well the playing with box knives etc is more a matter of parents not teaching their kids safety...

we played tag jumping over rusted machinery, played tag in trees, used to takes walks through marshes with sinkholes - went frog bashing, rowed leaky old boats that took three people bailing to keep afloat, slid down waterfalls, had a "merry go round" that we TRIED to tipover (and did), routinely crossed creeks on fallen trees, would have contests to see who could "loop the loop" on swings - rode sleds directly off a hill into traffic, likewise onto thin ice - played "crack the whip" with a canoe on runners; dove off the jetties and the boardwalk-

and we were considered the "cautious" kids.