The story
'Twas one hot day in July a few years back and my friend Aaron Righellis and I got us some fun fireworks... heh heh. Anyway, we started off emptying out the powder of those little exploding things and then would put it in a film case and duct-tape it all up after sticking a long wick on it. We'd light it and run and BOOM!! That was fun but when we ran out of powder stuff we switched to bottle rockets. We started firing them out of bottles like you are supposed to but that got boring. We then held the bottles and fired them horizontally towards other objects. We were up in a tree and we aimed for spiders in spider webs and stuff. After missing the damn spider so many times we started firing them out of our hands and off horizontal surfaces like fences and stuff. Anyway, all was good with the, uhh... fun fireworks but then we switched to the more legal stuff. Actually, the only legal stuff we had was smoke bombs. We went-- "Smoke bombs?!? What can we do with SMOKE BOMBS??" We went in Aaron's room and we found a three-man slingshot. That's a big rubberband thing where two people hold each end and the third pulls it back and fires. We decided to launch the smoke bombs and make like a rainbow of smoke. We gathered the smokers and went outside and attached the slingshot to a pole or something and I held one end and lit the smoker while Aaron pulled them back and fired. We launched a few and nothing happened. We figured they were duds. Anyway, we started to go inside and this biker rode by and yelled-- "Ya got a fire!! ahh!!" And we were like "Huh?"". He yelled it again and we looked and were like "@#!%!!!". The guy came over and started getting hoses and stuff while Aaron helped him and I called 911. Before the fire people came (which were just a block or two away) we had gathered the whole neighborhood and had managed to put out the fire. When they finally did come they hosed down the whole field and talked to us a whole lot. They said we had to go in for fire counseling. Well, we never did go in because they were so busy with worse arsonists that they didn't have room to book us. Heh. Anyway, that part of the field that we burnt grew back greener and has been ever since....