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(14,255 posts)Yeah, they did smell good.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)hay rick
(7,640 posts)I'm not dead. You missed me!
JBoy
(8,021 posts)"Completely harmless", unless you shot someone in the eye with it...
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)so we went out and got those little rocket things that you put a cap in and they made a pow when they landed.
Or we would just bang them up with a rock.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I wore glasses as a kid, which saved my eye one time when we were rocking caps.
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)I would strike an entire roll of caps stood on end with the end of a baseball bat on the sidewalk; sometimes I'd even use a twenty-ounce claw hammer. It was louder then a firecracker, WAY LOUDER!
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)Hit a whole roll of caps with a hammer and hope they don't catch fire.
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)Another way I would amuse myself was to ignite the individual spots with a magnifying glass. No report, just a little fizzle. Boring.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,529 posts)progressoid
(49,999 posts)We'd go through a roll and then go back and load the individual ones that didn't fire.
Apparently you can still get these plastic ones....
Florencenj2point0
(435 posts)loved it. Do they still make them?
Florencenj2point0
(435 posts)progressoid
(49,999 posts)here are a bunch of the plastic ones:
https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/bb-air-guns/edison-cap-guns/
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Some of those guns look real!
Here in the US they have required that they all have bright colors even on squirt guns so that people don't mistake them for actual firearms.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,837 posts)I remember wadding up a whole roll of them and hitting them with a hammer. Not much of an explosion but sometimes there was a satisfying *pop*.
Zorro
(15,749 posts)Parents came running because they thought it was a gunshot.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)You didn't even need a cap gun. You could always just put them on the sidewalk and hit them with a brick.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Tom Kitten
(7,350 posts)Gee I wonder why they stopped making them? What's wrong with the idea of a cute little toy bomb for children?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)We had them
Problem was we lived in a tiny logging town where there were no sidewalks so we had to use the black top road edge to popping caps, and sometimes the lookout was too engrossed in the caps to warn of an oncoming truck.
At some point, of course, we noticed the trucks, they are noisy.
Mendocino
(7,505 posts)still might.
IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)you stuffed it into the middle of the cigarette and when it burned down to it it would explode (a little explosion) but enough to scare a smoker.
My brother did this once to my father. Dad was not amused.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)It didn't go well for me.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)marked50
(1,368 posts)was if you could ignite them with just the edge of your fingernail.
JudyM
(29,274 posts)marked50
(1,368 posts)you couldn't beat the badge of honor with the singed fingernails..
JudyM
(29,274 posts)Mendocino
(7,505 posts)use a roll of caps, a straight pin and tinfoil to make a firecracker? Good times! I also remember when you could buy potassium nitrate off the shelf in drug stores.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)Build ship, sprinkle fluid liberally, create a few cap bombs, and put it in the creek and watch it explode, burn, and melt. Good stuff. It's amazing none of us didn't lose fingers, eyes, or other body parts.
-- Mal
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)It's been a long time since I played with those. I didn't even know they still made them.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Back in the mid 1950's, girls didn't get to have cap guns, and my shit for brains brother would not share his.
So, I was relegated to the rock.
Sigh.
Scarred my whole life, that did .
valerief
(53,235 posts)blow out the smoke. I thought that was the funniest thing, so funny I put in the beginning of my last novel.
Paper Roses
(7,475 posts)Bang them with a rock or if you were lucky enough, you had a cap gun. No thoughts ever that this was dangerous, then or ever. Times were so much more simple then. I believe this was in the 1940's. A roll of caps was probably 5 cents.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Candy cigarettes too. Good times.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)there's probably traces of it still in my bloodstream...
47of74
(18,470 posts)Back in the day when we had toy guns here.
I just preferred hitting them with a hammer.
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