Since we learned from the last thread that we are all retards and trolls on this site, name one or more stupid thing(s) you have done over your life. I've picked up a hot soldering iron about a dozen times. Forgot to put the oil pump drive shaft back in an olds v8 after a fresh rebuild, so it locked up. Countless other things, I'll add as I remember. Small minds work slower.
I try to do something stupid every day! (I usually don't have to try very hard to accomplish that goal...) Yay!
I once asked for answers to my engineering homework on an online forum, then I got really butthurt when nobody was helping me and started questioning their intelligence because I'm obviously smarter than they are. Too soon?
About 5 years ago: After filling up my jetski with gas and oil, I was too distracted by the cute girl that was over to remember to put the oil cap back on... what a mess. ShortytheFirefighter/Sneefy - I agree!
When I was 12 or so I filled up our three wheeler with diesel instead of gas. It actually made a couple laps around the farm but it looked like I was doing a low level mosquito fogging run or laying down smoke for an invasion. To be fair, they were both in red cans.
Watched a hot chic on a motorcycle go past and walked into a streetlight pole. Used a snowboard on a trampoline with a less than perfect dismount...faceplant. Stacked ourselves three people high on a sled going down an ice covered driveway...ended up crashing off the driveway into a barbed wire fence. To name a few.......
I was messing around with my mp3 player once and got to close to the edge of the road and got sucked into a swampy ditch at 40mph and got high centered on a bolder what was in the swap had to have my grandpa lift/drag the car out with the logging truck boom. Was making a uturn on a dirt road got 2 far into the shoulder stuck the front corner of the car in the ditch and my CAI sucked in water and hydro locked the motor..luckly didnt damage the motor.
Prank called 911 when I was 4... Was curious as to what would happen... Result, they come knocking on your door Around 12 I attempted to jump my parents driveway on my snowboard doing a nose grab, leaned WAY back unintentionally, and not even coming close to clearing said driveway. Landed square on my back knocking the wind out of me and leaving me laid out in the driveway for probably 15 min until I decided to drag myself into the house. Around 16 I was snowboarding at the local ski hill. Decided I was good enough to attempt a tail grab off the largest jump on the steepest run. Result, held the grab for WAY to long, planted the nose into the ground, thus slingshoting my face/body into the ground and then proceeding to slide about 30 or 40 feet head first down the hill. This all about 20 yards from the lift so everyone could be witness to my epic fail.
Not (really) trying to be a dick, but what you did was choke off the intake and stall the engine. Hydrolocking involves sucking water into the cylinder and the engine trying to compress it, a hydrolocked engine (not "motor", damnit! since I'm being pedantic already, your car has an engine) invariably involves stuff breaking inside.
Lol thanks for the correction. There was water in the cyl. when i manually turned it over after i pulled the spark plugs. Possible it just choked it out.
Yes...hydrolocking the "engine", would have in fact damaged the block. I had water in my block after the flood, but didn't try to fire it up with said water in it. Also, i always new that we had plenty of idiots on this site!! Finally a thread that we can single them out in!
Ok, this'll show my age, but so does my hair. With early cell phones, they often had one of the keys programmed to call 911 if you held it down. Not much of a problem with the original bag or brick phones, but my first cell was one of the earliest ones that was small enough (by the standards of the time) to clip onto a belt. Drove into work one day with the phone on my belt, hitting the seat belt buckle. Got a phone call from the Sheriff's office as I sat down at my desk. Apparantly my phone had been dialing 911 over and over for the previous 20 minutes. Dispatcher was irate, but understanding, promised him I'd program that out of the phone as soon as we finished the call (and did).
The first snowfall I had my car I went out driving with a few members. An experienced driver on this forum who I won't name, but loves bacon and can clear a room without making a noise.... gave me a few pointers on driving. We had fun at the first location. On route to the second location I drifted a corner wide, in what looked to be a very open road. Turns out that snow can easily drift over things like curbs. I did a really good job of getting my car on two wheels. I ended up bending both tires on my drivers side. However, I had a damn Subaru pit crew with me. We had my car jacked up and spare tires put on (one I took from RexNEffect) in a minute or two. I proceeded to drive home alone with my tail between my legs. My wife was SUPER STOKED on the news when I got home. Not to mention we somehow covered the hood and roof of my car with a good mixture of ice, mud and rocks. The good news was that I only had to replace 2 rims @ $100 and pay for an alignment. Then the next winter on the first snowfall...... I drove to the gas station to get an energy drink. I may have taken a detour. I spotted all the curbs, had my fun and proceeded to leave the parking lot. However, I thought I was clear of the curbs.... turned out they were at a 45* angle on the exit and I managed to mess up my driver's side rim again. Lucky for me there are steelies and I was able to hammer it out. Yeah the wife was pretty happy about that one too. However, she married me.... so she knew what she was getting into Thank GOD this winter was light. No bent rims!
