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Something bad you did as a kid...
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Anubis
No Lifer
i made lots of bombs. blew stuff up. i beleive the cases are still open on a few.
ive been in fights and always won.
i broke some kids leg with a wooden stool, also broke a kids leg in a soccer game and i ment to do it.
egging and all that fun stuff. ive shot cars on the highway with paintballs, shot peopel and cows also. stolen tons of stuff. including a car to go joyrideing
ive plaied baseball with mailboxes
ive been in fights and always won.
i broke some kids leg with a wooden stool, also broke a kids leg in a soccer game and i ment to do it.
egging and all that fun stuff. ive shot cars on the highway with paintballs, shot peopel and cows also. stolen tons of stuff. including a car to go joyrideing
ive plaied baseball with mailboxes
OrganizedChaos
Diamond Member
father walks into my rooms and sees this: a lit blowtorch. various hammers/chissels/drills and other weapons of destruction layin around my room. quaters all over the place, one of the larger drug dealers in town with a destroyed payphone over his shoulder getting ready to leave. what makes it so bad is that my father is a cop town
azncoffeeboi
Senior member
When i was like 8 and pogs were really big i was shopping at a store and i was putting pogs in my pockets so i could have my hands free to buy more. I took them out of my pocket to pay at the register and all was fine, but when I was in the car I realized I stole two pogs. 🙁
mmm cant think of any good ones right now... except for this
once when i was like 8 i suckerpunched one of my buddies by mistake... like we were getting into a heated argument and we were shoving eachother n stuff and like i dunno what i was thinking but i threw a punch and didnt specifically aim for the face but he kinda moved into it and just went out could and fell over... like then he woke up a couple minutes later, freaked out and locked himself in our washroom and we had to call his dad to drive over and get him to open the door... haha nobody ever mentioned that incident, there was like 4 other kids that saw it happen.
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once when i was like 8 i suckerpunched one of my buddies by mistake... like we were getting into a heated argument and we were shoving eachother n stuff and like i dunno what i was thinking but i threw a punch and didnt specifically aim for the face but he kinda moved into it and just went out could and fell over... like then he woke up a couple minutes later, freaked out and locked himself in our washroom and we had to call his dad to drive over and get him to open the door... haha nobody ever mentioned that incident, there was like 4 other kids that saw it happen.
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Hahaha, I forgot that one, that was hella funny... I remember once my mother cleaned the carpet and let it out in the porch so you know it gets fresh air and whatever happens (women and cleaning.. 😕 ) .. whatever.. I was burning some ants and I saw some big ones on the conrner of the carpet and I went there to burn it.. and of course I put a small but noticable black hole on the carpet... I quickly took it back inside pretending I am helping my mother and I pushed the couch over it... for the rest of the 5 months [I guess] I did the cleaning of the carpet so she wouldn't realize that I burned it 🙂 [and got around 5 bucks everytime from my mom for doing it 🙂 haha ] ..
well it worked for a while but I dont wanna talk about the rest, story is not funny after that 🙂
Well, I used "slightly" more effective and drastic measures: a spray can with a lighter... It was ugly, I tell ya. 😱
Also, you don't have to be a kid to do stupid things. A couple years back when I was living in a dorm with a bunch of foreign students, on one slow, boring evening a friend and I decided to reenact the mall corridor scene from Terminator 2 where the two machines go back and forth smashing each other into the wall. Well, our reenactment was a little too authentic, my friend managed to put me right through the wall of a corridor... 🙂
Black88GTA
Diamond Member
We used to toss water balloons at moving cars, etc...
One time in the back of the bus (6th grade or so), I tossed a pear out the window at a mail truck running parallel to us. It smashed his windshield. He was none too pleased, he managed to get the bus pulled over and yelled at everyone to fess up, but nobody ratted me out 😀.
When I was maybe 9, my friend and I walked to the local ice cream shop and got Slurpees. I got a giant one, and then decided I didn't want all of it. So I set it at the top of the stairs, which overlooked a little eating area where you could sit and enjoy your ice cream. There was a guy down there with a couple kids eating. I ran up to my 2/3 full giant Slurpee and booted the hell out of it. It sailed in a perfect arc and nailed the guy right in the face, and slurpee splattered all over him and the kids, and one old guy sitting at another table. Direct hit. So we just started running - I don't think I ran that fast in my life before or since. Got away clean.
We used to toss eggs at EVERYTHING - we were about 15-16 at this point. We'd go around egging everyone and anyone. Once, on a hot summer day, we egged a truck w/open windows and a lawnmower trailer attached to it. Probably 6 made it in the windows and splattered on everything, and a number were outside. A bit down the road, we saw the crew whose truck it was trudging back to it all tired and sweaty with weedeaters. Obviously had just finished the job. We waved at them. I still feel really bad about that one 🙁.
