Quite a ride....

Post by **Taurec** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:13 pm

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/am ... 732003.stm

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:27 am

He got to do what many of us only got to dream about as kids... and lived
to tell the tale

Regards

tellie · Post by **tellie** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:44 am

HELLFIRE wrote:He got to do what many of us only got to dream about as kids...

Not only dremed. When I was a kid, we used to take some "free ride" with bus, though I never actually did it... I kind of realised that it may be dangerous. Once a hour a bus stopped near us kids to drop or get some passangers. We attached a rope back of a bus, and other to one kind of carriage (hope that is actual term, but I quess you got my point) made by plastic.

When bus startet to move, the carriage also did. It was nothing, and velocity (50-60km/h) was no problem. Tricky part was stopping: unlike a bus, our garriage didn't have brakes. So, before it crashed to the bus, the passanger needed to jump away, right to icy asphalth. Of course velocity feded down pretty much, but I quess the kids who did that much learned ukem or something like that pretty fast, because no one got even a broken bone...

It was a real miracle nobody actually get hurt. Of course that caused some bruises as big as Australia and minor wounds, "asphalt rash", but that was all.

We also find out that jumping down different kind of things were pretty cool. So, when snow was soft, we climbet to roofs and jumped down. Of course there were pretty much snow, but can't say that it was safe hobby... And we did also many more stupid, dangerous thing that I would never let my kid to do. Sometimes I wonder that all of us made it alive to adults!

Post by **Taurec** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:54 pm

I suppose everybody has a Evel Knievel inside.

tellie · Post by **tellie** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:50 pm

Or at least a stupid brat who seriously needs some discipline

But how to punish kid for something you even don't know he/she has done