What was the dumbest thing you did as a child?
 

I'm gonna have to kick this one around for awhile before I post mine....

Help me get the wheels spinning...What did you do?

blow up 22 shells on the front doorstep with a hammer

strangled my little brother until he passed out

mom was pissed, thought i killed him :1orglaugh

I actually stuck tweezers into the electrical socket. Was very, very young. It blew me back but I wasn't even burned, amazingly. Now, I have a masters in electrical engineering... whodathunkit??

Boil an egg in the microwave, it blew up in my face leaving 2nd degree burns :warning

throwing shotgun shells into a campfire.

or

setting a graveyard on fire.

Chopped up a garden hose, and picnic table with an ax. Made smiliey faces with a post hole digger in my Garage.

Never told my Dad I loved him before he died.

Miss ya Dad

I was 15 and I blew open the door of a East Indians house on Halloween with a pipe bomb and they all came out chasing me with swords and yelling Alli Akbar or some kind of shit

running throught the highway with a friend , stopping the other side of the highway to catch my breath... just behind the local Hells Angels Mansion :P
was like 10-12yo, the big guys behind the security fense where looking at us with some aggressivity.. so we runned on the others side of the highway

it was completly dumb

hit a wall while riding a bicycle and pretended to be dead for a few minutes. Until today I can't figure out WTF I was thinking during those moments of me lying on the street without moving.

Here?s one...I wasn't quite a child.....I was 18 I think.

I was raised around guns. I know how to use them well and I know gun saftey even better....BUT.....

One day I was driving and I had a .40 cal sitting on the passenger seat...Of my parents car....And I decided to play with it while driving. I had just shown it to somebody who was interested in purchasing one like it so I knew it was empty.

Guess what? :)

Not empty.

I shot a hole through the seat and out the door. Then I had to explain to my parents what I had done and why the handgun was not locked in the vault where it should have been.

At first I considered various ways to cover it up. Replace the seat covers? Yeah, that will work...But mom and dad will wonder why I did that. And what about if/when they took them off? Shit.

I was lucky enough that the round exited through the molding on the outside of the door...OK...Go by the junk yard, buy some molding off a similar car, and presto...Yeah..That worked...And the hole in the interior was small enough that you wouldn't know it was there...unless you knew it was there.

Anyway....I just drove home and told them the truth.

I knew better than to do that. Now I keep every gun loaded at all times. It's the empty gun that kills....and puts holes in your car.

Not me but a friend and I were playing in a grave yard 'we were 12',
well there was a new grave dug and they had a tarp over it. So I lifted the tarp and looked in. So I call my friend over to see inside and since he was on the other side instead to walking around he walked over the tarp and fell in.
I laughed so hard I pissed my pants. It took me 15 Min's to be able to stop so
I could get him out. All the time he is yelling At the top of his voice HELP HELP.

Did the same thing when I was three. Probably the stupidest though was around age six when it became the thing in my neighborhood to steal a book of matches from your parents and have a campfire in the woods with the gang. In retrospect it's a miracle we didn't burn the woods down.

I remember being 5 and my family was moving via a train. A trainwas coming and I decided it would be cool to hang off hte side while it past. I got scared and climbed into the box car. Good thing as there was a railway crossing and as the train passed it blow it's whistle scaring the hell out of me. Had I been hanging on I would have let go and been run over.

Holy shit I did that too

We used to stick eggs in peoples microwaves who we didn't like. Sometimes it would blow the door off lol

oh i forgot about this....


was at the bus stop and I threw a piece of copper ground wire (the thick kind you see nailed to the side of power poles) I threw it up into the power lines and it crossed them.......


BIG fucking huge electrical fireball
felt fuzzy all over and all my hairs were being pulled taught
very cool

people started sticking their heads out of their houses looking about
shut down the whole neighborhoods power
school bus pulls up just in time
was scared all day worrying about coming home

hahahaha good ole days

haha yah that was an eye opener

actually i think i used a big heavy concrete chizel, the end you hit with a hammer,

found the shells in my dads pencil holder on his desk

played stunt woman with a bowling ball :uhoh it was so stupid, i was holding the ball up pretending there was an explosion that would send me flying backwards, so i jumped backwards onto my bed, the bowling ball hit me smack in the face, busted both my lips :eyecrazy blood was everywhere... it's wierd it didn't really hurt, i didn't even cry, i was just laughing my ass off cause it was so stupid not to figure in the effect gravity would have...
:Oh crap

Tried to lick two-inch frost crystals off a 55-gallon steel fuel drum. At forty below zero.

None of this "wait for Mom to come outside with a teakettle" shit that you read about. Steel at that temp on sensitive tongue skin feels like it's white hot. Reflexive head yank is only conceivable option. Losing a square inch of tongue skin hurts like hell for a week.

