Daft stuff you did as kids

[felixthelogchopper]

Never did ow't daft, When I was a kid.

 

Yea right !

 

It's true. He has, however, more than made up for it since.

[Stubby]

It's true. He has, however, more than made up for it since.

 

Mmmm . OK

[eggsarascal]

It's true. He has, however, more than made up for it since.

 

I set myself up for that one!

[eagleye]

i wouldn't say they were daft things i did more like stupid and dangerous

firing firework rockets out of scaffold tube up a hill at cars coming over the top

bangers in glass milk bottles

bangers in dog eggs

setting all the local community bonfires alight the day before they were doing their display

took peoples dogs out their gardens then took them back the next day for the reward

[fergusonforestry]

we used to build forts in the hay barn and shoot at one another with black widows, also once made a zip line between two spruce from the thinnest piece of rope going resulting in falling around 10 feet luckily only severely winded! and all kinds of trouble you can imagine from having old cars to run around

[the hedge man]

I climbed trees, lots of trees. My father has a lot of land where we used to live when we were kids and I made it my mission to climb most of them, the bigger the better. Nuts seeing as I hadn't even heard of a harness when I was 9 or 10. I loved it though didn't get caught once else my old man would have had my pants down

Edited April 20, 2014 by the hedge man

[wisecobandit]

we used to build forts in the hay barn and shoot at one another with black widows, also once made a zip line between two spruce from the thinnest piece of rope going resulting in falling around 10 feet luckily only severely winded! and all kinds of trouble you can imagine from having old cars to run around

We done that with black widows

Also done it with "the gat" air pistol things and agreed on "body shot only" however I still have the scar on 1 cheek to prove we could never keep to our word How no one lost an eye was beyond me..

[scale90]

Growing up in the South Wales valleys in the early 1990's there were always old mine shafts/workings to explore. On one occasion my mate and I went exploring with 2 torches, a candle & matches (never heard of methane or black damp gas at the age of 15).

We had been underground for about an hour when we were confronted by a tour guide and a group of french tourists. Little did we know that we had wandered into tunnels of a well known South Wales mining museum.

My mate just looked at me and said run which we did, to this day I don't know who was the most shocked us, the tour guide or the tourists.

[Stubby]

We done that with black widows

Also done it with "the gat" air pistol things and agreed on "body shot only" however I still have the scar on 1 cheek to prove we could never keep to our word How no one lost an eye was beyond me..

 

I remember the Gat . The barrel used to jump forward when you discharged it . Picking pellets out of my chest L.O.L.

[pete23]

As soon as bangers were on sale it was time to make cannons. A metal tube about an inch diameter was flattened at the end just leaving enough room to insert a banger fuse. Fix it to a block of wood with big staples and charge it with the contents of a few penny bangers. The usual load was a nut and bolt with some packing around it to get a good seal. That was enough to go through a few shed walls. The biggest ever load was a cold chisel. That went through a cricket pavilion and 100 yards down the field.

 

lol, used to do exactly the same, then got into pipe bombs, frightening really, set one off one evening with me mate, on a man hole cover outside this blokes house we did,nt like, took the man hole cover out and a few of the blokes windows:blushing: police heli up, nether did get found out.