Fireworks.
I was about 17 years old. My friend aquired a rather large amount of fireworks, so he decided to do what any 17 year old pyromaniac would do. Make his own explosives.

He rang me up one night

"Xstopher! Come round to mine, I have something to show you!"

"Ok, I'll be round in 15 minutes."

Got round to his house, and he came out of the house with an empty aftershave bottle filled with a black powder, and a string coming out of a hole in the side.

The silly bastard had made his own bomb, complete with fuse.

Anyway, we trundle off to a deserted field area (Seven Arches, if anyone is from Stockport/Cheadle Hulme area) and proceed to plant this thing in on the ground, light it, and run like buggery.

Except I tripped over my own feet about 5 feet away.

Deciding that staying on the ground is a good idea, I wait for the thing to go off, which after about 3 more seconds it does. I can still remember the sound of the glass whizzing overhead.

My friend started panicking, thinking I'd been hit by shrapnel. The only injury I suffered was a dented pride. We went back to check where we'd left it and there was nothing left. Friend later told me he'd emptied the gunpowder from 6 of them Roman Candle things into it.

Fun times.
(Xstopher, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 18:36, 2 replies)

Fun with fireworks.. Top notch!
Shouldn't your handle be Xopher BTW? Of course, if you don't want it, there must be another atheist Chris who'd like it!!
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Tue 17 Feb 2009, 15:26, closed)

You're right!
It probably should be. But that's the way my mates have always spelt it, so it just stuck.
(Xstopher, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 16:36, closed)