Things you did as a kid that would now get parents in trouble

El_Dangeroso

When I was a kid we used to stay out playing in our neighbourhood in the summer until after 10pm.

We used to go swimming in the local canal by ourselves in summer.

Some of my friends used to be sent to the shop with a note to buy their parents cigarettes and were given them.:eek:

I used to go into town on the bus by myself from around age 11 (Limerick city :eek:)

My niece is 13 and none of us would ever dream of letting her go on a bus by herself.

What were you allowed do as a kid in the age before judgemental media hysteria that would now be considered terrible parenting?

force eleven

I used to watch Baywatch on a Saturday night. After eight o clock too.

Chuck Stone

Used to jump off this bridge into deep dark water as a child. (11/12 years old)

William_Hicley

Used to fit six of us in the back seat on the way to mass, no seatbelts! :pac:

candy-gal1

watched horror movies when i was about 9/10, the 18s kind
seemed like a bigger deal to me back then

El_Dangeroso

That's nothing..

I have seen friends do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzHHPBB3Guw

Skip to 3:30

RayM

On a Sunday night, if I stayed really quiet, my parents would forget to send me to bed until ten minutes after Glenroe finished. :eek:

ringadingding

Watched the A-team from a really young age................

My name is URL

I was under the impression that AH posters were never children.

Chuck Stone

Check this one out (not me btw).

smash

candy-gal1 wrote: »

watched horror movies when i was about 9/10, the 18s kind
seemed like a bigger deal to me back then

I asked my local video store for a copy of Hellraiser 3 when I was around 12. I told them my dad asked me to get it for him... And they gave it to me.

It wasn't me!

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

That's nothing..

I have seen friends do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzHHPBB3Guw

Skip to 3:30

Damn... I really want to do that now! Spent my childhood jumping off remote cliffs in the southwest, was brilliant. Also was essentially feral, roaming wherever I wanted in the countryside, climbing trees and in quarries from morning 'til night, swimming in rivers, getting buses on my own from about 11 or 12 on, probably loads of other stuff that wouldn't be considered safe nowadays but without which, I certainly wouldn't have had such a happy childhood.

Temptamperu

Me and my friends set Gorse fires, once it set a barn on fire... come to think of it that might of got the rents in trouble back then

Chuck Stone

Used to get the bus from Cork to Derry and back when I was 13/14 . About 10 hours and about 5 changes.

Lando Griffin

Drive a tractor on a public road aged 14 without functioning lights etc.
Be the proud owner of a gollywog.
Wear a Freddie Mercury tee shirt.
Send us off to football matches with the trainer and 8 or 9 of us crammedd into his ford cortina.

AnonoBoy

I used to walk home a few miles by myself when I was 7.

Of course nowadays paedophiles watch their every move so kids can't do that.

--Kaiser--

Playing 'war' games with swords, bows and arrows fashioned out of bamboo

smash

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Be the proud owner of a gollywog.

I burst out laughing... my little brother had one too.

xzanti

Get the arse smacked off me.

OakeyDokey

Over load the car going on Sunday drives and didn't wear a seat belt.

smash

xzanti wrote: »

Get the arse smacked off me.

Rumours have it that you still like it.

El_Dangeroso

It really is amazing any of us made it to adulthood isn't it?:)

Chuck Stone

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Playing 'war' games with swords, bows and arrows fashioned out of bamboo

My Da made me and my brother stainless steel swords to play with!

They were blunt though.:)

muff03

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Playing 'war' games with swords, bows and arrows fashioned out of bamboo

"I got you first!!"
'No way...'
"I did, I shot ya in the face!"

The stick is the greatest thing ever

krudler

xzanti wrote: »

Get the arse smacked off me.

I call that Friday night these days

Bannasidhe

Chuck Stone wrote: »

My Da made me and my brother stainless steel swords to play with!

They were blunt though.:)

My brother showed me how to make a functioning bow when I was about 8 (we already had wooden swords). Back in the early 90s I showed my son how to make a bow when he was 8 - yet, we all failed to 'loose an eye'. Son had a wooden sword too - but in the interests of health and safety I got him a shield too cos being a Mammy I have to think about these things:p.

Over the course of every summer, myself and my 5 cousins would each fall in the slurry pit of the farm my uncle worked on at least once. My aunt had a powerhose just for those moments....

WHIP IT!

muff03 wrote: »

"I got you first!!"
'No way...'
"I did, I shot ya in the face!"

"No ye didn't, I dodged it - like this..." (*does a blade/bullet invading maneuver longggg before Keanu Reeves ever did it in The Matrix*)

--Kaiser--

muff03 wrote: »

"I got you first!!"
'No way...'
"I did, I shot ya in the face!"

The stick is the greatest thing ever

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye (which nearly happened to my brother with an wayward bamboo arrow)

Tonyandthewhale

Aged about 10 on I used to disappear off on my bike soon after breakfast. Might come back for lunch might come back for dinner.
No mobile phone and I was free to wander pretty much as far as I could get in under mine own steam (so about 10-15miles). Explored castles and other ruins (ie climbed up on the roof of any unguarded building we could find), build treehouses, start fires, wade through rivers, talk to strangers, fashion weapons out of sticks and things (bows and arrows, swords etc), carry a pen-knife for purposes of 'wilderness survival,' climb mobile phone masts, never wore a seatbelt, associated freely with the parish priests, snuck into local GAA games without paying (I don't even know if kids had to pay but it was always more fun to hop the wall), punched each other in the face. Etc etc, all good wholesome stuff.

WIZE

Nick Nacks

Do Kids still do Nick Nacks ? ( Ring Door bells and run off )

Also tie String onto Door Knockers and Hide in a bush

krudler

WIZE wrote: »

Nick Nacks

Do Kids still do Nick Nacks ? ( Ring Door bells and run off )

these days they'd be sued for harassment and put on medication, possibly taken off their parents and put into state care.

