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Title: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 08, 2012, 12:20:49 PM
We all had them  noooo:

I was reminded earlier of something a mate and I did when we were 17. We had been to a party  redface: and had to make our way back to his house on foot. We decided it would be more interesting if we made this journey ONLY in a straight line  noooo:

We took a rough bearing and set off. The route took us over walls, through many back gardens, a few encounters with dogs and irate householders, a skool playing filed, a couple of graveyards  scared2: and a multi storey car park.

Why?  Shrugs:

SO what did you get up to?  Popcorn:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Pirate on April 08, 2012, 12:48:36 PM
I nicked a car once to get home... redface:

My big mate made me do it...didn't get caught neever
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 08, 2012, 01:01:20 PM
Dear Chief Constable.... whistle:
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Post by: The Moan Ranger on April 08, 2012, 01:04:03 PM
One of my "ad-hoc" barbeques resulted in most of Banstead Woods catching fire.
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 08, 2012, 01:06:57 PM
Ooh yes, I set fire to a golf course  angel1
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Post by: The Moan Ranger on April 08, 2012, 01:30:18 PM
Excellent! More should be burned...
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Post by: Miss Demeanour on April 08, 2012, 02:11:11 PM
Nothing , I was a good girl  angel1
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Pirate on April 08, 2012, 02:26:07 PM
Nothing , I was a good girl  angel1

What about behind the bike sheds at school...
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Post by: Miss Demeanour on April 08, 2012, 02:30:26 PM
I went to a girls school  angel1
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 08, 2012, 02:46:15 PM
Pirate's imagination is now seething with images of netball skirts and regulation knickers  noooo:

Mind you, so is mine  redface:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: tel on April 08, 2012, 02:53:44 PM
Convent girls were the best  redface:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 08, 2012, 02:55:00 PM
I married one  noooo:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: tel on April 08, 2012, 03:09:52 PM
I would never havce married one!
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on April 08, 2012, 03:24:43 PM
One of my "ad-hoc" barbeques resulted in most of Banstead Woods catching fire.

Did much the same sort of thing in the New Forest.
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Just One More on April 08, 2012, 03:33:01 PM
A bit of a fire theme developing here. Me and me mate use to set fire to the fields at the end of the estate. I stopped at that, but unfortunately he got the "bug" and progressed on to houses a few years later and did time for arson  noooo:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 08, 2012, 03:35:06 PM
A "friend" you say? Of course....
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 08, 2012, 03:36:07 PM
Um, who else set fire to airfix models and threw them out of their bedroom window to simulate WW2?  redface:
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Post by: apc2010 on April 08, 2012, 04:59:48 PM
I was always good........... whistle:
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Post by: Nick on April 08, 2012, 05:09:08 PM
At?
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Post by: Barman on April 08, 2012, 06:21:57 PM
Um, who else set fire to airfix models and threw them out of their bedroom window to simulate WW2?  redface:

 Thumbs:

 redface:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: tel on April 09, 2012, 12:10:24 PM
Um, who else set fire to airfix models and threw them out of their bedroom window to simulate WW2?  redface:

Yes and also shot them up in the garden with air guns.
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: tel on April 09, 2012, 12:11:39 PM
Using (unwanted?) 78's as frisbees/discus/martial arts weapons?
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Post by: The Moan Ranger on April 09, 2012, 02:19:24 PM
Anyone else use a length of plastic drainpipe and 12 for a quid rockets, as an improvised RPG? 
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 09, 2012, 02:22:02 PM
No, but I made very creative use of bangers in a wide range of dangerous contexts  eveilgrin:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Snoopy on April 09, 2012, 02:22:39 PM
Anyone else use a length of plastic drainpipe and 12 for a quid rockets, as an improvised RPG?

To my everlasting joy I was never that stupid.  angel1
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 09, 2012, 02:24:30 PM
What are your boys experimenting with?  whistle:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Snoopy on April 09, 2012, 02:28:10 PM
Setting fire to icing sugar ~ as demonstrated to Minimus at High School Open Evening under controlled conditions. He tried it in his bedroom and set fire to a plastic waste-paper bin.

