Strange things you did as a kid...

[Paul]

:flame:You do that today and Homeland Security will have you down in Gitmo in a flash!

Too true.

I love home made napalm... the first time was accidentally actually... we had a basketball hoop underneath a pine tree and it got sap on the backboard. So I decided to get some gasoline to clean it off, and the only thing I had to get the gasoline out there was a polystyrene coffee cup. Well, the bottom disolved right out of that sucker before I even got to the garage door. That was the start of some very interesting times.

I really enjoyed writing my name on the driveway in it, and lighting it ablaze.

A friend of mine had a large, motorized R-C model battleship. We covered it in our napalm, with a few firecrackers and an m-80. We lived right next to the CT river, so we took it down there, set it in the water, set it ablaze, and motored it out into the channel.

It was a thing of beauty. Too bad no one had a camera.

 

[Glenn]

Made an outbuilding at in a buddy's backyard and put a woodstove it. We made a chimney out of old single wall pipe. The wood where the single wall pass through was would smoke from the heat from the pipe. Oops!

We used to take apart firecrackers to make a bigger "firecracker". This inolved the rapid disintegration of coolers, 5 gallon buckets flying insanely high in the air and a tennis ball being launched higher than we could see out of a piece of exhaust straight pipe.

Spear fishing with homemade spears from wood and galivinized gutter nails

Fun with flaming arrows from a bow

The list goes on....

 

[Marc]

Made an outbuilding at in a buddy's backyard and put a woodstove it. We made a chimney out of old single wall pipe. The wood where the single wall pass through was would smoke from the heat from the pipe. Oops!

We used to take apart firecrackers to make a bigger "firecracker". This inolved the rapid disintegration of coolers, 5 gallon buckets flying insanely high in the air and a tennis ball being launched higher than we could see out of a piece of exhaust straight pipe.

Spear fishing with homemade spears from wood and galivinized gutter nails

Fun with flaming arrows from a bow

The list goes on....

My cousin and his friend had a club house made from an old chicken coop they put a woodstove in. They had a bunch of comic books and what not in there and wouldn't let me in. Locked the door. So one day I got so mad at them for being excluded I got a ladder and put a tin bucket on the top of their chimeny and smoked em out. They actually lasted longer than I thought before stumbling out the door coughing and wheezing.

 

[wa-loaf]

 

[Trekchick]

Made an outbuilding at in a buddy's backyard and put a woodstove it. We made a chimney out of old single wall pipe. The wood where the single wall pass through was would smoke from the heat from the pipe. Oops!

We used to take apart firecrackers to make a bigger "firecracker". This inolved the rapid disintegration of coolers, 5 gallon buckets flying insanely high in the air and a tennis ball being launched higher than we could see out of a piece of exhaust straight pipe.

Spear fishing with homemade spears from wood and galivinized gutter nails

Fun with flaming arrows from a bow

The list goes on....

Didn't anyone ever tell you about fertilizer and diesel fuel?

 

[wa-loaf]

I think this thread should have and NC-17 rating to stop any kids from getting ideas.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Dressed up as commandos for Halloween in 8th grade and went out with real BB Guns and some emergency flares. Can you imagine what would happen to kid doing that these days? We wound up setting the leaves on fire on the lawn of the President of Colby. Like true commando's we disappeared into the night at that point. :lol:

Wa Loaf This reminded me of another incident when me and a friend both about 10 pulled a similar stunt

. My buddy had a modest horse barn so we decided to go commando one night and fill up some burlap bags with some seasoned horseshit , then put them on the front porch ( concrete) of two old bastids who had bitched at us earlier for stealing fresh grapes off another neighbor's arbor .

So we waited till dark put the bags on the porch , lit them up , pushed the doorbell , hid in the bushes and watched these two stomp the fire out and get some fairly ripe horseshit all over their shoes in the process

Well we GOT caught the NEXT day by the village cop ( Lov the name ) John Kielbasa lots of my friends were polish )

AFTER that one all my mom had to say is you want me to call John Kielbasa ??

 

[Marc]

Bottle rocket fights were a common thing in the summer time...

 

[Warp Daddy]

Yep and BB gun wars and horseshit fights against OTHER forts in the woods

 

[Trekchick]

I think this thread should have and NC-17 rating to stop any kids from getting ideas.

At my recent class reunion, one of the classmates said, "The rule in our house is that you can't tell the kids what we did back then until they have kids of their own"

Sounds like a good plan

 

[Glenn]

Didn't anyone ever tell you about fertilizer and diesel fuel?

This was back in the late 80's/early 90's. You could still get some real fireworks in New Hampshire. We spend a lot of time in the summer up there, so I could always get those rather easily.

 

[Glenn]

My cousin and his friend had a club house made from an old chicken coop they put a woodstove in. They had a bunch of comic books and what not in there and wouldn't let me in. Locked the door. So one day I got so mad at them for being excluded I got a ladder and put a tin bucket on the top of their chimeny and smoked em out. They actually lasted longer than I thought before stumbling out the door coughing and wheezing.

"Man, this stove is not drafing well at all today! Are you sure the damper is open?"

 

[RootDKJ]

As a kid, I couldn't understand why my mom always kept the thermostat so damn low. So when she wasn't home, I'd turn the heat up over 80F. When she was on her way home, I would put ice cubes in a plastic bag and tape it on the wall over the thermostat to cool it down.

I told this to here a month ago. She had no clue that my brother and I did this and she still keeps her place at 67F in the winter.

 

[Marc]

As a kid, I couldn't understand why my mom always kept the thermostat so damn low. So when she wasn't home, I'd turn the heat up over 80F. When she was on her way home, I would put ice cubes in a plastic bag and tape it on the wall over the thermostat to cool it down.

I told this to here a month ago. She had no clue that my brother and I did this and she still keeps her place at 67F in the winter.

67 is cold? 67 is shorts and sandals temperature. My heat stays at 55 all winter. If I want warm, I build myself a fire in the woodstove.

 

[RootDKJ]

67 is cold? 67 is shorts and sandals temperature. My heat stays at 55 all winter. If I want warm, I build myself a fire in the woodstove.

In surburbia NJ, sure is.

 

[wa-loaf]

67 is cold? 67 is shorts and sandals temperature. My heat stays at 55 all winter. If I want warm, I build myself a fire in the woodstove.

In surburbia NJ, sure is.

The tropical south of Jersey?

I keep it at 64 in the winter, but I have to make sure the kids don't freeze. ;-)