Things you used to do as a child

[bazooka]

I used to go and switch all the railroad tracks, so everytime the train would have to stop and switch them back.

What are some things that you used to do?

[yoda313]

Hello,

You're talking about Model trains right?????

I used to watch Star Wars all the time.... Oh wait I still do that...

Kevin

(seriously though I used my families betamax when I was just 4 and knew it better than they did! And I used to watch an old tv copy of Star Wars all the time - at 4! (1982 ).

Kevin

[bazooka]

Hello,

You're talking about Model trains right?????

Nope

[Capmaster]

I threw snowballs at cars on the street in front of our house. We had a huge hedge right in front of the house that was a perfect launching point. Chuck the snowball and duck down ...they never saw me

It was great fun calculating how much to lead the car in order to score a direct hit on the passenger window. I tried not to land them on the driver's windshield because ...well ...that's dangerous

[VCDHunter]

I honestly could not say.

[bazooka]

I threw snowballs at cars on the street in front of our house. We had a huge hedge right in front of the house that was a perfect launching point. Chuck the snowball and duck down ...they never saw me

It was great fun calculating how much to lead the car in order to score a direct hit on the passenger window. I tried not to land them on the driver's windshield because ...well ...that's dangerous

[pacmania_2001]

At my old house it was surrounded by a large wooden fence so we'd have one of our mates act as a spotter for cars coming up the road and another few of us behind the fence launching waterbombs at them. Great fun until the driver would try to chase you and we'd have to run a few kilometres through backyards to get away from them.

Another time we thought it would be a funny idea to wrap up a 600ml bottle of water in one of the local rag newspapers then put it on the road till a car drove over it and it exploded. The problem was that the car that ran over it was a cop car.

[Faustus]

Twice a year, three words. Bottle Rocket Wars.

[pacmania_2001]

I remember in year 12 for film and television class we had to make a short film so we decided to shoot it out in the bush at my mates house.

After filming was done we were just filming us being various jackass's when my mate grabs his little sisters bike and decides it'd be hilarious to ride it down this big hill over this dodgy home made jump and into the dam.

Anyway, about half way down the hill he's flying along when he gets coat hangered by this low hanging vine and nearly breaks his neck. The footage was useful later when we did a documentary on teenage hooliganism.

[thecoalman]

Twice a year, three words. Bottle Rocket Wars.

We used to do that, get a pipe and use it like a bazooka. Used to have BB gun fights too, I had one that had a magazine in it, you could load as many bb's into it as you wanted. It was like having a shotgun.

[yoda313]

Hello,

get a pipe and use it like a bazooka

I hope BAZOOKA doesn't read that!

He doesn't like to be USED



Kevin

[makntraks]

I threw snowballs at cars on the street in front of our house. We had a huge hedge right in front of the house that was a perfect launching point. Chuck the snowball and duck down ...they never saw me

It was great fun calculating how much to lead the car in order to score a direct hit on the passenger window. I tried not to land them on the driver's windshield because ...well ...that's dangerous

Spot on Cap!
Not only did we do the snowball deal, we also used to sneak up behind cars at stop signs, etc then grab the rear bumper and see how far we could hitch.... Beware the dry spot in the road though!!

Man oh man, great times...
Now I'm lucky just to get my kids outside for an hour or two...

makntraks

[Capmaster]

I threw snowballs at cars on the street in front of our house. We had a huge hedge right in front of the house that was a perfect launching point. Chuck the snowball and duck down ...they never saw me

It was great fun calculating how much to lead the car in order to score a direct hit on the passenger window. I tried not to land them on the driver's windshield because ...well ...that's dangerous

Spot on Cap!
Not only did we do the snowball deal, we also used to sneak up behind cars at stop signs, etc then grab the rear bumper and see how far we could hitch.... Beware the dry spot in the road though!!

Man oh man, great times...
Now I'm lucky just to get my kids outside for an hour or two...

makntraks

Yeah, we did that too. We called it "skitching"

I knew a guy though, that got his hand wedged in the bumper and couldn't let go ...until the car was really moving fast. He needed many stitches in his hand and had assorted bruises. We had laughed our asses off until we saw he was bleeding all over the place

[Faustus]

Hello,

get a pipe and use it like a bazooka

I hope BAZOOKA doesn't read that!

He doesn't like to be USED



Kevin

Oops I had a brain fart. Not Bottle Rocket, I meant to say Roman Candle

[LSchafroth]

We used to walk the train tracks. We had a fort we built inside the bridge. Once we thought we could hear the train coming so my brother popped his head up between the tracks and the train was 10-20 feet away!

The second he pulled his head back down it rumbled acrossed. the whole time standing on 2x14 planks 30 feet above the rock filled crick below.

We also built forts in the trees next to the track and put things on the raila nd watched them ruin over it and then try and find it afterwards.

LS

[smearbrick1]

I used to hop around on my right leg all the time as sort of a precautionary measure for the day I would have my left chopped off in some hideous accident. Of course, this never happened.

I don't know why I always assumed it would be the left leg. Imagine if the right one would have gotten whacked... I would've been seriously screwed. All that practice for nothing.