Thread: Stupid things we did as kids

lol dont worry about 4 boys i have a mate who has 6 boys all under 8

1. At age of seven years old taking petrol cap off my father's V8 Valiant, liking the smell of the petrol and then proceeding to take huge breaths of the stuff. I think my head started spinning, and then I blacked out on the ground for ??? minutes. I didn't ever tell my parents.

2. Trying out my father's pliers (non plastic coated) to cut through an electric light cord. Sure made a loud bang and lots of flash. I think I ran outside and hid in the bushes for a while as I knew what was coming....

3. Soaking the rubbish in our 44gall incinerator with petrol and flicking a match into it. Sure made a big bang and set the side of the house alight. Lucky the hose was nearby otherwise whole lot would have gone up.

4. When working in the dairy and lighting the wood fired water heater, we used to light the fire when the wood was wet, by splashing a bit of diesel on top. That included opening up the firebox and from a container splashing a bit of diesel and quickly slamming door shut. More fool me at the age of 15 or 16 when we were out of diesel, thinking I'd be smart by stacking the fire, pouring a bit of petrol on top. Store container. Open door to firebox and quickly throw in match. The woosh was incredible - burnt face, singed hair, eyebrows ..... bit hard to explain that one....

5. At the age of about 8-9, I tried to keep up with my brothers swimming across Lake Ainsworth at lennox Head but couldn't - near death by drowning experience..

Thinking back life was real then,now its to much dont do this dont do that.. talking about match heads.. did the job on the tram tracks bang bang ect .ect...tram driver was not happy..ever picked match heads of and wraped then in silver foil, then hit it with a big hammer. first time it didnt go off. so I hit it harder.. my ears are still ringing 50 years later..shot my self in the mouth with a slug gun.. easy.. just hold a bit of broken beer bottle in your hand and shoot. It was all good fun then. given the chance would do it all again..kids today sit in and play vido games ..much safer.but not as good..robert42

Seems to me that holding bungers in your hand as they went off and having airgun wars( I have pellet holes in my back) and blowing things up was the norm in 'our' day. ( judging by the posts so far)
the real stupid stuff didn't start until after we got our licences
i don;t want to embarress myself, but will say been there done that!!!!


john

My father used to make stuff to blow up.

One day he did it with unslaked lime. It got into his eye and the neighbour flushed it with water. That turned it caustic and he lost his eye and a lot of the socket so he could never use a glass eye.

He was 9 yo. and had many, many operations over the next year - this was in 1929-1930

Ron

damn thats bad

splashing around in waterholes filled with salties until they go under the water (to make a beeline for you), getting out quick and chucking rocks at em once they pop up where you were and wonder where you went. once saw a 3 meter salty jump right out of the water. same trick with salties sheltering among mangroves on tidal marshes, only escape was made with bmxs. trying to get em away from their nests. fun then but probably wouldnt do it now.

Some funny (and damn dangerous stuff here lol)

I forgot to mention the matchheads too. have two boxes of matches, cut the heads off all of them. Insert heads into one empty match box, then use the other match box and cut the side igniting walls off and carefully place inside other box full of match heads. Close box, seal tightly with strong wrapping tape, make sure no holes are visible in the corners. Then, throw it as hard as you can to the ground, it will bounce up and explode right in front of you. Ears will ring for a loooong time