XNZ's moustrap cieling fan game reminded me of a game my brother and friends would play.
My basement had an alcove corner with a 45 degree angle. You would throw a golf ball very hard... harder the better... and it would come back across the room, bounce around like mad off the walls, and really hurt if it hit you. There was a safe viewing area, and we'd take turns seeing who threw the hardest, and who got hurt most.
See diagram:
http://www.rhp15.com/pictures/DangerBall.jpg
S is start, X is where we would 'hide' and V is the viewing area.
Best ideas were to put your hands and arms over your head after throwing, and duck your face into the chest.... keeping your back to the incoming ball. Didn't always work out.
Loads of fun, loads of pain.
What did you do for kicks that might hurt?
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We had an irrigation ditch by my house that was almost always dry.
Where it came to an end, it created an excellent jump for a bicycle. We would ride as fast as we could down the dry ditch then go off the 50 degree incline of the end. It was a blast!
The only problem was that it ended there for a reason. There was a road there. So, we were effectively riding our bikes and jumping across a road. On the other side of the road was another ditch that paralleled the road then a barbed wire fence on the other side of the ditch.
After a few of us jumped too far (had bike go into ditch and body go into barbed wire fence) or had close calls with cars, we decided that maybe it wasn't such a good idea.
Originally posted by CoconutOnly you ...
played darts without any pants on.
I went over to this kid's house and we went down to his basement.
He pulled out a .22 rifle and fired it at the concrete wall in the corner.
Zing!! zing zing zing ...
Oh yeah, never went back there.
In public school we used to play "buck buck" on the bus.
Two teams. The defenders make a bridge by bending over and grabbing the guy in front around the waist, the attackers take a run and jump and try to land as hard as possible (think of a cowboy jumping on a horse)and break the bridge. It was fun going around corners.
Originally posted by PhlabibitWe played bike polo . We had a very large church on our block , with a large asphalt parking lot . We get 6 guys on bikes and a golf ball . There were goals between parking lines at each end . We didn't use clubs though , we used our feet to kick the ball . The b1tch was when two or three guys would be going after the ball from several different directions . If you didn't outright wreck , it was a miracle . Other times you'd try to kick the guy's leg that got the ball before you did and get him to wreck , and damn near break your foot if you connected . Luckily we smashed up too many bikes to go on for too long before anyone got hurt really bad .
XNZ's moustrap cieling fan game reminded me of a game my brother and friends would play.
My basement had an alcove corner with a 45 degree angle. You would throw a golf ball very hard... harder the better... and it would come back across the room, bounce around like mad off the walls, and really hurt if it hit you. There was a safe viewing area, an ...[text shortened]... ys work out.
Loads of fun, loads of pain.
What did you do for kicks that might hurt?
P-
A neighbor kid figured out how to take a CO2 cartridge from an air rifle and attach it to an hunting arrow with radiator hose clamps . We rigged up his Estes Rocket launch pad so when we dropped the arrow down the rod hard enough it punctured the end of the CO2 cartidge and made the hunting arrow fly christ-only-knows-how high out of sight . We were looking all over for one of our first attempts , and saw it sticking about 18" into the ground about 15 feet behind another neighbor lady hanging up wash on the clothes line . She never saw or heard it hit . That scared the crap out us . If it would have hit her it would have killed her dead as hell .
And not to mention lots of wrist rocket slingshot fights with pebbles , green crab apples , and green cherry tomatoes .
My friends and I used to ride trail bikes (motorcycles). Well, there wasn't enough action during the week so we'd build a ramp at home in a field and play Evil Kneivel - see who could go the fastest and jump the highest and/or farthest.
Those were fun days riding trail, motorcross, and scaling impossible walls... 😵 Left me with a few injuries though. 😕
Originally posted by PhlabibitCheck out the photography thread for a super dangerous stunt...
XNZ's moustrap cieling fan game reminded me of a game my brother and friends would play.
My basement had an alcove corner with a 45 degree angle. You would throw a golf ball very hard... harder the better... and it would come back across the room, bounce around like mad off the walls, and really hurt if it hit you. There was a safe viewing area, an ...[text shortened]... ys work out.
Loads of fun, loads of pain.
What did you do for kicks that might hurt?
P-
http://www.timeforchess.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=30359
Also, vote while you're there. Last couple of days 🙂
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We played Bulldogs.
And a game called "chairs". Basically you placed two metal chairs back to back in the middle. Everyone forms a circle and grasps the person's next to each others' wrist (you have one upside down and one normal).
Then, everyone starts to spin faster and faster around the chairs trying to pull people onto the chairs. If you touch the chairs, you are out of the circle.
When it gets to just a few people - remove one of the chairs.
When it gets to two people - it basically turns into a fight - who can knock the other person off their feet - still grasping wrists.
It loses a lot in explanation, but it was incredibly violent - especially if you got dragged across the chairs and impaled on one of the legs....
Bless the Scouting movement and is propensity to drive you to alchohol related violence......
My brother and I mad a bazooka once. We sprayed a plastic tube with heat proof paint and set it inside a bigger tube. We put a view finder on top and a handle underneath. The rocket was made by taking a metal cigar tube and soldering four fins to front and back, then a model rocket fuel motor was inserted in the end. This was connected to an ignition clip from which two wires were trailed through the bigger tube and into the base of the handle. Then we made a small circuit board with two switches and three lights, which was placed in the handle. Connect a battery and the light would go red, press the first switch (by the viewfinder) and the light would go orange and press the second switch (trigger finger) and kaboom!
Or so we thought...
So, we took it out to the field at the bakc of our house and set up a cardboard target. We give ourselves about 30 metres and prepare it. My brother (seeing as he built most of it) gets first go. He kneels down and I give the orders:
"Power! Safety off! Fire!"
The little missile shoots out of the tube just like a bazooka would, but a fatal design flaw in our aerodynamic fins causes it to spin in ever larger circles, it hits the ground about 5 metres from the target and begins to shoot in all manner of directions (the motor cell is still firing). I'm like 'Woah, run for it!' so we quickly retreat in time to see it somehow take flight again and smash straight up into the wire housing bok of a nearby telegraph pole and explode, destroying the box! We don't bother to look back, but decide to keep running, picking up bazooka and target on the way.
It occurs to me as we near home, that the fuel burns solid and so it shouldn't have exploded, I pose this oddity to my brother and he says.
"Oh yeah, I filled the cigar tube with lighter fuel, I thought it would look even cooler if it hit something."
