A proper Viking Funeral

[dennishoddy]

There is a free boat and trailer in the classifieds. It brought back a memory of an incident years ago. I'm sure the statute of limitations has passed, and the landowner has also passed away.
I was gifted a nice aluminum Lund V bottom boat with no trailer many years ago. Buddy and I knew of a guy living just outside of a COE lake, somewhere in Oklahoma that had a couple of junk boats with trailers. He said he would give me the trailer if the boat went with it.
His back fence had a gate that opened up to a shoreline on the lake. It looked like the fence was intact, but he had it rigged to open.
We filled the boat with driftwood and hay. Launched it on the lake, then set it on fire to give it a proper Viking Funeral.
The North wind took it toward the middle of the lake with a tower of flame. As it was about dark, we saw a LOT of boat lights heading in that direction. (Memorial Day) One set was certainly LEO.
We got the heck out of Dodge and left the area!
Probably a stupid thing to do in retrospect, but we all do stupid things on occasion.
Probably what's left is now fish habitat on the bottom of the lake.

 

[Hooper]

Glad to hear, sounds like fun times living on the edge, of course myself I never did stupid stuff, my ideas were always brilliant, and I even held my own beer when I did them.
And I am Lucky to be here still alive. I survived all the Brilliant stuff we used to do.

I bet there were a lot of people scratching there heads over that, wondering what the heck. Funny.

 

[mtngunr]

There is a free boat and trailer in the classifieds. It brought back a memory of an incident years ago. I'm sure the statute of limitations has passed, and the landowner has also passed away.
I was gifted a nice aluminum Lund V bottom boat with no trailer many years ago. Buddy and I knew of a guy living just outside of a COE lake, somewhere in Oklahoma that had a couple of junk boats with trailers. He said he would give me the trailer if the boat went with it.
His back fence had a gate that opened up to a shoreline on the lake. It looked like the fence was intact, but he had it rigged to open.
We filled the boat with driftwood and hay. Launched it on the lake, then set it on fire to give it a proper Viking Funeral.
The North wind took it toward the middle of the lake with a tower of flame. As it was about dark, we saw a LOT of boat lights heading in that direction. (Memorial Day) One set was certainly LEO.
We got the heck out of Dodge and left the area!
Probably a stupid thing to do in retrospect, but we all do stupid things on occasion.
Probably what's left is now fish habitat on the bottom of the lake.

We used to fill mayonaise jars with kitchen match heads and use them to leave only smoking craters where formerly stood abandoned cabins, and also used machine shop magnesium shavings and a stainless thermos to make thermite bombs to burn through abandoned autos in the woods....kids can't have any fun today.

 

[Hooper]

Never seen it but I have heard that those old Manganese Mag wheels they used to make in the 70's would brighten a bon fire to the point you needed welding goggles to look at it.

Edit: have seen what very small amounts of raw Na and raw Mg can do in Chemistry class. Stuff is no Joke.

 

[SoonerP226]

Edit: have seen what very small amounts of raw Na and raw Mg can do in Chemistry class. Stuff is no Joke.

Raw magnesium won’t do anything unless you set it on fire, but raw sodium will light up your life in contact with air.

My algebra 2 teacher told us about a prank he pulled when he was in high school. He was the student aide for the chemistry class, so he had access to the storage room for the chemistry supplies. One day he snuck into the supply room, fished out a big chunk of sodium, wrapped it in a bunch of wet paper towels to keep it from igniting, then headed out for the 2nd floor men’s room.

Then he flushed it down a toilet.

A short while later he was greeted by six foot gushers of water coming out of all of the toilets.

I think he said it was Classen in OKC, but it was a three-story high school, and he said they figured that the sodium chunk had made it just outside the building before it built up enough pressure to blow back.

He also wondered what it had looked like on the first and third floors, and if anybody had been using them at the time…

 

[Hooper]

Raw magnesium won’t do anything unless you set it on fire, but raw sodium will light up your life in contact with air.

My algebra 2 teacher told us about a prank he pulled when he was in high school. He was the student aide for the chemistry class, so he had access to the storage room for the chemistry supplies. One day he snuck into the supply room, fished out a big chunk of sodium, wrapped it in a bunch of wet paper towels to keep it from igniting, then headed out for the 2nd floor men’s room.

Then he flushed it down a toilet.

A short while later he was greeted by six foot gushers of water coming out of all of the toilets.

I think he said it was Classen in OKC, but it was a three-story high school, and he said they figured that the sodium chunk had made it just outside the building before it built up enough pressure to blow back.

He also wondered what it had looked like on the first and third floors, and if anybody had been using them at the time…

Had a brain fart. I was thinking of K when I put Mg in there.
Should have said Na and K no joke. Both produce pure H in the reaction with water.
Raw Mg much more controllable in water, to the point it just bubbles in the water, unless you add heat.
After 40 some years I can still remember the results just forgot what made the results.

We lost a few toilets at our High School also due to Na + Water reactions, and Lockers with the old M-80's.
You can always tell which class clowns were in class the day the chemistry teacher showed the Na water experiment.

Stuff Kids do for excitement, crazy times.

 

[aarondhgraham]

Dang, I thought someone did an actual Viking funeral boat.

Way back in the late 70's I was in the Society for Creative Anachronism,,,
It was a medieval re-enactment society of a sort.

Actually it was just a ton of people who had a Robin Hood/King Arthur fantasy,,,
Camping out in weird tents, wearing funny clothes,,,
And having wild drunken sex parties.

But when one of our Viking members passed away,,,
He left enough money to fund a real Viking Funeral Boat.

The hard part was finding a charter boat that would tow the "long ship" out to sea,,,
But we did it in style, getting very drunk, and torching the boat just outside the three mile limit.

I was one of the archers trying to hit the long ship with flaming arrows,,,
BTW, those danged arrows were very difficult to make work.

Aarond

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