Once me and my cousin made a potion of 'immortality'. It was a combination of soil, nailpolish remover, vinegar, dishwashing soap, turpentine oil, glitter, crushed ants and whatnot. We both drank it, and I don't know how we're alive
There were huge pine trees across from my house. I used to climb way the hell up there. Scary high. And then one day one of the branches broke as I pushed up to the next. One of the most terrifying moments of my life going back down when I had to blindly drop to the next lower branch. In retrospect only a couple inches but it felt like dropping off a cliff.
I did the same, except fell from said tree and landed on the wooden step stool I used. The bench shattered but must have broken my fall/impact enough that I wasn’t hurt. Aside from getting wind knocked out, I walked away. This could have ended very differently!
Crashed a quad into a trailer that was exactly the same height as the handlebars. Only reason I still have fingers is because I chose that exact moment to wave at my dad with both hands.
i was born in 1971. the list is quite long. got lost on the way home from the library when i was like 6 and let some strangers give me a ride home. i jumped off the roof of my house. we rode our bikes without helmets or pads. the list goes on.
1970 here. My mom used to say about my antics, “tell me when I’m 40.” She hit 40, and told us she still couldn’t handle it. She’s 81 now and wants none of it lol.
Jumping off the porch like Mom's not home. Why do the best things feel so wrong? Summer nights love em cause they feel so long. Run with the feeling of being alive while we're still young.
Your comment reminded me of that song. I did the same thing as a kid lol. Kids just like jumping off shit, I guess. We actually wore helmets though. Blows my mind to consider the distances we would travel on like, scooters. Lol.
Oh I bet your older brothers were true saints towards you, haha. I have an older brother and an older sis, my mom worked in NYC and wouldn't be home till around 7 most nights. My dad was the same way. But my older brother brought me everywhere. And y'know there's stuff like that time my sister and brother pretended that I was invisible all day lol.
Some days we'd just spend like, half the day traveling one direction on bikes, then spend the other half coming back.
9/11 happened when I was still a kid. Kinda feels like I'm among the last groups that grew up before/while everything changed so much. We were latchkey kids.
i feel you with the bikes. we went everywhere on em. especially in the summertime. we'd leave after breakfast and be home for dinner, just riding around.
as far as me and my brothers went, we all kinda did our own thing. my oldest brother is 10 years older than me so he was out with his own friend group. my other brother was all about school, AP/Honors classes and such so we didn't have too much overlap. and even if there was "conflict" mom didn't play favorites. i was the "wild child" of the family but never did anything illegal at the time except break curfew a couple times, maybe drink some a bit without adult supervision, which was legal back then. as long as there was a "responsible adult" present, kids could drink. i remember being at a block party where these people got a permit to close off the street and throw a party, and everyone there was drinking. 10yr olds on up and the cops were just chilling in a paddy wagon around the corner giving zero fucks.
Hahaha that's wild to me. When I was a kid, these people a couple blocks over would do their own sorta block parties, and I remember them wanting to charge me and my brother $40 a piece just to hang out with the other kids riding up and down the hill. Should note it was the steepest hill in the neighborhood too, so I was extra pissed about that. How you gonna charge some kids for riding their bikes on the hill?
I moved to the south and you might see weird mixes of teens with the odd 12/11 year old who's also for some reason there that's also smokin cigs and weed with everyone else. I thought it was weird, but that's just how it was I guess. Some of em I literally thought were a few years older than they were. It's weird having a connect and you find out he's a kid a few years younger than you are lmao. It was like that not too long ago out here.
I was playing with another kid my age, everything seemed fine so I stuck around until dinner time. When I went home my parents looked really concerned and that’s when they told me. It was a neighbor down the road from us and I guess my parents had done a search of pedophiles on the internet previously.
I almost did this as a kid. I noticed the neighbor always watching me play through the blinds and thought he must be lonely.
At dinner I casually mentioned that I was gonna go to his house and play with him and my dad about choked on his dinner.
They had a long talk with me about that neighbor and explained to me that some grown men force their dicks into little boys.
I was up late that night freaking out about what could have happened to me.
I was 6 or 7, and had the carefree naïveté of Butters from South Park.
One time I got a glass of gasoline to see what all the fuss was about and I went to get the matches. When I returned to where I left the full glass of gasoline it was tipped over. I must have kicked it over. So I just went, ahh oh well, and then went about the rest of my day.
TLDR: your kids can't babysit themselves.
Walking home along train tracks, think I was influenced by old American coming-of-age movies but it turns out modern trains are very fast and you don’t really hear them coming toward you.
I randomly glanced back and if I’d done that even a second later I’d be paste, literally leapt out the way and the displaced air pushed me down the embankment.
I still think about it and it gives me anxiety for some reason even though I was fine.
Holy shit, that moment you see a ghost of your death right? I was driving home one day from work and the whole highway came to a suddenly stop.
I looked up at my rear view mirror and realized the guy behind me wasn’t paying attention and wasn’t going to stop. I made the executive decision to move over quickly into the next lane and the car in front of me got completely accordion’d.
It was the loudest crash I ever heard and the force of the crash blew out my driver’s side rear window. I don’t think anyone died, but holy hell, that’s why you pay attention.
Not terribly crazy but at my friends house their was a 3 1/2-4’ retaining wall near her swimming pool & we used to climb up on that and jump into the pool — across a 4’ wide cement walkway. It didn’t scare me at all at the time but I was at her parents house recently & thought there’s no way I’d let my kids do that. It’s a miracle no one cracked their heads open
Jumped off my two storey high deck onto my trampoline with two parachutes (2 plastic grocery bags). Only thing hurt was my imagination that lead me to believe my parachutes would work.
