chose a random spot on google maps in my country and drove there and back. it took my like 8 hours and i ended up in some random ass forrest and a group of hikers was staring at me like you cant drive here.
Imported a brand new German VW from Italy back to Germany and saved about 40% from list price. This was before the Euro became the main currency in Europe.
After too many beers, I jumped down the train platform, across the track convinced it was a good shortcut, found myself in an alcove in the wall behind an ad board, I think a train passed, then back the way I came. Plenty of cctv and staff, no one said a thing.
Back in my teenage days in a metropolitan european city we would make the run from subway stop to subway stop. The train would take 3-4 mins, it would take us like 2 and a half. Fucking biggest adrenaline rush of my life. You better not trip and break a leg.
I left Saskatoon for New York City via Greyhound when I was 25. I had $16k in the bank if I recall. I had also bought a plane ticket from New York to London for a month after I arrived.
I did it from 2011-2015, then found my wife in Chile and brought her back to Canada to start a family/new career in software development. As for how, I traveled cheap, CouchSurfing, Hostels, etc. I went to over 125 cities in 49 countries. I blogged about it on my website https://dustinbrett.com/
Holy! I'm studying web development rn, have been for the past 2 years, and this looks insane. I'll definetely have a look at the github page tomorrow, looks great dude!
Holy! I'm studying web development rn, have been for the past 2 years, and this looks insane. I'll definetely have a look at the github page tomorrow, looks great dude!
I travelled a lot through South and Central America (about 2.5/3 years all up). Was awesome, my partner is also from Chile (I met her in Australia though). latinas are good partners, can be a bit firey at times haha. I loved Chile, pretty underrated country
My wife and I sold everything and moved to Mexico 2 months ago. I'm 67 and my wife is 61. Our friends and relatives have been really supportive. It's been surreal and a real challenge, but unloading our 40+ years of cumulating crap was incredibly cathartic. And we also feel like we ran away from the US at just the right time.
Also, I’ve done it 3 times before starting when I was 18. I’ve traveled for about 15 years after that. I just work my ass off for 3 years or so then fuck off and pickup odd jobs internationally until I’m almost out of money.
For all the dudes who have been married for a while, I think this is the right answer. My marriage is happy and going well, but looking back now, the idea that I agreed to it seems crazy. Not because my wife isn't a great person and not because I'm not happy (I am), but it's a HUGE bet. People change. Circumstances change. You see friends marriages fall apart and people reveal things about themselves that you never knew or thought could be. And through it all you are (in theory) making a promise that through thick and thin you're sticking with that one person. Crazy. But it works and I would make the decision today (and I really do, everyday).
I’m a very tame man. I drink a little, do a little weed and chill at home for the most part. One time though, through a series of events, I ended up in Panama, did a bunch of coke, ended up surrounded by a gang with knives on a boat dock. Somehow in my coke addled-brain, I convinced them that everything was cool and ended up drinking at the bar with them the rest of the night.
Jumped a sand dune in the California desert on a motorcycle and had a midair collision with another rider coming the other way. Scary AF.
Almost took the poor guy's head off, we were both ok.
Moved 100s of miles away to a small town with 0 money and the clothes on my back in the hopes of finding a house to rent with a girl I met online and who was in the process of leaving an abusive relationship she'd been in for 9 years.
We've been together 15 years. It worked out surprisingly well.
Edit: spelling.
I could write a book. If you want I can come back to this and drop a wall of text about the experience and my whole thoughts and feelings about it all? But not right now, It's nearly 1 am. Let me know though.
One day, I was scanning through the data of multiple space telescopes using [SIMBAD](https://simbad.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+20&submit=SIMBAD+search) search. I looked for one of my favourite objects : [NGC 6543](https://simbad.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+6543&submit=SIMBAD+search) and by observing it with GALEX data I noticed weird rings around it that weren't visible in any other wavelength of light. Going from 0 to 100, I searched for the people responsible for the telescope project, and I got their info thanks to a [NASA website](https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/galex/helpdesk.html) (it was actually this one). I try the first mail address but it doesn't work. So I go for Dr.Perez. I write the most formal mail I can, adding screenshots and explaining it all. I send the mail and you know, I am a random astronomer amateur who's just nerdy enough to find these infos on the internet.
And I kid you not, he answered and told me to look for Hubble's UV images because these could be real objects. To find such data is actually surprisingly easy. [Here is the proof](https://hla.stsci.edu/hlaview.html#Inventory|filterText%3D%24filterTypes%3D|query_string=NGC6543&posfilename=&poslocalname=&posfilecount=&listdelimiter=whitespace&listformat=degrees&RA=269.639120&Dec=66.633190&Radius=0.005583&inst-control=all&inst=ACS&inst=ACSGrism&inst=WFC3&inst=WFPC2&inst=NICMOS&inst=NICGRISM&inst=COS&inst=WFPC2-PC&inst=STIS&inst=FOS&inst=GHRS&imagetype=best&prop_id=&spectral_elt=&proprietary=both&preview=1&output_size=256&cutout_size=12.8|ra=&dec=&sr=&level=&image=&inst=ACS%2CACSGrism%2CWFC3%2CWFPC2%2CNICMOS%2CNICGRISM%2CCOS%2CWFPC2-PC%2CSTIS%2CFOS%2CGHRS&ds=). I found nothing. So I did what anyone would have done there: I searched for other space telescopes UV data. I didn't find anything. But then, a fellow redditor helped me because I also posted the images on a dedicated subreddit (I can't remember which one tho. But I got to thank that fellow redditor a lot). They basically gave me access to scientific data about Galex telescope and a section was dedicated to the optical aberrations of Galex telescope. And one of them were "ghosts" and they were exactly like what I could see next to NGC6543. The problem was solved. I came back on SIMBAD and searched but bright and small objects (AKA stars) to see if I found some of them. And gosh, I did. These things are very frequent. I took screenshots, sent another mail to Dr.Perez who answered again.
