'[He] cooked that nights' ramen in river water': 25 Boy Scouts tell the wildest things that happened on their camping trips

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Feb 24, 2024 5:00 PM EST

These scouts are lucky to have survived these camping trips full of mishaps. They gained the memories of a lifetime, and they're sharing them today in reply to @paynushurts' Twitter question: "What was the 'incident' at your summer Boy Scout camping trip?"

The answers were wide-ranging and completely hilarious. Some people shared stories from when they were little kids, while others had their craziest times happen as teenagers. 

Going on a camping trip with your scouting troop is a great way to bond with your friends. However, kids get up to a lot of trouble when they're left alone for even a few minutes. They just want to have fun! But since they're teens with underdeveloped brains, they do things like figuring out which bug sprays or sunscreen sprays are flammable. One kid decided to throw a rock at a wasp nest just for S&Gs: another prime example of the "act now, think later" mentality of teenagers. 

In the moment, a lot of these campers probably weren't happy with their friend's shenanigans, but the memories will last forever! Things are always funnier in hindsight, after all. 

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    via Maël BALLAND on Unsplash
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    @paynush What was the “incident" at your summer Boy Scout camping trip?
    via @paynushurts
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    ra power @datmagicho Someone threw a container of country time lemonade mix at another kid, spilling half of it all over the platform tent floor. They woke up to seven raccoons licking the sugary concoction off the floor.
    via @datmagichour
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    F#A#∞, fka @cooperc While all the adults were away one of the older guys got a can of lighter fluid to make the fire bigger. Flame crawled up the fluid, he freaked, and dropped it. He saw there was a flame at the edge of the can and went to stomp it out, missed, and hit the can, shooting flames out
    via @coopercooperco
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    Raven @byte4554 A couple. Only one that fits in twt post is: one of the guys on our river canoeing trip cooked that nights ramen in river water so we all had awful di ea for a couple days.
    via @byte4554
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    Alan Morl @Alan Mor Big gathering witha ton of troops. Next site over at another troops fire, the kids added a log wrapped in a poison ivy vine. Burning it aerosoled the poison ivy. Kid went into anaphylactic shock after breathing it had to be air lifted to the hospital. I never heard more.
    via @AlanMorlock
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    Union ste @sovietpla Caught the latrine on fire. at the bottom Like the was burning for hours. Someone bought all the fun dip and resold it at 100% markup. We caught 3 trout and a pot of crawfish but the adults told us we couldn't eat them, so we had an illegal cookout after lights out.
    via @sovietplayer1
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    Ozymandi @stolen_v Someone threw a rock at a wasp nest to "see what would happen".
    via @stolen_velour
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    big bulio @Big_Bulic Have you heard of cabin tipping before?
    via @Big_Bulio
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    MRTRUTH @Givingur I got smuggled out of camp in the trunk of a car
    via @Givingupontruth
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    FakeJohnl @FakeJohi We made a log cabin fire out of a bunch of dried wooden flagpoles(the ones you see in cemeteries) and made a fire so large the staff came running to our campsite screaming.
    via @FakeJohnDevers
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    LL CONVOY No Relatic @djnorela Kid pulled the fire alarm at a military base we were staying at. Four fire trucks showed up and we were very close to getting kicked out.
    via @djnorelation
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    Andrew M @AngryRe I remember one kid climbing up a tree that couldn't hold his weight, the branch broke and he fell. I think he ended up being alright but I'm amazed he didn't injure anything lol.
    via @AngryRedHead86
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    Jacob Cos @MrJacob Got in a fight with my Scoutmaster when I found out he was letting his son do special we couldn't do
    via @MrJacobCostello
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    Brian Tully @ShyBriG My first year, one of the big kids took some dry ice that the leaders were using in the coolers, and threw it into the latrine. The entire campground smelled like all week.
    via @ShyBriGuy13
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    WayAwes @EricRunr A tremendous Euchre tournament run. 5 dollar buy-in, winnner take all. Walked away with 50$ or 60$ after cheating our off.
    via @EricRunner2011
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    Mike Lars @MikeLars it rained all trip, and during the night it began pouring, so much that water was flooding through our campground. my friend and I hated camping, we hid in our tent playing pokemon and eating pringles while all the dads were outside frantically digging emergency drainage
    via @MikeLarson15702
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    Pixelated @RealPixe We were on a hike and bad weather rolled in. On the way back to camp there was a lightning strike about 50 feet from us.
    via @RealPixelated
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    Ⓡ A tree fell on my friend's tent and the bunk next to him literally saved his life. Lost all of his belongings and clothing and left the troop afterwards. Ryot @RyotSSE
    via @RyotSSB
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    mothra th @wienerb we learned that most body spray deoderants are highly flammable and then subsequently learned how to put out fires
    via @paynushurts
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    Ethan But @Butler Et A guy in my group threw a whole can of sunscreen into the campfire on the last day of camp and his mom arrived on site just as he set off a mini explosion and screamed at him. My friend jumped in the nearest hole. He said there was ringing in his ear for the rest of the day.
    via @ButlerEthan
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    Mark @marksaf Had to go in to tent lockdown due to an escaped prisoner
    via @marksafc
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    Katherine Obvious @kmart325 my brother's troop went on a trip to london and dj casper (of cha cha slide fame) was shooting a music video and when he saw them in their uniforms he stopped them and put them in the video
    via @kmart325
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    Matty @mat thew8 Had to hike through a tornado when I was 11
    via @mat_thew8
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    Miller @4Weasel one of the camp counselors had a padawan braid like anakin skywalker and we started calling him rat tail so the counselor cut off the braid and then quit the next day
    via @4Weasel
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    Fredward, Fredward @Fredward394 when I was 12 my mom made me bring my trumpet on our big camping trip so I had to play that morning revellie song in front of the troop and I sucked really bad
    via @Fredward394
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    ZZ @zzfroms Back in 2016 one of the counselors got fired for allegedly stealing a laptop, so 2/3rds of the staff quit in solidarity. The last 2 days of camp went from the typical no phones no free time boy scout summer camp to everyone just chilling by the lake and playing Pokémon Go.
    via @zzfromspace

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