Stupid Kid Stuff

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Remember putting pennies on the railroad tracks to watch Abe get squished? I once tried a railroad spike, and it shot through my grandpa's fence. It is amazing that my kid brother and I survived childhood. Another favorite was when I shot an arrow straight up. It was not until it disappeared and we saw it roll over on its way back down that we realized our mistake. What stupid kid stuff do you remember?
 
I Was Young!

F'N Red Ryder BB Gun Jammed!

I Grabbed It Buy The Barrel & Started Slamming It Down On The Cement Porch!

MF'ER Went Off & Hit Me Right In The Eye!

It was The Only Gun I Owned At The Time & Learned Some Respect But JFP Did That Hurt!
 
I had a set of these.
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montezumarchery said:
Roman candle and bottle rocket wars were always a good time! Wrecked a bunch of clothes. I would take pieces of the aloe plants (that my mom was so good at cultivating) to my friends and we would quietly doctor our burns.
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I remember bottle rocket wars. Sending them through a 4’ piece of 1/2” emt conduit makes them deadly accurate?
 
bullskin said:
Remember putting pennies on the railroad tracks to watch Abe get squished? I once tried a railroad spike, and it shot through my grandpa's fence. It is amazing that my kid brother and I survived childhood. Another favorite was when I shot an arrow straight up. It was not until it disappeared and we saw it roll over on its way back down that we realized our mistake. What stupid kid stuff do you remember?
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My friend did that with an arrow while out camping with our 2 families, trialers and trucks. The arrow landed about 3 feet from my truck. I was not a happy camper.

I also, in high school, saw a train coming down by Geneva steel mill. I had my friend stop his 72 chevy and I grabbed a handful of coins and ran over to the tracks and laid them down, thinking I had plenty of time. Well, It was close. I lifted up my head and stepped back just as the train came by and almost sucked me in with the speed of the train. That scared the SHIZZZ out of me.
 
Bluehair said:
How about pulling the bullets out of 22’s and smashing them with a hammer? Or cutting a shotshell at the wad to make a slug?

The last time that I set the bead on a tire with ether and a match wasn’t that long ago.
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I remember taping a steel marble (so we thought, barrings of some sort) to the primer of a shotgun shell and throw them up in the air and have them land on the primer to make them go off. Fortunately, we on had 1 go off out of countless tries.
 
Stuffing shotguns shells stolen from grandfather into mud bank and shooting the primer with a BB gun. Had one anvil of the primer hit me in nose and imbed itself there! Lots of blood and explaining to do.
 
2 yrs-ate lead paint off the window sills, teething

3 yrs-ate broken glass, they fed me mashed potatoes with shredded up cotton balls until it all passed

5 yrs-ate rat poison, never drank so much water in my life

9 yrs-got in knife fight at school, that crap about wrapping your jacket around your arm is BS. Got beat bad for the ruined jacket, and still have a large scar

12 yrs-did the stupid arrow thing in the air, and came down thru the neighbors car roof

13 yrs-found out the hard way all guns are loaded, even when not supposed to be. Shot a hole in my best friends hand. Lost my pellet rifle, and when he healed up he kicked the snot out of me.

15 yrs-found out how to make our own explosives and............never mind, I think BATFE still reads these posts
 
Dumbest thing ever. Stick a .22 shell in to the end of a straw and throw it as high as you can then run like hell!

Thankfully nobody got killed and we were up on Little Park on the sandstone so no damage was caused.

We didn’t know if it would work but we had plenty go off.
 
Blank said:
2 yrs-ate lead paint off the window sills, teething

3 yrs-ate broken glass, they fed me mashed potatoes with shredded up cotton balls until it all passed

5 yrs-ate rat poison, never drank so much water in my life

9 yrs-got in knife fight at school, that crap about wrapping your jacket around your arm is BS. Got beat bad for the ruined jacket, and still have a large scar

12 yrs-did the stupid arrow thing in the air, and came down thru the neighbors car roof

13 yrs-found out the hard way all guns are loaded, even when not supposed to be. Shot a hole in my best friends hand. Lost my pellet rifle, and when he healed up he kicked the snot out of me.

15 yrs-found out how to make our own explosives and............never mind, I think BATFE still reads these posts
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I knew Darwin was wrong
 
Blank said:
2 yrs-ate lead paint off the window sills, teething

3 yrs-ate broken glass, they fed me mashed potatoes with shredded up cotton balls until it all passed

5 yrs-ate rat poison, never drank so much water in my life

9 yrs-got in knife fight at school, that crap about wrapping your jacket around your arm is BS. Got beat bad for the ruined jacket, and still have a large scar

12 yrs-did the stupid arrow thing in the air, and came down thru the neighbors car roof

13 yrs-found out the hard way all guns are loaded, even when not supposed to be. Shot a hole in my best friends hand. Lost my pellet rifle, and when he healed up he kicked the snot out of me.

