re: Stupid things you did as a kid/adult

Was downstairs in the dead middle of winter when I was a kid watching a movie. My dad had a medium sized wire trash can. There was a bunch of trash in it. I was into some matches lighting them up and blowing them out and i would chuck the blown out ones in the can. Well I'm playing Oregon Trail on the computer and turn around and the fricker was on fire like lit like a Christmas tree. I somehow managed to grab it run it outside turned the hose to it and it went out.

Went back to playing Oregon Trail and I look to my left outside the glass door the fricker is lit up like a Christmas tree AGAIN. I take it to the driveway turn the hose to it and attach it to leave it on all night long. Dad woke up the next morning to get the paper and ate shite going down the driveway with 3 inches of solid ice. My excuse was I was thirsty went outside to get some water from the hose and it must have not turned off all the way. To this day my oldest sister is the only one who knows the truth.

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A buddy and I were trying to pick doves off the wire running across my back yard with our wrist rockets when a jacked up ford bronco flew up the driveway. We ran inside and my dad went out to talk to the guy. Turns out we had shot a marble through the window of the his stingray corvette that was sitting in his driveway. He lived on the next block like 5 houses down. Needless to say the wrist rockets disappeared for a year or two, and we had to cut the grass for the rest of the year to pay for the damages.

Got another high quality one but this came from college hahaha.

Went to school at App State. From Sophomore year to graduation I lived in a giant A-frame on the side of a Rich Mt. with 7 other dudes which isn't normal bc they don't have house that big there. I was the only one who really hunted and hunted hard. Got held at gunpoint on a neighbor's property from where a doe I shot fell down the mtn into their yard. Arrow kicked up off branch and broke her back that was a wild one. Thats a story for another time. One roommate had an old style break action pellet gun thing was amazing. We would shoot stuff out of it all the time that wasn't a pellet.

One time i discovered that a broken in half Q Tip with a sharpened point was literally the most perfect alternate ammo ever. The cotton on the end took up the inside if the barrel perfectly for max velocity. He decided to be the guinea pig for the experiment I already knew the result to this thing would stick through old school interior wood paneling.

He stood about 10 feet away as I aimed for his leg and sure enough bulls eye right in the midle if the the calf. The damn thing buried 2 inches in and he screamed like a muthafricker. Hahaha he pulled it out and was bleeding like a stuck hog. I mean damn it was funny because he wasn't seriously injured.

That Q Tip ammo went on to kill a lot of mice and squirrels.

My fishing partner is my 13 year old son.

3 years ago he was 10 so I launched the boat by myself in February.

I unhook the boat and put a 10 foot rope tied to the boat on my trailer. I back into the river and let the boat float off then slowly pull forward and hand the rope to my son while I park the truck.

Well, I forgot to tie the rope to the trailer. So the boat just floated off without us.

The white bass were running so thankfully there were plenty of people in other boats to help.

But I was the laughing stick of the boat ramp that day.

Was raining and water was flowing down the side of the street toward sewer opening about 100 or so yards down from the house in our neighborhood. Had the bright idea to pour just a little bit of gas onto the water and light it. Was pretty cool watching a small flame burning on the water.

Decided to do a bunch of gas. Lit it and the gas had spread down about halfway down the gutter to the gutter so I had a floating gas fire about 2 houses wide like something out of a movie. Dad turned down the street just about that time. Received an arse whipping like he had a flashback to his days in Vietnam.

Now that I understand gas I am pretty lucky I didn't kill myself with that gas and matches.

Shot at a bird with a pellet gun that was sitting on a 3 inch pvc pipe that was suspended over a canal. Missed the bird, hit the pipe and the whole street was without water for 3 days

Lit an artillery shell firework inside a porta potty and burnt that thing to the ground. I had to pay for a new one which come to find out aren't cheap.

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When I was probably 8 or 9 I would go shoot my dads old Benjamin that he had growing up. Well I accidentally left it out right before a huge rainstorm and didn't find it until the next day. It was trashed. I ended up cutting the grass and washing cars to pay to have it refurbished for a fathers day present but I still feel bad about that to this day.

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I did the exact same thing when I was 11. Had a guy in Tioga replace all the innards. Gun still shoots great. Round pump handle.

All my boat troubles happen in West Cove. In the same boat I hit a rouge unmarked crab trap. IT got wrapped up in the prop. Thank god its only 4ft deep in there because I had to jump in with a pair of rusty arse pliers and pry it off.

We were right outside of old camp canal so we anchored up and one of my buddies caught a nice flounder while me and other guy were getting the trap off.