Photo of Ripsnort in his early 20's...

[Saintaw]

   

NB....hmmmm looks like I forgot an "H" in Bishop  
Oh well, I need to sleep !

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Don't shoot ! I am only an observer......

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[Ripsnort]

Hehe, actually, when  I was  a kid, I took this really nice balsa  model of a ME109 (that took me 4 months to make) and used a geletin/gasoline mixture and painted the Gas-jelly onto the fuselage, went up on the roof of  the house, wound up the rubber band (didn't have  money for a real Bee engine) and let her  fly, on fire.  It proceeded to do a nice glide right over to the neighbors rooftop.  I still have  the imprint of my Dad's size 14 shoe on my buttocks.  

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"Experience is a hard teacher because she
gives the test first, the lesson afterwards"

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[Saintaw]

ROFL !

Reminds me when I drw that line with "Patex" glue from the Living room to the Kitchen & lit it... (Does a nice fire line & a LOT of black Smoke).
Nice Expreience, but Bad Timing : when the flame reached the Corridor in front of the entrance, My Mother came back from her office... Might not have been a Size 12, but it hurt, i can tell you that...

But, I have one that beats it ! :

A year later, I had this nice 4WD car Model In Platic & Metal (about  45 Cm / 30 /30)... I put a "Thunderflash" inside it, sitting right next to a Water balloon filled with Zippo petrol...

Went to an abandoned houseGarden in the area, lit it & let it roll down the cliff...KABOUM ! ----> 5 Minutes later, the House was on fire & the fireman 's sirens were heard...

A neighbour (Old lady) had seen me & the cops were soon Visiting our house in the hour...

Noone would let me get close to matches after that, My parents even bought an Electric oven/cooker to replace the Gas one...


Saw
 

[Kieren]

Have Mighty1 tell you about when I set him on fire...

[Ripsnort]

LOL Saw!  Kieren, I  think that's normal behavior for brothers  to attempt to torch one  another while  growing  up  ;-).  I have  two boys, 4 and 1, and since we  are non-smokers, I'll make sure I have a gun lock for any matches lying around the house  

[K-KEN]

Hmmm
about 8 years ago, the Service Manager and some of the techs in the Jeep dealership I worked at, filled some balloons using our torch outfit. (acetylene)  They had fuse material.  (I was the Bodyshop manager)
Well, the resulting explosion....concussion ...was immense!  Just from one balloon, it rocked the dust from the overhead flourescent lights and almost took my breath away.    
  We then found a cardboard tube, that had plastic rolled on it, and drilled a hole in it for the fuse, blocked the bottom end, glued a small stuffed bunny on a coke can, and launched it 70 feet in the air!    
So if ya work in an environment with a torch setup, I didn't tell ya that!

K-KEN

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[Udie]

 Ok here's a couple of my old pyromaniac moments  

 1976  I was just about to turn 7 and a friend and myself were in my dad's shed (right next to a 5 gallon tank of gas doh!) lighting the little plastic cars that came on my 6th birthday cake on fire, and rolling them into the gas can!!!!  Thank God my friends mom saw smoke and came running  

 A couple of years later another friend taught me a cool little trick that I'd actualy like to do again someday.  Take a tenis ball can (the ones that have 4+ balls in them)  and take the balls out of it.  Then about 1.5 to 2 inches from the bottom drill a small hole to put fuses in it.  Then put gas in the can, fill it to about 1/4 inch below the fuse hole. Then get a firecracker fuse put it in and cram a tenis ball in the open end.  make sure it's all the way down on the gas so you get good compression.  Then light the fuse and RUN LIKE HELL!!!!!!

 wallah!  one flaming tenis ball 100ft in the air    don't put too much gas in or the can will explode, this happened to us once (the last time we did it) and it was a VERY close call.  The fire landed less than a foot from my left leg hehe.  Guess im a lucky SOB....


udie

[funked]

Well I used to walk home about 1.5 miles from high school.

Large fireworks were procured, rubber sharks were blown to bits, and a water meter was reduced to shrapnel.

One day one of the geniuses brought a coke bottle from home.  He had unloaded a LOT of his dads ammo and filled it with gunpowder.  He then put a long fuse in it...

I had football practice that day and did not see the detonation.  But there were quite a few small cuts on these idiots the next day at school!

I knew another guy that did the tennis-ball can mortar.  We played 3-flies-up with it.  



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[Hans]

Oh boy.

Werks bombs.  An empty 20 plastic soda bottle, some aluminum foil torn into bits, and a bit of household cleaner known as "The works".  It heats up and eventually blows the bottle up, but beware of flying acid.

Where did my friends and I learn of this little bomb?  Thats right.  Mr. Wizard on TV.

"Now, don't try this at home kids.  Here is exactly what you do..."

Hans.

[Hangtime]

Propane; spark plug; battery; PVC pipe and a sack of potatos.

One each Model 3 rev 2 Spud Gun.  

Took out a garbage truck windshield; a gas station office window (mad panic; that) and managed to dent the door of the responding police car.

Got away clean too.   Delaying action fought superbly by 'viscious dogs' in yards I cut through.

"It wasn't me!... That's my story; officer, and I'm stickin to it!"

 

I ain't signin this.. think that cop's still watchin me; 32 years later.

[Citabria]

hehe a bunch of lil pyros  

mine was a big revell 1/32 scale f14... put a pair of estes D rockets engines in it and launched it from the roof.

it actually did some loops before lawndarting into the yard  

[Dinger]

I'm still upset about what they did to Bob the Wondershark.

[Duckwing6]

LOL some of you gys are just a little bit psyco right  

[Ripsnort]

For a really good non-flammable, but still lethal  explosion, take chunks of  dry ice, put them into  a 2 litre plastic Pepsi bottle, add alittle  water, and toss it in a garbage can.  Don't be anywhere near it for the next 5-30 min.  A friend did this at work once after  a picnic.  It ripped a metal garbage can apart into two pieces and  scattered leftover food over a 200 sq.ft area.

[Mox]

 

Originally posted by Udie:
A couple of years later another friend taught me a cool little trick that I'd actualy like to do again someday.  Take a tenis ball can (the ones that have 4+ balls in them)  and take the balls out of it.  Then about 1.5 to 2 inches from the bottom drill a small hole to put fuses in it.  Then put gas in the can, fill it to about 1/4 inch below the fuse hole. Then get a firecracker fuse put it in and cram a tenis ball in the open end.  make sure it's all the way down on the gas so you get good compression.  Then light the fuse and RUN LIKE HELL!!!!!!
udie

Udie, I used to make the tennis ball cannons too!  Really really cool when you did it at night!  Fireballs in the sky!  We also used to play soccer with a tennis ball while it was on fire... no one headed it!  I think we stopped playing soccer with the fireball when we started catching our shoe strings on fire.

One of the fireballs landed on my friends roof, (wood shingels) we had to sneak up on the roof and put the fireball out without making too much noise so his parents didn't catch us!  

Mox
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