Dumbest thing you've ever done.

[MattD1601]

When I first started in my current career I was working on a piece of electronic equipment that was static sensitive so I had to be grounded. Had to pull the circuit board out of the chasis of this device and shorted myself across the fuse during the process. I finally unplugged it by the third time I did this. Thank God it was only 120AC 60Hz.

 

[Trifixion]

Took a 2-pound block of sodium from the chemistry lab, brought it to the nearby pond, and threw it in. WHOOM!

Ha, that's hilarious! How big was the explosion?

I would say about 15 feet high...almost all smoke, no "flame," but made one heck of a loud BLAM.

 

[DazZ.]

I put my hand in a stapler because I was pretending it was a monster. I then stapled it.

Used to have staple fights in lessons where we hit each other with staplers and the first one to bleed lost.

If they go in properly they don't bleed till you take them out, the trick to it was to get hit properly whilst hitting them at an angle.

This isn't the stupidest thing I've done, there are too many for me to remember the "worst".

 

[Insanum]

Seriously, I'm not sure what the dumbest thing I've ever done was, but I'm fairly sure it had to have been in my freshman year of college, in which I did such things as:


Stole the light bar from a police car


I should probably add I did all this completely straight and sober.

...Thats rather epic. VERY Epic. Did you get caught?

For me...probably kissing my ex.

EDIT: Thought of another one: Did some scuba diving in a pool, Then jumped in without the mask on and forgot it wasnt on.

Inhaling a lungful of water is NOT nice.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Went down a steep grassy hill on a bike.

Went head over heels off it, rolled down the hill, got up and realised there was blood in my pants.

Spent the night in ER getting my manparts stitched back up.

Pain.

I think I win.

Edit:

I also once drunkenly threw a rock through the window of Cork City Hall. Good thing no-one saw. I was an angry teen.

 

[Lyese]

Well since my life has been pretty close to a huge chain of disasters, I'll just dig a few up.

1. heating up candlewax till it ignites and then pooring water over it. 10meter high flamebursts are nice, unless you're onder a roof that's 3 meters high.

2. Having learned from that experience next time we tried it out on the street, we just didn't know that due to the wind the flames wouldn't go straight up anymore, it was more a mushroom cloud at 1 meter hight. (luckily I wasn't the one lighting it that time, the guy who lit it lost a fair bit of hair)

3. Dropping a brick on my big toe while not wearing any shoes. It broke in 4 pieces, my toe not the brick.

4. Taking a jump while snowboarding not knowing what's behind it. Nearly jumped into a ravine.

 

[Trifixion]

Stole the light bar from a police car

...Thats rather epic. VERY Epic. Did you get caught?

No, fortunately enough. I also managed to return it to the police department - without getting caught or identified - a couple weeks later when I decided it was a really bad idea to keep it around for too long.