Fireworks & Thinners
There was four of us, I suppose we must have been in our early 20s (old enough to know better, young enough for it not to matter). Three of the four were students, all spending their summers working for the 4th (trevor) who had a small joinery workshop in a barn deep in the sussex countryside. It is also worth pointing out that Trevor was, at the time, a p/t fireman.

It was hot, we were hot and bored with whatever it was that we were supposed to be doing. This called for the obvious step of taping a firework upside down in to the neck of a barrel of paint thinners. There was only a few inches of the volatile liquid left in the bottom - can't do any harm. Wrong.... It wasn't the resulting explosion (more of a 'whoomph' actually) it was more the fireball that was so impressive. Well, it would have been impressive if we had been able to see it properly.
You see, it was obscured from clear view, obscured by the fact that we had placed the barrel in the back of Trevor's van... Not such a good plan
(conanow, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 14:54, Reply)