Stupidest thing you did as a kid!!!!

[Classic Finn]

Well what I can remember is making my 1st RC plane...and our neighbors had cows soooo. I decided to tease the cows by flying the RC
over them ...... It was a slow flying double wing Barnstormer.. Slow and Stable to fly..

The cows went absolutely nuts...kickin their hind feet in the air and running about like calves out to pasture in spring for the 1st time. They most likely thought that was the biggest Horsefly soaring around their tails...that they ever saw.
Neighbor came over to cuss at my dad, for not keeping his son under control... I got grounded.. I then received 2 weeks of mandatory barn cleaning over at the neighbors barn...it wasnt just feeding the cows but had to shovel natures own by product... the smell ... yuk..

Havent been in a barn since....But boy that Model was fun....I guess that is where it got the name ? Barnstormer....

Classic Finn

[mwatters]

Sooooo many to choose from...

We'll go with this one:

My parents had sent me to a sleep-away camp for the summer. Not being the homesick type I was having a great time. Our cabin group was on an outcamp (tent camping away from the campground) and some of the boys had discovered that somebody had been partying on the site before us and left behind an entire trashcan FULL of empty booze bottles. The other kids were trying to blow up the bottles by filling them with flammable stuff and setting light to them. (bug spray, pine needles - that sort of stuff). Being the clever little fella that I was, I quickly stepped in to let them know that wasn't the right way to do it. So...

I grabbed a screw-top bottle with the cap on it, filled it with about 2 inches of water in the bottom, screwed the cap back on tight and tossed it in the fire. The water started to boil and fill the bottle with steam with enough pressure to blow the bottle into little pieces.

We were happy little boys.

Our cabin leader was not a happy little college student though. He came running out of his tent yelling at us.

Here comes the part that makes it stupid (and you thought it was the glass pieces flying out at us! )

I SWEAR TO GOD that what I remember the guy saying was "You should be more careful!"

So... When we were getting ready to blow up the SECOND bottle... we sat a picnic table over on its side to hide behind so we wouldn't get hit with any flying glass. ie. We were being more careful.

Poor cabin leader was back in his tent and came flying out the second he heard the steam escaping past the cap of the second bottle as it prepared to blow and kicked it out of the fire before it went.

He was fairly upset with us at that point.

Mike

[WarPony]

Stood on the hood of a 1976 Suburban while it was being driven down the road. Not only were we on the hood but at the front of it. You know, at 45 MPH, you can actually lean forward and the wind will keep you from FALLING forward!! Good thing our 15 year old buddy had a steady foot....................... !!!

[madjack]

Stood on the hood of a 1976 Suburban while it was being driven down the road. Not only were we on the hood but at the front of it. You know, at 45 MPH, you can actually lean forward and the wind will keep you from FALLING forward!! Good thing our 15 year old buddy had a steady foot....................... !!!

Jeff, I did virtually the same thing...they had built a brand new subdivision full of roads...no houses yet and I had to stand and surf on the roof offa car from one end to the other...all for a half a fith of Old Crow...yummmy...(not)...but what the hey, I was only 14 and bulletproof...of course their was the time when at the ripe age of 11 that I burned down my Grandmothers barn...but shhhhhhhhhh, I have never admitted to nor told anyone about that one.........
madjack

[Ma3tt]

NEXT on true confessions of Madjack.... the Titanic explained..... Shhhhh

[madjack]

NEXT on true confessions of Madjack.... the Titanic explained..... Shhhhh

hush now...the sign said..."don't cut here" but I never could control myself with a sawzall!!!!!!! .....

[lanego]

Well, girls can be as imaginative (or stupid) as boys. When I was nine, (to cut it short) I had an opportunity to get my older brother in trouble so I was looking under my mom's Early American loveseat, you know the kind with the pleated ground skirt. Only trouble was that I couldn't find the flashlight and decided to use a match.... When the net liner flared up, my brother and I (enemies until adversity struck) turned the couch upside down and poured the closest liquid to hand on it - a half gallon of milk, smelled but put the fire out (we thought). We told our p's when they got home that night, we broke the bottle of milk (which we did, and were grounded and unjustly accused of using the stove without permission) and were praying they never moved the loveseat until we were both 18, when, lo and behold, we both noticed a thin thread of smoke coming up through the arm of the loveseat, right through the fabric. What to do!? I sat on it, just perched right on top of the arm looking casual while my brother developed a sudden thirst and headed to the kitchen. He came back and perched beside me, nursing his large glass of water (ah, so subtle we were.) and waiting for our chance when our parents would stop giving us the hairy eyeball (how suspiscous grownups can be) while my seat grew warmer and warmer. Being actually a very intelligent child, I knew it would get a lot warmer if I got up so I held my ground until the p's burst out laughing and dad asked was that smoke coming out my a$$? The truth hurts...

