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DrPepper
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Anybody have any good fireworks accident stories from this past weekend?

I was out at my dad's house for the 4th and he had bought $200+ in fireworks. Good ones that shoot up like the ones in shows. They are called mortars. Anyway, after me and this other kid were lighting them all off. About 5 minutes into the show, one the other kid lit exploded either before it left the launch tube, or just after. Anyway, one of the fireballs it launched hit me in my forearm, bounced and hit me just to the left of my nipple and burned a hole in my shirt and my chest. (i got a 3rd degree burn on my forearm and just a little one on my chest) Next, the ball then fell into the box of fireworks that had yet to be set off. i saw it fall in there so i took off right away. and wouldnt you know it, with in 30 seconds, we didnt have any fireworks left. about 200 mortars went off. it was soooo awesome. anyway, waste of fireworks, but the Finale was something to be seen.
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Jul 7 2003 1:25PM
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Jul 7 2003 1:29PM
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221
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last summer, my friend tossed a spraypaint can in his firepit. his dad comes outside and asks us why we're hiding behind the deck and we tell him to go inside. A second later, the thing blows and this mushroom cloud shoots up over the house. theres flaming black paint all over the lawn and the heavy ass bricks from the pit got tossed all over. I guess confining the blast in the pit wasnt a good idea. it hurt my ears and I could feel the blast in my chest. his dad comes out and freaks and tells us he isnt sticking around for the fire dept. to come then jumps in his car and bails. so we just went inside, turned off all the lights and watched TV and nothing else happened. it was just big, cool explosion.

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'Your mom has a nasty gouge.'

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Jul 7 2003 1:44PM
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jtski
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me and a friend through a co2 in a fire once, probably the loudest thing i have ever heard
Jul 7 2003 2:08PM
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221
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rifle primers are real damn loud too.

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'Dude, check out this nasty gouge.'
'Your mom has a nasty gouge.'

'Regular tastes kinda tangy, the supreme is sour and diesel tastes pretty good.'
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Jul 7 2003 2:12PM
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CMUSkiFreak
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in my more dumbass years... tried to make my own, filled a film cannister with black powder, added a fuse and lit. it didnt work so i emptied it out into a pile and threw matches on it(now i wasnt completely stupid because i was standing about 3 feet away sheilding myself when trying to light it. but when it caught a ball of flame hit my face. i had second and third degree burns across my entire face. at the hospital they had to clean it out, it hurt like hell where i still had feeling left, and i had to wear this thick goop on my face for a couple weeks. luckily since i was young and the face has many capilaries i was left without a scar or permanent damage. needless to say i dont make my own' anymore i just buy plenty of mortars and anchor the tube quite well so i dont have an incident like above.


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Jul 7 2003 2:17PM
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221
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i dicked around with gun powder. makes good fuses. you roll steel wool into a long thread and slide it into a straw, then pack the straw with gun powder. perfect fuse. black powder burns too fast.

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'Dude, check out this nasty gouge.'
'Your mom has a nasty gouge.'

'Regular tastes kinda tangy, the supreme is sour and diesel tastes pretty good.'
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Jul 7 2003 2:22PM
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mammothpunks
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One of my friends was camping out behind this lake this weekend with a shitload of huge mortors from mexico. After shooting a few off, the police came out, but check out a camp close to them and left. They shot off a few more and the cops come back to thier camp site. The cops were cool with them cause they thought they have already shot all of them off, so a cop throws a mortor in the fire which he though had already been shot. The mortor flys off sideways and explodes on a hillside, setting it all on fire! They had a shovel and bucket of water at their campfire so they were able to get the fire out on the hill and jet our before the cops could do anything


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Jul 7 2003 2:44PM
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lalalalaura
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not fireworks...but a bomb.

my neighbor made a pipe bomb, and it blew up in his hand. it was a long time ago, i don't remember alot of it. i shouldn't have bothered posting this...
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Jul 7 2003 3:10PM
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SkeeOrDye
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i threw a lighter in the fire once, ran and it was very very very loud. and another time i had a campfire. it had just rained and there happened to be bricks in the pit. well wet bricks explode in fires.
Jul 7 2003 3:54PM
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DrPepper
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as a side note, i am about to leave to go to the doctor to get my burn checked out...
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Jul 7 2003 4:07PM
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221
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rocket engines taped to action figures is good fun. dangerous though



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'Dude, check out this nasty gouge.'
'Your mom has a nasty gouge.'

