These 15 people wanted to live on the wild side, an instantly regretted it. Seriously, don't try these things at home.
A Bonfire Gone Wrong
“Not sure there’s ever been a ‘don’t try this at home’ warning for this particular thing, but it certainly qualifies as something stupid. Now to set the scene, a bunch of mates and I go camping every year. It’s a pretty awesome weekend and we get up to all sorts of stuff. Well this year, in our drunken wisdom, we decided to shake the sh_t out of a can of beer, bury it and then build the fire pit on top. Don’t ask me why, we’re f_cking idiots or something. So cut to a few hours later, we’ve all completely forgotten about our little time-bomb ticking away, all sat around having a good time when the mother of all explosions takes place. We’d had the campfire down to a bed of coals for cooking (thankfully) so that when the can went off, it only launched dirt, ash and coal around as opposed to what would have happened had we built it up roaring like usual. For about ten seconds afterwards (felt like a lot longer) I’m sitting on my arse dazed and confused, looking around, ears ringing as ash and dust gently tumbles down into the campsite. Felt like a scene out of a war movie. No one was injured and we all have a pretty awesome story to tell now. Still would not recommend anyone tries it at home, though someone most likely will.” Source
Daredevil
“I was staying at my friend Ben’s house, who was a bit of a latchkey kid. The movie Daredevil had just come out, and I was maybe 12? It was 2 in the morning and we were busy skating around the front of his house, annoying the f_ck out of his neighbors. I got the awesome idea that we should light the skate rail we had on fire, JUST LIKE IN DAREDEVIL! So, I grabbed a can of gasoline that was sitting in his garage, and proceeded to coat the rail with it. After coating the rail with the gasoline, I lit the gas and it was a little lackluster. I figured, ‘let’s just throw some more gas on this THANG!’ so I did. The gas trickling out of the can caught fire and the can exploded in my hand. Luckily, my reflexes saved my ass and I let go of the can just as the flame hit it. Ben’s lawn was completely aflame. I just walked inside and didn’t do anything about it because I didn’t want to get in trouble.” Source
The Darts of Death
“Remember lawn darts? My group of friends made our own rules. Two teams, one in the front yard, one in the back. One member from each team on the side lawn from where you could see both teams at the same time. The goal was to rifle that f_cking dart (we only had one, lost the others in a game of ‘woods darts’) over the house, and make a member of the other team, rightfully afraid for their life, move out of the way of the dart. One point if you made them move. Minus one point if it landed within arm’s reach and they didn’t move.
This game lasted until someone’s parents came home and were horrified when they saw what we were doing. The 80s were a simpler, bloodier time.” Source
The Homemade Explosive
“Dry ice and a little bit of water in a plastic bottle. Bad idea. Bottle expanded but did not explode. We basically had an armed bomb lying on a soccer field next to a playground. We had to make it explode somehow so my dad took a long stick and hit it a couple of times. The bottle finally exploded and my dad heard ringing in his ears for about a year. We did not find any traces of the bottle.” Source
Burn Baby Burn
“My brother an I got the bright idea to see what happens if you put one of the Co2 cartridges used for BB guns into a fire place. Long story short, the resulting explosion filled most of the main floor of the house with flying chunks of burning wood. Mom was not amused.” Source
That’s One Gross Smell
“Friends and I were putting stuff in the microwave. Eggs not only explode, but they’re hot as f_cking napalm.” Source
A Bad Game of Putt Putt
“Me and my friend decided to golf off each other when we were around 14. The initial idea was to drive off the tee that was in our mouth, but common sense kicked in and we decided against it. But still wanting to go through with it, we decided to do it…with our butt cheeks (CRINGE). I went first as the hitter, and it went way better than I expected. I lined that shit up and drove it as far as I could, while still caring for my friend’s buttox safety. Not a scratch on him so I was ready to be hit off. I laid down on my stomach and put the tee in place, and my friend lined his shot up once and goes all in for his swing. He follows through and puts the driver right into my ass cheeks, and at that moment it felt like every thing I once knew was wrong. And my ass f_cking hurt like hell, but that’s besides the point. Listen to the advisory kids.” Source
Mary Poppins to the Rescue
“When I was like 10, I jumped off my ~15ft deck with an umbrella….Yea, don’t try that.” Source
Pole Vaulting 101
“My friends and I recently used our pool skimmer to have a pole vaulting tournament as seen on a United Healthcare commercial. The fact that the idea came from an insurance commercial should have been enough to deter us. Ended up vaulting all the way to the far end of the pool and smashed my feet into the wall. Besides my two sprained ankles, everyone else was fine. Pool skimmer worked really well as a pole.” Source
DIY Fireworks
