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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]

......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]

I think you are right. We were given so much freedom. I can think of thousands of incidents where one or more of us should have been seriously maimed or killed all the way up to age 22. I do not trust kids.[/quote]

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