Fireworks Rock!

[Mom]

I do not want to admit what I used to get up to with Fireworks..........I know that they are dangerous........irresponsible people using them can cause all sorts of mayhem..........but gee they used to be good fun...........anyone fancy sharing their stories????????

I will if you will.........

[Motu]

Grown ups were soooo stupid - they used to set a whole packet of Double Happies off at once,what a waste!!! Even worse was letting a whole packet of Tom Thumbs off - there were hundreds in a packet....crazy,totally crazy what Grown Ups would do on Guy Fox night.

[WarlockNZ]

Enjoy them while you can .. after the shit thats gone down so far this year .. you can bet they will be banned for public sale in 2007.

and that just sucks!

[James Deuce]

We used to use double happies to power paper darts. Cut one end off: instant solid fuel booster. Sweet.

There was the towel rail gun and seeing who could hold a double happy between thumb and forefinger as it exploded.

Setting off multiple rockets in sequence by tying them together with the spare fuses from double happy packets.

Good times.

[Colapop]

Being a responsible and trusted student at college (ok, I could break in after hours unnoticed) I had access to the science lab... Magnesium, Lithium, Salt Petre... You can make "super happies" with a toilet roll and a few choice ingredients. I'm surprised I'm (and a couple of mates) not dead! I did burst both eardrums (and lost my hearing) temporarily when I was lighting one and my mate dropped one about two fet away. Skyrockets were awesome for street wars too.

[pervert]

I still rate a well made sparkler bomb up there with all time favourites.

Seeing one blow a hole in a concrete wall impressed me to no end.

There's a video on the net somewhere of a guy setting off a sparkler bomb made of tens of thousands of them...very cool.

[chanceyy]

never been a fan of fireworks .. esp with those idiots who think its fun to torture animals with them .. awaiting the horror stories over the next few days


I remember when i was about 17 riding my horse down the road .. kids threw a stack of double happies behind him ... lucky that he was used to gun fire etc .. turned & chased them down .. bailed up against a fence til mommy came running out to protect johnny ... but if he was not used to it .. consequences would not have been pretty ..

Have never liked guy fawkes but i am quite happy to watch public displays

[merv]

Back in the 60's I loved the Mighty Cannons. Used to put them under a large milk powder tin and it would blow that right over the power lines above our house. Kaboom. Somehow we never got hurt and never set anything on fire.

Mind you my other trick in those days was fill a weedsprayer up with petrol, pump away and light the nozzle and instant flamethrower, no worries.

Hell we were never stupid enough to play with LPG sniffing it in the car and lighting a ciggy - no sir never that stupid.

[mikey]

blowing up letterboxes in rifle rd? (snobvil)

[Harry33]

Mini skyrockets and a plastic pipe was all I needed. I also used to Blow up slatter holes with tomthumbs when I was little. Biggest memory was having a blister on my thumb from the lighter the next day.

I haven't been into fireworks for years and to be honest I'd rather see it at a public display.

[The Pastor]

Bamboo and skyrockets are cool, you drill a hole in the end and poke the wick through then you have a gun! We used to get heaps of them and make a chain gun like on doom!

[Mom]

Grown ups were soooo stupid - they used to set a whole packet of Double Happies off at once,what a waste!!!

They were heaps more fun to light singly and chuck out car windows as you drove along...

Being a responsible and trusted student at college (ok, I could break in after hours unnoticed) I had access to the science lab... Magnesium, Lithium, Salt Petre... You can make "super happies" with a toilet roll and a few choice ingredients. I'm surprised I'm (and a couple of mates) not dead! I did burst both eardrums (and lost my hearing) temporarily when I was lighting one and my mate dropped one about two fet away. Skyrockets were awesome for street wars too.

Remind me never to introduce you to my son...... he makes his own bombs now, not sure I want him to learn the recipe for mass destruction..

Back in the 60's I loved the Mighty Cannons. Used to put them under a large milk powder tin and it would blow that right over the power lines above our house. Kaboom. Somehow we never got hurt and never set anything on fire.

Mind you my other trick in those days was fill a weedsprayer up with petrol, pump away and light the nozzle and instant flamethrower, no worries.

Hell we were never stupid enough to play with LPG sniffing it in the car and lighting a ciggy - no sir never that stupid.

I reckon there are degrees of stupid........making a flame thrower being the lower end of the scale.......
Mighty Cannons were the best for some quite major earth works as I recall.....

[Meekey_Mouse]

I like fireworks ^_^ they are so cool. Just not in the hands of morons who hurt animals and blow up other peoples stuff.

But I do have to say... seeing things explode is fun

[mart1]

Me and a mate ran out of fireworks one night so we filled a breadbag up with a neutral flame mix from an oxy/acetylene set, tied the bag and threw it on a fire. BANG !!! We blew out 3 of the neighbors windows and my ears rang the next day. Damn near shit myself.

[special_jimmy]

chasing trick or treaters with roman candles = lost of laughs, not actually shooting them just scaring the shit out of them.