Stupid Stuff I did as a Teenager……..

[Cray Paper]

This is a story from a guy I worked with for a couple of years 25 years ago.

I worked with a carpenter back in the late 90's named John, but he went by okie John. He was from a southern state (Oklahoma?) and looked and sounded like an okie John. One day in the lunch room okie John tells us this story without cracking a smile.

When he was in high school he would set traps out in the woods on his way to school and checked them on his walk home everyday. He wound up with a bobcat in a trap one day and he and his buddies put it a suitcase. They drove to the "ghetto" and set the suitcase next to a light pole at a busy intersection. He said they started walking away and a old POS 4 door caddy loaded up with brothers screeched to halt, one of them hopped out and snatched the suitcase and they hauled ass away. He said they made it about 1 block then the shit hit the fan and they all started bailing out of the car.

 

[Cray Paper]

Me and a couple of buddies "may" have run through the hallways of our HS squirting skunk musk oil on the carpet right before our junior year. Alex took the fall for that...never said a word about others involved.

 

[HTTP404]

This is a story from a guy I worked with for a couple of years 25 years ago.

I worked with a carpenter back in the late 90's named John, but he went by okie John. He was from a southern state (Oklahoma?) and looked and sounded like an okie John. One day in the lunch room okie John tells us this story without cracking a smile.

When he was in high school he would set traps out in the woods on his way to school and checked them on his walk home everyday. He wound up with a bobcat in a trap one day and he and his buddies put it a suitcase. They drove to the "ghetto" and set the suitcase next to a light pole at a busy intersection. He said they started walking away and a old POS 4 door caddy loaded up with brothers screeched to halt, one of them hopped out and snatched the suitcase and they hauled ass away. He said they made it about 1 block then the shit hit the fan and they all started bailing out of the car.

How did they put the bobcat into the suitcase?

 

[havasuhusker]

I restored a '75 chevy in high school and it was a real nice pickup for a teenager. One night I was driving down front street and WHACK, something hit my drivers side door. I looked in the mirror and saw two kids jumping up and down on the sidewalk celebrating their direct hit. I immediately turned left and headed down the alley, but there was no chance of me finding or catching them. 3 days later, as I was opening my truck door after a workout at the YMCA, and I hear a voice say "that's the truck that chased us down the other night". I walk out in front of my truck and see two kids, and I grab one of the fuckers with both hands by the collar and interrogated him. Had to only be 11 or 12 years old. I had some choice words and tried to get him to admit what he had done, but he was stammering and stumbling and made up some lie. The next day, his mother and him were outside my truck waiting when I finished my workout. She started yelling to keep my hands off her son, I gave her my opinion on her job as a mother raising a shit head that throws rocks at a moving vehicle.....I wish I had a baseball bat for the both of them.

Damage from whatever they threw at me

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We did dumb stuff as kids, but I can't remember ever stealing or vandalizing anyone's property, my parents would have skinned my ass.

That sucks and sorry that happened to your truck. Looking back, what I did was completely dumb and disrespectful. When my parents saw the bruise from the bat, they asked what happened. After telling them, they layed into me pretty good. Told.me I was lucky and probably should've really got my ass kicked even worse. I FAAFO for sure.

 

[bilz]

A friend liked to wack those boxes mounted on post. One night he missed the box and hit the post. Unfortunately for him, the post was metal. He vibrated like a cartoon character, so I'm told.

 

[rivrrts429]

The duck tape sticky side up on the road is cute... I did that around the age of 8 or 9.

I text my cousin to ask how old we were and you’re close. Somewhere between the age of 12 or 13. It was just before we started focusing on chasing girls instead of shenanigans lol

 

[jeteater1]

Then when we got our driver's licenses . We took mayhem on the road. My first vehicle I bought from saving two paper routes money. Was a 1978 Ford F250 4x4 . Former Edison truck in found to keys under the seat that were county gate locks . Growing up in Altadena many places we would 4x4 I places your not supposed to.
Many a night in Devils Gate Dam . So All over hwy 2 and 39 we go. Kicked out of Mt Wilson for shooting snow balls at people on the outside deck from the parking lot below, with a water balloon launcher.

 

[RVRKID]

My best friend and I went up the drainage by a major street in town and got to a big intersection and when the light would turn red for the north south cars we throw M80's out thru the grate and land them close to the cars and scare the shit out of people, never did get spotted but I missed on one throw and hit the bar going across and it landed back in with us, we dove down the tubes but too late and that rang our ears. LOL

 

[lakemadness]

Anyone ever give fake Hollywood money to homeless beggars?

