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All-American · 05-07-2008, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by KiteRider

I chopped down my parents' prized apple tree with a hatchet they gave me for my birthday. Got a serious whooping, and never saw the hatchet again.

I was always on the receiving end of the idiot rock throwers. My head was like a rock magnet. I still have the scar in the middle of my forehead to prove it.

I hope you were at least honest when they asked who did it. Honesty is the important thing in all of this, of course.

il Padrino Ute · 05-07-2008, 03:23 AM

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Originally Posted by All-American

I hope you were at least honest when they asked who did it. Honesty is the important thing in all of this, of course.

Either honesty or dentures.

Surfah · 05-07-2008, 04:14 AM

We stole all the driving range golf balls from Valencia Vista GC. Poured them by the bucket into the bed of my buddy's nissan pick up truck. Then we drove around town deciding what to do with them when we got pulled over by a cop. The cop got us out of the truck and made us sit on the curb while he searched the vehicle. He found a pocket knife and gave it back to my friend and then let us go without saying a word about the thousands of golf balls in the bed of the truck. Counting our blessings we decided to dump them as soon as we could. So we went to our church which was perched at the top of a steep hill and dropped the bed which released all the golf balls down McBean Pkwy in Valencia. No cars were coming up the road at the time but we saw some lights heading up the hill so we took off before seeing the damage.

I could go on and on.

cougjunkie · 05-07-2008, 04:27 PM

A few other quick ones:

1. When I was like 10 I was watching a Giants-Dodgers game on TV, Mike Aldrete was playing in the outfield and he made one of the most amazing catches I had ever seen, I was in my parents room and I ran down the hallway to tell my dad to watch the replay, I turned the corner and the closet door was open, the edge of the door hit me right in the middle of my forehead, my head swelled up and it split open.

2. Growing up we had some white trash apartments near our house, it was low income housing and a lot of the kids that lived there were basically unsupervised. I became good friends with this kid Tim whose mom was a prostitute (dead serious). He would stay at our house all the time but we would get in a lot of fights with other kids. One day we were at short stop (gas station) near my house and about 10 kids were waiting for us outside. Tim walked out the door and immediately turned on me, I was double crossed. Trying to act tough I walked outside and they all jumped me including Tim. This big black guy runs over and starts pullling kids off of me, but I was beat up pretty good, they all take off running. I look up and its the rapper E-40. He helps me get to my feet, takes me over to his van, and gives me a ride home.

3. Finally in the 5th grade me and my friend Shaun Mckay started a club. Well to join you had to do something crazy. You either had to jump from the 2nd story of his house to the garage which was like 8 feet. Do that three times, or you had to jump off the roof which was like 15 feet in to some bushes once. I chose the roof. I jumped in to the bushes, a branch hit me square in the crotch and I ended up having to go to the doctor for a bruised testicle.

SoCalCoug · 05-07-2008, 05:35 PM

I was kind of a weenie as a kid, so I didn't do a whole lot of dangerous or criminal things. My dumbest, though, was when I set a cinder block in front of my house, put a 4- or 5- inch wide board on it as a jump, and then went to the top of my street (we lived on a hill) and tried to jump it. Of course, I missed the board, flipped, and face-planted in the street. It scraped away half of my face (don't worry, it grew back with no scars), and I broke my finger (but because of the pain in my face, I didn't feel the finger injury for 3 days).

Of course, this was in the afternoon of the last day of 8th grade, so it ruined my summer.

il Padrino Ute · 05-07-2008, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SoCalCoug

I was kind of a weenie as a kid, so I didn't do a whole lot of dangerous or criminal things. My dumbest, though, was when I set a cinder block in front of my house, put a 4- or 5- inch wide board on it as a jump, and then went to the top of my street (we lived on a hill) and tried to jump it. Of course, I missed the board, flipped, and face-planted in the street. It scraped away half of my face (don't worry, it grew back with no scars), and I broke my finger (but because of the pain in my face, I didn't feel the finger injury for 3 days).

Of course, this was in the afternoon of the last day of 8th grade, so it ruined my summer.

Sweet!

Zulu451 · 05-08-2008, 12:26 AM

Obviously Mike does not remember a little incident at BYU with gasoline and a huge dumpster full of tree trimmings on the south side of campus. That one made the police beat!

