What's one of the stupidest things you've done as a kid?

[Pedrostt500]

thought I would burn the rubbish in the rubbish pit used petrol to start the fire, needed matches so went back to house to get some, struck match, and threw it into the pit, a sheet of flame came out of the pit and removed my eyebrows and fringe.
ran over my brother while learning to drive a tractor.
ran over mums grape vines while learning to ride a motorbike.
Wrote F*U*C*K on the lid of my school desk and didnt know what it meant, got the strap for that.
crashed my push bike into a steel pipe gate broke my nose 3 days in hospital.
stuck my finger in a live light socket to see what would happen.

[Donor]

Made a batch of cookies from that pre-made cookie dough.

My father scoffed half a dozen.

Didn't have the balls to tell him they were 'herbal' cookies... he slept 6 hours in a lazy boy chair...

[skidMark]

Made a batch of cookies from that pre-made cookie dough.

My father scoffed half a dozen.

Didn't have the balls to tell him they were 'herbal' cookies... he slept 6 hours in a lazy boy chair...

Bwahaahahahahahhahaha

Nicely done!

[Iggy]

When I 7 was pissed off with wearing my hearing aids cos they were so ancient like plug in your ear and a long cord strapped to your aid in your top pocket so I burried the bloody thing in the sandpit.

Watched a mate climb a tree up to birds nest to put a cracker in a chicks hungry mouth....boooooommmm!!!! mean bastard he was.

A guy at primary school who happened to be the deputy headmasters son was giving me arseholes like name calling, the stares etc so was walking home one day and he was riding his bike on the footpath towards me so saw him coming and in a flash pushed him square in the lamp post

[rainman]

Where I grew up I could get the ingredients for gunpowder at an early age, OTC, and firecrackers were real firecrackers, so... blowing shit up.

I often went to blow shit up at a quarry near a mates place, where the guards didn't like other people blowing shit up (union shop, I think), and so would chase us. They had guns and got tense. We had to climb a serious cliff to escape. It was fun.

Mate and I constructed an explosive-packed projectile launching cannon and blew out a slat in one of those concrete precast walls from 30 metres. And nearly the one at the other side of the neighbours yard as well. The person in the garden inbetween was not very impressed.

I was also armed with an air rifle, so shot lots of inappropriate things too. Some were uncomfortably close to people. This was generally not well received. (This gun carrying was legal and quite common, I must have been 10 or 12).

More than once I covered the entire block in dense smoke. And I went through a stage of electrocuting things, I think.

(Actually, this sounds a lot like stupid things other people did - giving me explosives and weapons? What's with that?)

But when I became a teenager and discovered alcohol my scientific bent ceased and I spent my time getting pissed and driving my mates parents car around the yard, trying to run over another mate on his motorbike. Or hanging off the roof while others did the same, or being the rider in the scenario above. Or other equivalently moronic things.

And now I have two sons. Karma is a bitch!.....

[CookMySock]

when I was a teenager I bought a KG of gelignite from farmers' trading, and made bombs. Yes, real ones ! We blew up cars and shit. Fucking lucky we never blew up people as well. No darwin awards fortunately, but we got close.


DB

[Shaun]

STOLE A V6 Capri when I was 9, and got it stuck on the beach in PATEA in the sand, and the tide came in a did a bit of damage- BIG WOOPS!


PS_ THE OWNER WAS A BANK MANAGER_ So NO PROBLEM


YES THE POLICE SPOKE TO ME

[fire eyes]

geeee so many to choose from! Playing tag blind folded and running into a free-standing BBQ that was actually BBQ-ing at the time. I knowwwwwww ... dumb eh lol. Still have the burn scars on my knee!

[Oakie]

Well seeing some have mentioned teenage years .... having a party while mum was away and thinking she wouldn't know. She didn't mind because the house was tidier when she got home on Sunday night than it had been when she left on Friday ... which incidentally was how she figured out I'd had a party. Can't win huh!

[Drew]

Many many different things, yet the common factor was always Jimmy saying, "I've got a great idea, why dont we..." it'd always be me that went first.

[skidMark]

Many many different things, yet the common factor was always Jimmy saying, "I've got a great idea, why dont we..." it'd always be me that went first.

"A friend will bail you out of jail"

" A TRUE friend will be next to you going, fuck that was fun"

[slofox]

1) Thinking that paint, meths & petrol mixed up in a hole in the ground right on the fence line under a dry tree wouldn't be very flammable. Then telling the firemen that I had no idea how it started and that the fence and the tree had burnt down last guy fawkes... while they were still on fire.

I have been laughing about this one for the last 24 hours - such dumb lies we tell when so young - reminds me of some of my own totally implausible lies.

GREAT thread this one!!

[EJK]

grow up...

It's inevitable...

[98tls]

When 7 years old myself and another put a railway sleeper across the railway linewhat a noise when the Northerner hit itNot to clever at all and as we lived in the only house for many miles it was pretty obvious.We ran home,my stepmother said "whats wrong" we replied "nuthin"five minutes later a knock on the door from the train driverGot our arses burnt later when the old man got home.

[Dave Lobster]

It's inevitable...

No it's not. Growing old is inevitable. Growing up is optional..