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To: Crocodile who wrote (50957)	5/22/2000 7:20:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<Used to have a very weird old wooden silo here on our farm, but it was highly unstable...>> My fishing buddy knows a guy in the blow 'em up business. He was hired to blow a brick silo. Packed it full of explosives. By standers were looking for a rocket. He SAT ON TOP OF IT, touched it off. BOOM and it was still standing. He then took a front end loader and "tapped" it. Came down as gravel.

To: Crocodile who wrote (50957)	5/22/2000 7:24:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Oh, what a good story! All of a sudden, I remember the time the tank farm caught on fire. But it's vague, it happened when I was in first grade, so I've got to think about it. Not nearly as good as the one you told, though. And then there's the time that the drunk next door set his bed on fire. Oh, and the time I set the drier on fire, and the time I broke the gas line to the space heater. Fire Week, huh?

To: Crocodile who wrote (50957)	5/22/2000 9:13:00 PM
From: CharleyMike	Respond to of 71178

Croc ~ that did it!!! After mowing the grass to damnear exhaustion, drinkin' tequila for reinvigoration, laughin my butt off at the vision of the fire-guys, I'm done in. Gaugie can rest on his story 'til he's ready. Thanks, I needed that.

To: Crocodile who wrote (50957)	5/23/2000 1:02:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

When my pals and I were kids we built ourselves a sparkler cannon..... We scrounged up a thin metal tube about 8 inches long and 2 inches in diameter. We glued a short wooden base to the tube with Elmer's Glue, and plugged one end with a wooden dowel. Through the other end we stuffed the 'cannon' full of sparklers. Regular old grey 4th of July sparklers. We were hoping for a stream of sparkles to come out of the mouth of the cannon. We placed the cannon on the sidewalk out by the street and struck a match... One sparkler poked out farther than the rest, so we lit it and stood back for the show. But we didn't get a shower of sparkles. Instead, the cannon roared like a rocket engine. A solid blast of flame shot 5 or 6 feet out of the little cannon, which was now glowing a brilliant cherry red. We stood there speechless and bugeyed, watching the cannon change colors as it cooled. No one got hurt, amazingly, and since we were out of sight of pesky adults we didn't even get lectured.