Stupid shit that could have killed you

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edo2bedo	Stupid shit that could have killed you		Lead	[-]
Posts: 836 May 23, 2009 10:45 AM	Tags : None I read an editorial yesterday in the Wall Street Journal from a guy who is now an overprotective father to 4 girls. He was reflecting on his attitude toward safety now versus when he was growing up, and concluded that a lot of things could kill you and in some cases probably should have. In other words, just living through child/teen/young adult-hood is dangerous. He reflected upon a few of his exploits that involved illegal fireworks/bomb making, hanging with adult strangers, swinging from cables off cliffs, etc. I thought that Nafoom might offer some vintage exploits from their own checkered pasts.
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msbelle96	I'm fine with all that except for...	#21	[url]	[-]
Posts: 836 May 23, 2009 10:37 PM	being uncomplimentary about Hank Williams Jr......that's just wrong.
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AngryReb	I've heard people tell a lot of your stories...	#22	[url]	[-]
Posts: 5429 May 23, 2009 10:47 PM Registered Member	and they really should make a movie of your life. On a side note, the next time you and Crouton's owner (one of my best friends) head up to Nashville to go to a once-in-a-lifetime show, please remind him that he has amigos in Laurel, too. I was so green with envy when I heard what went down. At any rate, how is the book/Hall of Fame stuff going? ----------------- Shameful self-promotion: Now Updated! Last Edited By: AngryReb May 23, 2009 10:58 PM. Edited 1 time.
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ChicoHarris3		#23	[url]	[-]
Posts: 7 May 23, 2009 10:54 PM	AngryReb wrote: and they really should make a movie of your life. On a side note, the next time you and Crouton's owner (one of my best friends) head up to Nashville to go to a one-in-a-lifetime show, please remind him that he has amigos in Laurel, too. I was so green with envy when I heard what went down. At any rate, how is the book/Hall of Fame stuff going? It was a cool show, but about an hour after Springsteen did that song for me, I had a garden slug in my mouth (he had crawled up in the Barq's root beer can pipe I had stashed outside the Ryman. Book going well, as is Hall of Fame...Rolling Stones in late July at Larrys...hoping to finish up two more for July 4 and August 1 release dates. http://www.oxfordland.net/deartonda/ ESPN Magazine writer came here for a week at Egg Bowl time for story, I'm told will be out next month, maybe will help.
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TomnolenReb	My stupid shit	#24	[url]	[-]
Posts: 515 May 24, 2009 6:41 AM Registered Member	When I was 14, I poured about a quart and a half of gas down a well that had a 4 inch concrete top on it. I dropped in a match, it went out. I dropped in another, it went out. It was my last match. I went inside to get a book. When I lit the last one, I decided to light the entire book of matches. A small nuclear explosion in Tomnolen followed and I ended up on the ground 20 yards away with 2nd and 3rd degree burns all over my stomach where the top had been raised by the blast. Nothing sux as bad as having a Poly sweatshirt melted to you. Next one involved a ten speed and a camaro. I once held on to the passenger side mirror of a camaro while on a ten speed bike at night. I was 13 at the time. Some friends of mine and I were headed to a truckstop at Pellez Crossing to shoot pool and I wanted to make sure I had a way back when I was ready to leave. I decided it would be easier to hitch a ride with the car. I kept telling the driver to go faster. We finally got up to 85 mph. I was scared about the slow down so I gave a good tug on the mirror and shot past the car. Looking back, a turtle, possum, hell a good sized rock and I would have been a Darwin winner. I once had a cousin that made a huge pipe bomb that he filled with gun powder. The plan was to dig a hole under a stump next to Big Black and light a rather long fuse. The getaway was a three wheeler that was left running. My brother and I wanted no part of it so we stayed a quarter mile away looking through binoculars. Cousin lights fuse, jumps back. Fuse doesnt light. Repeat. Repeat. Fuse lights, cousing jumps on 3 wheeler. Cousin jumps off and starts tugging at the pull cord like an effin madmad. What seems like several minutes goes by and said ATV cranks. Cousing gets out of dodge and I get to watch a mushroom cloud right behind him. Turns out, when he jumped on the ATV the first time, he hit the gas and it stalled. Im not sure how close he was when the bomb blew, but he couldnt have been very far.
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Bacchus815	+1 for riding backroads	#25	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1107 May 24, 2009 7:25 AM	I can't say I've got a bunch of stuff that should have killed me, but that's just one thing where I guess I kept getting lucky back in high school. I can remember my freshman year driving back from the UT game at the Liberty Bowl and falling asleep for about 5 seconds I guess on I-55 in Southaven. But I can't really top anything like making illegal bombs. I guess I lived a very sheltered childhood with my Sega and my baseball cards.
