Inspired by another great thread. Can I ask what things you did as a kid that were pretty outrageous?

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Not sure if I am allowed to reference other thread but op's son was involved in a pretty brave but funny prank.

Got me thinking. When I was about 14, a group us us planned to camp out in our school overnight. Up in the rafters of a very old building. It was more of a ghost watch adventure than anything more troublesome. We packed a picnic, sleeping bags and torches. No phones or such at the time. A couple of our parents wouldn't let some of our group 'stay over' at our make believe sleepover and our plan never went ahead. I still shudder when I imagine the trouble we could have been in. Never once did we consider alarms going off!
What youthful mischief did other mumsnetters get up to that as adults you now think was a terrible idea?

Me and my best friend used to skive off school and hang around a disused railway station, wander round on the tracks and all sorts the tracks were still in use but only as a cargo line. A train only used it about once a week if that to be fair.

Aged 11 at the leaving disco climbed out of the bathroom window (and incited others to come along with me) to abandon the lame 11 year old boys and meet up with the obviously much cooler 13 year olds 😂

Aged 16 climbed down 3 floors of scaffolding at boarding school in heels and a dress with friends to go out clubbing. Ridiculously stupid but I seemed to follow a theme 😂

In preparation for Nov 5th the boy next door and I used to go into the woods nearby, chop down young trees with an axe and drag them back across a main road to the bonfire site. This is from age 9 or so onwards.......
It was the sixties........

As young teenagers my friend and I hatched a plan to go rowing on a lake during the night at guide camp. She packed an inflatable boat and pump which filled her bag and left barely any room for clothes and we set an alarm for 2am. At the last minute I wimped out which was probably for the best! I can’t imagine how much trouble we would have got into!

This has to go in classics!

Me and my mate lived in the same road. The houses were 1960s bungalows.

Their garage was attached to the house. One day there was a ladder propped up against the garage. We climbed it. The garage roof was level with the bottom of the roof, which we decided to climb to the top.

We must have been 7-8. Parents never found out.

I wonder if our kids get up to stuff we have no clue about?! Although they generally just don't have the opportunity to.
It's almost as if many of us were looking out for THE most dangerous activities possible!! The ones with adults serving on children vile :/

i was getting in to night clubs at 12 and not coming home till 3/4 am

i was a teenager in the early 90s and id wasn't needed, it was just getting past the door man in those days

i hit puberty early(9) and was 5ft 10 a shapely size 10 and a DD/E cup by 12.

i had thick long spiral curls(any one remember those perms)jet black hair that reached my waist and i did look 18/19

i also used to get in to cinemas with no problems, i was seeing 15 and 18 films

BUT ive never drank(still teetotal at 37)all i used to get was coke so maybe if i asked at the bar it might have been a different story

i was also kissing men(never went any further than that) as they used to think i was 18/19

looking back now it was so wrong as these men was going with a 12/13 y old and wasn't aware

i had so much potential to go off the rails but Ive always been very strong willed and never gave in to peer pressure and did things my way(still do)

i was offered drugs,alcohol and sex but i always said no as i just went dancing and to meet boys

i did this till i was 16 then just got bored and stopped and years later i haven't stepped foot in to a night club since or a pub (apart for a family meal)

i also grew up with forests around and everyone played outside and no one though anything of 1 girl and lots of boys(all teenagers) going up the Forrest for hours to play,nothing bad every happened as we just did that but these days that would be very frowned upon

At about 14/15 I was at boarding school and my friend and I decided it was good idea to climb out of the windows and walk around the local town at 2am!
How we didn't get caught I don't know.

Got very very drunk at the school bonfire and I had bought everyone's alcohol because I worked in a Saturday job and looked smarter than everyone else.

At college went back to some lads houses that i didn't know. They put some porn on but thankfully didn't try anything on.

I lived in England and when in holiday on in France would stock up on caps and little bangers. We would then go to see family in Northern Ireland (when fireworks were banned) and I would smuggle them in so my cousins and I could set them off over the other side of the border when we went camping.

My parents would have KILLED me! Made a decent profit on it too.

Oh yes, chat rooms. Internet security and the concept of parental controls just did not exist when we go the internet at home, circa 1996.

My sister and I would sit upstairs and chat to all sorts of weirdos online pretending we were much older.

My friend at school had a "boyfriend" she had met online, a Canadian guy who was about 30.

Also, my DP who is rather well behaved and straight laced now, stole a car with his friends when he was about 13. I think they were all egging each other on and it went further than they thought. They didn't know what to do with it so ended up rolling into the canal.

What a lucky escape he did not get caught as that would have been a very serious punishment.

Not as awful as one but at my quite posh boarding school the school Chaplain had a room where you could go if you wanted to talk or needed some quiet time. He had loads of leaflets in a holder on the wall.
We sneaked in and put some porn mags in there, I think he found them before anyone else becUse we never heard anything about it
A group of us teen girls used to absolutely torment some of the single Male teachers- poor blokes probably had exteremely blue balls by the end of the day.
With hindsight we were awful

I’m a long time lurker and I just couldn’t resist posting. Hats off to HarryHarry for top imagination and badness.

As an 8 - 10 year old child I used to ring dial a disk and the speaking clock, I have no idea why. Parents had no idea why the phone bill was so high.

I grew up in the countryside and during the summer holidays much like other posters we left home in the morning and came home in the evening for our tea. I was part of a gang (Secret Seven style) and we spied on cars in the local lovers lane. In hindsight they must have been local workers going out at lunchtime to have an affair but we took number plates and descriptions as we thought they must be criminals of some sort! Too much Enid Blyton!!! It would be much worse these days it’s probably some awful dogging!!!

