Stupid Prank

[weldingisfun]

1bush2hog, you are a hero. I teach high school and see lots of "punks" get the kid glove treatment all too often. Eagle scouts and honor students do stupid things just like the punks. It is good to hear that at least someone gets to pay the piper.
I would have done the same thing. Hold you head high.

 

[mjarrels]

Stupid pranks like that "kill you" if you ever need a security clearance.

mark

 

[jpm]

to many times adults do not want to "punish" kids for dumb/stupid acts but unfortunally the kids never learn right from wrong or to except punishment for their acts.if they do get caught/ punish, the victim is a jeck or a a@## but not them

 

[MikeD74T]

Back in the days when we used to blow up mailboxes with M-80's, we were super lucky no one ever got hurt that I know of.

Doing the same thing now would bring out the FBI, Homeland Security, Postal Inspectors, U.S. Marshalls etc. for illegal use of an explosive device on Federal Property.

Still, it is a good thing no one got injured in your incident.

Nowdays the mere possession of M80s is a felony.

In the late 60's in my hometown a few HS seniors burned down a dozen abandoned houses. The houses were beyond repair anyone & teens used them for haunted house parties so the cops were glad to see them gone. The group eventually ran out of houses & burned a barn full of hay. Then there was an uproar. Although known they were never actually "caught". All became respectable citizens without criminal records. They never paid for the hay though. I'd bet if you asked any 57 -60 year old in that grew up in that town who dunnit you'd get all the names. MikeD74T

 

[MarkV]

I had no idea how powerful a device made with a 2 liter soda bottle out of common household ingredients, could be. The culprits claimed they learned this in high school physics class

Had the same thing happen to us about a month ago. The police and fire department told us that they are known as “drano bombs” around here and a lot of the kids are playing with them these days. I did a little research and found that they actually are used as a terrorist device to blow up vehicles by putting them in fuel tanks. I won’t share the recipe but you don’t have to be very good on the computer to find it.

The post office has a great concern for its carriers being near one of these when it goes off and got involved in the investigation also. I think our problem was solved when the word got out that a federal charge would be filed if they caught the kids.

MarkV

 

[Richard]

Then some kids says, "Hey, my dad reloads his own shotgun shells and we have bags of gun powder in the basement" and it's all downhill from there, fellas. As I said, nothing devious about it. Misguided, yes. Devious, no. Until you start damaging other people's property. Then you cross that line.

Bingo! Exactly with me except I was the one with the gunpowder. My dad never shot guns, we had a CANNON!! (he still has it)

I might have been 12? (wild guess). Had a "Charles Chips" tin can about 1/2 full of gunpowder and another small (store bought) can of primer poweder. Both for the cannon, which we only shot rags out of (today, he actually has some cannonballs!!)

I'd take a 16 ounce glass coke bottle and a LONG fuse and we'd light it. We never blew anything up except the bottle.

We did one on the frozen creek behind the house. Went back after the flash/bang and there was NO more ice.

The 'biggie' one we (I) did was simply put the bottle down in a farmers field. We didn't take into account that it had been raining and we'd NOT be able to run away as fast (again, LONG fuse)

We DID get far enough away but were very surprised when we returned and found about a 4' wide hole, I don't recall how deep but we were giddy with our accomplishment.

Fortunately, I ran out of gunpoweder and that was my last ordeal with loose gunpowder. In hindsight, I probably did a small favor as I'm not so sure we really needed that much poweder inside the garage .

Today, Dad has the cannon and when his things, become "our" things, it is destined to become mine.

Now that I'm on 250 acres, I must admit... I've wondered what it might be to shoot one of them balls...

 

[scott_vt]

I finally bought one more, took it to my local metal fabricator and asked him to fashion the exact same mailbox out of 1/4" steel. He called with a quote of $300 and asked if I was sure I wanted to pay $300 for a mailbox. I told him yes, it would be the last mailbox I purchase. We welded it to some 4" square tubing with rebar and put about 500 lbs of concrete in the ground.

Mornin jk,
Gee Im surprized you havent got arrested for doing something like that..... little Johnny could hurt his arm swinging a bat at a unmoveable object like your new box !!!

 

[SkyPup]

Unfortunately, nowadays respectable citizens driving three ton SUVs talking on their cell phones take out many more mailboxes and kill many more men, women, and children than pranksters do, and their only penalty is a $25 fine for improper lane change.....

 

[MossRoad]

Guess I was always to busy working to be misguided.

Exactly! Young folks with nothing to do and no adults to guide them find their own things to do. Sometimes it isn't a happy outcome. Once a person becomes an adult, they have to take responsibility for their own actions. Mid to late teens and even early 20's is a tough time to go through. You turn 18, you are old enough to vote, old enough to purchase a firearm and old enough to put your life on the line serving your country in the military, but you are not allowed to buy yourself a beer. (And you are old enough to face adult jail time for manufacturing explosives, I might add). I'm pretty convinced the majority of problems in this country's society are due to a lack of parental involvement.

 

[MossRoad]

... "Charles Chips" tin can ...

... a 16 ounce glass coke bottle ...

What are these things you speak of???

Man, that brings back some good memories... we had an old refer with the freezer box in the top center. Mom would keep eight 16 OZ Cokes on each side of that freezer box. The ice was formed in the shape of Coke bottles on the sides of that thing. The rule was, you take a pop out, you put a warm one in the back. Other friends' houses we'd have to split a Coke with 3-4 people in those little Tupper Ware tumblers. At our house everyone got a whole bottle for themselves. That was the one indulgence we were allowed (besides playing with explosives).

And when Charles' Chips came out, man, we never saw bagged chips again!

To tell you the truth, my mom was a teacher, so she had summers off. None of the other kids' moms worked. So there were always moms around, but I never recall any of them catching us doing our dastardly deeds. The only time they had an inkling that something was up was when they would hear a boom and 5 minutes later they were taking a sobbing kid to the hospital for stitches to have his blackened hands sown up. The kid would come home a couple hours later, all bandaged up and we'd be out playing again. What were they thinking??? YIKES!!!