Dangerous Business

This thread is win.

My driveway has a hole bored into the ground and reinforced with a metal pipe, placed there for locking the gate. Why the hole goes down so far (or even how far it actually goes) I don't know, but I one day got the idea to drop some lit fireworks down there and see what would happen.

Unfortunately, it wasn't all that spectacular. Either it was so far down and so well-sealed that there wasn't enough oxygen to burn, or maybe the stuff I dropped landed upside-down. These were just sparkler/fountain type things, nothing explosive. Come to think of it, though, it would make a great launch pad for bottle rockets.

The one cool thing that did happen was with the smoke balls. Instead of creating a giant plume of smoke that induces coughing and sputtering and infuses one's clothes with that wonderful sulfury smell, the smoke slowly crept up the pipe and kinda "leaked" out the top for a good 2 minutes or so. Looked like an aerial shot of a smoke signal or something.

When it was all over we dropped some of the really bright "strobe" flashers down the pipe to try and incinerate whatever was left.

How ya doing, buddy?