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Did you used to build forts when you were a kid?

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Originally posted by: jfall
I actually had a cop once tell me that I could get in trouble for building a fort that didn't comply with building codes
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Either thats really funny or the cop was just being an ass.
 
Originally posted by: Armitage
Originally posted by: tigertunes
What the hell are you talkin about when we were kids , i am 31 years old and i still do it 🙂
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Heh - you must be the nutjob that dug a big hole in his backyard!
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All the neighbor kids built something similar in a field near my house when we were about 10. It wasn't that elaborate, but it had plywood covered with dirt over the top and a trapdoor.

We learned that ventilation was necessary one afternoon. We had candles burning niches in the walls. The trapdoor was closed and there were four of us in the hole. Pretty soon the candles started going out on their own. Eventually, after lighting and relighting the candles, my brother mentioned that there must not be enough oxygen in the hole. You can imagine how quickly we left the hole.

Lucky for us someone knew what was happening. Otherwise, I think we would have started to have real problems.
 
yeah... forts.... me and my best friend built a fort with the 8' timber scraps that his dad had amassed from a local mill. These were basically the bark sides as the mill had planed the timber. This thing was sturdy as hell, and had two stories with the top being fitted with murder holes. As we grew up we would sneak out there to drink his dad's beer.

oh, and we figured out how to use 5 tounge depressers to build grenades. These things were held together with tension only, and could be thrown like chinese stars. When they hit something they would then explode.
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: jfall
I remember my friends and I building forts all over the woods in my neighborhood, and when it wasn't a fort in the woods it was a snow fort, or a fort inside my house made out of mattresses. Why building forts appeals to men I will never understand, .
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Because Women cause us to have a "Siege Mentality"
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Hehehehe
 
i never built a fort....i built CASTLES...impenitrable fortressess where we would camp to conquer the neighborhood...those that opposed us felt our wraith with cactus spears (its great growing up in az...all our plants could cause major pain)
 
I'll never forget the time we built a "fort" and placed small pieces of plywood with nails in them, face up, to defend our fort against evildoers. Well, one day an evildoer came, unfortunately she was one of my friends sisters sent by her mom to get him for dinner. That was when I first heard about tetanus shots.
 
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