What are some things you used to do for good, clean fun that would probably get the police called or a post on Nextdoor or social media today?

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SmegmaRocketship@reddit

BB gun anything. A kid got a bunch of cops on them the other day where I’m from for plinking in the woods out behind their house.

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9inez@reddit

Tie kite string between light poles on opposite sides of the street and send Estes rockets down the street between them.

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My dad used to work store security. I learned how the guys operate and how to spot them. One of my favorite pastimes as a kid was to go into a store, get a security guy suspicious of me, and have him follow me around the store for a half hour or more, only to head up front, buy a pack of gum, then make direct eye contact with him and wave goodbye when I left.

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Reader47b@reddit

Using a compound bow to shoot arrows across the gulley from one hill to another.

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unicornhunter202@reddit

Kegger parties with a hundred kids in my backyard

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brinehart-cincy@reddit

That definitely would have gotten the cops called on us. Of course, it was a small town, and we would have had trouble finding a hundred kids.

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brinehart-cincy@reddit

Walk on the sidewalk with friends.

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rochvegas5@reddit

most of the "harmless" pranks we pulled back in the day would get us all shot today

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Waffuru@reddit

Loitering. We'd hang out in front of the Thrifty's chatting, riding around in the lot, occasionally wandering into the store to browse, but usually not buy anything because we were broke. XD

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1lucy1loo@reddit (OP)

Thrifty’s ice cream!!!!!!!

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Waffuru@reddit

I served that ice cream for a year, still the worst job I've ever had, and I've had some crappy jobs XD The free ice cream was nice though!

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No_Builder7010@reddit

Keggers in the woods

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1lucy1loo@reddit (OP)

Literally would have been my husband’s response 😂😂

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Komaisnotsalty@reddit

Nicky-nicky nine doors.

Back then, we'd get yelled at. These days, with Ring cameras and neighbours are strangers mentality, someone would call the police.

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GirlStiletto@reddit

And they should. That's harassment.

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Komaisnotsalty@reddit

It's kids knocking on a door and running away, and they think they're being stealthy about it when all you have to do is follow the loud whispers and giggles. That barely even qualifies for minor mischief. Yeesh. Police have way better things to do.

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GirlStiletto@reddit

It's still harassment.

Pranks are only funny to the AH who are doing them. The victims are always dealing with the aftermath

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Komaisnotsalty@reddit

It is not. Maybe in your brain, but to the law, it is not.

Some 9 year old knocking on a door and running is not harassment, it's mischief.

If you wanna call the cops on a kid go ahead, but you need to have some personal reflection time.

And get a dictionary while you're at it: look up harassment and mischief. They both have a definition and in the law, two very distinctive differences.

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GirlStiletto@reddit

OK, I stand corrected on the harrassment vs mischief legalese.

But I need no refelction to know that kids deliberately annoying others is still wrong.

YOU need to reflect on how we are bringing up our kids.

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GirlStiletto@reddit

TPin houses is not good clean fun.

It is vandalism and creates a nightmare for the homeowner to clean up.

Doorbell ditching is also harassment.

Sounds like you are just an AH.

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sharp-calculation@reddit

3 or 4 years ago, some kids drove through my neighborhood egging cars. They hit my car with one egg. On a light colored car, with the impact below knee level, it wasn't very obvious. I noticed it mid afternoon; the event happened at like 2 AM or so.

I tried to clean it off, but the egg had already etched through the paint on the car. When I posted to a thread on nextdoor about this, I had an older guy (60s) arguing with me over and over again that it "was just kids having some fun". I told him 3 times that it ate my paint he kept saying "my son washed it off of my car, I don't know why you're so upset". This asshole just couldn't understand that the egg had done actual irreversible damage to my car. He was totally stuck on "it's just fun".

Crap like that isn't fun. It's vandalism. It should be discouraged. Go out and have fun. Go a little crazy. Feel alive. Feel free. Revel in life. But don't hurt other people or generally make an asshole of yourself while doing it. It's possible to have fun that doesn't impact others.

