Fireworks!

We are staying with some friends that we haven't seen in five years. Now, they have two kids and live in Oklahoma.

Brock actually worked with the guy, Jeff, at a church in Texas long before we even met. They were sharing crazy stories about their time there. Both of them are very passionate and extreme. They were also so young and inexperienced when it came to church work at the time. One of the things they did once a year was a big bonfire. Because they are so radical, they wanted the biggest bonfire ever! That often led to a near disaster.

One time, Jeff got his hands on some Class A fireworks. (Those are the ones you see at the real fireworks show on the 4th of July.) He was going to add this to his bonfire production. He decided to try one in his backyard. He set it off and it let off a loud noise. During which all of his windows on the backside of his house blew out. The garage doors around the neighborhood were going up and down and car alarms were going off. About ten seconds later, a big metallic piece fell from the sky. Plus, Jeff now had a big crater in his yard.

What happened was that he placed the firework upside down. It shot down into the earth and sent the base flying up in the air.

Well, the neighbors thought that a bomb went off, so they called the police. When the police came to Jeff's house, his petite wife, Stephanie, greeted them at the door. "It was him," she said pointing to Jeff. "Take him to jail." The police officer decided that Jeff would receive enough punishment from his wife who was not too thrilled about her busted windows and the whole in the backyard. So, the officer didn't arrest Jeff the youth pastor.