Violent childhood games

lorilovv · Post by **lorilovv** » April 12, 2005 5:10 pm

Yup. My brother and older sister did it alot! (it's late at night so you gotta' look out for the cow patties!)

OceanCityGirl · Post by **OceanCityGirl** » April 12, 2005 5:18 pm

I have played cow patty bingo though.

12vmanRick · Post by **12vmanRick** » April 12, 2005 5:29 pm

we used to have rock, pine cone and bottle rocket battles

lorilovv · Post by **lorilovv** » April 12, 2005 5:30 pm

OOWW!

OceanCityGirl · Post by **OceanCityGirl** » April 12, 2005 5:32 pm

We used pinecones that weren't open that had all those little spikey things on them.

lorilovv · Post by **lorilovv** » April 12, 2005 5:34 pm

Ya'll were mean as he!!

jackiesic · Post by **jackiesic** » April 12, 2005 6:13 pm

OceanCityGirl wrote:
I think this is why some kids are so screwed up today. They don't get to release their pent up frustration and establish a ligitimate pecking order so they shoot up schools instead
Ya know you might be right. And I hate that we try to put our kids in bubble wrap today. I have been criticized for my parenting style. My sons have surfed since they were 7, both paintballed, they've ridden dirt bikes, shot shotguns, spent hours building semi-dangerous ramps for their bikes and skateboards. There were some close calls but they've survived so far. I worry constantly but I don't want them to be afraid to try things.
I'm actually more afraid of them driving which they will be doing in another week or two.

Hey Ocean City Girl - waving at ya from LBI

Someone mentioned Red Rover. We used to play with the neighbor kids. One line formed in front of a brick wall and the other in front of a road. Breaking thru was an adventure for either side!

jackiesic · Post by **jackiesic** » April 12, 2005 6:17 pm

lorilovv wrote:My oldest sister once stood my little sister up on the back of the couch and threw darts at her as if she were a knife thrower from the carnival! My mother walked in before it was "too late". Needless to say, the big sister had to go out in the yard and pick her own switch off the tree!!

red rover
uncle
skate in the street
indian pile
bloody mary

Oh gee. Close to what I did with my younger brother. Convinced him that the clothes dryer would make a great ride. I had the door shut trying to reach the buttons when my mom walked in.

Quint · Post by **Quint** » April 12, 2005 7:00 pm

Oh boy oh boy...Since I was the kid you were not supposed to hang around this should be a fun one, lets see, where to begin?

Smear the queer.

Since paintball was too expensive, we used BB guns. I had a cool one that everyone hated. It was fully automatic and was run by freon. Did some good damage. We would also use bottle rockets and roman candles. Which brings me to....

Suicide bottle rocket. We would take the rocket off the stick, stand in a circle, light it up, drop it. The thing is you cant break the circle and you have no idea where its going to go.

Being that I was a easily influenced youth it was all over for my sister after watching The Hulkster all saturday afternoon. Another torture she had to go through was after Lost In Space. I would attach slinkys to my arms and chase her and whack her with the slinkys while flaping my arms and yelling " Danger, Danger "

Marco Polo was a deadly game if you all stood on the dock and got someone to go face first into it.

I saw someone crack thier skull while playing Red Rover. Now that was funny.

Lawn golf was dangerous if you ended up hitting the house with a full on drive and your dad was home.

Oh golf...golf cart polo. Which turns into crash up derby.

When I was going to broadcasting school in Detroit we played a game called 8 mile drag. We would race from Southfield to Halstead down 8 mile and the rules were simple. You can't stop for other traffic, red lights or anything else. Just had to be real inventive with the " Detroit turn" and have quick reflexs.

Of coarse I was into freestyle biking. This did some damage when I started riding ramp.

Now a game that was not as dangerous as much as it would get you in trouble was what my sister and I would call "sneak". After both being sent to our rooms we would have a compitition to see who was most daring by sneaking the farthest out of thier room. Of coarse the hidden objective of the game is to trick the other person to go farther, run back to your room and yell "Mom! So and so's out of thier room!"