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GirlStiletto@reddit

THIS!

It's vandalism and harassment and bullying.

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Cinisajoy2@reddit

Shoe polish on the paint was just as bad.

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sandtomyneck@reddit

When I was eight years old, a group of us neighborhood kids pooled our money together to order a catalogue of firecrackers from the ads in the back of a comic book.

We would pool our money and place it in an envelope and send it off to the company in Ohio that distributed them. Several weeks later the box would arrive and we would gather to slip up the orders.

For the next few weeks we would be out in the street or in the cul-de-sacs lighting off bottle rockets, firecrackers, m-80s, and other fireworks. It was normal at the time and adults never complained unless it was after bedtime.

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Shazam1269@reddit

Bumper riding - run out and grab the bumper of a car during snowy weather, and see how long you can hang on. If the car was being driving by a guy in high school, he likely knew you were there and drove accordingly.

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Shytownmofo@reddit

Skeetching, or Skitching, we called it.

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GirlStiletto@reddit

I always did a brake check when this happened.

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Underdogdad@reddit

Hookybobing

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IAm5toned@reddit

All right man I'll take your bait- what the hell is hookybobing

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Underdogdad@reddit

Tying a rope to the back of a car and pulling your friends on snow covered streets. We use to do it just wearing Docs ( no grip) but pulling a sled or tube can be fun too.

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IAm5toned@reddit

Oh man fuck yeah, I'm 100% on board with this, we called it skid hopping, and it was definitely a matter of Pride and bragging rights how far of a ride you could get hanging off of someone's bumper. We usually wore old Pumas, or Nike Cortez, Vans, Converse... you get the idea, same thing flat bottoms.

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Underdogdad@reddit

Good times! We used to do battle royal with 4-5 guys hanging on the rope…no rules…last man standing

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BRAIN-BONKER@reddit

One time my buddy’s hands kept slipping off the rope so he tied it around his wrists. He fell almost immediately and then because he was being dragged his pants and longjohns went straight down to his ankles. Our buddy driving looked back and decided to give him another lap with his pale bare ass hanging out all shining like the sun. Oh how we laughed and laughed

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enginerdsean@reddit

In junior high school, I remember hitting golf balls off my buddy’s front lawn…..just randomly and in all directions. It was totally cringy to me then, but, ya know……peer pressure. I know cars were dented and who knows how many house windows might have been broken. If I saw some little douche doing this today, I might be in jail.

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Beautiful-Red-1996@reddit

Gigantic bubbles, middle of the night, blowing across Main Street

Would probably be arrested

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ThinVeterinarian5423@reddit

Skateboarding

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JoeInMD@reddit

To be fairrrrr....

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jeffersonaircraft@reddit

Tooooo be fairrrrrr

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Cinisajoy2@reddit

On TPing houses, there was one town that the police (with parents permission) TPed the kids houses that had TPed the town.

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Ok-Pizza8966@reddit

Our town's PD got into a TP war with the kids, and they started hitting the senior center, businesses, all with permission. The PD was criticizing the technique of the kids bc they had no strategy or stealth so they wanted to "show them how it's done." It became a social media thing and places did it for the publicity. It was pretty entertaining.

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Cinisajoy2@reddit

I think I saw your town on TV.

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AbbreviationsGlad833@reddit

Block wide Water gun fights. Back in the 80s water guns looked real. I had an electric tech 9 water gun. We ran in the streets chasing each other... WOULD NOT FLY TODAY.

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Kind_Worry_9836@reddit

Chasing each other around with cap guns, either the old paper reels or the plastic rings. I remember when I stopped seeing toy guns sold in the toy store at the mall.

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CompetitiveAd8781@reddit

Heh we used daisy bb guns

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CompetitiveAd8781@reddit

Shooting cottonmouths out at the fish ponds with my cousins using grampas .22lr bolt action..

