Y'all are fortunate to have survived. Our evil twins are maimed and wounded.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the neighbor kid who decided to make a pipe bomb. He put a nipple on a six-inch-long piece of pipe about 2.5 inches in diameter. He packed it with black powder. He put on the other nipple. Then he realized he needed a hole for the fuse and started to drill is with an electric drill.

He was lucky in that he only lost both hands (he was holding it while while he drilled) just below the elbows. He was also fortunate in that there was good medical care available and his father had been a medic in WW2.