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brewens

(15,002 posts)
Sat Aug 17, 2024, 02:34 PM Aug 17

F'n amateurs! Kids here caught on door cams ringing the bell and running. Back in the day we took it to the next

level. What ya did was get the guys garbage can, fill it as full of water as you could, leaned it up against his door, then you knocked and ran!

Kids these days really need to play outside more.

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F'n amateurs! Kids here caught on door cams ringing the bell and running. Back in the day we took it to the next (Original Post) brewens Aug 17 OP
Today's kids know they could get shot and killed for such stunts. Irish_Dem Aug 17 #1
Yeah, if they are lucky, they just get caught by a Ring doorbell. nt Shermann Aug 17 #3
You are absolutely right arlyellowdog Aug 17 #4
I agree with you. OldBaldy1701E Aug 21 #17
shaving cream enid602 Aug 17 #2
In the old days, VW Bugs had a rag top sun roof. rsdsharp Aug 17 #5
I will simply say - Holy Shit! 🙂 c-rational Aug 17 #6
in a paper bag. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 17 #12
I saw one recently that I'm gonna use. Zip tie a harmonica under a vehicle! I know just the guy too because brewens Aug 17 #7
Write on windows with wax. Like candles. Hard to get off. Srkdqltr Aug 17 #8
A tree full of toilet paper is a fire hazard JoseBalow Aug 17 #9
Here's a practical joke I did on my brother. When it was in the wintertime, and pretty cold, and we both had cars to SWBTATTReg Aug 17 #10
Wow, I thought we were bad making our cheesy crank calls ;). Untold levels of depravity on display here! LauraInLA Aug 17 #11
My brother Marthe48 Aug 17 #13
Y'all were ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ad! 3catwoman3 Aug 17 #14
Lol XanaDUer2 Aug 20 #15
does classic mutley laugh AllaN01Bear Aug 20 #16

Irish_Dem

(55,605 posts)
1. Today's kids know they could get shot and killed for such stunts.
Sat Aug 17, 2024, 02:37 PM
Aug 17

It's America, where kids get murdered for just sitting in their classrooms.

OldBaldy1701E

(5,810 posts)
17. I agree with you.
Wed Aug 21, 2024, 07:50 AM
Aug 21

But, back in my day, that was always a possibility. Some people were not okay with folks coming onto their property uninvited. I have had a few guns pointed at me both as a child and as a land surveyor because I wandered onto some person's property without being aware of it. (As well as a few times where I was certainly not on their property and we ended up having the cops called in and the dude was hauled away for his unhinged behavior to someone walking along the property line, which land surveyors have a right by law to do.)

enid602

(8,864 posts)
2. shaving cream
Sat Aug 17, 2024, 02:41 PM
Aug 17

I always liked the one where you fill up a large manilla envelope with shaving cream. You slide the open end of the envelope under the door, then jump on the envelope.

rsdsharp

(9,836 posts)
5. In the old days, VW Bugs had a rag top sun roof.
Sat Aug 17, 2024, 02:52 PM
Aug 17

You could peel that back, fill the interior with water, and throw in a shit ton of Jello packets.

I’ve heard.

brewens

(15,002 posts)
7. I saw one recently that I'm gonna use. Zip tie a harmonica under a vehicle! I know just the guy too because
Sat Aug 17, 2024, 02:56 PM
Aug 17

he'll work on it himself. I'd hate to pull that one on a guy and have him take it to a shop to find out what that noise is.

SWBTATTReg

(23,556 posts)
10. Here's a practical joke I did on my brother. When it was in the wintertime, and pretty cold, and we both had cars to
Sat Aug 17, 2024, 03:31 PM
Aug 17

go to school, etc. (college age, both of us), I got up early one morning, and then proceeded to pour water slowly over my brother's car until the car was totally covered by at least 1/2 inch of ice (it was that cold). I can imagine the look on my brother's face still this day (he's gone unfortunately) when he went outside to warm up the car, saw that it was totally covered in a thick layer of ice. Ha ha heh.

Of course he was pissed, took him a bit to get the ice all chipped off. Ah, practical jokes. I do miss playing these on people but sometimes I still do. I mailed a fake rubber snake to my best friend in Illinois the year before. Didn't put a return address on it, so he didn't know who sent it to him. I finally called him up and asked him how he was doing, the conversation finally came around to did any of us get anything in the mail yada yada yada. He knew right then and there who sent it. It was a good thing I caught up w/ him, as he was thinking about notifying the postal guys about the fake snake.

Marthe48

(18,383 posts)
13. My brother
Sat Aug 17, 2024, 08:21 PM
Aug 17

We lived near Cleveland when we were kids. Those cold winters. He liked to get aerosol shaving cream and sneak around the neighborhood to fill the neighbors' mailboxes full. He never got caught and who knows? Maybe he was kidding me that he did it

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