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To: 353FMG
Am I being insensitive when I say that everyone making homemade bombs should have his fingers blown off or worse?

Yeah, you are.

Boys are inquisitive and love to experiment. Gave mine a chemistry set and they learned to blow things across the room and embed objects into a wall with it though I think some household cleaning supplies got added(at least that was my guess).

I am lucky that I got them raised with only 1 broken arm and 5 sets of stitches.

22 posted on 05/02/2008 10:01:46 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: Lady Heron

I’d say that cleaning supplies got added... I sort of did that myself as a kid. Once, my siblings and I decided to see if we could blow the top off a film canister that was filled with baking soda and vinegar (the baking soda was wrapped in a little tissue paper to give us time to put the cap on), and we discovered that certain things like bug spray made the reaction more violent... we ended up with foamy stuff all over the porch ceiling, a tiny dent in said ceiling, and a warning from my dad that went something like “don’t do that indoors again, OK? Messy experiments stay outside”.

We were also constantly trying to burn things, fortunately without much success, and when we were older knives got added to our repertoire. Another memorable moment involved my mom warning me not to cut myself with my knife, and I didn’t - I instead accidentally cut myself with the marshmallow stick I was making (which pretty much sums up my accident-prone nature, in that I’m good with dangerous things but likely to be killed by mundane things).


63 posted on 05/02/2008 1:29:18 PM PDT by Hyzenthlay (I aim to misbehave.)
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