My God... How similar guys are across the planet... I too, built a million+ V Tesla, a jacobs ladder, a potato gun, burned all the skin off my left ring finger knuckle with white phosphorus, made shaped-charges out of M80's, sucked gasoline through a tube-style vacuum (very cool, btw). I have a 2 inch hole in my desk from burning phosphorus ribbons (in my bedroom, with a little loop in the ribbon - DUH). Burned a hole in the street at 2AM with thermite, and all sorts of idiotic, I can't believe I'm still alive, kinds of stupid ideas when I was younger. Haha...

man... why weren't you MY friend when i was a kid... all we did was pour gas or alcohol on our skateboards and ride them flaming down the street. Then there was the gunpowder we removed from all those shotgun shells.... but thermite!! Come on man! That's where the real fun is.