Dangerous things people do

[G O B]

Never had to seek excitement, I was an elevator constructor BEFORE OSHA
Stacking rails in an open hoistway, and the only safety equipment is a hard hat,
and steel toe shoes

 

[TX oddball]

Safety is something we all trade at one point or another in order to save time or effort

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.

 

[Axxe55]

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 called boring. Sometimes you need to forego safety, and security, get the adrenaline going and experience being alive.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Does scuba diving at night, by myself, in a foreign country count as dangerous things people do?

Or cave diving by myself?

Or leaping off the wing of a Cessna 172 (if I recall correctly) at 2800' count?

I've experienced all that and more and for many, many years and yes, it made me feel alive.

Now, I can barely move...but I still do so despite the pain.

It was worth every minute.

 

[easy rider]

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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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.

The way I look at life today is I'm living on borrowed time. Too many incidents in my past I can look back and say, I should have died.

 

[Txhighlander]

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.

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.

 

[Glenn B]

I hunted men/women for a living, they often were armed, they always were potentially dangerous.

 

[BillM]

Or leaping off the wing of a Cessna 172 (if I recall correctly) at 2800' count?

Only if you didn't have a parachute!

 

[BillM]

I hunted men/women for a living, they often were armed, they always were potentially dangerous.

Yes but you weren't being stupid and unprepared like the dopes in the Walmart blow up boat.

 

[BillM]

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.

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.

 

[easy rider]

Only if you didn't have a parachute!

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.

 

[BillM]

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.

Thats incredible! What luck! Check this out...

Nicholas Alkemade - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[jrbfishn]

Some family and friends that knew me as a young child and teenager were sitting around talking about some of the stunts I pulled as a kid. My middle son sat there uncharacteristically quiet, listening, his eyes kind of wide. After a while he looks at me and says, " you people call me stupid".
He was a teenage bull rider at the time.
What is danger to one, is fun to another. It was not uncommon for me to have multiple stitches or broken bones at one time from multiple incidents. Sometimes the same day.

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[Axxe55]

Chicks dig scars and tattoos!

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

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!

 

[baboon]

Thats incredible! What luck! Check this out...

Nicholas Alkemade - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I read that guys story in Readers Digest about the time I read about Oak Island.

 

[jrbfishn]

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 ain't missing an ear but I do have lots of scars.

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[jrbfishn]

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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[Axxe55]

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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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.

 

[skfullgun]

Same here! I got a ton of them is a kid. Cut yourself on a rusty mason jar lid - tetanus shot. Step on a nail - tetanus shot. Get a rusty staple from tar paper in your hand - tetanus shot. Get a tree branch (huge splinter) stuck in your calf while you're trying to climb up a tree - tetanus shot.

And, yet, I never really heard of anyone getting lockjaw?

I guess that's because they were handing out tetanus shots left and right!!!