Dumbest thing you've ever done?

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How long ya got? Might as well pull up a chair and get comfortable. LOL

I'll b honest here and say there is no way I'd be truthful in answering that question on a public forum

Don't no where to start!!!
This is a question to b answered by yr trapping or huntin buddies.

I got married once.

I don't want to tell. Might embarrass myself too much. Let alone let out secrets.

I plea the 5th

I'm not scared.

One day I noticed the power line going to the transformer behind the house was on fire. I calmly went to the back of the house turned on the water to the hose reel and dragged the hose out to the back yard. I was poised to put out the fire when I thought how stupid could you be. Called the power Co and they said It was no big deal and they would come out.
And that's only one of many dumb moves.

After tying a new fly on my line ….I cut the main line…instead of the tag end…..and my fly drifted down stream in the current

Me either Beav.
Was holding a piece of metal in my hand and decided to enlarge a hole in it with a drill. Yep drill went through it a little quicker than I thought. Right in to the palm of my hand. Nice 1/4” hole full of metal shavings. Still can’t believe I did that.

Here, hold my beer --

Today? Smoked a chainsaw then "fixed" it till good and broke.
Later? Rebuilding it rather than buy new.

Drained the oil out of a truck engine, then got busy greasing parts and other maintenance. Started the truck to make sure a fitting was getting grease to the part that needed lubricated. After a couple minutes the engine seized up. Took the injector pump, air compressor, turbo, etc etc etc. $30k later it was fixed.

Me too.

When I was a very young man a hired hand that worked for my dad part time with our cattle was over one day. A couple of young buddies were over hanging out and we got to talking to the hired hand. He was taunting us that we couldn't pee high enough to hit the smooth fence wire that was charged on the inside of the barbed wire interior.

We all said we bet that we could do it . So I went first. Guess what happened next........................

You didn't specify whether alcohol or the statute of limitations comes into play. There's a lot of things I'd just as soon forget.

how about the dumbest thing I have done lately

I was cutting a piece of aluminum angle iron with a angle grinder and cut off wheel

I was in a rush so of course didn't put the piece in the vice , so I am free hand cutting when it binds and sends the cut-off wheel into my left index finger luckily it only ground down into the meat a little before I drop/tossed both the work and the grinder on the floor.

use the vice.

Recently......

I was weed whacking. I left off the trigger to go around a wire. Well the darn thing didn't stop spinning quick enough for my liking. So I reached down to stop the head. About the third time the string went across my knuckles I realized how dumb I was.
I went into the house and showed the wife. She just looked at me, shook her head, and proceeded to dump a whole bottle of peroxide on it.

I bought a RAM truck once.....thats a public record.

When I was a kid, I told my dad to Shove It...I remember the only thing he said was "Really?" Then he shoved my head under his arm, then shoved my dumb arse out the door, and finally shoved my face in the ground. There was no more telling him to shove anything ever again. Lol

that isn't so bad , at least you only did it once

I wasn't as fast of a learner and bought a second Dodge caravan i had had a 1998 and then bought a 2012 , I figured they had 14 years to figure out what they did wrong the first time

nope they found all new ways to do it wrong

Changed oil in my driveway. The old oil filter gasket stuck to the engine. Installed a new filter with both rubber gaskets. Made a royal mess when the engine was started.

I told you guys about this a long time ago.

I found a grinner In my shop. Well It was tucked up In one of my shelves so I couldn't get to It. So I got out the 22 single six and shot It. I figured 2 shots would be better then one and I missed the second one. Got the grinner down and noticed this hole in the dry wall. Went outside a sure enough there was a exit hole In the siding.Looked to my left and sure enough I had taken out the bedroom window. Went Inside and there was a hole through the closet door. It cost me $90.00 to have that window pane replaced.

I have done many dumb things over the years. One recent one that comes to mind was: I have a number of black shoes. One morning I went to work with black shoes and didn't realize until I was at work that I had two different type of black shoes on. One was a penny loafer, the other was a different type of slip on. Funny thing nobody seemed to even notice. At least they never said anything if they did.

As a young single man I went camping on an abandoned beach on the Costa Rican Carribbean. On the bus ride there two beautiful Norwegian gals didn't have the proper change for the bus ride so as a gentleman I paid it for them. Just a couple of dollars.

I didn't have a tent or sleeping bag they noticed (which they did) so as we hiked in to the beach they asked if I would like to stay in their two-man pup tent with them.


.................I said Nah, that's OK I'll be fine. I figured they were just being nice since I paid their bus fare.

When I was 13 I decided to build a rocket using sugar and potassium nitrate as a fuel. I decided to melt them and pour them in the tube. I later found out that it melts at 400 degrees and ignites at 425 degrees. I did not have that good a temperature control on my tuna can and candle. Impressive flame though. I thought the candle was probably my problem so I tried again on the kitchen stove. My Dad had no sense of humor at all.

Starbits

Sold family farmland and used a free lawyer. Wound up holding a second mortgage. Got burned.

I think you won this thread..... What Is Wrong With You?

