What everr happened to the good ol' days

bill dedman · 11-08-2008, 04:41 AM

I once overheard Bob Creitz tell a story about a couple of guys there in Tulsa who went out a short distance from town on a windy night with a couple of bottles of compressed gas (I think it was acetylene and maybe helium)... They had procured some weather balloons from the local airport, or Air Force armory...

They filled these balloons with the lighter-than-air gasses (highly flammable) and attached a slow-butning homemade fuse to each of them, and set them loose in the pitch-dark, early morning (2:00 a.m.) sky...

The wind carried them over Tulsa's downtown area before the fuses lit them off...

BIG excitement from the local mounties... LOL!

The perps somehow got caught and were properly chastised for their inventive fireworks...

I just thought it was a neat story... Drag racers with nothing to do... LOL! What is it they say about an idle mind???

11-08-2008, 04:41 AM	#32
bill dedman VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Conway, AR Posts: 1,739 Likes: 0 Liked 6 Times in 4 Posts	Re: What everr happened to the good ol' days I once overheard Bob Creitz tell a story about a couple of guys there in Tulsa who went out a short distance from town on a windy night with a couple of bottles of compressed gas (I think it was acetylene and maybe helium)... They had procured some weather balloons from the local airport, or Air Force armory... They filled these balloons with the lighter-than-air gasses (highly flammable) and attached a slow-butning homemade fuse to each of them, and set them loose in the pitch-dark, early morning (2:00 a.m.) sky... The wind carried them over Tulsa's downtown area before the fuses lit them off... BIG excitement from the local mounties... LOL! The perps somehow got caught and were properly chastised for their inventive fireworks... I just thought it was a neat story... Drag racers with nothing to do... LOL! What is it they say about an idle mind??? __________________ Bill Last edited by bill dedman; 11-08-2008 at 04:44 AM.