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Things we did as kids

"J"

Git Off My Lawn
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We did a lot of fishing back then, we had a park system about 5-7 miles from our house and we’d walk or ride our bikes or if we caught dad in a good mood he’d drop us off on his way too work and we’d fish the day away during the summer.... We catch crappie and bluegills by the bucket full and then have to tote them home lol...
 

giles

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Speaking of fishing while being a kid...any of you NW Ohio boys remember the piranha being caught in the Genoa quarry? I’d guess that was around 93’. I just did a search and couldn’t find anything. Reports name was Dick something. Hard to remember all the details, that was a lot of beer ago. [emoji23]

I had it mounted, but it fell apart after a couple of years. I honestly forgot about it until J posted about the damn bucket. We used to fill it full of bluegills, then had to clean them all. AFTER that 4 mike ride back.

Edit: Dick Berry! That was his name!!!
 
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NWOHhunter

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I use to bring blind robins to school and put them in peoples lockers or bring them to basketball games and throw them under the bleachers! It was great to watch peoples reactions.....:smiley_clap:
 

bowhunter1023

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We drove around in my S-10 one night my senior year and picked up a bunch of road kill. At 2AM, we dropped the tailgate in front of the main office at our high school. Manual tranny and a plastic bedliner makes for an easy dump, but shits hard on gears! lmao We went to school extra early the next day and there were 3-4 adults just standing in a circle scratching their heads. lmao
 

Wmiller07

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Anybody remember ball tagging? Man did that hurt. I went to a Christian School and the principal had to have an assembly with all the boys and tell us we couldn't do it at school anymore lol.
 
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JC HUNTER

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Put a flaming bag of shit on a teacher's front porch. When he answered the door, he stood and stared at for a minute like he knew he was a flaming back of crap. Then his welcome mat caught fire and he had to stomp it out. That D bag gave me an F cause I hooked up with his son's girlfriend. But I got the last laugh.

What about reindeer mounting and penny tapping.
 

Riverdude

The Happy Hunting Grounds Beyond
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Back in high school we had a drainage ditch filled with water around half the front of school, it was called the moat. Every so often a large group of plastic pink flamingos would show up in the moat.
 

Wmiller07

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Put a flaming bag of shit on a teacher's front porch. When he answered the door, he stood and stared at for a minute like he knew he was a flaming back of crap. Then his welcome mat caught fire and he had to stomp it out. That D bag gave me an F cause I hooked up with his son's girlfriend. But I got the last laugh.

What about reindeer mounting and penny tapping.

What are those?
 

Outdoorsfellar

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Corning / soaping windows. .... that was always at Halloween time of course, & what went well with that was getting into peoples cars at night & taking a stick to pinning it to the horn. You could always hear a horn going off in the distance, but you never heard of anyone's car being vandalized. Ahhh, the days of long ago.
 

bowhunter1023

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Anybody remember ball tagging? Man did that hurt. I went to a Christian School and the principal had to have an assembly with all the boys and tell us we couldn't do it at school anymore lol.
Bag tag was huge when I was in junior high. So was pulling out big piles of pubes and putting them in people's books. [emoji23]
 

Riverdude

The Happy Hunting Grounds Beyond
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LOL, I know there has to be more out there. Waiting for CJD3 to chime in on this one. I remember some of his but I will leave that up to him to share. :smiley_bodyguard: