If I were a better writer I guess I could describe my contraption clearer but I guess the easiest way to understand it is it
is just like a light bulb in a room. You have a power source, the battery instead of household current. You have a push button
that acts like a switch on the wall and you have the bag full of gas which is like a light bulb. The button is pushed it
sends voltage up the wire, across the little strands of Brillo pad, which makes them glow red and then that sets off the gas.
BOOM!! BIG BLOODY BOOM!!
I went in early the next day and waited until everyone had gone to their jobs. I removed the cardboard and wrote on it-"DO
NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON! IDIOTS ONLY!" I then pointed an arrow down and taped it above the button. It looked great!! Not for
an idiot.
I went out to my job and we worked until break time, about two hours later. I casually walked back in the area and there was
the sign. I could see a few guys trying to see where the wires were running but I sorta hid them a bit. Most were ignoring
it. Robbie was over looking at it and asked, "Whats that" I just shrugged and told the boy that it looked like someone had
installed a door bell for him. He just looked at me and asked how I knew it was for him. I told him to read the sign and
walked off. That is the way it sat for the rest of break but I saw Robbie looking at it occasionally and looking up toward
the steel. He was talking with a buddy and nodding toward it but everyone sorta ignored it. I knew that it was on their minds
though but they did not want to look the fool by pushing it. The knew something was up but didn't know what.
We have rigged up solenoids up to water and when person walked to the right spot we would hit a button and douse them down.
I have been hit by them myself. Once there was a picture of a Centerfold of a Playboy hung on a railing on a balcony. I,
being a normal American boy, stopped to admire her nail polish. I failed to see the water on the floor and she peed right in
my face!! You just know where the nozzle was, don'tcha
I set up a bunch of those things over the years too.
Well Robbie dun good but with the brain of a gerbil I just knew that boy just had to push that button. Him or some other idjit of which the area was teeming. Break was over and someone told Robbie to push the button, after all, the sign said it was his button didn't it. That made the boy testy. He was not about to do it just then because they wanted him to. I just stayed out of it. Nobody but myself knew what it was and I was not a talking. That sucker was gonna make an idjit crap his britches!! I as sure of that! I was not sure WHAT idjit but someone would do it eventually.
Break was over and we headed out for our jobs. All of a sudden we heard a heart stopping KAAAAABBOOOOOOOMMMMM and dirt and crap came a flying out of the steel. The dang pigeons were a flying and shitting and I started a laughing. We went a running back to the crib, it was only about fifty ft away and there was the idjit, just standing there with his hand half raised saying, "I dint push the button! I don know who dun it but I din!" I laughed and said, "You dang fool! You are the only one in the crib! You went and pushed the button!" We were all a laughing. I asked Robbie how he did it and he said that he just pushed the button, the button that he swore that he didn't push and it just went bang! Bang my arse. That was a classic. We had a couple eight foot fluorescent lights hanging in the crib and the blast busted those suckers out but no other damage.
The bosses came a running and asked what had happened and we all denied knowing. Plant protection came out and they finally found the wire and even though they didn't know exactly what had happened they knew some fool had set it up.
I kept my mouth shut, until now at least. Robbie like to have shat himself because that was more than a little pop, I am here to tell you.
This is not the end of the story though. I knew Robbie was stupid but I was stupider. A year or so later I told him I had done it and he asked how. I told the fool but that is another story....
is just like a light bulb in a room. You have a power source, the battery instead of household current. You have a push button
that acts like a switch on the wall and you have the bag full of gas which is like a light bulb. The button is pushed it
sends voltage up the wire, across the little strands of Brillo pad, which makes them glow red and then that sets off the gas.
BOOM!! BIG BLOODY BOOM!!
I went in early the next day and waited until everyone had gone to their jobs. I removed the cardboard and wrote on it-"DO
NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON! IDIOTS ONLY!" I then pointed an arrow down and taped it above the button. It looked great!! Not for
an idiot.
I went out to my job and we worked until break time, about two hours later. I casually walked back in the area and there was
the sign. I could see a few guys trying to see where the wires were running but I sorta hid them a bit. Most were ignoring
it. Robbie was over looking at it and asked, "Whats that" I just shrugged and told the boy that it looked like someone had
installed a door bell for him. He just looked at me and asked how I knew it was for him. I told him to read the sign and
walked off. That is the way it sat for the rest of break but I saw Robbie looking at it occasionally and looking up toward
the steel. He was talking with a buddy and nodding toward it but everyone sorta ignored it. I knew that it was on their minds
though but they did not want to look the fool by pushing it. The knew something was up but didn't know what.
We have rigged up solenoids up to water and when person walked to the right spot we would hit a button and douse them down.
I have been hit by them myself. Once there was a picture of a Centerfold of a Playboy hung on a railing on a balcony. I,
being a normal American boy, stopped to admire her nail polish. I failed to see the water on the floor and she peed right in
my face!! You just know where the nozzle was, don'tcha
I set up a bunch of those things over the years too.Well Robbie dun good but with the brain of a gerbil I just knew that boy just had to push that button. Him or some other idjit of which the area was teeming. Break was over and someone told Robbie to push the button, after all, the sign said it was his button didn't it. That made the boy testy. He was not about to do it just then because they wanted him to. I just stayed out of it. Nobody but myself knew what it was and I was not a talking. That sucker was gonna make an idjit crap his britches!! I as sure of that! I was not sure WHAT idjit but someone would do it eventually.
Break was over and we headed out for our jobs. All of a sudden we heard a heart stopping KAAAAABBOOOOOOOMMMMM and dirt and crap came a flying out of the steel. The dang pigeons were a flying and shitting and I started a laughing. We went a running back to the crib, it was only about fifty ft away and there was the idjit, just standing there with his hand half raised saying, "I dint push the button! I don know who dun it but I din!" I laughed and said, "You dang fool! You are the only one in the crib! You went and pushed the button!" We were all a laughing. I asked Robbie how he did it and he said that he just pushed the button, the button that he swore that he didn't push and it just went bang! Bang my arse. That was a classic. We had a couple eight foot fluorescent lights hanging in the crib and the blast busted those suckers out but no other damage.
The bosses came a running and asked what had happened and we all denied knowing. Plant protection came out and they finally found the wire and even though they didn't know exactly what had happened they knew some fool had set it up.
I kept my mouth shut, until now at least. Robbie like to have shat himself because that was more than a little pop, I am here to tell you.
This is not the end of the story though. I knew Robbie was stupid but I was stupider. A year or so later I told him I had done it and he asked how. I told the fool but
that is another story....
Funny how there is always someone that just has to "push the button." Are you going to post another story and tell us what Robbie did after you told him that you were the one that did it? Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas) 
