Stupidest things you've ever done

[indolikaa]

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[Capmaster]

I once got so wankered on one particular New Years Eve I shit the bed (in my girlfriends sisters bed - she was away, and I was staying at my girlfriends parents house, my girlfriend was in another room).

A bit too much information there, Will

I think being a new daddy and the sleep-deprivation that goes with it has affected your judgment I just hope that tidbit doesn't haunt you here like my revelation about midget clowns ....

I can hear it now ...."Will, that %&!@** fecal ******"

[hitechjunkie]

stupidest thing?

reaching out to grab one of these while its hot, no stand, without looking, MORE THAN ONCE!!

what's interesting is how long it takes for your brain to register the fact that the flesh across your fingers is being seared, like steak on a grill - ouch!!

[Capmaster]

stupidest thing?

reaching out to grab one of these while its hot, no stand, without looking, MORE THAN ONCE!!

what's interesting is how long it takes for your brain to register the fact that the flesh across your fingers is being seared, like steak on a grill - ouch!!

You too? From all the years of grabbing the business end of a soldering iron I have destroyed the nerves in my fingers to the point that I don't need hot pads anymore.

The stupidest electrical thing I've done was once when I was working on a pulsed ruby laser. I had connected an electrostatic voltmeter to the storage capacitors ...several thousand uF caps charged up to 5 KVDC. Well ...I wired the meter in reverse, but they work either way so I didn't know there was a problem until the needle got stuck and I tapped the case to loosen it (like everybody has done with a Simpson 260). The meter was on rubber feet and insulated from the laser chassis, and the case was hot. Well ....the capacitors discharged through my right arm since it was touching the chassis and blew a hole in the inner part of my upper arm. It looked like someone had pushed a screwdriver handle out from inside my arm ...blood all over, and me going into shock. My shop coat was covered in blood and it even freaked out the paramedic because she had been told it was an electrical burn and those rarely bleed.

I spent the night in the burn/trauma unit so they could watch and see if my heart stopped. They calculated that my arm dissipated 1800 Joules of energy. They said I'd likely lose the arm or at least the hand from all the damage ....my blood literally boiled.

They ran nerve conduction tests and found that my right arm was healthier than the non-injured arm. Nothing fell off ...no surgery ....whew! Someone was looking out for me I had a renewed respect for high voltage ever since that day

[tgpo]

I once got so wankered on one particular New Years Eve I shit the bed (in my girlfriends sisters bed - she was away, and I was staying at my girlfriends parents house, my girlfriend was in another room).

I've never been that drunk, before or since.
I was quite young, 19 I think
That girlfriend is now....
...MY WIFE!!!
And yes, she does know about it, she stumbled across me that very night taking the shit-stained bedclothes downstairs
You know, having just re-read that I've come to the conclusin there's some things you shouldn't share.
Will Hay

Reminds me of Trainspotting

[jeex]

I once got so wankered on one particular New Years Eve I shit the bed

will ************* hay, you just cracked me up... thats some funny ******* shit.. good job, you fish and chips bastard.

[Will Hay]

I once got so wankered on one particular New Years Eve I shit the bed

will ************* hay, you just cracked me up... thats some funny ******* shit.. good job, you fish and chips bastard.

I wish it was a joke jeex and yes, it's almost as bad as trainspotting, but not quite.
Will

[Cobra]

Not quite the stupidest thing I've ever done, but pretty silly nonetheless. It was great weather on Saturday, so we (along with every other student on campus) decided to have a barbeque. We got some of those disposable barbeques and took a kitchen table outside.

We thought it was heatproof. It looked like it, and hot pans never hurt it. We really did believe it to be heatproof. Right up until the point that it burst into flames.

This was before:



(That's part of my hifi you can see through the window)

And this is the resulting mess:



At least we were neat about the scorch marks! We did expect the housekeepers to have much the same reaction as the table did, but they were dead cool about it. We should get a new table when they can subtly scrounge one up for us. Long live the Eastwood Housekeepers!

This is my 1000th post. And it's in this thread. Great!

Cobra

[888888]

Also, there is a glass of urine on the table.

[flaninacupboard]

What speakers are they Eltax's?

The angle that shot was taken tells me you had been drinking quite a bit too!!

[Cobra]

flan,

Those are Acoustic Solutions M100s. As for the drink, well, yes. But (1) we're students, (2) we're students and finally (3) we're students.

888888,

You don't want to know. Really, you don't.

Cobra

(It's Stella Artois... So close too....)

[redwudz]

When I was in college I had to build a RF transmitter as a class project. I decided to build a 80watt vacuum tube version. I tied two 400VDC power supplies together and wired them to the plate supply of the transmitter, 800VDC. Somehow I managed to have one hand on the power supply and stuck one finger into the breadboarded transmitter final. Don't remember what happened next, but some time later I woke up on the floor, having launched off a lab stool, bounced off a wall four feet away, with a pain in my arm and another in my ass from landing on the concrete floor. Good news; I didn't die and nobody in the lab saw me doing something really stupid.

Another in the same lab: They gave us an old floroscope unit, probably 30 years old. This was a xray machine. It had a large glass screen and a power supply to power the unit. Some of the parts were missing, so we decided to try just the power supply part of the machine. Wanted to find how much of a arc the PS would put out. We got a four foot dowel and hooked one end of the PS to that and the other to a steel rod from the PS. Fired up the PS and struck an arc. Very impressive blinding blue flash. I pulled the dowel back and the arc followed. Unfortunatelly the arc followed about three to four feet seperation from the steel rod. Oh shit! Finially at about 5 feet the arc broke and I dropped the dowel and shut off the PS. The arc at maximum was probably a foot in diameter and a brilliant glowing blue. Pretty spectacular in a small room. Lit most of the florescent lights in the ceiling with in 10 - 15 feet. We were just getting into lower voltage transistors at that point in the class and from that time on the only worry was getting burned from the low voltage PS's.

[Cobra]

Finially at about 5 feet the arc broke and I dropped the dowel and shut off the PS. The arc at maximum was probably a foot in diameter and a brilliant glowing blue. Pretty spectacular in a small room. Lit most of the florescent lights in the ceiling with in 10 - 15 feet.

[Capmaster]

When I was about 10 me and a buddy decided we'd climb the several hundred foot transmitter tower of a radio station across the street. It was a clear-channel station with a 50KW transmitter.

We hopped the chain-link fence at the base and we were about to start when I put my hand on the tower which was above these huge brown ceramic insulators at the base of each leg. We were standing virtually on the semi-buried ground plane mesh.

I got knocked on my ass and had RF burns up my right arm. What I experienced was the leakage through the tower. Luckily it was RF and because of "skin-effect" stayed on the surface or I might not be here today I didn't get any lasting scars from it but I was a very unhappy camper for the next 4 days or so.

Second most stupid thing was: I had this mini-bike when I was about 13. It had a 2-1/2 HP Briggs engine but no brakes. I decided to ride it around on the side streets and from necessity ran all the stop signs. I got nailed by a car. My dad ended up getting 5 tickets because of my stunt since I was underage.

[thecoalman]

Doing donuts in my car in the middle of town drunk at 4 A.M. when I was 17. Needless to say I got arrested (kinda). Funniest part of the story is and I quote from cop "Do you think your ok to follow me to the police station" LOL had to drive by my house to get there. So here I am underage and drunk following the cop to the police station. Small town life..... Dad wasn't too happy that night.