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Daniel270:
My biggest danger moment was when I was accidentally shot with a bottle rocket...  ruined a new shirt I'd just got at the time. lol

After that, I've never bought any other fireworks.  I'll watch (from a distance) but I won't be that close.

HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: ahofle on July 01, 2008, 03:42:11 pm ---Did anyone have roman candle fights with trashcan lid shields?  ;D

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yeah...

more fun than roman candle is the saturn missiles...   ;D

ahofle:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on July 01, 2008, 04:02:57 pm ---Careful.  I've had them shoot out both ends.  My uncle got 3rd degree burns on his arm when one shot out the wrong end and went down a coat sleeve.

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Ouch, guess I was lucky in my youth.
I don't know if it's just around here, but fireworks seem to really be lacking in quality recently.  I picked up some of those little 'jumping jacks' that just quietly spin around a couple feet off the ground.  Out of 10, only one actually spun (the others just kind of fizzled pathetically or spit out a few sparks on the ground).   :badmood:

massive88:

--- Quote from: Daniel270 on July 01, 2008, 03:50:23 pm ---My biggest danger moment was when I was accidentally shot with a bottle rocket...  ruined a new shirt I'd just got at the time. lol

After that, I've never bought any other fireworks.  I'll watch (from a distance) but I won't be that close.

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When we were kids my friends and I took PVC pipes in two man teams. One person to take a knee and aim the makeshift Bazooka, the other person to light the bottle rocket, and toss it inside.

We would then attempt to shoot other teams doing the same thing.

Tons of fun.  Kids are crazy.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: Jdurg on July 01, 2008, 09:20:58 am ---Sodium metal plus water = KABOOM.  I recall dropping a huge chunk of the metal (about the size of a D battery) into the lake and there being a good 20 second delay.  One of my buddies had never seen a piece that size go into water and just said "That's not all that impressive".  As soon as he finished saying that, the metal exploded with a huge fireball and subsequent explosions as the rest of the metal dropped back onto the water and finished reacting.  Funny as all hell
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Back in school, a couple of students stole the storage container for chunks of Sodium from the chemical school storage room. They wanted to try it out so at one of their parents home, they threw a pretty good sized chunk in the swimming pool. I heard they even tried to patch the pool before the parents came home....

 :laugh2: :laugh2:

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