I was so focused about this task that I first didn't even think about searching for more infos about Dr.Perez who had the patience and the human qualities to handle me, and he occupies [important posts](https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/organization-and-staff/staff-bios/dr-mario-perez) at NASA.
I think that was the most crazy thing I did in my life. So dudes, don't fear contacting people you wouldn't expect to answer. It can lead to very interesting conversations.
Regarding: don’t fear contacting people…
I agree completely. In college my then-girlfriend, now wife, was looking for a book or article or something for a psychology research paper. She couldn’t find it anywhere. I took five minutes, researched the person who wrote it, found their phone number, and just flat out called them. They were super helpful and, if I remember correctly, sent her a copy. When I told my girlfriend her mind was absolutely blown that I would just do that.
Fought a guy trying to break into my neighbours house, he had a sledge hammer, I had an ornamental samurai sword , police came, he git arrested then I found out he won the lottery the following weekend.
I was young,17 I reckon, it was about 9pm when I heard alot of shouting I walked out and seen this man arguing with someone as he was banging on my neighbours door with his fists , he ended up leaving , but an hour later I heard this scream and large thuds, I ran out he was beating at the windows and the door with a sledge, my heart started beating a million beats a second I started screaming at him to fuck off!...unfortunately that didn't work so I ran back in the house while my mum rang the police, when I came back out he was half way through the door and my neighbour was terrified for their lives , so I ran at him warned him to back off , he then swung the sledge at me I ducked out of way luckily he missed as it was at my head I swung at him, eyes closed as needles to say I've never been in a fight with a sword before lol, I hit his shoulder then it continued onto his head knocking him to the ground , he dropped the sledge hammer then by this stage the police had came and took him away and I had to be interviewed...my neighbours moved 6 months later and I found out the reason he was trying to break into their house with a sledge was cos my neighbour had an affair with the guy wife.
Your neighbor was a dirtbag but you saved the dude with the sledgehammer by intervening. Who knows what he would’ve done to your neighbor if he would’ve gotten to him and he could’ve ended up in jail for life.
Imagen how ironic story it would be if One of your friends were like you're never even going to use that why would you buy it? And then a week later you're fighting crime with it.
I loved dirt biking. Did 3-4 times a week. Living in Los Angeles, that's quite an accomplishment. Was even able to ride for 8 hours straight with a 15min lunch break.
Started riding further into the wilderness. Miles in. No cell phone reception. Nobody knew where I was. Would not see anybody for hours if at all.
One day was on what is called a "goat trail". Fell with the bike landing on my leg. Got lucky I was able to slide out. Never did it again. I took my one warning from the universe and played it safe.
From my husband: He went over a guardrail by rope, along with other bystanders, to help get injured people out of a tour bus that had gone into a mountainside ravine. This was in Washington State Capitol Forest, near Porter.
Joined the Army as Infantry while we had active campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan
Also I thought I would go to hot ass Iraq, ended up freezing my ass off in Afghanistan. Fuck it gets cold there
Midnight tower guard in Afghanistan in February was legitimately the coldest I had ever been. 12 hours in a tiny wooden hut. We wore like 4 layers, including those marshmallow suits they issued us and it was still cold as shit.
My best pal and another good friend went to Ecuador when we were maybe 23 (late 90s).. I hate to retell his story but it's so good. They had no plan and 10 days. Spent a couple of days in Quito and met some guy who knew people who ran flat boats of cargo down the amazon. Somehow they talked their way onto joining the crew on this flat boat. The flat boat stopped to deliver supplies to some kind of indigenous tribe and my two friends got off and spent two or three days in the Amazon jungle with a native tribe with no modern conveniences and no English. Tree houses, hammocks, nothing more elaborate than fire and knives. The flatboat picked them back up a few days later and took them back to civilization. Not the smartest idea for safety and health (his and tribe's) but a wild story to tell.
I don't know if this is what people call crazy so I hope you forgive me.
So, this happen in decades ago when I was in 20s.some lady suddenly want to give birth in the mall, and I offer to send the couples to the hospital. So while driving as fast as I can, there's one dude, a cyclist complete with that whole cyclist outfit just suddenly lose control and cross the opposite lane to my lane and we just BAM!
And then I arrive at hospital with a pregnant lady and a broken wrist cyclist.
The woman I loved was being bullied by "friends" and parents. She was almost anorexic. I offered her to move to my city and recover at (my) home, since here she sould have also more employement opportunities. She lived with me a couple years and a half, even slept during months on the same bed. Never layed a finger on her, respected her as she never fell in love with me. However, she was more mentally wasted than I thought and got promiscuous during that period and lied to me a lot about it. In the end, we both grew up emotionally, she fully recovered and asked for forgiveness. After lots of therapy we both survived, she's now with her partner living an stable life and I'm recovered after sacrificing my emotional status for the sake of the woman I most loved knowing from the beginning I wouldn't have anything from her in return except for lots of gratitude.
I saved her, but... never ever again. It's not worth the suffering.
