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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]JFC, there is no "these days" when it comes to adolescent boys doing stupid shit. Tale as old as time, literally. [/quote]

This.  When I was a teenage boy in the 80s, I did plenty of stupid, dangerous, reckless, irresponsible, sometimes criminal shit.  For example:

- We had a game where the object was to fire tennis ball into the window of a moving car from a moving car.  This led to numerous car chases on back roads.  
- Mailbox baseball.
- Shooting lights out with sling shots.
- Driving past a car dealership with those same slingshots and launching ball bearings into the lot of new cars for sale.
- Playing chicken. 
- We wanted to play paintball, but no one had paintball guns, so we dressed up in winter jackets in the summer and played wargames with BB guns - one pump only.  
- Shot at each other with bottle rockets, out of a lacrosse stick with the head removed.  
- Taped bottle rockets onto wooden arrows and launched them into the air, a la Dukes of Hazard (thank goodness we couldn't get our hands on dynamite sticks).

We were all good kids (or, at least, not the "bad kids" at the school, not by a long shot).  That group right now consists of a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, and yes, a few derelicts.

Point being, if you think just talking to teenage boys will always prevent them from doing stupid stuff, even the smart, studious ones, you're dreaming.  [/quote]

Hahaha, right?!?

A now-routine part of family gatherings is where my brother and I reminisce about the dumb/ dangerous stuff we did as kids and my parents are [i]horrified[/i] that they had no idea. My brother has a big scar on his arm that he got playing with fireworks; he wore long sleeves for a whole summer to hide it from our folks. Mom thought he was embarrassed about growing body hair, so she let him be.

We were good kids, and we're healthy successful adults. But we were Gen X and unsupervised and [i]we were kids[/i]. [/quote]

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