Sceadwian
Banned
Because some of you guys have really interesting stories I thought I'd share one of my "WTF was I thinking" stories and see if anyone else had some good idiot moments to share.
When I was about 15 sometime around the fourth of July I picked up a whole bunch of boxes of sparklers and little poppers which are white paper pouches with a little bit of contact explosive in them that bang when you throw them at the ground (or people) harmless fun diversions for my once pyro involved self =)
The sparklers went really well, ground up a dozen boxes (a whole gross) into a fine powder and put it in a paper pouch lightning it, made one hell of a flash and a boatload of heat.
The first box of paper poppers I opened up and separated the granules out of went really well, was about the size of a quarter when I re-wrapped it in a tissue paper and tossed it out the window. GREAT bang got the neighboors attention. Being the incredibly inteligent person I am of course I had to go bigger so I got the other half dozen boxes I bought alltogether and sat down on the end of my bed to take them apart and pour the contents of each little pouch into a bowl.
It was a pretty laborous project you have to untwist the end and pour the stuff out carefully and there were close to 200 of them. Now for reasons I don't remember the heater in the house was a little fritzy and happend to come on. I was so intent in unwrapping the little suckers I didn't notice untill I started to realize my face was getting quiet hot, I looked up at the heater vent (which I was sitting RIGHT in front of) looked back down at the bowl and a little ligthbulb went off in my head at right about the same time the entire contents of the bowl exploded in my face.
Luckily I blinked. I was stone cold deaf for about an hour, the ringing in my ears didn't go away for over two weeks and my face was red for a couple days from being peppered with the explosion, luckily the stuff doesn't pack much punch but it's loud as hell.
Anyone else got some good ones?
When I was about 15 sometime around the fourth of July I picked up a whole bunch of boxes of sparklers and little poppers which are white paper pouches with a little bit of contact explosive in them that bang when you throw them at the ground (or people) harmless fun diversions for my once pyro involved self =)
The sparklers went really well, ground up a dozen boxes (a whole gross) into a fine powder and put it in a paper pouch lightning it, made one hell of a flash and a boatload of heat.
The first box of paper poppers I opened up and separated the granules out of went really well, was about the size of a quarter when I re-wrapped it in a tissue paper and tossed it out the window. GREAT bang got the neighboors attention. Being the incredibly inteligent person I am of course I had to go bigger so I got the other half dozen boxes I bought alltogether and sat down on the end of my bed to take them apart and pour the contents of each little pouch into a bowl.
It was a pretty laborous project you have to untwist the end and pour the stuff out carefully and there were close to 200 of them. Now for reasons I don't remember the heater in the house was a little fritzy and happend to come on. I was so intent in unwrapping the little suckers I didn't notice untill I started to realize my face was getting quiet hot, I looked up at the heater vent (which I was sitting RIGHT in front of) looked back down at the bowl and a little ligthbulb went off in my head at right about the same time the entire contents of the bowl exploded in my face.
Luckily I blinked. I was stone cold deaf for about an hour, the ringing in my ears didn't go away for over two weeks and my face was red for a couple days from being peppered with the explosion, luckily the stuff doesn't pack much punch but it's loud as hell.
Anyone else got some good ones?