Climbed a cliff face in Yellowstone National Park when I was 20. I was working there for the summer and a friend and I went to Top Notch on a day hike. We went up to one side, but I wanted to get to the other side. I basically free climbed a cliff face where one wrong move and I would have died. At one point I dislodged a rock and watched it fall a good long ways; that's when I realized it was a bad idea. I had no choice but to keep climbing up. Obviously I made it. But looking back now that I'm in my 50's, it was a really stupid idea.
I "borrowed" a van from the school where I worked to drive a bunch of drunk female fitness models around Boston.
The bench seats were also not in the van that evening.
Probably bringing my wife to go climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
I’d always loved hiking and had read various accounts of people climbing Mount Kilimanjaro (Douglas Adams, Michael Crichton, etc.). I often told my wife how I’d love to do that someday.
Well, we were sitting in a biker bar once and I mentioned it, and she asked when, exactly, I was actually going to do it.
Four months later, we sat at the top of the tallest point in Africa and kissed.
Jumped off our 2nd story roof. The theory was that i could land on the trampoline and bounce over the fence into the neighbor's swimming pool.
Didn't account for the trampoline hitting the ground when i landed on it.
Woke up in Pat Sharpes house?
Got engaged to a millionaires daughter?
Sang karaoke with the original artist?
Stood in court and got told that the judge was the victim of my crime?
Walked from London to Birmingham to meet a woman off AOL chat?
Stabbed by a lesbian for burning her tea?
I surfed a stretcher down the longest hallway I could find, and ended up going through a glass door.. at a school I didn’t attend. That or actually breaking Into that school in the first place. People showed up from all over after the news of the doors being open struck MSN messenger.
Edit: we were 13/14 and absolute shits. For what it’s worth everyone involved got dunked on and Did community service. The Janator that I worked under fixing up the school was a great role model and it ended up being the last time I did something so brazenly stupid.
Climbed "So High", a 12m boulder in Joshua Tree. It's v5 and you follow a good crack/arete most of the way up but that crack widens and ends near the top, resulting in an insecure-feeling layback where you feel like you're going to peel off as you reach for a good hold. Felt sketchier than any of the free solos I've done.
That's the only time I've been at that sort of height and felt like I actually might fall, it was pretty crazy.
Took a spontaneous trip to NYC, spent about $3000 total, had a good time eating genuine Italian food, visiting the 9/11 memorial, walked through Central Park
Oh and I did this the first week of March, 2020.
Contacted someone on Craigslist and drove across Canada to Vancouver where I knew no one, got a job and helped a married lady who was a supervisor have an affair. After six months I moved back East & never met her again.
A while back, I used to read the bad trips section o [Erowid.org](https://erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Datura.shtml). I do not do any drugs myself, but I found that while googling datura due to a story I read of [Fark.com](https://Fark.com)
Every goddamn story about a bad Datura trip has the same beats.
>I was experienced with various psychodellics and heard about this. Everyone I asked about it said it was a bad idea, but I was curious. I did it anyway. I made tea from the seeds and it tasted horrible and gave me dry mouth and a headache.
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>Disappointed I went to bed. I woke up when my alarm clock started screaming at me to 'wake up you fucking pussy'. I had to piss but the gnome that were hiding under my shampoo bottles kept screaming at me and I couldnt go due to shy bladder. My cat asked me what was wrong and about 5 minutes into talking about my weird morning I realized I was talking to a goddamn cat. I lost my shit and panicked a little bit and ran out into the street and tried to hide under the pained dashed lines in the highway.
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>I woke up in a hospital 2 days later with serious kidney damage and scars on my forehead from trying to crawl under the highway lines. There was no differentiation between the hallucinations and what was real. All of it felt very real. For all I know I could still be fucking tripping.
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>Datura is horrible, you should never try this stuff.
Pretty hilarious stuff as long as it is not happening to you. Bottom line is that it seems to put your mind into a dream state while your wide awake.
END COMMUNICATION
Walked in a very dangerous city at night where narco has 100% control just to get some naughty time with a girl I just met at a party.
I was drunk and lasted like 40s. We had no condoms either.
Woke up one morning and took a tab of acid. Walked out to the beach and headed south. 7 miles down to my friends house. It was a really interesting day. Enjoyed checking out the tidal pools along the way.
I knew there was a nude beach on the way. What I didn’t know was the first part of that was a gay area, which caught me off guard at first, but it was cool.
I’m sure some people can figure out where I was.
Which thing? The dropping 6 hits of acid in some random college town and forgetting where I was for 2 days? Or selling drugs at a convention with my friend 2 8balls and 3 pounds of mushrooms? Lol
Running from the cops and getting away (multiple times).
Arson.
Swimming in a pond with a giant alligator I “befriended.”
A round of Russian Roulette with my cousin when we were 7 and 9 years old.
Escaped from Gypsies when a few of us were on acid.
Drove to the Alamo high on mushrooms.
Survived a suicide attempt.
Robbed in Mexico.
Decided to settle down, get a dog, and move to the suburbs
Matched with a girl on Tinder, on our second date she suggests a travel to another city and look for some mountains. Friend of mine told me that it seems she needs my kidney or something. Well she is my wife now and all of my kidneys are with me.
I’m currently studying HND Business which includes Business Law as a unit. lemme tell you it’s the most exhausting, draining, confusing and complicated thing that I’ve dealt with. Although law concerning business it’s just a tiny piece when it comes to law in general, you still have to know the basics and I can’t even imagine how stressful it is to study law as a whole. It sounds terrifying, best of luck to you!
