Name some crazy shit you did as a child, maybe on a dare from friends

[TK421]

me- they dared me to put Icy Hot on my balls.....x(

"It does NOT burn...that's a lie"!

[kimmerspixelated]

1. Oh, I got one for ya!

And it happens to be political!
Back in...1967/68...I remember crouching with some kids behind the neighbor's car across the street from our home. We put a bumpersticker on the back bumper, "Vote for Goldwater" Then the next day, we watched the fireworks from the fuming neighbor man!

[TK421]

2. heh....that's a good one

:thumbsup:

[taterguy]

3. Someone once dared me to go sledding nekkid

[TK421]

5. Well did you do it?

[Orrex]

24. Sure he did--and after that he got into a snowball fight.

:scared:

[taterguy]

47. Hell no

Do I look fuckin stupid?

That's an easy way to get frost bite in places you really don't want frost bite

[Haole Girl]

4. Lots of silly & stupid things...

one of the ones I'm amazed I lived through was driving 100 mph down a twisty road, in the Sierras, when I was 16. Considering the car I was driving, we are lucky a wheel didn't come off!

[TK421]

8. I can picture you doing something insane like that!

:)

[Haole Girl]

9. Really?

O8)

[TK421]

11. heh...I'm not fooled by that angel smilie!

[Lost in CT]

6. The best (or worst) I can remember is the following.

I was dared to write THIS IS A ROBBERY I HAVE A GUN GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY

on the back of a bank deposit slip and then slip it back into the stack at the counter.

Never found out what happened there.....

[XemaSab]

13. That is SO WRONG

and yet so right. :rofl:

[TK421]

19. And to think....back then, something like this would likely be considered a prank

albeit one of an almost criminal nature, and probably warrant some attention from the authorities....today? you would be sitting in a fucking jail cell for it if they traced it to you ( and I'm thinking video cameras and the technology we have today compared to back then, mind you ).

[Lost in CT]

41. There are a lot of things we did as kids that would get us on MSNBC today...

And thank god we didn't have cell phone cameras back then... hell thank god we didn't have cell phones.

[flvegan]

7. Jump my bike off ramps that were WAY too big.

[TK421]

10. Oh, the times we used to skid out on wet leaves

with a bloody lip and skinless arm to show for it :-)

[appal_jack]

12. walked the old west side (nyc) train line with friends

One ninja wannabe friend finds a hole in the fence around 90 something-th street. Other ninja wannabe and geek friends are invited. Ropes, knives, flashlights, slingshots, and assorted other gear are collected. A rope is lowered into darkness, and we descend one by one, hand-over-hand. A 50+ block journey ensues, with thankfully no mishaps or confrontations (other denizens of the tunnel fade into shadows before us: apparently a dozen ninja wannabes is enough to be self-protective...). Some good graffiti and side tunnels are found and explored. Eventually the abandoned train line surfaces around 42nd St, and we miraculously find a way out of the fence without getting busted for trespassing or all the butterfly knives and other illegal shit we are carrying.

We were maybe 12 or 13 when we did this. Good fun.

Once I got off of a train that stopped at the abandoned City Hall station. I was alone then (friends stayed behind on the #6 train: I just stepped off between cars). I think I had to walk the tracks (of an active subway line) to the Brooklyn Bridge station. Very dumb.

-app

[TK421]

14. That sounds like a lot of fun!

dangerous, but definitely a blast!

[appal_jack]

15. mos def

I wish that we had also gotten around to climbing the old El (elevated) tracks back then. A few years after I left NYC, I saw a photo essay about the ecosystem that had grown up on the abandoned tracks: it was literally a wildlife corridor of sorts, thirty feet above the city streets.

-app

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. I wanted to get the mosquitoes off of my mom's Buick Skylark (what a cool car that was) so I

sprayed it with Deep Woods Off. Everywhere I sprayed the paint came away and the metal rusted underneath. You could even trace out all the loop-de-loops I had made while spraying.

Now my baby bro witnessed all this, and I was scared to death he would tell my folks what I had done after I lied and said I tried washing the car for them . . . with an SOS pad. I spent years cowering every time a car commercial came on, convinced that lil bro would suddenly remember what I had down and spill the beans.

[AlCzervik]

17. Skateboarded down suicide hill in oak grove cemetery, Krypto wheels hitting sand

and i still have the scars to prove it.

[TK421]

18. Where is Oak Grove cemetery? sounds treachorous...

[AlCzervik]

21. It's in Medford mass. It's a pretty cool old place with some really graves and then

there is also a much newer section, when i was a kid i used to walk through it to get to school, i think my parents were hoping i'd get abducted.

[TK421]

29. Probably a very old graveyard, when you consider New England....

and I just love shit like that! I belong to a very amateur group of ghost-hunters ( we've been here in Bucks County PA for years ) not well known, but when you get to talking about New England anything it is all ghost shit from there!

[AlCzervik]

30. yeah and very cool, i was never spooked at all walking through there.

in the old section that's where suicide hill is, that's the best part of the whole place, there's also a pond and we used to ice skate and play hockey there in the winter.

[SPKrazy]

20. Oh I dunno if it was crazy...

we shot each other with BB guns and had BB gun wars

We put mentholatum on our eyelids :eyes:

Ben Gay on my balls OUCH!

I dunno it seems like by today's standards lots of things we did were crazy... "hookie bobbing" grabbing the bumper of a car and wearing slick shoes on a snow packed road to slide.

Tubing at night holding a lantern with a bunch of people piled on and tearing down a hill

[MilesColtrane]

45. Also a veteran of BB gun wars here.

Still got one in my calf as a reminder.

[SPKrazy]

56. I got hit within an inch of my eye

and that did freak me out

didn't hit hard enough to do anything but leave a dent

so I went back to the war!

[Broken_Hero]

46. ditto on the bb gun wars

and we did rock wars as well...lots of cuts/bruises....

[lazyriver]

51. Rock fights. We used to have them too...what the hell were we thinking?

At least with the BB guns we had "rules", well, one rule - no shooting in the face. Can't be so accurate when hurling rocks at each other. It's a wonder my friends and I made it to adulthood with two eyes.

[Broken_Hero]

55. No doubt about that...

we usually used trash can lids as shields, the old circular metal ones, and I usually carried a mop bucket/coffee can with me and would load up and fire away...some of the more, strategic points were up high, where there wasn't any rocks, so when we took higher ground(usually the twirly slide, it was at least 20ft tall), we could maintain for a while...while sending kids down to get more rocks/fill up our cans/buckets....

We had this stuff down to a science...no one really got hurt that I recall, but there was a lot of broken windows

[SPKrazy]

57. We did rocks, dirt clods

I even remember older throwing darts at each other although I think we were pretty wasted :P

[MilesColtrane]

58. I got a broken finger when my brother nailed me hard right on the tip with a rock.

I got him back at one point by breaking both of his ear drums when we were horsing around in a swimming pool.

[Swede]

22. Laid on the grass,fired arrows into the air,watch them disappear

Then got out of the way when they came back down. Not smart.

[Orrex]

23. No shit? My friend and I used to have a contest

We'd fire them straight up to see how close to us we could land them. They were really mean-ass bear-tips, and they'd stick four or five inches into the ground.

I'm sure they wouldn't have killed us, because we were invulnerable teenagers...

[TK421]

26. Yeah, nothing could touch you at that point in your life!

There have been other times we have done things that I am not particularly proud of, but got through just fine! Firing arrows and waiting to see if they would land on us was not one of them, but I think I would have done it!

[TK421]

25. THAT.....IS....TRULY.... AWESOME!!!!!

wow....having to dodge out of the way of them in a prone position like that....totally awesome!

[Swede]

27. I'm sure mom would've died if she saw us doing it.

nt

[TK421]

28. Yeah, probably....

it still must have been shit-loads of fun while you did it! c'mon....admit it!

[Wetzelbill]

31. My little brother and I stole our parent's car

I was like around 5 and he was around 4. I ran the pedals and he took the steering wheel. We lived out in the country and we were speeding around out in the field, almost hitting a ditch at like 65 mph. And to top it all off the electric company meter reader was at our house and we would drive up to the house, stop and my mom and he were trying to get us out, pleading with us to unlock the doors. But we kept saying things like "fuck you" etc. Oh we were so bad. :) My mom got us out by promising candy. I think we got a spanking instead, lol.

[TK421]

32. OMFG..that is a great story!

that must have been a hell of a spanking, huh?

[Wetzelbill]

38. I wrote a short story about it a few years ago

I'll have to see if I could find it. :)

Yeah it must've been, I don't remember, but my mom tells it like she was both scared and extremely pissed off and she isn't one to mess with, lol.

[Aristus]

33. When I was about ten, my friends knew of a woman in the neighborhood who never locked

her front door. (It was a pretty safe neighborhood, obviously...) Once, they dared me to walk into her house, select a small item, and bring it out to them. I had barely got the front door open when her two huge dogs charged at me, howling death and dismemberment. I ran for my life, but the lady caught a glimpse of me and marched down to my house to complain to my mother.

It didn't end well... :hide:

[TK421]

34. Ouch!

did you get a whoopin?

[Aristus]

35. Actually, no. My parents rarely spared the rod, but this time, I just got a stern talking to.

They didn't know the motive was petty larceny, and they did know that the dogs had put the fear of God in me. They apologized to the lady, and said something to the effect of: "Well, I hope you learned your lesson."