I was about 12. Fishing on the Oswegatchie River. fish were not biting to good, Bored and Whats That? A mink running the shore line so I take after him. He ducks down in this washed out root system , (good place for a mink trap ) my hand and arm go in after him and I come out with mink in hand but Who has Who? Screaming stinking thing from not Heaven. Blood is flying sreaming by all involved and finally we part company. examing hands blood from several wounds notice man sitting on rock laughing. came over and said Kid, that was about the Dumbest thing I have ever seen anyone do .

I was married to my ex wife for 15 years. Nuff said!!!

Recently. I went to plug an extension cord into the outside plugin on my house. When I flipped the cover up yellowjackets had built a nest under it and came swarming out. I grabbed the garden hose that was only six feet away and proceeded to hose the nest down. . . made a funny sizzling sort of sound for about thirty seconds and then a really loud pop. Plug in never worked again.

Many years ago I used gasoline to start a fire in my fireplace. We had glass doors on the fireplace and my intention was to close the doors after I lit the fire, there was a big poof and I did the only backward summersault of my life.

Good thing no one was standing in front of the window. Shooting 101 know your backstop.

In college, I thought I was in love with a "dancer."

Read a post by JP
and copied it.

This had real "Dear Penthouse" potential. You done screwed up.

I voted for a Democrat...more than once.

I appreciate your courage in sharing that with the group. Major step forward in the healing process.

Yall are makin me feel purdy normal ya bone heads

Duuude!!

So many things would be in contention for that award that it is mind boggling to me....

Your assuming I’ve peeked already. LOL

You all are making me feel really bad. I can't or won't post mine.

I don't want to use up all of Paul's bandwidth telling of my exploits.

That is pretty bad.

I think I got it beat.

Working security at a casino. I see people in a car in the valet parking. I approach the car & it's 3 beautiful ladies starting to have fun. I do the normal questioning stuff they keep insisting I join in on the fun. I tell them we're on surveillance. They invite me to the hotel down the road right away. Told them I'm 3 hours into a 10hr shift. They left . Both surveillance and 2 of my bosses told me I'm an idiot for not going.

This one right here is why I'm keeping my mouth shut...
Dang Gary, you don't need to share everything. Surely you have a lesser dumb thing to share.

Can’t talk about that one.

Was in a hurry last year putting in a coyote line for some reason I decided I needed to pat down the pan cover.... Was wearing a #2 bridger for a few min

Gosh where to start?
My wife told me one time early on in our marriage that she didn't want anything for her birthday, and I thought she meant it. Still hearing about that one decades later.

It was 21 years for me. I'm a good learner though, been divorced for 22 years now and haven't gotten remarried.

They say you learn by your mistakes.....WELL lets just say I gotta be one of the smartest people in the world!!!

no just life to date.

although I am taking the 5th on a few

After exchanging pleasantries with a few Al Qaida in Iraq, we chased a couple along a river and one armed one ran into a chicken coop. I ran in after him. It got sporty but I won. I should probably have waited for help or tossed a grenade in there but we wanted to know where another guy was so wanted him alive. It didn’t work out well. I always thought that was a good idea till I had kids. In hind sight that may have been the dumbest thing I’ve done.

When my son became of age I told him this story. He hung his head and with a pleading look asked if maybe he was adopted?

I've done plenty of dumb things over the years, but this was dumb for what i didn't do I guess.

Hahaha! Laughing at Peeler.

He watched the movie, Dumb & Dumber too many times, especially the ending.

Was sighting in a rifle, shooting across the hood of a 64 Plymouth. (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman). Skimmed the left fender.

It's not the dumbest thing I've done, but it's pretty dumb.

I was a freshman in college and I and a bunch of other guys from my floor were playing tackle football against a bunch of freshman girls. There was around 2 girls playing for every guy, around 15 girls and 7 guys total. On the first play of the game, I rushed the quarterback. I easily pushed through the 3 girls who tried to block me and scooped, Heidi, the quarterback up into a sort of fireman's carry. I was a bit tipsy. We all probably were. I'm standing there holding Heidi in 2 arms chest high and she's squirming trying to break free and throw the ball. John, one of the guy's on my team starts yelling "You have to down her." I am clueless to what he means. 2 other girls start trying to break Heidi loose. I lift up Heidi higher to break her loose from the other 2 girls. Again, John yells "You have to down her." I ask "What?" John says "Just drop her" and I did. Heidi falls from head height and has the air knocked out of her. Several people, at that time, start saying things like "He body slammed her, Keith body slammed her. Keith body slammed Heidi."

Fortunately Heidi was okay after a few minutes.

On the very next play of the game. I am staying back and another girl comes running towards me with the ball. I sweep her up with my right arm and lift her up too. John starts yelling "Don't slam her! Don't slam her! I very carefully lay her flat on the ground like I'm putting her to bed. I caught one more girl after that and did the same thing.

Keith

Had that been me I would have gone through with it....and been paying child support on not one, but two sets of twins.......

When I was a kid, I watched my uncle blow out the interior of a brand new 1971 Chrysler New Yorker. He went to shoot a groundhog in the garden, and laid his .30-.06 on the roof for a rest. Sent bullet fragment through the seats, upholstery, dash board and windshield.

I love your story, Keith C.

Dumbest thing you did was to tell us........j