Stupid is as Stupid Does

[brimo]

Now that we're older and wiser, we were never that stupid 

We never for instance put lighter fluid on our arms and lit it....

Or attempted to drink a "Flaming Lamborghini" while it was still alight.

[Popeye the Sailor]

Trash bag with the right mix of oxy-acetylene. 

[MendoDave]

Trash bag with the right mix of oxy-acetylene. 

Do tell...

[Monsterlover]

He just did

[Rameses]

Trash bag with the right mix of oxy-acetylene. 

There was a huge machine shop just down the street from where a cousin of mine used to live in NY.

The guys that worked there evidently used to fill ballons with oxy-acetylene mix and touch them off all the time.

One day a guy decided that if that was awesome, a 55 gallon trash bag would be even better.

Blew every window out of the warehouse and ruptured several people's eardrums.

[Popeye the Sailor]

There was a huge machine shop just down the street from where a cousin of mine used to live in NY.

The guys that worked there evidently used to fill ballons with oxy-acetylene mix and touch them off all the time.

One day a guy decided that if that was awesome, a 55 gallon trash bag would be even better.

Blew every window out of the warehouse and ruptured several people's eardrums.

So he was right? 

[brimo]

We used to use a hydrogen torch for lead work on batteries. Balloons and hydrogen were a good bit of explosive fun.
(Unless you were on the Hindenburg I guess)

[Rameses]

So he was right? 

Weren't my eardrums.

[Skybarney]

We used to make lightning.  Wrap some copper wire around a screwdriver stick it in the ground. Then we tossed the coil of copper over a power line.  It was not very safe and copper was quite inexpensive.....   




Disclaimer, do not hold the screwdriver or stand in a puddle of water next to it, or do it in a dry area...... 

[1.21GW]

Shit we did as a kid that today I can't believe I didn't die/get paralyzed/need an amputation:

- surf down a flight of carpeted stairs on a boogieboard into (but not thankfully not through) stained glass windows
- roman candle wars: ten paces, light and fire away at each other.  Headshots were double the points.
- a version of darts where you could stand next to the board and get points for catching your opponent's throw
- jumping off roofs: onto an pair of old mattress we found lying in the street; into a pool; onto a car; etc

- and my favorite: we used to light M-80s and throw them at stuff.  But they weren't exploding quickly enough, so my friend and I would hold the M-80 in our hand in a ready-to-throw position, the other one would light the fuse and then tell the thrower when the fuse had disappeared into the body of the M-80.  Then we'd throw it.

I am amazed I still have ten fingers.

[Speedbag]

There was a huge machine shop just down the street from where a cousin of mine used to live in NY.

The guys that worked there evidently used to fill ballons with oxy-acetylene mix and touch them off all the time.

One day a guy decided that if that was awesome, a 55 gallon trash bag would be even better.

Blew every window out of the warehouse and ruptured several people's eardrums.

Our high school shop teacher demonstrated the balloon trick every year to the newbies as a safety demonstration on oxy-ace. 

[Skybarney]

Thought it would be a good idea to jump off my 9ft. tall trailer roof, it was not.