Posted: 4/11/2005 6:50:15 PM EDT
So my buddies and I buy some bottle rockets from a stand on our way to Cedar Point in Ohio. We goto the bar one night and on the way home we find the bag in the car. In our state of drunkeness it seemed like a good idea to shoot them out the car window. So one of the guys lights one and sticks it out the window not really aiming at anything. He misjudges the wind resistance and the damn thing flies back into the car. Its flying around and the 6 guys in the car are ducking for cover including the driver. We stop and spill out. The rocket is still in the car and at the end it goes BOOM! The inside of the car is all smoke. We are all dying laughing rolling on the ground except the driver who is now concerned the car will catch on fire. Nothing happened and we all went home.  Stoopid is as stoopid does. But we were teenagers.You would think we learned about bottle rockets. We are lighting them off again in a church parking lot. One flies up hits a tree and falls into the church dumpster. Its catches some garbage on fire. We have no water or beer left. But after a case of beer we got full bladders. So 4 guys climb and balance on the edge and start peeing into the dumpster. As we are peeing the COPs show up. The site must have been amusing because the two LEOs busted out laughing. When they were satisfied there was no fire they left us with a warning. They were still laughing when they left. |
 Well, that's definitely being resourceful.Cedar Point kicks ass, by the way. |
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you guys are rookies. I may be a stick in the mud but even in high school I would never mix fireworks, alchohol and or driving. One of my best friends had to be picked up with a sponge after a drinking and driving accident. anyway, fireworks and driving definately a go. We were the best. We started out with just bottle rockets but as you found out, they will just flip around and go back into the car or wildly off to the side. We then graduated to small pipes sealed on one end that you drop the bottlerocket into and stick out the window. It allows the rocket to get a little initial velocity in the right direction and you can aim them pretty well. In one famous incident I hit a buddy in the ass who was mooning us through the sun roof (was a moon roof that day I guess) and left a sweet burn as it blew up just as it smacked his ass cheek. Anyway, we then progressed onto estes rockets which were VERY impressive, finally finishing up with Estes "Mouse" rockets, those were the little cargo rockets with a little empty spot in the nose. We'd load them with the payload of choice, from a sack filled with paint to gun powder to flour and shoot them. We even fixed a small rack of pipes under the bumper of my 72 Olds Cutlass Supreme with remote launchers. It was awesome and we made some awesome shots with that setup. It went to teh junkyard when the head gasket blew a few years later. but it was THE car to ride in on the one hour trip to and from football camp every summer. |
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How about marshmallow bombs? You take some marshmallows and stick a whole lot of strike anywhere matches in it, heads out. As you are driving, throw them out onto the road and watch them ignite and burn.. We were playing with them in the parking lot behind the fire department (we were volunteers, one friend was the assistant chief, the other was the treasurer). We were throwing them onto the asphalt. I threw one right at the police chief was driving by. We figured we might be in some trouble so I tried to stomp it out. That was smart! He asked my buddy,"What the hell were y'all doing last night?!?""I know what I'm doing" is one step above, "Hey, y'all! Watch this!" |
My friends and I had a differant variation of this.... One of use would sit against the back window in teh bed of the truck while going down the road, someone else would be lieing down head to the tailgait hidden from the cars behind us. The person sitting against the window was a spotter for those lieing down. Those lieing down would pop a couple big marshmellows in their mouths chew them to a gloppy, gooey mass and spit them out letting the wind catch them and hit the cars behind us. Funny as hell when a ball of white goo hits a cars windshield at 60 mph....It smears and looks like a giant bird shit. Doesn't wipe well with wipers either. 
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