Fire Ants

About 50 people a year are killed by Ants

I have an uncle who is a fantastic individual. Ever since we have been little kids my uncle Dean has come up with some of the craziest crap for us to do. Different challenges/ amusing things for us to perform so that those around can get a good laugh. He usually paid us pretty handsomely for it too so we were always game. Specifically I remember one hiking trip that got out of hand pretty quickly. 

We went on a pretty extensive hike somewhere in the Wasatch Mountains. When we got near our destination we decided to take a quick break so that everyone could catch their breath. What we happened to notice at our resting spot were too large red ant hills. I was the first one to get dared to do something. Dean determined it would be pretty hilarious if I were to stand barefoot in the ant hill for thirty seconds. I thought the whole ordeal went pretty smoothly, if I stood still the ants didn't bite too much and I made a quick twenty.

This definitely wasn't enough for old uncle Dean so he decided to up the ante a little bit. My brother and cousin were also there on this occasion and Dean deemed it necessary to challenge them to drop pants and pop a squat right on top of the ant hills. For the first two or three seconds not much happened. I think it took the ants a little bit to realize they had large butts in their faces. When they did realize, however, all hell broke loose. Kimball and Preston jumped from the ant piles simultaneously, and did the best pants dance I've ever seen. I think Preston told me that he was getting ant bites all the way down the mountain. Even though they didn't make it the full thirty seconds Dean still paid them the money. It was maybe the best forty dollars he ever spent.