Putting yourself forward for a Darwin Award

[rhubarb]

Back in my early teenage years, my friends and I found a bag of weedkiller. Knowing if you mix it with something else it turns into a somewhat volatile explosive we decided to make a few copper pipe bombs.
Had much fun setting them off.

One didn't go off, so I thought I would just strike a match, plunge it straight into the drilled hole, and before it went bang, turn around and put my hands over my ears.

Turned out, I didn't have the ability to turn round and put my hands over my ears in the space of one nano-second.

Obviously, immediate massive explosion, I ended up deaf for a few hours, and how I didn't end up full of bits of shrapnel, I still do not know to this day.

My hearing hasn't been the same since.

Another one that still haunts me is, my dad used to keep petrol in our garage in a plastic can thing. I remember one day opening it up, striking matches and dropping them into the can to see what would happen.
They just kept going out though so I gave up after little while. Seems he had filled it with water that day.

I did do some bloody stupid things when I was young.

[original PM]

fook me some of you are still lucky to be walking the earth...

maybe I should start to put a question like this into my interviews.... may weed out the slightly fookin nuts people out there?

[d000hg]

My dad made fireworks as a kid, back when you could buy chemicals more easily. Had to spend weeks with his hands in some sort of plastic bag (though they are scar-free amazingly).

[Cliphead]

A lab I was working in had all sorts of old equipment, lots of dial and switches etc. One bit of kit had a socket with two prongs and a plate saying 500v DC above it.

I've no idea why I decided to poke it with a finger to see if it was live but survived anyway with a very numb arm.

[SupremeSpod]

A lab I was working in had all sorts of old equipment, lots of dial and switches etc. One bit of kit had a socket with two prongs and a plate saying 500v DC above it.

I've no idea why I decided to poke it with a finger to see if it was live but survived anyway with a very numb arm.

Wuss, you should've licked the terminals in good old PP3 fashion!

[NotAllThere]

...This has to be done with the ramp in the upright position so the springs are not under tension and can be safely removed with going *SPADOING!!!!!* and inflicting grievous harm to anything in the way at the time.....

Reminds me of a friend who dismantled an upright piano without releasing the tension on the strings first.

[shaunbhoy]

You mean aside from getting married?




Well I suppose there is always burning garden rubbish in a dustbin and whenever the flames appeared to have died, dousing them carefully (but not carefully enough!) with petrol from a jerry can?

[sasguru]

Well I suppose there is always burning garden rubbish in a dustbin and whenever the flames appeared to have died, dousing them carefully (but not carefully enough!) with petrol from a jerry can?

Why does this not surprise me?
But at least you could pat down the flames with your webbed digits, eh?

[shaunbhoy]

Why does this not surprise me?
But at least you could pat down the flames with your webbed digits, eh?

Or my "blankie"!!!!

[sasguru]

Or my "blankie"!!!!

Blankies would come in useful for a variety of siyuations - if you could prise them out of toddlers hands