Snakes dance on top of the water straight up in the ait when ya get em

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MTHiker59937@reddit

TP'ing for certain. Ring cameras take all the fun out of that. Prank calling people. Just wandering around from house to house at night.

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Bahlore@reddit

My friend and I bought paint ball guns and we'd shoot anyone that cut us off, pepper their windshield etc. We (embarrassed now but at the time it was fun) shoot new car lots as we drove by. We did a lot of other really really dumb stuff, and I'm so glad we had no cell phones back in the day.

We'd make jump ramps right in the middle of the road and jump our bikes off them, completely oblivious to traffic.

We'd put a .22 shell in the middle of a target, and shoot it with our pellet guns to see who actually hit the center.

We found an old garden hose, and threw it up into the rafters then used it to swing from one side of the barn to the other (second story, a fall would have seriously injured us).

We had a Four Wheeler and ATC and used to pull sleds on it in the winter, even down the streets, going as fast as we could go.

Playing Karate Champ on a Trampoline, kicking each other off it, Bruce Lee vs Chuck Norris, vs Jackie Chan. Broke my brothers collar bone, and a friend really fucked up his leg landing wrong.

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Kind_Worry_9836@reddit

RIP Chuck Norris.

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No-Profession422@reddit

Walking, biking everywhere.

Hunting each other in the woods with our BB guns.

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Kind_Worry_9836@reddit

My friend and I got matching pistols. They were like a single pump BB gun. I have no idea how we got them. Our parents surely didn't get them for us. We would also hunt each other in the woods with them.

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Kind_Worry_9836@reddit

Let loose the neighbor's Doberman Pinscher and have it chase us around.

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gnamyl@reddit

Walking the train tracks everywhere to avoid cars. 😄

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Winter-eyed@reddit

Walk or bike to and from school. To and from the store, the arcade, pretty much everywhere. We played hide and seek in everyone’s yard permission or not at night. We would gather cuttings from people’s landscaping and try to grow starts with rooting powder and more than once we “borrowed” flowers from other yards to give a bouquet to our mom but were smart enough to gather them from blocks away so we didn’t get caught.

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borisdidnothingwrong@reddit

The kids in my neighborhood are generally allowed to bike unrestricted. Most of them even wear helmets, which was unheard of when I was a kid.

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IAm5toned@reddit

It's a good thing that kids wear safety equipment these days but it doesn't stop me from thinking doing the same thing when we were kids we would have got made fun of relentlessly.

"see I knew you were a pussy, you're wearing pads"

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LastCookie3448@reddit

Who remembers FLIER parties? WITAF were we thinking?

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IAm5toned@reddit

We weren't thinking and that's what made it what it was. Can honestly say some of my wilder, most memorable experiences were completely random and would start out with something like a flier or randomly ran into somebody that knew where something was happening.

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Auntie_Nat@reddit

We always get a stretch of really cold weather where you simply can't be outside for too long. By the time the temps are back in the 20s, you think it's positively balmy and people come out in droves, particularly parents of small children who are probably half insane from being cooped up

Last year, a mom and her appropriately dressed children decided to go for a walk on the beach after such a cold snap and some lady on Nextdoor Lost. Her. Mind. She made this whole video of the family, talking shit about the mom, wondering if she should call the cops, etc. It was absolutely unhinged.

I remember getting kicked outside no matter what temperature it was because we needed fresh air.

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TheRealCabbageJack@reddit

Switching mailboxes between houses (like, dig up the mailbox, post, and often concrete footer at 219 Marigold Lane and swap it with the mailbox at 219 Sierra Road). It was a lot of hard work, but seemed like a victimless crime both houses had mailboxes with the proper numbers at the conclusion of shenanigans.

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borisdidnothingwrong@reddit

Technically still a federal crime for interfering with the mail, but hilarious nonetheless.

