As a CHILD, what is the dumbest or most trouble causing thing you did?

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JustinSampson

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Jumped of a 25 fott cliff into 2 feet of powder with skis on. :)

It didn't look too high from below, looked twice as high from the top. But when I was laying on the ground with one broken and one sprand ankle, I finaly relized how high it was :)
 

Platypus

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Well, not trouble causing but uh.. when I was about 7 or 8 I was in the bathroom at school and I accidently zipped a piece of skin uh.. down there.. into my zipper. :(
 

AaronP

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hmm, well, I threw a snowball (mostly ice) through my uncles front window. I burned our family room carpet. Quite a few times, I would play with my dad's truck and put it in neutral and it would roll down the driveway into the street, then I'd have to go in and tell him. hehe. I almost fell off a 300 foot bluff I was climbing. I trespassed on a country club and almost got caught, (there was a pursuit, buy me and my bike outran the country club guy who was on foot. There was other stuff, a lot of minor illegal stuff, like tresspassing so my friends and I could play flashlight tag at night on this cool property.

We also broke into a house once, the guy who lived there died, and it was sitting abandoned for like a year, so we said what the heck and broke in. Nothin was in there though.
 

AaronP

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ohh, and when I was like 15, I jacknifed a 4-wheeler, and almost killed myself. instead, I have a big round scar the size of a half dollar where the clutch dug into my leg after the 4 wheeler landed on top of me. I lost consciousness, and bled like a stuck pig, but I was able to get up and walk. Good thing I was wearing a helmet, the hit on my head was so hard that the helmet got cracked, and popped off my head!
 

notfred

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Feb 12, 2001
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Um, I set a grass field on fire in an estes model rocket "incident". only burned about 1/2 acre, though.

We did lots of stuff with explosives/electricity/things that go fast down hills, but we usually prepared well enough that no one got hurt.
 

InfectedMushroom

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oh, i just remembered something really stupid. i wasn't the one who did this but caught the other kid doing it and bit the hell out of him.

he was about 9 i was 11. he got his hands on some live rifle rounds from a soldier, and he decided it would be cool to place the bullets between some cracks in the asphalt and hit it with a rock so it would basically shoot. freaking idiot. he wanted to hear the nice "bang". he got lucky he didn't kill himself.
 

Zenmervolt

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I'm reminded of something my dad and his brothers did when they were little. They were throwing snowballs at cars from a hill, and one guy saw them from down the road and rolled down his window as he was driving by to yell at them and one of the snowballs that were being lofted at cars went right through the window and hit the guy straight in the face. He stopped and got out of the car, but was in a suit and couldn't get up the hill.

ZV
 
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In high school, we invited the president of "students against drunk driving" over for some beer and cards. He lived down the street so he wouldn't have to worry about driving home. Well we all got very drunk on beer, and made sure he did too, and then we took him for a drive! A nice long drive, all over town. We had no business doing this...but couldn't help think at the time how clever we were.

 

Azraele

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<< *shaking head* Boys. Notice how many of these stories about blood and fire have been from girls. ;):):D >>



Lol.

When I was 4, I poisoned my brother with extra strength tylenol. I didn't mean to, we were playing hopsital, and I wanted to give him medicine. I told him to chew them up and spit them out, but he ate them instead. I got into so much trouble. :Q
 

AreaCode707

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When I was thirteen I hooked a halter around my horse's neck, took off his bridle and left him standing there while I went to put away the bridle. So he's hooked to a hitching post with only the halter around his neck. Something spooked him and he jerked back, pulled the 75 lb top bar of the hitching post off the posts it was resting on, with 8 inch nails on both ends, and he proceeded to tear up and down the pasture with this dangling from the halter around his neck, tightening every time the wood bar behind him snagged on anything. He crashed through a fence and needed stitches on one leg and cut his chest up pretty good too. So I don't do that anymore... But the funny part (?) was seeing my mom step directly in his path waving her arms trying to get him to stop. Yeah right. She got out of the way though.
 

Valhalla1

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hoenstly I cant remember what the thing that got me in the most trouble was.. I was a real sh!t-head kid

but one dumb thing I can remember doing.. I was at day care at about age 6 or so. here's the scoop -

guys, you remember at this age when us little men first started pissing in the manly urinals instead of toilets.. well there was always "that one kid" who didn't quite get it, and would pull their pants completely to the floor to piss in the urinal instead of just 'whipping it out'. well like I said I was a read sh.it-head.. me and 3 other guys always picked on this kid that did that.. one day while taking a bathroom break, we stood around in a semicircle behind the kid, who's pants were around his ankles and pissing away into the urinal.. we counted to three and whipped it out and pissed all over the guy. don't ask me why, it was really stupid and mean. he just stood there crying until a teacher came in to see what the problem was.

:(


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ps. - it wasn't my idea, promise!
 

Tangerine

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Jul 25, 2001
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Here's a dumb one...

When I was about 7, I was so excited to tell my friend I was allowed to go with her and her family to the pool, I ran across the street to her house, straight into a parked car, and knocked myself out with a concussion.

I didn't get to go to the pool that day.
 

crypticlogin

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Feb 6, 2001
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When you're 5, every object as tall as you is inferred to be sturdy, infallible, and will support your weight if you stand on top of it, but this was something I quickly unlearned on my way to the emergency room.

I was trying to impress my "mature" brother (who was egging me on, IIRC) by standing on the back of a dining room chair but it quickly tipped over. I'm not sure what I landed on but my arm was broken in two places and the next thing I knew, my mom was carrying and running me to the hospital a block down the street.