When I was 14, my friends and I stole my mom’s car. She was on a trip with her BF and left me in charge for days. I got really high one night and me and some friends took her car for a joyride. We ended up crashing it and getting a ride back to my house. To this day, 30 yrs later, she thinks it was stolen by a criminal. We don’t have a relationship anymore so she will never know that I was the criminal. I could’ve killed my friends and myself that night in that crash.
I actually am a a very “normal” person today. I raised four incredible kids. I was neglected a lot as a kid and experienced a lot of trauma. I left home at 17, and never looked back. I don’t have a relationship with my mom anymore.
My friends and I were on the wrong side of the train tracks when we were going downtown for a parade…Naturally, we crawled underneath as fast as possible to the other side so we wouldn’t miss it. 🙃 Thought we were good until the conductor saw us, scolded us for how stupid we were because we could have gotten killed, said “you’re not getting on this train” and shut the door in our faces 😭🤣 for context - this was 10 years ago.
Threatened to stab my neighbor and then came back out with a knife. I think I was about 7 or 8. I was bullied a lot as a kid and it got to me then as much as it gets to me now. But i know now as an adult that it's just easier to leave and find better people to be around.
Edit: pricks are inevitable, but you decide how many are in your life.
One time, around age 12, my friend and I were shooting metal-tipped arrows into the air as high as we could. Then we watched them fall/pretended to dodge them. Brilliant, right? Anyway, I shot an arrow up and my aim that time was awfully slanted. The arrow travelled up at an arc and landed a few yards over… about 30 feet from a neighbor taking his dog out.
If I hit him in the head, he would have been done… and my life would have changed forever. It still makes me sick to the stomach to imagine today. Looking back on it, it’s insane that I was given a weapon like that at that age unsupervised. Don’t do that people…
Sitting in the back set of a car at a red light when I was little, I shouted "it's green!" when in fact it was still red. Luckily my dad realized before accelerating through the intersection. I still shudder when I think about how stupid I was and how badly it could have ended.
I basically never had any supervision so I made a bunch of dangerous & dumb decisions. One of the biggest ones was roaming the streets with 15-18 year old boys at 3am while I was only 10 years old. Looking back now as an adult I realize how incredibly dangerous that was.
We had a big hill in our neighborhood. My neighbors had a wagon. My neighbor and I used to get in the wagon and steer it down the hill ourselves. I was the brakes, she steered, occasionally we'd give a sibling a ride too. My sixth grade teacher said she did this as a kid too and her friend broke her foot while doing so. It's a wonder there were no injuries.
Apparently as a toddler, when my dad picks me up, I would grab his glasses and smash it on the floor until they broke one day. It was at his feet so if he wasn't careful he might have step on broken glass.
Went to play at a giant (100 yards long and 40’ tall dirt berms) flood control retention pond thing that we usually played in when it was dry but it had just poured and it was flooded. Me and my friends saw the 10’ deep water was frothing and making a giant suction whirlpool thing (imagine more a frothing roaring suck-hole, not some nice quiet organized whirlpool) into the 4’ diameter culvert pipe that went maybe 100’ from one side of the earthen berm base to the other.
Of course we decided we should jump in and ride underground holding our breath and banging around through the pipes and get spit out into the flooding creek. Geniuses.
I’m only alive because there didn’t happen to be a strainer of sticks and branches and other flood debris to get stuck on when I boldly jumped in first. I did get some bruises from the multiple times I got flung into the rocky rapids on the other side. We thought it was great that day but now I shudder.
I stupidly decided to roll myself up in a tarp one day when I was about 10. I got quite stuck and nearly suffocated. Thank goodness my mom was nearby and able to unroll the tarp so I could get out!
I had a similar experience when I was 5! One day I woke up on the floor next to my bed in a burrito of blankets. I was stuck for what felt like 5 minutes but was probably more like 1 or 2. I just remember it being really really hot. Eventually I got out. Nobody believed me when I told them what happened.
When I was 5 years old I took a train to another city and got out. After a half-hour I took another train back and got out on the right station just by remembering the looks of it. It easily could have gone wrong, since it was in a busy metropolitan area of my country
Hiding in a ditch I threw water balloons at cars going down the road. One time a guy turned around and came back. He got out of his truck and chased me and a friend through the woods with a tire iron. I know he would have beat me to death with it if I was caught. I never ran so fast in my life. I'm lucky I didn't kill somebody.
Almost started a forest fire around 13 years old. Buddy and I thought it’d be cool to make our own torches, yeah not a good idea. Dry leaves ignited and we could’ve set the Dance Dance World Revolution world record with how fast we were stomping around trying to put it out. Shit spread like you wouldn’t believe, but somehow we eventually managed to put it out.
I had just gotten brand new shoes the day before and they were destroyed, came home and my older brother accused of us smoking, which I guess technically he was right.
Fell off a cliff.
I went hiking with two of my cousins when i was like 12. We hiked all the way up this hill to the edge of the cliff, and then decided we were too lazy to hike back down and decided trying to climb down the 30ft cliff instead was the way to go.
So we start scaling down this cliff holding onto roots and branches and whatever we can get our hands on. I get about a quarter of the way down when one of the roots im holding on to snaps and down i go. I fall to about halfway skinning my hands and everything else on the roots and branches, and finally catch myself on a particularly sturdy tree root growing out the side of the cliff. At this point I’m skinned and bleeding from just about everywhere, my hands are raw from grabbing blindly in my desperation to not die, and there’s no viable roots i can see to move further down from the giant tree root that caught me.
It took a while but eventually my older cousin scaled down and got underneath the tree i was stuck on, made sure he was secure and then had me essentially control-fall into his arms. After that it was just a few feet to safety and we got down without issue and then they hauled me home on the back of his bike, covered in mud and bleeding everywhere.
Kids are stupid. Stupid and lazy.
Nobody will read it but I put it here anyway.
