Quote Originally Posted by Pulse View Post
One thing I can't stand is how "safety conscious" everything has become these days.

I mean, when I was a kid, hurting yourself was all a part of growing up. I can remember this one time when I went head-over-handlebars on my bike while on a gravel driveway. Another occasion during the "skateboard era" I had some bad stacks on my street, and then there are trampolines - if you've never gotten your head/arm/leg caught between the springs = you've never experienced real pain!

What was the sitcom from the 80's called? "Growing Pains"?
Remember those large 80s Skateboards? Two friends and I used to sit on one and then roll down this massively steep long hill (I sill remember the name, Prescott st) and we used to reach crazy speeds and we had to jump out onto the grass at the end of the street or we would go into the main traffic and we were going too quick to stop it with our feet.

One time we went down like usual but a car at full speed turned into the street and was heading straight towards us, we had no where soft to jump to and going too fast too stop, the car had seen us but it was too late so he slammed the breaks but there was no way he was going to stop in time, we jump out of the board onto the hard road and rolled to the sides scrapping our knees and elbows badly and the skateboard went right under the car before it stopped. The car break noise was very loud and a lot of people came out to see. We were ok but bloody and the dude started to swear out of his car window and drove off.