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 TreeBob
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Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:34 am Post subject: |
 
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I liked Firecrackers. We used to wrap the firecrackers up with Silly Puddy (It enhanced the explosion). Then we would stick it in a toy and blow them up.
Good times. |
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Tjoe
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Location: Second City
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Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Looking back, I can't believe I didn't burn down our garage and our house. I also can't believe that I survived and still have all my limbs.
We (my idiot friends and I) made so many homemade bombs, rockets, and launch tubes. I seemed to have a natural respect for electricity, so I didn't have any problems there. Some of my stupider moments were spent with fire. I recall melting plastic swizzel sticks over our gas stove. Little black residue floated all over the house. I use to create hot air balloons with real fire as a heat source.
For a few days, I had stuck a large conduit pipe in my backyard, put about an inch or two of rocks in it, poured in any kind of flammable liquid I could get my hands on, then send down a match. The explosion would send the rocks flying.... onto the top of other neighbors houses. Eventually I started aiming the damn thing to only land on one neighbor's house. He even came over once and saw the tube in the yard right after a recent launch. I have no idea how I didn't get busted.
I use to jump off of my garage with cardboard wings and parachutes.
After all of that, and the only time I got badly hurt was while playing "touch" football - broke my arm. How weird. |
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s2u4me
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Joined: Feb 10, 2004
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Location: Georgia, USA
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Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:44 pm Post subject: Chesnut Fights |
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We (my brother and I) used to have chesnut ball fights, not the nut but the spiny shell.
We also have been in the ER in 9 different states.
Boys will be boys? |
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graywolf
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Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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I set a fire and burned the entire second floor off the house ... it's long story ... |
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Caliburn
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Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:42 am Post subject: |
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Do tell! :D |
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Hurr78
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Location: Toronto
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Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:47 am Post subject: |
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| I set a fire and burned the entire second floor off the house ... it's long story ... |
What????? I second Cal's request, let's have the story! |
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Robert_Locksley
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Joined: Apr 14, 2003
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Location: British Columbia
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Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:02 am Post subject: |
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... it's a long story... means you're going to tell, right? *Gets a nice cup of coffee...relaxes on the couch and gets ready to listen...*
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Blue
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Location: Coastal North Carolina, USA
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Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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I my goodness, TJoebgen. If you're name were not off to the side as the author of that post, I could swear I was reading about my childhood!!
Homemade bombs and cannons using my dad's gunpowder that he had "hidden." My friends and I would aim our cannons at the local chicken farm. After I blew half my face off with the flash from a string of gunpowder, my pyro days were over. 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns on one half of my face and, miraculously, no scars to show it. When I looked in the mirror right after, it was just like on the cartoons: my face was all black and my hair was all burned and my eyebrows gone.
I broke my collar bone TWICE playing touch football, and used to jump off the roof of my house when I was just 6 years old. Also used to play Tarzan jumping onto a rope swing from a tower we built from wood scraps. |
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Altoid
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Joined: Mar 22, 2003
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Location: In jail. IM me instead :)
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Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:19 am Post subject: yes please a story :-) |
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[quote="graywolf"]I set a fire and burned the entire second floor off the house ... it's long story ...[/quote]
that would be an interesting story indeed 
I only played with fire by lighting plastic forks and watching them drip with that sound they make. We were careful enough to do this outside in a concrete storm drain (pipe is about 4 feet in diameter so kids fit easily, could almost stand up) |
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 thuringwethil
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Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:01 am Post subject: |
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yeah - come on gray let's hear it
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thuringwethil
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Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:03 am Post subject: |
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I actually didn't do anything crazy or dumb as a kid. Now, if you want to talk college, that's a whole other story.
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graywolf
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Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:15 am Post subject: |
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Ok so my friends and I had gotten hold of our first discarded Bic lighter. As luck would have it there was still fluid in it. So we proceeded to light everything we could on fire. paper, leaves, old plastic car models. We had a grand old time.
In an effort save money my parents had purchased a whole bunch of christmas wraping paper after the christmas closeout sale the previous year and stored it in the attic for later use. Now this was the old style wrapping paper with a glossy-waxy finish. Now when you burn this stuff it burns slowly and much interestingly due to the waxy coating. So I'm in my attic burning little pieces of the stuff when my sister comes up. In an effort not get caught I push the burning paper out of site and rush downstairs. So the small burning paper must have ignited something else and in less than 20 minutes the whole second floor of the house was a raging inferno requiring 4 firetrucks to put it out.
Needless to say I was grounded the entire rest of the summer.
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thuringwethil
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Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:22 am Post subject: |
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Grounded, that's it? I would have grounded you the entire year. Man I cannot imagine what my parents would have done to me. I got grounded for 6 weeks for making a C on my report card.
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socr8s
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Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:33 am Post subject: |
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That's awesome gray. I'm surprised you weren't sent away. LOL.
Ok i regret doing this now but at the time i was a bit sadistic. I blew up frogs. Kinda sad now that i think about it.....but hey, i didn't hurt anyone did i? |
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thuringwethil
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Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:35 am Post subject: |
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That's awesome gray. I'm surprised you weren't sent away. LOL.
Ok i regret doing this now but at the time i was a bit sadistic. I blew up frogs. Kinda sad now that i think about it.....but hey, i didn't hurt anyone did i? |
You hurt the frogs!
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