The "Stupid things you did as a kid that should have killed you thread"....

[bilgerat]

..as asked for by .dsaavedra. Where to start ?

Lawn darts

Playing around the freight trains, putting things on the tracks to see them get nailed.

Riding go karts, mini bikes, etc without helmets or any regard for safety of any kind.

Throwing snowballs at cars - I regret this the most as it wasn't until I started driving and got nailed myself I realized how stupid it was.

'Bumper riding' - Waiting while a car stopped at a stop sign or traffic light on a snow or ice covered road. You then crouched down and grabbed the bumper and were pulled along.

Big rope swing in the woods that went over a big gulley. We got this bright idea that one guy would swing out and when he swung back another guy would get on and so on...five of us on then the branch broke. Big pile of bruised 10 year olds in the gulley.

Countless fireworks related stories.....

Evil Kneivel was around when I was a kid. We made homemade bike ramps in the street. Too many injuries to list. Anyone that grew up in the 70's did this. I guarantee it ;D

It's a wonder I made it past 15. I will say one thing, we had fun. It was a different time back then. Who remembers riding with your brothers and sisters in a big ol' station wagon barreling down the interstate at 75 mph without seatbelts ?

[firefightn15]

Shooting an arrow straight up with my recurve.  :

[-nick-]

Haha me and my friends would throw paintballs at cars. It's pretty hard to get the timing right. And me and a different friend took those crappy airsoft guns and shot at cars from his window upstairs until we hit someone and they called his mom. Those things wouldn't have killed me though, just stupid.

I used to love stomping the pedal when I first turned 16 everywhere and on highways sometimes I would do like 100-120 like an idiot. I'm so lucky i've never had a ticket...nowadays I cruise at 5 over.

[Dalton Tam]

Well I am still young and will probably have a few more to add to this thread in a few years but this is what I got so far:

Riding my 400 EX at 80 MPH and jumping many obstacles

Making a homeade bomb out of my dad's stash of Go Ex Black Powder.

Running my boat acrossed the lake in 3 foot swells when my dad clearly said not to go.

Umm.... Fishing in the lightning

Paddling across the arm of an unfamiliar lake in a very small rubber raft from walmart that was taking on water.

Falling off of a beaver dam when it was 29 degrees outside trying to kill ducks.

That's enough for now.... Wait... Oh yea and probably in a bout 20 seconds posting this message for my dad to find out about the black powder lol :-X

[seyone]

I used to do a lot of graffiti as a youth. One day me and a friend were on an abandoned building and I fell through the roof.

[Dalton Tam]

a 50 gal. trash bag, my old mans cutting torch, and a foot of fuse.......

You feel the bag with acetelyne? We do that in Agriculture at school with milk cartons and blow them up... maybe I should put that on my list lol  ;D If we get caught.. we are sooo dead....

[skunked_again]

a 50 gal. trash bag, my old mans cutting torch, and a foot of fuse.......

You feel the bag with acetelyne? We do that in Agriculture at school with milk cartons and blow them up... maybe I should put that on my list lol ;D If we get caught.. we are sooo dead....

i REALLY REALLY would advise to not do this. in fact im deleting the post after this. this was not something that went "poof", it went BOOM. then the police came, followed by the fire department.

the fact we didnt die was pure luck.

[tnbassfisher]

Well I'm still a teenager, so I could probably get a good list of things from the past week or so.

Umm, throwing football with your buddies that are in other cars........ While going 85 down the interstate.

Just an example of how tonight went.

[Boett43]

Haha only 19 now soo still not that long ago, but lighting bottle rockets and then just throwing them and you kinda stand there wondering where there gonna go kinda fun with a bunch of people and roman candle wars are entertaining. as for thing that could have killed me? Probaly just drunken golf cart rides through the woods at night rolled atleast 3 of them, of course i was the one they everyone landed on lol.

[Glenn]

Aside from the lawn darts, chemistry sets, clackers, the Thing maker (creepy crawlers), shrinky dinks, and other assorted things a kid in the '70s could get into...

Homemade bombs, Molotov cocktails, homemade smoke bombs, bottle rocket wars, calcium carbonate + water in a small container and a spark = boom, and several very large neighborhood fireworks shows.

All this led to .... 6 years as a professional pyro (seriously). Of course, the fireworks danger wasn't enough. I had to light them off of buildings like the Space Needle (yes, climbing around the exterior of the building), barges (nowhere to run), and from the ceilings of sports arenas. I leave it up to you to figure out how we got up there schlepping explosives.

Guess I had a death wish when I was young. My last show was at the Space Needle on New Year's 2000, when there was a terrorist threat to blow up the building during the show. I was on that building, wondering if a truck was going to crash into it to blow it up.

I decided I had a good run with no serious accidents or injuries, so it was time to hang my hat up before I had a bad memory.

Good times. 8-)

[Jimzee]

BB gun fights!! There was always some one that pumped up their gun more than the agreed upon one pump rule. Five pumps made a pretty good welt on the skin, 10 pumps and you were digging it out from under the skin. I still have one in my thigh. Good times for sure!! ;D

[Hookemdown.]

Yes...BB gun fights.  One of my friends took a cheap shot at me one time.  The next day I shot him with my pellet gun.  Sweet, sweet revenge.

Looking back, we were idiots.  The sad part is that it wasn't too long ago.