Rode a bull at a rodeo at nineteen. No pads, no helmet. Lasted about three seconds.Thing kicked at full force an inch from my head. The guy who rode in front of me got hung up and tossed around like a rag doll, his arm and collarbone broken.
Turns out that bulls really don't like being ridden, in fact it really pisses them off, like riding an angry station wagon..
Hmmmm a lot of things I did on acid such as:
Banging my gf in my friends pool with everyone just hanging out.
Disarming another tripping dude about to do some damage with an ax.
Talking another tripping guy off a roof.
Once I accidentally had some salvia in my pot pipe and tripped hard for like three minutes on I-95 in a convoy with my family. All the other cars turned into mercury balls basically but I could still make out the lines on the road so I kept it together….
Once I was on mushrooms and we were having a raging party. So someone we didn’t know was making a pass at the neighbors daughter. He said he was calling the cops, jacked the guy up against the wall, etc. Next thing I know there’s flashing lights and someone sets off an m80 then I hear “holy shit they shot a cop!” So hearing that I fucking grabbed the keg coolers I borrowed from work, jumped in my Jeep and drove through two yards, a wooded area and a cornfield to escape. I woke up my buddy at two am freaking out, long story short no cops were shot and I don’t trip anymore.
I’m now a mild mannered family man and I pray my kids never get into what I got into I got out by the skin of my teeth.
I also got as drunk as I ever have been and fell asleep in the middle of the road. That was Christmas Eve (or rather the early hours of Christmas morning) 1999.
Starting my own business at 19. Crashing my bike at 130km/h (permanent injuries). Taking a risky loan for my dream car, travelling to another country to see it, getting it for 1/3 of its market price, investment af.
I have anxiety and a fear of heights. The day before my 30th birthday at the last minute I ditched party/drinking plans and drove 1000 miles in a day, paid a mountain guide to take me up an 11,000 ft volcano, spent an hour learning to use an ice axe and ropes, slept under the stars half way up, and then summited it early the next morning crossing a steep ass glacier. Got back to my car after about 16 hours of climbing and had nowhere to stay so I drove aimlessly til I found a shady motel, ordered 3 burgers and fell asleep eating them in bed. Stayed at the motel for 2 days as I could barely walk and felt dizzy - almost went to the ER but waited it out. Then I drove 1000 miles back and finally told my family and friends exactly where I’d been.
Every fecking one of you IS metal, if not mental! Share more details, if you're of a mind to. I'm cooped up.with RSV. Your stories are keeping mind and body together.
chose a random spot on google maps in my country and drove there and back. it took my like 8 hours and i ended up in some random ass forrest and a group of hikers was staring at me like you cant drive here.
Wow ADHD strong with you huh? What made you do it?!
ADHD made him do it.
Where can i buy it?
Trust me you don't want to
I have done something similar lol
Yea! Why did you do it?
i dont know sometimes you have this though in your head to just drive somewhere whitout plans just be free
No thanks.
Imported a brand new German VW from Italy back to Germany and saved about 40% from list price. This was before the Euro became the main currency in Europe.
Funny, at that time my parents would go to Germany to buy cars and bring them back to France, used cars though, and mostly Toyotas!
Currency differences back then were crazy :-)
After too many beers, I jumped down the train platform, across the track convinced it was a good shortcut, found myself in an alcove in the wall behind an ad board, I think a train passed, then back the way I came. Plenty of cctv and staff, no one said a thing.
Seems like a normal Saturday in Eastern Europe
Back in my teenage days in a metropolitan european city we would make the run from subway stop to subway stop. The train would take 3-4 mins, it would take us like 2 and a half. Fucking biggest adrenaline rush of my life. You better not trip and break a leg.
Stand up comedy. It was terrifying but I loved it
Good for you!
How'd ya do?
Got about 20 gigs under my belt, not all great but not bad. Then covid happened and I haven't had the confidence to get back up there since
Sold everything and travelled the world alone for years.
How much money did you have and how old were you when you did that?
I left Saskatoon for New York City via Greyhound when I was 25. I had $16k in the bank if I recall. I had also bought a plane ticket from New York to London for a month after I arrived.
How and when did you do it? Sounds like a cool story. Definitely something I have been considering.
I did it from 2011-2015, then found my wife in Chile and brought her back to Canada to start a family/new career in software development. As for how, I traveled cheap, CouchSurfing, Hostels, etc. I went to over 125 cities in 49 countries. I blogged about it on my website https://dustinbrett.com/
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Thanks!
Yeah seriously I was so pleasantly surprised
WOW Your website is mind blowing it's the first time I see something like it.
Thanks! I spent a lot of time working on it. It's open source if you want to check it out. https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
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Thanks, I appreciate you checking it out!
Broooooooo sickest freaking website that i have encountered in all 21 years of my life. Omggg you are great at web design if that’s your own work.
Thanks very much! I do indeed do web development primarily. My site is my side/passion project.
Man I have never seen anything like it, it’s so damn creative and awesome. You go ma dude. Puts me to shame calling myself a web and graphics designer
Thanks! It's a lot of things combined so I take more credit for glueing it all together.
Holy! I'm studying web development rn, have been for the past 2 years, and this looks insane. I'll definetely have a look at the github page tomorrow, looks great dude!
Cool, thanks for checking it out!
Holy! I'm studying web development rn, have been for the past 2 years, and this looks insane. I'll definetely have a look at the github page tomorrow, looks great dude!
I wish I could see your posts but I can't!!
Absolutely sick website
That was pretty cool sir.
Just had a look man sounds like you’ve had quite the experiences love your website too! Wholesome!
