What did you do as a child that could be considered dangerous today.

[Beso]

Writing to jim'll fix it doesn't count.

[smudgie]

Mother used to chuck us out and we would go to park on our own or walk a few miles to the seaside for the day.
Eldest was only 7 then 6 then a four year old.

Used to walk through the bush in Africa on my own, and horse ride through it for miles on my own as a young teen.
Loads of stuff really, different worlds I suppose.

[user104658]

I remember breaking open mercury thermometers and rolling the mercury around on a metal tray :umm2:. My dad also got me a proper shop-bought slingshot that was for killing vermin that I just played with like it was a toy. Nearly broke a friend's ankle with a rock and if it had ever hit someone in the head, they would probably have died. :think: WTF were they thinking.

[Morgan.]

At primary school the toilet wouldn’t flush so I kept pressing the button and then suddenly it happened but it was all the flushes consecutively and I didn’t think anything of it so I went back to class and an hour later we had to go home because the boys bathroom and the reception was flooded but they never even found out it was me so I won I guess

[bots]

i used to play on the railway line :shocked:

[AnnieK]

God everything....
We used to play out miles from home and my mum had no idea where we were or when we'd be back....

Bare foot backies on bikes...one girl got her toe caught in the spokes, that was a mess

Tyre swings over a raging river

Camping out in a derelict house...

Too many to say but great memories

[Withano]

A lot of kids wear helmets when riding their bikes now which is NERDY HAHZHA

[Kate!]

i used to play on the railway line :shocked:

This

[Niamh.]

Hitch Hiking

Sitting on a car bonnet while it drove down the road

getting a lift on a honda 50 with no helmet

[Cherie]

Hitch Hiking, we used to hitch everywere at one point, Hitched from Dublin to Cork once with a friend :omgno: and I left a lovely pair of gloves in the cab of a lorry :fist:

Climbing over barbed wire to get into a hay field

flying down hill on the 'carrier' on a bike with no helmet

3 of us rolling down hill in box a washing machine had come in, how we weren't smothered :laugh:

car bonnet as well Niamh...

[Ant.]

I used to jump off the top bunk of my bunk bed when I was 5 , but I also fell off it twice :skull:

At primary school the toilet wouldn’t flush so I kept pressing the button and then suddenly it happened but it was all the flushes consecutively and I didn’t think anything of it so I went back to class and an hour later we had to go home because the boys bathroom and the reception was flooded but they never even found out it was me so I won I guess

Omg :joker:

[Moniqua]

i touched lightbulbs...

while they were ON

[Ant.]

A lot of kids wear helmets when riding their bikes now which is NERDY HAHZHA

Was it just my primary school that shown all the kids a video of a boy falling off his bike, hitting his head, and getting brain damage, ending with him unresponsive and receiving physiotherapy, or am I the only one left traumatised

[Beso]

6 off us used to get dropped of miles from home and hitch home in groups of 2 home..racing eachother...fun times..loads if pylon climbing with my gang...the forsks...

Diving off bridges in the summer walking across the frozen river in the winter...plundering apples just for the chase really..

[Beso]

I also remember I used to come out a street that had a blind junction on my bike and just fly straight across ony bike without stopping or looking...I did that everytime I crossed that road...fair enough it was early in the morning during my paper round..

[Denver]

Use to love playing Kerby outfit seems to be extinct now?

We use to go to this haunted place in a feild where a witch was meant to have been held and use to try get in the barricades.

We also loved chasing cows around the feild

[LaLaLand]

Probably everything tbh.

We used to literally go out about 11am and be gone until about 6 (come home for tea) then back out until 9ish in the Summer (or more precisely, “when the streetlights turn on!”) No phones, hanging around in woods and by the river. Cycling around everywhere just living life. Never once felt unsafe. Great times!

[user104658]

Climbing over barbed wire to get into a hay field


Honestly it was unusual for me -not- to have a few barbed wire scratches at any given time as a kid. I remember once having a bad one on my leg then being in a panic that I might get septicemia because some cow poop got on the cut.

[LaLaLand]

We used to try and “jump the canal” in the Summer, from one side to the other.

