What are some questionable/dangerous activities you have participated in?

Bicycle jousting. Dating a crazy chick.

Smoking.
Jumping off moving buses.
Driving much too fast.
Riding a bicycle when drunk. That was very funny – but stupid. We rode our bikes out into the countryside after consuming a lot of wine.
I can’t think of anything else, but I’m sure there are other things back there.

@chyna I did those 3 you mention too, and had a boyfriend in my early 20’s that was a Cocaine dealer. hey, it was 1978. haha
I have ridden horses a lot and have been hurt on horses on more than one occasion. I took a Lake Canoe down the rapids at midnight high on LSD waay back when, that was a brilliant one but we all survived, capsized a few tomes. haha
Yes, the usual, driving too fast at times, but I always wear my seat belt. :-)
I am also pretty fearless around animals and have been bitten by squirrels and rodents I save from my cats and a few other risky wildlife encounters.

I used to do a lot of rock climbing and mountain climbing. Thank goodness I never got hurt.

I’ve done quite a bit of dangerous skiing, jumping off cornices and skiing some steep chutes.

I used to do a lot of stupid things while drunk.

Marriage
Parenthood

Got in a van with a guy who was helping with the dead battery in my car.

When I was a very little girl I missed my bus and got in a car with two men that saw me crying. I was walking by where they were playing tennis. They drive me home.

Took a ride with two guys from a train station to my hotel when my boyfriend wasn’t there to meet me. The train station was dark and desolate. I had been talking to the men on the train.

When I was a young teen I did that thing where you hold your breath, someone pushes on your chest, and you pass out. I only did it once.

I had unprotected sex with men. I’ve only slept with 6 men including my husband, I wasn’t a wild child. Only two were unprotected and risky I would say. One of the risky guys was a guy I dated for almost 6 years, but he was a cheater! AIDS hit the scene while we were dating. He was supposed to be monogamous with me. Luckily, I don’t have HIV. Ugh. Sucks that sex is risky.

I few times I drove to DC by myself and met people down there. Not the best place to walk by yourself at night. Especially, where some of the clubs were.

Played in the waves of a storm surge during a hurricane.

It was fun. Don’t do it.

I practiced baseball in hail storms. No need to collect the ball. I ran over the railing for a walkway full tilt in university. I even jumped off the bridge walkway for fun.

Joining this site and speaking my mind. Wonder what would happen if anyone saw my post and recognized me.

believe it or not, meth. I don’t do it anymore.

SCA sanctioned raiper sword fighting. Nearly broke my neck bone ended up in hospital. I wore neck guards from there on. Also as a little kid I threw rocks at drug dealers smoking pot in public. They bullied me until my growth spirt went into my favor and stopped running and began fighting back.

Um, if you were participating in SCA rapier without wearing a gorget, the Marshall in charge should have been beaten soundly about the head and shoulders.

That is a firm no-no.

Climbing & then jumping off buildings, mostly schools & colleges
Pissing my name in the snow…outside our local police station
Shagged a married woman & her sister…not at the same time (judge away)
Jumped off a pier into the sea fully clothed
Rode a bike in the snow, gathered speed & slammed the brakes on…hello somersault

ages 10 to 17
Hoping a moving freight train and riding it for a bunch of miles.

Climbing to the top of a very tall billboard over a busy highway.

Riding my bike on the raised median strip down the middle of a busy highway.

Walking on a semi-frozen river for a few miles.

Playing in an abandoned brick foundry on an almost daily basis.

Climbing a tree near a highway and throwing rocks at passing cars.

Cleaning and bagging marijuana to ready it for sale on the street.

Hanging onto the back of moving car bumpers in the snow and getting dragged for blocks (called “mushing”).

Played tag with bottle rockets.

Set a dumpster on fire.

Stood up to a group of gang members on the train, in a fairly racially charged way.

