Off road dirt biking in uncharted areas. Point one: I despise this because of the way these guys and gals screw up the wild lands for everyone else for miles. Point 2: Injuries are frequent, sometimes debilitating and sometime fatal but the darn idiots do it again and again.
One guy zipped off of the edge of a 50 foot dune in the desert on his ATV, rigged to produce maximum noise at maximum speed. Hit the bottom and messed up his toy and broke his back. Not too bad if he was single, but he has a wife – young and cute – and two young kids. Went to the hospital and after a bunch of expensive surgery got all better, but had to wear a back brace for months to heal.
Doctors warned him: no more off road jumping anything. Another wreck and he could end up paralyzed from the waist down – which not only means no more walking, but no more sex, wearing a piss tube and a diaper.
Two weeks out of the hospital, with family in tow and still in the brace, he’s out at the dirt track, motocrossing. Family is all worried and his replies to why he is being an idiot get a tight lipped response of ‘cuse I like it and I enjoy it and it means a lot to me.’
Too bad his worried family means so little.
Currently there are many, many permanent injuries from motocrossing, dirt riding and ATV off the road racing, along with many, many deaths. (If these were drugs, the FDA and government would have banned them by now.)
Base jumping. (Idiots)
Monster truck jumping. (Less idiotic, because the drivers are in roll cages but it’s stupid to spend $100,000 on a huge custom truck to just jump it over crushed cars, land it funny and get to spend another $20,000 putting it back together.)
I used to figure that monster trucks were tuff! until I saw how easily they come apart, which indicated to me that they’re worthless for any form of off the road travel.
Hard core skate boarding. After watching kids on a film splatter their nuts up around their shoulders trying to ride handrails with them, take serious leg breaking spills on cement, fall down concrete stairs and land on their necks while trying to do a loop, I figure the sport is idiotic. 10 or 15 years from now, those kids who repeatedly nut crushed learning to ride a hand rail will be wondering why they’re having sexual problems. (Bike riders learn of this. There’s a tube which passes up through the groin above the balls and carries sperm. Smash it a few times and it closes up some. This can result in low discharge. A nerve goes through there also, and smacking it a few good times can result in erection problems later on in life – before 40.)