We used to have Roman Candle wars when I was about 10 or so....those were a great time, until one kid caught fire and had a couple small burns before someone put him out :Q. The funny thing was, we were in the middle of nowhere, with no liquid of any sort...plus the fire was getting pretty large. So my buddy peed on him to extinguish the blaze 😀. We were laughing so hard we couldn't walk for 15 minutes. It was even funnier cause the kid really had to go, plus he didn't like the guy on fire too much, so he "accidentally" got his face and hair too, lol. He was soaked!
One time I remember a buddy of mine went on vacation. They only had one car, and left it in their single car garage when they went on their trip. It was a Civic hatchback, so not very heavy. In the middle of the night, a bunch of us snuck into the garage through the side door, lifted up the Civic, and turned it sideways in the garage. There was maybe a foot of clearance on each side 😀. I was lucky enough to be around when they got back from their trip - me and some friends were hanging out at my friend's place across the street. The look on all their faces was priceless 😀. I still don't know how they got it out.
Oh, and once we put a solid propellant model rocket engine (one of the giant ones) in someone's mailbox, and set it off. It was one of those nice mailboxes too, with a wood frame and everything. After we lit it, it got really violent in there, so we kind of spooked and ran away. Came back a half hour later and the whole thing was burned to the ground :Q.
There's a bunch more, but those are the best that I can remember at the moment.
One time in the back of the bus (6th grade or so), I tossed a pear out the window at a mail truck running parallel to us. It smashed his windshield. He was none too pleased, he managed to get the bus pulled over and yelled at everyone to fess up, but nobody ratted me out 😀.
When I was maybe 9, my friend and I walked to the local ice cream shop and got Slurpees. I got a giant one, and then decided I didn't want all of it. So I set it at the top of the stairs, which overlooked a little eating area where you could sit and enjoy your ice cream. There was a guy down there with a couple kids eating. I ran up to my 2/3 full giant Slurpee and booted the hell out of it. It sailed in a perfect arc and nailed the guy right in the face, and slurpee splattered all over him and the kids, and one old guy sitting at another table. Direct hit. So we just started running - I don't think I ran that fast in my life before or since. Got away clean.
We used to toss eggs at EVERYTHING - we were about 15-16 at this point. We'd go around egging everyone and anyone. Once, on a hot summer day, we egged a truck w/open windows and a lawnmower trailer attached to it. Probably 6 made it in the windows and splattered on everything, and a number were outside. A bit down the road, we saw the crew whose truck it was trudging back to it all tired and sweaty with weedeaters. Obviously had just finished the job. We waved at them. I still feel really bad about that one 🙁.
We used to have Roman Candle wars when I was about 10 or so....those were a great time, until one kid caught fire and had a couple small burns before someone put him out :Q. The funny thing was, we were in the middle of nowhere, with no liquid of any sort...plus the fire was getting pretty large. So my buddy peed on him to extinguish the blaze 😀. We were laughing so hard we couldn't walk for 15 minutes. It was even funnier cause the kid really had to go, plus he didn't like the guy on fire too much, so he "accidentally" got his face and hair too, lol. He was soaked!
One time I remember a buddy of mine went on vacation. They only had one car, and left it in their single car garage when they went on their trip. It was a Civic hatchback, so not very heavy. In the middle of the night, a bunch of us snuck into the garage through the side door, lifted up the Civic, and turned it sideways in the garage. There was maybe a foot of clearance on each side 😀. I was lucky enough to be around when they got back from their trip - me and some friends were hanging out at my friend's place across the street. The look on all their faces was priceless 😀. I still don't know how they got it out.
Oh, and once we put a solid propellant model rocket engine (one of the giant ones) in someone's mailbox, and set it off. It was one of those nice mailboxes too, with a wood frame and everything. After we lit it, it got really violent in there, so we kind of spooked and ran away. Came back a half hour later and the whole thing was burned to the ground :Q.
There's a bunch more, but those are the best that I can remember at the moment.
WinkOsmosis
Banned
"Hunting coons with basebal bats" is fvcked up.
I'll list a few...
As a toddler I was playing out front (near a semi-busy road) and throwing snowballs into the street. These were mostly just a handful of powder, as I wasn't a good snowball maker at the time. I saw a car coming and decided to try a little target practice. I think the guy saw me and slowed a little. Anyway, I threw it and it went IN his open window and landed on his seat.
