tell me the most dare-devil type thing you've done

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I'm talking like diving with sharks, bungee jumping out of a plane, running with the bulls, etc.

I'm soooo not adventurous or a risk taker.  I really admire people that are & wish I knew how to change my outlook.

So tell me what you've done & did it scare the crap out of you? Was it one of the best (or worst) moments in your life?

As it stands today, the craziest thing I've done is zip-line over some woods.

[looseseal]

Just sky diving, two tandem jumps. Although I enjoyed it, I wouldn't do it again now. The first time was preferable to the second, and it really was an amazing feeling, and a beautiful view.

[iamali]

I've jumped out of a moving car (it was only going like 25 mph), but I was 17 and drunk. So.......

[iamali]

Oct 18, 2013 16:50:57 GMT -5 intentionalsnarkshark said:

I once used a public restroom without first putting down a seat liner.

AND YOU LIVED TO TELL ABOUT IT??

ZOMG.

[ginap]

I went tandem skydiving. It was meh.

[muppetinma]

I like adventure and adrenaline. I've gone sky diving, bungee jumping, swimming with sharks, hang gliding, long distance ultra-lighting. Give me the opportunity to do something adventurous and stupid and I'm the first in line.

I'd say the riskiest stuff I've done includes traveling to countries by myself, where I didn't speak the language, without too many plans. I spent a month in China, traveling the country, without a translator or travel partner. I didn't even have an international cell phone. It wasn't scary. It was exciting! Alas, those days are over for the time being.

[lola]

I went parasailing in Mexico. I was on a week-long trip, and pretty drunk when I agreed to do it. Not long after take off, my rope broke and I slowly fell down into the Pacific Ocean.

When the boat came around to pick me (thank god for life jackets) up the driver said, "We'll get a new rope and you can try again!"

And I did.

[walterismydog]

Man, I don't even know where to start here.

Tattoo at 15 with a fake ID...and many more since then
Sex among the crawfish
Moving across the country by myself, knowing nobody, on a coin flip
Breaking into a historic building in HS just to explore


All things I've done in life have been worth it, in one way or another.

[flex]

Moved to Alaska when I was 20.

[LeggsBenedict]

who bungee jumps out of a plane?

[lola]

Oct 18, 2013 16:55:42 GMT -5 loonylunalovegood said:

OMG! When you said parasailing I was like that's NBD! Then I kept on reading. I would have died.

Yeah, stupid stupid! lol. When I got back up the second time I had SERIOUS anxiety for the whole ride. Any time I was over rocks or whatever I was *sure* I was going to fall again. My dad would have killed me - before I left he made me promise to not parasail while I was there. lol.

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Oct 18, 2013 16:58:52 GMT -5 LeggsBenedict said:

who bungee jumps out of a plane?

lol, maybe that's not even a thing? I wouldn't know.  I'm just living in my safe little cocoon over here.

[Muddled]

I've bungee jumped and gone diving with sharks and done some crazy high hikes.

Bungee is scary. It's just not normal to jump off a bridge, but it is a lot of fun. I would never do it in a place that wasn't beautiful- like a carnival parking lot. It just wouldn't be worth it.

I never thought of diving with sharks (not great whites) as scary or any more risky than diving on its own. They just do their own thing while you sit back and watch. they are beautiful.

Angel's Landing is the most risky thing I have done recently, I guess. There is a portion of the hike where you walk over a ridge that feels like it is no more than 10 ft wide. The views and the sense of accomplishment at the top make it all worth it.

[LeggsBenedict]

Oct 18, 2013 17:00:28 GMT -5 @blushnbashful said:

Oct 18, 2013 16:58:52 GMT -5 LeggsBenedict said:

who bungee jumps out of a plane?

lol, maybe that's not even a thing? I wouldn't know.  I'm just living in my safe little cocoon over here.

I mean, people jump out of planes, but I'm pretty sure you don't bungee jump out of them.

although I feel like someone maybe bungee jumped from a hovering helicopter on tv once? lol

[Deleted]

Never in a million years or for $1M.  My biggest fear:

[lexxasaurus]

Oct 18, 2013 17:07:42 GMT -5 @blushnbashful said:

Never in a million years or for $1M.  My biggest fear:

This is my number one on my list of things I MUST do!

