Where I grew up, as children (pre-teen) we behaved like little sociopaths, since things that we thought were "fun" were not understood by us to be bad or dangerous. We did some really crazy stuff - to kids we knew as well as strangers, including adults, and older kids. I wasn't as bad as many of the kids I hung out with and most, back then, probably couldn't compete with the worst bad kids of today. We took a lot of chances, though, for kids under ten years old. Good thing we didn't have guns.