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Stupid things you did when you were a little kid

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1. Threw a slab of ice through my kitchen window, got grounded for a week.

2. Stuck my finger into an open socket on a string of Christmas lights when I was 2, never went back near the christmas tree again that year.

That's all I can remember right now.

--Mark
 
Took quite a few of my dad's old albums, spread them out over the carpet and ran them over with my tricycle.

Attempted to flush a few kittens down the toilet. One of 'em was saved by one claw hanging on to the toilet seat cover.

Covered my neighbors car with dirt.

Shot up the garage a couple houses down with a bb gun, shot the bird feeder next door and killed a bird in the backyard.....all in the same day. The police came and got the gun.

Drank rubbing alcohol. One swallow was enough to learn that lesson well.


That was just a few......
 
Filled a saucepan with water and tried to suck it up with the normal vacuum cleaner 😛...guess I was trying to emulate my dad and his shop vac...
 
oh, i also used a big stick i found as a joust and poked holes into the garage door. lets say taht dad wasnt too happy about that one.
 
prank phone calls, including the one to a school that got me/my parents a visit from the FBI :Q

shoplifting beef jerkey

riding a motorcycle drunk (that was a little bit later than the first 2)
 
Got pissed at mom and threw my mouthpiece into a frying pan, while it was frying.

Result: - $1000, ruined chicken, and a massive whippin'
 
lets see here:

1) i used to take doorknobs off doors
2) i stuck screw drivers into electrical sockets
3) i stuck my finger into some gears/sprockets while they were moving fast and that got ugly.
4) threw rocks at cars
5) stole my mom's credit card to get AOL
6) i'll think of others later

😀
 
Originally posted by: SouthPaW1227
Got pissed at mom and threw my mouthpiece into a frying pan, while it was frying.

Result: - $1000, ruined chicken, and a massive whippin'


what mouthpiece?
 
Was trying to act smart in front of my brother, they were laying a small road right outside our porch. I climbed on to the railing, slipped, fell on to the tar.
The tar was not yet solidified, and I was covered all ove with it.

The weirdest part is, I was later given a KEROSENE bath by my parents which I do not remember.
 
i grew up in china with lots of firework during festive seasons such as wedding and new year etc.

I attended a wedding with my relative and picked up alot of unused fireworks, i wanted something really big so I unpeeled them all and gathered the powder together in a plastic bottle. It was alot of powder! Took my grandma's incense stick and STICKED MY Head on top of the opening to light it.

Nevertheless, I saw a supernova engulf me, and i became a mond instantaneously. Nevertheless, i landed in hospital with 1st degree burn, thank god there were no scars!
 
i wrote my name on my dads gun cabinet THREE TIMES (kept messing up my Ts i think)
then when he confronted me about it, i told him it wasn't me

jumped off the deck with a garbage bag parachute, but i held the draw strings and as soon as i was airborn the bag closed

 
use to have a gameboy battery pack w/ an ac adaptor. i stuck two wires into the ac adaptor and did the "jump start" thingy. bright sparks + blown fuse = 😱
 
Put Crystal Drano in the pocket of my shorts when I was five. Guess I thought it looked cool. That's why parents shoudln't store this kind of stuff in the open. It's the one spot on my leg where there's never been any hair.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Ran full speed into a closed sliding glass door. Luckily it didn't break. I bounced off.

Sometime later I did the same thing with a closed screen door. Went right through it. This was back in the day of metal screens.

I had hash marks on my face for weeks.

ive done this


also:
Originally posted by: Skiddex
1) my mom was sick and my dad headed off to work but turned on sesame street so i would be entertained while mom got another 30min of sleep. in that amount of time i climbed on top of the fridge and ate the dogs heart worm medication and all the dog treats.

2) as my parents were ready to leave the house they were renting i decided that there needed to be railroad tracks across kitchen. so what works best on hard wood floors for this job? thats right, permenant marker.

3) these stories take place in houston where we lived for 2 years while i was between the ages of 2 and 4. mom would need some quiet time and would send me outside to play in our fenced in back yard. i couldnt get in the back door so i stuck the hose in thru the doggy door and flooded the laundry room.

darwin will soon catch up to you.
 
put a rock into a paper airplane to make it go further.

upon launching, the rock immediately separated from the airplane and put a crack in the windshield of my parents' minivan
 
Put our cat into the cooler, thought he could get out
Put dirt/sand into the gas tank of the neighbor's truck
Stole the tire caps of the same truck
Threw rocks at cars as they flew by at 35mph (when you are small, thats really fast)
Created booby traps whereever possible, usually with LEGO's (I still do this on occasion, just not as many with LEGO's)
 
i remembered another one: i talked my friend into snorting comet because we thought it was funny that it made her sneeze like 10 times in a row.
 
I'll contribute one on behalf of one of my adult friends. He just did this recently. Boating without a life jacket, stood up on the back of the boat to fiddle with the engine. Lost his balance and fell overboard. The boat started going in circles and he tried to grab the boat as it circled past him, failed. Tried a second time, got smacked in the head, failed. Realized at this point that his chest and stomach have been chewed up by the prop and he was bleeding heavily. Tried to swim for shore (1/2 mile), gets about 100 yards and realizes he's losing a lot of blood and can't make it.

Musters the remaining strength he has to yell for shore at a construction crew who is re-roofing a house. They grab the homeowners boat and pick him up.

Made it to the hospital with about 20 minutes to spare before bleeding to death and was hospitalized for a month.

- No life jacket
- Standing up on the back
- Tries to get back in the boat (twice!), getting more severely injured each time.

Stupid stuff, indeed.

Originally posted by: Skiddex
2) as my parents were ready to leave the house they were renting i decided that there needed to be railroad tracks across kitchen. so what works best on hard wood floors for this job? thats right, permenant marker.

Outstanding!

 
Oh, there's another one... stole supplies from the chem lab to make our own gunpowder. Made a big old batch of it. Then we took one of those big popcorn tins from the holidays, set a fire in it, and then threw handful after handful of black powder onto it. It was fun, and looked really cool...
Not that well thought out, as my room at the time had a wood panelled, angled ceiling (since it was on the top floor). The flames were shooting up a few feet, but luckily not enough to catch anything on fire. Everything in the room was then coated in a layer of soot, and we were coughing up black stuff for days. Oh, and the popcorn tin melted a patch on the carpet that I subsequently blamed on the cat. I'm sure the parents didn't buy it, but couldn't figure out how I actually would have done it.
 
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