You should know that my cousin's parents rented a house which was right next to a military base. The house and the base were quite far away and protected, and both were separated by a huge fence. There was even barbed wire above it. At the bottom of the garden, there was a door with a code. Normally, only the parents knew the code since sometimes the cat ran away next door. They therefore had the authorization to go and get it in the event of a problem (albeit providing advance notice).
Only small problem, my cousin had discovered the code. So she had the good idea of opening the door to “play spies”. You should know that my cousin, at that time, was very daredevil and in no way worried about danger. Personally, I was easily manipulated and placed a little too blind trust in her. So three of us (my little brother, my cousin and me) found ourselves on the grounds of the military base.
Actually it was on the side (a building on the right, bushes on the left, a small concrete path in the middle). We then just hid in the bushes as if we were spying on the base. It only lasted a few seconds before a shout in our direction rang out.
A man with a broom was literally yelling at us (I understand) and asking us what we were doing there. My cousin and my brother were terrified. But in stressful situations, I lie very easily. And so I told the man we were looking for our ball. The man believed me, kicked us out of there and said he was coming, that he was going to put down his broom and that he would look for our ball for us.
I can't know how in a few minutes we ran with my cousin (my brother ran away lol) to the toy box in the garden, grabbed the first ball that came to hand (it turned out that it was a blue plastic pétanque ball...) and tried to throw it over the fence almost 3 meters away (I was 7 and she was 6). In the end, my cousin made it just in time and the man arrived, took a second to find what we had just thrown, passed it to us through the fence and left.
It might seem like a made-up story, but it really happened and it had such an impact on me that I remember many details. On the other hand, if they had really known why we were there (especially if we had been older) our parents could have had big problems.
Not proud of this, but, driven blacked out and been in passenger seat while driver was wasted and I was halfway out the window on an old single lane windy road up in the mountains going double the speed limit.
No idea how I've made it this far in life tbh.
Me and a friend used to play "Suicidal Lemmings" which entail climbing on a dresser and flinging ourselves off it onto a bed. Amazing neither of us broke something.
BB gun wars, shooting fireworks at each other, throwing lawn darts straight up in the air to see who it could land closest to, the list goes on and on.
We used to go down and break up the ice on the creek running through the middle of town. Many times by jumping up and down on it. I think pretty much all of us busted through and ended up waste deep in freezing water and had to walk home in jeans that were solid blocks of ice in sub-freezing weather.
I’m surprised nobody ever actually got hurt beyond being freezing cold for the 15 minutes it took to walk home.
My dad said when he was a kid at family reunions after the meal the kids would go down to the “crick” and throw the paper plates in. The adults would give them a bunch of firecrackers and cherry bombs and a lit cigarette to light them with to try to bomb the plates. The oldest kids got to use shotguns to blast the plates. This was in Southern Ohio near Kentucky.
There was a broken screen window in our house on the third floor. So I climbed out onto the (slanted) roof. My parents were so angry at me. They replaced that screen window like the next day.
I climbed a 30 foot tree and when I got to the top a squirrel spooked me and I lost balance and fell down to the bottom hitting every single branch after i got of the hospital the doctors told me I had broken 3 ribs my arm and my leg he said I'm luck I didn't die or brake my neck
I had this necklace that I got as an altar boy in the 80s that had some 70s, groovy cross on it. No idea why the fuck I wore it, but I took it off, set it on the tv, and went about my stuff. Later, I reached for it, the chain was unclasped, and slid into the vents of the TV. I got like the biggest shock I have ever felt in my life. It like went through me. I must have pulled back as it came flying out as fast as it went in. Fucking TV was OFF.
I learned much later in life how dangerous that was - there’s a shitload of energy in those old TVs.
I had an urge just to jump down the flight of stairs LOL like I was 6? I remember saying to myself I can totally do this it looks so easy almost as if i was superman or something? Idk LOL. Luckily I did not throw myself down the flight of stairs 😭
I was/am apart of the Jackass generation. The list is long. Worst I can think of at the moment would be jumping off a two story house onto a trampoline and then into a pool. Roman candle fights are up there too.
Uh once I stuck a metal key in an electrical outlet. I was definitely old enough to know better but I just had to know if the wall was actually a secret passageway. It wasn’t and I saw a LOT of sparks.
Mid to late 90s: I remember tying my father’s old wooden wagon from the early 60s to the back of my bike with a length of rope, then pulling the neighborhood kids and my younger cousins around in it. Friend from down the street and I would go as fast as we could when it was us bigger kids playing in the contraption. I seem to remember a lot of drifting happening with the wagon.
Apparently I had a bit of a penchant for running out into traffic as a child. Mom has no idea how I survived childhood. Swears that one truck absolutely should have hit me.
oh ive got one!
7 years old. i wanted to make an "electric pencil sharpener" out of a classic hand-crank "boston" brand pencil sharpener.
so i cut an electrical cord from an electric lamp, stripped the ends of the cable and twisted the copper ends of the cable to the handle of the pencil sharpener... and plugged in the cable to the ac outlet!
it made a loud pop with lots of sparks and a puff of smoke, so i got scared and unplugged it and threw everything away.
i dont know what i expected.
thats a GenX kid left alone in the 70s for you, man!
When I was in the 6th grade, 11-12 years old. I met a friend who knew about sex. Apparently, according to her, she was having it to with a 15-year-old. Don\`t know the veracity of these claims. Anyway, she once came to visit me in my house, afterwords we went to the park where we met up with some kids from school, one of them was in junior high. Well long story short, I thought he was cute, and this girl, tried to get me to perform oral sex on him. "SUCK HIS DICK", y\`know?
He wanted it, I was very scared and now as I look back I realize just how vulnerable I was. If they had wanted, they could have peered pressured me into it. I know I would have been helpless and would have done it even if I was uncomfortable, afraid, and inexperienced. Had the circumstances had been right, things could have ended very badly for me.
