What was some dumb shit you and the boys did growing up?

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tapiocatapioca 433 2019-12-02 02:27:06

An example would be, hypothetically speaking, rotating between standing 100-200 yards away and seeing if we could tag each other with the potato gun.

An example would be, hypothetically speaking, rotating between standing 150-200 yards away and seeing if you could tag each other with the potato gun.

An example would be, hypothetically speaking, rotating between standing 150-200 yards away and seeing if you could hit each other with a potato gun.

HillaryEmailedMe 458 8m

We would buy eggs from 7-11, then go across the street and egg 7-11.

FreedomEpiphany 172 12m

The level of anti conformity is amazing.

GummiesAreAwesome 55 3h25m

So is just the sheer simplicity and efficiency 😂

Ice-Berg-Slim 43 11h13m

me and friend use to egg the same guy's house every Friday for months. Literally buy like 20 trays of 50 eggs or so per tray, run up the hill overlooking his house and pelt it with them ( it sounded like hail), he would always run up the hill to get us but we would just scatter every time. I have no idea why we picked on him but every time it got funnier and funnier. Kids are assholes.

HillaryEmailedMe 21 12h23m

I want in...

Lol, just thought of this. Imagine the night it stopped he just sat in his house waiting for it, but it never happened. The PTSD of "ought oh, friday night eggs"....

Ice-Berg-Slim 10 12h26m

I always wondered what he thought he was going to do if he caught us, there were like 10 of us.

NeimadVapes 2 1d2h22m

he should have come out with his own spud gun, would have been war :P

angelflairpasta 36 14m

in awe

PianoConcertoNo2 16 9h49m

A different 7-11, or the same one?


Sounds like hes going for irony, so probably the same one.

fradd13 11 11h4m

My cousin randomly came up with the idea of throwing unripe walnuts, from the tree in my grandpa's backyard, at cars coming by on the street over the fence. They couldn't see us well.

Actually probably one of the worst things I did as a kid, cause these days I would throw someone to the ground in anger if I caught them doing something like that to my car.

But only one car stopped, trying to figure out what happened for a few minutes.

Also surprised we didn't break windows

WalkerMack 385 1m

Baseball but with rocks

Edit: there was also this one time where we got bored of rock baseball and we just started swallowing small rocks for fun.

tapiocatapioca 170 4m

Simple yet elegant. Truly timeless.

CloudyTheDucky 56 5h28m

started swallowing small rocks for fun


WalkerMack 52 5h30m

We would also take like 3 feet of dental floss, tie one end to a gummy bear and swallow that and then yank on the string and try not to throw up

Meiyala 22 9h26m

You guys must have been really bored back then.

redvodkandpinkgin 14 11h28m

That sounds incredibly stupid. I wanna try

hudz95 14 6h18m

Well? Don't leave us waiting. How's your poop after that?

WalkerMack 4 9h15m

Honestly it was normal, I only swallowed one small pebble.

Pannuba 3 12h48m

I just got a flashback from kindergarten of me hiding in a playground tunnel and swallowing rocks while squatting.

UPCBRO1 11 2h34m

Those huge wiffle ball bats were the best for this

hdorsettcase 5 4h59m

Tennis, but with rocks, and you only got points when you hit the other player.

gizakaga 5 5h14m

Ill do you one better: Tennis with Hot Wheels

kazkids 5 10h12m

Ok, but did you eat the Hot Wheels?

Stormfly 4 11h28m

Nah, they taste better chilled.

harsh_not 3 15h54m

You deserve an award.

gizakaga 2 1d4h39m

Got me there mate. But we did hit them straight up in the air and hit an actual car, thought it was hilarious a the time but if some 10 year old fuckhead hit my car with a hotwheels I would not be a happy man.

0x8BitStorm 5 8h22m

We put rocks in snowballs for sure, it was always after getting hit by an iceball, we jut expedited the pain.

[deleted] 3 8h42m

Tennis rackets with small rocks, those fuckers would fly!

Durzo_Blintt 3 12h20m

Hey we did this but hitting it over my house. Ended up getting a rock stuck in the window, went between both panels. My dad was not pleased.

TheVikingCoffeeMan 249 2m

We thought it would be fun to hypothetically militarize golf carts with lots of duct tape, pvc pipes and fireworks. We drove around on the golf course shooting mortar shells at each other all night.

We got into all sorts of dumb shit on that golf course.

Edit: also pinecone fights. The snowball fights of southern Louisiana.

Californib 86 6m

You did that when you were young? I want to do that NOW.

TheVikingCoffeeMan 68 14m

All my friends lived on the golf course. We spent most of our nights in the summer staying up all night doing stupid shit like this. We would steal all the toilet paper from the golf course bathrooms, and play real-life Mario cart chasing each other in golf carts throwing rolls of toilet paper at each other on the fairways.

Once, when someone forgot to clean the balls off the driving range, we spent HOURS filling trash cans with golf balls. We filled a portapotty with as many golf balls as we could fit, and flipped it into the road. I’ll never forget the sound of hundreds of shit covered golf balls rolling down the street.

we got older and went to college, but every New Years we still show up to the golf course get drunk and remember the stupid shit we did back then. It’s a miracle no one got hurt in all those years, but I’ll always have those amazing stories to tell people.

Californib 30 23m

Holy man, that's fucking hilarious.

I've got a toilet paper story. My college dorms had suites that shared a bathroom. They provided the TP, and I used to go into the supply closet at the end of the week before resupply (I never wanted to short everyone else on the floor), and if any was left I'd take it. They refilled the stock and the next week, same deal.

I ended up with HUNDREDS of rolls of TP, not quite knowing what to do with it. One day I decided it would make a great chair, so I unspooled it all and sat in it for a while. Then I got caught. One of the college officials came into my room and saw it, fortunately didn't write me up, and told me to get rid of it. So I did the only natural thing, which is to make the World's Biggest Spitball.

I took a trash can and filled it with water, then pushed all of the paper in. It compressed way farther than I was expecting. It ended up filling the large trash can about half way. Probably 50 pounds total. And what do you do with the World's Largest Spitball? Out of the fourth floor window, of course. Right into my dorm's main entrance. SPLAT!

Dude. That shit splattered EVERYWHERE. The sidewalk, grass, doors, wall... and wet toilet paper turns to glue if you don't get it off fast enough, which they didn't. There was some stuck to the windows for the rest of the semester.

That splat when it hit the ground is a sound I'll never forget.

TheVikingCoffeeMan 10 26m

That’s the best!! I didn’t live on campus in college, so I never got to participate/experience dorm room pranks, which I’m actually kind of thankful for.

Californib 12 29m

I moved off campus by my junior year. Trust me, you didn't miss anything.

The typical one in my school was filling up a 55 gallon trash can with water and leaning it against the elevator door. You go up to your floor and floosh everybody inside gets covered.

It would also flood the elevator shaft and short out the works at the bottom, so the elevator would be out for weeks. Funny? Yes, but walking up the stairs for half a month took all of the charm out of it.

tapiocatapioca 2 7h9m

Living in the dorms truly was a special time. Mine and everyone I know saw their lung and liver function steadily dissipate before their eyes and it was fantastic.

1st10Amendments 1 13h19m

But if this prank were to be perpetrated in a rival frat’s dorm, it could have been doubly entertaining, I suppose.

V_M 1 19h45m

Did I go to school with you?

We also dragged junk into the elevator as makeshit table and chairs, and we'd play poker in the elevator as it went up and down all night. While VERY drunk. And we'd save a play spot for drunk girls to play along with us. And we'd cooperate (cheat) to make her lose. Then inform her it was strip poker. Some girls played along! We were unimaginably drunk, of course. We also gossiped about the hundreds of elevator riders we met; who looks too drunk, who's gonna puke, who looks high, why are you doing laundry at 4am, what party did you just come from, etc. We tried to rope other people into this as the night went on, but we were the only ones stupid enough to participate.

Then we got (drunk) dorm mates who could play musical instruments to ride the elevator to the floor of the R.A. we hated the most at 3am, most hated because he had most recently busted us, then post lookouts not holding instruments, than blast our musical instruments at maximum volume for as long as we dared until escape and hide the instruments in cases or under laundry baskets. The lookouts would get busted, but what can they do, obviously they have no deafening boom box, they're just drunk morons. The R.A.s were fixated on the idea this was all one single lone guy with a boom box and ignored a small orchestra worth of drunk morons carrying musical instrument cases. Because everyone walks around at 3am with a tuba. At least where I went to school, I guess.

It was a point of pride to never puke on your own dorm floor. Sometimes (well... often) the elevators were puked in, enroute to another floor.

Supposedly all this stuff was long tradition at that dorm.

RusticSurgery 1 1d7h9m

Shit Covered Golf Balls...band name!!!

vintagefancollector 0 1h57m

That sounds as funny as hell.

It is funny as hell.

I fucking spat out my water lmaooo

epiccheeseburgermama 0 4h10m

I grew up on a golf course and have hypothetically participated in these exact activities. It was really dangerous and I am surprised nobody got hurt.

The night this happened the boys got caught because they decided to smoke a bowl in golf cart storage unit, which had cameras. Each of their faces were illuminated as they passed the bowl around. The cops tracked them down at our high school immediately.

Apparently, our joy ride caused thousands of dollars to the carts and the greenery. They pressed charges, despite the boys being pretty young. They all had to pay for the damages for years as punishment.

It sure was a fun hypothetical night.

Cheers to the boys!

1st10Amendments 1 13h48m

TL;DR at bottom.

The “cops involved and charges pressed” part reminded me of my run-in with the law.

I was a member of the school’s band for the last seven years of school, grades 6-12.

In high school, our band competed with high schools all across the state. For these competitions, we traveled from the eastern coast of the state of North Carolina to Raleigh, the State Capital, about three hours by chartered bus, or approximately thirteen hours by school bus. So for the trip in question, a bus was chartered.

On the trip home, late at night, some of us decided it would be cool to find out how many of us could be packed into the bus’ bathroom. To increase the number, those outside the bathroom door were shoving those inside the bathroom in to try to get the door shut. This goal was not realized, unfortunately, so I never did find out how many would fit.

The next day at school, the band teacher called a lot of names, mine and my brother’s included. We were marched into a separate room. (The band teacher’s office would have been far too small to handle such a mob of 15-18 year old boys. Just imagine how much pressure the walls, door, and windows of that bus’ bathroom were put under.)

We were informed that, due to our antics, damage had been done to the bus, and since we all were involved, the cost of repairs was to be split up between the lot of us and restitution would be paid and punishment dealt out on top of that.

Since my brother and I were both involved and neither of us had a job, that meant my mother took a double hit, about $150.00, if memory serves. To pay her back the money she couldn’t afford to throw out the window, we were made to take a job after school and on weekends, the proceeds of which were then given to my mom, of course.

