Your Heroic Moments

dave 27 · 07-03-2010 01:19PM #1

i'll probably get a lot of stick for this but i recently found a wallet in college that had nearly 300 euro in it, student id, bank cards, you name it..EVERYTHING! a couple of the lads were saying just take the money but i said it was too lousey so i handed the wallet into the reception and she got the wallet..i didnt even wait for her to come down, just left and didnt think twice about it so...

what did u do lately that made someone happy?

Alanstrainor · 07-03-2010 01:21PM

That's not heroic! That's just you not being an ass.

dave 27 · 07-03-2010 01:24PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

That's not heroic! That's just you not being an ass.

ok maybe a bad choice of words, heroic in the recipricants eyes anyways

cleremy jarkson · 07-03-2010 01:31PM

Like a predictable human being, you wanted to squeze any drop of self-gratification you could out of doing good deed, so you told people online. Hoping for a pat on the back. How selfish. You should have just kept the money.

Stercus Accidit · 07-03-2010 01:34PM

cleremy jarkson wrote: »

Like a predictable human being, you wanted to squeze any drop of self-gratification you could out of doing good deed, so you told people online. Hoping for a pat on the back. How selfish. You should have just kept the money.

An honest person would have shat in the wallet so that they couldn't feel the sin of pride, such is the true path to heaven.

dave 27 · 07-03-2010 01:36PM

cleremy jarkson wrote: »

Like a predictable human being, you wanted to squeze any drop of self-gratification you could out of doing good deed, so you told people online. Hoping for a pat on the back. How selfish. You should have just kept the money.

eh..no, i thought id make a thread on this as theres loads of individual posts going around

bonerm · 07-03-2010 01:36PM

Let me set the scene for you. It's a 7-10 split (the hardest shot in bowling). It was all up to me -- -- so I got up all my courage. Right away, my lips started to move, and I came up with the chant that won the match!

Kirby · 07-03-2010 01:37PM

Perhaps the title of the thread should have been "My heroic moments..." as you clearly are more interested in talking about yourself.

Obviously people are encouraged to contribute to their own threads but its fairly obvious what this thread was created for.

Formal shorts · 07-03-2010 01:40PM

If that's heroic, you must be an awful jerk normally

dave 27 · 07-03-2010 01:43PM

Kirby wrote: »

Perhaps the title of the thread should have been "My heroic moments..." as you clearly are more interested in talking about yourself.

Obviously people are encouraged to contribute to their own threads but its fairly obvious what this thread was created for.

what? how the hell am i supposed to create these threads so like?! if i posted it without a story at the start the first post would be you post something u did first or gtfo crap

gonnaplayrugby · 07-03-2010 01:46PM

thats cool dude. dont mind these nerds

anti-venom · 07-03-2010 01:47PM

What you did op was the right thing but it was hardly heroic. I'd bet, though, that your first reaction was to keep it and you probably had to struggle with your conscience to do the right thing. Am I right?

neil_18_ · 07-03-2010 01:52PM

Jesus everyone is bashing the OP, its a forum rule that he has to contribute his own input, thats all he did

Jimmy Bottlehead · 07-03-2010 02:00PM

Saved my dad's life - he was drowning on holidays when I was about 15, so I got him to poolside.

To this day I question that decision :P

dave 27 · 07-03-2010 02:00PM

anti-venom wrote: »

What you did op was the right thing but it was hardly heroic. I'd bet, though, that your first reaction was to keep it and you probably had to struggle with your conscience to do the right thing. Am I right?

ya heroic is a wrong use of words, heroic in the sence of the person thats on the recieving end i suppose, i dunno really i was more in shock finding a wallet with all that was inside it, she even had her drivers liscence in it!

but as i mentioned post stuff you did that helped other people, i remember seeing a post not so long ago about some guy that bought an abrakebabra for all the homeless people so it got me thinking on doing this thread

gonnaplayrugby · 07-03-2010 02:03PM

that is heroic man. you could have easily taken it but you were a good person and little things like that make people view the world more positively. you dont have to be like peter parker to be heroic.

CrazyRabbit · 07-03-2010 02:09PM

When I was 7, I ran into my burning house and saved my little sister. I got slightly burned doing so.

Beat that!

Hank_Jones · 07-03-2010 02:10PM

gonnaplayrugby wrote: »

thats cool dude. dont mind these nerds

Nerds! How Dare You! Bloody Rugby Playing Jocks!

Yeah so anyway I stood up to this guy that was badmouthing people on boards and calling them ''nerds'', that was my most heroic day.

