Stupid things you did as a kid.

[TheAlpineOracle]

Used to take sea-doos out way too far in the ocean and in and around the peers on the bridge to PEI. To this day when I think about it I get the shivers. Surprised nothing bad happened.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by bc-chris

going thru old photos a number of years ago i came across one of me in an oilers zip hoodie

i was devastated - how could this be? i had no desire to have a mullet, i like to shower and i don't own sweat pants.

the only thing i can figure is that looking at my age in the pic it was definitely taken in the early 80's. times were really tight back then with the recession and my older brother was a huge gretzky fan - so it must have been a hand-me-down. even so... i still feel dirty.

I was attending NAIT in Edmonton during Gretzky's first 2 years as an Oiler. I ended up going to more than a few games to watch him play and seriously considered becoming an Oilers fan. It was only after I graduated and moved back to Calgary did I realise just how insane I was.

I still have nightmares about that time in my life

[manwiches]

My friends, cousin and I deserve medals for being morons growing up. I have a laundry list of things I or we did growing up. I still look back and cringe at a lot of it and wonder how I'm alive or not seriously maimed

- thought it would be genius to light our skateboards on fire after dousing it in lighter fluid. In my basement. Result, smoke filled basement and massive grounding. I'm honestly still surprised we didn't burn my house down

- "luging" from the top of Signal Hill where I lived on our skateboards down to the Macs. I'm surprised we didn't hit any cars or get hit by any cars going down. Not to mention bailing at a high speed with zero protective equipment.

- trying to open my frozen basement window to sneak out by lighting a candle and attempting to heat the ice. It never worked. I remember moving out of that house years later and the burn marks around the window sill were still there. :face palm:

- driving drunk once when I turned 18. I'm so thankful I never hurt anybody or myself. I never did that again and never ever drove even after a single drink.

- hitching on our skateboards when we got our first cars, going up to 60km an hour.

- lipping off and almost getting our asses kicked by a gang of drunk idiots who were obviously bigger and more dangerous than us

The list goes on and on... These are just ones I can remember at this point. I pray my son doesn't do half the ##### I did when I was growing up.

[indes]

The earliest one I can think of is trying to illuminate my "arts & crafts" closet when I was 5 or 6 years old.

I got up really early and wanted to do some drawing, but didn't want to wake anyone else up. I decided to use a BBQ lighter for light to look in the closet instead of turning on the lights.

Needless to say the closet of paper went up like, well paper and after some screaming my mom ran out and grabbed a fire extinguisher and put it out!

[afc wimbledon]

15 or so decided to refill my propane lighter sitting on the floor by the lit gas fire place, 20 or 30 seconds later the leaking gas sparked up and I found myself sitting in a pool of lit propane, burnt the crap out of my back where the shirt rode up and exposed the skin

[FLAMESRULE]

Many, many stupid decisions as a kid...here's a few that stick out

1 - Me and a buddy thought we'd take lawn darts to the next level at our cabins near Invermere when we were about 15. We had bow and arrows that we'd shot into hay bales before. So we stood about 50m apart and shot them up into the air and would try to basically hit each other. We lost sight of them as they got up, then they'd land with a distinctive "thunk" and we'd laugh at how close we got. Or dad's heard us laughing and came out to see and then proceeded to freak the F out...lol...

2 - Played cowboys and indians with real pellet guns, same buddy as above along with our siblings.

3 - Stole a pen from a store as a kid when we were out shopping for a mothers day card with my dad. Got home and my dad asked where the pen came from. Was very obvious I stole it, so my dad marched me back to the store to apologize to the owner and return the pen. Needless to say it was the last time I tried to five finger discount anything.

4 - Went mountain biking near Invermere and found a herd of cattle. We started to throw rocks at them which caused a stampeded as they all ran out the only path in to the field...we got caught in the middle and had to bail out into trees so we didnt get trampled.

[troutman]

My father jumped off a barn roof with an umbrella, thinking it would act like a parachute. Nope.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Listening to nu-metal...

[undercoverbrother]

Few things

My friend and I built a "fort" in the space between his shed and house. April can be rainy and wet in Halifax so we made a fire to stay warm. It spread, luckily to the shed, not the house. He had a much older brother, he came out and managed (somehow) to put it out. He them beat us.

Another friend's house always had a build up of water on the one side of his garage during the spring. We use to climb up on the roof and jump off trying to see who could sink the deepest in the ground.

We use to toboggan down a wicked path that had trees along the side of it. It emptied out onto a main road, leaving very little time to stop. We had a number of near misses and a couple of hits by cars. To this day I can't believe anyone didn't die. I have a distinct memory of getting hit up onto the hood of a vehicle and land with my face against the windshield. The driver took me home and report back to my mother. First thing she did was slap me up side the head.

[Tron_fdc]

Before paint ball guns I played a few rounds of hunting my friends with a pellet gun. We had ski goggles on so it was all good.

I can't count how many objects I've thrown at cars. Same with sling shots....took about an hour before cops took those away.

Almost burned down the house lighting gunpowder in the basement. Blew up CO2 cartridges in a bonfire, threw bullets in a bonfire

Made a dead body and threw it on the road

Did 140 on rollerblades behind a truck

Filled a neighbours pool with weeds and mud

I can't even remember half of what we did. I'm surprised I'm not in jail to be honest.

[jeffporfirio]

Challenged a classmate twice my size to a fight after school, it didn't turn out ok. My mother made me go to school with a black eye the next day.

