Ok, so what have you done in the past that later on in life you thought the health and safety brigade would now frown upon. 

I've got a long list but want to see how reckless our forum members used to be or still are. 

When changing a Diesel filter I usually place a piece of tubing on the filter outlet and suck the Diesel through with my mouth  because It takes forever with a priming bulb.

 

I remember my father used to find Gas leaks in the Lead pipe feeding the Cooker with a lighter flame.

19 minutes ago, Tizer said:

my father used to find Gas leaks in the Lead pipe feeding the Cooker with a lighter flame.

Is there a problem with that ?

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I've got a feeling this is going to be another forum divide... 

Those of us that are overly concerned about everyone's safety...and those of you that are constantly putting our safety at risk.  

I used to be one of those putting myself and others at risk but now I'm pretty much the opposite, well sort of. 

 

I was a motor mechanic for 25yrs before health and saftey was ever talked about and I've done some daft things but I suppose the most dangerous was working under cars without stand jacks, I've lost two friends through cars falling on them  and one of them was the union official resposible for safety.

Mouth pipetting carbon tetrachloride. 

Good old fashioned blowing the asbestos brakes out with an airline. Blowing your nose later and the snot was black. Early 1980s. 

Climb on the roof of a VW beetle and see how many laps on full lock until you fell off. Was in a grassy field so not that dangerous apart from the beetle still going round. 

Teenagers with pellet guns shooting each other. That hurt! 

When I worked at Tesco about 1979 the rubbish compactor would get jammed. Us newbies were expected to climb in with a garden fork to unblock it.  We’d ask someone else to stand guard by the switch to stop someone turning it on whilst in there. It was more than 6 feet deep. Apart from the danger of being crushed it was disgusting in there with rotting food debris. Later on they put a lid on it and it would only work with lid closed. Someone could still close lid whilst you were in there.  Perhaps this is still done. I don’t recall anyone getting crushed in it. But it was potentially very dangerous

I was electrocuted on household 240v a few times , didn't bother isolating the supply and touched live wires . That a bit of a jolt but didn't learn back then. Plugged in  a pp9 battery operated radio to the mains as I didn't have a battery . That blew up in my face. Pre teen years of experimenting . 

Lit I small fire in a wooded area not too far from our house. Got our of control and I nearly burnt in the middle of it. Fire brigade had to put it out. 

Basically I shouldn't be alive now if I look back on the stupid things I've done. 

Strangely I was a quiet child . 

 

This was quite comical. I had bought a isetta bubble car for restoration when living at my parents. After unloading from trailer me and my brother were trying to push it up the garden to put behind the garage. But the lawn was covered in snow and ice and we couldn’t get a grip with our feet. So we poured petrol round the lawn and lit it to melt the show and ice.  We were lucky the isetta didn’t go up in flames. It was touch and go. We still couldn’t get the isetta up the garden as we created a lot of slippery mud.  You live and learn. It’s all part of the process of getting older and wiser.

1 hour ago, isetta said:

This was quite comical. I had bought a isetta bubble car for restoration when living at my parents. After unloading from trailer me and my brother were trying to push it up the garden to put behind the garage. But the lawn was covered in snow and ice and we couldn’t get a grip with our feet. So we poured petrol round the lawn and lit it to melt the show and ice.  We were lucky the isetta didn’t go up in flames. It was touch and go. We still couldn’t get the isetta up the garden as we created a lot of slippery mud.  You live and learn. It’s all part of the process of getting older and wiser.

Reminds me the day I used petrol to get a bonfire going. Didn't realise the explosive nature of petrol back then. 

14 minutes ago, iantt said:

Reminds me the day I used petrol to get a bonfire going. Didn't realise the explosive nature of petrol back then. 

Lol, my Dad did that once - we were only lightly scorched! 

The subject of bonfires reminded me of a couple of things. There was a disused railway line where I grew up and the Hardcore was a volcanic rock that was full of air bubbles, a bit like an Aero bar and if you put them in the bonfire they would heat up and explode. 

This was a bit stupid because we would also get some potatoes from the house, spear them with rusty fence wire and when cooked we would rub them on the roughcast of the houses to remove the burned bits and eat them. So it was a bit like running the gauntlet to retrieve the potatoes. 

We always had a stack of the rocks left over because we used them to throw at the kids from the surrounding neighbourhoods who used to try to raid our bonfire collection before bonfire night. 

I don't think children have that sort of fun now.

I never did this but a friend at a rougher secondary school told me about this. Builders were at the school and had a tar pot there. Kids would leave a brick soaking in water then run past the tar pot and chuck the brick in . Apparently the water in the brick suddenly turns to steam and rocket propels the brick out of the tar pot. So I am told, never seen it done.  Does anyone know from first hand experience how good it goes?

I was having a bonfire when younger. A friend who was there asked if I had ever chucked an aerosol on the bonfire.  I had a load of half full paint aerosols , old and rusty , so we chucked them on. They burst in a fire ball and fly through the air.  I could hear them landing in neighbours gardens. Neighbours were coming out. It was dark, we hid in a corner. Well we were young (25 years old)

Not long after passing my test I mastered the art of driving from the passenger seat. I look back now and can't believe I was that daft to do it. And driving while standing up through the roof of a mini. 

When I was very young my dad had a Morris minor van. I recall him taking the steering wheel off for a laugh whilst driving along a road. God knows why it wasn’t done up tight. Very odd. He’s no longer with us so I can’t ask him now why it was loose in the first place. It was over 50 years ago. 

5 minutes ago, isetta said:

When I was very young my dad had a Morris minor van. I recall him taking the steering wheel off for a laugh whilst driving along a road. God knows why it wasn’t done up tight. Very odd. He’s no longer with us so I can’t ask him now why it was loose in the first place. It was over 50 years ago. 

Oh dear, that reminds me.......