The Dumbest Thing You've Ever Done

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**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

Desubot wrote:
Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:
Desubot wrote:
Forgot to button up my jacket while i was stick welding over head.

NEVER AGAIN.

Oh god. NEVER AGAIN!

Glad to know someone knows of the plight.

Yeah i pretty much combusted. but it wasn't actually that bad. burns healed but it isn't as bad as jabbing my self in the chest with still white hot tungsten bit while Tig welding. have a wicked puncture scar still, right next to my heart.

I hurt my self too much welding.

Hot, cramped, hard to breathe, can't see gak, burn wounds everywhere, but the pay is decent

**Jihadin**

One...not enough room on Dakka to post

Two...I would win hands down (In my mind only)
Three....I can think of maybe three-four people on here who can beat me just a "tad"
Four....Some but not all will get it

example
Common sense left me and I raise my right arm quite a few times....

Five....I'm still alive......

Edit
Dang blank edit
WHoever ask. The Rare View is back of C17 full of paratroopers....we were testing the aircraft for airborne operations when it first came out. Was no test board of jumpers....end result....static line needed 2-4 ft extension. At that time no pictures were allowed of the inside of the aircraft

**Bangbangboom**

Long story short.

It was Halloween and I got insanely drunk. I donned some devil horns and painted my face and torso red with thick artist acrylic paint (the in a tube stuff)

Some how I got separated from my mates and completely lost I ended up sitting at the back of a Salvation Army church listening to a service.

As dumb as sitting in on a church service totally smashed, bare chested and in full devil costume sounds, I still feel the paint was dumber.

It was impossible to wash off properly and I had to spend a week in college explaining to everyone why my face had such a red hue.

**StarTrotter**

Mine isn't as dramatic as some of your stories but.... I was downstairs eating breakfast when I heard my mom say her restroom was leaking from the ceiling. I realized that I left my sink on upstairs. Running up, I got into my room to promptly slip on the water smash into the floor and slide away. Also I guess there was that time where I got on a new bike, went down a hill, and bounced down with a bike rolling after me.

**Jihadin**

No idea where my frame of mind was.

I knocked on the door
SPC Richards "Seriously?"
SPC Richards proceeds to kick the door in

**chromedog**

Improvised explosives from household products as a teenager.

They made such pretty explosions - green and blue and vivid oranges.

I sometimes wonder how I survived my teens.

**Snrub**

I urinated on an electric fence once. Felt like i was getting kicked in the chest.

**azazel the cat**

KingCracker wrote:
azazel the cat wrote:
Okay, so I'm currently in the middle of spraypainting some props, and wasn't paying attention to what direction the nozzle was facing when I pressed the button. Needless to say, I just spent the last 20 minutes washing black primer off of the palm of my hand and arm, and I think I might have paint in my hair now, too.

Tell me Dakka: what's the dumbest thing you've ever done?

If that's the dumbest thing you've done you need to get out and live more

It's not even close. It just gave me the idea for the thread.

**KalashnikovMarine**

Hmmm well... there's plenty of options

I almost walked into a helicopter tail rotor... that would fething hurt... but only for a second or two

I got married at the age of 18 to a 24 year old model.

**LordofHats**

KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I got married at the age of 18 to a 24 year old model.

Gotta say. Unless that ended poorly, I'd consider that a win XD

**azazel the cat**

LordofHats wrote:
KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I got married at the age of 18 to a 24 year old model.

Gotta say. Unless that ended poorly, I'd consider that a win XD

Probably just a hand model.

**LordofHats**

Hey man. Those hands. They're beautiful

**Blitza da warboy**

Well I have two stories from last year:

Once I took shrooms without planning it. When i realized that it lasted 8 hours (and god, it probably was nine for me) I started freaking out a bit. I also learned that the guy who sold it was pretty sketchy as well. Ended up being a really interesting day for me

Another time, I ended up getting drunk in the day time. Somehow I lost around 50 dollars, shamed myself in front of a veteran who was leaving his granddaughters birthday party and acted like an ass to some poor kid.

While these stories probably aren't too bad, present me thinks past me should have been smarter.

**Jihadin**

18 married to a 24 yrs old model.....as your NCO KM......I congrats you in face and behind your back hope you don't go to pieces on me when the divorce starts. Really really pray not for it to happen on a deployment.

