* STUPID ideas and clever inventions you tried when younger......

[Aurel]

I thought about a funnier variant of the hydrochloric acid and aluminum experiment: you do the same thing, but light a candle next to the bottle. Run further away.

Aurel

[slodave]

Threw a full can of Right Gaurd in a fire pit and hid behind a tree. I could feel the shock wave. Never did find the top of the can.

[lowyder993s]

Tater cannon...doesn't go off, so neighbor pulls ball out, rolls the cannon to get vapors going, lights it while looking in burned all his nose hairs, eyelashes, eyebrows and budding moustache.

Salt peter and sugar melted down, makes smoke bomb that burns thru a mailbox in 30 seconds.

Hammer fights...till my brother got clocked in the eye. Lots of damage to side of neighbors garage from missed shots

Take a handful of darts, throw high, see how close you can run under them. Brother was slower than me.

PVC nipple theaded both ends...filled w/ wooden match heads...set it off in the summer on the dry hillside behind neighbors house. The only thing that saved us from burning the homes up on top of the hill was that this guys dad ran a hose bib out to the back fence.

I really shouldn't be alive.

[singpilot]

Bottle rocket 'fights' on the beach in Ensenada. usually right after a beer, or two.

Would buy one of the $10. bundles, like 200 bottle rockets strapped together with a big rubber band, fuses and stems all pointing the same way.

Routine was about 50 paces apart, facing each other, bundle under the arm, beer and cig in one hand (to light the bottle rocket) usually while holding the stem with the free hand.

My first or second shot was spot on. Into the bundle of my opponet. All 199 lit at once.

Some of the fussilade went into my bundle and it lit soon after.

Beer for everyone. Lots of paper wadding in everyone's hair, several small burns inside of shirts, one slightly singed cleavage, that required many careful inspections for damage.

It is truly amazing we are all still alive.

[tabs]

Well.... add 1 to 2 Liters of Margaritas with 2 Lines of UNCUT Coke and mix with a 911 Porsche going 100 miles down Holister Blvd in Goleta...

[Craig 930 RS]

Dad.......in 1955. Butte, Montana.
July 5th, running around in the hills after the 4th of July fireworks show.
"Hey........an unexploded shell! And a nice Loooong fuse, 2 feet."

Light it........*1 foot per second fuse*.....2 seconds, and KABOOM off it goes. Singed shirts and near death everywhere.

Did I mention he hung around with Evel Knievel?

[Paul Stewart]

We mounted tennis ball cannons on our bikes and charged each other, but we used apples.

We used to put calcium carbide in a one gallon paint can with about an inch of water and then put the lid back on which had a small hole.

Once it started venting, we would light it off with a long stick from the camp fire. It usually blew the lid 20 or 30 feet high.

Once in while we would also put a dummy on the road around 2 am in the morning and wait for someone to stop. Usually once they realized it was a dummy, they would kick the crap out of it. It got really interesting when we also lit the paint can....

[stomachmonkey]

"Borrow" a fire extinguisher, the water type, from school.

Empty it.

Pour in some gas, 87 octane is fine.

Take to gas station and pump in some air.

Take to the woods.

Light tip, press handle.

Accidently burn down a couple of trees.

[gprsh924]

drano and tin foil in a gatorade bottle. doesnt explode for 10 mins. friend goes to examine it. ends up covered in drano, had to be hosed off for 20 mins to stop the burning.

roman candle and bottle rocket fights

huge firework shell, bucket filled with concrete and a pvc pipe sticking out of it to act as a launch pad. the shell never went up, sent 25 pouns of concrete shrapnel into the air. luckily we were in a field, so there was no damage except to some trees