Pissed on a moped
Not in the UK but on the Port of Hamilton in Bermuda.

We were in Bermuda for 4 days discharging some cargo and during that time some of us hired some mopeds to get around the island. We negotiated a price for the time we'd be docked there and during periods of inactivity we'd skoot around the island sightseeing. Great fun and very picture skew.

On the night we were to sail we decided to get our monies worth and use the mopeds until the last moment. Unfortunately some of us, who were a little under the weather and lacking inhibitions and sense, started to dare each other to do more and more stupid bike stunts. A crowd of seamen, wharfies and 'ladies-of-the-night' gathered to watch the increasingly daring stunts on the tar chipped wharf surface. From running up a plank resting on a beer crate. to two beer crates, to a shopping trolley sized crate. We were having great fun with a fully appreciative audience and I was bullet proof and definitely over proof.

The plank was placed on a 44 gallon oil drum (about 3 foot high) and the dares started. With a little trepidation, as I didn't have a helmet, I took up the challenge, retreated about 20 yards and gave it full stick. I hit the plank cleanly, kept to the centre and flew off the end of the jump. I of course lost total control - the reason for this post, and fell to the ground cradling my head.The back of my hands and forearms took the majority of the impact and through the haze and pain I could hear the crowd laughing and clapping their hands. Shame.

The ship sailed an hour later with me in the sick bay and the 3rd mate digging hundreds of tiny stones out of my arms with a hypodermic needle. Pain.

The funny thing is 20 years later I was in hospital for an x-ray as I'd twisted my right wrist and on the x-ray were 17 little points of light (missed stones) that had the doc intrigued. I've still got the x-ray somewhere, my souvenir of Bermuda.
(Jimmyinnz was sprung at work on b3ta on, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 7:45, 4 replies)

Pics or it didn't happen!
(Simian Typewriter Supplies Pty. Ltd. is house hunting in the neighborhood of infinity, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 8:34, closed)

AND?
maps.google.co.nz/maps?q=32.292272,-64.778143&num=1&t=h&z=18&vps=1&jsv=201b&sll=32.292488,-64.783844&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&gl=nz&hl=en&abstate=A:actbar-saveto
(Jimmyinnz was sprung at work on b3ta on, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 8:53, closed)

Nah. Can't see your arm in that shot.
(mersault, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 16:47, closed)

You obviously haven't got Google Pro with the 15cm resolution. :)
(Jimmyinnz was sprung at work on b3ta on, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 8:18, closed)