Have you ever nearly won the Darwin Awards?

[Orrex]

"Nearly," because I'd hope that you didn't actually remove yourself from the gene pool in the process.

I've been lucky enough not to have done anything too life-threateningly stupid, but there was one summer afternoon when I friend and I got the bright idea to shoot arrows straight up to see how close to us we could get them to land.

Those bear-tip arrows really stick, that's for sure!

[Swede]

1. I did that as a kid,too.

We'd lay on the ground and fire the arrow into the air. The arrows disappear,so you have to pay close attention. Mom would have snapped if she ever found out.

[Orrex]

2. Must be some kind of rite of passage

I feel so proud to have passed the test (ie., not to have fatally skewered myself).

[Patiod]

3. Skinny dipping in ocean before a hurricane, drunk

At first we couldn't find our clothes when we finally got out of the water because 1. we had be pushed so far down the beach by the strong current and 2. The wind blew sand over them. But hey, I was with a (also drunk) lifeguard, so I rationalized that I was safe.

I've reported this before, but I'm still stunned that I did it (more than once) and am still here 25 years later.

[Orrex]

4. Have you found your clothes yet?

Or are you still sneaking around in the buff?

[Patiod]

5. Ha ha. Found them. Stole a bathing suit next time

Not my idea, but the guy I was with wouldn't go in naked, and it was like 95 degrees out and I really wanted to swim, so I borrowed a suit from the line out back of someone's house.

I returned it to the exact same spot on the line, and wonder what the owner thought the next day when she went to get her suit, and it was still damp.....

[DS1]

6. I'm lucky to not be a vegetable

[SOteric]

15. Flambé.

[matcom]

18. don't break the news to him...

that he really hasn't been as lucky as he apparently thinks :D

[TZ]

7. It's amazing the stupid things kids do.....

My stupidest thing was letting a neighborhood boy talk me into riding my bike down a hill without using my brakes. The bike hit a patch of sand and flew out from under me (or so I have been told) slamming my head among other things on the pavement. I still don't remember the accident because I got a concussion. Suffice it to say, the first thing I remember after starting down the hill was being in my bed at home an hour later with all my neighborhood friends putting bandages on my numerous cuts. Oh and I HAD been conversing and acting normally but when I started freaking out and saying "what happened why am I here" my friends (we were all of I think 11 at the time) started really freaking out too..still remember the headache I had the next day..the worst ever ever ever!

[bikebloke]

8. Swing sets

When we weren't jumping out of them too see how high and far we could go, there was the big challenge. Try to swing around 360 degrees. Only once you went so high, gravity would give you a tug. We came close, but never had the big crash. Funny, no one was ever smacked in the skull by those heavy swing seats.

[Patiod]

9. with asphalt underneath

I wonder sometimes about parents today over-protecting kids, but what were OUR parents thinking putting asphalt under playground equipment?

[bikebloke]

11. And a fence

We'd fly off the swing, over the asphalt with a fence in our flight path.

[truedelphi]

16. Yeah but at least our parents weren't forced to

Put us as one year olds into a device that is impossible to get a kid into or out of and must be placed in the trunk in order to not have the air bag implode the little tot and
because of their not being required to do any of this, very few of our parents "forgot" that the baby was in the car!!

[Kali]

20. ...

:thumbsup: I am that old, too :rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

10. Lesse... I rode on top of a moving car. Several times. Also...

I climbed out on a fifth floor balcony at my college dorm and climbed up to the sixth floor balcony.

I jumped off a 50 foot cliff into the Pacific Ocean.

Streetfights. Those always have Darwin potential.

After being told that an old refrigerator was on the fritz, I stuck my hand in the icemaker anyway. The resulting electric shock left me sprawled on the floor twitching.

And then, of course, there's all the stuff that I don't want to get into on public forums. Statutes of limitations and all that. :evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

12. Swimming fully clothed in Lake Michigan on Thanksgiving

Can you say hypothermia?

[Orrex]

13. You'd think that your clothes would have kept you warm

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

14. No chit!

[SoxFan]

17. Fence. Zoo. Fell.

I'll let your imagination fill in the blanks, since it's actually more entertaining that way.

[Rising Phoenix]

19. lets just say its a miracle, MIRACLE

that I am alive!

[SPKrazy]

21. Canoing the Illinois River At Above Flood Stage

in a fiberglass canoe, drunk, and then losing the canoe in a strainer (a bush that had not been in the river that had collected a large amount of debris and was basically sucking things down and straining the debris from the water) as it broke in half and got sucked under, we jumped up on the bush and debris trying to get the canoe out from there. Didn't work. But the canoe eventually got sucked out from under there and ended up downstream when the river went down.

We had to dive in the other side and swim and float downstream. until we found a way to get back.

:shrug:

Darwin award, trying to rescue the canoe from this strainer

[Adsos Letter]

22. sort of...

...urinating into a toilet bowl which my wife had earlier filled with bleach...thought I might die, anyway...

:D