Safety is something we all trade at one point or another in order to save time or effort
It's called boring. Sometimes you need to forego safety, and security, get the adrenaline going and experience being alive.I do fear we, as a society in general, are moving too close to everything being "safe." It doesn't take a genius to see the end result.
It's not so much that what one does is safe or unsafe, it's more of when one becomes complacent while things aren't exactly safe. If I was wanting to be completely safe, I may not get out of bed.Safety is something we all trade at one point or another in order to save time or effort, or simply for the thrill. If it’s not endangering uninvolved parties I tend to not care. And I don’t really count rescue workers in that as the equipment they have would make the risk pretty negligible .
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Been in one of those in Flagstaff. I wasn't doing 60+ though, storm was so bad you couldn't see the hood of your own truck much less the truck in front of you. CB radio and lots of other drivers we crawled off that mountain. They now call it FedEx hill in honor of all the wrecked FedEx trucks there.Several years ago, I was driving a van filled with high-resolution video and computer equipment to CA for a big work project, and I was driving thru Flagstaff at 4am, pitch dark, in whiteout snow conditions. I couldn't see a single thing, and I was on a strict deadline. It was like piloting a plane thru thick fog and not being IFR certified. I used the ribbed road shoulder, driving by "braille" with my right tires, on interstate 40 where the speed limit is 75mph, at 35 mph. Big rigs were passing me at 60+mph, it was f****** scary. When basketball player Kobe Bryant died in a copter crash a year later, at the time I thought about my drive through Flagstaff. I'll never do that again.
Only if you didn't have a parachute!Or leaping off the wing of a Cessna 172 (if I recall correctly) at 2800' count?
Yes but you weren't being stupid and unprepared like the dopes in the Walmart blow up boat.I hunted men/women for a living, they often were armed, they always were potentially dangerous.
Maybe so, but all I refer to in the op is doing stupid things like going down a flooded river on a balloon! Not adventures where you are well prepared.I do fear we, as a society in general, are moving too close to everything being "safe." It doesn't take a genius to see the end result.
Believe it or not, I knew someone that lived after falling off a wing of an airplane at about 10,000 feet, no parachute. He had the newspaper clipping to prove it. The worst injury he had gotten was a broken ankle.Only if you didn't have a parachute!
Thats incredible! What luck! Check this out...Believe it or not, I knew someone that lived after falling off a wing of an airplane at about 10,000 feet, no parachute. He had the newspaper clipping to prove it. The worst injury he had gotten was a broken ankle.
I read that guys story in Readers Digest about the time I read about Oak Island.
I ain't missing an ear but I do have lots of scars.Then I otta be chased by tons of hot chicks as I'm quite scarred up, my face especially though the old bod is pretty scarred up too.
Hell, I'm missing the top half of one ear too.
Guess I'm one handsome hound!
I remember those times. If you showed up at the ER or doctor's office needing a cut take care of, a tetanus shot was almost gauranteed was going to happen.When I was a kid, you got a tetanus booster every 6 years. In military hospitals, if you got cut very bad and could not show on in the last 6 wks, you got another one. When I was 10, a Dr sat down with the records he had, not all of them by far. I had enough tetanus shots at 6 yrs each to last over 350 years. That was just years 6 through 10.
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