Pork Chops and what is YOUR worst Fau Paux!

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Just PMSL at the thread and the Pork Chop stories!

Wondered what peeps worst Fau Paux at home has ever been!.. MINE,

I remember as a kid wanting to make a BIG batch of ‘touch powder’… soak Iodine crystals in Glycerine, let it dry then stand on it… it goes "bang’…

… well thats great, but I used about .2 kg of the stuff, lots of Iodine and put that on the floor in the airing cupboard…

… about 2 hours later, Mum and Dad in the lounge… BooooooooommmmM!!!

It blew a huge hole in the airing cupboard door and smoked the house out for hours! I could not run fast enough!! :crazy:

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hahahaha

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Nothing like starting a great thread then guys!!! :smiley:

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Took the plumbed in extinguisher out my car last night and managed to cut through the isolator wires by mistake :blush:

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With a dremel? :smiley:

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When I was about 13, my mate Clive and I made a pipe bomb using a length of Raleigh Chopper frame tubing (large bore!) and about 1/2 lb of icing sugar/sodium nitrate mixture… the explosion caused quite a stir… the gas board were called but apart from a smashed 2" thick paving slab, there was no 'evidence… we maintained it was a ‘banger wrapped in sellotape’… :slight_smile:

32 yrs later and Clive is still my mate… we’re building a Europa S2 race car and at the moment were putting the roll cage in… Hmmm - I think we might have some offcuts :wink:

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Made loads of those, about 13 years old too.
Lucky to still be alive, no way did we realise how dangerous it was.
Best one was in a semi dried up river bed by a bridge.
Rush hour traffic queuing on the road above got well splattered with with mud and poo. Boy, I knew how to leg it in those days!