Kids today are missing out (probably for the best). We even knew about how you could take Drano (the old formula) and shove aluminum foil into the jug as a catayst to release the hydrogen. We'd put balloons over the top to fill 'em. If you had help and worked fast, you could get about five hydrogen balloons from a single jug. You do this at night and tie a length of fuse to the bottom. Light it and let it go up, up, up, up. Then WOOOOMPFFF, 10 foot fireball. Down in Mansfield, neighbors were calling in UFO sightings.awesome memories guys, never tried the spraycan rockets though, sounds cool. I used to spend my allowance on rolls of that pop-cap tape for one of those rockets(and other guns) when I was like 5... good times getting yelled at by mom for using my thumbnail to pop them and burning it(my nail) up, heh heh.
Nowadays kids have airbags to play with:
YouTube - Idiotic Airbag Prank
Don't worry, he was drunk and didn't feel it 'till the next day
PS: anybody who reads this and wants to try it, for Heavens Sake!!! DON"T SMOKE and play with hydrogen. No aroma therapy candles, no open flames at all until all the hydrogen is in the balloons and all tied up. There, you can't say you weren't warned.
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