Remember making mud clods and sticking a Black Cat in them and having "wars" with hand grenades. Had a 22 cal pellet bounce off of a weathered, sawed off pecan tree limb and hit me right between the eyes. Those tree rings sure looked like a good target. Made a bomb by cutting open about 200 black cats with a razor blade (lucky to still have fingers) the blast broke my neighbors window. Also played the hold them till the lat second with firecrackers until one went off between my fingers - throbbed for 3 days. Remember "real" fireworks like TNTs. Parents would be jailed for child abuse for "allowing" such activities today.
