[Hank Rearden]

Ah, M-80s and cherry bombs with waxed fuses so they'd burn underwater. Life was good.

Ever crack the neighbor's swimming pool with a waterproof M-80? I did.

Life was bad there for a while.

[Finalapproach29er]

I put one in my lagoon. All the fishes jump out of the water at the same time. It's pretty cool. You can take inventory of the fish. heh-heh-heh.

[gorush]

"Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement."

[Orangedog]

Ever crack the neighbor's swimming pool with a waterproof M-80? I did.

Bah! You kids with your pre-packaged fire crackers. Try making your own gun powder and then having to find ground up aluminum or zinc. That's what we had to do in the '80's because the jokes that were being sold as M-80's by then wouldn't even blow through coke can.

[Proud_texan]

We didn't have many swimming pools but we did make a "super cracker" one year, six of us unwrapped firecrackers for days and emptied the power in a big tube.

Took it down to the school yard and busted more than a few windows when it went off.

Fortunately we escaped with only paying for the windows (mowed a LOT of lawns in the summer Houston heat) and multiple "swats". Fortuntely it was before the days of para-military SWAT tactics, weren't shot as it was understood in those days that boys were typically not yet civilized and a good whippin' was effective (and I can attest in my case it worked).