Craziest thing I've ever done? Get comfortable and I'll tell ye...
One october evening a couple of years ago a friend and I took a large amount of magic mushrooms, we had an entertaining evening and toddled off to our separate homes. I went to bed at 3am still tripping. The thought occurred to me that if I went to sleep then I was definitely going to die. I decided that if I was going to die, I couldn't leave the mortal plane without at least saying goodbye to my girlfriend, and making love to her one final time. So I got up, left the house, and began to run the 3 and a half miles to her house.
I was stark bollock naked.
Not a shred of clothing on, not even my spectacles. Luckily my dad had seen me leave, chased me in his car, pulled over and screamed at me to get in. I nearly did. Then I remembered I was doing something important, took a couple of seconds to work out what it was, and resumed running down the main road. Once dad had caught up again I decided I could shake him off by taking a detour through some fields. Jogged quite happily through the grass, happily ignoring the thistles and nettles tearing at my feet. I reached a barbed wire fence, which confused me for a little while, before I worked out how to climb over it. I then fell 6 feet into a river. Fortunately it wasn't very deep, so I sat and splashed about for a spell.
Remembering my mission, I scaled the far bank and climbed another barbed wire fence, and began to push a path through the bushes, before discovering that the bush I was crouching under like a baboon was a species bedecked with many branches and many thorns. Going back was not an option, so I braced myself and pushed onwards regardless. Once free of the thorns I came upon one of those new-fangled housing estates that seem to spring up every five minutes. Unable to decipher the complicated machinery of a gate, I instead climbed atop the wall and gaily tottered along the top like an acrobat.
I crossed three gardens in this manner before noticing the third household owned a trampoline. My energetic bouncing was interrupted by a large and ferocious looking canine hurtling across the lawn at a horrifying rate of speed. Evasive action was taken, and I dropped from my wall into a churchyard. Through the churchyard and once more on a main road, I continued towards my objective, climbing onto the roof of a pub in order to preserve the straightest trajectory. Once the pub had been successfully traversed my way was blocked by a railway line. Thankfully, it being 3:30am, my sedate amble across the tracks was uninterrupted by violent locomotive death, and I climbed triumphantly onto platform 4. My goal was now in sight, and I once more roused myself into a sprint.
Waiting outside the house was my father, who by now had seen me coming and had realised that I was not going to stop. This didn't present him with much of a problem however, as Dad used to play defensive linesman for the local American football team. I was tackled, lifted clear off my feet, and held as though in a papoose. For a time I was quite comfortable and enjoyed a relaxing break from physical exertion, then the importance of my mission was once again roused in my mind. I reached back, plunged a thumb into each of his eyes, and fell to the ground. Alas, I was not agile enough to escape and I was once again borne to the ground by a hundred and ten kilos of burly Yorkshire firefighter.
Once it became apparent that I was not going to give up despite being sat on and taken in an arm-lock, a mobile phone was produced to call in backup. Ten minutes later the sound of a deisel engine heralded the arrival of a police van. "Oh shit!" I exclaimed, "they're going to shoot me, aren't they?". Pops assured me that I would not be shot, though I might see the wrong end of a Tazer if I didn't behave. Suitably chastened, I allowed the boys in blue to help me to my feet, and give me a set of clothes, thoughtfully provided by my loving father. I was then searched, and questioned about what crazy substance I had taken in order to make me behave in such a bizare manner. I misunderstood the query, and proceeded to reel off a list of every drug I had ever taken in my entire life.
After the officers and my Father had finished having a quiet chat, I was told that because I hadn't been aggressive or abusive, had answered all questions clearly and coherently and was not found to be in possession of contraband, I was being released without charge. This was quite a relief and I was driven home with no criminal record to show for my exploits. Once I returned home, I removed a neckerchief from my pocket, out of which tumbled a mangled cannabis cigarette. Amazed and amused that the police had missed such damning evidence of my deviancy I sat on the roof outside my window and smoked my joint with glee.
And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, was the craziest thing I have ever done.