Dumb things you do

fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
good lord.
throwing stuff... LOL
apricots between houses during rush hour.
bottle rockets over the roof of the car... [someone else has a good ass kicking story about hitting the local karate teacher in the calf with one of those]
hanging shopping carts off the overpass to the local train yard.[wham,bam,bing bonk bam bam bam]
bags full of garbage in the trees on moonless nights..
pellets stuck in various body parts of random people.
zip lock bags full of water off various places.
golf balls,, well, maybe let's not go there,,,, but still waay more family friendly than the garden hose episode.


i had a lot of free time as a kid.
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Never rocks. Dried hunks of clay from new foundations in the neighborhood- hell yes! May have been a few broken windows on new construction from misses.
 
oscarflytyer

oscarflytyer

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damn! beginning to think I led a very sheltered life as a kid!

Best from my Dad. Worked a dredge line on creeks as a young guy - MW Indiana. Back when they used nitroglycerin/~mid/late 50's. Saturday night fun was a barn, 200 lb anvil, 16 lb sledgehammer, eye dropper - and Nitro! I'm sure there was alcohol... Story told was that he who was able to hit the drop of nitro on the anvil - AND manage to hang onto the sledgehammer - was the pseudo-official winner!
 
L Ross

L Ross

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Take two anvils, put the bigger one upside down. Fill the cavity with as much BP and you can get in there. Place the smaller, (112#), right side up on top of the mounded BP with a piece of cannon fuse. Light the fuse and preferably run away, although a smooth purposeful walking retreat shows more confidence. A perfect launch will go as high as an adjacent tall Elm tree. The tiny bit of angle on the side the fuse holds up prevents the falling anvil from hitting the bottom anvil, by a few feet. No coyotes could be found to assist in this endeavor.
 
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BudHyett

Active Member
It's a wonder we ever survived into our thirties, the current generation has no idea of the thrill of victory nor the agony of defeat.
 
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RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Somebody decided it was demeaning to show Franz Klamer wipe out on the big jump every Sunday afternoon a long time before it became a mainstream notion.

I had an uncle that worked in an offensive devise R&D facility, the California desert rats know the one . They have a few well known claims to fame , overkill is a standard of development. One of the toys was an anti tank shell . They were shooting at tanks w/24" of armor plate in front so they developed a 105mm that would poke a hole in 36" and detonate inside the shell while sending the 3 section into the engine and transmission , making it 80-100,000 of scrap metal.
At the other of the scale they produced about a million match fused detonators. They produced a unique donut shock wave that would allow basic dynamite to be used as a cratering charge in units of 3 or more . Also water proof . They weren't M80 class but they would launch an open soup can with the closed end up about 20 ft . I was all of 4 maybe and kept well away . Similar feats were attempted but black cats just wouldn't get it done the same way .
 
fiver

fiver

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mix that aluminum with Tide and spark it off with a battery.
you don't need powder, just the shavings from drilling holes in stuff does the trick.
it doesn't dismantle the garage or nuthin quite that good, but you surely don't want to have it in your pocket.
 
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