'Regular tastes kinda tangy, the supreme is sour and diesel tastes pretty good.'
-Trailer Park Boys
Jul 7 2003 5:02PM
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NomenClature
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we were lighting off a bunch of morters off in differant tubes to make for a tight show and one of the morters didn'y go up, it just expoded in the tube and knocked all the other tubes over, now all but two had already fired but those two fell over and shot their shels at a house next door, the shells exploded on their deck and lit it on fire, they had a Fire Exting. so they put it out but it could have been really ugly.
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Jul 7 2003 6:17PM
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mattster
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me and my friend got a model car and we put a three pack of lighters in it, covered it wiht lighter fluid and set fire to it when it hit the lighrers the little car jumped off the ground and the doors swung (sp) open and shot out flames justlike in a james bond movie it was cool !
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Jul 7 2003 7:36PM
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Freeskifro
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a huge mortar exploded in my friends hand. We had to take him to the ER. Pretty sick, but its the same kid that threw a milk jug of gas into our bonfire.
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Jul 7 2003 8:51PM
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GRANDHAVENSKI
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We were shooting roman candle fireballs at my car on the forth. then we got the idea to shoot these huge bottlerockets at the backed up trafic by my friends house. some people got real pissed.
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Jul 8 2003 1:22PM
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NH_LiNe
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I alsways used to make smoke bombs, and the recipe i use calls for slow cooking of the salt peter and sugar, if you dont no salt peter is highly flamable... so i was cooking it melting it and i was gettin annoyed because it takes so long, i didnt feel like waiting that day so i turned up the heat a lot... that was a fucking mistake the stuff caught on file and in like not even 1/1000 of a second the shit caught on fire completely and blew in my face i threw it outside my hand was burnt bad to from picking up the pan... i walked in side and my mom said what the fuck you ass hole you threw my pan!!!!!!! she didnt even care fire blew up in my face and about my burnt hand... jeeze

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Jul 8 2003 1:44PM
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waterville_NH
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hey 221, i think that is one of the funniest stories ive ever heard in my life. But anyways last year i was a huge piro and i threw a wd40 can into a fire and it exploded so loud that it woke my mom up next door and a piece of metal hit me in the face.



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Jul 8 2003 2:37PM
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221
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i usta blow up lotsa shit. my friend and I once tried to make napalm in my kitchen from an internet recipe. It said to melt down some bars of soap then add the melted soap to gasoline thats been heated up (gulp). All it did was make my house smell like gas and we wound up with gas with soap chips in it. wow. i was a really dumb kid.

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'Dude, check out this nasty gouge.'
'Your mom has a nasty gouge.'

'Regular tastes kinda tangy, the supreme is sour and diesel tastes pretty good.'
-Trailer Park Boys
Jul 8 2003 2:54PM
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dspin7x
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napalm is easy to make, all you do is put a shitload of styrofoam in with gasoline
Jul 8 2003 4:03PM
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221
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yeah I think the real purpose of the recipe we used was to blow up dumbshits that actually tried it. we were 15 and didnt know any better.

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'Dude, check out this nasty gouge.'
'Your mom has a nasty gouge.'

'Regular tastes kinda tangy, the supreme is sour and diesel tastes pretty good.'
-Trailer Park Boys
Jul 8 2003 4:56PM
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theBOSS.
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We had a 6 inch mortar on friday, and my friend went to light it, but the dumbass put the thing in the tube upside down. It just stayed in the tube, which was plastic, and exploded all over, little plastic peices flew everywhere and one hit me in the foot, I havent been able to walk for like 3 days now.
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Jul 8 2003 5:12PM
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Durhoward
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Haha what a dumbass. That sucks for you though. How the hell do you put it in upsidedown and not even realize it?
Jul 8 2003 5:14PM
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DrPepper
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yeah, i wonder if the kid who lit the one i got hit by was actually upside down. the mortar tubes we were using were reinforced fiberglass. that would piss me off if i knew he put it in upside down.
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Jul 8 2003 5:16PM
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etom
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my cus blew a big hole through a board and through a dock wiht an m1000 one time. it was dope. my friends were liting mortars and throwing them at eachother liek a war, they said it was scary.

