atupid stuff you did as a kid? Lets hear them

[look 171]

We use to sneak under a neighbor's house and play with fire under there. My dad would never let me play with fire anywhere. In our early teens after school one day, we were coming back from the small market and notice orange light coming from this house. We looked through the crawl hole, and notice it caught on fire. We ran up to bang on the door, minutes later a woman opened the door and ask us what we wanted. We yelled fire under the house. she grabbed her two young kids and hauled ass out of there.

Jumping off a cliff into the river and I am a little afraid of height

[Laneco]

Our parents would load bales of hay into the pickup truck, stacked higher than the height of the cab. No rope, etc., to hold the hay on the truck - just stacked there. Pretty common for a bale to fall off in transit. My brother and I would ride on top on the way home - often more than ten miles...

Plenty of stupid things, but I think that was the all-time-bad one.

angela

[billybek]

I had a story printed and deleted it..... Maybe no one needs to know about that particular incident.
There a lots more, but maybe no one needs to know about those either!

Growing up in the 60s and 70s was great!

[recycled sixtie]

Thank goodness for the statute of limitations or else my butt would be in a sling.
I cannot even talk about these things here as some things I have put behind me!

[BeyGon]

When we were kids my brother and I spent some Saturdays riding our bikes all over Brea, not a big town/area, looking for the La Brea Tar Pits. Our parents never told us.

[look 171]

I'm am not talking about in your mid to late teen years when you can really do some damage and end up in jail. The younger innocent years like 6,7- 12 or 13 years of age.

[matt f]

Grew up on a beef/hog farm.
Cousins came to visit from Queens, N.Y.
I thought it would be funny to have him pee on an electric fence.
My father did not.
My father thought it would be funny to ground me for a year after an ass whooping.
I did not.

[genrex]

There are certain vehicles you should never throw snowballs at -

Construction vehicles full of pissed-off construction workers.

Muscle cars full of pissed-off high-school or college guys.

Police cars... those guys have no sense of humor.

Taxicabs... taxicab drivers will find you.

Actually pretty much any vehicle...

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[RWebb]

ordinance manf. & testing - once I blew a good sized crater in a neighbor's lawn - luckily, he was right next to the swamp so we ran real hard for hours and escaped his chasing us

I guess we'd be in prison if we did that today

oddly, always practiced good gun safety - maybe it was the lack of adult models for the bombing

[Mo_Gearhead]

One July day in the late 1950's, while visiting my slightly-older cousin's old two story farm house, he and I decided to construct our own ‘Super-Duper-Mother-of-All Fire Crackers.’

We went upstairs to a bedroom and placed all of our firecrackers on the floor. He went and got a piece of notebook paper and as we tore them open we poured the black powder into it. Soon we had a rather large mound of powder. He went and got some tape. We took several of the fuses and did our best to link them together. Then we tried to roll up our notebook paper BOMB as tight as we could and taped it all up.

Now we weren’t dumb. We knew that thing was going to be BIG and we knew it was gong to be LOUD! And we sure knew better than to try and light it - then try and throw it (like we sometimes did with regular fireworks). Since the window was open we decided to;

1. Place our new ‘bomb’ on the open window sill.
2. Light the fuse.
3. At the last instant, as the fuse got close to the paper, he would push it out the window - to blow up on the grass below or even better yet - an air-burst! Yes!!!

Now we were the “smartest guys in the room” - what could possibly go wrong?

I lit the long fuse. It flashed, rapidly burned, then - separated at a link. I re-lit it. Same result. Tried again. Soon, our long fuse was down to about three inches. I had just lit another match to try again when the fuse (which was burning internally out of sight) suddenly flashed externally - and raced toward the bomb! My older cousin swiped at the fat, cigar-shaped, monster to knock it out the window, but instead - it bounced off of the vertical window sill and fell BACK into the bedroom floor! In that instant I had visions of us (and the house) being blown up.

