Did you ever do anything bad when you were younger? If your answer is yes, you aren't alone. Almost everyone has, some worse than others. A lot of kids stick to the basics, but once and a while children will think outside the box and come up with some pretty original "bad" things to do with their time. Some kids are certainly far from what is considered the norm.
This is a collection of stories from each end of the spectrum. Read through to see these stories written by users when asked: "What was the worst thing you did as a kid?". Some are shocking, some are pretty harmless and some can be only described as "evil."
If you can relate to any of these, you shouldn't feel bad, but if you can relate to all of these, maybe you should...
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#25 Revenge On A Bully
There was a bully in our class who nobody liked. One time he took me as a target for his fun. Back then I had that "eye for an eye" logic but I usually gave back with some extra.
I was constantly on the lookout for his phone. After I got the password for it I stole it (Which was pretty easy. I got to spend gym classes in the gym while others were playing outside, since I had pretty bad asthma) and sent some disgusting things to others that were from the same school. Thanks to his bad reputation everyone didn't doubt it was from him.
There were lots of talks with teachers and the principal but it was the end of the semester. He must have changed schools since he wasn't in the same school after the holidays. I haven't told anyone until now and I did feel bad back then but many classmates often said that it was so much fun when he wasn't there anymore so I started to justify it for myself.
#24 Mail Theft Is A Felony!
I stole mail when I was 8. It started with a Nintendo Power magazine and after that I figured all mail could be that cool. My friend Charles and I would just snag a bunch of random mail on the way home, open it, looking for something cool, and then move on.
One day we found a check for $160 and thought we hit it rich. We walked for about a half hour to the bank to cash it. My friend Charles said, "Go cash it, I'll be over here" and went to a kids table in the lobby.
I walk up to the teller and say "My parents told me to cash this..." and handed her the "check."
She looks at the "check."
She looks back at me.
And then back at the "check" and says "...this is a water bill from the city."
I said the first thing that came to my head which was, "Well, I don't know about that, but my parents told me to cash it."
She called her supervisor and showed him and he just looked at me with this "What the heck is wrong with you?" face and handed it back to me saying they can't cash a bill.
Charles and I head out, back to his house, defeated. I thought "Wow, this day can't get any worse..." aaaaand then the cop car rolled up slowly.
We ended up getting put in the back of the cop car. I lived right down the way from where we got picked up, so I was brought home first. The way my dad told it, my stepmom told him a cop was out front when they saw me run full speed towards the door, after the cop let me out, trying to explain my side of the story before the cop could say anything.
It didn't work.
The worst part was, it was my neighbor's water bill. After participating in a summer of complete lockdown by my dad (like with a regimented routine of stuff to do every day) he took me to the neighbors to apologize. The wife was really sweet saying "Ohhh it's ok! We all make mistakes." but the husband was really hard about it, basically lecturing me about the whys and hows of slippery slopes and all that... I was terrified to walk by their house from that moment on.
HOWEVER, apparently they both really weren't upset, but my dad came over and asked them to really lay into me about it. I found this out years later and can't help but laugh about it because after that I realized why it seemed so forced.
#23 Golfing leads to school destruction
My back garden leads into a school field, the school I went to at the time. Me and a friend were hitting some golf balls around one weekend and accidentally drove one through one of the school windows (The front of the school is essentially all windows) so instead of leaving we, for some reason, decided that since we had broken one window we might as well break some more.
I can't remember who convinced who it was a good idea. It ended up being 23 windows broken, and because I was such a quiet kid the school believed our story that some older guys had come into the field and done it. We never got caught. This was around 14 or 15 years ago now, I forget how much of a little dummy I used to be sometimes.
#22 A Good Way To Make Money Quickly
Our school was doing a charity event and we had to go ask people if they wanted to sponsor that event. Me and my friend spent a whole weekend going from house to house collecting money (we nearly had €200) and instead of giving it to the teachers we said that we didn't collect any and just kept it for ourselves.
#21 Sinister Way Of Proving A Point
My cousin was throwing pebbles at a lake through a small tree that had a hive. I told him not to, but he shrugged it off with an "it's ok, I'm not aiming at it," so I went home quite quickly. When I was barely inside the house, I heard him start screaming and running towards the house.
I locked the door.
#20 That's Going To Leave A Mark
We went for a holiday to Croatia with my parents. I was about 8 years old, and there was something like 'day-care' - parents could drop their kids there for 4 hours a day and there would be various activities to keep us entertained.
One day we played mini golf. It was my turn, I got ready... and was going to hit the ball. I missed it completely and smacked a girl standing nearby right in the eye. She wasn't crying, so I thought it wasn't that bad but still apologized profusely.
Next day she came with this massive black eye. They must have fun looking at the holiday photos. I still feel bad about it.
#19 Boredom Leads To Destruction
Our elementary school had urinals that you could flush and my friend and I found out if you flushed it a few times in a row it would overflow and start to flood the restroom. So we did that a couple times when we were bored.
#18 Well-Done Is The Only Option
I tried to "help" my dad cook steaks on the gas grill by turning up the heat on max while he was inside on the phone. (I wanted them to be done and ready to serve when he was finished on the phone.)
I got distracted when a friend stopped by and left the grill unattended. When my dad returned, flames were shooting out of the grill - the steaks were incinerated.
#17 The Toddler Heist!
I shoplifted about $100 worth of stuff from a hardware store. I was maybe 4 or 5 and had zero concepts of money and/or that you had to pay for stuff.
My bike had gotten a flat tire, and the store was just on the next street over. I went over and got a tire, and grabbed some other stuff I liked as well; including a big inflatable dinosaur, and some "tools" that I thought I needed. Just walked right out the door, store owner's back was turned.
Got home and my dad was like "where the heck did you get all that?" I told him and he laughed, marched me right back over to the store to return it all, but I threw a tantrum to keep that dinosaur.
#16 Just Electrocuting Their Little Brother...
I handed my little brother a cut power cord and plugged it in. It blew him backward and there was black all over his hand. I told my babysitter he fell on stones, he was hysterical, I don't know that he ever told her what happened.
#15 This Kid Must Have Missed Science Class.
As a kid, bugs fascinated me. (They still do). My mom got me a little butterfly net and "bug house," a little-screened tote to put all my buddies in. I found 2 pray mantis' and put them in there. Turns out, one was male and the other female. I found the headless male the next day and the female was licking her chops. I was livid! I got so angry at it for killing my friend that I took her out and chopped her head off. A few years later I learned that this was their mating ritual and completely normal. So I felt pretty bad and still kinda do.
#14 That's One Way To Get Even With Someone
A neighborhood kid who I was mad at was riding by on his bike. Without even thinking, I grabbed a plunger from our garage and threw it at him javelin-style. He fell off and broke his arm. I don't even remember what my beef with him was.
#13 A Quick Case Of Arson
Anyway, we were riding our bikes along a farm track near to where we live and my friend said to pull over. We looked around and, finding nobody in sight nor no sound of anyone approaching produced the things to burn. The fire got way out of hand and quickly spread to a large, very dry and dead, bush. The flames were incredible.
We heard some people coming and panicked and rode off as fast as possible, both petrified of what had just happened. I didn't sleep for days. The next weekend we summoned up the courage to ride back up there and the devastation we had caused was horrible. A good portion of the unused field was burnt to a crisp, we were only lucky that the only casualties were dry plants and grass.
That was the last time we ever played with fire.
#12 Who Hasn't Tried To Be Like Spider-Man?
#11 Just Traumatizing An Infant
I had a Sprite can alarm thing. You twisted it around the middle and when the timer went off it would start ringing. I put it in the room with my baby cousin when I was really young. I don't know what I thought might happen but I didn't know it would scare her and make her start crying.
#10 This One's Just Disturbing...
