CHUCKLE. = Given the general CRAZINESS of the "stunts" that kids of my generation routinely "pulled", I sometimes wonder how ANY of us "wild kids" survived.
(One of my boarding school chums of 1963 built a 8' long, solid-fuel, rocket out of an 8' piece of 4" aluminum pipe & some scrap aluminum sheet, at the school's chemistry lab. - While he was preparing it "for launch", it "prematurely went off" & "exited the roof" of the school at high speed "for regions unknown". = Lonnie's Dad "wasn't real happy" to have to "write a check" for repairing the damages to Old Main. - As far as I know, the "rocket" was never found.)
Full Disclosure: I helped build a huge catapult to throw CANTALOUPES & MELONS, in "boarding school DAZE". = It would fling the melons "clear outta sight".
(Otoh, I will NEVER admit being involved in the "fire-bombing" of another school's homecoming bonfire, from a rented Piper J-3. =====> To quote SGT Schulz of HOGAN'S HEROES, "I know nuffing".)
yours, satx