Did you ever plot to blow stuff up when you were little?

[Papa_Hotel]

I did. Another lad and I drew up plans for what we called a "bidda-bidda" machine. It was a giant robot but the head was the cockpit of a fighter jet. We'd sit in the cockpit and shoot bombs from the massive guns attached to the arms of the robot. We even laid our hands on some suitable barrels for the guns - 12' cardboard tubes. We were going to be legends, we were going to blow up our school.

Unfortunately, the robot never got beyond the planning stage.... but we planned it nonetheless.

We planned to poison my cousin too.... we made a poison of tap-water and leaves. Some grass went in it too. We never gave it to my cousin, but had it been successful we were going to poison everyone in our school.....

See where I'm going? Kids have fantasies about blowing st up and destroying their school.

So what the fk am I missing from this story?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8233...

I had plans for a giant robot with cardboard-tube guns that would kill everyone in my school.... why did I never get my day in court or a starring page on the BBC News website?

[craste]

Yes but these guys are were actually going to do it going on the evidence disclosed so far.

We all wanted to burn the school down but did you actually go buy the petrol can and tell your mates the day not to go in?

[Papa_Hotel]

craste said:

Yes but these guys are were actually going to do it going on the evidence disclosed so far.

We all wanted to burn the school down but did you actually go buy the petrol can and tell your mates the day not to go in?

I'll never forget the first petrol bomb I made by myself... Then was a little less generous with the petrol next time round.
I used to make proper little bombs from the powder of loads of fireworks. Extra fertiliser because that was meant to make it better...

Hell yeah, I could have been a blow-up-the-school legend.

[Osama Bin Laden]

No, I waited untill I was a grown up.

[Papa_Hotel]

Osama Bin Laden said:

No, I waited untill I was a grown up.

Then went all-out for it in NY, amiright?

[MKnight702]

Hell yes,

At Primary School I even got as far as attempting to make some explosives by mixing petrol and creosote into a sticky mess. Got into a bit of trouble over that so switched to digging tunnels instead, converted a badger's set into an underground den. Got into a bit of trouble over that so tried to construct my own, started a nice tunnel and used bricks and a couple of paving slabs over the top to look like a table to disguise the entrance. Got into a bit of trouble over that, then found out that the 9v Duracell batteries have 6 little cells inside and if you connect them to a transformer they get hot then the end shoots out like a little mortar, got into a bit of.... Oh well you get the picture.

Then I moved house, went to Secondary School and didn't manage to make much more mischief.

[toxgobbler]

Osama Bin Laden said:

No, I waited untill I was a grown up.

Almost had a keyboard/tea incident.

We made our own fireworks, some made a great boom, but it wasn't planned to create a distraction elsewhere so we could blow the school! It does seem a little overkill for youthful high jinks?

[Balmoral Green]

Did you ever plot to blow stuff up when you were little?

Er, I actually did once, brought a radio mast down with a home made mortar. Monumentally stupid. Kids eh?

[Papa_Hotel]

Balmoral Green said:

Did you ever plot to blow stuff up when you were little?

Er, I actually did once, brought a radio mast down with a home made mortar. Monumentally stupid. Kids eh?

You're Northern Irish, right?

[MrGman]

I've always wanted to blow the Hoover Dam up and view it from a chopper but i don't think this is ever going to happen and i can't see america agreeing to evacuate the area just for me to watch their biggest lake drain out!!

Plus i don't think i could generate enough *BANG* with a few fireworks tied together!!!

[loltolhurst]

is it me or is the law in england getting to be like in minority report where you can be sent down on thoughts alone ffs

[parakitaMol.]

No but I planned to shoot my brother.

For some bizarre reason our Father permitted him to keep an air rifle. He used to mercilessly tease me, shooting at rabbits on the lawn (don't think he ever hit one but it used to send me apoplectic....) Our rooms were next to each other and had an inter-connecting door, his side locked, he would run in, grab things and yell "I've got something of YOU-OURS .... and-I'm-gonna-cut-it's-head-off...... >slam< ... >lock< and then line my things up on this sort of roof terrace in view of my window and shoot them.

So my plan was to simply steal the air rifle and shoot him back to serve him right.

Thankfully I didn't get too far.

[Funk]

I set fire to a French campsite when I was younger. Not a small one - a proper one with static mobile homes etc. If memory serves, it's opposite the lovely town of Port Grimaud in the Bay of St. Tropez.

I also remember accidentally stumbling across the nudist beach that year as well. It was like finding the Holy Grail.

[paddyhasneeds]

I would imagine that after the trial, or during, when evidence is released that these two will be a pair of scary mother fkers.

It's easy to make comments about "thought police" but the fact this is being heard in court suggests there's easily more to it than a couple of schoolboy fantasists.

[Simpo Two]

Yep, me and a friend made a base in an old soakaway and from there we planned to blow up the school using wall ties filled with uranium.

The plan failed due to lack of uranium... think I'll go back to interior decorating!!

[F93]

It was a fantasy of mine, more the excitement and destruction than hurting people.

It's only cos of cool disaster movies.


But if you look at that kids picture, then you kinda tell he's a bit old to be serious about it.

[Justayellowbadge]

parakitaMol. said:

No but I planned to shoot my brother.

For some bizarre reason our Father permitted him to keep an air rifle. He used to mercilessly tease me, shooting at rabbits on the lawn (don't think he ever hit one but it used to send me apoplectic....) Our rooms were next to each other and had an inter-connecting door, his side locked, he would run in, grab things and yell "I've got something of YOU-OURS .... and-I'm-gonna-cut-it's-head-off...... >slam< ... >lock< and then line my things up on this sort of roof terrace in view of my window and shoot them.

So my plan was to simply steal the air rifle and shoot him back to serve him right.

Thankfully I didn't get too far.

Imagining you as a plaintive little girl watching aghast as your brother gleefully shoots your teddy bears does make me see you in a whole new light.

Siblings really can be absolute sods to one another.

[parakitaMol.]

Justayellowbadge said:

Imagining you as a plaintive little girl watching aghast as your brother gleefully shoots your teddy bears does make me see you in a whole new light.

Hmmm I must be honest, plaintive isn't really the word. Screaming, kicking his door, shrieking and having an total eppy until someone came to assist, would be closer.

Which, I later in I learned that short of killing him with his own gun, a better approach was to totally ignore him whilst applying a sort of 'pity' face and a little sneer.....

[Nickyboy]

Used to bring bangers back from day tgrip to France, started with the small stuff then the ones like smarties tubes until me and my brother brought some the size of toilet roll tubes. After smashing the greenhouse, killing all the fish in the pond and putting a hole in the neighbours caravan we werent allowed any more

[Halb]

When I was at school I remember a lad who collected all those popper things out of Christmas poppers and stuffed them in a metal 'cup/cone' with a load of ball bearings. Then blew a hole a foot wide in his dads fence.