what's the dumbest thing you did as a kid?

[brianmanahan]

mine was probably dipping cookies in the bathtub and then eating them

 

[MongGrel]

Depends on the definition of kid, there were a lot of things over time.

Surprised I survived sometimes.

 

[Markbnj]

Wow, that's a hard one. Back in the mid-60's this new detergent came out called Gain, and as a promotion they hung a little sample box on the doorknob of every house for miles around. My friend Brian and I collected like two whole neighborhood's worth and then set up a stand in front of my house to sell them. Lasted until my Dad came home from work. He made us return all the sample boxes. We did return them, but all to this one guy's garage about three blocks over. I saw him working in his front yard months later and in the garage, neatly stacked on the shelves, were all those little boxes of Gain. I imagine he never bought detergent again.

 

[brainhulk]

i tried making an electromagnet. I stripped a powercord, wrapped the wire around a huge nail, placed a bunch of metal objexts around it, and then plugged it in to the wall outlet.

power went out in my house and neighbors . why did that happen? shouldn't just the circuit breakers in the house go off?

lol

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Circa age 4 or 5, argument with my cousin over which one of us was strongest. I told him I could punch through my front door. It worked, punched right through a glass part of the door. Still have some scars on my wrist and hand to remind me not to try that again.

 

[Imp]

Biting a mercury thermometer, breaking it in my mouth, and not worrying about the mercury and broken glass in my mouth.

 

[master_shake_]

i tired using tweezers in the electrical socket to open the wall.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was on my bike with a friend just behind me, for whatever reason I decided to put my foot in the spokes of the front wheel. I immediately flipped over and crash landed and he almost crashed into me, bursting into laughter at how random the incident was. My foot hurt for a while after that one.

I've done lot of stupid stuff with electrical outlets too, used to lay out circuits using foil paper, and use k'nex as transmission lines. Sometimes they'd fall over and short out.

 

[brianmanahan]

Biting a mercury thermometer, breaking it in my mouth, and not worrying about the mercury and broken glass in my mouth.

wow man, you were an animal

 

[Ns1]

Took off the copper edge of a ruler...


...and then stuck it into an electrical outlet.

 

[Gerle]

i tired using tweezers in the electrical socket to open the wall.

I would have thought the electrical shock would have gotten you long before you tired of doing it?

 

[ImpulsE69]

When I tried out my 2nd attempt at a time machine I inadvertently caused World War III. Thankfully the 3rd time I used the correct amount of lemon pledge and corrected the mistake.

 

[BoomerD]

I spent several of my prepubescent years in Springfield, Mass. When I was 8-9 years old, my best friend and I used to fuck around hopping freight trains as they went by...once, just after we got on, the train picked up speed and we ended up on the outskirts of Boston before the railroad cops caught us...and called our parents. His dad was an ex-cop...and came to pick us up. He beat the shit out of both of us...then when we got home, my dad beat the shit out of both of us. We promised to never do it again.
Needless to say, we were back hopping freights the next week.

 

[who?]

i tried making an electromagnet. I stripped a powercord, wrapped the wire around a huge nail, placed a bunch of metal objexts around it, and then plugged it in to the wall outlet.

power went out in my house and neighbors . why did that happen? shouldn't just the circuit breakers in the house go off?

lol

Next time don't strip the wire.

 

[renz20003]

My dad got pulled over by a cop when I was 5. While the cop was taking my fathers D/L and insurance info I shouted "My dads a child molester." (He wasn't)

 

[highland145]

That's hilarious....unless my kid had done that.

 

[Loop2kil]

I once removed one of these and DNGaF

 

[edro]

I remember hammering on a shotgun shell when I was ~4-5. I was trying to get the pellets out.

I shot a tractor window out with my BB gun. That cost $2500.

Friend and I shot a car window with BB guns as it drove by. Cops showed up and we claimed innocence.

I took apart a hair dryer, cut and stripped the cord, then used it to shock things. It eventually tripped a breaker.
In a panic, I called the electric company and they walked me through resetting the breaker.

Too many reckless and illegal things once friends and I got our licenses.

 

[Puffnstuff]

My grandmother had a boatshed in her back yard and I decided to climb up on the roof. In order to perform this feat I had to stack a bunch of wooden boxes and a trunk together so I could reach it. While I was in the process of climbing on top of my unstable mountain the entire thing came crashing down with me on the top of it. I went head first and hit my nose on the corner of the trunk on the way down before I landed on the ground flat on my back between the fence and the shed. This of course knocked the wind out of me leaving me in a daze on the ground for a few minutes. When I was able to pull myself back together I got up and went inside bloody face and all to clean up. I never wanted to climb like that again.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

filled squeeze bottles with gasoline and made flame throwers. Contact solution bottles worked best. Absolutely amazed I didn't get burnt.

"Borrowed" dads 223 ruger ranch rifle and a bunch of ammo. Shot up an abandoned building.

Sunk neighbor kids snowmobile thru the pond

peed on cattle fence

flipped tractor into drainage ditch

drew mustaches and scars on sisters cabbage patch dolls. Sis was devastated. This is the one that got me the most memorable beating. Pops broke a rocking chair over my dumb ass and proceeded to totally destroy my room. Never seen him in such a rage before or since.

All this before hitting teen years.....

 

[chitwood]

My best friend and I spent one afternoon jumping off the roof of his house. His room was on the 2nd floor, his window didn't have a screen, so we just climbed out onto the roof and jumped into the backyard. Not onto anything. Just the grass. Probably about a 12 ft drop. We were practicing tuck&roll I guess? After about 8-9 jumps our ankles/knees started to hurt really bad so we stopped.

Could have easily broken several bones doing that.

 

[edro]

Made homemade bombs with black powder, pill bottles and cannon fuse.
Blew up many things like mail boxes, toys, etc.
Thinking back to it, why the hell did my dad let me buy cannon fuse at gun shows?
What did he think I was going to do with it...

 

[T_Yamamoto]

I once removed one of these and DNGaF

What kind of tag is this.

(It's probably because I'm young)

 

[DeathReborn]

There's a few...

Stuck a screwdriver into a electrical appliance while it was switched on.
Blew a hole in a desk at school, Chemistry class and the teacher actually laughed about it all the remaining 3 years. He's still my favourite teacher, even dated his daughter...
Ran across corrugated garage roofing to get to a large play area and fell through breaking my left arm, few days later did it again.
Ate cigarettes, even lit ones. One of the reasons I was referred to as Psycho at school.
Crashed my dads Triumph into a telephone pole when I was 13.

 

[Sonikku]

Writing to santa saying I wanted a Peter Venkman figure for Christmas. Was expecting the original one with the outfit he wore in the show, with his proton pack.

Wound up with Fright Features. I should have been more specific. =(