The tell your favorite fireworks story thread

[TecnoRobo]

Its random, but fourth of july is soon
i'll start us off

I was throwing bottle rockets about 4 years ago, and i can't stand wasps. While throwing, a wasp landed on me and was probably gonna sting me. ( dont tell me they dont sting if you are not nervous or dont move thats bull ) So i took off, dropped the bottlerocket i already lit, and two seconds later the thing took off the ground and hit my in the butt. ( the bottle rocket that is )

I have many more, that are better, but this one is at the top of my head... more to come if people post

[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.

[Cha0tic]

i was lighting off mortars at my house with my dad. it was pretty dark out and we accidentally put one in upside down. we lit it and waited. it went off but nothing went in the air. then we saw all the sparks and the report, 5 feet off the ground. we hit the dirt and it was pretty cool.

[ZSigErik]

I was celebrating it last year with my ex-girlfriend of over a year. I look back on it as the happiest night of my 17 year existence. It was perfect, the fire works, the kissing, the.....everything.

That was the last time I was ever truely happy, the best night of my life. Wow, I get tearied eyed just thinkin' about it, but I have to thank her for making me happy, I love that girl and she still loves me, but sometimes it just wont work out at certain times.

Maybe another time...

[Lone Brain Cell]

Originally posted by ZSigErik

That was the last time I was ever truely happy, the best night of my life. Wow, I get tearied eyed just thinkin' about it, but I have to thank her for making me happy, I love that girl and she still loves me, but sometimes it just wont work out at certain times.

Maybe another time...

Know how ya feel dude....11years for me. keep ya chin up

[WickeDKlowN]

Let's see... there are just so many... So heres the top 5:

1) This drunk guy lit a triple mortar upside down. It belew the tube apart, one went in the garage, the other undr a car.

2) We were having a fire in the back yard, so we emptied about 2 mortars, into a tume, then set a board ontop, and dumped it all in a pile on the board.... All i can say it lots of noise, and some big *** flames/sparks

3) Emptied a couple mortars into a pod, poped a hole in the lit, put to fuses tied together for extra length, and tape the top on. I was still running when it went off, so all i saw was some green shiz over my shoulder.

4) emptied LOTS of fireworks into this tootsie roll canister. Used a bottle rocket as the fuse. All that happened wa some BIG flames shot out.

5) Dropping misc. fireworks into the culvert pipe at the end of the driveway, and caught a bunch of shiz in the ditch on fire.



And something that I will do one of these days: make a hydrogen bomb(The Works & tin foil in a 2-liter) with a baloon on top, and shoot the baloon with a Roman Candle.


Theres lots more that I might tell if i get bored later tonight.

[RoadDawg]

M80 with a waterproof fuse into a port-a-potty. I'm sure you guys can figure out the rest.

[WicKeD_WaYz]

I tied like 4 m-80's (or something mexican like that) together and twisted their wicks together.

when the first one went off it launched the bundle of m-80's right on me. I knocked it off and got slight burns on my hand, calf, and elbow as the other 3 went off simultaniously(sp?) right next to me. Very scary.



O and once I burned down an acre of a hiking trail with a home-made firework/bomb. Im not going to go into that story because it got me arrested and I shudder just thinking about it.

[ChucktheMAGician]

I was about 10 or 12 and my neighbor and I were having a good time trying to blow up GI Joe men w/ fire crackers. Not to explosive, but that's all we had as most good fireworks are illegal to sell in VA. We were having a time keeping the fuses lit and he got a great idea. He took one w/ hardly a fuse left on it and asked for the matches. He struck the match, lit the firecracker, dropped the match and used that hand to form a wind barrier around the other sides of the firecracker while he proceeded to blow on it. He then turned to me and said, "see they just need some oxygen", as he turned back he blew one more time and then it blew up right in his face! It was pretty funny because he started screaming like he was shot and there were little pieces of paper stuck in his hair, eyebrow, and shirt. Growing up ws fun!

[joeyjoe367]

Originally posted by WickeDKlowN

And something that I will do one of these days: make a hydrogen bomb(The Works & tin foil in a 2-liter) with a baloon on top, and shoot the baloon with a Roman Candle.

Nah man, You wanna get all the heavy water you can (Deuterium) and heat those suckers up to... what is it, like 10,000 Kelvin?

THAT is a Hydrogen bomb

[Snertz]

Stupidity

Split a roman candle down the middle, and lit the thing to see what happened...inside the house(?!)

Result: 10 Chared holes in the ceiling of my basment, and a house full of smoke

Ice balls with m80's in the middle, proves to be an intresting snowball fight

[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.

[TecnoRobo]

LoL... funny stuff

Two or Three years ago my father and I bought the illegal display fireworks. We took out our steel mortars ( we've done this alot btw ) and put em in the ground. Didnt really look at them much.

So we stick an Aerial bomb in the mortar(Basically a m-80 only shot way high in the air, thing is the loudest i've ever seen or bought) and light the fuse. We take off and hear the thump!, and look all over in the sky for it. We couldnt see it at all and realised it never shot out. We took off faster than ive ever ran.

When it was all over with, the mortar had rusted, and the aerial bomb blew up the underneath so it just sat in the ground, and made a hole as big as a small sized computer desk.

Another one- We do this every year but its always fun. Some reason we buy to many bottle rockets than we ever need. Last year we ended up with about 15 gross's and we knew wed never shoot em all off, so we would tie together 40-60 and light em all off at once. Lots of madness, lots of fun.

[m-98]

My friend did this: he tapped the powder out of several bottle rockets and put the powder into an empty Chap Stick tube. He then put a fuse into the tube, but he pushed the fuse in too far so only a little was showing. He lit the fuse and started to turn and the thing exploded, because the fuse was too short, and he had several bits of plastic shrapnal (sp?) in him. Some was in his jaw and whenever he talked the plastic would poke out of his skin.

This kid isn't too bright, he was trying to make a home-made bottle rocket to launch a toy car.

Edit: Kid was only an arm length away when it went off.

[Sparq]

Built a small mortar out of a pipe (bad idea to begin with, I know) and filled it up to the fuse hole with crushed pyrodex from a model rocket engine. Fuses were also home made. Light the fuse, stand way back...poof, cool sparks and lots of smoke. Well that was cool, maybe I will try a bit more this time. So I add a little more pyrodex than the first time, just covering the fuse hole. Insert fuse, light it, stand back...WHAM! at least a 15 foot muzzle flash followed an instant later by a deafening blast. At least twice as loud as a 12 gauge shotgun. When I went over to the mortar, its wire stand was ripped off and it had pushed itself several inches into the sand it was sitting on. I never fired it again.

I also built some duct tape fire crackers once.