years ago.

15 Marriage

16 Back in 1987, I climbed and then walked along an abandoned el (that's short for an elevated subway line for you bumpkins) in Jamaica, Queens for approximately one mile. At night. I neither fell to my death nor did I get electrocuted.

I don't count showing up for work at 2 WTC on 9/11/01. Or should I?

17 Now the whole fucking web site is slow as shit.  This place is going to hell in a handbasket.

18 Only one who is sure they wont be around uses ANY sort of plastic pressure/ supply plumbing in walls!

My place is full of plastic supply lines in the walls and attic.  Re-plumbing the whole joint in copper is on my list of things to do.

19
In a suicide attempt, when you fire the first 2-inch nail into your own head with a nail-gun and you don't die, what do you do? Keep going until you get lucky? At what point do you decide that it's not working and give it up as a bad job? Then how long do you leave it until you go and get medical attention?

The man pictured here, high on methamphetamine, shot 12 nails into his own head, even reloading the nail gun once when the nails ran out. He then left it a further day before going to hospital and complaining of 'headache.'

As a bonus, the man now holds the record for surviving the largest number of foreign objects ever purposefully penetrated into the skull.

Sounds like a Moron.™

20 Sarah Palin speaks in Calgary, Alberta

21
Palin will never get a GOP nomination. Her role is that of fundraiser and motivator for the base.

22 >>"what was the most dangerous/stupid thing you ever did that could/should have killed you, but you managed to walk away from"<<

Two words:

Jagermeister.

23

Sitting in a storm drain, waiting for a summer monsoon to pass in Tucson, Az.

And about a quarter-mile from the enterance in said drain. And we heard the water coming.

Lemme tell you, that water rises really, really fast. Like in 30 seconds it goes from your ankles to your mid-thighs. And man, is that current strong...

Damn we were lucky to get out of that one. Oh, and no way in hell you could swim that if your feet had gotten knocked out from under you.

 

24

"Al-Qaida's American-born spokesman [Adam Gadahn] on Sunday called on Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to emulate the Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood."

"Gadahn grew up on a goat farm in Riverside County, California..."

I guess that goat thing is true.

25 Successfully swimming away from a rip current that claimed one other life. Cape Hatteras, NC, 1985.

26 "Stupidest?"  Probably jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.  But in my defense, I was only 19 at the time and believed I was immortal.  The passing years have convinced me otherwise.

27 Lived in Malibu, went to rock clubs like the Scream and White Trash au Go-Go 6 nights a week.

28 "Walking away" is a relative term. It ain't dangerous unless you either crawl, limp, carried on a stretcher, have to have several fire extinguishers used on you to put out the flames, cry for your mama, spend time in a burn unit and get to know what skin grafts are first hand

29 Follow a FNG 2nd Looie on a recon patrol and get my ass shot....literally!

30 Wow, ABC cut themselves off from my friend's cable system.  So now she is scrambling to try and find a place to watch the Oscars.  But all her friends have the same cable provider.

31 "Stupidest?"  Probably jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

I've had three reserve parachute rides so far. 

32 So now she is scrambling to try and find a place to watch the Oscars.

She'd do that on purpose?  I think an intervention is called for here.

33 1) home made pipe bombs

2) 140MPH on a country road on a motorcycle

3) Working with out fall protection over a 230KV energized buss

4) marriage

5) I can't talk about that one, sorry

34 "I've had three reserve parachute rides so far."

Purp....you are really PUSHING the law of averages!  Time to quit! 

35 "26 "Stupidest?" Probably jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. " If it was an Air Force plane, it was not perfectly good.

36 and get my ass shot....literally

A guy I worked with at IBM took three in the ass in Vietnam.  He was sitting on his helmet at the time.  If he'd been sitting on the ground they'd have shattered his spine and he'd be a KIA or at minimum a paraplegic.  Funny how a few inches one way or the other makes all the difference sometimes.

37

"I've had three reserve parachute rides so far.  "

I'd start packing my own.  Or is that the problem?  

