Being an idiot ref post 40300

I never did any of those... Honest..

after some of that...and lucky to be alive

ditto

Willem,

"Being inebriated at the time did help..."

What does that say for me? I did most of those things, or similarly stupid things, stone cold sober. I can't blame the alcohol for my stupidity I did it.

Whats more I am proud of it and have encouraged my kids to follow in my footsteps. At least partly and somewhat more carefully.

Duncs

Nah, never did that sorta stuff.

PS - Wanna buy a bridge?

"Riding on a roof rack looking for obstacles in the long grass "

That reminds me of the time 30 years ago it rained early in the black soil country between the Mitchell River and Chillagoe and we were not able to get through the bogs on the road , so we took to the ridges - me sitting on the bonnet of the Holden HQ station wagon - to spot the ant hills in the long grass . Ah , memories .

I've gotta go and buy paint now - the boss has got me painting the pantry . Bummer .

Willie

Proves my point all these years.....

Though I must admit I have done a lot of stupid thing ... passive smoking; eating foods high in trans fats; not exercising enough; buying Telstra 2 shares; not buying Telstra 3 Installments; not eating enough antioxidants..... I like living on the wild side.

Andrew

Couldnt agree more Willem! The w@nkers are the ones making people feel guilty for having an adventurous and hazardous existence and also the ones trying to make everything illegal, except eating and breathing. What a sad and boring world it will be if the larikin convict Aussie spirit succumbs to the over-zealous law makers. We are quickly becoming that sterile place though.

I have done most of these and others and an openly proud to say that I did it, with an eye for the respect of outsiders. I am teaching my kids the same values.

(F), but only half way, total of three times now.....................

They need to install ECU's in headliners. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Willem
We seem to be living a parallel life,car bonnets, shooting things that move , jumping from vehicles to wild catch, is that why the body hurts now? i often wondered..........

Got to admit, having fun in the early '70's on some clay pans on the Nullarbor after some rain. The clay was like ice - slippery but firm, and we were spinning wheels in 4wd. Wheeeee!
And the broadsides were fun.
(Not my vehicle tho)
Gerry

haha awesome rant!

dave

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I'm with you mate! It was standard practice as kids to stand on a trailor that was stacked 6 or 7 bails high of hay (on top of the bails) behind a ute that was stacked 6 or 7 bails high and throw them off as your brother/cousin of maybe 12 years old drove it down the padock!

We'd get chucked on the back of the old international 12 tonne tipper in 0 degrees temperatures with the dogs for the 40 minute drive out to the shearing shed and think it was bloody awsome (even if you couldn't feel your nose afterwards!).

We'd ride unlicensed farm bikes with no brakes 10 k's on the road to the general store so we could buy some lollies when we were only 10 years old!

We used to soak our dinky cars in petrol then light them up and fling them off ramps as if they were stunt cars!

We used to have hand brake competitions and see who could park between the lines at the deserted beach carpark the best from a 90 degree 40kph aprroach.

We used to take parrents station wagons in the dunes and down the beach and race them on the sand!!

I must admit, I get grumpy when there is needless "trashing" and endangourment to other people. Hell we did some dumb things, but not like what kids are doing today. I think because they don't go and do these things, they find other things to do instead, like flying past my house at 150+ kph on a saturday night in a 50kph zone round a blind sweeping bend. Or doing donuts at the local campsite. Hell, we used to have some resepct and would not trash a nice campsite, we'd go somewhere that was already fukt like the pines and carry on. We were actually pretty concious about that kind of thing. If we were going to do 200kph, we'd go find somewhere that was out of the way, not down a suburban street. Ok, it might not have been the best thing to do, but at least we used some common sense.... Somthing that seems to be lacking today....

I've always worked on the philosiphy that if I'm dumb enough to risk my life that's fine, but don't take anyone else out with you! ;-)

Hi Willem,

Yes I agree with you. I know I have done my fair share of things and sometimes they didbn't go to plan but it was all part of growing up and I had a lot of fun doing them.

I think however that some of the things we might have done, pale into near insignificance when you see some of todays antics. I think a big degree of common sense seems to be lacking nowadays and at times the respect factor for others is just about zero.

