Scariest thing a family member ever did
To go along with the destructive kids thread, how about a scariest thing a family member did (or a friend, what the heck). Has to be someone you know, not someone you've just read about (yea, rules....blah blah blah).
My in-laws have a laundry chute from their main floor to the basement, located in a closet near their bathroom. One day my mother in law tossed a bunch of clothes and such into it and there was too much to slide thru....so she grabbed the shotgun that my father in law keeps sitting in the closet, which was supposed to be unloaded, and used the butt of the gun to jam the clothes down the chute.
Fortunately the gun didn't go off.....she found out later that my father in law had not unloaded the gun the last time he'd shot it....
We joke about it now, but..... YOW.
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My in-laws have a laundry chute from their main floor to the basement, located in a closet near their bathroom. One day my mother in law tossed a bunch of clothes and such into it and there was too much to slide thru....so she grabbed the shotgun that my father in law keeps sitting in the closet, which was supposed to be unloaded, and used the butt of the gun to jam the clothes down the chute.
Fortunately the gun didn't go off.....she found out later that my father in law had not unloaded the gun the last time he'd shot it....
We joke about it now, but..... YOW.
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My brother and I used to go up on the roof and jump into the bushes below. That seems like a bad idea in retrospect.0
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My brother and I used to go up on the roof and jump into the bushes below. That seems like a bad idea in retrospect.
Yow...from how high?
My brother once rode his bike on our roof. He also managed to light a canister of gasoline on fire in the garage...fortunately he got it put out before it exploded.0 -
It was the first-floor roof so the height of a room, plus about 4 feet for the foundation. 12 feet? They were big springy bushes, I guess it didn't occur to us that we could have missed and landed on the ground. Probably wouldn't have died though.0
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Examples of things my younger brother did....
He and a friend liked the sizzle of matches thrown into the dry brush behind our barn. A few matches later and the entire horse pasture was on fire, getting close to the barn. We were using hoses and buckets before the fire department got there.
Filled my dad's lawn mower gas tank with grain.
Got attacked by a chicken and rushed to the emergency room to have his face stitched up.
Used a bat on the side of a bee hive. He was allergic. Emergency room.
oh I could go on...0 -
When I was two weeks old, our families home was hit by a devastating flood. The house washed off the foundation, and only stopped because it got wedged up against a tree across the street. (Let's all sing, "Our House! In the middle of the street! Our House!")
When the family was allowed to return home to survey the damage and start repairs, the foundation/basement was still full of water, even though it should have drained, and my father realized that it was because the water main was still on. So he dove into the basement, full of muddy, disgusting, contaminated flood water, to turn it off.
Dad always did scary things, or had scary things happen to him, like the time just a few weeks after his triple bypass surgery when he was working under a car (a '67 Firebird, which was really low to the ground) when the jack gave out and the car fell on his chest. Being stubborn, he reached out, jacked the car back up, and kept working.
He also had a boat flip on top of him while fishing alone, with the anchor line wrapped around his ankle. He managed to flip it back and climb back in, and row it back to shore, with the boat filled with water.0 -
One time my brother drove home so wasted that he couldn't open the front door and was convinced we changed the locks. I cut his license in half. He bodyslammed me. We laugh about it now.0
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Dad always did scary things, or had scary things happen to him, like the time just a few weeks after his triple bypass surgery when he was working under a car (a '67 Firebird, which was really low to the ground) when the jack gave out and the car fell on his chest. Being stubborn, he reached out, jacked the car back up, and kept working.
He also had a boat flip on top of him while fishing alone, with the anchor line wrapped around his ankle. He managed to flip it back and climb back in, and row it back to shore, with the boat filled with water.
Is his name Chuck Norris?0 -
I can only think of stupid things me and my brother have done. Climbing all over barn roofs, jumping off garages, houses, out of trees. Now that we are older he still will climb most anything and jump into the river. Does back flips off of things. The worst was when I looked down the river and see him up in a high tree, and notice the people in the water had water only going to their knees. And he still jumped. Dumba$$. He gives me a heart attack sometimes.
