What is the dumbest thing you have done or seen done?

[Ivan Seeking]

I shorted out the power to an entire hospital once.

I saw someone tell his five year old son to look down into a failed fireworks cone to see why it's not going.

I drove over 140 mph once. At times I could turn the wheel without causing the car to respond! I will never know how I survived adolescence.

 

[KLscilevothma]

I caught a hen and threw it out from a balcony (about 8-10 meters above the ground). After landing, it went back to its nest and I caught it again, and threw it out from the balcony, and the hen went back to it's nest, and...it survived!

After being attacked by a cock, I took revenge by throwing stones to it, hitting it by a long rod, and throwing it out from the balcony. I went to its nest at night, with a rod in my hand, switched on a light... and the cock crowed(at about 8:30pm)!

Once I saw a guy laughing in a train while he was looking at some photographs. He's all by himself. He laughed continuousely for at least 15 minutes! Everyone in the train stared at him at least once coz he laughed out really loud.(perhaps he's sick) I found the scene pretty funny and I laughed too...oh I'm a normal person!

 

[I, Brian]

Dumbest thing? That's easy:

1/ Injecting myself with dental anaesthetic using a makeshift needle - to see what the effects were when it entered either a muscle or vein.

2/ Trying to create nitroglycerine one time in chemistry. But I used concentrated acids, instead of dilute, and they began to react violently, exactly where the glycerine was about to come through and form a highly dunstable high-explosive. I literally threw the lot over the bench into another sink and dropped to the floor. Nothing happened. But it killed my interest in explosives when I realized the damage I could've done to myself.



I, too, am amazed I survived adolesence.

 

[tribdog]

rigged the door on my microwave so I could run it with my hand inside to see how it felt.

several times: drove my car into the desert, then everyone would get out of the car, we'd put it in gear and let it take off. We'd just stand there watching it drive away, then someone would yell "MacGyver!" and we'd all take off and try to catch it.

several times: accidently dropped an X-acto knife and stuck out my foot to stop it before it hit the floor.

several times: focused the sun with a magnifying glass onto my finger to see just how fast and how hot it was

too many times: slept with someone's drunk wife

Clamped hemostats onto a piece of flesh (earlobe, finger, nose, etc) Really hurts, and you have to squeeze it even tighter to remove them.

attempted to pick up a policeman's dropped night stick- while handcuffed. I just got my hands on it and the cop freaked out and jumped on the stick, pinning my fingers to the ground.

Called my ex girlfriend a "bi***" while she was holding my laptop.

 

[Zantra]

Originally posted by tribdog
rigged the door on my microwave so I could run it with my hand inside to see how it felt.

several times: drove my car into the desert, then everyone would get out of the car, we'd put it in gear and let it take off. We'd just stand there watching it drive away, then someone would yell "MacGyver!" and we'd all take off and try to catch it.

several times: accidently dropped an X-acto knife and stuck out my foot to stop it before it hit the floor.

several times: focused the sun with a magnifying glass onto my finger to see just how fast and how hot it was

too many times: slept with someone's drunk wife

Clamped hemostats onto a piece of flesh (earlobe, finger, nose, etc) Really hurts, and you have to squeeze it even tighter to remove them.

attempted to pick up a policeman's dropped night stick- while handcuffed. I just got my hands on it and the cop freaked out and jumped on the stick, pinning my fingers to the ground.

Called my ex girlfriend a "bi***" while she was holding my laptop.

All understandable except that last one.. WTH were you thinking?

 

[cmdr_sponge]

i started using the internet

 

[Andy]

I once read a very long and boring post which mysteriously disapeared of the forums, and i forget who that person is.

 

[cmdr_sponge]

'they' made u forget. maybe ure one of them. who can i trust?

 

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Originally posted by cmdr_sponge
'they' made u forget. maybe ure one of them. who can i trust?

NO! 1?

("Dumb" thing to do...)

 

[Matt]

Turned down dramamine on an 8 hour boating trip in the choppy San Francisco Bay...I became friends with the handrail that day.

 

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Walking down the street so engrossed in a conversation, with two friends, I walked right into a "No Parking" sign's Steeel PoleOYE*

 

[eNtRopY]

I once saw someone whiz on an electric fence.

eNtRopY

 

[Ivan Seeking]

While walking home from a friends house, I had to walk about 1/2 mile through the woods in the middle of the night. I happened upon about a 10' deep ditch which of course I could't see. As I fell in the hole, I hit the opposite edge with my chest and knocked myself breathless. So there I lay in the dark, at the bottom of a ditch, in the mud, gasping for my breath, and wondering why I didn't bring a flashlight.

