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That would be considered dangerous today ?
Just about everything I think 
But I'll start with get in the boot of the car if there was no room to fit in the car.
Travel in the back of a van with deck chairs as seats (first unofficial people carrier) 
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over a year ago
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Climbing trees
Sitting on the roof of the car with feet hanging in the sunroof watching the airshow whilst sat in the endless queue of traffic to get onto the airfield
Building dens in the woods miles away from home
Riding my bike without a helmet
Leaving home at first light & not getting home till it was nearly dark |
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Playing on railway tracks, swinging on a rope tied to the middle of a gantry over a river.
I can't believe we did stupid stuff like that now. If i had kids and I found out they were up to that sort of nonsense, I'd be livid. I'd ground that kid until they were at least...25!  |
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Seatbelts and child seats weren't even thought of and we had no qualms about cramming loads of kids in to the back seat of cars and if you had a bench seat in the front another half a dozen plus one standing up holding onto the dash. |
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over a year ago
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Going off with my cousins and telling our parents ‘we’re off out see you later’ - no phones to keep in contact we’d just go out for hours and often miles away and turn up 5 hours later |
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over a year ago
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What?? How are you people still alive?? I spent my entire childhood wrapped in bubble wrap, drinking filtered water and not being allowed out of my oxygen tent, like all good children should. Your parents should be locked up for child abuse.
Some of the above may not be true.... |
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Always used to kneel up on the back seat of a car facing out back.
Going out all day, without any communication device…went home when it was dark!
Ate chips out of newspaper wrappings
Had a welded bike I used to play on all the time!
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Climing up and down condemned building
Out till the street lights came on that was when you new it was time to go home
Playing in the burn
Climbing trees |
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We went over the woods and made bows and arrows with our own knives and put dart tips on the arrows (you know, the weighted metal dart board type darts) - everything was fine until my brother fired one long distance straight into my dad's car windscreen   |
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"Sitting on top of the hay bales on the back of a moving tractor fun times   "
Done this as a kid aswell as climbing the bales stacked up in the barn even after being warned not to and driving the dump truck round the stable yard at age 11 with no seat belt helping people muck out horses |
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Depends on the parents, both my boys climb trees etc. And I've even found one monkey on the shed roof once, I did nearly die of a heart attack.
I'm pro them learning their own boundaries.
One thing kids don't do these days be seen but not heard lol. |
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Cycling without a helmet.
Climbing trees.
Being out all day without the parents knowing where and with no way of contacting them.
Playing 'stunt man' (pretending to be shot off walls and diving off them, crashing my bike and flipping over the handlebars, leaking from tree to tree...)
Mixing flamible chemicals up and stuffing them into packed out toilet tubes then taking them to the field to explode. Only caught a few trees on fire  |
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Cycling without helmet or protection
Walking into a nearby forest and climbing up the trees
Swimming in a lake after school
Playing around with a chemistry kit that is banned now
Having a normal life and allowed to make my own mistakes without constant supervision  |
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If anyone's watched Mad Men, it was quite an eye opener: people driving with a glass of whiskey in one hand, children running around with plastic dry cleaning bags over their heads. This was the 1950s. It's amazing what we used to do and would horrify people by today's standards. |
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"Sitting in the boot of the car looking out the window, whilst packed in with luggage as we drove my grandparents 3 hours to holiday. "
Yep, we usually had the Labrador in with us too
But to be fair that was preferable to sitting next to my brother for any length of time! |
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God....... so much .....
Sit on the floor of a van without seats no problem
Drive/Ride without seat belts
Bum a lift on the milk float or the bread van
Put my babies on the back seat of the car without seat belts ( they were in those zip up cocoons ) YES I KNOW !!!!
Walk on the wrong side of the railings on the canal bridge to get to the other side.
Go walking everywhere.
Climb up the pylons
Put bangers through people's letter boxes
Play on building sites. Hiding in empty houses and sewer pipes while the cockey watchman shone his torch. No fun if the cockey didn't give chase.
Play chicken. Running across the road in front of cars at the last minute.
Throw stones at each other.... honest it was fun .....
Run after the bus after the conductor dinged the bell and get a free platformy till he threw you off...
Walk along people's garden walls and jump from gate post to gate post..
Sit on the swing bridge for a ride when the canal boats opened them up
Eat tripe. |
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I used to go swimming in a pool with a syphon. It used to suck you down the tunnel and out the other side which we thought was brilliant. Have since learned that it's extremely dangerous and we're actually lucky to be alive. |
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"God....... so much .....
Sit on the floor of a van without seats no problem
Drive/Ride without seat belts
Bum a lift on the milk float or the bread van
Put my babies on the back seat of the car without seat belts ( they were in those zip up cocoons ) YES I KNOW !!!!
Walk on the wrong side of the railings on the canal bridge to get to the other side.
Go walking everywhere.
Climb up the pylons
Put bangers through people's letter boxes
Play on building sites. Hiding in empty houses and sewer pipes while the cockey watchman shone his torch. No fun if the cockey didn't give chase.
Play chicken. Running across the road in front of cars at the last minute.
Throw stones at each other.... honest it was fun .....
Run after the bus after the conductor dinged the bell and get a free platformy till he threw you off...
Walk along people's garden walls and jump from gate post to gate post..
Sit on the swing bridge for a ride when the canal boats opened them up
Eat tripe. "
You must have been a proper Tom boy |
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I wasnt allowed out I had to stare at a screen for hours while flipping switches and eating processed foods, oh sorry, wrong decade lol so what is more dangerous? Swinging from a tree or only moving your thumb in an unlite room? |
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"I wasnt allowed out I had to stare at a screen for hours while flipping switches and eating processed foods, oh sorry, wrong decade lol so what is more dangerous? Swinging from a tree or only moving your thumb in an unlite room? "
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Actually just remembered. Our next door neighbours grew some fabulous fruit and my brother made me crawl through the hedge to scrump all their ripe strawberries, raspberries and gooseberries. I tore my dress, scuffed my shoes and was filthy after crawling over the dirt. I risked life and limb as I would have been in serious trouble if I had been caught. He also used to make me throw myself off the tree house in our large pear tree on the promise he would catch me - not always true. |
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Got a bollocking for that one 
