Comments on: Teaching the Kids to Build Pipe Bombs

By: SwissFreek

SwissFreek — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:19:03 +0000

Totally with you. You used a hand-loading analogy but jeez, what if you taught a kid to drive and he then went and started doing doughnuts on people’s lawns? I mean what sort of responsible parent would teach their kid to drive? Don’t they know that could only lead to the kid doing something irresponsible and damaging other people’s property? What kind of nuts are these folks? Call Child Services!

By: Michael B

Michael B — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:35:25 +0000

Did he earn his merit badge?

By: chicopanther

chicopanther — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:50:24 +0000

When I was a kid, we used to play with firecrackers, including M-80s. It didn’t take us long (like age 12 or 13) to figure we could open up lesser fireworks, extract the powder, and make bigger boomers! We were probably actually lucky to not have blown body parts off, although one of our friends had a zip gun explode on him and he eventually lost two fingers due to infection from the powder burns. Of course, he had used copper tubing for his barrel for his .22 cal zip gun pistol, and the copper wasn’t strong enough to contain the explosion from a .22 pistol round. Not that the rest of us didn’t warn him. Also had another kid almost lose an eye when a piece of glass from an exploding milk bottle (we only used a Black Cat in that one) hit him in the forehead. He was only 8 years old, hanging out with us “older” kids, and he didn’t heed the instruction to “run!” when we dropped the Black Cat in the milk bottle.

We also used to build Molotov Cocktails and explode them against concrete along a river in a park. We would surely be arrested today, even though we didn’t destroy anyone’s property. We were sort of weird, too, in that we would go and pick up the broken glass after we had our fun.

By: Curly

Curly — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:37:58 +0000

The problem is people don’t think that they should be held
responsible for what they do. Not only children but many
if most adults also. As a child I and most my age had
access to guns and other things but we did not go shooting
up the neighborhood. We would have been held accountable
by our parents let alone the police. I know that I would not
been able to sit for a week if I did anything that I should
not have.

By: B Woodman

B Woodman — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:19:28 +0000

Nothing wrong with the teaching & educating. But be the wise parent to decide at what age your child is mature enough to handle the knowledge. Not everyone matures at the same rate.

By: Bram

Bram — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:51:05 +0000

It’s a free country… ha, just kidding.

By: buckethead

buckethead — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:22:18 +0000

I learned how to make that sort of thing when I was a kid. We blew up stumps and model ships. I fully plan on teaching my boy how to make that sort of thing.

Playing with stuff that burns or bangs is fun – the only other really fun stuff is electricity – tesla coils and the like. There’s no reason, in my mind, why you shouldn’t learn about it. The only downside is that by the time my son is old enough – another four or five years – I’ll likely get raided by DHS swat teams if I try to buy saltpeter.

By: Murdoc Online » Hey, Junior! Let’s go build some pipe bombs!

Murdoc Online » Hey, Junior! Let’s go build some pipe bombs! — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:51:16 +0000

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