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[waspy]

I was thinking today about the things i used to get up to as a child.
Sliding from one end of the bath to the other to creat waves, but i used to wet the floor through & my mum used to shout at me (never stopped me though) My brother used to was his hands over the cabbage & it took my parents ages to figure out why the cabbage tasted of soap. My dad kept many chickens on the farm & when they were out, i used to throw clumps of soil into the air & whistle like a bomb, my dad could never figure out why his chickens used to dive for cover when he went into the pen (i'd hide around the corner & whistle) Tying things to the cats tail & watching run around the house  
There was many a mischief to be had Arh the memories.

What mischief did you get up to when you was young?

[Timbuk]

Pushed my little bro down the stairs and broke his arm when we were about 6 and 4. Denied all knowledge and said he must have fell. I still deny it to this day

[Kevin Wood]

Charging capacitors up with a 500 volt Megger and then giving them to my younger brothers to play with.

Kevin

[theowletman]

Grew up with a well known footballer and we used to nick clothes from the local clothing store, never got captured. Then we would take them back and say our Mam's thought they were unsuitable and could we have the money back ( no receipts then ). Promptly spent the refund on other things!!!!!!!

[ngrainqey]

Charging capacitors up with a 500 volt Megger and then giving them to my younger brothers to play with.

Kevin

i like shorting capacitors like on camera flash's - bigger ones really do go bang!

[theowletman]

Charging capacitors up with a 500 volt Megger and then giving them to my younger brothers to play with.

Kevin

i like shorting capacitors like on camera flash's - bigger ones really do go bang!

What's a capacitor then??

[ngrainqey]

something that holds charge like a battery until it discharges.. if you use them with the wrong polarity they go bang quite nicely

[cem_devecioglu]

most of the naughty things..

fight with other children in groups, stole fruit from neighbours trees,

play football and break window glasses , install nails under the cars

tires ,try every torture on girls

But the special one that I remember was with the girls we tried to play

what we see in the cinema..I had a snotty darling that kiss me

everytime

[Lizzie_Zoom]

My younger (five year old ) brother Nicholas and I were on our flat roof in Malta, and I had this brilliant idea that if I tied a rope from one side of our high roof above the wash house to the same on top of my friends adjacent house next door, he could swing on the rope.  

Tied one end of the rope to a concrete column and the other to the same fixing on the other roof, and encouraged Nicholas to swing on the rope in the centre after climbing on top of a wall that separated the two properties.  He wouldn't do it so as a good sister I did.......as I swung on the rope a whole section of concrete massonary came crashing down with a hell of a bang!

Mum come rushing up the stairs, to me explaining that it was all Nicholas's fault; she didn't believe me and went ballistic!

The Admiralty paid the bill for repairs as it was discovered the the whole section of ballastrad that we swung on was defective!

............and I was found innocent of all blame!! 8-) 8-)

[Kevin Wood]

something that holds charge like a battery until it discharges.. if you use them with the wrong polarity they go bang quite nicely

Yes...another activity for which the school's brand spanking new electronics lab came in rather handy.

.. and did you know, that if you put a nail in each end of a sausage, and wire the two nails up to a 13 amp plug you can cook the sausage.

Tip: don't eat the bit near where the nails were inserted, nor feel it during cooking to see if it's done.  

Then there was their computer network. Sounds naiive these days doesn't it? Build a network of computers that have sweet F.A. in the way of security of any kind, and expect to be able to let loose a load of teenage geeks on it with no ill effects... :-/

Kevin

[cem_devecioglu]

and another moment that I really remember was my experiment with boiling paraffin and wax..(age nearly 9-10 if I remember correct)

I had hurry to cool it down and wanted to give shape.. So I take a big glass of tap water and drop over the boiling mixture..

Result was disaster

The fire covered the ceiling  :-?

The curtains in the kitchen start burning..

When mom came home it was complete mess .But I was successful to

extinguish the fire  

[waspy]

  We where proper little buggers

I've just remembered when we had the really hot summer of 1976, there was hundreds of caterpillers everywhere, so my mate Pete & i collected loads of them in two jam jars, at the end of the day we said what are  gona do with them all. There was a shop not too far away that sold plants & the guy that ran the shop was a really moaning old bugger, he would shout at us for playing near his shop, so i said lets climb up his fence & tip the caterpillers all over his plants, which we did, there was hundreds of them everywhere. I wouldv'e loved to have seen his face when all his plants had these caterpillers all over them
He'll be dead now & i bet he looks down on me & curses

[cem_devecioglu]

something that holds charge like a battery until it discharges.. if you use them with the wrong polarity they go bang quite nicely

Yes...another activity for which the school's brand spanking new electronics lab came in rather handy.

.. and did you know, that if you put a nail in each end of a sausage, and wire the two nails up to a 13 amp plug you can cook the sausage.
Tip: don't eat the bit near where the nails were inserted, nor feel it during cooking to see if it's done.  

Then there was their computer network. Sounds naiive these days doesn't it? Build a network of computers that have sweet F.A. in the way of security of any kind, and expect to be able to let loose a load of teenage geeks on it with no ill effects... :-/

Kevin

I will try that also

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I would collect ants then put them on a biscuit tin lid ,then I would put them on the gas cooker.
Then my friends and I would turn the gas on ever so slowly until................kids can be very cruel.

[Kevin Wood]

I would collect ants then put them on a biscuit tin lid ,then I would put them on the gas cooker.
Then my friends and I would turn the gas on ever so slowly until................kids can be very cruel.

Insects (normally wasps) got justice pretty quickly around my way. Normally dished out by and old line output transformer from a TV. [smiley=evil.gif]

Kevin