Stupid things you did as a kid.

[puffnstuff]

Played lawn darts in the dark.

Also played long distance lawn darts, youd throw them like a football, at the other guys.

[taco.vidal]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...-day-1.3596714

A teen suffered "significant injuries" and may lose his hands after an "incendiary" device went off at a home in southeast Calgary, according to paramedics.

Police responded the 0-100 block of Midridge Close S.E. in the community of Midnapore around 1 p.m. local time Monday afternoon, and initially described the incident as a mishap with a homemade firecracker.

Paramedics also responding to the home found an injured 17-year-old male with severe damage to both his hands, said EMS spokesman Stuart Brideaux.

The teen was taken to Foothills hospital with injuries Brideaux described as "limb-threatening."

Brideaux said it was unclear to paramedics exactly what caused the injuries but described it as more of an "incendiary" device than a mere firecracker.

"That remains to be determined, if something of that nature (a firecracker) could cause injuries of this nature," he said. "It's more likely a much more powerful explosion that went off."

Police are investigating the incident, including the teen's intentions with the device.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by taco.vidal

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...-day-1.3596714

Geez, I hope this thread wasn't his inspiration for his stupidity.

[Looch City]

Domestic terrorism gone wrong.

[Fuzz]

Who among us hasn't had a fire cracker go off in their hand? The biggest oops for me was those little standard ones that come in the flat packs. Not sure the size. We used to shove them in mandarin oranges, light them and throw them like grenades.

The biggest ones I ever had I got in Mexico. They were like sticks of dynamite. Blew up some sand dunes in White Sands National Monument just next to the missile test range. Not sure who the flashy lights belonged to(Rangers or Military) as we high tailed it outa there.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Who among us hasn't had a fire cracker go off in their hand? The biggest oops for me was those little standard ones that come in the flat packs. Not sure the size. We used to shove them in mandarin oranges, light them and throw them like grenades.

The biggest ones I ever had I got in Mexico. They were like sticks of dynamite. Blew up some sand dunes in White Sands National Monument just next to the missile test range. Not sure who the flashy lights belonged to(Rangers or Military) as we high tailed it outa there.

Took a screech-aroo and hit it with a hammer. That went off in my hand. Fortunately I had also wrapped it in tape, and the thing blew up in a way that resulted in the tape shielding my hand and my hand just being opened...

Ended up with some good burns, blood blisters, and chunks of the thing embedded in my hand, but fortunately nothing serious.

[metallicat]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

Waitaminute....the OP is Dissentowner.... isn't he a member of Calgary Police? This is entrapment!

I never burnt anything.
I committed no moving violations in a vehicle.
I never threw nothing at no one.

All of you miscreants are going to jail however....

I think hes in Ontario, but I don't think he's a full fledged cop driving around on patrol. I could be mistaken though

[cracher]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Who among us hasn't had a fire cracker go off in their hand? The biggest oops for me was those little standard ones that come in the flat packs. Not sure the size. We used to shove them in mandarin oranges, light them and throw them like grenades.

The biggest ones I ever had I got in Mexico. They were like sticks of dynamite. Blew up some sand dunes in White Sands National Monument just next to the missile test range. Not sure who the flashy lights belonged to(Rangers or Military) as we high tailed it outa there.

Oh crap, I just remembered another borderline Darwin-award incident. Right after I got my drivers license, I had my dad's new audi out in Invermere. Went to the old Skookum gas station, bought 8 roman candles. They were duct taped in pairs above and below the driver and passenger windows. The rationale was to drive along 93 at 4am, light them while driving. Wanted to capture the "X-wing in the trench" effect on tape (yes, I did say tape, if any millennials are wondering). You can fill in the blanks with where our brains were at the time. So, yeah, we didn't figure the roman candle casings would get hot and duct tape actually burns. Very lucky we didn't start a fire in that semi-arid valley becausee the candles shot everywhere but straight forward. And explaining the paint damage and melted window trim to my dad...

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

I suppose.

I'll take my lame sheltered stories as opposed to the kids that have the "well, we went bobsledding at COP..." story. MANY of the stories here could've ended just as badly (or worse).

There's no shame in being someone who played it safe. I just thought it was an amusing/dumb story to share anyways.

Originally Posted by taco.vidal

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...-day-1.3596714

OutoftheCube, I apologize for calling you out, you didn't need take it to 11 to try and fit our way of life. From now on you do you.....without hands unfortunately, but still, you do you.

[habernac]

I remember slingshot wars in Venezuela when I was a kid (lived there for 6 months in grade 4). My Mom screamed when she saw me as I looked like I'd been shot. The eyebrow still grows a little crooked in that spot.

Stealing valve caps from vehicles in Ft McMurray. Some guy yelled at us and we walked away quickly. Then we heard the squack of tires, the guy chased me down a cul-de-sac. I cleared a six foot fence, not sure if I touched it. Hid in someones backyard until we couldn't hear the truck ripping around anymore.

[OutOfTheCube]

Originally Posted by jayswin

OutoftheCube, I apologize for calling you out, you didn't need take it to 11 to try and fit our way of life. From now on you do you.....without hands unfortunately, but still, you do you.

Do you know how hard it is to type with one hand now?

I just wanted to have cool stories like you guys.