Of course I was totally freaked out as I wasn't expecting to get it in his car. I ran and hid out back behind a tree (I was little, it seemed safe). Guy came back and spoke to my parents. My dad was actually cool about it. I still felt bad though. Lesson learned.
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A little older, my dad is an EE and had all kinds of electronics stuff around the house. He used to fix stuff all the time and I'd watch trying to figure it all out. Well, he had a big bag of resistors he used to use, and they seemed magical to me. I snuck a couple to play with, I think my dad knew but considered 'em fairly harmless. While experimenting one day, I unscrewed the lightbulb from a nightlight and set it to on, then proceeded to 'drop' the resistor into the open area (so I wouldn't get electrocuted). Well, it was quite a sight. There was a POP, a Flash of fire, and poof of smoke, and me waiting for dad to come investigate what the hell I was doing. He never found out, after the smoke cleared I turned the switch off, pulled out the nightlight and dumped the fried resistor into the trash.
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A bit older, I used to shoplift stuff (petty stuff). As a 5-6-7yr old I know I used to steal the locks off of luggage in the dept stores. I had some fascination with them. In middleschool I used to steal gum from the grocery store across the street from the school (every once in a blue moon). I also stole cookies and fries (from the lunch line) sometimes when my mom bagged my lunch and it sucked. I got pretty good at it, although I think they may have noticed a few times but the lunch people didn't care.
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Somewhere in the middle of those years I was hanging around w/ a hoodlum of a friend. We rode our bikes to a shopping plaza. He told me to grab the valvecaps off this car, he collects them. Being a dumbass follower I did, wondering why I was doing it. We went into the store. Next thing I know, and old guy is there looking for us... demanding his valve caps back. My friend played innocent, but, I handed over the one that I took. He let us go. The last few years I've been paid back for that crime a few times. Yin Yang.
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In highschool I figured out the system of how they rotated the locks each year. I used to go back to my old lock (new locker) and shuffle stuff around inside the new person's locker. I'd flip the lock around so it was facing backwards, misc goofy stuff. Never stole anything from them though, just messed with them. I wonder if they ever even noticed... probably not. I don't know why I remembered the combo, but I did.
As a toddler I was playing out front (near a semi-busy road) and throwing snowballs into the street. These were mostly just a handful of powder, as I wasn't a good snowball maker at the time. I saw a car coming and decided to try a little target practice. I think the guy saw me and slowed a little. Anyway, I threw it and it went IN his open window and landed on his seat.
Of course I was totally freaked out as I wasn't expecting to get it in his car. I ran and hid out back behind a tree (I was little, it seemed safe). Guy came back and spoke to my parents. My dad was actually cool about it. I still felt bad though. Lesson learned.
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A little older, my dad is an EE and had all kinds of electronics stuff around the house. He used to fix stuff all the time and I'd watch trying to figure it all out. Well, he had a big bag of resistors he used to use, and they seemed magical to me. I snuck a couple to play with, I think my dad knew but considered 'em fairly harmless. While experimenting one day, I unscrewed the lightbulb from a nightlight and set it to on, then proceeded to 'drop' the resistor into the open area (so I wouldn't get electrocuted). Well, it was quite a sight. There was a POP, a Flash of fire, and poof of smoke, and me waiting for dad to come investigate what the hell I was doing. He never found out, after the smoke cleared I turned the switch off, pulled out the nightlight and dumped the fried resistor into the trash.
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A bit older, I used to shoplift stuff (petty stuff). As a 5-6-7yr old I know I used to steal the locks off of luggage in the dept stores. I had some fascination with them. In middleschool I used to steal gum from the grocery store across the street from the school (every once in a blue moon). I also stole cookies and fries (from the lunch line) sometimes when my mom bagged my lunch and it sucked. I got pretty good at it, although I think they may have noticed a few times but the lunch people didn't care.
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Somewhere in the middle of those years I was hanging around w/ a hoodlum of a friend. We rode our bikes to a shopping plaza. He told me to grab the valvecaps off this car, he collects them. Being a dumbass follower I did, wondering why I was doing it. We went into the store. Next thing I know, and old guy is there looking for us... demanding his valve caps back. My friend played innocent, but, I handed over the one that I took. He let us go. The last few years I've been paid back for that crime a few times. Yin Yang.
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In highschool I figured out the system of how they rotated the locks each year. I used to go back to my old lock (new locker) and shuffle stuff around inside the new person's locker. I'd flip the lock around so it was facing backwards, misc goofy stuff. Never stole anything from them though, just messed with them. I wonder if they ever even noticed... probably not. I don't know why I remembered the combo, but I did.
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