When I was eleven I had unsupervised access to real bows and arrows during the summer and fall and would shoot arrows straight up in the air. One of the times I shot my neighbor’s tire and ranaway while it was deflating. Some of the arrows also never came back down and it was in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.
If you happened to live in fayetteville, NC and had an arrow land in your house or car in 2015 that might’ve been me.
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Idk if you still live there or could get in legal trouble for that due to your age at the time and the fact that most likely nobody got seriously hurt, otherwise there would probably be an investigation, but I’d cut out that last part.
Edit: I forgot about statute of limitations. Nvm ur good OP.
Did the same, still alive. Lol
Bro you’re lucky you didn’t accidentally take someone out.
As kids, we used to shoot arrows into the air too, and once one landed right in my friend’s arm. She got hurt, but thank God it wasn’t serious. If she’d been just one step to the left, she probably wouldn’t be here with us anymore.
I’ve shot bows straight up I never hit anything though probably shouldn’t do it anywhere other than the woods and with a 2 degree offset so you don’t shoot yourself.
Bro you were out here playing real life Minecraft with projectile physics, it’s a miracle you didn’t end up on the news.
Did the same thing until I got strong enough to put it out of sight. When I suddenly didn’t know where it was coming down I realized how dangerous the game was.
Lawn darts 🎯
We did the same back in the day. The game was shoot it in the air, stand still, try not to get hit. Everyone always won, luckily.
I did the same thing as a kid, we had a small side yard and my parents always got pissed because I’d constantly be getting arrows stuck on the roof 🤣
Not joking but a friend and I did that when I was 6. Steel tipped arrow came down and hit me in the head! Luckily, only a glancing blow. About an inch over, would’ve killed me Dr said!
Terminal velocity of an arrow just falling back to earth probably couldn’t kill your unless you took it in an artery or an eyeball. Still not a good idea obviously.
That’s exactly what happened when we were doing it when I was about 8:00. The older boys were shooting the arrows up in the air and we all ran. Hit it come down and we all laugh. The last one never came down. We looked all over for it couldn’t find it his dad got home and was walking up the driveway and saw the arrow right in the middle of his 67 or 68 I think Cutlass ragtop. He beat our ass from one end to the other got sent home My dad beat my ass
Some of the arrows didn’t come back down?… I guarantee they did indeed come back down.
So did I .
We used do the same with bb guns. Pump it up and drop some extra down the barrel. Lay and the driveway and try to shoot directly up. Sometimes, you could hear them hit the driveway or street or car. Not enough energy to hurt anybody like an arrow.
My adult self now thinks I should have had a torpedo level on the barrel to make sure it was aimed up.
True story! About 55 years ago I went on a class trip to Upstate New York to see the Seneca Indians. This one guy shot an arrow straight up into the air, took his right foot out of his moccasin, spread the 1st 2 toes apart and the arrow landed right in between the 2 toes! Never forgot it!
We did that once, lost the arrow, went in the house and it was stuck in the living room floor.
What are you, Ralph Cifaretto’s son?
I used to do this too. It was fun dodging them as they came back down.
How long ago was this?
I feel so better knowing I wasn’t the only one. I would run into the garage after I fired though
Uh oh were we not supposed to do that? Then why did they put a cornfield behind my house?
We would do this when I was a kid, everybody stands close together, the shooter shoots straight up in the air, the last one to move away from the group “wins”. We had one arrow land in my friend’s head, but they were mostly dull practice tips. Taking the arrow out at his house hurt more than the actual impact
Imagine the news story about a random arrow just skewering a sunbather in their backyard.
This is why it’s called Fayettnam.
That’s way dumber than me and my brother shooting arrows at cardboard boxes we were holding out to our side
That’s the kind of seemed fun at the time moment that really could’ve gone sideways. Glad no one got hurt and props for the very belated honesty!
Some shit ALWAYS happens in fayetville.
There was a guy shooting arrows in our neighborhood. me and a friend went to watch him. One of us asked, can you shoot one straight up? So he did, It came back down about 10 feet from all of us. Wasn’t the smartest thing to do.
Brother and I snuck dads compound bow out and were doing this one day. No thoughts about safety or what would happen. No one around for miles where we grew up. Them damn broad heads would of made a hell of a mess if one had hit us. He caught us and we both got a hell of a whoopin. Not for being stupid, but for ruining his high dollar arrows.
I made a bow (tree branch)and arrow (fishing rod) as a kid and shot it to see how far it would go. The wind took it and it hit my little sister in the face. Luckily there was no tip on this “arrow” and she only had a circle scar for a while. Super scary. I felt awful.
“Some of the arrows also never came back down”
My brother in CHRIST you do understand how gravity works, yes?
