Crazy things that you did in your life?

[Josu]

Not sure if this is the kind of things you are looking for, but here we go.
I went in a backpacker travel to China.
We took some unregistered taxis in several cities
While being in Guilin we hired with a random guy in the street an unregistered cruise in the Li river. We took an unregistered taxi from the city to somewhere in the river, where not a cruise but an unregistered small ship was wating for us. We went the river down until the guide told us that we could not continue in that boat due to police restrictions, so we were transfered to small bamboo boats in which we were going alone with a boat captain that was carrying an small outboard motor.
Eventually, a couple of milles before arriving to the "destination" town, we where invited to left the boats and continue walking because they were not alloweed to moor to the pier in the town.
While being in Shangai a friend of mine was very interested in buying a replica watch, we contacted with a street vendor, we followed him through several alleys until we arrived to small shop which was having a fake roof where we were invited to enter using a ladder, we where locked until my friend arranged a price for the watch

In my hometown, lets say that someone put something on my drink, nah, that day I drunk a lot, due to the drunkenness I got asleep in the doorway of a building where I obviously I was not living. Only Flying Spaguetti Monster knows why I waked up having with me my wallet, my watch, my keys, and my celullar.

I have in mind more crazy things that i've done, but not going to tell in a forum.

 

[The_J]

Probably more, need to think .

Once I drove my cousin to the train station.
Okay, that sounds boring.
Unless you consider that her mom is Moroccan, and at that day the big nazi party at that time at a local demo scheduled, passing along the train station. The police contingent was massive. And since my cousin was quite a brat, she'd point at random people and say "is this a nazi?".
In hindsight, this was tremendously dangerous.
I think it took me also 2h to get out of the city, since every 2nd road was blocked.


I once hit on a girl in a club, we both were pretty drunk. At the end, I nearly got beaten up by a group of 8 people. I could have seen that coming. Well, maybe if I hadn't been drunk, at least.

 

[amadeus]

I broke the “warranty void” seal on a computer to do my own repair.

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

Holiday. With a gf, to go see an x. Fun ensured.

 

[Quintillus]

In terms of what the average person would consider kind of crazy, probably the winner would be that my 4th or 5th time out hiking on an actual mountain was on a mountain that had ladders that went dozens of feet up in the air to connect sections, exposed rock scrambles where falls would leave you seriously injured if not worse, and a short via ferrata. All without any sort of safety equipment. Two particular areas gave me pause, one of the early ladders that was not straight up and down, but angled, and the ladder to one of the summits, where the summit was on a exposed rock, and the ladder took you to an angled plane at the lowest part of the top of that rock.

Telling that story and showing a few pictures is a great way to gauge my audience's level of fear of heights; for me I'd say I have a mild or healthy fear of heights, and I was definitely checking that the ladders were secured and thinking about my steps. Some people have made that hike in wet conditions and they're the ones I think are really crazy.

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Someone I was talking to today had a good story in the "crazy" category, if unintentionally so. He had flown to Amsterdam and was really hungry after leaving the airport, prior to meeting some friends for lunch. To tide himself over he decided to buy two cookies from a roadside stand. The woman at the counter asked him if they were both for him, and he said yes, and she told him to be careful. He didn't really understand why she said to be careful eating cookies, and couldn't read Dutch so he hadn't been able to read the menu to see what type of cookies they were, he just saw they were selling cookies and it sounded like a good snack.

It turns out there was a good reason she had told him to be careful with the cookies.

 

[Zardnaar]

Got drunk went swimming in a river at night. Involved a women.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Have another addition to this thread I guess; went swimming in Lake Superior during a riptide warning and gale warning. Roughly 8 foot waves. Probably wouldn’t recommend it in retrospect even if you’ve been swimming your whole life like I have, but I never got pulled under or away from shore. Did end up in a very different location from where I started swimming though. It was also kind of a pebble filled beach so I had on swim shoes and one got knocked off me and I never found it lol.

 

[E.man]

Climbed Himalayan glacier in desert boots.

Lay on car roof hanging off the sunroof while it raced up mountain with other car behind.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Got drunk went swimming in a river at night. Involved a women.

Doesn't sound crazy to me.

Have another addition to this thread I guess; went swimming in Lake Superior during a riptide warning and gale warning. Roughly 8 foot waves. Probably wouldn’t recommend it in retrospect even if you’ve been swimming your whole life like I have, but I never got pulled under or away from shore. Did end up in a very different location from where I started swimming though. It was also kind of a pebble filled beach so I had on swim shoes and one got knocked off me and I never found it lol.

Some folks may not realize that the Great Lakes are basically small seas, and in a region of the world that has violent weather. Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a true story about a 700-foot, 13,000-ton ship that went down in a Lake Superior storm in 1975. I don't think anybody even got to a lifeboat. Wiki says 240 ships went down around Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve between 1816 and 1975 in an area of 376 square miles (970 sq km). I would hazard a guess that Whitefish Point is one of the deadliest natural spaces in the world. It might be safer to go surfing with Great White sharks in South Africa than cross Lake Superior in November.

