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

[Al-Sheikh]

I am a married man. What else do I have to say.

 

[mymindisamob]

Love snakes! I have a female red-tail (like you are holding in the pic) about 6' now. I used to have Pythons up to 12' and have worked with them up 25'.
I worked in rehabilitating raptors and have messed with some big cats and captured wild wolves.

Outside of that (most illegal activity excluded) I have free climbed on The Pribilof Islands (while crabbing for Trident seafoods) and on some of the spires up Idyllwild. I used to fight bare-fist for money as a young man traveling through Texas and Louisiana. Explains a bit about my looks and health nowadays.

 

[-TNT-]

I bungee-jumped. In Mexico. Enough said.

 

[Coduhhh]

For me it was: Eating the words hottest pepper. And eating a vial of 1 million pure oleoresin extract.

What pepper was the hottest in the world when you did that? I ask because within the last few years there have been many new pepper strains come out. The hottest in the world last time I checked is the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T strain rating at around 1.4 million SHU. Before that was the Naga viper at 1.3 million SHU, the New Mexico Scorpion at 1.1 Million SHU, the infamous "Ghost Chile" aka Bhut Jolokia at 1 million, and then you your Habenero's that range from 100,000 up to 600,000(red savina). I'm only 20 and I remember when the habanero's were the hottest. I love spicy stuff, but a habanero is the hottest pepper you will ever see me eat raw.

 

[Andy the Aussie]

I will generally exclude things I class as "occupational hazards" as I am paid for those so.... some serious motorcycling "fun" on everything from Minibikes (at age 4) onto dirt and road bikes....no real racing but plenty of teenage (into my 40s) sillyness....some serious 4x4ing but that was just what we all did growing up. I have slid down the side of cliffs, caves, buildings and water towers on a rope (some for fun some for work). I have swam (knowingly) in the same sections of river with estuarine crocodiles (I was young, stoopid and bloody hot). Hunted Asiatic Buffalo through thick scrub alone. Not sure it all counts as some of the things I was to dumb to know better.... . Last time I was in the NT I made a point of NOT swimming with the crocs.... Though I did see a few up close...

Probably the most DANGEROUS by a long shot was pissing off my best mate's wife while she was holding a bloody big blade....she is Sicilian ....

 

[Andy the Aussie]

Snakes and Spiders.... scare the crap out of me!...

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.....mmmmm.....well.... my garage is out for you then (not saying it is a tourist hotspot or anything either) as we get Funnel Webs in there each year.... (google these if you need) .... no snakes just around home here but they are a fact of life in most places.... nothing to loose sleep about though.......

The reptiles around the house here are a little tamer ...

 

[shunsui]

I lead a pretty sedate life, but I have a vivid memory of the driver's mirror on an orange Opel Kadett missing my knee by about half an inch while riding a motorcycle on a winding mountain road. The Opel came around the turn with half his car in my side of the road (which wasn't very wide to begin with). Lucky for us I was on a bike, not a car.

 

[lazi]

I fell in love once or twice!

seriously, it just scares the crap out of me.

 

[Bobber]

Staring down the barrel of a 30.06 hunting rifle for about 45 minutes (from the wrong end) comes to mind.
We where at a party and suddenly, for no reason the host comes in, locks and loads the gun. And puts it right between my eyes.
Dont know what he had taken, but for some reason he thought I was someone else.
Lucky for me I was able to talk him to his sences, and he gave the gun up to someone else. That was about the scariest thing I`ve ever experienced. By the way, I left the party about the same time the para-medics arrived to pick him up. (Yes I beat him up realy bad, first and only time I`ve ever hit a person in anger...)

 

[Steven65]

With about 25 hours I was on a solo training flight and I got caught in line squall.......essentially the bottom of a thunder storm.
It took me about 15 minutes of fighting and three missed approaches to get the little trainer on the ground.......Very unpleasant.

I was in a armed robbery when I was 17.........

 

[Tom Kanik]

Combat

 

[l2lku2]

Pokey, your picture was my holiday job as a teenager. I worked in a snake park and my job was to walk around with a Boa Constrictor and a Polaroid and to take pictures of park visitors with the snake.

