Poll of the Day > Dumb Thing You Did As A Kid?

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Once when I was 5, I climbed on this play structure thing at daycare. The daycare was an before and after-school thing for kids.

It was about 20 feet and there was about 30 5-7 year olds in the place and the teachers were barely able to keep track of everyone at once.

I went up on top of the plastic roof thing and hopped off like a frog because I thought I was a frog. I ended up breaking my arm from the fall and had to wear a cast for a few months.

My mom sued the daycare and they ended up getting a lot more staff and even had a playground safety unit because I thought I was a frog and broke my arm.
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Whizzed on the Electric Fence

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I almost drowned in a pool twice. The second time was about a minute after the first.

I've also almost gotten washed away in a storm drain.

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My first time ever being in a pool (I was like 4 or 5 at the time) I jumped immediately into the deepest part of the pool thinking I would just float to the top automatically. I sunk like a rock and my mom had to fish me out. Never wanted to learn how to swim after that.

My dad had a cup of model airplane fuel that had a red color. It looked like fruit punch, so I picked it up and took a big gulp. Pretty quickly realized it wasn't fruit punch.

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I ran around a campfire and then fell into it and got 3rd degree burns down my right side and leg.

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trodi_911 posted...

I've also almost gotten washed away in a storm drain.

We all float down here

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A few From Me:

• At 5, I pretended to shave like my Dad using a Bic Razor; had cuts all over my Cheeks
• Got hit by a Car chasing my Cousin across a busy Highway on Bikes (wasn't seriously hurt/just minor scratches)
• Busted/Crushed my elbow, again, chasing my Cousin playing tag and slipped in the middle of the street on oil/grease spot
• In Our Neighborhood/Street kids used to have 'Firework' Wars, where during 4th of July we would shoot Fireworks at each other...and yup, just like Mom warned 'Don't get shot in the eye!', take a guess what happened the next day...
• Got caught selling Drugs at 15

Looking back, I don't think I did anything particularly stupid as a kid, but there were some exceptionally crazy things I did. Probably the biggest is when I was probably around 5, back at catholic school. There was a paved lot between the school building and the church, and accessible to that was the small alcove of the bell tower. The rope, I couldn't pull it as I wasn't strong or heavy enough (I was a scrawny kid), and looking up it got dark before I could see all the way, and I wanted a closer look at what was up there...

So I climbed. Back home, I sometimes amused myself by climbing up the doorways by bracing my hands and feet on the sides. Rather than using the bell rope, which hurt my hands, I used an adaptation of my doorway climbing method, bracing my feet on one side and my back against the other. By bracing my hands on the wall behind me and inching my back up, then repositioning my feet, I slowly made my way up.

I was probably around three stories high when my sister discovered what I was doing and totally freaked out. IIRC she first demanded I get down, but instead instructed me to stay put and alerted the staff. Never being one to comply with instructions to stay still, I had already made my way down by the time the firetrucks arrived.

This was likely a big part (but not the only part) of how I got kicked out of catholic school as a child.

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I'd do whatever other little kids told me like kicking my own butt, jumping off high ledges, going into girl's bathroom and some time I even touched a teacher's butt without realizing that there are consequences to them, especially with how temperamental the average Joe/Jane is like.

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As a teen I throw stones over a hedge knowing those stones were hitting a car. I carried on anyway and got my wrist slapped by the law. The sound of stones hitting a car sounds great though.

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I placed bullets on the sidewalk, climbed a tree (for safety) and then dropped rocks on the bullets to set them off.

Fortunately these were only blanks. I know this now, but didn't at the time. I also now know that even if they had not been mere blanks that the bullets wouldn't have really been that dangerous just exploding in the open like that. But as a child (5 maybe 6) I thought I was going to be firing bullets off in random directions by dropping these rocks on them.


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i used to believe that "everything would work itselt out by the time im 30"

lol dumbass kid

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i convinced billy bob thornton he should marry angelina jolie, ok?

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12ish years old. family and i were riding bikes on a trail at some reservoir, my brother and i were fucking around with the emergency phone, just opening it up and listening to the dial tone.

to this day i maintain that i did not push the call button, but evidently i pushed the call button and the cops showed up and it was super embarrassing and i felt like a total ass

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