Excuse for a video clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwwJouW_9Bs
The following is a non-exhaustive list of some of the things I've done which were either dumb at the time, dumb in hindsight, or both
2 questions,how many of these have you done and what dumb things have you done that aren't on my list?
1. Skydiving. Nothing very bright about jumping out of a perfectly good airplane
2. fireworks duel. Ever seen a roman candle firework? It's like a wand that shoots balls of fire. You're supposed to stick them in a bottle or something, but if you're stupid you can use them like a wand and duel an opponent with them.
And this was decades before harry Potter.3. Drink driving. Done it a few times but the best effort had to be the time a mates car wouldn't start so I towed him home, 21km from Finley to Toc, at 150kmph in a 100 zone after an evening of drinking. . The fact I forgot to take the handbrake off and the bastard kept trying to roll start his car while I was towing him, didn't do wonders for the poor old HQ
4. Jumping off a bridge into a river. Jumping into the Murray from height is always dumb as you never know what's underneath the water. You could land in 3m of water or in 3cm on top of a submerged tree. Did that in my 30's with a mate after drinking while my kids stood on the bridge and cheered us on.
5. Going hunting with people who'd been drinking. I may have driven after drinking but I never ever mixed alcohol and firearms. The one time I went duck shooting on the rice with 2 guys who'd been drinking was the last. Duckshot tickles your legs when your shot at from 70m while wearing jeans, stings if you're wearing shorts (like my mate was) and can still chip paint off a car
6. Taking a home made pipe bomb to school. I won't go into detail here but it was a joint effort. If you take a 30cm piece of aluminium 20mm pipe, crimp one end, drill a small hole in the centre and insert a fuse, pack it full of gunpowder, tamp it down and crimp the other end, you get a very nice explosion and lots of aluminium shrapnel. No one was injured thank geebus.
7. Riding a bicycle off a pier into water. Fun at the time but a PITA having to duckdive to find the bike and drag it back to shore.
8. Getting married. I'll just leave that one there.
9. Driving stoned. Back in the 80's the dope wasn't that strong and I didn't do it often, but the wife wanted to visit a friend and her BF was a stoner, I was assigned to him so had a couple of bongs. Haysoos Christos, he mixed some hash into it and driving home I was a paranoid mess. Never again.
That's the top 9, I reckon I can come up with No. 10 and more with some thought.
So, as above, how many of these 9 have you done and what dumb things have you done that aren't on my list?
