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shardian:

--- Quote from: stan2323 on March 31, 2008, 10:20:39 am ---I was about 9 years old and was out shooting frogs with my BB gun at a local pond.  It stopped shooing BBs.  I rolled up a bubble gum wrapper and put it in the end of the gun.  Pumped it up and shot it.  It came out just fine.  I tried shooting into the water to see if BBs were coming out.  No BB.  Well I proceeded to pump it up again and put none other than my finger in front of it.  Well it took the opportunity to start shooting again and I shot a BB right through my finger.  I went crying home to mom.  She put a band aid on it and said you’ll be OK run along and play.  She is an LPN and it is a good thing she is or I would have been going to the hospital every month or so.  I was always crashing my bike, falling out of the hay mound, cutting my self with knifes and saw.   

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At least you only had a BB gun...

shardian:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 31, 2008, 11:38:08 am ---

 ;D

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 :laugh2: :laugh2:

I think we can all amend our posts to show this. ;D

dstone:
I like fireworks. About two/three years ago, a few days before the 4th of July, my uncle brought home some time delay fuse as a gift from one of his friends that puts on the pro shows. Pretty simple stuff to use, you just cut off the length for the time delay you want and use some electrical tape to tape the fuses of the other fireworks. So, I cut off a length, lined up a series of 5 standard consumer-grade artillery shell tubes out in the field and tied them all together so they would shoot off in sequence. While I was doing this, my father and uncle were putting up some cedar inside the pool house, my mother was running back and forth getting nails and whatnot, and the rest of the family was in the pool. I let everyone know I was about to set off the fireworks and my mother came outside the fence that was around the pool to watch. I lit the fuse and ran to stand next to a tree that was alongside the pool fence. The first shell went off perfectly. Then I noticed I could see the fuse of the second shell burning down inside the tube. Uh-oh. I had barely gotten out "Oh cra-" when it went off, launching the second shell into the tree that my mother and I was standing under. We both take off running. The third shell launches into a perfect arc directly over the fence and into the pool, landing next to my grandfather. It exploded about 6-12 inches under water, sending a massive amount of water into the air. The fourth shell blew up another tree that I was standing under by that time, and the fifth shell blew up on the ground at the launch site. I turn around to see quite a bit of water running off the roof of the pool house and the house and my grandpa getting out of the pool laughing about how he thought he was back in the Navy. Needless to say, I don't use the cardboard launch tubes anymore. I have some nice steel pipes that get buried half-way in the ground and packed with sand bags. A little overkill, but I don't have to worry about the tubs flipping over anymore.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: dstone on March 31, 2008, 12:29:21 pm ---I turn around to see quite a bit of water running off the roof of the pool house and the house and my grandpa getting out of the pool laughing about how he thought he was back in the Navy.

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Laughing?  My grandfather would have come around the fence and kicked ---my bottom--- for an hour.

RayB:
I shot a BB gun at rubber tires. If anything guarantees a ricochet, it's gonna be thick rubber! Hit me in the very corner of an eye. Not enough to hurt or anything, but enough to make me realize how stupid I was being.

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