Adventures With Tempting Fate...or Pushing Your Luck.

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Originally Posted by Bentsight

Shooting strike anywhere matches out of our BB guns at brick walls turned into shooting at each other and finally all out BB gun fights. BB bombs, full sheet of "greenie stick-um" caps placed in the center of a piece of Mom's aluminum foil, form into cup fill w/BB's and twist shut. Throw high as possible or at each other. Took the hand grips off our bicycle handlebars, lit firecracker, dropped in followed with a marble, those things would go a long way and often times hurt like hell when you got hit.
My kids/grandkids ever read this they'll know why grand dad can be so strict...

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Definitely this ^^^^^^

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Originally Posted by crays

Definitely this ^^^^^^

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"Ok, everyone, the rule is a 3 pump max, and no shooting in the head"...until someone got shot in the neck and you'd hear 'em going for 12 pumps...

Bottle rocket jousting on bicycles. Tape one of the old, small coke bottles horizontally on the handle bars. Insert several bottle rockets. Light them as you ride towards one another.

ETA: Roman candles worked great for this but we generally weren't rich enough to afford many of those.

What kind of lighter were you using that allowed you to get a flame while riding in the open air?

Zippo?

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Originally Posted by Irving

What kind of lighter were you using that allowed you to get a flame while riding in the open air?

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Marlboro...

^That makes sense.

Ah yes, roman candle fights with garbage can lids for shields.
Good times.

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Originally Posted by TFOGGER

Marlboro...

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Yep

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Originally Posted by Irving

What kind of lighter were you using that allowed you to get a flame while riding in the open air?

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Light 'em using a punk.

We would get in bottle rocket fights with the big kids...and they could afford the more reliable and higher quality Black Cat bottle rockets. We'd be trying to fight back with our cheapie/unreliable rockets.

Then there was breaking the bottle rocket off the stick and forming a circle around it and lighting it...I recall there being a culturally insensitive name given to these random rockets...