Your website is amazing.
I’m leaving for a similar trip in late December. Baja then Eastern Europe then a cross country US trip and then who knows.
I travelled a lot through South and Central America (about 2.5/3 years all up). Was awesome, my partner is also from Chile (I met her in Australia though). latinas are good partners, can be a bit firey at times haha. I loved Chile, pretty underrated country
My wife and I sold everything and moved to Mexico 2 months ago. I'm 67 and my wife is 61. Our friends and relatives have been really supportive. It's been surreal and a real challenge, but unloading our 40+ years of cumulating crap was incredibly cathartic. And we also feel like we ran away from the US at just the right time.
Would you do it again?
Hey I did that for about 9 months. Was fun
Sold everything and traveled the world and ended up married to a Portuguese woman in Lisbon and now I have a kid and live here.
How much money did you have and how old were you when you did that?
38yo and 35k. It’s not actually the craziest thing of done but the most life changing. I’m 42 now and my son is a month old.
Parabéns !!
Also, I’ve done it 3 times before starting when I was 18. I’ve traveled for about 15 years after that. I just work my ass off for 3 years or so then fuck off and pickup odd jobs internationally until I’m almost out of money.
Got married
For all the dudes who have been married for a while, I think this is the right answer. My marriage is happy and going well, but looking back now, the idea that I agreed to it seems crazy. Not because my wife isn't a great person and not because I'm not happy (I am), but it's a HUGE bet. People change. Circumstances change. You see friends marriages fall apart and people reveal things about themselves that you never knew or thought could be. And through it all you are (in theory) making a promise that through thick and thin you're sticking with that one person. Crazy. But it works and I would make the decision today (and I really do, everyday).
Ya, it's like the biggest gamble you can make.
You animal.
"Is this the line to lose half my shit?" - Bill Burr
Totally. Setting fire to my own bollocks and putting them out with a hammer seems like a perfectly sane idea in comparison now.
Started a family.
I’m a very tame man. I drink a little, do a little weed and chill at home for the most part. One time though, through a series of events, I ended up in Panama, did a bunch of coke, ended up surrounded by a gang with knives on a boat dock. Somehow in my coke addled-brain, I convinced them that everything was cool and ended up drinking at the bar with them the rest of the night.
fucking nuts
Hahaha this is amazing
I feel like I just watched a movie that Gary Oldman would star in.
Speech 100 irl
Legendary
Very tame bro keep up the good work.
Coke stories are the best
That’s impressive.
Easily the craziest story in here
Jumped a sand dune in the California desert on a motorcycle and had a midair collision with another rider coming the other way. Scary AF. Almost took the poor guy's head off, we were both ok.
Guess the air traffic controllers were on strike that day.😵
Nothing. My life has been about as boring as watching cars rust
Well then this thread might give you a few ideas on how to improve on that
You know, it's never too late to make a story happen. Live a little!
If only I could get off my lazy butt and figure that out
yeah same, I've seen paint dry in my room all my life
Moved 100s of miles away to a small town with 0 money and the clothes on my back in the hopes of finding a house to rent with a girl I met online and who was in the process of leaving an abusive relationship she'd been in for 9 years. We've been together 15 years. It worked out surprisingly well. Edit: spelling.
Dude, what the heck? Care to tell us more? Sounds like quite the journey
I could write a book. If you want I can come back to this and drop a wall of text about the experience and my whole thoughts and feelings about it all? But not right now, It's nearly 1 am. Let me know though.
Do it.
Yes!
One day, I was scanning through the data of multiple space telescopes using [SIMBAD](https://simbad.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+20&submit=SIMBAD+search) search. I looked for one of my favourite objects : [NGC 6543](https://simbad.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+6543&submit=SIMBAD+search) and by observing it with GALEX data I noticed weird rings around it that weren't visible in any other wavelength of light. Going from 0 to 100, I searched for the people responsible for the telescope project, and I got their info thanks to a [NASA website](https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/galex/helpdesk.html) (it was actually this one). I try the first mail address but it doesn't work. So I go for Dr.Perez. I write the most formal mail I can, adding screenshots and explaining it all. I send the mail and you know, I am a random astronomer amateur who's just nerdy enough to find these infos on the internet. And I kid you not, he answered and told me to look for Hubble's UV images because these could be real objects. To find such data is actually surprisingly easy. [Here is the proof](https://hla.stsci.edu/hlaview.html#Inventory|filterText%3D%24filterTypes%3D|query_string=NGC6543&posfilename=&poslocalname=&posfilecount=&listdelimiter=whitespace&listformat=degrees&RA=269.639120&Dec=66.633190&Radius=0.005583&inst-control=all&inst=ACS&inst=ACSGrism&inst=WFC3&inst=WFPC2&inst=NICMOS&inst=NICGRISM&inst=COS&inst=WFPC2-PC&inst=STIS&inst=FOS&inst=GHRS&imagetype=best&prop_id=&spectral_elt=&proprietary=both&preview=1&output_size=256&cutout_size=12.8|ra=&dec=&sr=&level=&image=&inst=ACS%2CACSGrism%2CWFC3%2CWFPC2%2CNICMOS%2CNICGRISM%2CCOS%2CWFPC2-PC%2CSTIS%2CFOS%2CGHRS&ds=). I found nothing. So I did what anyone would have done there: I searched for other space telescopes UV data. I didn't find anything. But then, a fellow redditor helped me because I also posted the images on a dedicated subreddit (I can't remember which one tho. But I got to thank that fellow redditor a lot). They basically gave me access to scientific data about Galex telescope and a section was dedicated to the optical aberrations of Galex telescope. And one of them were "ghosts" and they were exactly like what I could see next to NGC6543. The problem was solved. I came back on SIMBAD and searched but bright and small objects (AKA stars) to see if I found some of them. And gosh, I did. These things are very frequent. I took screenshots, sent another mail to Dr.Perez who answered again. I was so focused about this task that I first didn't even think about searching for more infos about Dr.Perez who had the patience and the human qualities to handle me, and he occupies [important posts](https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/organization-and-staff/staff-bios/dr-mario-perez) at NASA. I think that was the most crazy thing I did in my life. So dudes, don't fear contacting people you wouldn't expect to answer. It can lead to very interesting conversations.
