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Old 06-07-2010, 09:59 PM
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Hands up who's never misbehaved? Or maybe you don't remember?
Hey the worst thing I did as a kid was turning off the water while mr Geissippo was all soaped up in the shower, Plus hanging a condom on the door knocker at the local nunnery...
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Old 06-07-2010, 10:15 PM
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Gees Doug, that is pretty impressive, especially the Nunnery one, ya twit.

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Old 06-07-2010, 10:25 PM
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Gees Doug, that is pretty impressive, especially the Nunnery one, ya twit.

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Hey Leon I was only 13 and had no idea how to blow it up....The Nun's loved it because they took it inside to show the other Nuns, I think.

Come to think of it now I'll probably burn in hell.
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Old 06-07-2010, 11:46 PM
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Cracker night is fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOvPeMAFDSk#t=35secs

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Old 07-07-2010, 12:50 AM
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hmmm... fun watching some dudes feet
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Old 07-07-2010, 01:06 AM
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What happens when a fireworks factory is in the middle of a city?

I've watched this footage many times over the last decade and it still scares me, I still can't believe that some city officials had no idea a fireworks factory in the middle of a residential area was a bad idea....

Watch first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsL-oYvQHY
Then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S52p2AMISFk

Scarey stuff.

Regulations for manufacture and storage of fireworks are understandably much much much stricter in Australia.
But banning cracker night? Phooey.
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Old 07-07-2010, 01:28 AM
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That was one hell of a big bang Simon.

Insurance company recommendation...Ban cracker night.
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Old 07-07-2010, 02:02 AM
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That was the Dutch, now it's the Dane's turn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQmBFmW953E
Check out the shockwave at 0:29, wow.
Takes 7 seconds to bowl the cameraman over... makes it 2.4km distant.

Found this amazing video dated 2006... seems the Dutch thought it might be a good idea join in with the English and Germans for some testing after the Enschede disaster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf94S1MVcl8
Some SERIOUSLY big bangs there.

Still, they're not as big as this classic vid of the NASA solid rocket fuel factory though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KuGizBjDXo
Keep your eyes open for cars on the road, gives a sense of scale.
Enjoy
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Old 07-07-2010, 02:08 AM
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Simon, all of those videos are already in my favourites, haha!

I often go on a bang or boom video watching spree.

Sometimes, ships weathering horrible waves.

And, back around again.

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Old 07-07-2010, 02:14 AM
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I've lost one from my fav's H, it's aerial footage of the Enschede aftermath from a news crew helicopter, Dutch voice over ofcourse... don't spose you have it?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siVl16Iqn7c
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Old 07-07-2010, 04:06 PM
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What's next? Bubble wrap the whole planet?



Hands up who's never misbehaved? Or maybe you don't remember?
Jen can not put her hands up not even my little pinky finger will go up


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Old 07-07-2010, 04:32 PM
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If we get rid of the Morons that ruin our society life would be plesent.

I mean the teens that are at the lower end of the gene pool, who control the streets.

Gee, I wish i could still walk the streets at night and do some window shopping, with my wife and not be in fear of being bashsed or robbed, by a group of Morons

Leon
Therefore bring back fireworks......natural selection !!

All jokes aside, who remembers "jumping jacks" ? Now they were fun, but dangerous as you never knew where they were going to go.
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Old 07-07-2010, 05:38 PM
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Hi Multiweb Marc,
I agree with you. That is why I showed my kids years ago what explosive power gunpowder and petrol have. I set up a coffee jar with gunpowder. The glass shards went through thick cardboard.

Petrol, on a heap of kindling. Throw lighted matches to it and it 'explodes' into flames with a loud woof.

My kids have much respect for the dangers of any explosives now. They did not have to learn from mistakes. However they did need to see what the mistake may have been. Its like learning from a mistake that never happened.

You are right on the button with that statement Marc. A good teacher can do it but good teachers are not a common commodity.
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Old 07-07-2010, 08:37 PM
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Haha, shame it was faked but still pretty funny tho.

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Jen can not put her hands up not even my little pinky finger will go up


My hands are firmly burried in my pockets
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Well, I recall as a young lad filling tin cans with match heads and primitive fuses, burying them a few inches under the soil and setting them alight. I also recall blowing up newly constructed model airplanes and watching them slide down long lengths of fishing wires ablaze, whilst trying to capture that "Kodak" moment (painted plastic models stuffed with match heads and set alight never quite resembled a fiery Mustang or Spitfire plummeting to the ground during WWII).

We even enjoyed throwing the occasional fully ladened baked bean can in the backyard incinerator, and we longed for wintertime when, in the side paddock, a bonfire pile had slowly grown over the Autumn months, just waiting to be lit.

Also caps and cap guns and model rockets filled in the days also. I'm not suggesting that all kids today should be allowed to indulge in this sort of weekend pastime, but we knew our limits, respected (some of the time) the potential hazards, but mostly it was just typical schoolboy fun, which kept us amused between catching frogs, riding our bikes until dusk. We were lucky, I guess. No one got hurt, but if we had of, there would have been no one else to blame.

There must be limits to what individuals should be exposed to, for their own safety. Just look at how improved workplace laws and safety has reduced workplace death and injuries over the years. But there must be a degree of "onus" on the individual to take responsibility for his/her own actions.

Speaking of bonfires (and how not to light one)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCT8Z...eature=related

That is all, I'll go back to my game of schoolboy cricket, bug catcher and riding my pushy with a playing card attached to the spokes with one of Mum's clothes pegs.

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Ah yes, matchbox bombs, they were good value at 3am (hands in pockets).

As Marty said, kids should be made aware of the dangers so they at least have a respect of how dangerous these "games" can be.

The stupidest thing I did was as an 8 yr old in Karratha WA.
They built the houses using some kind of nailgun on steroids, used to find hundreds of .22 calibre shells lying around building sites...well one day we found one that was still crimped & live...so what did we do?

Hit it with a rock!!

I was deaf for the rest of the day, copped a bit of shrapnel in the thigh & finger...so very luck to get away with just that.

STUPID, STUPID, STUPID...kids.
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Old 08-07-2010, 02:36 AM
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I did something similar with a blank and a pair of pliers and a lighter.....

Wasn't easy explaining to mum why there was a twisted up piece of brass embeded deep in my thumb(and under the nail!) while she was digging it out....
Can't remember what I told her, don't even remember if she believed me, probably not, but I do remember she never forced the issue... probably figuring I had learnt the lesson already.

Can remember my ears ringing for ages, and all sorts of crap in my eyes... luckily none of it was brass.
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Old 08-07-2010, 03:26 AM
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Good old mums eh...ask no questions, get no lies.
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Old 08-07-2010, 09:14 AM
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All these injuries and people think that they shouldn't be protected from themseleves,when the consequences could have been much worse:screwy :
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