Ben Carson admitted throwing rocks at cars; I could relate (though we used snowballs instead of rocks - stupid just the same), and thought it was the funniest thing I’d ever heard a candidate say publicly. He seemed genuinely puzzled when nobody nodded understandingly...
“Does anybody remember throwing rocks at cars when you were young? ... Everybody did it, because it was so much fun. Those old people, they would get angry, and stop the car and chase you. Sometimes the police would come, always in unmarked cars, and they’d be chasing us across the field.”
When we were younger, we called it “getting chases” - and were even chased by firemen...
We used to do that with little crab apples - half inch to an inch in diameter. Yeah - folks would get out and chase us through the back yards.
That probably ended in about 7th grade I suppose. Looking back, I’m glad nobody had a heart attack, or crashed their car, or had shot us.
Odd thing - I grew up where there was a lot of snow, but only once threw snowballs at cars. We were in high school and playing street hockey. A car full of girls that we knew comes down the road. We scattered to the side and made snowballs.
The driver put on the gas to get through our gauntlet, missed the turn at the “T” intersection, launched off of the pile of snow along the edge of the road ended up on the neighbors lawn between a big tree and the sidewalk lamp post.
Just like in the movies with the jump and a spray of snow. About a milli-second of “cool!”, then we all ran to see if they were okay. Scared to death, but okay. Then we had to shovel and push them off the neighbor’s lawn before anybody saw us!
When we were kids we blew off firecrackers at the police station door so they would chase us. That they did. Never caught us. Good practice for E&E training when I joined the army. Yeah, kids do stupid things, but this overpass thing never crossed out minds.
When we were kids we blew off firecrackers at the police station door so they would chase us. That they did. Never caught us. Good practice for E&E training when I joined the army. Yeah, kids do stupid things, but this overpass thing never crossed out minds.
My friend and I were so dumb when we were 13. We’d tie a black cloth resembling an animal to fishing string and when cars would come down the road, pull it and watch the drivers swerve to avoid hitting an animal Boy, kids can be pretty stupid, we weren’t thinking about the consequences about anyone getting hurt, we were just thrilled watching the cars skid and almost crash, we were dumb, dumb, dumb!!
I threw soft snow balls at cars of friends, but never any rocks.
One winter we dragged the discarded Christmas trees into the street to build a barricade.
When drivers got out to clear a path we pelted them with snowballs.
(Never rocks though)