|
Alright, so one time me and some cousins were setting off fireworks. Well, just so we would have to pick up a lot of the trash later, we were asked that if we make bottles, cans, etc. explode, that they be left in a bucket while exploding. Now, I'm pretty good with turning small fireworks (M-80's, bottle rockets, Black Cat firecrackers) into more than decent explosions. Well, I had created a "popcan bomb" with smokebombs, a couple M80's, and a few bottle rocket heads. As I've always done with these kinds of things, I stuck a bottle rocket in so that when it would launch out, it'd set everything else off. Everything goes according to plan, there was a big explosion, and half of the can went flying into the air (it was missing the top piece, which we never found). Well, a bottle rocket head had fallen out and none of us knew about it. We started a new bomb that didn't fly out of the bucket, but did light the bottle rocket head, which jumped out of the bucket and went after one of my cousins. I have absolutely no idea how he was able to do this, but he jumped out of its way just before it hit the shed behind him, bounced off, and exploded about 6 inches away from his foot.
---
Another time, there was a display with plenty of artillery shells (fireworks, nothing military) and one of the tubes tipped over right after being lit...fell on a bale of hay and exploded. Luckily, we got a bucket of water before too much damage was done.
|