"Idiotic things you did as a kid that did not kill you, someone else, or ...

[garyfromterrace]

"... at very least should have had much worse repercussions".

I'll start.
- Lit hill sides on fire in Drumheller with 10 or 20 high foot letters saying various things (did this on numerous occasions). Never did they ignite surrounding grass, juniper or sage brush in nearby proximity (at least in a fashion that we couldn't get under control). Yes we tried to do this on largely clay hillsides (some bentonite), it was still miraculous that we didn't ignite the entire Drumheller valley.

- played a game where you jumped off the roof of the bowling alley (fairly high, thinking 14') we owned, dove headfirst across the back alley behind the lanes, landed on snowbank on other side. Game was short-lived when after 4th or 5th jump I slipped just before takeoff and landed with upper torso in snow and everything from waist down was in the alley.

- saltpeter/charcoal/sulphur homemade bombs. Dozens of successful ignitions. No lasting burns.

- dynamite. Yep, had a buddy who could get it and blasting caps. Blew up a old relic car. Maybe some other stuff. No injuries to man or beast.

- headfirst skeleton sledding down 2 or 300' hills at 30+ degrees. Numerous large crashes. Only bruised ribs.

- while inebriated (why else would you do it) lowered by 2 guys and 2 bedsheets tied together then around waist from 21st floor window to 19th floor window with 1ft wide sill to land on. Had locked self out of college dorm room.

- took my honda CB 650 (full on street fitted) dirt biking in the hills of Drumheller on a number of occasions. A few times crossed a wood plank suspension bridge (over the Red Deer River) made for foot traffic in the early 1900's and missing some planks at the time of crossing.

[garyfromterrace]

The house I grew up in had really high ceilings with exposed beams and my brother and I threw these really long rafting straps over 2 of them and then strung a dining room chair into them and made this ridiculous swing...

We also pulled people in innertubes in the snow behind my geo metro on our dirt road when conditions were right...

Yes mtn girl yes! Especially like the innertube gig. Should have hurt something there alright. Very nice first customer. Also reminded me of getting towed behind the government truck on superslider snow-skates (deserted country roads of course, safety first). Using a 30m (100ft) survey chain as towrope. Believe I hit 100km/hr.
Edit.... seems to fast. 80 though.

[BmillsSkier]

We tossed my missing freshman year roommate's 27" tube tv out the window of our 7th floor dorm window after it shit the bed during a heated game of Bond. Yes we were all inebriated.

Shortly after it was pushed out, as in immediately after, we saw a showdow of a person down below in the common area LZ. The ensuing explosion of glass and plastic sent the lone dude screaming towards the door.

when our roommate came busting into our now lights-out room screaming about what nearly hit him did we only then realize that someone would have to tell him about his tv.

[~mikey b]

We skied fast and took chances. Now we are old with kids who ski fast and take chances.

[DasBlunt]

getting towed on snow is awesome, better on a board

[DasBlunt]

making dry land rope swings bigger and bigger over the creek. Oak trees and big takeoffs were scary as fuck. I never broke one, but saw a couple big crashes. We were jumping BMX bikes at the same creek.

[KQ]

Spent Spring breaks in Mazatlan with a college friend's family - they were Mexican drug cartel. I didn't know it at the time and only found out later in life who they were. To me my friend was just a kid I went to HS and College with who happen to always have really good weed in large quantities and of course other little "treats". He's dead now - killed by a rival cartel.

One year when we were down there I spouted off to his older brother who I didn't like and he threatened to gouge my eyes out one at a time with a spoon and send them back to my parents (he said this when he was standing very close to me in a low controlled voice - I think you get the picture that it wasn't an idle threat).

Their house was patrolled by guys carrying machine guns. My GFs and I hardly thought two wits about it. I mean the beaches were patrolled by armed Federales so this was just more men with guns, right?

Didn't realize just how "bad" his family was until many, many years later when I had a contractor working on my condo who was from Mazatlan. I mentioned to him I had a friend from there and gave his name. The contractor totally freaked out and stopped talking to me, finished the job and got the hell out as fast as he could.

[mmmm...pow!]

