Stupid Human Tricks

[Snookster]

So I decide to get in a little early morning fishing.... my wife & kids are asleep - I sneek off to a local lake. The bass have been hitting top water lures like no tomrrow. -- It's maybe 5:30 the sun is just comming up, I'm walking the shoreline casting a Jitterbug. As fate has it - I snag the only damm stick protruding out of the water... I pull, I pull & off she comes! Now this lure is moveing somewhere near Mach 3 when it hits my leg (I'm in shorts). The bank is on an incline.. so the leg is bent. ZAP - I've got trebble barbs burried so deep above & below the knee on the inside of my thigh... it's not even bleeding -- the bugs are now swarming.. I can't move my leg to walk.. I hop on one leg for nealy a mile to the car.. drive home w/ my L leg & attempt surgery in the bathroom. (don't try this - go straight to the ER). I barely touch these hooks & I'm ready to soil my lingere. The folks at the ER probably still remember me hopping in for hook removal work that morning. My wife still does'nt know this story -- figure its better off that way.<br /><br />Man we're have'n fun now.<br /><br />Dave B.

 

[Winger Ed.]

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I've never been hit by one, but I think I've heard lures break the sound barrier like that when they are coming straight at ya after they've become 'unstuck'.<br /><br />Some news story ran a year or 2 back that showed a Emergency Room near some great fishing spot. They had a big soft wooden fish hanging on the wall in the hospital. After they took a hook or lure out of someone, they'd stick it on the wooden fish.<br /><br />At the end of every year, they'd clean it off and start over.<br /><br />At the end of the year, they had enough to pretty well fill out a decent tackle box. Maybe add a few sinkers or plastic worms, but they sure had everything else you'd want for a tackle box inventory.

 

[NYMINUTE]

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Ouch, Make a good story line on CSI!

 

[FSHKPR]

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oh yeah that monofiliment can act just like a slingshot. got a new rod and reel last year for christmas. so naturally i want to take it in the back yard for a couple practice casts. well standing on my deck i have about 30 yards to the bushes that line my back lot line. well i put on a small bell sinker and throw it out a couple times, of course it has to land in the tops of those bushes once. so i figure i will just give it a good yank. well after the third or fourth try it came loose like a rocket. i heard it wizz by my ear and hit the back of the garage. turned around and there was the sinker buried in the vynl siding. just a neat little hole like a bullet would make. if it would of hit me in the head i believe it would of knocked me cold.

 

[cbnoodles]

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That's what I refer to as casting to the fish behind me.

 

[Kiekhaeferscurse]

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Have you ever been towing a Bayliner 2352 down the road (thats the Bayliner with the silly little float activated bilge pump in the front compartment that exits out the starboard side) when you pull up to a stop light just ahead of a cute blonde in a convertable in the right lane.When you put the brakes on the pump activates and of course it proceeds to pump about 5 gallons of putrid salt seawater on to her well filled out White muscle shirt. Yikes was she sum mad at me!

 

[jtexas]

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<br /><br />some guys'll do anything to get a girl into a wet t-shirt!

 

[Winger Ed.]

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Originally posted by Kiekhaeferscurse:<br /> it proceeds to pump about 5 gallons of putrid salt seawater on to her

I used to know a guy who drow a 'Dumpster' truck.<br /><br />He got a call once to empty a 'can' at a fish restaraunt that had been closed and didn't pay thier 'Dumpster' bill for about 2 months one summer day here in Dallas.<br /><br />The first 2 or 3 guys who went up to it, threatened to quit if they had to empty that can into their truck.<br /><br />So, for a extra $50, he agreed to do it.<br /><br />Going down the road, a new convertible 'Vette with "Ken and Barbie' in it, cut him off.<br /><br />He followed them awhile, and see his chance, he got next to them and sort of 'heaved' the rather topheavy truck, but stayed in his lane.<br /><br />It slung a few gallons of the 'goo' from the old fish restaraunt into the 'Vette, and onto them. <br /><br />They were barrfing too hard to get his license number...........

 

[tomatolord]

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Worked on a dairy farm in Villanova, pa, Ayshires..<br /><br />We had the S h i t truck, an old short bed dump truck that the automatic scrapers would empty into.<br /><br />Sometimes the "load" was a little watery.<br /><br />If you went out the driveway to the right there was a steep hill.<br /><br />Brother had a full "load" went right, missed 2nd gear and had to jam it back into 1st.Causing the truck to buck real hard.<br /><br />Oh yeah the farm was surrounded by million dollar homes with million dollar a$$holes<br /><br />He gets up over the hill and a guy in a large mercedes is blaring is horn as he passes him giving him the #1 salute<br /><br />Brother is laughing as the silver mercedes had a nice coat of brown all over it and the wipers were smearing the window!!

 

[Kiekhaeferscurse]

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I luv it when "**** happens"

 

[Winger Ed.]

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guy in a large mercedes is blaring is horn as he passes him giving him the #1 salute<br />[/QB]

Hmm,,, I get that once in awhile myself. I always thought was a gesture of friendship meaning something like 'Have a great day neighbor', or something along those lines.<br /><br />I have a buddy that used to work heavy construction. He was on a water main project a few years ago. They had a long section of a major street blocked off while they dug out and changed a water main.<br /><br />A guy in a big Mercedes wound his way through all the construction vehicles and stopped beside him. The darked window came down, and the driver said, "Hey, Ya wanna move that truck".<br /><br />He said, "Ahhh,,,, no".<br /><br />Then, "Do you know who I am"?<br /><br />My buddy thought a second and replied, "No. And there's a 20' deep ditch up ahead that don't care either".<br /><br />Fella wound himself back out of there in reverse too.. <br /><br /><br />Stories like that sort of make ya feel warm all over don't they?