Have you ever jumped off a roof with an umbrella?
Have you ever been tempted to?
What kinds of stunts have you lived through?
Observing members:
0
Composing members:
0
26 Answers
I mean, where do I start?
Always wanted to be a stuntman when I was a kid, still kinda do to be fair.
Jumped off so many rooves, never holding an umbrella mind, but had a mate or one of my brothers throw a football to me so I could kick it mid jump, a black eye or a bust lip usually resulted.
Used to climb up street lights just to slide down again because it felt like Batman on his Batpole.
Walked on tiny narrow ledges, fences & walls, like a tightrope only street style.
Slip & you sing soprano for supper!
@ucme -Did you manage to kick the ball mid air?
The Batpole must have been smooth as you are a father, right?
Narrow ledges? Your mom must have been stress-free raising you! LOL
@Sagacious -Mary Poppins would give you a stern lecture!
Why doesn’t anyone use an umbrella anymore??
@lucillelucillelucille Made contact a few times, went for miles if connected right.
It was as smooth as Mary Poppins’ criminal record.
Haha, she never knew bless her, was always told we were round a friends house or playing football, little white lies are okay right?
@lucillelucillelucille As kids the whole neighborhood used to climb to the roof of our garage and jump off. We had all kinds of contests as to what you did on the way down. Never one broken bone. We were tough. We still are. Today’s kids would have to be padded from head to toe to play the way did.
@Sagacious Agreed!
We’d spend a long time judging if jumps were relatively safe, how high, what’s the landing like etc?
We knew what we were doing, but the whole point was it had to be dangerous to get that buzz, a challenge or a leap of faith if you like.
@Sagacious “We had all kinds of contests as to what you did on the way down.“LOL! That’s great!
Yep, I agree. Bike helmets didn’t exist in my word.
@ucme -Did an audience ever show up?
@ucme – Ha! Ha! Well, I’m glad you lived!
@ucme -Yes.I got down from the roof.
@lucillelucillelucille Excellent, then I shall begin.
This one time a group of us misfits chose to climb our own school building, this bugger was high, like 100ft high!
Anyway, we did it, not in school hours, we weren’t that crazy lol & obviously had no intention of jumping, no one brought a parachute.
So we kinda wandered around enjoying the view & admiring our achievement, until we spotted another gang of lads, older than us, maybe 16/17 they were vandals breaking the school windows. The school was in a residential area & someone had phoned the cops, these lads rapidly left the scene, must have climbed down like greased monkeys :D
This left us with our arses literally hanging in the wind knowing we’d be blamed for the damage. We made a run for it, me, being the awkward one, split away from the rest, I was wearing a bright yellow football shirt with a large black number 8 on the back, pretty conspicuous eh? Managed to escape the law & got home, or so I thought, they knocked on the door within 5mins of me & said they followed me as I stood out so much lol
Long story short, we got away with a warning as they’d caught those other lads, witnesses had them pegged for the window breakages & as such, we were off the hook.
My mum though, well…she hit the roof & grounded me for a month with no pocket money.
Lesson learned!
@ucme – XD You got lucky!
So, how long did it take before you were back on the roof?
@lucillelucillelucille That one we never did again, fear does that to you lol
Other buildings were scaled & leapt from, the library, garages, doctors surgery, various shops.
Looking back, it was like a tour, if only we had youtube back then I’d be famous by now :D
@ucme- A doctor’s surgery? Now that’s planning ahead.
Have you ever jumped off the roof of a helmet factory?
When I was a toddler, my dad threw me off the roof of the house repeatedly, until gramma caught him at it.
I jumped off the roof, but not with an umbrella. I used the supple branch of a pear tree.
Let’s see, other stunts.
Walked the top of my swingset. After watching Olympic gymnasts, I added some tricks. No round of dismounts though. It was too high for that.
Chased up a tree by a killer sow, pink squealers in her wake.
Fight with a water moccasin.
Chased up the side of a log cabin by a rooster with spurs that long.
Hit by a bike, more than one car, a school bus, a van.
Balance beam walks on the caprail of my YP, while under way.
Driving in all sorts of weather, at times when FedEx would not even dispatch.
Leaping from vehicle to another, doing the speed limit.
Faced down a guard dog which was on the loose.
Escaped a would be rapist.
Climbed masts to untangle lanyards.
Told a banger no when he demanded a cigarette, 2am, I was alone and he had a friend with him. I turned my back to them, and walked away.
Laughed at the girl who held a knife on me.
Freaked out my dad when he was mad and going to beat me. He was 6’2”, 250. I was under five feet, and still waiting to reach a hundred pounds. He grabbed me, and I slipped his grip, turned on him with clenched fists and resolute soul. He looked at my face, and his eyes turned silver. I had scared the piss out of him. I stormed out of the house with him still standing there.
Late teens one time was drunk, and on the roof of a five story building. I might have flown. I’m not sure. I remember standing on the waist high ledge looking down. I don’t remember how I got down or into bed.
On base in Mississippi, there were Navy and Marines. The Marines I hung out with told me there was this guy everybody called the Hawaiian, because, he was. They said he was huge, and had a short fuse. Everyone was scared of him.
I couldn’t resist I had to goad him. (It’s a story by itself)
Driving city cab the night shift is fraught with stories.
I got more, but my phone battery is low.
@Patty_Melt -Tell me about the Hawaiian when you get the chance.
@josie -I am surprised by this, Mr. Poppins!
Was this Q inspired by Mary Poppins, or Practical Magic?
@Patty_Melt -Neither.
My husband told me of a day he spent swinging from branch to branch like Tarzan in the tree in front of his house.When he woke up, it was dark out.
He must have missed. XD
Umbrella no, broom yes.
When I was young kid, and after watching the first Harry Potter movie, I was heavily inspired and convinced that I was a witch. So grabbing a broom, and attempting to be sneaky, I climbed the roof of our house and jumped off hoping to fly.
I landed hard, with my knee coming up and busting my lip but luckily no serious injury occurred. Needless to say however, my parents were not amused.
@gwynnannette -Now that is a story for the books!
I’m glad you survived :)
Answer this question 