I owned an outdoor adventure company so did my fair share of thrill seeking but those were more thrilling or enjoyable than scary. My scariest experiences were usually associated with bouts of absolute stupidity.

The top of the mountain was covered in low clouds and the wind was a little too strong to take off solo with a Paraglider. No problem. My buddy and I decided we would walk down to below cloud cover and fly tandem to compensate for the stronger wind. We took off and rather than glide down below cloud cover as we expected for a 5-10 min glide, we got sucked up into the clouds and stayed there for a very long time.

We could not see a thing. We were flying without instruments so I did not know how high we were, whether we were ascending or descending, or whether we were going forwards or backwards. If going backwards we could have hit the radio tower at the top of the mountain or we could have been blown over the back where the turbulence could have collapsed the glider and killed us.

Hanging there for what seemed like an eternity, I thought there was a good chance that we would die and I was really cursing my own stupidity. I really don't know how long we were up there but we eventually dropped out of the clouds way beyond even our usual landing spot, so we must have gained a lot of altitude. It was a fantastic sense of relief when first dropping out of the clouds and seeing where we were.

The ground crew picked us up, we drove up the mountain, and did the exact same thing again.

Fast forward a few years - I was piloting a powered plane and I fell asleep. When I woke up it felt like my heart stopped for a few seconds upon realizing what had happened.

And there was more scary stupidity but left untold for now.

 

[roenman]

Climbed the Mount Washington Auto Road in New Hampshire on two wheels.
Had no idea it was going to be as it was.
White knuckles 2/3's the way up.

 

[richstag]

Free diving deep with lots of sharks and barracudas is probably the most overall rush I have had. Im sorry but barracudas creep me out more then sharks. The way they look at you is creepy. I run into this kind of thing every time I visit my brother. I am not one with the sharks and barracudas

Its amazing though, with free dive fins you can really move and swim with them and I love to be under water.

 

[Lexi]

I am deathly afraid of heights. The third step on a ladder is about the highest I dare go....however I tried to hike down the Grand Canyon! This proved to be too much adrenaline for me...

Here is a good before picture.

Then is the start of the hike downward, only about 5 minutes had passed, and I was a nervous wreck. The path was NARROW! I back up against the Canyon wall not knowing if I can continue on.

I pulled myself together and made it another 5 minutes, but I ran into this guy. He actually started walking toward me, shaking his horns and stomping his foot!
Game over for me.

I was going to post the photo of me after I made it back to the top, but my eyes are red and puffy from crying. I can't share that.:thumbup:

 

[richstag]

Ah Lexi, you look like my girl when we go mountain biking. Happy, glowing and smiling for the laid back stuff

THEN, when we get to the technical trail running just inches away from an almost sheer rocky fall off she get that red puffy eye thing going on Sometimes she gets so freaked she can't even move.

I didn't like heights and then my firefighting training got me over that . She's getting better with it.

 

[Maqua]

Awesome pics; thats a fine ram!

I ran off a sloping 100+ foot cliff into Lake Buchanan, Texas when I was 15. Stupidly terrifying.

 

[richstag]

[video=youtube;TWfph3iNC-k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k[/video]

I posted this video once before. A friend sent it to me a while back when we were talking about some of the nuttier things we have done. If I watch this video I will go out and do something fun every time without fail. Its the kind of video that makes you get up and live a little.

Its also something I would like to experience in my lifetime.

 

[emt1581]

[video=youtube;TWfph3iNC-k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k[/video]

I posted this video once before. A friend sent it to me a while back when we were talking about some of the nuttier things we have done. If I watch this video I will go out and do something fun every time without fail. Its the kind of video that makes you get up and live a little.

Its also something I would like to experience in my lifetime.

Pure awesomeness right there. That's the kind of thing that lets you know you're alive. I'm not sure what kind of skill or coordination that takes but it sure looks amazing.

-Emt1581

 

[dericdesmond]

Attempting to catch an nmsfno I dropped a cpl months ago. That hurt.