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Just thought of a new stupid drunk story.

I was at my grandparents mountain place with my girlfriend 2 friends and their girlfriends. Well we all got in Drew's (Rebel Angler's) truck in the bed and he did doughnuts in the field with us back there. We could've easily fallen out and been ran over or something.

Another time at my grandparents place in the mountains something was thrown on the roof and someone thought it'd be a good idea to get up there and get it. Next thing I know there are like 5 people on the roof and everyone is pretty intoxicated. So of course I try and get up there and almost fell trying so I just stopped trying. Oh and the next morning we found out it was thrown OVER the house not on the roof.

Most of mine are while I'm drunk so they really don't count. ;D haha

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Used to drive up to 115 on the highway in an older car. You get a flat at that speed, or something else goes wrong, and you're a gonner.

My friends and I used to have firework fights when we were kids in Miami. We had big PVC pipes we used as bazookas for bottle rockets and MORTARS. So stupid. I still vividly remember firing a mortar towards my friends' hiding spot, watching it explode about 10 feet over their heads, and hearing them yell haha. Hilarious only because we didn't get hurt.

We used to tie empty gallon milk jugs (plastic) together with fishing line, lay the line across the street, with one of us on each side of the street holding jugs, and when a car would pass by (40-50 mph), we would stretch the line so that it was bumper-height, and the car would take the jugs down the street and make tons of noise until they stopped. Then we'd run away. Not too dangerous, but pretty funny for a kid.

We used to make bombs out of liquid chlorine and tin foil, if I recall. Put liquid chlorine in a 2 liter soda bottle, twist up a few pieces of tin foil, shake, and leave them until they exploded. We never blew anything up with them, but kinda left them in fields just to hear the explosion. I'm glad they never blew up early.

Great times, and I'm thankful no one guy seriously injured.

As kids we would go camping on the Ouiska (Whiskey) Chitto River which has a extremely fast current causing whirlpools my brothers, cousins, and friends would dive off a 30' high bluff timing the whirlpools so they would carry us down river never giving thought to the many submerged logs.

One uncle lived near a train switching station where we would jump on box cars and then jump train to train.

Lol we go canoeing down the Ouiska Chitto every year and jump off of that same bluff. ( You know the one I'm talking bout) it will definately get your blood pumping. But seriously... about two years ago a young guy did jump off and die. He didn't jump out far enough and hit the hard clay imbankment. Soo.... I'm not gonna do that again.

Never considered driving around drunk

with a bunch of friends was irresponsible.

:-[

Only did it once and will never do it again because I really almost messed up bigtime... There is a local buyou called Horsepin buyou and in the road has a steep hill going down and a steep hill going up where the buyou crosses and it is all in a big sharp curve in the road. When I went down I almost hit the side of the bridge on my right and I over corrected not seeing a car coming around the curve. Almost hit the car which could have had anyone in it... I thought about that one real hard afterwards.... and yea will not ever make that mistake again  :-[

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many, many, many, many homemade explosives out in the woods with my buddy. main ingredient was usually Pyrodex and shotgun shell primers. boy did we make some good ones too.

oh and he nearly ALWAYS had fireworks, whether it be the little kind that are strung up, m80's, bottle rockets, roman candles, or something else. we had a lot of fun with the little ones, strapping them together and putting them in/on stuff to blow stuff up. lighting them and stepping on them, throwing them straight in the air.

i remember one time (this was really pointless) he took brake cleaner and sprayed it on his machete and lit it and was swinging it around... then we stood next to each other on his dirt road and sprayed a circle of it around us and lit it.

also riding around on that same buddies fourwheeler all over the woods and flying through the clearing in the woods made for the powerlines, very hilly. fourwheeling wasn't all that dangerous, but we didn't wear helmets and anything could have gone wrong. we only flipped it twice... ::)

i'm gonna miss doing this kind of stuff with him...

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Screwing around with a pellet gun.....I got a small chunk of my finger blown off.

I also remember the roman candle fights....light up those roman candles and aim and your buddy.

I fell off a cliff once with my bike...My brother actually thought i was dead.

