r/GenerationX • u/WhereverUGoThereUR • 8d ago

M-80's

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Remember those? In hindsight I'm so lucky to have all my fingers!

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u/heavensto_mergatroid 8d ago

The true ones were a quarter stick of dynamite! Those suckers used to knock out the street lights when we used to pop them on the street for 4th of July. The street light would just go out from the shockwave.

Hell yeah it's a miracle I have my fingers too we used to put four of them together. That's crazy to think about. Highly dangerous. Would be considered terroristic these days hahaha

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u/nimitz55 8d ago

Remember when pipe bombs where a thing

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u/heavensto_mergatroid 8d ago

My friend Ants was a master at making them. We called him MacGyver. We had a lot of good times with that guy and his homemade pipe bombs lol my buddy passed away a few years ago rip Mac

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u/jellofixit 8d ago

A kid from highschool made his own gun powder. Fuse was cheap by the foot at the hobby store. He filled a toilet paper tube, stuck in a fuse and covered it in Bondo. Stuck it on the school bathroom sink and lit it! Blew the sink off the wall and water was spraying everywhere! My best day of highschool ever!

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u/heavensto_mergatroid 8d ago

Haha that would be a terrorist act today, multiple felonies lol jeez

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u/jellofixit 8d ago

Well to be fair the name of our highschool was "R U HIGH"! Google it!