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Unkljohn		#26	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1154 May 24, 2009 11:01 AM Registered Member	170 mph on a motorcycle is the first thing that comes to mind. Driving a car at 80 mph on the interstate while tripping balls is another. Climbing up on top of the RR trestle while shrooming, I could go on and on... Thankfully I survived them all, mostly unscathed, and am much wiser and more careful now. "The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."
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Abelmagwitch2	16 mile hike by myself...	#27	[url]	[-]
Posts: 11 May 24, 2009 11:29 AM	in Yellowstone through bear country, with only one bottle of water. I figured, what the hell, I'll only be here once. I was dying half way through, but could only go forward. There was no one around me for miles. If I had fallen or injured myself, I probably would have died. I learned later that a grizzly bear had killed a hiker in that area just a week before. Also tore up my feet for weeks.
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MedReb	You win	#28	[url]	[-]
Posts: 81 May 24, 2009 12:32 PM	Bad that you can just name her first name, and probably 70% of the board knows who she is. Can't really give you high-five on your feat though.....hope she didn't (hi-V)
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MedReb	Sounds like you should lay off the drugs	#29	[url]	[-]
Posts: 83 May 24, 2009 4:13 PM	or at least curtail that shit a little
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Zorak67		#30	[url]	[-]
Posts: 946 May 24, 2009 4:50 PM Registered Member	ChicoHarris3 wrote: ...writing something less-than-complimentary about Hank Williams Jr in The Daily Mississippian (got me a death threat and a bullet in my mailbox)... . As strange as it might sound, I do vaguely remember your writing this in the DM...what year was that? And, at the time, I think I was a bit offended (although you were probably right)...but didn't send you a death threat.
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Bacchus815	I'd forgotten all about Lawhoria	#31	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1113 May 24, 2009 6:18 PM	nevergotwithin10ftku
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bonedaddy401	Wandered the streets of Washington D.C. from 3 to 5 a.m on a Saturday night.......	#32	[url]	[-]
Posts: 168 May 24, 2009 9:03 PM Total Fucking Douchebag	Went out in Georgetown got hammered and got separated from the people I went out with. I caught a cab by myself and about 10 mins into the ride I puked all in the back of the cab. The driver slammed on the brakes and demanded I get out and pay for what ride he had givin me. I pulled out my wallet to find that I had no money and he kicked my ass out somewhere a few blocks north of downtown. Close to 14th and U streets. Terrible part of town. It took me two hours to walk home shit faced and wearing a polo, khaki's and boots. I should have been robbed, killed or both. I made it home somehow and the next day I woke up expecting to have to pull a shiv out of my stomach but unbelievably I made the trek unscathed.
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AceD3	Similar story	#33	[url]	[-]
Posts: 58 May 24, 2009 9:07 PM	First, the background. Had a guy on the outskirts of town who owned about 40 acres- much of it used as his yard. Had alot of oak trees and put out corn for the deer, as he hunted out of his barn right near his house. What that all meant was- a known spotlighting spot. In fact, the year before a dude had shot a 14 point nontypical out of there at about 2 am. To they story, we beat Jackson Academy (AL) 60-12 one evening, me and 3 buds have big games and party appropriately for 3-4 hours thereafter. About 2 we get bored, beer has run out, we've each obligated our girlfriends for the night, and we're still bored. Little left to do on a cold November morn than to go cause trouble. After rolling a teacher's yard, we grab from a friend's grandfathers Old Charter stash and his 22 magnum. We hit a few spots and shoot a few deer....now it's my turn in the back of the truck with the rifle as we hit the aforementioned gents place. Only three deer are out there- 2 does and bambi. I like my meat tender, so I'm on Bambi. Fire, Bambi falls, friend drives straight through the guys yard- literally 20 feet from his bedroom window- and stops right next to the deer as lights come on. Now, many things are happening at once...I grab all 50 pounds of him and chuck him in the back, friend grabs the rifle and Mr. X comes out of the house- in a cliche straight out of Back to the Future- and fires a shotgun (presumably in the air, don't think it was anywhere near us). We get about 2 miles down the road and Bambi decides it isn't time to Be with God and comes to life- while I am alone in the back of the truck with him. Didn't have the rifle either, and he was a little pissed...he flails away at me with his hooves, I start stabbing him with my knife, and thankfully the truck slows down to almost a stop before we both went over the side. The fall knocked me out but Bambi escaped into the woodline (found him 30 yards in the next day). I was cut from his little hooves and damn near broke my back from the fall. Wasnt the closest I've come to death- had a streamer for most of the voyage down on a static line military jump once when I didn't have a backup chute- but according to my buds who watched "the fight" from the cab of the truck it by far is the funniest one. Last Edited By: AceD3 May 24, 2009 9:14 PM. Edited 3 times.
