What were some of the crazy things you did when you were younger? - Aircraft of World War II

Watanbe · 06-02-2008, 11:24 AM

Hey guys thought id pose you the question of what were some of the crazier things you did when you were younger. Got the idea from my thread about peoples ages. Would leave to hear some stories from some of the members.

Im 18 at the moment and routinely find myself doing stupid, crazy and often overally dangerous things.

I dont care what people say when they were older, you all did some stupid things, or hard some crazy nights when you were younger!

Lucky13 · 06-02-2008, 11:40 AM

Still "CLASSIFIED".....

Bucksnort101 · 06-02-2008, 11:44 AM

BB Gun fights were pretty stupid, but the Bottle Rocket fights where we would stand 50-75 yards or so away from each other and launch fireworks at each other was probably the dumbest things we ever did. Suprising no one lost an eye or finger.

fly boy · 06-02-2008, 12:08 PM

stupitest thing i have done was get a hive of bees mad or the time i had my face in front of the bussiness end of a roman candle

...... yea probaly the roman candle.

wilbur1 · 06-02-2008, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucky13

Still "CLASSIFIED".....

We at the bureau for idiotic things are not allowed to discuss these matters with out written permission from our parents

Henk · 06-02-2008, 08:41 PM

If I were to tell everything I did I will be arrested and put away for a very long time.

seesul · 06-03-2008, 02:32 AM

well...when I was in the army in 1993 (I was a tank driver), once, during the train transport, I wanted to take out a tape recorder out of my tank. So I waited till the train stops in the train station, then went to the tank and toke it out. When I got out and was standing on the tank turret, someone yelled at me to go down. When I got down I was told what happened and my knees were shaking immediately...there was a very high tension over the track so I must have been no more than 3 feets under the wires when I was standing on the turret...
Did more stupid things in my youth but this was my closest meeting with death...

Screaming Eagle · 06-03-2008, 03:22 AM

I'm still doing crazy things

Watanbe · 06-03-2008, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by fly boy

stupitest thing i have done was get a hive of bees mad or the time i had my face in front of the bussiness end of a roman candle

...... yea probaly the roman candle.

wow that really is incredibly stupid haha. Im sure many of you have tried the trick where you spray ur hand on deoderant and light it on fire? Well my friend is not the brightest lad and he did and burnt his hands very badly was in bandages for weeks.

trackend · 06-03-2008, 09:33 AM

Hit myself on the head with the back of an axe.
When cutting wood for the fire I caught the washing line and it pinged the axe back onto my nut.

Following on from Seesul and his close encounter with the railroad Overhead line (25KV mostly in Czech Republic) when I first started work on the UK railway in 1973 I bent down to pick up a test meter I had left by the side of the track even though I knew a train was coming, as I stood up the running board brushed through my hair at 80mph. Half an inch more and good bye head.

On a lighter note I once built a land surfer and tried it out at Slapton sands at low tide in a force 6 got to around 40mph and ran slap bang into a sewer outfall (broke an arm). Oh the joys of youth.

hurricanemk2 · 06-03-2008, 09:35 AM

Just up the coast from where I lived , for a few years , an arms ship was sunk and after storms and very high tides cordite , 303 ammunition and 2" mortars used to wash ashore . As you can probably guess the 303's were put in a vice and a hammer and nail employed , luckily only 2 ever went off .
For about 6 months myself and 2 mates used to collect all the cordite that we could get our hands on to make a rocket powered bicycle . We aquired a 12" length of stout cardboard tube , the kind that carpets come on , and fashioned a rocket cone , fuse and then lashed it on to the carrier on the back of the bike . I , unforunately , was volunteered to be test pilot . The fuse was lit and we waited for something to happen . Imagine our surprise when the cordite fired sending a 2 foot to 3 foot flame out of the rocket .
Not only do I still have the burn scars on my ar*e but I still get a bit nervous around bikes ,

.

ccheese · 06-03-2008, 09:45 AM

I guess the dumbest thing I ever did was steal a car. When I was 17 I
swiped a 49 Mercury. I was so afraid of getting caught I took off my shoes
and socks, put the socks over my hands (like gloves) and drove it for 18
miles. Parked it and walked away. For about two weeks every time I saw
a cop or a police car, I thought the jig was up. GTA, back then, was worth
about five years of your time..

Charles

rochie · 06-03-2008, 10:09 AM

i once tried to fire a thunderflash off the end of an SLR using blank ammo, (my dad told me he used to do it when he was on exercise ).
so here's me thinking its going to fly off like a rifle grenade, but it just went bang leaving me with minor flash burns and ringing ears

Watanbe · 06-04-2008, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by hurricanemk2

Just up the coast from where I lived , for a few years , an arms ship was sunk and after storms and very high tides cordite , 303 ammunition and 2" mortars used to wash ashore . As you can probably guess the 303's were put in a vice and a hammer and nail employed , luckily only 2 ever went off .
For about 6 months myself and 2 mates used to collect all the cordite that we could get our hands on to make a rocket powered bicycle . We aquired a 12" length of stout cardboard tube , the kind that carpets come on , and fashioned a rocket cone , fuse and then lashed it on to the carrier on the back of the bike . I , unforunately , was volunteered to be test pilot . The fuse was lit and we waited for something to happen . Imagine our surprise when the cordite fired sending a 2 foot to 3 foot flame out of the rocket .
Not only do I still have the burn scars on my ar*e but I still get a bit nervous around bikes ,

.

