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

[Mox]

 

Originally posted by 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.

I blew up a dumpster with a mixture of things in a 2liter plastic bottle.  the explosion was cool, it just blew the lid off but it was still fun.  Now what happened next was something none of us kids thought about...  The dumpster we picked just so happened to be a dumpster that was used by a paper company and it was almost full of paper.

Me and my friend spent the next hour running to my pool and filling up gallon milk jugs of pool water to try and put out the fire before the fire trucks came.  We had to abandon the dumpster and ran for the house when we saw the fire trucks coming.

I just knew I would be in soooo much trouble but my parents never said a word to us.  

Mox
The Wrecking Crew

[ygsmilo]

Growing up on a farm gave me all kinds of opportunities to get into trouble.  One of the best-

Tide detergent + gasoline = napalm

you can imagine the possibilities.

Also sawed off .22 cal rifles w/birdshot=
20mm cannon fire against 1/48 scale models.

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Milo

"A MiG on your 6 is better than no MiG at all"

II/JG2 "Richthofen"

[Ripsnort]

Hehe, Milo, yes, the farm life was good for experimentation since the barn was so far from the prodding eyes of mom and dad..use Borax next time, it doesn't bubble up as  much.  

Actually created a bomb with a friend once, shot gun shell powder compressed into a can, every other layer was bb's and compressed newspaper.  We never had  the courage to ignite it (and thank God, cause I doubt I'd be posting this) and buried it in the back "40"...after a couple of months, we decided we had  the  courage, dug it up, it was no good due to  moisture  that seeped in.

[sourkraut]

We used hairspray and barbecue lighters for fuel/igniters for our spud guns. A quick squirt could send a spud 300-400 yards into the river.

By the way - I hope big brother isn't reading this UBB. May get the wrong idea!

Sour


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Sourkraut
JG-2 Richthofen

"Hey - someone has to be the target...."

[popeye]

Find parking meter post minus the meter.  Kick post over to about 20 degrees from vertical.  Drop in one M-80, fuse lit.  Drop in one golf ball.  Stand back.  Try to estimate trajectory of golf ball as it disappears from sight.  Repeat until police car is sighted.

Tennis ball mortar and spud cannon sound great.  


popeye

[Dingy]

While we are talking about stupid human tricks heres one from my childhood:

I used to own one of those foot-tall GI-Joe's most of us 30+ year olds remember while growing up.  While playing with him one day, I decided that GI-Joe was going to go on ambush the VC and hid him on top of one of the lightbulbs in the living room but inside the shade so the VC couldnt find him.

Forgot about him until later that evening when a god-awful burning plastic smell filled the house.  Mom found the now crippled Joe halfway melted to the lightbulb.  Needless to say, GI Joe didnt see much more action on the front from that time forward!  

-Ding

[Minotaur]

Tie about 15 feet of toilet paper to a plastic garbage bag.  Fill the bag with hydrogen gas.  Let the bag float up.  Then light the tail end of the toilet paper.

Well my mother never found out, but my boss was sure mad as hell.  

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Mino
The Wrecking Crew

[pzvg]

Mothballs,phenol,and Acetone,plus generous wad of cotton,mix,soak,apply fuse,light and run like hell! (do not use near anything you're fond of nor anything occupied by the living,seriously)

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pzvg- "5 years and I still can't shoot"