Haven't hung around me enough......made something similar with 12g when I was a kid, worked flawlessly about 50% of the time, aside from the major hand stinging, the other 50% not enough punch on the primer with nail. Hell, I was turning model rockets into morters trying to blow up cattle and geese at same age too. The mind of a wild and wholly lacking fear kid living out in the country with no neighbor's, was bad.....

It's true - I wish that we were neighbors. But we probably wouldn't have survived our teenage years.

Brother and I wives wonder how we're not missing limbs or dead...

I wonder how many here have dropped M80's or cherry bombs down the schools toilets?

It is all fun and games for teenage boys.
This story is about my nephew and a friend who died while messing about with explosives. Only 2 died that day but there were around 20 kids at the bonfire where it took place.
http://www.riverfallsjournal.com/news/9 ... s-explodes

Wow, how sad. What a sobering reminder of how lucky we all are that we survived our backyard shenanigans.

I remember developing some pretty sophisticated fireworks with my younger brother when we were teens. He was actually the mastermind - I was just the safety officer. It was all fun and games until he and some friends took it too far and wound up in handcuffs. All I can say is he's lucky he was a juvenile, and we're both lucky we still have all our body parts intact.

Yeah as a teenager we used to have field days blowing shit up in Southern California with the M-500's we would bring back from our trips to Mexico. Terra cotta pots, weber kettle lids, mailboxes, and other objects all made for hapless victims. While we had a great time, we were all really lucky we didn't catch any of the flying shards from our activities or that other people didn't get hurt.

My friend in high school was building an improvised device from a prescription pill container filled with scraped off match heads. The device went off in his hand while he was screwing on the lid and unfortunately his thumb never grew back. He was lucky that was the extent of the injuries.

A German U-Boat washed up on shore. Hastings, England. 1919

Is that the one that sunk the Titanic?

yeah, just after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

I Raffed



Reminds me of the punchline from an old joke.....

Old Jewish guy and a Chinaman were drinking at a bar.

They're getting pretty fucked up and the Jewish guy says "You guys bombed Pearl Harbor"..gets up and punches the Chinaman in the eye.

Chinaman gets up off the floor and yells "You dimwhit, that was the Japanese."

Jewish guy says in a slurry voice "The fuks the difference, you guys all look alike and are all from the same place.."

A couple drinks later the Chinaman gets up and punches the old guy in the face...knocking him off his barstool.

Old Jewish guy from the floor says "what the fuck was that for?"

Chinaman says "Thats for the Titanic."

Jewish Guy says "You stupid fuck the Titanic was sunk by an Iceberg."

Chinaman Shrugs,,

"Iceberg...Goldberg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, whats the fucking difference."

my employer is from Brazil, all he does is talk shit about the place and he's sent me this picture around a dozen times....

Can someone photoshop that into Seattle?

Shit thats easy....

I'm sorry butt that man is ugly.