» Stupid Dares

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.
(Fri 2nd Nov 2007, 18:53, More)

» Accidental animal cruelty

Lost Hamster
At a friends house all too many moons ago (we were, 10 maybe?!) we were doing the usual thing of letting his hamster run around the living room.
Hammy was loving it, scampering about like the little tyke he was.
Eventually he got a bit bored and decided to hide behind the sofa for a bit of rest....
Me and my mate decided to put him back in his cage and so quickly hoiked forward the sofa...sadly it wasn't the newest piece of furniture in the world and was falling apart.
In the course of yanking it forward, a rather large piece of wood got caught in the carpet and managed to lever backwards *against* the direction of travel of the sofa...straight through Hammys mouth...and head...

Hamster kebab anyone?

That one was accidental...
(Thu 6th Dec 2007, 20:46, More)