Adults often thought kids were harmless little people who had no real powers but try telling that to some of the other, smaller creatures of this world! As it turns out, children have the power of life and death over a lot of things, and are perhaps sometimes more cruel than adults.
Here are just a few examples.
1. Chopping a worm in half to see if it'd turn into two worms
It's fair to say that this may have been man's first major scientific breakthrough. Long before the wheel or perhaps even fire. So many worms have been chopped in half at this stage that I'm not sure how they haven't taken over the world.
One reason may be that the common garden worm actually doesn't turn it to two worms. The top half survives but for the tail end, it was curtains unfortunately. At least it died in the name of science.
2. Sea Monkeys
I never owned these horrible creatures and I've no idea why anyone would have wanted to. From what I gather, you bought a tank with eggs and then fed them until they turned into something that resembled a monkey in absolutely no way.
They would then meet their untimely death when you ran out of food for them and decided to see if their diet could adopt to rasher sandwiches.
3. Bloodsuckers
Remember these little creatures?
Nevermind Tamagotchis, the easiest hours of fun were spent mercilessly crushing these small, red insects until your entire hand looked like it was covered in blood.
A question was raised in the office as to whether these Harvest Mites - to give them their real name - actually still exist but none of us could say for sure. We haven't seen any in years but then again, the older we've gotten, the less time we've spent hanging out around walls each day.
4. Tamagotchi
After raising a Tamagotchi pet I now feel I'm fully prepared for fatherhood in real life. Nothing could phase me. Feedings in the middle of the night; no problem, cleaning up its excrement; no issue there, changing its batteries from time to time; once I know the size, I got the skills.
Seriously though, what annoying little bastards. They were much more hard work than owning an actual, real life, pet.
5. Cress
A guaranteed 'I'm the shit!' moment that every primary school kid had was when they successfully managed to grow their own cress.
In truth, it was so easy to do that it was impossible to go wrong but why spoil the fun?
6. The Sims
The process was be as follows...
Put them into the swimming pool. Take away the steps out of the pool. Wait for them to die when they couldn't get out.
Another option was...
When they're in the house, build four walls around them. Set the house on fire. Wait.
7. Pulling the wings off Daddy Long Legs
Children are a cruel race really. Another favourite scientific experiment was pulling the wings of flying creatures to see if you could breed some sort of new flightless species.
There was the odd special moment when you managed to catch a fly but more often than not, it was the unfortunate, slow Daddy Long Legs who would suffer. Imagine what must have been going through their heads, as the attempted to fly away from their Satan.
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