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Re: I can certainly identify with this...

Ken S. Tucker

2007-05-14, 3:25 am

On May 13, 7:35 pm, "Don" <one-if-by-l...@concord.com> wrote:
> "3D Peruna"> wrote
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> When I was about 12 I snuck some firecrackers out of my dads truck.
> Went to a friends house and held one in one hand and lit it with a sparkler.
> The sparks disguised that the firecracker was lit and it went off in my
> fingers.
> OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!
> My index finger and thumb felt like they had been laid on the driveway and
> hit with a hammer, then set on fire.
> OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!
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> The worst part was that I couldn't go home and complain about it cause my
> dad would have killed me.
>
> Shortly after that I moved up to dropping lit firecrackers and marbles down
> a pipe to make a mortar.
> Then rolling cherry bombs in melted wax and rolling it in BB's or broken
> glass and launching them with a wrist rocket.
> And there was the time me and another guy taped an M80 on a neighbors
> sliding glass door........
AND?

We had a rocket/bomb club for a few years,
we were more lucky than smart that no one was
hurt and no property damage was done.

Don

2007-05-14, 9:25 am

"Ken S. Tucker" <dynamics@vianet.on.ca> wrote in message
news:1179125779.103120.217480@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> On May 13, 7:35 pm, "Don" <one-if-by-l...@concord.com> wrote:
> AND?
>
> We had a rocket/bomb club for a few years,
> we were more lucky than smart that no one was
> hurt and no property damage was done.

My dad had a well stocked area in the garage with every kind of chemical you
could think of, paint thinner, degreasers, etc. and sometimes when I was
alone I'd go and start mixing stuff together willy-nilly just to see what
would happen. This was about 1968 or so and it was when I discovered that if
you put a chunk of styrofoam in a container of gas it would turn into a
putty like consistency that you could form into any shape you want and could
even smear it on a fence or wall. I mixed some up with a greater gas ratio
and the mixture became loose so I poured some mothball crystals in it and
then spread it on the neighbors concrete block wall-fence across our
backyard. Then I stood back and fired an Ohio white tip match at it from my
Crossman BB gun. KA-WHoooooMPH!!!!! It exploded from the vapors and burned.
I sprayed it with the hose but it was very hard to put out. 13 years old and
I discovered exploding paint. LOL

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