Bob_Harris · 07-03-2010 02:13PM

dave 27 wrote: »

i'll probably get a lot of stick for this but i recently found a wallet in college that had nearly 300 euro in it, student id, bank cards, you name it..EVERYTHING! a couple of the lads were saying just take the money but i said it was too lousey so i handed the wallet into the reception and she got the wallet..i didnt even wait for her to come down, just left and didnt think twice about it so...

what did u do lately that made someone happy?

Was she hot?

IvySlayer · 07-03-2010 02:15PM

Saved a dog from drowning. Old woman came up to me, 'My dog, my dog is old and can't swim' jumped in, grabbed the collar and pullled 'Toby' out.

Mint Sauce · 07-03-2010 02:25PM

posting this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJQ4D8OA51Y

Kazooie · 07-03-2010 02:30PM

In McDonalds at Christmas time eating a burger with a friend. We were sitting at the window and accross the carpark there was what looked like a bum messing around with the bin.
He was putting stuff into it and clearin out a bag he had. Anyway it was taking him ages as he was changin his mind what to bin and dropping ****. We were laughin at him I'm ashamed to say. Anyway right before we finished our food, he finished up and walked off but as he did something dropped out of his pocket. We said we'd walk over to see what it was. Gettin closer I realised it was money. A bundle of 50's in fact. I didn't count it but the guts of 300 anyway.
Your man was gone about a minute up the busy street so I legged it after him and spotted him. Said " Sorry sir, you dropped this back at McDonalds", and handed it to him. Poor guy was not with it I'd say but shoved it in his pocket thanked me and walked off. Was relly proud of myself after that. If I hadn't been looking out the window (and lauging at him I'll admit), he'd never have got it back. Some cnut would have pocketed it. Considerin it was probably all he had for Xmas made it even sweeter.

Healium · 07-03-2010 02:39PM

I once ate a whole packet of Toxic Waste all at once :rolleyes:
My poor teeth!
http://www.toydirectory.com/monthly/hgg/candydynamics/toxic.jpg

According to Wikipedia,
"It is warned on the packet that the consumer should not put more than one in the mouth at once as it may cause damage to the consumer's taste buds"
Thanks

gonnaplayrugby · 07-03-2010 02:45PM

Kazooie wrote: »

In McDonalds at Christmas time eating a burger with a friend. We were sitting at the window and accross the carpark there was what looked like a bum messing around with the bin.
He was putting stuff into it and clearin out a bag he had. Anyway it was taking him ages as he was changin his mind what to bin and dropping ****. We were laughin at him I'm ashamed to say. Anyway right before we finished our food, he finished up and walked off but as he did something dropped out of his pocket. We said we'd walk over to see what it was. Gettin closer I realised it was money. A bundle of 50's in fact. I didn't count it but the guts of 300 anyway.
Your man was gone about a minute up the busy street so I legged it after him and spotted him. Said " Sorry sir, you dropped this back at McDonalds", and handed it to him. Poor guy was not with it I'd say but shoved it in his pocket thanked me and walked off. Was relly proud of myself after that. If I hadn't been looking out the window (and lauging at him I'll admit), he'd never have got it back. Some cnut would have pocketed it. Considerin it was probably all he had for Xmas made it even sweeter.

i would have kept it its not like he needed it for anything....well except for booze and prob heroin.

Agricola · 07-03-2010 03:08PM

Theres a trend these days when people return sums of money that have been lost. Which is that the grateful person who lost it in the first place rarely rewards honesty by giving them afew quid.
In our local town, a woman managed to lose her handbag in which she happened to have 800 euro in the purse. The person that found it got the owners name and address from a note in the bag and returned it in person. She didnt even offer her 20 lousy quid for being so honest. I think if i lost the bones of a grand, I would give the person that returned it to me a cash reward.

karlog · 07-03-2010 03:38PM

The receptionist is probably 300 euro richer now.

donmeister · 07-03-2010 04:02PM

I wouldn't call it 'heroic' my any means but I did help a blind guy get money from an atm, which I admit was kinda weird. And no I didnt steal any money from him

soups05 · 07-03-2010 09:03PM

i once saved my boss from a nasty beating .......

i held my temper

runs

InKonspikuou2 · 07-03-2010 09:20PM

Neighbors kids were home alone during a storm that spawned a tornado. I seen them out at the garden so i ran across the street and got them up into the bath tub and covered us with a matress. The whole house was destroyed. Got a write up in the local paper because they wreckon they would have been killed if they just hid downstairs. Mother had only gone to the store for 10 minutes and got stuck due to how quick the weather changed.

stovelid · 07-03-2010 09:21PM

Somebody once held out for me 'til the end of the night.

poisonated · 07-03-2010 09:38PM

I go kayaking so have done a few heroic things involved in that.I dropped my phone on the bus and some girl called me and we met up and she gave it back to me.I gave her 20 quid because I was just so grateful.A taxi driver came to my home a few days after I had dropped my phone in the taxi.

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