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Question Of The Day

What's the Stupidest Thing You’ve Ever Done For Attention?

"Car surfing, I suppose."

Everyone's lauding this Felix Baumgartner guy for jumping out of space, making it out like he's some kind of hero because he lacked the foresight necessary to realise that plummeting towards the earth from 24 MILES in the air is a really fucking bad idea. My theory is he met some girl in a bar a few years ago, drank a few too many shandies and told her he was planning on breaking the speed of sound by jumping out of a helium balloon in the hope it would make her giggle.

Annoncering

She clearly ended up taking him at his word, because, as every single person in the world has been unable to ignore, Felix jumped on Sunday and set all kinds of world records. That moment of misguided bravado made us think about all the stupid shit we've done in the past to impress people and got us wondering what other people out there have done to make others think they were cool. So we went and asked them.

London, what's the stupidest thing you've ever done for attention?

Aaron, 25 and Michaela, 25.

Aaron: I’m not a massive extrovert, really.
Michaela: Me neither. Oh wait, actually; in Lao, they have these zipwires and I’m not massively big on the ol’ upper body strength. I went from the top height, which I shouldn’t really have done. It went alright, I just shat myself.

VICE: You shit yourself?
No, no, no. That would have been really embarrassing
Aaron: I shaved my head once for a laugh to surprise my dad because I hadn’t seen him for three months. It didn’t look good at all – I just wanted to get a reaction.

You shaved your head? Wow, that's mental.

Elaina, 28 and Andre, 35.

Andre: I’ve jumped off the roof of a house to try and steal a keg of beer before. Then I fell on to a fence.

That's almost comparable to Baumgartner, I suppose.
Elaina: I’ve done too much stuff like that in the past, but I’m just trying my hardest to forget them, to be honest. It’s a bit difficult to compete against someone jumping from outer space.

Annoncering

James, 21: I was driving a girl around in a golf cart, trying to go as fast as I could to impress her, and I ended up flipping it. She broke her arm. That wasn't the best day.

Yeah, that's pretty dumb. How did you get yourself into that situation?
It was at someone’s party and, for some reason, there was a golf cart there. I was pissed and it seemed like a good idea.

What about the girl you were trying to impress? Did she fall for you after that?
Surprisingly not, no.

Max, 25 (left) and Jimmy, 25.

Max: I'm not sure. It's probably something like that thing where you drink 100 shots in a row – you know; that centurion game. I did all of that at uni – all the fuckin' streaking, setting fire extinguishers off up walls and everything. I streaked across a golf course once, actually. Not many people saw, though, annoyingly. I have really big balls and nobody saw them.

What would I have to offer you right now to get you to streak through this train station?
Well, I'm quite an exhibitionist anyway, so probably just a McDonalds, or something. In terms of impressing a girl, I don't really do any crazy shit. I just like being myself, which is kind of lame.

What about you, Jimmy?
Jimmy: Ah, there are too many.

Are you a crazy motherfucker?
Mine are always dares. We used to play this game at uni where we'd go round and ask random people, "Have you met my friend James?" but it always ended up backfiring. This girl said, "I don't know him, but he fucked my housemate once." So that was pretty awkward. You've got to have the balls with these things, then the peer pressure builds up until you do it.

Annoncering

Would you snort a line of coke off someone’s penis? Do you have the balls for that?
Is there money in it? You’d always be known as the guy who put a cock on his nose – I’d be called Cokey-Cock-Nose – so no, I don’t think I could do something like that.

Pussy.

David, 48: Well, that'd probably be car surfing, I suppose.

Care to elaborate?
It's where you climb through the sun-roof of a car in order to stand on top of it. All performed while your girlfriend’s trying to pull you back down again.

Oh right.
It was just a spur of the moment thing with a bunch of mates. I was pissed, so I thought I'd give it a go. Don't worry, I wasn't driving.

When was this?
20 years ago, so I was 28.

Old enough to know better then, really.

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