[Buff]

I have nothing good to post in this thread about myself. I had a friend who did ALL the stupid things. He taught me to just play it safe... most of the time.

One such incident comes to mind is breaking off the legs of a chair. The legs were some sort of metal and hollow, except for the cap at the bottom. We found a bucket full of nails, would load a nail into the leg and whip the leg to rapidly project the nail at objects. The nails would stick too. Our main target was the back deck which was elevated and attached to the house. There must have been 50 or more nails stuck in wooden deck rails. More nails on his fort, and some on the garage and a tree in the back too. His mom finally clued in that we were making some loud noises and laughing so she set out to see what we were doing. The final nail missed the deck and embedded into the door frame around the opened patio door, about 3 seconds before she stepped out to see what we were doing... we told her we would be careful and not aim at the house anymore but she wasn't having any of that.

Once we were travelling in his truck and camper with his family and my friend and I would ride in the camper while his parents and sisters rode in the truck. We would hang out in the bunk. Not exactly a safe thing to do, I suppose but we had his parents blessing. The screen on one of the windows in the bunk was coming out, so he decided to stick his wang out of the screen and urinate while the truck was driving. I can't remember how that ended but I don't think he was caught for that.

We would also take the butter packs from restaurants, open them and throw them out of the window at parked cars as we left the parking lot. We hit plenty of windshields. His mom caught us doing that one though.

This one is all on my friend. We must have been four or five years old for this incident. We were at the Zoo, waiting in line for some ice cream. He says, "Watch this", proceeds to whip down his pants and urinate on the back of the leg of an unsuspecting lady who was wearing a skirt and enjoying her ice cream. His mom must have been so embarrassed. My mom was in total shock. Unfortunately my mom and I drove in the same vehicle as he and his mom so we all had to end our Zoo trip short

[Fuzz]

^
Friend, eh? Uh huh.

[squiggs96]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

Do you know how hard it is to type with one hand now?

It's super easy. I've really mastered it.

[polak]

Throwing snowballs at cars was a hoot as a kid. So stupid.

My friend threw one at a car in broad daylight right outside his own house with his parents home and the guy pulled over and took out his badge. Turned out he was a cop. Oh man was that hilarious.

We also used to go "storeing" which meant we'd just go to different stores and basically be the most annoying kids in the world, making a mess and playing games around the store.

Also back when I was in Tae Kwon Do, all of our tournaments were usually held at a high school or university and occasionally they left the doors to the storage rooms in the gym open, and man that was like heaven to a 12 year old kid. Stupidest thing I've ever seen kids do happened at one of these tournaments. Bunch of kids, a little younger than me were throwing POOL balls (Yeah, Billiards balls) at each other full blown. Luckily I don't think anyone got hit but man, someone could have easily died.

There was many, many, many, more stupid things we did.

My childhood is the reason I don't want kids and I wasn't even that bad. Never got arrested or in any serious trouble like that. No thanks to that head ache.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

^
Friend, eh? Uh huh.

We even share the same first name. If I did something and somebody told on me, his mom would get the call because he had the bad rep.

[Huntingwhale]

When I was a kid I didn't know that much about WWII, Nazis or the holocaust. In fact, I thought the swastika was a cool pattern. Well one day after it snowed, I went outside and drew the largest damn swastika pattern you ever saw in the snow on my front lawn by ''walking'' the pattern. It was massive. The entire front lawn. Didn't think anything of it and just went back inside.

I guess some of the neighbours started calling my mom and she storms up to my room. Since my room overlooked the front lawn she looks out the window at the giant swasitka and asks me if I was ''drawing patterns on the lawn''. Yes I was I answered. I then got told how I had just offended the entire neighbourhood and about the memory of 6 million people. She made me go outside and sweep the snow from the lawn with a broom.

Looking back it was innocent at the time. But still very stupid to do.

[Buff]

Polak's "storeing" reminded me of something really lame that I did with a couple of friends.

I grew up in Temple, moving to Lethbridge in '86. My best friend in grade 4 moved to Surrey in '84. Well he was back in town for a weekend so my parents took me up to Calgary so he and I could have a sleepover at his grandmas house in the summer of '87. She also lived in Temple.

We went to Sunridge Mall one afternoon and went to Eaton's. Back then they were selling home computers. Another friend, who still lived in Calgary, was with us and was a computer genius. He told as about 'Ctrl+Alt+Del'. So, we went to the computer they had on display and would reboot the computer and then take off. We rebooted it several times, taking turns so that the staff wouldn't quickly catch on to us. We thought we were badass. Looking back, that was so incredibly lame, it was stupid to think we were badass.

We also woke up at 5:00am to sneak out and go for a walk with that buddy who was still in Calgary. What did we do? We went for a walk at 5:00am. Just a walk. Did nothing bad. Back by 6:00am and slept for a couple more hours. We also thought we were badass for doing that. Yeah. real badass... so stupid.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by polak

We also used to go "storeing" which meant we'd just go to different stores and basically be the most annoying kids in the world, making a mess and playing games around the store.

We'd make 'pea-shooters' (straws with chewed up bits of kleenex as bullets) to shoot people shopping in Co-op. We'd also wait until someone was taking a dump in the men's room and turn off the lights.

[Looch City]

Jesus, you kids were little devils haha