38

Palin fits right it with the average American.

----

As she has been before, Palin was critical of some of the coverage she received when running with John McCain, and said her patience wore thin with the "mainstream media."

She noted a reporter told her she had a Canadian accent. Palin said she responded, "So?"

"That interview didn't go very well," Palin told Saturday's crowd. "Not many of them did."

39

I took an unexpected swim in the Gulf of Alaska in 1985.  The weather was fairly snotty with sustained winds at about 60 gusting to around 80.  Seas were running around 20 feet or so.  I was in for about 20 minutes.

Took me about 6 hours to quit shaking.

40 you are really PUSHING the law of averages

Naa, the rigger who packs my reserve is top notch.  If you could frame a pack job and display it as a work of art, his are.   Those three I had were early on.  Its been over 500 jumps now since I've had to use "Plan B".

With more experience, I might have been able to land two of them.  The third was really hopeless - the canopy blew apart into flapping shreds on deployment (turned out to be a bad batch of fabric from the mill and it was happening to everyone who had one of those)

41

what was the most dangerous/stupid thing you ever did that could/should have killed you, but you managed to walk away from

I'm still trying to find that one.

 a soul-stealing woman.

Close but no cigar.

42 I once banged Helen Thomas . . . and lived.

43 "Funny how a few inches one way or the other makes all the difference sometimes."

We were going into what we were told was a 'cold' LZ.  It wasn't.  I was sitting in the door with my legs on the skid.  As rounds went into the fuselage, the guy behind me stiff-armed me in the back and I started to pitch forward.  Problem.  We were still about 20 feet off the deck.  Guy realized this, grabbed my harness and pulled me back.  To this day the bastard says I'm "ungrateful" for him 'saving my life'.

44 Stalingrad, 1942. If only I had defied the Fuhrer and actually given Paulus the order to break out of the city...

45 Dood, the only thing I'd bang Helen Thomas with is a chunk of rebar.

46 "turned out to be a bad batch of fabric from the mill"

Anyone go visit the QC inspector........with a tire iron?

47
sup fagz

48 @14 btdt -- actually i was ok but my friend froze and i had to climb up and talk him down. This was next to Hoover Dam just under the towers.

@5 btdt -- Once on 5th ave, after picking up girl at scrap bar. we both slid about 300ft on wet sand. Once on 101 s of SF. after being cut off by a cage. bike got messed up bad. i hate softails.

@11 btdt -- half mexican in san jose. turns out she was a [no kidding] psycopath. "'I don't know what you're talkin' about, Ray, I ain't done nothin' funny'"

@23 btdt -- Rip current off Africa coast. kid in boat saw me and saved me (I cant swim). Once canoing down Delaware managed to keep my hand above water and some scout mom saved me.

sorry, i hate to be competitive. i got a couple more.

49

I once banged Helen Thomas . . . and lived.

WINNER!!!!!

50 Haven't jumped since I got out in '69.....missed the first of the HALO jumps by a couple of weeks and that has always bothered me....seems like some real fun.

51 Fox News:  Adam Gadahn caught in Pakistan.

52

"Oscar Rodriguez of Las Vegas, Nev., was labeled a hero by firefighters and paramedics for helping them communicate with non-English speaking passengers just after Friday's pre-dawn crash on an interstate.

They presented him with gifts and a certificate that reads "Hero of the day" during a visit with him at a Phoenix hospital Saturday.

"This kid stayed calm and was brave more than any other veteran I've worked with," said Kenneth Leslie, a paramedic who, with his partner, was the first to arrive at the scene."

"Federal transportation officials said the bus, owned by Van Nuys, Calif.-based Tierra Santa Inc., was operating illegally. The company was told in April and again in December not to transport passengers across state lines.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety has wrapped up its investigation, and spokesman Bart Graves said details will be released sometime next week."

the article says all the passengers who were injured were taken to area hospitals.  Seems like no one asked if they had insurance coverage?