Now physics, being what they are, were not to be denied. A note paper filled with several ounces of black powder - does not a bomb make. However, if sufficiently well taped - it can result in a makeshift blowtorch. When the fuse reached the powder and lit it off, what seemed like a foot-long flame shot out of the end. For what seemed like an eternity, (but probably only lasted a few seconds) that Frankenstein Firecracker from Hell spun around on that hardwood floor, spewing flame out of one end like some crazed pinwheel of death! My cousin was chasing it around near the wall - trying to stomp it out.

The bedroom door flew open and in came his mother. {God have mercy on our souls ...amen}. When SHE had the fire finally stomped out, she grabbed both of us by the arms, pulled us out into the hallway and as we swept passed a chair/bench near the top of the stairs, she sat me firmly down on it! She, with my cousin in tow, continued on down to another room where, from the noises I could hear, I can only assume he was beaten (and perhaps even water-boarded?). As she came back out (alone) she scooped me up by the arm and escorted me down to the first floor and placed me in yet another chair near the kitchen.

Lesson in Physics, Combustion and Consequences - learned!

[Jim Bremner]

SOMEONE THAT I KNOW

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Made a muffler for my Pellet rifle in high School Metal shop. My teacher new exactly what it was and graded it but first checked to see that the bore was under .22

Co2 containers filled with something makes golf course holes 18"x 24"

Slid his beach cruisers on rain soaked golf course greens

Built a something that when it went off in the storm drain that it lifted the manhole cover off. It set of an alarm at the Bank 2,000 feet away. Squad cars and Helo's flying around for a 1/2 hour. When it went off he was having dinner with my folks. Twenty years later during Christmas dinner I asked my parents in front of 20 people if they remembered it and yes they did! Then I told them that it was he. It took them a while to believe me.

Party poppers that you pull the string? hmm. removed the rolls of paper and added more bang. Tied a longer string to the party popper and tied that string to a door knob. Bud walked into a room opens a door and didn't hear very well for a while.

Swam in pools that the home owners on vacation

When he was 12-13 years old the 4 friends that he hung out with tried to stop an ice cream man but he flipped us off. The next day we got him to stop. they had a bucket full of mud waiting for him The first two guys went up to order. the three of them wiped mud on the blind sides of the truck. The two that got ice cream left and the next three ordered they smeared the icecreams on the truck Never did see him again for some reason.


It's amazing that HE have all of HIS fingers.

[Jim Bremner]

And a clean record

[HardDrive]

My cousin and I decided to go after a can a of spray paint with a sledge hammer, just to see what would happen. What happens is that it explodes. And its bad enough that we got covered in paint. Oh, I failed to mention one detail. We did it right next to a flawless 1968 Corvette that was sitting in my grandfathers airplane hanger, then didn't tell anyone for an hour.

Then there was the time we decided to get into the corral with the bull to see if we could piss it off with a BB gun. We succeeded, and ended up running for our lives.

Ah yes, if you climb a signal tower over a railroad track, yes, you will have a great view when the train goes under. But the problem is that the 6 diesel locomotives that are pulling the train at full throttle are going to blast you with a lot more hot exhaust gas than you might expect. That was scary.

[JavaBrewer]

I was 8 or so and with friends at the beach. We were jumping from a lifeguard tower into a big pile of sand that we built. I got the 'bright' idea of doing a cannon ball onto the sand pile to make a big splash. Didn't go so well...

[RANDY P]

making pipe bombs out of sparklers, drive over garbage cans in neighborhoods, use fireworks in every improper way imaginable, aiming them at various houses, police cars, you name it.

Drive around high on Halloween being the ass holes throwing firecrackers and m80's out the window at passers by. Once my buddy hit the inside of the glass trying to throw an M70 out the car, LOL big mess. No one could see or hear for 5 minutes.

Oh, and we started this at 14 when the legal driving age was 16- my buddy got a car from his mom so he didn't have to walk to school. Only freshmen who drove to school on the 1st day. I drove several times when my parents were away on vacation and I had access to the car keys. One adventure Mom's Benz got impounded when I parked it in the faculty lot. The teachers didn't like that too much- however we wen't planning on staying, we were gonna go cruise around to other schools and raise hell, visit friends etc. etc.

