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# My mother used to get me KMnO4 to make smaller pipe bombs.
My old man caught me making electrically ignited pipe bombs in his shed and went mad.

Apparently bending copper can cause enough heat to ignite powder - he took me to the hardware store to get threaded tube caps and some grease.
(, Sun 23 Dec 2007, 17:19, archived)
# *nods sagely*
*backs away slowly at first, then legs it*
(, Sun 23 Dec 2007, 17:23, archived)
# The joy of growing up in a rural community.
I could blow stuff up and nobody cared*.

*Except mother.
(, Sun 23 Dec 2007, 17:29, archived)