I can believe that, but if the engine wasn't damaged, then it was already killed by lack of air before the water got into the intake, and you were really lucky. I blew up an SR20DE once by hydrolocking it. Only a teaspon or two got into the engine, but it shattered a rod, cracked the block, cracked the head and bent valves. And it still ran! (worst sound ever...). I ran into a flooded area trying to get home to avoid the flooding at my buddy's place (which in fact, ended up being much worse. There was a, at the time nearly new, Honda CRX floating around the lot I had been parked in earlier), so that wasn't really an idiot move, just unfortunate. I "forgot" to put jackstands on a car I was working on the exhaust of once. It rolled (crappy e-brake) and fell off the jack. I sensed it moving and rolled out from under just in time to feel the door jamb brush along my back. I've got a nice hole charred in the front of my Ziptie Rally T-Shirt from leaning across a weld I'd just completed and setting the shirt on fire. I once destroyed a ~$75K interface module on a computer that probably cost close to $250K by cutting a cable that was still plugged in and shorting it out (thank God it was being decomissioned a couple days later, we just moved up the changeover). I've drained the oil in a car at the start of doing a full tune up, then started it back up at the end, never having replaced the oil. I couldn't figure out for about 5-10 seconds why the oil light wasn't going off. Sent myself to the emergency room on a July 4th once. I was working to fix a piece of broken furnature, and had a broken board which wouldn't come out. Grabbed hold of that sucker with both ahnds and pulled with all my might while wiggling it back and forth. It came loose, of course. And I smashed the broken, jagged end right into my forehead.
Forgot one...when i was 17 i hooked up some strobelights in my carfacepalm and connected the pos to neg and the neg to pos. Started the wire coating on fire and attempted to yank the glowing red hot wire that was also on fire at the time with my bare hands. Couldn't open my hands all the way for around 4 days because the skin was so toasted. <Whose an idiot? This guy.
Eh, you live long enough and either you find out you really, really lived a boring life, or you get countless examples of just how stupid anyone can be at a given moment. I could probably go on all day. My normal mode of operation is however, to start doing something, think about 80% of the way through it that I really should have XXX piece of safety gear on, decide I'm too close to want to stop, get said piece of gear and start up again, and then at about 90%, do the stupid thing the safety gear would have protected me from.
I used to work at a Boy Scout camp during the summer and I was the assistant director of our COPE course, which included a 50 ft ropes course. We'd have to get the course set up every week and string up the ropes and hardware so that they weren't getting left in the elements. I had my own harness and we would use nylon webbing and carabiners on the overheads instead of a rope so we didn't need to be belayed. I was so into my job of getting set up one morning that I realized I was in the middle of our single wire traverse (with an overhead wire to hang on to) and I hadn't clipped in. Not wanting to start fumbling for hardware, I finished the traverse cursing myself the entire time. Never forgot to do that one again.
How many people have done the double gasket on the oil filter mistake? I did that on my old civic when I was in college. Oil went everywhere!
When I was 10 I decided to be a nice son and wash my Moms GMC Safari. I was having a tough time getting the bugs off of the front end so I found some steel wool that did the trick. Heck it worked so good on the hood I proceeded to do the rest of the van with it. Once I dried off the van I could see the swirl marks and realized the error in my ways. Let's just say my Father was not impressed. I ended up going over the van three times with rubbing compound.
^ How many have forgotten the "tighten the lugs before you go driving down the highway" mistake? Again...this guy! Was after rallyx and i missed the front passenger side. Doh. The more i post in here...the dumb-er-er i feel. lullz
Hell, I forgot to torque axel nuts after wheel bearing install. Talk about a shockingly scary grinding noise...
Thought I could be careful enough to install a ceiling fan with out turning off the power. A few minuts later, I was blown off the ladder.
I was probably about 4 or 5 when my older siblings handed me a paint brush with some green house paint and told me my uncle wanted his porsche that he had parked in the garge painted.... Didnt end well
I hope none of you idiots procreate. I'm more intelligent than all of you combined and have the science to back it up. Now who wants to do my homework?
You're not a real man unless you've stuck something metallic into a power outlet. Yer darn right that counts.
Rofl...this thread is so full of win and idiots that it's hurting my sides. It really depends on the electricity + metal object situation...did you end up on your ass or lose all of your arm/beard hair? If yes to either one of those things, then yes, you are in fact a real man!
