Bark

Good stuff!

Lary Ellis (Top)

In early 2002 I joined DTR.....Wow! what a ride!

JKM

Feel free to come clean the coffee off of my computer screen

ChrisJohnson

When I turned 11, my parents gave me their old car, after they bought a new one. We lived on a dairy farm, and was told I could only drive the car in the fields or pastures for the cows. Wasn't long before my brother and I were "cruising" around town (town of about 600 people). Much "hood" surfing was done, and that was around the time of the "Dukes of Hazzard" was on tv. We got that car airborne many times running over railroad trestles! That car didn't last long! Then there was the 40' rope tied around an innertube, pulled with the snowmobile! I'm surprised I'm still alive this day. Don't get me talking about fire, homemade explosives, and firearms!

annabelle

Just watch out for those concrete and steel check gates.

Red3quarter

Sledding behind my truck in snowy open field doing 50 mph! Fun until you have to come to a stop.

cincydiesel

Feel asleep in my favorite climber stand while hunting in the early fall. Only to awake to sounds of a approaching severe thunder storm. Tried to climb down but the storm was already upon me. Nothing like hanging on to a tree swaying back and forth at least 5 feet in each direction, 30 feet off the ground. The lightning and hail didnt help much either. Needless to say I was glad to make it back to the bottom. I kept looking up just waiting for a dead branch to smack me in the head

Hvytrkmech

Nothing

cincydiesel

You dont really live till you almost die

Hvytrkmech

Lol

Scotty

We used to do this thing called space walking. Old friend of mine owned a Ford Falcon station wagon he got from his grandpa. It had a roof rack. Five friends, 5 dozen or more beer. Two guys in the front, two in the back seat and one at the back. Back window down, and out you go out onto the roof rack laying flat hanging on while the driver tries to shake you off. We only did this in the winter so we would hopefully fly off into a snow bank. I flew into a bus shelter one time. If you could hang on for 3 minutes, we all switched positions while still driving. Man on the roof climbs into drive and rotate from there. LOL

Another one we would do went like this...my old 59 Merc 1/2 ton had a bus seat bolted into the back. We would drive to town at about 80 mph and one of us had to sit in the bus seat. Facing the front, head just over the roof of the cab. It was nasty. I had 11 welts from grasshoppers on my first run. Kevin had been hit by hail. Grain was painful too.

We would all chip in to buy an old beater for the wknd. Find some abandoned grain bins and go duking...Dukes of hazzards. LOL I hit a row of grain bins doing 70. I went through all 4 and was only going maybe 10 mph when I came out the other end. Car was totaled. It started on fire. We left.

We would take our cars out onto the lake in the winter at night. No lights. Drive around as fast as you could not knowing where the other guys were unless you saw brake lights. Took out a few ice sheds. Scary.

Tried puncturing RAID cans with a long railway spike. Had Shrapnel in our legs and could not hear our dads yelling at us.

Four of us would play darts in the basement. You had to hide behind furniture. We would toss the darts up and over the furniture. Kevin got two darts right into the top of his head. I got one in my shoulder.

Then there was the potato cannons. We had one that was 12 feet long, tapered. Not really sure where some of the potatoes went.



Oh yeah, tubing behind a snowmobile jumping ice heaves on the lake. Did that lots.

See how long it would take for a light bulb to explode while squirting gasoline on it with a water pistol.

Bark

Scotty, we used to do the car roof top (stupid stupid stupid) thing too. Along with Hooky-Bobbing (wore out a lot of shoes that way).

In some ways, I really feel sorry for "kids" these days. Cops used to let you off for a wide variety of things as long as you showed respect and remorse. Now they cant use their judgment as much or they get into trouble.
And with video and cell phone cameras everywhere---well just running through the girls shower room wearing a ski mask carrying lit sparklers yelling fire is going to get you in hot water. (That was someone else)

Nate-03 D

What a great thread, keep um coming.

First day I got my drivers licence, I took two of my cousins for a "joy" ride. One of my cousins is standing through the moon roof and i'm doing 80mph down a road. My other cousin in the front seat all of a sudden tells me to make a right hand turn. I took the corner at about 50mph, lost control. Ran over a fire hydrant, hit a gas main and plowed through someones back yard fence. My cousin in the moon roof broke 2 ribs, I smacked the steering wheel with my face and busted open my nose. I back up and water is just gushing in the air. The people in the house come running out and we take off like a raped ape, dragging the front bumper all the way back to his house. Mind you the car is filled with water from the hydrant, the front end is crushed and their is blood all over the interior. This was my moms car at the time, I got reamed for that one.

cincydiesel

Scotty, that fact that your still here to be able to post those past adventures is a miracle

Hvytrkmech

I am a Catholic Irish Fire Fighter, trouble was bred into me. Luckily the injuries were not that bad to me or my friends, and we never got caught, by the cops anyway. Ok maybe we got caught, but back then the Cops gave you a ride home cause they knew my Dad was gonna give me a beating.

I still not telling though!!!!