A pocketful of firecrackers...

It's one thing to play with explosives like a kid with firecrackers

The bigger stores invest in these firecrackers and display them out in the streets.

According to the Iranian Student News Agency, students set fire to photographs of Ahmadinejad and threw firecrackers.

VIENNA Last month, firecrackers were thrown at the only synagogue in the Swedish city of Malmö, breaking three windows.

VIENNA Last month, firecrackers were thrown at the only synagogue in the Swedish city of Malmö, breaking three windows. The day before, a bomb threat had been left at the building, warning of what was about to happen.

I remember very well my own experiences in October 1993. When you hear bullets whiz by, the last thing you want to do is head in the direct from which they flew (and I m not even taking into consideration stun grenades, firecrackers, and police clubs).

So we went over into Michael's garage his dad had all kinds of stuff, and we put a pipe in the vice there, and screwed a cap on the end of the pipe, drilled a hole in the back of the pipe, took some of our firecrackers, pulled out the fuses, tied them together, put them in the back there, and down in that hole and then stuffed some of our gunpowder down that pipe and put three ball bearings on the top, in the garage.