the newman project.. a code name me and my mate gave to our soda bomb experiments so that we could speak about it without useing the word "bomb" OMG.
the name "the Newman project" came from the park we did our first experiment in. newman park. ahh the memories.
our science teacher (stupid stupid man) was stupid enough to entrust us with 3 boxes of soda bulbs (STUPID). so when he got them back i think between 3 of us we toook 15 or something like that. any way we heard from a friend of a friend of mine (excuse the cliche) that
if you heat up soda bulb enough it will explode. which makes sense when you
think about it cause hot air expands and the bottle can take only so much pressue and then bang.
any way now that we had these wonderfull devices we decide to try what we had learnt about sodabombs. so we went down to the corner store and bought some sparklers. wonderfull things sparklers. the first abandoned park we came acoss was newman park though we hadnt code named it yet.
using the tape and sparklers we had bought me and my mate jerry rigged a sodabomb. tape 5 or 6 sparklersto a sodabulb and poke the tips
of the sparklers into the ground so that it is free standing( this is not how we did iy but a way that works) light the sparklers and run. i should mention that we met a strange man in the park, reckoned he had C4 hidden in his floor but we didnt believe him. he helped us with the bomb.
the first attempt fucked up . the bulb came out of the sparklers and didnt heat up enough. the second time how ever it worked. i would say we were 3 to 4 meters away from the bombs because we didnt know how powerful it was. let me tell you. when one goes off you dont want to be able to see it. shrapnel galore( it has to go some where)
well after a boom that left us realing. the explosion from a sodabomb is huge the concussion wave could be felt from 4 meters away. well then we had to ride like hell to get away from the area. we ditched the weirdo and went back to my mates place
fast forward about 2 weeks. from memory we didnt do anything after that for about 2 weeks
me and my friend had riddin to soccor training with the intent of letting a sodabomb off afterwards. when we left not far from the training grounds we came across another park(not newman) and seeing a large depression we decided it would be good for letting off a sodabomb. being lazy we decide that we would just drop the sodabulb into the plasic bag that sparklers came in
light one and drop that in to then run like hell.after waiting what felt like 5 minutes but was probably like 2 the bomb hadnt gone off so stupid as we were we decide to check it out. i saw some flames but recognised them to be plastic melting so in my infinit stupidity i go over and bend down to geta closer look (note to self: never go back for an unexploded sodabomb). when BANG.
OMG is has gotto be the most intense feeling i have ever had. it was like being puched all over my body at once with a super hard punch right in the middle of my chest. i was thrown about 1-3 meters. i cant be sure. there i was rolling on the ground writhing in pain when my friend comes over. it has to be known that it was dusk and we couldnt see what had happened with my chest. but feeling it, it felt like there was dirt
forced into my chest. thinking it wasnt so bad we rode to my mates place which was 10-20 minutes away YAY FOR PAIN.
by the time we had reached his place we had ascertained that the blast had managed to cut through the zipper of the jacket i was wearing. cut straight through it and burnt the t-shirt underneath.
his parents after seeing the damage done drove me to my place. a quick trip to the hospital later we found out that no metal had hit me in the chest. really freaky though i have a scar directly above my heart.
everyone kept telling me how lucky i was not to get hit in the face i could have gone blind. OMFG.
after all this the police got called in (fuck). i fobbed them off with the old
"we were roding home and saw a fire and went to investigate" trick worked a charm except for the fact that they didnt believe me but .... meh you could tell.
i dont care we got away with it me sustaining only minor injuries who wouldnt be happy with that.
