Really stupid things you and your mates did as kids...
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Skii said:
Back in my early teens my mates and I managed to get hold of some 12 bore shotgun cartridges, and then a short length of steel pipe that was just big enough to accommodate said cartridges.
We secured the pipe to a small block of wood with some 6 inch nails hammered down the sides and bent over the pipe, then took turns using a hammer and nail to fire it.
Occasionally the whole thing would spin around as the hammer and nail impacted, firing in wildly different directions than intended.
Somehow we all reached adulthood.
A chap from school did the pipe bomb bit with copper pipe and weedkiller mixture and blew his hand off. Saw him later with a black 'Dr. NO ' false hand.We secured the pipe to a small block of wood with some 6 inch nails hammered down the sides and bent over the pipe, then took turns using a hammer and nail to fire it.
Occasionally the whole thing would spin around as the hammer and nail impacted, firing in wildly different directions than intended.
Somehow we all reached adulthood.
The BIB came to school to give everybody some firework advice.
Reading the other posts, clearly i was not alone with the weedkiller and sugar shenanigans
That came to a head (and abruptly stopped) after the detontation of a soda stream gas canister packed full of the stuff. The device was placed in a hole at the bottom of a tree, which it blew clean out of the ground.
Health and safety was rather lacking though, and we were stood way to close to the action. A painful and unpleasant experience.
Still, petrol was cheap and plentiful (when syphoned from the neighbours cars) which was useful for making fires or this one time, Molotov cocktails. Despite being in the woods, our antics had unsurprisingly attracted the attention of the local police. They came up the track in a panda car to be met by my friend standing in the track holding a lit petrol bomb. Like a stunned deer in the headlights, he paniced and chose to throw it in the direction of the oncoming police car. Fortunately he threw like a girl and it never went off anyway.
At around 14 we moved on to two wheel fun. It's amazing the amount of old motorbikes you can uncover by knocking on doors on a housing estate. Some were given freely, others were bought for no more than £10. At one point, there must have been 20 bikes sat in my back garden, My mum just assumed i tinkered with them, which was true until she went out at which point they were ridden like lunatics around the estate or up the fields. Police weren't afraid to chase you on them back then either, which happened a lot.
That came to a head (and abruptly stopped) after the detontation of a soda stream gas canister packed full of the stuff. The device was placed in a hole at the bottom of a tree, which it blew clean out of the ground.
Health and safety was rather lacking though, and we were stood way to close to the action. A painful and unpleasant experience.
Still, petrol was cheap and plentiful (when syphoned from the neighbours cars) which was useful for making fires or this one time, Molotov cocktails. Despite being in the woods, our antics had unsurprisingly attracted the attention of the local police. They came up the track in a panda car to be met by my friend standing in the track holding a lit petrol bomb. Like a stunned deer in the headlights, he paniced and chose to throw it in the direction of the oncoming police car. Fortunately he threw like a girl and it never went off anyway.
At around 14 we moved on to two wheel fun. It's amazing the amount of old motorbikes you can uncover by knocking on doors on a housing estate. Some were given freely, others were bought for no more than £10. At one point, there must have been 20 bikes sat in my back garden, My mum just assumed i tinkered with them, which was true until she went out at which point they were ridden like lunatics around the estate or up the fields. Police weren't afraid to chase you on them back then either, which happened a lot.
Camping Gaz cylinders (the small ones you'd put in your little stove, not the big ones) or baked bean tins on fires and retreat.
The gas canisters were best at night - massive WHUMPF! and a huge incandescent mushroom cloud
Best not do this down the bottom of your mates back garden when his mum is in the kitchen though.
There was also this mad hippy bloke and we climbed on his roof and stuck a slab on top of his chimney (which had smoke coming out)
and then went and sat on a nearby banking. After a few minutes he comes staggering out of his front door with smoke billowing after him shouting "You f
king bds!" He chased us for miles all the time shouting "you fking bds". When I look back on that it's horrifying - could have killed the bloke 
The gas canisters were best at night - massive WHUMPF! and a huge incandescent mushroom cloud
Best not do this down the bottom of your mates back garden when his mum is in the kitchen though.
There was also this mad hippy bloke and we climbed on his roof and stuck a slab on top of his chimney (which had smoke coming out)
and then went and sat on a nearby banking. After a few minutes he comes staggering out of his front door with smoke billowing after him shouting "You fking bds!" He chased us for miles all the time shouting "you fking bds". When I look back on that it's horrifying - could have killed the bloke We used to have airgun fights in one of my m8’s orchards & get his dads shotguns out of the gun cabinet and shoot mullet over the harbour wall, his Dad never knew and the poor old bugger has been dead for donkeys years now, but this was back in the early 60’s...... we all had home made catapults as well, memories.
Today we’d be locked up for it 😲
We used to have access to two stroke motorcycles as well back then, but we couldn’t afford the fuel but we could get tvo tractor fuel, once we got them started on petrol and warm we would run them on tvo, great fun before licences as we weren’t legally old enough to ride.
Plus all the normal things like scrumping etc
Kids of today miss all this as its all so pc.
Today we’d be locked up for it 😲
We used to have access to two stroke motorcycles as well back then, but we couldn’t afford the fuel but we could get tvo tractor fuel, once we got them started on petrol and warm we would run them on tvo, great fun before licences as we weren’t legally old enough to ride.
Plus all the normal things like scrumping etc
Kids of today miss all this as its all so pc.
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