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rrlynch	I have a somewhat identical story	#34	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1184 May 24, 2009 11:40 PM	except a buddy of mine and I shitfacedly (new word!) stumbled through Harlem one night. We were drinking at Columbia with some friends in school there but were staying at a hotel on the Upper East Side. Being dumbasses we opted to not walk through Central Park (we thought it dangerous) and instead walked through Harlem. Funny thing is, people were afraid of us. One black couple even crossed the street when they heard us approaching behind them. I guess two curly-haired white kids from the Jackson area wearing jeans and fleeces is a scary sight in New York. The only person who approached us was a bum who was looking for some smokes. Unfortunately for him, we had just finished off a pack to begin our trek. ETA: By "somewhat identical story" I mean "a story only similar in that I was drunk and in an east coast ghetto at night." Now honeys play me close like butter play toast.
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SouthLamarLawyer	It seems that drinking and riding backroads	#35	[url]	[-]
Posts: 117 May 25, 2009 12:05 AM	is a sure recipe for stupid shit that could have killed you. When I was 20, I was riding around with a buddy of mine and a girl in my old Ford Ranger pickup truck. It had a bed cover with the cooler of beer safely locked inside. We went to said buddy's grandma's house to 'borrow' her '85 Crown Victoria since it would provide ample cruising and drinking room (plus the back seat could double as a bedroom). Well, after he had gotten the Crown Vic, we were driving down the street to drop off my truck. I stopped on a hill to get another beer. The truck was a manual and I didn't fully engage the parking brake before I hopped out. It was, however, only slowly rolling down the hill toward the Crown Vic (the girl was in the cab and I also heard her yelling as she hit the floor to push the brake) and I was near the tailgate before I realized what was going on, so I jumped behind the truck to slow its roll further. My drunken friend, realizing that my truck is rolling toward his grandmother's Crown Vic, attempted to slam the monster of a car into reverse from park but missed and went all the way to drive as he punched the gas pedal. I knew I was watching the last moments of my life as that monster of a land yacht careened toward me. There is no miracle here either. The car hit me. I turned to the side right before impact and became the cushion between the bumper of my truck and the bumper of that Crown Vic. Needless to say, I drank heavily the rest of the night and went to the doctor the next day. Only strained ligaments in the knee. Rest, anti-inflammatory meds and some stretching and I was all healed. True Story.
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Bacchus815	They didn't want to create an international incident	#36	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1116 May 25, 2009 6:14 AM	No need to rob/shiv/kill a couple of white frat boy looking dunks in from out of town when there are plenty of neighborhoodies to get later.
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edo2bedo	Great story; one question	#37	[url]	[-]
Posts: 838 May 25, 2009 7:47 AM	How did you have a military jump with no backup chute? Airborneku
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Mean Machine say what	I agree with Grad...	#38	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3149 May 25, 2009 10:42 AM Tim Allred's Brother	pretty weak stuff. Driving fast is great and all...I have done 140 whilst out of it....but I took this question to be more geared toward parasailing in a field behind a truck (by far the dumbest thing I have ever even seen, much less done) or driving a car onto a frozen Chewalla Lake.
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bonedaddy401	You are such a hard ass.*	#39	[url]	[-]
Posts: 169 May 25, 2009 4:39 PM Total Fucking Douchebag	�
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Mean Machine say what	Yes...I am.	#40	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3150 May 25, 2009 5:42 PM Tim Allred's Brother	That wasn't me on your youtubey thing though. Not so hard that I have walked the streets of a major city and thrown up. In a cab no less... wow. You are the awesomest. Last Edited By: Mean Machine say what May 25, 2009 6:42 PM. Edited 2 times.