Better than mailbox baseball or dry ice bombs in the mailbox.

A kid I knew started doing both of those in college, and while he was smart enough to get into university, he wasn't smart enough to not target the same street 4 nights in a row. On the 5th night, the police and postal inspectors were waiting.

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TheRealCabbageJack@reddit

Yeah, we had not idea it was that big a deal - we thought it was just silliness...I was shocked years later to learn that!

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VinceP312@reddit

Gay meth sex orgy.

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chairmanghost@reddit

I miss those

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VinceP312@reddit

Same. But it's been 8 years and not going back.

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chairmanghost@reddit

Yeah, better as a memory lol

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Open_Appointment1091@reddit

Nice try

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borisdidnothingwrong@reddit

Hey, as long as you're not in the Epstein Files, you're okay with me.

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dfin25@reddit

Used to blow shit up and shoot things.

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NPC261939@reddit

Ride our bikes to the local creek and shoot stuff with air rifles.

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blackpony04@reddit

Totally. BB gun wars were awesome.

In the summer of 1999, my 13 year old stepson had a .45 caliber looking cap pistol and was playing at a buddy's house and had it tucked in his back waistband ala Magnum PI. Someone saw it and called the police, who brought him home in a squad car. They simply warned him that the gun looked real from a distance and asked to keep it to share the danger of having a realistic gun with other school kids.

It was fairly surreal to me, having grown up at a time when kids with deer rifles and shotguns displayed in their truck's back windows. But this also wasn't too long after the Columbine massacre, so it most definitely a sign of the times.

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NPC261939@reddit

Yeah, I graduated the year Columbine happened. I like to remind my buddies we were fortunate to go through school pre Columbine, and enjoy some freedom/fun before 9/11. I wouldn't dare get up to our old shenanigans now. I fear I'm already on enough lists as it is.

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lothsm47@reddit

Reading a book on my front stoop. Just a welfare check nowadays.

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Boring_Menu_5962@reddit

Smoke weed and play loud music in my friends basement when his parents weren't home. None of his neighbors seemed to mind and were always super friendly to us.

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Knight_thrasher@reddit

I had my first real job at 15, McDonalds. My parents loved going camping on weekends. They would take my siblings and I would be left on my own recognizance over the weekend. Many nights I would just be out on my bike, skateboard, or rollerblades, enjoying the freedom.

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MacSteele13@reddit

Riding bikes all over town with no adults, no phones, and no real destination. Just disappear for six hours and come back sweaty, half dehydrated, and somehow with a soda. Today that turns into a neighborhood alert about “unsupervised juveniles casing the block.”

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ryamanalinda@reddit

Don't forget with no helmets.

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LastCookie3448@reddit

Ice blocking in the park at night. Had an absolute blast.

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Phantomtastic@reddit

Ice blocking at the golf course.

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biggcb@reddit

What is this?

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Phantomtastic@reddit

You get a large block of ice, take it to the top of a grassy hill, sit on the block of ice and slide down the hill. It’s usually done at night during the summer.

If you were one of the smart kids you brought a towel to sit on and then you got to use it to bring the block back up the hill. It kept you dry and you could laugh at the wet people who didn’t think to bring one.

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biggcb@reddit

Interesting. I have never heard of this.

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Johoski@reddit

They put up signs and installed an equestrian police substation at the park we used to go ice blocking at.

To be fair, I think the grass on one particular hillside was legitimately destroyed and took some significant restoration efforts.

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Phantomtastic@reddit

Yeah, you have to be nice about it and spread out never using the same stretch twice.

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ExtraAd7611@reddit

Yeah that was fun. Do kids not do that anymore?

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Appropriate_Cow94@reddit

Pipe bombs at 9 years old with older kid down the road. We just blew up ant hills and stuff.

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Bobby_Globule@reddit

A bunch of us farm kids started a “no adults allowed” game. We basically ran the whole town ourselves lol! We soon shifted the pranks to newcomers with fun & funny cornfield theatrics. We invented a whole big set of zany rules.

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Butterfly_Cat777@reddit

Was the leader named Malachai? :P

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Bobby_Globule@reddit

Is that you? lol

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Butterfly_Cat777@reddit

LOL no I'm asking you 😄

Scared Now...

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Bobby_Globule@reddit

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Butterfly_Cat777@reddit

They look so tiny...

But probably not harmless...!

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hathegkla@reddit

We used to hang out at the local elementary school at night, run Aaround on the roof and do whatever. No drinking or drugs (not there anyway) , no vandalism. If teenagers did this now the police would call in a drone strike.

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Ice_crusher_bucket@reddit

Putting a small propane tank in the field on top of a small fire. Then sitting a good distance back and shooting it until the explosion.

We did this in our teens a lot. Never thought anything of it. Now light a firecracker off and cops are called.

But we do live in the country. Back then, country life was relaxed. Now city folk pretend to play farmer and have no idea.

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OratorioInStone@reddit

Riding in the back of my dad's pickup while on the highway. I was so much fun.

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Buhos_En_Pantelones@reddit

The term we used for what most people call 'ding dong ditch' would definitely get me punched.

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MacSteele13@reddit

I never heard it called "Ding Dong Ditch" once when I was a kid

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Buhos_En_Pantelones@reddit

Yeah me neither. We called it... something else.

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TheFightens@reddit

Not necessarily ‘fun’, but my parents would sometimes leave me and my sister in the car when they had to pop into a store. I specifically remember a time my parents went to a bank to open up a checking account. They knew it was gonna be a very long time so they gave us each a candy bar to eat in the car which was a huge treat for us at the time.

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Character_Bed1212@reddit

Digging a big hole in your backyard at night

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Cinisajoy2@reddit

I knew a vice principal that got his car shoe polished and had to get a new paint job. About a week later some kids turned his car over in a rainstorm.

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OneLonelyBeastieI-B@reddit

At age 8, being gone all day in my bike from sunup to sundown without checking in at all.

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Adorable_Bag_2611@reddit

Is someone in my mom‘s neighborhood had their house tp’ed last year. The guy whose house it was took a video of him critiquing the TP job. In the video he was telling the kids where to put more how to throw the roll things like that. And invited the kids to come back and try again. He posted it on a neighborhood Facebook group.

He even left two rolls of toilet paper outside in a bag for them. They came back and did it again. He then left a video of that job with comments on where they followed his suggestions and how they did a much better job this time. It was a lot of fun.

Each time he left the toilet paper up for about a week. It made me smile every time I drove past his house.

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hankenator1@reddit

Being a ten year old at the park without parents.

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Piney_Dude@reddit

Blowing shit up. Probably have Homeland Security involved now.

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Shazam1269@reddit

Dad got the stuff to make 1/4 sticks of dynamite. Myself and 3 brothers made about 10, and let me tell you, THOSE SONOFABITCHES ARE LOUD!

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Piney_Dude@reddit

When I was a teen/ young adult you could still get 1/4 and 1/2 sticks on Canal street in NYC.

That shit was dangerous.

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Shazam1269@reddit

We put a metal garbage can over one once, and it shot about 50 feet into the air. We never considered that it could have turned into shrapnel.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

This all depends on where you live. My neighbor kids use tannerite they get from a local farm store. Sounds like a big ass bomb going off when they hit it. In the big city this might cause some issues but where I live meh...

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ranoutofbacon@reddit

We'd be paying a version of tag, outside after dark. We were running through yards, jumping fences and making noise. Probably 10 of us, between 8-16yrs old.

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RepresentativeAd715@reddit

We played hide and seek in the dark. The seeker used a flashlight. We called it "German Spotlight". Im amazed none of us were shot by a neighbor.

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Shazam1269@reddit

We used old used up lighters. The spark from the flint could be seen for blocks!

