Stupid Guest Tricks

Randy B wrote:But what you think fits that category may not match what we think fits. To some of us, target shooting with a howitzer fits the "won't hurt anyone" description. Can we help it if the paper target doesn't stop the shell and somehow it skipped off the ground like a stone on a lake and blew up uncle joes new car? :D: ;)

Closest I can come to that, personally, was manufacturing and using tin-can cannons. I got very good at firing a tennis ball completely out of sight, straight up. Went through lots of tennis balls that summer.

Randy

Hmmm, I remember buying m80's and throwing them in the steel culverts. You get a really nice echo with them. I also remember use a sling shot to shoot them into the air for an air burst. (I also remember having the M80 hit the side of the slingshot and fall to the ground, and running like heck to get out as it went off!) (we were on a graveled area at the time!)

Then I started my carreer and got to do some of the stuff for real!

felinefan wrote:Why don't guys take some real scary risks that won't hurt anybody--like investing in the stock market? :D:

Unless you know what you're doing, and it's proven over and over again that most people don't, it's like diving off the high board into an empty pool.

Short Sears, go long DIS, DLB, NTAP.

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Hmmm, I remember buying m80's and throwing them in the steel culverts. You get a really nice echo with them. I also remember use a sling shot to shoot them into the air for an air burst. (I also remember having the M80 hit the side of the slingshot and fall to the ground, and running like heck to get out as it went off!) (we were on a graveled area at the time!)

Then I started my carreer and got to do some of the stuff for real!

Did you ever pack an empty CO2 cartridge with the heads of a few dozen books of paper matches and then use the last match as a fuse? If packed correctly the cart will skip down a road for several miles (I had reports from someone who heard it ringing down the road past them from a mile away).

It's amazing the stupid things I not only did without getting caught but without harming myself or others. The joys of being a stupid youth.

Randy

Randy B wrote:Did you ever pack an empty CO2 cartridge with the heads of a few dozen books of paper matches and then use the last match as a fuse? If packed correctly the cart will skip down a road for several miles (I had reports from someone who heard it ringing down the road past them from a mile away).

It's amazing the stupid things I not only did without getting caught but without harming myself or others. The joys of being a stupid youth.

Randy

I remember we took one of those "water rockets" that you put water in, then pump if full of air and launch it, put a co2 cartridge in it, then used a nail and hammer to puncture the cartridge.

It went about two blocks before hitting the curb and shattering the plastic!

yeah, I'm pretty amazed that none of us were maimed before we got out of school!

Randy B wrote:Did you ever pack an empty CO2 cartridge with the heads of a few dozen books of paper matches and then use the last match as a fuse? If packed correctly the cart will skip down a road for several miles (I had reports from someone who heard it ringing down the road past them from a mile away).

It's amazing the stupid things I not only did without getting caught but without harming myself or others. The joys of being a stupid youth.

Randy

I have a friend that did this. He is now missing several fingers from one hand and has had several skin grafts. He did this as a yound child of about 14.

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:I remember we took one of those "water rockets" that you put water in, then pump if full of air and launch it, put a co2 cartridge in it, then used a nail and hammer to puncture the cartridge.

It went about two blocks before hitting the curb and shattering the plastic!

Some friends took it one step further and tried JATO bottles on their Hobie.

http://www.west.net/~lpm/hobie/archives ... humor2.htm

hobie16 wrote:Some friends took it one step further and tried JATO bottles on their Hobie.

http://www.west.net/~lpm/hobie/archives ... humor2.htm

What, the water version of the urban ledgend?

WooHoooo!!

I was there again this weekend (visiting the BF for his birthday) and I have some new ones for you. It was a choir fest weekend so there were lots of school groups wandering around:

1.) The biggest first. I was waiting for my BF at the front of the park. I was sitting at a table, reading, when three kids from one of the choirs groups sat down at the table. No big deal, I ignored them and they did the same. The two girls began describing to the guy how they stole a funnel cake. It was one of those situations where you order at one counter and pick it up at another, so she just took it from the guy and walked off. They were even saying that they were going go back to the place and take another one. Let's see: a.) I'm sitting right there hearing every word, b.) they have their school name right on their shirt, and c.) their chaperones were standing not too far away. Anybody want to guess what I did? :)

2.) Another kid in another choir group was sitting on the railings at Timberwolf. She was asked to get down, and in true teenager fashion was a real snot about it. I saw this girl at a couple of other rides and this seemed to be par for the course.

3.) A couple of girls tried to run in front of me as a I was walking up the line for Timberwolf. There are signs all over the park that say that line jumping will get you kicked out, so in my best teacher voice I yelled out, "Excuse me! Line jumping will get you kicked out of the park!" They stopped, went "huh", and I walked past them. I love it when I get to stick it to an SG!

4.) This is an SET: I saw several dress code violations. The worst was on the Detonator. The boy had in at least one earring, those gold grills or whatever the hell they're called on his teeth, and an oversized sweatshirt with cartoonish designs all over it. I was wondering why nobody was making the guest get on his seat when they were obviously getting ready to launch when I realized he was an employee! At Mamba, another kid, another oversized sweatshirt. A manager told him to take it off, but when I rode it a second time he had put it on as soon as she left.

5.) Another SET: At Mamba I saw one person standing outside the yellow line when there was no train in the station and another doing a jig right next to the yellow line. I was ready to watch him fall into the track, thankfully he did not.

EeyoresButterfly wrote:1.) The biggest first...

Good for you!!

EeyoresButterfly wrote:I was there again this weekend (visiting the BF for his birthday) and I have some new ones for you. It was a choir fest weekend so there were lots of school groups wandering around:

1.) The biggest first.

Way to go! "You have entered a larger world!!