we didn't know it was that stupid until afterwards..
At the age of 6-7 years old my group of friends and I had little in the way of fundamental physics knowledge; momentum and inertia were just funny words...we did however have more than an inkling that what we were suggesting wasn't going to end too well for the girl taking up the dare.

It took a while but we persuaded her to pedal down the road on quite a steep hill as fast as she could and just before she got level with all of us to grab and hold the front brake as hard as possible.

Sniggering among ourselves as she came belting round the corner we all looked on muttering things like "naah, she's not gonna do it" "no way is anyone that stupid"

At the absolute instant she started flying through the air with the back wheel of the bike following *her* a group of small boys stopped standing slack-jawed with delight/amazement and scattered in different directions at the speed of light.

Chivalry? Fuck that, her dad was a mentalist...

Anyhoo, she was older so she should have figured out just how stupid the dare was...no plastic surgery was required so all was ok in the end. kind of.
(peripheral, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 18:53, 2 replies)

kind of?
What do you mean.. kind of?
(Miggyman, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 18:56, closed)

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well her dad didn;t catch us...oh...you meant her...well there was nothing broken....except a lot of skin...quite a surprise all in all as she was going at a fair old pace..until she hit the road of course.
(peripheral, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 19:14, closed)