You got that right and other things that would get you locked up back then are oK today. Go figure. Like inciting riots , looting and cheating in a federal election or Quid pro Joe to name a handful of a barrel.

AS I said he was mad about his grass. If I had done it in the back yard or a field somewhere he would have enjoyed it as much as I. Heck he taught me to make Black powder and other "fun" things. Used to have potato gun wars and use diesel starting fluid (can of ether) as propellent. Some of the games that we played as kids would get you locked up today.

Ha , The acorn didn’t fall to far from the tree 🌳

ROFL, he's who taught me how to make those.

I believe in this case father knows best.lol

I remember my Dad whipping me after I popped 5 or 6 on the front yard over what it did to his grass.

Well drano is a very caustic chemical substance.
Certainly a dangerous game to play.

It’s a tough crowd in the Gulch lol

Impulsive stupid mindless behavior seems to never go out of style.
Thanks for the link FFA👍

Usually done as repercussion for not giving a ball back the went into the wrong yard or some such thing.

Good idea!

The land of sky blue waters was a nanny state already in the sixties. Any fireworks had to be procured in another state. Silver salutes , cherry bombs or m80’s were the best they would blow up in the water. A brick of Black cats was 2000
fire crackers 20 packs of 100.
Thanks for sharing you brought back a flood of memories.

This really is nothing more than a big homemade firecracker.

I used to play with these as a kid. It goes off pretty much no matter what in less than a minute so the warning is hot air. But hey it will kill your grass.

I'd probably stab it with my K-Bar just to defuse it before lifting.....

I think the warning is valid, regardless of the timing, DOB.

Wrong vowel. I meant IED's. (Improvised Explosive Devices). I guess it could also go for Improvised Unexploded Devices... ;)

Intra-Uterine device?

The old "flaming bag of poo". Ah...simpler times...

This makes me think about the sort of mental wiring that makes a person choose to create and set out such a device ... and how that person must realize:
(a) The victim of the "prank" will likely be some random passer by.
(b) The person pulling the "prank" will not be around to see the results.
This is literally a random act of violence.

Back in my day, as kids, we would get our hands on a crap ton of fire-crackers and bottle-rockets (think of the old Black Cat variety that you can get for a few dollars for a gross of rockets, and bricks of crackers, etc). Then, we take them out to the pasture (my dad had some cattle on the hobby farm)... and you press the firecrackers into fresh cow pies ... sometimes bundling them... set off the fuse and run. It's all about the timing here, folks ... you run ... and turn just in time for the explosion - - BOOM! And it was sort of a contest, selecting the right "bundle" of firecrackers, the orientation, fuse length, the proper moisture content of the inert material ... and see just how high the payload travels ... the dispersion volume... And best of all, you try to set the package and light the fuse just in time so that the blast resulted in one of your friends being hit with shit. Of course there was the mandatory Clean Up Operation, including decontamination in the small plastic kiddie pool in the backyard.

Yup. Those were the good old days when a summer afternoon of blowing up shit was quite literally that. Sigh . . .

Yup... perty harmless fun, those were the good old days.

this is a scary time. I have heard of coke and alcohol (I think) that will go off in a capped bottle. This one waits until its moved, very nasty. Maybe Kamala, Nancy, Hillary, AOL, and Chuck should watch out for something like this left by "karma" for their nefarious deeds.

Reminds me of when we were kids we would wrap dog feces in paper, set it on fire, leave on someone's front poarch, then ring the door bell and run. Somebody would invariably come to the door and instinctivly stomp on it. Lots of colorful language, bie nobody lost fingers.

LOL something we did with 2L bottles at a party on a lake when we were young.

NEVER thought to make an IED out of it.

I checked this on Snopes - one of my LEAST favorite places, since they are so far left they are falling off the West coast (if only).

Turns out it's true....thanks for the warning, Dob!