OY......I kicked a 40mm grenade that been fired but didn't go off.....HE by the marking....kept walking

**KalashnikovMarine**

LordofHats wrote:
KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I got married at the age of 18 to a 24 year old model.

Gotta say. Unless that ended poorly, I'd consider that a win XD

She tried to kill me with a cast iron skillet, you make the call.

I did get a little fethed up Jihadin, but it wasn't on deployment XD

**LordofHats**

Okay yeah that sounds like it ended poorly XD

**Jihadin**

KM had a cast iron pot. My dad dared my mom to stab him. They were arguing while she was chopping tomato's. My dad has a nice 3" scar on his chest

she sliced him instead.

LOL I got divorced paperwork on my 08 deployment. Talked about scrambling to protect myself financialy and doing missions....

**KalashnikovMarine**

a couple pounds of cast iron swung at one's skull is more then enough to dent even my jarhead issue cromagnon bone structure.

Your parents still together Jihadin? XD

**Alfndrate**

Super Ready wrote:
chaos0xomega - sounds like you *might* be onto a good thing there, and in any case, expressing your feelings for someone is actually the best thing to do if you ever want to make something of them. Good luck with it!

Only because you can move on to someone that would reciprocate the warm fuzzies if the first person doesn't. 50 nos and a yes is still a yes...

**KingCracker**

Snrub wrote:
I urinated on an electric fence once. Felt like i was getting kicked in the chest.

Yea it's funny how you always feel that in the chest eh? Growing up a buddy of mine lived on a large dairy farm surrounded by electric fences. Well one day we were playing a game of football and I was open. His uncle tossed the ball high, I ran after it, caught it and then connected with one of those fences. From my momentum I flipped over the wire and was caught by my stomach and left dangling over this electrified wire zapping the gak out of me until I finally flopped off

**Necros**

Dumbest thing in recent memory was to test drive a Chrysler 300. Now I love it, can can't afford one :(

**Shadowbrand**

Losing a friend over a really stupid argument involving pitbulls.

And self mutilation. They take the cake.

**azazel the cat**

Necros wrote:Dumbest thing in recent memory was to test drive a Chrysler 300. Now I love it, can can't afford one :(

Shadowbrand almost wins the thread with self mutilation, but I'm still gonna consider wanting a Chrysler to be the dumbest.

**rubiksnoob**

Fireworks and 40 hands, both individually and combined.

**Mr Nobody**

My brother and I bought cast iron swords from an auction and we decided to fight with them. After a few painful blows it ended with me taking him out at the knee and his sword coming straight down on my skull. Luckily we appear to be made of sterner stuff and only got a way with bumps and bruiser (and maybe a slight concussion).

A more recent one was I was waiting for a ride from my father when a stranger came up in the exact same car model I was waiting for. I jumped in and looked over at very confused old man and a dog. I promptly apologized, dashed out of the car and saw my father waiting a few cars down, laughing. The Ford Flex has become very popular apparently.

**Alfndrate**

While I had written this story out, I'm going to spoiler it due to the kiddies that frequent this board. It's PG-13, but I feel that I'd be promoting something that is not kid friendly.

Spoiler:

**Jihadin**

Negatice KM negative...they divorced when I was seven. Then when I join the military she wanted to really kill my dad for letting me join the military

**master of ordinance**

Cutting flash off a model and the knife slipping and entering my finger. Blood sprays about a metre and speckles my wall and i sit there and just stare at it thinking "ouch"

Also myself and my friend are training to be Blacksmiths. So we prefer traditional methods and are working on making some knives for ourselves. We cant find any tongues so we are using some pliers instead to grip the metal. I am hammering when the metal slips and spins rund to impact into my hand. Try to imagine a length of metal at around 600 degrees in heat impacting into your lower left index finger section. Its nearly healed up now (this was 2.5 weeks ago) thanks to my incredible regenerative abilities but heck did it hurt at the time. I dropped the metal, swore then picked it up and finished what i was doing before returning it to the fire. Then i saw to my injury.

**kronk**

I admit it.

I let the dogs out.

It was my fault.

**timetowaste85**

rubiksnoob wrote:
Fireworks and 40 hands, both individually and combined.

My recently ex roommate (moving cuz of promotion!) and his buddies asked me to tape their hands together for Edward 40Hands...hehe. That qualified as dumb. One ended up smashing his bottle while trying to take a leak, deciding to screw the game, as he couldn't get the tape off. Pretty sure he pissed himself. I sipped a Guinness and had a wonderful time with the game.