It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time!

[cody93]

being a redneck also, i can tell you one of those "HEY GUYS, WATCH THIS" moments that was aswome and stupid. last 4th july, one my buddies bought 3000 bottle rockets and after about 200 of them, we got bored.. so i had an idea to stuff 500 of them in a coffee can, poor a lil lighter fluid on it and light em off! well crap, after the 2nd rocket, the danm thing tiped over and started shooting rockets everywere as it was spinning around. it was freakin scary and 6 people got hit in the ass with bottle rockets... surprised only 6 out of 18 people got hit... shoulda added more rockets..

 

[doorgunner]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I just remembered a good one....my cousin bet me that he could slap a stop sign..................at 60 mph...........

so...........I get my 55 Ford pickup up to 60.....intersection is clear...my cousin leans out the passenger window.....I veer to the right side of the road....he slaps the **** outta the stop sign....sits back into the passengers seat with a big smile on his face....I look in the mirror & the stop sign is twisted around 1/4 of a turn......I look at my cousin.....

Then his eyes get REAL BIG...he screams like a panther...and the palm of his right hand & fingers turn into one giant blood-blister!!!!!!!!!!!


seemed like a good idea at the time!!!!!!!!

 

[gwaii]

about 20 or so years ago,a few buddies and myself go wheelin up to the top of a local mountain to have a big fire and swill a few beers.
it's winter and the middle of the night,so getting a fire going in the snow is going to be a challenge...for most people.us,well we just toss down some old tires and a good dousing of gasoline and pretty soon the heat's coming out like gangbusters.the snow's melting under the fire and all's good.

crack another beer.

well,the fire's in need of more fuel so i grab another tire from the back of my truck and toss it on.
and wait.
and wait.

what am i waiting for?

well,it seems that what i'd somehow neglected to tell my buddies was that the tire was still on a rim.

and inflated to 50 psi.

crack another beer.

everyone's b.s.ing about all the things young men bs about while standing around a tire fire drinking beer on the top of a mountain and all's good

BOOM!

the fire's out,my buddies are all hiding behind trucks,spilled beers on the ground and me laughing my fool head off.

there's black snow and bits of tire everywhere.




we tried a few times after that to get the same results from other fires but never got more than a jet of air from a small hole burned in the tire.

and twenty years later,my buddy still gets pissed off at me when i remind him of that night.and i still break out laughing thinking about it.

so while some may dispute it,i still think it was a good idea.


not too many things that'll give you twenty years of entertainment.

and i'll probably get another twenty out of it.

 

[doorgunner]

Gwaii......you reminded me of another one....about 6 of us kids were standing around a campfire...my uncle had a bucket of black road-tar on the fire melting it to seal some leaks in his wooden piroque...my other uncle cut the end off a 12 gauge shotgun shell--threw all the pellets away--snuck over to the fire & dropped theshotgun shell in the bucket of tar without us realizing it. About 20 minutes later the shotgun shell exploded blowing the tar up in the air like raindrops...the tar kinda cooled off a little as it was landing all over us...we didn't get any bad burns....but we picked tar drops off our skin & hair for a week after that....

seemed like a good idea at the time!

 

[gwaii]

y'know dg,sometimes i think it's a wonder any of us survived to adulthood with some of the crazy thing that passed for fun in the old days.

at least we get some good stories out of it.

 

[gjm4l]

congrats. You win the redneck challenge in my book.

Who me? Thats just one of many but I finally won something! We've done some VERY stupid things in the past from beginning the remodeling of my buddies first house with sledges, axes, and good old fashioned who can take down the biggest chunk of wall. (Somehow nothing was destroyed that wasn't already coming out) to things like who can jump the 50 the furthest down the hill (always wear a helmet!) Oh and our 50 was stroked to a 120 is will get up and go. We were fire stupid too. Never to the point of shotgun shells in the fire or mounted tires lol. But definitely boxes of bottle rockets and fireworks, bottles of gas and coke cans and bottles are wonderful fun(warning aluminum and glass turn into SHRAPNEL ask me about my tent). Never beer cans thats just alcohol abuse

 

[BlueChariot]

When I was about 14, one of my friends with a trampoline and an above ground pool was gonna move, and I'd ALWAYS wanted to try this idea I had involving the two. Since I brought up the fact that since they were moving, I may never get the chance after this, he agreed!

