What’s the dumbest thing you did as a kid? (Ashland: law, license)

[PMBird]

I did MANY dumb things, but the dumbest was quitting school.

[Dwatted Wabbit]

Originally Posted by Maineah

We once took a scarecrow and threw it under a passing car while we screamed from the bushes. We almost gave the guy in the car a heart attack!
He chased us all over the woods for a half an hour calling us every name in the book. He didn't catch us though as we knew where to hide. Hehehe

Too funny. Fortunately I didn't know you when we were both teenagers.

A bud and I used to throw apples at cars passing by on a country road. Since his was the only house within 100 yards, it wasn't moon voyage work for the drivers to figure out who was chucking fruit at them. They never physically saw or caught us, however. We got pretty good at artillery work, did our mischief from a distance, and had escape and concealment worked out in advance.
One day we were rolling a spare tire around in the driveway, I rolled it to him and he missed it (perhaps accidentally) and a car coming by hit it doing about 50.
Fortunately the driver nailed it on the rubber side. That frikkin wheel flew about 300 yards, and the sound of four wheels locking, four tires screaming, and a car door slamming came next.
His parents weren't happy, but he was a major BS artist and we didn't get into much trouble. Cars were made of steel then, so there was no damage to the ramming vehicle.

Another friend and I set up a blind for some snowball activity. This was near a cemetery, and we cut trail for escape routes before we commenced the mortar work.
The road was slower than apple route, the cover thinner, but again nobody ever caught us. Fun.

A third friend discovered that skinny kids could squeeze their way between some girders in an overhead railroad bridge. We collected some rotting plums or similar fruit, and aimed for windshields of passing cars. This was strictly bombardier work, no throwing involved, so timing was of the essence. This was at night, and nobody could figure out where the gooey fruit storm was coming from. Lucky, or we'd have been trapped.

Young teenage guys and flying objects and cars...must be in the wiring.

[ILUVMAINE]

Most punishable..
I did something I can't repeat, and I was so grounded, that I was grounded for the summer, I was told,
"No friends, no phone, no life. Which they took the TV and put it up in the attic.
It was BAD ( and no I won't say it.) but lets just say the summer of 1985 was a loss.)[/quote]
Now, Peachie, you've got me curious! It couldn't have been THAT bad - at least you are still alive!

[island mermaid]

Probably a good thing you and Maineah didn't know each other in high school! We'd be sending you two files in cakes to "Tommytown". lol
Boys will be boys!

[RANGER.101ST]

i gess the worst thing that i did and still feel guilty 30some years later about.
me and my friends were just hanging out at my house one day.and my uncle stoped by looking for my dad.he asked what we were up to and we said nothin just bored.
then he told us how he and dad hed no toys and had to invent things to do.
he said on his graduation night he ,my dad,and a cpl other friends went out raising h@#$
after a while the decided to go out to a neighbers house and string his out house up in the tree.now fast forword to my time and we went out driveing and decided to do what they did.so we got some rope and a block and tackle and went lookin after a cpl hrs we found one. it took a while of being real quiet but we got it done.as we are running to the truck we are laughing this is gona be great.a cpl days went by i was out in the barn doing my chores and i see a truck pull in the yard and this old guy got out.and started talking to my dad.then they staryed walking to the barn.when they got there my dad said come on out here i want you to meet some one.so i did.he said me and your dad are old friends wana no how we met. i said ya. well 25 years ago your dad tied my out house up in a tree.and funny thing young man the same thing hapend a cpl days ago.
he said you have no idea what it's like to fall in a hole where your shi@@#$ use to be.
so thats why im hear.my dad looked at me and said well did you. yes i did it i said.
well you didnt do it alone who else was with you.and i didnt say a thing. well who was it.sorry i wont say i said.the old guy looked at me and said well atleast he's honest and not a taddel tail see you in the morning young man and jumped in his truck and drove off.so i asked dad in the morning whats that mean.you just got a summer job my boy just like i did when we strung the out house up.then he says how did you no it was him we did it to? and i said we didnt we just drove around till we found one. what are the odds.

[snowpuppy]

Aww geez...too many dumb things to list here. I do remember being with two friends of mine exploring a creek bed one afternoon when one of them said, "Hey, watch this!". As I turned to look, he was throwing a bucket of creek water at a hornet's nest. Those suckers chased us all the way back home. Both of my friends had multiple stings all over: the head, back, arms, and legs. I got away with only a couple. Ever since it makes me duck and run whenever I hear the phrase, "Hey watch this!" LOL!

[Maineah]

We used to have "wars" with the other neighborhoods over our "sliding area". One year we attacked the other kids with sticks and drove them all off. A few days later they brought their "big brothers" to the hill and kicked the crap out of us with bigger sticks.
We then went to their neighborhood and attacked them with slingshots and marbles. (no rocks because it was winter). They came back and took our sleds and smashed them to pieces. At that point the parents got involved and seperated us. We never did get along with those kids.

[RANGER.101ST]

Originally Posted by Maineah

We used to have "wars" with the other neighborhoods over our "sliding area". One year we attacked the other kids with sticks and drove them all off. A few days later they brought their "big brothers" to the hill and kicked the crap out of us with bigger sticks.
We then went to their neighborhood and attacked them with slingshots and marbles. (no rocks because it was winter). They came back and took our sleds and smashed them to pieces. At that point the parents got involved and seperated us. We never did get along with those kids.

we use to go over to my cousins house in town and do the same thing.
my most fav thing to do was takeing a stick and sharpen it on one end then take an apple shove it on the point dunk it in keroseen light it on fire and see how far you could sling it. man i hope my kids aint like me.

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by RANGER.101ST

we use to go over to my cousins house in town and do the same thing.
my most fav thing to do was takeing a stick and sharpen it on one end then take an apple shove it on the point dunk it in keroseen light it on fire and see how far you could sling it. man i hope my kids aint like me.

I made SURE mine were not like ME! It was the least I could do for society in general!

[canyontothesky]

This thread is really funny to read because I'm 20 and the kind of stuff I did is nothing like what people used to do in the "old days."