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Scaf said:
We had growing up as kids, but not sure my neighbours would agree:

  • take a whole roll of caps, place on pavement under a large washer then stamp on it when an unsuspecting adult was passing by.
  • attaching fishing line to neighbours letterboxes, reeling it out to a hiding place across the road, then rattling it multiple times (knock down ginger without having to run away)
  • cowboys and Indians in the woods with home made bows and arrows and spears (I still have some scars to make sure I never forget)
  • nicking empty beer bottles from the back yard of the off license and the returning then for the deposits through the front door.
The list goes on ........... Happy Days
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Hilarious, you’ve reminded me of my favourite stick sub machine gun I used to keep at the side of the house.....perfect resemblance to a sten gun.
 
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Scaf said:
  • cowboys and Indians in the woods with home made bows and arrows and spears (I still have some scars to make sure I never forget)
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Yes, I'd forgotten the home-made bows and arrows. My efforts never did work that well, but my uncle and dad (two different people, before you ask) were forever working on improved models. When you could buy fairly decent knives in shops I invariably carried one in my belt. I still have a scar on my elbow from when we were chucking them at each other in the woods once, standing around a fire waiting for the gas canister we'd chucked on to explode. Which it did, in the end, spectacularly.
 
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Ebenezer said:
As well as the aforesaid bolt and cap combo which was very unwise given the size of the bolts that we found and the amount of caps we folded end on end, we also discoverd the joys of Potassium permanginate and Glycerine.
In an empty coke can = smoke, adding the KMnO4 to Glycerine in the bottle and then screwing the top back on = Bang
Such lovely children
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See I was always a fan of painting the cast iron radiator tops (in school) with iodine and ammonia mix, as it dries to crystals they are rather volatile if knocked or crushed (they use them in the little white paper poppers in joke shops) we were into industrial scale though!
 
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I had an air rifle at 14 , went to the next town to buy it used from a gun shop , security check was, are you 14 , yes , ok then, it was cheaper than I though so I bought a huge knife with what money I had left

came back on the bus , nobody batted an eyelid at a kid with an air gun.

I was riding to my cousins house when a copper saw me and waved me down , it was in a case so legal

He took it out, checked it wasn't loaded , asked me if I was 14 and where I was going to shoot it , happy with the answers and let me go

I'd expect armed response and a helicopter if that happened today :D
 
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I like to remember those hot summer days out driving with mates going through town centres mainly Enfield & Southgate with Super Soaker (5000?) water guns. One man out of the sunroof 'cooling off' the pedestrians. What a valuable and free service we provided to many
 
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Felonious Crud said:
standing around a fire waiting for the gas canister we'd chucked on to explode. Which it did, in the end, spectacularly.
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Don't get me started on canisters in fires, not so long ago someone brought an ex military Alfa fan to Le Mans with us and he came pre loaded with little parcels he put in fires. Each night the explosion got bigger and on the last night he put something in the BBQ, The explosion destroyed the BBQ, sent red hot embers into the air which then landed on every tent within a 20m circle burning lots of little holes in most of them - he never got invited back again
 
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zagatoes30 said:
Don't get me started on canisters in fires, not so long ago someone brought an ex military Alfa fan to Le Mans with us and he came pre loaded with little parcels he put in fires. Each night the explosion got bigger and on the last night he put something in the BBQ, The explosion destroyed the BBQ, sent red hot embers into the air which then landed on every tent within a 20m circle burning lots of little holes in most of them - he never got invited back again
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I started reading that thinking you were talking about Benny till I read tent!
 
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1970'S Secondary School in the Black Country put your front door key into the earth of a 3 pin socket opening the bottom two pins and insert a paper clip.
Pull key out and stretch your arm and flick the switch on.
Bang !
Sometimes blowing it off the wall.
Still alive though.
Super Glue in door locks.
School caretaker used to get well píssed off.
 
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We used to make 10m bullets in metalwork useing caps and cordite from 110 shotgun cartridge's
Stick them in a vice and give the end a tap with a hammer!
I remember one went through 3 classroom walls and out into the playground :cool:

Dave
 
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alfatwo said:
We used to make 10m bullets in metalwork useing caps and cordite from 110 shotgun cartridge's
Stick them in a vice and give the end a tap with a hammer!
I remember one went through 3 classroom walls and out into the playground :cool:

Dave
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Respect there Dave that's a 60'S Secondary School education for you or was it a Grammar School ?
 
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Secondary school...they said I was rubbish at maths and English and I should apply to the coal board for a job down the pits.
Ten years later I was an avionics engineer at BOAC!

Dave
 
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We did set off firecrackers at a US military cemetery in Normandy on a school trip, aged around 13/14. That would makes the papers these days! Looking back, it wasn’t as clever as it seemed at first!
 
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alfatwo said:
Secondary school...they said I was rubbish at maths and English and I should apply to the coal board for a job down the pits.
Ten years later I was an avionics engineer at BOAC!

Dave
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Education back then was quite harsh I felt with some teachers and their methods of discipline would be locked up today.
I grew up with some kids who were told they were stupid so many times they actually became Stupid because of Nasty teachers.
All I wanted was Girls, Motorbikes and Cars leaving school with 4 CSE certificate's just barely passed.
Still been in work all my life and around the World so Fúck them all.
 
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