Things you did as a kid...., ...that should have maimed or killed you...but didn't.

[Gibzilla]

was in Puerto Rico a couple of years ago. Was trying to paddle out to surf at Domes in Rincon. Was a little bigger then i thought it was and got swept into the inside near a ton of rocks and a cliff. Got stuck there for about 20 minutes before i was able to collect myself. I had to end up scaling the cliff side to get out of harms way. Not one of my better surfing stories, but a dumb move nonetheless.

Hopefully nothing like that happens when i go Nicaragua in July. Surf should be pretty intense down there during that time.

Anybody been fishing down there? I hear its pretty good so i a gonna try and get some in while i am there. Probably do more surfing then anything though

[Captain Michael Buffington]

Drove 90+mph down a newly graded rgavel road in Nebraska on a pheasant trip. I was cool until I hit a 50 foot patch the grader had taken a holiday blazer spins sideways and hits the ditch, approximately 16 flips later down a 45 degree hill I walked away with a few scrapes.

Climbed up one of my uncles death trap lumber deer stands 30 feet up a white oak only to have it fall backwards on me as I got to the last step. Thank the good lord there were abunch of cedars between me and the ground still to this day the worst time I have ever had the breath knocked out of me.

Went to a high school fight between two large schools with a bunch of football team mates. We did not know anyone there...not the smartest thing to do in an open 76 cj7 with no doors. Somehow they got the idea we were part of the other school who had not shown up. Let's just say that was a super interesting few minutes. I got hit in the side of the head with a budwieser bottle, I replied to the bottle with a half full fifth of jack daniels, I'm sure we both still have the scars. One of my friends had two teeth knocked out by another bottle. I have never gone through gears on that jeep that fast ever since. The other side had 1 broken arm from my buddy darryl gibbs, played for LSU. One broken leg from being run over by a 36" super swamper, and one dude had a broken nose and two broken cheek bones from meeting mr. jack daniels head on

Mike

[Hallnass282]

My girl wouldnt shoot me I know that ... I just taught her how to shoot though.

When my cousin got married we got pretty lit the night before ... His bride didn't like the Mohawks

I'v done some stupid shit but my girl kept me from doing a lot of dumb things

[LuckyLady]

I have a long list for this one that I will post up later on ... there is many so I need to pick the best one and post it up

[worldcat lemon]

but I think the stupidest thing was, one day while deer hunting alone in Iowa, on the Wapsipinicon river. The river bottom was flooded and had frozen over. The temp was about 20 below zero. The flooded bottoms had a sheet of ice an inch thick and the water was about a foot and a half deep. I decided not to follow the road back out to my truck, since it led next to a deep riverbank and I didn't want to risk falling under the ice in a deep spot. So instead I decided to cross where a creek drained into a pond. The ice on the pond seemed solid, but was a little "chunky" looking. I could see a creek flowing fairly fast into the pond under the ice but it was getting dark and I decided to cross anyway. Halfway across the pond the ice started cracking real loud and I stepped faster. Halfway across the pond I saw a log laying sideways, half covered in ice and I stepped on it and it sank suddenly. I jumped as hard as I could toward the bank and when I hit the ice I sunk instantly. Luckily I held my bow parallel to the ice and as I sank it hit the ice and it kept me from going completely under. The creek was pushing me sideways and I reached up and grabbed the nearest branch and dragged myself up the bank. I took off my waders to pour them out and before I could get them back on my pant legs were frozen so solid I could barely get the waders back on. Hiked over a mile to my truck, it was now 30 below, and I was disoriented and skaking uncontrollably. Ended up with frostbite on two toes. Nevertheless, killed my buck the next weekend in the same tree stand.