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Had to watch out for the blue lights on Wheeler and Hickam AFB... LOL!!!!
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Played w/ those lawn darts ( Jarts ) all the time growing up, especially during camping trips w/ the family & my cousins & their famlies......UNTIL....... us kids decided to play Jart dodge-em! My cousin & I were tossing them to our younger siblings across a shallow dry creek bed......WHEN.... my younger brother didn't get out of the way fast enough.....AND IT LODGED IN HIS SIDE, under his arm!!
I was yelling for him to stop, so I could remove it....but NO....he ran right to our parents, w/ the jart still hanging from his side.
Didn't get to play w/ those jarts for a long, long time..... Yes, he still has a scar about the size of a dime from it.... 44 yrs. later
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Where the hell were you putting the quart bottles Jim? And how did you get an injury to your eye and your butt at the same time? I think we're going to need a picture of you before we can continue this discussion....
BrianI laugh in your general direction at your gunpowder. We used HCL, aluminum foil and glass quart bottles. That lasted until I got a glass shard in the corner of my eye and second degree acid burns on my butt.
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The bicycle still gets my vote for causing the most childhood injuries. Every one I had did its best to try to kill me.
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The bicycle still gets my vote for causing the most childhood injuries. Every one I had did its best to try to kill me.
So of course, the next logical step was to move up to heavier, faster, motorized 2 wheelers!
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Where the hell were you putting the quart bottles Jim? And how did you get an injury to your eye and your butt at the same time? I think we're going to need a picture of you before we can continue this discussion....
Brian
Carried the acid in my back pocket...it leaked. The glass shard penetrated our bunker...made out of garbage cans.
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Jr. High science club after school.
Access to the chemical storage area. Elements are obtained, gunpowder is mixed.
A bottle is exploded using an electrical cord to detonate it.
It all fun and games until someone gets hurt . . . . .
Then it gets hilarious.
Um, I may or may not have tested out one of my 'creations' on my neighbor's mailbox. I admit to nothing.
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What mailbox?
The most dangerous thing I played with as a kid was Magicians Flash Powder. All I can say is OMG! When you put a bunch of this in a 16 oz. soda bottle through a long speed wick in it, and then wrap it up with a half inch of duct tape, you have something wild. I placed the first one of these at the base of a 6-7' thick tree. When we lit it we ran fast. It took that tree down like it was nothing. It was dark out, the blast was so bright (like a flash from a camera) I can still see it like it happened yesterday. If we looked at it, we'd probably all be blind. Oh memories! The things you could buy from a liquidator. There were a couple more experiments, but this is all I'll say.
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B.B. gun wars were the best! With the occasional Wrist-Rocket thrown into the mix.
Here is the crime scene. We had so much fun in these woods.
http://trails.org/our-trails/fore-river-sanctuary/