Thread: Brush with death

Okay, I guess it's my turn. The highlights are several car accidents, the best being in a Ford Granada that flipped nine times and we walked away from it. Second, get hit by a ricochet .22 in the shoulder, third got slashed in a knife fight and the fourth was when I got clipped on my 750, by a 58 Caddy, the back fin caught my handlebars and through me about 50 feet but luckily I landed on some grass and a second later I heard the thud of the bike landing next to me and walked away unharmed.
However, I think this may be the stupidest thing that anyone here has done, this happened when I was about 18 and I'm sure I'm not the only one who has thrown a match in an empty lighter fluid container and watch the flame shoot up and then get sucked back into the can, However, I was doing this with a 5 gallon Jerry jug that had what I thought were just vapors in it. However, as we all know after a couple of times it runs out of air, glancing about the shop I saw the acetylene torches and green tank, which at the time I assumed was air, as we all know now it's oxygen so I stuck the nozzle into the Jerry jug turned on the O2 and went to pump a car (I was working in a gas station at the time) and when I came back I proceeded to light a match and get back to business. Now, as we all know gasoline vapors and air make a flame, but as we all know oxygen and gasoline vapors Go Boom! When I came to the were five police cars, two fire trucks the owner of the gas station and a mess of blown out windows. By far the dumbest thing I've ever done and I was blown 20 feet across the shop and suffered a concussion for about a month or so. Nothing gets you closer To the Reaper than the stupidity of youth.

Some very lucky people on this clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyb8...e_gdata_player

climed over one of the steel fences that have the spikes and when it started to shake i started to shit myself.

luckily when i slipped all i caught was shoelace and ripped the leather off the front.

done many other stupied things. another was.

when i was in school did a dare to climb or plastic drainpipe, when i got to the top and heard the clips straining then the odd one brake, got down pretty sharpish

That video link made me catch my breath several times.