I dunno that I've done much? Swam near creatures (small sharks, seals, etc) because I grew up on an island but I never thought of it as scary.
A lot of cliff jumping. I LOVE the free fall feeling before you hit the water.

[shadynasty]

I haven't done anything that dangerous... I guess the worst I've done was break into an abandoned house by myself. That was probably stupid. I've also gotten my nether region pierced and traveled to a foreign country alone at 18. My mom wants to go sky diving though, and I will totally go with her if she does.

[pinkpinot]

Had a baby in my living room and delivered him myself. Only my husband was present. Midwife didn't make it in time so it wasn't on purpose but it will probably be the most ballsy thing I have ever and will ever do.

[Deleted]

Tandem skydive, swimming with sharks in the open ocean, drove a buggy in the Baja 250, rode on the back of numerous crotch rockets at unsafe speeds, two helicopter rides (One over the grand canyon and one over Kauai), lots of dirtbike riding.. that's all I can think of right now.

Oh, cliff jumping..

[urbancowgirl]

Took a bite out of a pear that was left on a seat on DC's Metro. A coworker bet me $20 I wouldn't do it. It was a Bartlett so I did it. If it had been a D'Anjou, no way.

[shoeless]

This is probability the stupidest. People have been paralyzed from this jump, but my bigger issues this time was the waves (look in the background) the during swim back to shore they tossed me around like a rag doll.. it sucked.... but was soooo worth it.  I love the adrenaline rush

Another things include learning to fly an airplane, riding helicopters to glaciers, sky diving (tandem), and standing 5 feet from a black bear (the bear came to the trail we were on, we did NOT go to the bear)

[circa1978]

I just went through with the spay tan thing. In a BOOTH.

[shoeless]

Oct 18, 2013 17:14:33 GMT -5 lexxasaurus said:

I dunno that I've done much? Swam near creatures (small sharks, seals, etc) because I grew up on an island but I never thought of it as scary.
A lot of cliff jumping. I LOVE the free fall feeling before you hit the water.

This

[zitiqueen]

I did two static line jumps out of an airplane. And I put pantyhose on while driving on the Ohio Turnpike.

[tdk2]

I use to sky dive and white water raft a lot.

I can also catch large crabs (with pincers that can crush thumb bones) with my bare hands and a stick. Learned the aboriginal way

Oh and maybe living in a vw van for a year and driving around Australia counts. We bought a boat and fished all over in super remote spots. Sometimes there'd be sharks where I'd hop out to swim (usually only smaller reef sharks though) but I'd also hop out to swim w random dolphins.

The rest is just normal backpacking and stuff. Nothing Too crazy that I can think of.

[Muddled]

Oct 18, 2013 17:37:02 GMT -5 urbancowgirl said:

Took a bite out of a pear that was left on a seat on DC's Metro. A coworker bet me $20 I wouldn't do it. It was a Bartlett so I did it. If it had been a D'Anjou, no way.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

[lucky513]

I use to walk home late at night in a bad neighborhood

[wildfloweragain]

Tandem skydiving. Hitchhiking.

Stupid and dangerous:
Riding in cars with drunk people on twisty turny roads in Ireland.
Walking/playing on the frozen lake as a kid (without telling parents because I wasn't allowed to. Our lake only freezes in some spots.)

[mommylikestattoos]

I flew by myself to Costa Rica to meet up with some friends at a remote surf camp. They had already been there for about a month and only had email access every few days. Even though I was in my mid 20s, I totally lied to my parents and told them I was traveling with a friend so they wouldn't give me a hard time.

Or the time I was in Jamaica on spring break in college. My then BF and I hired a taxi driver for the day to show us around some of the less touristy areas. This included going up in the mountains to see one of the growing fields. As we were following this dude with a machete up a barely visible trail in the middle of nowhere, we realized no one knew where we were, and we kind of had an "oh shit" moment. But nothing bad happened and we lived to tell the tale.

[underwaterrhymes]

I've been sky diving 3 times despite a fear of heights.

I don't necessarily see this as dare-devil, but I sold or gave away everything I had and moved to Eastern Europe despite not having a job to be with H (who was just my boyfriend at the time and serving in the Peace Corps there).