dlish

i came across this article today which i found not only amusing but damn right crazy!

a guy in new zealand went marlin surfing by spearing a marlin with a speargun which had a float attached to the rope. it took him marlin surfing 3km out to sea with his mate following in the boat.

crazy mofo's i tell you.

so it got me thinking about the craziest thing ive done. i cant say ive done anything anything as crazy as that. not by a long shot.

but id have to say that i swam to an island about 1km off the dubai coast (and back) in heavy traffic (jetskis, boats, water skiiers etc). on the way back i was approached by the water police and refused to get into the policeboat. so they followed me into shallow waters to make sure i got in ok.


anyone done anything crazy stupid?

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Banshee

i got married LOL KIDDING!

One crazy thing i've done was i got my cootchie pierced one night, not even planning on it... smoked pot in a church bathroom, and a jr. high school bathroom during summer school.

snowy

I went skinny dipping off of the dock at my aunt's old lake cabin on one of the busiest days of the summer season in the middle of the day, just because my mother bet me I would be too chicken to do so. Clearly, she underestimated how comfortable I am in my own skin.

It was fun!

I've never really done anything crazy stupid. I have urinated in a public park in Portland, Oregon, but that was because it was after midnight on New Years Eve and there were no open public bathrooms, despite the hundreds of people wandering around downtown, and no establishment would let us in without paying a cover charge. We went down to the South Park Blocks thinking there might be something open there, but no, they were all locked, so I just squatted against the side of the building and went.

I've also smoked pot out on the sidewalk in Seattle. We were visiting a friend who was a student at the University of Washington and lived in a fraternity. His frat wasn't cool with him smoking inside, so he just went out on the sidewalk and did it. The cops rolled by the end of the street while we were smoking, but the cops in Seattle just don't care about people smoking pot, so long as they're not doing anything stupid.

I'm pretty much a goody-two-shoes, always have been.

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Willravel

I used to pretend to be blind a lot. I'd cross streets, making cars wait, and then trip. One time I felt a cashier's face at a grocery store, in order to determine if she was smiling. I'd talk to walls, coat hangers, dogs; just generally really offensive stuff that I found funny at the time. Some of it's on videotape somewhere.

I orchestrated and carried out a plan to put a small pickup truck in a tree, but I'm pretty sure I posted about that already.

dippin

fell out (not jumped) of an airplane.

Plan9

Pfft, I've done 40+ times. That's not crazy. Some people get paid to do it.

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Wait, was it still on the ground?

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dlish

funny you say that. she told me you were quite ordinary

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Giant Hamburger

I swam to Mexico in my underwear.

Banshee

OMG i love it! That's awesome!

I once flew a 4 seater Cessna plane on LSD with a one armed co-pilot..2 of my friends in the back seats saying over and over she is gonna kill us...she is gonna kill us.. The best part was when we were flying over a local mall, the co-pilot (the actual owner of the small airport and plane) turned the engine off... boy howdy those 2 boys in the back did not like that one bit! Needless to say as we approached for landing, i could not do it, i was trippin too hard. Just told the guy i wasn't feeling well due to the heat and he needed to take over.

dippin

Well, maybe that shouldnt count because it wasnt something I did, just something that happened to me. But hey, scared the hell out of me. It was one of the times I went skydiving. I was in a tiny cessna, the plane went through a cloud, turned, the door was open and because of the cloud everything was slippery so when i tried to hold on I just slipped. Luckily it was one of my first times so I was still using a static line. But holly crap... one second you are in the plane talking to people, the next you look down and you see your feet crossing the horizon. And falling that way meant that when the chute opened I was jerked in kind of an awkward way, repositioning my leg straps in a way that I was more sitting down than standing.

telekinetic

I proposed after dating for 2 months and we were married in another 5.

Separately, I've paid for 3 sets of nipple piercings for various females, as well as a frenum for myself. Finally, this board used to host my RiskyFun pictures, wherein I drew a risk board on my girlfriend's naked torso and played a quick game with some friends.

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Dammitall

Both probably more stupid than crazy...

I walked twenty blocks alone after midnight (the subway didn't run along that stretch after 11pm) on my way to Times Square and Port Authority to catch a Greyhound bus leaving at 3:20am for a weekend trip that I lied to my parents about in college. I was only approached by one person asking for money the entire walk down and probably lucky I didn't get mugged, raped, kidnapped, etc.

With very limited prior experience and no concept of how potent they were, I ate two pot brownies on an empty stomach and walked from campus to my empty apartment on a Friday evening. I was high and hallucinating the entire weekend, and my brain has not felt the same since. Big, big mistake.

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Grancey

Another more stupid than crazy.....some friends and I dismantled a STOP sign (yes, stole) and somehow managed to cram it into a VW Bug. Stop signs are much larger than they appear. I still don't know why we did it. We thought it was funny, but we were in high school and invincible and bored. It never occurred to us that this was actually dangerous and potentially life threatening to some innocent individual. This incident is more proof that brains and common sense do not fully develop until many years into your life.

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Did you go for Australasia?

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ngdawg

I draw the line at acting crazy, I don't DO crazy stuff....
I did once book a trip in less than two weeks to fly to the midwest and walked and drove around a large strange city by myself for 3 days...yea, it'd be called "running away".
I'm too chickenshit to break the law or take a dare.

