I was just thinking, perhaps all the fiction that has this as a plot point chooses it because of the man bites dog nature of the incident.
replythat's true, but among humans the "impressing a girl" pattern seems to be more open ended as to how you will do it, and thus you end up with croc-riding accidents at times.
replyI really did some extremely dumb things in my twenties that I'm extremely lucky didn't kill me.
replyI once tried to rappel off the side of an apartment building using a garden hose I stole from the building so I could get into my apartment that I was locked out of because my roommate had gone away for the weekend, this was not to impress a girl, it was to get changed to go to the club to meet a girl. I'm also afraid of heights.
replyLuckily the apartment manager came driving up at the right time, probably saving my life.
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