at Tar Barrels last year
which is a fairly dangerous event as it is, some scrote lobbed an aerosol can into one of the big flaming barrels of tar being carried at full speed through an epic crowd. I was about 20-30 metres away and saw the resulting fireball. Would have shat my pants had I been right up close.

If the person who had done it had been caught I strongly suspect they would have been beaten to within at least an inch of their life, if not less.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:31, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Fuck, if I'd caught them, I'd happily have done that myself
I'm not going to lie, I've pissed about with fire before. But it was a bonfire in my back garden, and it was always under control. One time, we had loads of wood to get rid of, and my Dad was away, so my brother burned it. This meant that a few of us were messing round, throwing in empty aerosols, then legging it back behind a wall. Not safe, but nowhere near as bad as what one lad did.

Inside our house, he found a can of furniture polish, and decided to chuck that in. When asked how full it was, he said 'Pretty full, huh huh'. We legged it, just got back around the wall in time to hear a small pop, then a whoosh. We found the can halfway up the street, if it had hit anyone from close, it would have done some very serious damage.

The lad was booted out about a minute later.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:48, Reply)

he would have been lynched, no doubt about it
the denizens of that town are not the sharpest tools, particularly on that night.

That is pretty stupid. I've had similar experiences, as have most people I suspect.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:50, Reply)

We were young, and stupid
I wouldn't do it now, but at the time it was a laugh, and we were intelligent enough to leg it. My friend works in a hospital, the amount of people she sees with eye injuries over this period from getting too close to the flames, rockets, etc.

Anyone remember the episode of 999 focused on Bonfire Night? Frightened the shit out of me that did!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:54, Reply)

There was a group of teenagers
camping next to us when we went to Reading in 2005. They had half a steel drum and were merrily burning stuff in it, which made us a bit twitchy, but when we asked them to be careful, they were fine about it. Until we came back on the last night and one lad had a massive bandage all down one side of his face - we asked him what happened and he just shrugged and told us he'd chucked his deodorant in for a laugh, it had exploded and he had 2nd and 3rd degree burns down his face.

Yeah. Scarred for life - big laugh that got I'm sure.
(berk, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:58, Reply)

Sounds like that lad who got his bollocks cut off by shrapnel at Leeds a few years back
Difference is he was just walking past the fire when the gas bottle exploded...
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:05, Reply)