Worst. Idea. EVER...let's do it!

[The Eggplant]

Having just arrived home from my first year at uni, I've seen some pretty stupid shit go down over the past academic year. Bar fights, other fights, in-class drug deals, one particularly notable attempt to smuggle a beer ball into a lecture by claiming it to be a cancerous growth (I shit you not)...been there, done that, bought the amusing novelty hat.

But what's been really funny for me to watch, and sometimes take part in, over the last year has been the occasions when an idea was so stupid, so monumentally DUMB, that it managed to pierce the haze of hormones, illicit narcotics, class-induced stress, sleep deprivation, and alcohol that hang over most people at my school. When everyone knew, maybe even said out loud, "wow, this isn't going to end well"...but then went ahead and did it anyway.

So, Escapists, when did you ever find yourself willingly taking part in an activity that you just knew was going to end in glorious disaster?

[sub]Disclaimer: My school's not really as bad as all that...we've got some smart cookies, even if most of them are pretty half-baked.[/sub]

 

[Marter]

No I haven't. I tend to stay away from doing stupid stuff like that. It isn't really a logical thing for me to partake in, as the probable negatives far outweigh the potential positives.

It's fun seeing others do it though.

 

[Aggressor and Usurper]

Blowing up Lynx cans in a field.
I was around 8 at the time. The kid that was crouching next to me behind the bush we thought would provide cover got some shrapnel from the can in the gut. He was a month in hospital.
I did it again with a group of friends recently. Made sure to run the fuck away.

 

[hyperhammy]

Well, I once broke into an old airport that was standing empty. Got caught and almost sued. xD Good times

 

[Tearopenthelives]

Trying to make a hole in a fence that would allow access to a daytime childcare facility, for an undisclosed reason

 

[leviathanmisha]

Bonfire + plus a shopping bag full of brand new lighters...need I say more?

 

[The Eggplant]

when i bought sonic 06.

Approve.

Also, I realized I forgot to add my own story...so my winner would probably have to be deciding with a couple friends to clamber up onto the roof of a city bus heading downtown one weekend night because the driver refused to admit any more kids into the bus itself. Never actually made it to the party we were heading towards, needless to say.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Taking one lighter a small piece o paper and in a drunken stupor lit said paper on fire in a dark alleyway no less. Well next thing i knows is here come ze cops. One summons and court date later i get slapped with probation and am forced to go into behavioral counseling.

 

[PixieFace]

Well... Nothing too extreme, but my boyfriend and I did sneak past a bunch of coppers to climb onto the roof of three story library building in the middle of the night. Why? Fuck if I know. That about sums up my teenage years.

Half-assed parkour, ftw?

Edit: Also with my boyfriend, shoving fireworks into an oreo with a bunch of stuffing in it taken from other oreos in a creepy back alley, filming it as it exploded into a wonderful, horrible mess of frosting, and then playing it back in slow motion! For science!

 

[Radeonx]

Me and a friend built a flamethrower, and shot it around in an open field.
Luckily, we had some fire extinguishers.

 

[PixieFace]

Taking one lighter a small piece o paper and in a drunken stupor lit said paper on fire in a dark alleyway no less. Well next thing i knows is here come ze cops. One summons and court date later i get slapped with probation and am forced to go into behavioral counseling.

You got probation for lighting a piece of paper on fire? Say whaaaat? There is more to that story, I bet.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Taking one lighter a small piece o paper and in a drunken stupor lit said paper on fire in a dark alleyway no less. Well next thing i knows is here come ze cops. One summons and court date later i get slapped with probation and am forced to go into behavioral counseling.

You got probation for lighting a piece of paper on fire? Say whaaaat? There is more to that story, I bet.

Yes there is but i'm not telling unless you ask nicely and offer up some monetary compensation.

 

[The Eggplant]

$35 and a half-loaf of bread says you'll tell us. (I'll leave it to Pixie to try the niceness approach.)

 

[lodo_bear]

A dumb idea I kept at for a long time: getting on to the roofs of buildings at my university. I made it onto about 10 roofs, and had lunch on one of them, and managed to never get caught by anyone with the authority to get me punished.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Not the drinking/smoking/druggin' type, so nothing like that

That's not to say I don't get into some weird shizz. But that's largely circumstantial shizz

although ever since I played Mirror's Edge I have had the urge to jump my Piano Teacher's fence. My housing estate and hers are literally next door to each other, but there's a fence in the way and I have to go around. If I jumped it, I could make the journey in 40 seconds. Currently, it's about 3 minutes

One day I WILL jump that fence

 

[ottenni]

Well i have a few stories of things we did in school.

We lit a bin on fire once. We where flicking matches at each other and one went in the bin. We also lit a proper fire out the back of the school once. It was a very cold day. To be fair it was a bonfire that the school had already lit, we just got it going again.

Then on out last week of school we stole all the schools clocks, dressed in drag and got drunk and spray-painted out year name all over signs throughout the town. We where going to go into the school but there where security guards, they were very nice.

 

[The Eggplant]

Not the drinking/smoking/druggin' type, so nothing like that

That's not to say I don't get into some weird shizz. But that's largely circumstantial shizz

Elaborate...? I tend to find the circumstantial shizz better than the other kind anyway, even if most of what happens to me is the, er, non-circumstantial kind.