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CL82 said:
If you "prevented serious injury" how did you know when the fight was over? It literally went on until someone got hurt.

Good times!
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No, it went on until the street lights came on, or we ran out of ammo.

On Wednesday it stopped when the first Italian mom yelled, "it's Prince spaghetti day!"
 
Atari games,

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mussels said:
Gas plane on a tether. Saved up for it by selling Christmas Cards door-to-door as advertised in my “Boys Life“ subscription. (a magazine from cub scouts) Was a bear to control, and started a boyhood obsession with anything with an internal combustion engine. Amazing that we survived.

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My first memory of model airplanes was this style. I was about eight years old. My brother-in-law bought one and we went to a local schoolyard. Figured the basketball court was a good spot. Never thought to measure the tether length. The plane hit the metal pole on the first lap and disintegrated.
 
Kolumbo said:
I had one of these Estes rockets. It didn't last very long. Kids also made tennis ball cannons out of cans using lighter fluid

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I was a few years too young to do much of the tennis ball and lighter fluid cannon. Kids in neighborhood definitely did it but I'm pretty sure I was mostly used to fetch the tennis balls to reload. I think if I was actively doing it I'd have better memories of it.
 
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Cap pistol...preferably with a holster. Practice your fast draw as on TV westerns...the other person being a bad guy of
some sort. Both of you had the moral obligation that if your cap pistol didn't "go off"[a little puff sound] first it meant
that he had won the draw and you were supposed to drop to the ground...near death and with much agony as possible.
The little roll of caps you put in your pistol had maybe 6 shots.
At least in my neighbor hood having double holsters and 2 cap pistols was somehow beyond appropriate and too
farcical for those of us who in fact were deadly but righteous gunslingers.
 
I had this Jeep and trailer. The action figures and the accessories were pretty cool. The launcher fired silver rockets which you can see in the jeep. Of course you'd inevitably lose some of GI Joe's limbs. I don't think they sold replacements back then, so you'd get a new Joe.

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Deepster said:
One boring summer day, my friends and I set out on a quest to tear Stretch Armstrong apart. From what I recall, there were pliers and a vise involved. We also tried to draw and quarter him between two bicycles. None of it worked. We were maybe 10? That day ended with one of the moms yelling at us because we tossed ol' Stretch in a metal garbage can with some charcoal lighter fluid to finish the job.

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A sharp knife did the job. Got grounded because I ruined my mom’s new love seat. The goop inside never came off. Still don’t know what kind be alien compound that was made of.
 
Jaydumo20 said:
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This one almost got me in some major trouble.
It never could kick as far as it was "supposed" to. Most times, I remember the football just rolling off that little platform.
So one day, I got so mad at it, I picked it up and threw it, intending to bounce it off our living room couch.
It sailed over the couch, and shattered the large window behind it.
My Mother came to see what happened and I got the wait until your father gets home speech.
For some reason I didn't get a major whoopin', my Dad hated that dang thing as much as I did apparently.
He threw it in the trash, made me empty my piggy bank - as my punishment, and went to the hardware store to get a replacement.
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