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

[Sanx]

Best thread in a very long time...

Aged 2 or so, folded up some aluminium foil, and pushed a 240V plug through it into a socket. Then turned the socket on. Very large bang, blew the ring main fuse, welded the plug to the socket and created a big black stain on the wall.

Aged 7 or so, persuaded my 2 year-old sister that a lump of green Palmolive soap on a lolly stick was actually mint ice-cream. She took a big bite and was promptly sick.

Aged 8 or so, heard somewhere that you could make explosive out of sodium chlorate (weedkiller) and sugar. Not having the internet in those days, tried it and used petrol as a binder. Took the mixture to a local patch of waste ground and set it off. Took five fire trucks to put out the resulting blaze. Me and the friend responsible were hiding...

Aged 10, built a six foot tall snowman in the middle of a snow covered road. Just around a bend. Downhill. Dad found out when someone tried to avoid it and slid into his brand-new BMW.

Aged 11, dropped a large lump of sodium down the drain of the sink in the chemistry lab. BANG! Nowhere near as bad as the shit the chemistry teacher got up to, though.

Aged 18, me and a mate persuaded the physics teacher to find out what happens when you reverse polarise a big electrolytic capacitor. We, of course, knew. And she should have known when we put an asbestos mat down on the bench. Wired up six 20V 6A power supplies in series, connected them to the capacitor and retreated to the back of the room. The metal can of the capacitor buried itself in the ceiling when it blew...

Ahhh - happy days.

[pete376403]

used to put .22 longs in the bench vice with bullet pointing down. Hop up on the bench and hit the end with a hammer. I was pretty sure that they wouldn't ricochet off the concrete floor and go through the bench top (2 inch thick wood) Never did find any of the bullets.

Another trick at school was to remove the light bulbs in the girls toilet blocks and put a two cent piece in the socket, then put the bulbs back in.

I heard of another case where some kids put the power supply selector switches on a whole classrooms computers to 115v.
That wasn't funny, just plain destructive vandalism.

[Trudes]

Another trick at school was to remove the light bulbs in the girls toilet blocks and put a two cent piece in the socket, then put the bulbs back in.

What did that do?

[Qkchk:Me]

Always fix a slipping chain on a pushbike, or:

- You fall off your bike and slide 50M down the road
- Have to pick the gravel out of your gravel rash with tweezers
- Look forward to when the bottle of iodine comes out.


Always check to see if the flames are out in a dish of Meths, or:

- While applying more Meths to the dish the flames get sucked back into the bottle
- The reaction of flame + meths = Flamethrower
- Dont panic otherwise you shoot flames into the garage and even your motorcycle (little CBX250) catches on fire!


Becareful while moving fishing rods, or:

- Someone wanting to help, moves the rods while you are holding them
- Having to remove one big ass hook out of ones finger with pliers.


Never play with something you are not yet experienced with,

- Sit on an old XR250, start it up put it into gear and play with the clutch
- Bike slips out from underneth
- Instead of letting the handlebars go, I slip and pull the throttle on more
- Bike does the big wheely then comes down on top of me
- Knee gets jammed in the back wheel up to the swingarm, luckly the bike stalled.


And the usual 'unexpectedly touching the prongs of a power plug while inserting into the wall.'

[alanzs]

I was supposed to go and play with my 13 year old cousin one day. He couldn't wait for me and took off to make a bunson burner out of a pipe and paint thinner. He lit it and it blew up covering him in burning fuel, igniting his clothes. He died three agonizing days later.

[Street Gerbil]

My big mistake was not taking my 9 year old nephew seriously after some extensive martial arts training and asking him to "show me something". The hardest thing while lying on the floor was preserving some remaining shreds of dignity and pretending that it didn't hurt at all and I was just playing along. Ouch.

[pete376403]

What did that do?

Made a pretty loud bang when the switch was turned on...

[DarkLord]

Far out....

I remember attacking a wasp nest with my 2 mates, and ended up being the only one that got stung.

One of the best/dumbest/funniest stories I have involves fireworks, does anyone remember those fireworks called Thunder in the Blue Sky? They fired a little tube way up into the air and just exploded.