[coreyjhen]

OK, I was about 12 or 13 and already a budding experimental physicist. I had always heard that you shouldn't put a wrench across the terminals of a car battery, but nobody ever told my why. So I grabbed an old battery that we used for jump starting machines out of Grandpa's shed and took it out to the field. Now, since Gramps would be upset if he walked into the shed and found one of his wrenches missing, I substituted to closest thing I could find... a lead pipe about 2 feet long. I put the battery down on the ground, took a couple of steps back, and watched. In a few seconds the pipe started to turn red. Then smoke appeared. About this time I was trying to break the world record for the mile, 'cuz I knew no good could come of this. I probably made it 50 yards before the whole thing blew. Made a hole a couple of feet deep and probably a couple of yards across. First time I ever heard Gramps say, "You dumb sh**!" - but not the last!

[TRAIL-OF-TEARS]

Wow how did I miss this one? Here are a few things we did as kids.
We had a small gang when I was young it was me my two brothers and two cousins my bothers and I were all 1.5 years apart and one cousin was 9 months older than my older brother and the other cousin was a week younger than me. We used to spend lots of time at my grand parents house they lived right across the street from the train tracks. We would sneak over there and put pennies and nickels on the track and later pick up our smashed trinkets. Now the stupid part. One day we found my grandpa’s .22 shells and thought that it would be cool to smash those puppies. We lined the tracks and stood by to retrieve our goodies but when that train went by all we heard was someone shooting at us. We were lucky nobody got hurt.

The second story was when we actually found those .22 shells. Eric (my cousin) called us over to look at the firecrackers he found he said look if I hold this with pliers and hit the back with this hammer it makes a loud sound and it also puts a little hole in the shed wall. My grandpa was almost as mad about the 15-20 holes in his shed as he was when we thought hammering nails into the tires of his truck would give him better traction. Boy we sure were stupid.

[Aaron Coffee]

I revived an old thread, oh wait that was just today.
When I was about 12, I decided it would be neat to see if I could ride my bicycle around the shed with my eyes closed, it seems that I forgot that there was a semi trailer sticking out of one end of the shed, my bike went under the trailer and I stopped myself with my face, no blood, just hurt, couldn't admit what I did to my paents, so I just suffered in silence.
Then about the same time I had a mini bike, and thought it would be cool to ride the bike up the front steps onto the deck through the house and out the back door, didn't do any damage and parents were never found out, me and my brother took turns doing this, but he still doesn't admit it.
Me and my brother used to ride motorcycles around the gravel roads(he had a 350 and me a 90)for some reason he stopped and I wasn't paying attention and hit his muffler with my rear brake lever at full steam(probably 30-40mph), put a big dent in his muffler and wrapped the brake pedal around my foot peg, he was very mad, parents just lectured me to be more careful.

[deceiver]

Let's see. I was probably abut 8 yrs old. I used to make those handkerchief parachutes with the clothespin attached by strings. you'd throw them up in the air and they'd open and land softly.
One day I had the bright idea of trying it. I got a whicker clothes basket and a blanket and rope. I tied the corners off on the blanket and attached the rope to the handles on the basket. I got out the ladder and climbed onto the roof of the garage. My older brother came out and saw me on the peak of the garage standing in a basked with a rolled up blanket in my arms ready to hop off and throw the blanket up in the air as I did it. Needless to say he had me down in a minute flat via the ladder and I was forbidden to go up on a roof again.

[hotrod]

I cannot say anything, Im pretty sure im still a wanted boy... lololooooooooo not good, not good at all............

[caseydog]

Wow, I'm glad someone revived this thread. I have some good ammo on MJ and Warpony for the LCG5 campfire.

When I was about four, I was watching TV with my sister, and wasn't all that interested in the show. I was bored. I found a bobby pin on the floor ---- right near an electrical socket. Guess what I did?

That almost killed me. I remember every detail of that event, forty-five years later. I even remember exactly what it felt like.

CD

[Fenlason]

at a young 17 I enlisted in the Marine Corps..

[Corwin C]

Where can I look up the statute of limitations on .... er, uh, .... nevermind.