I had kids who tried to bully me.
They tried to get someone else to bully me.
They didn't like the fact that I didn't like them.
I watched as their bully for hire tricked them into eating poop stuffed cookies. And washed it down with urine.
#9 "The Great Train Robbery"
I stole a toy train from my Aunt's house with the intention of returning it next time we visited. A few weeks later I broke it. That evening I had a fit of conscience and insisted my parents call so I could tearfully confess my terrible crime (it was 11 pm in the evening). After laughing hysterically my Aunt told me she did kind of remember there being a toy train in the box of toys she gave me to play with and that I could have kept it anyway if I'd asked, so I was forgiven. That was the end of my criminal career, aged about 9 years old.
#8 Taking An Innocent Lie Too Far
In the start of 3rd grade, they had asked us if we had siblings in class. Over 80% of the class had a sibling. Me, being an only child decided to screw it and say that I have a sibling studying in the same school. I even made up a fake name for him and later I was told that I had forgotten to get it entered in the records. Alas, it was entered. Heck, I got through the whole year by keeping up the lie. (Even managed to keep it secret through the parent-teacher meeting when my teacher asked where is "fake name"? And I replied "Outside") My parents have no Idea what I did. Luckily, I transferred schools after the 3rd grade.
#7 Ding Dong Ditch, With A Twist.
My friend and I ding dong ditched this old lady. Except we didn't ditch. We just hid. Then when she opened the door, I threw a dead bird at her.
#6 Fourth Grader Fails His Exam
In 4th grade of elementary school when I failed one exam I asked the teacher very kindly when her birthday was, I remember she said it was on June 5th. I then proceeded to tell her that would be the worst day of her life and that she would die that day alone and sad. She cried and called for the school director to take me away.
#5 Revenge Can Be As Sweet As Soda
I was drinking a can of soda as a kid in the garden and when I was about halfway through I set it on this brick wall that was there. At one point I saw my younger sister drinking from it. Annoyed as it was my can, not hers, I told her the reason that I put it on that wall out of the way was because I saw a spider crawl into it. She cried her eyes out, I felt terrible.
#4 A Small Sledding Accident
One day I am sledding down this massive hill at lightning speed. I get down to the bottom and go over this big ledge and fly off my sled. I landed softly in the snow, but my dad didn't know that. I hear him calling for me from the top of the hill and I think to myself "haha what if I don't answer and then surprise him when he comes down to get me!". He can't see where I landed since the ledge I went over is too high, so he had no concept of whether or not I was hurt. My dad calls for me a few more times, growing more panicked as he runs down the steep hill, probably thinking I broke my neck. He finally gets to me and I pop up smiling. He is furious and on the verge of a nervous breakdown because he had no idea that I was fine the whole time.
#3 A Good Reason For 8-Tear-Olds Not To Have Weapons
Me and a friend got BB weapons from the fair and we wanted to test them. I think we were about 8 years old. So we went to a place near a traffic circle with a lot of cars and we hid in some bushes and kept shooting at the cars. One car stopped and called the cops on us. When the cops came, we tried to run away but one cop had a dog with him so when I saw the dog I threw my weapon away in a not so subtle manner and put my hands up while screaming: "I'm innocent, I'm innocent." Those cops took our weapons and brought us to the police department and called our parents.
#2 A Great Thing To Say To Your Mother...
I asked my mom why my dad married her if she wasn't even pretty. She's perfectly fine looking as well, I was just an idiotic little kid.
#1 How To Make A Scene In Public
I was probably around 5-7 years old. I had this curiosity to test and hold the weight of fire extinguishers in retail stores. I had done it without incident in the mall many times. But one day probably the last time. I attempted to lift one off of the hook in a different store and the weight was just too much and I fell backward and dropped the extinguisher on the ground and it started to spray furiously everywhere. People were running and screaming and that white powder, possibly foam, went everywhere all over the new clothes in the women's department. My family and I laugh at this as adults now.
