[GH85Carrera]

My ony prank I can think of was many long years ago. As a kid my dad was an Air Force Major at the time. One of my buddies on base was the son of a Full Bird Colonel. They got to live in the big two story houses and not the crummy barracks like apartments we got. The Col. houses were all arranged in the large circle with a large green area of mostly trees we called Beaver Valley. I don't know where that name came from.

Anyway at that time we learned about Co2 cartridges loaded with match heads. Those are great rockets as long as they are not packed tight. And some gunpowder and they are grenades. We had learned to make those and like idiots made a bomb. Now remember this was the late 1960s but still on a US Air Force base.

We put the cartridge with a cigarette as a time delay fuse inside a beer can, inside a coffee can, inside a paint bucket inside a trash can. Set it on a stump in the middle of the green area in the middle of a bunch of Colonel's and Generals houses. Lit the cigarette, hauled ass back to my buddies bedroom and watched. It sent shrapnel in a wide circle. Of course back porch lights came on all around the circle. Within a minute there was every Air Patrol officer on base there. It kinda made them upset. If that happened in 2018 no doubt the FBI and the ATF and a lot of government agencies would be involved. There was no damage except the cans and the top of a tree stump. We were very lucky that think did not go off prematurely on us. We ended our career of bomb making after that. A few day later we went back there to see the results. Most of the shrapnel was picked up. We did not use gloves so our fingerprints were likely on the pieces.