Flirting with danger

[Corpsey]

I was just thinking about some of the things we did as bored suburban teenagers to brighten up our lives, like jumping off buildings and (in my case) setting fire to my genitals with a deodorant can.

Made me wonder what are the most dangerous and death defying things you / your mates / your school chums did to get their pulses racing?

(I have a feeling I've done a thread about this already but my IG feed is full of teenage boys/young men jumping off things and risking spinal injuries)

 

[Corpsey]

I saw recently that the new teenage craze in new York is standing on top of trains as they fly along

 

[Corpsey]

There's something very special about the teenage state - you're too young to understand mortality (your own, anyway), you're hopped up on hormones and you're discovering the world (i.e. alcohol and fags and boobs), you've got the freshness of childhood still but you're being inducted into the sinful pleasures of the old

If you avoid actually dying because of this recklessness it's the closest you get to understanding how Jesus felt

 

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We had a game in school called Twats on the Mats which would involve jumping off trampolines onto crash mats in spectacular fashion in the school sports hall when there were no teachers around. I severely sprained my ankle playing this and had to walk around on crutches for two weeks.

 

[Murphy]

Set fire to a school owned vehicle one night aged about 14. Jimmy’d the window, fireworks inserted which set fire to the carpet (unplanned). Didnt realise the petrol tank was full either until >>>>BOOOOM<<<< (also unplanned)

Cue 2 mile sprint back to St Ann’s

Insurance paid for a new vehicle, everyone won but .. for a month borstal was a realistic destination - thankfully a mate’s Mum stated we were all in her chippy on the bandit on the night in question and what’s even more weird is some prick owned up to it to manoeuvre a way out of catholic school entirely

 

[Corpsey]

We had a game in school called Twats on the Mats which would involve jumping off trampolines onto crash mats in spectacular fashion in the school sports hall when there were no teachers around. I severely sprained my ankle playing this and had to walk around on crutches for two weeks.

Perfect

 

[Corpsey]

This wasn't death defying just a cunty thing to do but I witnessed some friends pour a load of shit (what was it? Food maybe?) over a soft top Porsche - I guess it would have been death defying if the owner had come out of their house with a tyre iron

Oh the larks we had

 

[Corpsey]

Some people really seek out danger but I avoid it at all costs, I think this is why I've not been laid since the coalition government era

 

[Murphy]

No car badging? What a way to fuck off every neighbour for miles. Granted, the cars aren’t supposed to be moving, eg Tesla would be a badge of honour today but the fad was all over by about 88

Played schools rugby as a flanker ie legalised violence, what was the question again?

 

[yyaldrin]

as teenagers we'd play around in ww2 bunkers that had officially been forbidden to enter and closed and covered with sand by the municipality. we'd dig a hole around 2 meter deep and then you'd reach the bunker, just a tiny hole that you had to wiggle your body through, would only work if you raised your arms up, next to your head, and then you'd fall down inside. you could only really get in or out with the help of somebody else. if i think about it now it makes me feel absolutely terrified, the risk of the hole collapsing and being trapped inside is probably my worst nightmare. back then however, we would mostly be worried about getting caught by cops.

 

[DLaurent]

Driving down the 'lanes' instead of a main road, I always call it hedonistic and have to be in the mood but my dad does it all the time.

 

[version]

Jumping off high things, blowing things up and setting things on fire, skateboarding, drugs.

 

[Corpsey]

as teenagers we'd play around in ww2 bunkers that had officially been forbidden to enter and closed and covered with sand by the municipality. we'd dig a hole around 2 meter deep and then you'd reach the bunker, just a tiny hole that you had to wiggle your body through, would only work if you raised your arms up, next to your head, and then you'd fall down inside. you could only really get in or out with the help of somebody else. if i think about it now it makes me feel absolutely terrified, the risk of the hole collapsing and being trapped inside is probably my worst nightmare. back then however, we would mostly be worried about getting caught by cops.

This is bone chilling

 

[Corpsey]

Forgot to mention that I was driven home/various other places by drunken drivers down country lanes. I think drunk driving is terrible now, I probably did then, but I would make excuses to myself like "they'll be more careful with us (other incredibly drunk people) in the car".

This wasn't for thrills, though, it was more about living in a place with no public transport.

 

[Corpsey]

I mean I was well brought up etc and it's lucky I wasn't killed in a car wreck or involved in a manslaughter/murder charge

Jumping off high things, blowing things up and setting things on fire, skateboarding, drugs.

You set your balls on fire too didn't you

 

[Murphy]

Ollerton had old mine workings everywhere - vertical shafts, drift mines - absolute death traps. You could have what appeared to be a puddle and it would turn out to be a flooded sink hole where deeper shafts had collapsed due to rain water much further below the visible surface

An example, kid I went to school with took his dog out for a walk one night. Dog returned home, complete with lead but no walker. Police called, no one found over night. Morning reception following day head master stands up and announced a body had been found

Kid had walked over what he thought was a puddle only to plunge down vertically into a disused mine working and, instead of popping straight up for air, his body was found a few metres further to the side of the sink hole interior by divers. Occasionally, we don’t know how close danger is

 

[version]

You set your balls on fire too didn't you

No, nothing like that. It was things like putting a bag of aerosols in a wheelie bin dragged onto a bonfire.