30 of the Funniest Dumb Things People Did for No Reason

‘Me and my brothers would tie ropes to each other and run in opposite directions’
30 of the Funniest Dumb Things People Did for No Reason

When I was younger, there was a game my friend used to play whenever we were in a car. It involved hanging his cell phone precariously outside one of the passenger windows while we were moving at speed. He wasn’t filthy rich, and this wasn’t some way of teasing the serfs. It was just borne of a compulsion, a brain that said, “Hey, what if we did this?”

Luckily, he never dropped his phone. The same can’t be said for the following series of Redditors whose brains demanded they do something similarly stupid, and led to a whole bunch of highly ill-advised actions that have no reasoning behind them beyond “hey, try this.”

reflexestoofast 8y ago When I was maybe 10-12, I threw one of my dad's golf clubs that had no head on it like a spear down the hallway after telling my brother it would be cool. The result was a golf club hanging out of a hole in the wall and an EXTREMELY grounded me.
Jsn1986 8y ago Edited 8y ago I jumped up and (successfully) bit the string that is used to pull the attic door down. It had a metal bead on it... Immediately after I remember thinking holy crap I actually got it in my mouth and broke the string. Then I realized the string was still there, but half my front tooth wasn't. As the best man at my wedding said the attic string went fishing for idiots and caught one
 . 8y ago When I was a kid I went into my parents bathroom. I found my dad's razor and | decided to scrape it against my tongue, my whole tongue. I started screaming in pain immediately after.
 © 8y ago Edited 8y ago One time | was eating a lemon poppyseed muffin. The phone rang, so I reacted by shoving the entire muffin my mouth and eating it as fast as I could, nearly choking to death, and | didn't even make it to the phone before it stopped ringing. Why did I do that?
EarthEcsplorer . 8y ago When I was about 9-10 years old, I threw a piece of pie into my neighbours yard. Turns out my neighbour was in her yard..She came and knocked on my door why a piece of pie flew out of nowhere and almost hit her. Strangest thing i got in trouble for.
Aphex117 . 8y ago When I was a wee boy I woke up early before everyone, went down to the kitchen, grabbed a chair, brought it to the fridge and took the small metal pencil sharpener from the top. I decided to sharpen my pinky first thing in the morning so I can have a sharp finger?? Ended up waking the parents up and bleeding profusely.
bguzewicz . 8y ago Edited 8y ago When | was like 12 I found out golf balls bounce extremely well on pavement. So obviously I wanted to see how high I could bounce it. I threw the ball as hard as | could straight down, and it ricocheted straight back up. Directly into my face.
luniqueusername0054 . 8y ago Me and my brothers would tie ropes to each other and run in opposite directions. Did it to trees too. I tried to bungee jump from a tree with just a regular old rope, that one hurt pretty bad.
magsmar 8y ago As a kid, my brother had perfect curly hair and wanted a hair cut for picture day to look like his friend who had short hair. So he gave himself one with zigzag scissors.
wannaquanta . 8y ago When I was 12 my friend and | put a bunch of plastic cups filled with hot sauce in the middle of the street. A person slammed on their brakes when they saw the cups and got rear- ended right in front of my house.
Zoned . 8y ago Years ago, when Devil's Night was still a thing, on a lark, | lit a piece of toilet paper that was hanging from a well-TP'd tree. It acted like a fuse, all the TP in the tree went up.
 . 8y ago | have an amazing ability to pick up almost any bug carefully and efficiently without hurting them, so when I first discovered this when I was about 5 or 6, I went and collected 44 ants, got some dirt, and made my own ant colony. in my room... under my bed...
 . 8y ago When I was 10 I saw this cool magic trick where you soaked a dollar bill in rubbing alcohol and the alcohol burns off and your dollar bill stays intact so stupid 10 year old me was home alone one day when my mom left me $20 to order food with | ended up soaking it in rubbing alcohol and burning it causing it to disintegrate into ash immediately.
 . 8y ago When | was 5 I wanted to see if pepper made you sneeze like in the cartoons so I shoved a black peppercorn up there. Burned like hell.
aubreyrose . 8y ago Anyone else jump down a flight of stairs because you thought you could make it? I was 4.
 . 8y ago e Edited 8y ago You know those old cigarette lighters in cars? Nobody in my immediate family smokes, and when I was younger, I pressed it in and it popped out. I pulled it out to inspect - it was just grey coils - it didn't look red hot or anything. So I tested that sucker the best way I knew how. I stuck it to my tongue.
Scoldingice . 8y ago I used to drink cans of soda by stabbing them with a push pin/thumb tack. If I just pulled it out there would be a stream of wasted soda. So I would pull the tack out with my teeth while creating a seal with my lips. One time I accidentally swallowed the tack. One emergency room visit and a few X rays later i was sent home to dig through my poo. I was 14.
DrAbeSacrabin . 8y ago When I was 10 my sister and I were throwing stuffed animals at each-other from ours rooms (door ways right across from eachother). At some point I just grabbed some double a batteries and threw them.. hit her right in the head. Dad was less than happy.
DanialE . 8y ago Wondered what would happen if I pedalled the bicycle as fast as I could and then brake it as hard as I could. P/s: I hit my crotch at the middle of the handlebar and also flew a couple of meters onto asphalt.
poodlenancy 8y ago When I was little I threw my ballet shoes into a toilet I had just peed in. I have no idea why. I then ran to my mom who couldn't decipher through my hysterical crying what was going on. To this day I still have no idea why I did it, but | remember feeling that I had to do it.
nivenfan . 8y ago My father had a glass cutter that consisted of a diamond embedded in the tip of a metal rod. I decided to witness it's amazing cutting power exhibited in cartoons, so I tried to cut a circle in our garage door window glass. The scar still rests in the glass 36 years later.
Isamanthalynn-s . 8y ago Went to a coffee shop and ordered a large cup of coffee. Barista hands it to me and I put it into my purse with no lid.
50ftBeast 8y ago Was a backseat passenger in my friend's car and decided to open the door and just kind of roll out while driving down the street.
winsomelosemore 8y ago Maybe not the dumbest but a recent one on my mind. | was in my office with the door closed. Got up from my desk to walk out and knocked on the door before opening it and walking into the hallway.
TheREALGillypies . 8y ago I tried to put out a candle by covering it with a Kleenex.
SubstituteHero . 8y ago When I was young I took an altoids container put three pennies in it then added toothpaste on top of the pennies and filled it with water closed it and stored it in my closet for months until my dad found it.
LOLZpersonok . 8y ago A long time ago, | was playing with an electrical socket in my undeveloped basement, where they're fully exposed. I managed to get it to shoot sparks and embers everywhere, and create quite the light show. In hind sight, I'm kind of surprised I didn't burn the house down and that socket still works all these years later.
MrsVoorheeslovechild 8y ago When i was 6 or 7 years old I would sit on marshmallows until i squished them very thin. Then I would place them over my heating grate then proceed to eat them. Washing them down with ginger ale sucked from a paper towel that i would dip into said Canada dry ginger ale in a glass. The 1980's were weird for me...
 . 8y ago When i i was about 8, i was walking out of school, i picked up some pink fairy floss (cotton candy) off the ground and put it in my mouth. It was insulation.
MissyDeanna 8y ago I'm 34 years old and my Dad still tells the following story of me doing a dumb thing to anyone willing to listen. When I was 8 years old I got a pack of Big League Chew gum. I was hanging out in the garage with my Dad & when he saw I was about to open the gum he said, Now whatever you do, do not put this in your eye. I said ok, I won't. I then walked into the house, went upstairs into my bathroom, chewed on a ton of gum, took it out

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