Currently...

Mountain biking, cliff jumping, and driving.  I swear...the average person does not know how to drive.  And for the most part, the stereotype is true.  Women can't drive. 

[CJ]

I can relate to a lot of what has been posted.

One thing I did do as a kid that was flirting with death, keep in mind I grew up a redneck:

There used to be a pen full of mules on the farm next door or well a mile down the road. There was a feeding trough there that was about 4-5 ft. tall. Me and a buddy used to pick a couple ears of corn and climb up in the feeder. We would get them coaxed in close enough and jump on! Man could some of them buck!

[RobbyZ5001]

Bridge jumping, cliff diving, ice fishing on thin ice, too many alcohol incidents, and skydiving. I am sure there are more from the past and will be more in the future.. I'm still young!

[Grey Wolf]

Too many to list , lucky to still be alive.

[roadwarrior]

Never considered driving around drunk

with a bunch of friends was irresponsible.

:-[

[skunked_again]

BB gun fights!!   There was always some one that pumped up their gun more than the agreed upon one pump rule. Five pumps made a pretty good welt on the skin, 10 pumps and you were digging it out from under the skin. I still have one in my thigh. Good times for sure!! ;D

oh ya. im sure i wasnt the only one to pop a BB out of my skin like a zit.

[fish-fighting-illini]

.    terrorist threat to blow up the building during the show. I was on that building, wondering if a truck was going to crash into it to blow it up.

8-)

  I'm thinking that being the guy loading explosives during a bomb threat might qualify for almost getting you killed on its own.

   

    Wrong whacko here's about the threat, sees you climbing with explosives and decides to be a hero and pick you off or something! just a thought  lol

[Triton21]

Carbide and water in a Clabergirl Baking Power can.  Caught lots of fish with this method in the creek behind my house as a kid.

Kelley

[Catt]

As kids we would go camping on the Ouiska (Whiskey) Chitto River which has a extremely fast current causing whirlpools my brothers, cousins, and friends would dive off a 30' high bluff timing the whirlpools so they would carry us down river never giving thought to the many submerged logs.

One uncle lived near a train switching station where we would jump on box cars and then jump train to train.

[FishingBuds]

BB gun fights!! There was always some one that pumped up their gun more than the agreed upon one pump rule. Five pumps made a pretty good welt on the skin, 10 pumps and you were digging it out from under the skin. I still have one in my thigh. Good times for sure!! ;D

oh ya. im sure i wasnt the only one to pop a BB out of my skin like a zit.

Yes, a classic ;D

we agreed on 3 pumps, every so often you'd here someone yell " you put 10 pumps in"!!!.

One other thing, a friend had a big ol'head of spiderman that was a piggy bank, and so we created a dummy on holloween from it, it started out with us just waiting for a car to come by and we'd lay it face down in the middle of the road, lol so some stopped some didn't. those that stopped actually told us it was a good joke(of course this is 1978) well some bean head in the group convinced us to toss it off the walk way bridge by the school, so we did and luckly no one got hurt and we all got caught   a neer by nieghbor knew who we were and pointed us out, and we all got beat, and was for bidden to see each other for two weeks.

Now the funny part about it was all the adults in the neighborhood ended up laughing about it behind our backs, saying "that was a good one"--that was so unfair

[bilgerat]

Jumping off of the garage roof with cardboard wings

Gladiator style rock fights using the old style steel galvanized trash can lids as shields

Sneaking into the municipal pool at night to swim

Tossing a dead muskrat into a high school dance. That one got me lumped up courtesy of a senior - I was about twelve

[-nick-]

Never considered driving around drunk

with a bunch of friends was irresponsible.

:-[

Yeah at beach week I had a friend that would not shut up about not having any dip. He was about to like go crazy if he didn't get any dip because he was drunk and in need of some nicotine and I was feeling pretty good but I decided I'd drive to the grocery store anways which was like 3 mins away, but crossed a like 6 lane busy road.

I don't even remember getting there or driving back just being in the grocery store. Pretty lucky i didn't kill me and my friend or anyone else for that matter.  :-[One and only time I've driven after drinking.

[Olebiker]

My friends and I dug a tunnel into a hillside behind our houses and, after getting back about ten feet, we excavated a big room. It was about ten feet across and three feet high. Thank goodness our fathers found out about it before it collapsed and killed us all. Sure was fun though.

[BassDeaton01]

About the BB gun fights. Well we had a Red Rider that broke. Well kinda...it had a BB stuck in it and you could hear it jiggling around but it would never come out when you shot it. So I would always scare my buddy with it and act like i was going to shoot him but the BB would never come out. Well we were in my pool and I came up from under the water and all I saw was barrel. He shot me at point blank and this time the BB DID come out. It he me square in the forhead. After about ten minutes I could see the knot on my forehead just by looking up. Lucky I still have both eyes. Too many dirt bike and 4 wheeler stories to list. Definitely had an awesome childhood with my buddies and my little brother! Oh yeah forgot to mention the huge hill in front of my house on the road my mom always told us to stay off of with our skateboards. Well we would always go down on our butts but one day decided to try to make it all the way to the bottom standing up. My buddy got the speed wobbles at the bottom and fell off breaking his arm and causing me to get some nasty road rash. My mom was tickED!! Those were the days!