Speaking of innertubes, used to curl up inside them and roll down a hillside towards a lake with trees on the shore. Some close calls.
Lighting bottle rockets and throwing them in the air was kinda stupid. Realized that only after one grazed my inner thigh and blew up right behind me.
Hanging upsidedown from my swingset and dropping off headfirst because there was a foot of snow on the ground? Only lost feeling in my arms and legs for a few minutes, and got the wind knocked out of me.
Thinking I could swallow a peach pit...
Rolling a tire (mounted to a rim and aired up) across a deck, only to have it go down a set of stairs, make a 90 degree turn through a doorway, then another 90 degree turn and proceed several hundred yards downhill past several people on foot before smashing a few cars in a parking lot.

[gravitylover]

Stood on the roof of buildings and drove golf balls into the surrounding neighborhoods in the middle of the day. Heard all sorts of screaming and things breaking. Hung out on highway overpasses far from any entrances and would kick snow off the banks into traffic below. In college we would stand on my buddys 19th floor balcony overlooking Columbus Ave and piss downwind.

[garyfromterrace]

Stood on the roof of buildings and drove golf balls into the surrounding neighborhoods in the middle of the day. Heard all sorts of screaming and things breaking. Hung out on highway overpasses far from any entrances and would kick snow off the banks into traffic below. In college we would stand on my buddys 19th floor balcony overlooking Columbus Ave and piss downwind.

Yes, nice! Reminded me that we used to also pee of the 1' wide "deck" outside the window I got lowered to in other idiot thing already mentioned. Thanks for the memory.

[Cono Este]

My brother and I, plus his Saudi Sheik friend, overloaded a 16 foot Avon with nine scuba tanks and camping gear and set out for the channel islands in December. We were going to illegaly camp and dive for 2-3 days and poach lobster. The Sheik didnt tell us there was a small craft advisory and about 10 miles out we hit a wave and all nine tanks went through the floor. We had just turned around after I threatened to mutiny. 2 out of three chambers were blown and We were adrift for about 2 hrs clinging to the bow in 55 degree water. We had wetsuits on at the time and Luckily this friend had all kinds of gadgets including a vhf radio and a hand held gps which in 1992 was rare.

We got rescued by the CG and in the paper the next day they praised us for being "well equiped".

[flatNshallow]

Burning stuff? Check! (Speedstick type bug repellant when lit burns exceptionally and drips burning bug dope. Walk around in dry field while doing this and you might suddenly wonder if there is a clear path out of the impressive brush fire you've just started.)

Walking across a wire reinforced glass roof at age 6 so many times you fail to notice youve grown and are heavier. Solid ass whiping by Mom once she determined i want bleeding to death followed by 70 some stitches.

Reenacting the baja 500 in a 76 Caprice 4 door and getting stranded several miles off the hard road when fan belt came off pulley. Saved by random fireplug of a grown man semi indigenous Mexican guy who randomly appeared in the middle of nowhere and fixed the car by pulling the fan belt back over the pulley by hand.

Junping out of 3rd floor boarding school dorm rooms into blizzard of 78 plow pile and then realizing there was a park bench and a metal mailbox under the snow in the LZ.

Doc in ER during 12th visit by the time i was 2. :First child?
Mom: Yes.
Doc: Thought so, you'll take better care of the next one, I'm sure...

[Buster Highmen]

roman candle fights on acid.

[detrusor]

Climbing on the side of a old folks home in Spokane. The rooms were outlined by this square of metal. Tripping balls it seemed like a good idea. 4 stories up I peeled, launched myself toward the loading dock roof. Hit the edge at about the nipple line, lost fingernails sliding off and knocked the wind out of myself on my back on the lawn. Opened my eyes to the security guards laughing at me.


Jumping trains out side town in Minot ND and riding them back in during Jr high (anyone else out there learn to ski at trestle valley?)

Hooky bobbing the city bus all the way to school instead of riding inside hurt like a motherfucker when you hit a dry patch of road....

[assman]

Stood on the roof of buildings and drove golf balls into the surrounding neighborhoods in the middle of the day. Heard all sorts of screaming and things breaking.

