Thread: Glowing arrows

Originally Posted by zimmer

Not arrows but when my mate and I had just started high school we made a breach loading cannon out of a length of water pipe. It used big fire crackers to drive it. We stole some white phosphorus from school and made projectiles with bits of phosphorus bogged into the arse ends of the projectiles. We kept the projectiles in a jar of water until needed.

We test fired it from the side of the road out across a paddock. Most spectacular, the projectile lit up straight away and flamed like a tracer. Trouble was it did a beautiful arc right over the paddock (we didn’t expect that) into an adjoining pine plantation. We bolted from the scene like little f…wits instead of racing over to check. We shit ourselves though, listening for the fire engine going out. Nothing terrible happened thank goodness.

Stupidity is not the total domain of today’s youth.

another excellent result! (minus the pine plantation!) I wish there was phosphorus to nick from my school... would have definitely advanced my standings with the local plod