So I just joined the forums and noticed that there are actually quite a few Boy Scouts out there (at least I think thats what they were ) Anywho, I was wondering what the funniest/saddest thing you have done while on a scouting trip.

Mine was probably my 2nd summer camp. Every night we would have mad libs with the kitchen staff. One of them, the contents of which I will not repeat (we made a pact ) had me laughing up to the point of crying for a good five minutes That is probably the hardest I have ever laughed in my entire life.

The saddest thing that happened to me was finding out two weeks after camp that one of the cooks that came up to camp died a week later when he was drunk in a boat. That was a downer

Hello fellow scout member *shakes with left hand*

I'm currently a Life and in the process of getting the Personal Fitness merit badge witch is the only merit badge I need left. Then I need to do my eagle Scout project It's worse than writing a long report.

Funnest thing: IN my 1st year we held tournaments of the strangest things and had rewards for each tournament. The Staff members also participated. The categories were: Fastest Rubics cube solver, Cup game, Riddles and puzzles, tic-tac-toe (no I'm not kidding), etc. I made it as 2nd in the cup game, 5th/6th in riddles and puzzels, and 9th in tic-tac-toe

Saddest thing: Nothing much bad or sad happened in my years so far. The worst would have to be when I applied for Kayaking and I didn't get in. I'm trying to go this year.

lol, my camp had a water-chugging contest, a jousting contest, and an obstacle course where u have to carry a 75 pound anvil to a tripod and tie the anvil to it

I didnt win anything but the water-chugging contest...chugged 6 nalgenes (about 2 liters) of water before I quit and upchucked in the bushes

Oh you youngsters. I made Eagle back in 98 (admittedly just a scant 3 months prior to my 18th birthday.)

Let's see, funniest. . .
Well there was the raccoon incident. At summer camp (good old Camp Wapello) one night 3 raccoons wandered into camp and decided to try to force there way into our cooler. Now in our troup we had a handful of newbie scouts, one of which was very quiet and shy. However, you wouldn't have known it that night, this kid who had maybe said like 12 words all week went tearing after those raccoons, launching a trashcan at them yelling at the top of his lungs, babbling like a madman. His response to our shocked, slack-jawed stares? "What?"

Saddest. . .
For my Eagle Scout project we renovated the Mars Hill church (A historical landmark here in Iowa). About a year ago, vandals burned the place down to its foundation. The oldest church in Iowa still in use, gone.

Everyone seems to procrastinate with their eagle. My older brother got his eagle the DAY before his birthday. He didn't get the award until 4 months later.

i haven't been in the scouts for a while now.

funniest moment: while at camp we had a raccoon that one of the staff tried to chase away, as the raccoon was running away it looked back to see if we were chasing it and at that moment it ran into a tree.

worst: we were going for the cycling merit badge and i cut one of the 25 mile trips down to 21 miles. something was kicked up by a bike infront of me and got stuck in my front tire which made it stop turning, the rest of the bike and myself kept going due to physics. did a short unintentional superman interpretation for a few yards, hit the ground and slid for a few more. i wish i still had that helmet since i hit with my head first (front 3rd was completely crushed in) then my shoulder and arm which i rotated on as i slid (started face down, ended up on my back). by that evening we were joking about it though. two of the other scouts and myself talked with one of our three scoutmasters, he took the batteries out of the other scoutmasters cell phones so they couldn't accidentally call 911, we were going to pull a good prank on everyone else but eventually decided not to.

eventually left my troop because they weren't really doing much that interested me and there weren't any other troops in the area so i never made Eagle.

If you can believe it, I was a Girl Scout once. ...Quit shaking your head!

In any case, I made it to Junior Scout and then there was that whole... the troop leader's house catching fire... and her becoming a raging alcoholic thing... yeah... so I quit after that.

A lot of people judge girl scouts wrongly. I know a few girl scouts. People think they are all uniforms and cookies. But they do community service and sell other things and don't always wear uniforms.

