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yew.sir-name said:[quote author=flogged link=1184679835/0#9 date=1184731065][quote author=yew.sir-name link=1184679835/0#7 date=1184716432]i've never encountered a cherry bomb
They were my favorite. Gives you an idea how old I am. I was thirteen in the early 80's.. cherry bombs and m-80s were banned in the US sometime in the 60's I believe.. so those explosives were already old by the 1980's when I plundered them.
Cherry bomb was an actual little bomb. Had one of those thick green waterproof fuses on it, spherical red bomb body. Great BOOOM, you felt it. Wrecking toilets (flush is down) and mailboxes were the kind of delinquent things often done with them. First one I detonated cost me... I didn't realize to respect them and treated it like a smoke bomb or a firecracker. Lit the fuse and tossed it about a yard in front of me ... BOOOM. Permanently knocked my hearing down a notch or two but I still loved it. Left a little crater, complete with a miniature mushroom cloud.
The M-80's were insane - the real ones at least. My Dad didn't let me have those They were equivalent to 1/4 .. 1/8 stick of dynamite.
That was a different era in the US. To think kids used to be able to run around with those things. Now you'd likely be charged as a terrorist... lol
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cherry bombs are obsolete in the us? oh how american shows and cartoons have lied to me. i've always wanted to flush a cherry bomb, closest i've got was a banger (weak ass firecraker type thing) tossed into a lake. bangers are banned here, since the late 90s i think. but there are certain fireworks if stripped down... BOOM! can take out a washing machine and such. not that i condone washing machine destruction. but it sure is fun[/quote]
They are still around but you have to know someone that knows somebody.