Idiots and explosives, part 2
So when I got a little older and was hanging with people who knew how to drive, we upped the ante a little.

One of the things that seems to never get old among teenage boys is to take a baseball bat and drive by the house of someone you don't like and smash their mailbox from within the moving car. You lean out the window like some demented cave man with your club, and as you approach you wind up and SMASH!

One kid's mailbox had been smashed enough that they bought a Rubbermaid one that was indestructible. Hit it with a bat and it bounces right back. Clever, eh? The old man had outwitted us.

Only it occurred to a certain idiot that if one bent a piece of wire to hold an aerosol can on its side about three inches above the surface it was sitting on so one could put a lit can of sterno beneath it, the results might be entertaining. Especially if you used a partial can of engine starting fluid, which is mostly ether.

Entertaining is perhaps the wrong word.

It's well that we were in a car and speeding away when it went off.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 12 Feb 2009, 21:48, Reply)