The Top Ten Stupidest Ideas on Flickr

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Did I spend several hours perusing photos tagged “stupid” on Flickr? I did. And I did it for you, my friends. Here’s the payoff for all that arduous clicking while I watched Tivo.

The Top Ten Stupidest Ideas on Flickr

10. Standing over a body of freezing water on a hunk of thin ice.

9. Nude photo shoot at the base of a waterfall, over which logs frequently crash.

8. Using a wet/dry vacuum on exhaust mode to stoke a fire.

7. Lighting fireworks on your head or standing over the pretty, pretty lights.

6. Playing guitar while driving.

5. Sweeping snow off an icy roof.

4. Breathing fire… in your kitchen.

3. Rigging an extension cord to float in the pool. (So halfwitted that I almost assume it’s a joke.)

2. Ignoring crossing warnings at the train tracks.

1. Leaping from cliff to cliff, in flip-flops, with one arm full of camera equipment. (Update: Snopes says the photo has been cropped to seem more dramatic.)

Pretty spectacular, no? And lest you think this is all the stupidity the Internet has to offer, tune in tomorrow for the “kids do the darndest things” version of this list.

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  2. #2 probably isn’t that bad since it is probably the train tracks right next to Purdue Calumet. Trains are always stopping while at crossings or stopping right before/after them. So, I’m gonna bet that train wasn’t moving at the time the picture was taken.

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  5. hmm
    funny
    but those aren’t really GOOD photographs, they’re just pictures with a very high amateur rate, if you know what I mean…

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    Thanks for the perusal!

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  15. Why would you write a post about photos but have none of them in the story? Linking to them is a good thing but I’m not going to open a whole bunch of tabs to get to your point. Great idea but you lost me the second I realised that reading your post would be hard work. I hope you learn from this before I next stumble across your site.

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  36. I’m the one who took the second picture. It is definitely not staged, I don’t know anyone who is stupid enough to do something like that. Also this was not by the college, if you looked at the comments, this was in front of the train station where people get killed for doing this.

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