Stupidest thing you've ever seen someone do.

It'll be one of the times I got electrocuted when I was a kid.
Sticking the end of a metal coat hanger into a socket.
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Trying to see if I could get a hotel lift to go down so I could watch it from the outside. Opened the outside door and stood on a stool so I could press what I though were a pair of buttons to get it to go but they were electrical contacts.
 
My sister got an old banger of a golf when she was 17 and i was 14/15. She used to drive us to the match once she got this car, and it had this flashing LED light on the dashboard with a little push button next to it.

“What does ot do?”

“I don’t know”

“How do you not know? You’ve never pressed it?”

“No. Why would I?”

Me: presses the button.

Car alarm goes off, and won’t stop. We have to walk to a garage on Lawson estate and a fella kindly comes and sorts it.

Did we miss the first 20 mins of the match? Yes.

Would I press that button with a flashing light next to it again? Also yes.
 
I once taught a kid who emigrated to South Africa with his family. He reappeared a year later minus 2 fingers. I asked him what happened and he replied that there was a fan in the living room and he'd stuck his finger in it to see what would happen. I asked ' What happened to the other finger?'. He replied that he'd done it again just to check.
 
Saw a lad about 25 years ago outside the empire at 2am walk to the rear of a tarmac wagon filling a wheelbarrow with asphalt, he cupped his hands together and grabbed a big handful saying how much he loved the smell of it, he was still sat on a nearby bench 30 minutes later picking the stuff from his burnt hands.
 
Back in my college days I was a backyard wrestler that went around the UK for various shows so I saw a lot of stupid stuff back then.

One was in Wales where two guys decided to have a "firepit match" where they basically had dug a big hole, filled it with dry twigs and cardboard then set it on fire. The loser was powerbombed into the hole, got knocked unconscious and well, you can guess the rest.

No, he didn't die. Got badly burned though.
 
Norfolkred1 said:
You can tell people there 40 million stars in the sky and they believe you, but they have to do the finger test when a sign says wet paint. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: oh yeah it is wet.
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I always take that as an instruction and have a slash on it
 
AytonMews said:
I mean, surely the position of that switch wasn’t brilliantly thought out
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Without confusing non-engineers, the micro switch was part of the undercarriage down hydraulic circuit. When the leg comes down, it strikes the microswitch to open hydraulic valves in the door circuit to allow the doors to close. The engineer in question nudged the undercarriage leg which subsequently activated the microswitch.
 
There was a bloke in Normanby who used to try and lift the benches up near the bus stop that were concreted into the floor. It is amazing what beer does to you.

When I was 15, he saw me riding my mate's pony and he said he wanted its head. He grabbed the pony, which was 14.2hh, in a headlock and started to wrestle it to the ground whilst continually shouting "I want its head". He only stopped when I jumped off and started kicking him to get off the pony.


Do not Press - Whilst visiting my brother in law in St Ives, he took my son, who was five at the time, into the kitchen and said "See this red button, don't press it". My son replied "What, this one" and pressed it. It was a panic alarm that the previous owner had installed and was thooked up to the police station. Two police cars and numerous deafened neighbours later we managed to get it turned off. I don't know who was the daftest.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
There was a bloke in Normanby who used to try and lift the benches up near the bus stop that were concreted into the floor. It is amazing what beer does to you.

When I was 15, he saw me riding my mate's pony and he said he wanted its head. He grabbed the pony, which was 14.2hh, in a headlock and started to wrestle it to the ground whilst continually shouting "I want its head". He only stopped when I jumped off and started kicking him to get off the pony.


Do not Press - Whilst visiting my brother in law in St Ives, he took my son, who was five at the time, into the kitchen and said "See this red button, don't press it". My son replied "What, this one" and pressed it. It was a panic alarm that the previous owner had installed and was thooked up to the police station. Two police cars and numerous deafened neighbours later we managed to get it turned off. I don't know who was the daftest.
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Your brother-in-law, can’t blame the bairn for a natural reaction to an instruction like that! Never, ever, tell a child not to do something like that! 🤣🤣
 
Seen a lad walk behind a jet exhaust in an aircraft shelter and he got blown down the back :LOL:

Seen another guy try and stop a parachute from blowing away in a heavy wind, if he'd caught it he would have went into orbit :LOL:
 
I once witnessed myself do a very stupid thing.

As a kid (7 or 8 maybe) I was sat in the car with my brother waiting for my mam in the shop. The car had one of the old school push in lighters ... which lights up and pops out when its hot enough to use.

Anyway my brother pushes it in, it pops up, and he tells me the reason new cars dont have them anymore is because they arent hot enough to use... he then passes it to me, and to test it i hold it between my forefinger and thumb.

The 'hot' end completely melted through the tip of my thumb - surprisingly! ... it blistered for weeks, always weeping, and peeling etc.

Zero sympathy from my mother who grounded both of us for messing about with the lighter. 😂
 
I was around 12/13 and it was the school holidays. My Mam was at work and my Dad was on Mornings - I usually had an hour or two on my own.

Anyway, i wanted to go out and play with my mates but i was worried how my Dad would get in the house if i locked the door and would he know where the key was (As if my Dad was some sort of idiot).

So, i put the key under the bin in back garden as was standard practice but me being very bright put a note in the window to tell my Dad where the key was and anyone else who walked past.
 
Me as a 11 year old. We lived in Ferryhill and there were farms all over there with electric fences to keep cows/horses in and signs saying don't touch electric fence. So I touched one to see if it was actually live, bloody hell it was :D

and me again, burning some stuff (I think a BBQ) at 17 year old (ish) poured white spirits onto it to get it going... flames shot straight up and set the whole bottle on fire. So I throw it, it hits the house (wooden) back door. flames everywhere. I was prepped as I had a hosepipe there if anything went wrong. That was also on fire and our cat had "just" walked away from the area. No real damage done, crazy.

Me yet again back in Ferryhill days, we had an old farmhouse with land. We used to find old mattresses, set fire to them and play jump the fire. The other people (brother and mate) had to dive to stop you jumping. I got it wrong and dragged my brother onto the burning wire springe mattress. Lost of burns to his legs, yet another hospital trip

I could go on as we did A LOT of stupid things in Ferryhill. Getting stuck in disused sewage pips 10ft under ground etc...

How I am still alive, I have no idea :D :D :D
 
My neighbour's son (he was about 18) asked if he could borrow his dad's car to collect his girlfriend from the station late one snowy and cold evening. His dad implored him to be careful, as he was an inexperienced driver on such slippery roads.

The kid managed fine, got to the station, picked her up, drove her to her house, then drove home all without incident. But in a final flourish to show his dad he could drive really well, he drove into the drive pretty fast, then slammed the brakes on. He skidded on the ice into the garage door which collapsed onto the front of the car damaging the roof, bonnet, bumper, lights, and windscreen.
 
Aged about 17, in the days before auto locking doors on trains, I opened the door while the train was coming into a station and leapt off to prove just how bloody cool I was.

You know that sound effect when a cartoon character is whirling his legs around, to no avail? That.

I did hear the splat as I hit the platform though. Followed by my fellow passengers disembarking safely and sniggering.
 
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