A game I'v found more recently that a co-worker has really got me interested in checking out is Full On Frisbie. From what I understand as it was explained to me it is a mix of football, rugbe, and frisbe.

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » April 13, 2005 9:23 am

Jahfin wrote:Lawn darts. I few years ago a friend brought us one of the first water balloon slingshots and it made the Most Dangerous Toy List at Christmastime.

Lawn Darts + Slingshot = Hmmmm....

buck twenty two , you say?
plus the slingshot (homemade will do)...

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » April 13, 2005 9:34 am

Our neighborhood was across the street from a small patch of woods and a field of feed corn.
When the corn was ripe (and hard) we would have corn fights in the field.
(Probably pi$$ed off the farmer).
A tight spiral was the best way to connect, but since the corn stalks provided good cover,
it was hard to ID a target.
We also peeled the husk back like a tail and lobbed the corn high into the air.
("Death from above.")

What was that game where you placed your hands (palms up) underneath
somebody else's palms and tried to slap their hands?

Jahfin · Post by **Jahfin** » April 13, 2005 12:32 pm

Quint wrote:Oh golf...golf cart polo. Which turns into crash up derby.

I've played a variation of this called "mower polo" played using riding lawnmowers and using an oversized paddle to propell a soccer ball down the playing field but it died off because the mowers (with the blades not engaged mind you) were too rough on the playing field.

Capt.Flock · Post by **Capt.Flock** » April 13, 2005 12:48 pm

A local game we used to play
Winter Dead Men
Supplies Snowmobiles , inner tubes , and some really bored people
Object be the lst team with a person on the inner tube.
Rules : knocking people off their inner tubes by any means except for you where not allowed to crash snowmobiles into another .

Desdamona · Post by **Desdamona** » April 13, 2005 3:07 pm

bravedave wrote:What was that game where you placed your hands (palms up) underneath
somebody else's palms and tried to slap their hands?

We all played it, but did anybody name it?

tikitatas · Post by **tikitatas** » April 13, 2005 3:41 pm

Surprising that we all survived childhood. Have to say that I am a fan of the non-violent sorts of games, like Spin the Bottle and Doctor, too!

Quint · Post by **Quint** » April 13, 2005 7:12 pm

Desdamona wrote:
bravedave wrote:What was that game where you placed your hands (palms up) underneath
somebody else's palms and tried to slap their hands?
We all played it, but did anybody name it?

Slaps.

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » April 13, 2005 8:33 pm

Quint wrote:
Desdamona wrote:
bravedave wrote:What was that game where you placed your hands (palms up) underneath somebody else's palms and tried to slap their hands?
We all played it, but did anybody name it?

Slaps.

Thank you
(I think we may have called it "slapjack")
Cuz when you're stuck in the backseat on a long car trip, your brother does NOT say, "Hey! Let's play that game where you place your hands (palms up) underneath somebody else's palms and try to slap their hands."

I can hear my parents groan right now

OceanCityGirl · Post by **OceanCityGirl** » April 13, 2005 9:30 pm

That's right we called it slapjack.

FFishstick · Post by **FFishstick** » April 13, 2005 9:34 pm

OceanCityGirl wrote:Haha dodgeball, banned by many schools now. Not here. They have dodgeball tournaments.

We did not play dodgeball, we altered the rules a bit to add to the violence and renamed it slaughterball. Our middle school just held a dodgeball tourney, my 6th grade class won. Next month we are having a staff dodgeball game. Whooo Hoooo

FFishstick · Post by **FFishstick** » April 13, 2005 9:38 pm

We had 600 acres of undeveloped land behind the parents house. We played army which always led to an all out rock fight. It was always fun until somebody got hurt. Actually is was always fun unless you were the one to get hurt. The wounds would heal, the parents warnings fell by the way side, and next weekend it was on. No body died, but my buddy did try to kill his brother with a 12 lb boulder. Blood is kewl.

Ok, back from my childhood and reentering this boring world of the politically correct.