Hahaha Im actually laughing out loud over that one. Great stories keep them coming!

freebird · 06-04-2008, 07:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trackend

Hit myself on the head with the back of an axe.
When cutting wood for the fire I caught the washing line and it pinged the axe back onto my nut.

I think I saw that on "Benny Hill"!

06-02-2008, 11:24 AM	#1
Watanbe Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Adelaide Posts: 500	What were some of the crazy things you did when you were younger? Hey guys thought id pose you the question of what were some of the crazier things you did when you were younger. Got the idea from my thread about peoples ages. Would leave to hear some stories from some of the members. Im 18 at the moment and routinely find myself doing stupid, crazy and often overally dangerous things. I dont care what people say when they were older, you all did some stupid things, or hard some crazy nights when you were younger! __________________

06-02-2008, 11:40 AM	#2
Lucky13 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 14,883	Still "CLASSIFIED"..... __________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"

06-02-2008, 11:44 AM	#3
Bucksnort101 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,136	BB Gun fights were pretty stupid, but the Bottle Rocket fights where we would stand 50-75 yards or so away from each other and launch fireworks at each other was probably the dumbest things we ever did. Suprising no one lost an eye or finger. __________________ A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.

06-02-2008, 12:08 PM	#4
fly boy Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 851	stupitest thing i have done was get a hive of bees mad or the time i had my face in front of the bussiness end of a roman candle ...... yea probaly the roman candle. __________________ Last edited by fly boy; 06-02-2008 at 12:14 PM.

06-02-2008, 08:41 PM	#6
Henk Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: George - South Africa Posts: 2,773	If I were to tell everything I did I will be arrested and put away for a very long time. __________________ The ultimate revolution in aircraft designs during WW2

06-03-2008, 02:32 AM	#7
seesul Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zlin, Czech Republic Posts: 2,467	well...when I was in the army in 1993 (I was a tank driver), once, during the train transport, I wanted to take out a tape recorder out of my tank. So I waited till the train stops in the train station, then went to the tank and toke it out. When I got out and was standing on the tank turret, someone yelled at me to go down. When I got down I was told what happened and my knees were shaking immediately...there was a very high tension over the track so I must have been no more than 3 feets under the wires when I was standing on the turret... Did more stupid things in my youth but this was my closest meeting with death... __________________ Roman Susil Zlin, Czech Republic ...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn who was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country.

06-03-2008, 03:22 AM	#8
Screaming Eagle Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 3,546	I'm still doing crazy things __________________ "Success is nothing more than taking advantage of an opportunity." - Hitman! - The Technical Guide for the Independent Contractor.

06-03-2008, 09:33 AM	#10
trackend Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex Posts: 4,029	Hit myself on the head with the back of an axe. When cutting wood for the fire I caught the washing line and it pinged the axe back onto my nut. Following on from Seesul and his close encounter with the railroad Overhead line (25KV mostly in Czech Republic) when I first started work on the UK railway in 1973 I bent down to pick up a test meter I had left by the side of the track even though I knew a train was coming, as I stood up the running board brushed through my hair at 80mph. Half an inch more and good bye head. On a lighter note I once built a land surfer and tried it out at Slapton sands at low tide in a force 6 got to around 40mph and ran slap bang into a sewer outfall (broke an arm). Oh the joys of youth.

06-03-2008, 09:35 AM	#11
hurricanemk2 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Dolgellau Posts: 130	Just up the coast from where I lived , for a few years , an arms ship was sunk and after storms and very high tides cordite , 303 ammunition and 2" mortars used to wash ashore . As you can probably guess the 303's were put in a vice and a hammer and nail employed , luckily only 2 ever went off . For about 6 months myself and 2 mates used to collect all the cordite that we could get our hands on to make a rocket powered bicycle . We aquired a 12" length of stout cardboard tube , the kind that carpets come on , and fashioned a rocket cone , fuse and then lashed it on to the carrier on the back of the bike . I , unforunately , was volunteered to be test pilot . The fuse was lit and we waited for something to happen . Imagine our surprise when the cordite fired sending a 2 foot to 3 foot flame out of the rocket . Not only do I still have the burn scars on my are but I still get a bit nervous around bikes , . __________________ " A war wasn't this baddly organised since Olaf The Hairy , high king of the vikings , ordered 10'000 helmets with the horns on the inside ! " Capt. Edmund Blackadder .*

06-03-2008, 09:45 AM	#12
ccheese Older Than Dirt Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia Posts: 7,209	I guess the dumbest thing I ever did was steal a car. When I was 17 I swiped a 49 Mercury. I was so afraid of getting caught I took off my shoes and socks, put the socks over my hands (like gloves) and drove it for 18 miles. Parked it and walked away. For about two weeks every time I saw a cop or a police car, I thought the jig was up. GTA, back then, was worth about five years of your time.. Charles __________________ I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either....

06-03-2008, 10:09 AM	#13
rochie Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: billingham nr middlesbrough uk Posts: 3,032	i once tried to fire a thunderflash off the end of an SLR using blank ammo, (my dad told me he used to do it when he was on exercise ). so here's me thinking its going to fly off like a rifle grenade, but it just went bang leaving me with minor flash burns and ringing ears __________________ "We're not easily frightened. Also we know how hard it is for an army to cross the Channel — the last little corporal to try it came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall! ...and even then we won't listen!" quote from B.O.B movie

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