When I was Younger (1977) My neighbor droped a black cat (fire cracker)down a man hole cover,the lid blew from the methain gas and landed on a car down the road (cost my mom 250 bucks):and we boath lost our eye lashes and brows.I was grounded for one month and had to take a fire safty course That later in life came in handy.Thanks to the fire fighters in Haltom city.

Umm, we used to blow up frogs with them...

For one of my father's birthdays, we baked a cake and before we took him his piece, we stuck a black cat in it and lit it...Just as he was putting his fork into the cake, it blew up...Hilarious...

We used to throw small artillery shells under the bunks at deer camp to wake the late risers up...Was all fun and games until we caught the curtains on fire.

when u throw a artillery into pond it looks like a torpedo hit a submarine. ah....good times.......

I'd have worn out four pairs of tennis shoes to avoid the fate I would have suffered! What a memory, though.

I had an uncle who was only five years older than me. We went out in the desert one night, drank about two cases of beer, and proceeded to shoot at each other with bottle rockets at about 25 yards apart. Could have ended with disaster, but was great fun. Those little bottle rockets can hit pretty hard!

We used to have Roman Candle and Bottle Rocket fights..

That was until a Roman Candle back fired and sent half the flaming projectiles up my buddy's T shirt sleeve.. burnt his armpit and shoulder pretty bad.

We got some trouble for Bombing Cattle with Black Cats taped to rocks.. shot them out of a Wrist Rocket. Takes one to light the firecracker and the other to shoot the sling shot.

Made Mortars using a Coke Can and Coffee Can... shot them all over the neighborhood from the back yard.

Now all you can have in the City is Sparklers and Snakes??

Bazz

I make my own fireworks and can't really tell you on here what I have done......I will say that I can knock the leaves off of trees without much effort.

A bit scary. A think you just went on a gov. list

We would pack mud around a black cat & drop in a deep hole in the creekit was cool when it sunk then blew up till i had one go off in my hand.In the boy scouts we were on a hike out by grapevine lake we put a black cat in a spent shotgun shell we found burnt up about 10 acres of field we stopped it just before it reached the woods.about 1hr later a buds coat caught on fire from a smoldering cow chip in his pocket from beating out the fire.

When does the statue of limitations run out on mailboxes? I'm just asking for a friend.

Bottle rockets were a blast.

I was about 9 and the oldest kid and we were doing spaklers, black cats ect. Running around through the yard with a sparkler I tripped and dropped the sparkler in a box that everyone was putting thier firewors in for the night show. About 20 adults sitting around drinking beer in the shade. I went to pick it up and saw that was not going to be good and yelled run.

Everyone split and we had a big show at 4:00 in the afternoon. Nobody got hurt but I thought I was better off dead.

Once the dust cleard I don't think the men minded that much cause they all got to go back to town without the wives and buy more beer and fireworks.

Ended up to be a good night but I don't mess with them anymore.

My folks sold fireworks when i was a kid. Of course i blew up everything thinkable and fought many fires. The coolest would have to be the time i took a whole box of "stuff that didnt sell" and pitched a match in it. Words cant describe it. There were things happening in that box that would have made some china man real happy.

Yea, I was on that list a while back. It started with this one..... .
Here is a short video... flight
This is the last one I built.

And you fish to? Put that on the back of your boat. I want to see you blow down Hubbard doing 300MPH.

any one ever flush a "cherry bomb" down the toilet drain in high school..

me either

Wow! THAT was super-cool!! How high did that rocket go? Awesome!!!!!

One year when my uncle and I were kids, we went and bought some fireworks which we brought back to my grandfather's John Deere dealership, where we sat on a window ledge out front popping firecrackers. One of the local guys, who was prone to pranks, reached around the corner through a doorway into my uncle's sack of fireworks and extracted a Texas Twister. He lit the thing under my uncle's feet, and when my uncle saw what was happening, he ran out into the middle of the highway trying to get away from it. I swear, that thing went everywhere my uncle did, and it blew up right under his feet. I don't know how he stayed airborne as much as he did, because it looked like his feet were touching the ground about every fifth or sixth step. The entire episode might have lasted six or eight seconds, but it was the funniest eight second stretch I ever saw! We were all absolutely ROLLING on the sidewalk!! Except my uncle, of course.

That one went just a touch over 12K feet. The bigger one had a projected altitude of 26K feet but suffered a catostrophic motor failure and impacted the ground at over 700 MPH.

Sorry for the temporary high jack of the post. It was mixing the chemicals and building my own rocket motors that got me into making some of my own fireworks.

This has been quite entertaining. If I see you on the lake I am going to give you plenty of space

Note to self: Not pi$$ off Keeb because he knows how to make stuff go BANG!!!!

Years ago as a kid, the family tradition had us gathering at Aunt Mae and Uncle Roy's house in the West Texas countryside on the 4th. Always plenty of firecrackers for the kids. Cousin and I discovered how much fun it was to tie a firecracker to a jumbo sized grasshopper and let them fly. Fuse lit of course.

All was well UNTIL Aunt Mae's pet duck unexpectedly entered the scene. And was hungry.

Know anything about this?

shot several bottle rockets out of my mouth
thought i was cool
didn't realize i had a gunpowder ring all the way around my mouth

I grew up in Hobbs, New Mexico where there is no such thing as entertainment unless you invent it yourself. Well, one sunny afternoon we were flying kites and using our fishing poles for the string and winder-upper hoojitt thingy....when we spotted a lizard nearby that was just begging to do the astronaut thing. We obliged him after a rather lengthy chase. Brought the kite low enough for him to get attached to the kite tail and sent him off into the wild blue yonder. That wasn't good enough for us, though. Brought him back down, attached a couple of Black Cats to his "Safety Harness" /kite tail, and lit the fuse and sent him on his way again. At about..oh, 100 ft up, it went bang. No more lizard....


Lord forgive me for all the harm I done to this lizard.