The joys of being a kid in the country...

Mazeroth

I was looking through some of my old, burnt CDs and found my 2001 computer backup disks. I took a look through them and stumbled upon a still frame of a video clip I took years ago with my friend. I made a pipe bomb, taped it onto a street sign and ran about 1/2 mile down the road to make sure I was out of harm's way. I had my friend video taping with my new Sony miniDV camcorder with night vision. I put about 3 feet of cannon fuse on it to make sure I had plenty of time to get the hell out of there as well. Once I reached him and turned around to watch, no more than 2 seconds later...KABOOOM! Oh my lord! It has to be one of the craziest pieces of video footage I've ever seen!

The street sign was fine (High Water) because the pipe bomb blew off the two end caps and didn't cause the pipe itself to explode. If I remember correctly it was 1.5" ID lead pipe, so it did have the potential to cause some serious damage. I bet it illuminated a sphere at least 500 feet in radius, as you can see with the light travelling off to the right of the picture. Oh ya!

Hope you all enjoyed my lengthy story and picture

bobman1235

I'd like to see the video...

PolkThug

I think I'm related to Maz. We did something like that when I was a youngster. There was a flash, then a boom, and the sign was gone from the post; three seconds later it hit the ground.

Mazeroth

Holy crap! One of my coworkers just noticed you can see me in the picture to the left!

Yes, I had a very colorful childhood vandalizing many things. Looking back now it's still funny, but now that I'm older I kind of regret what I did. When you "get back" at someone at school by vandalizing their house or blowing up their mailbox, all you're doing is punishing the parents, which is wrong. I'm sure my time will come when I walk outside my house to find my mailbox is missing, or someone toiletpapered my house, or who knows, maybe even smeared horse **** all over my truck. (yes, my buddy got a truckload of manure off his uncle and we dumped it all over my friend's pick-up!) When that time does come I hope I'll have it in me to just laugh it off.

Toxis

that's why we took stink bombs and put the juice in a seringe (sp?). Stuck the needle through the rubber part of the window jam and sprayed the juice right inside the car on a nice and hot summer day. That always pisses ya off. A couple guys got this into a guy's AC lines... everytime he kicked on the AC, he got a treat.

Ron-P

I made a pipe bomb once. 1" galvanized pipe with end caps packed with black powder. Out in the desert I threw it as far as I could and hide behind my truck. All I heard was the bang and the side of my truck getting hit with the metal frags.

Now, we just strap road flares to propane cans. Light the flare, unload a clip from the AK-47 and the fire ball lights the night sky.

Strong Bad

Ron, sounds like fun for the whole family.



John

PolkThug

Sweet! This thread hasn't got shut down yet.

Skynut

Beware that if "THE MAN" finds out how much fun we have doing things like this "HE" will make it all illegal.
Perhaps we should down play the fact that we really enjoy it.:cool:

Jstas

Originally posted by Toxis
A couple guys got this into a guy's AC lines... everytime he kicked on the AC, he got a treat.

How is that possible? For one thing, an AC system is under very high pressure otherwise the refridgerant doesn't work. So even if he was able to overcome the pressure and get it into the lines, as soon as he pulled the syringe, it would vent everything in the lines into the atmosphere through that hole that was introduced into the system.

Even if that didn't happen, the AC lines are a closed circuit and will not release any gas or aroma into the cabin unless it needs repair. The "stink" would never leave the circuit until vented by a mechanic who uses a recirculating recapture method to retain the old refridgerant and recycle it. So even the mechanic would not be affected by any stench. Also, I'm pretty sure that the AC compressor couldn't care less what the refridgerant smells like.

Unless of course by "AC lines" you are referring to the actual ducting for the ventilation system. If so, I cannot imagine permanent damage to the system to cause an odor under normal operting conditions for the remaining life of the car. Sure, it'll stink for a good portion of the season but it will dissapate eventually. Most automotive air vent cleaners contain enzymes which neutralize the same stuff that causes the stink in the stink bombs. One trip to the car parts store and 5 dollars later and the AC system would smell like roses once again.