What's the dumbest thing you've ever done in your life?

[ER]

New Year's Eve 2004 I accidentally helped break into a flat in Dublin, Ireland. Honest but monumentally stupid error based on mistaken identity, and the most embarrassing mix-up of my life. Detained by police, a hair's breadth from getting charged with felony burglary. Ultimately released but to this day I haven't heard the last of the teasing from family and friends. And me who's never even had a speeding ticket. Ugh.

Anyone else ever do anything Darwin Award worthy?

[Psycho Circus]

I've been arrested 6 times and tried to commit suicide 3 times, I'm not proud of any of it, it was all really dumb and I hurt alot of people who care about me. Those were serious incidents that looking back on now, have made me a much stronger person. There's been goofy stuff I've done like; I went out for a night on the town in full drag, cut my finger in half peeling potatoes, tripped over an oven, tried to swallow a steak whole and choked on it, urinated on someone for no reason and jumped in a freezing cold duck pond. 

[ghouck]

A few months back I tried crossing a shallow yet fast-running stream on my quad and got swept downstream. It was a glacier-fed stream, so it was super cold and I was swept 50 yards or so, most of it while UNDER my quad. Did it right in from of my kid, so had I bit the big one in the process He'd have seen it all. While all that was happening, I lost a $300 GPS, my goggles, and ultimately my Eraserhead sweatshirt.

I've done worse, I just have most of it blocked out. .

[akiratubo]

My entire relationship with my ex-fiancee.  

[Sleepyskull]

When I was about 10 or 12 years old (I had a ton of problems back then) I jumped into a fountain in Baltimore, Maryland. I swam in it and climbed on some sculptures. The whole time my aunt who was looking after me and my sister who was with us were trying to catch me and encouraging me to come out. Even though my aunt was pretty mad (if I remember correctly) I consider it one of the funniest and most rewarding experiences of my life.   

[indianasmith]

Let's see . . .

I distinctly remember getting into my 1980 mustang and gripping the roof of the car with my left hand as I settled into my seat . . . then reaching across my body with my right hand and closing the car door firmly.


On my left hand!!

[ghouck]

Once when I was in the Army and on special duty (driving a fishing boat, cool eh?), a friend and I got really drunk and tried getting on a cruise ship that was docked in town. The problem was that we tried getting on, , with a grappling hook. We couldn't throw it nearly high enough to catch onto anything, so it just made a loud clang against the hull and came right back at us. Apparently the police watched up do this about a half a dozen times before they saved us, from ourselves. The hook was big enough it would have bashed our skulls if it were to hit up on the way down, , which it nearly did.

[Patient7]

Mt sister once dared me to eat chapstick, I asked if it was toxic. 

[CheezeFlixz]

Argued with logic on the internet with someone lacking it.

[Newt]

Darn. Cheeze beat me to it.  But it was definitely the dumbest thing I've done - and likely will continue to do.   

[Jack]

The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd times I fell in love.

[Rev. Powell]

Popped MONSTER A-GO-GO into the DVD player.

[Hammock Rider]

  I went to college on a partial scholarship but dropped out sophmore year to become a "detective" with a high school buddy of mine down in Corpus Christi Texas. "It didn't work out" is putting it mildly and it still haunts me to this day in various ways, including the fact that I still haven't completed college. On the other hand, I did get to visit Brownsville Texas, which must be the Stray Dog Capital of America.

[raj]

Driving under the influence of various substances.  Real stupid.

I also should have pulled out of the stock market a couple of weeks ago.

[asimpson2006]

Having to pull money that my late grandmother gave me before she died 3 times to get out of credit card debt (Well the first one was also to pay off a lot of medical bills.)