People over 35 should be dead

[miketsp]

We used to mix up all sorts of explosives just for fun but my personal favourite was ammonium triiodide. These are foul-smelling purple colored crystals that decompose under the slightest amount of heat, friction, or shock, if they are made with pure ingredients. Some people manage to make them really pure and they would detonate when a fly lands on them, or when an ant walks across them.
My favourite was painting chair feet with the solution and then when it dried, just moving the chair or sitting down would give people a real shock...

Plus we used to use asbestos for all sorts of things.

To say nothing of the experiments with additives for the fuel in the engines of our aeromodels. We used to be able to order almost any chemical product by mail order without filling in a load of forms and being suspected of terrorism.

 

[MB104]

Dude, just go ahead & die already! My kid needs to pay MY Social Security, not YOURS!!

What's scary is that I am worth more dead than alive!

Lets see...
I survived...
Using the dreaded LAWN DARTS!
Walking to and from school BY MYSELF! (lets not forget it was uphill, both ways, in the snow with no shoes).
Styrofoam bigmac containers.
Those little things that looked like bombs that you put caps in and threw them in the air (I really was hit in the head by it).
Jumping from my shed with an umbrella as a parachute.
Playing with knives and fire (small scars, but still alive).
Hitting .22 cal. rounds with a hammer on my patio (dumb!)
The list goes on and on...

Its a wonder my life insurance company returns my calls.

 

[rricks90254]

I remember doing almost all the things mentioned. Learning from all these things is what has kept us alive.

I tell my son that his youthful exuberance can still be overcome by old age and treachery. It's getting harder now that he's a marine (SEMPER FI) but he still can't beat dad yet. I cheat

 

[Desa]

In Florida, its against the law to ride a bike without a helmet

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Are you serious?

 

[scubafool]

Only for kids. In Florida you don't have to wear a helmet on a motorcycle if you are over 18 & have a certain amount of insurance.

 

[WVMike]

It's a huge, bodacious firecracker !!!! Normally deposited in a commode and flushed shortly after having being lighted.

Or dropped down the storm drain in the street and then it would rock the whole neighborhood.

 

[MgicTwnger]

We used to run behind the mosquito-spraying truck to play in the thick white cloud (DDT?) it put out. A lot of my early life was like a stone-age version of "Jackass". I think some of it still is..

 

[DennisS]

I forgot about the mosquito sprayer, it attracted kids like the Good Humor truck.

 

[Wildcard]

I'm not that old but I remember melting down lead shot to pour into the Pinewood Derby car. I suggested the practice to my nephew last year and got my first real "You're so out of touch you old guy" look as he explained not only is that cheating, but also extremely DANGEROUS!

Geez I'll be dead in 3 years.

I had the great idea to put a test tube half full of mercury in one. The idea was ti was held back by inerta on the way down then would slam foreword on the flat part of the track. I guess it worked, I won.

Just rembering the looks of horror from people one time driving down the road to go fishing. My stepson was in the back of the pickup chopping up chum and having way too much fun doing it. Musta looked like he was cutting up a body or something! LOL

 

[LeFlaneur]

Forgive the ethnic slur, but does anybody remember Polish Cannons?

Three beer cans with the tops and bottoms cut off, duct-taped together. A tennis ball, a bottle of lighter fluid, and you've got a fun-filled day.

Could also be done with coke cans or tennisball cans but beer cans added that certain badass quality. Popular choices were Shlitz, Hamm's, or Blatz.