Dude did you go to Temple in Philly? Friend of mine went there. When i visited we would go up on the roof and play "ghetto golf"
A broken window was a hole in one

[Kenny Satch]

roman candle fights on acid.

now that's something I would watch on youtube...outstanding

the things I did with slingshots, boomerangs (used coat hanger with masking tape) hand made bows and arrows playing war with the other nut cases on my street.

the arrows had blunt ends which still made it hurt but the rocks uses in the slingshots did the most damage. our only piece of protection was work goggles

we had rules and the big one was No targeting the head but it still happened.
another rule was about distance and force used. If you were too close to your enemy you couldn't pull back the slingshot or bow with full force. these rules were rarely broken unless a new kid joined the fun.

we were tough kids never running home crying...we cried on the spot then sucked it up

we realized it wasn't easy to wage war at a distance with cover such as trees and bushes. You had t get close which gave us a thrill when we attacked and a rush when running away from an attack

again thank God nobody lost an eye or was seriously hurt

[gravitylover]

roman candle fights on acid.

Those were fun. So was going on random road trips with a jug of mushroom tea.

Dude did you go to Temple in Philly? Friend of mine went there. When i visited we would go up on the roof and play "ghetto golf"
A broken window was a hole in one

Nope that was Long Island suburban free time entertainment.

[Stikki]

BB gun wars. Assault style in tree houses/forts.

Rollerblading behind cars in business parks then being chased by security.

Zip lines in the woods across small ravines, to stop you had to leg press against the tree or bail at speed.

Dismantling then rebuilding fireworks.

[evasive_MT]

When I was in high school, two friends and I tried to float the creek running through our neighborhood during a torrential downpour. We had a crappy sporting goods store 2-person inflatable raft, the kind with plastic paddles. The creek was running 6-8' above its normal stage (there's a reservoir and a dam on it) from all the storm water runoff. We flipped in about 50 feet, and even as idiot kids we realized that we were lucky to get out of the water alive.

Last night as we were swapping stories around a fire, my girlfriend told us about a college friend who was drunk enough to pee into an air conditioner and paint the side of a dorm. Unfortunately he was also too drunk to stand, and the air conditioner was missing a shield. He had to get his dick stitched back together.

[PlayItLeo]

Ingesting absurd amounts of drugs on phish tour.

[AK47bp]

In HS liked to mix acid with Firewater and drive around in snowstorms with the high beams on to Voodoo Chile (not slight return) - fucking warp drive, then would hit the beer store and just buy green bottles, too fucked up
to read labels and wanted Rolling Rock bottles so just bought the first green bottles we spotted, sometimes got it right.

Around same time would drive to Ocean City MD huffing nitrous. Buddy would crack the whip-it and hand it to me while I drove, I sucked it down while he held the wheel until I gained my brain back.

Really am surprised I'm alive today.

[gravitylover]

Ingesting absurd amounts of drugs on phish tour.

I probably sat and watched you fall down and walk into things.

I... I sucked it down while he held the wheel until I gained my brain back.

Really am surprised I'm alive today.

Yup. Rallying and splitting lanes in LA rush hour traffic mildly dosed in a '79 Fiesta Sport...

[SkiBall]

roman candle fights on acid.

Used to make these CO2 cartridge bombs with Piccolo Pete powder. Would use the thick fuses and delay them so I could get down the street. Tried to delay one and cut it in half one night on acid. Was still like "We can do this!". Somehow someway someone had the sense and convincing words I needed to abort. I have had M1000's go off fairly fast on me, but these sent shrapnel.

Oh, and I stayed out until dark with no adult supervision for most of my growing up. Supposedly that became way dangerous somewhere down the line.

[Mustonen]

Lots of good stuff here. What happened to the original thread? http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...rt-Things-Done

[mcsquared]

Neighbor across the street showed me how you can make a flame thrower out of WD40 and a lighter. Torching flowers and stuff. Then I get the bright idea of crossing the road and burning this embankment of dry grass, right below a condominium complex. Luckily another neighbor saw it and called the fire department while us dumbasses were trying to hook up enough garden hoses to reach the fire.