Things We Did As Kids Which Are Now Illegal

Here are 25 things my generation did as kids that would get someone arrested today:

• Riding in the back of an open pick-up truck with a bunch of other kids
• Leaving the house after breakfast and not returning until the streetlights came on, at which point, you raced home, ASAP so you didn’t get in trouble
• Eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the school cafeteria
• Riding your bike without a helmet
• Riding your bike with a buddy on the handlebars, and neither of you wearing helmets
• Drinking water from the hose in the yard
• Swimming in creeks, rivers, ponds, and lakes (or what they now call *cough* “wild swimming“)
• Climbing trees (One park cut the lower branches from a tree on the playground in case some stalwart child dared to climb them)
• Having snowball fights (and accidentally hitting someone you shouldn’t)
• Sledding without enough protective equipment to play a game in the NFL
• Carrying a pocket knife to school (or having a fishing tackle box with sharp things on school property)
• Camping
• Throwing rocks at snakes in the river
• Playing politically incorrect games like Cowboys and Indians
• Playing Cops and Robbers with *gasp* toy guns
• Pretending to shoot each other with sticks we imagined were guns
• Shooting an actual gun or a bow (with *gasp* sharp arrows) at a can on a log, accompanied by our parents who gave us pointers to improve our aim. Heck, there was even a marksmanship club at my high school
• Saying the words “gun” or “bang” or “pow pow” (there actually a freakin’ CODE about “playing with invisible guns”)
• Working for your pocket money well before your teen years
• Taking that money to the store and buying as much penny candy as you could afford, then eating it in one sitting
• Eating pop rocks candy and drinking soda, just to prove we were exempt from that urban legend that said our stomachs would explode
• Getting so dirty that your mom washed you off with the hose in the yard before letting you come into the house to have a shower
• Writing lines for being a jerk at school, either on the board or on paper
• Playing “dangerous” games like dodgeball, kickball, tag, whiffle ball, and red rover (The Health Department of New York issued a warning about the “significant risk of injury” from these games)
• Walking to school alone

http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/the-last-rebels-25-things-we-did-as-kids-that-would-get-someone-arrested-today-06162015

I admit that I did all of them (except the "pop rocks" one).

Anyone who thinks that the US is a land of "freedom" is crazy. We're now among the most coddled and restricted people on earth.