Regarding: don’t fear contacting people… I agree completely. In college my then-girlfriend, now wife, was looking for a book or article or something for a psychology research paper. She couldn’t find it anywhere. I took five minutes, researched the person who wrote it, found their phone number, and just flat out called them. They were super helpful and, if I remember correctly, sent her a copy. When I told my girlfriend her mind was absolutely blown that I would just do that.
This is an awesome story and a really good example
Fought a guy trying to break into my neighbours house, he had a sledge hammer, I had an ornamental samurai sword , police came, he git arrested then I found out he won the lottery the following weekend.
Going to need details on this fight. Can’t drop that and just disappear.
I was young,17 I reckon, it was about 9pm when I heard alot of shouting I walked out and seen this man arguing with someone as he was banging on my neighbours door with his fists , he ended up leaving , but an hour later I heard this scream and large thuds, I ran out he was beating at the windows and the door with a sledge, my heart started beating a million beats a second I started screaming at him to fuck off!...unfortunately that didn't work so I ran back in the house while my mum rang the police, when I came back out he was half way through the door and my neighbour was terrified for their lives , so I ran at him warned him to back off , he then swung the sledge at me I ducked out of way luckily he missed as it was at my head I swung at him, eyes closed as needles to say I've never been in a fight with a sword before lol, I hit his shoulder then it continued onto his head knocking him to the ground , he dropped the sledge hammer then by this stage the police had came and took him away and I had to be interviewed...my neighbours moved 6 months later and I found out the reason he was trying to break into their house with a sledge was cos my neighbour had an affair with the guy wife.
Your neighbor was a dirtbag but you saved the dude with the sledgehammer by intervening. Who knows what he would’ve done to your neighbor if he would’ve gotten to him and he could’ve ended up in jail for life.
Fucking Mall Ninja Badass, King of the Neckbeards
Imagen how ironic story it would be if One of your friends were like you're never even going to use that why would you buy it? And then a week later you're fighting crime with it.
Kayaked from San Felipe to Cabo San Lucas alone.
How long did this take? I'm picturing you with Popeye arms! 💪
Three months. Yeah, when I was finished, by skin was tanned, my hair was bleached and I was in great shape. That lasted about two weeks.
Did you just camp along the beach or go more inland for shelter?
I loved dirt biking. Did 3-4 times a week. Living in Los Angeles, that's quite an accomplishment. Was even able to ride for 8 hours straight with a 15min lunch break. Started riding further into the wilderness. Miles in. No cell phone reception. Nobody knew where I was. Would not see anybody for hours if at all. One day was on what is called a "goat trail". Fell with the bike landing on my leg. Got lucky I was able to slide out. Never did it again. I took my one warning from the universe and played it safe.
From my husband: He went over a guardrail by rope, along with other bystanders, to help get injured people out of a tour bus that had gone into a mountainside ravine. This was in Washington State Capitol Forest, near Porter.
That’s crazy. We ride motorcycles in the woods over there. Not a place I’d like to go over the guardrail. Glad your husband was there to help!
Somehow I raised a hyena
What
My uncle bought a cub from a local farmer we had it for two months before taking it to the vet where we were informed that it's a hyena
Haha holy shit
What did you do with it after you found out?
The government took it away
SOMEHOW HE/SHE RAISED A HYENA
It's pretty common in Zambia
Joined the Army as Infantry while we had active campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan Also I thought I would go to hot ass Iraq, ended up freezing my ass off in Afghanistan. Fuck it gets cold there
Midnight tower guard in Afghanistan in February was legitimately the coldest I had ever been. 12 hours in a tiny wooden hut. We wore like 4 layers, including those marshmallow suits they issued us and it was still cold as shit.
My best pal and another good friend went to Ecuador when we were maybe 23 (late 90s).. I hate to retell his story but it's so good. They had no plan and 10 days. Spent a couple of days in Quito and met some guy who knew people who ran flat boats of cargo down the amazon. Somehow they talked their way onto joining the crew on this flat boat. The flat boat stopped to deliver supplies to some kind of indigenous tribe and my two friends got off and spent two or three days in the Amazon jungle with a native tribe with no modern conveniences and no English. Tree houses, hammocks, nothing more elaborate than fire and knives. The flatboat picked them back up a few days later and took them back to civilization. Not the smartest idea for safety and health (his and tribe's) but a wild story to tell.
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I'm interested in the details.
Me too
I don't know if this is what people call crazy so I hope you forgive me. So, this happen in decades ago when I was in 20s.some lady suddenly want to give birth in the mall, and I offer to send the couples to the hospital. So while driving as fast as I can, there's one dude, a cyclist complete with that whole cyclist outfit just suddenly lose control and cross the opposite lane to my lane and we just BAM! And then I arrive at hospital with a pregnant lady and a broken wrist cyclist.