Took the train into and explored much of Boston alone starting at age eleven.

college
Drove like a maniac (sped, played chicken with trucks, lost my license).

adulthood
Dragged a Hong King airport official across a counter for suggesting we leave “it” behind (referring to our newly adopted daughter) as there was no airline ticket for her. This resulted in a couple armed soldiers pointing their rifles at me.

omg When I think of the stuff I’ve done. I hitchhiked once with a stranger, a guy my age at fifteen. I let a stranger from a dating thing into my apartment at forty two but ended up marrying him. I also let a big, strong guy of 32 into my apartment after meeting him at a club and dancing with him. That was risky. As a passenger in a car at seventeen the driver let me push the accelerator down until we were going 100 mph in a residential neighborhood. That was probably the worst I’ve ever done. I’m ashamed of myself right now.

Wow, I hitchhiked all the time from the age of 12 until I was 18. But I didn’t consider it “questionable/dangerous activities”.

Having sex with people I only texted/chatted with in phone and meet face-to-face only about 30 minutes or less, then went to their place for some ‘amusement’.

I hitchhiked a lot in my twenties. I had a couple of weirdos come on to me but they both stopped and let me out when I said, “No way!” Of course they were dudes while my fantasy was a beautiful woman would give me in a ride and then I’d reciprocate.

I smoked for years, that was dumb. And we’d straddle the platforms between two L cars so we could smoke and drink on the train.

I hitch hiked too, forgot all about it. No weirdos ever, lucky me as I was a very cute young thing back in the day. haha

Sex with married men when I was younger.
Tried some drugs I shouldn’t have.
Telling my sons about my drug history…..
that should have stayed private and I
should have never told them.

@Coloma And you were in the land of Ted Bundy back then. <shivers>

@chyna I know..and, I bet I would have been an easy victim being a friendly, outgoing and eager to help type.
One of his ruses was to put a fake cast on his arm with a sling and then cruise the lakes asking young women to help him launch his boat. With the old broken wing routine and being a good looking “nice” guy, he nabbed a lot of his victims that way.

Rock climbing. Motorcycle riding. Driving a car in excess of 100mpg. Going into enclosures with tigers and cougars and snow leopards.

@syz I’m so jealous that you got to be that close to the animals!

Well, this thread is teaching me that I need to get out there more…. I have a family member who has always been a bit overly sensitive in terms of safety. For a timely example, we used to have to check all of our Halloween candy for tiny holes/piercings in the wrapper indicative of needle-injected poison before we could eat any of it. On the other hand, I know how to use potentially dangerous items (saws, sharp knives, etc.) very safely.

In 1995 I road on the bumper on the Edmonton city transit In the winter ice twice , Just like Marty McFly in Back to the Future without the skate board. Also legit riding was dangerous. I was thrown in front the bus stop to guarantee that they get on first in high school.

I rode on the back of my then husband’s Kawasaki 500 motorcycle all through the Rockies many, many times, often passing people. I can’t believe I’m still alive.
When we were with friends who also had bikes we went to a place in Dallas that had a big creek. I didn’t know what those guys were mumbling but, the next thing I knew, we were jumping that creek , flying through the air over and over again. I screamed my head off each time.
We also raced cars in Denver past dark. That was fun, actually!

Jumped on/off a moving train

Had sex in a car on the freeway while I was driving.

Pulled by a car while riding a Taco Bell tray.

Climbed to the top of a light pole.

Screwed shoes to a skateboard… It was fun till you wanted or needed to stop.

Been in house fires. Been on fire. (separate instances)

Fell asleep in the water on a boogie board and got pulled out to sea.

Driving while drinking.

Had guns aimed at me (cops – wasn’t doing anything wrong – I was 13).

Been a passenger in a car with the craziest driver I’ve known to date. What should have been a 40+ minute trip took 10.

Had my hand in a few large drug deals…

After watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, tried to catch darts that were thrown at me, like a ninja. Caught one in my finger. Coulda been worse~

I make a tradition of getting onto the highest rooftop I can in every new city I go to… It’ll probably get me in trouble one day.

Lots of close deserved calls with rattlesnakes.

Made a bomb or two in my day, for fun.

Bought e/weed off some random guy in Vegas.

Walked between a pool and my dad, with a cell phone in my pocket.