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Stupidest thing you ever did as a kid?

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Jeez, I don't know, I'm not telling you about one of them but I played around with explosives, a home made gun with powder and it ignited accidently. Damn thing whizzed right by my head, singing my hair. I gave it up right then and there, it was my wake up call. I don't mess with guns, homemade or not.
 
Damn, most of you above were just delinquents like you grew up to be.

My dumbest thing was experimenting making explosives. My 'lab skills' were shit and amazing I didn't blow myself up. I did this in the middle of the woods with no one around though so he only one going up was me.
 
waggy said:
I think nearly every male i know has played with explosives, chemicals etc. 😀
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Yep, it's funny reading the thread how many of these things I did: crushing Estes engines to make pyrotechnics, check. Almost setting the house on fire playing with flammable liquids, check. Shooting out a window with a BB gun, check. Throwing a lawn dart and hitting my brother in the head... wait, did anyone else do that?
 
Markbnj said:
Yep, it's funny reading the thread how many of these things I did: crushing Estes engines to make pyrotechnics, check. Almost setting the house on fire playing with flammable liquids, check. Shooting out a window with a BB gun, check. Throwing a lawn dart and hitting my brother in the head... wait, did anyone else do that?
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Speaking of Estes rocket engines. My father took the electronic lighter away during off hours.

One day I built a fire in front of my house when I was around middle school and put a D engine in there. I lit, came straight at me and set me on fire (my corderoys and put a 1" hole in my leg).

I ran and jumped over our fence and into the pool. The chemicals hurt worse.

I had my younger brother throw away my pants at the park down the street and tried to tell my parents while sitting on the counter I moved over onto a hot burner on the stove.

They thought I was shot.
 
oh yea, recorded myself dropping the f bomb when I was like 10 and my parents found the tape and listened to it.
 
In line with the replies above, a game I'd play with my friend which was kind of like playing chicken. There was a fairly steep service road that went from our neighborhood down to a major street, with a big ditch between. We'd ride down as quickly and far as possible on our bikes before applying the brakes, and one time I lost control and landed right near a bunch of broken beer bottles and stuff, although I ended up unscathed.

More stupid and damaging on a whole, pretty much any time I allowed my pride and/or moral beliefs to fuck myself over. Telling the truth when I should have lied, not getting even against a few that deserved it, doing things for others when I should have told them to fuck off just because I was afraid of being mean or committing a "sin". There isn't really a single event that stands out as the worst, but a typical one would be having a good friend that had moved away come by our school once to visit, seeing him hanging out with others and him looking over at, I assumed I was unworthy and left, years later in retrospect he probably thought I saw myself as the superior one.
 
alkemyst said:
How did they have a tape player in 2014?
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Went down about 700m meters of a hill on a main street in the middle of the night sitting in shopping carts half in the bag. I think I was 14 or 15.

Started about here : https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.8099...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1snsoQGP8xouu5xv48rZBQMA!2e0


Ended around here : https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.8086...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sdhMd9kPpdtTffmsIXyD5CA!2e0

No idea what the hell my friends and I were thinking. You could actually steer the carts by leaning with your body weight. Three of us went down, each in our own cart, all lived and only one of us actually got hurt - my buddy got a nasty case of road rash at the bottom of the hill when his cart rolled.

Whenever I remember this I just feel completely idiotic. Could of easily ended up dead.
 
HamburgerBoy said:
In line with the replies above, a game I'd play with my friend which was kind of like playing chicken. There was a fairly steep service road that went from our neighborhood down to a major street, with a big ditch between. We'd ride down as quickly and far as possible on our bikes before applying the brakes, and one time I lost control and landed right near a bunch of broken beer bottles and stuff, although I ended up unscathed.

More stupid and damaging on a whole, pretty much any time I allowed my pride and/or moral beliefs to fuck myself over. Telling the truth when I should have lied, not getting even against a few that deserved it, doing things for others when I should have told them to fuck off just because I was afraid of being mean or committing a "sin". There isn't really a single event that stands out as the worst, but a typical one would be having a good friend that had moved away come by our school once to visit, seeing him hanging out with others and him looking over at, I assumed I was unworthy and left, years later in retrospect he probably thought I saw myself as the superior one.
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You have done more stupid things than that.
 
I remember giving my mom the finger when she left the room. We got into an argument and I was pissed. The problem was my dad saw my not so friendly gesture thru my bedroom window.

He then casually walked inside, took off his belt and whipped my ass!

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I honestly never did anything stupid like being described in this thread. I can say I was somewhat socially awkward and got by only on my sense of humor. People seemed to expect me to be funny or just not talk at all.

I'm normal now, but I wish I had better people skills when I was a kid.
 
Jumped off the roof onto a rather thin mattress which jacked up my leg. Did it to impress a girl. Does stupid shit like that ever really impress a girl?

Stood on a freeway overpass with a friend waving at cars. If the car didn't wave back we dropped small rocks on them. It was funny at the time.

Helped a stoner friend plant some marijuana in his backyard, even though I was not and never have used drugs in my life. I wasn't friends with that guy for very long.

As a young man, I stood downrange from a car being held at gunpoint by half a dozen cops so I could take photos of it. Great shot, but not a wise decision.

My high school was across the street from a few rather impressive hills with off-road trails scattered across them. People would occasionally ride their motorcycles across the ridge of the hill overlooking campus.

During lunch one school day I tried to ride my Yamaha 175 enduro up the face of the hill, only making it about 90% of the way to the top before running out of momentum. I tossed the bike sideways against the hill so it wouldn't tumble down, but it put me off balance and I went end over end back down the hill. When I showed up for my next class I was covered in dirt and one of my elbows were bleeding.

Got laid my first few times without thinking a condom would be a good idea.
 
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Lived 1/2 a block from the train tracks, every time we'd hear the whistle and were outside we would run and play chicken trying to get across the track before the train. We made it every single time, but the last time I did it I guess I was slower than usual and as I leaped across I felt the train touch the soul of my shoe as it wizzed by. The train was going full bore so a foot slower and I would have been toast. We had done it like 200 times and never had an issue. After that experience I decided no more chicken. All my friends continued to do it and some had some similar close calls, but it didn't stop them lol.
 
In 5th grade I DDT'ed one of my friends on the playground. I was smart enough to know pro wrestling was fake, but not smart enough to understand it takes a ton of skill and practice to not seriously hurt someone.
 
I did my fair share of stupid shit. Some of it was illegal and won't talk about it here.

I guess between throwing rocks at cars, putting a penny in a lamp or shooting the patio glass door out with a BB gun the dumbest thing I ever did was when my friends and I were playing pirates and we were digging a hole to bury our treasure. Well I was shoveling with the shovel carton style with me lifting up dirt and throwing it up over my head. Well, my friend's brother was in front of me and he was leaning down in front of me. When I lifted the shovel to throw the dirt over my head it nailed him in the face and he ran off crying. He had a shovel print around his face. LMAO! He was like 3 to 4 years older than me and I'm just glad he didn't kick my ass.
 
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