What was the damage? While trying to force the bus’ bathroom door closed, the pressure of all those boys was too much for the bathroom window to take and it popped out and onto the interstate while we were traveling at about 60 miles an hour. We had to replace that window. I found out later that when the window gave, one or more of the boys inside the bathroom were thrust out that window. My brother told me later that he had had to reach out and snatch his best friend’s shirt to keep his best friend from being ejected from the bus at highway speeds.

TL;DR High school prank goes bad, could have been MUCH worse. There was property damage, but luckily no loss of life. LPT: Windows give, so don’t pressure them.

Obeythelab 6 33m

I want to do that NOW.

Same here.. When and where can I do this?

tapiocatapioca 6 8m

Sounds like it would hypothetically be a good time. We may or may not have had shootouts with roman candles as well.

non_legitur 3 9h16m

When I was a kid, pinecones were hand grenades. It didn't even have to hit you; if it landed within about five feet you were morally obliged to die horribly, in slow motion.

ItsDarkonXbox 1 12h44m

Wet pinecone? Cuz that’s the worst

Mega_Dragonzord 212 26m

I worked at a summer camp when I was 17. One night my roomates and I decided to go skinny dipping and see if we could get some of the girl staff to go too. They didn't end up coming out, so we decided to go naked blobbing.

If you don't know a blob is a giant air cushion that you jump off a tower onto to launch someone else into the air to splash into the water.

The first few round went ok, but then I jumped off the tower and my dick and balls decided to not go where I wanted them to....I landed on my balls from a height of about 20 feet. i could barely walk the next day it hurt so bad.

I was able to have children thankfully.

0/10 do NOT recommend. (although naked swimming is awesome)

Obeythelab 50 3h27m

Skinny dipping was always the best. Campfire + age 15-25 + beer + lake = Skinny dipping.

Mega_Dragonzord 19 3h27m

Yeah, it’s so freeing to be naked in water.

nkarkas 12 5h28m

My eyes are sweating so bad Richard Simmons styles... thank you so much... my orange arrow floats so gingerly now

lordvader5674 -1 7h18m

Did you tear your scrotum?

Mega_Dragonzord 1 14h13m

Uh no...just the pain of having racked myself from a 20 ft fall with my own ass.

jdizzle1981 101 2m

Airsoft but with Red Ryder BB guns and no safety equipment.

Str3ssT3std 55 1h6m

Yep. They didn't have airsoft when I was a kid, just BB guns. 3 rules:

1) must wear shorts, no jeans

2) must wear short-sleeved t-shirts, no long sleeves, no jackets, no sweatshirts

3) try not to shoot each other in the face, back of head &/or neck are fair game

The_Man11 13 15h43m

4) Only one pump allowed.

Str3ssT3std 5 15h58m

Well ... hmm. I mean I remember that rule, but I don't remember anyone honoring it.

But, that's really more for the Crosman styles, the Daisy Red Ryder lever-actions were strictly one-pump chumps.

SantasDead 3 1h32m


BenjaminTightwater 91 5m

It was called “The bottle rocket game”

We set down an entire pack (144) bottle rockets down on a table, parallel with the ground

Then we used a propane torch to mass light them then run in the direction they were going to try and outrun them

It was epic

~Mr. Tightwater

FreedomEpiphany 18 8m

My teenage rebellion was just having a zoo farm of animals.

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FreedomEpiphany 9 10m

Damn, your neighbor wins the round.

windowsfrozenshut 8 8h25m

We did that, kinda...

When I was in high school, I worked at a fireworks stand one year. At midnight on the 4th, the super cool owners of the stand came and said we could load up as much of the leftovers as we could fit in our cars before closing and they "didn't see it". I drove a longbed truck. I had the bed overflowing with fireworks. We had so much fireworks that instead of trying to sort through them and find stuff to light, we would just drive out to the old abandoned military base in town, set a box of fireworks out, light the cardboard with a torch, and sit there and watch whatever shit was in there blow up. We had so many fireworks that they lasted us into the winter.

That was the best summer of my life.

SwissMyCheeseYet 1 5h17m

A cousin and I did something similar, but with firecrackers in glass bottles and we outran shards of glass. We didn't get hurt though!

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jayjaygee85 30 4h38m

When you say jumping over a stream on a BMW I assume you mean BMX not the german manufactured motor vehicle?

vintagefancollector 17 2h10m

Tell us more about the grenade and the slingshot poop

tapiocatapioca 11 32m

That’s the type of devious shit I like.

GummiesAreAwesome 8 3h26m

Not sure I’d want to live in your village lol.

alcoholic_dragon 73 10m

We built a castle out of cinder blocks in what was essentially a junk yard for construction materials. Threw bricks at each other and blew stuff up

tapiocatapioca 21 27m

Ooh you reminded me of when we built like a three story treehouse out of salvaged materials that was essentially a hepatitis death trap. Some lame fell out and broke something so his mom complained to the city and they tore it down. It was like four months of dedication squandered.

Blowing stuff up was the best but I didn’t want to mention it and sound like a terrorist lol. I mean... hypothetically blowing stuff up.

Edit: yooo I just remembered molotov cocktails

mck04 1 20h46m

Just don't upload it to YouTube like we did when 17. Didn't even damage property but all got found guilty of several charges of possession and manufacture of explosives. $300 fine and 1 year good behaviour Bond. No conviction at least. 10 year ban from joining the police from the moment of court case 2 years after. Army said no problem though lol

tapiocatapioca 2 23h46m

Oh we had words with the city, that’s for sure. We tried rebuilding it more than once and left notes to those who tore it down.

But we were nine so they didn’t have the heart to charge us. We woulda beat the case. Us neighborhood boys could’ve pooled our money and racked up at least $10 so it’s safe to say we would’ve beat the case with our high caliber, dream team of attorneys.

Roachamon 50 24m

We had some pretty insane fights with the lads from the next village over from ours, shit got waaay out of hand a few times. I remember one guy getting a pick axe through the window of his car lol.

Plenty of drug related stuff, just being nuisances but also dangerous stuff like riding around on mopeds speeded up.

tapiocatapioca 14 33m

I’m definitely glad that I asked this question because so many of these answers are bringing up memories that I forgot about. Thank you haha.

lil_rolodex 37 2h48m

You want me to make a list? I'm making a list.

  1. Shot each other in the head with BB guns while wearing motorcycle helmets
  2. Chased each other with deodorant flamethrowers
  3. Climbed onto the rooves of various buildings
  4. Hit golf balls off aforementioned rooves
  5. Firebreathing with everclear on a wood deck
  6. Rented some farm animals and set them loose in the school
  7. The "atomic shit"
  8. Put laxatives in each others water bottles
  9. Petty theft just for kicks
  10. Broke into a llama farm to pet the llamas
AexoneMTG 22 9h18m

Alright you need to expand on the ‘atomic shit’.

lil_rolodex 11 15h52m

The atomic shit was where we took turns pooping in the top part of the toilet, where clean water normally goes. The result is when the toilet is flushed, poopy water flows. We did this to an entire bathroom at one point.

ljtwork 8 16h52m

That's called an Upper-Decking.

Packin_Penguin 3 13h57m

1-9, normal. 10... That's epic.

I can only imagine a responding officer walking in to see a bunch of rebellious teen-agers gently petting llamas.

NetWareHead 30 2h55m

Disclaimer: I was a young kid when I did most of the stuff listed below with no concept of how dangerous or how shitty of a human being I was acting like. Glad I can laugh about it now.

-5th grade went on a hike with our boy scout troop. Me and some kids found a pile of bricks abandoned in the woods. That ended up with us goofing around and evolving into a full on brick fight. Yep, much like a snowball fight but with bricks. Ended up getting pegged in the back of the head and needed 15 stitches.

-Stayed at a hotel with family in florida and I met this other juvenile delinquent kid, we got into so much trouble. Indoor pool with all of the balconies of the rooms facing the pool. This kid I met, his room actually overhung the pool. So we hatched a plan that whoever had to poop first would somehow get it into the pool by dropping it from the balcony. He ended having to go first and he came out of his bathroom with a turd on a paper plate, pushed it off of the plate with a plastic fork. We were giggling so hard but nobody in/around the pool noticed it fall in. It sat at the bottom of the pool and for a solid 15 minutes, we laughed uproariously as people came close to it but nobody ever managed to actually see it. And then just like that, an old lady stepped in it. She shrieked bloody murder as she realized what she stepped on. She hollered that somebody had shit in the pool and I swear, the entire pool cleared in 10 seconds. People booked out of the water like Jaws was in it. She was hopping on 1 foot and found a hose to clean her foot off. This little boy was crying, everybody I think suspected him. This table of teenage guys was playing a board game or something and was laughing so hard too. Nobody ever suspected it was us.

-Stole bowling balls from a bowling alley and dropped them down a stairwell of a tall building; one of those stairwells that literally span the entire height of a building and the stairs spiraled onwards up until the reached the top. One of the balls ended up bouncing hard and smashed into the glass of a food/candy vending machine which, of course, we decided to rob of all the good stuff.

-Left 2 liter bottles of soda, full sized water jugs from a Poland Spring water dispenser as well as patio furniture in the middle of the street on a blind curve. Cars/trucks would come around the curve fast and plow into the obstacles. We would be hiding in the nearby woods with an escape route pre-mapped out ready to split, obviously laughing at the carnage.

-Got our hands on professional grade fireworks, this one was like a mortar with a tube diameter of 3 inches or so, definitely not something we ever saw before. We lit it off and instead of pointed the tube straight up to the sky, we pointed it at a 30 degree angle. The shell launched and blew up under a street lamp. Shattered all of the glass, knocked the light out and set off all of the car alarms on the street.

-Was in 6th grade and at the phase where we were curious about cigarettes and lighters. Kid at my school gave us 2 cigarettes and a lighter to try. After school, my buddy and I went to our hideout in the woods to smoke. Well we both got sick and couldn't finish the cigs. However we still had a lighter to amuse us so we start lighting shit on fire. We would build a fire and then stomp it out before daring again. Eventually one fire got too big and out of control and we couldn't stop it out. It grew to a small forest fire size; we were burned on our legs trying to put it out but had to stop after we realized it was hopeless. The fire began encroaching on a neighbor's property/house and we debated running away. Neighbor saw us in the woods and came out with a hose trying to put it out and cursing at us while his wife called the fire department. Firefighters came to put it out and the cops had a word with us. I tried to deny it and made up a story; tried to blame it on black people that ran off but the cops didn't buy it. Obviously way more racist times back then and was repeating things from my upbringing seeing nothing wrong with it.

-Friends and I were in the mall and a few of us went to the bathroom. I was in the stall next to a friend and I was pooping. He tells me to move my backpack away from the wall between us. Unsure why but I did. I see him drop a huge wag of bunched up toilet paper on the ground with a huge shit on it. He takes like 10 of those sample perfume; the glass vial things that the girls would hand out around the holidays at Macys and douses the poop. Sets the thing on fire! Runs out of the stall. I have this flaming shit/toilet paper combo on fire next to me and I start panicking. I cant even tell you how BAD it smelled, the burning shit. Little floating bits of ash and burning toilet paper were all over the bathroom. I couldnt even finish pooping when I hiked up my pants, grabbed my bag and ran out of the bathroom. Of course my friends are all dying of laughter but we had to leave the mall because we were convinced somebody would find out.

