How does one end up with the intersection street signs from a few blocks down in their backyard? 🤔
It was not me, but will confess as a teen, a friend and I thought it would be quite the prank to move a street sign, which we dug up late one night, but did not put it someone’s back yard, because what then would be the point?
It went to another intersection.
Of a more risky nature, I also had a teen fascination with explosives and blew up some appliances with a pipe bombs out in an unofficial dumping ground, in the woods, one of the luxuries of living out in the country, where no one or barely anyone would notice (vicinity of Upper Marlboro, Md when it was still out in the country). The top of the washing machine flew about 30’ in the air. I remember hearing shrapnel whiz by, as I was ducking at the time.
Later one of my friends had an accident, ending up in the hospital, when he filled a small pipe with gunpowder, then drilled a hole in it (to place the fuse). His sequence was off and he was extremely lucky to have survived.
I’ve gotten much wiser since then, but have bought M-80s on occasion for Forth of July celebrations.
The thing is you have to be sure they are real, I remember them being described as 1/4 stick of dynamite, but that might be an exaggeration, and you have to look out for the fakes one, an M-80 casing with just a fire cracker inside. In Texas no problem, but in Minnesota, if you wanted the good stuff, you had to drive across the river to Wisconsin.
