Neat stuff you've done

[gorillafuck]

What's some interesting stuff all of you have done?

I once treaded through the drainage tunnels under my town with a couple friends. Towards the end the water was just below my waistline, and by the time I got out my shoes and socks had turned brown from dirt in the water.

what about you, chit chat?

[Black Sheep]

I once had so many dirty clothes on my 'Corner where clothes that need washing go', that they formed a ~2m tower.
The days after that i added battlements too.

[bcbm]

i slept in a ditch in very rural (when i was dropped at this spot there was a sheep and horse being chased down the highway...) denmark

[#FF0000]

Me and my friends got chased by coyotes after exploring an abandoned building once.

I think we did, anyway. I heard angry sounding coyotes and they were getting closer.

EDIT: I think it is more accurate to say we explored a building and there were coyotes around when we left.

[Ele'ill]

I almost died driving back down the east coast from Maine once. Snow storm coming out of New England ambushed me.

[Magón]

I helped a friend rebuilt his old '60 Ford Falcon that he'd gotten after his father's death.

Two years later we wrecked it while driving between Mexico City and Acapulco after we got into a near head-on accident with some asshole truck driver speeding down the two lane road. It was really sad because for how old the car was, it held up pretty well and was really reliable.

[Ele'ill]

with some asshole truck driver speeding down the two lane road...

Yeah I know, that was me lost in the snow storm coming back from Maine.

[Martin Blank]

This is the non-political top five for me:

Drove a tank, fired the cannon.
Drove a train engine.
Died once (but I got better).
Walked on the wing of a 747.
Rappelled out a helicopter.

[Rusty Shackleford]

sneezed only once.

ate only one lays potato chip.

all at the same time.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

recently i slept in a 'haunted', long abandoned pub with a friend. i'm no mystic but it was fucking creepy and i was pretty damn scared. it was cool though.

i woke up under a satanist star and loads of weird eyes and faces that had been painted on the walls. it was in the middle of nowhere, but was warmer than a bus shelter.

[Rusty Shackleford]

recently i slept in a 'haunted', long abandoned pub with a friend. i'm no mystic but it was fucking creepy and i was pretty damn scared. it was cool though.

i woke up under a satanist star and loads of weird eyes and faces that had been painted on the walls. it was in the middle of nowhere, but was warmer than a bus shelter.
god, id lose my shit if i were in any way intoxicated in that situation.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

god, id lose my shit if i were in any way intoxicated in that situation.

i was really freaking out but slept like a baby after half a bottle of vodka.

[Rusty Shackleford]

i was really freaking out but slept like a baby after half a bottle of vodka.
yeah, more alcohol would probably be better. psychoactives would suck ass though.

im not superstitious but fuck man, i hate horror movies. i love the STALKER game but dont get me anywhere near the power plant. unless its pripyat. that would be cool...

...in the day light.

[Ele'ill]

but was warmer than a bus shelter.

Are you traveling now?

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

yeah, more alcohol would probably be better. psychoactives would suck ass though.

im not superstitious but fuck man, i hate horror movies. i love the STALKER game but dont get me anywhere near the power plant. unless its pripyat. that would be cool...

...in the day light.

i can't imagine how fucked up it would be tripping in a place like that. part of me wants to try it but a bigger part of me values my sanity.

[black magick hustla]

oh boy

i thought i died two times and i was in muslim heaven only to realize i was by myself, in the snow, with a shirt, pee all over my pants, and coming down of a mushroom induced psychotic break

[black magick hustla]

fought a girl in middle school

[black magick hustla]

my great uncle was an algerian guerrilla and ive seen half of north africa

[black magick hustla]

almost died of hypothermia in the smoky mountains

[black magick hustla]

stood on the ruins of chichen itza and saw the most beautiful thing ever, an ancient observatory

[black magick hustla]

worked with a particle accelerator with a buncha of nerds and talked about plancks constant

[black magick hustla]

stood for myself in fights even when i got my ass kicked

[Hoplite]

Lots of misadventures with explosives. I tend to put little projects together out of curiosity rather than a real desire to have a destructive device.

The neatest thing I think I've ever done in my life (that I can remember) was when I was maybe 17 or 18. I was crossing the street and a car came barreling around a corner and was going to blow through the crosswalk.

I didnt have time to jump out of the way and he wasnt going to stop, so I jumped up, planted my feet on the grill of the car, and shoved off in the opposite direction. I managed to do a backwards flip and land on my feet as the car stopped about an inch away from me.

Bastard had the nerve to scream at me for screwing his grill up.

I've tried to repeat that several times to no avail, I just CANNOT for the life of me do a damn backflip when I want to.

A lot of my fun stories involve cars and crosswalks.

Roughly the same age, I was walking across a crosswalk and a car stopped in the middle of the crosswalk such that if I wanted to get by, I'd have to walk out into the intersection and dodge traffic. I couldnt go behind him because a big truck had pulled up behind him and I couldnt pass.

I decided to demonstrate to this man that what he did was not acceptable. I was wearing a belt with metal studs on it so I ran, jumped, and slid across the guy's hood on my ass. I left enormous gouges in the paint and the metal of the hood.

He started screaming at me, threatening my life. I invited him to leave his car and we could talk about it. The light turned green and I guess he decided it wasn't worth it to try and run me over.

[Il Medico]

Nothing cool like any of the stuff above. Just really stupid shit.

[Martin Blank]

One I forgot to add: Was part of the class/group that designed the first Apple software for a digital seismograph.

[gorillafuck]

Nothing cool like any of the stuff above. Just really stupid shit.post it.

