Make sure to crack some firecrackers for the occasion. Have a blast!:)

She's got some learnin' to do. Get some toy soldiers and some firecrackers. Start there.

My firecrackers regularly transform into bunnies.

You were inside the tower also?.. where were you in relation to the twin towers when the attack happened?... when did you appear on the scene?.. I know the manhattan area.. I used to live on 89th st.

I'm not claiming that I know for sure what happened. If you all want me to shutup about here, then fine. I'm not exactly making any friends by holding this viewpoint and personally I hope you all are correct and I'm wrong but some things just don't add up and it bothers the hell out of me. If the government wouldn't be so secretive, suppress full and independant investigations, withhold/alter/destroy evidence then I would have never even considered foulplay, but with all this and hearing testimony of account from firsthand responders like that of Mr. Rodriguez while they refused to use his testimony in the release of the analysis, what the hell is one supposed to think?

In reply to this comment by thesnipe:
"So, what do you think about the firefighters and that head janitor that went through the north tower.. he's claiming that a bomb went off about several seconds before the plane hit.. and also claims of people being hurt by some of these explosions... at the base levels.. I'm not making this up.. they were there 1st hand ... reports of multiple explosions from the hero firefighters.. they must be crazy loons huh? What the hell is wrong with you ppl? I suppose you can't get out of the denial phase. This was all over CSPAN two days ago."

I was there too, first hand so don't go disputing the obvious. It's so nice to sit back and think that some guy on youtube has the facts of a conspiracy to demolish a building from a structural engineer standpoint. For this one claim of people saying they heard explosions there are HUNDREDS of others who dispute it first hand. Ya know people who call 9-1-1 reporting that there are gunshots when in fact their neighbor just lit off a firecracker, it's the same damn syndrome. I know people who were there from t minus 1 hour, 99% know what they saw and heard, they decide to stand next to reason as oppossed to claims from some whackjobs without the proper intelligence to analyze an incident that the most elite of our engineers and physicists struggle to determine the magnitude of. Lucky isn't making any shit up, if reason and physics is shit, then your personal attacks stand to clarify your comments at shit as well.

Is it THAT hard to believe that actual physics could come into play and bring down a building exposed to the trauma that WTC 7 did? Noooo it's some secret explosive technology developed in some dark ass lab by engineers who were disgruntled by normal existing technologies and contractors in the field of demolition. And don't start calling me out on the heroism of the firefighters that may have seen or heard these "explosions", I was there and know the agony and display of heroism EVERY single fireman/police officer and EMT went through. In the heat of the moment what a minority of what people think they see and heard can easily be misinterpreted.

Ya know what it probably is, all the people who were there were brainwashed as well by another secret government only technology. That would explain why I, and the hundreds of emergency response workers that were with me want to debunk this conspiracy theory.

Oh yeah and if something I said doesn't make perfect sense, excuse me but it's a difficult day for those who are busy paying respects to the friends and comrades they lost rather than coming up with useless and dumbass theories.

"So, what do you think about the firefighters and that head janitor that went through the north tower.. he's claiming that a bomb went off about several seconds before the plane hit.. and also claims of people being hurt by some of these explosions... at the base levels.. I'm not making this up.. they were there 1st hand ... reports of multiple explosions from the hero firefighters.. they must be crazy loons huh? What the hell is wrong with you ppl? I suppose you can't get out of the denial phase. This was all over CSPAN two days ago."

I was there too, first hand so don't go disputing the obvious. It's so nice to sit back and think that some guy on youtube has the facts of a conspiracy to demolish a building from a structural engineer standpoint. For this one claim of people saying they heard explosions there are HUNDREDS of others who dispute it first hand. Ya know people who call 9-1-1 reporting that there are gunshots when in fact their neighbor just lit off a firecracker, it's the same damn syndrome. I know people who were there from t minus 1 hour, 99% know what they saw and heard, they decide to stand next to reason as oppossed to claims from some whackjobs without the proper intelligence to analyze an incident that the most elite of our engineers and physicists struggle to determine the magnitude of. Lucky isn't making any shit up, if reason and physics is shit, then your personal attacks stand to clarify your comments at shit as well.