I was suggesting the thought of someone imagining ME as a Girl Scout.

I know. Its supposed to be hardly believable. But I for one know the changes that one can take through little years of living

Mauleus Malifecarium! YOU were a girl scout?

I suppose its a bit weird that at best 3 people I know have been scouts (myself included). But i stopped going, it started being a bit "samey" and dull tbh :/

That is what everyone is saying. It's just because of the leaders, they get bored and tired and they don't care about the scouts so they just make it easy for themselves and make it boring for us. But my troop? They are the l337! My troop is super active and is planning to go on until the end of time. My scoutleader is the best

Well have fun

when you are camping at the edge of the cosmos tell me

Girl Scouts was pretty cool... Of course, we all grew up and now we're all deviants.

How is this not in an under the counter film?

Joke guys. Persoannly I think cubs/guides/scouts is ok, but its much less relevant in the UK than it was. Not sure if thats good or bad tbh.

did you have anything to do with that?




they sell me small bags of white powder, enough said, sniff.



the scouts (at least the boy scouts) was originally a 'primer' for the military but that went away a long time ago.

I was a Scout when I was younger, but alas I didn't make it terribly far. The Scout Leader was in the paper one day for molesting his four year old niece...

I proceeded to leave the Scouts after that incident.

Oh so long ago I was a scout. And when I hit high school I our troop disbanded, and I joined an Explorer program. Much more fun, and still technically a scouting program. Best moment?

Arrest, Search and Seizure scenarios during Explorers. Each and every time we did it, it was fun, and there was always a new twist. Needless to say, we did really good at competition on that event.

Is it just me or are most of your scoutmasters people who do evil things?

Mine were just incompetent.

Ditto

There are 2 type of people who gravitate towards being scout masters (I don't know the girl scout equivalent):
First you have the nice people who truly want to do something nice for the kids (often either reminiscing about there own scouting adventures, or wishing they had done something similar when they were kids).

Then you have the predaters.

Actually there is a third sort, people who have had dull dull days at work and THINK, and think deep down in their hearts that they can help other people. But they are dull too.

I had one of those, you went along because it would break their heart if you left.

I finished my Eagle up about 8 months before my 18th birthday. One of the awesomest days of my life so far.

Nothing particularly sad comes to mind when I think back on my time.

The funniest story that I can recall off hand comes from an older Scout's Eagle project. We were building a boardwalk, and I was using a pickaxe to widen a trench for some of the support boards. The guy in charge is standing a few feet away from me, and everytime I get near one of the posts, he tells me to make sure I don't hit the post.

After a half hour or so, I stood up to get a drink of water, and Rick (the guy in charge) comes over to grab the pickaxe while I'm gone. I make it barely ten feet away, when I hear the distinctive sound of metal striking and splitting wood.

After telling me so many times not to hit the post, he'd gone and done it himself on his third swing.

I went for a year back when I was smaller, I only went to set fire to things and run about like a headless idiot...

there are also the parents of current scouts which usually fall under the first group

So what merit badges did you guys get? I got:

Emergency preparedness
Rock Climbing
Camping
First Aid
Swimming
Citizenship in the nation
Citizenship in the world
Citizenship in the community
Environmental Science
Personal Management (Hardest Merit badge ever made, but it is required )
Woodcarving
Family Life
Communications
Archery
Cinematography
Electricity
Genealogy
Music and Bugling
Rifle Shooting
Safety
Space Exploration
& Theater

That's 22 merit Badges

That would require me to dig out a box buried deep in a closet ninety something miles from here. But I'd guesstimate I got rifelry, climbing, shotgun, emg prep, camping, first aid, swimming, enviro sci, geaneology for starters. I think I was only missing like... 4 of the eagle badges, even though my group disbanded before I could make eagle.

