Stupidest thing you've ever done...

[elevens]

I'll start..............

I had just moved out to SF in '98 and still had all of my car info (insurance, plates, etc) in my old state. Well about 5 months pass and I decide to let every (including the insurance) 'laps' since I figured I'd sign up with a local place when I finally hit DMV to update all of my shit. Not 3 days later, I slam into a truck (my fault) and total him. A long story short, I was out $10K to fix his truck (buy him a new one) and had no wheels. Lucky for me the guy was cool that I hit and no one was hurt but it was a lesson well learned. Pretty lame but stupid

[Boomer28]

I usually wear protection, but I'm thinking "hey, when is the next time I'm going to be in Thailand?"

On a serious note I got a DUI once after my brother's wedding. I was TOASTED and only had to drive a mile to the hotel and the thought never crossed my liquored up brain that it was a bad idea and there was no way I couldn't drive that short distance. Well Mr. State Trooper thought differently and decided I should join him for a night in the pokey. $1k and 5-days in jail later (the MINIMUM first time sentence in Maine) only reinforced what a fucktard I was......

[xyz]

I used to drive drunk occasionally.....that was stupid.

[AdironRider]

Skipping a final freshman year to get hammered on the quad. Sounds fun and all till I miss the cum gpa requirement to stay in school by .02 and toss 20g's in student loans down the shitter. Had to work my ass off to get back in and make that investment back.

[philippeR]

Probably not the stupidest thing I've ever done, but dumb enough and car related :
in 1988 or 89, I was stiil a poor student, I sold my old and beaten car to woman, through and add in a newspaper.
As it was dirt cheap, I accepted cash for the payment.
Then I did 2 mistakes : I have moved since my purchase of the car but didn't had the title modified. And, after I let the car goes, I forgot to let the administration know the change of ownership of the car (as I should I've done).
6 months later dozens of parking tickets were starting to fill my mail box.
It looked like she was parking in every forbiden zone in Paris. She obviously didn't change the auto title, so the tickets were sent to my former address where they bounced back.
When they finaly manage to find me, there was something like 1500 euros of tickets to pay. More than twice the car's worth. And much more than I could afford... For a car out of my reach, owned by a girl whose name I didn't knew... Tickets were coming every day and I couldn't do a thing to avoid utter bankrupcy.
I guess she was unhappy with her purchase and that it was her vengeance.
Eventualy, I managed to sort things out with the cops, they tracked the owner of the car and presented her with the bill.

[steve]

get hooked on reading this board. my life is in shambles, and I do nothing about it - I read TGR instead!

actually, the stupidest thing I've ever done was get arrested for "possession of a loaded weapon."

[Tuckerman]

actually, the stupidest thing I've ever done was get arrested for "possession of a loaded weapon."

You can get arrested for that wow that sux.

[ulty_guy]

shit, where's the original and funniest, 'unsmart things done' thread?

[snowsprite]

The original is in the history area, but I think this might be the longest and juiciest thread on the topic ("more stupid things done"):

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...unsmart+things

Sprite

[tex1230]

easy answer - I left Squaw Valley and went back to college.

[Tuckerman]

My wife reads this.

[thephatkid]

well as there are many a stupid things that i have done in my relatively short exsistance. one of the funnier ones was when i was at a party at snowrider4lifes house during the winter, his pool was closed and they have one of those covers that can support a car, i got the bright idea to run around the top of it. it was cold but funny. then i decided to up the ante and thought to myself this cover would make a sweet slip and slide. wrong. my form was way off i should have never went head first, i came in at a bad angle and landed on my forehead. luckily i wasnt seriously injured. just a sore neck for a couple days, a couple loose teeth, and a bloody lip. lesson learned pool covers are not a good slip and slide.

[gregb22]

After a night of boozing in New York City I attempted to drive home to New Jersey. It was a rainy night and I was on the FDR and like an idiot I was speeding. I skidded onto a median and popped both my left tires and was extremly close to flipping the car which probably would have killed me. Luckily it was late and no one was one the highway and there was a little contrusction site ahead, i drove my car (flat tires and all) and parked it in the construction site. Then I went to get a cab and realized I was on 135th street in Harlem at 3 in the morning near the projects with a bunch of homeboys staring at me. With my luck no cabs wanted to take me to Jersey, so I had to wait a while to finally get a $45 cab ride to Jersey. All things considered I was very lucky that night.

[DEVO]

lets see.... how about an assortment to choose from:

1.REALLY drunk one night visiting friends at umass. A friend and I decide it would be fun to downclimb the outside of his dorm from 6 stories up. We get to the bottom and I suggest we go all the back up on the outside. Luckily neither one of us got hurt, but looking back that was dumb.

