Just some kids playing with explosives

[JM4CY]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/us/gender-reveal-party-death.html

 

[TXCyclones]

they're lucky they didn't blow themselves up, some kids in 1983 weren't so lucky...

On November 20, 1983, an explosion of an explosives storage bunker just south of Pleasant Hill occurred. Reports were that two teenagers were hunting around the area. One of the teenagers may have shot a bullet from a hill which penetrated the bunker ceiling, which was deemed the probable cause of the explosion. The two teenagers were killed in the explosion, leaving only small pieces of shirts. The explosion was felt 45 miles away from the site. At least 25 homes within a one-mile radius of the explosion suffered damage, doors and windows were blown out, ceilings fell and houses were knocked off their foundations, police said. One house, 300 yards directly up the valley from the shack, suffered an inch-wide crack the entire width of its basement wall.

I remember this. My family lived in the Huxley/Cambridge area at the time and it was the loudest explosion I'd ever heard up to that point. It wasn't until the local news came on when it was reported what had actually happened. I remember that it was several ton of dynamite in the Des Moines area, but hadn't remembered that it was near Pleasant Hill. This was the first thing I thought of when I opened the thread.

 

[FallOf81]

We attached two lbs to a remote control boat on my buddies pond and shot it from the deck of his house. One guy driving the boat and two taking shots with their .223s. That was effing fun!