Attention Adrenaline Junkies! Scariest thing I have ever done..... What about you? =)

TurnerIII said:
Rock Quarry Jumping! 40 feet into a appropriately deep water filled quarry ... at 15

I am not that crazy anymore. The older I get the more precious life (mine) becomes!
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I have done that all growing up. SO MUCH FUN. 47 feet is the highest measured jump I have done. We use to go and jump all day long!

We went back this summer with a group (now I am old). For some reason, it took a lot longer to convince my self to jump this last time! But it was still fun!
 
Raising children in today's world scariest thing ever.

Bull riding - check
 
I'm 2 stupid 2 get scared, didn't care 4 Iraqi rockets tho... can't see um coming.
 
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Forgot to add one thing haha. When I was 15, one of my best friends and his dad and mine, plus a few others. White Water Rafted down the Upper Gulley in West Virginia. The night before we went it had been raining constantly. The day we went, the damn that feeds the river was pushing 40,000 cubic feet of water a second. Our guide said it was conditions that extreme white water people would travel around the world for. And that it also put it somewhere in the top five rivers in the world. Was a blast. Perhaps I can upload our video one day.
 
You still look gorgeous even when you are scared. :D

Hmmmm.... scariest thing. It would have to be fishing about ten miles off shore in a bass boat on Lake Erie. Only had a few close calls with storms popping up. :eek: Who would have thought that a bass boat does not handle 3 to 4 foot waves very well.:p
 
I was blown UP a mountain. Was going down a black diamond slope and got blown back up. I pretty much took that as someone upstairs sending me a message and went home.

I had someone give me a death threat in undergrad...turned out to be a prank by a friend (who is no longer)...scared the crap out of me and gave me an ulcer until I found out.

I've had LOTS of horrifying experiences but those are the two that come to mind right now.

-Emt1581
 
First night dive off of Ft Lauderdale. Crazy strong current. But what a rush. Diving with black tip reef sharks coming up to my wife and me from all directions kinda gets the adrennaline pumping.

As far as paintball, I have been playing for 20 + years and still play. Playing paintball at night gets the blood pumping, especially hunting down someone while playing with night vision. What a rush.
 
I once sedated a boar, fastened razor blades to its tusks while it slept, drank a 1/5th of whiskey, and then used a stock prod to wake it up so I could wrestle it in a barn over hot coals, blindfolded.

Guess who won the match?
 
I ate these mushrooms one time that made me feel kind of funny and then I lost it--scary.... in the woods camping with two of my friends-they thought I was going to go psycho on them. I used to jump off a bridge that was about 60 feet up into a small river(when I was in college and young and stupid er) and one time I came within a couple feet of landing on a canoe- I think it scared the people in the canoe more than me. Pokey, I don't mind the snakes, just please don't turn into a vampire ...........
 
Baghdad in 2007 had it's moments...

But getting stuck in a cave with no way to go back and no way to know what was up ahead,,,Still gives me nightmares.
 
Driving on icy I-5 from 3 till 5 this morning through several mtn. passes.
My hands are sore today from the holding the wheel.

But can't come close to war! Thanks Guys!
 
Scuba diving in a cave and losing my direction for a minute, the longest minute of my life,

Well one of them.
 
Whitewater kayaking over a decade in some squirrelly water all over the southeast. The best were always floodstage, wintertime, rain fed technical rivers & creeks with up to 18' waterfalls. The Ocoee Olympic course, New River, Gauley... that was the stuff I taught and led groups on. Stuck in some recirculating hydraulics and swimming 10-15' d-o-w-n into the dark to try and get below it to get flushed out.

Sea kayaking multi-day solo out of sight of land.

Getting caught in some storms alone out in my 22' sailboat.

Caving d-e-e-p. Commuting rush hour on a motorcycle with folks texting all around you. Being in a road bike race in which you are outclassed, in a pack inches from each other... and it starts to rain. Being the only camper on a big island in Lake Superior, way underarmed before you could legally carry in a Nat'l Park, with a bear that kept coming up and chuffing at edge of my campsite HALF THE DANG NIGHT. That moment that seemed liked eternity as I was falling off a cliff face at about 20' in the air.

Being the recipient of Amy-0's "I'm not touching you" dance.

Hearing Tim The Slugman's voice calling in the dark "Come here you big ol' sweet thing!"

Going to sleep in the same room as TNRat.



Becoming a Dad.

Then a couple of years later hearing the words: "Your son has autism."
 
This one will make your blood curdle!!!

It was a dark and lonely night. . . . I had been working on some designs. . . It was about 3:30 in the morning. . . .
I heard a scary sound. . . I checked the entire shop . . . . nothing. . . . . Turned out to be the sound of the ice in my glass collapsing around itself because there was no scotch left in it. . . .

Slowly, but deliberately I reached for the bottle of Johnny Blue. . . I pulled the stopper for another pour and then. . . without warning. . . only a few drops ran out of the bottle. . . . I screamed like Pokey when she sees a spider. . . .and then. . .the horror of the moment set in as I realized that I was truly all alone . . . There was no scotch left in my last bottle!!!!! . . . . . When the paramedics found me the next day, I had become entirely dehydrated from nearly 12 hours of crying!!!!!

It was horrible!!!!!!

I hope that none of you ever have to feel that level of fear, depression, and abandonment. . . .

Let's Drink!!!!

Jerry


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Hey all, im not a regular over here in the Busse section, but this thread caught my attention, and I thought you guys would appreciate my work, it seems to really fit this thread
this is me, im up aprox 110' just aboutto top this tree, over top of a mansion
sorry for the blurry pic, its zoomed as close as the camera could
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