Garbage Can Cannon 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
My friends and I all love our fireworks. Every once and a while we get a bit careless. Well anywho, last year I was playing with your run-of-the-mill firecrackers, pretty dull if you just blow them up for the sake of making noise. Well in boredom I threw one into a metal garbage can and realized it amplified the sound about 15 times.I had realized how to make a very loud cannon. I decided I'd scare the world so I threw a pack of 200 little firecrackers in and prepared to light it. I planned on lighting one firecracker, throwing it in, and stepping back to listen to the evil I created. Well the one I lit went off and that was all. Dissappointed, I took my lighter and used it to try to find the fuse for the 200 explosives. I couldn't find it, but my flame did. The noise was amazing, as I planned, but it went off with my head in the trash can. I couldn't hear anything for the next 3 days. No fatality, but intense lack of judgement.... it was a great fourth. Submitted on 04/10/2002
Submitted by:
Steve (Sten)
Reference:
July 4, 2001
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