Once during a school strike we all went to the neighboring school district and registered as students for the day. Something to do.

rjp

[A930Rocket]

CO2 cartridge bombs.
Round tube from pants hangers bombs.
Lots of blown up mailboxes.
Bottle rocket fights.
Practiced lighting M80 in car to have it really light. Thankfully window was open.
Lighting an Estes rocket engine in the basement. Dad wasn't pleased.
Jumping from below the I-95 bridge (100' high) into the Sagatauk (sp?) river in Westport, CT.

Opened VW Bug car door while moving to pretend I was getting out. Friend reaches over and jerks steering wheel to right. I fall out door, but hold on with feet on floorboard, hands on window opening and azz rubbing asphalt. Friend pulls emergency brake to stop us. Wild laughter commences.

[sc_rufctr]

Married my ex at 20... Still a kid IMO and SUPER STUPID.

Although, I don't regret my children from that union.

[Tim Hancock]

WD40 can "flamethrowers", pipe bombs, yardjobs, driving in cornfields at night, skipping school for a week, bb gun wars with the neighbors with no safety glasses, breaking open thermometers to play with the mercury, jumping off the house with an umbrella for a parachute, horse**** fights with the neighbor kids, drinking parents booze and refilling with water, lots of fun with fire, throwing corn cobs at cars (until we unknowingly threw some at the farmer as he was driving by, BB guns at passing cars, metal spike strips on the road, jumping bmx bikes over a burning ramp, jumping minibikes over younger brother and sister forced to lay down under the ramp, shooting arrows straight up then running like hell...... I know someone who did all this and much more.

[mikeesik]

Putting fish heads and fish guts in neighbors mailboxes.
We called it pegging cars. Eggs, snowballs, rocks popcans at moving vehicles.
Buses were choice but the wait for another was too long.
Throwing home made smoke bombs into moving vehicles with their window down.
Tying a strong thin twine onto a full garbage can to another one as both sat on top of a fence in the back alleys.
Knowing people were not at home and taking their garden hose and breaking the basement window if you couldn't open it and putting the hose into the basement and turning on the water.
Stealing condoms and putting them in strategic points around the neighbors car or garage and imaginng the husband and wife questioning each other.
Putting dog tihs mixed with water in front vents.
Getting a huge stack of newspapers and lighting it all on fire in the alley.
Producing a huge puddle of gas in the alley, lighting it and riding your bike through it.
Jumping trains.
Wrapping a strong rope around a vehicles drive shaft and tying it to the fender brackets to a truck.
Tying a rope to the handle of a garage door and attaching it to the vehicle parked on the drive way.
But I'm sorry.

[matt f]

Originally Posted by Tim Hancock

WD40 can "flamethrowers", pipe bombs, yardjobs, driving in cornfields at night, skipping school for a week, bb gun wars with the neighbors with no safety glasses, breaking open thermometers to play with the mercury, jumping off the house with an umbrella for a parachute, horse**** fights with the neighbor kids, drinking parents booze and refilling with water, lots of fun with fire, throwing corn cobs at cars (until we unknowingly threw some at the farmer as he was driving by, BB guns at passing cars, metal spike strips on the road, jumping bmx bikes over a burning ramp, jumping minibikes over younger brother and sister forced to lay down under the ramp, shooting arrows straight up then running like hell...... I know someone who did all this and much more.

We're you my neighbor?

Tim....a couple more which I hope you appreciate.

Bottom of corn silage silos killing rats with a baseball bat.
Riding on the side of old Chevy "step side" pickups. And not dying.
Wearing hoodies with the strings and not hanging our selfs.
Drinking out of the garden hose and not dying of giardiasis.
Not dying of dehydration stacking bales in the 130 degree hay mow for the season.
Riding on the inside of the wheel well of a John Deere, Massey Ferg, David Brown and not being in a seat belt and helmet. We knew our dad would take care of us.
Throwing darts at my brothers, laughing our asses off.
Hitting my younger brother with a dart, not laughing, running my ass off.
Seriously, the smell of spring, better yet, the smell of fresh mown hay.