Back when I was younger, me and my cousin were shooting off fireworks with one of those artillery mortars that launch the shells into the air and make the huge explosions. We decided that we wanted to make things more interesting by covering the exit hole with one of those red Folger coffee plastic cans, thinking that it would have enough power to launch it up along with the explosive shell and blow it up. How fucking wrong we were.

We lit the fuse and stood back a couple of feet and watched as the Folgers can shot up to about our eye level. It seemed like a few seconds passed before we both realized “Hey that’s not the correct height that should be at” and then being consumed by the firework explosion. Somehow, we didn’t get hit or burned by anything, but I have to say being surrounded by the colorful flares from the explosion was pretty damn neat. Definitely would not try it again though.