Trainee terrorist...
Let's place the year at around 1988-89. I'd have been around 10 or 11.

Let's place the location at my school, for that's where it was. In the science room.

Let's also assume that the science teacher (lovely bloke actually, who I've kept in touch with since I've left) forgot to lock the store cupboard. And one junior foaming-at-the-mouth rodent walked into aforementioned store room.

And helped himself to a large container of nitric acid. Concentrated.

And a container of glycerine.

And mixed the two. 150ml concentrated nitric acid, 150ml glycerine.

Place on top of a bunsen burner - and run like hell!

Result - one large plate glass window blown outwards and a big black mark on the ceiling.

Now, here's the interesting thing. The science teacher claimed that someone "must have thrown a brick through the window". Ignoring the fact that the glass was lying outside the building. Of course the real reason was that he'd have been strung up if it had been found out that he'd forgotten to lock the store room.

So we both agreed that he wouldn't reveal the culprit as long as I didn't reveal that he'd left the door unlocked. To this day it's been our little secret.
(RabidRodent I'm the person your mother warned you about, Thu 29 Jan 2009, 17:27, Reply)