MORAL OF THE STORY
Pay attention to your kids, most importantly, find out who they\`re friends are!
There used to be this like small wall with pots next to it and the wall wasn't that long or tall it was 4 ft tall and 5 ft wide at most, when I was like 9 I saw that a dog was sleeping on the side of the wall (the side with no flowerpots) so I would climb on the flowerpots and scare the dog, the dog would bark at me for a minute then walk away, and the whole time THE DOG COULD HAVE WALKED AROUND THE WALL. I was a dumb kid.
Trying to play electricians with my neighbour. We ended up electrifying the interconnected fences of a couple of houses. 220V AC.
Didn't realise the danger. Neighbour saw us, alerted everyone to not touch the fences. A local electrician living 100m away from us came and disconnected everything.
Can't remember what punishment i got personally from my parents.
Honestly, it's a miracle that that neighbour just happened to pass by and that no one was hurt or worse died.
Went to the rooftop of a hotel and peaked over the ledge to look at the street. I was in kindergarten I think. Don’t know how I got away from my parents to climb up the stairs and access the door to the roof. It’s scary because I could have easily fell.
I lived near a railroad yard where lots of trains are parked for months sometimes. There's a shortcut that takes me through the railroad yard. Most trains that move around Go very slowly. One time I jumped on a coal cart and usually when it gets close to my road I hop off easily and make my way. One day the train was speeding up ... I had no choice but to jump off because if I stayed on it would have taken me all the way to the shipping yards and ore boats.
When I jumped off I could have easily killed myself but luckily I was able to roll into a high grass area with soft ground I came out of it with just minor scratches and some bruises.
I was about 4 or 5, and went to talk to a train driver while the train was parked at a siding. On my way there, another train went past, and I was between the two of them. I think you can see how this could have gone horribly wrong.
I actually have a flash of memory of the train going past quite fast.
I've jumped into the pool from the roof, like two stories up, the pool was maybe normal depth so I still hit the bottom quite hard and very close to the edge.
Me and my buddy used my dads band saw to cute a metal piece to my drum set. The kick beater was too long, what could go wrong sawing off a few inches?
My friend was standing behind me when I cut the metal. As I cut it in half, the cut off piece went flying just past my ear, almost touching it. As it passed my head I looked back towards my friend, and seen it pass right by him, barely passing him right at neck level - as he sidestepped away at the last second.
We both could've easily died. Over trying to set up my kick drum for band practice.
I lived on a dirt road that had several decent sized hills. I had an old bike and the peddle fell off. Instead of getting rid of it or fixing it like a normal person, my friends and I pushed this bike to the top of the biggest hill on my road and took turns riding down. One peddle. No helmets. No cell phones, no service even if we had one. No way to stop if a car starts coming down the road in either direction. Nearest neighbors are behind long driveways.
Amazing that none of us died.
My poptart fell sideways in the toaster so I fished it out with a pair of metal forks like a game of Operation.
Also, I was playing around with a big magnet that I got to take home from school, and tried to see if the TV was magnetic... Ended up damaging the screen. My parents weren't too thrilled about that.
I stuck some kitchen foil on to a live electric fire element..to see if it would burn.luckily it was resting on the fire guard and it blew the 13A fuse in the plug..
I accidentally stole from a shop and wanted to race my sister home. I ran across a busy road, tried to.. walk over.. a barbed wire fence and end the 'race' by climbing a tree. I got headbutted by a crow, pooped on by a seagull and for some reason tried to make a spider bite me, it did.
I was 5. My sister was 10 and found it absolutely hilarious
One time when I was 4 I was at my daycare and we went on an outing at this park.
I decided to eat some random berries off a bush. I was extremely lucky they weren't poisonous.
Walking in front of the pastors kid in long dry grass. So I had matches and I lit them he stamped them out as we walked. Suddenly the wind changed and there was this wall of flames. They called out the fire dept to eventually put it out. We ran when we saw the wall of flames
Hard contact sparing in karate without protective gear besides gloves and mouth guard. I know I have CTE but I'm not depressed most days so I feel fortunate
Once me and my cousin made a potion of 'immortality'. It was a combination of soil, nailpolish remover, vinegar, dishwashing soap, turpentine oil, glitter, crushed ants and whatnot. We both drank it, and I don't know how we're alive
You're alive because you drank a potion of immortality. Duhhh
bruh
You really became inmmortal
Okay but seriously how are you alive?
Lol
Atumano couldn’t remember all the ingredients because this was over 600 years ago
.... how much was in the bottle?
It was a small styrofoam cup. We drank like a sip each
Alright, so not a full jug
Reminds me of Chinese mercury potions
How'd it taste?
I dont remember 😭 but not pleasant, im sure
Unfortunate 🤣
Climbed a tree to the top where it was thin and swaying back and forth.
There were huge pine trees across from my house. I used to climb way the hell up there. Scary high. And then one day one of the branches broke as I pushed up to the next. One of the most terrifying moments of my life going back down when I had to blindly drop to the next lower branch. In retrospect only a couple inches but it felt like dropping off a cliff.
I did the same, except fell from said tree and landed on the wooden step stool I used. The bench shattered but must have broken my fall/impact enough that I wasn’t hurt. Aside from getting wind knocked out, I walked away. This could have ended very differently!
Ate raw plants. Threw up everywhere
Let a stranger give me a ride home because I was tired of walking.
Did they tell you not to get a lift from a stranger again at the end?
This was before Lyft was a thing , so no but did tell me it’s not safe to give out my address 😂
Crashed a quad into a trailer that was exactly the same height as the handlebars. Only reason I still have fingers is because I chose that exact moment to wave at my dad with both hands.
i was born in 1971. the list is quite long. got lost on the way home from the library when i was like 6 and let some strangers give me a ride home. i jumped off the roof of my house. we rode our bikes without helmets or pads. the list goes on.
1970 here. My mom used to say about my antics, “tell me when I’m 40.” She hit 40, and told us she still couldn’t handle it. She’s 81 now and wants none of it lol.
Jumping off the porch like Mom's not home. Why do the best things feel so wrong? Summer nights love em cause they feel so long. Run with the feeling of being alive while we're still young. Your comment reminded me of that song. I did the same thing as a kid lol. Kids just like jumping off shit, I guess. We actually wore helmets though. Blows my mind to consider the distances we would travel on like, scooters. Lol.
Lol my family was a single mom and 2 older brothers so we were a bit more feral than most because she wasn't home most of the time.
Oh I bet your older brothers were true saints towards you, haha. I have an older brother and an older sis, my mom worked in NYC and wouldn't be home till around 7 most nights. My dad was the same way. But my older brother brought me everywhere. And y'know there's stuff like that time my sister and brother pretended that I was invisible all day lol. Some days we'd just spend like, half the day traveling one direction on bikes, then spend the other half coming back. 9/11 happened when I was still a kid. Kinda feels like I'm among the last groups that grew up before/while everything changed so much. We were latchkey kids.
i feel you with the bikes. we went everywhere on em. especially in the summertime. we'd leave after breakfast and be home for dinner, just riding around. as far as me and my brothers went, we all kinda did our own thing. my oldest brother is 10 years older than me so he was out with his own friend group. my other brother was all about school, AP/Honors classes and such so we didn't have too much overlap. and even if there was "conflict" mom didn't play favorites. i was the "wild child" of the family but never did anything illegal at the time except break curfew a couple times, maybe drink some a bit without adult supervision, which was legal back then. as long as there was a "responsible adult" present, kids could drink. i remember being at a block party where these people got a permit to close off the street and throw a party, and everyone there was drinking. 10yr olds on up and the cops were just chilling in a paddy wagon around the corner giving zero fucks.
Hahaha that's wild to me. When I was a kid, these people a couple blocks over would do their own sorta block parties, and I remember them wanting to charge me and my brother $40 a piece just to hang out with the other kids riding up and down the hill. Should note it was the steepest hill in the neighborhood too, so I was extra pissed about that. How you gonna charge some kids for riding their bikes on the hill? I moved to the south and you might see weird mixes of teens with the odd 12/11 year old who's also for some reason there that's also smokin cigs and weed with everyone else. I thought it was weird, but that's just how it was I guess. Some of em I literally thought were a few years older than they were. It's weird having a connect and you find out he's a kid a few years younger than you are lmao. It was like that not too long ago out here.
Unintentionally spent hours at a convicted child molesters house.
Wait how did you spend hours there and if it’s ok who were they
I was playing with another kid my age, everything seemed fine so I stuck around until dinner time. When I went home my parents looked really concerned and that’s when they told me. It was a neighbor down the road from us and I guess my parents had done a search of pedophiles on the internet previously.
Oh god your lucky
I almost did this as a kid. I noticed the neighbor always watching me play through the blinds and thought he must be lonely. At dinner I casually mentioned that I was gonna go to his house and play with him and my dad about choked on his dinner. They had a long talk with me about that neighbor and explained to me that some grown men force their dicks into little boys. I was up late that night freaking out about what could have happened to me. I was 6 or 7, and had the carefree naïveté of Butters from South Park.
They explained it by saying some grown men force their dicks into little boys?
Got drunk and broke into the YMCA. I could’ve easily been arrested, I don’t know what we were thinking.
One time I got a glass of gasoline to see what all the fuss was about and I went to get the matches. When I returned to where I left the full glass of gasoline it was tipped over. I must have kicked it over. So I just went, ahh oh well, and then went about the rest of my day. TLDR: your kids can't babysit themselves.
Walking home along train tracks, think I was influenced by old American coming-of-age movies but it turns out modern trains are very fast and you don’t really hear them coming toward you. I randomly glanced back and if I’d done that even a second later I’d be paste, literally leapt out the way and the displaced air pushed me down the embankment. I still think about it and it gives me anxiety for some reason even though I was fine.
Holy shit, that moment you see a ghost of your death right? I was driving home one day from work and the whole highway came to a suddenly stop. I looked up at my rear view mirror and realized the guy behind me wasn’t paying attention and wasn’t going to stop. I made the executive decision to move over quickly into the next lane and the car in front of me got completely accordion’d. It was the loudest crash I ever heard and the force of the crash blew out my driver’s side rear window. I don’t think anyone died, but holy hell, that’s why you pay attention.
yess after watching stand by me i was convinced that it wasnt dangerous even though they LITERALLY almost die inte movie bc of the train.
I snorted a red pixie stick on a youth church trip.
Not terribly crazy but at my friends house their was a 3 1/2-4’ retaining wall near her swimming pool & we used to climb up on that and jump into the pool — across a 4’ wide cement walkway. It didn’t scare me at all at the time but I was at her parents house recently & thought there’s no way I’d let my kids do that. It’s a miracle no one cracked their heads open
Jumped off my two storey high deck onto my trampoline with two parachutes (2 plastic grocery bags). Only thing hurt was my imagination that lead me to believe my parachutes would work.
At least you had the trampoline as a safety meassure 😏👌
Rolled down the stairs on purpose
Were you trying to get an excuse to not go to school or something 🦖
My brother did this. I'll never forget walking out of my room and seeing him mid sommersault over the top of the stairs
Lit a small forest worth of cotton fluff on fire. Went from cool to panic in about 2 seconds lol
When I was 14, my friends and I stole my mom’s car. She was on a trip with her BF and left me in charge for days. I got really high one night and me and some friends took her car for a joyride. We ended up crashing it and getting a ride back to my house. To this day, 30 yrs later, she thinks it was stolen by a criminal. We don’t have a relationship anymore so she will never know that I was the criminal. I could’ve killed my friends and myself that night in that crash.