He can get me to climb and and jump out of a lot of things....only because I trust him and he'll usually walk me through it or help me.0 -
My cousin held up in his house with his girlfriend at knife point. They had to get the cops to bring him out.0
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When my mom was a teen her two younger brother caught the back 40 on fire. LITERALLY the back 40. An entire field, multiple fire agencies.
My dad was dragging his feet on my parents kitchen remodle last year so my stepmom took a sledgehammer to the wall. They were going to do a 'half wall' there so it got my dad motivated.0 -
oh another good one...
My dad was working on his snow blower and slipped on the ice, sliding underneath. He felt a sting on his hand, but didn't think much of it. Pulled his work glove off, and the top 1/3 of a finger was missing. Drove himself to the emergency room.0 -
My dad's really good friend went camping w/ a bunch of my dad's cousins, etc.... he wanted to get the fire going "real good". Soooo...he throw gasoline on it. Yea, not such a great idea after drinking copious amounts of "Jungle Juice" for 12+ hours. He had to be taken to the ER, had 2nd & 3rd degree burns.
This is the same guy that lost several of his toes in a mining accident in Casa Grande, Arizona (in the 70s). My dad used to stand on the tip of his boot when they were talking so Terry couldn't walk away. You'd think he would've been more careful after losing some toes!
My uncle and his wife used to travel to Mexico w/ two other couples every labor day weekend. They had to stop going because every time someone had to be taken out due to injury. His buddy took off on a sandrail & a bottle of Jose Cuervo....he came back a time later with the bottle of Jose, no sandrail, no sun glasses, and missing an ear.
Yea, they never found the ear. Btw, my uncle gave his buddy sunglasses for Christmas that year (as a joke). You can't wear sunglasses missing an ear. LOL
I could keep going....LOL
I have a great aunt that rode a backhoe into town to continue chewing my great-uncles butt (he left the house w/ all the keys to their vehicles and went to the bar). She drove that backhoe 4 miles into town, parked that SOB in front of the bar and told my great-uncle "Don't you ever walk away from me again".
*sigh* Good times, good times. :drinker:0 -
That reminds me of a story about my grandmother, when she was a young housewife she felt like remodeling and took it upon herself to tear down an interior wall. Not realizing it was a supporting wall...When my mom was a teen her two younger brother caught the back 40 on fire. LITERALLY the back 40. An entire field, multiple fire agencies.
My dad was dragging his feet on my parents kitchen remodle last year so my stepmom took a sledgehammer to the wall. They were going to do a 'half wall' there so it got my dad motivated.0 -
When I was two weeks old, our families home was hit by a devastating flood. The house washed off the foundation, and only stopped because it got wedged up against a tree across the street. (Let's all sing, "Our House! In the middle of the street! Our House!")
When the family was allowed to return home to survey the damage and start repairs, the foundation/basement was still full of water, even though it should have drained, and my father realized that it was because the water main was still on. So he dove into the basement, full of muddy, disgusting, contaminated flood water, to turn it off.
Dad always did scary things, or had scary things happen to him, like the time just a few weeks after his triple bypass surgery when he was working under a car (a '67 Firebird, which was really low to the ground) when the jack gave out and the car fell on his chest. Being stubborn, he reached out, jacked the car back up, and kept working.
He also had a boat flip on top of him while fishing alone, with the anchor line wrapped around his ankle. He managed to flip it back and climb back in, and row it back to shore, with the boat filled with water.
Your dads stories are like a final destination script.0 -
Dad always did scary things, or had scary things happen to him, like the time just a few weeks after his triple bypass surgery when he was working under a car (a '67 Firebird, which was really low to the ground) when the jack gave out and the car fell on his chest. Being stubborn, he reached out, jacked the car back up, and kept working.
He also had a boat flip on top of him while fishing alone, with the anchor line wrapped around his ankle. He managed to flip it back and climb back in, and row it back to shore, with the boat filled with water.