Sleepy

walking home from school in senior infants at the wise old age of 5
Penny bangers
Bangers made with caps, tape and rubber-band fuses
"micky drips"
Jumping from hay bales on a cousins farm: only for a misplaced round-bale my face would have hit a concrete floor from a 15 foot fall.
Home-made gunpowder and napalm tests on the same farm.
rope swings off cliffs
Swimming under the Blackrock diving towers in Salthill
Swimming in the same place during a storm with swells of at least 5/6 feet
"exploring" abandoned buildings and climbing scaffolding
Building tree-houses with materials "found" on local building sites

I can't believe no one's said alter boy yet!

xzanti

Sleepy wrote: »

"micky drips"

Say what?

Sleepy

xzanti wrote: »

Say what?

As soon as I posted that I knew I'd be asked what the hell "micky drips" were

lighting mr freeze wrappers and flicking the molten plastic drips around... as painful as a kick in the balls when some of it sticks to you!

WIZE

I used to do that too Sleepy .

Also making catapults out of Wire Clothes hangers and elastic bands

esharknz

Taking off with my baby brother in his pram into the town (granted, was only about 100 metres away at the time) between the ages of 2 and 3, and ending up in the police station.

Took the olds a couple of hours to realise two of their kids were missing, as one parent thought the other had taken us out.

PseudoFamous

We used to burn things. Anything we could get our hands on. Tires, pallets, rubbish, you name it.

A particularly interesting one was when we lit a bathtub on fire and the drips of it were on fire. We were afraid we were going to somehow burn the field down, so we ran away.

Good times.

WIZE

Also when it was snowing . Throwing buckets of water onto the Pavments to watch people fall on their ass

drdeadlift

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Used to jump off this bridge into deep dark water as a child. (11/12 years old)

So did i lol

Thud

my dad used to let us sit on the bonnet of the car when driving down mountains or through woods (non public roads)....would love to do that now

Sleepy

Christ, but weren't we all a pack of brats as children?

It wasn't me!

Oh yeah, get a good solid clattering whenever I deserved it. May not have stopped me doing whatever it was again, but by fook did it make me work a damn sight harder at not getting caught doing whatever it was again! My da had hands like shovels and a clout from one had some meaning behind it! Solid proof that beating kids made them work harder.

Eroticfishcake

I was a 6 year old racist :eek:

'Eeney meeney miney mo, catcha...'

problemchimp

Thud wrote: »

my dad used to let us sit on the bonnet of the car when driving down mountains or through woods (non public roads)....would love to do that now

That sounds like a scene from Fr. Ted. Where you in the nude?
Robbing lead from the old Jacobs factory on Bride st. or swimming in the canal at Portobello locks.
Actually the list is quite long when you grow up in inner city Dublin.

seamus

Family trips to see my cousins in Cork, four-hour trip, four kids in the back seat and not a seat belt between us.

Also, hitting country roads and my Dad jacking it up to 80mph while we stuck our heads out the sunroof.

Utter madness now when we look back on it. How attitudes change.

Chuck Stone

Eroticfishcake wrote: »

I was a 6 year old racist :eek:

'Eeney meeney miney mo, catcha...'

It wasn't me!

Actually, used to play a live action version of Battleship with my mates and my brother and his mates. We'd stand either side of a hedge and lob rocks, trying to hit the people on the other side of the hedge blind. Me and my mates versus me and my brother's mates. They never did cop that there were a couple of gaps through which you could see the other side or why they were consistently hit with more rocks...

Chuck Stone

drdeadlift wrote: »

So did i lol

That exact bridge in the Roe Valley Country Park?

ZombieBride

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Playing 'war' games with swords, bows and arrows fashioned out of bamboo

When I was 10 I smashed the windscreen of my neighbours car with a homemade bow and arrow, while she was driving it. :eek:
Then I climbed a tree and stayed there for what seemed like hours as they tried to get me to come down as I knew I'd be killed.

CrazyRabbit

Climb 40 feet into horse-chestnut trees to get conkers.

Week long camping trips to Aisling caravan park in Wexford (from Dublin) from age 11 with 3 other friends of similar age. No adults...and no money for train (we sneaked on and dodged the inspector).

I would build, use and sell crossbows to other kids. One of the benefits of being a welders son and having a knack for carpentry. The only things that died were a few bees and some rats.

Stay out until midnight during the summer vacation, chatting to friends on a street corner.

Spend hours out in the sun with no sun-screen protection. If we got burnt, it was our own fault.

Was allowed into neighbours houses to see their computers/cool stuff. Scary now considering these neighbours were adults and really shouldn't have been hanging around with kids.

Massive pirating of computer games. I bought hardware that could make 6 copies at a time, and in a compressed format (tape drive games...30 seconds to load compressed game vs 4-5 mins uncompressed). I made a small fortune doing this.

Stand on the back bumper of buses to get a free lift into town/down the road.

Standing in the back of a van. Though that stopped aged 6 when a truck hit us and I went through the front windscreen...still have scars from that.


All of the above was with my parents consent...the below wasn't, but probably would get parents into trouble now.

Porn mags..stolen from dads stash. Found by teachers, and nothing said to parents due to the teachers/schoold embarrasment.

Edit....oh yeah, like many of those above has posted, I'd walk home from schoool on my own from about age 6.

padma

getting two guinness for my mother for the christmas cake (around12)

jumping on the backs of vehicles for a lift in to town.

out on a summer morning at 8 home at 10 that night.

off down to kilkee for weekends when 12

skinning orchards when 8,9,10,11,12 and bringing the cooking apples home for apple tart. :pac: