Can I be the first to ask...

....WTF is "Knock Down Ginger?"

I would hate to be tazered in the beanbag

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What's wrong with naked knock down ginger? I'm confused

Ding Dong!

I'll get my coat...

Bean bag gun

Did they also use flares, and then put him in a paisley straight jacket with really big collars before placing him in a cell padded with thick shag pile carpet?

I'd like some of what he's having, please

With a side order of Crystal Meth, natch. But hold the smug moralizing hypocrite reporter and film crew, ta.

Naked Miscreant - Bean bag gun...

I hope they didn't bean him in the bag!

Must be friday

Yep - and nearly Beer oclock too

Hmm... psychiatric observation anyone?

*Ding-Dong* <"Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?">

Running naked into a wooded area.. Eww, chiggers, crawly things.

so what you're saying is

its knock and run. But being american they had to change the name to something ridiculous?

Is it a specific offence then

to knock on a door while naked in the land of the free? What happens if you are set upon and your clothes stlen?Must you attract attention by shouting from behind the bin, or is crouching behind a bin a chargable offence too?

Knock Down Ginger

If you are unsure of the details of the game check the particularly funny wikipedia page. I like the variants - especially, "Ding Dong Sack Whack". A variant that we played at school involved a paper bag and a pile of dog shit. You scoop up with dog shit with the bag, and set fire to it on someone's doorstep whilst ringing the bell. The hope is that the victim stamps on the bag to put it out...

Re: knock down ginger

Rather than American, it was English dialect 40+ years ago. Our colonial cousins are off the hook for this one...

I've learned

a new phrase today!

A game with many names

We called it 'Knocky Nine Doors' round our way. :D

@Neil H - I would hate to be tazered in the beanbag

Good thing I have insurance. I think I just hurt myself falling out of my chair.

@ MAtt D 3

Thank you for the explanation, I did assume that this is basically the game we called "ding dong doorbell ditch" which though maybe more descriptive, sounds just as stupid when saying/typing it. I am curious though where the origin of the actual phrase comes from. ( I have images of the name being borrowed from a game meant to floor the Irish, or red headed step childs :-) )

Can anyone shed light on the origin of this one?

Also Matt re: the fishing line tied to each knocker......Brilliant absolutely brilliant. This however is so good, I could see it being used to start physical fights between two neighbors. Best to not pass around information like this :-)

(ahem... "kids" in my neighborhood growing up loved to play the trick of grabbing a persons lawn ornaments or x-mas decorations and moving them to another neighbors yard (best if it the yard is visible from the original owners house.... always hillarious results.... ranks up there with hiding in back yards and surfing to channel 666 with the same identical cable remote that everyone in town has. There is also a evil trick involving lifesavers that is just too malicious to put into print.....)

Tazers

Tazers save lives because they're used where the alternative would be lethal firearms. Like when you're chasing a flasher. With no weapon. And clearly nowhere to conceal one.

God bless the tazer.

Knock Down Ginger

Ding-dong-ditching around these parts.

Probably just some 'armless fun..

He was probably just wanting to tell someone - look no hands!

Down our way

"Ring-a-bell-run "or "knockout ginger" when I were a lad. Clothed, I might add.

@ Noggin

"Would *YOU* want to try and manhandle a 250lb naked man to the ground before cuffing him??!"

Hmm ... if 5' 4" & 250 lbs then, no, probably not. However, as we're talking 6' 7" / 250 lbs. here, I'd consider it my civic duty to at least have a go at it.

Knock Down Ginger

...also known as "Ding Dong Dash" and "Chapsies"** where I come from. I'm sure there are even more variations too.

** to "chap" on a door is to knock on it.

Why ...

Do I never have 6'7" butt-naked giant Gothic monstrosities ringing my doorbell late at night? The chance would be a fine thing.

Please, God ... let my day come!

I second Ding-Dong-Ditch

Thats what I called it. In addition to the cascade effect that friends and I attempted we did also tape it. Occasionally there would be other pranks pulled as well.....such as a yard full of mufflers(the car part). That was a funny one.

...Damn the shackles of work

We called it

nicky nicky nine doors when I was a kid.

Flame, for the flaming bag of poop trick - obviously.

@noggin

"Would *YOU* want to try and manhandle a 250lb naked man to the ground before cuffing him??!"

No, but Tom Brady would do it. Happily. In fact, I'm not sure you could prevent him from doing it.

(Still can't figure out how to turn this into a Mike Vick joke)

6ft 7in you say?

Maybe he was actually out with his camera?

Floom

I'm surprised he didn't burst into flames from the alcohol if it were ignited.

Woodside

Is one of the most expensive zip codes in the United States... I believe our dear beloved Jobbo (Steve Jobs) lives there. Let the rumors begin.

Knock Down Ginger

Im guessing Knock Down Ginger is a term for Knock-a-door Run,

Being Ginger I find this quite offensive. LoL

another name for it...

used by some in the american south is (insert racial slur beginning with "N") Knocking. probably another version of the same sick inside joke as blaming all negative or criminal behavior on same group, often to the investigating police. children's introduction to false flag terrorism?

I went looking for trouble...

My first thought when I read this was, "Type O Negative."

Hes probably...

6 feet tall, and 7 inches long (ahem)

he may have been playing "Knock down Ginger"

as I've never heard of it before, but he wasn't playing "Knock a door run", not by any rules that I remember. There were only two rules knock hard, run like hell. Hanging around afterwards was never an option, neither was waving your tackle around.

Knock Down Ginger

Chappie up here in Scotland

Ah, childhood days

I remember we started playing Knock-down ginger as a tyke, back in the 70s, before we graduated to more advanced activities, like:

-Rocking roofs (a handful of gravel tossed onto a tin roof makes a hell of a racket!);

-Egging houses;

-Blowing up peoples' letterboxes with homemade bombs;

-Sticking dogshit under car door handles;

-Chocking car wheels with empty beer bottles;

-Starting bushfires in the nearby paddocks and watching the fire trucks come and put them out.

Said paddocks were then developed as a new housing estate, which opened up more possibilites, such as:

- Emptying the contents of a concrete truck over a new road while the workers were at lunch;

- Setting fire to stacks of timber on building sites;

- Smashing the windows of half-built houses;

- Bulldozing a transportable construction-site office with a front-end loader we nicked from a nearby compound;

- Shifting every single survey marker for a stretch of upcoming road construction (and yes, the idiots actually built the road in the wrong place!)

But I consider our crowning achievement was stealing the blue lights off the top of a police car while the coppers were in the house talking to the residents!

And... we never got busted for any of it!

Ahem... I think I'll make this one anonymous... yes it was 35 years ago and I was a minor, but you never know...

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@ sun_god "Woodside Is one of the most expensive zip codes in the United States"

Woodside isn't all that exclusive... it's still got a listed ZIP Code. The City of Hillsborough, near Burlingame, CA used to be so exclusive it wasn't even listed in the USPS National ZIP Code directory. That changed a few years ago though, it's now listed, but the ZIP Code belongs to Burlingame.

My coat's the one with the jury duty badge on it.

I'm baffled...

'Steele earlier this week pleaded not guilty in San Mateo County Superior Court to charges "that he rang doorbells while naked"'...

What kind of legislative weirdo would actually make it an offense "to ring doorbells while naked"?

I'd like to think it was just Merkins, but then I look at our own collection of Millibands, Balls, Harridan Harperson, the Prince of Darkness, etc., and I'm now wondering if there IS a legislator (anywhere) who isn't a 28 carat, one hundred percent weirdo..