 

[Mr. C]

My last two and then I’m done.
So our ymca was adding on. I thought what a great way to make money. Went knocking door to door for donations. ( I think I’m 11-12). Well I ended up with about 3k and got scared. Hid it under my parents dresser (. Ya that’s really smart huh) needless to say. I was grabbing some cash for pinball and my mom walked In. . I had to go knock door to door for I don’t know how many houses trying to see if I had screwed them. I think I ended up giving most back or to a pinball machine.

Last one promise. And yes I know I am Fn peice of shit just didn’t know it at the time. And if I could repay these people I would gladly do it.

HALLOWEEN NIGHT. We are tricker and treating and come across a house that won’t answer the door. We can see the feet hanging of the recliner but nothing. Well F that. Grab the hose and put in the door mailbox turn it on and be on way.
As I said. I can’t imagine me doing that but I did.
And yes I am a piece of shit for that.

 

[Mr. C]

Anyone ever give fake Hollywood money to homeless beggars?

No but for fun I have said ( or sung). Get a job.

Jk. Never have said that.

 

[Cray Paper]

How did they put the bobcat into the suitcase?

I recall asking that question and his answer seemed plausible at the time, but I don't remember now.

 

[Cray Paper]

When I was about 12 YO I went to rock concert with a buddy school (Brent) in a shit hole venue in downtown Seattle. First concert I ever attended. We were standing in line and a homeless guy was hitting everyone up for money. Brent pulled out a quarter and heated it up with a lighter and through it on the ground, the drug addict homeless guy snatched it up and burned the shit out of his fingers. Guess hanging out with questionable people started early for me.

 

[Ace in the Hole]

Anyone ever give fake Hollywood money to homeless beggars?

No but some people I know of allegedly had the time of their lives giving essentially worthless (due to inflation) Zimbabwe dollars to strippers in college one night. One of alleged group of buddies was from there... It was a wild night...allegedly.

 

[chadzilla]

Some of these, well most of these stories are just funny as hell! I am no saint here so here is one. I was in trade school in the mid 90's. Had 3 room mates. One of which, Mark, none of us liked. Well, my friend Roger was a sneaky devious bastard. He was the one you didnt fuck with cause he would get you back 10 fold in ways you never knew. Mark pissed off Roger really bad one time. Roger and my other roomy Dave who actually lives in Havasu decided to get back at Mark. Roger goes to the store and buys a shit ton of laxatives. They were the pill kind so him and Dave took every single pill apart and i mean probably 50 or so, and pours the contents into Mark's milk. We all had our own shelf in the refrigerator. It took them awhile to stir that cocktail up! Next morning Mark pours himself two huge bowls of cereal and an extra glass of milk to wash it all down. Well, it didn't take long for the laxatives to start working. I had a class with Mark and suddenly he jumps out of his seat and runs to the restroom! Comes back 10 minutes later, sweating like a whore in church and sits back down. Instructor looks at him and asks if he's ok. Mark starts mumbling something about an upset stomach and shitting like no tomorrow. Mid-sentence his eyes get big as saucers, stomach makes some evil sounds, and he jumps up and hauls ass out the door again! The class looks at me as they know I room with him and I'm like "don't ask me!" Mark rolls in a bit later looking like a truck hit him, holding his stomach. Tells the instructor he must have eaten something bad and heads out. When we got home that afternoon, Mark was lying in the bathroom in the fetal position, moaning and groaning about his stomach! Poor bastard had shit his pants on the way home and thrown his pants n drawers in the waste basket. Damn entire apartment was just wretched smelling. He never found out. Soon after that we held a congressional meeting and kicked him out of the apartment. Dude was bad into drugs.

 

[Cray Paper]

man this thread is going to influence so many of RDP's regular posters reputations going forward but it's like crack for us old timers. As an old timer myself I find it that it is enjoyable sharing / telling real life experiences with younger people. I honestly think younger people enjoy hearing the stories just as I did when I was there age, and hopefully get / remember the hard earned lessons later in life when faced with difficult decisions.

 

[77charger]

I had a crush on a girl in 7th grade. There was a rumor going around that she wore thong panties. One of my buddies dared my to pants her during gym class. I did. At the time I thought it was funny, but now that I’m older I realize how lucky I am that her older brother or her dad didn’t beat the shit out of me. I got suspended for 2 weeks but an ass beating was probably pretty well deserved.

What if her dad was the union boss

 

[Cray Paper]

I went to San Juan HS my freshman year in 1984, the juniors made brownies for the senior ball and laced them with laxatives'. This was way over my head and only found out about it later, several juniors were booted out of school and charges pressed, one SR gal almost died from it. Kids are mean, always have been.