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inBOIL

I'm not saying until the statute of limitations runs out.

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Plan9

Are we looking at 10 years total?

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uncle phil

i never jumped out of a perfectly good airplane, but i did manage to do the fandango with a bale of barbed wire in the back of a security police pick-up and come out alive...

alcohol was involved...

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raeanna74

Some really fun, crazy things here. I enjoyed reading about the exploits.

I have done plenty of crazy things. Starting as a kid. Climbing trees, skinny dipping, streaking, sneaking out of the house for a walk at 1:00am, wandering through the woods near home - more than 10 miles of forestry land with no compass or even telling my parents where I was.

Then there's the crazy stuff since I've been an adult. I ain't spillin' on those.

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I pulled a pistol on my father. He was going to beat my ass for being stoned, & I wasn't in the mood to get my ass beat.

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Glory's Sun

well without going into the crazy shit I did while I was a druggie..


the craziest thing I've done lately is shoot, edit and distribute JumpinJesus' gay porn debut film.

word on the street is that the YMCA's are all abuzz about it.

sadistikdreams

Oh man.

I just did way too much coke the other day. Kinda regretting that.

Not really crazy, I've binged before.

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Plan9

I don't know if all this drug stuff fits into the "crazy" category.

I mean, I can sit on my couch and drink a jug of Liquid Plumr and that's not very "crazy."

Where's the Chuck Norris-style action? C'mon, TFP.

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Willravel

My first day of grappling, age 16 (I think). My teacher was a bit of a hardass with a quirky sense of humor. i decided to volunteer to go first. As soon as he got on the mats, I charged him full speed, something I've never done before or since (as it's generally such an unprofessional thing, it's just not done). I caught him off guard and floored him immediately. He turned around and had me in some sort of arm lock in a fraction of a second, but I didn't want to tap out. He spun around and kneed me square on the nose, as hard as he could. There was blood everywhere, but I didn't tap out. As he was about to add the extra pressure needed to dislocate, I suddenly yelled, "OH CRAP!". He turned and looked at me, and I breathed out of my nose suddenly ,covering his chest and face in blood. I guess it did the job, because he let go long enough for me to get the upper hand.

I didn't win, but he said that the "nose blower" (my name for it) was the most original move he'd ever seen.

Plan9

CHUCK NORRIS'D! A+, Will.

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Baraka_Guru

Wasn't that a scene from Fight Club?

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What's the craziest thing I did?

I got into book publishing at the beginning of the 21st century.

That's fucking bat-shit crazy!

LOOKATME! I'm crazy like a fox!

Boowooogahwoogahwoogah!

PPPPPPPpppfpfffpfpfpft!

Abadeeabadeeabadeee....wooooooot!


Time to stet some fucking shit.....

Who moved my red pen!?

Shit, where's the Tylenol?

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Plan9

Baraka... you are the most dangerous person on TFP and I would be honored to meet you in person some day and have you recite the above lines to me at a distance of no more than 3 feet.

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Willravel

Sorta, but sorta not. I used it to distract, Tyler/narrator used it to disgust only.

nomcat

Jumping out of planes, bungee jumping off bridges, canyoning (16 metre jumps into black water).

Got arrested for smuggling acid into a somewhat illegal outdoor party... and talked my way out of it!

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Dammitall

I think this is going to keep me going for the rest of the day. And Tylenol doesn't even do anything for me.

Cackle.

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botabota

Not too crazy stuff

- Polarbear swim at -30 C air temperature
- Jump over a kid (he was behind the drop off D in snowboarding with my friend, while her mom shouting " YOU ALMOST HIT MY KID" and my friend yelled back "I ALMOST KILL YOUR KID"
- jump off the chairlift at ski resort

Thats all i can think of now ....

ItWasMe

I jumped off a perfectly good crane with an elastic band around my ankle. And tried to catch one of the balloons at the bottom. If we caught one, we got to do it again for free. Oh, and I made my sister go first.

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biznatch

I ripped someone's spine out of his body while bangin his mother.

Also, drugs can get very dangerous, and crazy. Just like physical threats, narcotic mishaps can be lethal.

As for crazy things? Got drunk in NYC, went out at 3 in the morning and ran across central park, lied down smack in the middle of the great lawn. Cops could hear us, but never found us. We saw a couple of crackheads walk by quickly, too many homeless people around.
We went back at 4, kicked a bunch of stuff in the streets, ran 30 blocks, all the while screaming and harassing people. And woke up 6 hours later, in time for class.
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Charlatan

I remember that. Cool.

The craziest things I've done I can't share here as they could lead to incrimination.

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Plan9

You and the white Bronco. We got it, okay?

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biznatch

I've smoked weed and drank a fifth of vodka. Dare me to drive?
Just kidding, by the way. I don't have a driver's license.

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Plan9

Is that you, Marshall Mathers?

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SSJTWIZTA

Disney on Mescaline.

some crime that involved ramming some object through some ungodly high, wired fence.

moving target practice on I-4.

broke a telephone pole in half with a car that wasnt mine....i was 14.

got drunk (among other things) in Deltona, Florida....woke up in Muncie, Indiana. (Met the future Mrs. Swishy on this adventure)

i could go on for days.
I'm a good ole fashioned fuck up.

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Plan9

Punk rock isn't dead!

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