I love launching rockets with my 11 year old but it's so hard to find a good spot these days where you don't end up with a police visit (that happened, worked out fine) or a risk of starting a wildfire, etc.
Cops were different when I was a kid, lol. I remember me and some buddies getting set up to rappel off a bridge over the Minnesota river and some cops rolled up. After questioning us (14 year olds who were clearly at risk of accidentally killing themselves) the one officer says “Well, I don’t really know if this is legal or not, but it sounds like you guys are being pretty safe and you know your gear so, uh, my partner and I are going to go investigate some things and when we get back, cough, cough, in about half an hour I’m guessing you kids won’t be here, right?” I miss those days.
I’m not sure if kids did less stupid things those day, whether they were more prepared for doing stupid things, or if it’s all just my memory.
But it certainly feels like today’s 14 year olds couldn’t be trusted to do that since they’d do it with zero experience and only for the Youtube/Twitch fame.
rcurry|2 years ago
Aeolun|2 years ago
But it certainly feels like today’s 14 year olds couldn’t be trusted to do that since they’d do it with zero experience and only for the Youtube/Twitch fame.