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What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous now
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By *uciyass OP Man
over a year ago
Leeds |
Well I used to play football on the road with t shirts as goal post and have to pick them up every time a car passed
And I used to wank over the news of the world but now you can go blind from wanking  |
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Went to Dartmoor and picked up.an unexploded mortar shell from.the firing ranges.
Took it home and when our next door neighbour wouldnt give my cricket ball back, I lobbed it over the fence into his garden.
Good job it was a dud...
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Used to have the portable tv plugged into an extension cord so I could put it on the toilet next to the bath and watch TV. My parents didn't see anything wrong with that. |
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Regularly played in a disused watermill with water tanks full of bricks and debris. Uninjured
Regularly climbed up the side of a loading chute on a disused rail embankment. Uninjured.
Regularly played by an active sewerage treatment plant. Uninjured.
Regularly played in house building site. Uninjured.
Rode my bike constantly before helmets came out. Grazed knees.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Rode in the boot of a station wagon (estate) with a friend, without any restraint and facing the back."
I used to do this in my Aunt's Ford Cortina Estate. So much fun. |
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Used the outside bin lid as a sledge and slid down the hill in the snow right next to the burn - don’t remember anyone falling in
Also used to pour water on the footpaths at night to make great slides for the morning when it was really cold  |
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"Rode in the boot of a station wagon (estate) with a friend, without any restraint and facing the back.
I used to do this in my Aunt's Ford Cortina Estate. So much fun. "
Ha ha I remember a few of us put in the boot of my uncles estate car as we couldn’t all fit on the seats!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Where I grew up the local council built an adventure playing ground in the local woods. It was more like a special forces selection course with rope swings, hi plank wood walkways etc. You would go home with sprained ankles, rope burns, splinters etc and your parents would give you a clip round your ear for being stupid enough to fall off the swings etc.
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wow im suprised i lived through it.rope swings on a railway embankment that swung up to within feet of passing trains should of seen the look on passengers faces .swimming in lakes and rivers jumping in from the highest point(higher the netter) called tombstoning these days .making ramps for the bikes and jumping as many friends who were daft enough to lie down for us and drinking far to much cider on a saturday night in the local park till we were sick. |
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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
Most things
Play in the disused mine shafts
Climbing up and down the old quarry
Riding home made bogies down the bank in the street to the main road at the bottom
Making dens in trenches with corrugated sheets for a roof and a fire inside to keep warm
Befriending and feeding the rats in the field
Competing to make the biggest homemade “bombs” with chemistry sets.
Oh I do miss being a kid  |
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"Rode in the boot of a station wagon (estate) with a friend, without any restraint and facing the back.
I used to do this in my Aunt's Ford Cortina Estate. So much fun.
Ha ha I remember a few of us put in the boot of my uncles estate car as we couldn’t all fit on the seats!! "
It was fun and and didn’t think anything of the implications.
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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
"Rode in the boot of a station wagon (estate) with a friend, without any restraint and facing the back."
Oh god, my dad had a pick up at one point and had won a trolleydash when the new Sainsbury’s opened. My brother and I use to ride in the back of it all the time, but I remember after the trolleydash we were stood in the back, chucking packets of Jaffa cakes out to the kids in the street in the way home |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Hanging off the back of the open back buses and been allowed to by the conductor "
I once saw a train of 5 kids on roller skates attached to the back of the number 9 bus going round the roundabout of Five Ways Edgbaston. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Where I grew up the local council built an adventure playing ground in the local woods. It was more like a special forces selection course with rope swings, hi plank wood walkways etc. You would go home with sprained ankles, rope burns, splinters etc and your parents would give you a clip round your ear for being stupid enough to fall off the swings etc.
Benn there, done it and had the cip round the earhole!! Great days.
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By *irginieWoman
over a year ago
Near Marlborough |
Used to play in an old disused brickyard right on the river bank. We’d be gone all day climbing down this huge craters and throwing bricks at each other. Remember building a bridge over a river inlet from bricks and logs and crossing the river. Must have been a 3m sheer drop into a canal. Best of all was when my mum would ask me to take my brother with me. I was 8. He was about 2.
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All of the above for me....but it's definitely gotta be the building site one....we had 2 estates built close to us....and we were always running a mock, climbing the scaffold, climbing onto the roof joists....never had an injury either!!!   |
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By *irginieWoman
over a year ago
Near Marlborough |
Thought of another one.
My mum used to ask me to fetch watercress. This meant climbing into a stream and walking up river (in the river as you couldn’t do this from the bank) and walk about a mile up to steal watercress from a commercial grower).
Used to take me an hour.
I was still at primary school and I’d be entirely on my own.
Oh and my friend’s brother shot me in the knee with a air rifle ..... we were playing IRA.
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A child of the 60’s.
Summer holidays mum kicked us out at 9 am, a loaf of sarnies and bottle of diluted squash with orders to be back at 5pm. No watches either. Off to Crimdon Dene, tied a rope over a suitable branch, ran down bank, grab rope, swing out over the river( stream actually, but we were only little) let go and land safely, unless you were my brother who always managed to land in a pile of nettles. Few dock leaves sorted that.
Then on to the sand dunes to play “best man dead”. 30 ft drop, and one down below, shooting imaginary guns or bow n arrow, the ones on top doing their death thrown and rolling down the sand. Then into the sea, dodging the jellyfish, no sense of danger.
Ahhh the innocence of youth. Happy halcyon days |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Walking through the woods on my own at night!
Don’t you still do that  "
No I’d shit myself! Lol ! Although if I was guaranteed to meet a knight in shining armour to protect me I might take a stroll lol x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Just about everything! The world hasn't changed if you don't let it! My kids have pretty much done the same things, only difference is I did them without adults around whereas my kids did them with me around! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Climbing trees - I won't go up them now without someone to catch me on the way down.
When we went clay pigeon shooting there were about 10 of us that would stand in the back of a transit catching air whilst it drove over the bumpy fields
Lived with my mother!
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
Camberley occasionally doncaster |
Used to play on building sites on weekends.
Climbed trees, built tree houses, kept found porn mags in the tree houses. Made rope swings off canal embankments.
3 people on a push bike going down hills. Went sledging on thick plastic bags.
Made bows and arrows and catapults (nicked garden canes for arrows)
Went out with a fiver on the bus (fare was 10p) came back when it got dark...
Oh how times have changed |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think it's more of a case of what didn't I do as a child that would be considered dangerous now
Riding a push bike with no helmet
Riding a motorbike around Fields with no helmet
Drinking from a hose pipe |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Playing on building sites
Going to the corner shop on my own when about 5 or 6
Swimming in the river
Camping in the back garden and then wandering the streets at about 2am
Going to work with my dad on a Saturday morning for some pocket money. I was about 8 and he worked in a foundry! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My first run in with the rozzers was when I was 11 we got caught playing in the quarry at the back of are village when they asked us what we were doing we said collecting these little sticky things that pop o did we get bollocked they were the detonaters for the 1 ok blast full of tnt |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"No seatbelts
Polybagging
Using sheets of corrugated iron as a sledge
No mobile phone
Rope swings over water
Out dawn until dark
What's polybagging? "
Using an empty heavy duty polythene bag, like a fertiliser bag, ad a toboggan on snow or wet grass...You thought it was something kinky didn't you?.... |
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Riding on my bmx standing up on the seat, or backwards on the front forks, in the middle of the road on our housing estate.
My mate had a 50cc motorbike he used to ride around in his massive garden, so we would set up ramps and me and my other mates would be led in front of them so he could jump over us.
Can definitely relate to all those that used to play on building sites. We lived very near one and we used to climb/swing all over the scaffolding, throw bricks, walk through drying concrete and start up and ride mini dumper trucks when the keys had been left in them overnight. We were probably about 10! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"No seatbelts
Polybagging
Using sheets of corrugated iron as a sledge
No mobile phone
Rope swings over water
Out dawn until dark
What's polybagging?
Using an empty heavy duty polythene bag, like a fertiliser bag, ad a toboggan on snow or wet grass...You thought it was something kinky didn't you?...."
I still do "polybagging" absolutely great fun! We even go sand dune surfing  on trays |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"No seatbelts
Polybagging
Using sheets of corrugated iron as a sledge
No mobile phone
Rope swings over water
Out dawn until dark
What's polybagging?
Using an empty heavy duty polythene bag, like a fertiliser bag, ad a toboggan on snow or wet grass...You thought it was something kinky didn't you?....
I still do "polybagging" absolutely great fun! We even go sand dune surfing on trays "
I think it would be fun paddling your kayak.... |
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Shooting running round with guns.
Getting fags an money off pedos and beating them up .
Playing on school rooths and jumping off.
Jumping off bridges into rivers. Playing on building sites old air raids .
Riding motorcycles seeing how many we can get on one , while riding along next to trains
Was pretty much Ferrell
aww those were the days |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My first run in with the rozzers was when I was 11 we got caught playing in the quarry at the back of are village when they asked us what we were doing we said collecting these little sticky things that pop o did we get bollocked they were the detonaters for the 1 ok blast full of tnt "
Shit.. I used collect detonators with mates from the train tracks across from our local park.
