Stupid things you did when you were young thread

When I was younger (only 29 now, before I had my drivers License) I bought a MINT 1979 Can-Am Qualifier 175 dirt bike. The only thing wrong was the kill switch did not work. My dad paid the $40.00 for it (we were dirt poor and this was a hell of a deal) and he helped me load it up. We got it back and quickly checked it over. My dad said "you do not ride this until I get the kill button working", OK I said. The next day school got out for the weekend and I was anxious to take it for a nice long first ride to my camp about 45 miles away. My buddy and I loaded up and headed out on the 1+ hour trek. I made it about 20 minutes when I dumped the bike (it was tall and I am short) and when I picked it up I noticed that the front sprocket (gear) came off the crankshaft. It was still on the chain, but somehow the cotter pin came out. Rather than trying to get the splines lined up while the bike was running (sprockets/chains + fingers in close proximity = bad situation) I decided to get it to shut off. I was just putting it in fifth gear and dumping the clutch to kill the engine but with the chain not hooked up obviously that wasn't going to work. I shut the fuel switch to the 'off' position but knew that may take a few minutes idling to actually die so I grabbed the fuel hose and was gonna pull it off the petcock. I tugged it and the entire petcock came out of the fuel tank dumping fuel out through the 1-inch hole all over the magnesium engine case. It flashed up instantly and my buddy was still holding the bike up using via the rear fender (no kickstand). I yelled "drop the damn bike" and ran what seemed like .5 miles to the closest house and nobody was home. Nobody was home so I started back to Jeff and the bike and saw guy with a fire extinguisher but that was way too late already. The Fire Dept. arrived and dumped a ton of sand on it and I was like NO!!!!!..lol

Nobody was hurt thank God, and it was a hard lesson learned.

Why they didnt fasten the petcock to the tank I do not know. it was just a rubber 'mushroom tip' like this: <= that once pushed in wasn't super easy (or very hard) to pull out.
Anyother bike would have survived, but it wasn't the smartest idea anyways.