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

[Gman]

I guess you have to be old enough to remember getting punks with your fireworks. These days, you have the stick lighters as an option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_(fireworks)

[Irving]

Light 'em using a punk.

So what, you'd politely ask John Lydon to do it?

[OtterbatHellcat]

So what, you'd politely ask John Lydon to do it?

Nope...just an average millennial.

[68Charger]

I guess you have to be old enough to remember getting punks with your fireworks. These days, you have the stick lighters as an option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_(fireworks)

They still give them out with fireworks purchases here in TX...

[ChickNorris]

Nope, nada, nicht. Like comparing an an acorn to an oak imo.

[Gman]

They still give them out with fireworks purchases here in TX...

That's where most of my fireworks experience came from. ;-)

[Bailey Guns]

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

Yep...tossed cigs or punks.

[fly boy]

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

you had shields?!?!?!?!?! Took that straight to the arms and legs. only rule we had was no face shots.

[MED]

shh...don't tell anyone...we had guns ...no safe, parental supervision, or anything; those little fuckers didn't come out pop you back then.

SSP racers, disc guns, lawn darts, BB gun wars, bow and arrows, model rockets specifically seeing what happens when you gut the engines in a pile and light it on fire (you set fire to the carpet and piss off the parents...LOL); losing my tire jumping my bike (that one sucked), racing and jumping homemade boxcars, snow bashing, jumping my car, dirt track racing, and other types of motor sports...I didn't wear a seat belt until I got my license and rode in the back of the truck all the time...I'm still here.

[68Charger]

We upped the ante on the "arrow in the air" trick... while we didn't fire directly up, we took the tip off an aluminum arrow, filled it with Pyrodex and glued a .22LR blank to the front of the shaft... didn't work as well as we hoped, wanted an effect like the dynamite arrows the Duke boys had... it didn't burn fast enough to blow up like that... but did make fire. We had good success with refilling CO2 cartridges with powder and putting a fuse in them, though.

I remember strike anywhere matches in the BB gun, and BB gun fights... none of that pansy Airsoft stuff was invented yet.