Dumb things we did as kids

[bill718]

I'll start:

NEVER try to recharge flashlight batteries by plugging an electrical
cord into a wall outlet, then sticking the 2 wires on opposite sides
of the battery. The year was 1965. Results:

1. The battery swells up, turns black, and starts to smoke.

2. The main breaker switch flips, turning off all the lights in
the house.

3. If you're a 10-year-old kid, you'll probably catch a whipping
from Dad.

Let the record reflect this was the beginning and end of my
6 min. career as "Junior Scientist"

Anyone else care to confess?

 

[mudwhistle]

I'll start:

NEVER try to recharge flashlight batteries by plugging an electrical
cord into a wall outlet, then sticking the 2 wires on opposite sides
of the battery. The year was 1965. Results:

1. The battery swells up, turns black, and starts to smoke.

2. The main breaker switch flips, turning off all the lights in
the house.

3. If you're a 10-year-old kid, you'll probably catch a whipping
from Dad.

Let the record reflect this was the beginning and end of my
6 min. career as "Junior Scientist"

Anyone else care to confess?

I did a lot of stupid things. Most of them not funny.

 

[rightwinger]

I took a coffee can, filled it with gasoline, lighter fluid, oil and took it out in a field and threw a match

It went up like a fireball and spread to surrounding grass. I was able to stomp it out

 

[1srelluc]

LOL.....I thought it would be a really good idea to make a homemade smoke bomb.

I put the ingredients together and piled it all into a tennis ball can. Put a piece of cannon fuse inside and lit it off.

Well, that thing got going and produced so much smoke that the FD showed-up. It smelled really bad too.

To add insult to injury it burned so hot (it was mostly Sulphur and charcoal with a touch of salt peter) it melted the asphalt in dad's driveway.

Needless to say I got the Ol Sam Brown belt over that one! Sort of worth it as it was right impressive.

Sigh, I knew I should have went with a toilet paper roll.....Oh well.

 

[Polishprince]

Let the record reflect this was the beginning and end of my
6 min. career as "Junior Scientist"

Anyone else care to confess?

A lot of kids have curiosity. So do a lot of adults, particularly those in lower IQ ranges.

This fellow I knew who has since gone to his reward, had a mid -double digit IQ, tourettes syndrome and an aversion to bathing. Great guy, but you definitely didn't want to talk to him from the down wind position. Thank God he smoked, helped mask his odor with smell of the finest tobacco money can buy.

But anywho, he was in a church building that was open during the day, and suddenly got curious as to whether altar cloth burned. Even though he really didn't have criminal intent IMHO, he got 4 years for arson.

 

[martybegan]

I took a coffee can, filled it with gasoline, lighter fluid, oil and took it out in a field and threw a match

It went up like a fireball and spread to surrounding grass. I was able to stomp it out

We played "kick the bumblebee", which escalated to "kick the honeybee" then "kick the yellowjacket"

Then we did something called "rotten fruit baseball", which escalated into "expired cans of food baseball"

 

[BothWings]

Back in the early 80's in NY I lived in the foothills of the Catskills. There was an old abandoned house down the road from us, totally wrecked. Holes everywhere, all windows cracked or broken, useless junk lying around rotting, animals nesting in the walls....

Well, me and two other boys, one a little younger and Iittle older went in there with hammers and machetes and started smashing, slashing and trashing it some more, like little fiends. About 1/2 hr into it, a cop showed up. We dove out the window and ran up the trail into the woods with the fat-assed cop chasing after us, trying to stabilize his "Bat Utility Belt" all the way.

He was maybe 75 feet behind us and he yelled, "If you don't stop I'm gonna beat the fuckin' shit outta you!!" Well, we finally stopped and he walked us down to his car. It's funny, because we probably could have outran him with no problem and disappeared into the woods. At one point I had tossed my machete and he apparently never saw it.

Anyway, Donut Boy took us down to the Town Justice of the Peace. He svomded us pretty bad and called our mothers. They came down. He told them there might be reparations for damages pending, and passed our mothers a note with the "amount". They just looked at it and put it away. Then we were told to go home and wait to hear the verdict.

Nothing ever came of it. I am quite sure that note actually said "take these brats home and whip them good"!

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I've spent the majority of my life learning from other people's choices of action. Therefore, there are plenty of things that I have never done and probably never will.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[rightwinger]

Back in the early 80's in NY I lived in the foothills of the Catskills.

I grew up in the foothills of the Catskills too
Orange County

 

[BothWings]

I grew up in the foothills of the Catskills too
Orange County

I spent a whole lot of time in both Orange and Ulster county. Pretty much the first 36 years of my life.