33 of the Dumbest Things People Did as Teenagers

People speak of child prodigies as though being smart and young is something to aspire to. Mozart was going on concert tours at 17, and you can’t convince me that he wouldn’t have had a better time lighting a dumpster full of aerosol cans on fire. Youth isn’t about being successful. It’s about pushing the boundaries of what can physically be done to your stupid little body — like the Redditor who tied 2x4s to his legs and ropes to his steering wheel so he could sit with his legs through the sunroof and try to drive his car “like a stagecoach.” Yes, he ended up in a ditch, but his experiment technically worked. 

Other Redditors have remembered the dumbest things they did as teenagers, and a special shoutout goes to the young daredevil who became a paramedic in adulthood. Way to pay it forward, brother.