I used to take small rocks and hit them with an old tennis racket launching them randomly into the neighbourhood. Onetime I heard it break a car window and I never did it again
i shoot my arrows in the air sometimes 🎵
We would attach black cats (the explosive, not actual cats) to the arrow and light them before firing. They would go so high. Also my friend shot me in the chest once with the arrow tip wrapped in paper. Maybe I should lay off my kid for playing too much video games.
“I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth, I knew not where.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Was not expecting to see my city in a confession post. Which part of Fay? I’d love to ask around about random arrows lol
Lawn darts have entered the chat…
I did this in the middle of our cornfield as a kid. I came 3 feet from hitting my neighbor in their yard mowing the grass 40 or so yards away. Probably the worst ass whooping I’ve ever gotten as a kid. I was so lucky it missed her.
Once sat in a refrigerator box lined with pillows while a neighbor friend shot arrows into it white they were standing on the roof of their garage. GenX entertainment!
At least you were a kid. My buddy and I went car surfing while drunk and when I was driving I hit a curb and he went flying and landed on concrete.
The few seconds he laid on the ground not moving before jumping up to his feet shouting “Holy fucking shit dude!” were the longest seconds of my life.
I had enough time to think i genuinely killed him, I was going to prison, his family would want revenge, all my other friends would hate me, etc.
Remember kids, if you do DUIs, the person you kill could be your best friend, or the love of your life. Never let your irresponsible behavior negatively impact someone else’s life.
When I was a teenager a friend did that with lawn darts and they went thru the convertible top
oh ya my buddy used to shoot arrows straight up and we’d run around like chickens lol
Did that also. “I shot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care. I buy my arrows wholesale.”
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
I found out if you hit a rock with a tennis racket they would go far af and Id hit then in my backyard in random directions in a dense neighbourhood. I found it super funny at the time especially when youd hear it hit metal or something. So dumb looking back.
Increíble cómo de niños éramos básicamente armas biológicas no reguladas y sobrevivimos de pura suerte 😂
Clicked on this post to ask “are you from the south?”
Saw “NC.”
No further questions your honor.
(Hi from SC)
People who shoot bullets into the air should read this. Pro tip. All of your arrows came back to the ground. You just didn’t see where. Never do it again. You can kill someone.
“Some of the arrows also never came back down”. Wanna bet?
>some of the arrows never came back down
Yes they did
Right there with you….. My younger brother and I both did it…. It wasn’t until an arrow pierced the back of his shoe barely missing his foot did we stop…..
I did that too.
I did this too. Arrows usually landed within 15-20 feet of where I was standing. Me and my friends wouldn’t move. Just shoot it and wait for it to land. I can’t imagine watching my sons do that today. I would lose my mind.
I put a lawn dart in my brothers shoulder doing essentially the same thing.
Same. We used a compound bow and had to lay on our backs. We used our legs to help draw the string and let ‘er rip straight up into the sky.
We did that and threw lawn darts straight up. The arrow thing was nixed when we put a few arrows it the neighbor roofs…
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Oh yeah I forgot I cupid plinked a target tip into my friends calf while fucking around.
Forgotten memories! We did this in Texas after throwing lawn darts and willow tree whip fights. No one ever was hurt, somehow.
I did that too but with field tips, and in an open field so I can get the arrows back…
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/05/wisconsin-girl-7-shot-in-the-back-with-an-arrow
Did the exact same and into the neighbors yard. One time it landed on my friends head and blood started running down his forehead and glasses. Luckily he was okay and it looked worse than it was. One of the dumbest things I’ve done.
My brother did that and it landed right on my father’s new car’s hood and made a big dent. Boy was he mad…
I did too. I was stupid.
I knew someone who was expelled from hs for the same thing. Even dumber was a kid in jr high who was throwing a live .22 shell at the ground as hard as he could in the hall hoping it would pop in a crowded area.
Me and my dumb fuck brother did this once and nearly killed myself. I shot an arrow straight up and couldn’t see it, I was just about to walk to him when it landed right between my feet. First and last time we did that lol, if I have kids they are staying the hell away from archery if they got my dumb ass genes lol
Many years ago I lived in countryside Czech Republic, there were walnut trees along the roads.
In the fall time we would throw up sticks and rocks to knock the nuts out of the trees.
I grabbed this huge boulder and threw it up a good dozen times before it didn’t fall back out, I could see it tangled in the branches over the road.
Said to myself I’ll be damned if I’m driving on this road come this winter time!!!
Me too! Did it for a a few years. Never did hit anyone.
I know a guy that did that. He lost sight of the arrow and got worried so he ran in his garage. Moments later he heard a thump and went out to look. The arrow went through the trunk of his brand new car.
I almost killed my neighbor this way. Oopsie.
Grown Ups 2 vibes.
See I thought this was crazy untill I heard it was in Fayetteville