"Dumb America"...

If you think there are some ridiculous safety regulations now, wait until we have nationalized health care!

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Originally Posted by Steve Amrein

This Nanny state crap has to end. It is a farce. Dont tell me they have any concern for any of this health stuff until the outlaw smoking. Pretty soon we will be wearing helmets in the shower and in the car. Maybe on Sat. nite might need a helmet to keep from multiple headboard impacts.

The motorcycle industry is still working on a ban of all ATV and motorcycle/minibikes because of lead issues. Evidently there is a high incidence of kids licking bike parts. Yet their are no bans of lead fishing weights that kids will put in their mouth to crimp the sinkers onto the line.

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Now you see there is another thing, grew up using our teeth to crimp down slip shot weights..... lead posining is over rated

BTW- don't give them any ideas..........

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Originally Posted by badbullgator

You forgot bb gun tag

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One of my favorites until my Dad confiscated my gun after I shot it straight up in the air and hit my Mom.;-)

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Originally Posted by YardleyLabs

One of my favorites until my Dad confiscated my gun after I shot it straight up in the air and hit my Mom.;-)

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Cool, I hit my mom in the head with a golf club when I was 4. Nobody told me you don't take a full swing on a putt putt course.....now if she had a hemlet on she would still be able to see out of that eye......

Ah yes, many hours of countless fun playing BB gun tag in the orange groves...wishing I had one of those 10 pump crossmans instead of the level action Red Ryder. Another fun/stupid game we played...take real darts and stand about 20 yards or so apart. Throw dart at the other kid (had to have an arc of at least above his head). You could do whatever you needed to do to dodge the dart except lift either of your feet. First person to make the other kid pick up a foot wins. Good times. Good times.

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Originally Posted by Hew

Ah yes, many hours of countless fun playing BB gun tag in the orange groves...wishing I had one of those 10 pump crossmans instead of the level action Red Ryder. Another fun/stupid game we played...take real darts and stand about 20 yards or so apart. Throw dart at the other kid (had to have an arc of at least above his head). You could do whatever you needed to do to dodge the dart except lift either of your feet. First person to make the other kid pick up a foot wins. Good times. Good times.

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Well what about lawn darts.... of course we loved mumbly peg (sic?) where you throw a knife near the other persons feet , trying to make them spread out so far they fall......

Alright...I gues we are officially derailed so how about this...

We use to tie a piece of plywood via a 50 foot rope to the back of a motorcycle and after a good rain we would "sled" around the fields. Had to stop when we slung a kid in to a building and he broke something (on his body that is)...or maybe that was when he just ran into the building on his own...can't remember.

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Originally Posted by Keith Farmer

Alright...I gues we are officially derailed so how about this...

We use to tie a piece of plywood via a 50 foot rope to the back of a motorcycle and after a good rain we would "sled" around the fields. Had to stop when we slung a kid in to a building and he broke something (on his body that is)...or maybe that was when he just ran into the building on his own...can't remember.

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Oh yeah....that is/was fun, we always used a cardboard box, never thought about plywood. Probably would have gotten less "road rash" with the plywood

Back in the day Mosquito control would fog the neighborhoods. You could hear them coming for miles. Our parents use to encourage us to get out bikes and go chase the fog trucks. Nothing like hammering a bike (no helmet)as hard as you can and sucking up all that mosquito spray. To this day mosquitoes don’t bite me……

One of our favorites was CO2 rockets. Set a CO2 cartridge on a grooved board. Place foot on cartridge to hold it lightly. Use nail and hammer to "light" it and watch that sucker fly. This was followed closely by cherry bomb mortars. Stick a pipe in the ground. Drop in lit cherry bomb and jam tennis ball in the end -- boom!