Dumbest thing you ever did as a kid

[BillyVance 34]

Well? Fess up! What's the dumbest thing you ever did as a kid? I don't care how hare-brained it was.

Me: I have many incidents of really stupid stunts, but the one stunt that I remember right now is deviously rigging the dryer to where I could turn it on AFTER climbing inside the damn thing, with the door left open. After about 2 minutes of getting spun head over heels my mom heard the commotion and got my sorry stupid ass out of there.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Lindercles 0]

getting caught naked with my best friend.

[BillyVance 34]

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getting caught naked with my best friend.

daaaamn... how old were you? LOL

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[n23x 0]

Probably not the dumbest thing I ever did, but pretty damn stupid for doing it over and over again...

I was the kid that:

1.) Always knocked down a HUGE beehive and got stung, a lot, EVERY year.

2.) Licked the outside handrail and lost a good amount of tounge, at least a couple times, EVERY year.

3.) Slid down our very long driveway on my sled, and went under the car, getting hacked up in the process, EVERY year.

Seeing a trend?

The dumbest thing I did as a kid was probably just being a dumbass.

.jim

"Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

[shermanator 4]

locked myself in parents station wagon at my grandfather's house, and then flipped it in gear... rolled down the driveway, across the street, and into the side of a new beamer... oooops..


oh, and then .. as an adult... jumped out of a perfectly good airplane, .. then did it again... and again....

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[dropdeded 0]

I remember seeing how far I could ride my bike with my eyes closed, kinda explains a few things now that I think about it

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[bdbrown 0]

One thing that comes to mind, was tieing my 6yr old sister to the back of my bike with a rope with her wearing skates..Then seeing how fast she could go...
She made it

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[grue 1]

"I bet I can use the trampoline to make it onto the roof!" Success!

A couple years later:

"I bet I can do a gainer off the roof into that snowbank!" Failure! (Only cost me a couple cracked ribs, though. Got the snowbank, but only made it 3/4 of the way through the gainer.

A couple years after that:

Crossing a bridge in the back of a friend's truck, I decided out of nowhere to jump out, over the edge of the bridge, and into the river... at about 60mph. BARELY cleared the handrail.

cavete terrae.

[Chizazz 0]

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One thing that comes to mind, was tieing my 6yr old sister to the back of my bike with a rope with her wearing skates..Then seeing how fast she could go...
She made it

haha, i did that with a friend. except it was down the road with a 4 wheeler.... he wiped out and got all cut up. hey-o!

[mnealtx 0]

Oh, I've got a little list....

1. Watched some show one weekend, had smoke jumpers on it. Went out to the garage, took some twine and trashbags, made a 3-bag parachute and up on the roof I go...

Mom heard the thumping and came out onto the patio just in time to see me jump off the roof and deploy. BARELY missed the patio slab.

Got my butt blistered for that one. Guess it WAS kind of low for a BASE jump, huh??

2. Watching "ABC Wide World of Sports"...show is about mountain climbers. Cut down the clothesline and rapelled out of the beech tree in the back yard.

Note: Beltloops don't work well as carabiners.
Note: Ground pretty hard after falling 10 feet.
Note: Mom *NOT* happy about clothesline.

Yup...got my butt blistered again.

3. Setup: Our house sat up on a hill. The side yard sloped down at probably 12-15 degrees, and was filled with blackberry brambles.

Watching drag racing on a sports show (I know, I know, I really needed to quit watching sports shows!!). Out to the garage again...trash bags and twine to make a dragchute for the bike.

Down the hill I go...throw out the drag chute. Bike slows down smartly... I don't. Over the handlebars I go, into the blackberry brambles. Broke the bike.

Yup, you guessed it...another whupping.


I just CAN'T figure out why Mom, later in life, would say that I was the inspiration for "Calvin and Hobbes"....

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[Travman 6]

Do a bridge, antenna and a cliff and you can get your BASE number

[mnealtx 0]

Do bridge and cliff rapells count?

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[boinky 0]

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Down the hill I go...throw out the drag chute. Bike slows down smartly... I don't. Over the handlebars I go, into the blackberry brambles. Broke the bike.

I have a somewhat similar story.

I got a new bike that had those "new fangled" hand brakes. I had been using just one brake to stop. My brother decided to be "kind" and tell me that I was supposed to use BOTH brakes.

So, I'm flying down a hill and remember his suggestion. I use both brakes at the edge of a curb. The bike stops...I don't. I fly over the handlebars into the blackberry briars.

I ride home with blackberry "acupuncture" and my brother is sitting there laughing his ass off!

Nina

Are we called "DAWGs" because we stick our noses up people's butts? (RIP Buzz)
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[cocheese 0]

Made a dummy and put it in the road. Wasn't enough fun so we put a rope on it strung it from the tree over the road. (15 mph zone and was just before Halloween)
When a car would come, they would stop, then we pulled the rope. Up shot the dummy like a zombie. Haha Run !
Good thing all that worked out well. I now see 100 nightmarish results that could have come from that.
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Ski ropes: you name it, we did it with a boat, snow mobile or bike behind a ski rope. Those were the days.

[kirrz 0]

It's 1am - best friend (she's white and a tourist) & me get into a cab in Bangkok..
Cab driver thinks we're both foreigners & asks us if we want to buy marijuana. I say yes (wanted to see how this underground mafia I'd heard so much about worked). At this point I can no longer pull out my Thai and tell him I'm a local because he will flip (they don't deal with locals at all).
We ended up on this crazy 3 hour adventure all over Bangkok in this cab involving switching cars, picking up a random drug dealer, waiting in seedy seedy isolated areas, strip clubs, 'massage' parlours..
All the while, I have a message typed out on my mobile saying "help! we're in a dodgy cab.. number is [number]" ready to send to my dad just incase. And the 2 guys in the front seat are discussing in Thai how much they are going to rip us off yet I had to pretend not to understand & go with it.
Stupid stupid stupid move but we got lucky.

[lawrocket 3]

Considering that I had stitches on seven separate occasions before I was 3 years old (and another ten or so times between 3 and 16) I did plenty of stupid stuff.

But I think the best example of it for me was rear ending a moving car on my bike. I was always an avid reader. I was about 8 years old, and I was returning from a book fair at school. I couldn't wait to read a book I'd gotten, so I started while riding the bike. I also liked to ride my bike at a good clip of speed.

BANG!

Most kids get hit by cars. I was so stoopid, I HIT the car. This explains why my parents set the pool back from the house 8 feet when they put it in. The actual reason was they didn't want me jumping off of the house into the pool.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[mnealtx 0]

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Most kids get hit by cars. I was so stoopid, I HIT the car.

Ouch!!

That does bring a couple more to mind, though....

I think we're at 4, aren't we?

4. ~8 years old, I have the bright idea to scare the local drivers. There's a 4 way stop just down from the house. The idea is to crouch between a couple of parked cars, then dash out and tap the back bumper of the car as it comes to the stop sign.

"Ok, here comes one! Wait.....wait....NOW!"

*bwongggggggggggg*

Yup, he saw me and stopped short... I ran full tilt into the rear quarter panel of a late 60's Buick. I woke up as he was carrying me up to the house (remember, I *did* say local drivers...not that it was a large town anyway).

Mom and Dad figured the headache was payment enough...no whuppin that time.

5. Same 4 way stop a year or so later... me on my bike at the top of the hill. You could coast down and easily get going 25mph or so... pretty dang good for a Huffy!

Zooom, down the hill.....scream through the intersection... inches in front of our neighbors, heading for the store.

Yup...whuppin.

6. Several years later, living in Texas. It's the morning of my sister's wedding, and I'm rushing through my paper route so we're not late getting to the church. The Plano Star-Courier is a pretty hefty paper on Sundays, so it's pretty easy to get enough 'carry' to get it nice and close to the porches.

I'm coasting down one of the streets and throwing both sides at once. Usually no biggie, but usually I'm going a LOT slower.

So, I'm zooming down the street, probably close to 20mph, throwing with both hands. I made a bad toss, and it looked like it was going to hit their front window. It lands safely, and I turn and look back at the road, just in time to see the back bumper of a car.

*bwongggggggggggggg* A living demonstration of Newtons' First Law - I was in motion, and I stayed in motion...

Right up until I hit the gooseneck of the bike.

I don't think I walked straight for about 3 days.... thank God it was summertime - the hard wooden seats in those desks would've killed me!!

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[AlexCrowley 0]

kept breathing.

TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

I was and still am a practical joker.....

When I was 10 I was going grocery shopping with my Mom. Now let me tell you first....that my Mom was a large woman (she has since lost alot of weight), she didn't move fast at all if she could help it. Well we got done grocery shopping, put the bags in the trunk and got in our two door car, I got into the back and waited for her to get it the driver seat, I was sitting directly behind her. I waited for her to close the car door, before I started to scream, "Ow, my foot, my foot!!!!!". She thought she closed the door on my ankle and foot. I NEVER saw the woman move so fast (or since then for that matter). She got out and realized that I was only joking. Oh boy, was she hot, I thought it was funny, she on the other hand did not!! She yanked me out of that car sooooo fast and beat my ass there on the spot. Heheheheheheheeee.

The second time I scared someone.........

I have a friend of mine that has a heart condition...didn't know it at the time.
I was in Arizona (where coyotes and all kinds of desert creatures lurk) and we were walking down a path to get to the guest house (it was VERY dark). There was four of us and the other three had lagged behind. I was ahead of them and ducked behind a stone fence, I waited a good five minutes (timing is EVERYTHING) for them to come up to it and jumped out from behind. She and the others screamed their heads off. My friend with the heart condition screamed the most though. I was quite proud of myself with that one until her mother the next day asked me not to do that to her daughter every again. Gosh, I thought she really was over reacting, "a good scared never killed anyone" I told her..."well it could kill your friend" she let me know, "she has a heart condition and I could have given her a heart attack right there on the spot."

Sheeeeesh what a kill joy.

Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[AllisonH 0]

When I was about 10 I got myself locked into the trunk of a car with my best friend because she swore she knew how to get out. We did finally get out (probably only took 5-10 min., but it felt like forever!) and never tried it again.

[Icon134 0]

Lets see...

I've fallen out of a few trees (never got seriously hurt doing that... )

but I broke an arm swinging on a rope into a leaf pile.

(My brother has me beat though. He stuck his hand into the throw chute of a clogged snow blower and lost the tip of his left index finger )

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

[caress 0]

jumped off a roof. Landed on my face broke lower jaw in half.
fell out of tree, caught on last limb with my feet, hung upsidedown for 5 minutes above cement.

got so drunk that I peed myself in front of my mom on the bathroom floor.

and the dumbest -started smoking cigarettes age 14

-Caress

I've learned.... That being kind is more important than being
right.

[FIREFLYR 0]

hmmmmmm,
Dismantling electronic equipment while it is plugged in is pretty bad.
~J

"One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest"
"There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act"

[Scoop 0]

Did my first BASE jump off the arm of the sofa. Was perfectly executed, ran out of altitude and went head down through the glass coffee table... yeoooch. Apparantly you could see my teeth through the hole above my top lip and below my nose.

Who'd be a parent eh?

[BillyVance 34]

Here's a few more that I can remember:

I was an avid tree-climber growing up, no safety equipment. I would climb any tree as high as I could get. Well, I made the mistake of climbing an immature tree. Well it wasn't all that young, it was about two stories tall but the trunk was pretty narrow. I got up about 25 feet off the ground where the trunk was only about as thick as my wrist. Then the tree started bending over under my weight. Oh shit... It went back and forth 3 or 4 times then finally went too far over and the trunk snapped, with me hanging on with a death grip, and fell 15 something feet to the ground (WHUMP!). Seriously knocked the breath out of me for several minutes. Didn't break any bones. Boy was my dad PISSED!

My best friend came over another day while the parents were gone for a weekend, and I had the bright idea to take out the lawn tractor for a joy ride. I knew how to ride it, but my friend never had before. I let him get on and ride it a bit after showing him the controls. The yard's on a pretty good slope and he started going up the hill, but lost control of the clutch and it started rolling backwards out of control, and he panicked. It took a sharp turn in one direction and threw him off just in time before flipping over upside down. Bent the axle too. We righted it and it took me a while to get it restarted and I put it back where it was, hoping I'd get off scot-free. For 2 weeks I did... Dad has a really sharp eye and sense for what I did. He really let me have it and I took the blame. To this day he still doesn't know it was my friend riding it. I would likely have had a worse beating if he knew the truth.

Riding bikes is another thing I had a lot of fun doing. I had long mastered the art of "look ma no hands!" But then I had the dim idea of trying to see if I could turn the bike using one foot to push the front fork in the direction I wanted to go, with no hands on the bars. Instant crash.

Rock climbing. There's an old limestone quarry cut into the side of the mountain just around the corner from my parents house. Plus there are three large openings into a man-made cave and the rock wall at the openings is about 80 to 100 feet high. My friend and I used to go there all the time and explore. Well one day I went there alone and decided to try free-climbing the wall despite having no experience in that specific discipline. I got about 40 feet up before getting scared shit-less. Took me some 15 minutes getting that high and 30 minutes to ease back down. Later in life, I heard a dude did the same thing and fell, killing himself.

there's plenty more stories to tell. I just have to get around to recalling them from the deep bowels of my brain...

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban