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José · 10-25-2009, 04:00 PM

I think about this from time to time but I've never done it since...

In 8th grade a good buddy of mine and I were into doing rebellious things, like sniping street lights with a paintball gun in the middle of the night and swimming in pools we weren't supposed to. we took a little spice container with a red lid, probably a small 1.1 gram size container. we took some estes rocket engines and crushed them up to get the actual powder out of it, and also some smokeless gun powder. I would say it was about half and half. Then just made a small hole in the lid with a nail and put a water proof fuse through the lid and then made a couple rounds around the lid with electrical tape.

we went to our nearest large open field which also happened to be a construction site at the time. at the time the only thing built was this huge retaining wall, I mean it was huge. probably 20-25 feet tall and it was in levels so you could climb up and down pretty easily.

We set the miniature atomic bomb near the bottom of this wall. Now we may have only been 13 years old, but we weren't stupid, we knew 1.1 grams of this mixed poweder wasn't a small fire cracker.

it was the coolest thing I had ever seen in my entire life. our one friend was at the bottom of this wall and lit it, while two of us were at the top because we were kind of worried what would happen. It ended up being pretty loud but it made the most perfect mushrooms cloud I've ever seen to this day.

It was EXACTLY like an atomic bomb mushroom cloud, it extended above the wall probably 15 feet higher and about 15-20 feet wide. It had the smoke ring around the base of the mushroom and everything. I haven't done it since, but I've thought it about it a bunch.

10-25-2009, 04:00 PM	#6399 (permalink)
José YaHookan Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,358 Thanks: 62 Thanked 147 Times in 72 Posts	I think about this from time to time but I've never done it since... In 8th grade a good buddy of mine and I were into doing rebellious things, like sniping street lights with a paintball gun in the middle of the night and swimming in pools we weren't supposed to. we took a little spice container with a red lid, probably a small 1.1 gram size container. we took some estes rocket engines and crushed them up to get the actual powder out of it, and also some smokeless gun powder. I would say it was about half and half. Then just made a small hole in the lid with a nail and put a water proof fuse through the lid and then made a couple rounds around the lid with electrical tape. we went to our nearest large open field which also happened to be a construction site at the time. at the time the only thing built was this huge retaining wall, I mean it was huge. probably 20-25 feet tall and it was in levels so you could climb up and down pretty easily. We set the miniature atomic bomb near the bottom of this wall. Now we may have only been 13 years old, but we weren't stupid, we knew 1.1 grams of this mixed poweder wasn't a small fire cracker. it was the coolest thing I had ever seen in my entire life. our one friend was at the bottom of this wall and lit it, while two of us were at the top because we were kind of worried what would happen. It ended up being pretty loud but it made the most perfect mushrooms cloud I've ever seen to this day. It was EXACTLY like an atomic bomb mushroom cloud, it extended above the wall probably 15 feet higher and about 15-20 feet wide. It had the smoke ring around the base of the mushroom and everything. I haven't done it since, but I've thought it about it a bunch.