What’s the dumbest thing you did as a kid? (Wayne: school, cost)

[StealthRabbit]

I thought I'd build an 'Evel Knievel' jump over a small haystack for my bicycle.

got up the ramp and about halfway across the top of the stack and my frt wheel came down between two bales. ... bike stopped, I kept going and landed on the far side where I crunched my head on the tongue of a grain drill... I did not foresee too many of the several potential problems, sound like any kid's you know?

[Robhu]

Peeing on an electric fence while barefoot early in the morning when dew was still on the ground.
And Ben Franklin thought he was brave flying a damned kite.!!!!!

[Northern Maine Land Man]

We were the first graduating class in a new high school. It had two very tall flag poles. We carefully placed a big galvanized garbage can upside down on top of the pole that flew the state flag.

The fire department tried to knock if off there with a high pressure hose. Didn't work. After a week the school was ready to hire a steeplejack to take the garbage can down. The night before the steeplejack was to arrive we took the can back down and left it in the principal's parking spot.

Now, how did we do it?

[dramamama6685]

Originally Posted by contented

i skipped skool < hehehe 36 days in my senior year, always a friday or a monday

And I thought our daughter was bad last year!!

I was 2 or 3 maybe(my first memeory) and must have been told about the starving children in Africa when I didn't clean my plate. I was out side and I thought to my self, how can there be so many starving children in the world when we could all just eat dirt? It isn't like there isn't plenty to go around. I spent the rest of my day on the couch with a tummy ache!

[dramamama6685]

Originally Posted by Robhu

Peeing on an electric fence while barefoot early in the morning when dew was still on the ground.
And Ben Franklin thought he was brave flying a damned kite.!!!!!

Should have known you are from Ohio lol... don't forget about cow tipping(tee hee) just don't pick the one with the horns!

[Maine Writer]

Being 17, immortal and having courage in a bottle, I climbed Champlain in Acadia, more than once.

[dramamama6685]

Originally Posted by Maine Writer

Being 17, immortal and having courage in a bottle, I climbed Champlain in Acadia, more than once.

Wow, you are definitely braver than I. If heights are involved... I'll be in the car!

[Maine Writer]

I hate heights! It's the liquid courage (aka Mich light) that made me both brave and stupid. Way back then the legal drinking age was 18 and my boyfriend was old enough to buy. There are spots on Champlain where you inch across, plastered to the rock, on steel bars. It's a wonder we survived childhood sometimes.

[maine4.us]

My high school buddy was the school janitor (note my age group calls them janitors, not maintenance or facilities). We waited until he passed out one evening and we took his keys. We went into the school and took all the locks off the lockers with his master key. We put them in a box and then put a different lock on every student locker in the school. It was great. Nobody could get their books out for about 3 hours on Monday. I know they would have killed us if they could have found us out.

We also used to cut a tree down on Halloween on a narrow dirt road. A place where the bus driver (also the janitor, haha) could not back up. So, he would send someone a mile or two to a house with a phone. They would call the county and it would take an hour or two to get someone there. It was good for a half day of no school. We did this for several years in a row. One year the driver was in a particularly good mood the day after Halloween. There was our tree. He smiled and took out a chainsaw from under a cover beside him He got out, cut the tree and got back on the bus, without a word. We were stunned and nobody would laugh and give ourselves away.

[kellysmith]

nmlm
That's been senior prank more than once. Tie a stick or broom onto the rope that raises the flag. Stick lifts the drum up off top of flag pole, then lower stick again with rope and drum majestically is lowered to ground.