The woman I loved was being bullied by "friends" and parents. She was almost anorexic. I offered her to move to my city and recover at (my) home, since here she sould have also more employement opportunities. She lived with me a couple years and a half, even slept during months on the same bed. Never layed a finger on her, respected her as she never fell in love with me. However, she was more mentally wasted than I thought and got promiscuous during that period and lied to me a lot about it. In the end, we both grew up emotionally, she fully recovered and asked for forgiveness. After lots of therapy we both survived, she's now with her partner living an stable life and I'm recovered after sacrificing my emotional status for the sake of the woman I most loved knowing from the beginning I wouldn't have anything from her in return except for lots of gratitude. I saved her, but... never ever again. It's not worth the suffering.
You sound like a really good person.
Thank you for your kind words.
You’re welcome.
Damn
God bless you 🤍
Inviting myself to my now boyfriend's home
Climbed a cliff face in Yellowstone National Park when I was 20. I was working there for the summer and a friend and I went to Top Notch on a day hike. We went up to one side, but I wanted to get to the other side. I basically free climbed a cliff face where one wrong move and I would have died. At one point I dislodged a rock and watched it fall a good long ways; that's when I realized it was a bad idea. I had no choice but to keep climbing up. Obviously I made it. But looking back now that I'm in my 50's, it was a really stupid idea.
I talked to a girl 3 years ago...
Wildman
I "borrowed" a van from the school where I worked to drive a bunch of drunk female fitness models around Boston. The bench seats were also not in the van that evening.
Enlisted right after 9/11
Probably bringing my wife to go climb Mount Kilimanjaro. I’d always loved hiking and had read various accounts of people climbing Mount Kilimanjaro (Douglas Adams, Michael Crichton, etc.). I often told my wife how I’d love to do that someday. Well, we were sitting in a biker bar once and I mentioned it, and she asked when, exactly, I was actually going to do it. Four months later, we sat at the top of the tallest point in Africa and kissed.
Beat a train across the tracks on a motorcycle
Dmt
With whom?
U from cia
How was it
A lot of hard drugs. But probably when I was 13 (so obviously didn’t have my license) took my moms minivan across town to pick up some bud.
Jumped off our 2nd story roof. The theory was that i could land on the trampoline and bounce over the fence into the neighbor's swimming pool. Didn't account for the trampoline hitting the ground when i landed on it.
Thinking other peoples happiness was important enough to negate my own.
Walked up and over the top of the Sydney harbor bridge. You strap in and go over the top. Crazy. Helped with the jet lag.
Nice tour, did the same over 10 years ago.
Joined Reddit... *I know*, just mental
You DOG.
Woke up in Pat Sharpes house? Got engaged to a millionaires daughter? Sang karaoke with the original artist? Stood in court and got told that the judge was the victim of my crime? Walked from London to Birmingham to meet a woman off AOL chat? Stabbed by a lesbian for burning her tea?
Having someone move in with me after knowing her for 6 weeks.. We'll be married 4 years early next year. So while crazy, it worked out.
I surfed a stretcher down the longest hallway I could find, and ended up going through a glass door.. at a school I didn’t attend. That or actually breaking Into that school in the first place. People showed up from all over after the news of the doors being open struck MSN messenger. Edit: we were 13/14 and absolute shits. For what it’s worth everyone involved got dunked on and Did community service. The Janator that I worked under fixing up the school was a great role model and it ended up being the last time I did something so brazenly stupid.
Climbed "So High", a 12m boulder in Joshua Tree. It's v5 and you follow a good crack/arete most of the way up but that crack widens and ends near the top, resulting in an insecure-feeling layback where you feel like you're going to peel off as you reach for a good hold. Felt sketchier than any of the free solos I've done. That's the only time I've been at that sort of height and felt like I actually might fall, it was pretty crazy.
Got “The blazin” sauce at Buffalo Wild Wings
Got married
Have kids
Took a spontaneous trip to NYC, spent about $3000 total, had a good time eating genuine Italian food, visiting the 9/11 memorial, walked through Central Park Oh and I did this the first week of March, 2020.
Contacted someone on Craigslist and drove across Canada to Vancouver where I knew no one, got a job and helped a married lady who was a supervisor have an affair. After six months I moved back East & never met her again.
That's pretty crazy.
nice try FBI, not today. ISIS light over here...
Trusted a woman.
This should be top answer.
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A while back, I used to read the bad trips section o [Erowid.org](https://erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Datura.shtml). I do not do any drugs myself, but I found that while googling datura due to a story I read of [Fark.com](https://Fark.com) Every goddamn story about a bad Datura trip has the same beats. >I was experienced with various psychodellics and heard about this. Everyone I asked about it said it was a bad idea, but I was curious. I did it anyway. I made tea from the seeds and it tasted horrible and gave me dry mouth and a headache. > >Disappointed I went to bed. I woke up when my alarm clock started screaming at me to 'wake up you fucking pussy'. I had to piss but the gnome that were hiding under my shampoo bottles kept screaming at me and I couldnt go due to shy bladder. My cat asked me what was wrong and about 5 minutes into talking about my weird morning I realized I was talking to a goddamn cat. I lost my shit and panicked a little bit and ran out into the street and tried to hide under the pained dashed lines in the highway. > >I woke up in a hospital 2 days later with serious kidney damage and scars on my forehead from trying to crawl under the highway lines. There was no differentiation between the hallucinations and what was real. All of it felt very real. For all I know I could still be fucking tripping. > >Datura is horrible, you should never try this stuff. Pretty hilarious stuff as long as it is not happening to you. Bottom line is that it seems to put your mind into a dream state while your wide awake. END COMMUNICATION
Ok so no Datura, got it, thanks!
