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Stupidest thing you ever did as a kid?

Mai72

Mai72

Lifer
I'm just thinking back to a few stupid things I did as a kid.

#1: I had a bb/pellet gun as a kid. I remember my parents going out for the day and my dad telling me to not touch the gun. Well I took it out because I wanted to play around. I aimed it at our brand new tv set, and bam! I put a nice hole in the screen. I got scared and put the gun away. I saw my dad walking towards the house and I ran into the bathroom. When he walked in I remember walking out of the bathroom and asking him how was his trip. He grabbed my arm and asked me what happened to the tv. I shrugged my shoulders and said "I don't know." He then proceeded to whip my ass pretty hard. 😡

If you have children what type of punishment would you dish out if he/she put a hole in your tv set with a bb gun? Just curious.

#2: I found a bullet. I then took it out back and started to bang on the end with a sharp rock. Luckily it didn't go off or else I'd probably be dead now.

Stupidest thing you ever did as a kid?
 
Almost burned the house down. Halloween, I was giving out candy, had an extra candle on the side to play with. During a lull, I used the candle to burn some cobwebs on the porch, set some foam insulation on fire. I was adamant about having a bowl of water nearby in case of a fire for some reason and put it out before it spread.

It would have taken out the entire house because the porch is under the second floor.
 
I ran jump on to a sofa chair and bounce through full window like stunt man, got cuts everywhere on my arm.. still have small scars.. luckily it wasnt in my face or eyes.

i was 6 at the time... man did it hurt like crazy
 
was at a relatives house out of town. did the hairspray + lighter torch thing to kill a giant spider on a window screen. screen disintegrated in a neat flash of crawling flame. peeked my head out the window to see my uncle looking up at me with is hands on his hips.
 
Imp said:
Almost burned the house down. Halloween, I was giving out candy, had an extra candle on the side to play with. During a lull, I used the candle to burn some cobwebs on the porch, set some foam insulation on fire. I was adamant about having a bowl of water nearby in case of a fire for some reason and put it out before it spread.

It would have taken out the entire house because the porch is under the second floor.
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Ugh...one of my buddies actually burned his house down while he was cooking with oil. His family lost a lot of stuff (including their dogs ) 🙁. I think he may have been 16 or so at the time.

I had just turned 15 and was working on my car at the time with a friend, we were pouring seafoam into the engine to "treat" it since it was over 100K miles. I apparently didn't put it all the way in neutral (was left in drive) and had the parking brake set. When we unhooked the vacuum line the car slowly crept forward and pushed his garage door in. We luckily were smart enough to not stand in front of the car. Car was okay and had no damage, but the aluminum garage door had the bottom two panels bent/pushed in and needed to be replaced.

Needless to say I obsessively double check that I'm in park before I get out of the car now.
 
my buddy lived in about a 5 floor apartment complex on the top floor, a road went by under it with tons of cars always going by. for some reason one day we threw golf balls down there and laughed our brains out as they pinged around under peoples cars. ridiculously stupid. I'm pretty damn sure I actually threw one too. there were other ridiculously stupid moments too...countless. running from the cops in a honda civic si. egging cars as we drove past them. yeah...
 
Was maybe three... Mom's cooking, pulls something off the stove, points to the eye and says see how red it is? That means it's really hot, don't touch it!

So I watch it for a minute or two, when it stops glowing red, put my hand on it. At least I learned.
 
I nearly electrocuted my dad turning on a light switch while he was working on fixing the ceiling lamp. Serves him right though for not turning it off at the breaker, and not watching me. I think I was like four.
 
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Rolled tires down our neighborhood streets at night when cars where coming up the hill.
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we did something similar. rolled bowling balls down this giant hill at night. but we made sure there were no cars around. we nailed a fire hydrant, fortunately it didnt burst
 
Put a paper target on an almost petrified log, and when I shot it the BB ricocheted back and missed by eye ball by 1/2 an inch. BB hit the ridge of the eye socket.

Go carting down hills with no brakes or steering in San Francisco.

As a kid I was hit by a car twice (not counting go carting), hair caught on fire, had a fire extinguisher shot in my face point blank in an abandoned post office. Drove across town on a big wheel. There are other things just as bad, but I don't remember due to trauma of some kind. I would have to ask my mom or uncles, but that would involve my uncles laughing in my face for hours, and getting knocked in the head by my mom. And then there are the high school years...
 
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Was doing a scavenger hunt at a birthday party. I knew the next item on the list was near the creek behind their house. So while everyone else was running to the gate to get out, I jumped the fence... and landed on a wooden tomato stake. It embedded itself into my knee. I have a nice scar from that one.
 
Tackled a 240lb running back in 8th grade (yep insanely huge for a 14yo kid...Yes he was black) when I was about 130lb. Pretty sure I had a concussion and not sure how I didn't break my neck. Def got some whiplash.
 
Shot out brand new John Deere combine windshield with BB gun.
Shot out back patio door window with bb gun.
Shot spray paint can with BB gun in barn, covering truck and tools in paint.
Shot car window with BB gun as it was driving down the road. Cops came and we denied it.

Wow... I don't think I will be getting my son a BB gun.
 
16 years old, working in a factory in Indiana. Decided I needed to use the forklift to move a rack so I could paint something (I didn't). Asked for and got the key. Managed to turn it over on sloping asphalt outside. Mashed my right hand pretty badly, and got three guys fired: the guy who gave me the key, and his two immediate supervisors. It took five years and five or six operations to get the hand working again. In 1980 I received a settlement of $6k. Blew it all on beer, pot, and a $400 motorcycle.

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There was an alcove of bushes surrounding a high school football field when I was a kid, and one group of them had a little opening carved out that made a perfect little clubhouse. You could crawl in through an opening in the bushes and it was a completely enclosed shelter that would sit about 4 people.

My friend and I were 10 years old and thought this little hideaway was so cool. We would hide our most valuable possessions there (found Playboys and firecrackers). We'd watch football games from there, we'd hide out there when we were being served lima beans for dinner...it was awesome.

One day we decided to try and "camp out" in the little hide-a-way. We snuck out a pack of hot dogs, buns, and tried to light a fire in it. Being 10, we had no idea how to light a camp fire, so we used things like styrofoam cups and plastic. The fumes ended up smoking us out...and then the whole alcove went up in flames.

We ran as fast as we could, but could hear the fire trucks a few minutes later, and it actually made the news. I feel terrible to this day.
 
Markbnj said:
16 years old, working in a factory in Indiana. Decided I needed to use the forklift to move a rack so I could paint something (I didn't). Asked for and got the key. Managed to turn it over on sloping asphalt outside. Mashed my right hand pretty badly, and got three guys fired: the guy who gave me the key, and his two immediate supervisors. It took five years and five or six operations to get the hand working again. In 1980 I received a settlement of $6k. Blew it all on beer, pot, and a $400 motorcycle.

/thread?
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sounds like a pretty rad life man! well, except for the excruciating pain and lack of working hand. hmm...actually the only cool part is the beer, pot, and bike.
 
I tried connecting big house speakers up to one of those little portable cassette players (not the walkmans). I cut the power cord instead of the speaker wire while it was plugged in and there was a very big bang, sparks and I was deaf for about 10 mins. I only change light bulbs now, no other electrical work in my house.
 
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