15 yrs-found out how to make our own explosives and............never mind, I think BATFE still reads these posts
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Quite the career……..nice to know that that our nuke plants are in good hands. :oops:
 
Blank said:
2 yrs-ate lead paint off the window sills, teething

3 yrs-ate broken glass, they fed me mashed potatoes with shredded up cotton balls until it all passed

5 yrs-ate rat poison, never drank so much water in my life

9 yrs-got in knife fight at school, that crap about wrapping your jacket around your arm is BS. Got beat bad for the ruined jacket, and still have a large scar

12 yrs-did the stupid arrow thing in the air, and came down thru the neighbors car roof

13 yrs-found out the hard way all guns are loaded, even when not supposed to be. Shot a hole in my best friends hand. Lost my pellet rifle, and when he healed up he kicked the snot out of me.

15 yrs-found out how to make our own explosives and............never mind, I think BATFE still reads these posts
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may be best if you dont produce children of your own
 
Blank said:
2 yrs-ate lead paint off the window sills, teething

3 yrs-ate broken glass, they fed me mashed potatoes with shredded up cotton balls until it all passed

5 yrs-ate rat poison, never drank so much water in my life

9 yrs-got in knife fight at school, that crap about wrapping your jacket around your arm is BS. Got beat bad for the ruined jacket, and still have a large scar

12 yrs-did the stupid arrow thing in the air, and came down thru the neighbors car roof

13 yrs-found out the hard way all guns are loaded, even when not supposed to be. Shot a hole in my best friends hand. Lost my pellet rifle, and when he healed up he kicked the snot out of me.

15 yrs-found out how to make our own explosives and............never mind, I think BATFE still reads these posts
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All that and, your one Hell of a cook!
 
Home made 22’s out of pieces of pipe from the hardware store, arrow roulette, shooting each other with blow darts and seeing how far they’d stick in, putting tacks in the end of nerf bullets so they’d stick into you, skipping class and making pipe bombs with black powder in high school, I don’t know how I never got seriously injured or arrested.
 
montezumarchery said:
Roman candle and bottle rocket wars were always a good time! Wrecked a bunch of clothes. I would take pieces of the aloe plants (that my mom was so good at cultivating) to my friends and we would quietly doctor our burns.
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We used to launch those small black cat firecrackers out of pump style pellet guns like mini grenade launchers.

Also used to fill a trash bag with a mixture of acetylene and oxygen and place in a 55 gal metal drum laying on its side, then shoot roman candles into them and watch the fireball and feel the shockwave.
 
Old days rodeos. Limited bleacher seats, just put the car/truck up next to the area fence and watch from the vehicle.

My untamed and low IQ cousin, and I, thought it would be fun to stick the back end of a Roman Candle, in the grill of a pickup, light it up and shoot it out into the area.

Lite one up, stuck it in the grill and off it she went, arching colorfully out into the center of the arena, as planned, hitting a roping horse, that had a calf stretched out, getting tied, behind its ear.

Never did see how that turned out…….
 
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BlueHair - Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from BAD judgement!! We make reactors anybody can run now.

NFH - My youngest is just like me. Have to do it to learn it! At 3 yrs, he came walking up to me with a Phillips head screwdriver. Asked what he was doing? "Making stars". Asked where? "Mommy's car". Neat row of crosses down both sides of her Plymouth!!
He learns from his efforts tho. At 8 yrs, they stole ammo from my reloading room. When he put a 22LR in the vise and hit with a hammer, it blew up, scaring them half to death. They then put it in a piece of copper tubing, so when hit, it shot thru the side of the garage into the neighbors house. Much better performance. Thank God he doesn't reload now!!!

JP - Darwin was an optimist. :)
 
Blank said:
BlueHair - Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from BAD judgement!! We make reactors anybody can run now.

NFH - My youngest is just like me. Have to do it to learn it! At 3 yrs, he came walking up to me with a Phillips head screwdriver. Asked what he was doing? "Making stars". Asked where? "Mommy's car". Neat row of crosses down both sides of her Plymouth!!
He learns from his efforts tho. At 8 yrs, they stole ammo from my reloading room. When he put a 22LR in the vise and hit with a hammer, it blew up, scaring them half to death. They then put it in a piece of copper tubing, so when hit, it shot thru the side of the garage into the neighbors house. Much better performance. Thank God he doesn't reload now!!!

JP - Darwin was an optimist. :)
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For better or worse……..bloodlines rule the universe…….

Hey…….. I think you just provoked a new John Prine lyric.
 
