Boredom relief 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
In my younger days, me and a buddy were very bored and walking behind a shopping center. I picked up a piece of metal wire and began to spin it like a propeller, listening to the sound get higher and higher in pitch.
My friend thinks he can spin it faster and takes the wire from me. He spun it faster and faster, the sound getting higher and higher in pitch until the sound stopped.
The wire, broken off at the end near my friends hand, sailed up into the air, passing between the high voltage lines running behind the shopping center that both of us had failed to notice when our little contest began. We watched amazed as it stopped ascending and began decending.
The wire landed across the high voltage lines and immediately began glowing like a light bulb element for about a tenth of a second before the transformer just above us exploded.
Flaming insulation and half molten plastic rained down into the nearby woods, and upon us, as we lay stunned from the noise. The woods began to burn and people began streaming out of the now dark shopping center and nearby apartment complex.
Lucky for us it was winter and we were wearing old Army jackets which protected us from the burning debris. When asked "What Happened?" we of course answered, "Don't know, it just blew up!"
I am happy to say that I'm still here having done nothing else as stupid to remove my self from the living or the gene pool. I'll let my friend report his advertures himself (they are still pretty stupid). Submitted on 04/03/2002
Submitted by:
Jeff HIckerson
Reference:
Sorry, never made the paper
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