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Rare Images Prove How Wild Growing Up In The Past Could Be

Kids Jumping Out a Window Onto a Pile of Mattresses Completely Unsupervised 

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Credit: Reddit

Almost everyone has wild stories of stupid things they did growing up. But this one takes the cake.  These kids have a pile of mattresses sitting outside of a second story window. They’re jumping out of a building onto the mattresses going one by one. Someone with a camera decided to photograph what was happening, but they didn’t do anything to stop the kids from potentially breaking a leg. Nowadays, kids would not get away with this. Someone would be calling the cops almost immediately. But that’s why photos like this are a time capsule to a very different era of child rearing.

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