Stupid me.

[ajchien]

Ok,

Stupid here... I ran my car over a Craftsman 4T jack stand and a pair of HF solid rubber wheel chocks.

One of the legs of the jack stand are slightly bent, and the bottoms of the wheel chocks look worn due to getting scraped against concrete.

Im about to toss these out in the trash, anyone find any repurposing uses for them?

PS.... I dont suppose Craftsman sells a single jack stand?

 

[Nowater]

It could be worse, my wife ran over my son's cat. The cat was struggling for life and she picked it up and brought it to me "to fix." I debated the quickest way to end the cat's life for a few seconds, then it died. I am glad it died first.

 

[Ray Kelly]

Hey!! Been there and done that!! Anyone would be lying if they said they hadn't. I win the prize for doing stupid stuff.

 

[Lugnut30]

Make a lamp out of the jack stand?....

 

[mmack66]

Hey!! Been there and done that!! Anyone would be lying if they said they hadn't. I win the prize for doing stupid stuff.

I've never done that, and I'm not lying.

Did you just drive over them because they were laying around on the ground, or were they in use and you somehow forgot they were there and hopped in the car, that was sitting at an incline and just took off, driving off of and over them?

 

[ken w.]

I got a friend of mine up in Canada a really nice battery charger at an estate sale for $50.00.He used it for an hour and then drove it over with a tractor.

 

[nehog]

Put the nozzle for my wet vac on the tire of the truck. Then drove the truck out. Wasn't much left of it.

 

[Totallymetal]

Lol! When I was in HS I slammed the trunk of my car on a retractable shop light and drove off pulling it out of the wall it was screwed into... I didn't know it until I saw the case bouncing up in my rear view mirror. My dad was really pissed!

 

[JasonJ]

It could be worse, my wife ran over my son's cat. The cat was struggling for life and she picked it up and brought it to me "to fix." I debated the quickest way to end the cat's life for a few seconds, then it died. I am glad it died first.

I ran over a dog once with a riding mower. I was on the way out from behind the house and the dog started barking and nipping at the front tire like he normally did when it went over him. The blades were still up and not engaged and only the front tire went over the dog. He was fine but he never went after the tractor again.

 

[Ray Kelly]

I've never done that, and I'm not lying.

Did you just drive over them because they were laying around on the ground, or were they in use and you somehow forgot they were there and hopped in the car, that was sitting at an incline and just took off, driving off of and over them?

I didn't mean to say that people had done that EXACTLY. I only meant to say that people made mistakes when working on their cars. But I have driven over stuff before. I remember I did a brake job one time for an old girlfriend of mine. When I got done, I couldn't get the car to back out of the garage. The front tires just kept spinning. Then I realized, the car was still jacked up. I had lowered it just enough to tighten the lugs nuts so they were just barely touching the ground. So, I didn't notice that the car as elevated. And yes, she was standing there when I tried to back it out of the garage. I was embarrassed. But, only a little bit.

 

[pop pop]

I got a friend of mine up in Canada a really nice battery charger at an estate sale for $50.00.He used it for an hour and then drove it over with a tractor.

It was probably fully charged by then ;-)

 

[plow]

I skipped skool once to go shooting with my buddys. After the session was over I put his 22 pistol that I "borrowed" for the day on the roof of the car that I was grounded from driving. Drove off and didn't think about it till I got home to put it up before he got home. I didn't get an azz whippin......But he did let me know how disappointed he was in me.



I would have rather taken the azz whippin.

 

[jwh]

I was doing some tree work, took my watch off and left it on the back bumper of my truck. Forgot I did that, next morning wondered where the watch was. Drove off in the middle of all this. Found watch in the street. Took a licking and it wasn't ticking.

Not to be outdone, wife backed up over picnic table bench. About a year after that she backed over a plastic garbage can. Last I saw of that it was going down the street stuck under the rear bumper.

 

[jwh]

Was reading last post to my wife....she reminded me that last year #1 son tried backing out of garage with the BRAND NEW OVERHEAD DOOR still shut!!! Special door (18' double wide) bottom panel was bent beyond repair $400.00 for a new panel.

 

[66HertzClone]

My wife backed out of the garage while the door was still going up. Shattered the rear window of her X5. I think that happened as the wiper arm caught on the garage door handle, the bracket to hold the wiper motor assembly in the door was broken as well. I spent about an hour vacuuming up the pieces of glass then taping up the opening. She insisted the door stopped going up and reversed on its own. I was smart enough not to try and argue with her, thankfully no damage to the door.

 

[Blk88GT]

I drove my Kubota tractor through the side of an above ground pool during a brief moment of panic when rolling backwards with the bucket and loader arms inside the pool (don't ask). I mistook the forward pedal for the brakes and away it went.

I've never felt so stupid in my entire life.

 

[Milton Shaw]

Some of these I would love to have seen a video about. Could have won some money on that last one I bet. But no money would be worth letting everyone know how big a goofoff we had done. I worked appliance repair for 20 years and one of the funniest things I heard was from another tech. He was working on a dishwasher in a mobile home. The problem was it would not drain and the air gap by the sink was stopped up. He took the top off of it to clean it out and the dishwasher (still running) went into drain cycle and filled his face with water and his hat hit the ceiling. The worst thing was he told everyone about it. Had another tech doing brazing inside the freezer compartment on a refig. He wasn't watching his flame and melted the whole side out of the freezer before he saw it. Then all the stories about customer attempts to install or repair would fill a book or two of things gone wrong.

 

[NUTTSGT]

I took the fill plug out of the in ground hoist reservoir to see how it worked. As I stood above the hole, looking into it, I grabbed the lever and flipped it, pressurizing the system. Fortunately, I moved with catlike reflexes and got out of the way of a 2" diameter stream of oil that went up about 10 feet in the air.

Yep, pretty damn stupid.

 

[Falcon67]

Set my nice leather breficase down behind the truck with a verrrry expensive Fluke meter and (at the time) high buck calculator inside, plus work materials. Got to talking...well, dammit.

I suppose a personal "favorite" was a tuning session with the Falcon. Set the preliminary idle and mix, then set the brake and put it in 1st (auto) to finish. Satisfied, while leaning over the fender and one leg over the headlight area I gave the throttle a blip with my thumb. Instant response from the proper settings, of course, and I landed about 5 feet away.

I don't set the mix in gear anymore...

 

[Jazz]

Don't make the mistake of thinking you'll "fix" it later and put it in a corner until then. Better to just dispose of this stuff now. You can straighten a nail and reuse it, but a bent screw is just trash.

 

[Mgbringo]

Two days ago I was returning my rear seats in my Toyota 4Runner to upright position. Have to remove head rests from rear seat for that.

When I had them returned to upright I couldn't find the middle head rest. Was in a hurry so decided I would find it later.

Found it as I drove off. It had fallen in front of the rear wheel. Smashed it almost flat.

 

[slickgt1]

Friend got me some nice wheel chucks. I have been used to just putting a brick, or a piece of wood. So first day I got it, as I finished swapping my winter wheels to the summer set, got in the car, put in drive, and ruined them the same day I got them. Yup. Didn't think anything of it, as I was used to rolling over the wood block, untill I got back to garage, and realized my brand new collapsible chucks, were perma collapsed.