Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Danger here!

We've all done it - deep down we're all amateur daredevils, or just complete idiots.

I was thinking the other day, as I'm wont to do, about stupid, REALLY stupid things I've done in my 27 short years on this planet, now not just stupid things like not asking such and such out and then finding out she actually fancied you, but is now going out with someone, I'm talking about stupid DANGEROUS things I've done that could have gotten me moidered.

Here's a list,

1: Drinking Oven cleaner
2: Throwing a deodourant onto a bonfire
3: Climbing up to the first floor of an office building
4: Wandering (yes wandering) into the sea at the pier in clontarf
5: Running with Scissors (probably)
6: Lay down on a live railway line trying to prise off a survey instrument
7: Climbed (unharnessed) up 50ft in the dublin port tunnel

I can't really think of any more - but I'm actually astounded I haven't killed myself by now.

Anyone out there do something similar that freaks them out in retrospect?

Jaysus.

7 comments:

usefulsnippets said...

setting my hand on fire with parrafin and trying to put it out on my tshirt

Johnny Londis said...

Poured a pint of petrol directly on to an open fire.

Lay across the bonnet of a car as it hurtled down the beach at 60 mph.

Drove a car when I could barely see, let alone walk, I was that drunk.

Walked along Howth pier at midnight in a hurricane.

Swam in the sea in Wexford. In a hurricane.

Climbed on to the roof of the house to hurl abuse at the neighbours down their chimney.

There's got to be loads more.

Derek said...

Oh jaysus, I'm way out of my league here. I've led a very calm and safe life, all in all, other than controlled danger like abseiling, canoeing through rapids,etc. There was that time I had 20 Es in one day aswell as about 10 lines of Coke and 20 cans of beer though.
Oh no, wait. That was Colin Farrell, not me.

The Voyce said...

"Climbed on to the roof of the house to hurl abuse at the neighbours down their chimney."

That's just fucking you all over Foley.

Unknown said...

I hit a nail gun cartridge with a hammer, left me with a ringing in my right ear for 3 days!

Johnny Londis said...

Hahahah. I did the Hilti bullet with the lump hammer dance too. In a small conservatory. I'm not actually 100% sure if my ears have stopped ringing.

Anonymous said...

Set my leg on fire in California as Manager of a BBQ restaurant (I was manager purely cause everyone else was Mexican. I couldn't get any other job with the company as I was advised that I would have failed the drugs test... dramatically)