What Larks... the things we used to do.

[SOCCERROO FOX]

Did you squeeze peaches with your bare hands too ?

This sounds like some sort of sick sexual innuendo

[flowwolf]

This sounds like some sort of sick sexual innuendo

Only sounds like ? I must try harder. ps what's a carange ?

[Captain...]

Knock door run, hedge hopping, just generally being little terrors, was all good fun. We used to get pissed off with one of our neighbours, they lived on the corner but not actually on our street but would park their 3 cars on it and just drop fag ends everywhere and shout at us for playing on the street near their house. We used to just throw their fag ends back over the fence, then one day we decided to collect them all up over a month, we even picked up ones they hadn't dropped and then just threw handfuls of them over the fence and covered their garden with them. Looking back know we were little terrors, but at the time it seemed justified.

On a more wholesome note, turning the whole street into a water fight on a hot day, that was the best.

[Alexikokopops]

I've been thinking about this and I was a fucking idiot child. We used to play on the train tracks a lot, and also play chicken with cars in the road (Webbo, you're not alone). I'd completely forgotten until this thread. We also used to have a lot of fun making dens in trees in the woods and making reverse charge calls from phone boxes to people we didn't like under ridiculous fake names. They always answered, you would have thought they'd have learnt.

[Vlad the Fox]

Planting a tree on someone's front garden one night.

Swapping peoples hanging baskets around or moving someone's basket onto their neighbours garden.

Changing the arrows on the milk bottle holders to '6 pints please'

My whole street used to spread out round the village on a scrumping exercise. We'd then meet back up and share our ill gotten gains and any that wasn't wanted were launched at a poor unfortunate family that wouldn't let their kids play out (wonder why?), it was like the blitz.

Games of fox and hounds that sometimes would go on for nights.

[Captain...]

Or prank phone calls to the operator, too expensive to do that now on 118 118 thanks again capitalism...

Other phone box hilarity included phoning 0898 numbers and listening to the completely non sexy message before getting cut off because we hadn't put any money in.

Stealing the yellow pages to burn it, trapping your friend in it, or just generally minor vandalism and graffiti.

[Vlad the Fox]

We could rig the local phone box for free calls and ring Australia to find out what was happening in neighbours and home and away.

[pSinatra]

Going down into the local quarry & sitting in the trucks & JCB's......nicking the workers porno mags.

Building sites were always good for a laugh & realising that the electrical mounting boxes had a pop-out circle of metal that was the same size as a penny & could be used in vending machines.

Writing a friends name with weedkiller in 6ft high letters in someone's front garden - not thinking it had worked until a couple of weeks later.

Standing on a bridge over the motorway & peeing on the passing cars.

[Webbo]

Or prank phone calls to the operator, too expensive to do that now on 118 118 thanks again capitalism...

Been there, done that.

[BoneDog]

Finding silly names in the phone book and then ringing them up to take the piss.

Classic.

We used to get pissed off with one of our neighbours, they would shout at us for playing on the street near their house.

On a more wholesome note, turning the whole street into a water fight on a hot day, that was the best.

We had the moaners when we were kids round our street. They got the council to put up 'no ball games' signs on this big green patch we had with trees on. What the hell else were we supposed to do?

The big water fights in summer were awesome. Everyone got their empty wshing up liquid bottles out.

Changing the arrows on the milk bottle holders to '6 pints please'

forgot about that one!

Alot of school kids used to go milk money nicking aswell. People used to leave money on their doorstep and loads of kids would jump out of their bedroom window at about 1am to try and get all the money.

Prank phone calls to the operator, too expensive to do that now on 118 118 thanks again capitalism...

I remember this. I think there was some cartoon character on a BT advert called Buzzy Bee that everyone used to ring up and ask to speak to.

Not a prank, but I remember being in the phonebox once with a mate who rang childline up because his dad had hit him with a badminton racket Another time I remember ringing the AIDS helpline up when AIDS was a newish thing because I'd boinked some bird and my chest went a bit red. I was sure I'd heard that if you're chest went red it meant you had AIDS. Was shitting, but it was just an excercise and heat thing.

Those 80's phone boxes were so easy to rob. All you needed was a big screwdriver. I'm surprised that any of them had any money in them. Bang out of order though.

We could rig the local phone box for free calls and ring Australia to find out what was happening in neighbours and home and away.

We used to ring Australia and ask to speak to Joe Mangel. Tell em we'd found Buster. Or ring America. I can remember thinking it was amazing that you'd spoken to an American or Australian.

[Guest BlueBrett]

At school we would push our dinner trays right to the back of the stacker so the next person couldn't see it and ended up knocking it off the back and making a smash. Somebody got caught out by it at least once a day but it was still ALWAYS hilarious.

Another favourite was ordering taxis from about ten different firms for my mate's next door neighbour and watching out of the window as the drivers slowly realise what had happened and occasionally kicked off with each other

[Danno]

My Dad used to tie people's doors together .

[BoneDog]

Best.

Fun.

Ever.

Agreed, it was awesome (although I'm never quite sure if you're taking the piss or not ) You had to lie down under cars or lie flat on top of a shed roof to try and hide from blokes who came outside. Heart going like the clappers!

