Here we go again...
I thought this might be a good time for some comic relief with all the bad things happening lately.

Today I was with a friend of mine, we work together buying & selling homes.

Anyways... I am getting ready to do some drywall repair upstairs, as my friend is tearing out the old cracked concrete porch on the front of the house with a john derre front loader (bobcat lookin' thing).

So I am cleaning some tools when all of a sudden I hear this machine start makin' some serious RPM's.
This was not too common since we were in a residential neighborhood & there is no room to open this thing up & stretch it's legs.

I look out the upstairs window & to my suprise he had went from having the wheels in a horizontal position to an astonishing verticle position .
It was like one of those low riders with the three wheel motion, except he opted for two wheels & was facing the ground.

At first I thought maybe he could have been hurt, but I hear the machine shutdown & he crawls out to "survey" the situation.

At this point I am relieved to see no one was hurt, but then I procede to almost piss my pants when he tries to get this other guy to crawl back in it, to get it back on the ground the way it belongs.
The other guy was like "I'm not gettin' in that F'n thing, are you F'n nuts?" & this friend of mine was like "well you are much smaller than I am & I would do it myself except I can't get the seatbelt around my fat ass".
At this point I'm coughing my guts up from laughing so hard.

To make a long story short...
He keeps buggin' this little guy till he finally gets in there & flips it back on all four wheels.

I'm sure someone can top that one, but that was from today's current events.

since i am a teenager, and young and dumb is the name of the game i will name the stupidest thing i did this week. Well you all know about the rains out here in MI. Well a local dirt side street had some mud puddles on it. I had driven this road many times before (can you see where this is going? Well i revved up and headed for a rather nice puddle, fully expecting to make it through the mud in 2wd. Well i hit that sucker and bogged right down. So i switch to 4 high and creep foward some more, get stuck. Go to 4 lo and try and back out of it. Stuck. So i am not enjoying this, so a friend with a jeep yanks me out of the 9 or 10 inchs of mud that i now have walked through. But wait this story isnt over yet. I then vowed with him as my witness to clear that mud. I back up get a nice running start in 4wd and cleared the mud, with the driver's window open, you guessed it i am now covered in mud... Sorry for the long story

The stupidest thing I've ever done is try to blow out a gas fire as a kid. There were three of us gathered around a soup can filled with gas as a demonstration of a campfire candle. We all, on the count of three, tried blowing it out. The result was a fireball engulfing our heads. I got the worst of it singeing off all of my facial hair and the hair on my head back to my ears. Important safety note: gas fires cannot be extinguished by blowing them out.

Sold all my old Mopars!

I did a really idiotic stunt with my first car. Back in 1976 I had a 69 GTO, so on the way from High School one day with the car packed with friends, I got air borne after jumping the crest of a pretty steep hill just a few blocks away from where I live now. I shot up the hill and launched the GTO into the air as best as I could. The car landed pretty hard and blew a front tire. As I was sliding pretty much out of control I was nearing a VW micro van. I ended up sideways to the van without hitting either vehicle. The van had a stoned out hippie in it, as he just rolled down the window as gave me the Peace sign. Needless to say I drove out of there with the flat before the cops came. That was my only attempt at being a stunt driver. Now you know why I have been hanging garage doors for the last 26 years.
Stu

My last "marriage."

Stupidest thing this week... My '92 Ramcharger is making these funny squeaking noises whenever the suspension flexes, right? So, thinking it's a shock absorber or some other such thing, I proceed to stand on the rear bumper while holding onto the driprail that goes over the liftgate. As I am bouncing the truck up and down with my buddy looking under the left rear wheelhouse, the step pad on the bumper proceeds to disassociate itself with the rear bumper, with me on it. Needless, I went sprawling and my bumper fell apart, while my buddy is laughing his buttinski off at me. I later find out that the step pads were held onto the bumper with silicone and double-sided tape. Can you say retard fix? Anyway, that's my stoopid trick of the week.

