Dangerous But Fun Game

When we had just moved to California from Montana we lived on a little culdesac in Baldwin Park. There were quite a few kids on the street and we immediately had friends to play with. John invented a game involving a bicycle, a trash can lid, and rocks. One of the kids would be on the bike with the trash can lid as a shield. That kid would ride past the other kids who of course were throwing rocks at them. The game was going well until Jim was on the bike and for some unknown reason dropped the shield, got hit in the head with a rock, and was bleeding everywhere. Of course at that point we had to get Mom to take care of the bleeding head. Needless to say, the game was OVER!