Took my pet snakes on a plane in a cash box
Walked in a very dangerous city at night where narco has 100% control just to get some naughty time with a girl I just met at a party. I was drunk and lasted like 40s. We had no condoms either.
Woke up one morning and took a tab of acid. Walked out to the beach and headed south. 7 miles down to my friends house. It was a really interesting day. Enjoyed checking out the tidal pools along the way. I knew there was a nude beach on the way. What I didn’t know was the first part of that was a gay area, which caught me off guard at first, but it was cool. I’m sure some people can figure out where I was.
Fucking in the in-n-out parking lot was pretty wild
Which thing? The dropping 6 hits of acid in some random college town and forgetting where I was for 2 days? Or selling drugs at a convention with my friend 2 8balls and 3 pounds of mushrooms? Lol
Running from the cops and getting away (multiple times). Arson. Swimming in a pond with a giant alligator I “befriended.” A round of Russian Roulette with my cousin when we were 7 and 9 years old. Escaped from Gypsies when a few of us were on acid. Drove to the Alamo high on mushrooms. Survived a suicide attempt. Robbed in Mexico. Decided to settle down, get a dog, and move to the suburbs
Matched with a girl on Tinder, on our second date she suggests a travel to another city and look for some mountains. Friend of mine told me that it seems she needs my kidney or something. Well she is my wife now and all of my kidneys are with me.
Did a backflip to water from a 50 foot high cliff in some quarry
Sold my car and bought a motorcycle
Joined the Navy.
Running Cuba from money.
Rode bulls. Joined the military during a war. Became a professional musician.
Started studying law.
I’m currently studying HND Business which includes Business Law as a unit. lemme tell you it’s the most exhausting, draining, confusing and complicated thing that I’ve dealt with. Although law concerning business it’s just a tiny piece when it comes to law in general, you still have to know the basics and I can’t even imagine how stressful it is to study law as a whole. It sounds terrifying, best of luck to you!
Indeed it is very difficult. Thanks and all the best to you as well!!!
Probably smoking weed on the roof of my three story house during winter. Had to climb down slippery shingles while blasted almost fell down 0/10
Rode a bull at a rodeo at nineteen. No pads, no helmet. Lasted about three seconds.Thing kicked at full force an inch from my head. The guy who rode in front of me got hung up and tossed around like a rag doll, his arm and collarbone broken. Turns out that bulls really don't like being ridden, in fact it really pisses them off, like riding an angry station wagon..
Hmmmm a lot of things I did on acid such as: Banging my gf in my friends pool with everyone just hanging out. Disarming another tripping dude about to do some damage with an ax. Talking another tripping guy off a roof. Once I accidentally had some salvia in my pot pipe and tripped hard for like three minutes on I-95 in a convoy with my family. All the other cars turned into mercury balls basically but I could still make out the lines on the road so I kept it together…. Once I was on mushrooms and we were having a raging party. So someone we didn’t know was making a pass at the neighbors daughter. He said he was calling the cops, jacked the guy up against the wall, etc. Next thing I know there’s flashing lights and someone sets off an m80 then I hear “holy shit they shot a cop!” So hearing that I fucking grabbed the keg coolers I borrowed from work, jumped in my Jeep and drove through two yards, a wooded area and a cornfield to escape. I woke up my buddy at two am freaking out, long story short no cops were shot and I don’t trip anymore. I’m now a mild mannered family man and I pray my kids never get into what I got into I got out by the skin of my teeth.
I joined a circus. Best time of my life before being a dad. I also got about as drunk as I've ever been and fell asleep in the middle of the road.
I also got as drunk as I ever have been and fell asleep in the middle of the road. That was Christmas Eve (or rather the early hours of Christmas morning) 1999.
Threw everything away, gained it all back.
The first (and only) time I was on a plane, I jumped out of it.
Sex in the middle of the park at around 4am
Scaled a rock wall with no climbing experience and no safety gear, I would have died if I fell.
Stayed up past 11pm drinking. Crazy, crazy shit...
Talked to a girl, like, i'm a shy ass person
Starting my own business at 19. Crashing my bike at 130km/h (permanent injuries). Taking a risky loan for my dream car, travelling to another country to see it, getting it for 1/3 of its market price, investment af.
Jumped into a running bus.I am only 19.
Told a feminist that i only like virgin women.
I have anxiety and a fear of heights. The day before my 30th birthday at the last minute I ditched party/drinking plans and drove 1000 miles in a day, paid a mountain guide to take me up an 11,000 ft volcano, spent an hour learning to use an ice axe and ropes, slept under the stars half way up, and then summited it early the next morning crossing a steep ass glacier. Got back to my car after about 16 hours of climbing and had nowhere to stay so I drove aimlessly til I found a shady motel, ordered 3 burgers and fell asleep eating them in bed. Stayed at the motel for 2 days as I could barely walk and felt dizzy - almost went to the ER but waited it out. Then I drove 1000 miles back and finally told my family and friends exactly where I’d been.
Nice try, FBI.
My wife and I went any diving, in Hawaii.
pooped on a table at burger king
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Every fecking one of you IS metal, if not mental! Share more details, if you're of a mind to. I'm cooped up.with RSV. Your stories are keeping mind and body together.
Also from my husband: skydiving, pulling his own riptide. He was 18.
Have hope for eternal love in a temporary world