Biggest risk you've ever taken? adventure stories..
 

What is the biggest risk you've ever taken? Something that could have killed you but didn't...

I think the biggest risk I've ever taken was jumping off a building onto a wood telephone pole to get away from a security guard when I was doing graffiti when I was a kid, I had to jump out about 10 feet off the 3rd floor of the building and slide down the pole about 40 feet in order to get down, I got away, but I had a million splinters in my arms and legs thanks to the wood pole..

Another one was when I was in a Debose Tunnel in san francisco, at about 2am in the morning, again doing graffiti... We had to get out of the way of an oncoming MUNI train, and there is only little 2x4 inlets in the sides of the walls that you have to hide in, so we hid in it, and when the train flashed by like 2 feet from me I felt the crazy suction that could have pulled me into the train, it was both exciting and scary as hell at the same time.

No one has any good stories???

When I was 15 or so we would climb into our roof and run and jump from house to house down the block we would also jump off a 2 story house onto the hard ground

Running from the cops in a parking garage me and 4-5 friends jumped off the very top (about 15 floors up) onto a fire escape 2 floors below it, was pretty damn crazy

We used to make monaclov cocktail bombs (spelling) and light them and throw them into the sewer, backdraft hit us cause we were too far in and singed off almost all of our hair, lol

I was drunk swimming and fell asleep holding onto the floating things around the swimming part, friends seen me go under and grabbed me

Was going 145 MPH in a sports car on a country highway at night, came inches from hitting a deer. I will never do that again, lol

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LOL.. Only You Kman!!! Only you!

I hopped a fence in Costa Rica in 97 near the Arenal Volcano, to get some sick pictures of a fresh eruption. The fence was about 3 miles away from where I took this picture. The heat was so intense, my eyes felt like they were gonna melt outta my head. Stupid.

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Here's a young and foolish Indie wannabe -- lol

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i invested 2000$ into a program... and got jacked lol

I got married....




....but I'm not dead yet!

i knew a guy who worked for the phone company... he said if you ever fall off one of those poles, never hold on, it would hurt more then the fall itself.

guess thise advice would have helped you years ago :winkwink:

Driving drunk when I was a kid was probably the most dangerous.

Also, probably not life threatening, but snowboarding for years, doing cliffs and going full speed at huge kickers.

I have slid down a couple telephone poles in my time. If you are dressed for climbing it can be done injury-free. It is all in the technique.

Does bungee jumping count? Probably not, I felt perfectly safe...

getting married and having kids.
the "Adventure" still continues.
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graff battle on the 405 freeway. I got dropped off in carson and walked back to seal beach. (35 cans) no tags. as I got to the 605 the other crew was on the other side of the freeway..

(3 people) on of the guys tried to get the center divider and got ran over by a 18wheeler.


so now the ghetto bird is in the air -po po every where an im 2 miles from home.. I walked the flood control home.

I made it home. (n.a.s.a crew 91-today) yes I still paint.

graff battle on the 405 freeway. I got dropped off in carson and walked back to seal beach. (35 cans) no tags. as I got to the 605 the other crew was on the other side of the freeway..

(3 people) on of the guys tried to get the center divider and got ran over by a 18wheeler.


so now the ghetto bird is in the air -po po every where an im 2 miles from home.. I walked the flood control home.

I made it home. (n.a.s.a crew 91-today) yes I still paint.

Where I grew up, we had one policeman (on a bicycle) to cover about 25 square miles, so about 11 o'clock one evening I figured I wasn't going to get caught if I gave a half-built racing m'cycle I had been working on a quick road test. Not far from where I lived was a near-straight stretch about a mile long, fields on both sides. I got to the beginning of it and wound the bike up. It flew.

No-one, but no-one ever parked on country roads barely the width of two cars back then, especially at night. So I wasn't bothered when quite a way ahead I saw someone's tail-lights. But then I saw his brake lights and a second later realized that instead of pulling into the driveway of the only house on this whole piece of road, he was actually parking.

Now "half-built" in this case meant no brakes and a two-stroke engine has almost no engine braking, so shutting the throttle down didn't do a whole lot of good. I would slow some, but I was still going to pass him at high speed. No problem. I figured that if he was unlucky enough to be crossing the road, I could avoid him... but then another car came the other way.

I couldn't believe that probably the only two cars for miles around were going to pass each other at about the same time as I got there, leaving me a maybe 3 feet to get through... and that only so long as the parked guy didn't open a door. Near vertical banks on both sides of the road meant no run-off and of course I had no lights, so they weren't going to see me coming. And although the moonlight was fine for what I had set out to do, it was useless for precision riding. I just pointed myself between their lights and I swear I actually closed my eyes as I flashed between the two of them.

Got away with it too. A little skin off one knee and a very elevated heart rate for a while was the total damage :)