As an example of some things I have seen, I went to a triple fatality a few years ago involving four cars with three being driven by guys and the fourth being driven by a girl. They had given the booze a good hit and then snorted some cocaine and decided to have a four car chicken meet which involves all four cars racing in at speed to a criss cross intersection seeing how close they can get to each other without hitting. The young girl lived but is a vegetable for life and the boys were killed instantly. As part of the collision one car went through a fence and crashed into a house killing a 3 week old baby in its cot. I will never understand some of this stuff and I don't believe there are to many of us no matter how wild we might have been that would do this or even contemplate it and I think it is the difference between then and now.

I think it makes the guy on the beach at Fraser spinning the wheels look pretty tame hey?

Have a good one.

But I wouldn't change a thing with some of the things I have done.

Reading these posts - and yep I did em all. i get the thought that we all did these as young KIDS ie 10 and 11 years old AND UP because we had old bombs and places to drive them. Young people these days are not so lucky, don't get the experience of fanging around the bush and get into trouble in vehicles because of it.

Yeh Yeh Yeh....
Its all fun until someone gets hurt!!!
Then its bloody hilarious! LOL
My kids quite often sit on the roof rack when we go bush, they love it!
I dont do the donuts until they are back in the car with seat belts on though.
In fact its usually my eight year old behind the wheel when the donuts occur ( not my fault).

If some peanut drove int our camp and drove like that would be a different story but when its out of harms way (and not damaging anything) I cant see the problem.

Cheers

Still doing some of these things - back of ute shooting etc....

All the care bears have stuffed it for the people with commonsense - Seatbelt legislation, safer vehicles, drink driving (to a lesser degree) - My interpretation is that without legislation to 'prevent' these 'idiots' hurting themselves it would have followed a natural progression of Darwin's Theory - the idoits would have died and not bred - therefore our roads would have been safer by now......oh, and ExplorOz members may have ruled the bush...

;-)

G'day Willem,

Good to see all the honest people 'fess up.....lol

Must have a 'cleansing of the soul' nite before too long;))

----"how far from the back paddock to the fishin' hole mate ? -'bout 6 tinnies cobber, but if it's bin raining coul be half a slab easy" lol lol

Cheers
Michael

You forgot to add:

H. Posting useless information to internet forums.

Do I hear the possums stirring ? LOL
No Willem, never done any of that, was too busy being a nerd and making a living. I did make 4wd mistakes, and still do. But now I'm old enough to call it experience p)

Good onya, Willem!!

Too many “old women” in the world today. Flamin’ worry warts.

All my life I've tried to "buck the system", consequently I've done some crazy things and taken on challenges where people thought I was nuts to do it. But that attitude led me into career opportunities that even I thought were unattainable. I’d take anything on. Live on the edge - if ya can. Its more fun! It makes life exciting.

When I was young man, I had 6 mates killed in 6 months on motorbikes back in the UK. I was gonna be next, but I got out and bought a car! So these deaths on the roads are nothing new.

I've taken risks for the last 50 years and loved it - as long as the risk was mine and mine alone. But that all stopped, ceased, finito, all over Red Rover on Australia Day 2000.

On that day, I did a solo parachute jump at the age of 53 and it all went horribly wrong. I was VERY lucky not to end up a quadraplegic. My possible death ran a close second. My mates reckoned I was nuts to even try it and my son returned the jump gift voucher that we’d bought him for Christmas. I did the jump, he chickened out. After the accident, I was 6 months on crutches, with a badly deformed spine, knee damage and having physio on my neck (it’s still stuffed), I thought, “Les, yer too old to be doing this, grow up, leave it, it’s over, have a quiet life”. It taught me a lesson that sooner or later you’ll run out of luck. But I’m glad I did it. This is not a dress rehearsal, you only get one go at it.

My motto?

“Don’t die wondering”

My other motto?

“Weigh up the odds first”

My next motto?

“Death – the final adventure!”

