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I guess we were a little more destructive in our ingenuity...
When we were 10, my buddy Jon and I collected up all the neighborhood kids' model ships and packed their interiors with firecrackers... making sure that at least a few fuses were sticking out of the hulls...
We then floated them in his family's back yard pool, added a layer of gasoline and lighter fluid (!!!) and lit the water ablaze just after dark. The first ship to explode was a hoot... then another... and another...
Yes, it was a minor catastrophe. And cause for a month-long grounding.
Yes, we partially melted the plastic pool liner. And YES, we nearly burned down the garage when a destroyer group exploded and sprayed the back wall with burning water... but how impressive a memory is THAT ?
Ah, those WERE the days...
SC
Without getting into a political discussion here, you all do realize that now of days we would be arrested and prosecuted for some of the things we did for fun then.........I mean, I used to do the same with small pieces of copper water pipes, end caps, waterproof fuse, and black powder. Now they call those pipe bombs and they are on some list of terrorist items. Sure made those models blow up nice though.
Kids on the farm just cannot be kids on the farm any more.
Without getting into a political discussion here, you all do realize that now of days we would be arrested and prosecuted for some of the things we did for fun then.........I mean, I used to do the same with small pieces of copper water pipes, end caps, waterproof fuse, and black powder. Now they call those pipe bombs and they are on some list of terrorist items. Sure made those models blow up nice though.
Kids on the farm just cannot be kids on the farm any more.
