Five kids risking their lives diving off some flimsy apparatus into head trauma water levels, ...

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Five kids risking their lives diving off some flimsy apparatus into head trauma water levels, while little Sally prepares to toddle on off out of the goddamn yard to god knows where. Just another normal 70s afternoon.

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[EYESORE 9001]

1. You just know there are lawn darts on the premises as well

[Lochloosa]

4. I garage sale a lot. One of the top items on my list.

I'm gonna find some one day.

[2naSalit]

2. As you can see...

The picnic table wasn't high enough.

[Siwsan]

3. We used to make skateboards out of 2X4s and disassembled roller skates

Then we'd head down a steep street. No helmets. No padding of ANY sort. I don't remember anyone ever getting seriously injured. In fact, there were more broken bones resulting from climbing and falling out of trees.

[brewens]

5. A high school buddy I played football with broke his neck diving in the river

the summer after we graduated. I was on my way upriver to the party and met the ambulance. We found out who it was a few minutes later. He died about ten years ago, having been a quadriplegic for 30 some years.

[MLAA]

6. Wow. That is devastating and tragic. 💗

[brewens]

11. Yeah. We played football on the offensive line sometimes side by side for eight

years. His dad was our youth football coach. Great guy.

[MLAA]

13. I can't imagine coping with what he had to deal with.

[milestogo]

12. A friend of a friend broke his neck diving into a backyard pool and became a quadriplegic.

They were all using Quaaludes at the time. He sued the designer of the swimming pool, and everyone lied to support him, leaving out the part about the drugs.

[MLAA]

7. When it gets dark they will bring out their children's home chemistry kit and do a few made up,

not in the booklet, experiments while the toddler tries her hand at the easy bake oven her older sister got for Christmas last year. Meanwhile mom has laid out their hang ten shirts for school the next day or a trip to the ER whichever comes first!

[Scrivener7]

8. Emergency room, my ass. It's just a scratch. And he was only unconscious for a few minutes.

[MLAA]

10. That's right in the 60s/70s mecurochrome was a viable alternative to ER 😬

[Chainfire]

9. The kid in the red striped shirt looks just like me at that age.

The crazy stuff we did, it is amazing that anyone in my neighborhood survived. We all got motorcycles at age 14 when we were old enough to get a restricted driver's' license; no helmets and no sense. Unlike the other kids, I had to pay for mine by running a paper rout with it. I don't recall any of us being injured by more than a dose of road rash. As we got to age of 16, and able to drive a car, several of the kids I knew died in high-speed car crashes. The amazing thing is, all of these years later, they are still dead... One of my wealthier classmates got a Chevelle SS 396 for his 16th birthday, a hundred and twenty mile an hour car. I think his parents got it for him as a girl magnet, and it didn't work, he was still just a dork with a fast car.

[kairos12]

14. Dan Ackroyd recommends

Bag of Glass.