“Decided to make my own fireworks. Apparently potassium nitrate (or stump remover) and sugar mixed together makes for a pretty good smoke bomb. The way you make it is you mix the two ingredients together and put it in a pan over a small flame. The heat melts the two together into a chocolatey brown goo. If you put that goo into a cardboard toilet paper roll and stick a wick in there you have a pretty big smoke bomb. The first time I did it we had a lot of fun smoking out an entire park. Then I decided we needed to go bigger. This is America after all. So I doubled the ingredients and started cooking it on my stove. Stupid me forgot that the video said MEDIUM TO LOW HEAT and I had the burner on high. Halfway through cooking it the heat caught the mixture on fire and started going crazy. I got my brother out of the house and dumped water on the mixture. For the next 2 hours you couldn’t go in my house because the smoke was so thick you couldn’t see more that 2 feet in front of you. My parents were crazy mad at first because the ceiling was burned, the counter tops charred, and the floor was even melted a bit. Then once they got the insurance money their attitude changed completely. We now have a brand new kitchen that was way nicer than our last one.” Source
The Great Potato Launch
“I tried to make a potato launcher out of PVC pipe, one summer day. The guy on the YouTube video said not to try it at home without adult supervision, but of course at the ripe age of 15 I wasn’t about to let that stop me. So I went to the garage on gathered all of the required materials (my parents probably wouldn’t notice a bunch of PVC and their sack of potatoes missing anyways), and proceeded to build my masterpiece. I figured that just having it shoot straight would be kinda lame, so I decided to pseudo-mod it by cutting a slit into the edge of the PVC cap to act as a sort of scope. Thing is, I forgot to shave off the ends that were stuck on the ‘barrel’ and proceeded to fire off my first round. I ended up getting potato bits everywhere in my garage and almost cut my arm open on a flying piece of PVC. Remember kids, ‘do not try this at home’ is a valid warning.” Source
The Suffocating Bed
“When I was about 10, I folded myself into a sleeper sofa with the help of my cousin. Here’s why this is an incredibly bad idea: 1.) You cannot breathe 2.) You cannot move 3.) You can shout for help, but your cries for help will travel at best 5 feet because your mouth is smothered by a mattress 4.) The spring mechanism in combination with your weight will make it nearly impossible for someone to pull the mattress back out, unless they are very strong or you are very light. My cousin had to run upstairs to get a grownup to flip the sofa on its side so I could roll out. If I did this stunt while I was by myself I probably would have suffocated very quickly.” Source
Um, Gross
“SO…. I wore a baseball hat a little too much, and had this huge ass clogged-pore skin type thing on my forehead. It looked like a pencil eraser smack dab in the middle of my forehead. Had it for 2 months with no change. I researched online and found that with a bottle of Jack Daniels and a few friends, that I could use Wart Freeze-Off and might have some luck with getting it off. I told my doctor and she laughed in my face. She said ‘Good luck with that, let me know how it works out.’ I took that as a challenge, and just to make sure, verified there was no major facial nerves that I might accidentally freeze. In the end, it worked better than I thought. I essentially killed all the cell tissue, and it fell off, and healed up fine. 10/10 would do again.” Source
The Jackass
“Did all sorts of pseudo-jackass stuff growing up. No friends died. This was from around ages 8 – 16. Lots of accidental arson. We burned down our entire neighborhood wash when our experiment got out of control. We tossed batteries/soda cans/aerosol cans into each other’s camp fires as practical jokes. One time we stood in a giant cardboard box (from a fridge) and chucked knives through it while we took turns standing inside the box. Lots of jumping off roofs onto concrete. Faked a skateboard accident with a half pipe and ketchup in our front yard and stayed in character when a lady called police. Police were not happy. Cliff diving into shallow creeks where you hit the bottom. Off-roading in coupes and sedans. One time we were followed by a bull in our car. I still have that recorded. Potato guns were fun and not dangerous. Until Connor took a potato to the chest. We detonated pipe bombs in our backyard and hid behind thin plywood. Shot each other with ‘one pump’ BB guns. Makeshift dirt/wood bike jumps in our park. That’s the stuff I can remember. There’s a lot that we did that was just plain silly or impractical. I spent the majority of my time as a kid outside, wandering the city of Phoenix with a group of friends. Now I spend the majority of my time in front of a computer screen.” Source
Never Take Advice From John Cena
“Back in 2007 me and my friends were really into WWE and we would do ‘matches’ on his trampoline. Suddenly an argument got heated and my friend’s brother ‘back-breakered’ him on the patio floor. Another time, he had a plastic WWE microphone and I took it with me when I went to pee. Now I was a very scared kid. I was also deathly afraid of this Jigsaw mask from the movie SAW that my friend had. So I go out of the bathroom to find him at the end of the hallway with the mask on running at me. Now in the WWE, for those who dont know, when two guys are talking on the microphone and an argument heats up, a lot of the times they take a microphone to the face. So there I am, holding the microphone as he comes at me and I remember the microphone to the face segments–I smack him dead in the face with the heavy-ass plastic microphone. He plopped to the floor and when he takes the mask off he’s f_cking bleeding all over the place. I was just distrought. Worst of all was hearing him scream and yell at the clinic as they were stiching his head. I was traumatized by that for the following months but he was really cool about it and he didn’t hold anything against me except for our other friends that hated me thinking I did it for the lolz. I lost contact with him years ago but he was a really cool and genuine dude. Moral of the story is, whenever Chris Jericho or John Cena tell you not to try any of that shit at home, YOU F_CKING LISTEN TO THEM.” Source
