I threw a paper plane off the Empire State Bldg

[sr71blackbird]

When I was a kid, maybe 10 years old, my parents took me to NY City because I kept bugging them that I wanted to go to the top of the Empire State Building. While I was there and amazed at the sight (very impressive to a young Long Island kid), I took a flyer that they gave out and I made a paper airplane and I threw it off the observation deck! I watched it circle around for a while, and then it plummeted down. Amazingly, when we came out of the building, I found the plane, flattened out on the sidewalk!!

Did you ever do stuff as a kid that was extremely wrong to do, and you knew it, but did it anyway?



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[Gvac]

This pales in comparison to my feat. (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=77757)

[KC2OSO]

When I was a kid of about 12 or so, we had a summer house near Long Beach Island but on the mainland in the pines. There were just miles of woods, pineys, and good exploring.

My friend and I who was down at our cabin for a weekend were out fucking around in the woods and happened upon a lot of dump trucks from a sand excavation company. We climbed around on the dump trucks and played until we wound up in the cab of one of them.

Turns out, the truck we jumped into happened to have the keys in the ignition so I fire the thing up. Some old GMC or whatever. I shift the thing in gear and we run it till it stalls. I just didn't get the whole clutch thing - plus I was 12.

I understood automatics since I'd taken our Country Squire down to the Grand Union for a soda a few weeks earlier. That's a story for another time...

Anyway, we leave the dump truck stalled and head back to the cabin and tell my sister's boyfriend (let's call him Red) about it and he begins to get jazzed. He was a fellow who drank bourbon with my dad and stuffed my dad’s cigarettes with weed on a few occasions to see what would happen. Again that is another story...

Red and us all run back through woods to the dumper with the keys and fire the bitch up. There was a sandpit near by and off we went. In it’s off hours that sand pit doubled as a training ground for guys on Huskies and KTM’s so we and Red took the ‘olde GMC through its paces. It was a well build truck and we got some fucked-up looks from the kids on their bikes.

In the end, no damage was done. Nobody got hurt. When we were done, Red drove the dumper back to the lot and we just left it there sort of as it was.

[TooLowBrow]

i did the paper airplane thing at shea stadium from the nosebleed section. one of them got close enough to home that the ump grabbed it and crumpled it up. surprisingly, people cheered.

[SP1!]

One of my friends got to use his brothers truck while he was in college so we got to take it out on the weekends, well we get a little drunk and come across a construction site, I get the bright idea we should take all the little signs with the flashing lights and fill up the truck bed. So after grabbing all of them up we just take them all back home and dump them in the woods where the neighbors proceed to complain for 2 days about the flashing in the woods. The cops come and ask us all a lot of questions but we both denied everything.

[topless_mike]

when i was 13-14, i was the ringleader of a crew that stole and sold hood ornaments.
i was pulling in hundreds of dollars till we got busted.

[JerseyRich]

I used to steal 30 cent sodas and Gulf War Trading Cards in middle school.

Then the supermarket hired security and we stopped.

I wish I had Twitter back then.

[ToiletCrusher]

I shot a super-soaker into traffic on busy streets on a regular basis. Sometimes, we would hit bouncy balls with baseball bats toward busy streets too.


Oh, also I played Gates Circle Golf twice while in college. It was very fun.

http://k43.pbase.com/o6/21/753921/1/78512142.YwTW6CRw.parkways_jcascioPBASE.jpg

The traffic circle at the bottom of the picture, a couple of irons and a dozen golf balls. How far down Delaware Avenue could you hit a ball? It was great when all drunked up at 3am.

[Furtherman]

when i was 13-14, i was the ringleader of a crew that stole and sold hood ornaments.
i was pulling in hundreds of dollars till we got busted.

Did that too. Ugghh I wish I could go back and kick my own ass.

Didn't get caught though! Nya nya nya

[topless_mike]

Did that too. Ugghh I wish I could go back and kick my own ass.

Didn't get caught though! Nya nya nya

yeah.. one of my "harvesters", if you will, got greedy and got caught.
sold out the entire operation.

luckily, really luckily, the cop who was handling this was a very close friends of my dads, and it all got swept under the rug. the rat handled the guy who called the cops, and nothing ever came out of it.

[fezident]

Sticks and stones and weed and bongs

[Snoogans]

Me and my cousin and our friends, when I was prob 13 or so. We used to go to this overpass over Rt 80 right before the Turnpike exit and drop rocks off the overpass

[Caseyelan]

When I was 7/8. I would take all the neighborhood kids on "hikes"...
Kids spanning ages from 7-10.
I was always the leader.
We had ACRES of woods behind us and would leave at sunrise and not go home till dinner.
One time I told the littlest kid to be our "lookout" and I told him to wait in what I now know to be a fox's den. He would sit there for hours eating milky way bars and looking out for indians.
I cannot believe our parents would let us do this shit.

I hope my kid gets to hike around the woods with a backpack full of "supplies" one day.

Those days were the best.