My mother lived in the 4th floor of an aprtment building which had lemon trees in the back. We used to pick the really dry and hard as stones lemons and go to the top floor terace and throw them at cars, buses, taxis, just about any vehicle. They would make a really loud sound when they would hit the the vehicle's roof.
Idiotic.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by jeffporfirio

Challenged a classmate twice my size to a fight after school, it didn't turn out ok.

Bike racks.


Looking back I laugh about the fights I had as a kid. In my mind at the time we were bare knuckle hard men.

In reality, we were both just hanging on till the teacher showed up.

[bagofpucks]

The strangest one for me is I can distinctly remember two full on rock fights. Each team had about 4 or 5 kids and it was war. Both of course ended when someone was cut open for stitches. What the heck kind of kids have rock fights!

The other one that still makes me laugh is in the summer time almost every night we'd get all the kids in town together and have a fire and then play hide and go seek in the dark. The game would usually go well past 1 or 2 in the morning. This went on for many nights in a row and I remember my mom explaining to me one morning how it is quite difficult for my dad to get a good sleep and go to work at 5 when there are 10 kids running around outside hooting and hollering until 2 in the morning. We don't have kids yet, but man, I would be a very grumpy man if I would have been in his shoes!

[OutOfTheCube]

One summer when I was a teen I would organize games of 'Capture the Flag' in the field by our house. It was great because there were two elementary schools with a big field and lots of trees in between -- the two playgrounds were the 'bases'. We would play at night (10 or 11 PM) so it was dark, and each team would only have a couple flashlights to play with, so you had to be stealthy. Was pretty fun.

So the third or fourth time we did this, I was hiding behind a shed by one of the parks, waiting to make my move for the flag, when a car full of guys pulls up by the 7-11 across the street. They get out and start walking towards the park where 4 or 5 of my friends were guarding (or whatever). For some reason, my friends got scared and bolted. Then all those guys bolted after them. Much yelling and running.

I wandered out and another of my friends came by and we were both thinking "What the hell?" After a few minutes the pack of guys who had come from the 7-11 came back and were like "We're looking for some guys who crashed our friend's party and it's totally you, why would your friends run if it wasn't you, blah blah blah!" Bunch of them ready to fight us, we were outnumbered like 6 to 2.

Managed to talk myself out of that situation, but in hindsight that was a lot more dangerous then I thought. Not sure why I hung around waiting for them to come back.

I caught up with my friends the next day (they had all disappeared and this was pre-cellphones) and I guess they'd all bolted across the field, hopped a few fences, and called the police. The guys were chasing them yelling they were gonna beat the hell out of them and stuff. I got flak for being the one who hid behind a shed, haha.

So, I guess the whole thing was just kind of a stupid situation.

[CliffFletcher]

• Drove golf balls off the top of the soccer field into the neighbourhood below.
  
  
• Tossed a large rock through the skylight window of a condo pool. Then once they replaced the window (and presumably drained the pool and removed the broken glass) we did it again.
  
  
• When a stray dog followed us into the lobby of Gulf Canada Square on a quiet Saturday, we led it into the elevator and pressed the 10th floor.
  
  
• Rolled the rubber skate mat from the community centre down to Mac's and blocked the door, trapping the kids playing Joust inside.
  
  
• Rode our bikes home from downtown via Elbow Drive while ripped on acid.
  
  
• Explored the runnoff sewers from the Glenmore reservoir and popped off a manhole cover in the path of an astonished driver on 90th avenue.
  
  
• Turned a mosh into an ugly mob scene by chanting "kill the pigs" at the New Year's celebration at Olympic Plaza in 1987.

Green = Drunk and/or stoned
Blue = Busted by cops
Red = Drunk and busted by cops

[MikeMc]

Thinking about it I was not a fun kid to be a parent of at times, I have no idea how my parents had so much patience.

1. Started multiple fires in Fish Creek as a kid, all were able to be put out (thank god). Once with the fire departments helps. So f'ing stupid.

2. Shoplifted those fake joke credit card things from the mall (Southcentre), AND got caught. Was banned for a year from the mall and my parents were called. What a ######ed thing to steal and get caught for. Also I should have run from the security guards, just to see how a mall chase would have gone. A true regret in my life.

3. One night at the Den I drunkenly stole (AND got caught) a buttload of bags of chips from one of the stores in Mac hall. Store employee left the chip stand to close to the gate when they closed shop so you could reach in and grab them if you had long arms. I would grab 6 bags or so, transport them to the handicap bathroom where I had pulled an empty garbage bag out of the bottom of the garbage to store them in. I must have made 10 trips before I was caught. Banned from U of C for a year. I also should have made a run for it just to see how far I would have gotten.

[NuclearFart]

Not sure I can share any stories yet....what's the statute of limitations in Alberta?

[Coys1882]

We used to play pickup tag.

One guy driving - one guy in the box with a football
try to get the football into the box of the other players truck.
No hiding - no leaving town.
No intentional ramming.

[skudr248]

Hahahaha I love this thread and reading everyone's stories while i'm sitting here at work. I got some good ones, I was literally the idiot in my avatar, I did so much illegal #### it's not even funny and as a kid my parents let me do whatever the hell I wanted and without ever grounding me. I was taken home in a cop car so many times I can't remember, bailed out of holding cells by my parents, even had a court ordered curfew in place for a year and a half. My youth record looks like an encyclopedia. I want to tell some stories but don't even want to think about that part of my life anymore haha (and maybe the statue of limitations still apply?).

[troutman]

In Jr. High I was a bench warmer on the basketball team. Me and another player were frustrated by our lack of minutes, and "retired" our jerseys in the rafters of the gym. Almost got expelled.