The tell your favorite fireworks story thread

[logamus]

Originally posted by Smegma
My neighbors house caught on fire because a bottle rocket landed on his roof. Everyone got out except his cat, which died. Thats my story.

mmmmm, cat death.

my safety tip is not to trust the sheriff. i was out shooting off works and the sheriff came by and hung out for a while and we had a great time. the next night the fort worth cops came out and confiscated all our works ($250 worth as we had just set up) and told us we were lucky they were busy or they would fine us. damn sheriff.

[WicKeD_WaYz]

Originally posted by OKJEFF4
Take a small diameter piece of PVC, then pop the top end off a bottle rocket, take it off the stick, light the fuse. Voila! Homemade roman candle.

please please please make your sig smaller

[ttoad4000t]

This happened on New Years Eve a couple years back, but we were shooting off bottle rockets (in the suburbs) and a fire truck went by(just driving), and my friend isnt all that smart, so he shoots one at the firetruck, and hauls...It was funny, like I said he is an idiot.

[sps16]

I heard this thing on the radio:
This guy was talking about this time he was driving around lighting m-80's and throwing them out the window. When he threw one and missed the window and it landed in the backseat. He then jumped in the back(while driving) and grabbed the m-80 to throw it out but then as he was getting ready to throw it out the window it exploded in his hand. Since nearly all his hands were covered in 3rd degree burns he had to have skin graphed onto his hands from his back. He said his palms have been hairy ever since .

[-=Squid=-]

Well, me and my friend decided to make our own firework that shot in the air, via a massive firework rocket, shotgun shells, and his grandpas gunpowder. It worked alright in avery loud way. About an hour later his dad came in his room and said, "Dalton, you caught the field on fire again." I was thinking, again? Anywho, we go out there and his hayfield is in a firey ring about 100ft in diameter, we then preceded to put it out. This is the same person who burned his house down with fireworks when he was 7, burned hsi barn down burning trash, caught part if his deck on fire with a potato gun, and just recently did his house burn down again from a grill

[The-Z-Man]

Me and my grandfather had all these extra fireworks left over from when we went to Arkansas, so we decided to get rid of them by lighting them and putting them in an old mail box(My biggest mistake). So i get one of those bottle like rockets but in a larger form, i take off the stick, my grand father lights it, i throw it in the mailbox and close the lid, it goes off and comes out the lid and starts chasing me.

I also cut open moring glories and put the powder in a tin can and light it. Let's just say there was a verrry large flare and a lot of smoke.

[WickeDKlowN]

Now this is something my mom got me doing.

Take a brown paper bag(like you would put your lunch in), throw a siz load of fireworks(firecrackers, bottle rockets, m-80(ghetto fake kind), anything that will fit). Crumple the top up, spray some hairspray on it. Then either light it, and throw it in teh yard, or just throw it into a fire.

After that, watch the fook out. you never knwo what will hapen.

[Zhivago]

Me and my buddies were hangin out in the woods lightin off some fireworks... I picked up a cheep *** roman candle and lit it, the fuse burned up and nothing happened. So i hucked it against the ground... and then it went off. Duck and cover.

[Torbo]

zhivago......that was a hella good time. The next one we lit off was one of those missile base deals. We lit it and ran, and the things started curving right at us. scared the crap out of me. And that huge roman candle that zhivago decided to hold instead of planting.......

[-=Squid=-]

Originally posted by Torbo
And that huge roman candle that zhivago decided to hold instead of planting.......

Every true fireworks conneseur (sp?) holds there roman candles I like to hold bottle rockets, and sometimes the huge texas sized bottle rockets, and let them launch out of my hand Makes me look all manly in front of my friends

[Cryer]

Me and 3 of my friends once got a lew of bottle rockets together just messin around. What we would do is the four of us would light them and throw them in the air, end over end. Upon ignition, it was anyones guess where they would go. I got beaned int the forehead and in the chest. 2 of my friends had their bruizes, too. After a while of hit and miss, we gave up... And just began aiming them at each other when they weren't looking.

We got pretty accurate with those things.

[Cryer]

Not FIreworks, but just as fun:

We used to live in a rural area on 55 acres.
One fine day, I bought a Flare Gun on a whim.
We were out back (me and Golobeno_soqoloma) messing around with that and other guns. (He had the flare gun)
He sees a rabbit out of the corner of his eye, turns on instinct and fires in to the brush.
Despite our best efforts (yeah, right ) to supress the ensuing fire, 3 acres burned to black. Luckily, it was our land so no arrest resulted.

[Torbo]

Originally posted by Torbo
And that huge roman candle that zhivago decided to hold instead of planting.......

allright i guess it needs more explaination. it had so much smoke that he kept backing up, with the rest of us standing behind him, which would have been ok, till we all got ran into a huge patch of pricker bushes, with the roman candle going off in all directions, i guess he couldnt see anything. or something like that

[Mango]

Two Roman Candles + back bed of a pickup truck traveling down a residential road = fun for the whole family! haha

And yes, alwayd hold roman candles in your hand boys and girls HAHAH!

[Cryer]

Hey, Mango-

Do you have access to riot control gear? Like Teargas?
LMK, I'll PM you my mailing address.