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dae_giovanni@reddit

i wonder if TPing is "good, clean, fun".

I immediately thought of TPing, myself-- back in the day, me and my buddy were absolute pros-- but I recall some homeowners not viewing it as a good time (especially since we were of course never around to help clean up).

it was soft vandalism then, and it's still soft vandalism.

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w3woody@reddit

I saw a house that was TPed recently--and it was sort of sad. The TP only sprinkled along the base of the trees, a little bit on the lawn, nothing on the roof of the house. Someone needs to show these kids nowadays how to throw a roll of toilet paper so that it unravels and crosses the top of the trees, not just dab a few strands along the bottom...

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dae_giovanni@reddit

man... we could have taught graduate-level coursework on TPing... we perfected the throw that would create a smooth unravel... sigh...

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Shazam1269@reddit

I worked at a Golden Corral, and myself and the manager TP'd the house of a waitress that worked there. We used a half a case of those large rolls of crappy TP used for public restrooms. It was the most covered TP job I'd ever seen.

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mapoftasmania@reddit

Seniors in our town still do it. It’s part of the lacrosse team hazing.

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dae_giovanni@reddit

so at first I read this to mean "senior citizens" and was like WHOA, where do YOU live cause that is AMAZING

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Specialist_Stop8572@reddit

Drive around while naked

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D-ouble-D-utch@reddit

Firework wars at the local elementary school nearly every weekend

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Apprehensive_Ant4596@reddit

I put a cinder block in a paper bag and left in in the road. That was stupid and cost someone some money. Yeah...that wouldn't fly today either.

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NashvilleTypewriter@reddit

Firework wars.

I'm honestly surprised I still have all my fingers and both eyes. 😅

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KurtStation68@reddit

lightning a bag of poop on people's porches - i was a bad influence since the TV made me do it

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TheGyattFather@reddit

He called the shit poop.

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Silver_fish1978@reddit

Shoot, I think the best part of us growing up when we did, is that Facebook didn’t exist, and as a result, there is no evidence of the crazy and sometimes moronic stuff that we did.

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when_music_hits@reddit

Hedge hopping was a favourite...knock down ginger with a twist.

Avenues with Terraced houses were firm favourites

Open the gate, walk the path, knock the door, run to the next house, jumping the fence, rinse and repeat. First to the end of the road was, ofcourse, the man.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

From reading a lot of these post, most of these things could have gotten you in trouble back then as well. It just wasn't enforced nearly as strong as now. Nobody will convince me that people are not way more sensitive now compared to when our parents were our age or a bit younger.

Example: When I was a kid and got TPed my dad just laughed it off and made me clean it up. Now a days a person or people will get trespassed and will get a ticket for vandalism, seen it happen last fall.

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GinX-@reddit

Or murdered. People now get murdered for tp'ing houses.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

Yea that is true I have read about that. Shit just knocking on the wrong door now could get you in a bad situation.

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biggcb@reddit

Cutting through yards, ding dong ditch, soaping cars

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theghostofcslewis@reddit

"Doorbell ditching" is getting people killed nowadays.

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ExtraAd7611@reddit

Just was by myself around town without parents from a very young age, like 5.

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According-Property64@reddit

Prior to coming of age for drinking on of the last things we would do to finish a party would be to have all attendees form two lines and some one would find some oldy showtimes or cabaret music and we'd all do a can-can sendoff for everyone all together it was actually a blast, but it did get the cops on us a couple times

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BuilderCreative7618@reddit

I used to start a lot of fires. Nothing dangerous or destructive. Just...comforting. I still do, but I used to too.

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Glass-Nectarine-3282@reddit

When I walked from high school I cut through conservatively 10 yards to make a shortcut to my house. If it rained, I would go into people's garages and wait for it to stop (now granted, people didn't like that then either).

But yeah, the amount of casual trespassing that was taken for granted as just the way life was, would not be accepted today.

