What's the dumbest thing panic has ever caused you to do?

[Saethkept 134]

Some months back I was a regular on a public server that seemed too good to be true. There was on it a small but slowly growing population of players who all seemed willing to work together. Must have been a new server because there were several helicopters available and the goal of most regulars became the repair and operation of those aircraft. Myself, I had found and repaired a white Skoda, and in the spirit of cooperation started a taxi service up and down the east coast and from the coast to Kamenka.

All was going great on a daily basis. The six or so other regulars who logged in every day were busy fixing two helicopters on Skalisty, and I was taxiing them to various industrial spawns for parts, as well as driving new spawns around. A medic player I had met on another server also became a regular, and it turned out he was one heck of a pilot in the An-2. So he decided to start an "airbus" service which began at Balota airfield and transported players to NWAF and other points north.

One day when my Taxi business was slow I agreed to pull overwatch for the medic/pilot at Balota AF since some bandit clan members had recently stirred up a bit of excitement around Cherno, wantonly shooting at all moving vehicles. So I was perched prone on the air control tower while the medic/pilot fueled his plane and loaded passengers. All went well, I had yet to fire at another player with my M16 ACOG and was getting somewhat bored with the duty.

The pilot/medic was loading up his last group of passengers for the day - all regulars I thought I knew well enough - when one of them shot some part of the An-2 and caused both myself and the pilot and everyone else to panic a bit. So the pilot orders everyone aboard the plane, starts her up and they take off from Balota. A few seconds later I see the pilot and all the passengers bail out at about two hundred feet, and the plane explodes.

The teamspeak explodes as well with the chatter of accusations as the survivors float to the ground. One of the regulars to the server comes running out of a hangar, pointing an assault rifle toward the survivors. I get down to ground level, draw my PDW and open up on him as I had assumed he was the one who shot down the plane. I kill him, and think that I have done right but then he respawns nearby and starts lighting up teamspeak about how some idiot betrayed him and shot him in the back.

Long story shorter, there had been some kind of misunderstanding on when the plane was supposed to take off and the two newer regulars to the server who were supposed to get a ride on the plane thought they were getting shafted and so shot at it when it took off to supposedly let the pilot know they were there. I had ended up killing an innocent player, and from that point on, no one trusted anyone else and all the regulars becam killers on sight. So in a way, my own paranoia ended my stay on that server as all trust between the regulars was gone.

Edited May 6, 2013 by Saethkept

[NovaDose 128]

Probably the dumbest was back when i first started playing dayz. Was in that town near NE airfield when i heard a car approaching. Right across the street was a house i could hide in but the car was closing in fast so i hesitated for a moment before finaly deciding to go for it. Didnt make it.

I can only imagine...

My story:

I had only been playing for a couple weeks and was still getting a feel for the layout of the cities. My friend and I where playing at night and had started going through the paces of looting elektro. We had just moved from the power plant into the grocery store when we heard gun shots coming from down the street past the hospital. We both dipped down behind the fence across the road because we didn't want to be caught in the grocery if a bandit came in guns blazing. I kept leaning out into the street to look down the road to see if I could see anything.

After a few tense moments we decided to investigate (thinking that whomever it was had logged out due to the darkness). I ran cover while my partner started doing a sweep around the back of the school and towards the back of the hospital. My partner took fire when he neared the backside of the hospital and said that he was moving to the front of the building (so I could shoot the bandit when he gave chase or stepped from concealment). As soon as mi padre stepped out I domed him. Perfect text book head shot. To this day I don't know why.

There is a lot to be said for keeping your shit together and staying cool.

[tajjuk 65]

Not my panic but yesterday I was in our Mi-17 sat in on the runway of NW airfield.

I have to explain that we aren't usually that reckless that we would just park a completely fresh chopper on the airfield. We had been there a while and had previously approached very carefully and scouted the area out (My two mates had parachuted in from a high altitude, I then went of for a little while out of hearing distance from the airfield and then came back later, circled a few times etc. before landing. There were only about 8 or 9 people on the sever so by this point we were pretty sure we were alone by this point)

Hence my lack of caution at this point, my mates were picking up some loot when I spotted a player approaching the chopper. I quickly asked their location and this confirmed this was another player. He starting looking at the side of the chopper, presumably to see what needed fixing (obviously thinking it was a fresh spawn). I couldn't get out of the pilot seat because i'd get out on the same side as him plus we'd suffered a bug a few times where getting out leaves you still stuck under the chopper. So I turned the engine on.

The guy panicked, he just stood up and ran full pelt across the airfield right in the open, through loads of zombies, about half way he turned and fired one sniper rifle shot at the chopper, which missed and then carried on running. He was an easy target for my mate on the otherside of the runway.

If he'd thought about it the safest thing he could have done was get in the chopper, what he did was the most stupid thing he could have done. Even running to the much closer hanger side of the airfield would have been more sensible.