MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Wick must be expensive in Asia

> But for a split second he didn't blast his own head off.
>
> Yeah, when I was about 10 we used to mess around with pipe bombs and stuff too. Times
> were different back then, parents didn't have 24/7 eyes-on supervision when we were
> kids.
>
> My friend Thad lit a pipe bomb in a field behind a party store, and just then a cop
> pulled into the party store. He ran up to try and stomp the wick out, and it blew up
> on his leg. He "took it like a man" and never ratted the rest of us out, but needless
> to say, we all learned a lesson even without the parental punishment. That was the
> last pipe bomb for us... m80's or nothing after that. Skin graft surgery and recovery
> later, Thad was fine, and our small town had one less group of pipe-curious boys to
> worry about.

You know, ever since my wife got pregnant, I look at all the videos online of kids doing stupid stuff with new eyes. I don't know if I'm prepared to deal with this.