[Danno]

Also once mate hid in someones boot when they left it open carrying the shopping in, closed it and then the owner almost shit themselves and punched him in the face

[Guest BlueBrett]

Oh and the old squat down and breath really fast and deep for a minute before standing up, putting your thumb in your mouth and blowing.

If you haven't tried it...

[FoxesAreBlue]

lol

I remember going down the 'cornys' when i was about 12, we went to the swamp you speak of, and tried to set a small fire going as it was a little chilly . Anyway, the fire got a little out of hand so we legged it. I got home shitting myself thinking that i was going to be responsible for burning down the meadows estate! I sat on my bed in my room for hours worrying about it & then heard a siren!!! Well that was it! I confessed all to my old dear and got a right belting for it!

Turns out the sirens weren't the fire brigade after all. Went back down there the next day (straight from school as i was grounded ) and there was barely any evidence at all that a fire even happened!!!

Good 'ol days eh!

Yeah the cornies were quality!

Johnny Bum Nose " you must be from Little Hill ( his killing ground ) ? :D

How very dare you??!! I'm a Meadows boy! I remember once there was a lad in my brothers year who was bullying my little brother and this kids parents were dicks, proper fvcking dicks.

I got my revenge when I was about 13, I bought two milk shakes (Yazoos I think) from "The Shop" on Kelmarsh and fished an egg out of the fridge.

The shakes went over the car and the egg hit a window swiftly followed by me and my mates sprinting home faster than Usain Bolt on his way to a Lycra sale at Debenhams. 10 mins later and there's a knock at the door, and all I can make out is my mum, who has asolutely no idea what has happened defending her angel of a son and even claiming that I have not even been out that night!

The best crime I ever committed and until now Me and my mates have hardly breathed a word about it. I might tell the old dear tomorrow and see if she remembers!

EDIT: This is fast becoming my favourite thread

[Orkneyfox]

Matron used to line us up and paint our bollocks purple if we had Tinea.

[flowwolf]

We use to kidnap peoples cats and shave the word cvnt on the sides. Happy days.

[Cafox1970]

Going up to the top of the Haymarket parking lot on a Saturday and throwing those cap things off that explode when they hit the pavement. People look all around but never up

Used to swap people's wrought iron gates around at night

Used to steal the cold pop off people's doorstep or the delivery truck in the winter, huge brain freeze.

[RonnieTodger]

Sneaking into building sites and using polystyrene-filled builders' bags to land on after we jumped off the rooftops. We used to have BBQs there, it was brilliant. Got chased a fair few times though, of course.

[BoneDog]

We use to kidnap peoples cats and shave the word cvnt on the sides. Happy days.

That's bloody outrageous!

You really should have used a word a little less offensive, as those cats could have been young childrens pets for crying out loud. No wonder the world's gone to pot!

I hope you've since done something to give back to society.

Going up to the top of the Haymarket parking lot on a Saturday and throwing those cap things off that explode when they hit the pavement. People look all around but never up.

Forgot about that one. We used to do that from off Sainsbury's roof. Classic fun.

Used to swap people's wrought iron gates around at night

Remembered a good one for the youngsters of today to try.

If you live near a footbridge over a river and own a fishing rod you can kill boredom easily. No need for setting alight to police cars and robbing chip shops.

Go and buy one of those big rubber spiders from a joke shop. Attach it to the fishing line and launch it over the top bridge support that people walk under. Then sit under the bridge on the river bank and when people approach the zone you can lower the spider in front of their faces. The ensuing comedy flinches will have you in uproar for hours. Feel free to take a bottle of pop and some sherbert ufo's along.

[flowwolf]

That's bloody outrageous!

You really should have used a word a little less offensive, as those cats could have been young childrens pets for crying out loud. No wonder the world's gone to pot!

I hope you've since done something to give back to society.

Forgot about that one. We used to do that from off Sainsbury's roof. Classic fun.

Remembered a good one for the youngsters of today to try.

If you live near a footbridge over a river and own a fishing rod you can kill boredom easily. No need for setting alight to police cars and robbing chip shops.

Go and buy one of those big rubber spiders from a joke shop. Attach it to the fishing line and launch it over the top bridge support that people walk under. Then sit under the bridge on the river bank and when people approach the zone you can lower the spider in front of their faces. The ensuing comedy flinches will have you in uproar for hours. Feel free to take a bottle of pop and some sherbert ufo's along.

Thing is El in ref to the cat stunt we were only seven or eight ourselves. we did not have childhoods up New Parks just learning curves

[MC Prussian]

We used to enjoy forming a line, grabbing each other by the hand, then touching the electric fence of local farmers' territory in elementary school. Last in the line usually had the most fun. Sadly, it only lasted for an milisecond.

I also remember once setting a small haystock on fire, using matches, whilst my parents were off with some friends that we were visiting. I managed to put it out just before they came back by running back and forth with a coffee mug filled with water.

[Alexikokopops]

Sneaking into building sites and using polystyrene-filled builders' bags to land on after we jumped off the rooftops. We used to have BBQs there, it was brilliant. Got chased a fair few times though, of course.

yes! I remember jumping off the roof of Boots into a dumpster filled with waste packaging. Simpler times

[Daggers]

Agreed, it was awesome (although I'm never quite sure if you're taking the piss or not ) You had to lie down under cars or lie flat on top of a shed roof to try and hide from blokes who came outside. Heart going like the clappers!

No, I was being serious.