Silly things ya did as a kid.

[skidMark]

Looking back on my childhood i really have to wonder how i survived...

Would like to hear what things other people had happen as a kid...

I will start...

Playing around in the tress at grandmas old place up near leigh...

Slipped and fell and had an almost vertical cliff under me, holding onto one tree branch, other cousins couldnt get to me and i eventually let go, slid 50 metres down onto the rocks...

Got up and walked away, how i didnt break anything is beyond me...

ahhh racing home built wooden go karts down hills.... rolling them and being pinned under than and dragged down the street etc, sideways into power poles at 20kph etc...

Not quite relevant, but i had a tree hut, well eventually the whole tree gave in and fell on grandmas car.

Anybody else wonder how they survived childhood lol...

[Rodney007]

i used to pickup ciggy butts off the side walk and smoke them secretly in my garage from the age of 4.

that was pretty silly, ...

[MsKABC]

After watching too much "Mad Dog Gang" as an 8 year old, I tied the swing Dad had made for me (bloody solid thing it was too, him being a fitter-welder by trade) to the back of his tractor with a shitty old piece of rope and covered the rope with hay. How he did not notice, I'll never know. Anyways, off he goes down the paddock towing my swing behind him. Confused the hell out of me, coz I had expected the tractor not to be able to go anywhere due to being tied to the swing. Yeah, yeah, I know, but I was only 8!

Boy, did I get a smack for that! Swing was buggered too - it lay there by the shed all twisted and broken, mocking me for months. Eventually we all saw the funny side of it (my parents quite a while sooner than I) and Dad told the story at my wedding.

[skidMark]

After watching too much "Mad Dog Gang" as an 8 year old, I tied the swing Dad had made for me (bloody solid thing it was too, him being a fitter-welder by trade) to the back of his tractor with a shitty old piece of rope and covered the rope with hay. How he did not notice, I'll never know. Anyways, off he goes down the paddock towing my swing behind him. Confused the hell out of me, coz I had expected the tractor not to be able to go anywhere due to being tied to the swing. Yeah, yeah, I know, but I was only 8!

Boy, did I get a smack for that! Swing was buggered too - it lay there by the shed all twisted and broken, mocking me for months. Eventually we all saw the funny side of it (my parents quite a while sooner than I) and Dad told the story at my wedding.

ROFL that takes the cake pretty well.

Dad was sanding his old mitsi starion once for a repaint.....had almost the whole car done all prepped perfectly, was just doing a light sand round the front...

Well my sister being all of 4 or 5 at the time decided to help daddy!, got out some 60 grit and took the the bumper.... then showed daddy at the end....

went something like

[slofox]

1. Putting a lit firecracker on the windowsill of the lounge - from the outside - while me mum was inside...it went off...so did she.....louder than the cracker as it turned out...(note: NEVER scare yr mum...)

2. Using a large metal key to try to unplug the vacuum cleaner that my older bro was using (having been told NEVER to play with plugs)...key contacted the pins...quite a big bang again.....blamed it on my little sister (who was only crawling at the time)...

3. Lighting a match underneath an armchair. The hessian covering on the bottom caught fire. I just upped and ran like hell...it must have gone out 'cause the house didn't burn down...

4. Jumping off the shed roof...no wonder I didn't get very tall...

5. Opening a farm gate at the beach...on a field full of cows (WAS full of cows)...errrr we never did get the blame for that one...

[Hitcher]

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

[Rodney007]

taking my moms car out for a joy ride when 13 and crashing it into ditch doing handbrakes.

sucking on a cobstoper at MOTAT and laughing when told not to laugh. almost died. 7 years old

touching open wires from a powerpoint why? no idea 12years old

[disenfranchised]

My friends and I superglued our fingers together on out bicycle handlebars so that we couldn't use the brakes and went for a ride down a steepish road.
Had to ride into the flax bushes at the bottom of hte hill at full speed...and of course back then no one wore helmets.

Used to play on the cliffs down at the local beach, swinging on flax leaves out across the cliff face too....

Lots of danger with flax really

[MSTRS:Me]

Poured a whole can (1 gallon) of white, enamel paint over my little brother's head.
I was maybe 4...

[NOMIS]

ROFL that takes the cake pretty well.

Dad was sanding his old mitsi starion once for a repaint.....had almost the whole car done all prepped perfectly, was just doing a light sand round the front...

Well my sister being all of 4 or 5 at the time decided to help daddy!, got out some 60 grit and took the the bumper.... then showed daddy at the end....

went something like

I done that on my dad's "group a" commodore 2 year old origional group a. I had seen my grandad sanding a wodden chair and I asked why he does that he told me " to make to edges smooth" so i shove a bit of it in my pocket roll out into the drive way on my big wheel and proceed to "smooth out" my dad bumbper , bonnet, front gaurd's ect i cant remember the grit bit was bigger than 60 grit i can tell you that.

i was about 4-5. oh and when he sold it i ran up and down our road crying.... i dont know why but aparntly did it for over an hour.

oh and if dad was replacing the brake pad's or anything liek that i used to ask " what's wrong with my car dad? "

[NOMIS]

Fed my younger brother dishwashing powder and told him it was sherbet..
he had somethin poisoning, and 2nd degree burn's down his throat - aparntly I could have killed him.

shaved my lil brother's head because he got more attention than me - 1 side of it anyway while he was sleeping.

lost my mums weeding ring and engagement ring while playing with my trucks in the garden

drove a forklift through a brick wall

drove a maloo ute 2005 model and scraped the entire right hand side of it down a gate while my foreman stood there an watched (i fell asleep after a hard night)

road my "batman bike " as fast as i could and went to do the big skid on the rear brake - foot sliped off i fell of seat onto the bar from seat to handel bars , hit curb at full speed bike wraped around me bent as anything and broke through the neighbors picket fence. the bike was a write off lol. frame bent

broke my leg in 6 place 2 times straight through while swinging around on the washing line when I was 5 . and the only colour cast they had was purple. :-( 7 months or something 3 diff cast's 1st one was full up to my hip

[skidMark]

broke my leg in 6 place 2 times straight through while swinging around on the washing line when I was 5 . and the only colour cast they had was purple. :-( 7 months or something 3 diff cast's 1st one was full up to my hip

I always knew...

dude how are you and more notibly your brother still alive?

[Rodney007]

Fed my younger brother dishwashing powder and told him it was sherbet..
he had somethin poisoning, and 2nd degree burn's down his throat - aparntly I could have killed him.

[MsKABC]

Dishwashing powder is the most toxic thing in a home. He is indeed very lucky not to have killed his brother. I have heard of a child who now needs to be fed through a tube due to having his oesophagus completely burned. Very sad

[NOMIS]

Dishwashing powder is the most toxic thing in a home. He is indeed very lucky not to have killed his brother. I have heard of a child who now needs to be fed through a tube due to having his oesophagus completely burned. Very sad

Thats what I was told. aparntly he was extremely lucky. we where both young i must of been about 6.

he had a abnoral obsession for lollies more so than any normal kid so if i hurt him or mad e him cry all i had to do to stop him from telling my mum is that i would give him lollies and he would stop.. so one day i thought i could trick him and that was the outcome lol.

come on i didnt know any better lol.

Oh and the broken leg happend on Chrismas day. my dad said it was just bruised and i was crying about nothing, i draged my self around he house for 2 days before my parents thought to take me to the hospital... man my dad felt guilty after we got the x-rays. could of asked for anything that day and i would have got it. lol