What's the dumbest thing you've ever done, related to FIRST?

[Shu Song]

I'm afraid to ask what this 'go-go juice' is.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by TierraDelDiablo

I'm afraid to ask what this 'go-go juice' is.

lol It's just a lubricant you use when milling or drilling metal parts so phenomenon as described by Crop Circles don't happen!!

I don't know if Go-Go Juice is the technical name, but that's the name I hear it called more often than not in the shop during robo-season.

[Kaelia]

I stabbed myself in the finger with a Letterman while trying to saw balsa wood. That was pretty cool

[Drawman]

Well once, I went to a team carwash to raise money...for the wrong team. I was a freshman too so I didn't know I was at the wrong place until I started cleaning cars and they said something about "PantherTech" and I was like "Well...we are the Technokats right?" and they all laughed and I then almost peed my pants >_<

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Drawman

Well once, I went to a team carwash to raise money...for the wrong team. I was a freshman too so I didn't know I was at the wrong place until I started cleaning cars and they said something about "PantherTech" and I was like "Well...we are the Technokats right?" and they all laughed and I then almost peed my pants >_<

Wow!!! That is the funniest post I have ever read here.

[Dan 550]

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.

[Madison]

Originally posted by Elgin Clock



Taken From another post recited by Jessica Boucher:

"::sigh:: Elgin was our "responsible adult chaperone" our last day in FL...and we were on the monorail from Magic Kingdom to Epcot and he decided that he'd hold onto one of the top panelings, which proceeded to come loose in his hands (turns out it was the emergency exit, and if it had fallen any further, the alarm wouldve tripped)...soooo, he had to hold it up alllll the way to Epcot...I wish I had my camera"

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.

[Justin T116]

[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

Originally posted by David Kelly
i didn't do this but a kid on our team jumped off the dragon that goes over the pool at Port Orleans in disney. Lets just say that the owners were not very happy and we almost got kicked out

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

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

[Amanda M]

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

[Amanda Morrison]

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.

[Mike Persico]

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 ... 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...

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

[rbayer]

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.

[Aaron Lussier]

Originally posted by rbayer

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

[SlickChicFallen]

hmmm... Krispy Kreme run at 10:30 at night... and a little visit to visit a team in a local hotel...

AND. Allowing the team to know that I was going to tolo w/ our electronics mentor, lol... They RIPPED on him... and consequently me too