I did much more than that both as a kid and a teenager...
I count myself thankful that I didn’t injure myself seriously.
Kids do stupid and risky things. Some don’t make it through intact or at all. They are just being kids, and some are unlucky.
Didn’t Joe Kennedy (RFK’s son, former MA Congressmen)
nearly blow off his kids’ fingers with some fireworks once?
(ah, the wonders of search:
>>The five-term congressman, the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, had been regarded until last spring as all-but unbeatable in next year’s gubernatorial election. But messy publicity about the annulment of his first marriage, the alleged affair of his brother Michael with a teen-age babysitter and stories of his playing with illegal fireworks that burned his 16-year-old son have combined this year to smudge the image of the heir apparent to the Kennedy dynasty.
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V117/N38/kennedy.38w.html
The lucky ones are the ones whose parents drop them 50-ft off a tower. That sets the stage for a life of successful risk-taking.
Police had been called to the same part of town, just steps from the Lynn line, on Saturday for a report of a loud explosion.
Lynn, Lynn
City of Sin
You never come back the
Same as you went in