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Stupid shit that could have killed you	May 23, 2009 10:45 AM	edo2bedo
One of many that comes to mind	May 23, 2009 10:58 AM	LewisNixon
Riding backroads drinking definitely comes to mind	May 23, 2009 1:25 PM	Black Belt Jones
+1 for riding backroads	May 24, 2009 7:25 AM	Bacchus815
94 Ice Storm in N. Miss.	May 23, 2009 12:30 PM	McRebel
Re: Stupid shit that could have killed you	May 23, 2009 2:16 PM	oxfordcircus
Once got from Laurel to H'burg in 12 mins	May 23, 2009 1:52 PM	CFOEagle
I think everyone has driven insanely fast under the influence of something.	May 23, 2009 2:35 PM	Interpol
Going to our friends deer camp and drunkenly cutting donuts in our trucks should have done the trick	May 23, 2009 2:40 PM	rrlynch
Not sure anyone's life was in danger, but this was pretty stupid to do.	May 23, 2009 2:45 PM	tcreb
Aside from the unfortunate young and dumb drunken driving....	May 23, 2009 3:06 PM	msbelle96
Any New Albany or Union Cty folks here?	May 23, 2009 3:51 PM	Rebheaded Stranger
Once down below Prentiss somewhere, we were driving the aforementioned backroads and	May 23, 2009 4:19 PM	uscreb
I have some friends who did that same thing at a pump on Bolton-Clinton Rd......	May 23, 2009 4:50 PM	msbelle96
No. Had a roommate from there. His father owned the underpants factory south of town.	May 23, 2009 8:24 PM	uscreb
Most of y'all must have been city slickers....	May 23, 2009 5:56 PM	Ole Miss Grad
I'll admit, I'm no daredevil or country boy	May 23, 2009 7:13 PM	rrlynch
You obviously missed my post last year about the night we were coming back from Memphis on Hwy 7 via	May 23, 2009 8:52 PM	uscreb
If I were a man I would give my left nut to have partied with you back then.....	May 23, 2009 9:35 PM	msbelle96
Similar story	May 24, 2009 9:07 PM	AceD3
Great story; one question	May 25, 2009 7:47 AM	edo2bedo
I fucked that Latoria chick	May 23, 2009 6:01 PM	The Dude
You win	May 24, 2009 12:32 PM	MedReb
I'd forgotten all about Lawhoria	May 24, 2009 6:18 PM	Bacchus815
I completely forgot about that chick	May 26, 2009 9:10 AM	RebelShark
Cancun, Mexico - Talking Shit on the Booze Cruise	May 23, 2009 7:14 PM	1 Rodimus Prime
Re: Stupid shit that could have killed you	May 23, 2009 10:34 PM	ChicoHarris3
I'm fine with all that except for...	May 23, 2009 10:37 PM	msbelle96
I've heard people tell a lot of your stories...	May 23, 2009 10:47 PM	AngryReb
Re: Stupid shit that could have killed you	May 23, 2009 10:54 PM	ChicoHarris3
Re: Stupid shit that could have killed you	May 24, 2009 4:50 PM	Zorak67
My stupid shit	May 24, 2009 6:41 AM	TomnolenReb
Re: Stupid shit that could have killed you	May 24, 2009 11:01 AM	Unkljohn
Sounds like you should lay off the drugs	May 24, 2009 4:13 PM	MedReb
16 mile hike by myself...	May 24, 2009 11:29 AM	Abelmagwitch2
Wandered the streets of Washington D.C. from 3 to 5 a.m on a Saturday night.......	May 24, 2009 9:03 PM	bonedaddy401
I have a somewhat identical story	May 24, 2009 11:40 PM	rrlynch
They didn't want to create an international incident	May 25, 2009 6:14 AM	Bacchus815
It seems that drinking and riding backroads	May 25, 2009 12:05 AM	SouthLamarLawyer
I agree with Grad...	May 25, 2009 10:42 AM	Mean Machine say what
You are such a hard ass.*	May 25, 2009 4:39 PM	bonedaddy401
Yes...I am.	May 25, 2009 5:42 PM	Mean Machine say what
Re: Stupid shit that could have killed you	May 25, 2009 6:32 PM	pookierayray
Grew up in and around there.	May 25, 2009 6:38 PM	Mean Machine say what
I once got drunk & stoned & other shit .....	May 25, 2009 7:41 PM	MisissippiTimes
I was once cutting donuts with a guy in Marshall County	May 25, 2009 6:31 PM	pookierayray
these might have been dumb	May 25, 2009 8:29 PM	sumanabitch
Re: Stupid shit that could have killed you	May 25, 2009 8:35 PM	statesucks
Here's a few that I can remember: edit	May 25, 2009 8:58 PM	Ole Miss Grad
commercial whitewater season 07	May 26, 2009 9:02 AM	TheHoka
One of my many	May 26, 2009 9:37 AM	RichardZinya

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