Exploding Cigarette
When I was about 10 I persuaded my mum to buy me some 'fag bangers'. My mum had given up smoking and was somewhat irked by my dad continuing to smoke like a chimney.

My dad used to have about 5 pints on a saturday afternoon and regular as clockwork would sleep for an hour or two as the footie results rolled in.

This was my chance, I stole his packet of fags whilst he was sleeping and inserted the little cardboard triangle into the cigarette. And poked it to about halfway down with a match. I only did the one and there must have been fifteen in the packet. Quite small odds for a first time banger.

I put fags back where they were and forgot about it.

About an hour later dad wakes up extremely bleary eyed having spent all afternoon in the boozer. 1st thing he does is spark up.

Damn! That wasn't the trick fag, he's lit it up and it hasn't gone bang.

And then.... BOOM! The thing exploded in a shower of sparks and burning tobacco. It nearly took his nose off and ended up splayed out like a weird flower with some petals missing.

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It couldn't have been better timed since he was so unsuspecting.
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Sun 24 Jan 2010, 18:51, Reply)