[BL_RV0]

When I was 11 my friend and I thought it would be "cool" to make a human catapult. We built the thing over the next couple of weeks and somehow my mom never found out about it. We tested it by firing watermelons and pumpkins into an open field. Worked amazingly. They flew about 220 feet. Here is the stupid part. My friend and I lived on a steep hill right next to each other, and he lived below me and had a swimming pool. The plan was that I would get into the catapult and make the ~70ft journey from my back yard to his pool. Really bad idea. We added about 20 more bungee cords for extra power. I massively overshot. I flew about 150' and landed on his roof. I was knocked unconscious and rolled off the 2 story roof onto the concrete 20' down. I don't remember anything for 5 days after that, I was in the hospital. I broke both of my legs, both arms, and nearly broke my neck in such a way that I almost died. It was a weird experience, I had 5 months of physical therapy, and I'm back to normal 10 surgeries and 4 years later...