He'll not do that again  Spank2:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 09, 2012, 02:29:21 PM
Excellent  :thumbsup:

What is it with boys and explosives?  rubschin:
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Post by: Snoopy on April 09, 2012, 02:31:03 PM
Dunno ~ I had all the explosives I needed from the RAF thanks.
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Post by: Nick on April 09, 2012, 02:37:44 PM
Bangers in cowpats  :thumbsup:  Gerls hated that for some reason  rubschin:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Snoopy on April 09, 2012, 02:50:00 PM
I suffered serious acid burns to my right hand, due to the stupidity of a Chemistry Master, when I was 13.
I lost all interest in Chemistry lessons after that and had never had any interest in exploding things .... I suspect this was because I discovered girls were more use when one didn't frighten them at about the same time as my hand healed.

Joined the RAF as an Apprentice at fifteen and a half and had real guns, grenades, smoke bombs, tear gas and all sorts of other fun stuff to play with so I think I may have missed out on the adolescent desire to shoot down or set fire to Airfix, play with fireworks or anything like that. As I recall my main concerns were, I confess, getting through each day intact and getting my leg over every evening.
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 09, 2012, 02:51:46 PM
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As I recall my main concerns were, I confess, getting through each day intact and getting my leg over every evening.

What more could a man want?  cloud9:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Snoopy on April 09, 2012, 02:54:41 PM
I did once use a Bren Gun to totally destroy all the target supports on the range at RAF Hereford .... Got 14 days jankers for that one.
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: tel on April 09, 2012, 03:00:49 PM
Anyone else use a length of plastic drainpipe and 12 for a quid rockets, as an improvised RPG?

Oh yes, but they were clay pipes.

Also floating bangers etc, down the local brook so that they exploded in the tunnel under the railway line - great sound.
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 09, 2012, 03:02:14 PM
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 09, 2012, 03:05:56 PM
I suffered serious acid burns to my right hand, due to the stupidity of a Chemistry Master, when I was 13.
I lost all interest in Chemistry lessons after that and had never had any interest in exploding things .... I suspect this was because I discovered girls were more use when one didn't frighten them at about the same time as my hand healed.

Joined the RAF as an Apprentice at fifteen and a half and had real guns, grenades, smoke bombs, tear gas and all sorts of other fun stuff to play with so I think I may have missed out on the adolescent desire to shoot down or set fire to Airfix, play with fireworks or anything like that. As I recall my main concerns were, I confess, getting through each day intact and getting my leg over every evening.

which branch Snoops? And which of the three stations? I signed up for a three year one at Cosford in '66
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 09, 2012, 03:06:31 PM
Oh gawd  ::)
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Post by: Miss Demeanour on April 09, 2012, 03:08:46 PM
I'll just go and make some food. We may need it  ;D
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Post by: beerhead on April 09, 2012, 03:12:56 PM
I used to enjoy blowing up seagulls
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 09, 2012, 03:14:42 PM
I used to enjoy blowing up seagulls

 eeek:   eeek:    eeek:   eeek:

Didthe seagulls enjoy it?
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: apc2010 on April 09, 2012, 03:16:01 PM
There is a recked them/rectum joke there somewhere ..........
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 09, 2012, 03:40:00 PM
I was thinking more along the lines of the penguin/blown seal joke lines . .
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Snoopy on April 09, 2012, 05:19:51 PM
I suffered serious acid burns to my right hand, due to the stupidity of a Chemistry Master, when I was 13.
I lost all interest in Chemistry lessons after that and had never had any interest in exploding things .... I suspect this was because I discovered girls were more use when one didn't frighten them at about the same time as my hand healed.

