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    i was an angel of a child prove otherwise
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    I won't say what I and my mates used to get up to. They're still looking for the perpetrators of various 'incidents'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    i was an angel of a child prove otherwise
    Lol... Del *certainly* was, but boy, she's making up for it now!!

    A right wee scamp. I blame the influence of her younger pals!

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    I won't say what I and my mates used to get up to. They're still looking for the perpetrators of various 'incidents'.
    Were any of the bodies ever found?

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    I won't say what I and my mates used to get up to. They're still looking for the perpetrators of various 'incidents'.
    A friend of mine destroyed a local landmark with home-made explosives, the blast was heard over a mile away. He still has a cutting from the regional newspaper that expresses outrage at the incident and demands that the perpetrators be brought to justice.

    Needless to say he's now a wealthy man and a pillar of the establishment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Were any of the bodies ever found?

    Marco.
    Only the odd bone or two.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Only the odd bone or two.
    See, I still remember that picture you posted a couple of years ago, the one that looks like it should have a row of numbers under it. Only kidding! Btw, did you ever get to be an extra in Z Cars?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Lol... You sound as if you were as much of a nightmare as me when I was a kid, and often up to no good!

    Did you ever use spud guns? They were a giggle, especially when illegally 'uprated'

    Marco.
    No, I was a good boy me. Whenever i wasn't setting fire to stuff. As for spud guns, no that must have passed me by.

    These days spud guns are an entirely different thing. Anita's son and his mate made one, (spud cannon would be a better word for it). Using a length of plastic drainpipe firmly sealed at one end, and with a piezo electric cooker lighter attached. Spray an aerosol spray (any will do) into the pipe, drop a whole spud into the pipe and ignite.

    Banged like a shotgun and propelled the spud about quarter of a mile (four football pitches) I kid you not I suppose it would also work well with tins of beans or soup if the calibre was right. Potential there to make a right mess.
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    I like the sound of that spud cannon! That sounds a lot of fun! I remember me and my mate having a bonfire in his dad’s metal incinerator, we put an almost empty aerosol in it and put the lid on. When it blew the lid must have gone 100ft in the air and ended up 4 gardens away!

    Another “genius” idea we had was to put a sealed tin of beans in a campfire with the Scouts... when it blew the top flew out and embedded itself about an inch deep into a tree trunk. You can only imagine what would have happened if it had hit anyone!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    Now that is a challenge! The largest of those I picked up a few days ago now weighs 30.4g (probably lost a little due to partial desiccation).

    Heck - I'm going to have to go out again to see if I can find a larger/heavier one!
    Found a heavier one, 33.7g - but not sure if it is a candidate for the record.





    BTW Marco, did you cook and eat those rabbits you killed, or was it just blood lust?
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