I still prefer “Man shot in testicle by .22 LR cartridge used as replacement fuse in pickup truck”. With that one, you can almost hear the Deliverance music playing in the background.
What a great freakin' idea! It's easier than stripping a wire and lacing it around the fuse and who doesn't have spent 22's rolling around their truck bed? Whoops, gotto go. Seem's my truck is on fire.< /JK>
The .22LR fuse replacement was tried on Mythbusters. It worked! They had to short circuit it, with very heavy wire (#8, I think) before it would go of. And it DID go off, and shot right into the seat.
Yup, an entire roll (or 3) of paper caps, on the curb, with a big rock dropped on top, makes a big bang.
“1/4 sticks,” basically a true M-80, are something else. Blew a dead bird in one of those plastic red cups around 50 feet in the air. Looked pretty funny before it went off—just two bird feet sticking out over the rim.
Threw one into my pool once, weighted with a couple nails. At night, of course alcohol was involved. House party. Went off, huge WUMP and flash of light, ground moved, walls of pool moved out and came back. Thought I had ruined my pool, but it was well made, expanded and contracted a bit, no prob. Never did that again.
Shot bottle rockets out of BB gun. Light fuse, pull trigger, rocket goes up, tips over, and shoots back to earth and goes boom on the ground. Real crowd pleaser, that one.
Course the old “tomato can rocket”—punch a hole in bottom of used soup can, insert firecracker most of the way in. Place upside down in pan of water (maybe 1/2”), light fuse, launches can up in air maybe 20 feet. And splashes everyone around.
Great fun.