Most kids feign illness to avoid doing their chores, or "forget," or as a last resort they just half-ass the work so their parents will just mow the lawn themselves. Not Jamie Hyneman, though. He knew those were just stalling tactics.

Jamie Hyneman grew up on an apple farm, so his chores didn't just include vacuuming and feeding the dog. He had real, farm-kid chores to do, which presumably included things like picking apples, washing apples, sorting apples, and becoming so sick of apples in general that apple pie became somewhere on par with liver and onions. He also had to mow the lawn, and he told Northeast Valley News that he once sabotaged the mower to avoid having to do that particular chore. "I figured out that if I repeatedly ran the mower into the tree that something would break and I would no longer have to mow the lawn because the lawn mower was broken," he said. "I also discovered that I could pull the spark plug wire back in its socket and make the machines not work."

Kids, don't try that at home.