The song, on YouTube:

Spoiler :

 

[aelf]

In terms of what the average person would consider kind of crazy, probably the winner would be that my 4th or 5th time out hiking on an actual mountain was on a mountain that had ladders that went dozens of feet up in the air to connect sections, exposed rock scrambles where falls would leave you seriously injured if not worse, and a short via ferrata. All without any sort of safety equipment. Two particular areas gave me pause, one of the early ladders that was not straight up and down, but angled, and the ladder to one of the summits, where the summit was on a exposed rock, and the ladder took you to an angled plane at the lowest part of the top of that rock.

Telling that story and showing a few pictures is a great way to gauge my audience's level of fear of heights; for me I'd say I have a mild or healthy fear of heights, and I was definitely checking that the ladders were secured and thinking about my steps. Some people have made that hike in wet conditions and they're the ones I think are really crazy.

Aye, I also played Death Stranding.

Seriously, that sounds like a real life version.

 

[Kyriakos]

Eh, not that many. I once cosplayed as Jack the Ripper. While in the tour of the Madaume Tussaud's wax museum in London. Standing next to the label in the wall: "Jack the Ripper". Fooled a few tourists and scared them when I suddenly and deliberately would move, as they tried to meticulously examine me

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Doesn't sound crazy to me.


Some folks may not realize that the Great Lakes are basically small seas, and in a region of the world that has violent weather. Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a true story about a 700-foot, 13,000-ton ship that went down in a Lake Superior storm in 1975. I don't think anybody even got to a lifeboat. Wiki says 240 ships went down around Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve between 1816 and 1975 in an area of 376 square miles (970 sq km). I would hazard a guess that Whitefish Point is one of the deadliest natural spaces in the world. It might be safer to go surfing with Great White sharks in South Africa than cross Lake Superior in November.

The song, on YouTube:

Spoiler :

We had to listen to that friggin song for like 3 months straight in the lead up to an 8th grade class trip to the UP. Hearing it to this day makes me want to run infront of traffic.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

We had to listen to that friggin song for like 3 months straight in the lead up to an 8th grade class trip to the UP. Hearing it to this day makes me want to run infront of traffic.

UP?

Thou shalt not diss Gordon Lightfoot! He is one of Canada's cultural treasures!

 

[sophie]

Upper Peninsula (of Michigan)

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

UP (yew-pee) = michigan’s upper peninsula

 

[Marla_Singer]

At the end of my studies, I spent a year at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs campaigning for the French referendum on the European Constitution. The evening of the vote, it appeared we lost. I got totally drunk, beyond repair, and eventually proposed to the Minister of the European Affairs to smoke pot. She didn't appreciate. Her name was Claudie Haigneré, she was a former astronaut and I had a lot of respect for her, we've never seen each other any longer. I disappointed her a lot I guess. Later I wandered in the streets of Paris, considering everything was over. It's funny how we believe in silly things when we are young.

 

[Kyriakos]

At the end of my studies, I spent a year at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs campaigning for the French referendum on the European Constitution. The evening of the vote, it appeared we lost. I got totally drunk, beyond repair, and eventually proposed to the Minister of the European Affairs to smoke pot. She didn't appreciate. Her name was Claudie Haigneré, she was a former astronaut and I had a lot of respect for her, we've never seen each other any longer. I disappointed her a lot I guess. Later I wandered in the streets of Paris, considering everything was over. It's funny how we believe in silly things when we are young.

All that once upon a time

 

[EgonSpengler]

At the end of my studies, I spent a year at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs campaigning for the French referendum on the European Constitution. The evening of the vote, it appeared we lost. I got totally drunk, beyond repair, and eventually proposed to the Minister of the European Affairs to smoke pot. She didn't appreciate. Her name was Claudie Haigneré, she was a former astronaut and I had a lot of respect for her, we've never seen each other any longer. I disappointed her a lot I guess. Later I wandered in the streets of Paris, considering everything was over. It's funny how we believe in silly things when we are young.

You know what they say: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. I once was on a subway car with Noomi Rapace, who's as gorgeous in-person as you'd hope she is. So of course I said nothing. Deer in the headlights. Oh well.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

You know what they say: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. I once was on a subway car with Noomi Rapace, who's as gorgeous in-person as you'd hope she is. So of course I said nothing. Deer in the headlights. Oh well.

I had a chance (bare chance) to talk to Carl Sagan on a radio phone-in show on CBC radio many years ago. My grandmother told me I should make the call and maybe I'd be picked.

My brain promptly got tongue-tied and I wondered what I could possibly say to Carl Sagan in one question or statement that would do justice to the profound influence he'd had on my life. So I didn't call.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I once swung myself around the face of a protruding rock -- from one ledge to another ledge, around the jutting-out boulder -- to get a photograph. Had I missed the landing I would have fallen to my death. Ya do stupid things when you're in your twenties and want to impress someone.