Plenty of shenanigans with primers, ammo, campfires, and cans of pressurized flammables, but no bad outcomes to match the frost/tongue debacle.

well, i broke alot of windows of people in the neighborhood - sometimes never owned up to it. also went overboard harassing one house with the usual young teenage hijinks, that one finally got the police involved.

but the only thing i felt bad about cuz was picking on a girl pretty hard for a couple of years, maybe longer, cuz she was 'different', pretty sure she was an albino - bothered me for years, still bothers me, i wasn't the ring leader but probably 2nd in command - i did catch up with her by chance years later as an adult, and went up to her and struck up a conversation and finally told her that I was sorry for being a part of what must have been hell for her as a kid.

oh also cracked a kid's ankle with a hockey stick on purpose - i hated him and he deserved something but i went too far.

last neighbor's window i broke I wasn't even a kid, i think i was 16 or 17 and lost the grip on a golf club I was swinging and watched it helicopter through the air and then heard 'CRASH!' - and ran inside : )

i was hulk hogan and my buddy was a gremlin for halloween years ago (we were about 12-14).... a week or so had passed .... we busted the masks out and took our bb guns and russhed into ralphs supermarket yelling "this will only take a minute" ... everyone screamed and dove to the ground, we freaked out, ran out, went and hid in my buddy's house where the cops, choppers, fire, ambulence, and swat team showed up, knocjed the door open and came in guns drawn to find me and my friend sitting in his room shitting bricks... that must have been the dumbest shit i've ever done

happy holidays :xmas-smil

When I was 6 my older neighbor, a totally evil girl that I idolized at the time, told me to pull my hat over my face and lie face down on my sled when we were playing in the snow. So I did it and she pushed me down the hill, head first right into a tree. It hurt really bad and yeah, I probably have brain damage. :Oh crap lol

Damn, you win.

ROFLMAO that's the funniest shit i've ever heard... so um did ya'll get arrested?

i kinda misread this - i thought it was more things u regret doing as a kid, stupid kid things.


but dumb as in something to be embarassed about, um...... not knowiing what Ex-Lax was and letting an older kid trick me into eating a whole bunch of chocolate flavored Ex-Lax.

and in first grade near the beginning of the year my mother gave me grapes as part of the lunch she packed, i didnt eat them and just left them in the desk, for months, and then i was too embarassed or afraid to get rid of them, as they months passed my desk smelled like a winery when u opened it up.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

uh.. did a lot of stupid things in my junior high years. heres a few.

i remember one icident that happened right after school. this ice cream man ralph always came by after school to sell ice cream and whatnot. we thought it would be funny to take our gym locks and lock the handles on ice cream van. after we had him locked in, we started pushing on the truck and nearly tipped it. i thought it was a pretty funny incident.

we used to cut the shape of a cat out of cardboard and paint it black, then put bike reflectors where the eyes would be. put the fake cat in the middle of the road with a boulder behind it and watch what cars would do. some would swerve around it crazy style and get nearly on two wheels, others would speed up and hit the cat, only to find a boulder behind it.

yah those were pretty messed up things, but i was a dumb teen. :xmas-smil

I knew some kid who mangled his hand and lost a few fingers like that.

I concocted a tragically misinformed "scientific" argument whereby children were born not from their mother's vaginas, but from their anuses.

The other kids would point at me and say "There's Jack who was born from his mother's ass." And I would say "That's right, and so were YOU!"



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The dumbest thing I ever did as a child was to grow up.

this is the best thread I've read on GFY in a while!

I've got one..

When I was like 10-12, we used to make vinegar bombs out of glass pepsi bottles + vinegar + baking soda... screw the lid on real tight, shake, and throw. Blew up pretty well usually.. nice pop.

Except the one that didn't blow up. Now, thinking I was smart, I let it sit there for a few *hours* before I walked up to it. Saw that the bubbles had gone away and for some reason decided that the pressure must have been gone too.

I hit it with a stick.

It sounded like a shotgun went off.. I felt the force in my chest and everything. Looked down and I was just bleeding everywhere. Big flap of skin hanging off my leg, arms cut, legs cut... lol.. what a fucking mess.

Lucky I didn't lose an eye or anything!

:eek2

When I was 6 I stole mom's lighter, took it out back to the abandoned building and was lighting the ends of some tumbleweeds. One of them caught pretty good, and I was thinking "Oh Shit!".. So I grabbed the first thing I could to try and smother it. Turns out the tar on the big shingles i grabbed was flammable too, so it burned through and the fire got bigger and bigger. By the time the fire department got there it was too late, the whole building was in flames.

My dad would have kicked the living shit out of me if he knew what really happened, so I told him I was underneath the building at the time and I saw the perpetrators shoes as he was running off - then I ran to the house. I cried my ass off, and I was scared shitless, but at least it was an abandonded building that burned to the ground and not my house.

hahahaha, i was misled by this as well for awhile.

didnt buy stock in microsoft ..........doh!

you were lucky that it ended like this.

i just remembered this one, fucking funny at the time

i couldn't get the lawnmower cranked so i wanted to see if it had fire,

i was having a hard time seeing the spark so i called my mom out and said "mom hold this wire" she did, and i yanked the pull rope,

i woke up 3 days laterin intensive care hahahah j/k she was pissed at me though

took nude pics of my older sis and sold them to her classmates. :anon

this thread is really bringing back the memories.....

I just remembered some more shit that I am not even going to say, gosh it's amazing I am here. :evil-laug

Car thievin' :disgust