Me and my genius mate reckoned that since the little tube flew into the air and exploded, if we took the tube out and stuck a wick and a stick on to it, it would work the same as a skyrocket.

It never occurred to us that the tube didn't fly by itself and was launched by something else in the firework. So, we took the tube out, stuck a wick and a stick on it and sure enough it just sat there on the ground and exploded. It was REALLY LOUD. I couldn't hear anything for at least 5 seconds afterwards.

I also managed to crash a nifty 50 into an electric fence...still got no idea how it happened I just remember flying off the bike, hitting all 3 hot wires then flying back off the fence and landing in the middle of the road, stumbling around for at least 10 minutes afterwards wondering what the hell happened.

I've fallen out of trees many times, cracked my head open a few times (and have the scars to prove it), nearly got a criminal record for doing prank calls, flooded the bathroom on at least one occasion, and the list goes on.....

[TOTO]

put kerosine in the toilet everyone smoked = loud BANG and closed school for the day - age 16


a whole class of 30 ate garlic before class = teacher dismissed class - age 15


was stealing cheries on a number of ocasions = was shot with salt on numerous ocasions in my ass (didnt stop us tho) - age 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16


playing at a building destined for demolution, to find out that wen we came back from lunch there was nowhere to play - age 7


riding rollerblades holding onto a bus = road rash for 2 months - age 12



being hit with a falling frozen fish from the 7th floor - age 10


diving head first into water 1 meter deep with razor sharp rocks underneath it on mission bay - age 17


Getting a cat drunk - age 12



Jumping off the 5th floor into the snow 3 stories below - was digging for an hour get out - age 11


filling my neighbours exhaust with stones (hated the fucker) - age 9


painting the dog green with spray paint - age 6



faling englis in 6th grade

[Mikkel]

3 yrs of age - racing on my tricycle down a very steep shared driveway - how did mum survive????

Pfftt, when I was 3 I raced my tricycle down the staircase!

Aged 8 or so, heard somewhere that you could make explosive out of sodium chlorate (weedkiller) and sugar. Not having the internet in those days, tried it and used petrol as a binder. Took the mixture to a local patch of waste ground and set it off. Took five fire trucks to put out the resulting blaze. Me and the friend responsible were hiding...

A little bit of knowledge is indeed a dangerous thing

[NOMIS]

sand papered my dads group a vl commodore with something like 80 grit sand paper. :-) all down the drivers side I was about 4 years old.

lost mums wedding ring thought it was a pretty cool toy,

bent the frame of my bike around my body when i crashed through a fence.

broke my leg in 6 places while playing on a washing line get swung around.

broke my rib when i was 6 falling out of a tree.

took dads vs v8 for a spin down the st when i was 13 and got caught... = run = got away. ( not very smart )

[NOMIS]

put kerosine in the toilet everyone smoked = loud BANG and closed school for the day - age 16


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filling my neighbours exhaust with stones (hated the fucker) - age 9

Did both of these except i used dirt and sticks and sicaders ( spelling ? you no thoes lil bugs that leaver there shells ) and it was engine oil ( dont ask why what did i no )

[Mr Merde]

Growing up in Waiouru as an army brat.

One day my friend Mark and I got into trouble for some petty shit and we took off.

Spotted by grunts going into the grenade range and live firing area.

Military shit themselves over the thought of two 12 year olds playing in that area and called out a search party to get us out safely. This grew until they had a couple of hundred grunts out looking for us.

Unknown to them we had done a big loop and we sitting in the kids playhouse in my back garden.

We didnt go back inside the house till about 10pm.

It was then that the search in the live firing zone was called off.

My arse hurt for a week once my old man got hold of me. Never went back to the grenade range (well not when anyone could see anyway).

[Oakie]

I must have been about 10 when I got my little sister to drink red furniture polish by telling her it was soft drink. Fortunately mum came out when sis' still had the bottle in her hand and saw the red liquid dribbling out of her mouth.

[Hitcher]

One of the immutable laws of physics I learned as a yoof is as follows:

If you drop a live eel in a hot bath with your sister, your sister moves faster than the eel.