When I was young and irresponsible*
I was into building model rockets. Now, this was before the law was changed to make it legal, so the only source of power was fireworks. I'd buy up a bunch of rockets, strip off all the stars and other gubbins, to leave a simple motor tube which I'd then use in a model.

I was working on a project, testing a fuse. My lighter wouldn't work, because of a draught - so I grabbed a plastic tub and stuck my hand in it, to act as a wind-shield.

Cleverly, rather than the empty pot I'd expected, I'd managed to grab the pot containing several rockets' worth of stars and other pyrotechnic effects. Then made a spark inside it. With my hand.

When the smoke had cleared, I was amazed to see very little obvious damage to my hand - hurt like a bastard, though, and it blistered up nicely the next day.

Really very, very stupid.


* I'm older now
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 16:34, Reply)