A near win ending with a bang. 
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Personal Account. Hope this is the right place to submit it.
It still makes me grin twenty years later.
Indiana, Fort wayne. july 1983
I had just turned 16 and got my first car. Eager to show it off to a friend i stopped over at his house. Lets call him jim. Now jim isnt the brightest guy in the world but i had ASSUMED he had at least a few marbles rolling around upstairs. Boy was i ever wrong as you will see!
Jim comes running up to my car as i pull up and says "hey man, watch this"
He then proceeds to take out a book of matches and walk out into his lawn.
On the ground in the center of his lawn is a half gallon cardboard milk carton.
Filled to the brim with smokeless gunpowder..
Jim grins at me and says "This is going to be cool, watch!". Jim lights a match and touches it to the gunpowder.
Instantly a giant collum of flame comes roaring up and the milk carton exploded with a bang.
The fireball was huge and toasted jim, some of the lawn, and part of a large tree nearby.
He suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns to his face, both arms, and his chest. And his groin area.
Once i stopped laughing enough to do it, I got out of my car and called 911 and reported an "accident" without being specific. Difficult to do while laughing myself silly. I then got back in my car and drove home to repeat the tale to family and friends.
Needless to say. This was the last time i hung out with this person. And unfortunatly. No permanent damage was done to his groin area. :)
Submitted on 10/23/2003
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