What ever happened to the art of garage hopping?

[1cheater]

We use to reek havec on our nieghborhood jumping from garage to garage tearing off shingles along the way and hurling them like frisbees... Those were the days! While were at it what about throwing snow balls at cars and hitching rides on car bumpers has also been a lost art...

I don't see kids these days practicing this old art!


Anyone here can relate to this?

 

[wilheim]

Bored this morning are we #1Cheater#?



wil.

 

[1cheater]

Sorta, was just curious to see if anyone else related to stuff when they were young and terrizing their nieghbors..

 

[Journeyman]

LMAO-

We use to take old albums and 'frisbee' those suckers out into orbit....if you chucked it just right, it would leave the earths atmosphere for a few seconds...

How about crab-apple battles....take crab-apples off trees, put them on sticks and try to hit the opposte team with them by launching them...

Kids just have no imaginations anymore....its amazing to ride by baseball fields and they're completely empty during the day, all summer long.

 

[G.MONEY]

J-Man...It is so true, Today kids have computers and video games as well as the internet. All we may have had was Atari (LOL). I remember Garage Hopping but we would ride are bikes around looking for the open Garages with Beverages in them, BEER we hoped. Than go back later in the early evening and if the doors were still open BAAAAM we had are beer for the night..........G.

 

[1cheater]

G, now that you mentioned bikes, we use to steal them, then we'd ghost ride them off garages until they were mangled steel...


J-man, I can still feel the sting of the dreaded crab apple...

 

[Journeyman]

We use to rummage through the dump (daily dumping site) sometimes we'd find unopened containers of Cokes

...its amazing the things you do as kids to entertain...Leave it to Beaver kids stuff,lol

technology sped up the world, and not for the better in many ways...

 

[Doug]

I'm going to tie my old sneakers together and toss them over the phone wires, smash a mailbox then put some catshit in a paper bag, leave it on neighbor's porch light it ring bell and run before my next bet !



arty: :digit:

 

[go2guy]

Nothing like a game of ding dong ditch. Those were the days!

 

[TheFunkMonkey]

We use to reek havec on our nieghborhood jumping from garage to garage tearing off shingles along the way and hurling them like frisbees... Those were the days! While were at it what about throwing snow balls at cars and hitching rides on car bumpers has also been a lost art...

I don't see kids these days practicing this old art!


Anyone here can relate to this?

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/suffolk/4297713.stm
Published: 2005/02/25 12:40:32 GMT

Driver attacks boy over snowball

A mother says a driver who chased and beat her son after his car was hit by a snowball could have killed him.

The 13-year-old was throwing snowballs in Chimswell Way, Haverhill, Suffolk, on Tuesday afternoon when a passing car was struck by accident, she said.

The motorist got out of his car, struck the teenager across the back of the head before kneeing him in the face and threatening to break his neck.

A police spokesman said it was a "nasty attack on a young child".

On Friday, the boy's mother, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, added: "My son and his friends were walking home from school. They were just playing like kids do and throwing snowballs at each other.

"This car happened to drive past and a snowball hit it. They were not aiming at the car; it was just passing.

"He could have killed my son. It's only because there were houses there that he didn't go further and do something even more serious.

"This man obviously has a very volatile temper to do this to a school child over a snowball.

"It's not normal for someone to react like that. He's going to end up killing someone with his temper."

A police spokesman said: "This was a particularly nasty attack on a young child. Fortunately his injuries were not serious, but there was the potential for them to be much worse."

The driver was described as white, between 25 and 35 years old, about 5ft 11in, with shaved hair and was wearing a white jumper.

 

[harrington]

We use to reek havec on our nieghborhood jumping from garage to garage tearing off shingles along the way and hurling them like frisbees... Those were the days! While were at it what about throwing snow balls at cars and hitching rides on car bumpers has also been a lost art...

I don't see kids these days practicing this old art!


Anyone here can relate to this?

Born and raised in South Buffalo and did all tose things that you speak of. Hitching cars was my favorite winter sport and garage hopping my favorite summer sport. When I read your thread I almost fell off my chair.

 

[basesAREloaded]

A stormy winters night.

You couldn't experience anything better than a ride on the bumper of a bus as it halted at various stops to let you collect your thoughts. Was a perfect speed as it took you around in the snowy night with a buddy or 2 beside you.

 

[REDEYE]

How about when the one house down the street had a garden and the tomatoes were ripe and all of the kids would wait until the grown ups were gone and the tomatoe throwing fight would begin. I still have images of this yellow house being almost half red by the time we were done. Since my parents are still on that block to this day I have to take a different route to their house. And this was some thirty years ago.Man that was fun.

 

[1cheater]

Harrington, I think those sports originated in South Buffalo specificaly, lol

A stormy winters night.

You couldn't experience anything better than a ride on the bumper of a bus as it halted at various stops to let you collect your thoughts. Was a perfect speed as it took you around in the snowy night with a buddy or 2 beside you.

AHHH yes, busses were the best, perfect hieight of bumper, perfect speed, you could even latch on to the wheel well if you fealt extra brave that day..

 

[Tulsa]

Journeyman, I never caught the episode where Theodore Cleaver was rummaging through the trash for unopened pop!! LOL!!!

OK...here is my un-Leave it to Beaver like thing that we used to do as kids...

IT's gross but when I was seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven years old we used to look for cigarette butts and shake out the remaining small bit of tobacco....over and over and over until we had enough tobacco (rancid, tarred, rained upon tobacco) and then we would roll that tobacco into papers forming full sized cigarettes and smoke that! It was fun and I'm sure the amount of tar in the left over tobacco has me with black lungs even today. I will say it was only good for about two or three cigarretes to share with three or four of us each day we did it. It was fun, though. tulsa

 

[Dawoofdaddy]

I can totally relate. However, with the video games and computers today kids have new ideas for fun.

Most city parks are empty. Just a few years ago these same parks would have hundreds of people playing ball during summer months.

Eventhough it was very hot and humid here today, I found time to bike several miles on the local trail.

:modemman: :fballch3:

 

[Highdaddy]

i have never heard of garage hopping and dont think i would have done it. Pool hopping i have heard of...just go to random houses at night and swim. Now catching a ride on a bumper in the snow is called "shagging" and i loved to do that or throw some snowballs at cars n houses....or unscrew their big old style xmas lights and throw them to hear the pop when it breaks. And knocking on doors and running was called "ni**er knocking"....have no idea why....but we would make sure they saw us just to get chased.