-Was a young kid and had a train set with an AC converter. A brick with a speed control lever and 2 sets of wires. One side plug into AC outlet and other side was a pair of wire leads that affixed to the track. Removed the track leads and inserted into the wall outlet and turned the speed up to full. Big spark and black mark on the wall, circuit breaker blown. Dad was so pissed, had place the outlet and repaint the wall.

- 20 years old, like an idiot, I tried purchase alcohol from a liquor store across street from my dad's business. We knew the guy too, came in frequently to talk with my dad and was friends with us. I figured he would be cool and sell me a 30 pack. Refused and then he came in to talk to my dad...

-Friends and I had those super soaker water guns/cannons. We loaded them with chlorox bleach instead of water. We did raise the point to each other about bleach getting into our eyes so we bought swimmer's & scuba goggles; for safety of course! Had bleach fights and ruined a shit ton of clothing. Found out the hard way that bleach is a skin irritant so this phase lasted very short.

flyordie28 8 3h27m

The flaming shit & leaving it with you in your stall is so good! Haha! Brilliant!

Nobel617 5 4h59m

I want this in movie form please

CThig_ 3 19h1m

It's called Jackass

ItsHowIRoll 27 1h52m

I lived in a rural area with big storm drains about a meter in diameter so in the wet season when it was flooding we would jump in them and get sucked under the roads and pop out the other side, would also use tractor tyre inner tubes to ride the flooding rivers and canals. We had a labrador and sausage dog that would also partake in the shenanigans though old mate sausage had to be rescued alot. Looking back now it's amazing no one died and nothing went wrong 🤦‍♂️

KDM_VonDoom 22 18m

Make napalm from the anarchy cookbook 2000 and set neighborhood trash cans on fire 🔥

SantasDead 17 1h36m

I printed that on my parents dot matrix printer and was some kind of terrorist letting people copy sections for money. Lol.

I still make the smoke bomb from that cookbook. My son looks forward to making it every year. Lol

Greeseaweesel 3 11h12m

This takes me back. Lost school printing privileges for printing the match head tennis ball bomb off in the library...

P__Squared 2 1d0h47m

Re: smoke bombs, do you mean the ones with saltpeter and sugar?

SantasDead 1 2d4h55m


trashfireinspector 3 1h26m

I applaud this.

s_team7 16 3m

Building a homemade ramp for our bikes like we was in the x games. One piece of wood and cinder block and for the life of us we couldn’t figure out the math and why it never worked.

[deleted] 6 9h36m

*board snaps again* "aww, damnit!"

STRMfrmXMN 15 4m

Combining all of the food in the kitchen into a smoothie.

I didn't drink any because the first friend to even smell it vomited immediately.

sultanofsweep 15 1h51m

Pulling people on an office chair with bikes. Got it going so fast the wheel axle melted or broke off or something, and the dude on it essentially face planted from on top the chair going maybe 30-40kph. He was alright but his face arms and legs got road rash like nothing I've ever seen. The entire front half of his body was covered in blood. Looking back it makes sense office chairs weren't designed to go that fast.

CThig_ 2 18h56m


pure gold

roarkish 1 20h35m

Oh man, we used to do that but with jump ropes and skateboards.

One would ride the bike as fast as he could, the other put the rope around the seat post and used the handles as "steering".

If the bike person took a corner you are shit because you kept going the same direction, often into parked cars or curbs.

Lots of road rash here, too.

Obeythelab 12 42m

Used to have bottle rocket and roman candle wars.

Would go swimming in a river that had several large rock formations that we could "cliff dive" off of, probably a good 30-40 foot drop. Into a river with unpredictable currents, undertows, and constantly shifting sandbars. Hell one of my buddies once got caught in a current and grabbed onto a tree branch, poor bastard lost is shorts and undershorts pulling himself out of the water lol.

How we are all still alive, I do not know.

Substantial-Truth 10 29m

Now you know I can't say because of the statute of limitations.

slayer_mike 9 14m

Play catch with a weedpicker. Still got the scar from that. Shot a tennis ball with a lit quarter stick of dynamite through someone’s window with a three person slingshot. Got stuck in a storm sewer.

rattlemebones 8 1h39m

Literally played on moving freight trains. We'd run alongside and hop on. One time I did it in flip flops and my foot slipped through the foot step rung and hit the side of the wheel. I fucking freak out thinking about how stupid we were.

UPCBRO1 8 2h37m

Reddit would hate me if I told some of my stories. I’m glad nobody was ever hurt

tapiocatapioca 3 3h1m

Aye a lot of us did dumb stuff that we’re ashamed of when we look back on it. As long as you grow up and reflect on it why it was wrong, you’re golden.

UPCBRO1 5 3h11m

Yeah you’re right, I cringe when I think back tho. Our group of friends did some pretty horrible stuff. One of the “very tame” ones was hiding in bushes and shooting cars windows at close range with Pellet rifles as they drove by on a main road just so we could get a reaction or even a “brake light”. We lived off of a windy main road, so you can imagine some of the more dangerous things that went on. Kids are fucking dumb

MenudoMenudo 8 12h44m

We tried to build bombs. We made a few pipe bombs by emptying out fireworks or model rocket engines, most were duds or else not very impressive but a few had some real kick to them and one left an impressive crater around a foot across and six inches deep and left our ears ringing for hours after. That one got the police called on us, but we ran and hid and never actually talked to the cops. Amazed to this day that all of us still have both eyes and all ten fingers.

My friend's uncle hired us to remove a stump, and we tried to do it by making a fertilizer bomb. It had an impressive blast but didn't dislodge the stump and we ended up having to dig it out anyway. I can't believe that 11 year old me had copies of The Anarchist's Cookbook and other bomb making manuals back then. The 80's were a different time.

We also made a DYI flamethrower that sort of worked (maybe a 10 foot range) and proved to be so dangerous that even we had the good sense of getting rid of it. Sold it to some even dumber kids, who used it to burn down their garden shed and sustain some first degree burns.

that_planetarium_guy 6 6h44m

Hypothetically speaking one could do any of a number of things such as:

Build a fully functional trebuchet and use to launch bricks and flaming tennis balls.

Purchase bowling balls and roll them down the steepest road at midnight to see them reach 40 mph, hit a curb, fly through the air, and dent a yield sign 10 feet up.

Create various high energy yielding chemical reaction vessels from disassembled fireworks available at the nearby native American reservation and set them off over a can of flour to see if the atomized flour increased overall reaction energy yield.

Sneak into an abandoned chemical plant to film a terribly produced monster movie using various household items and Goodwill finds such as squirt guns, a werewolf mask, and an old wheelchair.

Look down the open combustion chamber of a potato gun to see why despite the ample amount of hairspray injected, the reaction did not ignite, only to discover that adding oxygen by leaving said chamber open is sufficient to discover the smell of burnt eyebrows.

Hypothetically speaking of course.

Blondie_62 5 3h3m

Sat on the ground with legs spread and threw basketballs at our crotches.

Decided that egging houses was rude so we threw still packaged hostess products at people's doors.

MakeUS_AKs_GR8_Again 4 2h4m

Sprayed fart spray after we took the spray foam poop looking stuff and made it look like a massive turd with toilet paper when we were 8 in the Chuck E. Cheese tunnels at someone else's birthday party. HAZMAT had to come with the health department. No we didn't get caught

tommygun1688 4 3h29m

Roman candle and firecracker fights.

Oh and bike tag, the person who was it would run their bike into the other peoples who were trying to get away. We never wore helmets and one of our friends got a handle bar in the gut and ended up with internal bleeding (I still remember him screaming "my penis! My penis!", but he got hit in the gut, not in the dick, so it was kinda funny, until we realized he was pretty hurt).

Also, we would have "man competitions" see who could last longer in the snow barefoot, who could last longer holding a heavy rusty chain over their head.

1st10Amendments 4 6h6m

When my family moved here in 1969, the road stopped being paved right after the driveway of our new house. There were construction crews building new houses further down, and sometimes my brother (a year and a few months younger than my 8 years of age) and I would walk through the new (unfinished) houses and collect the used cola bottles and take them to a store to trade them in for spending money.

That’s not the stupid thing, though.

We noticed that the work crews were cutting down trees to make room for the new houses, so we would take turns at climbing a tree as high as we could and waiting there while the other chopped or sawed the tree down. The one of us in the tree at the time would ride that sucker all the way down.

This was great fun to our way of thinking.

angelflairpasta 3 14m

Played with matches and lit some things on fire.

trashfireinspector 1 1h27m

The best of pass times.

AlexanderLittlee 1 7h45m

Did the same and almost got fired from school, with 3 of my friends (3rd grade)

EclipseKing 3 2h31m

My one friend made a fireworks bazooka out of PVC. Every memorial day and 4th of July we would go to his house and shoot rockets around the backyard. Once that got too mundane we started shooting them at each other. In the end, its pretty miraculous that we didn't have many serious injuries. I burnt my hand, and my one friend damaged his eardrum when the rocket blew up inside the tube next to his head. A lot of fun, just watch out for the grass sometimes going on fire

RealFlyForARyGuy 3 3h27m

We would light fires in the road (lived in the sticks). We did this at night while drunk, and had it set up so everyone had a role (i.e. tinder guy, kindling guy, fuel guy).

They were tiny fires, but we'd light them and wait for a car to drive by, see it, stop, get out, kick it out, yell "f*ckin goddam stupid kids I'll kill ya!" And then drive off, all the while we chuckled like the absolute idiots we were while hiding nearby.

In hindsight it was dangerous and absolutely dumb, but growing up in the middle of nowhere, it was a nice little bit of mischief.

Note: no one got hurt and we made sure to do it on roads where 1 car would drive by every 15 min or so.

mustang6172 3 3h44m

"I'm a (recently licensed) teenager driving a Chevy Cavalier; can I keep pace with that mid-life crisis driving a Corvette?"

I could not. It's been 15 years and I still hear the tires squealing.

tapiocatapioca 2 4h32m

I may or may not have been testing my 0-60 with friends the week I got my car when I blew a stop sign and flew past a cop. Definitely tried to escape and hide. Definitely got caught, and definitely was more afraid of my father than at any other time in my life after the cop handed the phone to me.

Friends were able to dip before he found me though so I avoided losing my license. Nothing but net.

PineappleGrandMaster 3 5h17m

Soak tennis balls in whatever flammable liquid we could find, usually paint thinner. Then light it, and play hockey/tennis for some time.

Not THAT dumb on its own...but on a residential street it got stuck under cars and almost fell into the drain ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Nobel617 3 5h33m

I'm sure I have more but these are the only ones I can think of right now.

