[tomkat]

What, you never had bottle rocket battles as a kid ?

sheesh

[real saxophonist]

Yeah, we used to cut out coffee can lids as hand protectors.

Also at Domino's, I had my car shot with paintballs, and hit by a frozen egg. Left a big dent. It was Halloween, about 4 degrees and snowing. So the egg the kids threw was frozen.

[Wiz-Nerd]

We had Roman Candle fights. Of our friends, 4 parents had lake houses next to each other with boat houses. We manned the boat docks with an arsenal of Roman Candles. The objective was to make the other guys jump into the water to avoid being hit by a ball. If you went into the water you were out.

The team that had the most, or last, person standing won!

GREAT FUN!

On a personal note: Ben Harned, when around water, always got naked. RIP Ben. You are missed.

[hanamizu]

What, you never had bottle rocket battles as a kid ?
sheesh

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I grew up in SoCal in the 50s. We were lucky to have sparklers. There were some firecrackers smuggled in from Mexico. Didn’t get real fireworks until I moved to Missouri.