Times have changed

FLATS BROKE

Some kid becoming a neighborhood legend in 1981. I don't see kids playing in the streets like they used to. 50 years from now, 3/4 of Americas population will become soft as a marsh mellow. What crazy stunts have you pulled when you were a kid? Share the picture if you have one!

mplspug

I can't find any on my phone right now.

TampaTarpon5

back in my day..........

2true

mplspug wrote: »

I can't find any on my phone right now.

:rotflmao

2true

Where hurricane Hermine came by and knocked the power out, it was like the Simpsons episode when the power went out. All kinds of kids outside playing.....

Mister-Jr

I set the garage on fire when I was about 10. No pictures.

Polar

I surf in the street when it floods, still.

mplspug

Mister-Jr wrote: »

I set the garage on fire when I was about 10. No pictures.

I actually consider people who DIDN'T set something on fire as a kid weird. But it is even weirder if you do it more than once and continue as an adult.


For us we had a field between a row of houses and a drive in. All the kids did a "controlled" burn there at least once.

Gardawg

No pics

I tried bull riding ... once. Was about 8 years old and hopped on the back of a yearling steer that got near the fence. Didn't make 8 seconds. Didn't make 0.8 seconds. Did have a hand full of hair when I landed in the shi+ filled barn yard. It was still a hard landing but didn't break anything.

Used to do stuff like this whenever it snowed ...

NACl H2O Luvr

Some researchers have theorized that children and adolescents attracted to firesetting when they are younger "graduate" in adult life to more serious crimes with a "macho" image, including serial **** and murder. A number of serial killers, including David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer, and David Carpenter, the socalled Trailside Killer of the San Francisco Bay area, turned out to have been firesetters in their adolescence. David Berkowitz admitted having started more than 2,000 fires in Brooklyn-Queens in the early 1970s.

Read more: http://www.minddisorders.com/Py-Z/Pyromania.html#ixzz4fYWK5tyx

mplspug

My brother set his hair on fire throwing a molotov cocktail in the field. Not one felony or even misdemeanor. That study is flawed or my brother is going to snap soon.

Griz

BB Gun wars. No pictures but did shoot a guy in the eye when we were in Jr. HS.

mplspug

Dawg, we did a thing called hooky bumping. We'd hide near a stop sign and when a car stopped, we'd go grab the back bumper and get towed down the block.

Gardawg

mplspug wrote: »

Dawg, we did a thing called hooky bumping. We'd hide near a stop sign and when a car stopped, we'd go grab the back bumper and get towed down the block.

We did that one night when there was an ice storm. Just squat down and grab on. Shoes(Bass Weejuns) had leather soles so they were slick. It was a lot of fun until we hit that dry patch of asphalt.

I think I had rubber bones back then.

dannosdoormats

We did this after big snowstorms, we,d grab the back of NYC busses & get pulled blocks under the EL! We called it "Skitching".
Funny how everything has regional nicknames.

mplspug

It always sucked when they saw you and decided to tap the breaks.

I think between snowballs, nerf balls and whatever else targetting cars, I spent half my childhood running.

ANUMBER1

I ran behind the Mosquito trucks belching thick clouds of DDT smoke..

Popeye

ANUMBER1 wrote: »

I ran behind the Mosquito trucks belching thick clouds of DDT smoke..

Me too

tunaman

ANUMBER1 wrote: »

I ran behind the Mosquito trucks belching thick clouds of DDT smoke..

Explains a lot..

Jack Hexter

Broke into my dad's gun closet and stole some black powder. Drilled out a brass paperweight cannon to fit a BB in the barrel, loadesd that sucker up and shot it about a half dozen times before the cops showed up and took it off me. Got my a-$$ beat over that one.

King_Me

Gary S

FLATS BROKE wrote: »

Some kid becoming a neighborhood legend in 1981. I don't see kids playing in the streets like they used to. 50 years from now, 3/4 of Americas population will become soft as a marsh mellow. What crazy stunts have you pulled when you were a kid? Share the picture if you have one!

Not one kid looking a cell phone kid on bike no helmet. And today the adult leaning against the car would be arrested for letting this happen.

Gardawg

Fun times

Menzies

Back in Ireland the row houses all had neatly kept privet hedges. These were consistently around three feet high. If you stood at one end and looked along the front gardens it looked like a race horse steeplechase course. During the summer we used pick a row of houses, line up at one end, someone went "bang" and we would all set off over the hedges.

If you ever watched the Grand National, that was what it was like. Kids littered across the gardens and hedges, hedges shredded, and then we all scarpered.

No police, a couple of parental door visits, but all innocent fun.

Eddy d

My kids still run on bikes or skateboards, no video games. Last thing that happened was FPL had to come out and turn off power to our block because they got a lacrosse stick stuck in the wires. My neighbors kids were playing paint ball and I had half my house covered in blue spots, hit a party 2 houses away. 3 houses with 8 boys ranging from 22 to 12, there is always something going on.

CMB

Me and my neighborhood friends would get a 55 gallon barrel and lay it on its side and prop a sheet of plywood on it. Brace it up real good. Then get on our bikes (most were home made from other bikes) and go as fast as we could and jump. Wearing nothing but cut off jeans. Busted our you know what a few times. Now a days that's nothing to professionals. But it was a big deal to us.

squidvicious

no pics....

we would have jousts on our bikes with brooms and trash can lids

soon as ice was on a lake,we all would try walking on it - fell through once

we all had motorcycles - big thing was riding on the street,to the dirt pit.we would get chased by the police,next day at school it made for great stories.few of us ended up racing "B" class motocross,one of them being me 125/250 class

had quite a few "crashes" - broken ribs,collar bones,ankles - concussions

snowball fights - soon as it snowed,it was on ! put my hand through a broken bottle,running for cover - the blood trail in the snow was bad *** - got 15 stitches in my hand that day

I lived at the bottom of the hill,our street was a dead end,surrounded by woods - we would all ride our bikes and stand on the seats,going down the hill

football in the street - buddy of mine lost his front teeth,hitting the curb face first - I never knew front teeth were so long

roman candles - we would fire roman candles at each other


man,i could go for hours on the stuff we all would do

HOME DEPOT GEORGE

Bottle rocket and roman candle wars.

mplspug

And today's kids have safe spaces and participation trophies.

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AC Man

Was a kid in the sixties and seventies and did most of what has been mentioned. As far as BB gun wars go, one kid took it too far and shot the black yard man's teen son. The guy chased down my buddy, ripped the gun out of his hands and shot him point blank several times, then beat the hell out of him. LOL. Thank God it was a weak spring loaded BB gun.

As far as dumb goes, I was always pretty safe. However I made a cup of gun powder with my science kit and decided to light in on fire on the kitchen table on some newspaper. Good God it flashed a ball of fire in 2 seconds. Burnt a hole in the table and burnt marks on the vinyl chairs. Parents were out for the night but my mom figured it out a couple days later. Not good.

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FLATS BROKE wrote: »

Some kid becoming a neighborhood legend in 1981. I don't see kids playing in the streets like they used to. 50 years from now, 3/4 of Americas population will become soft as a marsh mellow. What crazy stunts have you pulled when you were a kid? Share the picture if you have one!

We'd have a couple of kids laid out under the ramp for him to jump over. Made the jumps much more interesting... I only got landed on once...

BB gun wars (1 pump maximum). Yeah right...

Setting the woods on fire. Sometimes was an accident, most of the times not...lol