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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids were always setting fires for fun in my neighborhood. There was a long stretch where we’d meet after school every day with a collection of items to burn: newspapers, stuffed animals, hairspray, anything we could find. It eventually came to an end when someone called the cops about one particularly large fire in the woods. We were pretty lucky no one got hurt. [/quote]

One kid I know made a flamethrower out of an Entertech squirt gun.  Hooked a candle to the muzzle with a wire hanger, then filled the gun with gasoline from the lawnmower.   Great idea, but the design flaw was that the candle was too close to the muzzle and the stream caught fire and the fire traveled back into the gun and blew up.  He didn't lose any digits but his hand was pretty badly burned.

We were idiots...but I still get excited thinking about the anticipation waiting for him to light that thing. [/quote]

.....[b].aaaannd this was when future helicopter parents were created. I hate that label, but, after the sh!t my friends and I did/experienced, you're damn right I'm keeping an eye on my kids.[/quote][/b]

+100.  Poster with the husband who burned his father’s car again. Both DH and I were rather rebellious when we were younger and it will be over my dead body that my kids will do the sh** we did.  70’s/80’s teens generally have very good reasons for becoming helicopter/tiger parents! [/quote]

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