Tragedy averted (phew)

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swee'pea99

Squire
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One idiot child: three fire engines, 14 firefighters, one ambulance with crew. Gordon Bennet.
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
The lads 'friends' didn't have the wit to just find a long stick or rope and pull him out themselves then?

Slightly reminds me of the story I saw a while ago of a teenage lad who got himself wedged in a toddler swing, and had to be cut free....
 

snorri

Legendary Member
One idiot child: three fire engines, 14 firefighters, one ambulance with crew. Gordon Bennet.
Not really an idiot child, just an adventurous child who has now learned a lesson.:smile:

Let's continue this thread on childhood learning experiences.
I had the lifeboat out when stuck in a cave at the bottom of cliffs overnight after discovering it is easier to jump down from a high level than it is to climb up to that same level.
 

steve52

I'm back! Yippeee
aged seven, some frends and i though we would rid our selves of the gang of bullys in our park.(they were a bit older) so armed with sticks and things we lined up and walked towards them, my eyes locked on to the eyes of my tormenter.at about 2 meters apart i couldent understand there looks of mirth and giggles! so i stopped and looked to my frends for an explanation, only to find them doing there best usain bolt impressions some fifty metres away.I smiled dropped the stick and did the same.but never did i trust them again. is this why i prefer to ride alone?
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
[QUOTE 2628117, member: 259"]I learned that if you start a fire in a dead hollow tree to get rid of a wasp's nest and the whole tree alarmingly bursts into flames, you have to (a) run away more quickly and (b) lie more convincingly to the policeman. :whistle:[/quote]
I learned that it is easy to climb up the inside of a hollow oak tree but it is very hard to back down through one. I also learned that looking down from a bough of a hollow oak tree is much scarier than looking up at the bough from the ground. Yes, I got stuck! My mind was telling me that if I hung from the bough, then my feet would only be a few feet from the ground and I would be okay dropping the last bit. It still took me about an hour to pluck up the nerve to actually do it!

As for wasps ...
  • At the age of 6, I discovered a wasp nest in our back garden. I thought it would be a good idea to try and block the entrance to it with stones ... I got stung enough times to develop a fear of wasps which it took me over 15 years to lose!
  • I was scrambling down a muddy bank once when I realised that I had just scrambled onto the entrance to a wasp nest. I froze with fear and had about 60 of the buggers crawling all over me! I kept thinking that I'd wait for them to crawl or fly away and then I would leap off the bank and run off before they could react. The trouble was, every time one flew off, another one landed. That was another hour of my life that seemed to last a day. In the end, I freaked out and jumped down with a load of wasps still on me. Somehow, I managed to knock them away without getting stung.
 

threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
Location
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Pouring petrol onto an already burning fire isn't a good idea and best not to lob the burning can into the middle of the lawn either - sorry Mr and Mrs Gray, anyway it was your son's fault really :whistle:
 
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swee'pea99

swee'pea99

Squire
I learned that while dads are dumb, they're not so dumb as to actually give you the weedkiller you just asked for in your best innocentest voice rather than, say, fix you with a very beady eye and ask you why you want it.
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
It's funny, I don't remember learning any of this stuff. I tended to figure things out in advance by thinking....
 
I learnt that using the local brook to cross under the main road outside out home (Stoke-On-Trent, Leek & Buxton road) was not a good idea especially immediately after a storm - got spotted moving some debris out of the way. Apparently using the 1m high drainage tunnel that ran 250-300m underground was considered dangerous so it had a grill put over very soon afterwards. What I learnt was that it then flooded down the road and straight into our home!

I also learnt that children can cross peat bogs much more easily than adults after I had to help the adult that came out to tell me I was in danger crossing a peat bog I used to frequently play on.
 

Profpointy

Legendary Member
I learned that while dads are dumb, they're not so dumb as to actually give you the weedkiller you just asked for in your best innocentest voice rather than, say, fix you with a very beady eye and ask you why you want it.

Just a wild guess, but would you then have asked your mum for a cup of sugar ?

Was warned off this particular recipe as a child. Did meet someone who'd lost his thumb as a child, though others made the stuff quite successfully.

Did do gunpoweder - but we were quite wary of even that, slightly needlessly it turned out as though certainly burned and spluttered, you'd not have been able to blow up the houses of parliament no matter how much you'd hidden in the cellars. might have stunk out the place with sulpher fumes though.
 
[QUOTE 2628042, member: 259"]And to think that Daktari only needed a ladder and a spare bandanna when Cheetah Judy got stuck in the quicksand. :rolleyes:

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Someone is really showing their age here!
 
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