Blowing Smoke Up Your Arse

[Chasing Embers]

And I thought stories of kids smoking bed bugs was weird. 8O

 

[anotherbob]

every time kids do dumb things I thank my lucky stars we didn't have cameras and unlimited internet access. Oh how wrong things could have gone if we did.

 

[Chasing Embers]

every time kids do dumb things I thank my lucky stars we didn't have cameras and unlimited internet access. Oh how wrong things could have gone if we did.

Potato guns, gasoline, and blasting caps. How have I lived for as long as I have?

 

[anotherbob]

Potato guns, gasoline, and blasting caps. How have I lived for as long as I have?

there are times where my continued survival makes me sure there is something divine.

 

[Chasing Embers]

there are times where my continued survival makes me sure there is something divine.

My friends I grew up with are convinced that we all have guardian angels. There's no way we could have survived our childhoods otherwise.

 

[anotherbob]

My friends I grew up with are convinced that we all have guardian angels. There's no way we could have survived our childhoods otherwise.

seriously. Between the pyromania and the lack of a fear of heights until at least seven or 8 years old, the odds are just staggering really. Seriously I have a scar of a third degree burn from around when I was four or five, I don't remember what I did just hiding it from my parents and how it ruined that one socks which had to be thrown out stealth style.

 

[canucklehead]

Potato guns, gasoline, and blasting caps. How have I lived for as long as I have?

The amount of good clean homemade explosive fun I had as a 13 year old would probably put me on a terrorist watchlist or in prison these days.

 

[Chasing Embers]

The amount of good clean homemade explosive fun I had as a 13 year old would probably put me on a terrorist watchlist or in prison these days.

How very true, and sad. Nothing like wrapping a few thousand sparklers together with electrical tape, sticking them in the ground and lighting them.?

 

[canucklehead]

How very true, and sad. Nothing like wrapping a few thousand sparklers together with electrical tape, sticking them in the ground and lighting them.?

Cutting a slit in a tennis ball and stuffing it with strike anywhere match heads, then wrapping in duct tape and throwing it around until it erupted, or filling a tin cans full of crushed up roman candle innards and sticking cannon fuse in the top, you know typical kid stuff...

 

[Chasing Embers]

Cutting a slit in a tennis ball and stuffing it with strike anywhere match heads, then wrapping in duct tape and throwing it around until it erupted, or filling a tin cans full of crushed up roman candle innards and sticking cannon fuse in the top, you know typical kid stuff...

Exactly!

 

[trouttimes]

I've got to try the tennis ball trick!

 

[Chasing Embers]

I've got to try the tennis ball trick!

Give yourself lots of room the first time!

 

[trouttimes]

Wow!???

 

[anotherbob]

Give yourself lots of room the first time!

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just make sure you don't leave an unused ordnance around. Sometimes they don't work right away and not a nice thing to leave around.