What have you EVER done no one else has?

[Laneco]

I was escorted off Ft. Lewis military base by armed guards - in my beater 911.

It is my humble opinion that they significantly over-reacted to the issue with my DoD credentials.

angela

[recycled sixtie]

It was in Winnipeg about 30 years ago and New Years eve. My first wife and I had been to a new years eve party and I had been doing some serious drinking.After the party I suggested to the wife that we take a drive through Assinaboine Park.
As we approached the park entrance my wife said the park was closed and big high metal gates loomed up. I jumped on the brakes and stopped in front of the big gates with a couple of feet to spare. I have never done any driving and serious drinking since that day. Lesson learned....

[wdfifteen]

Built and used a vessel for testing tensile strength of aerospace structural materials while immersed in liquid helium (the material, not me) at atmospheric pressure (-268 degrees C, -450F).
When I worked at GM I could take a 700R4 test transmission off the engine, onto the bench, replace the clutch packs, converter, and lock-up clutch, put it back together, back in the test cell on the engine and running before the case cooled off.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by lowyder993s

IIRC...you are in this field: From 1 of the F-chatters...

Took a large nuclear reactor critical (actually slightly supercritical) on several different occasions. Went from zero to 0.3% power watching the count rate increase on the neutron detectors.

Edit: And I got paid to do it!

Fast Super Critical?

(Jose Jimenez voice)

"Oh I hope not!"

[Grog]

Don't know if I'm the only one, but went 185mph across the Hampton bay bridge on a modified 1984 Kawasaki 900 ninja. Young and stupid.

[red-beard]

Oh yeah, I've been in Pakistan...

[BeyGon]

I drove from Texas to my house in Costa Rica in five days without driving at night. I didn't hear about anyone else doing that and I talked to a lot of people that made the drive.

[mikeferg75]

I won the first International Ice Mountain bike race. You raced from Drummond Island MI across the frozen straights to Canada and back with a snowmobile as the guide/pace vehicle.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Drove a 951 that was in flames through the tunnel that goes under the approach end of Rwy 30 at KLGB (ever see the "Gone in 60 Seconds" remake with Nicholas Cage where he loses the police helicopter? Yeah, that tunnel). I had one car pull up next to me whilst I was mid-tunnel with a wide-eyed, semi-hysterical looking woman in the passenger's seat gesturing frantically at me. I just kinda waved and gave her a smile. I only wish I could've had a photo of that (picture it, with my car in flames at the time, must've been a hilarious James Dean type image...)

Drove from KMLB (Florida) to Nashua, NH in my youth in a little over 23 hours straight to have dinner with my then-girlfriend, then turned around and did the return trip straight through in 22 hours.

Landed a crippled airplane (cargo freighter, the alternators in both engines failed while I was in hard IMC) at Eugene Oregon a few years ago.

Numerous approaches to minimums and landings all over the PNW, some with wicked crosswinds. Also a few night takeoffs/landings from KMMH that are "pucker factor".

A few other good stories in there I'm forgetting I'm sure - I do know I've had a pretty fun time with life thus far and I'm not done yet...

[Les Paul]

Decided to eat my leftover pear from lunch before making rounds at a chemical plant that blew up minutes later. Had I been where I was supposed to be without the pear I would be dead. Three people that were there were blown to bits.

[cockerpunk]

i guess i don't hold any world records, so im sure lots of people have done similar stuff but here are a few notables:

as a vacation i recently drove from my home, to the west coast, down the west coast, and back through the mountains, about 6000 miles, in a 27 year old porsche 951 with 136k miles on it, alone

that was pretty wild. some fun adventures and break-downs haha

i climbed up a 13k foot tall mountain with a 45 lbs pack.

i traveled 178 (verified) mph in a car.

i once has a spree of 7 dates, with 6 different girls, in 5 days.

[Seahawk]

First one to ever shoot a "war shot" Penguin Missile from an H-60.

Just before, me in the left seat.

[cairns]

I smoked dope with the Allman Brothers and tripped with Barry Oakley (OK that wasn't very unique).

I fired two Pershing Missiles in Cape Kennedy.

I flew over the Remarkables to visit Milford Sound in a Cessna (I wasn't the pilot).

I went "steady" with nine different girls in the 8th grade.

I visited an all Female Marine Recruit Messhall.

I learned to drive in a 64 GTO convertible.

I drove to Cooktown (in QLD Australia) from Cairns.

I was held hands up at gunpoint by two DEA agents who let me go because they couldn't find the pot. I was holding it in my hand.

I drove a real 1973 Carrera RS on a racetrack.

I own a GT3.

I married the woman of my dreams and we've been together 34 years.

I've been incredibly lucky.

[john70t]

I've done a 360 on a snowmobile.
(Slammed on the brakes on sheet ice road at ~45mph.)

[SteamWolf]

I got trophies for competing in a Renault 16.

[Zeke]

I've designed and prototyped several things in my life, none of which have proven to be much success. But, you'll not see any of these anywhere:





The mini duck never made it past the clay stage.

[SteamWolf]

Oh yeah, and I put a computer in a fish tank and filled it with oil (back before things like the WD Live media boxes were available).


Figured if I had to have a PC in my living room, it needed to look cool, and be quiet. As far as I know, I was the only person with one that looked like that lol
It's now in Uncle's single malt man cave.

[Zeke]

Now that ^^^^ is cool.

[sammyg2]

I once got credit for the save in a baseball game when I didn't throw a pitch.

Bases were loaded, 9th inning, 1 out.
Made a great pick off move to 1st and hung the runner out, who got in a pickle that ended in a double play.

That was nearly 40 years ago .......

[fred cook]

Went swimming in the lagoon at Diego Garcia (Indian Ocean) and met up with a Barracuda that was bigger than I was! Also got to go swimming off the LST we (bunch of Navy Seabees) took to DG one day out in the middle of the Indian Ocean. No land insight any direction! Water was so clear you could see all the way under the ship! Was late getting back to the docks in Singapore one night/morning and missed the liberty boat back to the ship. Had to sleep on the pier until another boat came along!