RE: Craziest thing you have done in this hobby
My 3 friends and myself were flying, and I was up for my turn with my A10 EDF. I happened to be bad at flying so I lost orientation and went into the trees. This broke the foamie into 4 pieces: canopy, main wing (intact), edf unit, and tail/elevator. The edf and tail were found easily, but the wing and canopy were different. The wing was in a tree 40 feet up. That was brought down with a tow-rope tied to the tree and alot of wagging/pulling. The canopy was 7 feet down in a huge drainage pipe 3 feet wide with stagnant water in the bottom. We were determined to get it out so we drove home to a friends house and picked up some climbing rope. After tieing it into a harness and setting up the rope for pulling easily, we lowered the willing friend into the pipe to retrieve the canopy. Nothing was damaged other than reglueing the plane.
TL;DR lowered a friend into a pitch black pipe with stagnant water to retrieve part of a plane.