I played with Funnel Webs, until they stood up on their hind legs.That was the time to back off and go fishing for yabbies or something.

I still do stupid things and I'm already 42. And the most stupid thing I did in my life was being born...

I am still a kid (14) but i mean i have said stupid stuff and i was like, Why did you say that! u are evil

Once I looked up at a solar eclipse.

NOTE: THAT IS A REAL PICTURE OF A REAL ADULT ACTUALLY LOOKING UP AT A REAL SOLAR ECLIPSE.

i once stole a handful of pogs back in spring of 1995 from a local video rental place.

i wouldve gotten away with it too if it wasnt for my dad's girlfriend's meddling kids!

-Threw away my SNES because the ac cable was chewed up by my rabbit
-Threw away boxes and manuals

When exactly is "old enough to know better" suppose to kick in?

It doesn't, I'm old enough to know better but still stuff up.

Oh man. If I post all the stupid things I did as a kid here, this is going to become a looooong thread!

So many things, so many, where to start?

Absolutely dumbest things I have done as a kid:

1. Stayed in school
2. Paid attention in school
3. Played vidya games
4. Never went outside
5. Ask for the pizza to be slid under the door
...

the list is long and extensive, suffice to say, I would do things differently if I got another chance.

This made me realize that, if I look hard enough, I could probably find all my manuals and boxes, since I never threw them off. Perhaps I should prepare an archaelogical expedition.

Better than the alternative?

-Well there was that time I accidentally set fire to the living room carpet. I was going through that playing with fire phase. I put it out though, and tried to cover up the burnt patch with the families shoes (hey I was only 5). Parents came home, smelt the burnt carpet smell and went straight over to the shoes (in the middle of the room) and damn...was I in the shit.

-Then I decided I wanted to make a hot air balloon. So I got a book and made one, it was huge and took me over a week to make. Decided the quickest way to fill it was using the kitchen stove. Set fire to the balloon and part of the kitchen. Got away with that one.

-Then later on I was making flying model aircraft, but they always got caught in thermals and flew away. So I came up with a way to bring them down on a timer (dethermalizer, tipping the tail plane). The only thing I could find to use as a fuse was sections of mosquito coils. But it landed early with the fuse still going and set fire to the long grass around the local park.

-Oh, almost forgot. I moved from hot air balloons and onto rockets. Saved up all my pocket money and made a model rocket. It worked perfect, until I had to start skimping on the fire proof wadding because I couldn't afford anymore. So on the last voyage the parachute caught fire, landed in the long grass around the park and set it on fire. Again.

Yeah, accidentally setting things on fire was the motto of my childhood. Now if this was the "dumb things you did during young adolescence" that would have a bit more variety!

I stole a 1989 Batman poster from a K-Mart as a 9 year old kid. I also kicked red ants onto another kid after school once and he got bit a lot and super sick. I remember feeling so terrible.

Stupidest thing I probably ever did was get married at 18 years old though. Ha!