What kind of stupid stuff did you do as a child?

We lived in a pine forest. My friend and I would choose a young pine tree and climb as high as we could. If we chose well, the tree would bend way over, and we would let go and drop 5 or 6 feet to the ground. If we chose poorly, the tree would bend, but leave us 10 or 15 feet off the ground, making for a hard landing when we turned loose. Thank goodness pine needles on the forest floor were fairly soft.

Growing up in NI and seeing soldiers come through our neighbourhood during the troubles and approaching a soldier [I'm six at the time for context] and asking him if I can touch/see his gun.

Lucky I didn't get one of those guys that was [i]completely[/i] PTSD/fubar...and we lived in one of the nicer neighbourhoods. I still don't think they actually technically should really have been going through that area at all. Dunno if someone crank called them and gave false bomb info or what.

There were two times helicopters flew really alarmingly low too. I am sure one flew so low it caused the laundry on the line to move. Maybe near misses involving drunk soldiers who were about to go full postal? Trainees who nearly crashed? Who knows.

Anyone ever think about stuff like that? [If they had a near miss with a postal soldier/other potentially postal types...not going postal themselves.] Like if you were nearly a fatality on the news for no good reason.

A few friends, my little brother, and I would climb over the fence and swim in the public pool late at night on really hot summer days. We did it for 2 years before we got caught by the cops.

Brought a very sick Canada goose home and put it in the bathtub with the intention of "nursing it back to health".. mom wasn't pleased.

Tried to keep a snapping turtle as a secret pet concealed in my little siblings' sandbox.

Tried to float my sister down the creek in the upturned sandbox lid so she could tell us if it goes to the ocean. (We live in Ohio)

We had chairs with fasteners on the bottom that held the seat in place and I used to crawl under it and kept turning them to sides saying I was "working". I did it repeatedly with an act of as if getting dressed and going to work, then "doing the job", then looking at watches and leaving "work". Turning fasteners to and fro was my idea of how it looks like when adults go to work and back home. Sadly, I wasn't that far from the truth in the bigger picture. 😐

In puberty I made anonymous calls to random people we picked from a phone books with friends or cousins.

I washed my hands in cold water for a longer period of time. I couldn't stand warm water on my hands.

I threw rocks and shot home made arrows at the big trucks that drove by the house. They were loud and made lots of dust . I told em to gtfo!

So much stupid stuff…
• climb the cliffs at the beach
• skip school or kick off so I’d get excluded
• cowies
• sneak out the house in the middle of the night to go and sit on the beach - I still do this but I no longer have to sneak

I tried to find doors to other dimensions. 😅

A lot .. and none of it is on video!!

Oh my!
I talked to myself alot. Audibly. I would imagine elaborate stories and senarios and why oh why did I have to talk them out so often.
It was weird