this is just a fine example of the typical idiotic stuff that tends to occur during late nights at FIRST..... in 2000 our building area was a military warehouse...... there was a fenced in area in the middle where they had probably once stored stuff nobody is supposed to talk about........ and on the far end there was an ample stock of random decrepid office chairs
what was the result you are wondering?
extreme bumper office chairs in the battle cage

This is CNN
 

Well, by far the stupidest thing I ever did related to FIRST was punch my team's driver for the match of mass destruction in the face after he notified me that he was blind. You see, a camera happened to be pointed at me at the time, and the video just happened to get on CNN, and I just happened to not get a tape of it. Some things you just can't explain.

Re: Found It!!
 

This is the part where I get to share Walt Disney World's Monorail Evacuation procedures.

In the event of a fire or other monorail emergency, the train will be stopped ( of course ) . . . Guests are then expected to remove the emergency exits (I'm glad Elgin now knows how!) and use a provided rope (it's beneath the seats, or along the inclined portion, I believe) to climb onto the monorail roof. From there, you'd be expected to walk the length of the train, slide down the glass window on the cab unit and walk the beamway to the next station.

Now, keep in mind - the beamway is flanked by two 220 volt busbars that power the trains.

Try to figure out what happens if there's a disabled guest on the monorail, too.

I know it's probably a useless factoid - but think what could've happened if you'd set the alarm off :) It can be a looooong walk back to the Magic Kingdom or Epcot on that beamway. . . it's about 8 miles long.

Mad Props
 

[quote]Originally posted by dlavery
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I give you full credit for what was a most excellent shot. And how J.R. managed to get me completely soaked without a single drop touching anyone else, while I was standing in the middle of a crowd of people, impresses me to this day.

-dave

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I must give my kodos as well. I was one of those talking to Dave when you soaked him. Man, that water came out of nowhere and completely drenched him. Unfortunately I didn't get the full story until the next morning due to a strict chaperone. Dave is definitely not someone to mess with. Too bad you had to learn the hard way!

-Justin

Sounds like something a kid on our team did...

He did a belly smacker off the lifeguard chair at the pool

Okay, sorry to open this thread again, but I got a new one.

This year at the Phoenix Regional Social (at the Arizona Science Center) My friends Krystine, Kendra, and I went out onto the terrace to have some food. Everything was going fine until Krystine dropped a nacho chip onto her seat. Then she got up to go and get some napkins so it wouldn't get on her pants (they were white and she was very lucky to have had the chip NOT fall on them in the first place). She walked over to the table, got what she wanted, and then sat down, completely forgetting that she had gotten up because there was stuff on her pants in the first place.

Well, we untucked her shirt and she walked around for the rest of the night hoping nobody would notice the big yellow stain on her pants (i don't really know if anyone did.... hrmmmm....)

Amanda and (most embarassed) Krys

I definately tried to spike up my hair with glue during the last day at nats last year.

And when we won, I had to go up on stage and huge Woodie and Dean... while the sun was melting the glue out of my hair and it was running down my neck and forehead.

Cute.:(

I'm an idiot (sometimes)... and proud of it!!!
 

Well seeing as I'm not the only one on this thread... here I go...

It began as a simple dare from a fellow friend at nationals last year... he had one of those stupid but cool voice changer thingies... you know the ones they sell at disney? Well we also had access to a phone:D ... and the room numbers to all our teamates... oh... and calls to rooms from rooms were free...

Anyway... we went through the list and placed prank phone calls and messages from our room using the voice changer so nobody... so we thought... could tell it was us...

Ten minutes after placing a call on one of our captains phones... she came to the room... she was pretty POed but she forgave us... five minutes after that her boyfriend gave us a visit... he still hates us for it...:yikes:

that was also the night we got caught on the waterslide after midnight with a few others... We only thought that the water had been shut off... it never occured to us that the slide was actualy closed:rolleyes:

Mmmmm.... nothing quite like the smell of rotting threads in the morning. :]

Anyways, here's mine:

When installing the battery for this year's 'bot, I was trying to figure out how much of the Anderson connectors we should cut off. In order to make sure everything would fit in the robot properly, I connected the two ends together. Now, this wouldn't be that big of deal, except I stupidly used the connector I had already stripped the insulation off. Needless to say, while bending and twisting the wires to get them into the proper position, I ended up touching both ends of the stripped connector the robot chassis.

What happened next is left as an excercise for the reader.

hmmm Most likely like recycled Percussion at BAE with Grinders and 55 gallon drums

Hmmm.... dumb things...
Does picking a 130lb. robot with your class ring on count? Well here's a few from my team:
1) Last year, it's crunch time at regionals--the end of the first day, and our robot still barely runs. I turn around and mysteriously vanish, amidst the blare of announcements for teams needing this or that. Suddenly, between all the requests of depsarate teams comes, "Team 990 needs a miracle. If anyone can provide a miracle, please see Team 990." My entire team turned beat red as laughter rolled out of the pit areas. Let's just say I got a slug in the shoulder every day of the school year after that from one of my friends.
2) One of our guys, Aaron, shaved his hair this year, much to the dismay of his parents. Part of his punishment, apparantly, is his current lack of a go-tee. I also remember getting the steam room at the AZ Best Western up to 150 degrees... I also remember jumping between the swimming pool (about 55 degrees) and the jakoozi (about 110 degrees). Of course, I had to spend about 15 minutes in the pool when the good looking girls showed up. No one wants to look like a wimp...
3) I lifted my friend Glenn up on my shoulders to look for someone. Keep in mind this is in the pit area among many people walking.
4) Our Physics Teacher, Mr. Johnson, as soon as our robot caught on fire at the end of a match. He was stomping on the afflicted hardware before the refs had a clue what was going on. It turned out that a cable came lose when we flippled on our back (the radio cable), shorted, and caught fire. No major damage, and the wire sat proudly displayed in our pit area for the rest of regionals. When one (of many) teams asked us if we needed anything, I piped up "an oven mitt." That was pretty hilarious.
5) I'm not sure if this was a good idea or not, but a couple of my roommates at the hotel, while perusing through the contents of my laptop, found a rather large folder (or at least they don't remember Mechwarrior 3 taking up a gig of hard drive space), and decided to investigate. I won't get into details as to what the rest of the night entailed for the four of us room mates, but the discussion of fluid flowrates and tissue tension was hit on quite a few times (as the material in question starts with an H and ends with a TAI), as were many other topics of anatomical realism. Ah, our physics teacher would be proud. Well, sort of. The dumb thing in all of this being me bringing my laptop. Imagine someone finding that at the regionals event. :yikes:

Ooops!
 

OK, so I learned the hard way that if current in amps equals potential in volts times resistance in ohms, and if resistance approaches zero, amps approaches infinity. In other words, I crossed a wire against the two posts of a robot battery, and found myself banned from anything electronic on the robot for 2 and a half years (still on parole four years later).

Re: Ooops!
 

No wonder you're still on probation. :) If "current in amps equals potential in volts times resistance in ohms", then as resistance approached zero, current would also approach zero.:D

i stabbed myself with a scribe... and it went in really far (accidentally of course) :p any questions? hehe

Re: Re: Ooops!
 

Maybe I meant that current is volts over resistance, that would make more sense i suppose.