Oops. :(
 

MustPost

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<<I pulled a fire alarm in first grade once. I didn't know what it was at the time. I just saw the words "pull down". and so I did>>

Hahaha.

loling at the rest too.
 

yourharddrive

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<< hoenstly I cant remember what the thing that got me in the most trouble was.. I was a real sh!t-head kid

but one dumb thing I can remember doing.. I was at day care at about age 6 or so. here's the scoop -

guys, you remember at this age when us little men first started pissing in the manly urinals instead of toilets.. well there was always "that one kid" who didn't quite get it, and would pull their pants completely to the floor to piss in the urinal instead of just 'whipping it out'. well like I said I was a read sh.it-head.. me and 3 other guys always picked on this kid that did that.. one day while taking a bathroom break, we stood around in a semicircle behind the kid, who's pants were around his ankles and pissing away into the urinal.. we counted to three and whipped it out and pissed all over the guy. don't ask me why, it was really stupid and mean. he just stood there crying until a teacher came in to see what the problem was.

:(


edit:

ps. - it wasn't my idea, promise!
>>



roflol...hahahah omg i needed a good laugh
 

FuZoR

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Sep 22, 2001
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I dont remember the exact age 10-11? I found a mask and put it on, i went into my grandmas room and scared the crap out of her. She began hitting me upside my head, thinking i was a robber lmao. I dont think she likes me to much after that haha.

 

Zuph

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I had a friend that got his hand stuck in a toaster. He was trying to get the knife out. His excuse: "The toast was stuck." Another stupid thing we did: We spent some 5 hours modifing this big plastic barrel (about 4 feet tall) so that we would bungie cord the top down. Now, smart us, we took turns rolling down hills in it. Now, his brother, who is about 2 year younger than us, decided he wanted a more extreme hill...so, we find a bigger hill. He gets in the barrel, we push him down......and it doesn't go straight, in the intended, SAFE, path, no, it gets up some good speed, then goes right into a tree. 15 seconds pass, and we hear this peircing crie of pain. To this day, that hill is still called "Hurt-Back Hill." Another time, he was having a camp-out, and a friend of ours jumps over the fire. His pants catch on fire, so he takes them off as fast as he can, but throws them IN THE HIGHWAY. Then, we see a car coming. So there he is, stomping out his pants in the highway with cars coming, and everyone else laughing their a$$es off.
 

Alienwho

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Oh I got lots.

1: My friends and I would make miniature bombs out of fireworks, then we'd take hairspray and break the can open and make a path with the hairspray all the way down a street, and set the firework at the end. We'd then light the end of it and watch it light the street on fire until it reaches the firework, and BOOM. We'd then proceed to stand around for 15 more minutes watching cars drive over 3 inches of flaming road.

2: My friend and I would always go into the field and start fires and just chill and talk, well one day the fire went out of control and burned like 5 acres.

3: There was a farmer guy who lived about a 1/2 mile away and he had awesome property with this cool field with a stream that went right down the middle of it into a mini lake (about 4 feet deep). This was our hangout and there was a BIGASS tree that we built a fort in. Well we'd jump out of the fort and go and smack the bulls on the ass with our hands and run and try to jump over the fence before the bull could kill us, I can't believe we never got stabbed.

4: the same farmer from above also had a bunch of peacoks (sp?) We'd go into their big cages and pull their feathers out just for the hell of it.

5: I was climbing a tree with my friend and was about 20 feet up and fell and landed on my right shoulder. It hurt like hell and I swear it broke but I wasn't supposed to climb it so I told my parents I fell off my bike and it was no big deal.

6: Rock Wars, 'nuff said.

7. Rock wars turned into BB gun wars.

8. I was at the dentist and had to pee, but the bathroom was busy so I went outside and took a piss in the bushes right next to a busy 4 lane highway, my mom flipped out and I didn't figure it as a big deal.
 

CStroman

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Sep 18, 2001
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I think I win, because I did this stupid thing for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I pushed in the cigarette lighter in the car, when it popped out, I picked it up and stuck my finger right on the coils.
 

b0mbrman

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<< At 7 I lit all the trash in a dumpster on fire. It escalated into a building on fire. Luckily the fire station was only one block away so things didn't *too* out of hand. My older brother was supposed to be watching me got in more trouble than I did. This without a doubt is the stupidest thing I've ever done. >>



I burned a lot of stuff (no no...a lot)...I'd prefer not to talk about it as it might make me want to do some more :)
 

Ionizer86

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Jun 20, 2001
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Another stupid one here: I was trying to mod a PSU by changing the fan. The fan only had the leads, so I was trying to get both leads to simultaneously contact the PCB for just a few seconds to see how loud the fan would be. Before I had got it connected for a few simultaneous seconds, I had accidently touched the big metal block on the PSU....and it was....shocking :p
 

Ultima

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Oct 16, 1999
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I burned down part of the basement when I was young. I was playing with matches when I set a paper on fire. I panicked and didn't know what to do so I shoved it in the garbage. Yeah.. pretty stupid lol. Next thing you know we have to call the fire department. There wasn't any major damage, but it was full of soot, my nintendo was melted (and it still worked!! lol!!) and my homework got burned somehow...
 

Ultima

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<< When i was twelve or so, i got my hands on the anarchist's cookbook. I don't think i have to explain any further. Lets just say that 2 liter makes a huge explosion in a city park, and police will come. >>



LOL. Lol at everything else too.