The kids over on the next street (just one house over through the backyards) built one in the top of a spindly pine tree (lots of branches only needed a few boards to get to the first branch). 3 or 4 of us could get up there and get that thing to rocking back and forth way over. Lots of fun until one day their MOM caught us.
Same yard where I found out getting shot with a BB gun won't kill ya. Smarts right good but won't killya.
Smarts for sure-When I was just shy of 11, 4 of us we were shooting at cans with the .22 my parents had just given me. My 3-years-older cousin and I were arguing over whose turn it was to shoot, I lost my temper and walked in front of him, called him an ass**** and dared him to hit the finger I was waving back and forth in front of my neck-he shot me on the side of the neck-just barely grazed me, but it started bleeding, we all started screaming like murder was being done, and adults came running. As soon as my aunt who was a nurse saw that no serious injuries were present, we all got an ass beating for the stupid stunt, and the gun was taken away for several weeks...