That sux. Wat sux more is that I have to get Eagle before I get my driver's licsense Talk about Lame

lol....I think i only have like 10 merit badges, can't recall them off the top of my head though
Still a star, parents bugging me to get Eagle of course...my cousin getting it at 14 doesn't help much either

I'm also a life scout, and have had all of my merit badges since May. I'm still too lazy to do my project.

Happiest (for me) and saddest (for all else): My ritual at ScoutCamp every year where I get up on a table, rip my shirt off while doing a Catwalk, and sing "I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt".

Anyone here an Order of the Arrow member?

Well, I-

No, not really, unless you replace 'The Arrow' with 'the art of using red food coloring so it looks like a murder occured in your back yard'.

Youngsters!?!?!?!?

I got my Eagle on my 18th Birthday in 1993. My birthday party was also my Eagle Court.

Funnest: A week of camp using no tents, just the lean-to's we built.

Worst: My pants snagged on a nail when I was leaving a merit badge class at a camp in South Carolina and ripped all the way down the side seam. When I got to my Troop's (I was SPL) campsite to change, I had to breakup a fight between a longtime scout and a an soon to be scout/churchmember. It turns out that the Scout stole the newbie's pocket knife and when confronted he started beating up the newbie.

Worst Part 2: Troop in Berlin Germany did a 50mile bike hike into East Germany. About 10 miles in, leaders decided to turn us back home because temps were near freezing and it was raining...the next day was clear and warm.

Types of Girl Scout Leaders:

1. The Girl Scout that never grew up. She even paints her house Junior Scout mint green.

2. The mothers that got dragged and/or tricked into it and really don't care. They're doing this in hopes that their daughters will shut up and make some friends.

3. The ones that feel they are making a difference because the Girl Scouts made a difference for them. I like these ones because they care but they're not obsessed with it.

Girl Scouts of America was just another filler for my college application. You don't have to specify how far you got, because they assume that you were a regular Red-riding hood about everything. The only decent thing we ever did as a troop was sell the living Hell out of those cookies. Boy Scouts may have all that camping crap-- but they don't even come close to our lucrative baking business.

Eat them apples, Eagle Scouts.

Yea, you had cookies to sell. We get popcorn. Friggin popcorn.

We used to sell chocolate bars....they were good. Earned my way and 3 other people in my troop free Scout Summer camp

You have been pwned by the Junior Mints. Admit defeat and submit to our monopolixation of the Scout community.

Only if you get me a box of Thin Mints

Consider it done, my friend.

Bah. you pwned our sales abilities. We just pwn at all other things scoutly. Besides, no one else is a member of the secret OA.

Made it to brotherhood. (didn't stay involved ;ong enough to get vigil)

I am! I was also able to talk during my initiation....Dang Trailer almost broke my thumb and I had to go to the Hospitol.

Ugh. I remember the Ordeal, I understand what they were trying to teach us, but I still think they enjoy having free labor that can't talk back.

They did like having free labor, no doubt, but I actually enjoyed Ordeal. Sadly, my troop was disbanded before I could advance.

Hardly. We were so badass that we waited until the Boy Scouts went 'stargazing' when we put itching powder in their sleeping bags and hug up all their clothes in the trees; hosing them down and letting them ice over. It was funny... we giggled much.

Sounds like the start of a prank war Lisa, was there any retaliation?

I knew there was a reason I didn't use a sleeping bag, stargaze, or forget to lock the trunk that held all my worldly belongings at scout camp,

No! They whined like babies for three hours. Luckily for us, our camp leader was too much of a whore and a lush to care. She was flirting with the Scout Master and he didn't seem to really care either. The next year, they tried to get us back but they ended up creaming their sister scout's camp. We laughed even harder. Then we scared them all with our Blair witch project.

I'm admittedly surpised they had a coed function at all. Golden Eagle district (read Iowa) seemed to do all in it's power to keep boyscouts and girl scouts from EVER mingling.