What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

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AviatorTom · Accepted Answer

Just about everything I did might be considered dangerous today.

I rode my bike to and from school. About once a month, I stopped at the barber shop on the way home, got a buzzcut, and paid for it with the money my mother had given me. The neighborhood kids all got together and played in the street. During summer, when school was out, a bunch of us guys rode our bikes the 2 miles to the park where we had pickup baseball games. On Halloween, we went door-to-door with out parental supervision. I often walked to the grocery store, a few blocks away, to pick up some things for my mother. All of these things when I was 8-10 years old.

MementoMori777 · Accepted Answer

Parkour, I didn't know much about it but that didn't stop me from jumping onto roofs and jumping off ledges and stuff

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

When I was around 16 a stranger called my house and asked me questions about my height and weight and race and I naively answered all his questions. Back then crime was very uncommon so a lot of people posted their number in 411 and almost everyone you wanted to find was available in the public phone directory. Now, I know it could have been a pimp trying to recruit a sex slave and would not answer questions by strangers about my height and weight and appearance and gender, especially when they found me through the phone book and know where I live.

TrueConfection · Accepted Answer

All sorts of things! Here are a few examples; Rode my bike  without  a helmet Rode in the car  without  a carseat or a seatbelt Climbed trees Played on a Merry-Go-Round Jumped off swings Walked to the store  alone Stayed home all by myself when I was 6 Made the fire in our fireplace when I was 3 Rode on top of the wheel well of my dad's John Deer

MemeSupreme · Answer

- collect soda and beer cans at my trailer park when i was like 5

- entering people's homes when they were gone not even to like rob lol

- throw rocks at a train which i HIGHLY advise you don't do

- approach random dogs that were obviously not friendly (I don't know how i never got bit)

- walked to school during the winter without proper clothing which was a bitch when the school would send me back for not wearing enough clothes. i still don't get what they were thinking

- used to burn stuff outside with matches outside like even random carpet i'd find outside which got the cops called

i just did whatever i could so i wouldn't be inside

DizzyDesii · Answer

Nothing too crazy. About 8 of us used to pile on top of eachother at the top of the spiral slide and then tumble down all tangled up like one big bowling ball. I always felt bad for the person who ended up on the bottom when we all went splat at the end. The other thing was that we swung really high then jumped out to do a Spiderman pose

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Took almost daily 4 to 6 mile (each way) trips to all the record stores over here on my bike.
Rode down long steep hills with no breaks.
Climbed out my bedroom window on the third floor and went up to the peak of the roof on the house and just sat there for a while.
Left the cap off of a pen over night.
Watched whatever I wanted on t. v. without any supervision.
Explored a bit at the bottom of the dam 2 blocks from my house.
We found a long folding table being thrown away so, we made a ramp out of it and would repeatedly speed to it and jump off it with our bikes.
I was just thinking yesterday about how I used to say that I have nine lives because I did so many things that could've got me killed but never even got hurt but, I can't remember what any of them were! Except for the time I went swimming in the river and nearly drowned. (I had no idea it was 10' deep in that spot!)

FancyPantz · Answer

Wanting short hair and having a boy phase. I was the only girl amongst several boys and I wanted to be tough and like them. Society today would probably tell me I was trans and that, that identity is crucial to my sense of self. I doubt my parents would mutilate me or push the trans agenda on me even in this day and age, but it would be dangerous to be brain washed by my peers and my teachers.

Sonorous · Answer

I used to make rubber band powered weapons at school with pencils & pens. Them things were powerful! They could stick into a textbook if aimed at one. Nobody ever got hurt surprisingly.

Unit1 · Answer

Playing with fire and not knowing much about fire. at most i caused a small fire but big enough to burn down the house. i had strict parents, that failed to raise me.

scooogy · Answer

I was small enough to crawl under a container, through that part where usually a forklift shifts the fork under. Some fellas shot a ball under there and asked me to get it out since I was small enough to not get stuck in there.

XXblack88 · Answer

plying ding dong dich.  riding in a car sit.  staying in the car while mom made a 5-minute trip to the store.

Aishakaba · Answer

Backflips.. I just know if I try now imma snap my neck

Kayayy · Answer

Go to highschool by myself at 11? 3 buses and a train and about a 2 Mile walk. But that was another time ya know.

mobiusforniner · Answer

Lighting off M80s and putting a trash can on top and watching it launch sky high

Iron_Man · Answer

Jumping boxes on a bicycle off of a ramp in the air

Texaskid1 · Answer

I ride my bike for miles a day back in those far off summers of the 80's.

Sparkie460 · Answer

What didn't we do that wasn't dangerous would be a smaller list. Lmao 🤣 🤣

Mettbltt · Answer

When I was 13, I drove the car without my father knowing

you_asked · Answer

Ride a bike without a helmet  I know, superrrrrrr crazy

Anonymous · Answer

A ride to school in the box of the truck, biking far without shoes,

exitseven · Answer

Rode in the back of pickup trucks.

Fireguy17 · Answer

just about everything.

dolemite58 · Answer

play near the train tracks

ChiTown33 · Answer

Lawn darts.

BLP11520 · Answer

Play with lawn jarts

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