My latest stupid trick is to try and bend back the crankshaft of my new mower after I hit a cast-iron water meter cover in my front yard. Me and a friend took a sledge hammer and wailed on it until it was semi-straight. Put the new blade on it and it fired right up with hardly any vibration! Got most of the way through the yard before all he!! broke lose and shrapnel flying everywhere. Luckily the blade extension pieces just missed me and hit the house instead. I just ordered a new short block for $150.

When I was 18 I was rolling my '65 off of the trailer while it was connected to my dad's van, or so I thought it was connected. made it about half way when the trailer tongue shot up, I then slammed the breaks, as the trailer tonque smashed into the back doors of the van, all I could do was keep rolling it back and wait to apologize to my dad, he was pretty understanding, never did fix it. Oh yeah, one time I was racing my mom's LeBaron in Street at Byron when I accidently deep staged, as I was backing up I looked up and the starter had already started the tree, so I stopped and on the last yellow I stomped on it, and almost bounced my head off the dash as I was still in reverse, I then put it in drive, and all I could do was hope the other guy readlighted. he didn't. :spank

Heres mine,I was working on my wifes car in my garage I was going to start the car, but sometimes the choke would mess up and it was easier to pop the hood and manually work the choke and just jump it off from under there.Well I didnt realize that the car was in gear when I did this,when the car fired up the choke stuck and it took off out of the garage across the back yard and slammed into a pine tree.Luckily I was standing on the side of the car when this happened.As for the car it didnt fair to well agint the pine tree.As for the car beign in gear I later found out that my son was playing in it and had put it in gear.Lesson learned...............

Just about a month ago the battery in my wifes escort went dead. I checked the water levels, put it on the charger overnight. Still dead. Went and got the battery out of the Scamp, dropped it into the Escort and proceeded to hook up the positive cable to the negative post, and when I put the negitive cable on the positive post,,,,, I got lots of sparks,,, and the cable kind of stuck there so I couldn't pull it right off.. then silence,,, nothing.
I'm thinking, oh great, I just blew up the entire electrical system on my wifes car. Luckilly it just blew out the fusable link.. I replaced it, and got the Correct Battery, and everthing was fine.
But I felt pretty stupid after almost 30 years of working on cars, that was the first time I hooked up a battery backwards.

at about 11-12 a couple friends and I built a airplane.

Using our soapbox derby and go-cart expertise we built a plywood 2 seater. we knew it wouldn't take off on level ground so we intended to use a really seep hill to get it off the ground. We used the engine and blade (we THOUGHT the blade would make a good prop)from my dad's mower.

we spend 2 months biulding the whole thing in secret, then one saturday we take the engine (planning to have it back by the time anyone notices)and haul it up to the highest steepest hill in town, fire it up get in and have two other kids push it and get it going.

full throttle it's rolling down the hill at about 25-30 (feels like 200) and about 1/2 way down the hill the the the engine brakes loose and goes skipping swidways into someones yard and through the fence into another yard. plane falls apart nearly killing us. my friend had a broken arm, I had a broken rib.

Dad was NOT happy

We use to wrap M80's in molded Dynamite stuffed into film vials. One would hold it and throw it, one would light it. We all still have our fingers surprisingly. Young and stupid sure has more meaning after you turn 42.

Great one. Reminds me of the time I hit the DIxie Horn of my buddy's General Lee pedal car as I screamed YEE-HAWWWWWW...Only to realize that the car was quickly becoming no-longer-with-me and I was about to end up with road-rash.

heres a stupid one that happened about a year ago. Ever let a car down off of lift and have your foot in the wrong place? Fortunately it was a small honda and i was wearing my steel toe boots.

I was helping friends load an engine into the back of a pickup once, and the hoist got stuck so we backed the truck under the motor. I was holding the thing steady while he backed the truck up, and he stopped right on my foot! Not once, but twice! He didn't know what all the yelling was about the first time, and I should've learned before it happened again. I gots big feet, and luckily nothing broke(in my foot!)

I also remember as kids, we used to build firecracker bombs by taping as many as we could together and twisting the wicks, then lighting them and running. We also used to fill soda cans with firecrackers and match heads, and rig a wick to it. Those suckers were pretty neat, minus the aluminum shrapnel.
Didja notice how a lot of these stupid things have to do with fire...

Funny how the "Inner Child" tends to be such a Pyro!