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oh, and this ::):

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One thing's for sure, aint no shortage of stupid around here :D

No wonder our hobby is trying to catch an animal with a brain no larger than an M&M. And it outwits us more times than not :o

tooo many , but one that ill always remember is getting hammered underage , getting 'towed' on a bikes handle bars, then falling asleep in the tub. mom didnt like that one.

falling down stairs.

in my old s10 with rwd, fish tailing down roads when its snowy.

being in the car with some of my friends.

sledding at 430 in the morning on a public hill while drinking and going off ramps and trying to snowboard down the hill on sleds, took a couple hard falls like that.

playing lazer tag on ATV's and Go-carts.

Snowboarding while being pulled behind a pickup

Shooting an arrow straight up in the air,

Fireworks,

fell off the roof putting up Christmas lights,

man, there are so many dumb things I've done. But those are all that I can think of right now

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sparkler bomb anyone?

;D  ;D  ;D

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i love how they put it on top of two beers?!?? :-? ;D

we also shot quite a few arrows straight up ;D

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The wooden outhouse in the background is a nice touch. Maybe they should have tried to blow that up.

i once picked up a handful of baby copperheads as a kid and played with them for 5 min without getting bit before pops freaked and slapped em out of my hands. also puttin quarters on the train tracks so the train would flatten em. and bouncing of the trampoline in a single bound landing on my head shoulda killed me, instead it just made me a numbskull

I also remember the roman candle fights....light up those roman candles and aim and your buddy.

We did this on the roof of the neighborhood clubhouse at about 2am. Not very smart...

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Just about every time I dropped in a halfpipe on my skateboard. Protective gear was pretty primitive in the 80s, and we hardly ever wore helmets. All I got was a trick hip, and sore knees, and some great memories.

Just about every time I dropped in a halfpipe on my skateboard. Protective gear was pretty primitive in the 80s, and we hardly ever wore helmets. All I got was a trick hip, and sore knees, and some great memories.

X2 halfpipes rule

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Trying to outrun a train after 3 flaming Dr. Peppers. It felt like I was running in slo-mo.

Looking for a campsite at 1 am at Amicalola falls, going down a trail and not a road till it got so narrow there were only inches on either side of my tire. Than having to go in reverse uphill for about a half mile without rolling truck of the moutainside.

Getting within 20 feet of a momma black bear and her cubs.

Jumping the cliffs at devil's den near Gainsville, Fl.

Telling Mom that Dad was looking at women at the mall when I was a about 5. 8-)

Besides jumping on and off trains....before the internet, anyone remember the "anarchists cookbook" They sold it as comic book stores around my house.

From that I made Napalm, and countless small explosives that SHOULD have killed me and others (probably the dumbest things I ever did).

Climbing train bridges, jumping off them into the Erie canal (no idea how I missed the boats).

If I went through all of the things we did, like many others on here I'd probably fill this entire thread.

I just hope my kids are not a dumb as I was...

I'm still a kid so I'm still doing stupid stuff. Me and my friend threw a burning torch in a wheat field and it got out of control  fast. Then we go into it to stomp it out. Took a while and none of us caught fire wearing jeans and cotton clothing. It left a big ol' circle.

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Being pulled in sleds behind 4 wheelers.

we used to get pulled by horse and rope on a big scoop shovel.

d**n i feel old now.......

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Being pulled in sleds behind 4 wheelers.

we used to get pulled by horse and rope on a big scoop shovel.

d**n i feel old now.......

I'm 37, and we did that when I was a kid, LOL.  Forgot about that until now.  Thanks for the memory!

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A lot of the same things as everyone else, fireworks and BBs.

A few new levels of stupid though;

1. Tried hunting for wild hog with a knife. Thought I was invincible, but lost that confidence pretty quickly when it started to charge. Emptied the clip on my old .22 handgun into/at it and it still kept after me.

2. Snowboarding off of the roof of my friends cabin. We built a ramp and I decided to pull a front flip. I can't snowboard. Still have scars on my knuckles for that one.

3. Went out hiking into the woods in a state park in Tennessee with my buddy at dusk, without any supplies/maps of the area. There was a huge 50' waterfall that emptied into a steepwalled valley. We hiked around the edge trying to get a better look and the sides gave way and we fell down about 75 feet and were stuck down at the bottom. We ended up free climbing another waterfall in the dark with my friend having a sprained ankle. And then we got turned around in the woods in the dark. I thought for sure I'd found our way back only to pop into a clearing with woods all around, most disheartening thing ever. Got back at midnight having left around 7, but it could have been much worse.

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