10 Feb
2000
10 Feb
'00
8:21 a.m.
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, John Wilson wrote:
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 06:35:26PM -0000, Eric Smith
wrote:
Never a bicycle helmet, threw heavy rocks on the ice to see if it would
break (then made the biggest kid go out there first), built forts in
snowplow drifts, threw rocks at bees nests, climbed high trees, had B-B
gun fights, etc. Had enough money to buy bottle rockets and firecrackers.
Made lawn-chair pipe bombs with pyrodex. So did all of my friends.
We're still alive, and each of us still have 10 fingers and two eyes
apiece.
I suppose people are going to think I'm a
jerk for saying such a thing,
but IMNSHO the tragedy here isn't that the kids were killed, but that
they hadn't been taught not to do such things.
I agree... My parents covered all this stuff -- they told us not to dig inside
snowbanks because a plow might come, we all wore seat belts way before there
was a law (bicycle helmets too), our parents strictly enforced what we could