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Stupid things you did as a kid/adult

Posted on 9/17/19 at 1:11 pm
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27490 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 1:11 pm
Blue rain barrel. Top cut off. Upside down with a bullseye on the side.

Tannerite taped behind the bullseye.
Posted by Datfish
Member since Sep 2018
790 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 1:15 pm to
Launched my dads bass boat without the plug in. I didn't notice until I had about 1 or 2 inches of freeboard. I was able to run it and drain the water but I was awful close to sinking the boat.

I never told him about it.

Posted by al_cajun
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2017
2442 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 1:19 pm to
Accidentally put diesel in the boat. It was raining and I wasn't paying attention and accidentally pulled up to the wrong pump at the marina. Once I noticed it was too late. Plan was drive it back to house and let my brother take it out to blame him for when in inevitably broke down. I didn't make it back to the house
This post was edited on 9/17/19 at 1:21 pm
Posted by lowhound
Effie
Member since Aug 2014
7585 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 1:22 pm to
shot one of my uncle's guineas with a pellet gun. He made me pluck it and eat it. Taught me not to shoot at any animal that wasn't in season, even with a BB/pellet gun, and also that you better eat what you kill. Sucked to do as a 7yo, but I learned my lesson. I'm glad I didn't shoot a dog or something worse
Posted by BlackCoffeeKid
Member since Mar 2016
11739 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 1:27 pm to
Forgot to put the truck back into drive after backing down the ramp to hook the boat up.

Almost ended badly. Thankfully I didn't floor it when I took my foot off the brake
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81741 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 1:38 pm to
Learned a gallon of water weighed 8lbs. Needed an anchor for the neighborhood bateau. Filled milk jug with water and tossed it over the side. Massive fail.
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
11460 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 1:43 pm to
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This post was edited on 9/21/22 at 10:27 am
Posted by Stexas
SWLA
Member since May 2013
6037 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 1:44 pm to
As a teenager, shooting buzzards a few hundred yards away on high voltage power lines... dang near burned the entire county. The cold front was a curse at first, because of the wind whipping it up, and then a blessing for the rain it brought. I never even considered that a possibility.
Posted by The Last Coco
On the water
Member since Mar 2009
6841 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 2:41 pm to
Hooked up a battery to charge overnight - only problem is I did it backwards. Woke up the next morning to the charger cord melted to the top of the battery. Thankfully, the breaker flipped and cut off power before anything caught on fire. Not a mistake I'll ever make again.

Another battery story but not mine - my brother set the battery in the small bateau on an angle and both polls touched the bare side of the aluminum boat and started sparking and smoking like crazy. Nothing happened but it was a serious "oh shite" moment.
Posted by mark65mc
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
11291 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 2:44 pm to
It was New Years Day, I was probably 12 or so. We had a fair amount of leftover black cats and jumping jacks. Someone in my group of 6 friends had the bright idea to break the fireworks in half and pour the powder into a fiesta ball tube. We emptied a large quantity, lit a fuse and dropped it in. Nothing happened. We waited a minute or so. Still nothing. We all circled around the tube and looked over it. At that moment a fireball came from the tube and nearly burned all of our faces. We had a good laugh and had a bottle rocket war afterwards.
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
30518 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 2:46 pm to
Thought I was doing my grandfather a favor by mowing his yard before he came home from work. Didn't know that old Snapper burned oil, and needed to be checked before every use. I burned the motor up.

In 1974, I borrowed my dad's wooden fishing rod he'd bought when he went through basic at Schofield barracks during the Korean War. The last thing he said was don't come home if anything happens to that rod. I was in a boat with one buddy, and his brother was fishing from the bank. The bank fishing brother got hung up in some trees, and asked for help. I lay the rod down next to me turned, and cranked the boat motor. When I turned around to see where we were going, I basically sat on the rod and broke it.
Posted by FelicianaTigerfan
Comanche County
Member since Aug 2009
26059 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 2:54 pm to
Had a Ruger 10-22 I could drive tacks with. Was in the top of the barn looking out waiting on squirrels that would come to the corn. Decided to target practice on the NBA logo on my basketball goal. The metal plate on the back caused every bullet to ricochet and hit the house. Just siding damage though

Posted by Datfish
Member since Sep 2018
790 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 2:56 pm to
When I was a kid, I took the 4-wheeler for a joy ride when my dad was taking a nap. I did not check the gas tank. I ran out of gas about two miles from the camp. This was before cell phones. I ended up walking back the 2 miles in my neoprene waders on a rather warm day for winter.

Best part was when I got back, my dad asked if i tried to switch to the reserve tank on the bike. That was how I learned the hard way about what a reserve tank was.
Posted by BlackCoffeeKid
Member since Mar 2016
11739 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 3:12 pm to
Story from when my old man was a kid.

The kids used to roll cigarettes for the adults at the camp using a roller-machine. They would just roll a dozen or so and throw them on the table for the adults playing cards.

The kids decided it would be funny to put ground up match-tips in a cigarette instead of tobacco. They rolled it and waited for the unlucky person to grab it. Said they burnt every piece of hair off of some guy's face
This post was edited on 9/17/19 at 3:13 pm
Posted by geauxnc0308
pineywoods of ET
Member since May 2008
537 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 3:38 pm to
quote:

fire with a magnifying glass


As a kid wondered if I could light a firecracker with a magnifying glass while sitting in my room with just a small sliver of evening sun that was coming through the bedroom window. Yes, yes you can. Dad lit my arse up like a firecracker afterward
Posted by TheBoo
South to Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
4544 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:32 pm to
When my dad was teaching me to cut the grass with the riding mower I somehow thought it was a better idea to jump off than stay on when I got uncomfortable on the first pass. That was back before those kill switches under the seat...

Also, during one of my weekly cedar waxwing slayings with the red rider, I accidentally popped one of my neighbor's purple martins. He used to have several big bird houses and feeders out and those purple martins were his pride and joy when they would come around each year. Got my arse peeled for that one.

My list could be a thread in itself. I was a little shite of a kid.
This post was edited on 10/17/19 at 1:25 pm
Posted by NITEFISHER
Behind enemy lines
Member since Aug 2019
140 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:50 pm to
I have ALOT and am surprised i made it this far still alive. Heres a milder one. We made little half barracades out of the traprock under the rt291 bridge about 50 yards apart and proceded to launch bottle rockets and m80`s at each other under the bridge, right up till an unmarked car drove right up on us as we were doing it. They took all our stuff and told us it sounded like a war under the bridge. lol. Only thing that happened was we lost out stuff. we were lucky... That was around 1978.
Posted by arbe25
Member since Sep 2017
388 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 5:00 pm to
- backed my 4 wheeler off my truck without the ramps
- forgot to tie up the boat at the launch one time, had to wait for someone to drag it back for me
-couldn’t back my boat down the ramp the first time my dad let me take it. Finally had to get an adult to do it for me.

I’m sure I could think of more
Posted by The Torch
DFW The Dub
Member since Aug 2014
19434 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 5:58 pm to
Most of mine were duck hunting.

We up the beouf one morning when it was 8 degrees, 3 teenagers

We killed ducks but froze our asses and anything would have gone wrong we would have been in a bind
Posted by DWaginHTown
Houston, TX
Member since Jan 2006
9882 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 6:35 pm to
BB gun fights across a pond with a buddy. I hit him once in the hip and that was the end of that.
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