Fireworks Rock!

[Dadpole]

Mighty Cannons were the best for some quite major earth works as I recall.....

Ahh... The Mighty Cannon.
The best off-the-shelf firework as I recall. A friend was chasing me with a lit one once when it went off in his hand. Decent burns and numbness for a day or so - pissed my self laughing as I retaliated in kind

[Finn]

And it's because we enjoy fireworks that this government will want to ban them. Remember, anything that is fun will be banned. Apparently you idiots need to be controlled some more.

I did find it amusing that the Fire Chief has been nudged to speak out. Wasn't one of his men recently prosecuted for setting fires? Therefore, under this governments thinking, ALL FIREMEN ARE PIROMANIACS. We should ban them too. Besides, they don't really do much. They're always late and when they do turn up, it's like a MOTAT rally.

And Chanceyy, mongrels don't need guy fawkes to hurt animals. They do really well without them.

We forget what Guy Fawkes stood for. We need more people like him, like now.

[98tls]

not exactly fireworks but i have seen a boat flare go off inside a police car........... i was young and stupid and myself and a friend were walking to the square in ch-ch where we were going to let them off...yea like i said young and stupid...we got picked up by a couple off cops..on the way to were we supposedly found said flares we were sitting in the back seat watching the cop pulling the lever/spring down and releasing it...he did it once to often and fuck me if it didnt go off...you have never seen 4 people exit a car as fast....then we stood there watching it bounce all around the inside off the police car.......quite a display......

[Motu]

Mighty Cannons were the best for some quite major earth works as I recall.....

Bucklands Beach now has a retaining wall.....I hope we didn't do that much damage each year as we exgavated the bank with well placed charges....

As a ''grown up'' in my 20's I would fill balloons with oxy/acet and put them on the back seat of my car and take them to where ever we were going that year.Depending on the mix you could damn near shatter ear drums and destroy the bonfire,blowing it all over the yard.I'd hate to think what could of happened to my car if a stray spark got in there.....

[Mom]

Bucklands Beach now has a retaining wall.....I hope we didn't do that much damage each year as we exgavated the bank with well placed charges....

As a ''grown up'' in my 20's I would fill balloons with oxy/acet and put them on the back seat of my car and take them to where ever we were going that year.Depending on the mix you could damn near shatter ear drums and destroy the bonfire,blowing it all over the yard.I'd hate to think what could of happened to my car if a stray spark got in there.....

Do I know you??????.....lol I also have done some beach bank excavations in that area, although the fav place for us was Melons Bay....

Vandals we were

[MisterD]

We forget what Guy Fawkes stood for. We need more people like him, like now.

What!? Raving loony Catholic terrorists? Ok, I suppose we could set them on the raving loony Muslim terrorists.....

[Goblin]

As a ''grown up'' in my 20's I would fill balloons with oxy/acet and put them on the back seat of my car and take them to where ever we were going that year.Depending on the mix you could damn near shatter ear drums and destroy the bonfire,blowing it all over the yard.I'd hate to think what could of happened to my car if a stray spark got in there.....

Hahaha! My dad was the King of the Oxy/acet bomb! When I was about five he took my sister and I down to his workshop to make a bomb for Guy Fawkes. This was a car tube with a supposedly slow burning fuse in the valve part. Maria and I had to sit with it in the back of the old golden holden stationwagon to keep it safe as we drove home. When it was time to set the 'Bomb' off we all got a safe distance away as dad and Frank went and lit the fuse. They both started to run and it went off "BOOOOOOM!!!" The pair of them were blown about 20 feet in the air and we were all blown over by the shock wave.
We lived in Western Heights and the blast was heard from Eastside. All our ears were ringing for days. That was the best Guy Fawkes ever!

[Patrick]

Ahhh... the old oxy-acetylene bombs... used to make em up in elephant baloons (them big bastards) and wrap em in paper, light the paper and get outa there.

Were driving out of one spot when a Police patrol cruised on in... don't know who shat themselves more... me seeing the cops or the cops when the thing went off... I'm picking it was the cops when it went off...and we were long gone!!!

[placidfemme]

Back in Zim the average Joe counldn't really afford fireworks... so most people settled for the public displays at the local show grounds... a good 30 minutes of fireworks always excited us as kids...

The last 2 years here in NZ I've brought my own fireworks... the first time Sam and I set them off in the garden... and 4 of them went flying into the shed (made of tin) and bounced into the garden a few feet away from us and BOOM... scared the crap outta me...

Last year we got some more and set them off in the church car park next door... Was pretty windy and only one went astray and bounced along the ground before going BOOM... but miles away from us... so no problem...

This weekend just past Sams bro brought some (Dunno... like little sticks of dynamite... about 6cm long and 1cm wide... just makes a little display of sparkles and a PFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTT sound).

He placed one in a V bottle and screwed the lid on, made a nice light display but nothing great... then they got the V bottle again... still Hot from the first little thing... placed another one in it and threw it into the garden... and BANG glass bottle explodes and little shards of green glass all over the garden... I've got that on video on my phone lol... was funny but stupid

[Paul in NZ]

Do NOT try this....

4 gal kero tin with a suitably modified top, Truck Tyre valve and spark plug adaptor soldered / brazed in. Carefully put about 500ml petrol into it and screw cap on TIGHT. Connect to the air compressor and inflate until seams bulge. Bury can in a hole.

Connect plug to old car magneto.

stand well back (a different postal code)

Fire magneto

Appologise.....

The real fave was getting all the old failed model aircraft (rubber band type powered ones) from the year and fixing them up for the big night with mighty cannons in the cockpit and an extended fuse is possible. Flak at 10 O'clock skipper.....

[Sniper]

Im not allowed fireworks this year after setting St Albans park on fire

[Ixion]

So complicated. What was wrong with the mighty cannon tied to a sky rocket?

[Paul in NZ]

So complicated. What was wrong with the mighty cannon tied to a sky rocket?

Does not leave duckpond sized crater in the ground...

[Jonathan]

Fireworks are great! They don't need to be banned, just have on-the-spot castration for animal tormentors. Isn't it stupid that on the news they are always saying "no one wants to see an end to fireworks more than the firefighters", this is their most exciting time of the year! They love it!

That being said, I accidentally shot some guy in the back last year... Gave him cash for a new jacket though.

[aff-man]

home made are the best....
Chlorine bombs were pretty effective if done right
Home made rockets etc etc etc...

Always had fun blowing holes in my mates garden trying out different fuels.

Once I tried using suger as the fuel with and oxidiser and some other stuff. Just making little fizz rockets. (rolling the powder in paper, taping it up tight leaving one end open with a fuse). So I ran out of tape. Being the smartypants I am I decide to use a nail to hold this last one together.. Of course I hadn't crushed the sugar very well and so as soon as the nail hammered in the thing went off..... bloody HILARIOUS.

Oh and calcium hyperchloride/clorate works as a good oxydiser and gives off a nice red/pink flame. Put a bit of copper shards in and you get gree/blue.