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This was my childhood ....
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An example of my childhood: Can of calcium carbide pellets. Rainy day puddles in the street. Matches.
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Me too. Better bang in coffee or Pringles cans!
My significantly older brother drove to Florida, and purchased what was (in today's dollars) $1,000 worth of fireworks in South Carolina. The 4th of July was a BLAST in all sense of the term. I was maybe 11-12 at the time.An example of my childhood: Can of calcium carbide pellets. Rainy day puddles in the street. Matches.
The next day my younger brother and I collected all the unexploded firecrackers, cut them open, and scraped out the powdered magnesium. This went into a hollowed out smoke bomb with a fuse.
Thinking about this many decades later ... holy freaking cow!
It's not a surprise that hundreds of so-called adults lose various appendages to fireworks each July ...
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Oh yeah, I too lived in a fireworks illegal state. But that didn't keep us from getting M80s, Black Cats, etc. The railroad was a big employer then, and we'd get train warning packs and take them apart. These were explosive packs work crews would wire to the track to warn trains that a crew was ahead. Inside was a yellow cake of explosive and when the train ran over it it went off. We'd chip tiny pieces off the cake and hit them with a hammer. POW! It'd blow the hammer back in your hands. The railroad was also good for walking the tracks collecting old flares that were unburned. We'd get the remaining sulphur out of them. I once built a Plaster of Paris volcano and filled it with sulphur and firecrackers. An M-80 at bottom. Took it to school for extra credit, lit it up with the whole class standing around outside, and WOOOW! Tha M-80 blew the volcano up at the end. Still burned trash in those days, too, and gasoline was the fuel of choice to start it. Lots of adventures there, too. Hoo boy - How I am alive I dunno....
Boatboy24
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Risky labeling. I would think that would be determined by what you ate the night before.