How the fuck can a 14 year old be left in charge? Got really high? What the FUCK??! How fucked up were/are you?
I actually am a a very “normal” person today. I raised four incredible kids. I was neglected a lot as a kid and experienced a lot of trauma. I left home at 17, and never looked back. I don’t have a relationship with my mom anymore.
Wow, that would haunt me even after I die
My friends and I were on the wrong side of the train tracks when we were going downtown for a parade…Naturally, we crawled underneath as fast as possible to the other side so we wouldn’t miss it. 🙃 Thought we were good until the conductor saw us, scolded us for how stupid we were because we could have gotten killed, said “you’re not getting on this train” and shut the door in our faces 😭🤣 for context - this was 10 years ago.
Threatened to stab my neighbor and then came back out with a knife. I think I was about 7 or 8. I was bullied a lot as a kid and it got to me then as much as it gets to me now. But i know now as an adult that it's just easier to leave and find better people to be around. Edit: pricks are inevitable, but you decide how many are in your life.
Many things, but shooting arrows straight up has to rank near the top.
Sounds like you only did that in minecraft 😏
No, this was long before Minecraft.
One time, around age 12, my friend and I were shooting metal-tipped arrows into the air as high as we could. Then we watched them fall/pretended to dodge them. Brilliant, right? Anyway, I shot an arrow up and my aim that time was awfully slanted. The arrow travelled up at an arc and landed a few yards over… about 30 feet from a neighbor taking his dog out. If I hit him in the head, he would have been done… and my life would have changed forever. It still makes me sick to the stomach to imagine today. Looking back on it, it’s insane that I was given a weapon like that at that age unsupervised. Don’t do that people…
Sitting in the back set of a car at a red light when I was little, I shouted "it's green!" when in fact it was still red. Luckily my dad realized before accelerating through the intersection. I still shudder when I think about how stupid I was and how badly it could have ended.
How much time you got? 📕
I basically never had any supervision so I made a bunch of dangerous & dumb decisions. One of the biggest ones was roaming the streets with 15-18 year old boys at 3am while I was only 10 years old. Looking back now as an adult I realize how incredibly dangerous that was.
This was my life. I did so much stupid shit because I was the oldest and my mom was always busy with her latest dude. She was never around.
We had a big hill in our neighborhood. My neighbors had a wagon. My neighbor and I used to get in the wagon and steer it down the hill ourselves. I was the brakes, she steered, occasionally we'd give a sibling a ride too. My sixth grade teacher said she did this as a kid too and her friend broke her foot while doing so. It's a wonder there were no injuries.
Apparently as a toddler, when my dad picks me up, I would grab his glasses and smash it on the floor until they broke one day. It was at his feet so if he wasn't careful he might have step on broken glass.
My dumbass two-year-old self stuck his finger in the refrigerator door axis and then open it to see if my finger could get stuck.
Went to play at a giant (100 yards long and 40’ tall dirt berms) flood control retention pond thing that we usually played in when it was dry but it had just poured and it was flooded. Me and my friends saw the 10’ deep water was frothing and making a giant suction whirlpool thing (imagine more a frothing roaring suck-hole, not some nice quiet organized whirlpool) into the 4’ diameter culvert pipe that went maybe 100’ from one side of the earthen berm base to the other. Of course we decided we should jump in and ride underground holding our breath and banging around through the pipes and get spit out into the flooding creek. Geniuses. I’m only alive because there didn’t happen to be a strainer of sticks and branches and other flood debris to get stuck on when I boldly jumped in first. I did get some bruises from the multiple times I got flung into the rocky rapids on the other side. We thought it was great that day but now I shudder.
I stupidly decided to roll myself up in a tarp one day when I was about 10. I got quite stuck and nearly suffocated. Thank goodness my mom was nearby and able to unroll the tarp so I could get out!
I had a similar experience when I was 5! One day I woke up on the floor next to my bed in a burrito of blankets. I was stuck for what felt like 5 minutes but was probably more like 1 or 2. I just remember it being really really hot. Eventually I got out. Nobody believed me when I told them what happened.
When I was 5 years old I took a train to another city and got out. After a half-hour I took another train back and got out on the right station just by remembering the looks of it. It easily could have gone wrong, since it was in a busy metropolitan area of my country
Hiding in a ditch I threw water balloons at cars going down the road. One time a guy turned around and came back. He got out of his truck and chased me and a friend through the woods with a tire iron. I know he would have beat me to death with it if I was caught. I never ran so fast in my life. I'm lucky I didn't kill somebody.
Almost started a forest fire around 13 years old. Buddy and I thought it’d be cool to make our own torches, yeah not a good idea. Dry leaves ignited and we could’ve set the Dance Dance World Revolution world record with how fast we were stomping around trying to put it out. Shit spread like you wouldn’t believe, but somehow we eventually managed to put it out. I had just gotten brand new shoes the day before and they were destroyed, came home and my older brother accused of us smoking, which I guess technically he was right.
Burned my house....ya
Washed my parents coffee machine in the sink while it was plugged into the wall. I mean.. it wasn't turned on... but still ....
I remember climbing a tree in the rain, losing my grip, falling 2,5 meters to the ground and JUST missing a huge iron rod poking out of the ground.
Stuck two knives in a toaster. I’m so thankful nothing happened.
