Dumb things you did as a kid

[bigfish4me]

There is a thread squid started in w2mw, got me thinking....here is my story, one of many but definitly one that sticks out.
..... the arson charge i received at the age of 11, geez you burn one dilapidated barn down and your branded for life As a young lad, me and a buddy would take his wrist rocket down to this abandoned farm and we would shoot what ever we could find around the barn with pig iron we would pick up from the railroad tracks. Well we stumbled across a tin of coleman lantern fluid that was about a 1/4 full...so being young and dumb we shot it full of holes, which in turn made the lantern fluid leak all over the place.....1st mistake.
It was particularly sunny and hot..being in the middle of august, there were grass hoppers all over the place.....add magnifying glass and you have the 2nd mistake. We had tried to burn the hoppers with the magnifying glass but the only way to get them to sit still long enough was to rip their wings and legs off...which in turn would kill them before we could burn them up with the magnifying glass so we hatched a plan to build a little fire in an empty coffee can we found and planned on dropping them into the fire while still alive....3rd mistake.
All was going smoothly, rounded up some paper and a little straw and sure enough it lit right up with the magnifying glass, then a gust of wind blew a burning ember...yup you guessed it right onto the coleman lantern fluid soaked boards....really all i remember is the sound of WOOOOOF and this sucker was engulfed in seconds...naturally we beat feet out of there.....my buddy was recognized by a neighbor and before long the local P.D was knocking on the door....BUSTED
I get reminded of this little story every time i go to my parents house, on that day my dad had poured a set of concrete steps in the back yard, he engraved the date and our names into the concrete....i arrived home that day out of breath and scared to hell, so here we are all out back admiring the steps dad busted his ass pouring and finishing and you can see this huge billowing smoke cloud a few blocks away....and then the sirens went off. As the fire trucks zoomed by i was shitting to say the least......as a boy i received my share of whoopins....but this one ranked up there with the worst of them.....every time i see those steps i remember the barn burner.

[gottaflylee]

I'll take the 5th...

[lowtide]

Ive done alot of stupid crap when a kid but the one thing that stands out for me is, on my 18th birthday which was 2 years ago Me and a friend who had a van at the time went into the city. we would often venture their on a weekend night where the hookers hung out. After about 23 drive bys some hookers would flash us bare tits. This was awsome for us, it was almost like live ****. Well on my birthday we made the drive to the promise land. I see these two beautiful girls not saying anything, leaning against a wall. I roll down my window and say, Hey baby, how much to f**k my brains out ? There reply was how much do you have, i begin waving a C note and the next thing I know theres 2 unmarked cop cars boxing us in, guess what ----- the chicks were under cover cops.........
I spent the night in jail, went to court and paid a 150 dollar fine.
Lesson learned ---- ask if there cops before propositioning.

[Robja]

Ive done alot of stupid crap when a kid but the one thing that stands out for me is, on my 18th birthday which was 2 years ago Me and a friend who had a van at the time went into the city. we would often venture their on a weekend night where the hookers hung out. After about 23 drive bys some hookers would flash us bare tits. This was awsome for us, it was almost like live ****. Well on my birthday we made the drive to the promise land. I see these two beautiful girls not saying anything, leaning against a wall. I roll down my window and say, Hey baby, how much to f**k my brains out ? There reply was how much do you have, i begin waving a C note and the next thing I know theres 2 unmarked cop cars boxing us in, guess what ----- the chicks were under cover cops.........
I spent the night in jail, went to court and paid a 150 dollar fine.
Lesson learned ---- ask if there cops before propositioning.

Just goes to show that you shouldn't pay for something you can get for free(or maybe cost you a few drinks). Anyway based on the picture you posted of your car(pimpin tag) that should be a management perk(sampling the merchandise)

[lowtide]

Just goes to show that you shouldn't pay for something you can get for free(or maybe cost you a few drinks). Anyway based on the picture you posted of your car(pimpin tag) that should be a management perk(sampling the merchandise)

What could I do, I was young then. Believe it or not, I wasnt looking to pick up anything, I was hoping to get more of a show by waving the money.
Ive only picked up one hooker in my lifetime, I then married her. Just kidding !!!!

[Big Jay]

Up until about 20-21 i was pretty on top of things. There's a good period from 20-23.5 that i don't remember.

That's all i am saying. Had a DAMN good time, but it's fun i wouldn't want to go through again.

[Anthony of the ARK]

im gonna take the fifth as well to many family members on here. plus i think im still in that young and dumb stage anyways.


but i know my uncle squidnation has some great stories from when him and my other uncles and dad were young

[SoFLA34]

I have done my fair share of dumb stuff but this one has to take the cake.

I was in 8th grade and was once again in trouble for who knows what, I think it was fighting. It was around November 2001. Either way I was suspended from school for two days and had to do "community service" at my school over the weekend in order to come back on Monday. Well, moving boxes wasn't exactly my cup of tea so I quickly got bored with that and decided to see what was in the boxes and playing with whatever was inside. Here is where harmless fun turned into complete sh*t. well me and the two other kids who were serving our time came across this bottle of baby powder and of course spraying it all over each other and making a huge mess was much more fun than moving the boxes. We had the halls to ourselves in the school so naturally we chased each other up and down the hallways spraying this white powder everywhere. In the bathrooms, hallways, stairs, just everywhere. It was around this time, for those who do not remember, anthrax was all over the news. So, we were spraying each other saying "ha ha now you got the thrax". All in good fun. Well, no one decided to clean any of it up.
We all went back to school the next day and not two hours into school the fire alarm goes off and the principal comes over the PA telling everyone to evacuate the building staying away from certain stairwells and the library hallway. Strange, right? So the entire school is sitting out in the field for about 4 hours wondering what the hell was going on. We all could see the multiple fire trucks, police cars, undercover cars, cars with FBI stickers on the side, HAZMAT, BOMB SQUAD, and a ton of other vehicles you would only see and some crazy event. There were probably 50 cars/trucks in front of the school and NO ONE knew what was going on, not even ME! Then after we had all been waiting for what seemed like forever our principal told us that another teacher and slipped and almost fell down the stairs on a "white powder". It was determined since all of the anthrax scares around the nation that our school be evacuated and the proper authorities called. She then told us a bottle of baby powder was found and they believe that was the substance all over the school and it was then that my stomach dropped right out my rear. She then continued to tell us if we were responsible to come forward because the bottle was going to be fingerprinted and the culprit found!
Upon hearing this I figured well the gig's up, I had better turn myself in or I'm getting stuck with the $200 bill for the fingerprinting and the FBI would have my prints on file, I wanted nothing to do with either! So I stood up and told my teacher I needed to speak with the principal immediately, at this point I'm the only person standing in the field and my entire class erupts into laughter. The first thing out of my teacher's mouth was, "O no clif, please don't say that to me."
After admitting to spraying the powder and convincing the Broward sheriffs office, Fire dept., FBI, and numerous other agencies it was a joke I was playing with my friends and had nothing to do with actually trying to get the school evacuated, I was once again suspended and luckily not arrested. But they were nice enough to let me do the in-house suspension and actually got to go to class. That story still lives on and is told every time i meed with my family or friends introduce me to new people, "this is the guy i was telling you about that got the school evacuated!" I am just glad my parents laugh about it and it is by far my father's favorite story to tell everyone!

I hope you all can laugh as much as I do thinking about this ridiculous event.

[clt_capt]

I spent the night in jail,

Who's little bit$h were you that night?

[lowtide]

Who's little bit$h were you that night?

oh man , let me say- I was scared shitless !!! That was my first time in the slammer and the only thought in my head was,
I hope they're gonna be gentle. The guy I shared a cell with was cool as hell but 2 cells down were a couple of tranny hookers that were a freak of nature.

The court day is a whole nother story. Almost spent more time in jail for contempt, but I ll leave that for another day.