A man is a boy who accidentally survived (dangerous, work, house)

[Signor Asparagus]

Perhaps it is one of the most popular threads in local internets


1.Early 90th, USSR has just broken, the ship repair workshop in my town barely breathing, and administration had no money to hire watchman, so there was real paradise - barge, boats (of course they were broken and partically disassembled) were absolutely unattended. From one of these barges I happily fell headfirst into coastal ice. When I came home, mom was so scared that even didn't punish me. It was the last time, when I told truth to mom about what has happened to me.
2. Early teen, summer of 1997 - 1998, the same workshops, jumping into river from skeleton of barge, height is about 8 meters (you know classical "jump or yellow-belly"). It is even scary to imagine now, what armature could wait in the water our young bodies and dumb heads.
3. Handmade petards: all knew story about the kid who lost all fingers, but nobody saw him, in any case we had all the necessary background to become such kid.

What can you tell about your horrible and glorious deeds?

[KuuKulgur]

Early-mid 90s, the SU had just fallen apart, I was climbing on something that looked like artillery shells today, and they probably were back then, was fun.

[Scrat335]

Late 70s on a camping trip to a mountain basin in Montana. I was about 13. Me and 2 friends decided to hike up to a forest fire watch tower on top of the mountain. On the way up we were rolling big rocks into the lake for kicks. At one point we were doing this in front of a large granite boulder as big as a house. We made our way around it and almost to the top of the mountain when we heard a loud rumble behind us.

That boulder the size of a house rolled into the lake. It had probably set there for thousands of years and when we removed the rocks from in front of it the slope was destabilized causing a huge rock slide. I don't even want to think of what would have happened to us had we lingered.

[Scrat335]

And yes, we men are boys who are fortunate to survive our childhood insanity.

If our mothers only knew.

My namesake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAtBE7eIXE

[Signor Asparagus]

I guess, it is quite dangerous for many reasons, but for my 7 years old it was top of engineering.