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Oct 26, 2014 5:48 PM CST Only in America
Ken_19
Ken_19Ken_19Winchester, Virginia USA68 Threads 26 Polls 1,055 Posts
do folks play with explosives just for fun without hurting folks or going to jail

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Oct 26, 2014 5:57 PM CST Only in America
2girlsnocup
2girlsnocup2girlsnocupunknown, Greater London, England UK28 Threads 1 Polls 2,621 Posts
Ken_19: do folks play with explosives just for fun without hurting folks or going to jail



Just post the video via Youtube and embed it into your posts wink

That looked like a lot of fun. Not that I'd want to be anywhere near it as it comes back down. I saw enough cartoons to know anvils hurt.

Gay Wilkinson. My sides left me right then laugh
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Oct 26, 2014 5:58 PM CST Only in America
2girlsnocup
2girlsnocup2girlsnocupunknown, Greater London, England UK28 Threads 1 Polls 2,621 Posts
OP's video:

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Oct 26, 2014 8:13 PM CST Only in America
crayons
crayonscrayonsSt. Jo, Texas USA65 Threads 1,951 Posts
did not look at the video

but some years ago after learning how to build

several types of smelts, our little prospector

group in our wilder days... decided to build several bowling ball

cannons out of old steel pipe... powder was cheap and we actually

got good at hitting targets about a mile away... old bowling ball

inventory became a problem after a while though..

but we were younger then...
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Oct 26, 2014 8:32 PM CST Only in America
Thank you 2girl for posting the video, I can never post videos anymore, I have no idea what happened but doesn't work for me.

Anyway we do have some really dumba** people in our country that is for sure. An Anvil really? That could have gone horribly wrong and end up hurting someone. Glad it is the east coast idiots. Though we have our fair share here in California and the west coast for that matter. Hell in our town! But our town is full of people that would love to shoot off anvils! I live in a very hick town. help
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Oct 27, 2014 2:35 PM CST Only in America
Ken_19
Ken_19Ken_19Winchester, Virginia USA68 Threads 26 Polls 1,055 Posts
LoL, yep. All sorts of ways for that to go wrong. From the bottom anvil splitting and spewing fragments to the one being launched deciding to go sideways instead of straight up.

Well California home of the 1960s Minutemen (a bunch of Right Wing zealots who ran around the Mojave in old WW2 tanks (legally purchased from Uncle Sam in those days) firing off live cannon and machine guns at imaginary invading Soviet led Cubans soldiers)) has also been known for people who like to make things go boom for no reason.
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Oct 27, 2014 2:37 PM CST Only in America
Ken_19: LoL, yep. All sorts of ways for that to go wrong. From the bottom anvil splitting and spewing fragments to the one being launched deciding to go sideways instead of straight up.

Well California home of the 1960s Minutemen (a bunch of Right Wing zealots who ran around the Mojave in old WW2 tanks (legally purchased from Uncle Sam in those days) firing off live cannon and machine guns at imaginary invading Soviet led Cubans soldiers)) has also been known for people who like to make things go boom for no reason.

Well,you have the wide-open Spaces to do it in!laugh
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Oct 27, 2014 2:38 PM CST Only in America
Ken_19: LoL, yep. All sorts of ways for that to go wrong. From the bottom anvil splitting and spewing fragments to the one being launched deciding to go sideways instead of straight up.

Well California home of the 1960s Minutemen (a bunch of Right Wing zealots who ran around the Mojave in old WW2 tanks (legally purchased from Uncle Sam in those days) firing off live cannon and machine guns at imaginary invading Soviet led Cubans soldiers)) has also been known for people who like to make things go boom for no reason.


AKA Recreational Use Of Explosives!laugh applause yay
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Oct 27, 2014 2:46 PM CST Only in America
crazyblondeone: Thank you 2girl for posting the video, I can never post videos anymore, I have no idea what happened but doesn't work for me.

Anyway we do have some really dumba** people in our country that is for sure. An Anvil really? That could have gone horribly wrong and end up hurting someone. Glad it is the east coast idiots. Though we have our fair share here in California and the west coast for that matter. Hell in our town! But our town is full of people that would love to shoot off anvils! I live in a very hick town.


you need to move the "S" from the HTTPS in the Address of that Video!
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Oct 27, 2014 2:47 PM CST Only in America
Ken_19
Ken_19Ken_19Winchester, Virginia USA68 Threads 26 Polls 1,055 Posts
Well after two sep incidents in VA, one in which a numbskull who illegally dug a live 18" cannon shell out of the Manassas Creek Civil War Battlefield brought it home and put it on his fireplace hearth to dry out (a smoldering crater soon marked where a house that used to have 3 people living in it once stood), another incident where three guys attempted to remove the impact fuse from a once fired but seemingly dud cannon shell (and again only a smouldering crater and some shattered brick marked where once say a house with people inside), VA made it a Felony crime to intentionally set off any explosion whatsoever except for discharging firearms and when a permit has been issued in advance by the State Fire Marshal. Very hard to get that permit to blow stumps, and not obtainable at all for anvil tossing, but TG cannon fire is classified as firearms by the State or our civil war re-enactments would be very dull events indeed.
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Oct 27, 2014 3:00 PM CST Only in America
galrads
galradsgalradsDublin, Ohio USA2,264 Threads 279 Polls 36,283 Posts
Ken_19: do folks play with explosives just for fun without hurting folks or going to jail



Shoving a couple of pipe bombs down a vacant/inactive ground hog's home is more fun...laugh
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Oct 28, 2014 5:10 AM CST Only in America
galrads: Shoving a couple of pipe bombs down a vacant/inactive ground hog's home is more fun...


Home-Made



BOOM!!!!


Rockets!laugh
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Oct 28, 2014 5:16 AM CST Only in America
CapNemo
CapNemoCapNemoLongview, Texas USA6 Threads 599 Posts
That was awesome! thumbs up
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Oct 30, 2014 1:17 PM CST Only in America
Ken_19
Ken_19Ken_19Winchester, Virginia USA68 Threads 26 Polls 1,055 Posts
galrads: Shoving a couple of pipe bombs down a vacant/inactive ground hog's home is more fun...


Sounds like a good way to go to jail. Possession of Destructive Devices, Manufacture of Destructive Devices, plus whatever state laws are applicable to setting bombs off. BTW, I prefer Carbon Monoxide for them.
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