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Hi,
I guess I can confess to this one here? I have already mentioned my Grandpa.........he decided that I was "a man" at the ripe old age of 5 years old...guess that's the way things happened in my family?
Anyways, this meant that I got a key to "the snug" a small room that I think would be described as a "den" in the US?
It was a fine day.....the house was right next door to the church....it had a "weathercock" or "weathervane" on it.......top of the roof about 200x away
I went to the snug (den) and behind the door was a Martini Henry Rifle......falling block action in .450/577 calibre.............I found a box of shells, pulled it through, went out and took another look at the weather vane.
Now, the old Martini Henry single shot was a close range weapon, but you could flip up a "vernier" rearsight that would give you ranges up to about 1,000x..........I set it on 200 and gave it one!
My Grandpa had some words with me!!! he also paid for the replacement weathervane
He also gave me £5(GBP) which was a real fortune then...."Damn fine shot" he said...I soon realised that if I had missed, the bullet could have killed someone nearly threequarters of a mile away...I guess that I had a bad upbringing?
Cheers
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Yeah, nihil, you had a bad upbrining. You didn't learn to do that stuff and not get caught!
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I had my backside paddled for a few stunts at 5, 6 and then some.
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Craziest thing I ever did as a kid? (don't try this at home...)
When I was about 14 my cousin wanted to prove to me that diesel fuel doesn't explode like gasioline. So he filled a soup can with it and dropped some lit matches in. They went out. I still didn't believe him. I didn't think a match could blow up a soup can of petrol either (no, we didn't drop matches into gasoline). So we put a tire grate over a fire pit and lit the fire. Then we placed the soup can full of diesel fuel on the grate and hid behind some trees to see if it would explode. It didn't. The diesel actually began to boil. When it did, the fumes started to burn off, which heated the diesel more, and evaporated more of it. The end effect was that we had turned the soup can into a diesel-powered, 10 foot flamethrower. Flames were shooting out of this thing, like, 10 feet up. It looked like a rocket booster:eek:
When we tried to cap the can to put out the flames, the rate of evaporation prevented us from getting anything to touch the side of the can. So the only thing left to do was knock it over and spill the fuel before the tree overhead caught fire. So we knocked it over. That send boiling, burning diesel fuel shooting across the forest floor for 10 feet. We had no fire extinguisher. So we covered the fire with a plastic tarp laying nearby. Then that caught fire. We finally got the fire out by rolling a log over it several times. Nearly burnt down the bloody forest.
We will never again question why our parents told us to never play with fire. :cool:
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Sounds like good up-bringining to me, man.
;)
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Striek, a buddie of mine tried something like that once...
He was burning some leaves and trash or something like that and anyways he threw a old car battery in the flames, and there was a small explosion... the rest was toxic fumes.
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Talking about burning stuff: 2 years ago in school - On the playground: a friend of me was smoking a cigar and when a teacher arrived he quickly put it in his jacket (still burning) -> suddenly his jacket began to melt and before you knew it it was on fire. That was so funny.
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My pocket went on fire before when I was on a bus and the inspector came on, you get a 500euro fine or something for smoking on a bus so I guess the cost of my jacket was cheaper than the fine I would have got, he could smell smoke but I had put it out just in time ands had to hide the huge burnhole in my jacket.
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After christmas we use to collect the trees that people would throw out and drag them into the playground field and pile them up and start a big bomb fire as the bomb fire was going my older brother decide to take steel wool and a hanger and light it up and swing it around and throw it up in the air well when it came down it set my hair on fire i didn't even know what was happen until i was tackle to the ground. My hair was very long at the time it happen it was pass my but. You should had seen me explaining to my mom and dad on what had happen to my hair b/c it was shoulder lengh after it was on fire. and the was the last time i set christmas trees on fire with my older brother and we also use to pick up voltzwagons and put them in the field. :D
