where was this when I was a kid?

[P4Angels]

[shatanka]

LOL..where was this when I was a kid?? lmao 

This is pretty ingenious actually! I think I would be cutting myself with the blade getting close to my fingers in the prep stage of creating it! I think I will have to try it myself though to see how this turns out! Cool video and idea. ( I wonder how this guy even thought of the idea of using a close pin in coming up with this ?)

[Mugwump]

...?...we made those all the time, seriously....we also made 'rubber' guns using cut up old inner tubes as ammo....huge slingshots from inner tubes, stretched between two trees...we could shoot a half bushel of apples, 'buckeyes',etc,  well over a 150ft.....LOL...and we made the first bungies too, for swinging over creeks and dropping in when swimming at the 'hole'.....sheesh....we played outside guys.....

[JR]

We also made these as kids. My dad took mine if he found them.

[PaulineMi]

......we survived childhood in spite of it all.   Lol.

[Mugwump]

We also made these as kids. My dad took mine if he found them.

LOL...my Dad too....

......we survived childhood in spite of it all.   Lol.

Yes we did.....somehow jumping off the quarry rim at 30-40 feet to swim seems nuts now...LOL

[PaulineMi]

......we survived childhood in spite of it all.   Lol.

Yes we did.....somehow jumping off the quarry rim at 30-40 feet to swim seems nuts now...LOL
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We did that too.  Couldn't be labelled a chicken if we turned and decided not to jump.  We'd also climb to the top of billboards and watch traffic go by.   

[JR]

We all came up about the same. We would climp up the water tower just because we could. I have never been able to swim. But that did not stop me. We all would go down to the gravel pits and jump in them. I woul say they had 30 foot sand piles we would jump off of. I always used a life jacket. The only thing I can do is dog paddle. LOL

[wsantia1]

With some of the things we did as kids, if it were today our parents would have been arrested for child abuse/neglect. LOL

[Ron Sower]

I knew it! Hardened criminals all, and it began with your mispent youths...!   

[PaulineMi]

Yeah....neglected kids all.  The only rule was be home when the street lights come on.

[Mugwump]

Yeah....neglected kids all.  The only rule was be home when the street lights come on.

yep, that was the 'unwritten' rule....get your butt home before dark...