Thing is, our canal runs across the top of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (Google it it’s famous) and so the drop not too far from where you’d “land” was a few hundred feet sheer. So if you stumbled... “Oops” :joker:. Thankfully, no casualties!

[James]

Climb trees.

I used to jump off the stairs, seeing how high I could jump from.


We used to play out miles from home and my mum had no idea where we were or when we'd be back....


That too.

[Livia]

We had the best jigger in the street... Made out of bits of wood and pram wheels, there is a hill at the top of the road where we grew up and we'd come screaming down it.... everyone fell off regularly and lots of road rash ensued but it was super double fun.

[Beso]

We had the best jigger in the street... Made out of bits of wood and pram wheels, there is a hill at the top of the road where we grew up and we'd come screaming down it.... everyone fell off regularly and lots of road rash ensued but it was super double fun.

It's called a bogey up here.

[Niamh.]

Hitch Hiking, we used to hitch everywere at one point, Hitched from Dublin to Cork once with a friend :omgno: and I left a lovely pair of gloves in the cab of a lorry :fist:

Climbing over barbed wire to get into a hay field

flying down hill on the 'carrier' on a bike with no helmet

3 of us rolling down hill in box a washing machine had come in, how we weren't smothered :laugh:

car bonnet as well Niamh...

:hehe:

My mom did find out and she nearly had a stroke tbf

[Niamh.]

Climb trees.

I used to jump off the stairs, seeing how high I could jump from.



That too.

Oh me and one of my friends used to take the mattress of her bed when her mother wasn't home and use it as a sled down the stairs :laugh:

[Livia]

It's called a bogey up here.

I've heard them called go karts, I suppose it's a regional thing what they're called... bet they were all just as lethal.

[Kate!]

Oh me and one of my friends used to take the mattress of her bed when her mother wasn't home and use it as a sled down the stairs :laugh:

Yes I have done this as well. Great fun.

[Kazanne]

We used to play on building sites, made see saws out of barrels and a plank, we also used a matress to sled down the stairs, and swung from high branches in the woods and swam in the lake.loved my childhood.

[user104658]

We did build a tree swing on a hill that at its peak (you started on the hill and swung outwards) must have been 40ft off the ground. And the seat was a pretty flimsy branch. And two of us would jump on at once.

A severe spinal injury waiting to happen tbh.

[user104658]

Oh also one of my friends found a drainage pipe on a river that ran under a road and concocted a plan to crawl through it on his hands and knees... Not knowing that half way along it was grated off. At the last minute some other kid in dramatic fashion was like "We should put a rope round your leg just in case!" thinking it was all just a fun role play game but we actually ended up dragging him out as he couldn't turn round and panicked. He could PROBABLY have wriggled out backwards eventually but still. Horrifying, hahaha.

Though I blame whoever designed that pipe blocked off half way but NOT at the ends for that one. A deliberate child trap if anything.

[Josy]

Went swimming up the 'blue lagoon' which wasn't a lagoon at all and never was, it was in reality an old quarry reservoir and had shopping trolleys, old burnt out cars and all sorts in it, and that's not even the worse things I've mentioned :eek:

Climbing up on the school roofs to play 'One after them aw'

Then teenaged years...

Drinking copious amounts of alcohol down the glen or park or wherever we could every weekend, having my stomach pumped due to alcohol poisoning, taking acid, eckies, speed you name it (So ****ing stupid really)

Telling our parents we were staying over with each other then doing all nighters dossing about the streets, stealing the milk and rolls in the mornings

Not really sure how we made it out of our teenage years alive tbqh

[Dogeatdog]

Being in possession of one of these.

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[Beso]

Yes I have done this as well. Great fun.

My little sister used me once.

[Beso]

We did build a tree swing on a hill that at its peak (you started on the hill and swung outwards) must have been 40ft off the ground. And the seat was a pretty flimsy branch. And two of us would jump on at once.

A severe spinal injury waiting to happen tbh.

Remember that feeling of panic when you winded yourself...

[Beso]

Use to love playing Kerby outfit seems to be extinct now?

