Ugh, where do I begin?
Once when I was younger, my friend and I thought it would be cool to put a rag in a bottle of rubbing alcohol and set it on fire. We were expecting a big explosion. Instead, the bottle melted, the alcohol spilled, and my entire driveway was on fire. That was the first time the fire department showed up.
That same friend and I thought it would be a cool idea to fill up a giant wine jug with vinegar and baking soda, capping it, and throwing it against a concrete retaining wall in my back yard. It sounded like a bomb went off. We were picking glass out of our skin for a month.
That same friend eventually made it into MIT a year early. We had always been getting chased/harassed by the cops for doing innocuous things such as fishing after dark at a public pond (that's when the bass bite dammit), getting harassed for being the designated driver, etc. The best one was almost getting arrested on graduation night for driving my father's car that had a 6 pack of guinness in the back seat, while driving 3 miles an hour over the speed limit, with a smashed windshield. They threatened to take us to jail over that. (Note, as the threats grew greater, my friend kept laughing harder and harder.) As they had me searching my own trunk, I locked my keys in there. Since this was a dodge neon, the rear seats folded down. So, forever in my friend's memory is the image of my legs sticking out of the trunk while searching for my freaking keys.
That wasn't the dumb part.
I had about 75 lbs of fireworks, and after a fifth of sake, and a fifth of Tokaji (a hungarian dessert wine), I decided that it would be an awesome idea to shoot fireworks at the police station. But how to do this? My friend engineered a mobile fireworks launcher that hung out of the back window of my neon, out of a piece of copper tubing, a heat lamp, a piece of plywood, and metal hooks. We tied the fuses together on bottle rockets, morters, everything we could think of, and stuffed it in the tube. The morters launched first, taking the bottle rockets with them. They all ended up landing on the roof of the police station, and exploding.
After the customary "HOLY SH*T", I gunned the gas on that dodge neon. I heard sirens in the background, and I knew that they'd easily catch me with my 6 horses under the hood. I drove the car into the supermarket parking lot, shut the car off, and ducked down in the seat. They all went flying by.
Another thing I did.......... when I first got my shotgun, I kept pumping it and dry firing. The night before, I saw a few people I knew were crack addicts casing the apartment complex. So, I loaded the 12 gauge up with 3 1/2" magnum rifled slugs.
Then, I forgot about it.
Next day, I was on the phone with Trey from waterwolves, and was fiddling with the shotgun.
*BOOM*
The result?
Through the closet, out the kitchen wall, and into the ceiling, but not through the roof. Thank god I live on the second floor.
OH YEAH
There was this one time at like 2am that I was doing tank maintanance on my stingray tank.............. I think you all know the rest of that one
Once when I was younger, my friend and I thought it would be cool to put a rag in a bottle of rubbing alcohol and set it on fire. We were expecting a big explosion. Instead, the bottle melted, the alcohol spilled, and my entire driveway was on fire. That was the first time the fire department showed up.
That same friend and I thought it would be a cool idea to fill up a giant wine jug with vinegar and baking soda, capping it, and throwing it against a concrete retaining wall in my back yard. It sounded like a bomb went off. We were picking glass out of our skin for a month.
That same friend eventually made it into MIT a year early. We had always been getting chased/harassed by the cops for doing innocuous things such as fishing after dark at a public pond (that's when the bass bite dammit), getting harassed for being the designated driver, etc. The best one was almost getting arrested on graduation night for driving my father's car that had a 6 pack of guinness in the back seat, while driving 3 miles an hour over the speed limit, with a smashed windshield. They threatened to take us to jail over that. (Note, as the threats grew greater, my friend kept laughing harder and harder.) As they had me searching my own trunk, I locked my keys in there. Since this was a dodge neon, the rear seats folded down. So, forever in my friend's memory is the image of my legs sticking out of the trunk while searching for my freaking keys.
That wasn't the dumb part.
I had about 75 lbs of fireworks, and after a fifth of sake, and a fifth of Tokaji (a hungarian dessert wine), I decided that it would be an awesome idea to shoot fireworks at the police station. But how to do this? My friend engineered a mobile fireworks launcher that hung out of the back window of my neon, out of a piece of copper tubing, a heat lamp, a piece of plywood, and metal hooks. We tied the fuses together on bottle rockets, morters, everything we could think of, and stuffed it in the tube. The morters launched first, taking the bottle rockets with them. They all ended up landing on the roof of the police station, and exploding.
After the customary "HOLY SH*T", I gunned the gas on that dodge neon. I heard sirens in the background, and I knew that they'd easily catch me with my 6 horses under the hood. I drove the car into the supermarket parking lot, shut the car off, and ducked down in the seat. They all went flying by.
Another thing I did.......... when I first got my shotgun, I kept pumping it and dry firing. The night before, I saw a few people I knew were crack addicts casing the apartment complex. So, I loaded the 12 gauge up with 3 1/2" magnum rifled slugs.
Then, I forgot about it.
Next day, I was on the phone with Trey from waterwolves, and was fiddling with the shotgun.
*BOOM*
The result?
Through the closet, out the kitchen wall, and into the ceiling, but not through the roof. Thank god I live on the second floor.
OH YEAH
There was this one time at like 2am that I was doing tank maintanance on my stingray tank.............. I think you all know the rest of that one
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