 

[stuffy]

I started to close the garage door while half way backed out of it, I tried to be slick. I didn't realize that my dad's car was parked crooked in the driveway so I had to slow down not to hit it. I turn back around and see the garage door just about to hit my hood and there was nothing I could do. Two years later and the damage is still there :(

 

[iansmith]

Once I've injured my thigh playing soccer, so I decided to put some ANTIPHLOGISTINE on it. I put some too high on my thigh so my intimate part burn for some time. one of my friend did not believe the story so he decided to put some ANTIPHLOGISTINE directly on his family jewels. He belived me after that.

 

[Dx]

i once got my private parts caught in a metal fan.[b(] No I am teasing. I once jumped off a moving car going 35 mph, very stupid!
dx

 

[Matt]

Shoot, in five years I'll be 22 - I'll be the intern you neglect, haha.

 

[tribdog]

Originally posted by eNtRopY
I once saw someone whiz on an electric fence.

eNtRopY

Dang, can't believe I forgot that one. Do I know you?
That was one of the most miserable experiences of my life. Couldn't stop peeing.

 

[Zantra]

Originally posted by tribdog
Dang, can't believe I forgot that one. Do I know you?
That was one of the most miserable experiences of my life. Couldn't stop peeing.

ROFL...

"You stupid idiot! How many times must I tell you? DON'T PISS ON THE ELECTRIC FENCE!"

ren and stimpy fans?

 

[Dx]

Oh Yes!

I watched trainspotter at the MOVIES!

movie

Dx

 

[Dave]

I tryed to make a rail gun and used a 150A power supply, if I had touched the rails...

 

[Zantra]

I tried to make a ruby laser once, but I couldn't afford the rod..

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Originally posted by Zantra
I tried to make a ruby laser once, but I couldn't afford the rod..

Oh come on Zantra, I'll bet you've got a better one than that.

 

[Another God]

Tried to go white water kayaking in a swollen creek after a week of torrential rain. We had two crap kayaks, no spray deck, bike helmets, no Flotation jackets, and most importantly, no skill.

I managed to come out of it unharmed, but only because my friend fell out before me and was washed downstream behind his kayak, so I jammed myself into some bushes until I knew what had become of him. He came back up about an hour later bleeding from his knees and elbows, with no kayak.

We got the kayak back a couple of days later smashed right through the middle.

It was great fun!

 

[eNtRopY]

Originally posted by Dx
i once got my private parts caught in a metal fan.[b(] No I am teasing. I once jumped off a moving car going 35 mph, very stupid!
dx

Well, at least you'll always have an interesting story to tell to your adopted children.

eNtRopY

 

[Artman]

I performed a scientific experiment to see if water would boil in a paper cup by placing the cup full of water in a pan and put the pan on the electric stove and set it on high. It worked! Didn't even set the cup on fire, singe it or anything.

However, (here is the stupid part) I took the pot off the stove and placed it on my parents' kitchen table. It put a nice round burn mark right where I put it down. (Here is the really stupid part) I then proceeded to cover it up by setting the table and carefully placed a plate right over the burn!

I guess I was planning to set and take away the dishes from the table for the rest of my or my parents' lifes, and keep them somehow from looking at it at any point in between. They found it that morning.

 

[Will]

My dad sent me this one and I think it takes the cake in stupidity:

TOP IDIOTS OF 2002

Number one idiot of 2002:

I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center.
Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. I told her that she better bring her daughter into the emergency room right away.

Here's your sign that you are stupid lady. Wear it with pride.

 

[KLscilevothma]

I ate ants before! When I was very small, I caught ants from a wall and put them into my mouth. Luckily my mom didn't give me poison after that. I also chewed and swallowed small pieces of eraser and pulled hair out from my head and tried to swallow.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

While waiting for my car, I was once watching a guy who was changing a large truck tire. He stood with his feet pointed towards the tire which was lying on its side on the ground [deflated], and then took a full swing with a large sledge hammer to strike the tire - to break the seal between the rim and the tire. As he did, he slipped on the wet concrete and fell into the hammer as it recoiled from the tire, and dinged himself dead center in the forehead. He knocked himself out cold. He sustained a few additional head injuries as he fell into the metal rim with his face. That had to hurt!

 

[Artman]

This is great! Today is the anniversity of this historic event: the flight of lawn chair larry.
http://http://www.markbarry.com/amazing/images/lawn-chair-pilot.jpg

From MarkBarry.com, a website on the guy..."On July 2nd, 1982, Larry tied 42 helium-filled balloons to a Sears lawn chair in the backyard of his girlfriend's house in San Pedro, California. With the help of his ground crew, Larry then secured himself into the lawn chair which was anchored to the bumper of a friend's car by two nylon tethers. He took with him many supplies, including a BB gun to shoot out the balloons when he was ready to descend. His goal was to sail across the desert and hopefully make it to the Rocky Mountains in a few days. But things didn't quite work out for Larry. After his crew purposely cut the first tether, the second one also snapped which shot Larry into the LA sky at over 1,000 feet per minute. So fast was his ascent that he lost his glasses. He then climbed to over 16,000 feet."

