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Originally Posted by TJTKSDMJ8
Now, if your kid rides a bike with a helmet, you have safety in mind......
When I was a kid, if I wore a helmet and pads on my bike...Safety was the furthest thing from my mind.
Interestingly the more safety gear we had on....the more danger...
When you were a kid, you put on a helmet, tell me you weren't doing some stupid fun stuff!!
Times have changed boys....
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Haha! Exactly! Good to know I wasn't the only one who was a million times more likely to crack my head on something if I had pads.
I also saw all the stuff about playground equipment earlier in the thread and thought of a playground I used to go to when I was a kid that had all the things ya'll were talking about (sea-saws, metal slides, etc.) and all kinds of other old school stuff. Even had this one sort of odd type of metal swing with a lap bar, back support, and like a lever system that made you go stupid high. I was thinking it was probably still there and checked on google street view. Apparently its gone. Gotta admit I kinda died a little inside. I'm only 20 so I guess it must have been sorta that last of a breed.
I can remember lining up coffee cans or better yet water balloons and shooting at them with a bb gun in my yard. Nobody ever freaked out. An acquaintance of mine, on the other hand, had the police called on him a couple months back when he was cleaning an air soft gun on his porch. WTF! I don't care if its real or airsoft, he can clean a gun wherever he damn well pleases unless it specifies no weapons like a school ground or something.