Times have changed

Nick Nikon

Party at a friends house, with "silver salutes" tossed in a small patio pond.

( Also called "ashcans" ... the ones with hard green fuses. )

The resulting "Boom" and splash were found to be briefly amusing.

Nearby stood an old style concrete birdbath, also full of water.

Eventually, one of the small explosives was placed in it.

Sure enough, there was a Boom ... and a fairly small splash.

Then the entire top portion crumbled and fell away in pieces.

Oops!

Fish Haid

Gardawg wrote: »

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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 ...

Guess who owns your bike now?

jsrodguy1

Love the adult leaning against the car supervising!

Chuckc

We used to tie cans to both ends of fishing line and string it across a fairly busy road in the neighborhood while we hid behind hedges and held the cans. Also, we would sometimes act like we were having a tug-o-war with an imaginary rope across same road but we were visible when we did that. Many a car locked up the brakes for that trick. Got chased a few times by really pissed drivers too. Once an extremely angry man was looking for us but we were well up in a tree and silently praying he wouldn't look up.

Also tossed unripe oranges at cars as they drove by. Got a ride home in the back of a police car in the 6th grade for that one.

cadman

Bunch of juvenile delinquents.

Gardawg

Fish Haid wrote: »

Guess who owns your bike now?

SpongeBob ! How've you been?

dragon bait

Fish Haid wrote: »

Guess who owns your bike now?

looks like Sloth from The Goonies

:driver:

mplspug

Chuckc wrote: »

We used to tie cans to both ends of fishing line and string it across a fairly busy road in the neighborhood while we hid behind hedges and held the cans. Also, we would sometimes act like we were having a tug-o-war with an imaginary rope across same road but we were visible when we did that. Many a car locked up the brakes for that trick. Got chased a few times by really pissed drivers too. Once an extremely angry man was looking for us but we were well up in a tree and silently praying he wouldn't look up.

Also tossed unripe oranges at cars as they drove by. Got a ride home in the back of a police car in the 6th grade for that one.

Sounds a lot like me, but we used crabapples. We also cut open golf balls and would take the elastic strand out and string it across the road at the stop sign.



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mindyabiness

Fish Haid wrote: »

Guess who owns your bike now?

Dam .....looks like Major Kong survived the blast....

micci_man

The list is too long. I feel terrible about some of it now that I'm older.

mplspug

micci_man wrote: »

The list is too long. I feel terrible about some of it now that I'm older.

True. I think now how I would feel if I was on the other end. Thank God for video games, smart phones and the internet keeping the youngins busy.

The incident I feel guiltiest about was standing in my driveway launching rocks into the sky with a tennis racket. When one cracked a guys windshield on decent I took off into the house and hid under my bed. Not sure how I thought I would get away, it was broad daylight and my mom promptly retrieved me when the man came to the door. I was scared crapless, but the guy wasn't too bad.

Of course you I was like 4-5 at the time.

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NSB Photog

One thing I love about our neighborhood is the kids are almost always outside riding bikes, skateboards, playing, swimming or fishing. We may have to drive a bit further to get to the store, but it's Florida how I remember it as a kid.

gettinwet

Stole my dad's car - a 302 Boss Maverick - and his ATM card then drove to Ohio........I was 15..........didn't even have a license. Don't judge, I had my reasons (I'm over 50 now BTW so this isn't a recent event). It was cold........got busted turning on the car to warm it up while sleeping parked at a Wally World.........was actually relieved.........was lucky too had a shotgun and a 30/30 plus a bunch of hunting/camping gear in the trunk so could have turned out stupid......also, did I mention it was cold........spent the night in a holding cell then a few days in a juvi detention center..........until my dad flew up.........that was a fun ride home. Will never forget the scream of that old Ford - hauling *** on the interstate in the middle of the night with a bunch of trucks - what a feeling.........seems like yesterday.........

williep

Driving down the highway, the only kids I see playing in the yard are at the shacks and rusty single wides. At the nicer homes, there is no one. Not sure which is the luckiest.