-The choking game, weeks before the end of 7th or 8th grade me and some of the boys would just leave class and play "the choking game'. In the choking game one person chokes the other and that's it. I was the only one who got choked but didn't care, afterwards I noticed my arm was heavier than normal. That was when I learned that I have HNPP (a nerve disease where nerves take quite a bit longer to heal or something) Spent most of the summer unable to raise my arm higher than 45 degrees up, good times.

-canyon snowball fight, took a field trip to Red Rock Canyon in Waterton National Park in grade 7, it was winter and snowy and we were supposed to learn about glaciers or something. Fast forward about an hour and most of the grade doesnt care about the fancy sheets we got and tosses them, suddenly one kid starts a snowball fight with his friend and as you can guess this devolved into a grade-wide snowball fight across a narrow canyon. One of the more athletic kids on the other side scales all the way down to the stream in the middle and leaped across before scaling up the side all while hitting people with snowballs. At this point we start freaking out when we lose sight and he suddenly climbs up a fucking tree and drops down before hitting all of us, he then turned around and sniped a poor girl in the face at the request of her friend.

-Locker room boxing, in 9th grade we were tired of playing badminton so all of the boys except one or two just stayed in the locker room to box. We only had time for one match before the teacher sent someone in, i got the wind knocked out of me and landed only a few actual punches but it was some of the most fun i'd had the entire year of gym.

-Door boxing, in the same gym class most of us had some pent up rage from the whole day and needed to let it out on something. The entire room walls were lined with lockers so we chose one dedicated punching bag and continuously body-slammed, punched, kicked, and slammed, for maybe two weeks. One day one of the bigger lads punched it so hard one of the hinges became loose so he grabbed the door by the bottem and twisted it upwards until it bent off. Suffice to say the teaches found out and threatened to make us change in the staff bathroom for the rest of the year.

Sorry for typos i'm writing this at 12 on a phone.

tapiocatapioca 1 7h37m

I loved the slap boxing matchups before and after gym class in the locker room. It was like the freebase of entertainment for a time.

jesse_jesse_jesse 2 3m

Nothing. I'm a genius!

DeaditeParasite 2 31m

Had boxing matches with those big hulk foam hands. And played anything involving Nerf guns and weapons.

Budmanes 2 42m

We used to jump off of an active railroad trestle into a reservoir (with copious amount of underage liquid courage)

NuclearFlyinSquirrel 2 48m

Jumping off a roof, onto the trampoline.

GhostoftheWolfswood 2 1h51m

One of my friends had a 7-foot basketball hoop in his driveway that we loved to dunk on in middle school. We invented a 3-person game where two of us stood in front of the rim and the other guy had to run in at full speed and try to dunk on the other two. Generally you either put two guys on a poster or got rejected hard enough to land you flat on your back on the asphalt. Definitely were some concussions received from that game, but somehow no broken bones.

Ennion 2 3h33m

Pull tape out of 8 tracks. Tie them between trees on a country road. Wait for a car to come down said road and see tape and hit the brakes. Wait till car leaves and measure the skid marks.

Dewrdman 2 4h16m

One dumb event comes to mind:

When I was 9 my brother, some friends, and I loved to play in this forest that was in and around the town's park. All the kids played there and built forts, it was cool as shit. We also enjoyed plinking with our Red Ryder BB guns there. Well there was this bully who loved to pick on the younger kids and destroy their forts. Said bully was out that day, picking on some other kids in their fort. My brother saw this and I yelled at him (From the safety of my fort, of course) to knock it off. Unfortunately for him, he just had to say "Make Me". The only logical conclusion of this problem to my 9 year old self was to yell "Open Fire!" We all began to pelt this bully with a slew of BB's from our Red Ryders. It stopped when he screamed, grabbed his face and ran off because just as Miss Shields warned Ralphie, we shot his eye out! I have no clue who hit him in the eye but when we realized what we did we vacated the area quickly and all agreed an alibi, claiming we were riding bikes across town when it happened. I guess he never ratted us out because none of us got in trouble. Thankfully his eye wasn't put out, it just sucked to be him for a while was all.

zephyr141 2 4h33m

Paintball guns without eye protection. Now my eye is messed up from taking a direct hit.

potentailmemes 2 19h1m

holy shit, your lucky your eye didn't explode. Those paintballs will fuck you up

[deleted] 2 4h45m

We made what were esstentially bombs. We would strap 3 or 4 deoderant, or other pressurized, cans together and throw them on to a fire that we made in the woods. As well as creating a fireball, it would also turn the cans into high speed projectiles. Fun times.

1st10Amendments 1 14h26m

Was in the USAF. When we were on deployment for field exercises**, someone dropped their flashlight into the Port-A-Potty. A certain unit was tasked with collecting the potties, dumping the waste into a pile and burning it (or so we were told. It doesn’t seem sanitary or environmentally responsible at all to me now, three decades later.)

Well, the batteries in the flashlight blew up, splattering a guy with blue water and urine and fecal matter and toilet paper from MRE’s. He was not happy.


** That means camping out in the woods for a month in tents and using Port-A-Potties for relieving ourselves.

mb16__ 2 5h58m

Still growing up, but not long ago me and my buddies had to make some holes in a bush maze to get out. We were high as a kite and I couldn’t keep my balance. My friend had to drag me through the bushes.

I was really paranoid about people seeing what we had done. Luckily it was night and few people were in the park.

YoungShakeWes 2 7h39m

We didn't have any tennis balls to throw into the air to play 3 flies up but we did have a basketball. So we just started chucking a basketball into the air and it was fun at first but then we had to stop when my friend got hit on the head when he couldn't see the ball cause of the sunlight. He started crying and there was a huge bruise on his head. Safe to say our parents never left us to play alone for a few weeks.

rr_0223 2 10h30m

Went to a local beach town with a friend and my parents booked a suite. The adults went out and me and my best friend stayed behind. Our room faces the beach and there was a big patio below us and the employee rooms were across the patio from us. We were higher up (10th floor maybe), the employee building was maybe 2-3 stories high.

We basically took ALL of the plates and went to the balcony. We basically used the plates as frisbees...a few zinged by people within inches (we weren’t aiming, just flinging plates). We would do it 1 every few minutes. Throw a plate and lounge and watch the mayhem.

After a little bit, they had an employee at the employee building watching from their balcony. Every time they looked away we’d wing one towards the building then lay down to hide.

We threw every single plate.

Never got caught.

I did a lot of really dumb shit with him, we’re both in our 40s now, we have families, and he’s my realtor.

P35-HiPower 2 10h30m

Oh boy!

We were about 14/15. We live in a hilly city, and hung around on a street that curved around a hill...........climbing until the drop off one side of the street was about 50 feet.

There was, further up the street, an old driveway into the woods, to a house that no longer existed. At the mouth of the driveway were a pair of large pillars, constructed of stone blocks about a foot thick and 20" square. One pillar had been knocked over, and four of us decided it would be cool to drop one of these heavy stone blocks off the 50' drop...........

It took 4 of us to haul the block to the edge, lift it over the guardrail......and let it go.

As God is my witness, I didn't expect it to bounce.

It did. Twice. And then impacted the side door of a house perfectly in the centre, carrying door and frame into the house..........it might have gone through the floor, but we didn't hang around to see......Run away! Run away!

Thank God no one was standing in the hall way.

BTW, this was in 1970-71. Not yesterday.

rjv_the_best 2 12h38m

My friends and I used to sneak into an abandoned train yard and climb everything or play hide and seek. Sometimes we would invite other friends and hide in the tall grass waiting to tackle them.

(2nd one is not the boys) My siblings and I grew up with a poison ivy like plant in our yard. It wasn't as strong as poison ivy, but if you touched it, it would itch for hours. We all developed an immunity from always playing with it. Afterwards we started bringing leaves to school and we would use them on our friends. It was hilarious!

Needlecrash 2 13h18m

Around 1990, my brother and I would get a massive cardboard box and roll ourselves down from a massive hill. Sometimes, we'd land in the street.

MikeRotch4756 1 46m

Sophomore year On Halloween we loaded up Jack o’lanterns from the neighborhoods in the trunk of my Camry and smashed them on people’s driveways. We had tons of fun doing it and got a couple buddy’s driveways covered in seeds lol.

Bmc00 1 1h27m

A neighbor had some fixed up classic car in his driveway. We tore up his garden and smashed a bunch of fruit and plants onto the car. That was the only time I remember getting a legit spanking from my dad. Probably the dumbest thing one of our friends did was drop a brick onto another kids head from the top of my garage.

unsane 1 1h34m

Putting a string across the street for the lulz.. after we took out someone’s headlights we realized the error of our ways.

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goalstopper28 1 2h22m

Can't tell if I should be proud or not that I can't think of dumb shit my friends and I did.

jobet122 1 2h40m

A hill and anything with wheels can make for a good time with the boys.

[deleted] 1 3h19m

Using our swim caps to shoot gummy bears on ceilings or high walls of indoor pools

tankhunter15 1 3h21m

Used gas to try to make European Mounts of deer skulls.

1st10Amendments 1 14h14m

What does this even mean?

tankhunter15 2 15h5m

Usually in taxidermy people use boiling, insects, and chemicals to get a clean skull. As a 12 year old, I thought I could just use gas. Pour some, light it, our some more. Lucky I didn't blow up holding the canister.

1st10Amendments 1 15h11m

Thanks. I had no idea.

LetsTalkDinosaurs 1 3h23m

Water balloon fights but instead of water balloons we used milk jugs full of water. They were pretty easy to dodge but when they connected they'd knock the wind out of you. We only played that once.

GummiesAreAwesome 1 3h29m

Who knew Beavis and Butthead were so prophetic when they said “fire, fire.”

You boys and your fire stories are just too much. I asked my husband once why boys are so obsessed with fire. He just shrugged and said, “because it’s fire.” Looked at ME like I was crazy 😂

tapiocatapioca 3 3h41m

Fire is badass.

ElonMuskIs_God 1 4h9m

Swinging on the swingsets at the park and launching ourselves off when we got really high up to see who could get there farthest

RoloThomazi62 1 4h32m

Roman Candle tag

getzysbaldhead69 1 4h35m

We tied two GT snoracers to the hitch of our truck and rallied through the fields. Only one of us ever got seriously injured though. Also did it behind skidoo’s. Also went on 3-4 day long ecstasy binges. One time we were in my buddies basement throwing axes at a pumpkin and he went to reach and grab his out of the pumpkin right as I threw mine and cut his thumb nail off but it was salvageable

skribsbb 1 4h49m

Hotboxed a car with a smoke bomb. I almost died from that one.

It was one of the smoke bomb fireworks. My friend had done it the day before with one of the little colored smoke balls, but when he saw the giant one I had, he wanted to try with that. We lit it, threw it on the floorboard, and he said "make sure you know where the door handle is."

"What?" I asked, when the bomb went off. It didn't slowly fill the area. It was just poof, and there was smoke. I couldn't see, couldn't breathe. Started coughing and choking like mad while I scrambled for the door handle. Couldn't find it, but I did find the window roller. Rolled it down and managed to climb out. Almost threw up.

