What odd thing have you done for fun?

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When I was a child I rolled small produce into the street to watch cars obliterate it.

I dream of doing this at the river.

I mapped out the steam tunnels beneath Michigan State University years before the J.D.Egbert III incident.

Our college had old electro-mechanical controls for the elevators. We used to open the cabinet doors and turn off the lights to watch them spark.

I'm thinking of getting myself a Lego gingerbread house set for $146 when my $500 is deposited into my account, if they're still available on Wish. That's over $300 less than the price-gouged one for $459 on Amazon. I'll leave the rest of that money in my bank in case my PWD is cut back to $1000 a month.

Scaring the hell out of people apparently.
The main culprits are my hair, how I walk, some lighting/less visible spaces, and occasionally taking advantage of uncanny valley or the instinctive fear of the unknown.

I dream of doing this at the river.

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One time I had done a little repair for some friends, so I was wearing my electrician's tool belt. I then got caught in a conversational knot, blocking the hall. I got bored with the topic, but it reminded me of something, so I interjected "Hey, did I ever show you my third-eye detector?"
This got immediate attention as I pulled an ordinary circuit tester from my pouch. It had an alligator clip on a wire, and a pointy tip on a small flashlight. If the clip touched the tip, or the two were connected by a sound wire, the light would go on. I clipped the lead onto my wire-frame glasses near the ear, and then slid the point down my forehead from the hairline, holding my hand low for easy visibility. When the tip got to the middle of my forehead, the side of that probe hit the bridge of my glasses, and the rig lit up. Immediate sensation! Everyone was taking a turn, clipping the wire to their ears, and stabbing at their foreheads.

When I was around 10 I went down towards the local beach but I was coming close to a sandy bit which was at the start of the sand dunes sonit wasn't at the beach itself. I liked to play by myself in the sand. But I saw two older teenage boys, so I hid in the gorse bushes and other groth just above this sandy cove. They did not know I was there. They were drinking, and one of them finished his can and chucked it in the bushes right next to me!
Throwing litter at me! (Well, they didn't know I was there but still...)
So I threw it back towards them but I quickly but quietly went through the bushes keeping out of sight and positioned myself in another hidden location to observe.
Well, the boys were a little tipsy but I could just about hear them as they were in partial shock and were trying to look for the reason why the can was thrown back at them! They looked in the bushes, and having found no one, they went as white as a sheet! "Ghosts?"
I was trying not to chuckle to myself as I watched them! They went back home... Forget the beach! Haha!