Now I know who all those public information films where for. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was under 8 years old when i did the following. Can you imagine allowing your young child of today partaking in these things!? Lol.
Playing in a disused brick yard and it's tunnels. Climbing through a hole in its asbestos roofing.
Climbing very tall trees.
Walking through farmers fields (which had a right of way) only to be chased by the Ram! My cousins and I used to bet who could make it out of the field unscathed lol.
Scumping!  lol.
Being booted out of our home and told not to come back until the street lights switched on.
Riding to infant/primary school inside the open back of my uncle's truck.
So much more. It was great growing up in a little countryside village. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was under 8 years old when i did the following. Can you imagine allowing your young child of today partaking in these things!? Lol.
Playing in a disused brick yard and it's tunnels. Climbing through a hole in its asbestos roofing.
Climbing very tall trees.
Walking through farmers fields (which had a right of way) only to be chased by the Ram! My cousins and I used to bet who could make it out of the field unscathed lol.
Scumping! lol.
Being booted out of our home and told not to come back until the street lights switched on.
Riding to infant/primary school inside the open back of my uncle's truck.
So much more. It was great growing up in a little countryside village. "
Swimming in the closed/disused quarry ... |
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Where to start on this thread!
Climbing to the highest possible point in the tallest trees in the area to carve my initials with a penknife into the branches higher than any other kid dare go.
Building precarious rope swings from trees overhanging sheer drops or rivers.
Flying down ridiculously steep hills on our push bikes at breakneck speed (still do that now)
Building wooden go karts with pram wheels and string for steering but no brakes, then racing them down a big hill which led to a main road at the bottom, we would either try and pull off a sharp turn at the bottom into the grass bank to stop, or just shoot straight over the main road, narrowly avoiding being hit by a car or truck on several occasions!
All kinds of dangerous mischief with fireworks or those bird scaring crow bangers stolen from our farmer dads.
Leaping from the top of those big round straw bale stacks from four or five bales high onto a busted bale at the bottom on the concrete floor.
Daring each other to sprint all the way across a grass field containing a big angry bull or sometimes herd of cows that would give chase, it was terrifying when you could hear those thundering hooves getting closer behind!
Walking across the large and deep village duck pond in winter when it used to freeze over, despite parents repeated warnings that if we fell through it we'd be dead in minutes.
I'll post more as I remember, but all this stuff just seemed normal and fun as a kid, I had a Sega Megadrive which I used to spend a fair bit of time on, but mostly I'd be out with my mates doing all of the above. I'm glad I grew up just before the internet and phones came in and ruined proper childhoods. |
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We used to do the camping out in the garden then going out raking around the village at 2am thing too as mentioned by another poster above. It was really just an excuse to stay out late and get up to mischief. We would go sneaking around the village through peoples gardens or into the grounds of the huge stately home nearby while trying to avoid setting off the laser trip wire alarm that we knew it had, never causing any damage but absolutely buzzing from the thrill of being almost caught or seen. If we made a noise and a dog started barking, a light came on or someone actually came out with a torch looking for us it was both terrifying and awesome at the same time. "Come out you little bastards, I know you're there! I know who your parents are! I'm calling the police!" were the usual things we would hear, but it was a big village with a lot of kids so we knew the chances of them knowing it was actually us were quite slim. My dad was a scary bloke though so there was always that fear that it would get back to him and I'd get a major bollocking! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I did most of these things growing up
We were all so care free and our parents didn't even think any of it was dangerous
Even though we all narrowly escaped death on a daily basis we are all still alive
I feel sorry for kids now - they barely go outside.
I'm glad I didn't grow up with the internet and my only sex education was porn mags in bushes and coming to bizarre conclusions with my mates |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Wrote a letter to Jimmy Savile"
Snap! But given Jimmy's predelictions and the fact I wanted him to fix it for me to go into space on the next shuttle (which turned out to be the Challenger ) I'm rather glad and unsurprised that he didn't!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Bloody eck all of my childhood would be banned these days! Haha! "
Snap! Between government legislation, cotton wool wrapping parents, the snowflake generation and ok, some common sense ha, practically my entire childhood would be outlawed!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not sure the government has legislated much of it just common sense plus insurance lol after witnessing many accidents and having them myself of course I want my kids to wear helmets etc that weren't around when I was young! As parents we have to take responsibility for stopping our kids lol also traffic is horrendous now compared to then ... my kids have done pretty much the same things but with greater added safety and because I loved it and have never stopped me long as well |
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