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[zchris13]

Mach 1, here I come!

[Sir Pseudonymous]

(they leave nasty wounds, just not ones that incapacitate someone fast enough to make a difference)

Because slashing a tendon or stabbing someone in the eye does nothing?

I don't know, dude.  Yeah, bats are bats, but if you manage to dodge the initial swing and get in close with your knives I'd say your opponent is pretty damned screwed.  These are kids, not trained soldiers.  I'm kind of doubting that any one of them could easily take a stab wound and keep going.

I'd bet on the long, heavy, blunt object over any knife you can legally carry around. (Hell, I'd probably take a bat over a machete, and a large axe over that. Or a sledgehammer, though that's getting to the point of "too heavy to be of practical use".) Especially when it's one guy with a knife (or is he planning on holding one in each hand, removing any grappling ability with his off hand for essentially no gain?) against several people with bats. Who will probably beat him harder for threatening them with a knife. And if he actually manages to hurt one of them, I doubt he's getting back up.

[quinnr]

I've got one of those spots as well. I had a pencil in my shoe and I stabbed myself with it, what, six years ago?

These. Things. Suck.

[smigenboger]

Can you check in a BB pistol? it will at least ward people off, and looks menacing if it doesn't have an orange tip

[quinnr]

Learn how to throw your knives. Preferably through non-vital organs.

[Zironic]

Stupidest: Get wasted and stoned at the uni one weekend.

Most Dangerous: Race a girl. In Cars. As the lanes merge.
Although not as badass as being the main hero from kickass (sonerohi) or anything the Aquizzar could do, still pretty fucking dangerous as the lanes begin to form one, and your side to side with another car going 75 around a turn.

[Vector]

I'd bet on the long, heavy, blunt object over any knife you can legally carry around.

Right.  I forgot about the serious length limitations (what is it?  3 inches?), and was thinking kitchen knife length at the very least.  You know.  A foot long, maybe.

If we're working with three inches and a guy who doesn't know how to use knives, though, then yeah... I'm betting on the bats.

[DJ]

Damn, I missed the blade length limitation. I was going to suggest he interprets knife as sword. Sure, the guys with bats would win by numbers, but who would want to go first against a friggin' sword?

[quinnr]

Not a sword, a really large, oversized knife. 

[RedKing]

When I was 12 or so, I was helping a friend rebuild a tree fort. Rather than be intelligent and pry the old boards off with a hammer and crowbar, we decided it would be more fun to run down the hill at them, using an old metal clothesline pole as a battering ram. He took the front end, I took the back end, and down we went.

About two seconds before impact, it suddenly occurred to me that holding the sharp square metal end right in front of me was probably not the best option. I tried yanking it over to the side of me, but only got it over about four inches before we hit at full running speed. I literally went off the ground and was hanging impaled on this thing for a few seconds, then fell off and went rolling another 40 feet down the side of the hill.

My friend ran down and asked the obvious-yet-stupid question, "Are you okay?" I couldn't actually answer, because I couldn't breathe.

Long story short, when I got home I found that I had a very precise square cut into my chest over the lower right side of my rib-cage. You could faintly see the ribs through the cut. My grandfather started to take me to the hospital, but then thought to ask how it happened. I told him, he paused, and said, "Nah, you'll be fine. Here." And proceeded to pour rubbing alcohol into the wound, painted it with mercurochrome, slapped a thick patch of gauze on it, and sent me on my way. I still have a fairly prominent scar.

Stupid *and* dangerous, and totally unintentional.

[Virex]

I had (and still have) a bad habit of working on lamps in our local store, without taking the power off, because that often involves taking off metal plates from the back wall which have lamps hanging all over them. To make a long story short, I know how it feels to get electrocuted and have also discovered that I've got a fairly high electrical resistance.

Then there's the time I was roller skating and decided to use the window of a nearby building to come to a stop. Still have a huge scar of that on my arm.

I'm not as bad as some of my mates from the Uni. They've been doing experiments for a quiz to interest high school students in chemistry. Amongst others, this included making nitrogen triiodide (which explodes in a pretty purple haze when you handle it rough. Rough in this case includes touching it with a feather), making and lighting gun cotton (used as a propellant for bullets and missiles...) and lighting a can full of methane gas from the bottom side. They've also made and lit thermite, though that was outside with a big bucket of sand besides it so I think it doesn't realy count. For the record, most of this was done with no or minimal supervision...

Not stupid or anything, but I've also made nitrotoluene, which is made from the same ingredients as TNT, just at a different temperature. Wonder if they'd let me do the experiment on a higher temperature

[DJ]

Heh, that reminds me of that time I was repairing my computer's power unit while it was running. Long story short, getting shocked is hilarious.

[Dwarf]

Damn, you guys are awesome.
Sonerohi, you have balls.

[Cthulhu]

My high school economics teacher was the coolest guy ever.  He and his friends once added a rack of model rockets to the bottom of a car, hooked up the launcher to the space between the front seats, and drove down a highway and launched the rockets at a target.

It worked.

They totally could've filled the rockets with explosives and made a James Bond car.

[Satarus]

In college we had the electric cord to a vacuum cleaner.  We took aligator clips to hook it up to electrical components like broken sound cards and such.  Then we plugged the cord in.  Of course we were smart enough to do it outside since we knew the germanium smoke from the circuits is hazardous to your health.  We also learned the hard way that the bit of quartz in a computer's clock is shrapnel.

We also were launching model rockets and took one of the rock engines, taped a straw to it.  It did pinwheels straight up and then dived right at one guy.