The ugly part was the shame and embarrassment from having done something so stupid (not to mention rude) on a dare. As Harlan Ellison has said, the man who seeks the approbation of idiots is himself an idiot.

[TK421]

36. My Mom was the strict Catholic disciplinarian....my Dad, not so much!

My Mom went for the suede belts and my Dad pretty much told her to lay off...they're just kids being kids....

Whatever!

[Aristus]

37. My mom was a wooden kitchen-spoon spanker. My dad used a huge, slab-like wooden slipper

with a leather toe-strap bearing a big metal buckle. We were well-behaved kids... :scared:

That's why people marvel when I tell them that my parents are liberals. True...

[TK421]

39. My Mom had a wooden paddle that hung in the kitchen, and it had every

childs name engraved in it...Kathy, Terri, Lori, Michael, Stevie, George, Bobbie, Richie, Mark (my name was in parentheses).....WATCH WHEN THIS SWINGS!!! engraved at the bottom of it, and you did NOT want this thing to hit your ass! and you did NOT want to piss off my Mom!!!!!!!!

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

40. I think eating a dog biscuit on a dare was the weirdest

thing I ever did on a dare as a kid. I wasn't all that adventurous. Hey, they never hurt the dog!

[SoCalDem]

42. Went on a New years Eve picnic..40 miles from home..in a blizzard

didn;t tell anyone, and of course the car slid off the spiral road up the hilltop, and the 4 of us had to hitch-hike home... aah.. to be 16 and stupid again:)

Coronado Heights..built by the WPA ...way back in the day...

[Brother Buzz]

43. I'd do most anything on a dare but one cool thing I did without any encourgment was to.....

climb up a telephone pole and walk on the cables from pole to pole. I traveled across a small valley, across the creek and up the hill and down the other side where the cables went underground. I visited the poles a few years ago and realized that when I crossed the creek I was about seventy feet in the air.

I also mapped the entire storm drain system in our area. I discovered I could slip into the storm drain at the corner of our yard and travel all the way to my grammar school underground. Freaked out more then a few people when I shoved the cast iron drain grate in the playground aside and popped out. I got to visit the principal for that one. Mom was notified as well but it didn't do any good because, well, I was a born rapscallion in every sense of the word.

[MilesColtrane]

44. Jumping off of roofs

Skateboarding into traffic

Breaking into people's backyards to skate their empty pools

Stealing a large container of sodium from the high school science lab then chucking it into a creek to watch it explode

[livetohike]

48. Jumping on to a moving train and riding for a while

before jumping off. My parents would have killed me. I was always the first to try something in my group of friends. First to try out a "tarzan vine", first to walk across a log high over a stream, etc. I was fearless when I was young.

[ogneopasno]

49. Climbed a water tower, climbed school buildings...but that's when I was a teenager.

When I was 8 or 9, I broke the communion wafer and gave half of it to my sister. BLASPHEMY!

[Brewman_Jax]

50. Jumped off the garage roof

after climbing the fence and tree to get up there. Repeat 'til tired. :crazy:

[lazyriver]

52. There are lots of very old abandoned mines in North Jersey

where I grew up. There were pre-Revolutionary War iron ore mines to various mineral mines that operated through the 1980's. One of my friends and I were obsessed with exploring every one we could find. Of course, we couldn't tell our parents we were going in them, so we'd tell them some BS story about going to the mall or movies and off we'd go, in secret, to some remote piece of woods where we would go underground for hours. By the time we were 14, we were dropping ropes down ventilation shafts to get into some mines. The first time we did it we learned the hard way how difficult it is to climb 60+ feet up a 1" rope. Hands were bloody clumps of blistered hamburger and we had rope burns in very sensitive areas from loosing our grip and sliding back down. We learned to tie knots in the rope for all subsequent adventures. We could very easily have gotten stuck with nobody knowing where we were, fallen, drowned (many mines were full of water), been trapped in a cave-in, or been poisoned/suffocated by gases but we never even considered any of that could happen to us. Oh to be young and invincible.

[DeepBlueC]

53. my cousins dared me to stomp on a bees' nest in the ground

I did...I stomped out the mound and ground my young foot into the hole. In minutes I was running screaming for Grandma's door (the nest was right by the foundation of the house), pursued by lots of bees. The funny thing is that they lined up in military formation in rows of four down the front of my jeans from my knees to my ankle. Grandma met me at the door and got me out of the jeans which she proceeded to beat against the house to drive them off while I dashed inside foe safety. Only one of them stung, which was a remarkably efficient use of resources. I didn't hurt any bees, just screwed up the entrance. They were older than me and, ahem, untrustworthy although I kept trusting them until they got tired of endangering my life. :-(

[Goblinmonger]

54. We shot bottle rockets at cars

and one went in a window and went off in the car. I almost shat my pants. I was a dumbass.