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Jul 8 2003 6:39PM
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SaraJ
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i have a few stories..but not from this year.

When I was really little, my family bought some of those fireworks where the chickens lay the eggs that explode. When , the chick messed up, and shot the egg at my brother. It blew up on his stomach. Heheh

Last year, some friends I and were pretty messed up, and we decided that we wanted to build a bonfire inside of a bucket. The only bucket they had was this plastic one. So we got all of this newspaper, shredded it up, took a firework, put it inside the bucket, and lit it. Shortly after the firework had gone off, the newspaper caught on fire, and my friends and I were going all crazy. After a while, I noticed that the bucket was starting to melt. I started laughing, and told my friend that the bucket was melting. She grabbed a hose and we put the fire out. Because we didn't want her parents to find out, we ran up the street and dumped the ashes and newspaper into some bushes. To cover things up, we threw the used fireworks into th bucket and pretended that we were using the bucket to dump out the used fireworks, and that one of them had caught on fire or something. My friend says that her mom still uses the bucket today.

yep...those are the stories I can remembver.

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Jul 8 2003 7:17PM
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theBOSS.
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m1000? thats like the size of a toothpick. The lower they are, the more powerful. With the new US law, anything below m100(I think) is considered dynamite and illegal. So stuff like quartersticks (m30-40) and traditional m80s arent available to the puclic anymore
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Jul 8 2003 9:26PM
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SohCahToa
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ah, fucking with explosive shit. my friends have a bonfire at their house about twice a week, and there have been a whole lot of stupid things happening. good times
Jul 8 2003 9:43PM
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Freeskifro
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m80s are probably the best thing to have, they can do so much. But now they are not sold, i just killed a bag of 800 i had.
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Jul 8 2003 10:16PM
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mikehasahotmom
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fireworks are sic, but molotov coctails are the only things that im able to find/make no bad injuries yet cept like catching on fire but it wasnt anything big, just like a ltitle on my hand one of my friends dripped gas down his leg and burnt it but didnt need to get any help like hospitol
Jul 8 2003 11:43PM
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bitchassphatz
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shit this year some kid had a shed full of fireworks. god it was sick blowing that shit up. artillery shells, double artillery shells and mortars and lots of stuff that blows up...we showed up everyone on the fireworks.

this one time, i was in lancaster, california. its pretty much a desert there. well we were launching off fireworks for our cousins. and this one was dented in...we figured 'oh well we'll light it off anyway'. long story, short....we ended up running away from fireworks shooting off at the house. i've never seen a 75 year old lady run so fast and hide behind a matress like this one did. funny stuff.


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Jul 9 2003 12:13AM
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DrPepper
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just thought i would bring this thread back to say that my burns are finally healed up. the last scab came off yesterday. all i am thinking now is 'how can i hurt myself next?'
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Jul 24 2003 1:47PM
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mammothpunks
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you a big fan of landcastor mercer? sounds like you fit in perfect there


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Jul 24 2003 4:13PM
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DrPepper
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actually clausen, i havent even heard of that guy, or whatever it is.
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Jul 24 2003 4:28PM
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*Neil
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THE POWER IS YOURS

Our world is in peril. Gaia, the Spirit of the Earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plagueing our planet. She sends five magic rings to five special young people: Kwame, from Africa, with the power of Earth. From North America, Wheeler, with the power of Fire. From Eastern Europe, Linka, with the power of Wind. From Asia, Gi, with the power of Water. And from South America, Ma-Ti, with the power of Heart. When the five powers combine, they summon Earth's greatest champion, Captain Planet!
Jul 24 2003 6:55PM
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mammothpunks
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my message was for bitchassphatz


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Jul 25 2003 7:08PM
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