Joined the RAF as an Apprentice at fifteen and a half and had real guns, grenades, smoke bombs, tear gas and all sorts of other fun stuff to play with so I think I may have missed out on the adolescent desire to shoot down or set fire to Airfix, play with fireworks or anything like that. As I recall my main concerns were, I confess, getting through each day intact and getting my leg over every evening.

which branch Snoops? And which of the three stations? I signed up for a three year one at Cosford in '66

See PM.
Too much info for a public forum.
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Pastis on April 09, 2012, 05:38:54 PM
Flattening pennies on the railway line  :thumbsup:

That's 1d to you post decimalisation whipper snappers  ;)
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 09, 2012, 05:39:53 PM
I did that this morning redface:
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Post by: Pastis on April 09, 2012, 05:43:25 PM
Penny's what?
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Post by: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 09, 2012, 05:45:15 PM
I did that this morning redface:

You're supposed to take Themout of your pocket first Nick!
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Miss Demeanour on April 09, 2012, 08:30:17 PM
Why do boys like to blow things up ?
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Post by: Pirate on April 09, 2012, 08:32:19 PM
Nick had a svelte redhead but he gave her a lovebite and she took off
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Post by: apc2010 on April 09, 2012, 08:34:20 PM
Why do boys like to blow things up ?

 noooo: whistle:
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Post by: Darwins Selection on April 10, 2012, 07:21:01 AM
Nick had a svelte redhead but he gave her a lovebite and she took off
drumroll:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: beerhead on April 10, 2012, 09:12:42 AM
I was reminded over the weekend of an escapade that involved leaving a replica of the Venus Di Milo in the entrance to a police station. But that was fueled by Young's Special (And no explosions)
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Grumpmeister on April 10, 2012, 10:56:23 AM
Anyone else use a length of plastic drainpipe and 12 for a quid rockets, as an improvised RPG?

No but back during my school days a mate of mine (now a teacher  eeek:) took 3 large boxes of fireworks, a grouting gun and a couple of bits of piping to make one feckin hoooooooge rocket and launcher.

Actually comet o think of it he almost hit be with a bloody arrow while we were making a video on archery a couple of years later.  noooo:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 10, 2012, 11:00:00 AM
A mate of mine made fireworks. The climax of one display wasa creation he called "Fairy Feet". It left a hooge crater and broke windows half a mile away  :thumbsup:

We bravely ran away
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Post by: Barman on April 10, 2012, 11:01:22 AM
 lol: lol: lol:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 10, 2012, 11:03:07 AM
And, as reported a long time ago, I once spent a whole summer running a holiday camp for worms  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Barman on April 10, 2012, 11:04:18 AM
And, as reported a long time ago, I once spent a whole summer running a holiday camp for worms  :thumbsup:

Any of them turn...?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 10, 2012, 11:06:11 AM
Some had frightful accidents  noooo:

But I bandaged them up  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Barman on April 10, 2012, 11:09:14 AM
Some had frightful accidents  noooo:

But I bandaged them up  :thumbsup:

 lol: lol: lol:
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Post by: Grumpmeister on April 10, 2012, 06:11:00 PM
Something tells me I'm going to start sounding like Nick if I keep these tales up but I was almost shot by a border guard once because of the state of the toilets.  redface:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 10, 2012, 06:18:44 PM
I once camped on a firing range. In a Fascist state :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: apc2010 on April 10, 2012, 06:20:04 PM
I managed to nearly close a school once ..............long story involving closing roads with borrowed road closed signs and cones ........they had to announce on local radio that the school was not closed  but by then most pupils had gone home .....and a few buses ......... redface:
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Nick on April 10, 2012, 06:21:12 PM
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: apc2010 on April 10, 2012, 06:29:44 PM
:thumbsup:

The worst thing was it a joke for a mate who happened to live near a school .....we forgot that .....took us 3 hours to close all roads leading to his house and posted diversion signs to no where ......( don't ask where we got the signs and cones .. whistle:)
Title: Re: Youthful escapades
Post by: Barman on April 10, 2012, 06:30:28 PM
:thumbsup:

The worst thing was it a joke for a mate who happened to live near a school .....we forgot that .....took us 3 hours to close all roads leading to his house and posted diversion signs to no where ......( don't ask where we got the signs and cones .. whistle:)

JOM?  rubschin: