Adventures With Tempting Fate...or Pushing Your Luck.

[DireWolf]

Too many to count, truly amazed and thankful to have survived the early years...

Lots of stuff already listed in thread, plus some that were downright nuckin'futz looking back on them.

A few of the more sedate examples:

a.) Climbing up the face of ~100' tall frozen waterfall w/ no specialized gear. Was not pre-planned, but necessary at the time. There were a few hikers stopped at the trail on top (trail was impassable at that point due to ice); looks on their faces was priceless when they saw me coming up over the top of the falls...

b.) Deliberately jumping off the top of another waterfall (in better weather)...Not sure exactly how tall it was, but remember the fall taking 5 full breaths (holding the fifth) from jump-off before hitting water...

c.) A couple gross of M80's (the real ones), slingshot, stogie, and bottle of liquor pinched from the old man. Nuff said...


Then there's the ones that come as a suprise, like not realizing that one of your friends riding in the back seat is drinking (HS years) until he decides to toss the empty bottle out the window...and somehow beyond my comprehension, scores a direct-hit on the windshield of a local PD cruiser that I hadn't even noticed sitting there in the dark...Extremely lucky that the occupants of said vehicle were pretty reasonable about the whole thing and only cited the idiot in the back, despite a few of their buddies showing up that weren't quite as amused...

[Bailey Guns]

c.) A couple gross of M80's (the real ones), slingshot, stogie, and bottle of liquor pinched from the old man. Nuff said...

Now that sounds like a fine evening.

Nothing like the real, old fireworks like M80s and cherry bombs you get in the 60s and 70s.