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Originally Posted by RANDY P
jumping 4-5 of your friends on your BMX bike after watching Evil Kinevel. I used to do vert without a helmet. Not very good, but I did it.
Same with skateboards.
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We did that too, many kids did in that era, we also jumped over garbage cans & through fire...
(this isn't me, we did it in the woods)
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How about tennis ball cannons???? Duct tape coke cans fill with lighter fluid, drop a tennis ball in and light the flame baby!!! See how far it goes... The good ol'days.
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Yep, when Coke cans were steel, we did that too..
And I too had to walk to school from 1st to 3rd Grade, 4th & 5th graders could ride their bikes (and I was a terror too)
I just looked up how far the school was, turns out it was 1.4 Miles, lets see kids walk that far these days.
And like so many others, we played in the woods, had BB gun & dirt clog wars, chase, built forts in trees, underground with tunnels and just plain ones in the woods, we swam in creeks & rivers, jumped out of trees & off high banks into the water, yet somehow, we all survived, and most of us were skinny too, and we ran or rode really fast when we heard the street lights start buzzing
I'm sad to say that my own nephew is the product of an overprotective Mother who let him do what ever he wanted, but wouldn't let him play sports until he was in 8th grade, wouldn't let him out of her site, ect, that didn't work out to well, as he is now a thug
and another friend who wouldn't let her son play sports
leave the house to play with other kids, let him play video games all the time, well now, he turned into just what I said he would, he now goes to a "Alternative" school because he was kicked out of his neighborhood school for drugs (I'm sure there is more too it) all because Mamma is worried that the boys might get hurt playing sports or fall down while outside, so since the kids can't go out and play & explore like we use too, their imagination doesn't get used and many turn to video games & drugs, not knowing what it feels like to skin a knee, or be pelted with a well packed dirt clog..