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FataMorganaForReal@reddit

Pool hopping. Neighborhood pools, not back yards.

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mike2ff@reddit

Bottle-rocket or Roman Candle wars. Sometimes would also throw a bunch of smoke bombs. Someone threw one that bounced and landed in my hoodie.

Finding out sulfur smoke can asphyxiate in only a few seconds, priceless!

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MattC1973@reddit

BB gun war in a neighborhood field next to the woods.

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Piney_Dude@reddit

We did this a few times. Bottle rockets were more fun though.

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Bahlore@reddit

We did this so many times, so much fun, surprised no one lost an eye.

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iaMBictrochee@reddit

Nice try.

We have the advantage of growing up and doing stupid stuff before the interwebs and now you want us to put our transgressions in writing?!

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1lucy1loo@reddit (OP)

Bahahahah. You can put it in code. We will figure it out.
Hey is your refrigerator running?

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iaMBictrochee@reddit

01100110 01101111 🙃

No, but I do have Prince Albert in a can!

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Sumeriandawn@reddit

Do you have a Prince Albert piercing?😂(If you're squeamish, don't look up what a Prince Albert piercing is)

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1lucy1loo@reddit (OP)

Excellent!!! You are my kind of people 😂

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iaMBictrochee@reddit

Thanks for admitting that in writing!

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CommunicationHappy20@reddit

Being a teenager. Man, I’m so glad there were no cameras or cellphones. I’d be dead or in jail.

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Thin-Telephone2240@reddit

Well, it was an 8th grade assignment. Do a presentation to class on something mechanical. I took my Ruger 10/22 rifle to school. Had permission from the Principle. I could not bring ammunition, could not take it on the bus and had to leave it with him in his office until the class.

At the appointed time I picked it up it's Mexican leather rifle case and walked across the school to the class. I'd packed a screwdriver to take it apart. Explained the workings of the internal parts. On the blackboard I drew the .22LR cartridge in cross section and explained how it worked. Then I reassembled the gun.

I got an "A" for that.

I'd gotten a lift to school but had to walk home. But I'd thought ahead and had stashed a canteen of water and a box of cartridges under a bridge. It was a couple of miles to the bridge and then I was fine for the next 8 miles home.

These days, SWAT would have been called. Upon investigating the Principle and the family member who dropped me off would have been arrested for an assortment of charges. Likely the students in my class, who enjoyed the heck out of the show, would be offered counseling.

For a bit of context, that was near Tucson Arizona. At that time the Ruger 10/22 sold for $49. Today it sells for $349 (unless you find a sale).

Oh and another requirement was I showed the Principle my NRA Hunter Safety Class paper. That and my parents permission clinched it with the Principle.

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dae_giovanni@reddit

8 miles? sheeesh!

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No-Village1834@reddit

Nice.

I brought a knights of Columbus decorative but very real sword to middle school for show n tell or some shit. My mom was the nurse so she kept it in her office. But I walked from classroom to office and back with it. And carried it on my bike 2 miles home through suburban areas. No shits given.

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sits_with_cats@reddit

Regular bonfires in a tiny copse of trees behind McDonalds & Buscemi's. Usually just a small group of teenagers with whatever we could get someone outside the party store to buy for us.

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capthazelwoodsflask@reddit

Someone grew up in the metro Detroit area

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drifter3026@reddit

Playing with very realistic cap guns.

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Ray_The_Engineer@reddit

I literally got the police called on me in our old neighborhood because I had set up one of those music-synchronized light displays on my house for Christmas. 5000 lights, laboriously synced to 4 Christmas songs, and a small speaker that played the music out loud for passersby. (it was also broadcast on an empty radio frequency) I checked and checked to make sure you couldn't hear a thing inside of my neighbor's houses, and then turned it down even lower after that...but some a-hole in the neighborhood kept calling the police on me.

I can't imagine the neighborhood I grew up in in the '70's and '80's being this douchey.