Step 1- position trampoline between house and pool.
Step 2- obtain ladder.
Step 3- use said ladder to get on the roof of said house.
Step 4- jump, and pray you don't screw up your angles and land in the pool.

Amazingly, it worked fine the first few times, well enough that my friend and another mutual friend tried it too and all were successful. I went up to do it a third time, and RIGHT as I go to jump, I commit the ultimate self-jinx and yell "watch this!" as I had planned to do a front flip into the pool. Right as I took off I heard what was either a car alarm or a horn. This startled me and screw up my take off, I bounce off the trampoline at an awkward angle, and then bounce ribcage first off the edge of the pool.

The next thing I remember is alot of pain, and my firends standing over me, one of them yelling "Greg's dead!!! We're gonna go to jail!!!".

 

[Clay Lorance]

Back when I still had my Ranger I got pitched the idea to turn it into a prerunner. I liked the idea so i thought alright i'll try that. The problem is I don't have the funding, facility, or the know how to build a prerunner, and I don't even have that truck anymore. I traded it last Wednesday for a '02 F-150 2wd. "It seemed like a good idea at the time."

 

[gjm4l]

heh, too bad you killed it^ I've seen rangers take an absolutely STUPID amount of abuse, as in the driver is TRYING to kill it and short of smashing into something or rolling it they till start up and go every single day. I watched a highschool buddy TRY to kill his 91' stx because he hated it for whatever reason. Jumps, curbs, woods, deeep mud, whoops, whatever he never did kill it. Finally got his dream gmc 1500 with 350 like 2 years later and that thing died at least once a month and he barely took it off road. That ranger was part of our entertainment as was that particular buddy.

Picture a 230lb monkey on a KX250 with no actual ability, but a combination of stupid strong, lucky as hell, unbelievable balance, willingness to try anything, and was the definition of if your gonna be dumb you gotta be tough.

 

[doorgunner]

thanks guys..................... .......I needed that!

 

[Sunk]

about 20 or so years ago,a few buddies and myself go wheelin up to the top of a local mountain to have a big fire and swill a few beers.
it's winter and the middle of the night,so getting a fire going in the snow is going to be a challenge...for most people.us,well we just toss down some old tires and a good dousing of gasoline and pretty soon the heat's coming out like gangbusters.the snow's melting under the fire and all's good.

crack another beer.

well,the fire's in need of more fuel so i grab another tire from the back of my truck and toss it on.
and wait.
and wait.

what am i waiting for?

well,it seems that what i'd somehow neglected to tell my buddies was that the tire was still on a rim.

and inflated to 50 psi.

crack another beer.

everyone's b.s.ing about all the things young men bs about while standing around a tire fire drinking beer on the top of a mountain and all's good

BOOM!

the fire's out,my buddies are all hiding behind trucks,spilled beers on the ground and me laughing my fool head off.

there's black snow and bits of tire everywhere.




we tried a few times after that to get the same results from other fires but never got more than a jet of air from a small hole burned in the tire.

and twenty years later,my buddy still gets pissed off at me when i remind him of that night.and i still break out laughing thinking about it.

so while some may dispute it,i still think it was a good idea.


not too many things that'll give you twenty years of entertainment.

and i'll probably get another twenty out of it.

It must have been a good idea if you tried it again!!

 

[gjm4l]

Im sad this thread died. Surely has something to add from the past holiday seaso!n

 

[hoosier1104]

For those Jackass movie fans, I did the jump off the roof onto a exercise ball skit. Needless to say my boss found out and I got a letter of counseling. This all happened while I was in the military. I had several successful w/ some hairy moments but my friend on his first attempt landed on the ball but flipped backwards and landed on his dog house. I laughed my ass off but his wife was scared for a few until she realized that he was laughing his ass off. He got grounded, that was hilarious as well.

 

[gjm4l]

almost makes sense hoosier lol. But sounds AWESOME! Keep 'em coming dangit!!!!!!

 

[robertc1024]

When I was a little kid, I put some firecrackers in the fireplace at my grandmother's house. My sister and I were spending the night. The firecrackers didn't go off . . . until later. Everything was quiet, we were playing cards in front of the fireplace and BOOM. We all about needed new under garmets.