53

"Fox News:  Adam Gadahn caught in Pakistan."

Has he been Mirandized yet?

54 "54

"Fox News:  Adam Gadahn caught in Pakistan."

Has he been Mirandized yet?

Posted by: MDr VB1.0 CS1st at March 07, 2010 01:33 PM (ucq49)"

I think Gabe posted a thread on this.

55

I think Gabe posted a thread on this.

Posted by: curious at March 07, 2010 01:35 PM (p302b)

Right you are.  Guess I should come up for air more often.

I'd just read earlier, and posted in 24, his most recent "call".

56 HANG THE BASTARD NOW!  Let Barry and Holder try him later.

57 Not reading the other threads before posting something is an old tradition here, isn't it?

58 One of my friends got attacked and stabbed in a mexican night club by a coke head with a knife and I tackled him and held him down until the bouncers got there. It was crazy

59 America can't survive a congress that is immune from going to jail.

60 "Gadahn grew up on a goat farm in Riverside County, California..."

Look what unrequited love can do to a young man.   He still dreams about that goat...

As for stupidity, I had finished most of the high school chemistry text in 4th grade.   So when I got to high school, my best friend (similar nerd type) and I would take turns distracting the chemistry teacher so the other one could boost chemistry supplies from the closet.   He was the kid of a single parent (his mom had died a few years before), so we were mostly unsupervised after school (he was also the local dealer).

So, we were smart kids, unsupervised, smoking large amounts of weed, and making explosives.  Nice combination, eh?

He went on to get a chemical engineering degree and get a job (wait for it....) in the explosives industry.  He's now an independent consultant with a couple of patents for detonators, and consults with Homeland Security.

Our personal best was the 5 foot wide crater we left in the front lawn of the high school one Halloween. 

Amazingly, we still have all fingers and hands.   But we both have some hearing loss (but that might be due to all the Tull and Zeppelin we listened to).

61 Has he been Mirandized yet?
You have the right to remain dead.

62  In my youth, I was an adrenaline junky. In my early thirties, my body started complaining about the abuse, so I had to give it up.

 The times I shoulda been dead but walked away, including those times when other people didn't walk away? Over a hundred. All together, I have over three hundred stitches, plus several - now healed - broken bones from various incidents. I've done everything from fast cars to moron-cycles to climbing cliffs to jumping out of perfectly good airplanes (too boring for me, I only did it a few times.) to martial arts...(some of those guys are sociopaths. Beat 'em inna ring and you'll have to do it over again later, for real, inna street. ...and if you beat 'em there, you have to beat all of their buddies, later.)

 Scars everywhere, torn ligaments and torn and worn cartilidge in almost every joint in my body...and lots of memories.

 If I had the chance, I'd probably do most of it again. Well, jumping outta airplanes was kinda boring. The first step is interesting - the first couple times, that's a real rush - after ya get past that first step, booo-oooring.

(The view from the top of Mount Whitney is spectacular. The air is kinda thin, though...five minutes to look around, catch your breath, take a few pics and get the hell down.)

 These days, I indulge my other passion. Academic research. I once tested the limits of my body and my physical courage.

 I now test the limits of my mind...which is often a much more dangerous and frightening prospect than anything else I've ever done.

63 I was in Ketchikan one summer at some shit hole bar. Got my bug up my ass about something and got in a fight with a group canery workers. Cops came and took my ass home or I would have been stuffed in a salmon can. Rode in the back of a rx7 (ya no seat) from Prescot to Phoenix with an Euro trash dickweed driving who decided it would be cool to go 140 mph and stick his head out of the sun roof, with the lights off yelling "stealth mode"!

64 46
What do you have against rebar??

65 What was the most dangerous/stupid thing you ever did that could/should have killed you, but you managed to walk away from.

I take it stories about workaholism don't count, even when they cause you to lose 40lb in 1 semester (that was 5yrs ago). Yeah, I've pretty much got nothin'.

66 @39
Links to those quotes please. I say she didn't say them.