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Odditeee@reddit

Depending on the time of year, ~50% of the boys in high school would have a rifle, shotgun, or bow in their trucks parked right outside.

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Sorry-Temporary9115@reddit

Hanging BA's anyone? Extra credit from the bus.

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UrsaMajor7th@reddit

I hung my BA in my home, next to my Masters degree.

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Wactout@reddit

I just saw a bunch of old folk assault a child for doing wheelies…..

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ranoutofbacon@reddit

that's Florida for ya. borderline kid napping too. wouldn't let the kid leave until "security" arrived. larceny, because they stole his phone.

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No-Village1834@reddit

Acorn fights ranging across the whole block.

Playing “guns” across said block with super real looking toy guns, all dressed in black or camouflage. Jumping fences.

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BorisTheHangman@reddit

One kid riding a mini-bike on a residential road, pulling another kid who is on a skateboard. Using a ski rope was best. No helmet necessary or required. The “soft” pavement will break your fall.

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RW_McRae@reddit

Egging peoples houses. We also used to steal wood from construction sites to build ramps and half-finished forts.

We also stole street cones for roller hockey and street football goals

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SpaceWrangler777@reddit

We share similar interests, mail box bashing happened , water balloons were regularly thrown from the car too

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Astronaut6735@reddit

In high school we used to go down to a place between the railroad tracks and the bay on Friday night, light a bon fire, and hang out until early morning. We always had a book box with some music, beers, cigs, etc. Some people made out. Some people danced. Sometimes we would get home Saturday morning as the sky was starting to get light.

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vanchica@reddit

Breaking into outdoor public pools to go swimming at night (just had to jump a 10 ft wall. Obviously the didn't mind us swimming or they'd have made the walls higher.)

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Eldritch-banana-3102@reddit

Kick the can in the dark

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Grafakos@reddit

So, so, so many crank calls. I even wrote a small Pascal program that would generate random phone numbers in my local area. The user could advise whether to put it on the "try again in the future" list (for people that weren't home, busy signals, or whose reaction was funny), or "never try again" (people who threatened to call the cops, numbers not in service).

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twistedivy@reddit

A game called Mission Improbable. You play outside after dark and one person is “it” and has to get to home base from a few blocks away. The rest of your friends try to prevent that by tagging you by shining a flashlight on you. The whole thing is sneaking around outside people’s houses at night. So much fun.

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kalelopaka@reddit

My dirtbikes, riding through the neighborhood at full throttle. My potato guns. Played cowboys and Indians with pellet rifles.

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Weekly-Batman@reddit

We used to have Devils Night, glad my 16 year old doesn’t even know about it.

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Obwyn@reddit

Doorbell ditching has turned into kicking the fuck out of someone's front door and then running away.

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Weekly-Batman@reddit

Late night pool hop

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Advanced_Tax174@reddit

Throwing snowballs at cars, which in retrospect of course was a terrible idea.

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Accomplished-Age-482@reddit

Riding bikes in the road.

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shortstop_princess@reddit

Flashed someone

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Fair-Wishbone-1190@reddit

I remember we all went out driving around and we had a case of beer in the backseat, we were all drinking it and I was driving. I got pulled over and we all got busted with the beer because we were under 21, and the police officer took the beer but he let me drive home and I got issued a $25 ticket for open container. I would never get away with something like that now so cheaply and no consequences, he just said go home and drive carefully.

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GeoHog713@reddit

Literally just hanging out someplace without spending money.

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Significant-Sky9431@reddit

Throwing anything at cars from the high school roof at a 4-way stop in the winter. Fun times, we got our cardio then, many stories to tell, but we should have made more than the radio news. lol. Social Media and ring cams would have nailed us with Juvy records. Also, add fights. Fighting was a thing, but nowadays, it's the same thing. Cops are coming, and if not, they're probably getting you at school the next day because of the Wilsons' ring cam??