Now I've seen it all--

[PRBuzz]

"if you didn't have a "Suicide Hill" near you"

I grew up in flat southern NJ, we did car sledding! Grab onto the car bumper and away you go through the town streets. On good days we would have 3 lines of sleds, 3-5 sleds per line being pulled by a single car. The first guy used arm/hands to hold the bumper but after that each person put his feet into the steering mechanism of the sled behind. Wasn't unheard of to be going 20+mph...........Luckily SNJ didn't get snow that often! Less chances to kill ourselves.

[fishbones]

This is the snowman my son and I built last week, and he did most of the work. I had to assemble it because it was too heavy for him to lift, but he did most of the rolling and decorated it. It looks dirty because my leaf blower broke and I never got to raking that part of my back yard. All the leaves and twigs got picked up when he was rolling the snowballs.

[Clammer]

PRB

everyone in the city had to have a suaside hill

but what we did .. was called hookieing / kinds the same deal with the freight trains


we would crouch down low when a car made a corner & we would sneak behind it @ grap the bumper & we would get pulled on our boots / if too many kids grapped the same car , we could slow it down til it got stuck or pull it out of control went it went to make the curve ;

Our snow plows were our city garbage trucks & we would do the same thing ,,,but they really gave you a tow .

the guys that did it with shoes un .often would start to go under the truck ,cuz they were going faster than the plow .
the real challange was because we couldn,r see anything ...if & when they hit a dry patch . damn we could take a serious tumble;;

just another day in the city .,.,,

[saltfly]

Originally Posted by Clammer

PRB

everyone in the city had to have a suaside hill

but what we did .. was called hookieing / kinds the same deal with the freight trains


we would crouch down low when a car made a corner & we would sneak behind it @ grap the bumper & we would get pulled on our boots / if too many kids grapped the same car , we could slow it down til it got stuck or pull it out of control went it went to make the curve ;

Our snow plows were our city garbage trucks & we would do the same thing ,,,but they really gave you a tow .

the guys that did it with shoes un .often would start to go under the truck ,cuz they were going faster than the plow .
the real challange was because we couldn,r see anything ...if & when they hit a dry patch . damn we could take a serious tumble;;

just another day in the city .,.,,

in Dorchestah we called it SKID-HOPPING.