What did you used to get up to larking around when you was a kid?

I grew up in Crookes.....we used to tape the front page of the Star to someone’s front window. When they opened the curtains the next morning they would be looking at last nights headlines………for some reason we found this hilarious …….

My mate lived at the bottom of School Road……on dark nights we used to hide in his privet bush…..when anyone walked by, we would make eerie ghostly noises. We used to make quite a few people jump….If I was having a sleep over we used to sneak out at pub kicking out times (10:30 last orders then). We found we got the best reactions from people who had had a few…..again, for some reason we found this highly amusing……

I realise that today we’d probably get locked up for anti-social behaviour.

A friend of mine found it funny to blacken all the downstairs windows in a neighbours house, so that when they opened the curtains it looked as if it was still dark.:D

He also said that if anyone upset one of his workmates they used to write obscenities on the offenders lawn, with bleach :gag:

not that I was involved in any of these goings on you understand ;)

Used to put dog doody on the road and see how long it took for someone to run over it. Bikes were the best!!!!

Anything more daring than this and my mum and dad would have beat me to a pulp if they heard about it.:(

me and some of my mates use to get a piece of rope and tie one end of it to one door handle then take it across the road to the other one and tie it then knock on both doors and watch them trying to open them.The other one we use to do was stand across the road one mate on one side and one mate on the other and make it look like we was pulling on a rope some of the drivers use to stop and shout some very bad words at us. There was another thing we use to do what you would never do now a days we use to make our own weed killer bombs, sugar and weed killer mixed together then put into steel pipes hammered the ends down and then put them in a bonfire and run like hell as far away as possible they would go with one all mighty bang infact one of them that we made went straight through an outhouse door we never realised that we could have blown our hand off or even killed someone but when you are young uns you never think. My dad found out one time I couldnt sit down for 2 days as he used his leather belt on me.

Our pranks were far more innocent! :wink:

We used to phone the operator and ask to talk to Busby or say "Is that the operator on the line?" When they answered "Yes" we used to shout "Well get off 'cos there's a train coming!"

Well we thought it was funny!

We also used to call the operator and say we had just lost our 2p in the phone and they would connect you for free. We'd then phone KFC and order food for all my Nan-nan's neighbours. (to be paid for on delivery of course)

I can't remember doing anything 'really' bad!

We used to get dressed up as pirates, do a funny made-up dance, and slap each other with sticks of rhubarb.

Great fun.

Keep it quiet, though.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
We used to get dressed up as pirates, do a funny made-up dance, and slap each other with sticks of rhubarb.

Great fun.

Keep it quiet, though.

You were a veggie morris dancer then.

Used to live in a three storey house. Would wrap pennies in caps, then a layer of sellotape, and drop them onto the pavement when staggering drunks were walking down the other side of the road. Cue them jumping out of their skin then gazing around in utter confusion after the minor explosion on the opposite pavement.

I remember getting a neighbour kid to lie on the grass verge outside my Gran's house, and get covered up with leaves in the autumn. He would wait there in the semi-darkness, and then jump out at old age pensioners that walked past us, while we hid in the hedge!

How we never killed anyone with fright I'll never know!

K x