When I was a little kid, on Christmas eve I was taking a crap and decided to light the toilet paper on fire. Somehow, I managed to not burn down the house as my mom burst through the door and took the flaming roll of TP and chucked it out the front door of the house.

Fish · 05-08-2008, 12:50 AM

@ Zulu. Hahahahahah. I remember that. That was one of several 'fire' pranks from Mike. Do you remember the aerosol can he used to shoot three foot flames under our dorm room doors in the middle of the night? Or the accelerant he used to set my cactus ablaze? And much more...

It all ended when I turned his precious aerosol can against him and set his hair on fire. Really stinky, but still VICTORY.

Spaz · 05-08-2008, 03:35 PM

I have a few.

-When I was about 6, I decided it would be fun to play in the car. Before long, the car was headed in neutral across the street, crashing into the neighbor's trees. I'm sure I was whipped good for that one.

-When I was 7 or so, my brother & I were playing dodge-ball/catch with a ball of yarn. Deciding that the yarn wasn't heavy enough, we tied a very large nail to the end of the yarn. My very next throw was dodged adeptly by my brother, but the window behind him unfortunately didn't move out of the way. I was beaten for that.

-When I was 10, the High School in our town had had a fire, and was therefore still in school for about a month after the elementary schools let out. My little brother (8) and I filled our backpacks with water balloons, and marched the mile-or-so to the high school, arriving just in time to catch a large group of students returning from lunch & goofing around in the parking lot to celebrate the impending end of their school-year. We bombed the crap out of the kids, who ran screaming like little girls into the HS. We waited for more victims, and were caught by the principle, who threatened to call the police before my father came to spring us. Dad was pretty cool - he yelled at the principle for threatening us, and managed to not only not laugh, but to prevent us from laughing until we were all safely in the car. No punishment.

-About the same age, probably around the same time, we started tossing water balloons at cars as they passed on a rather busy street. We'd toss & run. Eventually, having run out of water balloons, we were on our way back home to resupply when a cop pulled up & stopped us. He mentioned how throwing objects at moving vehicles was a serious crime, and asked us if we knew anything about it. We lied, of course, and the cop (I doubt to this day if he was fooled) told us to let him know if we saw anything.

MikeWaters · 05-08-2008, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Fish

@ Zulu. Hahahahahah. I remember that. That was one of several 'fire' pranks from Mike. Do you remember the aerosol can he used to shoot three foot flames under our dorm room doors in the middle of the night? Or the accelerant he used to set my cactus ablaze? And much more...

It all ended when I turned his precious aerosol can against him and set his hair on fire. Really stinky, but still VICTORY.

moron, that was you shooting flames under people's door. and yes that was you with a fireball in my face that could have blinded me.

05-07-2008, 04:14 AM	#23
Surfah Master Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: F'burg, VA Posts: 3,211	We stole all the driving range golf balls from Valencia Vista GC. Poured them by the bucket into the bed of my buddy's nissan pick up truck. Then we drove around town deciding what to do with them when we got pulled over by a cop. The cop got us out of the truck and made us sit on the curb while he searched the vehicle. He found a pocket knife and gave it back to my friend and then let us go without saying a word about the thousands of golf balls in the bed of the truck. Counting our blessings we decided to dump them as soon as we could. So we went to our church which was perched at the top of a steep hill and dropped the bed which released all the golf balls down McBean Pkwy in Valencia. No cars were coming up the road at the time but we saw some lights heading up the hill so we took off before seeing the damage. I could go on and on. __________________ Ernie Johnson: "Auburn is a pretty good school. To graduate from there I suppose you really need to work hard and put forth maximum effort." Charles Barkley: "20 pts and 10 rebounds will get you through also!"

