What crazy thing did you do as a kid ?

[Mortiroloboy]

When I was about 12, me and my mate found what we thought was a WW2 shell, it was about the size of a thermos flask. It had a drive band at the bottom and a small brass attachment at the tip, it was pretty heavy, we had found it in a field near the back of my house close to an old 'pillbox'.

Anyway, we took it back to mine and started to clean it, we then decided to dismantle it, by unscrewing the brass bit on the tip.

My Dad returned home just in time to stop us tampering with the timer on which transpired to be an anti aircraft shell.

EOD Bomb disposal were called, upon arrival they sandbagged the shell at the bottom of the garden, and were deliberating whether they may have to try and defuse it there in the back garden.

My Mum was having kittens, me and my mate were totally oblivious to the potential danger we had put ourselves, and probably the neighbours in.

Anyway, EOD did there stuff and took the shell away.

 

[XmisterIS]

When I was 4 years old I flushed all the bathroom towels down the loo, on Easter Sunday morning, about 5 minutes before we were due to set off for a long weekend at my Aunt's house. My Mother came into the bathroom just as the last towel was disappearing down the loo.

The towels made it all the way down to the main drain, where they got stuck, and backed up the toilets in the entire cul-de-sac. My Dad had to pay God knows how much (hundreds of pounds - which was an awful lot in the early 1980's!) to have a chap come on an emergency call-out and fix it. He said that had the towels gone down a little further, the council may have had to dig up the road and replace the pipe.

To this day, I have no idea why I did it! I can only vaguely remember doing it.

Moral of the story? Remind me NEVER to have kids! Lol!

 

[thomas]

Not sure what it says about me, but i've never got bored with doing stupid things....even when i was in my 30s
I figured (after reading it once) you can drive a manual car (or van in this case) without using the clutch.
Start with just the right amount of throttle and in 1st gear, you can pull away with no clutch. Just the right revs, you can change gear.
I once drove from Peterborough to the outskirts of London without touching the clutch once Would you buy a used car from me ?

As long as you can match the revs it works fine and shouldn't do any harm...though, if you muck it up it won't do a lot of good!!

Never drove that far but have done it (it is easier with a revometer - which I didn't have).

 

[Apeman]

We used to ride down a hill on an old motorbike frame (no engine,back brake only) and on to a turning circle trying to avoid parked cars. For fun we used to fire rockets(fireworks) out of tubes like bazookas at people in the next street. Any wonder fireworks were banned here!

 

[Dave5N]

Jumping off the side of the pier.

We did it all day long. A practice long since banned.

 

[redjedi]

When I was about 7, a friend and I climbed on the curved support of this bridge, trying to reach the middle

The only way to get past the pillars was to reach around the outside of them, we could barely reach.

I didn't remember how far up we were until I saw this photo

There was also a cliff just to the left of school in the picture (below the bridge), which we climbed down once, it must have been about 40-50 ft high, which when you're 7 is more like a million ft. Once we got to the bottom the only way out was back up, I struggled to make it and had to rest a couple of times.