Inspired by this post I did a variant of 'The Wait and Escape' dare last night (at around 3am as clubs closing).
I drove my car to a side road (which was residential) off a more main road. I then stripped down to just a jumper and pair of tracky bottoms and loosely attached a cable tie to each wrist (so that there was plenty of slack). I then wandered back to the main road and watched for some people approaching. I saw a group of 4 people walking up the main road so ran back down the side road and threw my jumper and trousers into someone's front garden so that I was completely nude. I then attempted to look myself to a lamppost (which meant I was very well lit up) using a combination lock through the two cable-ties attached to my wrist. I set it up so that my arms were behind my back i.e. so I had no way of covering up at all. However, this first time I had a little problem with getting the lock through both cable ties (because I was being an idiot) so as the girls approached I was still fumbling with the lock. Quite amazingly they didn't turn down the side-road (i.e. towards me) but just kept on walking up the main road and not one of them saw me. Bizarre to think that 4 hot girls walked with 10m of completely naked under a lamppost and yet none saw!
I got dressed again and this time had the 'clever' idea of locking the two cable ties together in advance (as they were still loose enough to slip on and off my wrists easily). I went back to the intersection of the main road with my side-road and this time saw a pair of people approaching. Again I got naked and this time successfully locked myself to the lamppost - I'm not sure whether it was me wimping out or running out of time but one of the cable ties was still just about loose enough for me to slide my hand through it (which turned out to be quite luckily). The two people that were approaching turned out to be a couple of Chinese girls who crossed the side-road and started walking down it onto the other side to me - strangely they hadn't seen me (there were a couple of parked cars but I was fairly obvious!). I called them over and explained the situation, trying to pretend that my friends had done this to me as a prank and asking them to undo the combination lock for me. They must have been very drunk as they didn't bat an eyelid to the random naked man padlocked to the lamppost and completely bought my story. One of them came over and started trying to undo the padlock for me but apparently it wasn't working (i.e. she was too drunk to line up the numbers correctly!). She then started pulling on the cable ties to try and get it off me (which would enable me to escape) and after a couple of minutes I helped a bit and it came off (if you remember I said one was accidentally/subconsciously intentionally loose). Then I just told the girls that my house was round the corner and that I was going to go home and we walked off in different directions. After they'd gone a little way I doubled back, grabbed my clothes and got dressed and sat in my car. A couple of minutes after that 3 groups of 4 people all walked down the road so it was kind of lucky I got out when I did!
It was quite a thrill doing this but a bit disappointing knowing one of the cable-ties was loose as I could always escape. I think I might try this again but this time make sure the cable-ties are tight and maybe bind my ankles too. I was thinking about just binding myself up and waiting for the first person to come along but I'm a little worried about gangs of guys (would feel safer if there was a girl or two there at least) and police cars that might drive by whilst I'm waiting for someone to rescue me. What do you think? Can you think of any other way to spice up this dare? I think if I was locking myself up completely so that if I did get properly stuck (due to drunk girls being unable to sort out the combination lock) I could ring someone to come and free me (although would be fun explaining my predicament to a sober person) - maybe I should just invest in a cheap key lock!
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