It's a Man Thing (True 4th)

tx.guns crosspost | 7/9/02 | Wharton

[Travis McGee]

Pure imagination. Really.

[Squantos]

Ya raise em, ya teach em ,you pull em out of trees, ya teach em to eat with a fork ect ect.... but at some point ya have to let em go into the world alone.......:o)

My favorite is the weenie that writes the poor mans james bond series....Kurt Saxon. He has blown off almost every finger and one eye yet he's writing instructions for others as to how to with regards to "hey watch this " scenerios......

People still flock to that idiots books like moths to a flame..........

Stay Safe Ya'll....really, STAY SAFE !

[patton]

You mean...all those instructions in The Anarchist's Cookbook 4.14 might not be safe?!?

[harpseal]

I want to see a video tape of Lurker's story, or at least some pictures.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[maxwell]

and I thought of you two angels immediately.......I don't know why..

It's cause you're ALWAYS thinking about us, girlie... ;)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Perhaps...........

[Crowcreek]

" My brother likes to fill a leaf bag with 50% oxygen and 50% acetelyne, tie it off, and throw a firecracker on it. "

Static can set these bags off while they're filling . . . It happened to some kids I knew in high school and blew up the basement of a nice house, rearranging kids, walls, furnishings, tools, and foundation walls.

[Squantos]

Every kitchen table ex-spurt I ever scraped off a wall with a paint scraper had one or more of this guys books laying around his little bomb factory.

SF troops used to be issued a small black vinyl 6 ring binder notebook they were given from Frankfurt Arsenal that gave IED instructions. Sneakypete might have seen that text in his career..... There "is" only one commercial IED 101 book on the market that is an exact copy of that SF text but I won't spill the beans in an open forum.

One just has to look at old Kurt to understand this guy was clearly self taught through the trial and error method.

Stay Safe Coop !

[maxwell]

Perhaps...

;)

[Joe Brower]

"The above is purely the product of the author's imagination".

Suuure it is. We believe ya! $;-)

This story and many of the posts here remind me of my childhood. And I have the burn scars to prove it!

[NorseWood]

Brings back lots of good memories. We used to use fire crackers to launch tin cans over the back fence at neighbors' houses several houses away. The two boys who lived next door to me and I would compete to see who could hit the targeted house.

[mykdsmom]

This is a MUST READ!!!!

MKM

[Constitution Day]

OMG!!! This is great. People in the office are probably wondering why I'm laughing so hard.
Reminds me of childhood experiments which I was lucky to survive.

BTW, I think this is in NC... not Texas.
(see post to others below)

[Constitution Day]

Is there a Buncombe county in Texas?

There is no Buncombe County in Texas.

This sounds like NC, especially since he said he "lived right next to a National Park".
Our Buncombe County is also the origin of the word "bunk", BTW.

[mykdsmom]

Since boys are usually the pyros in the family I have no personal experience with this other than it reminds me SO MUCH of what my brother and his friends did during their ill-spent childhood.

Like you, it's a miracle they are still alive to tell the tales.

MKM

[William Terrell]

I used to live in Buncombe county in NC. It's such a wierd name, I couldn't imagine any other state willing to own up to it. It was sad the county name had to take the heat for one bone-headed congressvarmit.

[Constitution Day]

TRUE story:

My grandfather used to have a bunch of dynamite.
Around here (and I guess other places) you could buy it for clearing stumps, etc. on farmland.

One Christmas Eve, Papa & his brother got drunk on moonshine and decided to set off a couple of sticks.
I was a small boy and don't remember it... but apparently they set it off too close to the house.

Almost all the windows on that side of the house blew out & pictures were knocked off the wall.
My Granny was NOT impressed.
So she made him get rid of it, but for some reason he kept the blasting caps.

Now years later when I was about 12 or 13 my friend Brian and I were rambling around Papa's workshop.
Of course, we found the blasting caps!
There were probably 200 or so in a small red cardboard DuPont box.

We were able to set them off by scraping the explosive material in the base with a small screwdriver, then putting a "Black Cat" firecracker, conveniently just the right diameter, inside.

We blew up watermelons, pumpkins, plastic airplane models, beer cans, etc, with great effect.

All I can say was the Lord must've been watching over us, since we both have all our fingers, eyes, etc.

Thanks so much for the ping!!

CD

[Constitution Day]

Yes, it is sad. That's why the name jumped out at me.

I can't imagine how many average people outside of Buncombe County know that story, though.

FRegards -
CD

[Constitution Day]

Y'all have got to read this if you haven't already!

[wardaddy]

One other thing the third world has better than us (aside from bordellos) are fireworks. In Brasil they are like little sticks of dynamite. Literally. I got kicked out of more than one hotel down there in my day for too much hedonism and lobbing "grenades: (a papaya stuffed with a couple of these babies)" off hotel balconies. They would explode and shower pink papaya goo all over the folks on the sidewalk below...LOL