Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Quality of drivers (NO F CONTENT)

[LarryT (l02turner]

Hi Ken.
    I was also fascinated by things that go Boom! - we (my evil friends & I) 
took a bunch of firecrackers apart and packed the powder into a small (perfume) 
glass bottle filled with shrapnel - then we headed deep into the woods and lit 
the fuse and Ran Like Hell - then laid down behind some fallen trees and waited 
- sure enough it made a big boom, than we heard the shrapnel flying thru the 
leaves and branchs around and over us.  We decided out explosives career had 
gone far enough when we saw a piece of plywood near ground zero filled with 
shrapnel - we used mostly rocks with a few small pieces of metal - I know, in 
hindsight it was incredibly dumb - thankfully we got away with it and no one 
was hurt.

    I always laugh at action scenes in movies where the hero's see an explosion 
starting and they run and manage to stay just ahead of the blast.  Yeah, right 
- a blast is over in the blink of an eye.  Like outrunning a flood.  Not going 
to happen.

Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ken rentiers 
  To: LarryT 
  Cc: ken rentiers ; ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 2:18 AM
  Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Quality of drivers (NO F CONTENT)




  On Mar 5, 2007, at 8:22 PM, LarryT wrote:


    Ken wrote:<<I was busted, age 5, for playing "doctor" with the little girl 
>>
    ï
    While most on this list would find that bust reason for rejoicing a little 
boy doing something normal - the media would turnï you into a pedophile.


  Larry:ï


  Here's the corollary. For many years I have used this reductio ad absurdum 
when ranting about stupid overweeningïbureaucraticïregulation: 'soon 
pedestrians will be forced to wear helmets'. The other day I was cruising home 
and here was this simple shit jogging... WITH A BIKE HELMET ON!ïïRome was 
sacked by the vandals when it became too weak to defend itself after so many 
centuries of 'civilization'. It won't be long now. The vandals are at the 
gate!.ï


  As for pre-adolescent arrests - only once if you don't count that thing with 
the girls in the ravine after school. Some degenerate friends and I made a 
homemade rocket. We used the cylinder from an old can of bug squirter: the kind 
with a pump. Glued some cardboard fins on the side. Made our own gunpowder with 
charcoal and saltpeter (this was when little kids could still get ahold of 
chemicals and stuff) Used a fuse from a big disassembled firecracker (see kids 
buying stuff above).ï





  Anyhow, on Launch Day it was windy....damn thing blew over and sped 
horizontally across three yards at lethal speed about 3 feet above the ground. 
Then the missile struck a neighbor's garage and blew up. I think it took out 6 
or 8 windows, all told, up and down the block. The cops were not amused...


  ken