Leaving a hacksaw within easy reach of an unsupervised 5 year old?
Quality parenting.

As a nipper, I once took a pair of pliers to my dad's spine. Think he came quite close to belting me one, for that.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 20:25, 1 reply)

This was in the 1970's
in fact early 1970s. There was no such thing as parenting.

We had bedrooms with a 30' drop onto concrete, with no locks on the windows. A large garden pond to play around, when we weren't wandering aimlessly off into the road, or smashing up the derelict houses dotted around the town - we lived in Biggin Hill, there were a fair few WWII bomb craters around for us to play in too. Not to mention the famous airfield, which was securely bound by a tatty hedge. Cycle up the runway anyone?

A hacksaw was the least of it.
(username failed moderation, Fri 18 Nov 2011, 9:59, closed)

We broke into an international airport one new years eve about 14 years ago
and played a game of football on the runway (for about ten minutes before we figured we were tempting fate and should get going whilst the going was good!).
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Sat 19 Nov 2011, 12:01, closed)