Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
Wow... that brings back some memories.

If we didn't have a gun we used to just sit on the pavement hitting the caps with a hammer... I grew up on an estate and this must have driven the neighbours mad.

I still remember hitting a whole roll of caps with a hammer and the bang made my ears ring for a week.

Good times!


We broke into a remote signal hut on a railway and found loads of giant caps that were placed on the tracks to warn railway workers that a train was coming.


Needless to say we lined them all up on the track under a bridge for cover and hid.

The sound of those percussion caps going off still rings in my ears to this very day.
Must have been something similar to "Shock and awe" in Baghdad .