At 13/14 all my friends had CB radios and when I was round their houses we chatted to truckers and locals. I remember a friend arranged to meet a man after talking on the CB and I went along for some kind of protection and of course we didn’t tell anyone where we were going. It’s worse than the internet in a way as unless someone is listening in there’s no record of the interaction, we could have disappeared forever.

Echoing what a previous poster said about going out drinking and clubbing at an extraordinarily young age. Looking back although I did look mature at 13 a lot of it was that bar and supermarket staff just didn’t give s shit who they served.

I do feel sorry for modern kids that they don’t have as many experiences as we did. Does anyone think being risk takers makes us different as a generation to today’s more sheltered kids? Not snowflake bashing, just asking.

I am having palpitations after reading all of this..not because I think it is awful, but because I and my brothers have done nearly all of this.(70s childhood)
I don't know how to name change so can't tell you the worst, most dangerous, horrifying thing that my brother and I got up to. I am truly mortified now.
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We lived on an estate where all the houses had garages..12 houses in a row..with a gate at the end of the garden..asbestos uneven roofs..we would race each other across these roofs, jumping over the gate gaps..I can't tell you how many times someone would make a mistake and disappear down the gap..I don't remember any real injuries but we really used to run fast.

My friend aged 16 was waiting for a bus late at night. A car pulled up with 5 men in it, offering her a lift..Silly cow only said ok and even climbed in the back (3 doors)..They dropped her off at her destination with a cheerio!

On the same estate as previous, we used to steal milk from peoples doorsteps..How I remember the warm gold top!

We then moved to a town house and being aware of the fire risk in such a tall house, knotted sheets and lowered youngest brother out of the top window. Mum was in the house when we did this and she never knew until years later..

I'm going to stop now..BUT I HAD AN AMAZING CHILDHOOD. And my brothers and I often talk about the thing we did and end up with tears in our eyes with laughing so much. Our Mum is still learning about things we got up to.
(I never talk about the dangerous thing we did and never laugh about that..I am just truly thankful noboby got hurt)

Another one..in our local park, the swings had a chainlink fence around them..about 6ft? high..we used to swing so high that we could then jump off swing and over the fence, landing outside the fenced off area..could have been lethal.

Not me.
I once worked in a high-profile, exclusive boarding school. We had a number of children from ‘important’ families. One boy was the son of a leading political premier from a large, wealthy, but corrupt country. He did not get much freedom.
We sent him home for the holidays, and for some reason or another, he managed to walk past his security detail in the airport of his home country. He met his cousins, who had come to pick him up. They stopped off for a bit to play in one of those computer game centres. While there, secret services phoned in a panic, trying to find him. One of the cousins pretended that he hadn’t seen him. They thought nothing of it and went for a burger. While there, they decided to fake his kidnapping. In the process, they asked for a ransom sum so ludicrous they thought they’d never be believed. They went back to the computer games.
The army was mobilised, the capital city closed down, private jets sent to the Cayman Iskands (they asked for the money in dollars)....and all because this 14-year-old wanted a burger.

I was part of the Sweet Corn Liberation Front, after a child in deepest rural area has the Crisis of no Second Vegetable for dinner one winter's evening.

The child has left the country and has a high powered job, one of the 'members' is now in Parliament, and the liberated sweet corn turned out to be from a farm owned by the family of the local MP.

At 13, mate and I obsessed with Take That, especially Mark Owen. We watched the Everything Changes vhs religiously, in it Mark showed you inside his mum's house and the alleyway behind it.
We lived in Kent.
Yet we assumed we could bunk the train, all the way to Manchester, and from there, it would be easy to find his house. Like it would be signposted.
So we concocted a plan to tell our mum's we were sleeping over at each other's house. We would then activate "let's go accoust Mark Owen"
Luckily for us, a dinnerlady who was friends with my mates mum overheard us bragging, a call was made and that was the end of that. Luckily she didn't tell my mum who would've killed me.

I would take a shit behind my parents' wardrobe. I was about six and small for my age. God knows how i managed to push the wardrobe forward so i could squeeze behind.
Luckily my parents found it funny.

Oh come on marylou what's the dangerous thing?!

I did a lot of stupid stuff as a child. It's a miracle I'm still here.
A lot of it involved wandering off as a child, swallowing Lego, jumping into the deep end of a lake.
In my teens it was hitchhiking. Used to love the truck drivers. Best craic ever. Also met some dodgy people. One who was listening to Jamiroquai and smelt of weed.

@Marylou62 I'll tell you how to name change if you share the dangerous one?

We all used to get get empty milk crates from the local shop and then go to the park and sit in the and race each other down a steep concrete hill next to the huge slide. That was about from aged 7-10. Also used to climb trees to a stupidly dangerous height until the branches started snapping as soon as we reached for or put our feet on them.

Lobbed a huge snowball at a tiny dog who it covered and then ran away laughing as his owner tried to chase us, knowing he had an injured leg. Aged 10.

Used to get naked on webcam with older men online at 13/14 and did things they told me to

A friend and I used to sneak out during the night and play pranks on all the neighbours, if people had gnomes in their garden we would place the gnomes on the outside of the window sills so that people got a fright when they opened the blinds in the morning.

There was a row of abandoned terraced houses near where we lived and there was a gap in the shutters/boards at the door, there was also a hole in the roof we used to go in and climb through the hole in the roof and sit up there chatting and sunbathing etc in the summer! Can't believe we didn't consider how dangerous it was