Is his name Chuck Norris?
Exactly...what I thought! Haha!0 -
My first cousin killed two guys in a drug deal gone bad in Richmond Va ........wow reading some of Yall post reminds me how different Americans really live.0
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My cousin is currently a fugitive. No, I don't know where he is. If I did, I'd turn him in.0
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I like this thread!! My brother & I grew up home alone a lot or with our grandmother watching us, so lots of time to come up with really dumb/dangerous things to do for fun... Even into our teenage years we did some pretty dumb stuff
lol I think when you grow up with a brother you do things you would never have done other wise. We used to take my moms hairspray outback & use the long candle lighter & make a "flamethrower" like thing to melt his army men..That could have ended badly.. We liked to light pretty much anything on fire, hang-out of the 2nd story window of our house attaching homemade 'parachutes' aka sandwich baggies/plastic wrap etc..to barbies/action figures & attempt to make them float down. lots of jumping out of/off of things, climbing trees in the winter to hide & throw snowballs at strangers/cars driving by.. I could go on forever! I feel bad for anyone who doesn't grow up with a little brother/older brother, you miss out on a lot of fun stupid stuff. 0 -
My brother was younger and did the stupid stuff that I came up with, thankyouverymuch.I like this thread!! My brother & I grew up home alone a lot or with our grandmother watching us, so lots of time to come up with really dumb/dangerous things to do for fun... Even into our teenage years we did some pretty dumb stuff lol I think when you grow up with a brother you do things you would never have done other wise. We used to take my moms hairspray outback & use the long candle lighter & make a "flamethrower" like thing to melt his army men..That could have ended badly.. We liked to light pretty much anything on fire, hang-out of the 2nd story window of our house attaching homemade 'parachutes' aka sandwich baggies/plastic wrap etc..to barbies/action figures & attempt to make them float down. lots of jumping out of/off of things, climbing trees in the winter to hide & throw snowballs at strangers/cars driving by.. I could go on forever! I feel bad for anyone who doesn't grow up with a little brother/older brother, you miss out on a lot of fun stupid stuff.0 -
My brother and I were scuba diving and he was in charge of navigation (I was in charge of exploration, avoiding barracuda/sharks, etc.). Well he got a "mild" case of vertigo and as its underwater and he cant tell me, I had no idea. We continued on, until it was time to head back. Well we were lost... in the atlantic ocean. So we swam underwater for about 20-30 minutes in the direction as best I thought the boat was... he ran out of air (I only had ~200psi left (<2 min)), so we surfaced. Not a boat in sight. We swam for another 30-45 minutes until another diving boat saw us and let us board. They called our boat, who promptly came to pick us up. But yeah, I wasn't sure we would survive.
Ever since then I do my own navigation as well.0 -
We used to light any/everything on fire. But never caught entire fields on fire, well done kids. Cliff jumping in Washington (without checking the water depth) is probably the dumbest thing we ever did.
Oh. You know in Footloose when the girl is standing between two cars, we did that once.
Oh. Also, (apparently I'm the dumbass in the family) I once *accidentally* started a bar fight in a biker bar a few states from home while on a road trip. My friend an I were not injured, we were pulled behind the bar and left...bikers have some big knives.0 -
My sister and I and a family friend used to terrorize his dad's hogs when they had pigletts. We would get them mad and then have to run and jump on top of the hog house to get away. Well this worked fine for my sister and our friend. However, I was the "runt" of the litter and always had to rely on them to pull me up. Somehow they always made it in the nick of time. Thank goodness. Man momma hogs sure get touchy when they have babies.0
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Examples of things my younger brother did....
He and a friend liked the sizzle of matches thrown into the dry brush behind our barn. A few matches later and the entire horse pasture was on fire, getting close to the barn. We were using hoses and buckets before the fire department got there.
Filled my dad's lawn mower gas tank with grain.
Got attacked by a chicken and rushed to the emergency room to have his face stitched up.
Used a bat on the side of a bee hive. He was allergic. Emergency room.
oh I could go on...
HAHAHAH I have 2 older Brothers that can match those same type of stories. AND can I ask WHY oh WHY do men throw buckets of gasoline into fires??!! that seems a little too common!! LOL0 -
My grandfather went away on an extended fishing trip, and I was volunteered to "babysit" my grandmother while he was gone. She is quiet, sweet, church lady who always wears panty hose and high heels, etc. She is afraid of everything, locks her doors a million times before bed type.
So I was asleep in the guest bedroom, and I hear a noise. I open my eyes and there is my little white-headed grandmother in a floor length night gown with a huge black pistol in her hand pointed right at me. Guns and grandma just do not go together. I nearly had a heart attack.
I spoke and rose up very slowly. "Nana?" I said.
She had heard a noise and was coming to investigate.
I told her to put the gun down. Dear Lord...0 -
My cousin is currently a fugitive. No, I don't know where he is. If I did, I'd turn him in.
I have a cousin who was a fugitive back in the 90's - he's currently incarcerated in Pennsylvania for holding a DEA agent hostage @ a greyhound station.
Yea, they don't like it when you do that.
When he escaped from Pennsylvania he got all the way to Texas, he and his fellow fugitives were going to go back to my hometown in Arizona, rob the local bank and take off to hide on the reservation near my hometown.
In the words of Charlie Brown, Good Grief.0 -
I think the scariest thing I ever did, and to this day I never told my mother about, is get in a car with a man I didn't know.
I was a teen, probably 17 or so, out 'cruising' around town with 2 of my friends (one friend was driving) one night. A guy (probably mid 20's) came up next to our car and we started talking back and forth thru the window. He asked if I wanted to go for a drive with him - and I DID.
Fortunately for me, all he did was take me home (very late at night) and we talked for a while and I never saw him again. I shudder to think what *could* have happened to me.0 -
I think the scariest thing I ever did, and to this day I never told my mother about, is get in a car with a man I didn't know.
I was a teen, probably 17 or so, out 'cruising' around town with 2 of my friends (one friend was driving) one night. A guy (probably mid 20's) came up next to our car and we started talking back and forth thru the window. He asked if I wanted to go for a drive with him - and I DID.
Fortunately for me, all he did was take me home (very late at night) and we talked for a while and I never saw him again. I shudder to think what *could* have happened to me.
I did things like this all the time. My girlfriends and I always say we don't know how we made it through our teens and 20's.
One time, during the days of caller id on home phones (lol) some guys called my apartment on the wrong number. I called them back, we talked to them, AND INVITED THEM OVER! OMG.0 -
I remember once when I was in fourth grade, driving in the car with my dad, around 9:30 pm one early spring evening and some guy was tailgating us as we pulled up to what was going to be a right hand turn. Dad slammed on the brakes, jumped out of the car, opened the rear driver's side door of our car and then approached the vehicle behind him. I can still him him yelling "If you want to be in my back seat so badly, HOP THE F&^% IN!"
I will say that his anger had already been simmering BECAUSE we were in the car at 9:30pm on a school night as we were returning from the office supply store because I had a project due the next morning and hadn't told him I needed poster board until a few minutes before 9... LOL.0 -
My older brother once drove his friend home from a party whilst they were still quite drunk.
The thing is, they walked first from the party to our house then my brother still drove him from there, he took a corner too fast and ended up totalling the car into a bollard. Fortunately my brother only bashed his head off the windscreen - silly sod wasn't wearing his belt, but the car banana'd and the door panel went straight through his friends leg
It just scares me that it coulda been worse - I only have one brother and I cried for days about what he had done0 -
When I was about 10 I found my sister in the tub asleep with her eyes wide open. My mom had said she has been in there for a long time & asked if I could go check on her.
I still remember the panic that I felt. I was like what am I going to tell my mom. So I screamed her name and she woke up pretty much wondering what the heck was wrong with me.
:laugh: Still kind of terrifying when I think about it.0
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