We used to pack gravel around a cherry bomb with aluminum foil, light it and throw it at the “enemy” when we played “Army” back in the late fifties......
In grade school I was sent to the principal’s office because I connected with a kickball and it went through a school window. The teacher who sent me there set up the kick ball diamond in such a way that all balls were heading toward the school. The principal thought the teacher was nuts (my words) for sending me to the office. Now that’s the kind of administrators we need. COMMON SENSE.
My elderly uncle said he remembers when kids could buy M-80s for the 4th of July.
He had a stash of them he’d saved and exploded one each year for decades.
It was great...