In 1976 I lived in a small town right on the Mississippi River, and July 4th of that was a big celebration. Next to the very old courthouse and a bank built in very early 1900’s, the NG had set up 3 mobile artillery cannons. When the salute for the beginning of festivities was over all the windows in that vicinity were blown out. The banks alarms were still ringing when I was riding my bike away.
Balboa, Panama (1973? '74?). Oxy-acetylene in a weather balloon tethered sixty feet above the taxi-way. Tracers, beverages, and lawn-chairs at two-hundred yards as the sun set over the Pacific.
I did that once with a 55 gallon garbage bag full of oxygen and acetylene.
ReplyDeleteCost me several thousand dollars to fix the windows.
No problem. Just windows in a brick building. Cheap to fix.
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How do you say “hold my beer, watch this…“ in Dutch?
ReplyDeleteIn 1976 I lived in a small town right on the Mississippi River, and July 4th of that was a big celebration. Next to the very old courthouse and a bank built in very early 1900’s, the NG had set up 3 mobile artillery cannons. When the salute for the beginning of festivities was over all the windows in that vicinity were blown out. The banks alarms were still ringing when I was riding my bike away.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Cash "Rings of Fire" playing in the background. My kind of rednecks!
ReplyDeleteDrunken hillbilly motherfuckers!
ReplyDeleteBalboa, Panama (1973? '74?).
ReplyDeleteOxy-acetylene in a weather balloon tethered sixty feet above the taxi-way.
Tracers, beverages, and lawn-chairs at two-hundred yards as the sun set over the Pacific.
Very satisfying.