Well. There was the game I played with my brother and a friend that involved two people trying to hang on to the top of a car while the third swerved crazily, trying to fling them off. Or standing in the road as the friend drove at us and then jumping up and seeing if we could get over the car (no, we couldn't). Or standing on the hood and jumping off as the driver slammed on the brakes. This is all at 30 to 35 MPH. Amazingly, no one got hurt. A head went through the windshield, but only the car was damaged.
I also once climbed at least a hundred feet up a steep muddy cliff that was only a few degrees short of vertical. Hand and foot holds were easy to come by, just jab the appendage into the mud, but they only lasted a second before they collapsed, so to avoid falling to a messy death I had to keep moving very quickly. Near the top it was a close thing, I was too tired to keep moving so fast. A few more feet and I wouldn't have made it.
Well. There was the game I played with my brother and a friend that involved two people trying to hang on to the top of a car while the third swerved crazily, trying to fling them off. Or standing in the road as the friend drove at us and then jumping up and seeing if we could get over the car (no, we couldn't). Or standing on the hood and jumping off as the driver slammed on the brakes. This is all at 30 to 35 MPH. Amazingly, no one got hurt. A head went through the windshield, but only the car was damaged. I also once climbed at least a hundred feet up a steep muddy cliff that was only a few degrees short of vertical. Hand and foot holds were easy to come by, just jab the appendage into the mud, but they only lasted a second before they collapsed, so to avoid falling to a messy death I had to keep moving very quickly. Near the top it was a close thing, I was too tired to keep moving so fast. A few more feet and I wouldn't have made it.
posted by nothing 19 years ago
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