What is your best "..and so we never did that again" story?

I have a few that all revolve around the same group of friends.

As most teenagers do, my friends and i had a fasination with exploding objects. We frequently bought firecrackers from the food store and had "fights" with them. This usually ended with someone getting burned and pissy. One night however, it ended a little differently.

I was driving down the highway with my friend in the side seat and my other friend driving behind us. Mike (we'll call him) was picking apart the fire crackers so we could get more bang for our buck. Mike asks me if he should throw one at joe (in the car behind us) and i, a 17 year old ass hole, see no problem with this. sure, why the hell not?

He lights the first one and sends it out the window. I see it fall on the ground and tell him to throw another. My phone starts to ring as the next one is throw. Its joe, probably calling to bitch at us. I pick up the phone and see the firecracker ignite on the hood of the car behind me, and the flashing lights to follow.

My panicked mind told me i was going to be arrested and sent to jail, but i only got a ticket, luckily.

On a different but equally stupid night, we bought mini water bottles with the sole purpose of throwing them at street signs.

Everything was going to plan until mike decided to chuck one in to oncoming traffic. I heard the impact, shattering glass and screeching tires as the car in the other lane came to a halt. I kept going. I was either going to get hit or sent to jail and neither seemed favorable.

Another night we were all driving past a middle school when i was someone cross the street holding what looked like a shotgun. He was heading toward the school and looked into my eyes as i yelled "holy shit hes got a gun!" I called the police and they sent out at least 50 cops, 10 dogs and a few helicopters searching for this guy that was realistically probably carrying a shovel (it was dark).

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