boxst

I feel like being a bit of a child again and blowing a few things up! Not in a 'Chaos-I'm-Going-To-Jail' type way, just with some Chinese fireworks I used to get in France all the time when I was a wee boy.

Are they illegal to bring back? Not that anyone will notice, I drove to Poland over the weekend (and flew back leaving my wife there) and didn't have my passport checked once.

Steve

tanyatriangles

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Yes, illegal if caught, and you will face a fine

boxst

Oh okay! I didn't think it was that serious.

As long as some bizarre anti-terrorism law isn't invoked (I'm 40 and it would be embarassing!)

thesyn

My farming friends used to have access to items known as "crow scarers" which were serious pieces of ordnance (as in lose a hand if not thrown quickly).
Not seen those for a few years though.

tanyatriangles

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You should see the device I have here in France, it's called a "DeTaupeur", or "De-Moler".

It consists of an electrically fired banger that is inserted down the mole run, leaving the hole to the outside open, with the firer arm down it. When the mole comes to block up the run again, he disturbs the firer arm and off goes the banger.

I can vouch for two things: if you were holding said banger in your fingers when it went off, you'd lose some part of your fingers, and they make a HELL of a mess of a mole in a tunnel

ScoobyWon't

What state does it leave the lawn in?

corradoboy

Do a Google for "logan brainiac" to find a recipe for some explosives

MrShades

Talk to this bunch...

Maroons

Standard mini maroons are fun...

...a type 2 thunderflash is the size of 2 x AA batteries and will easily blow a plastic car-washing bucket into thousands of pieces... with a suitably loud bang and flash (what a surprise!). Much MUCH better than any 'banger'.

... a type 3 is the same length as a type 2 but think more C cell than AA.

They used to do electric ignition / strike ignition and "light the blue touch paper" type - not sure if they still do. A few type 2s, a reel of speaker wire and a 9v battery = fun!

Whilst not on the website, they also imported an interesting array of chinese fireworks - HSE have probably clamped down a bit on that these days though...

Shades

tanyatriangles

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No obvious problems, the blast goes down the tunnel plus out of the open hole.

I only know what it does to Moley since I dug the first one out to see............

yoza

I was expecting breasts...

boxst

See the adult section

Steve

yoza

Not allowed in....adults only you see.

boxst

Just got back, bought some at a local shop in Calais ....



Steve

mikef04

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still available, friend works for erenst Doe, they are available over the counter

Leslie

Have you had a knock on the door at dawn yet?

Les

chathamtom

im going to calais on saturday? what shop did you get these from?
thanks,
tom

dpb

I was expecting saucisson

Simon C

Nopes, just walk into any good paintball shop. They have smokers and thunderflashes.

Last lot I used though fell off the back of an MOD 4 tonner bedford

cster

Yeah - they come in a shoe box of 144.
The fuse is about one second though.

jameswrx

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Blimey, brings back memories of school trips to France!

Remember how we'd think of ways to get them back without the teachers finding out. I stripped out a radio at home, removed a sticker inside the battery compartment, made a hole in the radio body and covered it over with the sticker. Then took it with me and filled it full of bangers and 'smuggled' them back

I also got hold of a load of rockets like that in Austria on a school skiing trip and let them off along the road all night while drinking vodka! ahh, school days..

Will

Havent seen a banger in years. The fun we used to have with them

Tam the bam

Did the fun include Sheep?

bigsinky

in belfast our bangers tend to have more punch. my friend got 10 year in jail for shoplifting with a big banger. he lifted the shop 4ft of the ground.

Will

No mate, just bogs opened windows at the local pubs

GC8

Do your friends have wooly faces?

M444GY

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i used to have some right laughs with teh old bangers , all the fireworks now are made by mincers

bought some rockets last year 5 for £100 quid and they were **** . the 5 quid ones i had stored from a few years before had better bangs

Leslie

The Mighty Atoms were good and there was another one whose name I can't remember.

We used to shoot treacle tins off the back of a shovel with them onto the local garage workshop's tin roof.

They used to hate us!

Les