2. Driving waay too fast out in the Berkshires one night (trying to "blow off some steam") lost it on a tight corner and rolled the car down into a gully. When the car finally came to a stop, I crawled out and limped down the street to a house where the guy called for help. It took two tow trucks to get the car up outta there. I was standing there watching them when one of the tow truck drivers asked me if the driver of the car had already left in the ambulance. You should have seen the look on his face when I told him I was the driver. I just ended up with a concussion, lots of bumps and bruises and some stitches. The trooper gave me a ticket which resulted in the loss of my license for 30 days (3 tickets in a 12 month period).

3. Drove my car down a sidewalk to "pick up pizza" one day in college with some friends. Thought that was real funny until as I went to drive off the sidewalk, a cop drives up. Had to face a judge for a driving to endanger charge and try to explain that one away.

[Jim S]

Posting my Tahoe Pre Ski Stoke thread and pics?

[Sensisnow]

well as there are many a stupid things that i have done in my relatively short exsistance. one of the funnier ones was when i was at a party at snowrider4lifes house during the winter, his pool was closed and they have one of those covers that can support a car, i got the bright idea to run around the top of it. it was cold but funny. then i decided to up the ante and thought to myself this cover would make a sweet slip and slide. wrong. my form was way off i should have never went head first, i came in at a bad angle and landed on my forehead. luckily i wasnt seriously injured. just a sore neck for a couple days, a couple loose teeth, and a bloody lip. lesson learned pool covers are not a good slip and slide.

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Once I find them.

[BLOOD SWEAT STEEL]

It changes daily for me. I'm always trying to smash my own records.

[Tippster]

Note to self: Do NOT get into DEVO's car. Ever.

[brizz]

Back in the day my brother and I were driving home from a ski hill. During the trip we decided it would be a good idea to pick up a case of whipits for when we got home. We lived in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere with a 25 mile desolate highway that deadened into the town. Once we made the last turn my bro says we should make the last part of the trip unmemorable and break them out. We had a plan, set the cruise at 55, and i’d take a couple come out of it and then hold the wheel while he took a couple. Nitrous in the brain and next thing I remember is hearing “help! Help!” and bam nothing but snow. I guess I handed the craker to him while out of it and he thought I was alright so he took some and proceeded to drive right thru the snow bank and down an embankment. Nobody got hurt and the truck had little damage, but we sat there for hours before someone drove by to give us a lift to town.

[diffracted]

Stupid is as stupid does. And trust me, in my younger years I was pretty damn stupid at times. But, here are some of the funny ones:

1) Back in the old days of high school, my parents skipped town for a week leaving me, the responsible one, in charge of the house. Of course, I tossed one hell of a party for all my ski buddies and our girl friends. I cleaned the house up better than it looked before the party. I think that I am going to get away with it until the next week when my mom goes to take the trash out for pickup and finds all the evidence she needs to shit can me for a month and keep me off the mountain.

2) Driving while under the influence but to avoid the cops I take all the dirt back roads. Only to end up driving to fast around a corner and slipping off the road and rolling down a cliff.

3) Using the under ground tunnels at college to sneak into the library after hours to participate in a paint gun war.

4) Again, in high school, I went skiing off "Big Rock" at Ski Apache without scoping the landing or the height of the jump first! Ended up being about a 35' drop to a "flatter than I wanted it to be" landing. Luckily, there was powder piled up at the bottom but I still had to be taken down the mountain.

[Ubersheist]

There's a few classic threads on this board that have similar titles.

More Stupid things done

This one is a great copy of the old Pmag board's Unsmart things Done. Karl Hungus copied the posts, and pasted them in this thread. It's a bit tough to follow, but once you get the format, it makes for some excellent reading!

That's all that I can remember off hand, but there's a few other great ones floating around...

[Brooks]

graduated from college for the "real world"

[Meadow Skipper]

My second marriage.

[Dantheman]

2. Driving waay too fast out in the Berkshires one night (trying to "blow off some steam") lost it on a tight corner and rolled the car down into a gully. When the car finally came to a stop, I crawled out and limped down the street to a house where the guy called for help. It took two tow trucks to get the car up outta there. I was standing there watching them when one of the tow truck drivers asked me if the driver of the car had already left in the ambulance. You should have seen the look on his face when I told him I was the driver. I just ended up with a concussion, lots of bumps and bruises and some stitches. The trooper gave me a ticket which resulted in the loss of my license for 30 days (3 tickets in a 12 month period).

Eerily similar to how I wrecked my car the summer after high school. Exact same shit, angry, driving too fast, lost it on a tight corner, rolled down into a gully and threaded the needle between about half a dozen trees. Walked away from it virtually unscathed (very light bruise from the seatbelt and a even lighter scratch on my nose, both of which healed in about 2 days) but the car was absolutely mangled. If anyone else had been in the car they probably would have died, the only place the roof was not completely crushed was a 2'x2' square right above the drivers seat. I have pics but unfortunately not on the interweb.

[grskier]

I'll sum it up real quick

Driving home after too many, tried to find a dark parking lot to sleep it off, crashed into dark parking lot gate, got knocked out, woke up, called ambulance, cop showed up, arrested me for DUI.