crazy stuff you have done (presumably in your life time)

[Gixer]

This thing reads like a girl scout thread.



....-Gixer

[JB88]

wow!  were do i find one of those?  you got a link?

[Flyboy]

it took place in "YOM KIPUR" when i was 15 or 16 cant remember.
me and a friend where at my house drinking beer, and thought about how boring is yom kipur
for the less educated of you: YOM KIPUR is the holiest day of the year for the jews, we are supose to abstinence from food, water, work, driving, doing ANY activity and i do mean anything, cant use any electric device, AND its the only day in the year we are not allowed to have sex.

so as i said it was pretty boring, and after a couple of beers we dicided we gonne try something new.
we used to do alot of rock climbing and abseiling and i had all the equipment. (still do)  
so we dicided why dont we go to the brige over the highway (no cars at yom kipur) and do some abseiling

as we got to the brige a crowd of kids gathered around us, and feeling cocky and all we dicided to try something new.

instead of just anchoring a rope and abseiling down i anchored a pulley and inserted the rope in to it, in such a way that one side was hanging at the bottum of the brige to which my friend attached himself too, and the other side was attached to me, on the edge of the brige.
 the plan was i would jump of the brige ALA bunjee style, and as i go down my friend weight will slow me down and as ill go down he will go up.
simple physics right? well not quite

i was weighing around 50kg. at that time, and he was weighing around 75kg.
lucky i gave myself several meters of free fall before the rope stretches, because when it did stretched my friend who was supose to gently lift of the ground, barely moved, and the sudden stop of the fall swung me like a pendulum causing my head to come real close to the concrete suporting the brige.


i have done many more stupid things, i just cant remember them right now im afreid

[DiabloTX]

I once killed a weasel with a stick.

*picture of Maj. Frank Burns here*

[Elfie]

I once towed a person's car out of an apartment complex parking lot into the street with a pickup and a tow rope and left the car in the middle of the street to get towed by the police. The look on those peoples faces when they came back and saw their car *gone* was priceless after the racial slurs they tossed out like candy when they parked the car.

[NUKE]

I was saving this one ...... I pretty much know now that no one here can match it.

I was on a flight from LA to Hawaii......a few years ago. I was drunk before I even arrived at LAX.

Long story short....I was seated at an emergency exit seat and "opened" the exit door over the pacific...........

We lost a stewardess and a couple passengers IIRC.

It seems like a lifetime ago

[JB88]

im calling bullchit.

[NUKE]

Originally posted by JB88
im calling bullchit.

well, you don't usualy know what you are talking about.

That's all Im gonna say about it

[JB88]

Originally posted by NUKE
well, you don't usualy know what you are talking about.

That's all Im gonna say about it

prove it.

[Gixer]

Originally posted by NUKE
I was saving this one ...... I pretty much know now that no one here can match it.

I was on a flight from LA to Hawaii......a few years ago. I was drunk before I even arrived at LAX.

Long story short....I was seated at an emergency exit seat and "opened" the exit door over the pacific...........

We lost a stewardess and a couple passengers IIRC.

It seems like a lifetime ago

Bollocks.

LOL



...-Gixer

[NUKE]

Originally posted by JB88
prove it.

I have pretty much said all I feel about saying on the subject.

[Gixer]

Originally posted by NUKE
I have pretty much said all I feel about saying on the subject.

Nuke,

Just how old are you? Sound like a guy who has always dreamed of doing something but never done it. Get out and do something rather then wasting it in front of computers. Otherwise you'll keep on making up stories for years to come.

LOL



....-Gixer

[JB88]

[NUKE]

I was not held resposible is all I can say  JB

[JB88]

How does one operate the emergency doors on an airplane? Could some crazy person open them in flight?

Obviously many people don't pay attention to the flight attendants or read the briefing cards, which explain in detail how to work the doors. You should know how to do this. But in midflight, no, the doors won't open. That goes for the smaller emergency hatches and the main exits.

The hatches, usually found over the wings, are restricted by the outward-pushing forces of the pressurized fuselage. Like a drain plug they always open inward, and a person would not be capable of overcoming these forces until the aircraft is depressurized. The larger cabin doors are more complicated. Some operate manually, others mechanically. Secured by a series of locks, they also are subject to outward-acting pressure as in the case of the hatches, and/or sensors that do not allow movement while the plane is pressurized.

You'll notice that on the flat, shelf portion of the door -- so alluring as a resting spot while waiting for the lav -- it often says DO NOT SIT. While I wouldn't recommend it, you could probably sit there all day jiggling the handle to your heart's content without causing havoc, though you might break the pressurized seal causing some horrendous noise, or set off a warning light interrupting the captain's breakfast. The other reason they don't want you sitting there is to avoid messing with the inflatable escape slide that lives inside the lower door structure.


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