67 Let's just say that black powder, threaded steel pipe, and malt liquor don't mix....

68 Most college students lose 40 lbs if they stop drinking for a semester.

69 69 Most college students lose 40 lbs if they stop drinking for a semester.

Yeah, but I would have had to of starting drinking to begin with. No, I lost the weight because I the stress made me unable to eat. Don't know why I was so hyperactive about the grades when I easily got 96s-98s, but it had to be perfect. It wasn't worth it, believe me.

70 I did many stupid things with motorcycles, gasoline, black powder, and alcohol that should have killed me.  Hard to pick the worst one.

71 It wasn't worth it, believe me.

Posted by: Miss'80s at March 07, 2010 03:08 PM (sZ+lP)

Well you did lose weight.  Isn't that a good thing?

72 Being healthy is better than losing weight.

I understand, Miss80sBaby.  I used to be the same way.

73 Being healthy is better than losing weight.

That's not what the movie starlets say.

74 Four of us (as young teenagers) held onto the door handles of a V8 Ford while riding our bicycles.  The driver would get up to about 70 miles per hour.  Then, we would all let go of the door handles, and he would speed up.  Next, he would slow down when he saw a car approaching from the opposite direction.  All the driver of the other car could see was 4 bicycles doing about 65 mph passing a car doing about 50.

75 "... what was the most dangerous/stupid thing you ever did that could/should have killed you, but you managed to walk away from."

I was once trapped on a moving train. It was going way too fast to jump off and I really had no idea where it was going or how long it would take to get there.

So, I jumped from the boxcar of this fast-moving train onto another slower-moving train as it was passing it in a trainyard. I jumped off that second train onto the ground. (The second train was moving slow enough to attempt this).

Should have had both legs severed at the knees. Alas ... I lived to tell the tale.

76

what was the most dangerous/stupid thing you ever did that could/should have killed you, but you managed to walk away from.

Rolled a Renault LeCar at 65mph after getting bumped off of the freeway. All witnessed by an off-duty sheriffs deputy. The car flipped once, popping the hatchback open and ripping the cloth sunroof off. The hinges on the hatch broke, leaving the lid attached with only the wiring leading to it. The car flipped again, crushing the windshield frame and causing my head to pop out like a whack-a-mole. Car went over one more time, swinging the hatch across my head. That bent the sheetmetal over double. I certainly didn't walk away, though I only spent one night in the hospital with cuts and bruises, and had about 2 weeks of fairly intense pain. The paramedics told me later that they saw so much blood, they thought I was dead. I went and looked at the car the next day- there was a large chunk of scalp and hair where that decklid hit me. 1) Seatbelts work. 2) All things considered, the car held up surprisingly well.

77 Most stupid?

Easy.

Chased a train leaving Mountain view (back in the days of the Harriman cars)--grabbed a hand rail, was yanked off my feet, lost my grip on the rail, tore me and clothes all up.

Why I wasn't thrown under the train (was not the last car) can only be explained if you attend church regularly.

78

Regained consciousness after four vodka drinks.

On my motorcycle.

55 MPH, on the dot.

79 Most dangerous thing and lived... I once "took-one-for-the-team" for a buddy of mine I was being a wingman for. I took "the ugly friends" pants off and she had a fake leg. I was a bit startled by this for obvious reasons and just as I swallowed my pride and dove in, her boyfriend came in swinging his... I shit you not... Metal hooked hand around the room. They apparently met in a support group for amputees. So I jumped out of the 2nd story window and landed belly-flop style on the roof of their handy-accesable van and stumbled away bleeding to live another day.

80 I stupidly set up a ladder on top of scaffolding to finish up a siding job. All came crashing down, fell 2 stories- broke both my legs with compound tib/fib fractures, broken ankle, 100 stitches and ended up with gangrene in the wounds. Not too crafty. Fell through a ceiling 7 months later and broke my shoulder blade and 6 ribs. Shortly after that ran my hand through the table saw and re-styled 3 fingers. Not a real good year.