Blank said:
BlueHair - Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from BAD judgement!! We make reactors anybody can run now.

NFH - My youngest is just like me. Have to do it to learn it! At 3 yrs, he came walking up to me with a Phillips head screwdriver. Asked what he was doing? "Making stars". Asked where? "Mommy's car". Neat row of crosses down both sides of her Plymouth!!
He learns from his efforts tho. At 8 yrs, they stole ammo from my reloading room. When he put a 22LR in the vise and hit with a hammer, it blew up, scaring them half to death. They then put it in a piece of copper tubing, so when hit, it shot thru the side of the garage into the neighbors house. Much better performance. Thank God he doesn't reload now!!!

JP - Darwin was an optimist. :)
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These moments are valuable teachings.
 
One Of My Good Friends Brother Can't See Out Of One Eye Due To The Exact Thing!

Both Of Them Were Old Enough To Know Better!



Bluehair said:
How about pulling the bullets out of 22’s and smashing them with a hammer? Or cutting a shotshell at the wad to make a slug?

The last time that I set the bead on a tire with ether and a match wasn’t that long ago.
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What is it with girls whose dad's were authority figures? Cops daughters, preachers daughters, etc.

We used to swim in a canal that went into a piped section about 1/2 block long. If you were "tough" you floated through
 
My best was lighting a stack of straw bales on fire - 7 yrs old.

BB Gun fights almost lost an eye. 10 yrs old.
Pulling the dams out of the ditch used to run siphon tunes for watering crops and flooding out the crew of Mexican laborers working for my Dad. They were building a weir box. I had to lay on my stomach for two days after the spanking.

Building a 30-06 device full of black powder and a bolt jammed in place of a bullet. I lit the area around it with gas. Nice little mushroom cloud and glad I didn't receive shrapnel. 14 yes old.

Throwing rocks over a bridge and hit a car. Got a ride down to the station and a vandalism arrest.
10 yrs old.
 
Buddies and I used to shoot arrows up in air and watch em come back to earth. When we all got old enough to bow hunt, we got compound bows (What a game changer). We got bored one day so we decided to shoot an arrow straight up and see where it landed. The goal was to get it as close to the shooter as possible.

My buddy shot an arrow. We all watched as it went higher than we anticipated. All my friends lost sight of it except me. They all started freaking out because they didn’t know which way to run. I said “I can see it.” I could see it was coming straight down. My buddy was right ahead of me about 20 feet. He was asking me which way to run. I wasn’t sure what to say, but I could tell it was coming right down between us. He asked again, “should I come toward you?” Without thinking, I said, “No! Don’t move!” He froze and that arrow hit right in front of him. We packed our stuff up and went home after that. Realizing we just about ruined all our lives…especially my buddies lol!
 
10 years old…..Got the bright idea to reenact the old “Tour of Duty” Vietnam series by playing war with the neighborhoods kids. We wanted to win so my team dug holes all around our base, sharpened sticks, and set up punji stick traps, hoping to “stop the enemy from advancing”. We didn’t kill anyone, but we injured one of the other teams players. Luckily the stick did not go through the foot but, it did stick in him pretty good. Kid got stitches. I got an A-whoopin, grounded for a month, and was not allowed to play with those kids anymore. I also had to apologize to kid and his parents and explain why I thought that was a good idea?
 
12 years old…..learned about tin foil, drano, and empty two liter bottles. Blew up quite a few things that hold peoples letters. Never got caught, but was so proud of myself that I showed off my new talent to my dad in backyard and proceeded to get an A-whoopin. Never showed my dad any of my devious talents after that.
 
11 years old, lit a fire in a 5 gal plastic bucket in the back of my 1 acre yard. Ran around front to tell my older brother. We went back to check it out and the neighbors backyard was completely on fire???I received another A-whoopin that night. Luckily, my other neighbor was a firefighter and happened to by off shift that day lol!
 
I know a kid who filled an aluminum arrow with FF black powder, put a shotgun primer in the insert and then taped a bb to the end of the arrow and shot it into a brick wall 20 feet away.....
 
11 years old….before everyone had caller ID. My brother and I called up every pizza delivery place in the city and ordered pizza to the neighbor across the street that we hated. We sat back and watched from the 2nd story bedroom window as they all started showing up. I have never seen that neighbor so pissed! He was yelling at all the delivery drivers, saying he didn’t order any GD PIZZA!???
 
When the internet was new the school didn’t quite know how to handle it. I had computer lab in high school in1995 with another friend and we quickly found porn. We printed off a bunch of color copies of some graphic images in the lab and folded them up and put them on some teacher’s windshields. They looked like a common bake sale or event flyers as they walked up to them until they opened them up to find something shocking. Someone made us and we got busted. We thought it was funny as hell but the school didn’t. We had to apologize to get off of the brand new internet ban list.
 