Read the whole story here:

http://www.markbarry.com/amazing/lawnchairman.html

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I just heard one from my cousin. A friend of his [a San Diego city cop] who, while getting ready for work, cleaned his ears with Q-tips. Having forgotten that he left one Q-tip stuck in his ear, he remembered when getting into his car; bumping the hyper extended stick and driving it deep into his ear. It went right through the old ear drum.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Darwin Awards

http://www.darwinawards.com/

 

[The Grimmus]

I belived poloticians
I belived religion
and i belived in the human race

but than i realized it is just who has the problem

 

[pace]

oh man, why haven't I seen this thread before. Thanks Zantra (and Evo).

Once when I was 9 I had some fun with another crazy dude, and we liked fishing poles.
SO we stuck a dart on the end of the line, threw it on my garden. And it was so fun because it flew so far.
Anyway one of the times it got stuck. What did I do? Yes, I started to pull. Hard! ohhhhh annnndddd THERE it loosened. And went straight in my direction, and riiiight into my Forehead! It got stuck, my buddy was all like :O LoL, it didn't hurt, I just took one hand up and PoP! it was out!

 

[pace]

This one though I'm more embarresed about cause I was much older.
Some kids at age 14 was asking me to buy some beer for them. They were standing right outside the small shop. I had just worked, was tired, and oh I was thinking of those good ol crazy days of innocent fun, and how my bro and sis was always sneaking a little and showing things behind others back. And looked so pleasingly, so I just did it. Just like that. Took their order, went into the shop, bought some beers. But found out that I had ordered too much, asked him too take away something. I was looking really nervous, so he asked me if I weren't buying these things for those kids outside. I was saying "N-No..."
Then when I had bought it they were standing RIGHT outside and said thanks, but of course the manager saw it and started to yell, I just started to walk and wouldn't turn, and they started to run. Anyway, I didn't walk that path for a long time. And boy was I angry at myself after that!

The most dumbest thing I ever done though was manging to mess myself into some racist/nazis in junior high. Learnt a couple of things about that culture though, but it didn't get me the best reputation :(

 

[BobG]

I used to be a mason's assistant, hauling blocks, bricks, and mortar around housing construction sites. One of the sites we were building a basement at had turned into a total quagmire due to several days of rain. We had wooden scaffolding planks we could lay on the ground and wheel the wheel barrows on and walk on to keep out of the worst of the mud, but the planks soon became so slick it was safer and easier to just slog through the mud with buckets of mortar than to risk dumping an entire wheel barrow full of mortar and falling even further behind. Horrible day, complete with the alcoholic boss suffering from a hang over taking it out on the help, that couldn't move fast enough through the mud.

Late in the morning, a representative from the construction supplies store stops by to see how much more material we're going to need. He's not dumb enough to slog through the mud when there's planks to keep you out of the worst of it. But... he is dumb enough to wear pants too tight for a body that must have just recently gone overweight and dumb enough to think he can still jam his hands into his pockets. Sure enough, while laughing at a joke, he loses his balance, slips, and falls face first into the mud with his hands trapped underneath him inside his pockets. Funniest thing I'd ever seen.

Watching him try to keep his face out of the mud and yelling for help brought a much needed ray of sunshine to an otherwise miserable day. (He who laughs at the misfortune of others understands the meaning of life.)

 

[humanino]

In chronological order :

7 years old : a team of masons was working at school. They left a pack of beers. On the evening, I had my first drinks with my buddies. I sabotaged the swing, but forget it and fell in my own trap.

12 years old : I was a mess in high-school. We set in fire the classroom photographs on the wall, that dated back maybe to 30 years or so. Luckily, the entire school did not burn.

Same year : I was a real mess at that time. We threw a bench through the window from the 7th floor. Landed on a Ferrari or another expansive car. Nobody ever found us out.

15 years old : I steped back on my grandma's pet (some kind of small thing, a mouse or... don't know the english word) Still feel guilty.

19 years old : I decided to be nice and help out a little for the homework. Made a washing machine. Ruined half of my girlfriend's clothes. Do not feel guilty anymore

 

[Entropy]

When I was four I we were looking in a house being constructed and I drank a can of paint cleaner that was in an orange soda bottle. I went up to my mom and said "this tastes nasty!" She smelled it and realized it was paint cleaner and freaked out and rushed me to the hospital. They did x-rays and all this other stuff found out I was fine. Thats the only really stupid thing I can remember, but I'm sure there are others I just forgot about.

