# Stupidest dare you ever accepted **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 23, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-dare-you-ever-accepted/94850 "2001-11-23T03:44:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-dare-you-ever-accepted/94850/21 "2001-11-25T03:45:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rysdad \* > \*\*It’s kind of a dare… > > I had a '56 Pontiac. I had just dropped off a friend at the beach (where all my friends hung out). He gave me the “spin 'em” gesture, so I wound 'er up and side-stepped the clutch. > > The drive shaft broke loose from the rear end and rattled around under the car. Much hilarity from gathered friends. \*\* Yeah, but the point is, you could… ---
**Author:** ![Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Fonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonz)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-dare-you-ever-accepted/94850/22 "2001-11-25T03:49:31Z")
Once I accepted a dare to jump into water I didn’t know, at a lake that had been an old quarry. One jerk said he would “show me” it was deep enough, and swam where I was to land and pretended to bob up and down to show it went over his head. It didn’t. Fortunately, I went in feet first, an sprained my ankle on the shallow rocks. I could have sprained my head while under water. Needless to say, I didn’t even talk to those jerks again. ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-dare-you-ever-accepted/94850/23 "2001-11-25T04:16:21Z")
You are very fortunate Fonz, there are no end of cases where people end up as quadrapalegics from diving accidents. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-dare-you-ever-accepted/94850/24 "2001-11-25T05:06:15Z")
Phew! There are some really crazy things here! Mine isn’t so crazy, or at least it wasn’t at the time. Back in the 1970s, when I was at high school, I was dared to walk down the main hallway of my high school during the school day, past the principal’s and vice-principal’s office, smoking a cigarette. Getting caught would have resulted in suspension at the very least. I took the dare, and made it safely. But nowadays, I wonder if getting caught for the same thing would result in not only a suspension, but also rehab. Oh well. I didn’t get caught, and so it didn’t go on my permanent record. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-dare-you-ever-accepted/94850/25 "2001-11-25T06:13:27Z")
Got up and sang “Rape Me” in front of a crapload of people at a party or played chicken against my friend near the train tracks. Did that _once_. I jumped away, fell, and nearly broke my leg. I was pretty young…and stupid [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-dare-you-ever-accepted/94850.md?page=1)