12 years old…..hated the bus driver. Rode a different bus home and got home 5 minutes before my bus driver drove by my house. I wheeled the garbage can out to curb, crawled into it, pulled the lid shut and waited. When bus came by, I popped up, and threw two eggs at the bus, hitting it on windows. Driver stopped, got out, walked right by can, looking around for the culprit. Was the most nerve wracking 2 minutes of my life wondering if I was going to be looking up into the eyes of a pissed off old man.???
 
I daisy chained those rocket motors together using a green fuse. The rocket went up, but the delay didn't light the second rocket until it was horizontal. Last I saw that rocket it was at 100 feet headed towards a new subdivision at Mach 3. I stayed inside for the rest of the day.

Building pipe bombs with black powder, by folding over the ends with a vise and a ball peen hammer. Then covering them with glue and rolling them in BB's.
 
It’s funny, with all the stupid kid stunts pulled, that many of us even made it to adulthood. Short of a few bumps and bruises, we were pretty dang lucky.
I know of several occasions that could have wound up with one (or more) of us dead.
 
At 10, my friend and I found a beehive 15' up in a cottonwood tree with a hollowed out center. I thought it would be cool to get a bunch of fresh honeycomb. I had recently seen beekeepers use smoke to harvest honey. So the fire making began at the hole in the bottom of the tree, and of course the fire climbed the hole in the center very fast! We bailed out to my friends house as fast as we could and within about 10 minutes we could hear sirens coming. We watched the firefighters put it out. The tree was along a canal bank in about 100 yard wide strip of natural space between 2 neighborhoods. Thank God it got put out before it spread!
 
I did a lot of jackass stuff when I was a kid . The best I remember was my ex BL. had a bunch of kids over and they were shooting
arrows straight up them running under the front porch. Well they shot one up and one kid had to peek out and look and the arrow came down right through his bottom lip. Another was my son and nephew would take a box and fill it with a shovel full of red ants. They would wrap it in gift wrap with a bow them set it along side the road. Within minutes someone would stop and pick it up. Lots of laughs. Of course they had to go pick up the trash a couple hundred yards down the road.
 
One of my friends mom smoked cigarettes. We took one out of her pack and removed about 2” of tobacco from the front and replaced it with a Black Cat firecracker with the fuse cut off. We then packed the last 1/4” with tobacco. It looked like it never happened, we were slow and careful when doing it. We weren’t there when it exploded on her face, but it scared her so much that she ended up quitting later because she was so traumatized by the blast.
 
9 years old, family reunion, at a camp ground. Got bored sitting by fire. Fire died down to nothing so i threw an unopened can of black cherry shasta on the coals and crawed into the boat about 20 yards away to watch it blow up. About the time we crawled into boat, some female cousins came out of their tent and sat down by the fire. We debated on telling them to get away, but ultimately gave into the curiosity of what their reaction would be like when it exploded. The can blew up a minute or two later, they all screamed as they got soaked with shasta and peppered with coals. Two girls ruined their white sweatshirts and they all received minor burns from the coals. We got questioned by some parents shortly after but no confessions were made.
 
Kids and firecrackers. We'd blow the yolk out of an egg, pack the shell with flour, and then insert a firecracker. Those were our hand grenades, and they were pretty cool when they detonated in mid-air. I had one in my hand, pulled back behind my ear, ready to throw, and told my friend with the lighter to "let me know as soon as its lit..." We all know how this ends. I can't hear a damned thing out of that ear. But I had it coming. He was the same buddy who had been the unwitting subject of a test I devised to compare the strength of his Oakland A's "batting helmet" against the strength of my BB gun. Turns out, those helmets were crap!
 
Brings Back Memories Captain Coues!

Woulda Been Around 80-82!

My Future MIL At The Time Smoked!

You Could Buy These Little LOADS To Stick In The End Of Cigarettes For A Prank!

I Figured If One Was Good,6 or 7 would Be Better!:D

Rigged A Cig Up And Left It Sticking Out Of The Pack Just A Little Further Than The Others!

Yup!

She Grabbed The One Sticking Out!

I Say GAWD-DAMN!

When That Thing Went Off She Jumped Damn Near Out Of Her Chair!:D

The Cig Was Gone & I Mean Completely!:D







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Captain_coues said:
One of my friends mom smoked cigarettes. We took one out of her pack and removed about 2” of tobacco from the front and replaced it with a Black Cat firecracker with the fuse cut off. We then packed the last 1/4” with tobacco. It looked like it never happened, we were slow and careful when doing it. We weren’t there when it exploded on her face, but it scared her so much that she ended up quitting later because she was so traumatized by the blast.
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