r/maybemaybemaybe 4d ago

maybe maybe maybe

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u/FuManBoobs 3d ago

I like how she does it in some kind of stone/gravel. I guess nails and screws could have been worse.

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u/theoriginalmofocus 3d ago

At least, i think, its not inside something else and shes using coca cola it looks like. There used to be other things i think that were worse (iykyk i guess) but i heard they reformulated the shock to not work like it used to. I may be wrong.

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u/HomeFade 3d ago

I mixed one of those once and the bottle got HOT before I could fully screw the lid. I tossed it immediately and it blew up in the air a few feet from my hand. Can hardly believe I survived that phase of my life.

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u/Loggerdon 3d ago edited 2d ago

As a 12 year old we made devices starting with match heads wrapped tightly in tin foil, then graduating to gunpowder extracted one at a time from firecrackers. We set them off on the railroad tracks across from my house. My friends were bad at it but I was very careful. Some turned out merely as smoke bombs, and some burst into fire. But then I made one that one that really exploded in an impressive way and that was the last one I ever made. I immediately retired.

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u/kencam 3d ago

What I learned is that you leave black powder loose and pack gunpowder. Big boom! We used model rocket igniters to set them off from a distance.

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u/SSquirrel76 3d ago

I remember going down to this abandoned tobacco drying barn near my house and hanging out. One day we had a backpack w things to burn, lighter fluid etc we were on our way down there to burn some things, but not start a fire. On our way over there we saw a friend running away from it and a fire started. He kept running when we asked what happened, stashed our backpack and went over to fight the fire.

Fire dept showed up and accused us of starting said fire. We didn’t eat our friend out and we didn’t mention our backpack that was 200’ away in the tree line, but we were very upset that they would accuse of us setting a fire. Heh. We didn’t want to burn it down, just burn some things while we were there. We liked hanging there, why would we want it torched?

Ahh high school.

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u/Climate_Automatic 3d ago

What ended up happening? Did they arrest you or accept your explanation?

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u/SSquirrel76 3d ago

They didn’t have any evidence and had to let us go.

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u/proxygodtriple6 3d ago

d/l'd the anarchist cook book when I was like 10, pre 9/11 and patriot act mind you. Those model rocket engines you could buy at wal mart or hobby shops could be crushed into a very fine powder... I made one and it put a sink sized hole in the ground. I started stock piling them under my bed to go light with my friends. Thankfully my parents found them and disposed of them after a long talking to.

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u/HomeFade 2d ago

Yeah I was on the exact same stuff. I made a bunch a bunch of smoke bombs. Then I started trying to add stuff to make coloured smoke. One of my attempts produced a lot of smoke that was clearly toxic, in a public place. I immediately retired.