 

[humanino]

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Shorties: Stupid Human Tricks: Robert, 37, shot himself while explaining gun safety to his wife in Glendale, California, when he placed a .45-caliber pistol he thought was unloaded under his chin and pulled the trigger.

No way ! It is good to see that we are not that dumb guys. Poor poor Glendale

A guy in France tried to commit a bank robbery. He dared asking for a transfer on his account.

Another guy, another bank robery (I don't remember where) : forgot his hat in the bank, with name and address printed in it. The cops were already waiting for him at home by the time he reached the place.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

So as not to embarrass the poor fellow any more, I will refrain from using his name, but the person of interest is a Chemist [I think] at a world class university. This poor guy decided to appear on the Regis and Cathy Lee morning show, so I decided to watch what turned into a very painful ten minutes for all concerned.

He went the Mr. Wizard route with demonstrations suitable for kids, but in front of an adult audience. So he began with some lame [for the setting] demos of things that produce large quatities of foam...in your mouth for example. So, after he got done foaming all over Regis's $400 shoes, and after messing up the stage, both of which had Regis quite po'd already, our poor chemist began his grand finale - another rapid [explosive] foaming demo, but this time using a mixture containing Potassium Permanganate.

This show was taking place in a park in the San Francisco Bay area.
It was windy
We have a live audience
We have Potassium Permanganate

Anyone see the problem coming...

He pours one beaker into the other which then fires the foam all over the audience ruining everyone's clothes.

It was so pitiful. I felt so bad for the guy.

 

[jimmy p]

I held the record for jumping chairs in college (no-one else was stupid enough to try), and after conquering a line of 7 chairs, I was on top of the world. So I went for 8. Took the required run up, and mistimed my jump, caught my foot on the first chair and supermanned over the rest... into a table leg. All this went on whilst the Head of Year was on the phone with an important person on the other end. So he is screaming and shouting at me while I'm crumpled on the floor in a mangled heap with a trail of destruction behind me.

There are more stupid things I've done but I wouldn't want to dominate the thread

 

[Nietsnie]

Chemistry prof

Probably not the dumbest, but the funniest thing that springs to mind: While busy with a chemistry prac earlier this year, my experiment wasnt working. We hade cyanide and conc hydrochloric acid which looks the same. I got the 2 mixed up. So my chemistry prof methodically goes round to distinguish between the 2, BY TASTING THEM! It takes the HCl, tastes it and says :"Thats acid alright." And even after knowing that the other solution is cyanide (by process of elimination) goes on to taste it anyway. Needless to say, my jaw dropped to the floor. Afterwards he told me never to do what he did. I sure as hell didnt disagree with that.

 

[ShawnD]

"Thats acid alright." And even after knowing that the other solution is cyanide

I've done a LOT of stupid stuff.

-a few days ago, I almost mixed concentrated sulphuric acid and acetone together (hey, I was tired)

-I put isopropyl alcohol in the microwave then lit the vapour with a lighter... I lost all the hair on my arm.

-I used a car battery charger in an unventilated garage to copper plate an iron rod soaking in a very concentrated salt solution. I left the charger going at about 5 amps, then I went shopping. I came back to a garage that stunk like hydrogen gas...

-I cut aluminum foil into very small pieces, and placed them in a bucket, then I added methanol, then I added hydrochloric acid, then I lit the fumes on fire. That hydrogen sure gives the fire some kick.

-I stored hydrochloric acid in an old oven sitting on the patio. Now the patio has huge rust stains.

-I put finely cut pieces of aluminum foil in a wine bottle then added hydrochoric acid. The large amount of gas billowing out of the wine bottle went straight for the kitchen window of a neighbor who was down wind from me.

-I cleaned a beaker that contained concentrated sulphuric acid by putting tap water in it. I knew there was a problem when the beaker started steaming.


btw I'm a chem student. Wanna to be my lab partner?

 

[The Bob]

I did 1 + 1 on my calculator.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[humanino]

The Bob, you must be lying here

 

[The Bob]

The Bob, you must be lying here

Nope, I was doing a stream of problems on my calculator and then I was on automatic pilot. I just used it for all of the problems, because they needed it. Then I came across 1 + 1 and suddenly my fingers just type it in the calculator and I hit 'equals' and there is my answer 2. I then hit myself for being so stupid.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[jimmy p]

Nope, I was doing a stream of problems on my calculator and then I was on automatic pilot. I just used it for all of the problems, because they needed it. Then I came across 1 + 1 and suddenly my fingers just type it in the calculator and I hit 'equals' and there is my answer 2. I then hit myself for being so stupid.

The Bob (2004 ©)

This is like deja vu. Me n The Bob have had this conversation before. We are both guilty of the ol' "calculator to work out 1+1" folly