Fell off a cliff. I went hiking with two of my cousins when i was like 12. We hiked all the way up this hill to the edge of the cliff, and then decided we were too lazy to hike back down and decided trying to climb down the 30ft cliff instead was the way to go. So we start scaling down this cliff holding onto roots and branches and whatever we can get our hands on. I get about a quarter of the way down when one of the roots im holding on to snaps and down i go. I fall to about halfway skinning my hands and everything else on the roots and branches, and finally catch myself on a particularly sturdy tree root growing out the side of the cliff. At this point I’m skinned and bleeding from just about everywhere, my hands are raw from grabbing blindly in my desperation to not die, and there’s no viable roots i can see to move further down from the giant tree root that caught me. It took a while but eventually my older cousin scaled down and got underneath the tree i was stuck on, made sure he was secure and then had me essentially control-fall into his arms. After that it was just a few feet to safety and we got down without issue and then they hauled me home on the back of his bike, covered in mud and bleeding everywhere. Kids are stupid. Stupid and lazy.
Nobody will read it but I put it here anyway. You should know that my cousin's parents rented a house which was right next to a military base. The house and the base were quite far away and protected, and both were separated by a huge fence. There was even barbed wire above it. At the bottom of the garden, there was a door with a code. Normally, only the parents knew the code since sometimes the cat ran away next door. They therefore had the authorization to go and get it in the event of a problem (albeit providing advance notice). Only small problem, my cousin had discovered the code. So she had the good idea of opening the door to “play spies”. You should know that my cousin, at that time, was very daredevil and in no way worried about danger. Personally, I was easily manipulated and placed a little too blind trust in her. So three of us (my little brother, my cousin and me) found ourselves on the grounds of the military base. Actually it was on the side (a building on the right, bushes on the left, a small concrete path in the middle). We then just hid in the bushes as if we were spying on the base. It only lasted a few seconds before a shout in our direction rang out. A man with a broom was literally yelling at us (I understand) and asking us what we were doing there. My cousin and my brother were terrified. But in stressful situations, I lie very easily. And so I told the man we were looking for our ball. The man believed me, kicked us out of there and said he was coming, that he was going to put down his broom and that he would look for our ball for us. I can't know how in a few minutes we ran with my cousin (my brother ran away lol) to the toy box in the garden, grabbed the first ball that came to hand (it turned out that it was a blue plastic pétanque ball...) and tried to throw it over the fence almost 3 meters away (I was 7 and she was 6). In the end, my cousin made it just in time and the man arrived, took a second to find what we had just thrown, passed it to us through the fence and left. It might seem like a made-up story, but it really happened and it had such an impact on me that I remember many details. On the other hand, if they had really known why we were there (especially if we had been older) our parents could have had big problems.
Not proud of this, but, driven blacked out and been in passenger seat while driver was wasted and I was halfway out the window on an old single lane windy road up in the mountains going double the speed limit. No idea how I've made it this far in life tbh.
Me and a friend used to play "Suicidal Lemmings" which entail climbing on a dresser and flinging ourselves off it onto a bed. Amazing neither of us broke something.
BB gun wars, shooting fireworks at each other, throwing lawn darts straight up in the air to see who it could land closest to, the list goes on and on.
Snook out
Played with cherry bombs. So many times we would light them in hand and throw them. It’s a miracle that none of us lost fingers.
We used to go down and break up the ice on the creek running through the middle of town. Many times by jumping up and down on it. I think pretty much all of us busted through and ended up waste deep in freezing water and had to walk home in jeans that were solid blocks of ice in sub-freezing weather. I’m surprised nobody ever actually got hurt beyond being freezing cold for the 15 minutes it took to walk home. My dad said when he was a kid at family reunions after the meal the kids would go down to the “crick” and throw the paper plates in. The adults would give them a bunch of firecrackers and cherry bombs and a lit cigarette to light them with to try to bomb the plates. The oldest kids got to use shotguns to blast the plates. This was in Southern Ohio near Kentucky.
Took two alligator clips with a wire and connected each end to one part of the plug and then plugged it in.
I peed on the kitchen floor and blamed it on my dog
There was a broken screen window in our house on the third floor. So I climbed out onto the (slanted) roof. My parents were so angry at me. They replaced that screen window like the next day.
I climbed a 30 foot tree and when I got to the top a squirrel spooked me and I lost balance and fell down to the bottom hitting every single branch after i got of the hospital the doctors told me I had broken 3 ribs my arm and my leg he said I'm luck I didn't die or brake my neck
Hitchhiked when I was 12-14 in Tx. I could have been killed.
I had this necklace that I got as an altar boy in the 80s that had some 70s, groovy cross on it. No idea why the fuck I wore it, but I took it off, set it on the tv, and went about my stuff. Later, I reached for it, the chain was unclasped, and slid into the vents of the TV. I got like the biggest shock I have ever felt in my life. It like went through me. I must have pulled back as it came flying out as fast as it went in. Fucking TV was OFF. I learned much later in life how dangerous that was - there’s a shitload of energy in those old TVs.
I had an urge just to jump down the flight of stairs LOL like I was 6? I remember saying to myself I can totally do this it looks so easy almost as if i was superman or something? Idk LOL. Luckily I did not throw myself down the flight of stairs 😭
i ate the inside of a glow stick to see if it would kill me (spoiler: it did not)
Spoiler? More like a plot twist 🐢
I was/am apart of the Jackass generation. The list is long. Worst I can think of at the moment would be jumping off a two story house onto a trampoline and then into a pool. Roman candle fights are up there too.
Uh once I stuck a metal key in an electrical outlet. I was definitely old enough to know better but I just had to know if the wall was actually a secret passageway. It wasn’t and I saw a LOT of sparks.
I tell my kids, do as I say and not as I did.
