What is the most dangerous thing you ever did?

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  1. natureboy3

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    I've not really done a whole lot that's dangerous so I guess the most dangerous thing I've done is be a passenger a car doing 100mph
     
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  3. Moparjoe

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    Back in 1983 i was stationed in Hanau Germany. The first thing i got to do was get to know what the east German border looked like. There was a tower with east german guards about 500 feet from the edge of a west german town. There was a silver marker that resembled a subdivision marker that separated east and west germany. I put my foot on top of the marker.
     
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    Hopped onto a moving freight train after a snow storm in the Winter of 2018 or 2019
    I took a ride from Baltimore to Wilmington DE
    Good times
     
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  5. Alice in SC

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    Changed the light bulbs on a 1400' TV tower with my husband!
     
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  6. straightma1e

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    Take your pick
    • Driven a car over 150MPH on an interstate highway
    • Crashed an airplane
    • Rode a bicycle downhill at over 50 MPH
    • Waded waist deep through rising flash flood waters
    • Survived a tornado
     
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  7. maelstromaz

    maelstromaz The more I know, the less I understand.

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    Watched the walls move and the ceiling begin to collapse in a house a few miles from the epicenter of the 6.9 Mw magnitude 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Northern California, in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
     
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  8. granite45

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    Driven anytime day or night on I 5 anywhere between Blaine Washington and LA CA
     
  9. maelstromaz

    maelstromaz The more I know, the less I understand.

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    Drove from Auburn, WA on I-5 to Phoenix, AZ on Jan. 1st and 2nd, 2000. I-5 was snowy and frozen until we got south of Lake Shasta. 1,500 miles total.
     
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  10. maelstromaz

    maelstromaz The more I know, the less I understand.

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    I was stationed in South Korea in US Army when our First Sergeant asked a group of us for someone to drive a 2.5 ton truck to a US Army camp on the Korea DMZ One guy and I were bored enough to agree. The truck had some paint, construction materials, chicken wire -- pretty harmless stuff so we figured it was safe enough. We got stopped by South Korean military personnel three times even though we were on main roads in an obviously marked US Army truck. Each time they wanted to see what kind of stuff we had because they said in broken English "we might need that". In those days the DMZ could get pretty hairy.
     
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    In those early days when I was in my 20's, and was working to get my private pilots license, one of my co-students got his about a month before I did. He wanted me to be his first passenger, and I was always ready to fly with not even the first question as to what the plan was. Seems his newly minted license to him meant 'hey, let's go do some aerobatics, and without even the slightest mention of this newfound courage, he attempted to do a loop. Take into account we were in a non-aerobatic rated 2 seater Cessna 150 trainer aircraft (no inverted fuel pumps, no inverted oil pumps), and only about 2500 feet from the ground. He got us to the top of the loop, inverted, and needless to say, the engine quits, the doors fly open .... we were not only inverted, but stalled. Having no idea what to do, he simply let go of the controls. Ends up that's what saved us, as the aircraft righted itself. Restarted the engine, landed, cleaned ourselves up and never spoke again.
     
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    I lived for 20 years in a third world country. It was a constant fear. You could be walking normally on the street at noon and suddenly be assaulted by 3 dudes and nobody will help you at all. It was crazy. You couldn't even wear fashion stuff because it would be like a sign of wealth for them and it was dangerous.
     
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  13. Eric!

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    This….for over 20 yrs

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  15. Eric!

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    Thank you!
     
  16. OceanStar

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    Walking alone at night drunk/high out of my mind with a rapist on the loose. I thought I was young and invincible I guess.
     
  17. Alice in SC

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    Climbed a 1400' TV tower with my boyfriend, now my Husband of 47 years!
    He had the job of changing the light bulbs!
     
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  18. Eric!

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    I couldn’t do it….
     
  19. OceanStar

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    Me neither!
     
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  20. thepapasmurph

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    Interesting @Eric! You jumped out of planes but you don't think you could climb a TV tower. I don't think I could do either.
     
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