I bought this bad boy for 2Q at the Chiquimula market today. It appears to be made out of newspaper and black powder, wrapped in red tissue paper. Some guy named Chucho probably made this in his kitchen, smoking a fat cigar while 10 kids ran around the table. Anyway, I’m gonna blow the crap out of something tonight! Happy Virgin Day!
So, how did it go? Fizzle, or bang? Lose any parts?
Earth-shattering wave of energy that walloped every inch of my body, accompanied by a mid low frequency pulse with a ¡kack! attack on top. I lost my hearing for a few seconds afterward. Definitely a most excellent impulse purchase.
You know that brings up memories of my misspent youth in Puerta Parada in Guatemala…
I used to have fun lofting empty tin cans (I preferred Tuna fish cans) into the air using a bomba or two. These were of a triangular package made out of paper, wrapped in colorful paper.
What put an end to my somewhat risky holiday fun was that like any tinkerer I started to push the envelope on how high I could loft the can using Bombas. One bomba hey it went up 10 feet or so let’s see what two will do and so forth it got riskier the bombas sometimes did not go of together and one with a smoldering fuse was an issue at times. Also the heights did go up althou locating the lofted cans sometimes posed a challenge. Innocently I though that tuna cans that had enden up in a dome shape where cool..
What finally made me stop doing it was the time I put one or two bombas two many and managed to have the entire can burst into shards of shrapnel which went all over the place. Luckily no one was hurt but that experience introduced a much needed element of caution…