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Wow. When I was a kid, I made a crapload of creative explosive things, with the black powder I had for my muzzleloaders. Never harmed anything, just experimenting. Now, I would end up in a Federal interrovation room, for playing around like that. I never made anything huge. It all amounted to flash/bang stuff. We never thought twice about it. Ranch kids . We were an industrious bunch. Lol
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Yeah, Homer Hickam became a NASA engineer, and he started out by blowing things up. I wasn't one much for blowing things up as a kid (unless you count killing animals for food.) But I did like taking things apart...especially electronic things, to see how they work, or steal a motor from this broke thing and attach it to something else, etc. Guess that's why I got the job I have today. Always wanted to understand how things work. Take a look at that girl's picture. WHen I see her, I don't think "Felony." I'm thinking like "A+" student. Give the girl some slack.
When I was a kid, we had a stoner in our high school chemistry class. This *%()$*)(% decided it would be funny to turn on all the Bunsen burners....in the class ...without anything attached to them. From what I heard, after the evacuation, was that if that room had ignited, it would have destroyed an entire wing of the school. Like imagine you just walked into a Dollar General sitting beside 15 other Dollar Generals, and all of them just exploded and killed everyone inside.
He got a 5 day suspension. Which basically means he's going to summer school, but still. In my eyes, they should've put him in jail.
Yeah, Homer Hickam became a NASA engineer, and he started out by blowing things up. I wasn't one much for blowing things up as a kid (unless you count killing animals for food.) But I did like taking things apart...especially electronic things, to see how they work, or steal a motor from this broke thing and attach it to something else, etc. Guess that's why I got the job I have today. Always wanted to understand how things work. Take a look at that girl's picture. WHen I see her, I don't think "Felony." I'm thinking like "A+" student. Give the girl some slack.
When I was a kid, we had a stoner in our high school chemistry class. This *%()$*)(% decided it would be funny to turn on all the Bunsen burners....in the class ...without anything attached to them. From what I heard, after the evacuation, was that if that room had ignited, it would have destroyed an entire wing of the school. Like imagine you just walked into a Dollar General sitting beside 15 other Dollar Generals, and all of them just exploded and killed everyone inside.
He got a 5 day suspension. Which basically means he's going to summer school, but still. In my eyes, they should've put him in jail.
I can't tell you how much gun cotton, friends of mine and I made while in junior high. We had a blast with it. Nowadays, it would get you landed in federal prison.
Wow. When I was a kid, I made a crapload of creative explosive things, with the black powder I had for my muzzleloaders. Never harmed anything, just experimenting. Now, I would end up in a Federal interrovation room, for playing around like that. I never made anything huge. It all amounted to flash/bang stuff. We never thought twice about it. Ranch kids . We were an industrious bunch. Lol
When I was a kid, we got A+'s for those kinds of projects.
I'm sure glad I'm not in school these days. I would be kicked out in a heartbeat.
My friends and I used to make beakers explode for ****s and grins in chemistry class. They probably could've been considered IEDs considering the glass would've flew all over the place and acted as shrapnel of sorts if we didn't take precautions against it. Nerd kicks
When I was a kid, we got A+'s for those kinds of projects.
I'm sure glad I'm not in school these days. I would be kicked out in a heartbeat.
I was only 12 when I built my first muzzleloader. Used to be able to walk into Ace Hardware, and walk out with a few pounds of FFFg, and caps too. $2.50 a pound. Sheesh, we made rockets, scale cannons, flash bangs, tennis ball grenades, etc. Lol, water proof 12/60 fuse was available as well. We never made any frag stuff. We weren't that crazy. A 1/4 # tennis ball bomb was sufficiently impressive, anx would move a fair sized boulder, or shake up the frog pond.
We even experimented with combining aluminum and magnesium powder with the FFFg, with ...interesting...results.
Liberalism strikes again. As a black girl, maybe this episode was enough to drive her off the plantation. With a little bit of introspection, she could easily rationalize why its not a good idea to be a Democrat like her parents undoubtedly are.
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