05-07-2008, 04:27 PM	#24
cougjunkie Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Utah Posts: 5,741	A few other quick ones: 1. When I was like 10 I was watching a Giants-Dodgers game on TV, Mike Aldrete was playing in the outfield and he made one of the most amazing catches I had ever seen, I was in my parents room and I ran down the hallway to tell my dad to watch the replay, I turned the corner and the closet door was open, the edge of the door hit me right in the middle of my forehead, my head swelled up and it split open. 2. Growing up we had some white trash apartments near our house, it was low income housing and a lot of the kids that lived there were basically unsupervised. I became good friends with this kid Tim whose mom was a prostitute (dead serious). He would stay at our house all the time but we would get in a lot of fights with other kids. One day we were at short stop (gas station) near my house and about 10 kids were waiting for us outside. Tim walked out the door and immediately turned on me, I was double crossed. Trying to act tough I walked outside and they all jumped me including Tim. This big black guy runs over and starts pullling kids off of me, but I was beat up pretty good, they all take off running. I look up and its the rapper E-40. He helps me get to my feet, takes me over to his van, and gives me a ride home. 3. Finally in the 5th grade me and my friend Shaun Mckay started a club. Well to join you had to do something crazy. You either had to jump from the 2nd story of his house to the garage which was like 8 feet. Do that three times, or you had to jump off the roof which was like 15 feet in to some bushes once. I chose the roof. I jumped in to the bushes, a branch hit me square in the crotch and I ended up having to go to the doctor for a bruised testicle. __________________ LINCECUM!

05-07-2008, 05:35 PM	#25
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	I was kind of a weenie as a kid, so I didn't do a whole lot of dangerous or criminal things. My dumbest, though, was when I set a cinder block in front of my house, put a 4- or 5- inch wide board on it as a jump, and then went to the top of my street (we lived on a hill) and tried to jump it. Of course, I missed the board, flipped, and face-planted in the street. It scraped away half of my face (don't worry, it grew back with no scars), and I broke my finger (but because of the pain in my face, I didn't feel the finger injury for 3 days). Of course, this was in the afternoon of the last day of 8th grade, so it ruined my summer. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

05-08-2008, 12:26 AM	#27
Zulu451 house-elf 3rd class Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 386	Obviously Mike does not remember a little incident at BYU with gasoline and a huge dumpster full of tree trimmings on the south side of campus. That one made the police beat! When I was a little kid, on Christmas eve I was taking a crap and decided to light the toilet paper on fire. Somehow, I managed to not burn down the house as my mom burst through the door and took the flaming roll of TP and chucked it out the front door of the house. __________________ <---- Mikewaters drives the lane...

05-08-2008, 03:35 PM	#29
Spaz Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,371	I have a few. -When I was about 6, I decided it would be fun to play in the car. Before long, the car was headed in neutral across the street, crashing into the neighbor's trees. I'm sure I was whipped good for that one. -When I was 7 or so, my brother & I were playing dodge-ball/catch with a ball of yarn. Deciding that the yarn wasn't heavy enough, we tied a very large nail to the end of the yarn. My very next throw was dodged adeptly by my brother, but the window behind him unfortunately didn't move out of the way. I was beaten for that. -When I was 10, the High School in our town had had a fire, and was therefore still in school for about a month after the elementary schools let out. My little brother (8) and I filled our backpacks with water balloons, and marched the mile-or-so to the high school, arriving just in time to catch a large group of students returning from lunch & goofing around in the parking lot to celebrate the impending end of their school-year. We bombed the crap out of the kids, who ran screaming like little girls into the HS. We waited for more victims, and were caught by the principle, who threatened to call the police before my father came to spring us. Dad was pretty cool - he yelled at the principle for threatening us, and managed to not only not laugh, but to prevent us from laughing until we were all safely in the car. No punishment. -About the same age, probably around the same time, we started tossing water balloons at cars as they passed on a rather busy street. We'd toss & run. Eventually, having run out of water balloons, we were on our way back home to resupply when a cop pulled up & stopped us. He mentioned how throwing objects at moving vehicles was a serious crime, and asked us if we knew anything about it. We lied, of course, and the cop (I doubt to this day if he was fooled) told us to let him know if we saw anything. __________________ "My days of not respecting you are certainly coming to a middle." -Malcolm Reynolds "It doesn't mean that if we lose a game or when we lose a game people won't then jump on and say the quest is over. Because they will. But they've missed the point." -Bronco Mendenhall on "The Quest"

05-08-2008, 12:50 AM	#28
Fish Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 68	@ Zulu. Hahahahahah. I remember that. That was one of several 'fire' pranks from Mike. Do you remember the aerosol can he used to shoot three foot flames under our dorm room doors in the middle of the night? Or the accelerant he used to set my cactus ablaze? And much more... It all ended when I turned his precious aerosol can against him and set his hair on fire. Really stinky, but still VICTORY.