If that was a newer car with power windows, I'm 100% sure I would have died.

Gobbstop 1 5h9m

"Rock Wars" seemed like a good idea until you actually are in the middle of the war

Edit: throwing rocks at one another for fun

YrPalBeefsquatch 1 5h15m

I did theater tech crew in high school, and a fun game we liked to play was setting up the table saw on the stage and seeing how car we could use it to launch pieces of scrap wood in to the seats.

I still have all my fingers, thanks for asking.

MechanizedMedic 1 5h16m
  • Roman candle battles, duels and jousting.
  • Molotov cocktails, improvised explosives (home chemistry), pipe bombs, zip guns, etc
  • "Moonlight rally" runs - racing in the dark on country roads without any lights on.
  • Lots of jumping ATVs and dirt bikes.
  • Messing with farm animals.
tapiocatapioca 2 7h35m

Bullet #2 was our area of expertise in middle school.

ThePlatypusOfDespair 1 5h53m

Firework tag!

KazanTheMan 1 6h7m

Bunch of Florida kids luge racing shortboards down mountain switchbacks.

There was a lot of missing skin. Some of us had no skin on our backs/sides left.

We're really lucky that none of us got underneath a car on a blind turn.

highwizard-smashlord 1 6h50m

Me and my mates would grab a rugby a ball and kick it up into the air and we would all chase for it. But thing is though, if you got possession of the ball everyone will tackle you as hard as they can to try and get the ball off you (these weren’t safe tackles at all either they were dangerous as fuck). Then once someone has maintained the ball long enough to not get tackled they would kick it and the whole thing will repeat, many times. This may not sound that dangerous but if you consider the fact that while playing this game five days week for a year my friends and I collectively broke 2 fingers, fucked up 2 knees and a life threatening concussion, this was really fucking stupid idea.

[deleted] 1 6h56m

The dumbest shit I ever did was when we went on a school trip to France. We were fucking around in our room. We had emptied out shampoo bottles and filled them with water so it made a makeshift water pistol.

Anyway, one of my mates who was late to the party came in and forgot to empty his shampoo bottle and literally squirted this bitch out a window that we had left open. Thought nothing of it.

We came down for breakfast the next morning and all the teachers were chatting to the majority of the students and everyone looked really sad. Students were giving the teachers money and I was like “what’s going on?”

“Someone was squirting shampoo on peoples cars outside and they think it was one of us so we have to pay for the paint to be repaired”.

Sorry Class.

Demar0n 1 7h1m

Snorting very small pieces of dry ice

[deleted] 1 7h3m

My best friend and I used to fill Big Gulp cups with boiling hot water, jump on my trampoline, and try to throw the water at each other.

We would also go to the river near my place and play chicken with the trains, waiting to see how long we could last sitting on the tracks before dropping in the water.

Good times. I'm glad our stupid asses are still around today.

bDsmDom 1 7h22m

The game was called butts-up. you could only play it after school, not at lunch or recess.

The premise was to use the giant wall outside the gym, you had to throw and hit the wall with a tennis ball before it bounced, and then the next player's turn was to get the ball and throw it at the wall.

once you had the ball, you could only take 2 steps and throw. if you didn't hit the wall, you get a letter, like in the game H-O-R-S-E, but it was always B-U-T-T-S, because it was an after school game and you could use the non-innocent version.

so, if you get all 5 letters, you got the ball and had to stand in front of the wall, you would throw the ball against the wall, and the player who got you the last letter chased it down and you had to stand with your back to that player while they tried to hit you with the ball. Like being at a shooting range.

They only had one try, but the rules were modified over the years:

Originally, games required the palms of the hand on the wall while the 'shooter' threw at you. Later iterations allowed for the hands to cover the head or neck, because of games being called off to injury.

Originally, the game was played at lunchtimes, until too many players were sent to the nurse's office, and the ball-room stopped handing out tennis balls to us. Also yard-duty's weren't too keen on the part where the kid lines up at the wall waiting to get hit by the other kids.

We eventually found hacki-sacks and moved on to playing GOD.

webby1575 1 7h42m

Re arrange the front room, put pillow padding everywhere and play an all v all, in the dark wrestling / pillow fight / hide and seek game until you have to stop through sheer exhaustion.

There was no real purpose or rules as far as I can tell.


Linu68 1 7h52m

Live in Norway. Had this game where we would stand 10 meters from another with eyes closed and then took turns on throwing snowballs at each other. Really great game, works with other objects too

Asgathor 1 7h53m

Here we go.

I guess it was 15 years ago and some of my boys, were really special. They always had very interesting ideas on how to have fun. I was 13 and very bored so I just went along with most of the stuff they suggested.

On New Years Eve they decided to play war. We took all the fireworks and firecrackers, packed it into our backpacks and walked a few miles form our little village away to the nearest old quarry. We formed 2 teams, split up the fireworks and both teams build little forts behind large rocks with wood, scrap and other stuff.

The 2 teams were about 100 meters away from eatch other and we took hard cover. Then it began. At first we trew little fireworks at eachother missed most of the time and had a few good laughs. After that, we shot the rockets and trew bigger stuff. We shot the rockets out of empty bottles and some of my friends even out of their hands. At the time it seemed kinda dangerous but was mostly fun.

But when I think about it now.... it was just insane.

We fired the rockets and the firework directly at the 'enemy camp' and had more than a few times just dodge the stuff or even jump awaly really quick.

We stopped after my friend burned his hand while trying to light up a rocket and then dropped it right at his feet.

I exploded in our camp, like 2 meters away from me.

Kids can be so freakin stupid.

stunahhh 1 7h57m

Back when i was about 10, we made these things we called pipe guns, basically a toilet/cardboard roll with half a balloon taped to one end, and we'd shoot sizeable rocks at eachother, buggers me how no one lost an eye


BCG injected followed by punching each other in the arm.

jaxolotle 1 8h3m

We found a pile of loose bricks. We ended up with 2 forts. And then proceeded to pelt bricks at the enemy fort

IdeallyNotNorth 1 8h21m

Set the local orphanage on fire.

haha those were the days.

IWouldRatherNotSay1 1 8h32m

My mother got an icecube tray that made really small ice ball. So all week id make amo and then on the weekends we would habe sling shot fights.

MA93 1 8h33m

Fireball tennis.

yoimdavid6 1 8h36m

making out

ADKUB_andhiswords 1 9h50m


mustbelong 1 9h14m

Threw rocks at trains signaling light comes to mind

needadvice1234554321 1 9h20m

Throwing small balls at cars (until I accidentally caused a car accident), and we’d hide behind bushes and spray the hose at cars driving by. Looking back, I’d be fucking pissed.

bladednewt464 1 9h20m

We would go “redneck tubing” where we would pull each other on a mattress behind an ATV.

AceWither 1 9h24m

Making each other pass out.

donaxi 1 9h24m

Trying to throw rocks over houses for fun. Ended up almost murdering my neighbor at the age of 10. Missed his forehead by an inch and hit his window instead.

[deleted] 1 9h31m

I was one of those kids that was a little bit interested in everything, so one time i had a ton of potassium nitrate and was making rocket fuel with them (caramalize the potassium nitrate in the sugar in a pan over a fire) and you make a liquid that can be molded and cooled to solidify. Normally this is a very safe process, as long as the mixture doesn't get close to the heat, so a standard pan works fine. You can light it with a bic and it burns extremely vigorously, a ton of smoke, purple 600 degree flame. You could put in in a pvc pipe with a nozzle to vent and control the exhaust with a stick out the back and make a super simple model rocket. Anyway, I was bored later into the night and I texted my friend seeing if he wanted to do anything. He says come over and lets make some rocket fuel, so I ride over and we start the prep. I was texting someone else while he was setting up the pan, and I didn't hear him ask "Is a pie tin ok?", and I was distracted and a bit high on weed so I was like "Huh, yeah, sure". He proceeds to throw the nitrate / sugar mixture on the stove in the tin, and very quickly it ignites in the pan. He's like "What the fuck, what the FUCK" as its shooting off smoke everywhere. BTW, this stuff makes a LOT of smoke, after it was finished burning, the smoke alarms were all going off and you could barely see 3 feet in front of you from how thick the smoke was. His mom comes rushing out of her room like "yo what the FUCK" and she was a bit crazy, so now she's freaking the fuck out on him and he's shouting back trying to open up windows around the house. I was just sat in the corner like "uhhh..." and eventually i was gesturing to my friend like "should I go?" and he's like "yea". Still blames me for that, lmao.

the_monkey_of_lies 1 9h32m

Went down to the forest with axes and saws and cut down a huge tree that could have easily killed us idiots. For no reason whatsoever. Just...god we were stupid.

Allpurposebees 1 9h34m

A kid I knew back when I was 15 would make "mystery stews" . He would grab whatever was in his fridge, any random combination of condiments, spare food, milk, throw it in a old ice cream bucket, grab dead mice from traps, then would piss and shit in the bucket and let it sit in the sun for a week in his backyard.

During the night he would go around and check for vehicles with their doors unlocked and empty the contents of this mystery stew all over the inside. Completely ruining the vehicle.

Good lord it was fucking gross. He usually targeted cabs. The vehicles he did get were pretty much quarantined afterwards.

Snowbattt 1 9h42m

- Turn a Super Soaker into a flame thrower

- Make molotov cocktails with Orangina bottles

- Make napalm with styrofoam

- Cut open all kinda of firecrackers, mix it up, wrap this shit in tinfoil, stick a fuse in it and blow a public trash bin up

We did shit that could easily have maimed us.

[deleted] 1 9h49m

Buying alcohol underage cus I had a beard then getting so shitfaced we couldn't walk during broad daylight on a school day

ADKUB_andhiswords 1 9h54m

"I've got all my fingers the knife goes chop chop chop"

itsforhismum 1 9h58m

Playing "rugby" with kicks being allowed.

Pedo_Police 1 10h5m

Rock badminton! With badminton rackets, you would shoot rocks at each other. It would actually travel so fast you could hear it zoom past you. Endless both in fun and pain!

Llamaless 1 10h14m

We adopted a Cinderblock and named it Cindy. Carried it around for like 5 hours

Agitated_Atlas 1 10h19m

Gonna have to take a pass on this one the statue of limitations has not still passed yet so I gotta keep it on hold until that passes

StanleyWessle 1 10h23m

We snuck onto a hay farm to do parkour

HourOfUprising 1 10h26m

Shooting pellets at the church window...I won the bet: pellets can, in fact, shatter the church windows.

kaolin224 1 10h45m

My boys and I watched Akira for the first time when we were 11 or 12 and thought it was the coolest thing ever, especially the motorcycle gang fight at the beginning.

We turned it into a game on our bikes called Capsules vs Clowns. It was 6 vs 6 and you'd chase each other around the neighborhood wearing whatever padding you had at home: roller skating pads, martial arts gear, football pads.

Then you'd make yourself a club from a broomstick or dowel and wrap a handle on it with duct tape. After that, you'd try and knock the enemy team off their bikes however you could.

Lasted about four rounds before someone called the cops on us. It doesn't look good when one guy is screaming his ass off while being chased down an alley by three dudes with weapons.

It wouldn't have lasted much longer than that anyway because it hurt too much.

motoyolo 1 10h47m

Actually tried arrow roulette a couple times

morinmitchell 1 10h53m

Drove thru a tim hortons drive thru backwards

Krow1504 1 10h59m

I had a friend who lit his fart on fire. I was in awe and disgusted all at the same time. Hard to believe our bodies produce flammable gas.

fradd13 1 10h59m

When I was about 10 or so, my neighbor friend and I had cap guns. We were playing on my driveway, and this annoying kid from up the street comes and starts annoying us.

Well, we shot our cap guns at him telling him to go away. And finally he did.

A bit later, we were biking up the street, and we hear "HEY, YOU KIDS STOP RIGHT THERE". Being kids, we stopped.

There was some trailer trash looking grandma character, and she shouted "WHO'S SHOOTIN' BULLETS??"

I was a little worried at first cause I still had my cap gun on me. But then my friend says "what!? What are you even talking about?" The old bat says "YOU WERE SHOOTIN' BULLETS AT MY SON".

My friend says starts laughing and shaking his head as if in disappointment, and I follow suit, then we biked off, Old Bat yelling for us to come back, and then we pulled out our cap guns and shot randomly into the air in victory.

baggedrice 1 11h9m

Accidentally made a ballistic missile. Tried to start a fire while camping, so I put a closed plastic water bottle full of gasoline on the fire, it lit up and flew into the air spraying burning gas on the forest nearby, lucky for us it was raining almost all day so nothing burned. Same trip we took the side by side and took it out mudding, we went to go off of a mound of dirt, it was just grass and it was a trench of water, only time I’ve rolled a vehicle.

Ice-Berg-Slim 1 11h10m

me and my buddies broke into a cement truck and drove it off the ditch/bank when we were about 15. I know how far fetch this sounds but it happened. To this day I have no idea how the fuck they got it out, it would have taken a massive crane.

Greeseaweesel 1 11h14m

Used to jump in a friend's above ground pool, wait for it, with the cover on... it would suck in all around you and you had to struggle to free yourself before you drowned. Like a magic trick, but for dipshit skater kids.

SeattleGreenEyedDady 1 11h16m

We would light and throw fireworks at each other. One time someone's jacket caught on fire and they barely got it off before getting burned up.

slovakgnocchi 1 11h19m

I don't know why but me and my friends thought it was fun to burn kitchen paper towels in a pan... on a dinner table. Obviously, the tablecloth burned and I tried to see it. Didn't work.

travishummel 1 11h23m

Taking apart fireworks and combing the powder to blow our toys up. Basically real life Sid from Toy Story, but with friends.

Taking a 3 person water balloon launcher and shooting golf balls straight up.

Axe bodyspray + fire

Tbh I'm surprised we didnt get hurt more often

Blodnose 1 11h24m

Broke into schools at night. Once the police was contacted. Luckily we were young and bo punish was evicted

HonestlyEMA 1 11h25m

Me and my group of friends (10-13 y/o) threw each other off of a hill into a soft path of grass. I didn't want to get thrown because it was stupid and I was a cautious kid. I had seen real injury at an early age and didn't want that. BUT I did do the throwing. My friends eventually ganged up on me and threw me against my will. I flailed. Broke my collar bone but thankfully not my neck.

Max123Dani 1 11h30m

Shooting arrows straight up into the air.

Clouds_Cold 1 11h31m

We rolled our own cigarettes out of normal paper and smoked them, thinking we were cool...

[deleted] 1 11h33m

My friend and I decided that if we killed our parents, we could live together (didn't consider repercussions). We took those red berries that your parents always said we're only for birds, mashed them up, and left them in my closet for 3 months to ferment. Then we were going to poison them with the berry paste. My mom found them while cleaning my closet like 2 weeks before we planned to do it. We were like 8, and I feel like we should have been smarter.

Astartes00 1 11h36m

Lighting stuff on fire

Holywatercolors 1 11h46m

When I was about 6 my friends and I ( they were several years older) started to build a fort where there had been a dug out tree. We got the idea that we could skin chipmunks and build a fort cover with the chipmunk skins. We caught one and killed it and left the skin to dry on the front patio. Needless to say my mom was not happy, it made quite the awful smell. Looking back this was pretty damn cruel.

StrangeFood 1 11h47m

Used to steal people’s flower pots from their porch/gardens and throw them into the air and break them.

Running into white picket fences as hard as we could and go through them

Scream in random people’s faces while walking

talentlesshuman 1 11h58m

Ever tried liquid gas on your hands? Shit, I was truly that flame guy from the movie fantastic four..

It didn’t end well... just saying

fabmarques21 1 11h59m

yea, i have a lot of things, one of them which popped immediately in my head is rolling down an hill in a wire roll, a big one.

why? because i was a kid and fuck you body.

never got injured tho!

but if i by mistake had a fall today i would break 70 bones, lol ( jk, i'm only 24 but you got it )

dwight_lol123 1 12h1m

We used to play “shirt tag” during sleepovers where we’d play tag with a handful of dudes in a bedroom but whoever was “it” had to wear a shirt over their head to block their eyes.

bluetangz 1 12h5m

Egging people’s homes

stuwieggbestyasuo 1 12h6m

Panicked and asked a friend i wasnt really interested in to prom. As that friend said yes and ditched her prom date, i realized that my crush didn't have a prom date so i asked my crush out for prom, she said yes and i canceled prom with that friend who just ditched her date for me... She had to go to prom with a female friend... It's only now i realize how much of a cunt i was

MrEthereum 1 12h7m

I used to practice the DDT and Liontamer (wrestling moves) on my brother.

[deleted] 1 12h9m

We were a merry bunch of 3 but sometimes 4 or 5 But one night we went to the oldest dudes place on sunset, his name was dylan but thats not as important. I always wore my bike helmet everywhere no matter what we did, whether it be us inside playing board games or ps3, or even down the beach, i never took it off. This one night came around, i was about 14 i think, i finally took the helmet off and got on the trampoline with the other 2 but what i didnt realise this to little assholes planned this whole event out and they executed it perfectly, once we got on and started bouncing i realised too late that they were jumping to get themselves in sync, and once they did that they fucking launched me across the yard by pushing me as hard as they could once they got me. Jokes on dylan though, i went straight through his chook pen

vivelasmoove 1 12h13m

Climbing on buildings and chilling.

One time someone called the police and a squad of cops started circling around the building. We were ducking and diving into bushes to get back to my friends house

gerudovalleygirl 1 12h17m

Two brothers growing up. We rode a shopping cart down a really steep road, like really steep. Busy road too

motta_x_rated 1 12h17m

Hanging off the side of a suv (standing on the running board and grabbing onto the handle inside the car) going 60+ mph through neighborhoods.

StopTheRidePlease 1 12h19m

At 15-ish, drinking beer at my buddy’s house; ravine in the backyard ran alongside a main road. We’d heave bags of piss at cars from the bushes by the road. Got one in the passenger window of a minivan once; screeching breaks and us disappearing into the ravine followed.

We were idiots.

u_creative_username 1 12h21m

We were 10 years old, i think. And we had the most fun to jump down the highest walls we could find

RajunCajun48 1 12h25m

We had rock fights on the play ground. Kids stand at opposite ends flinging rocks back and forth. It was all fun and games til Darren got pelted in the lip and needed stitches. Principal brought us into the office and made us quite after that...

Ipride362 1 12h27m

Drank creek water on a dare. Got hepatitis.

I_PEE_WITH_THAT 1 12h28m

My cousins and I are all about the same age, we would um..."find" Power Wheels, strip the guts out of them, and ride them off the roof of another cousin's house. His backyard was a hill, from the roof there was a three or four foot gap between the yard and a solid cement slap, retaining wall, and his basement door. We got fucked up plenty of times but it didn't stop us from clearing that gap again and again.

Another thing we did was street louging, we didn't have the proper equipment but we did have skateboards and the general carelessness about personal safety that all young boys have. We would lay on the skateboard at the crest of a big hill, and ride that bad boy to freedom! We had to stop when one kid veered off course and ended up tackling a fire hydrant collar bone first.

Dr_Fumblefingers_PhD 1 12h37m

Home made fireworks and other chemical experiments involving things going boom. Made and tested various solid rocket fuels, many of which also went boom for various reasons.

I'm pretty sure any kid in a western country these days even writing about doing the stuff me and my friends did would end up with terrorism charges and be put on the no-fly list and probably on a couple other lists as well.

To this day I'm astonished that the only permanent damage I suffered was tinnitus and a slight hearing impairment. There were so many times where only luck saved my eyes, face, and extremities, not to mention my life.

lil_petey 1 12h38m

Fill 2 liter bottles with Airsoft pellets then proceed to make works bombs and throw them in the air to see what would happen, nobody ever got hurt thankfully!

OogaOoga2U 1 12h40m

We would buy mortars on the 4th of July (the kind you stick in the tube), light them and throw em at each other.

readit_later 1 12h42m

Lived out in the sticks on an old country road. My friends and I would take a blow up, glow in the dark alien and tie fishing line to it and toss it over the telephone lines. Then we would lift it up as cars went passing by. Got a few good reactions.

Also pretended to beat the shit out of one of us as cars went by. Had one guy chase us into the woods. Good times.

Also shit on the road, lit it on fire. Just completely stupid stuff.

BenificusAngorio 1 12h50m

Let's see:

  • Ramps for bikes. This means 50 yard 10-15 decline on a country road terminated by five old milk crates and a particle board. Hit it full speed, spend the entire time airborne trying to get back on the ground. Barbed wire fence. Do the math
  • Fireworks. Throwing them, hitting each other, lighting them in hands; mostly bottle rockets. M-80s under mom's cooking pan (record 20 ft high). I lit maybe 10 Black Cat type fireworks in my hand total. Had two with bad wicks that lit, burned, and exploded in under 2s--I just barely managed to throw them less than 6 inches from my hand before they exploded. Never did that again.
  • Bought a 3k motorcycle cash and learned to ride in a parking lot before riding it for a year. By the way, first gear is down, second gear is up.
  • Bareback sex. Probably the riskiest thing by far.
  • HS Football. I played for like a year, year and a half. The disparity of player size on the field is dangerous especially for amateurs who don't know how to protect themselves or avoid bad situations. Understaffed, amateur refs do not call or even prevent the majority of barred contact like helmet-to-helmet. Kids who flunked 2 grades out there 40 and 50 lbs heavier than their counterparts is stupifying.
  • Out riding / walking hanging out in the middle of nowhere catching poisonous snakes, swimming in weird rivers / ponds, with no-one knowing where I was or with whom miles away from home.
BurningOrangeHeaven 1 12h58m

In the lunch room we'd try to throw/slide our packet of ketchup far away and try to get in under someones shoe righttt when they were about to put their foot down to take a step. Was just for a week or two but i still remember it haha. The goal was to have them step down and make the ketchup burst.

HavingALittleFit 1 13h4m

My friends one day discovered that I can do a good impression of Jim Ross (the wrestling commentator "by gawd he brokim een half!") So two of my friends would do shitty wrestling moves while I comentated. SOMEHOW I thought it'd be funnier if I started making Jim Ross a closeted gay man who struggles to repress his homosexuality while having to watch and describe two men wrestling. Then the game became who could try not to laugh while wrestling because if you laughed too hard you weren't focusing and the other guy would get the upper hand. Somehow we did this shit for years and there was never too gay a moment for comfort amond 3 straight teenagers.

BabbleBeans 1 13h15m

Arson and larceny with a bit of drugs mixed in. I kind of accidentally kidnapped a kid to bring him back to his home one time.

Overall a normal childhood I reckon.

shabadabadabada 1 13h17m

Placing logs of shit in random mailboxes. Pretty sure we were spawned right out of Hell.

Mqtty 1 13h36m

We had guy 1 driving the truck, doing figure 8’s at like 20mph. Guy 2 standing in the bed, trying to catch a frisbee thrown by guy 3. This went on for like an hour and half because we stopped, only because we were hungry.

It was like 2 months later before we realized how stupid it was.

Veil_Nebula_ 1 14h0m

One year we had a dozen or so leftover mortars from the 4th of July. My friends and I started driving around and throwing them in sewer drains, we also buried a few in a golf course and lit them.

ITworksGuys 1 14h4m

Climb tall ass trees.

Jumped off roofs.

Shoot at each other with fireworks.

We did this thing call "dippin". One of us would be in the bed of a pickup truck, the driver would hit dips at high speed to see if we would fly out.

We car surfed like Teen Wolf.

Shot lots of guns at lots of things.

Rode our bikes to wherever, disappeared all day and no one knew where we were.

Crashed those bikes, often trying to do some jump.

Caught snakes bare handed, sometimes poisonous ones.

Fought/wrestled/hit each other with sticks.

Drank too much at a bonfire in a random field and passed out in that random field.

Got the shit smacked out of my by my grandmother when she caught us doing some of the stuff above.

Basically a bunch of shit that I would ground my kids for today.

I am Gen X and we were mostly neighborhood kids with no dads around and moms that worked too much.

DeuceDeuceTV 1 14h11m

go'd hiking alot and go really off path. like one time we got lost and the only way to get across was a lake with a strong ass current. any of us could've died and none of our parents would not have known. that same day as my friend was crossing, i actually caught him , and saved his life.

iftair 1 14h21m

I had 2 different groups of boys. Pre High School and During High School. Disclaimer, some of the stuff we did can be seen as shitty, but we were shitheads back then and grew up now (and are still growing up).

Pre High School:

  • Judgement Day 2012 we dressed up prepared to take on a zombie apocalypse. We looked like we were on Monty Python.

  • Acorn Wars. Like snowball fights but with acorns instead.

  • Roleplay as Naruto characters and fight like shinobis.

  • Pebble and Water Gun Fights On the Whole Block

  • WWE wrestling matches

  • Rob the banker in Monopoly

  • One of my friends would hide somewhere in the house and call my phone because it's a scary/eerie ringtone. All the lights are off because he does this at night. We'd try to find him and he would scare us.

  • Slap Tower

  • Dodgeball at night

  • Mixed soda drinks

High School:

  • Wrestling matches

  • Yell "Good Morning" to random people on the street

  • Rap battles

  • Say "hey, my friend is into you" to random ladies on the street low enough that they can't hear but high enough so only us can hear. We were 14-16 back then.

  • Talk loudly on the train while going back home

  • Slap Tower

  • Rapping songs in the cafeteria

  • Food fights

  • Ding Dong Ditch

  • Go to the Piers at night and let loose. Hell, we played freeze tag and had piggy back races.

sksksk1989 1 14h30m

I did a lot of stupid stuff. I had this friend and we would call pizzas, cabs limos everything to this house across the street from him. For months everyday we'd call stuff over there. We'd call five places that rented bouncy castles and send them over there. It ended up getting back to us. The police got involved but nothing really happened. My friend took the blame and I wasn't allowed over there for a bit. We thought it was the funniest thing. I really feel bad for the lady that lived there

RhinestoneTiger 1 14h34m

When we were 15 me and a buddy decided to take his dad’s Jeep Wrangler for a joy ride. Neither of us had our licenses. We made it about 400 yards from the house on a dirt road before rolling it about 4 times into a corn field, totaling the Jeep. It wasn’t until about 2 years ago we finally told our parents I was there. We’re 26 now.

dingusfunk 1 14h45m

We filled condoms up with lotion, put then on the bike trail and then hid and watched from the woods.

The_Latvian_Machine 1 15h9m

Whenever my dad annoyed me by doing something that i thought was a bit irrational i would get 2 match sticks, go outside and undo the dust caps on his car's tyres and put them in just enough so that there was a slow leak.

Now that I think of it it was ki da dumb, but me and some freinds did it at school with random kid's bikes and then just watched their dispare when they came to unlock their bike.

echolives 1 15h19m

We walked to a kiosk about 700 meters from our school every day and stole things. It started with one of my friends stealing a small chocolate bar. But then we started to steal bigger and bigger things as a game. Once my friend stole a packet of milk. We were assholes and im not proud of it at all. But i still think it was kinda funny. The kiosk closed a while after we graduated 9th grade. I dont want to think its because we stole stuff, buuuut.....

huuaaang 1 15h24m

Pellet gun fights with no eye protection. Just 1-3 pumps.

Shooting cars driving by with said pellet guns. But fully pumped.

[deleted] 1 15h33m

We would break people's windows with rocks, never got caught cause we some expert criminals...

The_Man11 1 15h45m

Playing with fire, BB guns, fireworks, snapping turtles, snakes, bike racing in the street, trespassing everywhere, walking the train tracks, and climbing trees with homemade "safety gear".

octolings_are_fresh 1 15h47m

we would jump in front of cars and slow traffic

LeftTwix051 1 16h16m

We were setting off some fireworks wand wondered what would happen if we set off a mortar upside-down. So we took one of those box mortars with about 10 progressively larger mortars on one wick, set it up in a clearing, lit it and ran. The first few were pretty cool, the box jumped a little and they just exploded on the ground. The 5th mortar knocked the box on its side instead of upside-down and that's when we dove for cover.

Melt-My-Mind 1 16h24m

My buddies and I once played a game of who could make the grossest drink using anything liquid from the fridge

BinglyBoogly 1 16h30m

We used to go bushing (under age drinking) and set fire to aerosol cans so they explode around the age of 16, general vandalism, almost burning down different structures. An acquaintance of mine and his friend stole a dump truck from a building site and went mad with it, high on coke or god knows what.... Another childhood past-time was sneaking onto building sites and messing with them so we get chased and had to run away. Other general fucking around young fellas do.

My house had a tarmacked drive all around the house. We used to tie a rope to a bicycle, get a skateboard and one person would cycle and the other would sit on the board and everyone else would cycle after them and stuff like that.

mwilleync77 1 16h37m

Roman Candle Fights at the beach (no face guards other than sweatshirt hoods)

kalinka57 1 16h55m

We had this sort of cliff/dirt drop-off near my house about 20 feet.

My friends and I would just run and jump off of it into the dirt and slide down. One day I did land foot first on a rock, lots of pain had.

bloodflart 1 17h5m

driving through peoples' yards, racing, stupid shit that could have killed someone

chichostefcho1 1 17h14m

Once I got my driving license me and the boys would get toy guns and 'drive-by' people on the street.

CrimsonChrono5 1 17h18m

My brother and I played a "game" growing up. One of us would stand at the top of the stairs, and the other one would pull a sleeping bag over the top of them and push them down the stairs. Then we switched.

There were no points and no winners or losers. We just kept rotating until we got bored.

Miraculously, not only are we both still alive but neither of us walked away with even a minor injury.

Throwaway74739 1 17h35m

We blindfolded a friend of us and spinned him until he got really dizzy. Then, handed him an automatic airsoft rifle. He would ask a question, we would answer, and he had to hit us, following the sound of our voice. And got it all on tape. Uploaded on early youtube.

[deleted] 1 17h43m

Mostly including Bicycles:

Getting a ride (Standing on the back wheel on one of those pole things) of a BMX and jumping while it was moving, landing face first on the road.... Riding down on an decline slope without a brake and crashing into someones motorcycle.... Jumping off makeshift slopes... Fitting disc brake on the front wheel of a BMX and than as a test riding really fast and pressing it, which flipped it over and made the smell the dirt..... I had a good childhood

DragoWonInRealLife 1 17h51m

Tied a bunch of firecrackers around a wrestling action figure on my friend's driveway and blew a six inch chunk out of it.

Ayanami000 1 17h53m

Took a dump in a dryer. Then started it.

vtncsc 1 18h19m

We used to make forts & tunnels on the side of the road when it would snow. We'd get 3-5' of snow on a regular basis.

We'd make a home base, dig out a tunnel and end up near the road. One day, we decided to make a lookout type next to the road.

Well, that's great for throwing snowballs across the road at neighbors, and cars going past.

I launched a perfectly formed snowball right into the open window of a State Trooper. Was totally going for the car windshield, not the side window lol!

He stopped but didn't see anyone apparently.

Royal_Vengeance 1 18h20m

Making a cannon out of copper to shoot CO2 bottles in the sky , that was probably our most brillant stupid idea. We shot CO2 bottles trough concrete and brick walls , I still have pictures of perfect bottle shaped holes in a concrete block .

SheZowRaisedByWolves 1 18h34m

We decided to egg a friend's house but decided that was too played out, so we made omelettes and threw them on his roof.

Creatibly 1 18h40m

We bought an old Crown Vic from the junkyard and said we were going to tow it, didn't and proceeded to go full Dukes of Hazzard with it. We got about 2 miles away from the junkyard before it was totalled and we abandoned it.

wrongwong122 1 19h5m

The birthday boy has to run around the airsoft field in just jeans and a sweater while everyone else on the team gets to full-auto him. Everyone gets one midcap mag.

Better yet, there's almost always a few teams of speedsofters with HPA rigs or DSGs with 30+ RPS who are more than happy to loan their guns out or even join in on the fun themselves.

Pro tip for everyone out there, don't have an airsoft game for your birthday. You will feel the welts the day after.

Canada4 1 19h13m

Jump on moving trains and riding them for a bit before jumping off

Jumping off bridges during recess in elementary school during lunch break

peteriscool25 1 19h34m

We played “the penis game” basically you and 1- however many people all take turns seeing who can say penis the loudest. We got kicked out of so many places

DangleJesus 1 19h34m

Hairspray rockets. You tape a book of matches to the bottom of a full can of hairspray. Then you light them and run while your buddy with the pellet rifle tries to put a shot right in the bottom to ignite it.