Bilbo

Street racing --------------guilty

shooting out of farm utes ------guilty

chassing wild pigs from quads and jumping on them with hunting knife ----guilty

dougnuts ----------- guilty -------------still do them now lol

sitting on a roof rack with a shotgun looking for animals in long grass ---guilty

playing chicken -----------guilty

racin country boys in there street car with a unregistered race car for cash with plates of a registered car ----------------guilty lol

shooting your mates with a slug gun ---------guilty

steeling your godfathers impala and jumping it over hills like the dules of hazzard till the tie rod end snaps -------------guilty

driving through St Melb after a big rain to show off ................still guilty lol

quick lock me up to save the world

Yes

No problem when we are young

it's when the oldies are still doing it

you have to start to wonder...

im 20 yrs old, i do and have done nearly all of this stuff that you people have done.

However i do have the common sense not to speed through 40kmp/h school zones or in suburban streets and built up areas at high speed or do burn outs

i dont do circle work in camping grounds

But when i do run a muck drifting all over a muddy track in the bush i do make sure that im not putting the safety of others at risk and i do respect other campers

You have all done it most of you probably still do it !

Nothing wrong with it just remember common sense and safety

Great thread Willem.

By the way, is this a daughter of anybody's ??

By the way, is this a daughter of anybody's ??

Too right Willem.....

We have but one life.... why not live it well!!!

Cheers

Brian

Don't see our resident goody 2 shoes fessing up, he must of been a bloody angel.

Come on Ben tell us the truth, i know you've been reading this thread.

Baz.

yeah, we all do stupid things

i got married once ...and bugga me went and did it again

Trouble is I was a city kid...about the most adventurous thing I did was catch Ducks in Centenial park with a rat trap baited with bread and held with string....Gawd the looks we used to get going home on the tram with my mate & I with a few ducks (dead) for Dad to pluck...For real entertainment we used to sneak onto the roof of the surf club and watch the "Big Boys & Girls" do what they did, I had no idea what they were doing but they always took their swimmers off to do it & there were always sausage skins on the ground afterwards...

Nope never done any of them ...... but I have done my own stupid things and still wonder why one is still alive to be typing this.

As I indicated in my post on that topic .... no biggie first tide and all back to normal.

Life is short, have fun but there is no need to destroy things while doing it. Not that playing on the sand like he did destroyed anything apart for scaring the pipi's and beach worms LOL.

Brian

Whats the point of life without a few risks to spice it up a bit. A few risks make the result much more enjoyable and fuel plenty of campfire stories for years to come.

Good on you Willem for starting this thread. The question to be posed, I suppose, is at what age should we kick back and take it easy ?

I am writing this whilst working on contract in arsecrackistan... oops Afghanistan. As I said a bit of risk maes the (financial) reward much mor enjoyable.

Cheers.....Taz

Mate, a very enjoyable read Willem :) Thank you

It seems we have all been there done that and try to still stay young.......
I am sure if we had our time again we really would not change a thing....... Maybe some of the decisions we might change but never our fun.........
Somehow the circle of friends I have grown up with have done some of the most stupid (amazing) things including one compressing 3 vertebrae and being told he would not walk again. He has just finished filming a doco for Red Bull in North America
I've seen people break many bones.... fall into holes in some incredibly inhospitable places and have taken over 24hrs to get rescued.
I didn't even blink an eye sitting in my 5 metre kayak in 10 metre (33 foot) swell.
Have done well over 500 Bungy jumps including the first in the world to bungy jump inside a refrigerator. Had a scary time on the bungy tower where I was about to abseil off and checked my abseiling gear and realised I was not hooked up to the rope....... When I looked down I had only 1 hand connecting me and ground 45 metres (140 foot) below. Another Job was to hang off the top of a builing in george st sydney with a girl hanging on to my foot with my torso hanging over the edge so as I could get some ok pics of the NRMA building. Do not know how many floors it was but got some great city pics......
I would not change anything that I have done over my few short years. All I can say is I haven't done enough and there is still more to do to have fun whether that be doin' Doeys in the local council carpark or just rallying on a dirt track somewhere....... We always made sure our mates were safe........
We can replace material things but never our mates.
Oh yeah by the way still on my list of things to do is dive with a white pointer (swam with a tiger, Hammerhead and have been in the middle of 60 sharks in a feeding frenzy). Dive in Antarctica and so many other things that I can not think of right now.
I love life and it is good to see many others living it too