Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > The riskiest thing YOU'VE done?

[dave s]

got married for the 3rd time!!!

[BDG]

Bloody hell, just read some of these posts and realised what a sheltered ,safe and priviledged sheltered life i've lead.

is it just Ducati riders that are mad i ask myself or is life just full of looneys?

I thought i'd done a few dodgy things but i feel seriously sedate and boring in comparison.

Maybe the old adage of the man who has a real big story to tell keeps quiet rather than loud mouthed gob *****es like myself. Not just tongue in cheek comment but i feel humbled with previous comment as to risk. I take my hat of to you.

MAD.

[Rob B]

Lived in Bangkok for 4.5 years....................

[dukess1999]

As a very long-haired, hippyish teenager I went to an Angelic Upstarts/ UK Subs double header circa 1978. As they say up here, I got ma heid to play wi', cubed. At least Doc Martens have some inherent cushioning....

[Murray Mint]

K13 glider, on final approach on first solo, to high and to close to runway threshold, came in all crossed up, tore the undercarriage completely off. Needless to say I was on check flights for a while after that one.

Bloody good post this one.

Murray Mint

[Edited on 5-11-2004 by Murray Mint]

[Loz]

TA3

[pedro]

went on some flying boat in turkey! it was like a large dingy with a set of paragliding wings things on it.i had to sign this sheet in arabic,i asked what it was? "its no problem,if you die we can carry on flying!" joke? never know. great fun after a few nerve calming beers i remember.no seat belt,no point i guess!

[Jon]

Not so much me as my flamin brother. Back in theearly 70's when Ted Teeth was in power. He put us all on a 3 day week

So to make up our money we worked part time for a auto component sealing company. They sealed casting of water pumps, cyclinder heads, etc.

All the stuff was put into large wire baskets, about 6' high by 3' dia.
You had to get inside to reach the components at the bottom levels. While I was inside my brother put the lid back on and lifted me over a boiling vat of oil. The boiling oil is used to cure the sealing compound. I was absolutely shi??ing myself, and him laughing his head off while dropping closer and closer to the oil. At the time, if I had got a gun I would have shot him dead I was that scared. As soon has he had lifted me back onto the ground, he shot off like a whippet. Might have been due to the fact I was doing a guerilla impersonation at the time.

[deej]

i went to work at my present employers, thats very risky and i wished i hadnt have bothered !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

other than that taking my bike test was quite risky

oh and getting my mortgage now that was risky, very risky

[Fordie]

The riskiest thing to me was not so much what happened to me but to other that i have seen. Men frozen to death on a mountain side , sweeped the there death when river crossing , blown over a cliff in high winds whilst carrying 70LB of kit, parachutes failing to open, All though I have had my share of "risks" like tangling up into some one's parachute in the dark of night and just managing to make some kind of landing that I could just walk away from , to be set alight and spend three months in hospital, not nessasarly some thing i have volunteered to do ,just a few incidents that one has to get through in this thing we call life. Most risks are calculated some are not . have fun 4D

[Edited on 6-11-2004 by Fordie]