As a kid whenever we vacationed in a state where fireworks were legal we would buy a bunch to bring home. We would sell some (at cost) to our friends. If the cops caught us all they would do is confiscate them and lecture us. Being curious as to what the cops did with them we heard rumors that they divided them up at the police station and brought them home to their own kid. Don’t know if that was true.
The funniest incident was the day we were building dams out of the sand in the street to trap water and then blow up the dams. My father came out and told us we had to do some weeding in the yard so we stopped with the fireworks but our friends kept playing dam busters. As they were setting up the next charge with their backs to the corner a cop, who had turned off his engine, coasted around the corner and stopped about 2 feet behind them. They had no idea the cop was there until they had lit the fuse and got up to beat a hasty retreat. The expressions on their faces was priceless but it got better when the firecracker went off BOOM! We were all rolling on the lawn laughing, even my father was laughing, as we watched the cop confiscate the fireworks we had just sold to them.
They were making some sort of pipe bomb to fight off the monsters in the movie TREMORS and someone asked the crazy survivalist, Michael Gross why he had cannon fuse..He looked at them like that was the silliest question ever asked and said, " For my cannon." ( as in DUH)
I had a fast burning fuse once. Luckily it was a small one.(Also ONCE tried putting a cherry bomb under a tin can to see how high it would go. Not very, but went in several directions!
My son and his 5 year-old older cousin experimented with a firecracker, short length of pipe and a marble under their grandmother’s fiberglas porch — after which she had a marble-diametered hole in her porch roof which stayed until Hurricane Ivan sent it elsewhere.-The cousin is now an honest-to-goodness rocket scientist in Huntsville.ONWARD AND UPWARD.Don’t know how anybody survives to adulthood — or after.
LeoAutodidact almost 10 years ago
Practice, practice, practice!
rshive almost 10 years ago
Something is clearly not working as it should.
ladykat almost 10 years ago
Might be a thought.
Dennis Johns almost 10 years ago
Fuses always reminds me of the basement of the hardware store scenes from “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World” comical movie…. cheers…. ;-)
nosirrom almost 10 years ago
As a kid whenever we vacationed in a state where fireworks were legal we would buy a bunch to bring home. We would sell some (at cost) to our friends. If the cops caught us all they would do is confiscate them and lecture us. Being curious as to what the cops did with them we heard rumors that they divided them up at the police station and brought them home to their own kid. Don’t know if that was true.
The funniest incident was the day we were building dams out of the sand in the street to trap water and then blow up the dams. My father came out and told us we had to do some weeding in the yard so we stopped with the fireworks but our friends kept playing dam busters. As they were setting up the next charge with their backs to the corner a cop, who had turned off his engine, coasted around the corner and stopped about 2 feet behind them. They had no idea the cop was there until they had lit the fuse and got up to beat a hasty retreat. The expressions on their faces was priceless but it got better when the firecracker went off BOOM! We were all rolling on the lawn laughing, even my father was laughing, as we watched the cop confiscate the fireworks we had just sold to them.
love gocomics almost 10 years ago
this is all too con…fusing
jtviper7 almost 10 years ago
Just watch TV …. Las Vegas Fireworks " The Greatest Show on Earth ".
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault almost 10 years ago
They were making some sort of pipe bomb to fight off the monsters in the movie TREMORS and someone asked the crazy survivalist, Michael Gross why he had cannon fuse..He looked at them like that was the silliest question ever asked and said, " For my cannon." ( as in DUH)
Sailor46 USN 65-95 almost 10 years ago
He’s got a Short Fuse!
tuslog64 almost 10 years ago
I had a fast burning fuse once. Luckily it was a small one.(Also ONCE tried putting a cherry bomb under a tin can to see how high it would go. Not very, but went in several directions!
What? Me worried ? almost 10 years ago
or a guy called three finger Louie !
Jim Kerner almost 10 years ago
I thought that Dr. Richard Kimble got him?
Jim Kerner almost 10 years ago
Ya think?
katie ransom almost 10 years ago
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault almost 10 years ago
My son and his 5 year-old older cousin experimented with a firecracker, short length of pipe and a marble under their grandmother’s fiberglas porch — after which she had a marble-diametered hole in her porch roof which stayed until Hurricane Ivan sent it elsewhere.-The cousin is now an honest-to-goodness rocket scientist in Huntsville.ONWARD AND UPWARD.Don’t know how anybody survives to adulthood — or after.
Hunter7 almost 10 years ago
nah…. its never buy firecrackers from a three-fingered man. .fireworks are ok. just don’t stand next to the rockets.