81 #67 The Palin quotes in #39 are from the news story link in my #20 about Ms Palin speaking in Calgary, sig.

82 <i>what was the most dangerous/stupid thing you ever did that could/should have killed you, but you managed to walk away from.</i>

Easy, my first marriage.

83

What was the most dangerous/stupid thing you ever did that could/should have killed you, but you managed to walk away from.

Sat on top of a truck with several Indian men while hitch hiking from Darjeeling to Nepal. The truck was going at speeds that were dangerous for the curves and there were no barricades or fences to stop the truck if it plunged over the cliff. Did I mention I was 19 and a girl. It was also 30 years ago.
My mother must have been saying a lot of Rosaries.

84

Going werewolf hunting in Louisiana. alone. and with a silver baseball bat cause I couldn't find any silver bullets.  I did find a swamp, 3 old men playing checkers who gave me a rifle ... with silver bullets supposedly. And yeah, I shot the hell outta something.  good times :-)

85 A buddy of mine and I skipped the last day of high school and went to the beach. We started swimming in the bay at low tide. The tide started coming in really fast. It didn't get scary until my buddy started getting stomach cramps. He thought that I was something solid to hold on to. Salt water doesn't taste real good especially in large quantities. We somehow made it to a moored boat. We waited for a while and decided to swim that last hundred yards to a bridge that went over the bay. Stupid. He got more cramps, he made me drink more salt water. Defying all odds, we made it to the bridge. The bridge was under repair and made of wood so there were openings in the bridge deck we could climb through. All we had to do was climb up the supports to the opening and pull ourselves through. Except the bridge supports were covered in barnacles. Barnacles are as sharp as razors, so as we climbed up the bridge, cramped, drowning, we removed all of the skin from our hands, feet, inner thighs and other assorted sensitive areas. Covered in blood, we asked someone to call our moms. Punishment for skipping school wasn't necessary because it took all ten weeks of vacation to grow the skin back. Suffice it to say that if someone made me choose between the above and a night of passion with Helen Thomas, I would choose Helen for an entire month.

86 I was removing the supports from the broken neon tubes on a sign.  The sign had to be 50 years old and being broken there couldn't be any electricity running to it. Wrong!  It had a ballast the size of a bread box in it that lit me up.  I was on a wooden ladder about 18 feet up screaming a note the Vienna Boys Choir couldn't hit.  No one heard it though because an Amber Lamps was passing with its Siren on.  Pulled my self off, went down the ladder and shook for an hour.  Next day I found the breaker and finished the job.

87 #80 clearly wins this contest. I laughed and laughed after reading that.

88 Surfing in frigid New Hampshire in what turned out to be "The Perfect Storm" in 1991 - Rye on the Rocks - North Hampton, NH.

89 I don't want to talk about it.

90 That's an easy question!

Answer: Flirting with Rum!

Naaah seriously he's really sweet, but still a little dangerous

91 damn keyboard, that should be "S"he's really sweet

92 Rolled a Renault LeCar at 65mph after getting bumped off of the freeway.

You got a LeCar to do 65mph?  Damn, I'm impressed.

93 Going out to do a free (unroped solo) climb on Mt Yamnuska, and deciding at the last minute to do a 5.7 I'd done before instead of a new 5.4.  I clearly remember being about 700 feet up, with no way to go back after a dynamic move a hundred feet down, and convinced I couldn't make the next move, and thinking to myself "So, this is how it ends."
I reinstalled my nuts and made the move but holy crap, when you're 19 you really do think you're immortal.  It was a real wakeup call and I've only done stupid, genuinely life-threatening stuff twice again in the last 30 years.  (Both times sober, amazingly.)

94 75: The mental image of those bicycles flying down the road will keep me giggling for a long time.

I don't really have a stupidest thing. I haven't gotten out much.

95 Driving drunk way, way too many times. I've lost count of the times I woke up and couldn't remember how I got where I was. Thank God I didn't kill anybody.