We use to go to this haunted place in a feild where a witch was meant to have been held and use to try get in the barricades.

We also loved chasing cows around the feild

I and at least 3 other adults maintain they are the reigning dyers court Kerby champion..

We still have a match at new year if we are all home at our parents at the same time.

[Beso]

I've heard them called go karts, I suppose it's a regional thing what they're called... bet they were all just as lethal.

I had a wobbly wheel.on mine...it felt like my teeth were rattling in my mouth haring down the pipie.... (pipewell brae)..a steep road.

[Beso]

Anyone else lick a rose thorn and stick it on your nose pretending you were a rhinosorous.

[Beso]

Pc Purcell. ..

My mate Michaels dad when I was at school.

One of the local bobbies when I was 12-18..

I must have been 16 when me and 2 mates ware walking down the road..saw him in his car with no indicator flashing so we crossed the road he shouldn't have been turning in...he turned though and screeched to a halt..trying to scare us probably....his mate in the dog unit van went right into the back of him...tried to blame us so they did....


That was enough for my old man....I don't think the welts were of my legs when no more action was taken.


But I don't think that's as dangerous now so not sure why I mentioned it

[AnnieK]

Anyone else lick a rose thorn and stick it on your nose pretending you were a rhinosorous.

Lol yes.....I was actually talking about this the other day....the person I was talking to looked at me like I was mad.

Knock a door run and kick ball hide were great games too.....made more exciting by the fact that if caught, the possibility of getting a smack was real.

[Niamh.]

Lol yes.....I was actually talking about this the other day....the person I was talking to looked at me like I was mad.



Knock a door run and kick ball hide were great games too.....made more exciting by the fact that if caught, the possibility of getting a smack was real.We called it runaway knock

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[AnnieK]

We called it runaway knock

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Must have been as annoying as hell lol

[Niamh.]

Must have been as annoying as hell lolYeah [emoji23]

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[Kate!]

Anyone else lick a rose thorn and stick it on your nose pretending you were a rhinosorous.

:joker:

[Dogeatdog]

Lol yes.....I was actually talking about this the other day....the person I was talking to looked at me like I was mad.

Knock a door run and kick ball hide were great games too.....made more exciting by the fact that if caught, the possibility of getting a smack was real.

We used to call this knock down ginger :laugh:

This one wasn’t really dangerous but we used to go into a supermarket or a big store and say “we’ve lost one of our friends somewhere and he has no phone can you announce his name on the tannoy” then we’d give a rude name like

Dan Gleball
Phil Mercrack
Chris Peacock

We found it so funny at the time when they would announce it :laugh:

[AnnieK]

We used to call this knock down ginger :laugh:

This one wasn’t really dangerous but we used to go into a supermarket or a big store and say “we’ve lost one of our friends somewhere and he has no phone can you announce his name on the tannoy” then we’d give a rude name like

Dan Gleball
Phil Mercrack
Chris Peacock

We found it so funny at the time when they would announce it :laugh:

:laugh:

Chris Moyles does this, they try and get people get mentions on other radio shows with names like that.

[Dogeatdog]

We had so many names at one point I’m sure they are probably similar.

This thread got me thinking of all the stupid stuff we did. Memories :love:

[Kate!]

We had so many names at one point I’m sure they are probably similar.

This thread got me thinking of all the stupid stuff we did. Memories :love:

Tell us some more. :hee:

[Dogeatdog]

Again not really dangerous but we used to do something called ‘duck outs’

Basically we’d be on the bus (it had to be a double decker and sitting at the top) and before it got to the last stop (like a few before), we would each duck behind a seat and see if the driver wouldn't notice that we was still on.

Alot of time they didn’t notice but once the driver actually started driving back to the depot and we stayed on just giggling away. His face was priceless when he eventually caught us. :laugh:

[Kate!]

Again not really dangerous but we used to do something called ‘duck outs’

Basically we’d be on the bus (it had to be a double decker and sitting at the top) and before it got to the last stop (like a few before), we would each duck behind a seat and see if the driver wouldn't notice that we was still on.

