Reply #53: Sorry about that...

[Solon]

Probably the worse thing we did was when we took a good sized pumpkin, loaded it with fireworks left over from 4th of July, put it in the middle of the street, and blew it up. This was a big pumpkin, almost 3 feet wide. Of course, this was my OWN pumpkin, carved it myself, and this was well after the kids were trick or treating, I was munching on some candy myself at the time. The explosion was pretty big, if I do say so myself, left a nice scorch mark on the street, and there was no pieces of the pumpkin left bigger than a couple of inches across.

You ever played "baseball" with the small pumpkins, that creates a mess. :)