If you're lucky they shoot in the direction you point them. If you're unlucky you learn what shrapnel is at a young age.

DMcD68 1 19h36m

We used to go to the end of the streetcar loop, and as the car entered the loop, we'd grab hold of the bar on the outside and take it for a free ride around he loop!

SandyTech 1 19h55m

The outright dumbest thing we did was probably the battery of golf-ball howitzers. We got goood with them too. Accuracy was kinda questionable beyond 75 feet but we had TOT and MRSI strikes down pat too. God damned were those things dangerous though. I don't think there was a day that summer when one of us didn't have at least a minor burn.

Second dumbest thing was probably the gas powered bicycle. That cost a couple ambulance rides.

Third dumbest thing was more something that was done to me. I was left alone in a laborotory with a bunch of grad-students who really didn't ask too many questions. The fact that I wanted magnesium, powdered aluminum and Fe2O3 really didn't phase them until it was far, far too late to stop me. Which was the first, but certainly not the last, time I caused that particular lab to be evacuated.

ViperThreat 1 20h0m

I used to be into model rockets, my neighbor was a pyromaniac who liked to cut open fireworks and make different shit.

One day we got the brilliant idea of combining the two. I built a rocket, and we stuffed as much black-powder into it as we could.

Hiked out to a field, launched it into the air, only for it to turn a corner and fly towards the neighbors house and shatter a window when it exploded.

...the neighbor was our local Sherrif.

[deleted] 1 20h20m

I branded my arm with hot metal... on two separate occasions. scarredforlife. We poured hot glue on eachother from a glue gun. scarredforlife. sprayed deoderant and set it on fire. no scars but we did get caught by a guy in the park and told off.

when we were younger we were less pyrocentric... we rolled up grass in scraps of a4 paper and smoked it. grass like lawn grass that is... we would wait for my neighbour to go out in his car and then lock his fence gate so he couldnt get his car back in without climbing over. we would run around the woods playing a game where we threw sticks at eachother and blocked them with bigger sticks and we also fought with the bigger sticks like swords. it was actually more dangerous than you might imagine... we would stay at eachother houses and not sleep all night instead we would steal coffee and whatever alcohol we could find and chew the coffee and then drink the alcohol and in the end we would puke. oh and we would do this thing where one person stands with his fist clenched and his arm out straight in front of him and someone else runs fullspeed into the others clenched fist so they get punched in the face... man that was pretty funny.

Anestol_ 1 20h49m

We would go outside and pretend we were in The Walking Dead but in reality we would just use it as a "justified" way to beat the shit out of each other

V_M 1 20h55m

Best potato gun stupidity in decades past, was crumpling up multiple sheets of letter paper OR roughly one old fashioned newspaper sheet into a potato sized ball, then having the potato gun fight indoors using the paper ball instead of a potato. YES the paper often catches fire, be careful. The paper ball will destroy stuff around the house; if the lady of the house collects figurines or similar delicate things, they will be destroyed. Knocked a lot of pictures off walls and similar. Was worth it anyway.

peenerstabber 1 20h59m

Used to throw those mortar fireworks into whatever holes we could find in the ground in our neighborhood. Sometimes we'd set the ground on fire and just throw every firework we had in them and the game was to run and not get hit by anything. There was a bull in a field behind the neighborhood sitting behind a flimsy barbed wire fence and we would throw pebbles at him every time we went back there. In boy scouts we'd prank other scouts when we were adding wood to the fire by tossing in big ole bamboo stocks in them and they'd explode like river rocks after building up a bunch of pressure.

Cat-penis 1 21h9m

We got a hold of a taser and a handle of whiskey. Spent all night tasing each other and filming it.

ThefrozenOstrich 1 21h55m

In secondary school there was a tradition of a massive fight between year groups on the last day. So you’d have year 7&8s vs year 9 and year 10 vs year 11. It was stupid because people would get properly injured but hey it was fun.

LectricFox 1 22h51m

Pinecone fights.

Like a snowball fight but with pinecones.

Also rock fights.

Like a pinecone fight but with rocks. 2-3" rocks.

I still have both my eyes.

stickdeath1980 1 23h56m

shitting in rivers while girl's are downstream lol

AnxiousNewspaper 1 1d0h0m

There was a large metal cart near the track at our school. During xc running practice we had 20 minutes to have fun and do whatever before coach came out. There was a hill near the track. "Lets get 10-15 high school kids on this heavy metal cart and bobsled down the hill!". We did this many times untill the cart swung 360 running over many including me.

Lasdnaym 1 1d0h1m

My brother and I used to get really hyped up and over excited after watching actions packed movies. After watching some spy movie, my brother and I were trying to act like the spies in the movie in the backyard, and the corner of a plow somehow ended up in my forehead.

themodsr_giey 1 1d0h18m

Watching the fish get tazed at our local fish place then go get some dogshit on a stick and chase girls with it

[deleted] 1 1d0h57m

I just distinctly remembering just mapping out all the pools around our neighborhood in the summer to pool-hop once it got dark.
Not thinking about the dogs that were all over the place.

kklolzzz 1 1d0h59m

We once had a bread fight in the local park, it was winter and someone left a huge garbage bag full of loaves of bread in the middle of the baseball field, so my friends and I beat the shit out of each other with frozen baguettes

BayGullGuy 1 1d1h57m

climb a tree, then somebody else would cut it down with you in it.

Also make drano bombs and throw them at crap. one guy made one in the truck once, didnt go well

fireworks fights on the dock

TheAmityTyr 1 1d2h29m

i use to invite kids over to my house to beat them up.

the-spongeis-anger 1 1d3h54m

Play the game uncle (the game for who can withstand the most pain) but instead of normal things like punching pinching or the occasional tongue on a 9volt battery we would lay an empty book case on top of each other and see who could last the longest I only now realize how fu***** dangerous that was

HeathenJack 1 1d5h4m
  1. Punching/kicking each other in the dick for no reason other than it made us laugh.
  2. We beat the shit out of each other with sticks bc Star Wars and LotR warped our brains.
  3. Drink until someone passes out. The next morning, strip them down to their underwear, place them on a sled, tie the sled to an ATV, then wake them up by slinging their ass through the snow or mud.
  4. General drive-thru fuckery ("I'd like to order a sopping wet cunt.")
  5. Taking the "FOR SALE" signs from people's yards and placing them at the wrong houses.

We watched a lot of Jackass and it showed.

ZenGarlic 1 1d7h11m

We waged war with corn, the farmer was NOT game tho

PlantBasedCunt 1 1d9h22m

Doing "parkor" at the skate park wearing nothing but t-shirts in -10*c weather. One slip away from a cracked skull and 20 minutes away from full blown hypothermia, but fuck all I remember is having a great time.

Alejandro4891 1 1d10h23m

my friends and i had our own version of jackass, but we called it dumbass. i was the biggest out of all of us, so i was usually the one taking the most damage.

tmlynch 1 1d17h35m

Played "army" with BB guns.

It was a miracle no one lost an eye.

KrustyButtCheeks 1 130d0h2m

Voted for bernie

tapiocatapioca 1 130d0h51m

Someone’s lurkin.

hawaiifunke 0 5h51m

Got shot by a metal bb gun, Stole a book from one of the other boys and hid it and never gave it back just to fuck with him, Got his ipad taken away in class, We all threw dodgeballs at one of the boys in gym, One of them stabbed me in the thigh with a pencil, Broke into a abandoned warehouse at 15.. The usual.
Edit: and we fucked around with silly string and deodorant flamethrowers, We learned spraying someone with silly string and lighting it on fire is not good, It catches very fast and very violently, But dont worry we had a boye on hose duty just for safety measures, We were gonna spray him anyway even if he didnt get caught on fire.

AlexanderLittlee 0 7h55m

There's a few: -going for a hike alone in the winter, telling my parents I go with friends, then getting lost after the sun has set (~4pm) -really, just lying to my parents, that I won't go alone to x place, when I did go alone (they propably wouldn't have let me go I thought) -drinking til pass out -having unprotected sex -trasspassing to abandoned houses at night -climbing my elementary school and tagging it's wall with my friends -stealing money from my parents and buy snacks and booze -in 5th grade after school going to my 8th grader friend and drink shots Guess these were the really dumb things I've done.

rick_rock6 0 11h26m

smoked pcp

chital_shikari 0 12h50m

i’m reading all the stories and have nothing to contribute because I’m only 20 and we never did anything dumb. The thing that comes closest is when we were racing down the highway, nine people per sedan, in the car I was in ended up on the shoulder and we had to properly switch lanes to not run into the divider.

Another time, we were all in a tent and someone decided to take their shirts off, so there’s a bunch of us tweens and early teenagers not wearing shirts and looking at Tumblr porn. It was a weird night of boners and truth or dare. At one point we thought the adults are coming to check in on us, and so we all like hit the ground trying to sleep it was just freaking hilarious thinking back on it.

oldboomerhippie -4 1h9m

Threw kittens off the bridge into the river.

xXNOT_Oj_S1mpson09Xx 4 1h29m

You are the worst kind of person.

oldboomerhippie -6 1h35m

And you are a judgmental elitists bitch that thinks you're better than me because I have a troubled past that I'm able to talk about. Shame me and scold me to silence and my pathology will worsen. Blame the vicim of profound child abuse attempting to heal. You are the worst kind of person.

xXNOT_Oj_S1mpson09Xx 4 1h44m

Chill out dude, I'm sorry.

oldboomerhippie -4 1h51m

Fucking well better be sorry and clean up your judgemental act.

xXNOT_Oj_S1mpson09Xx 7 1h54m

Ok, lets not forget I wasn't the one who through the kittens of a bridge. Also I have hard times in life, and I choose to learn from the bad people and try to not be like them instead of doing the same thing they did to me, and you stop trying to make people pity you.

oldboomerhippie 0 2h5m

Bless me Father for I have sined. I know you are smarter and better than me already from your initial response so stop with the "I made better choice than you" crap. You got busted for being a thoughtless prick so stop defending yourself by pointing at me. People telling me I'm bad and worthless makes me feel like finding a bag of kittens to drown right now but I will resist it. Meanwhile go back to your fucking, suburban, privileged sheltered life.

xXNOT_Oj_S1mpson09Xx 4 2h10m

Don't act like I'm wrong in this situation.

oldboomerhippie -1 2h17m

Your a victim blamer for sure. Both the Lord Buddha and the Christ would suggest you change your ways if you ever want to grow as a soul. I answered a question about acknowledge fucked up things I had done as a kid and you chose to scold. Worst kind of ass hole.

xXNOT_Oj_S1mpson09Xx 3 2h32m

Do not bring up christ's name in this, not only did you do something bad you lost control and judged me you hipacrit.

xXNOT_Oj_S1mpson09Xx 3 2h40m

Let's be bigger than this I'm sorry let's stop.

tapiocatapioca 2 1h36m

I hope this isn’t real.

oldboomerhippie 1 1h38m

Nope, lot of rage acting out from being the smallest person in an extended family with multi generational domestic violence being the norm.