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Stupidest - I put some SP in mining once.
as far Ballsiest, i dont think anything in Eve requires balls.

Tonite I was doing a DED site in low sec. I'd been playing with my overview settings earlier today. Somehow I'd managed to untick player ships. I was diligently d-scanning while running the site, keeping a eye out for any enemies. Suddenly I see a drake and I'm like - hmmmm since when do enemies use drake models. Turns out it's another pirate. The room aggro + drake kills me.

Stupidest mistake ever. Also somehow unticked show probes.

Mistake at:

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=14361021

Fortunately I'd picked up a delicious C-type medium faction shield booster worth 400mil not 5 minutes before and had the forethought to go dump it in my hanger first. That would have made me very sad if i'd lost that

A new highlight fail today,
Was in a hurry, got cocky... And broke my nr1 rule,
Dont fly a JF in highsec during wardec... Even.. If its just that single gate from lowsec...

To top that, i forgot all about neutral scouts in highsec...

Yep, lost the JF...

*facepalm* ... By sheer fail of my side

I barely escaped a WH with my life once, having flown into one in a T1 frig to see what it was, realized I'd forgotten my 4 probes in space and went back.

Needless to say, the probes were not recovered.

Oh, and I pulled GCC at a gate in my jag. That didn't go well.

Oh yeah, and I melted everything the first time I tried overheating in combat. Long before I was even damaged my guns were destroyed.

I doubt I could count the amount of stupid **** I've done, or keep doing....

Dumbest thing:
Fell for a goons recruitment scam. oh god.
(In my defence, I was 95% sure I'd be blown up and never see my ISK again. I had a lot of ISK at the time, so I just wanted to see what would happen. I'm approximately 1.6bil less rich now.)

Ballsiest thing:
Dunno if this is ballsy or dumb, but I decided it was ballsy.
As was my wont up until a few months ago, I was sitting on the Hek undock (yes, reading this thread a lot of bad **** goes down in Hek) swearing at the locals until someone grabbed my can. I saw a damnation flashing red and consulted various sources as to whether my proteus could kill this damnation. They said yes, due to small DPS giving me enough time to redock against my gigantic buffer, so I engaged. The damnation pilot started with smacktalk that became less and less frequent as his armor dropped to 20%, then 10%, then 5%, while his frigate-sized missiles only got mine to 35%. The reason for his silence suddenly became apparent to me as three repair battleships dropped out of nowhere and started repping the bastard. I was forced to dock up. I was ten minutes in to my aggro expiring, then I thought "Maybe I could kill one of those RR battleships before I have to redock."

So, I undocked and commenced firing on one repair geddon. His compatriot was nowhere to be seen, and the damnation pilot had also made himself scarce. I was having fun, and had him at 50% armor when he docked. For ten seconds, I sat there doing nothing. Then I saw the vagabond speeding towards me at 4km/s, 50km away from me. I realised **** was going down, so I did what every station brawler does and desperately tried to get on top of the station to prevent being bumped away.

As I climbed the sides of the station, more flashy red things appeared on my overview. Two more. A vindicator and a bhaalgorn. In my haste, I realised my drones were still out from fighting the geddon, and they automatically engaged the vindi pilot, who had until recently been flying a damnation. I quickly got the wee flying bastards to get back in my drone bay (ungrateful *******) and set about determinedly spamming "fly upwards" to prevent myself from being bumped off the safety of the undock. Then, the two battleships opened fire and, safe to say, I was shitting my pants. at 5% armor with a 3% structure bleed, I finally managed to dock up, having shaken off the relentless bumping of the vagabond.

All I have to say is "thank **** it wasn't a machariel".

Weirdest thing:
Me and some mates were setting up a wormhole POS. We had an orca full of POS parts, and all the rest of us had jumped inside the wormhole and were awaiting the orca's arrival. As it warped to the hole, one idiot in a raven suddenly shouted "****, I forgot torps!" and jumped out of the hole. It collapsed.We had one scanner frigate left, who promptly scanned us an exit, deep in lowsec space. We decided, for some ******* stupid reason, to get the orca pilot to fly through low to this new wormhole.Three jumps into the journey, he was locked, webbed, scrammed and generally ****** from moving by pirates. Long story short, they accepted his ransom and let him go. He arrived at the wormhole safely.

I didn't know you got pirates who still honoured ransoms these days, but there you go.

Managed to sneeze while my Navy Raven was at a gate, hitting F8 by accident, a slot fitted with a smart bomb.

I used to live in Amamake so I could run missions with all the nice level4 agents there.

It was quite profitable but not as risky as it sounds.

I once tried soloing a vanguard site

Though on a more serious note:
I once spent a bajillion isk on a rattlesnake just to see how much tank I could get out of it, then promptly lost it to a curse, an 8 neut phoon, and a few other guys >_>

Not sure how its possible so many people think a game can break their video card. Either the card already had a problem or you do not have adequate cooling. There is literally no way any program can break a modern video card.

Took on a goon fleet solo in a Geddon.

It gets better. I had just fitted it for an emergency Logi run. All the high slots had remote shield reps on and it had 5 large shield rep drones so when I locked a guy I was repairing his shield asking myself what the hell I was thinking.

I'm sure I did alot of stuff in my earlier days that I never knew I wasn't supposed to do. My first loot was a daredevil and it went pretty much everywhere. I tried docking at BoB stations, used to fly to belts to look for loot. Yea, I'd go 15 jumps in to null and come back with a really cool Meta 4 thinking I was the cat's meow for finding the loot. If I couldn't fit it, I left it. I'm sure I don't even want to know how much stuff I left behind for that 800K Lazor gun.