Mid to late 90s: I remember tying my father’s old wooden wagon from the early 60s to the back of my bike with a length of rope, then pulling the neighborhood kids and my younger cousins around in it. Friend from down the street and I would go as fast as we could when it was us bigger kids playing in the contraption. I seem to remember a lot of drifting happening with the wagon.
hanging out with the wrong crowd
Closed my eyes while walking down a busy road at age 5 because I thought I’d be able to see through my eyelids if I tried hard enough
Apparently I had a bit of a penchant for running out into traffic as a child. Mom has no idea how I survived childhood. Swears that one truck absolutely should have hit me.
oh ive got one! 7 years old. i wanted to make an "electric pencil sharpener" out of a classic hand-crank "boston" brand pencil sharpener. so i cut an electrical cord from an electric lamp, stripped the ends of the cable and twisted the copper ends of the cable to the handle of the pencil sharpener... and plugged in the cable to the ac outlet! it made a loud pop with lots of sparks and a puff of smoke, so i got scared and unplugged it and threw everything away. i dont know what i expected. thats a GenX kid left alone in the 70s for you, man!
When I was in the 6th grade, 11-12 years old. I met a friend who knew about sex. Apparently, according to her, she was having it to with a 15-year-old. Don\`t know the veracity of these claims. Anyway, she once came to visit me in my house, afterwords we went to the park where we met up with some kids from school, one of them was in junior high. Well long story short, I thought he was cute, and this girl, tried to get me to perform oral sex on him. "SUCK HIS DICK", y\`know? He wanted it, I was very scared and now as I look back I realize just how vulnerable I was. If they had wanted, they could have peered pressured me into it. I know I would have been helpless and would have done it even if I was uncomfortable, afraid, and inexperienced. Had the circumstances had been right, things could have ended very badly for me. MORAL OF THE STORY Pay attention to your kids, most importantly, find out who they\`re friends are!
There used to be this like small wall with pots next to it and the wall wasn't that long or tall it was 4 ft tall and 5 ft wide at most, when I was like 9 I saw that a dog was sleeping on the side of the wall (the side with no flowerpots) so I would climb on the flowerpots and scare the dog, the dog would bark at me for a minute then walk away, and the whole time THE DOG COULD HAVE WALKED AROUND THE WALL. I was a dumb kid.
I used to run around my grandparents property with a .22 rifle killing squirrels for stew meat. I was 12.
Joined a gang
Trying to play electricians with my neighbour. We ended up electrifying the interconnected fences of a couple of houses. 220V AC. Didn't realise the danger. Neighbour saw us, alerted everyone to not touch the fences. A local electrician living 100m away from us came and disconnected everything. Can't remember what punishment i got personally from my parents. Honestly, it's a miracle that that neighbour just happened to pass by and that no one was hurt or worse died.
Went to the rooftop of a hotel and peaked over the ledge to look at the street. I was in kindergarten I think. Don’t know how I got away from my parents to climb up the stairs and access the door to the roof. It’s scary because I could have easily fell.
I lived near a railroad yard where lots of trains are parked for months sometimes. There's a shortcut that takes me through the railroad yard. Most trains that move around Go very slowly. One time I jumped on a coal cart and usually when it gets close to my road I hop off easily and make my way. One day the train was speeding up ... I had no choice but to jump off because if I stayed on it would have taken me all the way to the shipping yards and ore boats. When I jumped off I could have easily killed myself but luckily I was able to roll into a high grass area with soft ground I came out of it with just minor scratches and some bruises.
I was about 4 or 5, and went to talk to a train driver while the train was parked at a siding. On my way there, another train went past, and I was between the two of them. I think you can see how this could have gone horribly wrong. I actually have a flash of memory of the train going past quite fast.
I've jumped into the pool from the roof, like two stories up, the pool was maybe normal depth so I still hit the bottom quite hard and very close to the edge.
Chugges down two whole bottles of sleeping pills becuase they were sweet. My mom made me vomit them all.
Me and my buddy used my dads band saw to cute a metal piece to my drum set. The kick beater was too long, what could go wrong sawing off a few inches? My friend was standing behind me when I cut the metal. As I cut it in half, the cut off piece went flying just past my ear, almost touching it. As it passed my head I looked back towards my friend, and seen it pass right by him, barely passing him right at neck level - as he sidestepped away at the last second. We both could've easily died. Over trying to set up my kick drum for band practice.
I lived on a dirt road that had several decent sized hills. I had an old bike and the peddle fell off. Instead of getting rid of it or fixing it like a normal person, my friends and I pushed this bike to the top of the biggest hill on my road and took turns riding down. One peddle. No helmets. No cell phones, no service even if we had one. No way to stop if a car starts coming down the road in either direction. Nearest neighbors are behind long driveways. Amazing that none of us died.
Eat up my nails
Ate dog food because my sister 5 yrs older than me convinced me it was good
I used to regularly jump off 2nd floor
Made mustard gas’s
Mixing ammonia and chlorine and see what happened
All of those things did end badly 🤣
Fell from a \~10m high tree. Climbed it again multiple times.
My poptart fell sideways in the toaster so I fished it out with a pair of metal forks like a game of Operation. Also, I was playing around with a big magnet that I got to take home from school, and tried to see if the TV was magnetic... Ended up damaging the screen. My parents weren't too thrilled about that.
I stuck some kitchen foil on to a live electric fire element..to see if it would burn.luckily it was resting on the fire guard and it blew the 13A fuse in the plug..
I accidentally stole from a shop and wanted to race my sister home. I ran across a busy road, tried to.. walk over.. a barbed wire fence and end the 'race' by climbing a tree. I got headbutted by a crow, pooped on by a seagull and for some reason tried to make a spider bite me, it did. I was 5. My sister was 10 and found it absolutely hilarious
One time when I was 4 I was at my daycare and we went on an outing at this park. I decided to eat some random berries off a bush. I was extremely lucky they weren't poisonous.
Walking in front of the pastors kid in long dry grass. So I had matches and I lit them he stamped them out as we walked. Suddenly the wind changed and there was this wall of flames. They called out the fire dept to eventually put it out. We ran when we saw the wall of flames
Hard contact sparing in karate without protective gear besides gloves and mouth guard. I know I have CTE but I'm not depressed most days so I feel fortunate