I'm amazed I'm still alive...
Things I have done that seem ill advised, but were usually "a good idea at the time":

1) On a school trip, I went pot-holing, during which time I saved a classmates life when he slipped off a ledge and I grabbed his belt as he shot over my head. Tore both shoulders and had to be dragged to the surface by rope (he was about twice my size and I felt every joint in both arms go "pop" as I took his weight in one hand and gripped a handhold with the other. That was bad enough, but the day before we'd done rock-climbing up to a boulder sat atop an outcrop - it wobbled. I took the chance to see if the coment "it moves, but it'll never fall" by the ill-advised instructor were true by bouncing up and down on the rock to see if i could shift it. With four of us and the instructor sat on it. 200+ feet up a cliff, with rocks below. It didn't fall off.

2) Created a corrgated iron fort in the woods at school at the top of a tree leaning at 45 degrees after the '87 hurricaine, as running up the trunk made for a good secure entrance path against "enemies". My friend and I then stripped the bark off the trunk, making it extra slippy. The camp was 30 foot in the air, above broken saplings, nettles and the remains of the pig sty we'd nicked the steel from. All metal was nicely rusty and sharply edged. I slipped off the trunk halfway up, ploughed through the bushes and landed on my rucksack amid brambles and nettles. I was unsatched, as my impact flattened the nettles. I lead a charmed life.

3) got a bit lost on a School ski trip, saw the main piste/chair lifts off to my left and decided to take a short cut between the trees and wait for the party at the lifts - genius! I pushed past the screen of firs, then suddenly dropped something like 10 feet into a smaller fir tree/shrub, then clawed my way out of gulley and on to the piste...if I'd been a few yards later on, I'd have dropped 40 foot onto a boulder. eek. Again, a minor cut to my hand and a bruised knee were the worst injuries sustained.

There are more - I should be dead.
(Chad, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 13:07, Reply)