Alot of time they didn’t notice but once the driver actually started driving back to the depot and we stayed on just giggling away. His face was priceless when he eventually caught us. :laugh:

:laugh:

[Beso]

Lol yes.....I was actually talking about this the other day....the person I was talking to looked at me like I was mad.

Knock a door run and kick ball hide were great games too.....made more exciting by the fact that if caught, the possibility of getting a smack was real.

Knock door run. ...or sometimes "bugger the cat"


We always picked on a guy called tow, and his wife anne. .

They lived in a matchbox house ( look it up)..but us evil little ****'s lived at the top of the grassy hill from his house...a grassy hill with bushes, but most importantly a double bump..like it went steeply down..then levelled out for a footpath then went very steeply down..
We used to have great fun going down that on our trays...yes trays...down a double bump 25 metre drop and about 100mtrs long..with a massive bump in the middle of it... ¥the windy path was the name of the path that snaked up it ..


But yeah we used trays...so much that we were landing and taking of from solid ice some winters...you were lucky if the little tennents beer tray that Andrews dad the tennents lager salesman had given us was still under your 14 yr old arse when you landed after flying like a poor little unlucky chuahua.....I forgot if it got so ice down at the bottom...you ended up splattered a five foot drop between the end of the hill and a row of garages for the Rd below...tows house was to the far right of these garages on apart if the hill where the bump wasn't to severe....Anyway. ..Knock door run.....he used to give us the best chase as ten yr olds...


We ended up rolling car tyres down the hill at his house as 14 yr olds. ....


I ended up good friends with him in later life.

[Beso]

Again not really dangerous but we used to do something called ‘duck outs’

Basically we’d be on the bus (it had to be a double decker and sitting at the top) and before it got to the last stop (like a few before), we would each duck behind a seat and see if the driver wouldn't notice that we was still on.

Alot of time they didn’t notice but once the driver actually started driving back to the depot and we stayed on just giggling away. His face was priceless when he eventually caught us. :laugh:


:joker::joker:

[Josy]

We called it chappie (chap door run away)

Oh God I just remembered in the winter, throwing snowballs at the taxis because they would radio all the other taxis and chase us for hours (how dangerous now thinking back)

[Beso]

We called it chappie (chap door run away)

Oh God I just remembered in the winter, throwing snowballs at the taxis because they would radio all the other taxis and chase us for hours (how dangerous now thinking back)

Hmmmmmm...yes. I would cocoa.

[Beso]

95 Croft Rd
https://maps.app.goo.gl/oiiSMTcBgvEx3Pre6


Hope this works....the hill...the garages...what you can't see is the drop into a two foot space that drops 4 ft behind the garages.....we wised up and built snow hills to stop us from crashing mentally into it..


I do remember Mr Dodd my ex neighbour and schola teacher in primary school arriving one winter with a 39 ft long shiny plastic sack and about 12 of us going from the top with hom at the front....that ended up messy the third time as we all encouraged him to let us go at the most extreme edge of the hill...hee hee. .

[Vicky.]

Generally would be chucked out first thing on a morning, told to go explore the woods or something (lived next to them) and to come home 'when the streetlights come on' :D I kind of plan on being like that with the kids when they grow up a bit, to try and get them to actually go outside rather than be constantly in staring at screens.

[Beso]

Ramps for your bikes.....and the poor souls lying down so you can jump over them.

[Oliver_W]

We used to build snowmen in other people's gardens <3

[Livia]

We called it chappie (chap door run away)

Oh God I just remembered in the winter, throwing snowballs at the taxis because they would radio all the other taxis and chase us for hours (how dangerous now thinking back)

We used to call that Knock Down Ginger.

The little terraced houses were best because we'd tie their door knockers together and bang on both doors... then watch both houses try to get their doors open shouting I know who you are I'm going to speak to your mother!

[AnnieK]

I'm not that happy with the amount of people wanting to knock down gingers :fist: :laugh:

[Liam-]

Rat-a-tat ginger here

[Livia]

I'm not that happy with the amount of people wanting to knock down gingers :fist: :laugh:

LOL.... I have no idea why it was called that. I've heard it called loads of things in different parts of the country. No one's knocking you down, Annie. No one would dare!