[the last donut of the night]

i can never recall interesting shit i've done

i've lived in 4 different countries in my life, idk if that's exactly neat

[kitsune]

Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb

Yi Peng festival in Chiang Mai, with thousands of lighted sky lanterns made of rice paper floating up in the air (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN7jhXlYEc8), and loi krathong floating in the water, and hanging lanterns on the houses and trees and temples. Very beautiful.

Staying in an overwater bungalow in Moorea.

[Il Medico]

post it.
No.



Well, i suppose one.


I once, with 3 friends, broke into a house owned by a snow bird in my neighborhood who owned a lot of land and had a stream in their back yard. We stole their fishing rods, played a game of pool and took a two month old bag of potato chips and tried to fish with it. After and hour of failure (we weren't using hooks, had just tied the potato chips to the line), Jacob (one of my friends at the time) suggested that we try to stab the fish with the fishing rods like they do on tv. After this didn't work (and we broke one of the rods) we threw the remaining fishing rods away and went off to do something else.

(We failed so horribly at fishing cause we lived on the outskirts of Atlanta and no one in Atlanta knows how to do any fucking thing that involves water.)

I was 7.

[MarxSchmarx]

I got washed out to sea about a km (1000 yards) while jerking around in the surf. That was scary. There was no life guard and had to have a dude on a surfboard rescue me. I think people on shore saw what was happening. The area was known to have sharks. Just had to keep swimming parallel to the shore but was getting nowhere until I got in about 200 m from the shore and someone was able to come out.

It's not very neat, but it's the closest I've ever had to come to feeling "damn it I'm not going to let this be the end".

Oh, and I used to fish for eels (don't ask). I still remember the first eel I caught when I was a kid.

[manic expression]

I had warning shots fired in my general direction once...way off to the side but it still got me moving in a hurry.

[synthesis]

I scratched a cheetah's head once. No bullshit.

[Pavlov's House Party]

walked into a consulate illegally with a case of beer by accident once. they found us drinking in the basement and said we had to leave if we didn't have passports or someshit, no arguments from anyone except we had no idea we were in another country's consulate the whole time.

[The Douche]

Been shot at by machine guns, mortars, and rockets.

Chased somebody through my yard with a gun for trying to smash my living room window.

Flipped my jeep on the highway, thought it was on fire, punched out the driver's side window and climbed out, to discover that aside from cuts and scrapes I was uninjured.

Got caught cheating in high school, but thought fast enough, made some shit up, answered the teachers questions etc, that he ended up apologizing for accusing me and giving me an A.

Had nazis tell me they respect me.

[Fawkes]

Was at a girl's house back in the beginning of high school at about 4:30 in the morning on a weekend. Don't ask me why, but we were all out in the front yard and somehow I ended up naked. I walk out into the street and out of nowhere I get caught naked like a fuckin deer in headlights... by her older brother. I book it, thereby leaving my clothes, phone, and wallet on her driveway, and run into the neighbor's backyard. Keep in mind, I was fully naked, no shoes or anything. I wasn't really that drunk, but apparently I was drunk enough to not be able to find my way back form the person's backyard. I wandered around her neighborhood totally naked for almost an hour as the sun was rising trying to find her house. I lived a half hour walk away, meaning I would have had to have snuck back in the daylight through people's backyards while fully naked with no phone or wallet. I finally managed to find her house though.

[praxis1966]

I dunno whether most of this shit classifies as "neat" or just plain stupid, but here goes anyway.

-Flipped a 3/4 ton model GMC Sierra truck over on my left arm. Didn't brake a single bone; just some (mostly) temporary nerve damage and road rash.

-Got in roughly a 20 man bar brawl whilst working as a bouncer in a night club (http://clublavela.com/).

-Met Dicky Barret of the Bosstones, Bill Uechi of Save Ferris, Joel Bourne of The Sparring/The Dear and Departed/Tiger Army, and Anthony Civarelli of Gorilla Biscuits/Civ, and Rebecca De Mornay in person... (I've also met 3 members of Limp Bizkit, but I wouldn't say that was all that "neat.")

-Been to Warped 4 times and Lollapalooza (where I saw Tool for the second time) once, but I gotta say the best festival I ever went to was Coachella '07. Lineup included Bjork, Red Hot Chile Peppers, Gogol Bordello, Placebo, Against Me!, Manu Chao, The Decembrists, Regina Spektor, Peaches, of Montreal, Lupe Fiasco, Gotan Project, DJ Shadow, Pharoahe Monch, The Roots, Sonic Youth, Ozomatli, Amy Winehouse, Brother Ali, Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, Faithless, Willie Nelson, Paul van Dyke, The Nightwatchman, The Coup, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Steven and Damien Marley, The Comedians of Comedy and RATM back together for the first time in 6/7 years with the original lineup. (Those were just the ones I saw, btw; there were a ton of other great acts but I didn't see them because of schedule conflicts.)

[Tomhet]

I am a professional skydiver... ;)

[Ele'ill]

Spin moves around and out of the grasping clutch of fully armored samurai warriors.

[StalinFanboy]

I'm helping create a situ-esque film about California's Central Valley and East Bay

[the last donut of the night]

i actually once hiked up this monolithic formation in brazil once, and from it you could see the plain below. the sunset was beautiful

[Pretty Flaco]

I once wrestled a pack of bears to save a class of handicapped preschoolers from a burning building.

[Kuppo Shakur]

I have never done anything even remotely neat in my life, but sometimes whenever I mention something I've done to someone, they think it's the most interesting thing in the world.

[Magón]

I've been to Machu Pichu, twice.

That was pretty cool.

[Il Medico]

I had warning shots fired in my general direction once...way off to the side but it still got me moving in a hurry.
A red neck shot at me and some friends once down here. He was using a shot gun from about 2 football fields away and I doubt he was a great marksman, so if any of us had actually been hit it would have been just dumb luck. Still, scared the shit out of us.