If I spread them out, one "event" per post, I'd probably pass Bapu's post count up...

The statute of limitations has not expired.

Crg


The statute of limitations has not expired.

There's that too...

I burned the family house down when I was 3, playing with matches.

 
Gee, and I thought burning down a field was bad.
Me and David Edwards got ahold of some matches, then we stole borrowed some gasoline from a neighbor's garage.
Down to the end of Leila at Dale Mabry, I poured the gas into a small hole in the middle of the field and lit it.
It got out of hand real quick.
I ran all the way home and told my mom, "The field's on fire, Mom!"
She called the fire department and then asked me how it started. I disavowed all knowledge of it's cause, but in the 1970s, Mom went to Tampa and visited all her old friends and David gave me up, the rat.

One close call of the "on fire" type came when a friend and I coated a helium balloon with bicycle tire repair (the stuff you used to put over a hole before putting a patch on).  The stuff is nicely flamable so we made a special fuse for the bottom of the balloon about two feet long to give the balloon time to get into the air before getting the anticipated "Hindenberg" reaction we were going for.

A nice experiment until you realize two things:  One, you shouldn't do this in the backyard where there's very little space and, two, if you put too much tire lube on the surface, the balloon becomes very heavy and might not take off as expected...

The balloon VERY slowly lifted when we lit the fuse and let go, then crawled more sideways than up - right towards the neighbors roof!  We were combining complete teenage panic with thoughts of "Where's the freakin' hose??!!" and "We're in deep ****!!" when the balloon exploded in a huge six foot ball only a couple of feet above the shingles.

We got off lucky again.  THAT time anyway.

Not content with burning down the house at age 3 I also burned down an old wooden cricket pavilion at age 14. There were a couple of loose boards on the outside exposing a gap between the outer and inner walls. In this gap was a bunch of newspapers and other trash. I flicked my lighter at it sort of jokingly (who knows what goes on in the mind of a 14 year old) and it caught fire. Panicking, I whipped out my wotsit and figured I'd pee on it to put it out. But my d-bag friend stood in front of it with his arms outstretched yelling "NO! NO! YOU'VE MADE YOUR BED AND NOW YOU HAVE TO LIE ON IT!"

Joking aside, the thing went up pretty quickly after than and we ran like the wind. I spent the rest of the day terrified that someone had seen us, or even worse that maybe some homeless guy was asleep inside. As it was, we later found out that they had planned to knock it down anyway. So I guess I was giving a little back to the community. 

The stupidest thing I ever did as a kid was to jump my dirt bike over a hill. 

I mean, I gassed it too hard and landed long - right into a tree. Folded the forks and took the full force of it in my wrists (I managed to develop a death-grip mid-air as I saw exactly where we were gonna land..like it was all in slow motion) Had to have my hands wrapped completely in ace bandages as I had no feeling in them at all, for about two week. But hey, I got out of school work for two weeks and a got a good story to tell -

SuperG

Had to have my hands wrapped completely in ace bandages as I had no feeling in them at all, for about two week. 

Ooo I bet you enjoyed that 

Growing up.

Hi,

There are a couple of them, but ... it might get some folks ... ohh well ... too bad!

1. Some really good Sunshine ... I had to stop off the freeway twice, to gather my senses, and be able to drive home, and get in bed ... and read or listen to music! I was driving ok, but the mind was jumping around something fierce, and the colors were stunning.

2. Driving home with ________ and getting a ______________________________ while driving ... this one can be dangerous if you stomp the gas pedal accidentally! But at least I did not get Garp'd! Not advised in today's over crowded highways and streets!

3. Going to see Pink Floyd at the Hollywood Bowl, when I had a nasty cold and asked Kathy to come along. The concert was awesome, and the sounds were fabulous, but plugged ears and nose, is not fun. But the opening was awesome with the sound of the wind going around the whole place and ears, and your head not realizing it, until it finally hits you .... ohhh it's the band ... One of These Days!

4. Friend wanted to get stoned during The Wall show. We had seats next to each other, and the previous time that PF went to the Sports Arena, some 600 people got busted BEFORE the folks were even inside the place! So he figures he's smarter than anyone else. The audience was spiked with narc's ... and sure enough ... as soon as he lit one up and took a snag, 4 jumpers cross over the folks and grab him ... arrested! Some 400 folks got busted on that day! I guess PF audiences had more dope on them than Grateful Dead audiences! At least I know that GD would not bother playing a place like The Sports Arena in those days!

5. Going to Tijuana, and taking my passport, and driver's license, and safely not wanting to bring a credit card ... just in case. On the way back, the jackashes stopped me and nicked me for 1 whole day and were trying to get $400 dollars for me. My girlfriend, got a hold of a lawyer who instead of showing up got a hold of some mafia folks, that walked and told the guards ... that they had 5 minutes to release me, or they would all be in jail for extortion. I was out in 2 minutes! Beware the customs in many of these Latin American countries ... they do the same thing for everything you try to bring in ... so you always want a friend, or someone to mail it to you as a "gift".

All in all, because I have a green card, I have always been rather quiet and under the radar ... I had to omuch to lose to not behave, and did not take as many chances as I would have liked to.

Lastly ... wanted to go to ___ with that girl ... and it finally happened ... and got the clap! Ohh well ... that was stupid! Not all beauties are the beauties they look like! Yeah ... !!!  But that is farily standard in California, so not getting it once, means you're a wirgeen -- and a different crowd is after you and yours!