True Confessions, When We Were Wild (accident, check, people, friends)

[Vienna]

Here's one that my husband did . Him and his 3 brothers lived on a farm and thought it would be a great idea to go smoke a cigarette in the barn. Well, you guessed it, the barn caught on fire. Their papa made all three of them sit on the front porch and smoke cigars until they got sick and to this day my husband can't stand the smell of cigars. They also caught a lake on fire while they were flicking matches. His stories are endless with 6 kids in the family I don't know how his parents survived. I think the topper was when his mom got mad at his dad and took all six kids across country by herself in a station wagon and all the kids got into a box of chocolate laxatives LOL

[Magnum Mike]

Most of us have a "Wild side" I guess and I can see that from the messages that were posted here. For those of us, who grew up around the mid 1970's, I'm sure you remember the "streaking" fad, that started around 1974 or so, where somebody would suddenly show up infront of large crowd completely naked and run across an area, like a baseball field, stage or wherever crowds gathered. Has anyone here ever done that?

I haven't, but I knew somebody in high school who did that. I was in the cafeteria waiting in line to pay for the food, when all of the sudden I heard a loud commotion. I looked, and a guy I knew in the Algebra class was "streaking" across the cafeteria!

[115db]

I filmed one (with the ol' movie camera back then) streaking across a graduation ceremony. Funny thing was, the gate he planned on running thru was locked, he had to climb to get out (ouch!). LMAO!!!
In a talent show, someone else got one streaking across the stage in nothing but a football helmet....

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by L_A_Woman

I filmed one (with the ol' movie camera back then) streaking across a graduation ceremony. Funny thing was, the gate he planned on running thru was locked, he had to climb to get out (ouch!). LMAO!!!
In a talent show, someone else got one streaking across the stage in nothing but a football helmet....

LOL... I graduated from high school in 1975, but we heard about a streaker that ran across the field during the graduation ceremonies for the class of 1974. A guy I worked with back then was in that class and he also told me about it.

I also remember that one guy on the Tonight Show, when Johnny Carson hosted it, who streaked across the stage.

[115db]

Did you graduate in Southern Calif? What high school? Even then, though, Im sure this wasnt uncommon anywhere.

[KelsieB]

ha ha i think streakers are freaking hilarious, it makes me sad that people can no longer streak without being arrested and charged with being a molester and has to as an offender.

But Artic, I feel so bad for you! (although i did laugh for ten straight mintues) man oh man! hey at least you have good memories to look back on!

[Southernkomfort27]

Here's a few:
When I was in high school I threw a bunch of firecrackers in the book return slot in the library...sure woke things up!

One night me and a couple of my friends dressed up like hookers and sat in the park downtown that was reputedly a hooker hang out. After a short while, we were approached by a middle aged man looking for some action. My friend who was a clerk for the state police then flashed him her I.D., covering the part that said "clerk" The man looked like he was going to ---t his pants!!!! He kept saying "I didn't mean it that way"!!! yeah, right

We used to act "suspicious" just to get people to call the police on us. Then when they showed up, we'd run and hide. Once, I hid up in a cedar tree and the police were only a few feet away, wondering where we went. I could hardly keep from laughing, as I listened to them voice their frustration.

Some of the things we did were dumb, some even dangerous.

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I sneaked off one afternoon and went with the ice cream man on part of his route. I had to (sneak), he was 21 and I was....underage. Back then, it was a big deal, it was the only way we could see each other, my dad NEVER would have let me date someone 21 yrs old!

[Rapture]

We did the phone jokes but most of the time I would feel bad for people and couldn't do the other stuff. I actually called the police on kids throwing snowballs at cars when I was 14. Everything I did was only hurtful to myself, like hitchhiking, smoking pot, sneaking into bars etc...I did move a mans hat under his butt once when he stood up in church so that when it was time to sit, he sat on it.

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Originally Posted by Rapture

We did the phone jokes but most of the time I would feel bad for people and couldn't do the other stuff. I actually called the police on kids throwing snowballs at cars when I was 14. Everything I did was only hurtful to myself, like hitchhiking, smoking pot, sneaking into bars etc...I did move a mans hat under his butt once when he stood up in church so that when it was time to sit, he sat on it.

You were soooooo bad, about the hat thing!

These days a person wouldnt even think of hitch hiking. But my friend Debbie and I did it, when we were 15, would hitch from Sunnymead all the way to Riverside, to ditch school. But back then there was nothing in Sunnymead, just a 4-way stopsign and one grocery store, all the 'action' was in Riverside.