96 http://i49.tinypic.com/2itptg8.jpg
I took that off my car yesterday after noticing my ride was less than optimal.

97

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98

I walked out on a sand bar spear fishing and netting crabs at night on the Fla coast. After a time I looked up and realized I couldn't see shore in any direction and was pretty sure a shark had just given a big tug on my game bag tied to a 30 ft tether.

Then there was the time I stayed on site to guard the communications  gear on an Island as a hurricane was to pass by. Only the hurricane didn't pass by, it turned and ran over the island. The original plan was to fly us out before the storm got close, or failing that to take the 5 ton truck across the one bridge that could support it. But when the storm turned it created such a tidal change in the bayou that it washed debris all up against the bridge creating a dam,and then the water found a way around the bridge where the rams were lower and that washed out the bridges on ramps. The bridge was still there but it was a 6 or 7 foot ledge to get on it, and fast water trying to flow into the bayou carrying all manner of flotsam. So we jumped into the 5 ton truck and pointed it at the shore on the other side of the bayou, tied a inflatable to the back of the cab, took off the canvas cover, stood on the seats, set the throttle lock and steered it with our feet. We were determined to run the truck as far into the bayou as we could and then paddle with the wind, in the inflatable, to shore on the other side of the 1/4 mile wide and growing  slew. Much to our amazement, the truck never stalled even when only the top frame of the cab and air snorkel were the only things above water. It just hopped and lurched and gurgled along until it rose from the water like a monster from the lagoon with three very tired and dripping wet grim Airmen clinging to the cab. If that truck had rolled, they never would have known where to even start looking. 

99

I was stationed in Fla and picked up a cute little gal who's car broke down while she was on her way to work. I told her I would give her a ride home after work and take a look at her car. Turned out she worked at a strip club. When we pulled in to the place she told me not to go in, but I did anyway. So a local biker gang took offense at my being there and began giving her a real bad time about it.

I decided to defend her honor.

I had no idea why they didn't just kill me and feed me to the gators, but somehow I convinced them that I wasn't worth the trouble.

She wasn't impressed and told me to take a hike and never come back. So in a way, I got away with more than my life, twice in that one night.

100 In South Carolina, I came out of a Movie theater using the emergnecy exit because I always parked out by the back alley. I had a well known car and didn't want certian people to know I was at the theater (other long story). As I walked passed the dumpsters to my car I happened up on three guys raping a gal that worked at the theater. One had a knife. One was the son of a Deputy Sheriff. I got her back to the ticket booth. I still have a 6 inch scar on my belly from a shallow slash. My C.O. sent me on a year long TDY that turned into a PCS. Made me take my car and leave as soon as the PJ finished glueing my gut shut. I hear the one with the knife is blind now. Poor bastard.

101 I used to ride and train three day event horses and excercise race horses -- I'm not sure there's enough bandwidth to list the times I should have been dead and walked away from the wreck.

102 Crossing the Susquehana River in Wilkes Barre, PA on a railroad trestle while high on LSD.  Yes, a train came through and i was forced and lucky to find a safe haven build out for workers on the trestle.  Did I mention it was about midnight - no light at all about 100 feet above the mighty Susquehanna.  God protects druggies, drunks and fools.  I'm still here and that was only one of the most stupid dangerous things i've done.  My poor mother.  But she never had to know everything i did, including this one.

103

Broke into an abandoned mine in college (complete with ore buggies and tracks and 15 story shafts dropping out of nowhere- throw a rock- wait 10 seconds- splash-) to collect crystals to sell at the gem and mineral show in Tucson.  Roof of the mine had fallen so low in places we had to push our backbacks in front of us and crawl on our bellies with only our headlamps lighting the way.    Broke out slabs of x-stals with a pickax in one "room" deep in the mine, whilst a fellow mining student blew blasting caps in another room to free up fresh layers.  BOOM!   Can't believe I'm still here to tell the tale.............

104 Supra Thunder Purple High