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What have you done since your childhood, that could reasonably be described as a stunt?

Asked by ucme (50047points) April 27th, 2020

Jumped a fence
Scaled a height
Wrestled an alligator
Anything, anything at all.

Only as an adult though, as kids we all performed stunts everyday.
They’re ten a penny & consequently deemed invalid…so there :P

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SQUEEKY2's avatar

Well ever since I got my license I can’t resist doing doughnuts in empty parking lots when they are covered in snow and ice.
I can’t help it right up to this day, Mrs Squeeky thinks it’s rather childish but I aint hurtin no one and it’s fun.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Instead of showing up for my midnight shift at a convienence store alone I walked to the hospitals emergency ward and spent the night crying.
The dr. Gave me a two weeks sick leave and I gave my two week’s notice.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

@SQUEEKY2 First day of driver’s ed was two days after a blizzard that left 14” of snow. Instructor took the three of us students to the high school parking lot, we each got 15 minutes of donuts, corrections, skids and slamming on brakes.

You should see me on a 25 MPH exit ramp at almost 60 MPH ! Full drift with 4WD car.

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

When I was about thirty the local motorcycle club I was a participant in would take these little 50cc dirtbikes, beef them up to 88–125cc add lighting coils and street tires and rail the dragon (US129) in the middle of the night. Gawd that was some serious fun. Here mine in a race.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Cool @ARE_you_kidding_me My oldest son races (road courses like Loudon and Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw, SC.) The Derbi that has been heavily modified.

Zaku's avatar

Mostly car “stunts” involving losing traction and recovering control and avoiding wrecks in spectacular ways.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I’m with @Zaku on this one.
I have had a lot of of close calls in cars and is why I have smashed discs in my neck. !@#$
I was in a car that was hit by a train. No one was hurt.except the car
I was also passenger in my own car that ended upside down in a ditch. It was weird to be sitting on the ceiling of my car.I wasn’t hurt but my boyfriend broke his collarbone
Another time, I was driving on an icy back road and jumped a ditch and landed on a little hill. That is the accident that hurt my neck.!@#$
Then there was the time I was driving to a date’s house and while looking for the address, I hit a car.Turned out to be his
The lesson in these stories is to never get into a car with me.

ucme's avatar

@lucillelucillelucille Tell me, do you know what that wheel in front of the driver’s seat is for? :D
Weirdly, I’d jump at the chance for you to take me for a ride.
Least I’d die laughing lol

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

@ucme It’s not for steering, it’s for lookin’ through.

Patty_Melt's avatar

I was doing stunts right up until the day all that ended, and all I was doing, was walk across the street. I was over thirty when I spent a night sleeping on a tree branch.
Captured all but one duckling and transported them across a heavily travelled street in my backpack with mom and one remaining sibling following closely. Once across, mamma beat it for a hole in a fence while I unloaded her babies fast and carefully as i could. Those little suckers could really run fast trying to catch up to mommies quacking retreat.

Does operating a city train without any previous experience count? It wasn’t very far.

Walked a caprail like a tightrope while underway.

Proved to a woman who thought the police academy required ability to climb a chain link fence was impossible, was wrong. I actually did it in one step instead of the required two.

Lots of stuff, lots more, this is what popped in my head first.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

@Patty_Melt -I need to know about the tree branch!XD

Patty_Melt's avatar

I was talking to a homeless guy. He was upset because the shelter was full and turned him away. I pointed out that the weather was great and he could sleep most anywhere comfortably, at least for the night. He chided me, said he would believe it if I did too. We were at a park. I said we could sleep right there. He countered with the cops would run us out within an hour of falling asleep. I had seen may pictures of jaguars sleeping on branches in my life, and I thought it looks so cozy. I always thought I would someday. I suggested that sleeping in a tree cops wouldn’t even see us. He thought i was out of my gourd. I pointed at a sturdy tree with lots of thick, healthy branches. It looked plenty easy to climb, and what cop is going to search trees for sleeping people?
The guy decided he wanted to find another option for himself, but wanted me to see if I could pull it off. He promised to come back at sunrise to wake me up, if I was still there. It was basically like this.

The guy did come back and wake me up.
He couldn’t believe I was still up there.
I bring joy and wonder to most people I meet, or at least before I got mashed.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

@Patty_Melt -That’s pretty funny! I would’ve been found on the ground.

Patty_Melt's avatar

It was quite cozy. It is no different than sleeping in a hammock, as far as safety.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

@Patty_Melt – My husband told me that he once swung from branch to branch like Tarzan in the tree in front of his house.
He missed at some point and when he woke up, it was dark out. XD

ucme's avatar

Cheers persons, I love these.
So a cupid stunt then…perhaps!

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