Kids used to flush M80’s down the toilets in my highschool a few times a year.
1968
I and the rest of our football team snuck into the opposing high schools gymnasium on the night of their pep rally.
This school had been built in the thirties and it was built entirely of wood.
Well we stole into the gyms locker room and ‘flushed’ a couple of M-80’s down each of the six toilets.
For a minute .. nothing seemed to happen.
All of sudden .. a rumble starts under the old wooden floor boards and you’d have thought that an earth quake was starting.
Water gushing up out of the toilets, floors buckling and .. The next thing you know .. The damn dividing wall between the locker room commodes and the gymnasium itself .. “FALLS”!
We were standing there looking out at some of the most stunned and angry looking crowd of faces that you’d never want to see!
Needless to say .. We hauled our butts out of there with about 200 alum .. right behind us!
I'm a bit ashamed to say I was one of the little SOB's who did this once. Seemed like a fun thing to do at the time, but I felt pretty guilty after the fact (not enough to confess, however).
Never in a million years would I have guessed homeland security and BATF would come after us for pulling a stupid prank. We were having too much fun to think about the thousands of dollars in damage it caused.
That's why I pray every day for the lord's forgiveness... I was a little bit... "adventurous" when I was younger.
Yep, now they would call out the BATF and FBI...times have changed and not for the better...kids cant be kids anymore...
At a very nice high school in Glenview, Il 66~67 an unusual science project exploring the compressibility of liquids was performed.
This required a large team to precisely maintain maximum flow while igniting the compression devices simultaneously at three stalls.
So I was told.