[Willie Green]

This is an enormous setback for WVU's space program.
You can bet that Robert Byrd will be pushing for additional funding for safe bottle rocket development.

[Willie Green]

ping

[Semper Paratus]

TOGA! TOGA!

[staytrue]

I think in revenge of the nerds, a frat burned down their house to the song of "Burning down the house"

[Steve_Seattle]

Bottle rocket fired by Saddam diehards or El Qaeda?

[RichInOC]

For once, I'm actually hoping that alcohol was involved in this. I'd hate to think that West Virginia fraternity boys are actually stupid enough to do this stuff stone cold sober.

[EBITDA]

Shades of Homer Hickam.

[Grut]

Heck, you put your thumb over the mouth of the beer bottle, give it a shake, and presto! Instant fire extinguisher.

[Xenalyte]

So where were YOU this past weekend?

[Bubba_Leroy]

someone fired a bottle rocket into a closet

I wonder if the bottle rocket came with a warning label that said, "FOR OUTSIDE USE ONLY." If not, I'm sure that it will come up when the frat boys sue the bottle rocket manufacturer.

[theDentist]

All studying Darwinism, no doubt.

[Sloth]

WVU frat house fire caused by bottle rocket

Actually, I suspect it was caused by alcoholic consumption.

[mountaineer]

There isn't much to do in Morganhole, I guess. Maybe the rocket bottle launcher will be the next Homer Hickham.

[RichInOC]

By the way, boys, when you get the house rebuilt, and you're playing "flamethrower" with aerosol cans, don't point them at the smoke detectors. They work...and firemen and university cops can be ugly customers when they find out you got them out on a run to your place because you were just screwing around. (No, I didn't do it, but one of my brothers did and got barred from university housing.)

[jim_trent]

A wrist-rocket slingshot and a cherry-bomb is (was) much more fun.

[glock rocks]

Cat #3347-1 Liberal Education - Applied Creative Arson T-W-F 3hrs (Preq. none)

[fuquadukie]

When I was at WVU ('73-'79), our fraternity had a cannon that actually fired (Kappa Alpha, just down the street from the Sig Eps). We used to stuff things into the cannon and fire down onto the Mountanlair deck (the student union). Never did it sober, though.

That and the HUGE Cerwin Vega speakers we put out that you could hear across campus and made for great Friday afternoon experiences... providing music to many that occupied the Mountanlair deck (and the Science Department, among others)... sorta like a public service. Also, never sober.

Never destructive (unlike certain other frats). Just clean fun and drinking in the mid 70's. College would be no fun today, I suppose.