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Originally Posted by WMak70
I'd rather live as I do than how these "fine folks" live their lives. All they needed was a cross burning to complete the picture.
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You're missing out.
See... most of those folks made their own fun. They may not be city or suburb dwellers.
What fun?
Mudding. Off roading. Racing. Dirt bikes. ATVs. Side by sides.
The parties I threw in highschool and college were similar if not better.
In college, the guys who lived in the city or burbs were most impressed on what they missed out on.
Toss one the keys to that lifted K20 after you've given him a lesson on how a clutch and 4 speed works. Smile ear to ear going through a mud pit or going through the trails.
Same with dirt bikes and quads. Where I differed I was never into the big cumbersome 4x4 quads. 2 stroke sport quads. Start them off small on a Yamaha blaster. Then introduce them to the bored out milled and ported Banshee that would lift the front wheels through 5th
To really blow their minds?
I used to sit on the gas tank and ride wheelies.
Fireworks. Everyone loved the fireworks.
Where I threw parties. Go ahead and call the cops. They're not getting to us unless they themselves had lifted trucks or a couple helicopters.
You needed at the least a 6 inch lift on 35s to get up the logging/fire trails crossing a swamp and creeper/granny gear for 1st to get up the mountain to the lake on the opposite side.
We didn't bother anybody. And that was in upstate NY. Cityiots used to go nuts about it insisting we'd get hurt or die. Nope.
Just a bunch of worry wart busy bodies.
It's fun. Almost as fun as racing stock cars on dirt.
Crosses burning? I don't recall ever seeing a cross burn.
Pallets we got from home depot Lowe's and Wal-Mart for free on the other hand? Absolutely.
Winter didn't put a damper on things either.
Replace dirt bikes with snowmobiles.
Instead of mudding. If the ice was thick enough and usually it was. Just take the trucks out on the ice. Go 40 50 60 sideways the entire time around the outline of the lake. We used to race pickups out on the lake. 4 5 6 wide.
Throw the studded razrs on the Banshee with the small torch to warm the head up or you weren't starting it. That would kick back and throw you over the handle bars due to such a high compression ratio.
Blow right by most stock sleds with studded tracks.
See. We didn't have night clubs.
Our socializing our form of mingling? Call up your buddies. Call up the girls.
Meet up in woods.
Where city and suburb dwellers have night clubs to interact with the opposite sex and have a dance floor and bar?
We had truck beds. Loud stereos. A rear window that slid open. A keg on ice in someone's bed. Or a tool box full of ice beer and whatever fruity drinks the chicks drank or at least the ingredients and bottles of vodka rum whiskey etc.
Why pay 200 at the bar/club? When for 200 you could have your own bar and your own mix of tunes to party to?
Me? My buddies? We had the chicks park down below and text/call us when they arrived. We'd load the beds up. A couple had jeeps and could get up there on their own.
All year long. Winter spring summer and fall. Never once had major issues or anyone getting hurt. Except for a couple dirt bags that tried to bring dope and one that wouldn't take no for an answer... we policed our own. No adult supervision. No bouncers. No "vip" lounge.
Winter was the best though. Mound up snow and pack it with shovels and you had a place to hold your drink and keep it cold.
Bring a couple sheets of plywood for the beer pong tables. Just use the snow as place to hold the table top.
Spring-summer? We had rope swings that we would launch into the lake from. We took 55 gallon plastic drums from the car wash that were empty. Strapped them to decks we built have floating docks anchored down with cinder blocks and rope. Some had electric troller motors on them too.
It was fun. Better than any night club I've been to. And I've been to quite a few in NYC and down in Miami.
Crosses burning? I don't ever recall a cross being burnt.
Just pallets.
And cityiots burning up the 911 line because God forbid someone has fun... damn kids. Go be rednecks somewhere else.
As for policing ourselves. Yeah. We even had look outs with binoculars and police scanners. Some even knew what channels to monitor because their father was a sheriff's deputy or state trooper or local PD
And we knew the woods better than they did so there really was no way to catch us.
So yes. Do go on living a bland and boring life confined in the concrete jungle of cosmopolitan city/suburban America. You'd probably be too worried about getting dirty.
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