Improbable things you HAVE done

[Sunstroke]

* I was approached by a Soviet spy once, who wanted me to sell him secrets

* I tallied a bizarre basketball quadruple-double in a city league playoff game (18 pts, 13 rebs, 11 steals, 10 blocks)

* I helped develop the KY-57 crypto gear used on the Apache helicopters.

* Using a turret-mounted .50 cal, I once cut an abandoned house in half.

* I've driven a vehicle 162 mph

* I once wrecked a bicycle at 43 mph
     * (I once got a speeding ticket on a bicycle for passing a cop at 48 mph in a 35 zone)

* I once followed a pack of wolves (as part of a Wolfhaven study) in the sawtooth mountain range in Idaho for 3 days without sleeping.

* I once headbutted someone so hard it fractured their skull.

[JVides]

Can't think of too many improbable things I've done...let's see...

I've lived in six countries and had many, many strange things happen as a result of it.

I've driven pretty fast (147 MPH)

I've saved four lives in one weekend at the the same beach (why would people who can't swim well decide to go out and swim a 100 meters off-shore??)

I've told a mugger to go f&*k himself rather than give gim my $50 watch and my empty wallet.  (Same weekend as above)

I've raised motherless puppies from birth until they were old enough to give away.  (Bottle fed them and everything)

Can't think of anything else...mental block...

[Phishfan]

Sorry Phish, I've done all three of those mutiple times (except sex in public) and don't consider any of them that "Improbable".

Me neither really, but I was not the first to put some sort of version of them so I included them as well.

How about this one, I once watched a thunder storm roll around the mountain top I was on.
I once fed my dog a whole deer.

[DolFan619]

     Okay, let's see.....

- I have driven an 88,000 ton aircraft carrier

- I've driven over a 100 mph

- I drank alcohol while sitting in a 11th grade English class

  That's it for now, my memory is a bit rusty.

[MaineDolFan]

I made out with Liv Tyler.

(she's from Portland)

[Sunstroke]

^^^ That would definitely be more fun than most of my improbables.

...although I have to admit that cutting the building in half with the .50 cal did give me a semi-chubby. 

[JVides]

although I have to admit that cutting the building in half with the .50 cal did give me a semi-chubby

Yeah, that sounds cool, but let's hear about the Soviet spy thing.  That sounds like a good story.

[Brian Fein]

My life sucks.  I haven't done anything cool.

Well, except that one time I rolled my car in the middle of the street.  jtex was there.  I don't know if that qualifies...

[Dave Gray]

- I've had a cop pull a gun on me.

- I wet the bed at my girlfriend's parents.

- I bumped into someone holding a sign with my full name on it.

- I have seen multiple ghosts, one UFO.

- A dog birthed puppies on top of me.

[Frimp]

- A dog birthed puppies on top of me.

You've GOTTA tell that one. 

[Sunstroke]

Yeah, that sounds cool, but let's hear about the Soviet spy thing. That sounds like a good story.

That was actually pretty non-eventful...though it does sound intriguing enough on the surface. I was approached at a German bar shortly after being sent to Berlin in '82 by a guy who claimed to be a german restaurant owner, who wanted to get some information on new units who were coming in (how many, what type of units, etc...), supposedly so he could "do better business with our american friends." He wanted our secure unit telephone book as well. He offered to pay a thousand marks (about $300 at the time) for that "harmless" little information. I let our unit's security chief know about it when I got back to the barracks and the MP's went in to the bar the next day and hauled the guy out. I was standing outside when they went in and simply nodded at the MP captain who was there to acknowledge that it was the same guy from the previous day. I learned about a month later that he wasn't german at all, but a soviet...and had been shipped off to some german prison.

If you'd like a little sneak peek into the whole soviet-american tension of the 80's, come down to a tailgate party this year, pour me a beer and get me to tell you about the "Soviet Colonel's Disneyland Directive." You'll like that one...it's a tear-jerker in dress greens. 

[Frimp]

I met the band Deadeye Dick (That annoying New Age Girl Merry-Mo song) after their show in Melbourne FL and I told them to their faces that they sucked. (I was very drunk)

[Phishfan]

- I've had a cop pull a gun on me.

I can't believe that I almost forgot this one. I had a drug dealer pull a gun on me once.

[Thundergod]

-Also witnessed a UFO.

-While working, we were held up and robbed in my early retail days.
(Gunpoint and pistol whipped.  I swear I woulda cut that motherf***er's eyes out and stuffed 'em in his mouth, then severed his jugular to watch him die of blood loss on the floor)...

^^^
Dunno if that counts cuz obviously it wasn't intended to happen.  But never thought in my wildest dreams it would happen (to me).

[JVides]

I've had a cop pull a gun on me.

I may have had a gun pulled on me.  The guy that tried to mug me said he had a gun pointed at me from beneath his jacket, and since we're talking Rio de Janeiro here, I'd say the odds are even that he did.  I just never saw it.

I met the band Deadeye Dick (That annoying New Age Girl Merry-Mo song) after their show in Melbourne FL and I told them to their faces that they sucked. (I was very drunk)

I met the Backstreet Boys and Creed at a corporate event, just after they first got famous. I told the BS boys that their music sucked while stone-cold sober.  Hung out with the Creed boys and got pretty wasted; they were pretty cool.