What is the most dangerous thing you have ever done?

[August West]

"If I told you all that went down,
It would burn off both yo' ears.."

[chopper]

Got married.

[NewtonMP2100]

....the time in college when you caught a case of......'Buster Crabbe'.........

[DavidS]

Jumped out of cable car on the side of a mountain in Switzerland. I was attached to a bungee cable.

A couple days later, I went canyoning, also in Switzerland. This involved jumping off waterfalls into pools below, hiking up waterfalls, rapelling down, and sliding down watery shafts. Four years later, Adventure World, the company that ran these expeditions, got shut down/declared backrupcy after 21 people died on the same trip I did due to a flash flood on the river.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxetbach

[NewtonMP2100]

....don't go chasing.....waterfalls.....

[GGD]

Marc Anthony wrote:
He had also fallen asleep, but he jerked the wheel when we started to veer onto the shoulder. A car that could have struck us sped by just as we came to a stop. We all talked about how scary it was and that we were lucky to be alive. I was asleep again within 10 minutes.

How long did he last until falling asleep again too?

[vision63]

Blankity Blank wrote:
Driving deep into Joshua Tree Park in a ‘78 Buick Skyhawk, getting off-road before sister suggested we turn around. It was nearing sundown, and now I know there would have been nothing but meth labs... and probably worse... that far out.

As a kid, climbed a 40-50 foot apricot tree. Ended up hanging by one hand brown trouser scared. Made it down in one piece.

Twice been face to face with jumpy police as a fairly large 6’3” Black man. Once when a liquor store clerk “accidentally” pushed his robbery button, the other when I stepped out of my apartment to see what the commotion was after hearing a scream from the floor above.

Luckily my grey haired, but grizzled neighbor lady, revolver in hand, stepped out of her apartment too just before the cops charged up the stairs. Together, we looked more like Samuel L. Jackson and Helen Mirren in some lost Agathie Christie mystery than perpetrators.

I wish you had film of that!

[Ombligo]

hal wrote:
[quote=Ombligo]...a drunken moment when I crawled out the window of a car, crossed the roof, and crawled in the other side - all while speeding down Interstate 75.

WITH ONE HAND????!!!?
you know, I never thought about that before..

Honestly, that was dangerous (and dumb) regardless of how many hands someone has.

[mikebw]

I'm normally reasonably cautious, but it seems that cars make people behave differently at times, especially in their 20s.

Driving an RWD vehicle with worn tires around a curve in the rain- too fast, wound up sliding across the lane of oncoming traffic, did NOT get hit, slid to a stop in the grass. Counted my fingers and got back on my way. Got new tires the very next day!

Driving same vehicle, on a 230 mile trip at night after being awake for the prior 30 hours, with 3 friends in the car. "Yeah I'm fine" I said. Then I fell asleep. Car ran up onto the median, swiped a light pole with the side mirror and wound up getting stuck straddling said median. No injuries, but car had to be towed to a repair shop.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....having kids........