Is it THAT hard to believe that actual physics could come into play and bring down a building exposed to the trauma that WTC 7 did? Noooo it's some secret explosive technology developed in some dark ass lab by engineers who were disgruntled by normal existing technologies and contractors in the field of demolition. And don't start calling me out on the heroism of the firefighters that may have seen or heard these "explosions", I was there and know the agony and display of heroism EVERY single fireman/police officer and EMT went through. In the heat of the moment what a minority of what people think they see and heard can easily be misinterpreted.

Ya know what it probably is, all the people who were there were brainwashed as well by another secret government only technology. That would explain why I, and the hundreds of emergency response workers that were with me want to debunk this conspiracy theory.

Oh yeah and if something I said doesn't make perfect sense, excuse me but it's a difficult day for those who are busy paying respects to the friends and comrades they lost rather than coming up with useless and dumbass theories.

No doubt there will be some who refuse to vote for this post, simply because of the tags, based on their conditioning, and addiction to symbols, and catchy jingles. The war effort was a different animal in the 40's, as was the Military Industrial Complex, in its infant stages. Pity. Betty was a firecracker-she passed this year.

Great song, sad vid.

I can't believe how cruel we've become.

The nuclear weapons we have today makes those look like firecrackers.

It's just a matter of time before one of them goes off.

I hope I'm not around to see it.

Who would've guessed that a pistol could fire a shotgun round? Fake.

A little more explanation: different firearms produce different sounds when fired. A M2 Browning .50 machine gun has a slower but very loud thudding sound to it, similar to a jackhammer. Pistols tend to sound like firecrackers only louder. Shotguns sound like a very loud blast, in other words the stock sound effect that's played when there is the supposed accidental discharge in this video. I don't know about you but I don't of many M1911 pistols chambered to fire a shotgun round.

bah.. it does not belittle the collective. Guy does something dumb, gets hurt in the process. if you change the subject matter and add something like say... firecrackers in teeth.. ZOMG, Comedy gold!!!

buncha hypocrites.

Very neat video. Some of the legs of the machine seemed to be very chancy, such as the rotating wheel powered by firecrackers and the boat in water. Glad to see that they went off.

However, what makes this a Goldberg machine? If that was the end (as it seemed to be), it never performed a 'simple task in a complex/extravagant way', which is how I always heard Goldberg machines explained.

Anyway, still gets a vote.

fake. why would there be sparks? pee is mildly conductive at best, its not metal! you're not going to get nearly enough current for sparks. sorry. firecracker + ordinary fence.

the steadily increasing frequency of oscillating splashes sounds wicked.

this reminds me of when i had the idea to use a 4 foot pole with a hollow end to hold otherwise boyant 'silver-salutes' and 'm80' firecrackers underwater as a kid. good times.

"...and when I see another posting that is designed to simply get a visceral reaction..."

Aren't most of these? The guy bungee jumping onto his feet...the girls kissing...the firecracker in the mouth.... Don't you have a visceral reaction to it? Simply because some of the videos here are political does not mean it brings the collective down. Personally, I'm glad there are many facets of the diamond here...it keeps this place diverse.

My favorite recent Herzog story:

German director WERNER HERZOG was shot by a crazed fan during a recent interview with the BBC.

The 63-year-old was chatting with movie journalist MARK KERMODE about his new documentary GRIZZLY MAN, when a sniper opened fire with an air rifle.

Kermode explains, "I thought a firecracker had gone off.

"Herzog, as if it was the most normal thing in the world, said, 'Oh, someone is shooting at us. We must go.'

"He had a bruise the size of a snooker ball, with a hole in. He just carried on with the interview while bleeding quietly in his boxer shorts."

An unrepentant Herzog insisted, "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."