[Crimson Dynamo]

chap door run away

[Livia]

chap door run away

Scottish people say chapping the door for knocking on the door don't they?

And isn't winching, courting or snogging?

I have cousins in Ayrshire... it's like another language sometimes.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Scottish people say chapping the door for knocking on the door don't they?

And isn't winching, courting or snogging?

I have cousins in Ayrshire... it's like another language sometimes.

when my dad was young winching was courting but when i was young winchig was snogging a girl

:hee:

[Beso]

Bugger the cat was a game we played..I can't remember how it went but it ended up with smashed milk bottles and us yelling bugger the cat at the person opening thier doors making the bottles smash when they opened it.

[Marsh.]

Was called knock and run when I was younger. Very literal. None of this chappie ginger nonsense. :nono:

[Vicky.]

Knocky knocky nine doors..we called that

I had the bright idea once of throwing small stones at the doors instead of knocking, as the guy used to answer really fast and caught us before and was a bit scary. So instead of..not knocking on his, I got a handful of stones and flung them at his door, only to put the little window thing through on his porch :bored: Was grounded for a month for that

[LaLaLand]

“Knock a Dolly Run” here :skull: :joker:

[Dogeatdog]

Ramps for your bikes.....and the poor souls lying down so you can jump over them.

Yes I remember this one, it was such an intense moment :laugh:

[Livia]

Bugger the cat was a game we played..I can't remember how it went but it ended up with smashed milk bottles and us yelling bugger the cat at the person opening thier doors making the bottles smash when they opened it.

Bugger the cat... I was worried for a minute there Parm. But then I remembered that a Scotsman would never put anything in the kitty.

[JerseyWins]

We used to jump into & hide/run in these trenches for a house that was going to get built on my block (it was like a big below ground level maze, pretty deep)

Anything else “dangerous” probably just had to do with jumping fences and off flights of stairs and stuff like that, off the top of my head. Staying out late roaming around as just kids in elementary/primary school as well I guess could be dangerous as a kid

[James]

Hitch Hiking

Sitting on a car bonnet while it drove down the road

getting a lift on a honda 50 with no helmet

When I was about 11 (could have been younger) my friend's brother had a moped, and he let us drive it round his garden.

I never actually did it on my own - I remember finding the bike heavy to hold up - but my friends who were the same age did.

I remember my parents being concerned about my safety.

[Marsh.]

I was born. :(

[Vicky.]

Ramps for your bikes.....and the poor souls lying down so you can jump over them.

Ahaha i remember this. Parents today would have a bloody fit watching that, mine laughed :hehe:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Glue

[Beso]

Bugger the cat... I was worried for a minute there Parm. But then I remembered that a Scotsman would never put anything in the kitty.

:joker::joker::joker:

[Beso]

Jerseywins reminded me of the grand national...which was basically a race between friends jumping the hedges or fences inbetween gardens in long rows of houses..

[Dogeatdog]

Finishing school and turning off the bus by pushing the little button underneath the flap. As soon as you’d push all you’d hear is “OHHH FFS!!” “THEM LITTLE BASTARDS AGAIN” :laugh: We did get chased a couple times.

https://i.ibb.co/3m9GgdV/BAFD6-C70-5-BD8-4-DE1-9019-2-FB6-F3-BD689-D.jpg

[Beso]

Finishing school and turning off the bus by pushing the little button underneath the flap. As soon as you’d push all you’d hear is “OHHH FFS!!” “THEM LITTLE BASTARDS AGAIN” :laugh: We did get chased a couple times.

https://i.ibb.co/3m9GgdV/BAFD6-C70-5-BD8-4-DE1-9019-2-FB6-F3-BD689-D.jpg

Wee evil was a right wee ****e.:joker:

[Dogeatdog]

Wee evil was a right wee ****e.:joker:

It was all in good fun, well for us anyways :laugh:

[Beso]

I think knock down ginger was more like bugger the cat than knock door run...ginger must be a cat!!